There’s a deeper grief in whiteness that no one teaches white folks how to feel- because empire replaced it with performance.
Christian names it clearly: white saviorism isn’t kindness, it’s control in better branding. Not a moral failing, but the predictable output of a system designed to erase who you were before whiteness was assigned to you.
If you’re white and still asking how to help, start here- not with saving others, but with remembering yourself. Maybe settle up with the broken lines to your ancestors, yeah I said that.
It’s not guilt work. It’s grief work. And the real work starts when the performance ends.
The one I always felt uncomfortable with is Missionaries going to Africa and indoctrinating people while at the same time poisoning them with lies about their health, big charity events that make us to be the saviour when you can guarantee that none of that money will ever go to said country or cause but it makes people feel good to throw money at the fake cause because any real change would be inconvenient to them.
These practices are still present and active. That christian imperialist violence is sustained in a largely unchallenged (by Europeans/whites) colonial system of violence.
Of course you are right when I said i was uncomfortable I meant as a child when I had not much knowledge about the unbalanced world we live in, however I never felt even back the, that the West was ever saving anyone. Now that I have read an extensive amount of books, I can see it was always about depopulation, exploitation, resource control and at the same time creating an image at home that we are the “saviour of the barbaric people” . As long as the narrative is tightly under control by those who spin the news the image was always the same we are civilised they are not they are corrupt we are not, we had to save them from themselves. It’s disgusting how many cultures have been lost in this process.
“But underneath this pattern lies something deeper that most white people have never been allowed to face. The truth is that white saviorism is not born from abundance. It is born from absence. It is not born from understanding. It is born from forgetting” 🤯
lol dont forget "Windtalkers"
and "Dances With Wolves"
🤣🤣🤣🤣💁💁💁
There’s a deeper grief in whiteness that no one teaches white folks how to feel- because empire replaced it with performance.
Christian names it clearly: white saviorism isn’t kindness, it’s control in better branding. Not a moral failing, but the predictable output of a system designed to erase who you were before whiteness was assigned to you.
If you’re white and still asking how to help, start here- not with saving others, but with remembering yourself. Maybe settle up with the broken lines to your ancestors, yeah I said that.
It’s not guilt work. It’s grief work. And the real work starts when the performance ends.
The one I always felt uncomfortable with is Missionaries going to Africa and indoctrinating people while at the same time poisoning them with lies about their health, big charity events that make us to be the saviour when you can guarantee that none of that money will ever go to said country or cause but it makes people feel good to throw money at the fake cause because any real change would be inconvenient to them.
These practices are still present and active. That christian imperialist violence is sustained in a largely unchallenged (by Europeans/whites) colonial system of violence.
Of course you are right when I said i was uncomfortable I meant as a child when I had not much knowledge about the unbalanced world we live in, however I never felt even back the, that the West was ever saving anyone. Now that I have read an extensive amount of books, I can see it was always about depopulation, exploitation, resource control and at the same time creating an image at home that we are the “saviour of the barbaric people” . As long as the narrative is tightly under control by those who spin the news the image was always the same we are civilised they are not they are corrupt we are not, we had to save them from themselves. It’s disgusting how many cultures have been lost in this process.
I was going to leave a comment asking for book recommendations, but then at the end you had a whole list, thank you 🌟
“But underneath this pattern lies something deeper that most white people have never been allowed to face. The truth is that white saviorism is not born from abundance. It is born from absence. It is not born from understanding. It is born from forgetting” 🤯
Asante. Barka. Jerejef. Thank you for such clear, deep, heartfelt, Ancestor-felt writing. A great resource here.
Would appear anthropology is the 'missing link'.
Rewatching Origin for the third time.
Can you say more about that?