White Male Supremacy Trilogies

White Male Supremacy Trilogies

WHITE MALE SUPREMACY TRILOGIES

Many thought we had effected a revolution about the role of women in society in the nineteen seventies.  And while genuine progress has been made the role of women in society is still characterized by a measurable scale of inferiority, utility, and suppression. The power of a superior birthed gender and skin color persists in American culture.  Following is a series of trilogies that background the issue and pose its solution.

The historical role of white male supremacy has been expressed through:

  • Racism
  • Sexism
  • Jobism

The historical result of white male supremacy has been expressed through:

  • Superior position
  • Superior pay
  • Superior praise

The historical posture of white male supremacy has been expressed through:

  • Being right
  • Being better
  • Being guiltless

The historical position of white male supremacy has been sustained by:

  • Cultural models
  • Cultural media
  • Cultural measures

In this grand con white men have been able to acquire for themselves the best that society has to offer in terms of opportunity, position, and money.  But they have also been robbed of one of the grandest blessings of human relating – participation in the gender equality of:

  • Partnership
  • Permission
  • Payoff

The solution to the issue of white male supremacy is now, and always has been, a color-inclusive gender equality that assumes:

  • Equality of worth
  • Equality of intelligence
  • Equality of opportunity

All that is necessary to end this victimization of both women and men of all colors is to enter the rich and enhanced blessings of partnership equality and open the entire culture to its possibilities.  When this happens then something else can also happen: an actualized democracy. Democracy awaits.

Robert T. Latham

2 Comments

  • I like this analysis and proposed solution. I have one critique to offer, and that is the use of the term “color-blind,” which reminded me of a comment from a black person to a well-intending white man (who had used this term), when he said, “What’s wrong with you, white boy? Can’t you see color?! Perhaps “color-inclusive” (or racially diverse) would be a more appropriate description. …just saying!


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