Mesfin Arega
In its lifetime, a star shines so bright that it absolutely dominates the vast space around it and everything in that space. In fact, a star’s dominance over its vast environment is so complete that the entire environment is named after the star. For instance, the solar system is so named because each and everything in the system (planets, satellites, asteroids, and comets) dances to the tune of the Sun, “sol” being Latin for “Sun”.
When a star dies by gravitational collapse after burning its nuclear fuel for billions of years, it shines billions of times brighter than it used to shine while alive, in addition to ejecting most of its mass to the surrounding interstellar space. Such a violent death of a star accompanied by such a colossal explosion and so bright a light is called supernova. The word supernova (Latin for “new super”) expresses the fact that the phenomenon displays itself as a new super-bright star in the sky outshining all others, albeit for a very short time (few weeks).
In short, a supernova is a short-lived colossal brightness heralding the death of a star.
For the last few hundred years, the Anglo-Saxon (rather, the Englishman) absolutely dominated our world in essentially the same way a star absolutely dominates its surrounding world. The Englishman was able to do so through opportunistic exploitation of favorable historical conditions, just like the Romans, the Persians, the Mongols etc. However, English supremacists attributed their opportunistic rise to the apex of power to being superhuman. As such, they consider the rest of humanity to be subhuman and, therefore, a “burden to the Englishman”, to paraphrase the English supremacist Rudyard Kipling.
As the resistance to English domination stiffens (especially by Blacks), English supremacists were forced to make an alliance – a marriage of convenience – with all Europeans under the generic name “white”. As a result, English supremacism gradually morphed into white supremacism including all people of European descent. In their turn, the newly minted “whites” felt the need (rather were made to feel the need) to prove to English supremacists that they deserve to be in the same league with the English, explaining why the most vicious and vociferous white supremacists happen to be mostly from Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe as well as from Ireland. In their zeal to prove their loyalty, these non-English Europeans became more supremacist than English supremacists themselves, sort of more catholic than the pope.
Ronald Reagan introduced the catchphrase “Make America Great Again” to stir up his white supremacist base who yearn for pre-1965 Jim crow era. However, had this white supremacist “father” of MAGA cared for his Irish roots, he would have known that pre-1965 America was never great to the Irish who were stereotyped as heavy drinkers and wanton criminals and were warded off from good jobs and decent housing by explicit postings like “No Irish need apply”. He would also have not called the very Blacks dominating the very sports he used to broadcast for living, “monkeys uncomfortable wearing shoes”, were the “Shanty Irish” derogation of the English offensive to him. Moreover, his ultimate superhero would not have been the English supremacist, Irish disdaining, apartheid defending Margaret Thatcher.
The con-artist Donald Trump (whose grandfather had to anglicize his name from Drumpft to Trump) is a mere extension of Ronald Reagan, albeit much more brazen. He is brazen partly because he is astute enough to know that white supremacists enraged by the election of Obama and the little progress made in the direction of multiracial democracy are venting their anger through him, ignoring his disgusting vulgarity and outright criminality to vote for him en masse hailing him as the Messiah. Besides, as a nepotism baby who has worked for no one and, therefore, was accountable to none, he has overinflated ego unchecked by authority and reality. Like all white supremacists in general and, as the president with the “smallest hands” in particular, he is highly insecure and white supremacism is his way of compensating for his chronic inferiority complex, especially in attributes Blacks are presumed to be superior.
English supremacists were so desperate for non-Black allies that, even Arabs (Western Asia) and pseudo-Arabs (Northern Africa) had to be made part of the “white” race under an artificially created, non-existent umbrella race called “Caucasian race”. Interestingly, this so-called “Caucasian race” is also named Europid to imply the centrality of Europe for all supposed regions of this supposed race (Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, North Africa, and Horn of Africa).
If white supremacists are principally focused on demonizing, criminalizing, sabotaging, and attacking Blacks in all ways they possibly can, it is only because they reckon all other minorities can be dealt with easily, observing that these non-Black minorities have the undue admiration for anything “white”, the disposition to “act white”, and the propensity to be subservient to “white”. In fact, the very reason why white supremacists promoted, if not introduced, the scientifically baseless, skin-depth classification of people by skin color as white, brown, and black was to use brown as a buffer between whites and the very Blacks white supremacists fear the most.
White supremacism based on English supremacism is quickly losing its steam and, therefore, is fast approaching its demise for the simple reason that, astrologically speaking, the stars which were aligned for white domination and the concomitant white supremacism are no no longer aligned, thanks in large part to the immense sacrifice of the Blackman. White supremacists are painfully aware of this unpleasant fact but can do nothing about it, except behave like the proverbial ostrich, bury their heads in the sand and pretend to be more dominant (and, therefore, more supreme) now than they ever were. They do so by openly displaying outright racism and rallying behind, if not religiously following, avowed white supremacists lead by Donald Trump.
The Donald Trump phenomenon and his so-called “landslide” victory is nothing but the climax, the highest stage, of white supremacism, from which it has nowhere else to go but downhill. Put another way, Trumpism is the “end-of-life rally” of white supremacism whereby it becomes highly visible for a very short time before it disappears forever, much like the high alertness a person exhibits for a short time immediately before death, a condition medically known as “terminal lucidity”.
In effect, Trumpism is a huge racism storm heralding the death of white supremacism, in the same way a supernova is a huge gravitational storm heralding the death of a star. Just as a star shines billions of times brighter while dying by supernova, white supremacism has now totally engulfed the whole western world while dying by Trumpism.
The hope is that, just as the death of a star by supernova phenomenon is accompanied by the birth of a serene black hole attracting both matter and light, the impending death of white supremacism by Trumpism is followed by a peaceful Black revival embracing both equality and fraternity. The rest of humanity better stand with the Blackman to realize this noble hope of egalitarianism, not for the sake of the Blackman only but for the sake of the entire humanity, including white supremacists themselves.
As for the fraudster Donald Trump, in due time, he will surely be condemned to death, so to speak, and crucified on his own Trump Tower, a Tower built on a questionably acquired lot by hugely underpaid laborers including undocumented Polish immigrants.
Mesfin Arega
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