It requires courage to ask hard questions, take accountability, and choose solidarity over comfort.

Antiracism isn’t about perfection…it’s about direction.

It’s about committing, again and again, to move away from the lie of supremacy and toward shared humanity, equity, and justice.

The first step is simply this: to see whiteness clearly, and refuse to believe the myth it was built on.

And the myth of white male supremacy ensures it will always be wielded as proof of “failure” when marginalized folx refuse to erase themselves for the comfort of whiteness.

This isn’t shocking.

It’s the same story on repeat.

What’s changing is that fewer of us are willing to let past “heroes” of DEI get away with it anymore.

🔗 Full blog post: As I Remember London – David Heinemeier Hansson https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

The call for civility has always been a silencing tactic.

A way to delegitimize the righteous anger of those harmed by the myth of white supremacy, while ensuring that whiteness itself remains unchallenged and unaccountable.

Since the behavior of whiteness has always been deemed civil by default, then the very premise of civility as a standard is illegitimate.

The real work is not in tone, but in truth.

And truth will always sound disruptive to the ears of power.

True solidarity requires you to resist the urge to police Black grief, Black rage, and Black relief. If you find yourself more disturbed by someone’s refusal to mourn than by the harm that necessitated that refusal, it is past time to interrogate where your loyalties actually lie.

Because here’s the reality, if your “allyship” only extends to the moments that keep you comfortable, it is not “allyship” at all. It’s performance. And performance will never dismantle the myth of white supremacy.

The truth is this: the myth of white supremacy has always been socialism in disguise. Not the kind rooted in fairness or justice, but one that reserves collective wealth, protections, and opportunity for whiteness alone.

The question is: will we keep letting this myth rewrite history, or will we finally acknowledge that the so-called “meritocracy” was never built without massive public investment?