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to guide them and tell them step-by-step what to do about the racists among them, they’re completely lost.</p><p id="220b"><b>Black People Have Already Done a Lot to Civilize the West and We Can’t Stop Now</b></p><p id="ce34">This is not to say that Black people must do <i>all of the work</i>. Trust and believe those days are over! I’m only saying that we must lead the cause. Just as we did with the Civil Rights Movement, we have to take it upon ourselves to teach White people how to fall back. We must lead them in realizing just how awfully their humanity has been damaged by buying into the false idea of Whiteness. We have to teach them how to live in community with others while existing far outside the bounds of White supremacy.</p><p id="787b">This is all of particular urgency now that their numbers are so drastically dropping. Whereas they’ve always been the global minority, that fact is becoming even more pronounced with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/23/baby-crisis-europe-brink-depopulation-disaster">falling birth rates</a>. Deeply damaged by a false sense of supremacy, <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/1/26/14340542/white-fear-trump-psychology-minority-majority">I don’t know that they’re mentally equipped</a> to much longer handle the fact that <a href="https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/ageing/replacement-migration.asp">their numbers are so rapidly declining</a> while <a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/african-fertility-is-right-where-it-should-be">Blackness is holding steady</a>. Should they become even more unhinged without people to help them literally learn their place within humanity, I don’t know what will happen.</p><p id="d0f5">Us being the bigger people and taking the lead is going to be a tough pill to swallow for all parties involved. Heck, it’s a tough thing to even write about. Sometimes you just don’t want to take a higher road, you know? Sometimes you just want to tune everyone else out and live in our own Black worlds. We want to busy ourselves <i>with ourselves</i> and not <i>have to</i> concern ourselves with people who haven’t concerned themselves <i>with us</i>. But I don’t see any other way out of this <a href="https://readmedium.com/how-to-dismantle-the-racial-hierarchy-part-i-bd2a2d06b0f9">racial hierarchy</a> that places Whiteness at the very top of the ranking and Blackness at the absolutely lowest rung. A recalibration has to be done for everyone’s good.</p><p id="ec39"><b>A Real Reset</b></p><p id="d4ef">What does this look like? Well, sadly, it’s unachievable. Yes, despite me believing in its necessity, I fully admit the absurdity of which I speak. I’m going to say it anyway, though. In my opinion, White people don’t need to be in charge of <i>anything, anymore, <b>EVER</b>.</i> Those are my personal feelings, but I get how unrealistic they are. Besides, if the Bible says that even <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2020&amp;version=NLV">the devil will be locked up for <i>only </i>1,000 years</a>, then I have to be ok with letting White people, who are my fellow human beings after all, serve in leadership capacities again in about half of that time. That is provided, of course, they can recover from Whiteness by then.</p><p id="985d">In the meantime, from countries to multinational corporations to western religious organizations to major sports leagues to school boards or anything else of importance to mankind, they simply must not be allowed <i>any </i>control <i>whatsoever</i>. They’ve failed miserably as leaders so much so that they’ve led the world to the brink of destruction through either climate change or their endless wars and invasions. The racism and hatred and strife they’ve spawned is spiking all over the world. They’ve disrupted the development of every non-White land on the map and have proven time and time again that lying, killing and stealing are their preferred means of maintaining power. They have not been friendly to the planet or anyone living on the planet who doesn’t look like them. Quiet as it’s kept, they haven’t even been kind to people who <i>do look like them</i> which is why Jewish people suffered a holocaust and Ukraine is being blown to smithereens as I type this. White people in power just equals bad news for everyone.</p><p id="5e56">So it’s time for them to fall back and take some time off from running the Western world. During that time, they will need to be rehabil

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itated and do the hard work of restoring their souls. In marrying themselves to Whiteness, they’ve developed <a href="https://longreads.com/2019/08/12/whiteness-on-the-couch/">a mental disorder</a> that won’t allow them to function as they were designed to before Whiteness corroded their souls. This is why we see trained journalists who should know better, emotionally <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/27/western-media-coverage-ukraine-russia-invasion-criticism">lamenting the fact that White people are killing each other</a> in Eastern Europe even though these same men and women have delivered news of war in non-White nations with far less compassion and while barely noticing the humanity of people losing their lives in Arab or African nations.</p><p id="f88b"><b>If We Don’t, Who Will?</b></p><p id="4c0e">During White people’s proposed and very long time out, it has to be up to us — the ones who truly are bigger people — to compassionately re-train them. This means offering even more patience, more teaching, more correcting, more disciplining and offering forgiveness to those able to truly change their ways. We have to become their anti-Whiteness educators. I know, I know, I don’t want to be bothered with any of that, either. But if we don’t, what’s the alternative?</p><p id="e5dd"><b>The Danger of Becoming Like Them</b></p><p id="85a4">On any given day, one can scroll through social media and find a variety of rantings on how bad and evil White supremacy is and receipts for how heinous it always has been. It is the root cause of so much turmoil in the world. We know this. We can’t, however, lose our own souls to the hatred of people who’ve been brainwashed into believing they are not equal to us. Do you know what kind of number was done for them to actually believe they are superior to us or even that their so-called race is even a real thing? They’re sick and we can’t let them infect us with a diseased mindset that buys into a false racial concept and hates accordingly.</p><p id="e532">So, yes, we must stay vigilant to their trickery and deceit and check them each and every time they step out of line, but we cannot allow ourselves to become like them in terms of outright hatred, which I think is sometimes the play. White supremacy is a foul and evil spirit. It has hated our moral superiority so much that it has constantly assaulted us on every level while working to keep us from knowing who we really are. They started out by keeping us from reading, from having quality educations and they’ve written our Motherland out of history all in an attempt to keep us, and the masses <i>among them</i>, blind to the truth of who we are for at least half a millennium. What a shame if Whiteness were able to someday bring us, the bigger people, down to its grimy level? How sad if it succeeded in convincing us that this make believe concept of race is real and that we are meant to live in a segregated world or within a hierarchy (even one with us as superior to them) as some twisted part of a divine plan?</p><p id="289d">We simply have to <i>remember who we are</i> and resist allowing ourselves to be sucked into that delusion. African-descended people are bigger and better than all of that and that’s why we must lead and not follow.</p><p id="6c91"><b>Everybody Calm Down</b></p><p id="8766">Now there are some who will read this and maintain that a proposed time out for White people amounts to reverse racism. Before anyone goes there, please note that we’re not advocating for White people to be enslaved. We’re not designing a system targeting them for failure. We’re not planning to incarcerate as many of them as possible mainly because they’re White. We’re not even planning on colonizing their lands. These are but a few of the things we’d have to do in order to actually reverse racism if such a thing were even possible, which, by design, <a href="https://readmedium.com/no-black-people-cannot-be-racist-heres-why-404d8cd73428">it is not</a>.</p><p id="c666"><b>The Bottom Line</b></p><p id="cc56">White people are not well and haven’t been since Whiteness was created. Whether we accept it now or later down the road, they will have to relinquish power in all the places they have any within society. Black people will have to aid in their rehabilitation as humans and so we may as well prepare to take that lead now. Like it or lump it, that’s the only way I see us someday healing from the ills of a racialized caste system.</p></article></body>

Black People Are Bigger People, Which is Why We Must Lead

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How Black people have managed to live in such close proximity to Whiteness — surrounded by it even — without either losing our minds or going all out Rambo on Western society is a testament to our self-control and our moral intelligence. No matter the billions of times our character has been tested, we’ve passed with flying colors in that the vast majority of us have not succumbed to a blind hatred of all of them. A people of less principled fortitude would never even think of tolerating such vile oppressors, much less seeking to live in peace with a people who have more than proven themselves worthy of the title ‘enemy’ over and over and over again. We have so wanted to live in harmony with them that we’ve literally fought them for the right to do so.

I mean, think about it, our history has been deliberately lied on, our humanity played with, our loved ones battered, raped, lynched and enslaved, our children taken away, our sacred African spiritual traditions demonized, our family names erased and our bodies used in all sorts of evil, sadistic and capitalistic ways. The outright psychological and physical abuse has never stopped, nor has the disrespect ever relented. Just last week, a president Black Americans were hugely instrumental in electing publicly spit in our faces and all but ignored issues that largely matter solely to us.

Most White People Simply Cannot Handle Change

Despite mistreatment, it has long been apparent that Black people are the so-called bigger people. Because of this, I believe that Black people (CHOSSA and Continental Africans) will have to lead society out of the racial confusion we’ve all been sullied by for more than 500 years. While we may say it’s up to White people to divest from Whiteness, to clean up the mess they’ve collectively made — and we may firmly believe that the onus is on them to teach each other how foul the system that favors them is — the truth is they’re just not fit to lead themselves out of darkness.

Change requires them to see the big picture, which they simply cannot do. They’ve never been on the receiving end of racism and they have no idea what this end truly looks like. Try as some of them may, they lack the depth and intelligence needed to get the job done. I wish this were me just taking petty shots at them, but I’m dead serious. They simply cannot do what needs to be done without the proper leadership of Black people.

Without turning to statistics, parroting what they’ve heard others say or learning at the feet of someone Black, they haven’t a clue about what’s really going on. And even for those relative few who have studied to show themselves approved, besides writing books or giving speeches, what have they done to bring about serious change?

Then there are those White people who are just plain evil and who willingly partake of White supremacy’s Kool-Aid. While I do think that most or at least an awful lot of White people want to rid themselves of the biases that seem to be coded in their DNA and most truly don’t want to be racist, they still have no idea how to stop being so. Much less do they know what to do with people who sit across dinner tables from them or work across the hall from them or even sleep next to them at night all the while doubling down on anti-Blackness. Without us to guide them and tell them step-by-step what to do about the racists among them, they’re completely lost.

Black People Have Already Done a Lot to Civilize the West and We Can’t Stop Now

This is not to say that Black people must do all of the work. Trust and believe those days are over! I’m only saying that we must lead the cause. Just as we did with the Civil Rights Movement, we have to take it upon ourselves to teach White people how to fall back. We must lead them in realizing just how awfully their humanity has been damaged by buying into the false idea of Whiteness. We have to teach them how to live in community with others while existing far outside the bounds of White supremacy.

This is all of particular urgency now that their numbers are so drastically dropping. Whereas they’ve always been the global minority, that fact is becoming even more pronounced with falling birth rates. Deeply damaged by a false sense of supremacy, I don’t know that they’re mentally equipped to much longer handle the fact that their numbers are so rapidly declining while Blackness is holding steady. Should they become even more unhinged without people to help them literally learn their place within humanity, I don’t know what will happen.

Us being the bigger people and taking the lead is going to be a tough pill to swallow for all parties involved. Heck, it’s a tough thing to even write about. Sometimes you just don’t want to take a higher road, you know? Sometimes you just want to tune everyone else out and live in our own Black worlds. We want to busy ourselves with ourselves and not have to concern ourselves with people who haven’t concerned themselves with us. But I don’t see any other way out of this racial hierarchy that places Whiteness at the very top of the ranking and Blackness at the absolutely lowest rung. A recalibration has to be done for everyone’s good.

A Real Reset

What does this look like? Well, sadly, it’s unachievable. Yes, despite me believing in its necessity, I fully admit the absurdity of which I speak. I’m going to say it anyway, though. In my opinion, White people don’t need to be in charge of anything, anymore, EVER. Those are my personal feelings, but I get how unrealistic they are. Besides, if the Bible says that even the devil will be locked up for only 1,000 years, then I have to be ok with letting White people, who are my fellow human beings after all, serve in leadership capacities again in about half of that time. That is provided, of course, they can recover from Whiteness by then.

In the meantime, from countries to multinational corporations to western religious organizations to major sports leagues to school boards or anything else of importance to mankind, they simply must not be allowed any control whatsoever. They’ve failed miserably as leaders so much so that they’ve led the world to the brink of destruction through either climate change or their endless wars and invasions. The racism and hatred and strife they’ve spawned is spiking all over the world. They’ve disrupted the development of every non-White land on the map and have proven time and time again that lying, killing and stealing are their preferred means of maintaining power. They have not been friendly to the planet or anyone living on the planet who doesn’t look like them. Quiet as it’s kept, they haven’t even been kind to people who do look like them which is why Jewish people suffered a holocaust and Ukraine is being blown to smithereens as I type this. White people in power just equals bad news for everyone.

So it’s time for them to fall back and take some time off from running the Western world. During that time, they will need to be rehabilitated and do the hard work of restoring their souls. In marrying themselves to Whiteness, they’ve developed a mental disorder that won’t allow them to function as they were designed to before Whiteness corroded their souls. This is why we see trained journalists who should know better, emotionally lamenting the fact that White people are killing each other in Eastern Europe even though these same men and women have delivered news of war in non-White nations with far less compassion and while barely noticing the humanity of people losing their lives in Arab or African nations.

If We Don’t, Who Will?

During White people’s proposed and very long time out, it has to be up to us — the ones who truly are bigger people — to compassionately re-train them. This means offering even more patience, more teaching, more correcting, more disciplining and offering forgiveness to those able to truly change their ways. We have to become their anti-Whiteness educators. I know, I know, I don’t want to be bothered with any of that, either. But if we don’t, what’s the alternative?

The Danger of Becoming Like Them

On any given day, one can scroll through social media and find a variety of rantings on how bad and evil White supremacy is and receipts for how heinous it always has been. It is the root cause of so much turmoil in the world. We know this. We can’t, however, lose our own souls to the hatred of people who’ve been brainwashed into believing they are not equal to us. Do you know what kind of number was done for them to actually believe they are superior to us or even that their so-called race is even a real thing? They’re sick and we can’t let them infect us with a diseased mindset that buys into a false racial concept and hates accordingly.

So, yes, we must stay vigilant to their trickery and deceit and check them each and every time they step out of line, but we cannot allow ourselves to become like them in terms of outright hatred, which I think is sometimes the play. White supremacy is a foul and evil spirit. It has hated our moral superiority so much that it has constantly assaulted us on every level while working to keep us from knowing who we really are. They started out by keeping us from reading, from having quality educations and they’ve written our Motherland out of history all in an attempt to keep us, and the masses among them, blind to the truth of who we are for at least half a millennium. What a shame if Whiteness were able to someday bring us, the bigger people, down to its grimy level? How sad if it succeeded in convincing us that this make believe concept of race is real and that we are meant to live in a segregated world or within a hierarchy (even one with us as superior to them) as some twisted part of a divine plan?

We simply have to remember who we are and resist allowing ourselves to be sucked into that delusion. African-descended people are bigger and better than all of that and that’s why we must lead and not follow.

Everybody Calm Down

Now there are some who will read this and maintain that a proposed time out for White people amounts to reverse racism. Before anyone goes there, please note that we’re not advocating for White people to be enslaved. We’re not designing a system targeting them for failure. We’re not planning to incarcerate as many of them as possible mainly because they’re White. We’re not even planning on colonizing their lands. These are but a few of the things we’d have to do in order to actually reverse racism if such a thing were even possible, which, by design, it is not.

The Bottom Line

White people are not well and haven’t been since Whiteness was created. Whether we accept it now or later down the road, they will have to relinquish power in all the places they have any within society. Black people will have to aid in their rehabilitation as humans and so we may as well prepare to take that lead now. Like it or lump it, that’s the only way I see us someday healing from the ills of a racialized caste system.

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