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The "Magic" of White Men, White Women and Whiteness

It's called white supremacy and white privilege

By PHILLY THE AFRICANAPublished 6 years ago 5 min read
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Yeah I said it.

White people have their own Magic.

It just... isn't actual magic.

I have come to the conclusion that white men look better on TV than they do in real life. This conclusion is based on observations of the media vs reality. It is also based on how the glassy expectations of white people (set by white people) were shattered by the hard hands of real life and truth. Back when I was in Africa, anytime I saw a white man, he was always portrayed as the hero, the successful businessman, the clever detective, the handsome romantic, the one who saved the "savages" (Africans and Native Americans) and in many more "positive" roles. There was nothing the white man could not do according to the (whitewashed and neo-colonized) media. Heck, you see white men in stories they had nothing to do with come out as the glorified hero, i.e. a white dude magically out bested every Chinese solider in a martial art that the Chinese have practiced for hundreds of years... in just two to three months (what the fuck?!). So of course I thought white men were magical creatures, I mean they were on TV, so it had to be true. I just had to go to America to end up with one for the rest of my life. Then I came to America... and let's say it was a big ass disappointment.

After living with white people for the first year, I realized that white men were nothing like how they were portrayed in the media back in Africa, America or anywhere around the world. First of all, their hair was not as shiny and glossy as it was on TV (it was actually kinda greasy and a hotbed for lice in real life). Not all of them were handsome just because they were white (most were very basic looking). White dudes were not automatically romantic because they were white and neither were they clever or successful just by lacking a lot of melanin. From afar (about... a continent away where white people did not live), white men looked so amazing and incredible. But when you get closer, you realize that there is nothing really magical about them... white men were just as human as the next black guy or brown guy. The skin of a white guy did not in anyway make him superior to men of color. This made me realize that I was never attracted to white men. I (like many others) was bewitched (don't laugh) by the magic of the white man's perfect illusion. Maybe the fact that I became woke about social and political injustices is also the reason I started seeing the bullshit between the lines.

Is it just me or have you ever looked at a random white woman before and thought she was so beautiful, the best thing you have ever seen. Then you become woke about white supremacy and European beauty standards. Look at that same white woman and realize that, she's not that cute... she's just white. Have you? Because it has happened to me. I started to realize that there is nothing magical about her (she was very normal), she just had pale skin and straight hair... that's literally it. She was nothing like the beautiful white women described in (I don't know, all) the popular romance novels. Her "Ivory skin..." was not as beautiful as described by the white authors of those novels. The "beauty of the White Aryan woman..." was not that stunning just because she was white. Her hair did not have the volumes and shine that it did when you saw her in the the shampoo commercials. To top it all off, many white women were trying so hard to look like my black self while trying to erase me at the same time.

It was quite a disappointment. The way white women were portrayed on TV and described in all the literature I read, you would think she was excellent just by being caucasian. I had imagined the magic of her straight nose and blue eyes would enchant me when I saw them in real life. Sike! They did not. I thought every white woman would be more beautiful than any other woman of color just by having less melanin. Turns out there are a lot of black and brown women back in Africa who have her beat. I had imagined she was just as successful as her white male counterpart and was hooked around his arm as his perfect match. Guess what? She had the ability to be unsuccessful and as poor as any other human of color. Her skin could create acne and her hair was not always perfect. Her teeth were not always white and she was not always speaking Queen's english, simply because she cannot. She was just as human as women of color.

After staying in America for close to four years, I quickly realized that the magic of white men, white women and white skin was not real. It was all a facade used to maintain white supremacy around the world and to perpetrate the white savor complex in the 3rd world countries. The facade is also controlled and maintained by white people sitting in board rooms making these "creative" decisions. White people have the privilege of controlling not just their narrative but also the narrative of others such as Africans, Native Americans, South Asians etc. This ultimate control allows for white people to portray themselves as superior and portray others as less than. Lets not forget, the perfect image of white people in media is not the only source of this white "magic". White supremacy has been around for 100s of years and that's just in America. Around the world, white supremacy has been around for way longer. So I have come up with the recipe for white magic below.

The Recipe for White Magic involves a big black...scratch that...WHITE witch pot:

  1. Add 2 cups of destroyed civilizations
  2. 2 Pints of Wealth and Resources stolen from other continents
  3. 3 pounds of dehumanized, murdered and exploited non-white people
  4. 8 pounds of white supremacy
  5. A dash of white fragility
  6. and 4 cups of White privilege.

I'm out.

xoxo

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