Abolish Whiteness

Renounce your whiteness. Be a decent human being

indi.ca
6 min readJan 23, 2021
A poster for The Clansman, the first film screened in the White House. This is whiteness. It’s irredeemable

Whiteness is white supremacy. There’s actually nothing else to it. There is no white food, there is no white music. Whiteness is just the dehumanization of everyone else, and that shit’s got to go. Renounce your whiteness. Be a decent human being.

Think about it for a minute. There is no ‘brownness’ running riot across the world. Sri Lanka and Pakistan aren’t splitting racist control of the world’s financial institutions like the US and EU do. We’re not getting together to bomb and occupy Myanmar. We can’t even agree on what a biriyani is. Be like that.

Abolish whiteness doesn’t mean you disappear. Go ahead and be French or Russian or German or Dutch if you want. Restore the grand European tradition of hating each other. Be Basque or Scottish or Southern, I don’t give a fuck. Just stop ganging up in this oppressive whiteness and terrorizing the world. There simply is no good way to be white. Just stop.

When I say there is no good way, think about who actually talks about white pride. Nazis. White Supremacists. The KKK. These are the people that talk about the white race, white power. There is no benign way to participate in this. You just have to put it down. If you’re not comfortable shouting WHITE PRIDE! in a crowded theatre, then don’t be white at all

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.

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