A Day of Absence in Reverse

Patching the Hole of White Supremacy

A sinking luxury liner going down by the stern

“A Day of Absence” in Reverse: Patching the Hole of White Supremacy

What if every white body in America vanished tomorrow—yet traffic snarls, courts convene, and our democracy still lists toward collapse? The passengers may be gone, but the breach in the hull remains. Centuries of Structures of White Supremacy (SOWS) have carved a hole so deep that removing individual actors cannot stop the flood. Today, we reverse the premise of “A Day of Absence” to expose how whiteness functions as a system—and why NU World Consciousness (NWC) is the only viable repair kit.

From Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line that wanted to “repatriate” Negros “back to Africa” to The Republic of New Africa that wanted to establish a Black enclave/state within U.S., to Black Americans “escaping” to Ghana, in the 21st Century ignores the reality of the systemic nature and pervasive rot that is SOWS.

As David Walker wrote in his Appeal, “This is my country more than it is the Whites. We built it with our blood and tears.”

Just rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic is a fool’s errand. But I get it. Living under SOWS (System of White [Male] Supremacy is exhausting for everybody. So, whether it’s scapegoating immigrants from Latin America and the Carribean for America’s ills or DEI, CRT anything and everything gets blamed except for the root cause SOWS.

Diagnosing the Breach

SOWS isn’t merely a collection of attitudes or isolated policies. It’s the engineered framework of power that:

More… To discover how NU World Consciousness supplies the repair materials—and get your downloadable “Shipwright’s Toolkit” PDF—subscribe now.