# Where are all the white people?

- Link: https://www.andreidraganescu.info/2016/08/08/where-are-all-the-white-people/
- Published: 2016-08-08T13:16:36+03:00
- Author: Andrei Draganescu

#### #iamnotwhite

This is white:

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white

I have never ever seen a human of this color. Never. Not in the movies, not on the
streets, not in cartoons even. Not even Casper, the friendly ghost, had this color.
To me, there is no such thing as white people.

I have seen white cats. White owls. White dogs. White rats. White foxes. White bears.
But never, ever have I seen a white human. Not even the albinos are white. So where
are all the whites, that make the white supremacy?

I am born within privilege. A lot of it. I am male, I had educated parents, I have
a good genetic makeup with enough diversity so that I am generally healthy, and 
have a pretty much symmetrical look, good skin, nice teeth and all. I have had enough
shit in my life to get that masculine rugged gaze and some white hairs which help
me get an interesting look. But I am not white. I am a shade of brown most of the
time, even in the winter. In the summer my skin gets darker, and my eyes get lighter.
Yet, I have been yellow, a yellowish red, when jaundice tinted my bloodstream. Being
sick, I have spent months inside and turned, at best in a pale gray yellow shape
of myself. But, I am not and have never been white.

I live in a racist country, one where racism is so ingrained in society that absolutely
no one even understands the term. The main target of our racism is a group of browner
people, gypsies. But it is common for folk to feel sorry for black people for their
blackness, especially for pretty black girls. Genuine sorry, as if the black went
away there would be some miracle cure. It is common for a black man to be considered
naturally dirty, as if you could get stained with their blackness. I wonder, when
we discuss open borders, do we consider that waves upon waves of people who are 
insensitive to topics such as race, sexuality or sex will get to thicken the many
layers of resistance in cultures who struggled for decades to beat the diseases 
of racism, discrimination and bigotry?

I wonder, who designated these weird labels on “races” as accurate? White, yellow,
red, black … they are nowhere to be found. So far brown appears to be the only universal
shade I keep seeing. I’ve seen brown Chinese, brown Americans, brown Romanians, 
brown Russians, brown African-Americans, brown Rwandans, brown Egyptians.

Listen my black brother, I think that as long as I am “white” and you are “black”,
I win. The Sun is white, the day is white, milk is white, flower is white, sugar
is white. Sure, lots of exotic and mystical things are black, but you wont win this
war with special tricks. Some sugar is brown, but I only use it for coffee. The 
good sugar, the white processed one, goes to make the sweet stuff, the cookies I
so enjoy. Do you see the pattern? In the racial justice war simply using the term
_white _is like giving a check mate to all other players.

White is a great political power idea, invented by the invading nations who stumbled
on various technological discoveries when their time came. Like those before them
who wielded empires because they stumbled on other technological discoveries, there
is nothing particularly special about some European nations who “conquered” the 
entire world. It is pure luck. But, by the power of sheer serendipity, we had the
audacity to take captive the notion of whiteness and we got you all enslaved forever.
Nothing simpler.

As long as some population is _white_, all the other inhabitants of the planet will
loose the racial war. And they will also loose the political benefits. Oh, and the
white always wins the economical game, because the white are special, and you agree
without even knowing. Listen to my words, if you care for justice to guard the truth
that all people are created equal: banish this color label from your vocabulary,
because white is _everything there is, all rolled into one. _You can’t win against
the white at a conceptual level. The white will engulf you. If you call me _white_,
I have power over you.

Have you “seen the light”? It was white, wasn’t it? Or maybe you are one of those
having fun thinking of a Black God? End it, God is white. Alanis Morisette played
a female God, a white female God. Morgan Freeman played a God all dressed up in 
white, in a white setting. Had it been black, you’d be put out of the whole movie,
you know why? Because white is good, white is up, white is the color of the top 
of the mountains and white is in the sky, because water!

In the racial war, _white _has the power of the one concept hard wired into humanity:
_life_. White means everything it means today, before we had the so called white
people on this planet. Before Romans, before Europeans, before colonialist empires,
before slavery. White means the good thing, even since we were making up this world
we’re living in to be filled with dragons. Just realize that by fighting a war against
an opponent whose whiteness you confirm and empower you will loose.

Do you think Hollywood is whitewashing movies? We’re all whitewashing the planet,
by labeling a minor genetic difference with the greatest metaphor of all: white!
There are no white humans in my experience so far. There are only various shades
of brown. The greatest problem in cultural shifts is to redefine mentalities. As
long as a group of people get the best allegoric description of qualia rolled up
into one word, white, I think we’ll be playing an endless and fruitless game of 
victim-perpetrator.

To be white is something to desire. If the whole racial justice discourse is to 
do any good, it must reinvent itself into something that changes the idea that any
of the people on this Earth are White. The current situation where the establishment,
the system, the culture, the power is identified with a group of people who are 
all thrown under the generic and empowering term of whiteness, is a loosing position
for all the equality movements on the planet.

Nobody is really white. Seriously, not even the really pale people, not even those
with vines showing beneath their skin, it doesn’t matter how Aryan or Nordic in 
appearance, you are not white. You may be a very, very, pale hue of brown with yellow
shades and some black or red spots and dots. But we all want to be white. The darker
we are the whiter we’d like to be. Traditional myths and fairly tales include accurate
descriptions of beautiful, special, noble, worthy people who are all white, in “
white” countries. No one looks like the heroes and heroines our children dream up
to. Because nobody is really white.

I am not “colorblind”. I am simply not white, and I have never seen a white person
in my entire life. I will however make an instinctive difference between my hue 
and the other hues, because this is what was presented to me as a child. This is
essential, no matter how much information one accrues in a lifetime, the basic principles
laid out by the childhood exposure will never change. Never. They can only emulate
change. So imbued in my native education-instilled racism, proud of all my awareness
in regard to my race, I do not identify as white, because I simply am true to myself
when I look in the mirror. I am not white, but I reap all the benefits all the people
who think I am white offer me for free, as if I am some magician who has hypnotized
90% of the planet’s population.

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When I’m born I’m black
When I grow up I’m even more blackWhen I’m in the sun I’m
still blackWhen I’m cold, guess what: I’m blackAnd when I die I’m fucking black 
tooBut you:When you are born you’re pinkWhen you grow up you are whiteWhen you’re
sick, man look at yourself, you’re greenWhen you go in the sun you turn redWhen 
you are cold you turn blueAnd when you die you look purpleAnd you got the fucking
nerve to call me colored? — Tongue Forest ft. LaMont Humphrey