Context -> psychopathology of white “supremacy.”
Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) founder, Ajamu Baraka, describes this psychopathology as, “a racialized narcissistic cognitive disorder that hyper-values the beliefs, perspectives, and stated values of peoples racialized as white, and the assumption of the natural superiority of European civilization. It renders those afflicted with an inability to perceive objective reality.” He continues, “This affliction is not reducible just to those who identity, or want to identity, as “white,” but an affect all those who have encountered and been assimilated to the ideological and cultural mechanisms of the five century old, pan-European colonial project and its normalization of white “supremacy” ideology.”
This characterization explains why when it comes to the zionist ethnostate, the behavior of white liberals like Democratic Party Senators Schumer, Blumenthal, and John Fetterman is indistinguishable from that of Black, petty bourgeois liberals like Van Jones, Bakari Sellers, and Congressman RItchie Torres (D-NY). But each of their collective and respective white “supremacy” psychopathology reveals another truth that can no longer be ignored, perambulated, or debated - Palestinian people are not considered white/European, which is to say they are not even viewed as humans who qualify for protections under International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (i.e. the Geneva Convention) that white Ukrainians do.
This explains why we will never see world leaders representing Western colonial nations interrupt their summer vacations to rush to the White House for an emergency discussion on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as we just saw them do for Ukraine. It also explains why, beyond performative U.N. resolutions and recognition of a Palestinian State, there has not been a collective effort by Western nations to do all in their power to end the zionist ethnostate’s war crimes against Palestinian people nor the illegal occupation of their lands. In fact, many of these nations, the U.S. chief among them, still provide arms and financial support that allows the State of Israel to continue its genocidal war machine unabated. But the major mistake these nations and the zionist ethnostate are making is an assumption that the psychopathology of white “supremacy” solely impacts non-white people adversely.
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