Preamble

Euro-American names a specific people, not a universal norm. It refers to those whose ancestors came from Europe, settled in North America, intermingled, and became American nationals within a landscape already inhabited and shaped by others.

This manifesto rejects “white” as a meaningful description of human being. “White” is understood here as a historical construction that flattened diverse European ancestries into a single category of dominance, obscuring both the complexity of origin and the violence of its ascent.

Identity and Origin

Euro-American identity is geocultural, not biological. It is anchored in a trajectory: from European homelands, through migration and settlement, into the unfinished project called “America.”

Being Euro-American does not mean superiority, purity, or separation. It means accepting that one’s existence is entangled with European emigration, colonization, enslavement, labor exploitation, and ongoing struggles over land and belonging.

Rejection of “Whiteness”

“White” is not a heritage; it is a power mask. It arose to fuse many European groups into a single ruling category and to mark others as permanently lesser or outside.

As Euro-Americans, those who adopt this term commit to refusing “white” as a self‑description and as a default reference point for humanity. Instead, they choose a name that makes history visible and contestable rather than hiding it behind color.

Responsibility and Relationship

To be Euro-American is to acknowledge relationship: to Indigenous nations whose lands were taken, to African and Afro‑diasporic peoples whose labor and lives were exploited, to other migrants whose paths were constrained by laws that favored European origin.

This identity carries an obligation to learn those histories, to recognize the benefits that flowed from them, and to act in ways that repair rather than reproduce harm—materially, politically, and narratively.

Commitments in Practice

Those who embrace the Euro-American identity commit to:

• Naming themselves as Euro-American in spaces where “white” has been assumed or unmarked, making their ancestry and position explicit rather than invisible.

• Challenging institutions, policies, and everyday practices that continue to privilege Euro-American norms while presenting them as neutral or universal.

• Supporting the self‑definition, sovereignty, and narrative agency of Indigenous, Black, and other racialized and ethnic communities, without demanding comfort, absolution, or centrality in their stories.

• Examining family histories, local histories, and national myths, and choosing to tell them in ways that include the perspectives of those who were previously erased or silenced.

Future Orientation

Euro-American is not a destination but a stance. It is a way of inhabiting a historically produced position while refusing the lie that this position is natural, innocent, or outside of power.

The purpose of this identity is not to create a new fortress, but to open a new kind of accountability: one that treats ancestry as context, not as destiny; that understands privilege as a tool for dismantling hierarchies, not defending them; and that seeks kinship beyond the boundaries that “whiteness” created.

Closing Statement

Those who choose the name Euro-American do so to step out from behind the abstraction of “white” and into a sharper, more honest light. They accept that clarity may be uncomfortable, but they regard this discomfort as the beginning of ethical adulthood rather than a threat to identity.

Under this name, they pledge to live as historically situated humans, not colorless ideals: aware of origin, accountable for legacy, and committed to building futures in which no group needs to disappear into “whiteness” to be fully seen as human.

13 DEC 2025; 12:28PM EST

BLB, Georgia, USA

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