The Flip Side of White Supremacy: Fooled by Skin

Those of us astute in the workings of white supremacy and the power elite are aware that their tool kit consists of one basic instrument: color. This is not to say that color is the only tool, just that it is an integral part, much like music is to sound. However, what many white people may not understand is that they are being exploited and subjugated using the very tool used to subjugate Black people, and as long as they can, this white supremacist power elite will exploit the very people with whom they claim to identify on the basis of skin color. What do I mean? Well, most Black people know our oppression with all our senses and through all institutional structures built in the U.S., including the economy. Most Black people understand they are being exploited and oppressed based on color. It would appear white people do not realize they are as well. Many white people don’t even realize they are being oppressed, having for generations accepted their economic caste system of class apportionment. While more and more sense “something is not right anymore,” they can’t or won’t admit they are being exploited on the very same basis of their skin color as well. Why? Because they identify with and share the same color as their oppressors, and because they do, they don’t realize that color, in fact, IS what is being used against them as well.