A Documentary Put America on Trial, and I Have Feelings
I watched Betrayal of a Nation, and I have so much to say!
If there is one thing I am completely sober about, it is white supremacy. Some like to believe that it has no impact on their lives and that they should instead put their efforts into fighting the likes of Donald Trump. No one would argue that Trump isn’t a racist, but we would be fools to identify him as the entire problem. Instead, Trump is a symptom of a larger problem, one that is so insidious, it impacts every single part of our lives.
Unfortunately, as big of a threat as white supremacy is, most people still refuse to acknowledge it. And if white people refuse to accept their role in White Supremacy, can we really have a peaceful solution to this hundreds-year-old problem? I’m not so sure of the answer, but what I am aware of is this. If white people refuse to accept their role and be accountable, justice will be found through violence, which isn’t justice at all.
Instead, the moment we topple our oppressors with their own tools, we become conditioned, to replicate the same systems our masters oppressed us with. The best real-life example of this is the Apartheid government of Israel. The land is supposed to be a safe haven for Jewish people, a religious group that has been an unfair victim of persecution and hatred. Instead, those who…
