Brittany Packnett Cunningham

I'm talking big W whiteness, not individual white people.

or even white supremacy.

I'm talking about the thing that was constructed to be whiteness as a sociopolitical and economic class of people.

If you read The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Muhammad, he talks about how...

each European immigrant group took a generation or two to be pulled into the umbrella that is whiteness, right?

So when you first came here, you were Polish, you were not white, you were Polish.

And the good white folk in the community, the wealthy white people, the well-heeled white people, the educated white people, they wasn't messing with you, right?

They had all types of names for you.

But a generation or two later, the Polish people were white.

Because joining up together and increasing those numbers created political power and protection, which then protected their economies and their families.

And that's why anti-miscegenation laws come up, because I don't want you to mess up the whiteness.

By having a brown baby, that's going to destroy our political protection.

So what happened for the Poles and it happened for the Germans and it happened for the Italians and this keeps happening, right?

So when I talk about whiteness, I'm talking about big W whiteness, the umbrella that is a political, social, and economic protected class.

That whiteness has a culture, right?

That dominates everything.

And I know you all have heard, you all are taking this class already.

We've had this conversation many times.

That white dominant culture is connected with patriarchal dominant culture, heteronormative dominant culture, cisgender dominant culture, Judeo-Christian dominant culture.

I would say specifically Christian nationalist dominant culture, right?