A Renaissance of Our Own by Rachel E. Cargle

Author:Rachel E. Cargle [Cargle, Rachel E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2023-05-16T00:00:00+00:00

MAYBE YOU MANIFESTED IT

From time to time, I’ll post a truth from writer Corinna Rosella on my Instagram account: “Maybe you manifested it, maybe it’s white privilege.” Both a play on the old Maybelline ads as well as an urgent prompt for white people to consider deeply: How many instances in your life has your white privilege been the launching pad for, or “secret sauce” in, your advancement in the world? The post provokes followers to identify the moments when they may not have considered the ways their race gave them permission to exist easefully in a space that Black and Brown people had to fight to occupy. It also prompts them to consider the times when they were aware of their privilege but thought little of it because it was so socially acceptable.

It’s easy to go along with “the way things are” when you’re not the one being disadvantaged. You may naturally feel no imperative to change things, to reimagine the world. But it’s these moments and these injustices, individually and compounded, playing out in every space that feed systems of oppression, that give “the way things are” power and legitimacy and further entrench racism in our society.

For every instance of white privilege there is an equal and opposite oppression of Black and Brown people. For every instance of privilege you experience as an able-bodied person or as a cisgender person, a person with disabilities or a trans or nonbinary person is stripped of their equality.

There’s another truth I post on my accounts every so often, one I remind myself of when my intention is solidarity: If your only goal is to “break the glass ceiling,” consider whom all those shards of glass will be falling on if you’re not bringing the most marginalized people up with you.

The purpose of the KEA framework is to teach a simple maxim that underscores the truth of what I’m preaching: We exist in direct relation to others, and we must own the role we play in all spaces. That, my friends, is the feminism and solidarity we must reimagine.

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