They Cannot Stop the Time... By Kelson Maynard

 

European and European-American civilization privilege the use of force and power to achieve domination.  These two ideals are central to it.  Its liberalism and epistemology of knowledge do not challenge these ideals of force and power.  Thus, the prevalence of war and conquest as part of their modern history of European colonialism and United States of America imperialism.  Subscription to this ideology of war confers upon believers a sense of community forged in the context of conflict and struggle.  Heroic and violent patriotism subsumes any notion of courtesy and civility.  Resoluteness, sacrifice, genocide, and manifest destiny are the hallmarks of this ideology of war, in the pursuit of the maintenance of European and European-American supremacy over Africans, Asians, Latin Americans, and Caribbeans.

In our contemporary moment in the United States of America, Donald Trump has used and is utilizing these ideals to create a community of followers and believers whose membership is gained by adhering to the idea that the United States of America is and must remain a country dominated by the descendants of white Anglo-Saxons Protestant Christians and governed by the principles of white supremacy.  All others must  be subordinated to their rules of subjugation or face destruction. Their projection of strength and power is based on their perceived loss of power,  which  they see as being legitimized within the social order and process of the United States of America.

Yet, for their project- the reclamation and perpetuation of patriarchal white supremacy-  to be successful it must appear to be inclusive of others who are the targets for domination.  Some people of color in the United States of America, subjugated by caste and class, like their sisters and brothers in the ex-colonialized world, who have uncritically imbibed the epistemological knowledge system of Europe and European-Americans, have become part of that community of followers and believers.

Barak Obama’s candidacy and election to the presidency of the United States of America occasioned the re-radicalization of the ideals of patriarchal white supremacy advocacy of force and power.  One manifestation of this re-radicalization was Donald Trump’s effort to delegitimize Barak Obama’s candidacy with claims that he was not born in the United States of America, thus disqualified to be president. Another is the legal and extra-legal deployment of violence- both rhetorical and physical- to maintain the utopian proposition that the United States of America is a country given to Europeans and their descendants by their Christian god; and that their Christian god has decreed that non-European descendant people are inferiors who must serve them.

This idea of the United States of America as a country for white people and governed by white people is increasingly detached from concrete reality.  This detachment from reality- the United States of America is a multi-ethnic country in which patriarchal presumption of privilege, power, and status and the white/people of color caste system is no longer a utopian dream- is fueling the patriarchal white supremacist use of force and power to make the United States of America what it is not.  Kamala Harris and Barak Obama before her represent what the United States of America is- a multi-ethnic country. Patriarchal white supremacy and the white/people of color caste system is the past not the future.  The wheels of history turn slowly.  Trump and his community of patriarchal white supremacist cannot stop it.  The thoughts and actions of people of color in the United States of America and globally must be in concert with the destruction of patriarchal white supremacist capitalism, its caste system, and the epistemology of knowledge which supports it.