In this brief, devastating exchange between a white mother and her son, we see the precise moment when the pedagogy of whiteness meets a child who has not yet learned to lie on its behalf. The boy begins in clarity: “The white killed him… He was a good man.” He grasps that the violence that murdered a Black man is not random but racial, that there were “a black and a white and they had different schools,” and that the division is not morally neutral but enforced by “the white.” His response is not confusion but moral alignment: if he sees “the white” again, he wants “payback on them,” which is to say, he understands that the proper object of his anger is the structure that kills good Black men, not the Black man who is killed. For an instant, whiteness appears to him not as an identity to be cherished, but as an enemy to be named.
The mother’s interventions are a nearly perfect transcript of how white supremacy repairs this kind of rupture. She calls him back to racial identification—“you’re mostly white”—and then immediately individualizes and sanitizes the structure he has rightly condemned: “it wasn’t just the white,” “not nice white people killed him.” Faced with this summons, the boy draws a line that *race traitor* must draw: “I didn’t kill him… I’m not the white person who did it… I’m going to get to the other people… I wasn’t born then.” In that refusal, he separates his emerging self from the historical project of whiteness and aligns, however inchoately, with those whom whiteness targets. This is the kind of critical break that figures like John Brown and Benjamin Lay represent in mature, fully conscious form: a rejection of whiteness as a political identity and a decision to cast one’s lot with its victims rather than its beneficiaries.
@YesNoMaybeOrSo@Vand3l2@F1NN5TER Funny that you immediately jump to the "pedophile" card when statistically it's cis men that are more often pedophiles c:
@YesNoMaybeOrSo@Vand3l2@F1NN5TER I'm right because you said it isn't genetic and I said it is genetic :D hope you can stop seething at your keyboard and understand
@YesNoMaybeOrSo@Vand3l2@F1NN5TER And that literal quote proves me right! 3 posts in a row from you and they all prove me right and contain insults, you're adorable ;3
@YesNoMaybeOrSo@Vand3l2@F1NN5TER I know genetics always play a role, that's my point silly. You said, in your own words, that it wasn't genetics. Maybe read your own arguments before you post them ;D
@YesNoMaybeOrSo@Vand3l2@F1NN5TER Sneaky delete because you realised your last post was super dumb? Cute :3 That is correct though, genes play a role, thanks for proving my point
@YesNoMaybeOrSo@Vand3l2@F1NN5TER You said it isn't genetic, I proved that it was. Thanks for backtracking and resorting to insults to show you're offended, you're a beacon of emotional representation for bigots :D