Friday, June 10, 2016

go all night.

a moment of clarity. 

words. 

"The rise of Donald Trump is sort of a symptom of the fact that America hasn't ever dealt with whiteness. Overt racism is something that is very much in the forefront—[but] in that discourse, we're pointing to people of color, and we don't actually point to whiteness and the experience of being white in America.

What Donald Trump represents to me is a sickness that we haven't dealt with: the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow and all the other dumb shit that continues to exist. It hasn't been addressed in a very public and [on a] large grand scale kind of way. Also, it pulls up into question whiteness on a larger, global level. That population that Trump is resonating with [in the U.S.] is a population that not only exists here—it exists throughout the whole world. We have not dealt with racism on a global scale; we have not dealt with white privilege. White privilege is a term that needs to be used by a lot of people in this world, and it's not used by anyone. I think it's asking the question to white people, ‘Are you with us? Or are you not with us?’..."

FADER: Kelela: "America Hasn't Ever Dealt With Whiteness"

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