“Where One is the selfhood’s subjectivity, Two is the confrontation with the other. At large, Two becomes the power and shape of knowledge. Two is prism, whereby we step into the mirror, easily to be confused in the binary thinking of domination. One would side with their oppressor so long as they are unable to see themselves in clear connection with the plight of the oppressed.

Until the image that Two reflects inspires solidarity, One will stand alone, severed from truth, alienated from humanity. Two gives relatedness, distorted by the binaries of white supremacy. Colonial subjects become ethnocentric, conditioned to the set standard against whiteness, whereby status, power, and privilege are reserved for whatever is not Black.

White supremacy exists on a spectrum of anti-Blackness. As anti-Blackness became the economic model for global imperialism, conquistadors and slave masters stripped the world bare to create commodity. Bodies born of relation became capital for the One, the Monarch, the King, the Capitalist. Whiteness is about perception, as its class construction has historically been shifting and malleable. It is a state whereby one refuses to see.

To be precise, it is not a sacrifice, which can only be made by personal consent; it is theft. It refuses to give, so it takes. If the self is created in its offering, whiteness dehumanizes by stealing our offering. Whiteness exists in the perversion of exchange into dichotomies of domination.”