Divorcing White America: A Blueprint for Black Sovereignty and Self-Renewal

We need to confront an uncomfortable truth: continuing to respond to the dismissive or disingenuous rhetoric of White America (especially from those entrenched in denial or ignorance) is not only futile, it’s counterproductive. Time and again, we find ourselves explaining, educating, justifying, or debating, only to be met with silence, erasure, or shallow platitudes. It's clear now... they are not listening. Our responses, no matter how articulate or fact-based, fall on deaf ears. We're arguing with a wall, and worse, we’re wasting valuable energy trying to change minds that have no intention of shifting.

At some point, we must ask ourselves... what are we actually gaining from this dialogue? If the other party is not engaged in good faith, then it's not a dialogue at all... it's performance. And performances drain us. Meanwhile, laws are still being passed to strip away our rights. Policies are still crafted that disproportionately harm our communities. The arbiters of power continue to act with impunity, immune to the truth because they’ve never had to answer to it. In this environment, the only logical, empowering response is disengagement... not out of bitterness or defeat, but as a deliberate act of self-preservation and self-determination.

We must begin to act as if White America... as an institution, as a political force, as a cultural hegemony... does not exist in our strategy for liberation. This doesn’t mean ignoring racism or white supremacy; it means refusing to center it. We cannot keep fighting battles on their terms, using their tools, on their timelines. Instead, we must redirect our attention inward... toward ourselves, our healing, our systems, our futures. That is where the power lies. If we truly believe in our worth and sovereignty, then it is time to stop pleading for validation from a system designed to undermine us.

This shift must also be economic. Black America donates an estimated $8 billion per month to churches... mostly Christian institutions that, historically and presently, too often fail to challenge systemic racism or advocate for structural justice. That’s nearly $100 billion a year hemorrhaging from our communities into a theological and economic black hole.

Imagine what we could build... schools, clinics, housing, cooperatives, media networks, sustainable infrastructure... if we invested even half of that back into ourselves. The moral imperative of this moment is not charity... it is reparative redirection.

We don't need to seek approval from a country that has never truly seen us. We need to see ourselves - and each other - with clarity, love, and unrelenting commitment. A spiritual, psychological, and economic divorce from White America is not a cry for separation but a call for sovereignty. Not hatred, but healing. Not war, but withdrawal... from dependency, from performative struggle, from the illusion that freedom will be granted rather than built. Let’s stop talking to those who won’t listen, and start building with those who are ready. The future of Black liberation is not in their hands... it’s in ours.