Intersectionality is a Psy-op

How Whiteness Hides in Fake Oppression While Upholding White Supremacy and How Intersectionality Erases Blackness

This is a difficult topic to talk about because I know intersectionality and identity is something people hold near to them to create a sense of self, understand who they are and give name to something that they couldn’t identify. But living the life I live as a black woman and navigating in white spaces more than I ever had in life, it is now apparent that intersectionality and the multitude of identity politics is being taken over by whiteness and scrubs blackness and the actual oppression we face by leveling the playing field mentally for white people so they feel a sense of safety to take away their accountability and compliance within white supremacy. In reality it is keeping whiteness in power and playing oppression Olympics with Actual marginalized people.

Definitions:

Intersectionality (noun) - in·​ter·​sec·​tion·​al·​i·​ty

The complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups

Marginalized (adjective) - mar·​gin·​al·​ized

Having marginal social or political status : relegated to an unimportant or powerless position within a society or group

white supremacy (noun)

1 : the belief that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races

2 : the social, economic, and political systems that collectively enable white people to maintain power over people of other races

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If you wanna watch the full episode the conversation starts at 48 Mins in.

Dr. Umar, as controversial as he is, spoke nothing but the truth when he went on the Joe Budden podcast in 2024.

To be racist means you are upholding your power and doing nothing to dismantle it. You want control, resources and opportunities for only white people. Being a bigot in the context of blackness is a person who like Dr. Umar says, hates you because you are black. They are unwilling to accept or respect differing viewpoints or backgrounds, they perform active prejudice by Holding rigid irrational biases against a specific group, while claiming their “Superiority” believing that their own group, culture, or opinion is inherently superior to others.

The added layer that Umar added, adds a psychological analysis which no one talks nearly enough about; and it’s the emotional attachment to the destruction of blackness. Attachment is the word that sticks out the most. This attachment makes them blind to everything else because it is unhealthy, but more importantly it regresses society because all their focus is on the destruction of blackness to uphold their power. We could be actually saving the world, creating cures, etc but you chose to be attached to anti-Blackness

Which is why when we talk about afro-pessimism, it revolves around the idea that anti-Blackness is an inescapable, permanent foundation of the modern world — BECAUSE of the Attachment White people have with it. Both within the clear bigotry and the racism of upholding the structure. Tho issues with the Ideology comes when it speaks to the system never being able to be fixed — there is always something small you can do, but we actually have to band together for change but I know Anti blackness within the community is hard to erase.

So when we talk about Intersectionality, it gives white people the excuse to play with marginalization like Poly Pocket’s interchangeable clothes. “because I am queer I am marginalized”, “Because I am a woman I am marginalized”. but can take off the clothes one day to just be white and uphold that structure. It reminds me of how the feminist movement was on the rise, they played marginalization because they didn’t get the advantages of upholding white supremacy like men. They do not actually care about other demographics of women in that context, nor did they care about actually dismantling the system of whiteness/patriarchy. They just wanted to sit beside them because at the end of the day they are still white.

It is the same thing as grabbing all these identities like infinity stones and using it as a power play to not engage in the conversation that is the root of the problem, which is that your identity takes nothing from your whiteness while your whiteness takes over spaces for actual marginalized people. Then you perform allyship because you have this false Idea in your head we are the same because you believe you are marginalized as a white person. And don’t get me wrong I get there are struggles, BUT YOU’RE WHITE! You will inherently have more power regardless if you feel like you do because the system was created for you, and upholds your whiteness no matter where you are within it. period.

YOU CAN’T BE MARGINALIZED!!!!!!

But tell me how you are dismantling the white power structure embedded into our country’s foundation? How are you changing the system? Because changing the system means giving up your whiteness — your power, opportunities and community. Speaking to your racist and bigoted family doesn’t count, so I’ll wait…

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Identity and Blackness

The removal of Blackness within identity is a scary one. We say we are queer before we are Black, we are poor/rich before we are Black, we are nerds and lovers of all these things before Blackness. When our inherent Blackness is the foundation of identity. without it, it opens the door to anti-Blackness with ourselves and perpetuating it within the community. I will alway say I am Black before I am non binary (which is more spiritual for me), I am black before I am queer - not only because it is visibly obvious when I step into a room I am Black, But because I am proud of the skin I am in, the history we have made, the culture that still stands. You also don’t see my queerness before my blackness. You have to ask. Queerness in a sense, has a level of performance to it and YES for sure, baby we can clock that tea from a mile away, but you are black first. There is in recent times less pride of being Black and that’s because of the dismantlement of the Black community, anti Blackness being fundamentally taught.

There was a study that showed children examining skin color and how they felt about it. Things like this start in the home and when the black children are saying, the darker skinned picture is dumb or they are less nice because of their skin. Then comparing to what the white children say. It is learned bias by their community. Whether they learn it through parents or media - white is typically “right” while Black is wrong.

Instilling racial pride in Black people is important. When they don’t, they choose to hang on to every other identity except blackness and it just becomes a breeding ground for anti-Blackness within the community. As Black people we need to be careful, intersectionality is nice to know where you fit and choosing/identifying with concepts that speak to you are important — we need words to understand what we are feeling because sometimes it feels like we are in the dark, but let’s not let it erase the fundamental identity of Blackness.

As much as the world will try to erase color, Blackness is loud, it is bold, it upholds centuries of love and resilience — You should should be proud.