“Articulation,” is White Power Code for “Passes the final test of “whiteness,” thus Superiority in English Colonialist White Supremacist Though/Society.

Language Skill/Ability = Intelligence is the myth ((scientifically proven false, countless times)) that is used to distinguish the Superior and thus “pure,” Whites from the obviously inferior in ability (Ablism) and therefor economics (Classism) of trash who happens to have caucasian skin.

When they start talking about his “articulation,” it basically means he’s reached two thirds of the three main pillars that make up ‘White,” under the English White Supremacist Power Structure.

He’s rich (class), he’s mastered the “Articulation,” which includes: pronounciation, enunciation, rhythm, and to be “proper,” softness, ie: NOT speaking from your diagphragm ((one of the things that makes us white folks so anal)), etc. NOT just the proper words, semantics but more importantly HOW those words are spoken.

Since he is rich (Class) and has the Language Ability = Intellectual Superiority (Ability/Disability) there is only two choices:

1. Acknowledge his skin color as black and thereby acknowledge that the root of our beliefs, perspectives, etc. White supremacy is fals OR

2. Declare him…White. (Regardless of the color of his skin)

They are saying to White Middle/Upper Classes, “Don’t worry about his skin color, why look how he talks! No Colored Person could speak so superiorily, trust us…he’s White and no threat to you or our power.”

It’s this weird denial thing middle/upper whites collectively do. Denial is used when the psyche can’t deal with the truth staring them in the face. They can’t deal with the fact that he’s black and has money and language therefor intellectual ability of by their definition “superior,” quality and so…we need to be made to believe that this person is…White Like Us.

It’s kind of a “flex clause,” built into White Supremacist Ideology to deal with any people of color who might exhibit class and ability skills either equal or superior to whites. Same thing happens with poor whites…

If your a poor white, and you master the Language= Intellect (Ability) and obviously have Caucasian skin, again two thirds of the Ability, Class, Race triad, you go from being labelled “White Trash,”

to “Genteel Poor.”

” White trash was a unique case within this larger culture of systemic racism. Everyone was non-white by virtue of the fact that they were poor, because by definition to be white was to be economically, socially and biologically superior…It became a group identity used widely in discussing race politics for the next 150 years. Within this structure there were Whites, Blacks, White Trash and other non-whites. ” http://kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu/Dictionary/white_trash.htm

The author quoted is speaking from an American Perspective of course. In Canada the term “White Trash,” refers to whites on welfare, disability, “the system,” and generally, the left, Punk leaning ones. The Brits use another word, but the similiarity is, poor whites are considered, by those on the left and the right of the middle/upper classes to be inferior and therefor unspoken today but still understood subconsciously, “non-white,” or at least “impure, untrue,” Whites. “Redneck,” is used to describe the conservative ones. However…

In English White Supremacist Canada, historically French Canadians, having caucasian skin, were considered “non-whites,” inferior and “trash,” due to their Intellectual Inferiority as proved by their poor…English Language Skills.

Still to this day, Collectively speaking, English Canadians consider themselves to be superior culturally to French Canadians due to Language. Not what IS said but rather…HOW it is said….ARTICULATION. Speak from the diagphragm = loud and LOUD = Inferior. There is a specifc rhythm, pronounciation, enunciation, tone, and use of inferred language, or “code,” saying one thing to mean another that must be mastered in order to be a “superior,” and thus “pure,” White.

Between English and French Canada, racism is fought through language not skin color. Skin Color is then used in both cultures against people of color. But whether it’s language or skin color it falls down to Race, Ability and Class.

The French, (race) cannot seem to master articulating proper english, (ability) therefor they are less intelligent and this is the cause for their poverty. (class)

African Americans(race) cannot seem to master articulating proper english, (ability) therefor they are less intelligent and this is the cause for their poverty. (class)

Obama has mastered how to “speak white,” better then most white people, therefor, since no person of color can be equal or superior to a white without completely destroying White supremacist Ideology…he’s “Articulate,” as in, “Not a true Black.”

That’s this white trash femme’s understanding of the message being sent.

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I’m poor White Trash Femme with Disabilites, English Canadian, born and raised upper middle class, lived soon to be 20 years on the system due to Ability issues, which include disabilities that affect communication and language skill. And sorry, I might do malapropisms, mispronounce words, even choose the wrong word and all this means is my ability to communicate through language is..disabled or lessened in some way, it doesn’t mean…I’m of poor intelligence.

P.S. Love your Blog!

white america definitely shouldn’t hold that patent - but it does. in order to learn “proper” English, you’ve got to be lucky enough to get a decent education, and we know that many youth of color are getting sub-par educations. so how exactly are they supposed to learn the rules of the language that they need to speak in order to achieve “success” in our society?