The concept of race

The concept of race is void! However the social experience of it is real because of the enforced investment in it! The concept of race is void because the human race is one race of people, that is, that we all originate from one human race. All that makes us different is genetic heterogeneity, which includes genetic mutations. The term 'race' suggests different human origins, which is impossible as there is only one human origin on planet earth and that is the African. Therefore we can intellectualise from the introduction of race as a concept, specifically within european civilisation as a hierarchical system of order and logic, that race is a white supremacist product, concept or phenomenon, invented to facilitate racial violence and oppression for the purpose of creating a hegemonic racial hierarchy that would provide power through exploitation.

Therefore the tactics of whiteness or white supremacy in our contemporary moment to ask people of colour to describe what they mean by their assertion of racism or to suggest that it is people of colour who are obsessed, preoccupied or paranoid about racism, is an unveiling of the true scale of white supremacist power, in that it can now afford to adopt a strategy of race amnesia.

However the strategy of race amnesia is confounded when the multicultural subjects that white supremacy represents from its own imaginary, exceed their boundaries, thereby becoming a cultural threat, a challenge to the supremacy of dominant white cultural norms, which posture as the universal a-racial measure of humanity. A threat because whiteness or white supremacy is false, empty, void, a phantom ruse to mask the reality that whiteness has no culture, no substance, it is a scarecrow, the wizard of Oz, whose function depends on not being investigated because all there is, is an empty shell powered by violence.

Whiteness and the question of African enslavement

I have always found the white supremacist question that asks "wasn't African enslavement a long time ago?", in relation to its affects on black people in the present, a curious one. I find this question curious because for it to be a genuine one, it would have to be asked in relation to some comparable unit of measure. So then one would have to ask, when has any member of the human race experienced a similar trauma over a similar period of time as the transatlantic slave trade and the structural and domestic exclusion of African people that succeeded this predatory era of African enslavement?

Even if another racial group had experienced something similar to the transatlantic slave trade, which there is no historical evidence of, would this racial group have experienced this process in the same way as the African, that is within the same conscious reality of 'being' and 'knowing', experiencing the same pain and trauma that comes with such a reality? It may well be that for the pain ratio to be the same among different peoples with different ways of being and knowing the universe, they may have to have completely different experiences.

Never the less the tactical white supremacist question of the impact and legacy of African slavery in todays world is one, which is not genuine and one which seeks to erase any semblance of white violence because whiteness or white supremacy can only deal with how things are now and not how they got to be that way. The imperative for whiteness then is to create a giant white simulacrum void of any historical referent that exists outside of the white imaginary.