Unlearning Division — A Decolonial Series on Racism Between Races
How colonial power seeded division within the Global Majority -- and how we return to each other
When we talk about racism between races—particularly BIPOC-on-BIPOC, intraracial, or interminority racism—it’s critical we hold a decolonized, historically grounded, and systemically aware lens.
Because here’s the truth many avoid:
Racism between marginalized groups isn’t the same as white supremacy—but it is its byproduct.
Colonialism didn’t just conquer land.
It conquered minds.
It implanted hierarchies between oppressed peoples.
It turned communities of care into communities of competition.
So when we see anti-Blackness in Asian, Latino, or Indigenous communities…
When we see anti-immigrant rhetoric in Black communities…
When we see colorism, casteism, or internalized supremacy passed down…
That’s not just “division.”
That’s strategic fragmentation, cultivated to uphold whiteness.
Here’s how we can begin unpacking it:
1. Recognize internalized white supremacy.
Many BIPOC communities were told proximity to whiteness was safety. That belief breeds anti-Blackness, classism, and disdain for “less assimilated” kin.
2. Trace the colonial lineage.
Colorism, caste hierarchy, model minority myths—these didn’t arise naturally. They were engineered by colonizers to pit us against one another.
3. Name harm without weaponizing it.
Calling out anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, or xenophobia in other communities of color should never become a tool for white validation or to excuse white supremacy.
4. Build coalitions rooted in truth.
Solidarity isn’t just unity—it’s reckoning. It’s saying: we will unlearn the lies that made us fear each other more than the system itself.
We must have these conversations within and across our communities—not to shame, but to heal, to re-educate, and to re-member the alliances colonization broke apart.
This is an invitation.
Not a callout. Not a contest. Not a shame circle. An invitation.
We’ve all been shaped by systems that were never meant to serve us—systems that benefit from our silence, our fear, and our distance from each other. And nowhere is that more visible than in the unspoken tensions between marginalized communities.
This series is here to change that.
Because naming racism between races is not division—it’s decolonial repair.
Because we cannot build liberated futures on fractured foundations.
Why This Series Exists
We are all carrying stories—ancestral and personal—about race, harm, protection, and proximity to power.
But too often, we have internalized the very tools that were used against us.
Colorism. Anti-Blackness. Islamophobia. Horizontal violence.
When we do not name them, they fester.
When we protect them, they mutate.
When we face them with courage, care, and curiosity—they can be unlearned.
This series is an offering to that process.
We will not be debating whether colonialism divided us.
We will be asking how it lives in us.
And how we liberate ourselves from it.
What This Series Will Explore:
Racism within the Global Majority and why we need to name it
How colonizers used hierarchy, pigment, and proximity to divide and conquer
The global architecture of anti-Blackness
Colorism, internalized bias, and cultural betrayal
Shared Indigenous memory and what we’ve forgotten
What real solidarity looks like—across pain and difference
This is about unlearning. Relearning.
And remembering.
How We Will Speak to One Another
This is a space for rigor with care. Courage with compassion. Accountability with grace.
We will not tone-police lived truth.
We will not center fragility in place of impact.
We will engage with humility, not with ego or derailment.
We will protect each other’s dignity—even in disagreement.
If you come here to learn, unlearn, or reflect, you are welcome.
If you come here to dominate, deflect, or divide—you will be asked to leave.
We Are Not Here to Perform. We Are Here to Transform.
If any of this resonates, I hope you’ll join us in the coming days as we explore the first topic:
“This Is Not a Distraction — Why Naming Internal Racism Is Solidarity”
Because we are not strangers.
We were severed.
And we can return to one another again.
Series Outline
“We were never meant to be strangers. Colonialism made us forget.”
Part 1: This Is Not a Distraction — Why Naming Internal Racism Is Solidarity
How silence upholds supremacy
Racism within the Global Majority ≠ betrayal
Audre Lorde: “The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house”
Reframing accountability as collective repair, not personal attack
Part 2: Engineered Fractures — Colonialism’s Toolkit of Division
“Divide and conquer” as infrastructure: caste, colorism, eugenics
Buffer classes and weaponized “model” identities
Language, religion, and forced loyalty to empire
Part 3: The Global Reach of Anti-Blackness
Latin America’s pigmentocracy
Anti-Blackness in Asian, Arab, and Indigenous cultures
How white colonial powers cultivated anti-Black frameworks
Black erasure in global liberation movements
Part 4: Colorism, Beauty, and the Politics of Desirability
Skin tone as capital
Skin-lightening industries, marriage markets, job bias
Reclaiming what was stolen: beauty beyond Eurocentrism
Part 5: When Pain Turns Sideways — The Reality of Horizontal Violence
Scarcity narratives and lateral oppression
Complicity, erasure, and harm between communities
How colonized people police each other
Part 6: Before the Fracture — Our Shared Indigenous Memory
Afro-Indigenous kinships
Inter-tribal trade and mutual protection
Matriarchal wisdom, queer inclusion, and non-linear governance
What we can return to
Part 7: What Real Solidarity Looks Like
Case studies: Zapatistas + Black Panthers; Palestine + Black Lives Matter
From hashtags to healing: how movements build bridges
Supporting without centering
Part 8: Mixed-Race and Multicultural Identity — Navigating In-Between
Belonging, rejection, and the politics of “enoughness”
Being policed by all sides — and healing anyway
Reclaiming ancestral wholeness
Part 9: Faith, Colonization, and Internal Spiritual Supremacy
Christianity as empire vs Indigenous faiths as cosmology
Islamophobia and inter-religious prejudice within communities of color
Healing from theological violence
Part 10: Truth Is the Bridge — A Living Invitation to Reparative Relationship
“Calling in” versus calling out — and when each is necessary
Building a culture of responsibility
Collective grief, embodied accountability, and inherited healing
A closing offering: what we owe each other now
Why I’m Holding This Conversation
I am holding this series because I’ve witnessed what happens when communities fracture under the weight of unspoken harms. Because I’ve sat in rooms where we speak of systems, but not the small violences we commit against one another in their name.
I do this work not just to name systems of harm—but to help us build the relational courage and structural clarity to change them.
My work centers around communication, leadership, and our relationship to power—how we wield it, how we carry it, how we remember what it was before colonization distorted it.
I do not facilitate for performance.
I do not lead from abstraction.
I lead from ancestral memory, matriarchal wisdom, and the deep belief that we must return to truth before we can live in harmony.
This is part of that return.
If you’re considering what it might be like to work with me more deeply—or if you want to support the continuation of this body of work—there are a few ways you can do so.
You can subscribe to this series
Become a Founding Member to sustain the vision
Buy me a coffee as a gesture of care
Schedule a 1-on-1 to explore how this work can meet you where you are and you harness my wisdom.
Every offering helps us move closer to the kind of world we’re trying to build—one rooted in truth, reciprocity, and collective liberation.
