Jealousy; June 4 2025

Alright, so I finally got a chance to see the movie ‘Sinners’ and I swear, I felt more during that movie than I have in any piece of media in recent memory. I don’t have a single complaint about it.

One of the things it got me thinking about was community. The fact that, as a white person, I don’t really feel any sense of identity about it and I don’t have that connection that people of colour have with each other.

And that got me thinking about the only white communities I know of. They’re all about hating other groups of people.

What a miserable thing.

I don’t have any insights about it beyond that. I think, maybe, one of the reasons racism persists is because white people have taken so much but can never take away community. If anything, our oppression of other cultures makes community all the more important to them, and white people look on from atop their hoard with jealousy.

I don’t know, I’m sure there are white communities I just haven’t thought of. It probably also depends on where you are in the world, but in North America? I don’t know, maybe I’m onto something.

If I am, then the first step is almost certainly fostering community with each other based on love.