Gratuitous Violence Against Black Flesh... By Kelson Maynard
In the Euro-centric hegemonically controlled world system of white supremacy Africans and their descendants in diaspora are not accorded the status of human beings. Freedom is not a human right, it is white privilege. Black people are used as structural instruments for the execution of White peoples’ fantasies and sadomasochistic pleasures. The enslavement of African people by White people developed into a relationally dynamic system of white supremacy enforced through violence. The physical and social violence perpetuated against Black people is not based on discrimination. Rather, white racial violence against Black people serves as a sort of health tonic for White people’s maintenance of white supremacy. In the ideological system of white supremacy and the social order and process that it engenders violence against Black people is the law, not the result of law enforcement as is often assumed. This is the foundation upon which the social structure of the United Sta