I thought of deleting this post after someone said it offended her. But it might be instructive to keep it here but with the following note.
There is a type of imbalance in putting a link to a white supremacy-related Wikipedia entry next to a link to a black supremacy-related link, given that, to state the obvious, the magnitude of white racism has been far greater than the black supremacist thought or actions of a very small minority of people of color.
But there exists, among at least a small minority of those who identify as ‘Black’, hatred and racial prejudice toward ‘Whites’ such as the sentiment one finds among aspiring racists such as Louis Farrakhan. Refer also to works of popular culture such as rapper Ras Kass’ song “Nature of the Threat.”
Yet, I can’t help but wonder whether, in at least some ways, the discomfort folk such as Farrakhan evoke in White people is in at least some ways a good thing. That seems odd but I am throwing ideas out to brainstorm.
The depth and scope of oppression that Western culture placed, for centuries, on people of African descent has been so intense that the majority of those who identify as ‘White’ probably have a hard time grasping it.
In that way, maybe the astonishment and hurt, if not also fear and outrage, that Farrakhan and others like him arouse in many White folk might, (if we White folk approach it in an enlightened way) be useful.
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