left a long comment on this video because white ppl frustrate me sometimes, here it is in plain text:
My first mistake was watching a white wmn explain racism as a Black Person, and I'll own up to that. However, since i've already watched the video i might as well talk about how y'all should not be this far behind progress in 2026. The "White Ppl Who Get It™" have their feet kissed every day for displaying political beliefs that barely meet the minimum requirements of what would be considered progressive thought. There's more than enough people being supportive and uncritical towards the ideas put forth in this video so I'll do the opposite, not to be contrarian, but because we've been having the same conversations for at least a decade and there's too many ppl stuck on this area of their political journey. 1st off you have to call it what it is, MAGA isn't stupid for accepting Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, they're racist.
It was never actually "America First", it was White Colonizers First. You can see it in how they're perfectly fine with their beloved leader cracking down on the "free speech" they supposedly cherished when they were justifying their desire to use slurs with no consequence. There's nothing genuine about them, they're not misunderstood, confused, or secretly good ppl deep down. They're bad people who believe in bad things, and will say and do anything to get what they want. This is not a Hanlon's Razor moment, they really are just malicious, not stupid.
It's very frustrating watching white ppl give their own the benefit of the doubt no matter how bad things get, that's a luxury we don't have. Our reputations do not come with get out of jail free cards and the worst is often assumed of us even when we're doing nothing wrong, so on average we HAVE to have integrity. One of my main issues with white ppl is that they think everything is singular and nothing is connected. All forms of inequality have to go or the rest will sprout back up eventually like the head of a hydra. This Lady acknowledged the relations between different inequalities in this same video, so there's no way she shouldn't be able to fully understand this concept.
She said that poor white ppl needed a racial group to feel superior to or they would be reminded that they’re poor. That can only end in one of two ways, either they join forces with the racial minorities in the fight against classism, or they do what they’re doing RIGHT NOW and fight to maintain white supremacy. EVERYTHING HAS TO GO, racism, sexism, classism, anti-LGBT, etc. You cannot say "let's get rid of racial inequality" while saying at the end that it's okay to keep wealth inequality. She believes that's not what she's saying because she vocalized a desire to narrow the wealth gap, but in that same breath she denounced socialism and communism.
If you don't do away with the tools of oppression you will get nowhere, it'll reappear somewhere else. We can't get rid of racism as long as white ppl still hold institutional power over minorities, especially Natives. In the same vein, we can't get rid of classism & poverty so long as money exists. Money's value comes from other people having less than the next person, that's why wage theft, inflation, wealth hoarding and monetary exploitation in general exist. If everybody is rich then nobody is rich, and if you plan on stopping inflation and making everything fairly priced then there's no point in having money, cut out the middle man.
If white ppl really cared they would relinquish all of the power they hold and give the land back to the Natives. Explaining racial injustuce 101 to other white ppl (Cuz she’s definitely not teaching Black Ppl anything new) while justifying classism at the end is blatantly harmful & counterproductive to whatever change white ppl claim they want to make. Even the phrase used near the end that has obvious racial connotation given it's history, “if those (white) immigrants hate america so much, they need to leave”, should be the last attitude a white person should be taking about anyone. Obviously i'm no mind-reader but I don't believe that was tongue-in-cheek, the creator of this video gives off the vibe that she actually believes in that way of thinking (white american sovereignty), just not towards Black & Brown Ppl. She didn't say "we need to change our thinking", she said "we need to change our messaging".
To me that sounds like an admission of already having that mindset but not showing it publicly. A white person using xenophobia to fight racists in order to preserve the sovereignty of a nation ruled by colonizers is not "woke", we should instead be doing away with these bigoted institutions altogether. Between both groups of white ppl in that conversation, American Land belongs to neither group, it's audacious and disrespectful to suggest otherwise. How do the white ppl who say these things expect to do better than racists when they think just like them? Everything must be a joke to them, because what do they care anyways?
They're fighting for sport while we fight for our lives, at the end of the day if nothing goes right for us, they'll still get to keep their position. A position that’s on shaky foundation at that, it's been obvious to the rest of us for a long time but it's become more apparent now than ever to white wmn given that ICE recently showed us all that they’re willing to harm their own (R.I.P. Renee Good). It makes me wonder if our so-called/Self-proclaimed “allies and advocates” actually want equality. If this is how y’all plan to move forward then we’ll never be free.
