Only white people can end
white supremacy and yes, they can do it !
By Charles Brown
2013
There is a paradox of Black History. It's biggest liberation events
are in the conduct of White people, not Black people. Victories
against white supremacy are changes in the conduct of white people,
not changes in the conduct of Black people and other people of color ;
changes in the conduct of white people toward Black people as in no
longer abusing them as slaves when slavery was abolished. Ceasing and
desisting from Jim Crow . That's Black History, but it's mainly White
people acting differently. Black people may have fought them or
inspired the White people to do it , but the change was in White
people's conduct. Black liberation history is made when white people
give up portions of their white supremacy. So, Obama inspired a large
minority of white people to overcome their racism , or take their
anti-racism to a new level, take affirmative action, change their
conduct and vote for a Black man for _President_, a major symbolic
position of leadership in American politics and culture . This is the
Black historic achievement of Obama, a big one.
Consider Lyndon B. Johnson , major historical actor in the
achievements of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's . We celebrate
Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, Little Rock Arkansas high school
children facing mobs. Johnson had been a segregationist Senator. The
change in his conduct was extraordinary. This is not to praise him as
a man so much as to point out the objective fact that it is _change_
in _his_ conduct that is critical.
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Today in Black History: In 1966, Andrew Brimmer is the first African
American to be appointed to the Federal Reserve Board
In a sense, white people are the
only ones who can dismantle racism, because racism is something they
do. Black people don't do racism. How are Black people going to go
make white people stop doing racism ? They can't. Can't go over and
put your hands on them and make them stop. Only white people can end
racism. The choice is up to White people, and yes, they can do it !
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