How To Dismantle The Racial Hierarchy III:

The Language of White Supremacy Is Race

Admission: It has taken six decades of my God-given existence to recognize that I have used the language of White supremacy to describe others and myself. How many of you are doing the same? Do you think you’re bi-racial? Multi-racial? Whatever racial?

Whenever we talk about “race,” if we are not having a discussion that targets the Racial-Hierarchy then we’re really not having a discussion are we? We’re really just citing English dictionary definitions, proffering research and statistics, selling books and writing articles claiming “anyone can be racist” and that gets a ton of claps and makes people feel good and, of course, improves the “bottom-line” along the way. But claps and book sales aside, any honest discussion about “race” must have the Racial-Hierarchy as its centerpiece, if not, then what the hell are we talking about?

Bring up the Racial-Hierarchy and all the noise in the room stops… the sound of crickets reverberate off the walls.

Genocide is the language of ethnic cleansing.

Holocaust is the language of mass murder of European Jews.

Discrimination is the language of ignorance and bigotry.

Race, and all its corresponding iterations, is the language of White supremacy.

Consider this, if you self-identify as a member of “the White race” then you are self-positioned as a White supremacist. It does not matter if you are an extreme gun totting, hate spewed white-power radical or if you are a yoga practicing, Girl Scout supporting soccer mom who preaches Anti-Racism to your children. If you self-identify as a member of the “White racial group,” you manifest a White supremacist worldview.

Likewise, if you self-identify as a member of “the Black race” then you are self-positioned as a subordinate to White Supremacy. You have a self-deprecating identity. It does not matter how many college degrees you have and your impressive velocity of articulated thoughts, your super intelligence and athleticism, your spiritual wokeness, the size of your private jet, yacht or house, or how many people admire your creative artistry or your capacity to “make it rain” around adoring fans. If you self-identify as a member of the “Black racial group,” you manifest a Black subordinate worldview.

For most, this is confusing and difficult to understand let alone accept until we frame the concept of “race” in its proper context; as an entity within the confines of the Racial Hierarchy. The confusion unravels if we are able to do that. But why is it so difficult to recognize the elephant in the room, the Racial Hierarchy, when we discuss race?

Race is a mythical construct derived from a mythical hierarchy; the language of race always communicates the purpose and function of the Racial Hierarchy: a stratification of humans on the basis of skin color (i.e. eumelanin vs. pheomelanin ratios). To frame the vernacular otherwise is fallacious. As stated in Part II of this series:

“any identity associated with “race” implicates the Racial Hierarchy and reinforces its mythology. As a consequence, every time we invoke the word “race” to describe ourselves, other humans, or human phenomenon, we are referencing a process imbued with dehumanization. Hence, a “racial” identity is a pathological identity. The Racial Hierarchy serves to reinforce the pathology of “racial” identity because it conditions patterns of responding to, and interacting with people in a manner informed by their perceived position on the hierarchy.”

This leads to a logical and exact definition of racism as: any action symptomatic of an identity that is endogenous to the construct of “White” supremacy in the context of a “racial” hierarchy.

In essence, racism is White supremacy in action; it is the operationalization of an identity of “White” racial group membership on the Racial Hierarchy.

This is not your English dictionary definition of racism as defined by English scholars who always find it convenient to disassociate racism from the Racial Hierarchy let alone how racism is the product of human stratification. Rather, the scholars from Cambridge, who define for the world what racism is, seem indisposed in this regard; they opt to confuse discrimination and bigotry with racism.

Anyone can discriminate and practice bigotry, but bigotry is an assumed attitude that canvases all groups of people while racism is any action that references an identity ascribed to a superior order of racial group membership on the Racial Hierarchy; and only one racial group can be at the superior position.

While racism is the symptom of White supremacy, a racial identity is the cause.

The etiology of racism is White supremacy. Any idea that racial groups are equal is antithetical to the creation, purpose, and function of the Racial Hierarchy and its inherent domain of racial language. The hierarchy is fixed and there is no conceptual equivalence of groups to be found anywhere in the language of race.

Race, in all its iterations, is the language of White supremacy; why do we keep reinforcing it? Its dehumanizing origins are pathological by design. We empower White supremacy every time we use the language to identify ourselves. We place ourselves on the Racial Hierarchy whenever we think of ourselves or others as distinct “racial” groups.

Fear, anxiety and anger are human emotions easily aroused by perceptions of group difference. If group difference is defined as something called “race” then “race” can be stratified and given a fixed position on a hierarchy. If a “White racial group” can be legislated to have privileges and legal rights denied to non-white “racial” groups then the “White racial group” over time evolves an identity* of a God given birth right of superiority over all others that are not members of the same “racial” group.

*As Glaucon replied to Socrates: “Not in the present generation; there is no way of accomplishing this; but their sons may be made to believe in the tale, and their son’s sons, and posterity after them.”

How To Dismantle The Racial Hierarchy IV: Assimilation. To be published February 7, 2021.

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