We Must Call The Devil By Its Name!

For centuries we have lamented the prevalence of racism in America and blamed it for the unspeakable brutality inflicted on African Americans since we arrived on these shores kidnapped and in chains.

I have been saying for years that racism is not the problem. Racism is a calculated distraction and nothing more. The concept of racism was created to disguise something far more sinister. Let us define our terms. Racism is "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior."

Let's be clear here. I do not care whether or not white people like me or think they are superior to me in any area of life. I said I do not care. Nor should you.!

The ultimate truth is that there is only one race and it is known as the human race. Even the people who claim to believe in the inferiority of other people clearly do not believe what they say. How do I know? Because they keep trying everything they can to keep the so'called inferior people from getting ahead. There is an old saying, apparently true, that water always seeks its own level.

You do not have to hold people back who are inferior to you. By virtue of their inferiority they will never surpass the superior race.

The problem is and has always been the political ideology of white supremacy. White supremacy is defined as "the belief that white people are superior to those of all other races, especially the black race, and should therefore dominate society." But white supremacy is far more insidious than this popular but misleading definition.

White supremacy is a political, economic and social monoply that excludes blacks from meaningful competition. It is maintained and enforced by laws nd policies that lock in standards that favor whites and disfavor blacks. It is enforced by a massive law enforcement apparatus formerly known as the slave patrol. Mass incarceration, substandard education and rampant underemployment are its dubious accomplishments. It is both strategy and tactic. It is the plan by which they shall rule and we shall serve - if they have their way - forever.

Make no mistake about it. Racism is not only nonsense it is also a non-issue. Hate me if you want. Your hatred will consume you like the cancer it is. I will be on my way because your love or hatred for me is unimportant. It does not bother me. Frankly, I do not care.

What does bother me is the historic and present intention to make us second class citizens in the country that we built. Now that really bothers me!

The political ideology of white supremacy has been the often unrecognized but ever present driving force behind slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, the Black Codes and a thousand other laws and programs intended to re-enslave us. That I take violent exception to. That I can never forgive. I am especially bothered by what remains the purpose and intent of the election of Donald Trump to take the country back - but not back from the Democratic Party or liberals or from the first black president - but back in time - to the days of Strom Thurmond and the States Rights Party or even further back to the days of Dred Scott v. Sandford when the Supreme Court of the United States held that African slaves and their descendants had no rights that the white man was bound to respect or that whites did not choose to give them.

It is white supremacy that must be destroyed root and branch including every single vestige of its policies and laws and its monuments, flags and streets named after white supremacists that exist to memorialize the savagery that was American slavery. Remember too that white supremacy is an economic policy that has stolen billions if not trillions from us.

Call the devil by its name! WHITE SUPREMACY

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Johnnie Cordero holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science and a Doctorate in Jurisprudence. He is the author of Total Black Empowerment: A Guide to Critical Thinking in the Age of Trump.