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“This unconscious tendency to double down on the racial categories ‘black<\/a>‘ and ‘white’, making blanket statements about the behaviours, beliefs<\/a>, actions<\/a> and desires of diverse groups of people unified under fictive, generic ‘races’, highlights how many of us still apparently believe that race exists as a natural biological reality. I have serious reservations about popular social movements, however well intended, that reinforce a reinvestment in racial categories in this way. ‘Allyship’ being described as a ‘selfless act’ exacerbates the division, assuming a fundamental and immutable separateness between ‘different’ ‘races’, offering charity at the expense of solidarity. … With … its fetishizing of privilege<\/a> without any clear means of transferral, as well as the ways in which it actively reinforce whiteness<\/a>, allyship is not only up to the task, it is in many ways counterproductive. …<\/p>\n Race is one of the most powerful, seductive and enduring myths of the last four centuries … The concept of a ‘white<\/a> race’ and a ‘black race’ … is a socially engineered concept invented with a very specific intention in mind. That intention was racism. Until we understand this beginning, there will be no happy ending. … We have to at least attempt to imagine outside and beyond the race logic inherited from long-dead \u00e9lite European me, and conceive other ways of dreaming, living and being.<\/p>\n aus: Emma Dabiri: What white people can do next, o.O.: Penguin Random House UK 2021, S.14, 19, 27, 142.<\/p>\n