Racial Justice

The Difference Between Racism and White Supremacy

Racism is seeing people as “the other,” and assigning them attributes based on how they look. White Supremacy is a lot more insidious.

I just watched a clip from South Pacific.

I got to thinking about the nuances of racism. In the case of Joe Cable and Nellie Forbush, their racism was just xenophobia — fear and rejection of “the other.”

In the United States, there’s something else at play. This is the type of racism that Ijeoma Oluo talks about in “So You Want To Talk About Race.”

I think this is something else, something deeper than racism.
This is white supremacy.

When she talks about a system of power, she’s talking about white supremacy.