Intersectionality: A White Person’s Guide

Dearest Karen and Chet,

You know what? I think I get why you guys are hung up on “all lives matter”.

Now, mind you, I think the fact that Chet will proudly claim that “he doesn’t see race, so why can’t all lives matter” is still repugnant. But in the wake of DeSean Jackson and Steven Jackson (no relation) stepping into all sorts of shit with their anti-semetic hogwash, I’m going to take the time to introduce you two to an entirely new concept.

I am also sending this message to T’Challa Mfalme Wa Kwanza Kuzaliwa.

T’Challa is a hotep.

And hoteps are the white people of black people.

Now, the fact that I have said this will undoubtedly make T’Challa (whose real name is Herbert) angry, since T’Challa doesn’t like white people. He fancies himself as pro black. But white people do have something T’Challa and hoteps like him crave. Unlike hotep-adjacent figures like Candace Owens and Ben Carson who merely want white acceptance, T’Challa wants power.

He wants to replace a system of white patriarchy and supremacy with black patriarchy and supremacy.

Chet, if you ever meet T’Challa, you’ll notice that in many ways, he sounds exactly like your neighbor Doug. Both of them decry other races dating “their women”, but also seem to despise women and hate feminism. Doug won’t shut up about his Irish heritage on St. Patrick’s Day but is curiously and suddenly German around Oktoberfest time, and T’Challa took a name that was invented by two white men in the 1960s and smashed it with some Swahili while wearing Dashikis and claiming Islam as a religion. Cultural appropriation is big with these guys. They also both wear socks with sandals and refuse to use lotion or Chap Stick.

Doug and T’Challa both want the same things; them at the center of the universe, with people not like them having to orbit around them doing their bidding. The main difference between Doug and T’Challa is that Doug was born with white supremacy on his side, and T’Challa thinks that black supremacy is his birthright.

The truth is that, though they are a minority, there are a lot of hoteps out there who honestly do believe that “Black Lives Matter” only should mean that black lives matter. To the humble hotep like T’Challa, fighting for equality is a zero sum game. Why get a piece of the pie when you can eat the whole thing for yourself? Especially when there’s been a group of people devoted to making sure you have a little of the pie as possible.

And so the idea mutates into one in which everything would be better for black people if only they wielded the same control and domination over everyone as white people do. Hotepery knows no bounds, and you will find hoteps who are as anti-immigration, anti-woman, anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ, and anti-equality as even the whitest of lawnmower stealing white men like Doug.

T’Challa thinks he means well, but really he just wants his turn at the wheel, even if it means he steers it off the same cliff Doug does.

DeSean Jackson posting anti-semetic quotes from goddamn Hitler (who, may I remind you, also despised black people and thought they were even more inferior than the Jews were) isn’t simply a problem of Jackson misunderstanding the quote, and Steven Jackson’s defense of DeSean shows a problem in and of itself.

My wife is a Latina, and recently she asked me what Black Lives Matter actually meant. At first, I got tired, because explaining this shit is exhausting. But after listening to her for a while, I came to understand that the media blasting “BLACK LIVES MATTER” across their networks all the time could, in a way, make people of other races feel excluded.

That’s not always the case; the most stunning thing about the Black Lives Matter movement is how it’s managed to cross racial lines. Many people understanding that supporting Black Lives Matter means supporting change that will make things more equitable for everyone.

But then you have hoteps who, however quietly they may say it, make sure that it’s known that “no, black lives matter. I’ma get mine, just hope you gets yours”. We see these figures pop up and spanning multiple cultures. It’s the Hispanic man who decries immigration, or the gay straight white male who votes Republican and hates trans and queer people. It’s the Indian father who disowns his daughter for dating someone black.

These people stand in the way of progress while presenting themselves as Progressives, because their vision of progress can only imagine a future in which white male dominated patriarchy can be supplanted by black male dominated patriarchy.

Intersectionality is a key component of the fight for equality. According to a 2018 report, there were 7,120 hate crimes reported to the FBI. Of that, there were 2,426 victims of hate crimes that were black people; there were 920 victims that were Jewish. Those two groups constitute the vast majority of the victims of said crimes.

People of color have to come together in order to take down any sort of supremacy, because, again, there are more of us combined than their are of them. The two Jacksons regurgitating anti-semetic propaganda from the biggest anti-Semite of all time shows that there is still a blind spot when it comes to equality even in black communities. When one group looks to actively oppress the other, then they become no different than Doug or T’Challa.

Hate begets hate.

The only way we get to equality is by acknowledging we’re all in the fight together. White people need to realize that, and so do hoteps.

Sincerely,

Your black friend

P.S

I know there wasn’t much in the way of talking about you this month, Karen, but just read Clever Name Here’s post on J.K Rowling and cancel culture and just assume he wrote it specifically for you.

P.P.S

This should go without saying but NEVER CALL A BLACK PERSON A HOTEP. Just throw it on the list of other words that black people can say and you can’t.