How To Dismantle The Racial Hierarchy: Part I

“The racial hierarchy is a well-established pathology that will continue to metastasis until it is vanquished from planet earth; reduced to an unusual belief in human history”

This is the first part in a series dedicated to dismantling the racial hierarchy by focused attack on the cancer itself and not its symptoms. This effort refrains from “describing the box from inside the box” as that approach will never unmoor the racial hierarchy from its foundation. By this, I mean that only addressing symptoms of the hierarchy and not the hierarchy itself, renders concepts like “Antiracist” and “White Fragility” to be fads of modern culture. They seem good for the moment and “in” for the next 18 months or so before public discourse and attention starts to wane.

People become tired of the constant self-monitoring, self-awareness, self-criticism and regular self-examination that must be employed in order to insure that one is “Antiracist.” Further, adherence to the steps learned through attending a “White Fragility” workshop will also lose favor. At once fashionable, these attempts at “fixing the racial problem” will fade like yesterdays news and the mythical tower of the racial hierarchy will remain because it was never the focus of attack.

This series will show how the mistake of cherishing any form of a “racial identity" enables the racial hierarchy to advance its purpose; sustain self-interest patterns of multi-generational wealth, power and control. This series will also show how the racial hierarchy uses the tool of a “White racial group identity” to deceive and manipulate masses into sustaining a Power Elite aristocracy through political persuasion.

So what exactly is the racial hierarchy?

The racial hierarchy is a mythical rank-order stratification of humans grouped by skin color. Our skin color is determined by a pigment called melanin. Everyone has melanin (both fair and dark skinned people) and it exists in us in different forms and ratios. The two forms of melanin are called eumelanin and pheomelanin.

Eumelanin comes in brown and black hues while pheomelanin appears as red and yellow hues. Both forms of melanin are produced by a specialized group of cells called melanocytes.

On the racial hierarchy, people with high ratios of pheomelanin are positioned over those with high ratios favoring eumelanin.

The creation and positioning of “racial groups” on the racial hierarchy was legislated into existence by British Colonial aristocracy in response to Bacon’s Rebellion (c. 1681) by specifically designating people with high ratios of pheomelanin as a “White” racial group.

In this stratification by skin color, Black can never be White, Brown can never be White, only White can be White, hence, there is no shared equity of rights and privileges.

By fixed legislated design, only the “White racial group” occupies the superior hierarchy position and as a consequence, the “White racial group” manifests a “superior racial identity.”

Persons from non-White racial groups on the racial hierarchy can only assimilate a superior racial identity as it is impossible for people in these groups to become what the fixed racial hierarchy does not allow. No matter how Black and Brown people behave, at the end of the day, they’re still not White.

A White person can only “be racist” if they choose to identify with their superior position on the racial hierarchy; if they self-identify as a member of a “White racial group.” This White racial identity is endogenous to placement at the superior position on the racial hierarchy.

A non-white person can only “act racist" if they choose to assimilate a White racial group identity. This person can never be at the superior position on the racial hierarchy because they can never be a member of the White racial group. This identity is exogenous to racial group membership at the superior position on the racial hierarchy.

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