Your Black God

Ulla Holm (pictured above) is a Danish sociologist. In an op-ed titled “Sort overherredømme” (“Black Supremacy”) she writes about her own feelings of white bodily inferiority:

Here in Paris I feel the white bodily inferiority on my own body … when I meet for outdoor fitness with my trainer with roots in Congo DRC. Philippe is double French champion in fitness, looks like one of the warriors from Black Panther, and dances to the afro-beats of the boombox as he’s doing a countdown on my squats.

I can live with the humiliation as long as I am to only one attending practice, but there is cold air between us women when we are more than one at the same session. Especially Philippe’s younger female fitness clients are vying for a temporary spot on his Instagram account, which mainly consists of fitness and dance videos with Philippe in the center, topless in front of the Eiffel Tower or the Arc de Triomphe, but sometimes he lets one of his white clients be an extra in his Insta body show. I am not to proud to admit that I like taking pictures of his big, Black flexing muscles.

The other day I shared his profile with a French friend who answered:

“Sometimes I think that it’s the Blacks who are the superior race.”