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this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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Any random rich white guy has the full backing of whatever rich white country he comes from. His white skin isn't magic, it is a flag to everyone else that he's untouchable because he has its implicit protection as a member of a white ruling class in a white ruling country.
Think of it like the US dollar! It's not a magic slip of paper that has value, it's a token with the full backing of the US empire.
Ok bud. Source? Cause you sound unhinged frankly
I will never read!
... most of my thinking comes from secretly listening to podcasts at work - I put bone conducting headphones into my hair, boss doesn't know shit! 🤫
From Red Menace: Understanding Settler Colonialism in Israel and the United States, their three part series on Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, and Discourse on Colonialism - Aimé Césaire
From Guerilla History: The Counterrevolution of 1776 w/ Gerald Horne and Intro to African Revolutions and Decolonization w/ Leo Zeilig
From RevLeft Radio: Critical Race Theory and Black Liberation w/ Zoé Samudzi, White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide, Blood in my Eye: The Black Colony, Revolutionary Strategy, and Dual Power, Unity and Struggle (pt. 5): Wage Labor and White Supremacy, and Black Feminism and Queer Theory w/ Zoe Samudzi
Citations Needed has some good eps on the topic too, Episodes 52, 130, and 185
I saw those references you gave in the other comment chain - I will never read but I'll keep an eye out for pods
Yeah... well I guess that really sums up everything right there doesn't it