White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies, Sometimes this power is direct {lynching}, and sometimes it is insidious {redlining}. But however it appears, the power of domination and exclusion is central to the belief in being white, and without it, "white people" would cease to exist for want of reasons. There will surely always be people with straight hair and blue eyes, as there have been for all history, But some of these straight-haired people with blue eyes have been "black," and this points to the great difference between their world and ours. We did not choose our fences. They were imposed on us by Virginia planters obsessed with enslaving as many Americans as possible.
( Ta-Nehisi Coates )
[ Between the World and Me ]
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