Supremacy pretending to be equality is not justice. Which is to say, white supremacy pretending to be for "all lives matter" is not equality.
It is, instead, "identity politics" perversed.
A if-they-can-do-it-I-can-do-it-too politics. To right wrongs with wrongs. To might-makes-right because might-says-so. To anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-one-better.
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Needless to say, supremacy on any premise that pretends otherwise, is a fraud. But monolithizing supremacy has its limits.
While every supremacy is equally unjust, the consequences of supremacy beg for not one size fits all solutions.
Because a supremacist whose most egregious act of supremacy is to, say, not employ a woman, should not be monolithized with a supremacist whose least egregious act of supremacy is to, say, execute a policy of rejecting applicants for asylum who believe not in Jesus Christ.
Notwithstanding, supremacy is both obvious and not. While the supremacist who refuses to hire a woman for a "man's work" and a "man's pay" is often obvious, the supremacist who executes a policy that preferentially privileges believers in Christianity is often not.
Hence, supremacy that fakes otherwise, is rife when fakery gets the job done.
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Which isn't to say that supremacy isn't also loud and proud. But the in-your-face supremacist cock walking Don't Tread On Me license plates and flipping birds at College Mom bumper stickers isn't the groomed and heeled supremacist whose mission to salvage descendants of the Atlantic slave trade are poster children for white saviors blessed with colorblindness.
When pretending to be just is a seraphic halo more convincing than a bona fide, supremacy hides in plain sight.
While rude gesturers squeeze their public infamy to monetize their relevance as venal campaign trail props, inclined adopters of black and brown children comfortably perverse "identity politics".
Because supremacy pretending to be blind is supremacy engineered to survive to full throatedly oppose equality and justice.
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Fueling hatred feigning peaceful advocacy and engineering cover for closet supremacy is neither justice nor equality.
Therefore, I am for neither.
Rather, I am for:
the courage to say:
we are the problem
and
without us
there is no solution;
and the courage not to fail to act.
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Justice and equality isn't taking supremacy pretending to be for freedom at face value; justice and equality isn't taking unilateral judgment pretending to safeguard democracy at face value.
Justice and equality isn't a pretense of itself.
Justice and equality is the spine to see the corrosive power of supremacy to sabotage and dismantle real peace; justice and equality is the spine to say real peace is a greatness worth striving for; justice and equality is the spine to do more than nothing.
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Whether we face slick brittle veneers that are manifestly unconvincing or exceptionally convincing, supremacists are with us and our own.
Thus not dialoging with supremacists at all cannot be the greatness towards which we strive for.
Though the well from which supremacy draws to desolate and deface every step towards justice and equality is steadfast, justice and equality is buoyed by that which is resolute and ceaseless:
faith in the possible.
For a greatness worth striving for isn't in our past, it's in the possible; whether or not the possible will be realized is wholly a matter of courage.
- M.
Addendum
Militias, mothers, and movements are not the enemy. To wit, being for justice and equality is not being anti militias, mothers, and movements. Rather:
Activists for supremacy are activists for supremacy.
Activists for supremacy who adopt the identityism of "identity politics" in order to advance that which are counterfeits of real efforts towards justice and equality are frauds.
Even when such identityism bullhorns its advocacy as fights for patriotism, freedom, and liberty. For without qualification there's nothing heroic about standing for unjust and unequal treatment of human beings based on their so-called "identity" on the basis of [fill in the blank: race, socioeconomic status, age, gender, national origin, religion, marital status, educational attainment, sexual orientation, etc.]. Much less because you are militias, mothers, and movements.
Notwithstanding, your patriotism, freedom, and liberty are not at the pleasure and mercy of you and your own. They're at the wherewithal of all of us to preserve that which is worth preserving.
Surely that's not supremacy? Or is that which is self-evident and endowed by our creator: injustice and inequality for all?
- M.
