White Supremamcy Is Evil

Do check out this book if you can

I am reading A Field Guide to White Supremacy again. It is a book that meets the moment. Edited and presented by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez (above) it is about the idea of white supremacy. White male supremacy in America is in another white hot period.

Belew and Gutiérrez, both faculty at the University of Chicago, have compiled a superstar group of writers, commentators, and scholars who make sense of these vicious times of sophisticated hate. Collectively, they make the case that white supremacy — not “democracy” or “freedom,” as some like to think — is the most dominant idea (or ideology) in the history of the United States.

I guess this is why I am reading it again. The fact that Donald Trump is President again is all one needs to know.

Despite considerable racial progress in America, the idea of white supremacy is something many white Americans can’t seem to let go of or even admit to perpetuating.

This book is meant as a corrective to that. You will know after reading it why Donald Trump got re-elected, why immigration policy in America is racialized and why Black and Brown men go to prison in disproportionate numbers and few care to ask — why. Why is Trump’s targeting DEI programs when only 4 percent of the DEI hires in the country — Black? It’s a farce and DEI is not discrimination, by default.

Someone else should be asking this: in a country where only 30 percent of persons are white males, why do they make up over 95 percent of the cabinet officials and over 70 percent of the House of Representatives and most of the federal judges?

A Field Guide to White Supremacy leaves little out. Colonialism, patriarchy, racial violence, police brutality, Islamophobia, anti-immigrant policies, and many other manifestations of white supremacy are all addressed. The book is organized into four sections: “Building, Protecting, and Profiting from Whiteness,” “Iterations of White Supremacy,” “Anti-Immigrant Nation,” and “White Supremacy from Fringe to Mainstream.”