The question I been wrestling lately is not that, but rather what secret is being held back from us that they seem so hellbent on holding us back from? When you consider Jim Crow and redlining and cointelpro and Iran contra and constant denial of opportunity. When you think of the constant reinforced negative stereotypes in media, why so much effort?
Every single time we reach some pinnacle of understanding. Every. Single Time we as a group aspire for greatness, there becomes this concerted effort to destroy it and keep us back. But why though? Why that much effort? What can be gained from that? What comfort is there in going through that much effort to hold a people back? To dehumanized them without war being the catalyst? Is there this fear of some Christ like awakening? Like somehow our collective greatness will overshadow all achievements so therefore it's needs to be held back like some genie in a bottle. I just don't get it sometimes..
White supremacy depends on the concept of "black" vs the concept of "white," and what those two concepts mean in relation to one another in this white supremacist
society. This is why other POCs might have issues, but they will ALWAYS have it easier than us because "white" depends on "black" to represent negativity so that
"white" can continue to represent positivity. What would it mean to be a white person if black people were just as educated, financially stable, and represented as
they were? How would white supremacy then be perpetuated? Its like with Bill Cosby. There this idea that we have to take him down because he's this alleged rapist,
and rape is bad, which it is obviously, but in a white supremacist society you have to reinforce this notion of rape being bad to establish this image of morality...but
ONLY in a way that perpetuates white supremacy. Thats just my theory, anyway.