WHITE SUPREMACY IN THE WEST

DAVID BATCHELOR — CHROMOPHOBIA — 2000

This book is surprising from the title onward, both forward and backward. No matter how you take it you are going to be both excited like hell and disappointed like standing in front of the gate of the Messianic Jerusalem. There is so little to see there. But I read it from cover to cover and I guess I am going to make a few remarks. For me “color” and “colors” are not to be debated. I have known Daltonian people who were entirely colorblind and for them, the world was nothing but a palette of grey or greys all huddled around between white light and black night. I could not even imagine it. And color is for me everywhere. In my latest dream, last night, bright green leaves were falling from I don’t know where and those who picked them up could enter some kind of a means of transportation to go home, but where is home? A long way away, like Tipperary.

No, color is not a philosophical concept despite the color revolutions that lead nowhere. Color is a physical phenomenon. “Color may be a continuum, but the continuum is continuously broken, the indivisible endlessly divided.” (page 86) Yes of course, and this continuum can be exploded by simple…