The Violent Nature of Whiteness

White violence, anger, and rage make up the foundation of American society.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wik f Daily with
Meet your Girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.
More news is coming out about the shooting that took
place at the Abundant Life School in Wisconsin, and I
think that one of the most heartbreaking parts of this

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story is that it was a second grader that called
authorities to the school to say that there was a shooting.
What I realized more and more, and I know that
I've said this ad nauseum, is that America really doesn't
give a shit about children, Like no part of America

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that gives a damn about children, Because you cannot say
to me, what about the children? We love the children,
protect the children, and you place seven and eight year
olds in the position that not only do they have

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to witness horrific acts of violence, but then they must
have their wits about them enough to be able to
in the moment that a shooter is lurking, to be
able to call authorities, because this is something that these
children are forced to practice and are drilled into them

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as young apparently as elementary school. I don't know why
American citizens live like this. I look at these other countries.
I look at the way that the French protest, I
look at the bravery of the women in Iran and
their protests. I look at the South Koreans and their

(02:08):
protests against their presidents and taking action in a way
that reminds these politicians who exactly is in fucking charge?
And for whatever reason, Americans are just I don't know
what it is. Is it our apathy? Is it the

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air of hopelessness and just that nothing can ever change.
Is it the fact that there's too much on streaming
so folks would rather just netflix and chill rather than
take action in the streets. I don't know what it is.
I really don't, but to live inside of this country

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with so many preventable fucking ills that are plaguing our society,
not because they are somebody's act of God, but because
they're acts of lobbyists and greedy, cruel hearted politicians who
allow children to die and offer nothing but thoughts and

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prayers as if they are fucking clergy and that's the
only thing that they can do. I don't need your
thoughts in prayers, and frankly, at this point, you know,
and I said this, you know a decade ago when
Sandy Hook happened. That I wish that the parents of
Sandy Hook had done what Mama Till Emmett Till's mother

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did when she made the most courageous decision that would
put a even greater spark on the civil rights movement
by showing her son's brutalized body to show the world

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this is what white domestic violence does to a child's body.
And I think about what would have happened post Sandy
Hook if the parents of those children had said, show
the pictures, because I want the world to see what

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an ar fifteen does to a child's body. We are
so desensitized to violence because of Hollywood and because of
the last thirty fucking years of school shootings. But to

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see a small body riddled to pieces in Alpasso and
in other places, they had to use in Uvaldi, they
had to use the children's dental records and the shoes
that they had on to be able to identify those

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children's bodies. But we continue to move on. But then, folks,
you know, I think about the absolute fucking carnage and
devastation in Gaza, and the fact that those children that
live there know that they most likely will not survive

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that Meta started suppressing those pictures in those videos because
it's much easier to continue with this genocide when people
don't have to see it, they don't have to interact
with it, they don't have to engage. That can be
violence that's happening over there. But there is violence that

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happens here that American children face on a regular basis,
and we still do nothing. You know, and I believe
that this may be the first time that the shooter
is a fifteen year old white girl, and you know,
there's a lot of mixed reporting that is coming out

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because of course I believe that there is some bullshit
conspiracy that was happening around her gender identity, as if
it matters. But you know, that's a narrative that would
fit on the right. Oh, it's one of these transgender
kids hopped up on hormones and that's why they committed

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the killing. Not because we have a proliferation of guns
in this country where there are more guns than there
are actual fucking people. Not to mention that the statistics
would show you that most of the shootings, mass shootings,
and school shootings that have taken place have been at
the hands of young white boys. But we don't want
to have the conversation about what has happened to white

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boys in this country, what has happened to white people
in this country. We don't want to have a converse
station about white violence, right, anger and rage. Whether it
be Daniel Penny choking a man, a black man, to
death for six minutes on a subway, but now being
a celebrated hero of the right, whether it be Kyle Rittenhouse,

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whether it be the McCluskey's on their front lawn waving
guns in Michigan, whether it be the white mobs right
that burned down black cities in towns during segregation. And
after you get to a place sometimes, or at least
I get to a place sometimes when I am just

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outfucking done, you know where I just I don't have
anything left in me. Michael Harriet wrote a piece that
is up at the Grio right now that is about
whiteness being a lethal weapon. It is entitled Whiteness is

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a lethal weapon. Whether it's a CEO assassin, a subway strangler,
or a mass deportation, Whiteness can justify any form of violence,
and he writes this quote to them, we are the
violent ones. He's speaking about black people. Even when white
people spontaneously combust into violence, they are entitled to the

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presumption of humanity. Conversely, every black body is a vessel
that carries the potential for violence until a good white
man can choke the life out of it or a
brave police officer can fill it with enough holes. Our
criminality is as implied as their fears. Like the legend

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of legally registered legal fists, Whiteness is a fantastic fable
and a real life scam. Through the sheer force of
its obliviousness, whiteness can unstain history and codify lies. It
is an all powerful god and a legendary myth. It

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can kill without consequences and serve as its own validation.
It is as violent a thing that has ever existed,
but it does not need a reason to justify its violence.
Whiteness is a reason in its self. It is not
just a legal weapon, It is also a lethal weapon.

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Michael Harriet, with this piece hit the nail right on
the head. We don't reckon with the violent nature of whiteness.
We take every instance and act of violence as individual,
as siloed. We don't talk about pathology or patterns. When

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it pertains to white violence, we wrap it up in
folklore and fantasy because to admit that there is a
problem would be for white people to actually have to
look at themselves rather than looking at everyone else. I
often said, you know, segregation probably would have persisted if,

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in fact, things in this country were separate and equal.
If black people were left to have exist in their
own environment and society, but it was separate and equal,
segregation would have persisted well into the future, I think.
But the fact is the reason why segregation, which was

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created by white people, failed is because white people couldn't
mind their own fucking business. Let's be frank, if you
weren't lynching folks and burning down fucking towns and raping women,
If whiteness is paranoia and a psychosis hadn't been allowed

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to persist to strangle out black liberation, then segregation, this
system that they created, would have persisted. But they couldn't
get out of their own fucking way and just leave
black people alone. So is it shocking to anyone the
amount of violence that we see in this country at

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the hands of white people, whether it be boys or
now girls. But we never have a conversation about who
the fuck is raising them. We never talk about white
women and what is it that they are instilling or
not instilling in their children. But boy, will we waste
ink on publishing a number of headlines really wanting to

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dissect the pathology of black women and the black community,
but never do white people turn the pen on them.
So the violence persists and grows with each and every generation.
Thereafter we continue to say things like, oh, this isn't

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who we are, this isn't what we're about. It's the
only thing America has ever been about violence. It was
birthed on violence, and it will perish on violence, White violence,
to be exact. You know, every time that there is
another shooting, I'm waiting for that conversation that never comes

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because it takes a lot of self reflection to be
able to get there. And those that are in power,
the white CEOs and media and tees and what have you,
they have no desire to spread the truth, They have
no desire for critical thinking. Their goal, as always is

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to push a bullshit narrative that paints Black people as
innate criminals, paints the Latino community as craven do anything
to cross the border. Everyone else is always the fucking problem,
And even when their kids turn into fucking killers over

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and over and over again, we still don't have the conversation,
so it will persist. It will persist because the problem
is guns. Don't get it twisted, but it is white
violence as well. We wouldn't have so many guns if

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white men weren't clinging to them because that's the only
way that they feel important, big, and strong. So many
of our problems are truly solvable if we choose to
actually acknowledge where the problems really lie. But we don't
want to do that, so the cyclical patterns of trauma

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will persist until we decide otherwise. And it seems that
we are still too busy pointing fingers than looking in
the mirror. America's failing persists. That is it for me today,
Dear friends on wokef as always, Power to the people

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and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay
woke as fuck.