An Open Letter to Those Not Privileged to be White Heterosexual Men in the Wake of Another White Man Presidency
By: Dialogic Disciple
Tags: Politics, Irony, Theology, Church, Privilege

An Open Letter to Those Not Privileged to be White Heterosexual Men in the Wake of Another White Man Presidency Dialogic Disciple Dec 12, 2020·3 min read

To those of little concern,

We, White Heterosexual Men, particularly of European descent, have held the vast majority of power in the Western World since its inception, with very few and quickly corrected exceptions — blips, really, in the History that we’ve written, all of which we have erased or eradicated, usually with a bloody vengeance.

With this power we’ve done magnificent things in all the important fields of the Human Endeavor: Philosophy, Art, Technology, and Freedom — to name just a few.

Yes, we’ve monopolized the benefits of these amazing advancements, keeping them mostly to ourselves, as of course was our right, being the ones in power and primary actors in their existence. Over time, mostly by our beneficence, they’ve trickled down to you. You’re welcome.

For Democracy and Morality, you’re welcome. For the Mona Lisa and King Lear, you’re welcome. For the car you drove to the job we gave you and the computer you’re using to read this letter, you’re welcome. And, most of all, for the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, and the Emancipation Proclamation, you’re most welcome.

You can march around, demonstrate and protest, even ‘elect’ leaders that match your demographic, with all your hopes and dreams, which we defined for you with the culture we created — but, make no mistake, we still have all the power and the money and everything else that’s influential or important in this world we built.

Because we built it that way.

The system is ours, designed by us, for us, forever. Our power is so deeply entrenched, it saturates the language so thoroughly, you can taste it in every thought you have.

So, do your thing with the illusions of freedom and choice and hope that we’ve given you, but know this:

We are not going anywhere.

We are never giving up the position we’ve worked generations to secure. We will not surrender power or control, and any small victory you may achieve will be answered swiftly, even if only by the sheer ignorance of those we’ve employed since the very beginning.

And we don’t negotiate with the insignificant.

If you truly want power, freedom, or anything else that we weld so absolutely, you will have to come and take it. If by some unimaginable miracle you take it, any of it, you’ll have to fight to keep it, which will of course inevitably mean using the same brutal tactics and dehumanizing violence we have for centuries — because, again, we designed it to work that way.

Should that happen, however unlikely, it will mean you’ve become one of us, and our power will continue in our legacy. Again, you’re welcome.

It’s an inescapable history we share together.

Unless, of course, we have severely miscalculated what’s possible in history and there is a revolutionary out there who has found power in powerlessness; who could destabilize the system we’ve built so that it collapses, forcing all of us to re-evaluate and re-imagine our lives together at the fundamental level of how we think and speak — someone who could build from those ashes some kind of unimaginable New Kingdom and New Earth, thereby saving us all from ourselves.

But who would that even be? And would anyone even listen?

Until then, all the best,

White Heterosexual Men