White people as a collective still fear sharing power and status. They fear no longer being the special race. The Enlightened race. The civilized and civilizing race. This is likely obvious to anyone watching the trajectory of right-wing “populism,” the alt-right, and the resurgence of the neo-Nazi movement. Perhaps, as many of us racialized folk half-joke, white people fear being treated the way they have long treated the minorities they have subordinated. At the very least, there appears to be a complete denial that the only thing that has made white people “superior” is their own insistence
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