JF

"Covering" was defined by the legal scholar Kenji Yoshino as the "civil rights struggle of the 21st century" but has not been as prevalent in activist terminology as privilege, allyship, micro-aggression and so forth.

An example of "covering" would be straightening one's hair in order to conform to an implicitly white standard in the workplace that would stigmatize naturally kinky hair as inherently inappropriate.

Individualism, Objectivity, Perfectionism, Worship of the Written Word, etc.

Using these terms as a guide, what would it mean to "reimagine" the workplace to free it of "white supremacy culture"? The more you consider it, the more you fathom how utterly transformative the project intends to be.

When I speak of the "ideological succession", I don't just refer to the spreading of memes or the promulgation of ideas, I'm talking about their institutionalization within the places where Americans work and live. It's a very big story.

The memetic power of this ideology rests in its capacity to define what it attempts to unseat as "white supremacy culture," winning by default over what has been morally anathematized.

Thus, defending individualism, objectivity, the written word becomes a "defense of white supremacy", and the attempt to unbundle those aspects of the way we orient ourselves in this society can be policed out of existence.