Dismantle White SupremacY

Why is the white conscious of America so against and uncomfortable with this conversation? That was the starting point of digging into this topic and pushing into creating a body of work that demands its attention and more importantly- dialogue and accountability. 

From the resistance of the American school systems adoption of Critical Race Theory to the reoccurring white fear of jobs being taken away from the middle class white person. At every corner of our society there is a reluctance to simply acknowledge White Supremacy as being a fact of the American experience. 

My attempt was to pull from multiple experiences that exemplify undebatable fact that there is indeed a superiority complex that infiltrates our government, businesses and marketing objectives. 

It lives everywhere. 

Starting with “Forefathers” that constructed a constitution that proclaimed “all men created equal” while simultaneously owning human beings. 

Home ownership laws such as racial covenants and redlining that restricted people of color to access the “American Dream” of owning homes and creating transferrable wealth. 

To the crayon company Crayola, labeling a singular crayon “Flesh Tone” and yes, it being white flesh. Black war veterans coming home still facing discriminatory laws. Political prisoners whom fought for actual democracy based equality. Intensely disproportionate sentencing laws for powder cocaine vs. crack. 

How can these facts exist while not acknowledging some sector of the  population having a supreme advantage? 

My attempt was to go between the blatant constitutional hypocrisy and more subtle assumption of whiteness. To think about the psychological component of this being a constant pressure pushed into the American psyche. 

From that, undeniably there will be responses and perspectives informed by that continuous experience, just as we all have perspectives and trauma informed by our individual upbringings and family dynamics. 

This must also be true of our environmental and social experiences. 

If we can look at this body of work and unbiasedly acknowledge that these things are simply fact, can we then actually talk about the existence of White Supremacy equally unbiased?