“White-body supremacy has also been described as a virus; a public health threat; a form of group narcissism; a malignant social compact; a massive (and very successful) brainwashing project or form of mass hypnosis; a collective delusion; a widespread lie, fraud, and grift; a racialized form of fascism; a contemporary expression of historical feralness; and an embodied cultural pathology. While it is arguably all of these, most of all it is a failure to grow up.
“Which is why it is our responsibility, both individually and collectively, to grow out of it.
“As we've seen, the plan of the Republican Party is to activate the racialized trauma in the bodies of people with vehement and devout WBS, and then spur them to widespread destruction and brutality. With the assistance of many of the GOP’s complicitors, this plan has been unfolding steadily since early 2021.
“However, the same efforts that incite and mobilize these folks will also activate the racialized trauma in most Americans bodies — probably including yours. This will create potential peril but also the possibility of deep healing. If many of us can experience, recognize, and metabolize the racialized trauma that has long been stuck in our bodies, we can begin to grow up around matters of race.”
