Kali Hawk Instagram – PART 2: 🙇🏻By now the #JesseWilliams speech at the #BETawards is practically considered #RequiredReading among #intellectuals 🤔and yet no one has chosen to dig deeper into “this invention called whiteness” he mentions in the speech. Many people were quick to dismiss his speech as #racist 😯but he never makes an attack on white PEOPLE, it’s “whiteness” that seems to be the issue. 🙆🏽Which brings me to the little darling featured in this post. Her name is #SarahRector 👧🏿and for the first 8years of her life she was a newly freed slave living on an #Indian reservation, and considered VERY MUCH Black. Until the #DawesAct gave all #Indians and their freed slaves plots of land, and hers turned her into a #MILLIONAIRE OVERNIGHT💰💸😂💸💰😭 🏛The government had given her the crappiest land too, or so they thought until #oil was discovered on her land and she began leasing to #StandardOilTrust **infamously founded by John D. #Rockefeller 👴🏼). 🙈The moment she became #rich however, her “Blackness” was an issue because people thought “you’re too rich to be Black 👀 and ride on the backs of trains 🚂 and be lumped in with other “Black” people. 👱🏼We gotta give you some white people privileges!!” 😆So “rules” and “laws” were actually changed for this girl, and it naturally made “actual” white people mad 😡because they didn’t think their “whiteness” could be bought. But 🤑OF COURSE IT CAN, because #race is a social construct with criteria as changeable as the wind, so what makes a person “white” is always changing #LOL 🤓You would think “white” just means #European people with white skin, 🍝but when #Italians first came to #America they weren’t seen as “white” and neither were #Irish 🍀 or #Jewish people. ALL were treated and viewed as worse than dogs by the “white” #elite of American #society 💃🏽But now they’re kinda considered white. 🤔What changed that? 🦃And who even came up with the qualifiers that determine someone’s “whiteness”? 🙋🏽WHO TF INVENTED WHITENESS ANYWAY???? *To be continued… in PART 3.