After the Experiment Ended:

Notes on the Energy Withdrawn

I don’t know if you can hear this. I am writing it approximately 72 hours after Renee Nicole Good was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Please, let me be clear.

To those who live in white bodies, the distortion many of you are experiencing is Black people being out of place. And, yes, this is being done intentionally.

To my own People, it doesn't really matter what the contrarians among us gripe about. Slave quarters talk is slave quarters talk. It is unorganized chatter and unproductive. I will not be addressing it in 2026. The same energy used to deflect arguments can build the solution to the problem causing the arguments.

Here is the principle that Dr. King taught over and over again! (Read, "Stride Toward Freedom." It is Dr. King's first book and "memoir" of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.) The principle is this: do not collude in your own oppression. The goal of the oppressed is to actually feel SAFE and refuse to comply with inhumane treatment.

When his house is blown up, Dr. King has to actually APPLY the faith he is teaching towards himself. He has to grow into becoming more perfect in his union with Christ. (Please read the sermon, The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life.)

This is where he gets his magnetic before the people. He did it. Everything he talks about in that book concerning his inner work is shown and proven whenever anyone was in his presence. If you ever get a chance to watch the 1955 news reels, actual footage, you will be amazed at his composure.

The Civil Rights Movement was collaborative. Black people were being violently tortured to death by Southern citizens so whomever helped was a welcome friend, at first. The strategy was called into question several times. What worked evolved over time into multiculturalism. Many of us Generation X’ers are the byproduct of that experiment.

My point is: social change was framed as a collaborative behavior. It required everyone to participate. Black people walked side by side with those white people that wanted a better country to live in. The hatred released by desegregation strategies—forcing white bodies to choose racism, or something more creative, to organize their identity—shocked too many. Those who could be awakened by the threat of violence joined the marches with Dr. King.

As for Black people, Dr. King taught us to withdraw economically, and suffer the violence of white rage, then continue feeding the oppressors where they are able to practice segregation. The conversation stopped being about the definition of words and became about resources.

By accepting the violence directed towards himself and his family, Dr. King’s moral and physical courage took on meaning. It inspired others to demonstrate their faith in change and maintain the bus boycott. It was a kind of psychological armor 50,000 Negroes could wear whenever a white resident of Montgomery was mean to them.

Rather than be framed as the bad guy in the public mind, and therefore receive fallout from the boycotts, many European Americans took on the affects of multiculturalism, without doing the spiritual moments Dr. King makes reference to in his own experience of how to grow outside of societal standards.

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The multiculturalism experiment ended on November 5, 2024. The election of Donald J. Trump for a second time by 3 out of 5 white voting men and 1 out of 2 voting white women was a devastating betrayal. It sent the message that we white people want to live under an open white supremacy. So much so, Black people decided to not only withdraw dollars—see Target, but also themselves—see the No Kings parades.

Inside of this racial caste system, Black people's position is beside white people. We are a resource. Human chattel. Our time, talent and energy is not supposed to be under our direct control and management. Access to us is . . . to the white mind, a given right.

Right now, 354 days into this second Trump Administration, Black people are out of social position. We are not working with white people to fix the racists that live among them.

As a result, an amazing thing is happening. Without our presence at the table, over the past few months, at a generational level, white people have learned more about themselves than they have in 400 years of Black people striving to civilize them through love and understanding.

The distortion we see our European American friends and family experiencing is being generated from:

1. For the first time, they are hearing each other's thoughts and taking them seriously. Before, this talk was entertainment. "You don't really believe that, do you?" Now, you believe they believe. And, it sounds like insanity in your ears.

2. Connections are happening that are followed by emotional signatures. You can finally see how you were programmed into white supremacy without your consent.

3. You are feeling a racial consciousness. For millions of European Americans this is a brand new experience. They have never felt these feelings before and do not have any frame of reference to describe what they are feeling.

4. You have community; you just don't like it. The people around you are white supremacists, who you just learned were white supremacists.

5. You are starting to question if you are racist? How much white supremacy do you practice without it ever being identified as a practice of white supremacy?

6. Why does it not feel like there is nothing I can do to solve the problem of white supremacy without potentially hurting myself economically and/or through the souring of my local reputation?

While the distortion and everything you are feeling is valid - and I want you to feel everything associated with this moment in United States history - the source of the discomfort is the absence of Black energy.

May you choose to join a community and talk out what you are experiencing in new ways for yourself.