White Power | Black Agenda Report

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

17 Sep 2025

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The power structure in the U.S. can be boiled down to a system of might, and white, making right. Donald Trump has exposed its rotten foundations and the two-faced collaborators who keep it running.

Donald Trump and officials in his administration have dispensed with even the appearance of established niceties in their quest to realize a vision of making white people and his concept of power ascendant throughout this country and the world. White power and brute force and are their priorities – and any other considerations and even common sense take a back seat. If farmers who voted for Trump can’t find workers because of his immigration crackdown, so be it. His animus towards undocumented people is so great that he shoved some of his supporters under the bus and into bankruptcy. Lest anyone forget, it was the very conservative Ronald Reagan who enacted an amnesty for undocumented people in order to ensure a plentiful labor force for agriculture and other industries that are dependent upon immigrant labor. Clearly Trump is no Reagan. He doesn’t care if workers are scarce and crops rot in the fields as long as he fulfills his goals of keeping Global South immigrants out of the U.S. His administration is the very personification of white power.

Trump and his team are true believers in U.S. white supremacy but they are not alone. Liberals who may not have voted for him are nonetheless going along with his program. That is to say that they are also dependent upon the white power structure and they will not bite the hand that feeds them. The liberal class has shown itself to be thoroughly compromised, a spent force that does little except climb up the ladder for access, positions and money.

One of the latest perpetrators is the University of California at Berkeley, one of many “prestigious” educational institutions, whose leaders have assisted in targeting their own students and staff at Trump’s behest. The administration at Berkeley handed the Department of Education a list of 160 students, faculty and staff who may have had “a potential connection to reports of antisemitism.” The university handed over the list to the Trump administration on August 18 and didn’t tell those whose names appeared until September 4. The charge of antisemitic activity has been made synonymous with Palestine solidarity protest but none of those targeted know how their names will be used or if they will face legal charges. They were given no warning, and no opportunity to defend themselves. It is true that the University of California system is being threatened with loss of funding like many other institutions. But this latest example of Trump administration bullying has gotten the desired result of bringing the country under the thumb of raw power meant to silence anyone in opposition, especially about support for zionism, the ultimate white supremacist project. The liberal colleges and law firms and even private sector corporations all do what Trump tells them to do and that is a large part of his success.

No one should be surprised by the lies and crude demands for obedience in the wake of the shooting death of white house mouthpiece Charlie Kirk. Kirk was a grifting influencer who wormed his way into the pinnacles of power and maintained his position by feeding racist red meat to the faithful. He said passing the Civil Rights Act was a “ huge mistake” and that Martin Luther King was “awful” and “not a good person.” Ironically, Kirk also said that gun deaths were a necessity. “I think it's worth it. I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”

Kirk made these remarks in public and on camera. There is no disputing these words. But anyone who so much as points out what is obviously true is in danger of being doxxed, harassed, or terminated from their jobs and liberals who went along with the white power system are partly to blame for this ethical collapse.

California’s governor Gavin Newsom is often mentioned as a Democratic Party candidate for president in 2028. When he initiated a podcast in March 2025 Charlie Kirk was one of his first guests. After Kirk’s death Newsom waxed elegiacally, saying that everyone should feel “a deep sense of grief and outrage” and that he “admired his passion and commitment to debate.” Newsom was not alone, with New York Times columnist Ezra Klein saying, “Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion.” It isn’t hard to be effective with a multi-million dollar propaganda apparatus, support from corporate media, and butt-kissing liberals like Klein to help out. Klein followed this cloying nonsense with Ben Shapiro, another right wing provocateur as a guest on his program. Perhaps someone on the left might have had thoughts to share. But we’ll never know as long as liberals are phonies who fold up like cheap lawn chairs. They must do so in order to keep their place in the pecking order of corporate media and the overall white power structure.

Many people are falling into line, including people who were once thought to be more powerful than a sitting president. When Trump invited big tech CEOs to a White House dinner they all paid homage, groveling as if they weren’t multi-billionaires. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Meta fame had an interesting interaction with Trump who asked him how much he would pledge to spend on Artificial Intelligence data centers. Trump asked, “How much are you spending, would you say, over the next few years?” Zuckerberg replied, “Oh gosh. Um, I mean I think it's probably going to be something, like, I don't know, at least $600 billion through '28 in the US. Yeah.” Zuckerberg was then heard to say on a hot mic, ‘I'm sorry, I wasn't ready to do our... I wasn't sure what number you wanted to go with!"

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund and later received tariff exemptions for Apple products. Cook is now well known for thanking Trump profusely not once, not twice, not three times, but eight times in less and two minutes as he and other CEOs took turns ingratiating themselves. Zuckerberg made up figures off the top of his head and Cook looked like a hostage all because they are afraid to be on the outs with Trump.

In the past Cook donated to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns, but democrats are now out. Cook was joined by Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and others in forking over $1 million to celebrate Trump’s inaugural and cozy up to the new boss. White power is now firmly in republican hands and the modern day robber barons want to be on the winning side.

Perhaps the term white power is redundant. Power in this country was always white and the road to success in politics or media or the private sector depends upon acknowledging that fact. At the end of the day members of the liberal class obey the white power structure as much as Charlie Kirk did. If they don’t, they are out and miss their opportunity to live well and have access to the movers and shakers they want to impress and to have on their side. They all grovel to Trump and everything he represents and the consequences be damned. As Kirk himself said, "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage." He expressed the essence of the white power structure, which has no empathy for humanity and no shame for its actions. Which is why it must be dismantled.

Margaret Kimberley is the author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents. You can support her work on Patreon and also find it on the Twitter, Bluesky, and Telegram platforms. She can be reached via email at margaret.kimberley@blackagendareport.com.