Are there any organizations for whites

Then, white supremacy in a basic definition, means white people having the most access to and control over money, resources and people. If we sift through the centuries from slavery through segregation and ask whether there has been any distinct transference of wealth and power to black and brown people, the answer would be a resounding no.

Today, in the age of mass incarceration, which affects more black people than slavery ever did, white people still create and maintain the unjust laws, they still own the prisons and jails, and they still hold the majority of positions of power to enact their skewed version of justice.

Well, if white supremacy by definition means white people at the helm, then once white people continue to hold positions of power over black and brown people, white supremacy will continue. Even the most well-meaning of anti-racist allies will have blind spots and make grave miscalculations on matters concerning the well-being of people of color. Nevertheless, the nonprofit industry as a collective continues to hire and promote them, proving that it is more important to have gainfully employed white progressives with fulfilling careers, than it is to actually rectify systemic inequalities by putting the right people at the forefront.

On another note, these white leaders try to escape scrutiny and criticism by assuring us that they are accountable to black leadership, but how true is this claim?

Are they referring to fellow big shot black friends who are too close and comfortable with them to be fully honest concerning their flaws? And besides, are these POC friends even active in the running of the nonprofit, to see where the leader falls short?

Highly unlikely. The ones who can see the full picture are black and brown staff at the organization, who most white leaders regard as subordinates, and regularly dismiss their ideas and input. Yet, this dismissal of real black leadership is not seen by white leaders for what it is. It needs to be said. Simply being heard is neither a gift nor an honor when they do not seriously consider what we contribute and take steps to implementing it. The refusal to implement the sound ideas of POC staff is an act of white power itself, since it means they consider their ideas as a white person with a white lens to be better than those of us who have a lived experience closer to that of those we serve.

Even worse, the self-perception of being a superstar white ally and amazing leader after continually silencing POC staff, reinforces the delusion that they are helping the situation. On the contrary, they are further perpetuating white supremacy. The historic dynamic remains firmly in place, in terms of who calls the shots, who holds the purse strings, and who has the power to control the inner workings of an organization that affects black and brown lives, whether staff or clientele.

Philanthropy is really centered on this notion of charity and benevolence to its core. There are assumptions of privilege and power wrapped up in that. We need to continue to have the conversation. Certain folks need to get out of the way. White folks desperately need to reflect on what it means to stop centering themselves in this work.

They are gatekeepers, holding fast to arbitrary concepts of non-profit policies and protocols as though their respectability depended on it. They are less likely to bend rules or think outside of the box for solutions to systemic problems. How much of what they do is for the sake of brandishing their reputation or checking off the latest diversity talking point? Clout chasing is a very real phenomenon among these white liberal leaders, who prefer to snag the interview themselves instead of elevating the voices of black people saying the same darn thing.

You may be part of the reason why the statistic remains at 83 percent. Here, then, is the question: How and why did race become embedded in the everyday — and, one could argue, the ordinary — aspects of doing business or getting a job?

Inheritance taxes that allow the relatively nonproductive children of the rich to live a life of ease or racially segregated and underresourced schools are both examples of legally institutionalized social structures. Social structures are powerful for at least two reasons.

First, they can become taken-for-granted backgrounds that make unequal relationships seem normal and natural while shaping individual actions think, here, of gender norms. Second, they distribute resources in ways that are designed to last think, here, of continued residential segregation despite the absence of legal barriers to integration.

In the United States, white organizations are a kind of social structure combining ideas about race for instance, who should manage and who should work with organizational resources. The forming of this structure goes all the way back to the central role slavery played in the formation of the country.

By limiting access to property and the material resources necessary to found and run organizations, slavery created an unequal competitive environment whose effects have yet to be fully overcome. Under slavery, black people were property, lacking protection for basic bodily integrity. Race marked the possibility of ownership, as even manumitted and free people of color often had their possessions appropriated through state-sanctioned, and therefore legal, violence.

Following formal abolition, arrangements such as convict leasing, Black Codes , and sharecropping allowed the continued organizational exploitation. Similar processes of expropriation were imposed on Native Americans land seizure and broken treaties; the reservation system; attempted extermination , Mexican Americans guest-worker programs that limited citizenship and access to the legal protections necessary to start organizations , and Asian Americans Japanese internment; burning of businesses in Chinatowns; land seizures; laws restricting immigration; employment and labor competition.

Differential protection and enforcement of law, systematic under-education, and the appropriation of resources have been historical constants for people of color. White organizational formation was often facilitated by these often-legal exclusions. Many dominant American organizations — leading businesses and elite colleges , for example — were founded in an environment of legally sanctioned and socially accepted exclusion.

Although the interests of workers and management are often portrayed as inherently antagonistic, throughout U. In this environment, management often separated workers by race and expected people of color to labor in menial positions and defer to whites. Jobs were mapped onto stereotypical hierarchies with race as an often-literal qualification, such as when the refusal to hire black women as industrial laborers contributed to their concentration as domestic workers.

Racial divisions also proved financially useful to management, as black workers were paid lower wages for the same work a problem that remains with us today. Although black workers are now overrepresented among union members, incorporation came through hard-fought struggles stretching across the 20th century. From A. Martin Luther King, Jr. Even predominantly nonwhite organizations can ultimately be subject to white control. For instance, in her brilliant book The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap , the legal scholar Mehrsa Baradaran shows how segregation and the very capital that black people had accrued in black banks were ultimately used against them.

Under Jim Crow, black banks were reliant on customers who were disadvantaged in the labor market relative to white workers, especially where segregation ensured that black customers could not patronize white banks. This reliance on relatively poorer customers left black banks less able to invest and accrue profits.

Segregation between banks also put black organizations at a disadvantage. Following Jim Crow, black banks have remained relatively undercapitalized and thus more likely to fail. White banks are still able to leverage the racially unequal playing field to increase their profits at the expense of their black competitors. And despite the lasting mythology of American racial progress , these types of organizationally produced racial inequalities are by no means a thing of the past.

Predatory subprime lending — which targeted black and Latino neighborhoods — similarly relied on racial segregation to generate profits. We must start making ourselves known and stop the violence of the blacks and islamics. Although the southern states had every right to succeed from the union during the Civil War, we must adopt a new plan.

To divide our nation in half during this century would no longer serve our purpose. In fact, if we were to divide, We would have one more nation against us AND along our borders!

We must stand united. They have a new weapon, the Islamic religion. They are standing united. They do not disfellowship blacks due to sexual preference, gender, religion or geographical location. As long as they are anti-white, they stand together. We must stand as united as they are and more so. And actually, if any black person agrees with the following, then they may too join our society.