ABSTRACT

From time to time, the racial complex is constellated in a manner and is of such a scale that it exposes what is raw and vicious and savage about this racist system we live within and we see white supremacy in all its ugliness. Often when it does, we who regard ourselves as white progressives rush to disassociate ourselves from the deed, now “othering” those white people playing out the complex in its crudest of forms, separating ourselves from its brutality and keeping ourselves pure and “good.”