With David Remnick August 25, 2017 David Remnick talks with John Ridley, the writer of "12 Years a Slave," about portraying the legacy of racism on film, the reality of white supremacy now, and how Ridley maintains his belief in redemption.
It is comparable to the way a white person benefits from white supremacy, no matter how woke she is.
And that's how white supremacy works.
Your work often deals with how white supremacy impacts the lives of people of color.
His observations about how white supremacy has brutalized black people in Africa, America, and beyond are inspired by radical discourse; in one daring tableau, he talks to T'Challa about the need to eliminate not only the oppressor class but its children, like some sexified second coming of the extremist Nat Turner.
See how white supremacy validates itself in the notion of women as property to be defended, and how smoothly racism, patriarchy, and nationalism elide.
Conversely, Weeksville also represents how white supremacy can practically erase a small section of one of the busiest cities from the map.
As anti-racist organisers, we recognise the importance of understanding how white supremacy and racism show up in our lives, and how they are inscribed into policies across our own governments and around the globe.
It's high time we white women face our history of enabling white supremacy and ask ourselves how we still contribute to and benefit from patriarchy and racial hierarchy (even if we vehemently oppose it).
After all, if Mitch McConnell is sincere about there being "no place in the Republican Party, the Congress or the country for an ideology of racial supremacy of any kind" how could he possibly still be supporting and protecting the biggest racist of them all – Donald Trump.
