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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.

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The difference between white supremacy and BLM in two words

On Life

Ruminations and provocations.

The difference between white supremacy and BLM in two words

Stephen H. Provost

White supremacy denotes superiority. Domination.

BLM just asserts that Black lives matter. People may like to say “all lives matter,” and they do, but even most racists don’t say what they really mean: White lives matter... and Black lives don’t. (They do, however, argue for white pride and a white history month, which is pretty much the same thing.)

When one side wants to dominate the other, and the other side just wants to acknowledge the right to have a life (not even bothering to mention liberty and the pursuit of happiness), there’s no equivalency there — false or otherwise.

The contrast couldn’t be clearer, but in case anyone still doesn’t get it, try this one on for size: Black supremacy.

Imagine that white people had spent centuries either in chains or subject to racial segregation, lynchings, and Jim Crow laws. Imagine Black people putting on “whiteface” and using redlining to keep white people out of their neighborhoods. Imagine white people getting condemned to death for crimes they didn’t commit, just to protect the Black people who were really guilty.

Modern Pharisees

Skin color is ephemeral, and prejudice can always be turned on its head. I wrote a whole book about that, but it can be boiled down into four simple words: Love your neighbor as yourself. Or 11: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

These are two of the most famous quotations from the Bible, the book most of these white supremacists claim to hold sacred. I doubt they’ve ever read it. If they had, they would have read the part placing “woe” on those “hypocrites” who were worried about what things look like on the outside, while inside they were “full of greed and self-indulgence.”

Sounds a lot like racism to me.

But no one ever claimed racism was moral or biblical. Except white supremacists, who count on Black Americans to turn the other cheek, so they can deliver another brass-knuckled blow to the jaw.

Imagine the shoe on the other foot, standing on your neck. That’s Black supremacy, and that should offend you.

But no more than white supremacy should.

categories Culture, Politics, Philosophy, Spirituality
tags white supremacy, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Antifa, racism, white supremacists, bigotry, Pharisees, hypocrites, Do unto others, Golden Rule, Love your neighbor