As a Black woman, raised mostly in the heart of the Civil Rights Movement and a first-generation beneficiary of “desegregation”, I have lived with and witnessed the hard edges of white supremacy, if not its most direct violence, then its ever-present shadow. And yet, being exposed to this particular content made me realize something unsettling: my childhood was, in many ways, safer and more loving than what many white children around me were experiencing.

While my community worked to find ways to engage with systems, institutions, and policies that were never designed to include us, white folx often, in greater numbers than I ever imagined, chose to double down on maintaining their unearned power and privilege by escalating the violence of white supremacy on themselves.

And the chilling truth is this, if white folx will inflict this level of harm on themselves, it is no wonder that appeals to “your better half” go unheard when that abuse is directed toward “the other.”

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