Layla Saad’s (Really) Helpful Book

Part III of White Supremacy

The challenge to being a white supremacist continues to lead me on. (I took the picture from ijessewilliams.)

First I want to talk about Layla Saad’s title. After her header, she says, “Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor.”

What does she mean? I believe she’s telling us to combat racism wherever we see it, in all forms. She isn’t simply telling us to combat racism in one or two ways, but in all ways. Her book takes us to the privileges we feel we “deserve.” It helps us overcome all of these.

Her next description tells us to change the world by bringing white privilege to the fore and disrupting it. And finally she says, “Become a good ancestor.” With this dictate, she tells us to adopt the role of being a good adviser to the following generations.

White Supremacy Part III

Then I want to talk about how white privilege tells me, a white person, that I’m in a “different” position from other moderates.

“White exceptionalism is the belief that you, as a person holding white privilege, are except from the effects, benefits, and conditioning of white supremacy and therefore that the work of antiracism does not really apply to you.”

The study guide says to consider how I have learned about white privilege. How does it make me more comfortable with being one of the “exceptions?”

I believe that with my years of living in Nigeria. I am an “exception.” But the system of castes does not exist in Nigeria.

I have learned from my daughter that I am not one of the exceptions! I am an example of white privilege that exists in me. Just as others who are infected by white privilege, I have to root it out.

She doesn’t say this because she wants to be mean or ill-tempered, but because it is true!

Orlu and Policeman at Nigeria’s Imo State

The Igwe Uzoubi Umuna Orlu, Imo State, spoke about his encounter with an over-zealous policeman who ordered him to the ground. It was during the recent clash between members of the Eastern Security Network and personnel of the Nigerian Army in his domain.

Eze Boniface Okereke, the Igwe, said that his encounter came as he was accused of being with the Eastern Security Network, or ESN. The ESN members are with the Indigenous People of Biafra, a separatist group. They “don’t live with us here. They came, struck and left,” he said.

The Igwe said that being told to lie on the ground for more than eight minutes was the most compromising event to have happened to him. “I have petitioned the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Imo State Police Command, informing him of the humiliation and urging him to investigate it,” he said.

Who Can Help?

I need help with the Jfif format! I cannot figure out how to get these images to download so I can frame them. Can someone please help me?