Is It Time to Rethink Using the Phrase ‘White Supremacy’?

Award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni doesn’t embrace the term “White supremacy,” because it is factually inaccurate. In certain usages, it also perpetuates the stereotype of some White people believing their race makes them better than anyone else.

Here’s what she said to ZORA editor Christina Tapper on the occasion of publishing new book, Make Me Rain:

We call it White supremacy, but there’s nothing supreme about what the White people are doing, what those White boys are doing. Those people are cowards. I wrote that poem because I really think that must be a damn shame that all you have to offer the world is the color of your skin. The so-called White supremacy movement is a cowardly movement. They try to hurt people in groups, and they try to intimidate people in groups. That’s cowardly.

Read the entire interview here.