White Americans, where are your leaders? Where are the figures who will rise with the unyielding conviction of Malcolm X, the moral clarity of Martin Luther King Jr., the resilience of Mandela, or the visionary defiance of Marcus Garvey? The absence is telling. The truth is, you won’t take the necessary stand... not out of inability, but out of unwillingness. The reasons are plain: cowardice, self-preservation, and an enduring undercurrent of racial contempt that still shapes the European diaspora’s relationship with Black people.
This isn’t speculation; it’s observable reality. Look at the protests unfolding now... particularly in Atlanta, where the crowds are overwhelmingly older and white. Black folks are sitting this one out, and for good reason. History has shown that when we step forward in moments like these, especially in the 21st Century, the backlash is swift and severe. Our presence escalates tensions, turns peaceful demonstrations into targets, and invites disproportionate violence. So we watch, we wait, and we recognize that this fight isn’t ours to lead... not because we lack the will, but because the cost of our participation is too high.
Meanwhile, the resistance to Trumpism remains tepid, performative. Where is the urgency? The Jan. 6 insurrectionists, for all their depravity, understood the power of disruption. They fought like their lives depended on it... because, in their minds, they did. But white liberals? Their protests are polite, restrained, easily ignored. There’s no real risk, no collective sacrifice. And why would there be? At the end of the day, white America will survive Trumpism intact. The system was built to ensure that.
But survival isn’t the same as justice. Until white Americans confront the rot at the core of their solidarity... until they stop clinging to the myth of racial progress while quietly upholding its barriers... nothing will change. Black folks have carried this burden long enough. This time, the reckoning must come from within.
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