Edward Williams said:If the person says that they are a white person I call that person a white person. If that person is not a white person I call that person a non-white person.
The terms "white" and "non-white' are not genetic terms as such because how white is white? These are political terms. These are the terms that are used to describe the people of the known universe. When a person begins to think universally about the business of the people of this planet, meaning the person is making a conscious effort to become Universalman or Universalwoman, that person begins to look at the people of the known universe in reference to power relationships.
All of the business of this planet is done on the basis of color or non-color. A lot of us can't see that because we have been taught to think in boxes. An African box, an African American box, An African Diaspora box, a black box, a Negro box, a Colored Box, an Alkebu-lan box, etc. Right out of one batch of confusion directly into another batch of confusion. And we fight to get out of one box and place ourselves right into another box. It is not our fault that we do this because we have been deceived into doing it by the usual suspects...the white people who practice racism (white supremacy).
We have to learn to think on a global scale...a Universal scale in order to become Universalman and Universalwoman and we do this with the use of words. The white people who practice racism (white supremacy) could become Universalman and Universalwoman but they stopped at being Racistman and Racistwoman. They positioned themselves to become Universalman and Universalwoman but they don't want to become that. They want to remain at Racistman and Racistwoman.
Universalman and Universalwoman guarantees that no person is mistreated and also guarantees the person who needs help the most get the most help (justice). The white people who practice racism (white supremacy) have decided that they are a royal group and it is better, meaning more profitable, for that royal group not to become Universalman and Universalwoman because to do so they will have to practice justice.
This is the reason we shouldn't want any Black Supremacy system either. We don't want to position ourselves to become Universalman and Universalwoman and stop at being some Black Supremacists. We'll have the same thing we have right now...an unjust SYSTEM. We should go all the way and part of the beginning to going all the way to Universalman and Universalwoman is to train our thoughts to beocme that. Once we begin to think way out in the universe beyond what we are given to think we will begin to speak that way and it will result in us beginning to act that way.
Thought, Speech, and Action.
To a large extent, I agree.