Non-profit strategies for racial justice rest on the presupposition that polite white people aren't the problem
Non-profit strategies for racial justice rest on the presupposition that polite white people aren't the problem.
However, polite white people are a problem.
You can openly contest non-polite white people.
You can punch the Nazi, but you are forbidden to make the TFA teacher cry, even if she disproportionately punishes black children. Somehow those white lady tears are imbued with a moral authority that is neither moral nor authoritative.
Calibrating racial justice to the sensibilities of the white donor class will not lead to racial justice. To be clear, the road to a fair distribution of resources leads through a whole lot of white tears from people who think they are allies but don't have a worked out plan for black self-determination. And yes, that includes forcing a pipeline for black people to get fair-waged jobs and political power.
Unless you are committed to making black people whole from the legacy of white terrorism, you are in the way.
And black people, half the white people who call themselves Democrats who make excuses for why we can't have good jobs and political power are on a handful of anti-depressants, anyway. Go ahead and run over them. They'll just up their dosage.
You'll know who your real white allies are because they'll be the ones stomping over their cousin's tears in order to get black communities their due economic and political power.
By Irami Osei-Frimpong