Lakitha Tolbert
1 min readApr 28, 2023

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I'm trying to observe current generational behavior to see if I can get a good bead on what type of shape white supremacy will take. I think there will always be a certain element of white prioritization because that's just how so many white people are socialized but what I've been seeing in younger generations is a form of racism through sheer ignorance. I think there will always be a certain element of "Im the center of the universe." type of thinking when it comes to white people.

Not only do they not know anything about the past, but far too many of them are too lazy to find out, even though they have a world of knowledge at their fingertips. The Black kids will learn regardless. They're going to be taught about our history, but the ignorance this last generation is working hard to instill in the next one is probably going to be successful, since they're already NOT teaching them anything. I think there will be elements of America's racial history that will be subject to a lot of misinformation (like the idea that Irish people were slaves) because I can see people trying it now. I'm not sure it will be so much dehumanization (such as using the N* word or white tears getting us killed) so much as apathy and dismissal of our concerns.

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Lakitha Tolbert
Lakitha Tolbert

Written by Lakitha Tolbert

(She/Her) Busybody librarian from Ohio.

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