“White supremacy” is a much more
useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding
and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery,
apartheid) than the term “internalized racism”- a term most often used to
suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about
blackness. The term “white supremacy” enables us to recognize not only that
black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white
supremacy, but we can exercise “white supremacist control” over other black
people.”
Bell Hooks, Talking Back: Thinking
Feminist, Thinking Black
