Obama wasn’t much different from any other president, yeah.
But, in the colonial situation the economic base is also its superstructure. “White” is a settler identity, it has no history before settler-colonialism. There is no white language, culture, nation, religion etc etc. It exists only as a way to weld together disparate ethnic groups into a single cohort. The colonial situation imposes whiteness onto the US, the decolonial struggle would destroy it.
Obama wasn’t much different from any other president, yeah.
The Obamas, Rices, and Powells as well, though I was thinking of minorities who join the military, and minority workers who internalize an imperialist mindset.
Joining the military can have different effects for minorities because it’s actually a hostile environment. They might embrace pessimism and shame towards their bodies and histories and families as they try their hardest to integrate into whiteness, or they also might become embittered by their experiences in the military and reject white supremacy and imperialism.
But for whites who join the military it takes an awful lot to get them to reject the empire because they have to become race traitors.
The imperialist mentality isn’t exclusive to white Americans, either.
Obama wasn’t much different from any other president, yeah.
But, in the colonial situation the economic base is also its superstructure. “White” is a settler identity, it has no history before settler-colonialism. There is no white language, culture, nation, religion etc etc. It exists only as a way to weld together disparate ethnic groups into a single cohort. The colonial situation imposes whiteness onto the US, the decolonial struggle would destroy it.
The Obamas, Rices, and Powells as well, though I was thinking of minorities who join the military, and minority workers who internalize an imperialist mindset.
Joining the military can have different effects for minorities because it’s actually a hostile environment. They might embrace pessimism and shame towards their bodies and histories and families as they try their hardest to integrate into whiteness, or they also might become embittered by their experiences in the military and reject white supremacy and imperialism.
But for whites who join the military it takes an awful lot to get them to reject the empire because they have to become race traitors.
You got that right! Pun intended.