The guardians of white privilege normalize and legitimize a way of thinking and being that enslaves minds while allegedly freeing bodies. If the mind can be colonized, then those who society is constructed to benefit don’t need to worry about resistance to oppression.
All too often, liberative inclinations from the margins look to the dominant culture for ways to define and express their thoughts. Attempts to add token color to Eurocentric thought seek to humanize those who dehumanize the dispossessed.
When Latines seeking a liberative methodology rest upon Eurocentric philosophical and theological paradigms, they construct resistance on shifting sand, contributing to and continuing their own disenfranchisement. Worse, when elucidating resistance through Eurocentric thoughts and paradigms, regardless of how loud, fearless and passionate it may sound, Latines undermine their ability to bring about subsistent change.
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