There’s an uncanny elevation of morality in response to homophobia or sexual inappropriateness in white culture that leads easily to discharge from a position or firing from a job. What stands out in all of this is the lack of fervor of the immorality about the racial terrorism that occupies these very same spaces. In fact there’s a waffling ambivalence to declaring a position of morality in those settings.
The revealing thing in this when you look beyond the hypocrisy/fickleness that rest at the heart of the white campaigns for morality is the glaring undressing of the white psyche. What drives the white psych into action is not moral rights and wrongs but some other motivator. And taking a step back to examine all of the instances/examples where the discrepancy between what whites say and whites do from setting to setting begins to expose patterns that more often surface from psychological processes.
The truth of morality lies deep and is not something that changes from situation to situation. It is constant throughout and applies to all equally. Morality is a human phenomenon – no one has a monopoly there. So what how do we understand this shallow morality?
Shallow morality is nothing more than a window into human behavior. We are all a collection of decisions that surface from beliefs, values and emotions. In the midst of inconsistencies in behavior it is very likely that there is a consistency that has been overlooked – one that lies much closer to deeply held beliefs and values. One that, when held up to scrutiny, looks like psychological shuffling to accommodate or appease an unsatisfied self definition.
Am I strong? Am I powerful? Am I inherently better than others? Or am I no more than benefactor of falsehoods that have been peddled and promoted by colonization and supremacy? Imagine..having this thought. You’d probably ignore racial terrorism or the immorality that is the basis for white culture too.
Now I don’t know the true meaning why some issues get the wrath of khan and others are ignored, but let’s be careful not to mistake these actions Of “morality” for some gravitation toward moral truths but possibly representatives of nothing more than psychological acrobatics ill suited to contend with ugliness one does not want to face. In psychology that is called cognitive dissonance.
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