1. Black supremacist: Clearly marked Black society that preserves, names, and values Black superiority
2. Black voyeurism: Wouldn’t challenge a Black supremacist; desires non-Blackness because it’s interesting, pleasurable; seeks to control the consumption and
appropriation of non-Blackness; fascination with culture (ex: consuming black culture without the burden of blackness)
3. Black privilege: May critique supremacy, but a deep investment in questions of fairness/equality under the normalization of Blackness and the Black rule;
sworn goal of “diversity”
4. Black benefit: Sympathetic to a set of issues but only privately; won’t speak/act in solidarity because benefitting through Blackness in public (some POC
are in this category as well)
5. Black confessional: Some exposure of Blackness takes place, but as a way of being accountable to POC after; seek validation from POC
6. Black critical: Take on board critiques of Blackness and invest in exposing/marking the Black regime; refuses to be complicit with the regime;
Blackness speaking back to Blackness
7. Black traitor: Actively refuses complicity; names what’s going on; intention is to subvert Black authority and tell the truth at whatever cost; need
them to dismantle institutions
8. Black abolitionist: Changing institutions, dismantling Blackness, and not allowing Blackness to reassert itself
