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How many times have we heard that refrain?
\u201cYou know how the White man is\u2026\u201d<\/strong>
\u201cThe system.\u201d<\/strong>
\u201cThey ain\u2019t gonna let you\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning, while on my run, I started thinking about the mythology of The<\/em> White Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not just a person, but a concept<\/strong>. A god-like figure in American folklore. All-knowing. All-powerful. All up in your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this spiritual and ancestral journey I\u2019m on, I keep picking up breadcrumbs\u2014and those crumbs are the pathology of whiteness. The made-up construct of \u201cwhite.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not going to get into Carl Linnaeus, Friedrich Blumenbach, or Samuel George Morton today. If you’re curious, pick up a crumb and take your own walk down the rabbit hole. But understand this: whiteness is a costume. A performance. A weaponized invention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So where did this all-seeing, all-controlling White Man come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The quick answer: slavery.
The deeper truth: a multi-layered system built on colonialism, capitalism, and Christianity<\/em>\u2014each one reinforcing the next. The plantation wasn\u2019t just a field; it was a framework. Oppression wasn\u2019t just physical\u2014it was theological, intellectual, and generational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here\u2019s the wild part:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s Republicans are hollering about men in wigs and dresses\u2014
but men in wigs<\/em> wrote the Constitution.
Men in wigs owned human beings.
Men in wigs laid the foundation for this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back then, wigs and makeup weren\u2019t scandalous\u2014they were status.
Power powdered itself white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now they weaponize drag queens as proof of \u201cmoral decay\u201d during Pride Month\u2014
while ignoring the lace, rouge, and pantaloons of the so-called Founding Fathers.
Men in dresses were never the problem.
Men in power who hide behind God and tradition always have been.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And let\u2019s not forget, these \u201cFounding Fathers\u201d?
As Dr. Greg Carr calls them: fleeing felons.
Running from debts, monarchs, and prosecution\u2014
and running straight into stolen land, then calling it destiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe their ancestors were gladiators and knights once, but hand-to-hand combat became long-distance warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I can shoot you from 100 yards\u2014or drop a bomb from 30,000 feet\u2014I don\u2019t need to be physically superior anymore.
The stronger, darker body becomes the savage.
The killer in uniform becomes \u201ccivilized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe can go toe to toe in the middle of a cell.\u201d
\u2014 N.W.A.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Spiritually? The marketing was masterful.
Make all other gods false.
Make all other beliefs evil.
Erase your ancestors.
Then give you one god<\/em>\u2014
make his son and his crew whiter than the driven snow.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrap it all in scripture.
Paint heaven white and make hell Black.
Make salvation pale and fear full of melanin.
And suddenly whiteness ain\u2019t just skin\u2014it\u2019s sanctified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So no\u2014the White man ain\u2019t gonna let you realize you hold the power.
Ain\u2019t gonna let you know that you\u2019re the Global Majority.
Ain\u2019t gonna let you trace your lineage before the Bible.
Ain\u2019t gonna let you know we are dominant, they are recessive.
That Black is the origin, not the mutation.
That without our rhythm, our gods, our culture\u2014they\u2019d be hollow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They ain\u2019t gonna let you remember the truth.
They ain\u2019t gonna let you study your pre-slavery self.
They ain\u2019t gonna let you know your ancestors built pyramids, not just picked cotton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because if you ever really<\/em> knew who you were\u2026
If we ever really<\/em> remembered who we\u2019ve always been\u2014
The myth would collapse.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so would the man.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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