Influencer and activist Nikki Free (@iamnikkifree) has taken to social media to share an emotional post in which she declares that “white supremacy is an evil spiritual practice.”
In an intense message and accompanying video posted Sunday, Free recounted her visits to Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle, one of the most infamous holding sites of enslaved Africans during the transatlantic slave trade. What moved her most, she said, wasn’t just the history but the horrific irony of a church standing directly above the dark, airless dungeons that once confined her ancestors.
“Enslavers worshipped Christ while the screams of the enslaved rose through the floorboards,” Free said. “That’s not hypocrisy; that’s evil.”
Her voice trembling yet resolute, Free explained that this realization forced her to see white supremacy not merely as a political ideology but as a spiritual corruption that continues to haunt the modern world.
The Same Evil Still Exists
In her video, Free drew a piercing connection between the horrors of the past and the silence of the present.
“While we may not be chained in dungeons in 2025, the same evil still exists,” she said. “Different century, same sickness, same silence.”
Her post has since gone viral, triggering thousands of comments. Some commenters agree her message captures the moral contradiction at the heart of racism: a system that cloaks oppression in faith, tradition, and respectability.
For Free, white supremacy functions much like a religion of its own, complete with “its gods: capitalism, patriarchy, law and order,” and “its priests: politicians, judges, police, and preachers who guard the altar.”
She describes it as a self-sustaining belief system that rewrites history and worships power at the expense of humanity, “a religion built on the worship of whiteness.”
Faith Weaponized Against Humanity
Free’s reflection isn’t a history lesson, it’s also a warning.
The haunting structure of Cape Coast Castle, with its church above the dungeons, has long been cited by historians and descendants of the enslaved as the ultimate symbol of moral dissonance: the pious worshipping above the cries of the suffering.
She says that experience crystallized for her how faith can be “weaponized and stripped of its soul.”
“What I saw wasn’t just history,” she explained. “It was the blueprint for how systems of power still operate — people praying over injustice while others suffer beneath their feet.”
Commentary: Confronting Evil in All Forms
Nikki Free’s words cut through political noise to stir the conscience Blacks and descendants of slaves. Her framing of white supremacy as a “spiritual disease” challenges Americans to stop viewing racism only through legal or partisan lenses.
It’s not enough, she suggests, to vote it away or “train” it away. Instead, it must be confronted, she says.
“You can’t vote it away,” she concluded. “White supremacy has to be confronted morally, spiritually, and politically — because it isn’t just in the system. It is the system.”
