White genocide?

Just a quick-take response in my quest to poke holes in the central arguments of wokeness. For clarity, I don’t deny white privilege or that there are real struggles of black people but I challenge the degree to which wokeness should be held as dogmatic truth.

Why I No Longer Refer to “White People” | by Sam McKenzie Jr. | Feb, 2021 | Medium

My response:

I’m trying to grasp what you’re saying, but on first glance it sounds like you’re emphatically stating that you believe your own identity as a black person is superior to a white person’s. White power is seen as a bad thing because it’s very exclusionary and black people don’t have the demographic or political clout in this country to be effectively exclusionary but the thought of “my race is entitled to this, your racial identity isn’t” is still clear in your writing which I would call hypocritical.

I understand that celebrating whiteness is pointless, but you’re almost preaching an outright disdain for white people and a blanket categorization that they’ve all oppressed you when many of them (like my Iranian grandparents) or Eastern Europeans who were victims of either the Soviet Union (highest suicide rate in the world) or ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. Additionally, some African countries such as Botswana, Kenya and Zimbabwe have much better socio-economic conditions than Ghana, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, etc.

I’m not preaching the “Good African” doctrine, but that this type of wokeness is just a celebration of oversimplification…