Morning Comrades.
My brain is little fried from working too much this week so please bear with me. The other night I was reading through some articles that caught my attention focusing on various structures of White Supremacy and within one of them I came across a concept called “The Right to Comfort” and it caught me off-guard. It caught me off-guard simply because the sheer simplicity of it and its permanence within our lives is so utterly omnipresent. Obviously, this is what makes the reality of White Supremacy so all over-bearing: the fact that the all encompassing European power structures from the Christian Churches to Politics and their Capitalists have spent the last 500 years plus unmeasurable wealth creating these social construct to exist solely to justify their violent greed - in short, they appear “normal” because they have been purposely “normalized”.
My humble of understanding of de-colonization is based around this idea, that whatever we construe as “normal” has its roots in a constructed racism that solely supports the land-owning classes. With that I wanted to write an introduction to this concept with a nod to the Marxian concept of alienation to offer some potential original flavour. I say so because these ideas and understandings are anything but original, on the contrary, wonderful scholars such as Angela Davis, Frantz Fanon and bell hooks, for starters, have committed thier lives deconstructing these realities and we are all the better for it.
The more you know and all that.
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