Here's an example of how white supremacy is so deeply embedded in our culture (your brain) that we never even notice while it continues to taunt those PoC who do know.
Bikinis. Nothing wrong with that, right?
Or so I thought until I learned about the Bikini Atoll atrocity. Not only did they keep the disaster from most of us who grew up afterward, but they mocked the situation by naming swimwear after it, because it was "hot."
Between 1946 and 1958, the US tested nuclear weapons at the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Where people lived. Brown people.
The closest locals were evacuated first, but to uninhabitable places, while their ancestral homes were literally nuked into oblivion. People still living close enough or who went back later contracted cancer, and many died painful deaths. Their homes remain uninhabitable.
At least they were finally compensated (reparations!), but imo, not enough. Can anything make up for losing your family and your ancient way of life???
So what did white people do? Reflect on how we got here to avoid such deplorable acts in the future? or at least create a national day of mourning?
No. We named recreational resort clothing after it. To wear when we go to the colonizated beaches we haven't yet destroyed.
Ha ha so funny, hilarious name, get it, because it's a "bombshell" hit, makes the babes so hot, good joke /s
See this is why we get flack. Over and over, white culture has turned horrible atrocities into jokes and marketing gimmicks to accentuate our lavish (or lavish-aspiring) lifestyles.
It's crass. It's rude. It's bullying. It's cruel.
Wait, you're white and you didn't know? Well neither did I. That's why I say whiteness is a cult. With a cult, once you're willing to acknowledge that and deconstruct, you have to dig deep inside to find this garbage so you can examine it consciously and make decisions.
What are you doing about it?
https://www.etymonline.com/word/bikini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atoll
#AbuseCulture #WhitenessIsACult
Mx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸
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