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 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.