The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg receiving a Signal message about U.S. military strikes on Yemen from national security leaders should’ve been a jaw-dropper. But for those of us who are truly paying attention, it was just another confirmation of how deeply unserious and irresponsible the current regime is—particularly the white men who have clawed their way back into unchecked power.
This is not just about a journalist getting an exclusive. This is about the normalization of carelessness, the casual misuse of encrypted messaging apps to deliver war plans, and the gall of men who have failed upward their entire lives being handed the reins of national security and international diplomacy.
Let’s call it what it is: mediocrity weaponized.
As a Black woman, a Blacktivist, and someone who’s been fighting on the frontlines for racial equity, I see this moment in America for what it is—a reversion, a push for white supremacy, a rejection of progress, and a calculated assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion. The rollback of DEI efforts across federal agencies, corporate boardrooms, and academic institutions is no accident. It is a deliberate strategy to return this country to a time when white male mediocrity wasn’t challenged, wasn’t measured, and certainly wasn’t threatened by the brilliance of Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized voices.
The Trump administration—and the emboldened movement that’s come to reclaim its place in 2025—is a white supremacist regime cloaked in patriotism and fake populism. It has ushered in an era where anti-Blackness is the norm, not the exception. The refusal to acknowledge systemic racism, the banning of books, the whitewashing of American history, and the scapegoating of immigrants and trans people are all symptoms of a country running from truth and accountability.
And now, they’re at it again—this time behind closed Signal threads.
There was a time when leaking information about a military strike would be considered a threat to national security. A chargeable criminal offense! Today, it’s just another flex by white men who see war as a game, and Yemen as a chessboard. Let’s be clear: this recklessness has real-life consequences. Innocent civilians in America and Yemen will die. The global community will reel. And yet, these men will remain untouchable, unaccountable, and unbothered.
That is the privilege of whiteness in America.
The tragedy here isn’t just the intelligence leak. It’s the broader culture of incompetence wrapped in arrogance that comes from removing voices of conscience from rooms of power. By dismantling DEI programs, this administration has effectively silenced the checks and balances that people of color, particularly Black people, provide when we’re at the table.
Diversity isn’t a feel-good buzzword—it’s a matter of life and death. Because without diverse leadership, we end up exactly where we are now: staring down endless war, careless diplomacy, and a White House echo chamber that values loyalty to whiteness over intelligence, experience, and justice.
I am tired of the gaslighting. I am tired of pretending like this is business as usual. This country is not “returning to greatness”—it is retreating into ignorance.
And in this moment, we must bring in the wisdom of the late Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, one of our greatest intellectual warriors, who provided us with a framework to understand exactly what we’re witnessing. In her groundbreaking work The Isis Papers, Dr. Welsing argued that white supremacy is not just a political system—it’s a global strategy driven by the fear of genetic annihilation. The white population, being a global minority, feels threatened by the dominant genes of people of color, especially Black people. Every institution, every war, every suppression of Black voices and bodies, she argued, is rooted in the psychological terror of whiteness being erased.
She wrote:
“The fear of white genetic annihilation is the ultimate and underlying motivating force for the global system of white supremacy.”
— Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, The Isis Papers
So what we’re witnessing isn’t just incompetence—it’s desperation. It’s the frantic clawing of a system that sees its end coming and is determined to take the world down with it.
According to Dr. Welsing, racism is not simply about hate. It’s about survival. And the “mediocre white men” running this country know deep down that their dominance is unsustainable. So they double down—on violence, on patriarchy, on erasure of Black brilliance, and on anti-Black policy. And they do it all while calling themselves patriots.
But here’s the truth: they were never built to rule us all. Their fragility shows every time they cut funding for DEI. Every time they attack Black history. Every time they silence us. And yet, we are still here—building, resisting, surviving, and thriving.
This is our country too. And Black people will not go quietly into the shadows they’re trying to cast over us.
We are the beginning of civilization — modern day homosepiens
We are the light.
We are the future.
And we — the Black community — are done with mediocre white men. The Black community and non-Blacks with common sense must partner to take America back again!
