Hi Marley, the main problem I have with this argument is that if you’re going to credit everything bad to “whiteness” surely you end up having to credit everything good to it too. The device you’re using to type this, the electricity that powers it, the man who came up with the idea for the website that we’re both writing on. In fact, the man who invented the internet. If you want to reach as far as you’re doing her to blame all of society’s ills on white supremacy, how are you not also making all of the benefits of society a function of white supremacy too? That’s certainly what an actual white supremacist would argue.

I think it’s more accurate to look at the society we live in as a collaborative venture. Both its positives and its negatives. Of course, we can talk about how black people have been mistreated within that society, we can s till acknowledge how we’ve been denied the opportunity to play a full part in it, but I think we can do that effectively without arguing that every single thing that ever goes wrong is the fault of “the white man”.

But beyond that, even if I did accept your argument, does that mean that every interaction between a white person and a person of colour is necesarily racist? If I have an argument with a white guy, is that automatically a racist interaction regardless of who started it? If a white woman has a relationship with a Chinese man, is she automatically fetishising him? Your argument here seems to leave no room for interactions, positive or negative, which aren’t racist. So what’s the answer?Segregation?