Racebots in the Raceworld, a Brief History of the Fascist Origins of Critical Race Theory, by Dr. Henginstein's Monster.

Racebots in the Raceworld, a Brief History of the Fascist Origins of Critical Race Theory,
 by Dr. Henginstein's Monster.

"Give them time."  Adolph Reed Jr., Prophet.

 

[JUST FINISHED THIS AND IT'S TOO LONG. I'V BEEN INVOLVED IN ACTIVISM A LONG TIME AND HAVE DEVELOPED SOME UNORTHODOX AND UNPOPULAR VIEWS ON RACE. THE MOST IMPORTANT BITS ARE IN THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS: 1, 31, 33, 43, 44,  44B, 46, 52, 54, 55, 57, 59, 62, 70, 71, 84, 86, 92, 94, 95, 131, 133, 148, 149, 151, 152, 158, 160, 162, 166, 170, 183, 187, 192, 206. THIS WAS WRITTEN QUICKLY AND INFORMALLY, PLZ DON'T LET THAT PUT YOU OFF.]

[After writing this I discovered  a great piece on Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism. This book is 1) horribly misnamed as it should be called Black Nationalism Contra Marxism, and 2) it's the most reactionary book in the last 50 years, and 3) it's racist to the core. Nevertheless, it is holy writ to many racebots, particularly Black ones. The article is well worth reading. Its authors also appeared on a Midwestern Marxism video which is also worth a look. What I like most about it is the anger. Rage on. https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cult-of-cedric-robinsons-black-marxism-a-proletarian-critique/]

I've decided to write this for two primary reasons: one finds Robin D. G. Kelley everywhere on the "Left" these days. He produces his own books, and he writes many blurbs and introes, and is a ubiquitous guest on podcasts and/or videos and in documentaries. He is the racebot-in-chief. Much of what reaches the public, in regards to race, is filtered through him. Often, I find his interpretations difficult to reconcile with my own. In one of his videos on Walter Rodney, I wondered if Kelley were talking about a different Walter Rodney.[1]

Second, Kelley's essay, "Identity Politics and Class Struggle," is just so bad, so ineffably effing bad, that it cries out for attention. Nearly ever clause set my hair on fire. This is a story which must be untold.

In lieu of an abstract: critical race theory (more accurately described as race criticism theory) has waged an ideological war against Marxism (term used here as penumbra for workers' movement and theory). To counter the Marxist position of class, crt introduced, or retooled, race theory. While Marxism sees class struggle as the motor of history, racestory insists that races are locked into perpetual competition for arable land, waterways etc. Further, racemongers argue that economics classes are not in conflict but need each other. They are like organs within a body whose individual survival depends upon the survival of the others. The central tenet of Naziism and CRT, is that at the heart of the adverse circumstances in which we find ourselves is the problem of race, and that there is a racial path out of those circumstances. CRT and Naziism offer very different solutions--they should not be equated--but (quoting myself) "with the defeat of the Axis troops, the liminal surface of fascism withdrew, but the class which commissioned them remains in place--different window dressing, same shopkeepers. And the basis of fascist ideology, race theory, has not only survived but proliferated. That central fascist trope of the fixed, pertinacious agency and power of race in history--that people act as they do because of their racial identity, and the world is as it is as a result--receives more interest and less condemnation than ever before. Fascism and CRT serve the same political purpose, occupy the same reactionary space on the political spectrum. Both adamantly reject class antagonism as the cause of racism or its potential solution, and each prioritizes race to such a degree that it dominates not only political discourse but social parlance as well. CRT is the new enemy of the working class."

In 1871, the world's largest city, Paris, fell into the hands of its people--the first freeworld city in the history of our species. No sooner had the Commune fallen to the Versaillais, than arose the Austrian School of Economics, which introduced the decidedly anti-Marxist theory of Marginalism. Coincidence? Maybe, but since then we have been living in a non-stop, coincidence blizzard. CRT is the latest squall.

About me: Well, being a monster can be time consuming, but when Master lets me out of my cage, I am a revolutionary socialist of the libertarian type, aka an anarchist. I am an anti-Leninist extremist, an apocalyptic Third Periodist sociopath, and "class-reductionist"  absolutist, an identophobe, ardito del popolo, would-be sex-worker, ninja errant. My dog's name is Quad.

I'll be in caps below for ease of reading. I intervene almost line by line, The full uninterrupted text can be found here.
 https://libcom.org/article/identity-politics-and-class-struggle.

This is pretty long, so I have separated sections with Zs so you can take a nap if you need.

In Kelley's essay, he endlessly bashes the Enlightenment and what he's dubbed neo-Enlightenmentism. The E (for short) was a break from (state) absolutism and church dogma, which were rightly seen as impediments to the growth of human knowledge. The E was multifarious, but might be synopsized as a belief in the existence and accessibility of scientific and philosophical truth, which it rigorously pursued. They were free thinkers.

Its initial critics were alienated by what they saw as its cold, mechanistic sterility (it just wasn't glamorous enough, ya know). This sentiment was best articulated by artists, mostly poets, who coalesced into a movement called Romanticism. As far as I know, none were directly involved in politics, but did have an effect on the zeitgeist, and were cited by later political thinkers.

Which brings us to WW1, which ended when Entente and German plutocrats decided that they had better stop their intramural dick-fighting and focus on the newly risen socialist state in the east. The minutes of their Versailles meetings, released decades later, leave no room for doubt as to what concerned these leaders: what to do about the Bolsheviks.

The American delegation to Versailles was headed by Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State, Robert Lansing. As a result of the war, Lansing had initiated America's first international espionage service called the Bureau of Secret Intelligence, thus becoming America's first spymaster. It would turn out to be a family business as his nephews, Allan and John Foster Dulles would succeed him in this position. Most of the BSI agents were lawyers and diplomats, but at lower levels were said to be men of "dubious character," and indeed not a few had criminal records.

Military plans were made to prevent the westward expansion of Soviet Russia, but additionally a sophisticated political strategy was engineered to win back pro-Bolshevik workers and prevent further defections. Some of these discussions are reproduced in R. Palme Dutt's superb, Fascism and the Social Revolution. This topic is worthy of much more attention, but in brief it was decided to introduce irrationality in diverse ways: mysticism, symbolism, a mythical utopian past etc. Most of these iterations would orbit the issue of race. The rhetorical challenge was to intro a sufficiently nebulous but persuasive political discourse which would sunder the workers' movement from reason and thereby neutralize it. Fascism was born.

It is said that Lansing was fired because he ran afoul of Wilson's wife as he had suggested that, due to the stroke Wilson had suffered, the veep should take over pro-tem. Whatever the reason, immediately he left Washington and returned to Europe, unofficially still in charge of the BSI. There he helped to organize and fund Mussolini's March on Rome, and monitored it minute by minute with the aid of a new-fangled technology called a telephone.  (Great book on fascism in Italy just before Mussolini's March is Luigi Fabbri's Fascism: Preventive Counterrevolution. Very depressing but a well-written first-hand account.)

In its initial formulation, Mussolini's fascism was a philosophy of no philosophy. Not only were there no core ethical or ideological principles, the very idea was denounced. The only beliefs were the leader principle, dirigism, and that the race was an organic whole wherein each class had a rightful place and a responsibility to the others. The strongman leader was class neutral, dogma-free. and had carte-blanche. In Late Fascism, Alberto Toscano quotes Mussolini:

"Relativism signfies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activty. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable."

For the first time as far as I am aware, a head of state explicitly denounced the Enlightenment. As late as Bismarck--30 or 40 years before Mussolini marched into power--politicians aligned themselves with the E and draped themselves in its finery. Mussolini broke with that tradition. In his mission statement, "The Doctrine of Fascism," he declares that E rationality and Marxian dialectics are insufficient to capture what Giovanne Gentile called "The endless and immortal essence of man." He goes on to talk about glory, heroism, masculinity, the usual fascist twaddle.

So the anti-E viewpoint as a political discursive begins where fascism begins. They are coeval and coaxial. This particular fascist trope will be resurrected by our anti-racist "allies," critical race theory, and employed once again to attack class struggle--Grazie, il Duce.

The above is not offered as an intro to the Fascism--Post-Modernism--CRT continuum, fascinating though that history is, but merely to identify the many commonalities.

It's now time to introduce celebrity, neo-anti-Enlightenmentist, racebot, Robin D. G. Kelley.

Robert D. G. Kelley is [was] Professor of History and Africana Studies at NYU. He is the author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics , and the Black Working Class (1990), Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990), and a forthcoming collection of essays titled Yo Momma's Disfunktional! And Other Essays on the Culture Wars in Black America (1997).


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Identity Politics and Class Struggle, by Robin D. G. Kelley

TO START AT THE CONCLUSION: THE POINT OF THIS EXERCISE IS TOO IDENTIFY AND UNRAVEL THE IDEOLOGY SUBSTRATING THE WORD "AND." WHAT FOLLOWS IS AN ATTEMPT TO CONVINCE YOU THAT THERE NEVER WAS, ISN'T, AND CAN NEVER BE AN "AND" BETWEEN THOSE TWO TERMS. THEY ARE ANTITHETICAL. MUCH MORE BELOW.

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Class politics is back. and not a moment too soon. Income inequality is staggering.

IN NO SMALL PART DUE TO RACEMONGERY.

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Sweatshops and the slave labor conditions that accompany them are on the rise again. Corporate profits are reaching record highs while "downsizing" and capital flight have left millions unemployed. None of this surprises us. For the past 16 years, at least, we've witnessed a greater concentration of wealth while the living conditions of working people have deteriorated -- textbook laissez-faire capitalism, to be sure. Certainly the Reagan/Bush revolution ushered in a new era of corporate wealth and callous disregard for the poor. But President Bill Clinton -- with the help of a right-wing Congress and rightward-leaning Democratic Party -- contributed mightily to the process with the passage of NAFTA, GATT, and the most recent welfare reform bill.

IN THE LATE 90S WHEN KELLEY WROTE THIS PIECE THERE WAS INDEED A RENEWAL OF DISCOURSE ON CLASS, HOWEVER, IT WAS DEFEATED, AS IT WAS BY THE NAZIS IN THE 20TH CENTURY, BY RACIAL POLITICS. KELLEY'S IDENTITY POLITICS ARE DIFFERENT FROM THOSE OF THE LAST CENTURY'S FASCISTS, BUT BOTH PRIORITIZE RACE AND REJECT, IN PRACTICE IF NOT NOMINALLY, CLASS POLITICS.

THAT IS THE PROBLEM.

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There is a silver lining, perhaps. During the past couple of years, at least, we've witnessed an intensification of class-based opposition to inequality,

CLASS-BASED OPPOSITION TO INEQUALITY, DOES HE MEAN TO SUGGEST THAT THERE IS SOME OTHER FORM? STAY TUNED.

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 falling wages, and the overall erosion of working-class life in the United States. Of course, we're far from the intense labor struggles of, say, 1877 or 1935 or 1946, but there are hopeful signs of movement -- from the resurrection of the old AFL-CIO under John Sweeney, Linda Chavez-Thompson, and Richard Trumka,

IS HE KIDDING? PERHAPS OUR GOOD PROFESSOR MIGHT ACQUAINT HIMSELF WITH THE HISTORY OF TRADE UNIONISM IN AMERICA

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the response to union summer, to the founding of the Labor Party, the New Party, and other progressive Third Party formations. In fact, even the language of populism now permeating much of American political discourse shows flashes of class analysis,

THOSE FLASHES WERE DOUSED BY THE RULING CLASS WITH THE GENEROUS ASSISTANCE OF RACEBOTS LIKE KELLEY.

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 if not an outright embrace of class struggle:

WHICH IS PRECISELY WHAT IS NEEDED.

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 it's "us against them"; time to end "corporate welfare as we know it"; we are engaged in nothing less than a "class war."

I find it ironic that at the very moment when radical renewal might actually be on the horizon, a handful of self-proclaimed spokespersons on the Left have practically written the "Left's" epitaph. The most vocal and visible of the bunch are Todd Gitlin (Twilight of Our Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars) and Michael Tomasky (Left for Dead: The Life, Death and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America), but some of their ideas have been echoed by the likes of Richard Rorty, Sean Wilentz, Robert McChesney, and Jim Sleeper, to name a few.

"SELF-PROCLAIMED SPOKESPERSONS"? WHY THE AD HOMINEM? THEY DO NOTHING WHICH KELLEY DOES NOT ALSO DO.

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(I suppose Robert Hughes' Culture of Complaint might qualify since he writes about the absence of class analysis, but it is so polemical and so anti-Marxist that his passing suggestions for a renewed "Left" seem gratuitous.) Tomasky and Gitlin, in particular, set out to explain why the Left failed to mobilize a mass-based response to the rise of the Right, why it remains small, divided, and parochial, entrenched for better or worse in the groves of academe.

IT'S FOR WORSE. DUE TO THE RACE FETISHISM OF THE "LEFT" IT CAN ONLY BE DISTINGUISHED FROM THE RIGHT ON VERY NARROW AND INCONSEQUENTIAL GROUNDS. AND IT'S A TERRAIN ON WHICH THE RULE OF CAPITAL IS ONLY NOMINALLY CHALLENGED IF AT ALL. RACIOLOGY, AS IT HAS BEEN CALLED, IS A RIGHT-WING MOVEMENT MASQUERADING AS LEFTIST. BETWEEN THE "LEFT" SEEKING RACIAL PROPORTIONALITY WITHIN THE GLOBAL CAPITALIST HOLOCAUST, ESSENTIALLY DEMANDING A SHARE OF THE LOOT, AND A RIGHT DETERMINED TO RETAIN EVERY DROP OF BLOOD MONEY IT CAN LET, THERE REALLY ISN'T MUCH TO CHOSE. THERE IS NO REAL LEFT AS ITS IDEAS WHICH CAN UNIFY AND GALVANIZE ARE ATTACKED FROM BOTH RIGHT AND CRT (I.E. FAUX) "LEFT."  

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Their explanation: "The Left" has lost touch with its Enlightenment roots, the source of its universalism and radical humanism, and instead has been hijacked by a "multicultural left" wedded to "identity politics" which has led us all into a cul-de-sac of ethnic particularism, race consciousness, sexual politics, and radical feminism.

WHY ENSNARE MULTICULTURAL LEFT IN QUOTATION MARKS? THE LEFT HAS ALWAYS BEEN MULTICULTURAL. IN FACT, IT IS HARDWIRED INTO DIALECTAL MATERIALISM (NOT ALL LEFTIES ARE MATERIALISTS, BUT MOST ARE AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT CERTAINLY DO NOT OPPOSE MULTICULTURALISM). SOCIALISM CANNOT OCCUR WITHOUT IT. PLEASE NOTE ALSO THAT HE DOES THE SAME TO THE TERM IDENTITY POLITICS EVEN THOUGH IT IS IN COMMON USE EVEN AMONG ITS SUPPORTERS.

AS WE SHALL SEE, KELLEY TAKES PAINS TO DISCREDIT THE ENLIGHTENMENT, BUT LIKE ANY GOOD RACEBOT HE NEVER GETS TOO SPECIFIC.

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Much of the blame is assigned to women, gays and lesbians, and colored people.


COLORED PEOPLE? WHAT! ATTRIBUTING A PHRASE WHICH FOR 50 YEARS HAS BEEN CONSIDERED RACIALLY OFFENSIVE TO ONE'S IDEOLOGICAL OPPONENT IS DESPICABLE. I HAVE NOT HEARD IT USED SINCE THE 70S, AND THE UNMISTAKABLE INSINUATION OF RACISM HERE IS FALSE AND FOUL, AND KELLEY REALLY OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF.

THAT WAS INCREDIBLE.

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for fracturing the American Left, abandoning honest class struggle,

THE LEFT IS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN FISSIPAROUS. THE COMPLAINT IS NOT, NOR HAS IT EVER BEEN, DIVERSITY OF OPINION, THE OBJECTION IS TO THE
ASSAULT ON, INDEED THE DEMONIZATION OF CLASS ANALYSIS AND ITS ADVOCATES, WHOSE VIEW HAS THERETOFORE BEEN THE DEFINING ELEMENT OF LEFT POLITICS. WORSE STILL IS ITS REPLACEMENT WITH RACE THEORY, WHICH IS PRECISELY WHAT DEFEATED THE WORKERS' MOVEMENT IN THE 20TH CENTURY. IT IS THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE SUPREMACY OF RACE THEORY IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE AND THE ANATHEMATIZATION OF THOSE WHO OPPOSE IT. THAT'S THE ISSUE

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and alienating white men who could be allies but aren't because of the terrible treatment meted out to them by the Loud Minority.


HOW CAVALIER THE "ANTI-RACIST" KELLEY IS ABOUT RACIAL ABUSE. WHAT KELLEY AND COHORT NEED TO LEARN IS THAT IF YOU REALLY WANT TO TACKLE RACISM, YOU MUST FIRST SURRENDER YOUR OWN.

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Universal categories such as class have fallen before the narrow, particularistic mantras of radical chic: race, gender, sexuality, and disability.


MOCKERY IS AN EFFECTIVE TACK TO TAKE WITH THE ILLUCID OF MIND, BUT NO AMOUNT OF DERISION CAN HIDE THAT CLASS POLITICS HAS FALLEN TO IDENTOMANIA, MUCH TO THE DELIGHT OF WALL STREET.

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Indeed, in their view class is not just another identity, it transcends identity.


THEY--WE--BELIEVE IT BECAUSE IT'S TRUE. PERHAPS ONE COULD ARGUE THAT CASTE IS AN IDENTITY, BUT CLASS IN THE MODERN, INDUSTRIAL WORLD CERTAINLY ISN'T.
CLASS IS TRANSVERSAL--THE REAL INTERSECTIONALITY. AT THE LAST PLACE I WORKED THERE WERE PEOPLE FROM EVERY INHABITED CONTINENT AND WE ALL HAD COMMON CONCERNS

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If the "Left" wants to save itself, we must abandon our ever shrinking identity niches for the realm of majoritarian thinking.


MAJORITARIAN THINKING? PRESUMABLY KELLEY MEANS FOCUS ON WIDELY TRANSVERSAL ECONOMIC ISSUES. APPARENTLY BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER TO WORK ON THINGS WHICH WOULD BENEFIT ALL, AND WHICH WOULD FACILITATE INTERRACIAL, INTERGENDER, INTERSEXUALITY COOPERATION AND FOSTER GOODWILL IS THE WRONG APPROACH.  SUCH A TACK IS CLASS REDUCTIONIST AND REFLECTS A WHITE SUPREMACIST MINDSET, DONCHA KNOW.

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After all, we're told, the majority of Americans are white and heterosexual and have little interest in radical feminism, minority discourse, and struggles centered on sexual identity.

REVOLTING. THE FIRST RULE OF PROPAGANDA IS TO ASSERT THE OPPOSITE. WE HAVE NEVER BEEN TOLD THAT. THE LEFT, THE CLASS STRUGGLE LEFT, HAS NEVER BEEN INDIFFERENT TO RACISM AND KELLEY DAMN WELL KNOWS IT. THIS IS A BIG FAT LIE, A BIG FAT ONE.

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In some ways, I can sympathize with these people about the limitations of "identity politics."

AGAIN IDENTITY POLITICS IS FRAMED BY QUOTATION MARKS.

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While the growing interest in the politics of identity

OKAY, I GET IT: "IDENTITY POLITICS" IS A STRAW-MAN TERM INVENTED BY CLASS RREDUCTIONISTS TO DEMEAN IDENTITARIANISM AND CAMOUFLAGE THEIR HOSTILITY TO ANYTHING THAT CONTESTS THE SUPREMACY OF CLASS ANALYSIS, AND THE PHRASE POLITICS OF IDENTITY--NO QUOTATION MARKS--IS THE APPROPRIATE TERM WHICH CONFERS LEGITIMACY AND SHOWS PROPER RESPECT TO THE TOPIC. GOT IT. IDENTITY POLITICS BAD, POLITICS OF IDENTITY GOOD.

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has extended our analytical scope to overlooked or trivialized cultural spheres

MORE LIES, NOT OVERLOOKED, NOT TRIVIALIZED, NOT EVER. THE MATERIALIST LEFT, THE CLASS ANALYSIS LEFT'S COMMITMENT TO THESE ISSUES IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR PRAXIS.

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and expanded our understanding of intellectual history, in some circles


HAS IDENTITY POLITICS...ER...UM...I MEAN...POLITICS OF IDENTITY EXPANDED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY? OR RETARDED IT? THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT IS IN DISPUTE, THEREFOR,E ATTRIBUTING THIS CONCESSION, PUTTING THESE WORDS INTO THE MOUTHS OF THE THOSE WHOSE ARGUMENT YOU CARICATURE, IS MORE THAN A LITTLE DISINGENUOUS. SHAME ON YOU, TEACH!

SOME CIRCLES? THIS COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY, NEO-RACIST JIM SNOW TRASH IS EVERYWHERE.

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it has also tended to limit discussions of power to cultural politics.

YOU DON'T SAY!

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And while so-called "identity politics"


QUOTATION MARKS---BAD!

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has always profoundly shaped labor movements


ALWAYS SHAPED? I THOUGHT THEY WERE IGNORED AND TRIVIALIZED? THE TRUTH, DEAR PROFESSOR, IS THAT THOSE LABOR ACTIONS WHICH DID MANAGE TO UNITE WORKERS ACROSS LINES OF IDENTITY DID SO OVER THE ACRID OBJECTIONS OF RACEBOTS LIKE YOU.

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and -- even more than vague, abstract notions of class unity


ABSTRACT? SO THEN IDENTITY IS REAL, WHEREAS CLASS IS NOTIONAL. TELL IT TO THE MULTICULTURAL, DUMPSTER-DIVING, URINE-WREAKING ENCAMPMENT LIVING UNDER THE FREEWAY RAMP.

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-- has been the glue for class solidarity,  by the same token it has also become a noose around the necks of oppressed people,


LET'S GET THIS RIGHT: POLITICS OF IDENTITY--AS OPPOSED TO IDENTITY POLITICS--HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PART OF LEFT POLITICS AND HAS BEEN THE GLUE FOR CLASS SOLIDARITY, BUT IT HAS ALSO BEEN A NOOSE FOR OPPRESSED PEOPLE. OKAY. YES, A THOUSAND TIMES YES. BUT I THOUGHT KELLEY WAS GAINSAYING THIS. ISN'T HE ARGUING IN DEFENSE OF THAT WHICH HE HAS CALLED A NOOSE FOR THE OPPRESSED?

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as in the case of white racism or certain variants of black nationalism.


NO, NO, ALL VARIANTS OF BLACK NATIONALISM. AND GO AHEAD, PROFESSOR, SAY IT PLAIN, OWN IT: BLACK RACISM TOO; WHICH IS COEXTENSIVE WITH WHITE RACISM, AND WHICH THE LATTER COULD NOT EXIST WITHOUT. THEY ARE PARTNERS IN ANTIPATHY. AND THE COLLABORATION IS NOURISHED BY CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND ALL THE NEWEST INCARNATIONS OF THOSE OLD DODGES. TO CLASS ANALYSIS, REACTION COUNTERPOSED RACE. IT WORKED THEN AND IT IS WORKING NOW. CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS RACE THEORY--PERIOD! THE WORD "CRITICAL" IS ADDED AS A DEODORANT. ITS PURPOSE, LIKE ITS PRECURSORS, IS TO PROVIDE AN IDEOLOGICAL BASIS FOR INTRACLASS DISUNITY, PUT FLESH ON THE BONES OF RACIAL ANIMUS. RECIPROCAL RACIAL ENMITY, AS WILL BE DISCUSSED IN GREATER DETAIL BELOW, IS THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN EMPIRE. THE KEY WORD HERE IS "RECIPROCAL." OTIS MADISON SAID THAT THE POINT OF RACISM IS TO CONTROL WHITE MINDS, AND THAT POLICE AND GUNS AND TANKS ON THE STREET WERE SUFFICIENT TO CONTROL BLACKS. THIS IS THE KIND OF STATEMENT WHICH RESONATES WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE CONTENT TO FEEL AND NOT THINK, BUT IT IS PROFOUNDLY WRONG.

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on the other hand, whatever cul-de-sac we might have entered, the "Enlightenment train" will not lead us out.

EXCEPT THAT IT DID.

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These people assume that the universal humanism they find so endearing

SO KELLEY DOESN'T? IS HE OPPOSED TO UNIVERSAL HUMANISM? DOES HE PREFER SECTIONAL HUMANISM? UNIVERSAL INHUMANISM?

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and radical can be easily separated from the historical context of its making; indeed, that it is precisely what can undo the racism and modern imperialism it helped to justify.

ANOTHER MYTH. IMPERIALISM EXISTED FROM DAY ONE, LONG LONG BEFORE RACISM. RACE WAS WEAPONIZED, BUT IF RACISM DIDN'T EXIST, IMPERIALISM WOULD STILL BE WITH US. RACISM DOES NOT CAUSE IMPERIALISM, ANCIENT OR MODERN. IT'S NONSENSE

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 The racialism of the West, slavery, imperialism, the destruction of indigenous cultures in the name of "progress," are treated as aberrations, coincidences, or not treated as all.

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING! WHO IS TREATING SLAVERY OR IMPERIALISM AS AN ABERRATION? NAMES PLEASE. CERTAINLY NO MATERIALIST BELIEVES THIS. ONCE AGAIN OUR GOOD PROFESSOR IS NOT BEING HONEST WITH HIS READERS.  MOST IF NOT ALL CLASS-STRUGGLE LEFTISTS BELIEVE THAT THESE WERE A CONSEQUENCE OF MATERIAL CONDITIONS; NOT COINCIDENCE OR ABERRATION, BUT RESULT. KELLEY IS TRYING TO CREATE THE MISIMPRESSION THAT THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY PROVIDES AN EXPLANATION FOR SOCIAL PHENOMENA WHICH THE "ENLIGHTENMENT" CANNOT. SCIENCE IS AND SHOULD BE APOLITICAL. LEADING SCIENTISTS ONCE BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS FLAT, WAS CIRCLED BY THE SUN ETC., THESE ARE ERRORS, NOT OUTRAGES, NOR DO THEY NECESSARILY INDICATE INCOMPETENCE. SCIENTISTS USE EMPIRICAL METHODS TO ANALYZE THE DATA WHICH IS AVAILABLE TO THEM  AND SPECULATE AS TO THEIR SIGNIFICANCE. THE INITIAL ENLIGHTENMENT FORAYS INTO THE SUBJECT OF RACE WERE JUST THAT. LINNAEUS USED WHAT LITTLE INFORMATION EXISTED AND TRIED TO MAKE SENSE OF IT. HE WASN'T EVIL, HE WAS JUST WRONG. AND WHY DO WE BELIEVE HE IS WRONG? BECAUSE THE APPLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC METHODS, ON THE BASIS OF INCOMPARABLY MORE INFORMATION THAN WAS EXTANT IN LINNAEUS' TIME, HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT RACES DO NOT EXIST. GITLIN IS CORRECT AND KELLEY QUITE MISTAKEN. SCIENCE'S REVERSAL ON THIS POINT WAS NOT DUE TO A CHANGE OF HEART INDUCED BY A CAREFUL READING OF ROBIN D'ANGELO, BUT RATHER BY MEANS OF THOSE SCIENTIFIC METHODS WHICH KELLEY DETESTS.

ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION, THERE IS A DIRECT LINE FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT: KANT TO HEGEL TO FEUERBACH TO MARX ETC. RATHER THAN THE ENLIGHTENMENT'S INADEQUACY TO EXPLAIN OR RECTIFY RACIAL INJUSTICE, AS KELLEY WOULD HAVE IT, WHAT WE HAVE IS THE TWO PRINCIPAL PILLARS OF ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT INDEPENDENTLY COMING TO DECIDEDLY ANTI-RACIST CONCLUSIONS. AND THE GREATEST ENEMIES OF THIS ENLIGHTENMENT-DESCENDED ANTI-RACISM WERE THE ORIGINAL POLITICIANS OF IDENTITY: THE FASCISTS.

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They insist that these historical developments do not render the Enlightenment's radical universalism any less "radical,"

IT DOESN'T. THE BELIEF THAT PROGRESS, HOWEVER ONE WOULD DEFINE IT, IS LINEAR, UNIFORM, AND INELUCTIBLE IS CHILDISH. THE PLOW INEVITABLY LEAD TO SLAVERY, DOES THAT MEAN THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION WAS A BAD THING? NOT PROGRESS? ONLY THE UNABOMBER WOULD SAY SO.

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and those who take up this critique are simply rejecting Enlightenment philosophers because they're "dead white males."

HOW GLIB--AND TELLING. DOES KELLEY NOT OBJECT TO THIS OBSCENITY? WHY MOCK ITS CRITICS? IS KELLEY REALLY AN ANTI-RACIST? CAN HE BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS A LEFTIST? AS A SCHOLAR? IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE GIVEN HIS INDIFFERENCE TO THIS FOUL RACIST, SEXIST PHRASE THAT SO-CALLED ANTI-RACISTS FOUND SO "ENDEARING." RACE THEORY HAS GIVEN FAUX ANTI-RACISTS AN IDEOLOGICAL BASE FROM WHICH TO SPOUT SUCH FILTH WITH IMPUNITY. RACISM NOW PASSES AS ANTI-RACISM, AND CONTAINS ENOUGH FISSILE MATERIAL TO DETONATE ANY SOCIAL MOVEMENT. THAT IS ITS PURPOSE.

MOREOVER, CAN KELLEY NOT SEE THE SHEER, ENERVATING STUPIDITY OF THIS MANTRA, ITS SLACKJAW, SQUARE-PEG-IN-THE-ROUND-HOLE OAFISHNESS? PUTTING ASIDE THAT YOU HAVE TO BE ONE BRAINDEAD PERSON OF COLOR TO BELIEVE THAT DEAD WHITE MALES SUCH AS, SAY, KARL MARX, HAVE NO RELEVANCE TO THE LIVES OF CONTEMPORARY PEOPLE OF COLOR, CAN KELLEY NOT ACKNOWLEDGE HOW DEBILITATING THIS CANARD IS? DOES MARX' MORTALITY INVALIDATE HIS WORK?  

HOWEVER SATISFYING KELLEY MAY FIND RACISM AND MISANDRY WHEN NOT DIRECTED AT HIM, DOES HE NOT SEE HOW IT IMPERILS THE CAUSE? HOW IT ABASES ITS ESPOUSERS, DISPOSSESSES AND UNFITS THEM FOR PRECISELY THAT ACTIVISM IN WHICH THEY ARE ENGAGED? CAN HE NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT SUCH IMBECILITY IS DOING TO THEIR BRAINS? AS WILLIAM CASEY, FORMER HEAD OF THE CIA, INFAMOUSLY SAID: "WE KNOW OUR WORK WILL BE DONE WHEN EVERYTHING AMERICANS BELIEVE IS WRONG." WITH RESPECT TO DEAD WHITE MEN HATERS, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. THEY ARE GONE. ANYONE WHO CAN BRING THEMSELVES TO UTTER SUCH LIFELESS, LEADEN, BUNK HAS BEEN NEUTRALIZED. THEY HAVE BEEN BRAIN-JACKED.

IN AMERICA, THIS FLUIDITY HAS BEEN EXPLOITED TO THE DETRIMENT OF WORKERS OF ALL RACES INNUMERABLE TIMES. THE POINT OF PROPAGANDA IS NOT ONLY TO DECEIVE, BUT ALSO TO ENFEEBLE. THERE IS A SECTION IN THE F.B.I. COUNTERINSURGENCY MANUAL ENTITLED "INTENTIONAL STUPIDITY." THE IDEA IS TO NOT ONLY TO CREATE DIVISION ("WHITE" AND "MEN"), BUT ALSO TO INDUCE THE ADOPTION OF INANITIES SO BENUMBING ("DEAD") THAT SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CAN BE EASILY BROUGHT DOWN BY CONTROLLED DEMOLITION. EVEN IF YOU ARE HAPLESS AND MORIBUND ENOUGH TO DESPISE WHITE MEN, OUT OF SELF RESPECT YOU SHOULD REFRAIN FROM ADDING "DEAD."  THE GOAL IS TO KEEP THE DISCOURSE MULTIPOLAR, CENTRIFUGAL, IRRECIPROCAL AND JUST PLAIN DUMB, AND HENCE FETTERED TO FICTIONS AND IMPASSES WHICH CONSTRAIN IT. THE ADVANTAGE THIS AFFORDS IS IN THAT SUCH FRAGMENTED MOVEMENTS CAN BE DISARTICULATED BY EXPOSURE OF THE INADEQUACY OF ITS THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTION (I.E. LACUNAE, PARADOXES, APORIAS, ANTIMONIES), OR CLOVEN SECTIONALLY BY EXPLOITATION OF THE DIFFERENCES IN IDEOLOGY AND ASPIRATIONS OF ITS FACTIONS. MARGINS BECOME DISPUTATIONS BECOME BOUNDARIES BECOME CONFLICT BECOMES PARTITIONS BECOME IRRECONCILABILITY BECOMES ENMITY--HAPPENS ALL THE TIME IN THE RACEWORLD, MUCH MORE FREQUENTLY THAN EVER BEFORE. AND MUTUAL RACIAL ENMITY IS WHAT KEEPS CAPITALISM SAFE AND SOUND.

THE DISCURSIVE AMMUNITION AND IDEOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR SUCH ESTRANGEMENT IS PROVIDED BY CRITICAL RACE THEORY, [INTERSECTIONALITY: WHERE OPPRESSIONS OVERLAP AND SOLUTIONS DON'T], POST-MODERNISM ETC., FROM PRECISELY THOSE ON WHOSE BEHALF KELLEY UNDERTOOK TO WRITE THIS ESSAY. IF I MAY QUOTE MYSELF AGAIN: "Affixing the word "critical" to race theory and having people of color champion its cause in no way vitiates its content or empowers the well intentioned race theorist to prevent its corrosive effects. When people organize for mass action, if their solidarity is broken it will fracture most often along the clefts hewn by critical race theory. In my experience, distrust is the most common cause of failure. Certainly the state plays a role, but usually they just give us enough rope, and wait. Two or more people of different races cannot make common cause against racism (or anything else) if one or more feels superior and/or entitled, and is confident that that belief is ideologically defensible and popularly supported. CRT purviews and purveys such defenses, it's where they come from nowadays."

WHAT DOES IT PORTEND FOR ANTIRA AND ANTIFA MOVEMENTS WHEN AN ASTONISHING NUMBER OF ACTIVISTS OF COLOR SUFFER FROM THE SAME VICE THEY HOPE TO ELIMINATE IN OTHERS?  ANTIRA/ANTIFA THEORY AND PRACTICE HAS BEEN POINTED BY CRT IN A DIRECTION WHERE IT CAN ONLY FLOUNDER.

HENCEFORTH, I WILL NO LONGER READ BOOKS PENNED BY LIVING BLACK WOMEN. NO LBW COULD EVER SAY ANYTHING INSIGHTFUL OR USEFUL, FROM WHICH ANYONE COULD BENEFIT--AND I WILL PROVE IT: EVERY SINGLE LBW WILL, SOONER OR LATER, SHUFFLE OFF THIS MORTAL COIL. THAT'S RIGHT! YOU MARK MY WORDS! YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT--THEY ARE ALL GONNA DIE. JUST LOOK AT THE PAST: WELLS-DEAD; WHEATLEY-DEAD; LOURDE-DEAD; JONES, HOOKS, MURRAY--DEAD, DEAD, DEAD, DEAD, DEAD! AND HISTORY HAS SHOWN--YOU CAN ASK ANY CRITICAL RACE THEORIST--THE BEST STANDARD TO DETERMINE THE VALUE OF ANY INTELLECTUAL'S OEUVRE IS THE IMMORTALITY TEST. I MEAN IF THESE BLACK WOMEN CAN'T EVEN KEEP BREATHING! WHAT COULD THEY POSSIBLY HAVE TO OFFER? WHEATLEY'S BEEN DEAD FOR CENTURIES; YOU WOULD THINK THAT SHE WOULD HAVE MADE IT BACK BY NOW...

APPARENTLY, IF MARX' WORK HAD ANY MERIT, HE WOULD STILL WALK AMONG US.

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Their uncritical defense of the Enlightenment

NO CONSCIENCE. WHO ON THE LEFT DEFENDS THE ENLIGHTENMENT UNCRITICALLY? NAMES PLEASE. GITLIN DOESN'T. KELLEY IS LYING AGAIN. THE SALIVATING, UNCHASTENED PURSUIT OF RACEBUCKS: EVERY TIME HE LIES IT'S NOT HIS NOSE BUT HIS WALLET THAT GETS BIGGER.

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(which includes a strange tendency to collapse Marx, Locke and Jefferson into the same category)

ASTONISHING. APPARENTLY, CRITICIZING THE E WITH NO DIFFERENTIATION, AS HE HAS DONE REPEATEDLY, DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A STRANGE TENDENCY.

MOREOVER, WHAT A THING FOR OUR GOOD ANTI-RACIST PROFESSOR TO SAY WHEN THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION--WHICH HE FINDS SO "ENDEARING"--COLLAPSES WALTER RODNEY AND MALCOLM X--AN ANTI-RACIST AND A RACIST IMBECILE RESPECTIVELY--INTO THE SAME CATEGORY. THERE SEEMS TO BE A MASSIVE DOUBLE STANDARD HERE.  MMMMMMM, ANYWAY, MARX IS NOT AN ENLIGHTENMENT FIGURE.

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 betrays an unwillingness to take ideas, let alone history, seriously.

THIS IS RIDICULOUS AND HE KNOWS IT. APPARENTLY IF YOU ARE WILLING TO READ DEAD WHITE MEN, YOU ARE TAKING NEITHER IDEAS NOR HISTORY SERIOUSLY. IT'S KELLEY WHO SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.

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Gitlin certainly acknowledges these contradictions inherent in Enlightenment philosophy,

SWEET OF KELLEY TO NOTICE, BUT DIDN'T HE JUST SAY GITLIN'S DEFENSE WAS UNCRITICAL?

MORE IMPORTANTLY, THEY ARE NOT CONTRADICTIONS. THERE ARE ERRORS OF FACT AND/OR INTERPRETATION. FOR MORE THAN A MILLENNIUM THE WORLD'S LEADING SCIENTISTS BELIEVED THE SUN WENT AROUND THE EARTH. THAT'S NOT A CONTRADICTION, IT'S AN ERROR. THE METHODS OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY DON'T ALWAYS IMMEDIATELY LEAD TO THE TRUTH, THAT'S NOT AN INDICTMENT OF SCIENCE. TIME TO SPROUT SOME NEURONS, TEACH.

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 as well as the historical context of slavery, racism, and colonialism.


INSIPID AS IT IS SHAMELESS. WHO ON THE LEFT IS DENYING THE CONTEXT OF SLAVERY? NAMES? AND SLAVERY EXISTED LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG BEFORE THE ENLIGHTENMENT.

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But in an intellectual sleight of hand

YOU GOTTA GIVE HIM CREDIT: WHAT HE LACKS IN SCRUPLES HE MAKES UP FOR IN MOXIE. HE IS INDEFATIGABLE.

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 he brackets these contradictions, reduces a huge body of complex, historically specific ideas to transhistorical abstractions (which he uses selectively to make his case against "identity politics"), and then presumes that Enlightenment thought constitutes the central reservoir of ideas for the very identity movements he criticizes. Says Gitlin:

    The Enlightenment is not to be discarded because Voltaire was anti-Semitic or Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Jefferson racist, but rather further enlightened -- for it equips us with the tools with which to refute the anti-Semitism of a Voltaire and the racism of the others. . . . In none of these cases was bigotry at the core of the man's intellectual system; it reflected the routine white prejudice of the time. The Enlightenment is self-correcting. The corrective to darkness is more light." (p. 215).


SO GITLIN DOES NOT IDENTIFY ENLIGHTENMENT AS the central reservoir of ideas for the very identity movements he criticizes! HE DOES THE OPPOSITE.

I GUESS IDENTITY MOVEMENTS--AS OPPOSED TO IDENTITY POLITICS-- ARE VALID SO THEY DON'T REQUIRE QUOTATION MARKS.

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Good liberalism,

YOU KNOW, THEY SAY THERE'S A LITTLE NAZI IN ALL OF US. IT PAINS ME TO CONFESS THAT A PART OF ME LIKES HIM. HE MAKES ME LAUGH.

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 to be sure, but its analytical insight leaves much to be desired. To pose the question as pro or con, keep the Enlightenment or discard it,


INDEED! BUT KELLEY IS DOING PRECISELY THAT AND GITLIN IS NOT. THE TRUTH REVERSED AGAIN.

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 sidesteps fundamental questions such as the legacy of 18th century social thought for modern conceptions of race or the philosophical underpinnings of racial slavery in an age when free labor and free market ideology triumphed.


ANOTHER ASTONISHING DECEPTION. LEFT DISCOURSE HAS NEVER SIDESTEPPED RACISM. NEVER. IN FACT, IT POSITS AN EXPLANATION FOR IT. ONE CAN DISAGREE, BUT MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN BY CLASS STRUGGLE LEFTISTS ON THIS TOPIC, AS KELLEY KNOWS THIS FULL WELL. HE'S LYING HIS ASS OFF AGAIN.

KELLEY IS A BELIEVER IN THE THEORY OF RACIAL CAPITALISM [BUT PERHAPS NOT WHEN HE WROTE THIS] WHICH ASSERTS THAT RACISM WAS ENDEMIC IN EUROPE LONG BEFORE CAPITALISM ARRIVED. IF SO, THEN 18TH CENTURY THOUGHT AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT WERE NOT RESPONSIBLE, AT LEAST NOT WHOLLY, FOR MODERN CONCEPTIONS OF RACE. MOREOVER, IF ONE IS TO CONTEND THAT ENLIGHTENMENT SCIENCE LED US INTO RACISM, THEN, AS GITLIN POINTS OUT, IT MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT SCIENCE HAS LED US OUT OF IT, WHICH IDENTITY POLITICS COULD NEVER DO AS IT TRAFFICS IN THE SAME RACIAL LOGIC AS ITS SIBLING: FASCISM. IT IS NOT RACIST PER SE TO ASSERT THE SUPREMACY OF RACE IN HUMAN AFFAIRS, BUT ONE DOES NOT DISCREDIT IT EITHER. WHAT CHARGE CAN A CRITICAL [LEFT?] RACE THEORIST LAY WITH A STRAIGHT FACE AGAINST THEIR FELLOW RACEBOTS, THE FASCISTS, WHEN THEY AGREE UPON SO MUCH? I SAY TO-MAY-TO AND YOU SAY TO-MAH-TO. IT'S ONLY IN THE DETAILS--AND THOSE DO MATTER!--WHERE DIVERGENCE OCCURS. "YES," WHISPERS THE CRITICAL RACE THEORIST TO THE FASCISTS ACROSS THE AISLE IN THE TEMPLE OF RACE, "YOU ARE RIGHT TO ACCLAIM RACE AS OUR LORD AND MASTER, BUT YOU HAVE MISINTERPRETED THE SCRIPTURES." WOULD YOU CALL THAT ANTI-CLERICALISM? NO, NOR IS IT ANTI-RACISM. IF YOU WISH TO BE AN ANTI-RACIST, YOU NEED TO LEAVE THE CULT, FORSWEAR THE RACE GOD, DROWN JIM JONES IN THE KOOL AID, CLEAR THE TEMPLE, AND THEN PUT IT TO THE TORCH.

THAT IS ANTI-RACISM.

AND HOW OUR BOURGEOIS OVERLORDS WOULD PISS THEIR LOUIS VUITTON'S TO SEE THEIR GREATEST COUNTERINSURGENCY WEAPON, THEIR BEST DISCURSIVE AMMUNITION, ABLAZE.

YOU LIE WITH DOGS, YOU RISE WITH FLEAS.

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For example, while racialist ideas can be traced to ancient thought and forms of domination internal to Europe, the Enlightenment also ushered in a transformation in Western thinking about race. How could it not? After all, as many commentators since the French Revolution have observed, the expansion of slavery and genocidal wars against non-European peoples took place alongside, and by some accounts made possible bourgeois democratic revolutions that gave birth (in the West) to the concept that liberty and freedom are inalienable rights. This contradiction is fundamental to Enlightenment philosophy, notions of progress, and developments in scientific thinking.

APPARENTLY IF ONE OPINES, AND ANOTHER ACTS IN CONTRARY MANNER, IT DISCREDITS THE OPINION AND CONSTITUTES A CONTRADICTION. ANYTHING LESS THAN UNANIMITY OF OPINION AND UNIFORMITY OF ACTION IS A FUNDAMENTAL CONTRADICTION IN E PHILOSOPHY?

I HAVE LONG ARGUED THAT THE HEGEMONY-OF-RACE THEORY OF HISTORY FAVORED BY FASCISTS AND CRITICAL RACE THEORISTS CAN ONLY BE SUSTAINED BY MEANS OF MASSIVE OMISSION AND GROTESQUE DISTORTION. WHAT'S MISSING FROM KELLEY'S PRECIS? OH, JUST LITTLE, INCONSEQUENTIAL EVENTS LIKE THE EMERGENCE OF CAPITALISM, THE OLD WORLD'S DISCOVERY OF THE NEW, AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, HARDLY WORTH MENTIONING. THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD WAS THE LARGEST ECONOMIC BOOM IN HISTORY THERETOFORE, MAYBE EVEN TO DATE. YES, PREDICTABLY, WITH ALL THE SPOILS TO BE HAD, ELITES IN AFRICA AND EUROPE ACTED LIKE SAVAGES. WHOLE AFRICAN TRIBES WERE WIPED OUT AT THE HANDS OF THEIR FELLOW BLACK AFRICANS IN THE EFFORT TO CASH IN ON THE SKY-ROCKETING DEMAND FOR SLAVES. EUROPEANS ALSO COMMITTED INNUMERABLE ATROCITIES. SADLY, HISTORY ABOUNDS WITH SUCH CATASTROPHE, WHAT IS UNIQUE IS THAT ALONGSIDE THESE HORRORS DEVELOPED SCIENCE AND HUMANISM AND THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNITY. IT IS TO BE CELEBRATED, NOT CONDEMNED. ABOMINATIONS HAVE BEEN WITH US FOREVER, THIS CLOUD CAME WITH A SILVER LINING. IT CAUSED UNIMAGINABLE MISERY, BUT, TRAGICALLY, EVERY STEP FORWARD IN OUR HISTORY HAS BEEN AT GREAT COSTS WHICH SEEM TO, AND OFTEN DO, OUTWEIGH THE GAINS. SUCH IS THE REALITY OF HUMAN EXISTENCE. BLAMING THE ENLIGHTENMENT FOR THIS IS ABSURD.

THE ENLIGHTENMENT DIDN'T CAUSE WARS OF CONQUEST OR THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY, PROFIT DID. THAT SOME ASPECTS OF ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT WERE EMPLOYED TO PROVIDE JUSTIFICATIONS FOR IMPERIALISM IS OF NO CONSEQUENCE-NONE AT ALL. DOES KELLEY REALLY BELIEVE THAT ANYTHING THAT ANY THINKER MIGHT SAY WOULD HAVE PREVENTED THE PILLAGING OF THE NEW WORLD? IS ANYONE THAT STUPID?  

THE PLOW LED TO AGRICULTURE WHICH LED TO SLAVERY, WILL KELLEY NOW SAY THAT THE PLOW WAS A NEGATIVE DEVELOPMENT? THAT IT HAS DONE MORE HARM THAN GOOD DUE TO THE IMMENSE SUFFERING IT HAS CAUSED? THAT THE COUNTLESS PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T DIE OF STARVATION DOESN'T COMPENSATE FOR THE COUNTLESS WHO HAVE BEEN ENSLAVED THROUGH THE AGES? WILL OUR PROFESSOR NOW SAY THAT THE ADVANCES IN LEARNING--THE EXPANSION OF LIFESPAN, THE CURING OF LETHAL DISEASES, THE TIME TO PONDER, THE INCREDIBLE IMPROVEMENT IN THE QUALITY OF LIFE--MADE POSSIBLE BY A SURPLUS OF FOOD DOES NOT SUFFICE TO REMIT THE LOSSES? WILL OUR AUTHOR DISCLAIM THE PRINTING PRESS AND HIS BOOK DEALS? IF KELLEY GIVES UP HIS CAR, HIS HOME, HIS UNIVERSITY SINECURE AND ITS GRANT MONEY, HIS PHONE? WILL WE SEE HIM RUNNING AROUND THE FOREST IN A LOIN CLOTH CHASING AFTER SQUIRRELS WITH A STICK? IF SO, THEN WE WILL KNOW HE IS SINCERE.

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THIS IS A GOOD PLACE TO DISCUSS SOME OF THE CENTRAL DECEPTIONS WITH WHICH THE AMERICAN RACEDOM AND THE BROADER RACEWORLD IS MAINTAINED, AND TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE RULES GOVERNING RACEBOTICS.

AS MENTIONED ABOVE A/O BELOW (I'M SKIPPING AROUND), PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT LIE OF AMERICAN RACESTORY IS THAT THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE WAS SOMETHING WHITES DID TO BLACKS. IT WASN'T. THAT'S A BIG FAT LIE, A BIG ONE, MAYBE THE BIGGEST. IT WAS SOMETHING EUROPEAN  AND AFRICAN ELITES DID TO LOWER-CLASS PEOPLES IN EUROPE AND AFRICA, WITH AFRICAN LABORERS SUFFERING MUCH THE WORST OF IT. BLACKS KIDNAPPED BLACKS AND SOLD THEM TO WHITE SLAVE WHOLESALERS UNDER TERMS DICTATED BY THE BLACKS. AS EUROPEAN KINGDOMS DISGRACED THEMSELVES FIGHTING OVER NEW WORLD WEALTH, SO TOO DID AFRICANS TRIBES FIGHT ONE ANOTHER FOR CONTROL OF THE LUCRATIVE TRADE IN THE UNFREE. MOREOVER, SLAVERY IN THE U.S. NEVER DID GET FULLY RACIALIZED. THERE WERE ALWAYS BLACK OWNERS OF THE UNFREE AND WHITE UNFREE.

I'M SURE YOU CAN SEE JUST HOW EXPLOSIVE THIS IS. THE SINGULAR THRUST OF JIM SNOW RACISM IS WHITES GUILTY, BLACKS INNOCENT--AND IT'S WRONG. (BETTER KEEP OUR VOICES DOWN.)  THE CONQUEST OF THE AMERICAS COULD NOT BE PRESENTED IN U.S. SCHOOLS AND MEDIA IN A MORE RACIST MANNER: EVIL, GREEDY, UNSCRUPULOUS, IMMORAL, VIOLENT, MURDEROUS, LIBIDINOUS, BLOODTHIRSTY, RUTHLESS, DEMONIC, DIABOLICAL WHITES SAILED ACROSS THE SEA TO CAUSE AS MUCH GRIEF FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR AS THEY POSSIBLY COULD BECAUSE THEY WERE WHITE SUPREMACISTS. THERE THE EVIL ONES INTRODUCED RACISM AND SLAVERY AND EMPIRE. MEANWHILE, THE PEACEFUL, COOPERATIVE, ENLIGHTENED, DEMOCRATIC INDIGENOUS WERE ALL JUST SITTING AROUND CHILLIN', SMOKING GANJA AND LISTENING TO BOB MARLEY RECORDS, "TRENCHTOWN ROCK, HEAR WHAT I SAY, TRENCHTOWN ROCK..." UNAWARE OF THE HORRORS TO COME. ONCE THE NEFARIOUS PALEFACES OVERKILLED, THEY SAILED TO THE LAND OF ETERNAL PEACE AND RICHES, AFRICA, AND STOLE, KIDNAPPED, RAPED, PILLAGED, YOU KNOW, JUST WHITED THEIR WAY ACROSS WEST AFRICA AGAINST A PEACEFUL, DEFENSELESS AFRICAN POPULATION. THERE, THEY ESTABLISHED  GARRISONS TO RAID THE INTERIOR AND KEEP THE FLOW OF UNFREE TO THE AMERICAS ALIVE. AFTER A CENTURY, THEY SUCCEEDED IN THEIR ULTIMATE GOAL: GLOBAL WHITE SUPREMACY.

I SATIRIZE, BUT I DO NOT MEAN TO SUGGEST THAT ANY VICES MENTIONED ARE UNKNOWN TO WHITES--HARDLY, NOR DO I WISH TO MINIMIZE THESE HORRORS. MY POINT IS TO DEBUNK THE RACIST MYTHS.

THE REASON THE MEAGER EUROPEAN FORCES WERE ABLE TO DEFEAT THE NEW WORLDERS WAS IN PART DUE TO THE LATTER'S ETHNORACIAL DIVISIONS. FAR FROM THE IDYLLIC PICTURE OF PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICAS WE ARE GIVEN, THERE WERE COMPETING IMPERIAL REGIMES DOING VERY BAD THINGS. WHEN CORTEZ LANDED ON WHAT HE DUBBED VERA CRUZ, THE AZTECS AND THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE WHICH IT DOMINATED HAD JUST DEFEATED THEIR RIVALS, THE TEPANECS. THEY WERE AIDED IN THIS ENDEAVOR BY THE WIDESPREAD HATRED OF TEPANEC'S VIOLENT, EXACTING, BRUTAL EMPIRE. ALLIES WERE EASY TO COME BY. IN TURN, CORTEZ AND HIS TINY FORCE WAS ABLE TO DEFEAT THE AZTECS BECAUSE THE LATTER WERE EVEN MORE RAPACIOUS THAN THE TEPANECS. THE CONQUEST WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED, AT LEAST NOT AS IT DID, WITHOUT THE AID OF INDIGENOUS ALLIES WHO JUST WANTED TO SEE THE AZTECS OVERTHROWN. THE POINT IS THAT THE SAME SOCIO-HISTORICAL FORCES WHICH HECTORED THE OLD WORLD WERE PRESENT IN THE NEW.

AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE HOW PROBLEMATIC THIS IS FOR THE RACEWORLD. THE BASIC RACIST JIM SNOW LINE IS THAT WHITES ARE UNIQUELY INIQUITOUS. WHY WAS THE FIRST CONTACT BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW WORLDS SO HORRIFIC? JIM SNOW ANSWER: WHITES ARE IMMORAL. PERHAPS, AFTER LENGTHY SENSITIVITY TRAINING, THEY CAN BE SALVAGED, BUT THE ATROCITIES THAT OCCURRED ARE A RESULT OF THE PECULIARITY AND PARTICULARITY OF A WAYWARD, SINGULARLY VILLAINOUS RACE. WHEN PUT IN THESE TERMS, RACEBOTS WILL BALK, BUT ONE ONLY NEEDS TO READ  DR. HENGINSTEIN (AKA GERALDINE HENG) TO SEE THAT THAT IS PRECISELY THE MESSAGE. WHAT HAPPENED WAS DUE TO RACE. NO, THE AFRICANS WERE NOT AS MURDEROUS AND GREEDY AS THE WHITES, EXCEPT THAT THEY WERE. THE AZTECS RULERS WEREN'T AS BAD AS THE EUROES, EXCEPT THAT THEY WERE.

THE PROBLEM IS THAT AN HONEST INVESTIGATION INTO THIS HISTORY UNDERMINES THE RACE-AS-CAUSE THEORY TO THE POINT WHERE IT CANNOT BE REHABILITATED. THEREFORE, WE HAVE RACIST LIES. AT OCCUPY SEATTLE, ONE CELEBRITY, CAREER-MINDED, RACEBOT GOT THE FLOOR AND STARTED SLANDERING WHITE PEOPLE AS WAS HER CUSTOM (NO ANTI-RACIST MEET IS COMPLETE THESE DAYS WITHOUT SOME CEREMONIAL RACE BASHING), SHE MAKES A GOOD IMPRESSION AS SHE IS YOUNG, ATTRACTIVE, AND POPULAR. WHEN SHE FINISHED HER RACIST HARANGUE, I TOOK THE FLOOR AND DISASSEMBLED IT IN SUCH A WAY AS TO EXPOSE ITS ESSENTIALIST RACIST CHARACTER. SHE HAD CLAIMED, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT COLUMBUS--WHO WAS INDEED A REAL BASTARD--INTRODUCED SLAVERY, IMPERIALISM, AND RACISM TO THE AMERICAS. I POINTED OUT THAT THAT WAS INCORRECT. A LONG STORY, BUT IMPERIALISM AND SLAVERY WERE OLD NEWS WHEN COLUMBUS ARRIVED. AS FOR RACISM, IT'S DEBATABLE. THE INCAS CREATED SEGREGATION IN CUZCO PROPER (NON-QUECHUA HAD TO BE OUT OF THE CITY BY DUSK, AND A FEW OTHER RESTRICTIONS), AND THE HIGHER POSITIONS OF POWER WERE QUECHUA ONLY. I BELIEVE THEIR IMPERIAL PREDECESSOR, THE HUARI, DID SOMETHING SIMILAR.

THE PROBLEM FOR HER WAS THAT HER RACISM HAD BEEN EXPOSED FOR ALL TO SEE. SHE EVINCED PRECISELY THOSE VICES WHICH SHE ASCRIBED SO CONTEMPTUOUSLY TO WHITES. SHE WAS CAUGHT IN A TRAP OF HER OWN DESIGN, AND NOBODY LIKES HAVING THEIR FAVORITE SOAPBOX PULLED OUT FROM UNDER THEM. SHE WAS FURIOUS, AND SOON BEGAN SCREAMING AT ME. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HER FEEL-GOOD, TRIUMPHALIST, HATESPEECH, RACEBASH, RACEBOT MOMENT IN THE SUN, AND I THREW SHADE ON IT. IT MUST BE SAID THAT NOT ALL BLACK ACTIVISTS ARE LIKE HER, NOT BY A LONG SHOT!, BUT A SIGNIFICANT "LOUD MINORITY" ARE. THE CRIME THAT I HAD COMMITTED WAS INSUFFICIENT RACIAL DEFERENCE--WHITES SHOULD KNOW AND KEEP THEIR SUBALTERN PLACE IN SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS. AFTER ALL, WHITES ARE THE SOURCE OF ALL INJUSTICE. LONG AGO WHEN WHITE LIKE ME PARTICIPATED IN A ANTI-RACISM EVENT, MINORITIES WELCOMED US; NOT ALL, BUT JUST ABOUT! AND THAT BREAKING OF THE COLOR LINE WAS POWERFUL, EMPOWERING STUFF, POIGNANT, THE KIND OF STUFF THAT COULD RAZE EMPIRES. THAT FEELING IS GONE NOW, LONG GONE. IT'S BEEN DESTROYED AND REPLACED BY CRT. NOWADAYS WHEN WHITES SHOW UP, INVARIABLY YOU GET THIS 'WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE' LOOK FROM A SUBSTANTIAL MINORITY.  YOU ARE ALWAYS REGARDED WITH SUSPICION. AT BEST WHITES ARE TOLERATED SO LONG AS THEY ARE ENDLESSLY OBSEQUIOUS, AND UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE THERE TO ATONE FOR THEIR SINS. IF YOU HAVE A HIGH ENOUGH PROFILE, CERTAINLY IF YOU ATTRACT MEDIA, THEN YOU WILL BE TREATED BETTER. BUT THERE IS ALWAYS DEEP RACIAL ANTAGONISM.

SHE AND I WENT BACK AND FORTH, HER YELLING, ME SPEAKING, AND THE ARGUMENT WASN'T GOING HER WAY--I WAS SLOWLY WINNING OVER THE CROWD. AND, AS OFTEN HAPPENS IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES, SHE ENDED UP CALLING ME A "RACIST MOTHER FUCKER."

HOW NOVEL. I WAS NOT UNHAPPY THOUGH BECAUSE EMPTY INVECTIVE IS THE LAST REFUGE OF THE DEFEATED. WHEN SHE CALLED ME A RMF, THERE WERE MORE BOOS THAN CHEERS, WHICH FURTHER INCENSED HER. SINCE THIS MOMENT THERE IS A SEGMENT WITH THE PNW INSURGENTSIA WHICH SHUNS ME. I HAVE BEEN CONFRONTED ABOUT THIS MANY TIMES BY HER SUPPORTERS. I ASK THEM "IS BLACK RACISM ACCEPTABLE TO YOU?" THIS NEVER SATISFIES THEM BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN BRAIN-JACKED BY CRT.

THE RELEVANCE OF THIS, ITS CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE, IS THAT FOR THE RACEBROKE MASSES, ANTI-RACISM IS A FOSTERED ANTIPATHY FOR A RACE. IT'S A SIMPLE FORMULA: WHITES CREATED RACISM (MORE ON THIS LATER), ERGO, ANTI-WHITISM IS ANTI-RACISM. THIS IS A DISASTER, OF COURSE, FOR REAL ANTI-RACISM. IT  DISARTICULATES THE VERY CONCEPT, AND RENDERS IT HARMLESS. ONLY A FOOL COULD FAIL TO SEE THE PROBLEM, HOWEVER, EVERY NEW GENERATION OF OUR SPECIES PRODUCES THESE IN ABUNDANCE. FOOLS ABOUND. THEY ARE AN IMPORTANT DEMOGRAPHIC. THEY ARE THE PEOPLE WE REAL ANTI-RACISTS HAVE TO REACH. HEREIN LIES THE PROBLEM. POPULAR, POLITICALLY CORRECT, CRT [I.E. STATE-SPONSORED FAKE]  ANTI-RACISM HAS DEGENERATED--BEEN DERACINATED--TO A POINT WHERE IT IS BELIEVED THAT EFFECTIVE ANTI-RACISM IS, OR AT LEAST INVOLVES, THE ITERATION OF HISTORICAL RACIAL GRIEVANCES, AND THE FREE EXPRESSION OF RACIAL ANGER. IN THE VERY ARENA WHERE INTERRACIAL PEACE, EQUALITY, AND COOPERATION IS BEING SOUGHT BY NAME, WHERE IT SHOULD BE HOPED AND ACTIVELY PURSUED THAT INTERRACIAL SOLIDARITY WILL TAKE ROOT AND FLOURISH, A RACIAL HIERARCHY HAS DEVELOPED AND IS POLICED BY AN ACTIVIST ARISTOCRACY OF COLOR. ONE WHICH DOESN'T EXPUNGE THE RACIAL INJUSTICES OF THE BROADER SOCIETY, BUT REPRODUCES THEM. AN ANTI-RACIST SPACE SHOULD BE WHERE RACISM FINDS NO VOICE, NO WORD OF RACIAL CRITICISM SHOULD EVER BE HEARD; INDIVIDUALS PERHAPS, BUT NEVER WHOLE RACES. ANTI-RACISM CAN NEVER BE ANTI-RACE-ISM, BUT ALL TOO OFTEN THAT'S JUST WHAT IT IS.

AGAIN, IT CANNOT BE STRESSED ENOUGH THAT MOST ACTIVISTS OF COLOR DO NOT FIT THE ABOVE DESCRIPTION. SHE'S AN EXTREME CASE OF A WIDESPREAD DISEASE.

FOR ANTI-RACISM TO WORK, IT MUST BE A MOVEMENT IN WHICH ALL MEMBERS TRY TO REACH UNION WITHOUT DESTRUCTION, WITHOUT ERASURE, WITHOUT SUBORDINATION, WITHOUT ANYONE SACRIFICING MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE. THAT IS TO FIND A NON-RACIAL WAY OF BEING, A POST-CAPITALIST WAY OF RELATING TO EACH OTHER FROM A POSITION OF EQUALITY AND ABSENT ANY DEMOGRAPHIC CONSIDERATIONS. IN WHICH, TO BORROW A PHRASE FROM THE ANARCHIST, JAMES GUILLAUME, "NO ONE COMMANDS AND NO ONE OBEYS," NO ADVANTAGE IS SOUGHT, OFFERED, OR TOLERATED.  THERE IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE IRREMEDIABLE TENSION BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COLLECTIVE; IT IS ALWAYS COMPLEX AND CHALLENGING. THE SUCCESS OF ANY MOVEMENT REQUIRES SOME MEASURE OF SUBMISSION TO GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS AND WILL, TO "MAJORITARIAN THINKING." THIS MEANS THAT EVERYBODY--NOT EVERYBODY ELSE, BUT EVERYBODY--NEEDS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS PURSUIT OF HOMEOSTASIS-WITHOUT-HOMOGENIZATION EFFORT, THIS OFT-ELUSIVE ALCHEMY, IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE MOVEMENT OBJECTIVES.  IT IS NEVER EASY, AND NEVER WILL BE, BUT SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CAN DEGENERATE INTO CULTS OR FETISHISTIC AFFINITY GROUPS OR JUST DRIFT INERTIALLY UNDER  THE INFLUENCE OF "SOFT"  SOCIAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL FORCES. VIGILANCE IS NECESSARY TO PREVENT SUCH OUTCOMES.

THAT CANNOT BE DONE WHEN A (MULTIRACIAL) FACTION WANTS TO ELIMINATE RACISM AND ANOTHER WANTS REDRESS, REVENGE, RECRIMINATION,  GRIEVANCE-BASED PRIVILEGE, OR MERELY TO PROFITEER IN THE EXPANDING RACISM INDUSTRY AND USES ANTIRA SPACES TO AUDITION FOR A CUSHY GIG IN THE RACEWORLD. TO QUOTE MY LAZY SELF AGAIN: "One must be favored: one is victim the other victimizer in any given circumstance, which forces one to view conflict in a hierarchical manner. This, obviously, cannot remedy disputes between peoples: one has to be right the other wrong, and that is a short trip to good and bad. At the core of CRT is an aporia--if there are no racial categories there can be no race theory. Likewise, if the groups so assigned are indistinguishable there again can be no theory. CRT must classify and characterize human populations, must iterate difference, in order to conceptualize race. It cannot be done otherwise. If you want to talk about race, you have to say something. Once you do, you have taken your first steps to racism. This in turn this inhibits deeper inquiry and precludes a resolution absent the assignment of blame. This leads to stasis or worse: deepening alienation. This contradiction cannot be exorcized. It can only induce, or bar escape from, racial stratification, which can only lead to more strife and generate more mutual racial hostility"

TO DISCOVER A NON-RACIAL WAY OF BEING, WHICH IS FUNCTIONAL TO MEET OUR MATERIAL NEEDS, AND WITHIN WHICH WE ARE CONTENT. OR AS SOMEBODY ONCE PUT IT TO CREATE A WORLD "IN WHICH A GOOD PERSON CAN FEEL AT HOME," SHOULD BE THE GOAL. IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THIS, EACH PERSON MUST REJECT THE RACEWORLD ALTOGETHER, EVEN THE PARTS THAT ARE BENEFICIAL TO THEM. YOU CAN'T DEMAND PRIVILEGE BASED ON RACEWORLD DISCRIMINATION AND CREATE A FREEWORLD AT THE SAME TIME. A REAL ANTI-RACISM MOVEMENT, ONE COMMITTED TO ELIMINATING RACISM RATHER THAN RE-APPORTIONING IT OR LEVERAGING IT FOR PERSONAL GAIN,     ONE COMMITTED TO BUILDING A NEW SOCIETY WITHIN THE SHELL OF THE OLD, SHOULD IT SUCCEED, MIGHT JUST SPELL DOOM FOR THE RULING CLASS.

BUT THEY NEED NOT WORRY. WE DON'T HAVE A REAL ANTIRA MOVEMENT, WE HAVE CRT.

IN THE LAST DECADE OR SO RATHER THAN TRY TO REASON WITH RACEBOTS, I HAVE DECIDED TO BE VERBALLY AGGRESSIVE, NOT INSULTING, BUT CONFRONTATIONAL. I WANT TO PROVOKE; I WANT TO SOBER UP RACEDRUNK MINDS, IF POSSIBLE, REVITALIZE THEM. ONE OF THE...NAY, THE MOST IMPORTANT RACESPEAK PHRASE IS WHITE SUPREMACY. THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT THE PHENOMENON IT IDENTIFIES DOESN'T EXIST--IT CERTAINLY DOES, NEVERTHELESS, IT HAS BECOME A SELF-REFERENTIAL, SELF-LEGITIMIZING, SUI JURIS, RACEBOT SHIBBOLETH. AS DISCUSSED ABOVE A/O BELOW, THE STATE INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS INTERJECTS PHRASES INTO LEFT DISCOURSE WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO "STUPIDIFY." THIS UBIQUITOUS PHRASE IS PERFECTLY SUITED TO THE TASK: IT REMINDS WHITES OF THEIR RACIAL WRETCHEDNESS WHILE EXONERATING EVERYONE ELSE. THE PRESENCE OF THE WORD "WHITE" DILUTES AND DISGUISES THE WORD "SUPREMACY";  AND, OF COURSE, IT LINKS THE CONCEPT OF SUPREMACY WITH RACE. IT HAS SUCH A NUMBING EFFECT, THAT IT SEEMS I'M THE ONLY PERSON ON THE PLANET WHO HEARS ITS SCREAMING AMBIGUITY. WHEN PEOPLE SAY THEY ARE OPPOSED TO WS NOWADAYS I ASK "REALLY, WHICH KIND WOULD YOU PREFER?" OR "IS IT THE "WHITE" THAT YOU OBJECT TO OR IS IT THE "SUPREMACY"?  THE PHRASE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IS AS UNSCRUTINIZED AS "GOD'S OMNIPOTENCE" MIGHT BE TO A RABBI OR IMAM. IT'S (NO PUN INTENDED) WHITE NOISE IN LEFT PARLANCE, HEARD BUT UNHEARD, A CIRCUIT BREAKER, A BRAIN DE-ACTIVATOR. THE LEFT NOW IS ORGANIZED AROUND AND AGAINST COLOR-CODED SUPREMACY, LOATHSOME THOUGH IT IS, WHITE SUPREMACY IS NOT THE REAL PROBLEM. (I CAN HEAR HELICOPTERS CIRCLING OVER MY HOUSE) SUPREMACY HAS BEEN WITH US FOR MILLENNIA. OF LATE, HISTORICALLY SPEAKING, IT'S HAD A RACIAL CHARACTER, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT IS IMPORTANT (THE S.W.A.T. TEAM IS POUNDING ON MY DOOR). THE EMPIRE-PROTECTIVE FALLACY IS THAT IF YOU ELIMINATE THE "WHITE" YOU ELIMINATE THE "SUPREMACY," MUCH LIKE THE PHRASE RACIAL CAPITALISM SUGGESTS CAPITALISM CAN BE TAMED BY RACIALLY PROPORTIONALIZING IT--AND NEITHER WILL DO ANYTHING OF THE KIND. IN FACT, THIS IS A RACIST IDEA.

"YOU SAY YOU WANT TO END RACIAL INEQUALITY, WHY?" TRY THAT ONE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. IN MY EXPERIENCE YOU GET EITHER OUTRAGE OR STUPEFACTION, BUT YOU WILL HAVE THEIR ATTENTION.

ANOTHER FAVORITE OF MINE NOW IS IF I HEAR SOME BLACK WHOM I DON'T KNOW TALKING ABOUT ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY WHITES, I WILL EVENTUALLY SADDLE UP TO THEM AND ASK "HOW ARE YOU COPING WITH YOUR BLACK GUILT. I CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT." NOW THAT'S AN ICEBREAKER. I'LL THEN TEACH THEM ABOUT ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY BLACKS FOR AS LONG AS THEY WILL LISTEN. HONESTLY, I DON'T ENJOY THIS, BUT HATERS NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH, IT MIGHT FREE THEM FROM THEIR MENTAL DISEASE.

TWO OF THE MOST POPULAR WORDS IN RACESPEAK ARE "IMBRICATED" AND, MY PERSONAL FAVORITE, "CHATTEL." IMBRICATED ALLOWS A RACEBOT TO INSIST UPON A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO OR MORE THINGS WITHOUT BEING REQUIRED TO UNDERSTAND OR EXPLAIN IT. THAT'S YOUR GET-OUT-OF-JAIL-FREE RACEBOT CARD.

OH, CHATTEL, OH HUMANITY. THIS WORD COMES TRIPPINGLY TO RACEBOT TONGUES LIKE NO OTHER. CHATTEL SLAVERY IS A WHITE INVENTION; PROOF BEYOND ALL DOUBT OF WHITE VILLAINY--OH YEAH, NO QUESTION.
EXCEPT IT'S NOT A WHITE INVENTION. (SHHHH, KEEP YOUR VOICE DOWN. THEY'LL KNOW WE'RE HERE.)

NEXT TO THE SLAVE TRADE, THE MOST FALSIFIED ASPECT OF AMERICAN RACESTORY IS THE ACTUAL CONDUCT OF SLAVERY. IT IS WIDELY PROMOTED BY RACEBOTS THAT THE SLAVERY THAT EXISTED IN THE U.S. WAS UNLIKE ANYWHERE ELSE, AND MUCH MORE CRUEL AND DEHUMANIZING. MAYBE SO, BUT ASK AN "ANTI-RACIST" WHAT CHATTEL SLAVERY IS AND YOU WILL GET A VARIETY OF ANSWERS, ALL OF THEM  WRONG.

CHATTEL MEANS MOVABLE PROPERTY, BASICALLY EVERYTHING BUT LAND. IF YOU OWN 40 ACRES AND MULE, YOU CAN TAKE THE MULE TO TOWN, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE FORTY ACRES. THEY DON'T MOVE. THE MULE IS CHATTEL, THE LAND IS NOT. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY TYPES OF UNFREEDOM, TRADITIONALLY, BEING CHATTEL IS WHAT DEFINED AN UNFREE AS A SLAVE, AS OPPOSED TO A SERF, VILLEIN, PEON ETC. SO THE PHRASE CHATTEL SLAVERY IS REDUNDANT. IN EUROPE, UNFREE DID GARNER SOME ADVANTAGES. IF YOU OWNED A PIECE OF LAND AND HAD SLAVES TO WORK UPON IT, IF YOU DECIDED TO SELL IT YOU COULD TAKE YOUR SLAVES WITH YOU. IF THEY WERE SERFS, HOWEVER, YOU COULD NOT REMOVE THEM. THEY WERE TIED TO THE LAND AND THE NEW OWNER WOULD THEN OWN THEM.

BEFORE GOING ON I WISH TO MAKE MYSELF CLEAR: I AM, IF YOU WILL PARDON MY IMMODESTY, THE GREATEST ANTI-RACIST IN THE WORLD, I'M THE G.O.A.T. I BELIEVE THAT RACE IS BULLSHIT. SWAP THE HISTORIES OF ANTAGONISTIC GROUPS AND THE ONE WILL LOOK/ACT/SPEAK LIKE THE OTHER. I REJECT CATEGORICALLY THAT ANY GENETIC STRAIN OF OUR SPECIES IS SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER--THAT'S WHY THE RACEBOTS HATE ME. FROM SOUP TO NUTS, FROM GATE TO WIRE, FROM FIELD SEED TO COMMODE--WHERE IT'S TRUE NATURE IS REVEALED--I BELIEVE RACE IS THE BIGGEST LIE EVER TOLD. I DO NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY, AND DON'T MUCH CARE. I AM AN ANARCHIST. ANARCHISM IS SHORTHAND FOR ANTI-HIERARCHISM OR ANTI-HETERONOMISM. FOR ME UNFREEDOM IS SIMPLE--IT'S BAD. I AM NOT INTERESTED IN RANKING THE VARIOUS TYPES--THAT'S NOT MY MISSION. IF SLAVERY IN CENTURY 17 IN VIRGINIA WAS WORSE THAN CENTURY 14 IN MALI OR CENTURY 10 IN EGYPT OR CENTURY 11 IN THE YUCATAN OR CENTURY 13 IN BACTRIA OR THE NOBI IN KOREA, IT WILL NOT SURPRISE ME BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE WHITES ARE ANY BETTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE. LIKEWISE, IT WON'T SURPRISE ME IF MALI OR BACTRIA WAS WORSE. I HOPE SIMPLY TO DEMONSTRATE HOW RACISM, IN THIS CASE JIM SNOW, IS REPRODUCED. I AM NOT, AND WILL NEVER BE, AN APOLOGIST FOR SLAVERY. I AM THE G.O.A.T.

HERE ARE SOME WIDELY HELD MYTHS. IF YOU WISH TO CRITICIZE A RACE, YOU NEED TO GET IT RIGHT, OR YOU NEED TO SHUT UP. FOR INSTANCE, WHEN SOMEBODY SAYS THAT WHITE-OWNERSHIP SLAVERY WAS UNIQUELY HORRIFIC, I ASK WHAT MADE IT SO. THE VARIOUS ANSWERS I'VE RECEIVED OVER THE YEARS:

A) IT WAS HEREDITARY

NOPE, NOT UNIQUE TO THE AMERICAS

B) AMERICAN SLAVES WERE USED FOR PRODUCTION.

DOMESTIC SERVICE WAS COMMON, BUT ALSO FIELD WORK, MINES ETC. IT IS WIDELY BELIEVED THAT AFRICAN SLAVES WERE NOT USED FOR PRODUCTION. INCORRECT, THEY WERE HERDERS, AGRICULTURAL WORKERS, MINERS ETC., AND SOME IN DOMESTIC SEVICE.

C) AMERICAN SLAVES WERE CHATTEL/PERSONAL PROPERTY

BRACE YOURSELVES, RACEBOTS: CHATTEL SLAVERY WAS THE NORM. SERFDOM, PEONAGE ETC WAS THE EXCEPTION.

D) AMERICAN SLAVES HAD NO CIVIL RIGHTS

SEVERAL FAMOUS EXAMPLES OF BLACK SLAVES LODGING COMPLAINTS AGAINST THEIR OWNERS IN WHITE COURTS AND SOMETIMES WINNING. ARGUABLY AFTER DRED SCOTT, AMERICAN SLAVES HAD NO RIGHTS BUT THIS CAME AT THE VERY END OF AMERICAN SLAVERY, AND IS IN NO WAY UNIQUE TO THE AMERICAS. IN FACT--HANG IN THERE YEE RACEBROKE--SLAVERY HAD AN EXTENSIVE CASE LAW IN WHITE AMERICA AND WHITE EUROPE. THIS WAS ALSO TRUE IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD.
 
TRIGGER WARNING: WHAT FOLLOWS MAY BE DISTURBING TO THOSE RAISED IN THE JIM SNOW RACEWORLD. IF YOU FIND THIS INFORMATION DISTRESSING AND NEED HELP, PLEASE CALL THE JIM SNOW RECOVERY CENTER HOTLINE AT 1-800-RACEBOT.
 
IN FACT, TO MY ADMITTEDLY INSUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE, ONE COULD ARGUE THAT WHITE-OWNERSHIP SLAVERY WAS NOT THE WORST IN HISTORY, BUT THE LEAST WORST. SLAVES IN CHRISTENDOM HAD SLIGHTLY MORE RIGHTS THAN UNDER ISLAM, BUT SLAVERY LASTED IN KOREA LONGER (MORE CONSECUTIVE CENTURIES) THAN ANYWHERE ELSE, WHICH MIGHT SUGGEST THAT IT WAS MORE BENIGN THERE. I DON'T KNOW AND I DON'T CARE. ALL FORMS OF UNFREEDOM ARE ABOMINATIONS. WITH LUCK SOMEDAY AS A LEFT WE CAN BE UNITED AGAINST SLAVERY, BUT, ALAS, WE ARE NOT THERE YET.

E) AMERICAN SLAVERY WAS RACE BASED

ALMOST BUT NOT QUITE. LINCOLN FREED MILLIONS OF BLACK SLAVES, AND ABOUT 60,000 WHITE ONES. AND THERE WERE LOTS OF BLACK SLAVE-OWNERS WHO HATED LINCOLN. AND WHY IS RACE-BASED SLAVERY WORSE THAN OTHER KINDS? I HAVE NEVER UNDERSTOOD THIS. FOR A MILLENNIUM OR MORE SLAVERY AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN--BOTH SIDES--WAS RELIGION BASED. WHO CARES WHY PEOPLE WERE ENSLAVED. THIS LINE OF ARGUMENT IS OBSCENE.

ANOTHER TRIGGER WARNING, BEFORE CONTINUING YOU MIGHT WISH TO PUT JIM SNOW RECOVERY CENTER ON SPEED DIAL.

ALSO, ARAB SLAVERS HELD RACIST VIEWS ABOUT THE VARIOUS PEOPLES THEY SOLD. ACCORDING TO HANNAH BARKER, THEY COMPILED A SLAVE-BUYERS MANUAL WHICH MADE RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO WHICH ETHNICITY/RACE OF SLAVE WAS BEST SUITED FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES BASED ON THESE RACIAL TRAITS. BRACE YOURSELF KELLEY: 1) IT IS UNABASHEDLY, UNMISTAKABLY, INCONTROVERTIBLY ESSENTIALIST,--GOOD OL' FASHION BIO RACISM, 2) IT WAS NOT COMPILED BY WHITE MONSTERS, 3) IT PREDATES THE ENLIGHTENMENT.

RACE IS NOT A WHITE INVENTION NOR IS SLAVERY. IT'S A MYTH. IT'S A RACIST MYTH.  IT IS THE MYTH AT THE HEART OF AMERICAN CLASS WAR. CHEERS.

F) AMERICAN SLAVERY WAS LIFE-LONG

NOT UNIQUE.

G) AMERICAN SLAVES WERE SUBJECTED TO CORPORAL PUNISHMENT BY THEIR OWNERS

IN VARIOUS PLACES THERE WERE SOME RESTRICTIONS ON HOW MUCH VIOLENCE AN OWNER COULD INFLICT, BUT NOT ALWAYS OR EVERYWHERE.


THAT'S ALL I CAN REMEMBER OFF HAND. THIS IS NOT TO EXCULPATE WHITE SLAVERS, JUST TO COMBAT THE UBIQUITOUS, RACIST JIM SNOW LIES TOLD ABOUT THEM. SINCE THE ABOVE ARE THE SACRAL RACIST MYTHS OF THE RACEDOM, MY INFO COMES IN THE MAIN FROM THREE BOOKS: "That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500," BY HANNAH BARKER; " Christian Jewish Relations 1000-1300 Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom" By Anna Sapir Abulafia; "The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine" by Serhii Plokhy. I'V ALSO READ NUMEROUS ESSAYS BY WALTER RODNEY AND GEORGE PADMORE AND OTHERS. THREE BOOKS AND SOME ESSAYS DO NOT AN EXPERT MAKE. IF YOU WISH TO ADD OR CORRECT, PLZ DO, MY EMAIL IS AT THE BOTTOM. 

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As the work of George Mosse, David Theo Goldberg, Cedric Robinson, and many others has demonstrated,

HAVE CONTENDED, NOT DEMONSTRATED.

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modern racism is one of the "gifts" of the Enlightenment.

 HE CAN'T BE SERIOUS. FIRST, IS IT? WE DWELL ON THE INIQUITIES AND ERRORS BUT SOME OF THE SCIENTIFIC WORK ON RACE WAS CORRECT AND IS STILL IN USE. CRANIOMETRY, IT TURNS OUT, IS AN INDICATOR OF INTELLIGENCE. IT'S NO LONGER SEEN AS APPLICABLE INTRASPECIALLY, BUT, BASICALLY THESE ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS KELLEY LOVES TO HATE GOT THIS RIGHT, AND SHOULD BE CONGRATULATED FOR IT. AND SHOULD BE EVEN IF THEY HARBORED RACIST VIEWS AND FAIL MISERABLY WHEN COMPARED TO KELLEY'S IRREPROACHABLE RACIAL RECTITUDE. THIS IS PRESENTISM GONE MAD. THE PEOPLE WHO SPLIT THE ATOM HELD SOME REVOLTING POLITICAL VIEWS, BUT, GUESS WHAT, THE ATOMS DON'T CARE. HEIDEGGER WAS A NAZI, DOES THAT INVALIDATE "BEING AND TIME"?  IT'S TIME TO LEAVE KINDERGARTEN, PROFESSOR. AS MENTIONED ABOVE, FALSE HISTORICAL NARRATIVES CAN ONLY BE MAINTAINED BY CENSORSHIP, PROPRIETARY CONTROL OF MEANS, SOURCES AND DISSEMINATION. POLITICAL PROPAGANDISTS REWRITE HISTORY IN ORDER TO VALIDATE THE INJUSTICES OF THE PRESENT. THE EMPIRE'S PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT SQUAD, ITS HIGHLY TRAINED, WELL COMPENSATED PROFESSIONAL LIARS, STALK THE PAST FOR MATERIAL WHICH CAN BE SPUN INTO NEW YARN AS BEFITS THE CONCERNS AT HAND. EVEN THE MOST PERFUNCTORY LOOK AT THE AGITPROP OF THE LAST CENTURY REVEALS RULING CLASS DISINFORMATION STRATEGY: FRAGMENT,  DISAFFILIATE; NEVER, EVER, STOP TALKING ABOUT RACE; DENY OR MARGINALIZE CLASS ANTAGONISM ALWAYS; DISPARAGE SCIENCE AND INSIST UPON ITS INUTILITY AND IRRELEVANCE; COMBAT DISSENT WITH SPECULATION ABOUT PERSONAL A/O PSYCHOLOGICAL MOTIVATIONS; COUNTER LOGIC AND REASON WITH MYSTICISM, ROMANTICISM, SURREALISM, PRETERNATURALISM, FUTURSM, SUPERNATURALISM, PRIMEVALISM, ANY KIND OF BULLSHITISM, ANYTHING IRRETRIEVABLY BEYOND THE AMBIT OF ORGANIZED, FALSIFIABLE THOUGHT. IN SHORT: CONFUTE OBJECTIVITY WITH THE SUBJECTIVE. AS THE BRILLIANT R. PALME DUTT PUT IT IN FASCISM AND THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION, PUBLISHED IN 1936:

"the loudly heralded movement against “materialism” and “the limitations of science,” towards “idealism” and religion, is familiar ground...that the dominant official influences both in the bourgeois scientific world, and in general bourgeois discussion, actively support, foster, patronise, encourage and in every possible way advertise andpress forward this trend...The revolt against science, which bourgeois society to-day encourages in the ideological sphere...is an essential part of the campaign of reaction. This is the basis which helps to prepare the ground for all the quackeries and charlatanries, of chauvinism, racial
theories, anti-semitism, Aryan grandmothers, mystic swastikas, divine missions, strong-man saviours...All this nonsense may appear...as highly irrational and even insane. But in fact it is... rational and calculated...There is method in the madness. For capitalism can no longer present any rational defence, any progressive role, any ideal whatever to reach the masses of the population."

OH, SING IT, BROTHER, SING IT! A RAY OF LIGHT BREAKING THROUGH THE RACEBOT SHITSTORM.

THAT WAS PUBLISHED IN 1936. GOT IT NOW? 1936, DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW? CRT IS CLASS WAR MASQUERADING AS LIBERATION STRUGGLE.



ADOLF HITLER: "IT IS TREASON TO TALK ABOUT CLASS STRUGGLE."

CELEB SHITSTORMER, MARCIE BIANCO: "IF YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE WORKING CLASS, YOUR WHITE SUPREMACY IS SHOWING."

MUSSOLINI: "THE CLASS CONFLICT HAS BEEN RESOLVED, IN FACT, IT NEVER REALLY EXISTED."

MOUFFE AND LACLAU: "THE WORKING CLASS DOESN'T EXIST OUTSIDE ITS DISCURSIVE ARTICULATION."



SO, THE TRAIN IS BARRELING DOWN THE TRACK NOW. ACCORDING MOUFFE THE GOOF, RACE IS REAL AND CLASS IS A REIFICATION. YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP. DO YOU GET IT NOW? ACCORDING TO BIANCO, CLASS POLITICS IS COVER FOR WHITE SUPREMACY. THIS IDEA IS MORE COMMON ON THE "LEFT" THAN YOU MIGHT THINK, DESPITE ITS ABSURDITY. THE TRAIN IS PICKING UP SPEED. IF YOU ARE GONNA JUMP, DO IT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.

GOT IT NOW? BEWARE OF ARYAN GRANDMOTHERS WRITING BOOKS.

ARYAN GRANDMOTHER, MARCIE BIANCO, (WHOSE NAME IN ITALIAN MEANS "WHITE,") HAS PENNED A RACEWORLD CLASSIC ENTITLED BREAKING AWAY. IN IT SHE STATES THAT EQUALITY IS ESSENTIALLY RACISM AND PATRIARCHY IN DISGUISE. INVOKING ORWELL IS TRITE, BUT IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO REFRAIN. I WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THE GLOBAL 2-BUCKS-A-DAY CLUB DIED BETWEEN HER WRITING THE FIRST WORD OF HER BOOK AND THE LAST; DIED WHILE GRANNY SCRIBBLED AWAY ABOUT MICRO-AGGGRESSIONS?  OVER 75 PERCENT OF THE GLOBAL POPULATION, ACCORDING TO THE WORLD BANK'S TIERED SCALE, LIVE AT OR BELOW THE POVERTY LINE. IN THIS RACEWORLD OF UNPRECEDENTED ABUNDANCE, MOST STILL SUFFER FROM WANT. THAT'S OKAY WITH GRANNY BIANCO, SHE DOESN'T CARE. APPARENTLY, THAT ALL PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE CONTROL OVER THE PRODUCTS OF THEIR LABOR AND THE REVENUE THEY GARNER IS A RACIST AND SEXIST IDEA. THE EMANCIPATION OF LABOR--FREEDOM--IS A RACIST, SEXIST, WHITE SUPREMACIST MINDSET.

IN HER BOOK AND OTHER CRT TOMES THERE ARE OFTEN HOLLOW, DE RIGUEUR, PRO FORMA, MERETRICIOUS DENUNCIATIONS OF CAPITALISM AS SOMETHING IN THE TEXT HAS TO TETHER IT TO THE "LEFT." BUT NOBODY COULD FAIL TO UNDERSTAND MARCIE BIANCO. SHE'S HARDLY INSCRUTABLE.

THE TRAIN IS SPEEDING DOWN THE TRACK NOW, AND THERE IS NO "AND," NO "IN BETWEEN." THERE ARE ONLY TWO POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS NO MATTER HOW MANY GRADIENTS APPEAR TO LIE BETWEEN, AND THAT BIG CHOICE IS YOURS TO MAKE.

NO, OF COURSE NAZIISM AND CRT ARE NOT THE SAME--NOT YET ANYWAY, BUT FROM A PRACTICAL POLITICAL POV, IT'S AWFULLY HARD TELL THEM APART. ISN'T IT?

ISN'T IT?

THUS, IT MUST BE CAMOUFLAGED. AND WHEN THAT FAILS, CRITICISM MUST BE REPUDIATED WITH NEBULOUS, OFTEN UNINTELLIGIBLE PRATTLE AFLUTTER WITH KITSCHY NEOLOGISMS, DEMAGOGIC SELF-ASSURANCE, AND DISPUTATION SUFFICIENTLY DUCTILE, PROLIX, AND VACUOUS AS TO BE IRREFUTABLE. SO IT WAS AND SO IT IS. THIS IS PRECISELY WHAT RACEBOTS DO. THE QUACKERIES AND CHAUVINISMS AND RACIAL THEORIES HAVE CHANGED, BUT THE PREDATORY SOCIO-ECONOMIC RELATIONS THEY CONCEAL AND PROTECT REMAIN IN FORCE. A LOT OF HIGH-FALOOTING RACESPEAK, NO SUBSTANCE OR MEANINGFUL CHANGE. THUS, WHAT TODAY GOES BY THE NAME OF CRT SERVES THE SAME FUNCTION AS ONCE DID ANTI-SEMITISM, MYSTIC SWASTIKAS, AND ARYAN GRANNIES.

ONE NEED ONLY LOOK AT WHO HAS FUNDED THE RISE OF THE NEW RACE THEORY ARISTOCRACY. CHIEF AMONG THEM IS THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION. WHEN EXACTLY DID THEY HAVE THEIR COME-TO-JESUS MOMENT? A SURVEY OF THAT AUGUST INSTITUTION'S POSITIONS VIS-A-VIS RACE OVER THE LAST CENTURY IS NOT A GOOD LOOK FOR THEM. NOT AT ALL. HAVE THEY SEEN THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS AND SEEK EXPIATION? OR DO THEY SEE INTERSECTIONALITY ETC. AS PROTECTIVE OF THEIR WEALTH AND POWER? THIS IS AN I.Q. TEST, RACEBOTS.

BEHIND CRT WE FIND THE ALL-TOO-FAMILIAR NEXUS OF NGOS, INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVES AND CAPITAL, A CONFLUENCE WHICH WOULD BE UNABLE TO PRODUCE RACIAL JUSTICE EVEN IF IT SO DESIRED. NEVERTHELESS, FROM NO LESS A MAVEN THAN THE GRANDE DAME OF INTERSECTIONALITY, KIMBERLE CRENSHAW, WE LEARN THAT THE CEOs AND BOARDS OF AMERICA'S LARGEST COMPANIES COMPRISE "THE VANGUARD IN THE FIGHT AGAINST RACISM AND SEXISM." THEY ARE, PROFESSOR RACEBUCKS INSISTS, "THE MOST PROGRESSIVE FORCE IN THE COUNTRY."

"WHOOMP, THERE IT IS. WHOOMP THERE IT IS. SHAKA-LAKA, SHAKA-LAKA, WHOOMP THERE IT IS."  CRT RETURNS TO THE CORPORATE BOARDROOM LIKE A SALMON GOING HOME TO SPAWN.

THERE'S A GOOD LIVING TO BE MADE IN THE RACE BUSINESS.

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It is not an accident that during the 18th century modern science moves toward classification as one of its primary endeavors,


HOW ODD. CRT CLASSIFIES PEOPLES IN ORDER TO CONCEPTUALIZE RACE. IT CAN'T BE DONE OTHERWISE. WHY DOES HE NOT OBJECT TO THAT? TAXONOMY IS CENTRAL TO THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, BUT HE DOES OBJECT TO THIS. SCIENCE IS NOTHING IF NOT CLASSIFICATION.

WHAT EVIDENCE DOES HE HAVE THAT IT WAS NOT ACCIDENTAL? AND WAS IT PRIMARY? I'M NOT CONTESTING IT, BUT HE NEEDS TO SUPPORT HIS CONTENTION.

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turning to aesthetic criteria derived from ancient Greece as the source of measurement. These Enlightenment scientists -- in some respects, the founders of modern anthropology

WHAT? FOUNDERS? SOMETHING GOOD RESULTED FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT?

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 -- begin to associate outward, physical signs of "beauty" with inner rationality, piety, intelligence and harmony. Thus a century before social Darwinism we see scientific justifications for racial hierarchy and domination. Christian Meiners' influential book, Outline of the History of Mankind (1785) put it bluntly: "One of the chief characteristics of tribes and peoples is the beauty or ugliness of the whole body or of the face."


AGREED. BUT HE WAS WRITING IN 1795 FOR FUCKSAKES. WE ARE ALL PRODUCTS OF OUR TIMES, WHICH ARE IN TURN THE PRODUCTS OF THEIR ANTECEDENTS.

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At the same time, the idealization of the so-called "primitive" (the "noble savage idea") espoused by several 17th century travel writers, as well as in flashes of Rousseau, began to give way to notions of European superiority vis-a-vis Africans and Native Americans. Non-Europeans were unambiguously classified as representing a lower stage of human development.

A SHAME INDEED, BUT IN THAT PLACE AND TIME IT WAS MUCH EASIER TO BELIEVE SUCH FALSITIES GIVEN THEIR UBIQUITY. THE CHINESE AND ARABS HAD RACIST IDEAS. COASTAL BLACK AFRICANS HELD RACIST IDEAS ABOUT THE BLACKS OF THE INTERIOR. THE SAME IS TRUE OF THE INDIGENOUS OF NORTH AMERICA (AT LEAST ON THE EAST COAST). IT IS A FOUL RACIST MYTH THAT RACIAL ATTITUDES WERE UNIQUE TO EUROPE. MORE IMPORTANTLY, E. P. THOMPSON BRILLIANTLY OBSERVED THAT "IF WE ARE TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THE PAST WE MUST RESCUE IT FROM THE CONDESCENSION OF POSTERITY." TO JUDGE THE PAST SOLELY BY ITS ERRORS, TO CONDEMN IT ON THE BASIS THAT ITS MORES DIFFER FROM THE PRESENT, FROM THOSE WHO, CENTURIES LATER, SIT IN JUDGEMENT OF IT, BESPEAKS A GENUINELY FACILE MIND, ONE QUITE ILL-SUITED TO THE HISTORIAN'S CRAFT. EACH EPOCH INHERITS ITS VALUES AND BEQUEATHS THEM TO A GREATER OR LESSER DEGREE MODIFIED. OURS HAS NO CLAIM TO SUPERIORITY OVER ANY OTHER. AS ANYONE NOT NAMED KELLEY CAN SEE, THE ONLY CONSTANT IS CHANGE. MAKING SENSE OF THIS ONGOING PROCESS IS THE HISTORIAN'S TASK, NOT CONTEMPT FOR IT. KELLEY'S ELITIST PRESUMPTION IS MORE THAN MERE FOLLY, IT REVEALS INCAPACITY.

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 The primitive mind was constructed as the very opposite of Reason: atavistic, regressive, barbaric.

AND SO IT WAS AND REMAINS. IT'S FOLLY TO EMBRACE RACE AS CAUSE, BUT IT IS RIDICULOUS TO SUGGEST THAT THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ACCUMULATED KNOWLEDGE AND SPECULATION OF OUR SPECIES WILL HAVE NO ENLIGHTENING EFFECT ON THOSE UNACQUAINTED WITH IT. IT'S ABSURD. IF KELLEY DISAGREES, WHY DOES HE TEACH?

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Again, science provided a rationale for racial hierarchies.

CORRECT, BUT 1) THE CONCEPT OF RACIAL HIERARCHIES PREDATES THE ENLIGHTENMENT, ACCORDING TO CEDRIC ROBINSON AT LEAST, AND 2) ALL THE HORRORS THAT FOLLOWED THE ENLIGHTENMENT HAD OCCURRED FOR MILLENNIA BEFORE. AND 3) ONCE AGAIN GITLIN IS CORRECT, THE ENLIGHTENMENT LED US OUT OF SCIENTIFIC RACISM AND IS STILL VIGILANT IN THE SPHERE OF ANTI-ESSENTIALIST RACISM. 4) WHY ARE RACIAL HIERARCHIES WORSE THAN OTHERS? WHY DO THEY GARNER SO MUCH ATTENTION? IT AS THOUGH HIERARCHY, EXTREME POVERTY, EXPLOITATION ETC., DIDN'T PREDATE RACISM.

SCIENCE IS CURRENTLY FIGHTING A BATTLE AGAINST THE "BIOLOGIZATION" OF ETHNORACIAL CATEGORIES IN MEDICAL RESEARCH. AND WHO OPPOSES DERACIALIZED SCIENCE? ANY GUESSES? YUP, THE RACE LOBBY. THE RACEBOTS ARE UP IN ARMS.

IN "MIXED BLOOD," JEFFERSON FISH MAKES THE ANTI-RACIST CASE:

"Applying complex computations to bad data yields worthless results. In the same way, the most elegant experimental designs and statistical analyses, applied flawlessly to biologically meaningless racial categories, can only produce a very expensive waste of time."

AS STATED ABOVE, CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS RACE THEORY, AND IT CAN DO NO OTHER THAN CREATE RACISM WHERE IT DOESN'T ALREADY EXIST. SCIENTIFIC RACISM LOCATED DIFFERENCE IN BIOLOGY. WHEN NO LONGER VIABLE, THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY THE THEORY OF SOCIAL ORIGIN. NOW, THE ADVOCATES OF THE LATTER INTERPRETATION ARE INSISTING ON THE MAINTENANCE OF RACIAL CATEGORIZATION IN MEDICAL RESEARCH ON THE BASIS THAT THERE IS AN INFERIORITY OF HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR NON-WHITES.  

THE SCIENTISTS WHO WISH TO SEE AN END TO RACIALIZED RESEARCH ARGUE THAT THE RACIAL CATEGORIZATIONS THROUGH WHICH RESEARCH IS APPROVED, FUNDED, AND CONDUCTED ARE SOCIAL CATEGORIZATIONS WITH NO BASIS IN SCIENCE. FURTHER THEY CONTEND THAT THE DATA FROM DECADES OF SUCH PRACTICE SUPPORT THEIR VIEW. ONE TYPE OF RESEARCH THAT HAS COME UNDER FIRE ARE STUDIES WHICH INVESTIGATE HOW CERTAIN MALADIES AFFECT MEMBERS OF RACIALIZED GROUPS DIFFERENTLY. SOME SCIENTISTS SAY THAT THE DATA REVEALS THIS TO HAVE BEEN A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE PRACTICE INSTANTIATES AND VALIDATES BIOLOGICAL RACISM. FURTHER, THEY CLAIM THAT IF THIS RESEARCH WERE HELD TO THE SAME QUALIFICATION PROTOCOL AS OTHERS THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKEN--THAT POLITICS TRUMPED SCIENCE. THEIR OPPONENTS, THE RACEBOTS, BELIEVE THAT THE ELIMINATION OF SUCH NON-SCIENTIFIC CATEGORIES AS BLACK ETC. WILL PERPETUATE POORER HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR NON-WHITES. TO ARGUE SUCH, SAY THEIR OPPONENTS, IS TO CONCEDE THAT RACE MAY IN FACT BE BIOLOGICAL, WHICH IS CONTRADICTED BY THE DATA GLEANED FROM PRECISELY THOSE STUDIES IN QUESTION. IN RESPONSE, THE RACE LOBBY ADVANCE--SHALL WE SAY--HIGHLY NUANCED ARGUMENTS AS TO WHY THEIR POSITION IS NOT A RACIST ONE. WHAT NEEDS BE RECOGNIZED IS THAT THE SAME POLITICAL FACTION, THE VERY SAME RACE THEORISTS WHO DENOUNCE THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND DENY ANY BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF RACE NOW DEFIANTLY AND DERISIVELY OPPOSE THOSE WHO SEEK TO PURGE IT ONCE AND FOR ALL FROM SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE.

THIS BY ITSELF DOESN'T VALIDATE REED'S PROPHECY, BUT DOES SUGGEST HE'S ON TO SOMETHING. KEEP READING.   

IT IS SAID THAT THE MONGOLS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF ONE IN SIX PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. THEY WERE PEOPLE OF COLOR, WERE PRE-ENLIGHTENMENT, BELIEVED THEY HAD A MANDATE FROM HEAVEN TO BRING THE GIFTS OF CIVILIZATION TO A WAYWARD WORLD. SOUND FAMILIAR? THIS IS YAKSHIT TO BE SURE: THEY RAPED, PILLAGED, TORTURED, AND GENOCIDED THEIR WAY FROM POLAND TO THE SHORES OF JAPAN, FROM THE FROZEN BALTIC TO THE SUN-SCORCHED DECCAN PLATEAU. PRE- AND POST-ENLIGHTENMENT EMPIRES FOUND WAYS TO JUSTIFY CARNAGE, WERE LETHALLY RUTHLESS WITH THOSE WHO RESISTED, AND WERE SIMILARLY MOTIVATED--PROFIT. RACEBOTS BLAMING THE ENLIGHTENMENT OR SEEING RACE--WHATEVER ITS NATURE AND ORIGINS--IN HISTORY ARE GENUINE DUPES, MISTAKING PRETEXT FOR MOTIVE.

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Climatic theories explaining the origins of racial difference were called into question by Enlightenment thinkers who proposed the radical idea that Africans, Asians, and "Indians" originated from different species.

HE'S LYING AGAIN. CLIMATIC THEORIES WERE INTRODUCED BY E THINKERS! SEEMS AN ODD THING TO OMIT. READING KELLEY'S ACCT ONE MIGHT GET THE IMPRESSION THAT CLIMATE THEORY PREDATED THE E AND WAS THE ORTHODOX POSITION, WHEN IN REALITY IT WAS E RACE THEORISTS WHO CAME UP WITH THE THEORY. YES, IT WAS INITIALLY OPPOSED BY SOME, AS WERE THE THEORIES OF KEPLER, NEWTON, DARWIN, AND EINSTEIN, BUT THE E RACE THEORISTS MUST BE CREDITED WITH INTRODUCING THE CORRECT ANSWER. KELLEY HAS NO CONSCIENCE.

E THINKERS DID PROPOSE POLYGENESIS, AND IT WAS OPPOSED BY OTHER E THINKERS. KELLEY IS TRYING TO SPIN IT THAT IT WAS THE E VERSUS THE NON-RACISTS, WHEN THE REALITY WAS THAT IT WAS AN INTERNAL E DEBATE. KELLEY ATTRIBUTES THOSE NOW DISMISSED AND CONDEMNED RACIAL IDEAS TO THE E AND SETS UP A FICTIONAL ENTITY AS ITS VIRTUOUS OPPOSITION. THIS IS FALSE AND SQUALID. HE'S LYING HIS ASS OFF.

AND THE IDEA WAS NOT RADICAL AT ALL. HOW TO EXPLAIN DIFFERENCE WAS A VALID QUESTION. KELLEY WRITES AS THOUGH THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THE ANSWER. IT WASN'T ANSWERED UNTIL CENTURY 20! SOME HELD TO THE POLYGENESIS  VIEW, SOME DIDN'T. MONOGENESIS VERSUS POLYGENESIS WAS QUITE A RANCOROUS DEBATE IN ITS DAY. BOTH SIDES ADVANCED RATIONAL (YES!) ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT. WE NOW KNOW THAT MONOGENESIS IS CORRECT DUE LARGELY TO SUBSEQUENT ARCHEOLOGICAL FINDS AND, LATER, BY GENOMICS. HOWEVER, IT WAS A SCIENTIFIC DEBATE, NOT A CLASH BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. BOTH SIDES HAD REASON TO BELIEVE AS THEY DID GIVEN THE INFORMATION THEN AVAILABLE. MOREOVER, WHILE INDIVIDUALS ON BOTH SIDES MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE HELD RACIST VIEWS, THE SUBSTANCE OF THE DEBATE DID NOT HINGE UPON ANY CONCESSION TO OR REJECTION OF RACISM IN ANY SENSE.

AND WHERE DOES THIS LEAD? CAN WE NOT PONDER OUR OWN GENESIS AS A SPECIES FOR FEAR OF OFFENDING FUTURE GENERATIONS? WHICH SUBJECTS SHALL WE NOW CENSURE? THIS WAS AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL DEBATE UPON A WORTHWHILE TOPIC, NOT THE SAINTS VERSUS THE SINNERS. LIBELING THESE PEOPLE CENTURIES LATER IS QUITE UNFAIR AND UNINTELLIGENT, AND CASTS KELLEY IN AN UNFLATTERING LIGHT. I SALUTE BOTH SIDES. SCIENCE POSED A VALID QUESTION AND, WHEN SUFFICIENT INFORMATION CAME TO LIGHT, UNIVERSALLY ADOPTED THE CORRECT ANSWER. THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN. WELL DONE!

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Voltaire certainly made this claim,


HERE WE GO AGAIN. THIS IS GETTING REALLY OLD.

VOLTAIRE CAME TO THIS VIEW BECAUSE IT WAS THE SCIENCE OF HIS TIME, AND, GIVEN THE THEN EXTANT INFORMATION, IT WASN'T IRRATIONAL OR IMMORAL OR DIABOLICAL, IT WAS JUST WRONG--NOT WRONGHEADED, NEFARIOUS, JUST WRONG. ONE OF HIS MISTRESSES, EMILIE DU CHATELET, WAS FIRST TO TRANSLATE NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA INTO FRENCH THUS INTRODUCING THE NEW PHYSICS TO HER COUNTRY.  WHILE SUPPORTIVE, SHE DID CRITIQUE NEWTON ON METAPHYSICAL GROUNDS AND HER CASE IS STILL APPRECIATED IN SCIENTIFIC CIRCLES. THIS WOMAN WAS BRILLIANT AND IS STILL SO REGARDED, BUT, ALAS, LIKE HER BOYFRIEND SHE BELIEVED IN THE RACE THEORY OF HER DAY. AND WAS EVEN AN AVID SUPPORTER OF SCIENCE AND HUMANISM AND THE OVERALL DIRECTION OF THE SCHOLARLY THOUGHT OF HER TIME.

WE NOW HAVE A CONUNDRUM FOR RACEBOTS. SHOULD WE HATE HER TOO? SHE'S DEAD-CHECK. SHE'S WHITE-CHECK. HOWEVER, SHE'S NOT A MAN. OH-OH. WHATEVER ARE WE TO DO? IS THAT WHY KELLEY OMITS HER FROM HIS CRITICISM? KELLEY TARGETS VOLTAIRE--DWM, OKAY, THAT'S PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE UNDER THE RULES OF THE NEW RACISM. IN FACT, IT'S TRENDING. SHE CLEARLY HOLDS TO THE SAME RACIST VIEWS AS HER BOYFRIEND SO DOES HER RACISM TRUMP HER GENDER VICTIMHOOD? OR DOES HER PHEROMONE FORCEFIELD IMMUNIZE HER FROM ANY REPROACH? YOU KNOW, AS MUCH AS THESE PO-MO, PO-CO, INTERSECTIONALIST TYPES DESPISE ENLIGHTENMENT TAXA, IT SURE HASN'T KEPT THEM FROM CREATING AN EXTENSIVE CATALOGUE OF THEIR OWN, HAS IT?

EQUALLY THORNY, DOES KELLEY'S MELANIN STOCKPILE PRIVILEGE HIM TO DO WHAT NO WHITE MALE CAN: CRITICIZE A FEMALE FEMINIST? EVEN IF SHE IS A RACIST?

HERE IS AN ANTI-RACIST, ANTI-SEXIST EXPLANATION: PROPELLED BY MATERIAL CONDITIONS, AND PERHAPS OTHER FACTORS, OUR SPECIES IS EVOLVING. OUR UNDERSTANDING OF OURSELVES, OUR SOCIETIES, AND THE ENVIRONMENT WE INHABIT IS CONSTANTLY GROWING. AS WE LEARN, WE CHANGE IN WAYS WE RECOGNIZE AND IN WAYS WE DON'T. WE ARE ALL SUBJECT TO THIS PROCESS. FOR A SCHOLAR, CENTURIES ON TO NECROMANCE VOLTAIRE IN ORDER TO MOCK HIM FOR SUCCUMBING TO ONE OF THE MYTHS OF HIS DAY GIVEN HE SO EFFECTIVELY LAMPOONED SO MANY OTHERS IS CHILDISH. THIS IS FACILE, UNSCRUPULOUS, DISRESPECTFUL NOT ONLY OF THE PAST BUT OF ALL LEARNING. IT'S ALSO SELF-SERVING. THE INTELLECTUALS OF OUR PAST SHOULD BE CELEBRATED FOR THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FORGIVEN WITHOUT RESERVATION FOR THEIR FAILINGS.

THERE IS AN OLD IRISH TRADITION REGARDING ST. PATRICK. IN MODERN AMERICAN TERMS HE WAS AN ABOLITIONIST, AN EVANGELIST, AND A PROHIBITIONIST. ON THE DAY WE REMEMBER HIM SOMETIMES WE RAISE A TOAST AND SAY OF HIS CAMPAIGNS: "WE PRAISE HIM FOR THE FIRST, WE HONOR HIM FOR THE SECOND, AND WE FORGIVE HIM FOR THE LAST." WITH THAT WE SAY "SLANCHA" AND DOWN SOME POTEEN IN HONOR OF THE GREAT PROHIBITIONIST. PERHAPS HERE IS MORE WISDOM THAN IRONY OR SPORT. AND IF WE COULD RESURRECT OL' PADDY, MY GUESS IS HE WOULD AGREE.

VOLTAIRE'S SATIRICAL MUSINGS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY ARE AS PERSPICACIOUS AND RELEVANT TODAY AS WHEN PENNED, EXPONENTIALLY MORE IMPORTANT AND INTELLIGENT THAN RACEBOT ROBIN'S. HE WAS A GREAT POLEMICIST, MODERN AND STILL QUITE FUNNY. "CANDIDE" IS MUST READING. MADAME DU CHATALET WAS THE BEST MATHEMATICIAN IN EUROPE, MAYBE THE WORLD.  SLANCHA

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as did Scottish Jurist Lord Kames in his Sketches of the History of Man (1774), and Charles White in his celebrated An Account of the Regular Gradation in Man (1799). Enlightenment thought not only opened the door for future arguments about the inherent inferiority of different "races," but it sharply limited the definition of "humanity."

1774 AND 1799. IN THESE YEARS HUMAN SACRIFICES WERE STILL BEING CONDUCTED IN AFRICA. I ENTERTAIN THAT IF I LIVED IN THOSE DAYS I MIGHT HAVE BEEN PERSUADED BY THIS REVOLTING PRACTICE TO THE RACIST VIEW THAT BLACKS WERE INFERIOR BEINGS, PARTICULARLY AS THE LATEST SCIENCE SUPPORTED IT. I AM INDESCRIBABLY PLEASED THAT I HAVE BEEN RESCUED BY THE SCIENCE OF MY ERA FROM THIS FALSEHOOD, BUT I HAVE NO RIGHT TO FEEL MORALLY SUPERIOR TO THE PEOPLE OF CENTURY 18. AND, MOST CRUCIALLY, NEITHER DOES KELLEY.  IT IS UNJUSTIFIED, AND UNSEEMLY.

THE SEA CHANGE IN RACIAL ATTITUDES HAPPENED IN MY LIFETIME. WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG, WHEN MY LITTLE WHITE FRIENDS AND I WOULD PLAY COWBOYS AND INDIANS , EVERYBODY WANTED TO BE COWBOYS BECAUSE THEY WERE THE GOOD GUYS. COWBOYS WERE THE VANGUARD OF CIVILIZATION AND LEARNING AND THE INDIANS WERE HALF-NAKED SAVAGES WHO, UNFORTUNATELY, HAD TO BE KILLED. HOWEVER, SOMEBODY HAD TO BE THE INDIANS. SO WE WOULD SWAP IDENTITIES AT SOME POINT AND THE INDIANS WOULD GET TO BE COWBOYS. BY THE TIME I REACHED COLLEGE, I NOTICED THAT THAT HAD REVERSED. KIDS OF THAT AGE WANTED TO BE INDIANS BECAUSE THEY WERE THE PROUD DEFENDERS OF THEIR HOMELANDS FIGHTING AGAINST EVIL INVADERS. THIS WASN'T UNIVERSAL, NOR DID 5/6/7 YEAR OLD UNDERSTAND THE CHANGE, NEVERTHELESS, THE TRANSFORMATION WAS STRIKING. THE REASON MY GENERATION WAS PRO-COWBOY AND THE NEXT PRO-INDIAN IS BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT WE WERE TOLD, AND IT REALLY IS AS SIMPLE AS THAT. SOMEDAY, IF CRT AND INANITIES SUCH AS ANTI-ENLIGHTENMENTISM CAN BE OVERCOME AND A REAL ANTI-RACIST MOVEMENT TRIUMPH, OUR SPECIES WILL FINALLY COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT NEITHER COWBOYS NOR INDIANS ARE COLLECTIVELY GOOD OR BAD, THAT ALL INDIVIDUALS ARE BOTH GOOD AND BAD, AND TRY TO COME TO SOME UNDERSTANDING AS TO WHAT BROUGHT THESE PEOPLES INTO CONFLICT, AND TRY TO AVERT SUCH OCCURRENCES. YOU CAN'T COME TO SUCH A PLACE WITH CRT, PO-MO, IDENTITARIANISM, BECAUSE JUST SUCH AN ARRIVAL IS WHAT THEY ARE CONSTRUCTED TO PREVENT.

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Thus, at the very moment when a discourse of universal humanism is finding voice in the bourgeois democratic revolutions of the era, colored people and Europeans rendered marginal to civilization (Jews, Irish, etc.) are being written out of the family of "Man." (Is this why the Haitian Revolution is still not considered one of the most important revolutions of the bourgeois democratic era?)

NO. THAT IS NOT THE REASON. AND IF YOU WEREN'T A RACEBOT YOU WOULD NOT HAVE TO ASK.

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Besides assuming that the "universal" is truly "self-evident," the neo-Enlightenment Left cannot conceive of movements led by African Americans, women, Latinos, gays and lesbians, speaking for the whole or even embracing radical humanism.

HIDEOUS. HERE WE COME TO THE RUB: AS KELLEY KNOWS DAMN RIGHT WELL, WE THE NEO-Es ARE NEVER HAPPIER THAN IN THIS INSTANCE. KELLEY IS QUITE DISINGENUOUS HERE. THE LEFT'S STANDING ON THESE ISSUES IS SINCERE AND UNYIELDING. THE QUESTION IS WHETHER WOMEN HAVE A "RIGHT" TO SUBALTERN MEN BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN SUBALTERNED BY MEN. PUTTING ASIDE THE INJUSTICE OF COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY, IS THE CAUSE BEST SERVED BY REVERSE DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES? OR BY THE ELIMINATION OF ALL INEQUITY? CAN YOU DEFEAT PATRIARCHY WITH MATRIARCHY? MYSOGYNY WITH MISANDRY? OR DOES THIS PERPETUATE GENDER OPPRESSION BY VETTING THE PRINCIPLE OF A GENDER HIERARCHY? IT MAY CONSTITUTE A DIFFERENT RANKING, BUT IT SANCTIONS THE IDEA OF RANK AND REPRODUCES GENDER ANTAGONISM. TO DEFEAT SEXISM ONE MUST JETTISON SEXIST THINKING. TO PARAPHRASE ALTIERO SPINELLI: EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AN AUTONOMOUS CENTER OF LIFE, A UNIQUE AND PRECIOUS REPOSITORY OF SENTIENCE. 

THIS MUST BE THE INALTERABLE, INVIOLABLE, INFRANGIBLE CORE PRINCIPLE AND UNANIMOUSLY AGREED STARTING POINT FOR ALL SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS FOR THERE TO BE ANY HOPE OF SUCCESS. THIS "NEW" GENERATION OF ACTIVISTS, HEADS ASKEW WITH THE "NEW" RACE THEORY, WHO SHOUT "ME FIRST," AND "I HAVE A RIGHT TO LEAD AND YOU A RESPONSIBILITY TO OBEY, AND IF YOU ARE UNWILLING TO COMPLY IT INDICATES THAT YOU ARE A MISOGYNIST OR WHITE SUPREMACIST" ARE A REAL IMPEDIMENT TO ANTIRA ACTIVISM. YOU CAN'T GET ANYWHERE IF YOU BEGIN BY ANGRILY CATALOGUING YOUR EVERY GRIEVANCE. HOSTILITY TOWARDS A RACE IS NOT ANTI-RACISM, IT'S RACISM. RACIAL PAROCHIALISM IS NOT ANTI-RACISM, IT'S JUST NARCISSISM. SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS INVOLVES NETWORKING, BUILDING BRIDGES, NOT BURNING THEM.

ALSO, IT IS CLEAR THAT BY NEO-Es KELLEY MEANS WHITES. IT MAY SURPRISE HIM TO LEARN THAT HERE IN THE PACIFIC NORTH-WEST WHITES HAVE CONSISTENTLY VOTED AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACIST MEASURES. I CAN'T REMEMBER AN EXCEPTION. IN FACT, SUCH LIBERAL MEASURES AS GAY MARRIAGE AND THE LIKE ONLY PASSED HERE BECAUSE OF THE OVERWHELMING SUPPORT OF WHITE VOTERS. ALL THE OTHER DEMOGRAPHICS--THOSE OF COLOR--HAVE TIME AND TIME AGAIN DISAPPOINTED BY VOTING AGAINST PROGRESSIVE INITIATIVES AND DID SO IN THIS CASE. HERE, WHITES--YOU KNOW, THOSE MONSTROUS NEO-E TYPES--ARE BY A WIDE MARGIN THE MOST PROGRESSIVE DEMOGRAPHIC--NOT EVEN CLOSE. BLACKS, ASIANS, LATINOS VOTE FOR BILLS THAT BENEFIT THEM--AND SHOULD DO SO!, BUT WHITES ARE THE RACE THAT CONSISTENTLY VOTE FOR MEASURES WHICH DO NOT MATERIALLY BENEFIT THEMSELVES. YUP, TEACH, IT HAPPENS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN THIS RACEWORLD! IT SEEMS THAT ALL THAT ENLIGHTENING STANDPOINT EPISTEMOLOGY ABANDONS THE GHETTO, BARRIO, AND INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT WHEN IT'S NEEDED MOST.

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The implications are frightening: the only people who can speak the language of universalism are white men


SHAMELESS, PLEASE, DEAR READER, UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NOT SO MUCH AS A HOMEOPATHIC WISP OF TRUTH IN THIS FOUL, RACIST CLAIM. I AM OLDER, RETIRED, HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN ACTIVISM FOR DECADES, AND I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANY WHITE PERSON SAY ANYTHING OF THE KIND.

KELLEY IS FULL OF SHIT.

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(since they have no investment in identity politics beyond renewed ethnic movements arising here and there)

"HERE AND THERE."

PARENTHESES.

FIRST SAYING THAT WHITES HAVE NO INVESTMENT IN ID-PO BEYOND--WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE--MEANS THAT WHITES DO HAVE SUCH AN INVESTMENT. BEYOND THE 40 MILLION WHO DIED IN WW2, THERE WERE NO FATALITIES.

CLEARLY KELLEY DOESN'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE OPPRESSION OF WHITE PEOPLE [MORE EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW]. THE BEST THAT CAN BE SAID OF HIM IS HE IS AN ADVOCATE FOR HIS RACE. AN ANTI-RACIST? DON'T BE RIDICULOUS.

BUT WAIT. WHITE IDENTITY POLITICS? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? HOW CAN WHITE IDENTITY POLITICS BE RECONCILED WITH EVERYTHING KELLEY HAS WRITTEN TO POINT? DOESN'T THIS DEEFENESTRATE KELLEY'S PREMISE?

WHILE KELLEY MUST ACKNOWLEDGE WHITE SUFFERING DUE TO ITS COPIOUS DOCUMENTATION, HE MUST TRIVIALIZE IT. OTHERWISE HIS ENTIRE SELF-PROMOTING, LUCRATIVE, RACE-AS-HEGEMON THEORY OF HISTORY BUSINESS MODEL COLLAPSES.

LASTLY, I THINK I SPEAK FOR MOST OF US "HERE AND THERE" IRISH IN THIS COUNTRY, WHO CAME AS SLAVES BEFORE ANY AFRICAN STEPPED FOOT IN THE BRITAIN'S AMERICAN COLONIES, WHO FOUGHT AND DIED ON THE FRONT LINES IN AMERICA'S WARS, WHO WERE THE FIRST TO OVERWORK IN AMERICA'S INDUSTRIAL SWEATSHOPS, FIRST TO BUILD AMERICA'S CANALS AND RAILWAYS AND DIG ITS MINES, FIRST TO LIVE TEN TO A ROOM IN AMERICA'S TENEMENTS, FIRST TO SUFFER RELIGIOUS OPPRESSION, FIRST TO SUFFER ANTI-IMMIGRANT PERSECUTION, I'M RATHER CONFIDENT THAT I SPEAK FOR ALL OUR PARENTHESIZED PEOPLE WHEN I ADVISE, PROFESSOR KELLEY, THAT YOU (GO FUCK YOURSELF). YOU KNOW, HERE AND THERE.

KELLEY AN ANTI-RACIST? ABSURD.

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and women and colored people who have transcended or rejected the politics of identity.


ANOTHER STUNNER. WOMEN AND "COLORED PEOPLE" REJECTING/TRANSCENDING THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY [SHOULDN'T HE BE USING "IDENTITY POLITICS" HERE?] AND BEING ACCEPTED BY WHITES AS THOSE WHO CAN SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF UNIVERSALISM? DIDN'T HE EARLIER SAY THAT NEO-ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS [HE DIDN'T SAY CRACKERS] "CANNOT CONCEIVE" OF SUCH A THING?

THESE ARE REALLY UGLY LIES HE'S TELLING

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Moreover, they either don't understand or refuse to acknowledge that class is lived through race and gender.

HE NEVER STOPS LYING. NOBODY BUT NOBODY ON THE LEFT IS REFUSING TO ACKNOWLEDGE RACE AND GENDER. NOBODY.
NEVER HAS HAPPENED, NEVER WILL. IT'S JUST A LIE.

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There is no universal class identity,

OH, NO. NO WAY. THIS IS LIKE NETANYAHU, AFTER KILLING OR DRIVING OUT EVERY LAST PALESTINIAN, DECLARING "SEE! WE ZIONISTS HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU FOR DECADES THAT THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS A PALESTINIAN AND THAT THIS WAS A VACANT LAND." 

AFTER DECADES OF STATE-SPONSORED, STATE-MANDATED RACIOLOGY INDOCTRINATION, AFTER BILLIONS ROLLING IN FROM THE ROCKEFELLERS AND COHORT, AFTER NO EFFORT BEING NEGLECTED TO PURGE THE LEFT OF ANYTHING THAT EVEN RESEMBLES CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS, NOBODY CAN MAKE THAT CLAIM IN GOOD FAITH. SINCE THE 60S, THERE HAS BEEN A RULING CLASS CAMPAIGN TO TURN THE LEFT INTO AN ARCHIPELAGO OF DISCRETE, INSULAR, ESTRANGED, INTROSPECTIVE, RECRIMINATION LOBBIES SEEKING SPECIAL PRIVILEGES. AND, WITH THE HELP OF WELL-COMPENSATED SERVANTS OF EMPIRE LIKE KELLEY, THEY HAVE SUCCEEDED. THE LEFT IS A BALKANIZED RUMP OF BENIGN, TORPID, CAPITAL-FRIENDLY, IDENTITY GROUPS--A COVEN OF USEFUL IDIOTS, WHOSE BUSINESS AND BENEFIT IT IS TO CONVINCE WORKING PEOPLE OF ALL RACES THAT GENDER AND RACIAL EQUALITY ARE IMPORTANT GOALS--BUT NOT EQUALITY ITSELF. INDIVIDUALS DON'T NEED TO BE EQUAL, BUT THESE SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED ENTITIES CALLED RACES SOMEHOW DO. SEEMS CONTRADICTORY--AND MORE THAN A LITTLE PERVERSE, DOESN'T IT? THE RATIONAL MIGHT INQUIRE "HOW CAN RACIAL EQUALITY BE IMPORTANT IF EQUALITY ITSELF ISN'T"?  WELL, DON'T ASK. OUR RACEWORLD OVERLORDS DON'T PERMIT IT. NOWADAYS THE "LEFT'S" GOAL SEEMS TO BE A MULTICULTURAL, POST-COLONIAL PLUTOCRACY. "WHAT DO WE WANT? A 20PC BLACK RULING CLASS! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? NOW! WHOSE RULING CLASS? OUR RULING CLASS! WHAT DO WE WANT? A 20PC BLACK RULING CLASS..."

OF COURSE THERE IS A UNIVERSAL PROLETARIAT. THE GREAT MASS OF EVERY RACE WILL GET UP IN THE MORNING AND GO TO WORK. THEIR LABOR WILL BE EXPLOITED TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT VERY FEW WILL BE ABLE TO CLAIM 75PC OF THE WEALTH THEY CREATE. MOST, ACCORDING TO THE COMMIE-PINKOES OVER AT THE WORLD BANK, WON'T SEE HALF. A GOOD DEAL OF THESE SPOILS WILL BE USED TO FUND THE COERCION APPARATUS OF THE CAPITALIST STATE TO SUPPRESS ANY MANIFESTATION OF WORKER RESISTANCE, AND ALSO TO FUND TOOTHLESS, PROPERTY-PROTECTIVE, IMPERIUM-SUPPORTIVE, PALLIATIVE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. KELLEY CITES THE LEAGUE OF REVOLUTIONARY BLACK WORKERS WITH PRIDE. FAIR ENUF, THEY AND GLABERMAN DESERVE EVERY PLATITUDE, BUT THEY WOULD HAVE KICKED KELLEY OUT IF HE WERE A MEMBER AND WROTE THIS KIND OF REVISIONIST HIPPY BULLSHIT. THEY WERE FOR REAL. (GREAT BOOK ON THIS TOPIC ENTITLED DETROIT, I DO MIND DYING) NINETY-ODD PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET ARE THE PRISONERS OF THE REST. CAPITALISM IS A HOLOCAUST. TO DENY IT IS HOLOCAUST DENIAL. ANYONE SUGGESTING THAT THERE IS NO UNIVERSAL PROLETARIAT, WITTINGLY OR NO, IS A MARKSMAN IN THAT PRISON'S SNIPER GUARD.

SO, YES, THERE IS A UNIVERSAL WORKING CLASS. IT'S IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT, THANKS TO IMPERIAL SERVANTS LIKE CRENSHAW, KELLEY, HANNAH-JONES, ETC., BUT IT EXISTS. UNLIKE RACE, CLASS IS NOT A REIFICATION; THE LIGHT BILL, THE KIDS' LUNCH MONEY, BABY'S NEW SHOES, THE RENT/MORTGAGE, THE CASH REGISTER AT THE GROCERY STORE--THOSE ARE NOT REIFICATIONS. AND THE INTERNAL CONTRADICTIONS AND MISERY-PRODUCTION CAPACITY OF CAPITALISM ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE. THEY SAY A CONSERVATIVE IS A LIBERAL WHO GOT MUGGED. I SAY A SOCIALIST IS A LIBERAL WHO CAN'T FIND A JOB.  SO ONE OF THESE DAYS WE WILL BE SUMMONED BY PEOPLE WHO DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO SPELL CAPITALISM.  

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just as there is no universal racial or gender or sexual identity.

SO THEN THERE CAN BE NO RACE, GENDER, OR SEXUALITY POLITICS? AN ODD POINT FOR HIM TO MAKE.

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 The idea that race, gender, and sexuality are particular whereas class is universal not only presumes that class struggle is some sort of race and gender-neutral terrain

I HAVE NEVER MET A LEFT ACTIVIST OF ANY RACE WHO BELIEVES THAT.

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 but takes for granted that movements focused on race, gender, or sexuality necessarily undermine class unity and, by definition, cannot be emancipatory for the whole.


JUST INCREDIBLE. ONCE AGAIN, DEAR READER, NOBODY ON THE LEFT BELIEVES THAT. THESE ARE BOLD, BRASH, GARISH, MERETRICIOUS, RACIST LIES. THE REALITY IS THE OPPOSITE. THE PROBLEM IS THAT A LARGE NUMBER OF "LEFTISTS," LIKE THE FASCISTS OF YESTERYEAR, BELIEVE THAT CLASS ANTAGONISM IS A MYTH. A STILL LARGER NUMBER WON'T GO QUITE THAT FAR BUT INSIST THAT CLASS STRUGGLE WILL NOT ELIMINATE RACISM AND, SADLY, QUITE STUPIDLY, NARCISSISTICALLY, REGARD RACISM AS THE BIGGER AND MORE IMMEDIATE ISSUE. TOGETHER THEY COMPRISE A MAJORITY OF THE "LEFT" NOWADAYS, AND INSIST THAT THAT CLASS STRUGGLE BE SUBORDINATED TO RACE AND GENDER ISSUES.

 KELLEY IS ONE SUCH CAMPAIGNER. BECAUSE OF HIS/THEIR EFFORTS, SOME MEASURE OF INTEGRATION OF MINORITY GROUPS INTO HIGHER STRATA OF CAPITALIST SOCIETY HAS BEEN ACHIEVED--THEY'RE GETTING A SHARE OF THE BLOODMONEY NOW. IF YOU WISH TO REGARD THAT AS PROGRESS THAT IS YOUR RIGHT, BUT YOU ARE NOT MY COMRADE AS THIS IS NOT MY MISSION. YOU HAVE JUMPED SHIP, AND THE REAL LEFT DON'T OWE YOU A FUCKING THING.

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Don't get me wrong.

OH, NOT TO WORRY, TEACH, NOBODY WITH TWO OR MORE CONTIGUOUS BRAIN CELLS COULD FAIL TO UNDERSTAND YOU.

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I'm not giving priority to "identity politics" over the struggle to dismantle capitalism


CAN YOU BELIEVE HE SAID THAT?

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 and to build a world we've never seen before -- a world free of market forces and all the terrible things that go with it. Rather, I have trouble with their characterization of race, gender, and sexuality as narrow identity politics while "class" is regarded as some transcendent, universal category that rises above these other identities.


THE REASON SO MANY "CLASS REDUCTIONISTS" BELIEVE CLASS IS A TRANSCENDENT UNIVERSAL CATEGORY IS BECAUSE IT UNMISTAKABLY IS. ONE IS BORN BLACK OR MALE OR GAY, BEING LESBIAN IS A NATURAL THING, ENDOGENOUS, UNIMPOSED, AN ASPECT OF ONE'S SELF. CLASS IS MAN-MADE, AUTHORITARIAN, IMPOSED, ENFORCED, EXOGENOUS, AND, TO SOME INVARIABLY OVERSTATED DEGREE, FLUID AND TRAVERSIBLE. CLASS IS NOT AN IDENTITY.

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 Indeed, Gitlin calls the first three, "birthrights," and despite an obligatory nod to Anthony Appiah, he fails to treat these categories as social constructs that have enormous consequences for how class is lived.

KUDOS TO GITLIN. WHO CARES HOW CLASS IS LIVED (I'M ASSUMING HE MEANS "EXPERIENCED"), IT'S THE EXPROPRIATION/SURPLUS VALUE CREATION THAT MATTERS, NOT THE MEANS OF EXTRACTION. IF IT WASN'T RACE, IT WOULD BE SOMETHING ELSE AS IT HAS SO OFTEN BEEN.

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Along with these so-called "identities" come regimes of oppression. Are churches being burned because black people are alienating white folks? Is that why the Justice Department focuses much of its investigation on black congregations rather than white supremacist groups?

ANY EVIDENCE OF THAT? FIRST I'VE HEARD OF IT.
 

THE REASON THE JUSTICE DEPT. DOES ANYTHING IT DOES IS BECAUSE THE CAPITALIST STATE IS THE ENFORCEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL ARM OF THE RULING CLASS. WHATEVER IT DOES, IT DOES FOR CAPITAL. THE REASON IT'S SOFT ON WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS IS THAT SUCH GROUPS ARE GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED ENTERPRISES. EVEN WHEN KELLEY WROTE THIS MUCH EVIDENCE HAD BEEN AVAILABLE ON THE INTIMATE CONNECTION BETWEEN AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE AND SUPPOSED RIGHT EXTREMISTS. IT'S ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT WHENEVER THREE WHITE NATIONALISTS MEET TWO ARE WORKING FOR THE BUREAU. WHENEVER CAUGHT IN THE ACT THE FBI CLAIMS IT IS INFILTRATING. BALONEY. THE AMERICAN NAZI PARTY UNDER ROCKWELL, THE ORDER, ARYAN NATION, TO NAME A FEW WERE GOVERNMENT FUNDED, ORGANIZED AND DIRECTED PSY-OPS. IT'S PART OF THE RULING CLASS' STRATEGY OF KEEPING RACISM ALIVE. WHITE NATIONALISM AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY, WHICH LIKEWISE HAS RECEIVED ENORMOUS SPONSORSHIP FROM THE DISTRIBUTION ARMS OF THE RULING CLASS, ARE BOTH PART OF THE SAME SCAM.

ANDREAS STRASSMEIER WAS HEAD OF SECURITY FOR A WHITE SEPARATIST GROUP HQED IN ELOHIM CITY, OK. HIS GRANDFATHER HELD A MID-LEVEL POSITION IN HITLER'S GOV, HIS FATHER HELD A HIGH-LEVEL POSITION IN HELMUT KOHL'S W. GERMAN GOV. ONE DAY AN ELOHIM FILM CREW SECRETLY FOLLOWED HIM AFTER HE LEFT THE COMPOUND. HE DROVE HIS CAR TO ONE DESTINATION AND GOT OUT OF IT AND INTO ANOTHER. HE THEN DROVE IT TO FBI HEADQUARTERS AND GOT PAST GATE SECURITY. HE THEN PARKED AND WENT UP TO THE BACK DOOR AND TYPED THE PASSCODE AND ENTERED THE BUILDING. FOI DOCUMENTS INDICATE THAT AFTER THE OK CITY BOMBING, HE WAS FLOWN OUT OF THE COUNTRY BY THE CIA.

ONE EXAMPLE AMONG MANY. LIKE CRT, WHITE NATIONALISM IS PART OF THE BIG SHOW.

AND IT IS EXCEEDINGLY INTERESTING THAT KELLEY, WHO DESCRIBES HIMSELF AS AN ACTIVIST, WOULD BE UNAWARE OF THIS BECAUSE WHENEVER WE ORGANIZE ANYTHING THAT ATTRACTS LARGE NUMBERS THESE GOVERNMENT GOONS SHOW UP GIVING FASCIST SALUTES AND SCREAMING "WHITE POWER" AND THE LIKE. TIME AND TIME AGAIN WE SEE HOW THE POLICE PROTECT THEM AND HOW NO MATTER HOW MANY CRIMES THEY COMMIT THEY NEVER GET ARRESTED WITH US. IT IS EXCEEDINGLY ODD THAT OUR ACTIVIST TEACHER COULD FAIL TO NOTICE.

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 Is pro-Prop 187 sentiment and callousness toward immigrants the result of Mexican and Central American immigrants' refusal to be "inclusive?"


HERE KELLEY SURRENDERS ANY PRETENSE TO BEING ANYTHING BUT A RACEBOT HUSTLER. FAR FROM HOW IT IS PRESENTED IN THE RACEWORLD, THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT IN THE US HAS BEEN ASTONISHINGLY TAME WHEN COMPARED TO OTHER COUNTRIES, PARTICULARLY AFRICAN ONES.

MORE TO THE POINT: THERE HAS BEEN A LONG HISTORY OF BLACK SUPPORT FOR ANTI-IMMIGRATION SENTIMENT GOING BACK AS FAR AS FREDERICK DOUGLAS. I DONT KNOW WHETHER HE SPECIFICALLY SUPPORTED ANTI-IMMIGRANT LEGISLATION, BUT HE DID WRITE ANGRILY THAT CHINESE IMMIGRANTS WILLING TO WORK FOR SO LITTLE WERE HURTING BLACK LABOR SO MUCH THAT "THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE ABOLITION LOOK LIKE A BLESSING IN DISGUISE."  DOUGLAS IS FAR FROM THE ONLY BLACK LEADER TO SAY SUCH THINGS. MANY HAVE EXPLICITLY SUPPORTED ANTI-IMMIGRANT LEGISLATION. KEVIN ROSS WAS A PROMINENT FIGURE IN BOTH THE STATE GOV AND THE LOS ANGELES CHAPTER OF THE NAACP. HE PREDICTED THAT BLACK VOTERS WOULD SUPPORT 187, AND HE WAS CORRECT.[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-24-me-54020-story.html]

THIS IS AN ODD HILL FOR KELLEY TO MAKE A STAND ON BECAUSE WHEN MATERIALISTS POINT TO JOB COMPETITION AS A FACTOR IN INTERRACIAL, INTRACLASS  DISCORD. RACISTAS INVARIABLY SQUEAL IN PROTEST. THEN WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION FOR BLACK SUPPORT FOR 187? EITHER IT'S COMPETITION, OR BLACKS ARE RACISTS TOO. OF COURSE, THAT WILL NEVER DO, YOU WILL NEVER GET ANY GRANT MONEY OR BOOK DEALS TALKING LIKE THAT--THINK OF WHAT IT WOULD DO TO THE WHITENESS STUDIES INDUSTRY! THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DO IS TO MISLEAD, WHICH IS WHAT KELLEY HAS DONE.

BLACKS VOTED FOR 187. WHY? BECAUSE LIKE WHITE WORKERS AND ALL OTHER WORKERS AROUND THE WORLD THEY DID WHAT THEY BELIEVED WAS IN THEIR MATERIAL INTERESTS. NOPE, TEACH, IT'S NOT ABOUT RACE, IT'S ABOUT MONEY. EVERYTHING IS. THE TRUTH IS THAT CAPITAL WAS, IS, AND WILL EVER BE PLAYING ONE RACE OFF AGAINST ANOTHER. THEY SMASH US TOGETHER LIKE SUBATOMIC PARTICLES IN AN ACCELERATOR. THEY MAKE MORE MONEY BY KEEPING WAGES DOWN, AND KEEP THE WORKING CLASS FIGHTING AMONGST ITSELF. KELLEY IS ONE OF THE INSTIGATORS OF THAT FIGHT. THERE IS A GOOD LIVING TO BE MADE IN THE RACISM BUSINESS, AND THAT'S WHAT HE IS DOING.

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I find the neo-Enlightenment position incredibly problematic given what we know of the history of class struggle in the U.S.

WHATEVER DOES HE MEAN?

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 It rests, not on a serious analysis of the social movements lumped together under the heading "identity politics," but on caricature, stereotypes, omissions, innuendo, and historical analysis that borders on the comical at times.

WE CAN ALL USE A GOOD LAUGH, TEACH, PLZ SHARE.

AND IF WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT RISIBLE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS, THEN WE WILL HAVE TO DISCUSS DR HENGINSTEIN AND CRT.

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 Indeed, these movements are rarely ever named and their positions never spelled out in any detail.

OPPOSITE OF TRUTH.

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 Yet, despite the lack of depth and scholarly rigor,

UNBELIEVABLE.

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 as well as an over-reliance on personal impressions,

PURE NONSENSE.

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 these arguments seem to be winning over a broad section of high profile liberals/leftists who believe the time has come for us to "transcend" all this race and gender stuff and get to the matter at hand: class warfare against the bosses.

THE PROPER APPROACH. A NOTE OF DESPERATION ON HIS PART HERE--HE CAN SEE THE RACEBUCKS SLIPPING AWAY.

THERE ARE NO SUCH THING AS "LIBERALS/LEFTISTS," AS THERE CAN BE NO "AND" BETWEEN THEM, LIKEWISE THERE CAN BE NO "/"

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 During the recent labor teach-in at Columbia University, for example, both Betty Friedan and Richard Rorty, taking a page from Gitlin's book, told the audience that the time had come to graduate from narrow identity movements to the bigger picture.

EXCELLENT PROPAGANDA. THE FACT THAT ICONS OF IDENTITY POLITICS LIKE FRIEDAN ARE DEFECTING IS A REAL PROBLEM, SO KELLEY DEFTLY INCORPORATES THE APOSTASY INTO HIS ARGUMENT AS THOUGH IT WAS SUPPORTIVE OF HIS LINE. CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE. PAY ON TO CAESAR...

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It was as if antiracist and antisexist struggles were not fundamental to the struggles of working people across race and gender lines,


BIG QUESTION, CHICKEN OR THE EGG STUFF. KELLEY PRESENTS THE ISSUE AS THOUGH IT HAS BEEN DECIDED AND GOOD HAS TRIUMPHED OVER EVIL. ARE THESE STRUGGLES "FUNDAMENTAL" TO THE STRUGGLES OF WORKING PEOPLE? OR THE OTHER WAY AROUND? DO SUCH ISSUES AS RACISM NEED TO BE RESOLVED IN ADVANCE OF EMANCIPATION OF LABOR? IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE? OR WILL THE END OF CAPITALISM RESOLVE THEM NATURALLY? BIG QUESTIONS.

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or worse, that they had been essentially resolved and were no longer pressing problems.

NOBODY ON THE LEFT BELIEVES RACISM IS RESOLVED. NOBODY, AS KELLEY WELL KNOWS.

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Although their books have been widely reviewed, we have yet to subject the neo-Enlightenment position to a serious political critique.

THIS IS A MASTER DISTORIAN (DIS-HISTORIAN) AT HIS CRAFT. APPARENTLY HE FEELS THAT HE IS A SUFFICIENTLY SKILLED LIAR THAT HE CAN CONTRADICT HIMSELF IN THE SAME SENTENCE AND PULL IT OFF. THIS GUY CAN REALLY SLING IT. ALL THOSE REVIEWS BUT NONE OF THEM SERIOUS. HOW ABOUT THAT! WHADDAYA KNOW.

IT IS THE RACEBOTS WHO RECEIVE THE BOOK DEALS, GRANT MONEY ETC. AS CRT AND THE LIKE CLEAVE WITH THE INTERESTS OF THE RULING CLASS.

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 I don't know how many times I've been told, "Don't attack them, they're on our side!"

THE EXACT FIGURE WOULD BE ZERO. NOBODY SAID THIS TO HIM, HE'S FULL OF SHIT.  PURE INVENTION HERE. MOREOVER, WHY WOULD SOMEONE WHO CLAIMS TO BE ANTI-CAPITALIST, HOWEVER INSINCERELY, WANT TO ATTACK ANTI-CAPITALISM. A BIT OF AN OVERREACH HERE. A LITTLE DESPERATION TOO.

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Besides the obvious analogy to the issue of the Left's stance toward Clinton, I'm always inclined to repeat Tonto's response to the Lone Ranger: "What do you mean we'?" Of course, to say "we" invites accusations of "identity politics," of identifying with colored people at the expense of the poor Lone Ranger, who is merely low-level manager of capital rather than an owner.

UTTER FALSIFICATION OF THE FIELD AND FORCES.

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But this is precisely the problem: the "we" I'm speaking of includes all oppressed people,

NO, IT DOES NOT, AND KELLEY DOES NOT. EVERYTHING HE'S WRITTEN ABOVE ATTESTS TO IT.

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 including Mr. Ranger if he chooses to join.


JOIN? DON'T YOU MEAN SURRENDER? ACQUIESCE TO ALL THIS LIBERAL HOGWASH IN THE HOPE THAT ONCE OPPRESSED IDENTITY GROUPS ARE FULLY VESTED IN CAPITALISM, HAVE A PROPORTIONAL STAKE IN THE PROCEEDS FROM THE GLOBAL CAPITALIST EXPROPRIATION REGIME, THAT THEY WILL THEN BE INTERESTED IN ITS ELIMINATION? ON A BASIC LEVEL, THIS IS A DUMB STRATEGY. MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT'S INHERENTLY RACIST. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT RACES WILL REACT DIFFERENTLY TO THE PROSPECT OF A DECREASE IN THEIR STANDARD OF LIVING, THEN YOU ARE A RACIST, NOT TO MENTION AN IDIOT. TO BELIEVE THAT MORALITY, ALTRUISM, CHARITY, MAGNANIMITY, EGALITARIANISM ETC. EXIST TO GREATER DEGREES IN SOME RACES THAN OTHERS, IS TO BE A BIOLOGICAL RACIST. TO ARGUE STANDPOINT EPISTEMOLOGY; THAT THEIR VICTIMIZATION HAS ENLIGHTENED THEM TO THE POINT WHERE THEIR HARD-WON CIRCUMSPECTION WILL ENABLE THEM TO OVERCOME SELF-INTEREST: AS I WRITE, THE JEWISH VOLKSSTAAT, THAT "LIGHT ONTO THE NATIONS," IS MASSACRING/DISPLACING PALESTINIANS IN THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS. ISRAEL HAS TARGETED SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, EMERGENCY SERVICES AND THE LIKE TO CAUSE AS MUCH SUFFERING AS IT CAN TO EXPEDITE ITS CONQUEST. THE NAZIS DIDN'T TURN JEWS INTO SAINTS. TO BELIEVE THAT RACISM HAS ENNOBLED BLACKS, RAISED THEM TO A HIGHER HUMANITY, IS A RACIST DELUSION, AND A REALLY BLIND ONE. AS FAR BACK AS WE CAN LOOK INTO THE PAST IT HAS BEEN AN ENDLESS SHITSTORM. IF SUFFERING BEGAT WISDOM AND/OR VIRTUE, THE STORM WOULD HAVE ENDED MILLENNIA AGO--JUST ASK THE GAZANS.

 JOHN ADAMS SAID THAT IF MEN WERE ANGELS THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR GOVERNMENT. I SAY PEOPLE ARE NOT ANGELS, THEREFORE THERE IS AN URGENT AND PERPETUAL NEED FOR STATELESSNESS. THOSE HIERARCHICAL, PREDATORY ECONOMIC RELATIONS WHICH, AT A MINIMUM, TOLERATE RACE AND GENER INEQUALITY MUST BE DISMANTLED, AND A NEW CLASSLESS SOCIAL ORDER BUILT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE AND "FROM THE BOTTOM UP AND FROM PERIPHERY TO THE CENTER" TAKE ITS PLACE. THAT IS MY MISSION. THAT IS THE PARAMOUNT AND IMMEDIATE POLITICAL GOAL, THE EXIGENCY OF THE MOMENT, IN COMPARISON TO WHICH RACISM AND SEXISM ARE REDUCED TO INSIGNIFICA. IF SOCIAL REVOLUTION RESOLVES THESE ISSUES, WHICH I BELIEVE IT WILL, THEN GREAT, IF NOT THEN WE CAN ADDRESS THEM ONCE THEIR ECONOMIC UNDERPINNINGS ARE DESTROYED. THE QUESTION WITH WHICH I GRAPPLE IS NOT WHETHER TO SUPPORT ANTIRA STRUGGLES UNCONDITIONALLY GIVEN THE CAUSE'S WORTHINESS--I BELIEVE THAT SOCIALISM, ANARCHISM CERTAINLY!, IS THE BEST COURSE TO DEFEAT RACISM--BUT WHETHER AND TO WHAT EXTENT I SHOULD OPPSE THOSE ANTIRA PRACTICES WHICH I BELIEVE TO BE OBSTRUCTIVE TO THE INCOMPARABLY MORE IMPORTANT GOAL OF SOCIALISM. THE AMERICAN EMPIRE COULD NOT LAST A MINUTE WITHOUT MUTUAL RACIAL ANTIPATHY, GIVEN THE WHITE-HOT OPPOSITION TO CLASS POLITICS, WILL I DAMPEN OR INFLAME THAT ANTAGONISM BY MY RESISTANCE? I'M OLDER NOW, AND NO LONGER CARE--OR I WOULDN'T BE WRITING THIS--BUT IT IS A MORE DIFFICULT PROBLEM THAN IS COMMONLY RECOGNIZED, CERTAINLY MORE THAN KELLEY CAN OR WILL ACKNOWLEDGE.

SO, MR RANGER CAN'T JOIN, BECAUSE RACISTAS HAVE PULLED UP THE LADDER BEHIND THEMSELVES. THEY DEFAME HIM AND HIS RACE AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY--AS THO RACE-BASHING/RACE-BAITING IS ANTI-RASCIST STRATEGY. THEY ALIENATE HIM, PRESUME HIS MALEVOLENCE, IGNORANCE, HAUTEUR, AND OF COURSE, RACISM. THE RACEBOTS HAVE, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT WHICH CAN BE SUPPORTED BY CRT DISCOURSE, OSTRACIZED HIM, PARIAHED HIM, ANATHAMETIZED HIM.

WHEN RANGER ENTERS INTO SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, HE ENTERS A HOSTILE CAMP. A SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF ACTIVISTS OF COLOR ARE RACISTS THEMSELVES. IF ONE BELIEVES THAT SOCIAL INJUSTICES ON THIS PLANET ARE ATTRIBUTABLE WHOLLY OR IN PART TO THE UNIQUE VENALITY OF A PARTICULAR ETHNORACIAL GROUP, THEN ONE IS A RACIST. THERE ARE MANY, MANY RACISTS OF COLOR INVOLVED IN "LEFT" ACTIVISM TODAY WHO BELIEVE PRECISELY THAT. YOU BRING YOUR WHITE SKIN TO MASS MOBILIZATIONS TODAY AND YOU ARE NOT WELCOME, NOT BY ALL. JIM CROW IS GONE, BUT IT'S BEEN REPLACED BY JIM SNOW, WHICH SERVES THE SAME PURPOSE. CRT IS NOT FIGHTING RACISM,--DON'T BE STUPID, IT'S KEEPING IT ALIVE ON BEHALF OF ITS CORPORATE SPONSORS. BLACK STUDENTS (AND OTHERS) ARE BEING TAUGHT THAT THE TRANS-OCEANIC SLAVE TRADE OCCURRD BECAUSE WHITE PEOPLE ARE IMMORAL[ video worth watching: https://saveourcola3.blogspot.com/2024/01/your-teacher-lied-to-you.html]. DOESN'T GET ANY MORE RACIST THAN THAT. THEY ARE NOT BEING TAUGHT THAT THAT TRADE WAS CONDUCTED UNDER TERMS DICTATED BY BLACK AFRICAN ELITES WHO WERE THE SLAVE SUPPLIERS. BLACKS STOLE, KIDNAPPED, KILLED, GENOCIDED, FOUGHT EACH OTHER FOR CONTROL OF THE UGLY BUSINESS--AND BRAGGED ABOUT IT WHEN SUCCESSFUL. THE TRANS-OCEANIC SLAVE TRADE COULD NOT HAVE OCCURRED WITHOUT THE SUPPORT AND PARTICIPATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE BLACKER THAN KELLEY WHO WERE ONLY TOO HAPPY TO RAKE IN THE CASH. THIS WILL NEVER BE TAUGHT IN A RACEWORLD SCHOOL.

WHOLE TRIBES WERE EITHER SOLD OUT OF EXISTENCE OR THEMSELVES DECIDED TO GIVE UP THEIR TRADITIONAL METHODS OF SUBSISTENCE AND GAVE THEMSELVES OVER ENTIRELY TO SLAVE-CATCHING AND SELLING. DAHOMEY WAS AS CLOSE TO DYSTOPIA AS IS IMAGINABLE. IT HAS BEEN RIGHTLY SAID THAT THE BLOOD OF THE NEW WORLD FLOWS THROUGH THE STREETS OF EUROPE. ABOUT THAT WE HEAR ENDLESSLY--AND SHOULD. BUT IT ALSO FLOWS THROUGH THE STREETS OF AFRICA, BUT ABOUT THAT YOU WILL NEVER HEAR, CERTAINLY NOT FROM RACEBOTS LIKE KELLEY. THE NEW WORLD'S BLOOD IS ON AFRICA'S HANDS TOO. QUITE POSSIBLY, THE CONQUEST OF THE AMERICAS WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE, OR PERHAPS WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SO EXTENSIVE, WITHOUT BLACK AFRICAN SLAVERS ENTHUSIASTICALLY PROVIDING THE BLACK AFRICAN MANPOWER AND ARDENTLY DEFENDING THE 'PECULIAR INSTITUTION.' THIS IS NOT TAUGHT IN THE 'WHITE SUPREMACIST' SCHOOL SYSTEM AS IT WOULD DESTROY THIS RACESTORY THE PLUTOES HAVE CREATED. NOW, WE COULDN'T HAVE THAT, COULD WE? RACES MIGHT START LOOKING AT EACH OTHER DIFFERENTLY. WHO KNOWS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN, THEY MIGHT UNITE. WHITES WOULDN'T HAVE TO MUMBLE APOLOGIES ALL THE TIME, MEGALOMANIACAL BLACKS WOULD STOP SUCKING ALL THE AIR OUT OF ACTIVIST SPACES. ALL THE GRANT MONEY, THE BOOK DEALS, THE PAID SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, THEY WOULD DRY UP. THE ENTIRE STATE-ACADEMIC-MEDIA-RACIOLOGY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX WOULD COME UNDER THREAT. GOOD GRIEF, IT MIGHT MEAN THE END OF RACISM. IT WOULD BE RACEBOT DYSTOPIA.

SO, TEACH, RANGER REALLY DOESN'T HAVE MUCH OF A CHOICE, AND YOU ARE THE REASON.

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 The Gitlin/Tomasky group makes the grave error of rendering movements struggling around issues of race, gender, and sexuality as inherently narrow and particularistic.


THEY ARE. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY ARE UNIMPORTANT, BUT THEY ARE BY DEFINITION NARROW AND PARTICULARIST. WHAT A STUPID THING TO SAY.

STUPIDITY, AS HAS BEEN RIGHTLY OBSERVED, IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF POST-MODERNISM. AS SOMEBODY SAID: "WHAT I LOVE ABOUT POST-MODERNISM IS THAT IT RESCUES ME FROM THE BURDEN OF HAVING TO MAKE SENSE." BUT PERHAPS NIELS BOHR PUT IT BEST WHEN HE QUIPPED "IF YOU ARE NOT CONFUSED, THEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND."

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The failure to conceive of these social movements as essential to the emancipation of the whole remains the fundamental stumbling block to building a deep and lasting class-based politics.

SHAKA LAKA, SHAKA LAKA: THE TRUTH STOOD ON ITS HEAD. KELLEY IS FULL OF SHIT, AND HE KNOWS IT. HERE WE COME TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER-THE QUINTESSENCE OF CRT'S COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY, FASCIST NATURE. THE PROBLEM IS THE CONVERSE: WHAT UNITES THESE IDENTITY SILOES? WHAT CAN, AND CANNOT, HORIZONTALIZE THESE VERTICALITIES? CLASS STRUGGLE CAN AS THE ECONOMY AFFECTS US ALL. THIS IS A HUGE TOPIC, AND I CAN WRITE FOR DAYS UPON IT. AT ITS BOTTOM IS THAT NONE OF THESE IDENTITY DUNGEONS WILL BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THEIR ENDS, OR, AT A MINIMUM, WILL BE GREATLY RETARDED IN THE EFFORT, ABSENT A LOCUS, A UNIFYING CONCERN. I INVITE YOU, DEAR READER, TO IMAGINE A SUCCESSFUL SCENARIO IN WHICH SUCH MOVEMENT IS NOT INDEXED TO CLASS. THINK IT THROUGH. I CANNOT CONCEIVE OF ONE. IF CRT CAN, LET'S HEAR IT. ADDUCE, TEACH, OR GET OFF THE POT.

SO KELLEY'S AND CRT'S INSISTENCE THAT CLASS CANNOT BE THAT LOCUS, THAT CLASS STRUGGLE IS NEITHER PARENT NOR SOLUTION TO THESE ISSUES, PUTS THE CART IN FRONT OF THE HORSE AND KEEPS IT FROM MOVING FORWARD. FAR FROM CLASS BEING A STUMBLING BLOCK, IT IS THE NECESSARY PRECONDITION. IF ONE CHOOSES TO ARGUE THIS POINT, THEN PLZ DO. ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF CLASS HAVE BEEN MADE FOR CENTURIES. SO  GO AHEAD, RACEBOTS, HAVE AT THEM. WE'D LOVE TO HEAR IT. THE FLOOR IS YOURS.

NO LEFTIST SEEKS A DEEP AND LASTING CLASS-BASED POLITICS. WE WISH TO ELIMINATE CLASS POLITICS BY CREATION OF A CLASSLESS SOCIETY. KELLEY, CLEARLY, IS NO LEFTIST. HE'S A LIBERAL, IF THAT. HE'S A FRAUD. HE'S A RACEBOT SONG AND DANCE MAN.

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Part of their problem

FUCK OFF.

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 has to do with their failure to take seriously the ideas coming out of these "identity movements."

ARE WE SUPPOSED TO ACCEPT ANY AND ALL? ARE WE NOT SUPPOSED DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD IDEAS? ARE WE TO LOOK TO THE S&P 500 FOR LEADERSHIP AS IDENTOPHILE, PROFESSOR CRENSHAW SUGGESTS?

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Their arguments rest less on what these movements espouse than on their racial, ethnic or gender make-up or their sexual orientation.


DISGRACEFUL. NOBODY ON THE LEFT FEELS THIS WAY. THIS IS LIBEL. SOMEDAY I HOPE TO MEET ONE OF THESE NEO-E ACTIVISTS KELLEY'S DESCRIBES, BECAUSE I HAVEN'T YET.

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 "Choose a nonwhite ethnicity," Tomasky sneers, "combine it with a sexual practice or a physical condition, and there probably exists a movement to match." (p. 89) Let us take one of their favorite whipping girls: the "black feminist," particularly of the lesbian variety. 

SORDID. AGAIN, DEAR READER, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT THAT THE REAL LEFT HAS NEVER BEEN HOSTILE TO BLACKS, WOMEM OR SAME-SEXERS IS A DISGUSTING LIE. ANYONE REMOTELY FAMILIAR WITH LEFT HISTORY IN THE U.S. KNOWS THIS TO BE FALSE.

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In a bizarre tautology, black feminists are narrowly concerned with their race and sex because they are black feminists.

THAT'S NOT A TAUTOLOGY, NOR IS IT TRUE.

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In fact, aside from Alice Walker and the statement issued by the Combahee River Collective (a radical black feminist group founded in the mid-1970s), black feminists in their texts have no names or organizations

HILARIOUS--AND FALSE. SO ASIDE FROM THE ONES THAT HAVE NAMES AND ORGANIZATIONS, THEY HAVE NO NAMES OR ORGANIZATIONS. BRILLIANT.

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 -- they function as little more than signifiers (or, to put them in a more traditional context, as scapegoats).

OUTLANDISH LIE. BLACK FEMINISTS HAVE NOT BEEN SCAPEGOATED BY THE LEFT. IT'S JUST NONSENSE. IT IS A SHAMELESS LIE TO SUGGEST THAT MARXISTS BELIEVE THAT BLACK FEMINISM, ANY FEMINISM, IS THE CAUSE OF INJUSTICE, OR IS DE FACTO A HINDRANCE TO CLASS STRUGGLE. IT'S JUST NOT THE CASE, AND KELLEY KNOWS IT. THEY ARE PERCEIVED AS ALLIES, ARE WARMLY WELCOME IN THE BIG TENT. THERE IS NO DENIAL  THAT WOMEN AND BLACKS ARE BEING OPPRESSED. NONE.

THE ISSUE IS NOT WHETHER EVERY RACIAL ACT/THOUGHT/DISPOSITION/EPITHET/INTONATION ETC. IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO CLASS ANTAGONISM. MOST LEFTIES, INCLUDING WHITE LEFTIES, WHOM I KNOW DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING IS. MY GUESS--I EMPHASIZE "GUESS"-- IS THAT THERE MAY BE--MAY BE!--SOMETHING THAT CAN BE SAID TO BE RACIAL AND NOTHING ELSE. HOWEVER, THERE ARE TWO THINGS WHICH MUST BE UNDERSTOOD TO EFFECTIVELY STUDY RACE IN ANY OBJECTIVE, SCHOLARLY WAY.

1) IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO EFFECTIVELY STUDY RACE IN ANY OBJECTIVE, SCHOLARLY WAY, WHEN RACE RELATIONS HAVE BEEN SO FASTIDIOUSLY MICROMANAGED BY THOSE WHO WERE BENEFITTING FROM RACISM. ONE CANNOT STUDY RACE HERMENEUTICALLY OR LEXICALLY OR EVEN ANTHROPOLOGICALLY. THE FORENSIC EVEIDENSE HAS BEEN CONTAMINATED BY INTERESTED PARTIES. THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS UNTAINTED. IT'S LIKE TRYING TO STUDY IRRIGATION TECHNIQUES AFTER THE LEVY BURST AND THE FIELD OF INTEREST IS UNDER 20 FEET OF WATER. YOU CAN DON THE TANKS AND FINS AND SWIM DOWN AND MAYBE, JUST MAYBE--WHO KNOWS-- YOU STILL MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING, BUT THIS IS THE WRONG TIME TO BE INVESTIGATING. ITS VIABILITY AS AN EXPERIMENT, ITS LEGITIMACY AS A METHOD OF KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION, IS IMPEACHED. IF ALL RACES LIVED IN FREEWORLD SOCIALISTIC SOCIETIES BEFORE FIRST INTERACTION WITH OTHERS, AND THOSE MEETS WERE NOT PREDATORY IN NATURE, THEN WE MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT RACE REALLY IS OR ISN'T. EVEN I WOULD BE INTERESTED TO READ ABOUT IT--AFTER THE REVOLUTION. BUT THAT DID NOT HAPPEN. EVEYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT RACE NOW IS BULLSHIT.

TRIGGER WARNING: MAY DAY, MAY DAY, MAY DAY, RED ALERT. NUMBER TWO MIGHT BE CONSIDERED INCENDIARY BY MORE SENSITIVE READERS. DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

2) ANTI-RACISM, -SEXISM ETC. IN AND OF THEMSELVES ARE JUST NOT WORTH THE TIME AND EFFORT. OKAY NOW, JUST RELAX. JUST RELAX. I CAN HEAR YOU LOADING YOUR SHOTGUNS, PLEASE TRY TO REMAIN CALM. HERE IS A COMMENT I MADE AT THE BRILLIANT YOUTUBE CHANNEL, "THIS IS REVOLUTION":

"Great show. Brilliant discussion. I'd like to make a case against Fanonism and other forms of race-fetishism, but before I do I want to commend Fanon for the tremendous contribution he's made to our discourse. He is must-read for Leftists. Even BSWM, which I will critique, is important in that he delineates the issue so well. WOTE is one of the important books of the 20th century.

"The essence of Fanonism is that race is a thing apart from class; that in order to be properly understood, class analysis, Marxist analysis, must be abandoned or at least stretched; that economic transformation in and of itself will not end racism. Some Fanonists further argue that race is so integral to capitalism that the latter cannot be eliminated without the prior defeat of the former.

"That is a conceit. It may be true, but now, as when Fanon wrote and perhaps ever so, it is unverifiable. There is no tenable argument in its support. In fact, The proofs advanced by CRT and the like have thus far been fantastical (although they can be entertaining). It can rightly be said that class oppression as root cause for racial oppression likewise has, as of yet, not established its bona fides. However, the class-uber-alles school of political economy, to which I belong, directionally is the right approach.

"Capitalism is an inequality generation dynamo. As such, it normalizes hierarchy across all segments. Thus racial inequality comports with all the others and appears rational and natural--just another brick in the wall. However, the problem is not the bricks, it's the wall. Bricks are impotent, inconsequential things, it is not until they are constructed into a wall that they become a barrier, have being. Bricks have no power, no agency, no subjectivity, no real independent existence apart from their potential to form a wall.

"Marx believed that 'Social relations are closely bound up with productive forces. In acquiring new productive forces men change their mode of production; and in changing their mode of production...they change all social relations.' This too may be a conceit, but inescapably the massive changes that socialist transformation would occasion will have effects outside the workplace. Capitalism creates precarity which begets competition which begets antagonism. Capitalism may not be the root of racism, but they are lovers. Socialism, on the other hand, requires cooperation and equality and thus provides the best conditions for the demise of racism. Socialism will change the way races and genders look at each other to at least some degree. The kind of psychological transformations in race relations Fanon (and less able race theorists) discusses cannot be achieved, imho, within a capitalist society, even if everybody desired it. Even if it were  possible--and it isn't--that the emancipation of Black labor would grow anti-Blackism, socialism would still be beneficial for Afrikans in that the immense human suffering it would alleviate, by leaps and bounds, would outweigh the increase in interpersonal affronts.

"But here's the rub: So what! Even if racism has a life of its own, who cares! It's not worthy of the attention we give it. At a minmum, socialism eliminates the opportunity for any race to oppress another. How can a worker oppress another worker? Those personal antipathies members of one race might feel for another might survive, but this melts into air when compared to the global racist economic system of oppression we experience today. It is obscene to obsess on the former at the expense of the latter when half the world is living on two dollars a day. What self-important, narcissistic creep cares about micro-aggressions when the macro-aggressive holocaust that is capitalism is crushing most of the people on the planet. To hell with critical race theory! If you can find a way to purge our species of all prejudice, well that would be just lovely, and I am enough of a romantic to believe that it is possible, but why are we talking about it while around the world people are starving? It is obscene to prioritize race. Those sectarian impulses which might, unfortunately, survive the destruction of capitalism may be ineradicable, and as such a waste of time for leftists, but even if they are vanquishable, it is a matter for post-capitalist discussion. Until then, It's the wall that demands our attention, not the sundry bricks in it."

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 Tomasky was kind enough to quote one line from the Combahee River Collective's 1977 statement, though the line he quotes is intended to demonstrate how narrow identity politics can get. For him, the principles of black feminism are succinctly expressed in the following sentence: "We believe that the most profound and potentially most radical politics come directly out of our own identity."

WHILE THE CRC DID EXCELLENT THEORETICAL WORK (PARTICULARLY BARBARA SMITH) ARE THEY BEYOND CRITICISM? LIKE TOMASKY, I THINK THE COLLECTIVE FAILED TO RECOGNIZE THE APORIA IN THAT STATEMENT. THAT IS THE NUB OF THE DEBATE. KELLEY JUST TAKES AS PREMISE THAT TOMASKY'S POV IS INCORRECT. IF WHAT IS MEANT IS THAT RADICAL POLITICS ARISE OUT OF THEIR EXPERIENCES AS BLACK LESBIANS-WHICH IS HOW I READ IT--THEN BRAVA! IF THE LIVES HAVE GIVEN THEM VISION TO SEE THROUGH NORMATIVITY [FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD]; TO SEE HOW SOCIETAL VALUES ARE NEITHER RUDIMENTARY NOR SEDIMENTARY BUT SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED, THEN WONDERFUL. IF IT LEADS TO ANTAGONISM AND  PAROCHIALISM, THEN NOT SO GOOD.

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What he neglected to mention, however, is that the same statement proposed a clear socialist agenda, arguing that emancipation for everyone could not take place until racism, homophobia, sexism, and capitalism are annihilated, and criticized mainstream feminist organizations for not being inclusive enough -- for not dealing adequately with the needs of the poor or with racist oppression of men and women. Nor did Tomasky acknowledge the important line in the statement that "as Black women we find any type of biological determinism a particularly dangerous and reactionary basis upon which to build a politic."

WELL, THANK GOD FOR THAT! IN THE "HUB OF THE UNIVERSE" IN THE 1980S THESE INTREPID THINKERS DENOUNCED SCIENTIFIC RACISM. WOW. WHAT A COURAGEOUS STAND. NOW THAT'S AN ACCOMPLISHMENT. BIOLOGICAL RACISM IS REACTIONARY--WHO KNEW! SOMEBODY CALL THE NOBEL COMMITTEE.

I AGREE IN PRINCIPLE WITH MOST OF ABOVE SAVE FOR ONE MONUMENTALLY IMPORTANT POINT: MY COMPLAINT IS THAT THEY ARE HOLDING CONTRADICTORY POSITIONS SIMULTANEOUSLY. THERE ARE, HAS BEEN FOR THE LAST TWO CENTURIES, AND CAN ONLY EVER BE TWO POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS NO MATTER HOW MANY GRADIENTS LIE BETWEEN: SOCIALISM AND FASCISM, CLASS AND RACE. THEY DON'T MIX, THEY REPEL. CRC DO NOT PROPOSE A "CLEAR SOCIALIST AGAENDA" BUT A CONFUSED MUDDLED PALEOLIBERAL ONE. ONE THAT OVERLOOKS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENT, AND THAT IS PRECISELY THE PROBLEM. YOU CANNOT ARGUE "that emancipation for everyone could not take place until racism, homophobia, sexism, and capitalism are annihilated," AS IT AVOIDS THE CENTRAL ISSUE:  WHILE ALL ARE WORTHY GOALS, IT IS JUST VAPID LIBERAL MORALIZING TO STATE THAT ALL MUST PRECEDE EMANCIPATION. IT'S JUST SILLY TO BELIEVE THIS. NOBODY CAN POSSIBLY KNOW. SECOND, WHAT IS EMANCIPATION? IF THE LISTED THINGS ARE ELIMINATED, WON'T THAT IN AND OF ITSELF BE EMANCIPATION? WHAT EXACTLY IS THIS POST-RACISM/-SEXISM/-HOMOPHOBIA/-CAPITALISM EMANCIPATION? THIRD, THEY LIST CAPITALISM AMONG THE OTHER ISSUES WITH WHICH IT IS IN CONFLICT. TO PUT THEM TOGETHER IS TO FUSE SOCIALISM AND FASCISM, CLASS AND RACE, AND THEY DON'T MIX, THEY REPEL. IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, IT WAS THE CRC WHICH ANNOUNCED THAT "WE REFUSE TO PRIVILEGE CLASS OVER RACE OR RACE OVER GENDER." WHAT THEY AND KELLEY ARE UNABLE OR UNWILLING TO GRASP IS THAT IN SO CLAIMING THEY ARE PRIVILEGING RACE AND GENDER OVER CLASS. IN THE CONTEXT OF HISTORY, THEY ARE ANTITHETICAL. IT IS LIKE SAYING YOU REFUSE TO PRIVILEGE MATTER OVER ANTI-MATTER. YOU CAN, BUT YOU ARE GOING TO BE BLOWN TO BITS ANYWAY. THE HISTORY OF RACE AND CLASS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE AND ECONOMY HAS BEEN AS ENEMIES, AND THEIR WAR HAS CLAIMED THE LIVES OF MILLIONS.

RACE THEORY IS WHAT DEFEATED THE WORKERS' MOVEMENT IN THE LAST CENTURY. FASCISTS OFFERED A POINT-BY-POINT REFUTATION OF MARXISM ETC. ONE CANNOT BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN. IT ISN'T AND CAN NEVER BE RACE AND CLASS, IT CAN ONLY EVER BE RACE OR CLASS. MATTER AND ANTI-MATTER DO NOT MIX, THEY EXPLODE. ANYONE SUGGESTING OTHERWISE IS SERVING, WITTINGLY OR NO, THE RULING CLASS. THEY ARE PART OF THE (TO BORROW A PHRASE) IDEOLOGICAL STATE APPARATUS OF OPPRESSION. MARXIST THEORY SUGGESTS THAT THE GLOBAL LABORING MASSES CAN UNITE AND OVERTHROW THEIR OPPRESSORS AND CREATE A CLASSLESS, PEACEFUL, VICTIMLESS WORLD. ON THE OTHER END OF THE SPECTRUM FASCISTS SAY THAT YOU ARE YOUR GENES, AND THAT WILL NEVER CHANGE. RACES ARE LOCKED INTO ETERNAL STRUGGLE WITH OTHER RACES FOR CONTROL OF WATERWAYS, ARABLE LAND ETC., AND THAT TOO WILL NEVER CHANGE. THIS MID-20TH CENTURY CONFLICT ECHOES INTO THE PRESENT. I BELIEVE THAT THE TRIUMPH OF RACE-FETISHISM IN LEFT DISCOURSE IS A COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT MANUFACTURED AND FUNDED BY CAPITAL. AN APPALLING AND ASTONISHING NUMBER OF BLACK ACTIVISTS--NO, NOT A MAJORITY, NOT CLOSE-- ARE WILLING TO ARGUE THAT CLASS CONFLICT THEORY IS A WHITE SUPREMACIST PLOY TO BREAK RACIAL SOLIDARITY IN ORDER TO DERAIL BLACK EMANCIPATIONIST MOVEMENTS. A FINE EXAMPLE WOULD BE THOSE BLM ACTIVISTS WHO CRASHED A BERNIE SANDERS SPEECH AND DENOUNCED HIM FOR FOCUSING ON ECONOMIC ISSUES AND IGNORING RACE. ANY DRIFT, HOWEVER SMALL, TO CLASS STRUGGLE, ELICITS IMPASSIONED CONDEMNATION FROM THE RACE LOBBY.

THERE IT IS, THE TRAIN IS NOW IN MOTION. THERE ARE BUT TWO POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS NO MATTER HOW MANY GRADIENTS LIE BETWEEN. FASCIST THEORISTS ARGUE THAT YOUR RACE DETERMINES YOUR LIFE AND IS YOUR ONLY HOME IN A WORLD OF COMPETING RACES, AND THAT CLASS THEORY IS AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE RACIAL/NATIONAL SOLIDARITY. SO YOU HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE. RACE IS A HEGEMONIC CLASS STRATEGY, OR CLASS IS A HEGEMONIC RACE STRATEGY. YOU CAN SAY YOU ARE IN BETWEEN BUT THERE IS NO IN BETWEEN, IT'S A MIRAGE, A CHIMERA. THERE IS NO IN BETWEEN WHEN THE BOMBS FALL. IT CAN ONLY EVER BE RACE OR CLASS, NEVER BOTH. THEY DO NOT MIX, THEY REPEL. THEY ARE THE CENTERPIECES OF TWO POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES WHICH SEEK TO ANNIHILATE EACH OTHER. THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND BETWEEN CLASS AND RACE, PROLETARIAT AND BOURGEOISIE, SOCIALISM AND FASCISM. THERE CAN NO RECONCILIATION BETWEEN THEM. THIS IS NOT ABOUT SLIGHTS OR "MICRO-AGGRESSIONS," OR TWO OR THREE PERCENT VARIATION IN HEALTH OUTCOMES, THIS IS ABOUT FORTY FUCKING MILLION PEOPLE DYING. THIS IS ABOUT NANKING, DRESDEN, NAGASAKI, AUSCHWITZ, COVENTRY, BENGAL, LENINGRAD, ATHENS, BATAN, LONDON, WARSAW, CROATIA, KIEV. AND IT'S ABOUT HALF THE WORLD LIVING --AND DYING--ON TWO BUCKS A DAY.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW OBSCENE CRT IS? HOW DANGEROUS IT IS? IF THERE HAD BEEN RACIAL EQUALITY,/PROPORTIONALITY, AMONG THOSE ECONOMICALLY INTERESTED FACTIONS WHICH PRODUCED WW2, IT WOULDN'T HAVE CHANGED A THING. RACE THEORY DOES NOT ADDRESS THOSE INEQUALITIES WHICH MATTER MOST, THE ONES THAT STARVED BENGALIS AND NUKED NAGASAKIANS AND FIREBOMBED LONDON, TOKYO, AND DRESDEN. AND THE SUGGESTION THAT A LILLY-LIVERED, REFORMIST, RACE- AND GENDER-BASED, LIMPID, LIBERAL, BULLSHIT, INDENTITARIAN SOCIAL MOVEMENT WILL EVENTUALLY TAKE DOWN CAPITAL AND LIBERATE US ALL IS THE GREATEST DELUSION OF ALL.  AND A LETHAL ONE

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In other words, had Tomasky and Gitlin taken the time to read the material written by black feminists instead of simply reducing them to caricatures of their own imagination, they might have discovered some of the most sophisticated statements of the kind of radical humanism they claim to embrace. Anna Julia Cooper, whose writings continue to have a profound impact on Black feminism, wrote in 1893:

    We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritisms, whether of sex, race, country or condition. . . . The colored woman feels that woman's cause in one and universal; and that. . . not till race, color, sex, and condition are seen as accidents, and not the substance of life; not till the universal title of humanity to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is conceded to be inalienable to all; not till then is woman's lesson taught and woman's cause won -- not the white woman's nor the black woman's, not the red woman's but the cause of every man and every woman who has writhed silently under a mighty wrong.

FIRST, THAT IS POWERFUL STUFF. I DID NOT KNOW WHO SHE WAS UNTIL READING THIS, AND I ENDORSE HER EVERY WORD.

SECOND, THERE'S NO SHAME IN HIS GAME. HE'S PRESENTING THIS AS THOUGH THE LEFT IS IN OPPOSITION WHEN THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. THIS IS OUR POSITION, AND THE ONE WHICH CRT HAS DRIVEN FROM OUR DISCOURSE. TALK ABOUT ONENESS AND SOLIDARITY NOWADAYS AND SOMEONE WILL ACCUSE OF WHITE SUPREMACY. IN THE RACEWORLD, SUCH SUGGESTION IS CONSIDERED REACTIONARY. ANY EXPRESSION OF RACE NEUTRALITY, EQUALITY OR OBJECTIVITY, EVEN ONE AS ELEGANT AS COOPER'S, IS MET WITH A CHORUS OF DERISION. IT'S RACEBOTS, NOT LEFTISTS, WHO ARE ARGUING THAT SPECIAL FAVORITISMS ARE NOT UNNATURAL BUT A NECESSARY CORRECTIVE. "COLORED WOMEN" LIKE CRENSHAW MAY PAY LIP SERVICE WHEN SHE FEARS A POTENTIAL REDUCTION OF INCOME, BUT IN PRACTICE, LADY INTERSECTIONALITY HAS ATTACKED THE "ONE AND UNIVERSAL" IDEAL REPEATEDLY, AND WITH VERVE. THERE ARE ARMIES OF DETERMINED, MESSIANIC RACEBOTS INFESTING ANTIRA SPACES WHO WILL SLANDER ANYONE WHO WOULD UTTER COOPER'S WORDS. COOPER'S SENTIMENT IS NOT TOLERATED ON THE "LEFT" ANYMORE. TODAY, SHE'D BE CALLED AN AUNT THOMASINA.

I'M REMINDED OF WHEN GHANDI WAS ASKED WHAT HE THOUGHT OF WESTERN DEMOCRACY, HE QUIPPED "I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA, WHEN DOES IT START?"

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This radical humanism, as theorist Patricia Hill Collins points out, has been a consistent principle of black feminist thought. Alice Walker insists that a "womanist" is "committed to the survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female," and is "not a separatist" but "traditionally a universalist." Pauli Murray is even more explicit:

    The lesson of history that all human rights are indivisible and that the failure to adhere to this principle jeopardizes the rights of all is particularly applicable here. A built-in hazard of an aggressive ethnocentric movement which disregards the interests of other disadvantaged groups is that it will become parochial and ultimately self-defeating in the face of hostile reactions, dwindling allies, and mounting frustrations.

BRILLIANT. WELL ENCAPSULATED. MURRAY HAS PRESENTED MY ARGUMENT MORE SUCCINCTLY AND COGENTLY THAN HAVE I. 

KELLEY IS ARGUING AGAINST POINT. WE CLASS REDUCTIONIST, NEO-ENLIGHTENMENTISTS ARE ARGUING PRECISELY THIS. MURRAY, WHOM I ADMIRE AND SEE AS PROBABLY THE BEST-IN-CLASS BLACK FEMINIST, IS MAKING THE POINTS I HAVE MADE HERE. INDEED AN AGGRESSIVE ETHNOCENTRISM IS A HAZARD--AND WE HAVE SUCCUMBED TO IT, DESPITE HER PERCEPTIVE WARNING. INDEED IT HAS BECOME SELF-DEFEATING. IT HAS ALIENATED POTENTIAL ALLIES WITH AN INCESSANT RACERWOCKY.

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 One could see this vision in the writings of many black feminists, including June Jordan, Barbara Christian, Angela Davis, Elsa Barkley Brown, Pearl Cleage, Audre Lorde, Pat Parker, Barbara Smith, Cheryl Clarke, Julianne Malveaux, bell hooks, Margaret Simms, and Filomina Steady, to name a few.

YES! IT'S A SHAME KELLEY CAN'T.

AND NOT EVERYBODY LISTED ABOVE AGREES WITH MURRAY, AND MANY DON'T AGREE WITH KELLEY.

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Of course, had Tomasky and Gitlin actually read this stuff,

FIRST MAYBE THEY DID. SECOND SO WHAT IF THEY DIDN'T. IS KELLEY GOING TO SAY THAT I HAVE TO READ MEIN KAMPF TO BE ANTI-FASCIST? OR THE GRUNDRISSE TO BE A SOCIALIST? AS IT HAPPENS, I'VE READ BOTH AND THE ANSWERS ARE NO.

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they might jump up in agreement and dismiss these statements as exceptions to the rule.

MOCKING PEOPLE FOR MISTAKES THEY DID NOT MAKE IS NOT VERY INTELLIGENT--NOT THAT SUCH IS EXPECTED FROM KELLEY.

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 (Whatever the rule is, however, always goes unnamed.)


THERE ISN'T ONE.

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But a close reading reveals that they are not saying the same thing. "If all human rights are indivisible," then why privilege majoritarian concerns over all others and ridicule movements organized around sex, race, and gender?

APPLES AND ORANGES. GITLIN ANSEWERED THESE QUESTIONS.

AND NOBODY IS RIDICULING ANTI-RACISM/SEXISM MOVEMENTS, OUR COMPLAINT IS THAT CLASS HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THEM. MORE TO POINT, THE LEFT DOES NOT DENY THAT OUTSIDE THE AMBIT OF CLASS CONFLICT THERE COULD BE SOME FEATURE OF THE LABYRINTH THAT IS CULTURE WHICH DISADVANTAGES YOU, WHICH OFFENDS, TRANSGRESSES, OR UNFAIRLY CONSTRAINS YOU. THERE MAY BE, BUT 1) THESE ARE MOLE HILLS COMPARED TO THE IMMENSE SUFFERING CAUSED BY THE GLOBAL CAPITALIST EXTRACTION REGIME, AND 2)  THEIR PROSPECTIVE EXISTENCE DOESN'T INVALIDATE CLASS ANALYSIS, AS MANY A RACEBOT INSISTS.

THE RACE VERSUS CLASS DEBATE WAS RESOLVED FOR ME BY ANSWERING THIS QUESTION: IN THE HISTORY OF WHITE SUPREMACY, HAVE WHITE ELITES ACTED WITH GREATER FEALTY TO THE WHITE WORKING CLASS IN RACIAL SOLIDARITY, OR HAS IT BEEN MORE FREQUENTLY WILLING TO THROW WHITE WORKERS UNDER THE RACE BUS IN FAVOR OF ITS CLASS POSITION?  TO ADDRESS THIS QUESTION IS TO CONSIGN CRT TO THE SEPTIC TANK WHERE IT BELONGS.     

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 Why presume that such movements are necessarily narrow simply because black women and their concerns are central to them?


BECAUSE SUCH MOVEMENTS ARE NECESSARILY NARROW--NOT UNWARRANTED, BUT INCONTESTABLY NARROW. SECOND, SUCH NARROWLY FOCUSED ACTIVISM CAN AND HAS LED TO AGGRESSIVELY AUTOCENTRIC MOVEMENTS JUST AS MURRAY WARNED. GOT IT NOW, TEACH? SHE IS CORRECT AND YOU ARE WRONG. PERHAPS IT IS YOU WHO NEEDS TO READ BLACK-FEM LIT MORE CAREFULLY, PARTICULARLY IF YOU ARE GOING TO CITE IT.

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Nothing could be further from the truth. One vital outgrowth of radical black feminism has been the black women's healthcare movement


THAT BENEFITS CAN BE HAD FROM NARROW, PARTICULARIST ACTIVISM IS NOT DENIED NOR IS IT THE ISSUE. THE CONCERN IS WHETHER SUCH PAROCHIALISM IS THE BEST WAY TO ATTAIN SUCH GAINS, AND WHETHER THIS VERTICAL EXCLUSIONARY APPROACH HINDERS OTHER, EQUALLY VALID, PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANT ACTIVISM.

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its most notable manifestation being the National Black Women's Health Project.

ORGANIZING 101. WHAT IS THE POINT A/O UTILITY OF THE WORD "BLACK." IS IT THE CASE THAT BLACK WOMEN HAVE THROWN EVERY OTHER KIND OF WOMEN UNDER THE TEAM BUS? IF SO, THEN FUCK THEM. IF NOT WHY DESCRIBE IT IN THAT UGLY SECTARIAN WAY? REMEMBER INCLUSION? WHY NOT A NATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH PROJECT? BETTER STILL, AND MUCH MORE REVOLUTIONARY, HOW ABT A NATIONAL HEALTH PROJECT? WHY MUST IT BE EXCLUSIONARY? AGAIN, TEACH, YOU NEED TO RE-READ MURRAY. MAYBE NEXT TIME YOU WILL UNDERSTAND IT.

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Among other things, they have sought to create a healthier environment for poor and working-class women and reduce women's dependence on a health care system structured by capitalism and run primarily by men. If they succeed, imagine how such a transformation might benefit all of us, irrespective of race or gender?

SO, IN ORDER TO BENEFIT ALL, WE MUST FIRST EXCLUDE SOME. BRILLIANT. HE SOUNDS LIKE LENIN.

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Unfortunately these neo-Enlightenment leftists are blind to the radical humanist traditions

THIS MAN HAS NO CONSCIENCE. MARXISM IS A RADICAL HUMANISM.

DID HE SAY 'HUMANIST'? I THOUGHT HE HATED THE ENLIGHTENMENT. RADICAL HUMANISM IS THE DIRECT RESULT OF "BLIND" ENLIGHTENMENT HUMANISM. IT IS ENLIGHTENMENT HUMANISM.

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that have undergirded black feminist movements, and this blindness has kept them from seeing how black feminism could contribute to their own emancipation.

WRONG ON BOTH COUNTS. JUST MORE NONSENSE

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Similarly, they don't see how gay and lesbian movements might also contribute to our collective emancipation

UNTRUE. IT'S WHAT KIND THAT MATTERS. AN INTEGRATIONALIST, NEOLIBERAL MOVEMENT IS NOT ANYTHING WHICH I CARE TO AID. IF IT'S AN EXPLICITLY ANTI-CAPITALIST MOVEMENT WAGED ON THAT PARTICULAR FRONT IN THE WAR, THEN YOU CAN COUNT ON ME. IF IT CAN WEAKEN THE PLUTOCRACY, THEN I'M ALL IN. OTHERWISE, IT'S NOT WORTH THE EFFORT, HOWEVER JUST THE CAUSE. "COLLECTIVE EMANCIPATION" REQUIRES THAT WE STRIKE AT THE ROOT.

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 -- a criticism made eloquently by Martin Duberman in his review of Tomasky's book in The Nation. Some things are obvious: the continuing struggle of gays and lesbians against discrimination in public and private life have important implications for national civil rights law;

NO SHIT, RACEBOT.

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 the work of ACT UP and other movements have made AIDS visible


NO, RIDICULOUS. THE NATIONAL MEDIA MADE AIDS VISIBLE--FOR REASONS OF THEIR OWN.

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 -- a disease that's killing many heterosexual people, especially poor black women. Less obvious is the role of scholarship coming out of Gay and Lesbian Studies programs as well as Women's Studies programs -- grist for the anti-identity politics mill. Queer theory, for example, begins with the premise that sexuality is a vital part of human existence,

YA DON'T SAY! WHAT A STARLING REVELATION, WHAT PERSPICACITY. WHAT PROFUNDITY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. DID ANYBODY GET THRU TO THE NOBEL COMMITTEE?

WHY ARE DISEASES WHICH ARE KILLING STRAIGHT BLACK WOMEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN OTHERS? AT THE HEIGHT OF THE AIDS EPIDEMIC, THE NUMBER OF GLOBAL STARVATION VICTIMS FUCKING DWARFED THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE BEING CLAIMED BY AIDS. KELLEY'S ARGUMENT IS OBSCENE. AIDS GOT EFFECTIVELY TREATED PRETTY QUICKLY BECAUSE CAPITALISM HAD AN ANSWER. IT CAN PROVIDE SUCH SOLUTIONS WHEN THEIR ARE PROFITS TO BE HAD. PEOPLE ARE STILL STARVING EVEN THOUGH THERE'S PLENTY OF FOOD TO FEED THEM, WHY? IT'S NOT ECONOMICALLY VIABLE. IT JUST DOESN'T PAY TO GIVE FOOD AWAY.

NOBODY ON THE LEFT IS SAYING THAT LGBTQ STUDIES ARE OF NO VALUE, ONLY THAT THEY ARE NOT NECESSARILY RADICAL.

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 and that the way sexual identities are defined (and policed) has to do with social relations of power, the role of the state, public institutions, and social movements.

ONCE AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW ANYBODY WHO DISAGREES. IT'S NOT AS KELLEY DEPICTS IT--AT ALL. NOTHING HERE CONFLICTS WITH MARXIST THEORY, ANARCHISM, SYNDICALISM, OR THE ENLIGHTENMENT. THE IMPLICATION OF KELLEY'S TAKING THIS LINE IS THAT MATERIALISTS ARE HOMOPHOBES, SEXISTS ETC., AND NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. IT IS JUST LIBEL. IT IS NOT A CASE OF NEO-Es VERSUS BLACKS WOMEN. IT'S JUST A HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE LIE.

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 The best work understands that sexual identities and practices are lived through race and class and can only be understood historically.

WHAT ABOUT THE WORST WORK, LIKE YOURS? WHAT EFFECT DOES IT HAVE?

2 OBJECTIONS: THAT CAN BE SAID OF EVERYTHING, SO IT'S MEANINGLESS. DO PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT RACES EXPERIENCE ROOT CANALS DIFFERENTLY?  DOES A WHITE WOMAN AND A BLACK WOMAN EXPERIENCE RAPE DIFFERENTLY, OR CHILDBIRTH? IF YOU ARE A BLACK FEMALE THEN YOU EXPERIENCE EVERYTHING AS A BLACK FEMALE. WHERE DIFFERENCE DOES COME INTO PLAY, MAYBE IN HOW POLICE RERSPOND TO A RAPED WHITE WOMAN VERSUS A BLACK WOMAN, AS HAS BEEN SAID ABOVE MANY TIMES, THESE ISSUES HAVE BY NO MEANS BEEN NEGLECTED BY MATERIALISTS. THIS STATEMENT THAT SEXUALITY IS EXPERIENCED THROUGH RACE AND CLASS IS OF ZERO ANALYTICAL VALUE.

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What does this scholarship have to do with the rest of us? What are the implications for the "universal"? For one, we know now that there is no universal masculinity or femininity.
 

HE;S JUMPED OFF THE COOPER BANDWAGON AND RETURNED TO MOCKING "UNIVERSALISM."

ONLY IF ONE INSISTS UPON ATTACHING ALL SORTS OF CULTURAL ACCRETIONS AND DEFINING THE TERMS ON THAT BASIS. MASCULINITY AND FEMININITY ARE VERY SIMPLE THINGS. HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT ELEMENTS OF EITHER GENDER CAN BE PRESENT IN ANYONE.  THEY ARE. MEN CAN BE FEMININE AND WOMEN MASCULINE--AND THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT, BUT THE IDEA OF MASC. AND FEM. IS A SIMPLE ONE. (SORRY, JB)

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 The idea of "normal" behavior is a social construction, which means that there is nothing natural or inevitable about male dominance,

WHERE MEN DO DOMINATE, PERHAPS PATRIARCHY IS NATURAL OR HISTORICALLY FAVORED IN SOME WAY. AND IN MATRIARCHAL SOCIETIES PERHAPS FEMALE DOMINANCE IS. HOW SUCH THINGS CAME INTO BEING IS NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD. THAT NEITHER FORM OF SEXISM IS NECESSARY, ADVANTAGEOUS OR DESIRABLE--IF IT EVER WAS-- IN THE 21ST CENTURY IS WHAT'S IMPORTANT.

AGAIN KELLEY IS MAKING A STRAW MAN ARGUMENT AS THIS IS IN NO WAY A MATERIALIST V CRT DEBATE.

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the overrepresentation of men in positions of power, or the tendency of men to use violence to resolve conflict.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOA. WHAT MISANDRY! WHAT SEXISM. IF WOMEN WERE OVERREPRESENTED IN POWER THERE WOULD BE LESS VIOLENCE????? VIOLENCE IS MALE? NOT SOCIALLY CONDITIONED? ISN'T THAT GENDER ESSENTIALISM? I THINK IT IS. I KNOW LOTSA FEMINISTS WHO THINK IT IS. THAT WAS A SHOCKER.  

MORE IMPORTANTLY, IF YOU BELIEVE THAT SIMPLY REPLACING THE CAPITALIST MEN IN POWER WITH CAPITALIST WOMEN WILL BRING CHANGE, FIRST, YOU ARE A SEXIST, AND SECOND, YOU ARE A FOOL. YOU ARE LIKE ONE OF THOSE RACIST IDIOTS OF ALL COLORS WHO BELIEVED BARAK OBAMA WAS GOING TO CHANGE THE COUNTRY.

ANYBODY WHO BELIEVES VIOLENCE IS A MALE-PREDOMINANT TRAIT HAS NEVER SEEN A  W.N.B.A. GAME.

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 These are all obvious points, to be sure. But how many heterosexual men and women stop to think about the emancipatory potential of a more flexible sexual and gender identity for all of us?

HOW MANY HOMOSEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN DO?

STUNNING. THIS DEMONSTRATES THE THEORETICAL BANKRUPTCY OF CRT/IDENTOMANIA ETC.

AS I HAVE BEEN WRITING FOR DECADES, PO-MO, LIBERALISM AND IDENTITARIANISM ETC. IS INHERENTLY REACTIONARY AND CAN DO NOTHING BUT TURN INTO RIGHT-WING LUNACY, AND HERE WE HAVE A PRIME EXAMPLE. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BOTH. TO SUGGEST THAT MEMBERS OF ANY GROUP WOULD BENEFIT FROM, OR NEED TO, OR SHOULD, REDEFINE OR ALTER THEIR SEXUALITY IN ANY WAY IS AN INSULT TO ALL. WITH WHOM ONE BEDS, IN WHATEVER NUMBER, GENDER, FREQUENCY OR ARCHITECTURAL CONFIGURATION, IS NOBODY'S BUSINESS. SEXUALITY, AS KELLEY HAS MENTIONED ABOVE, IS A VITAL PART OF LIFE--OR HAS HE FORGOTTEN. KELLEY DENOUNCES THE POLICE POLICING SEXUALITY BUT HE WANTS TO DO IT.

WORSE THAN THE IMMORALITY OF KELLEY'S SUGGESTION IS ITS INSOUCIANCE. MOST OF THE WORLD IS LIVING ON $2/DAY OR LESS. PEOPLE ARE DYING EVERY FUCKING DAY FROM CURABLE DISEASES. THE PLANET IS OVERHEATING. NO CHANGE IN SEXUAL PRACTICES OR MORES WILL REMEDY THESE PROBLEMS.

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Besides reducing homophobic anxieties,

WOULD IT? OR INCREASE THEM?

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 freeing up self-expression,

NO, WHAT KELLEY IS ARGUING WOULD REDUCE SELF EXPRESSION. ANY IMPOSITION OF SEXUAL VALUES, HOWEVER NOBLE THE INTENT, REPRESENTS AN AUTHORITARIAN INTRUSION INTO THE FREE EXPRESSION OF SEXUALITY. NOBODY NEEDS KELLEY'S SEXUAL ADVICE.

AS I HAVE SAID A THOUSAND TIMES: RACE THEORY IS A RIGHT-WING IDEOLOGY.

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 and enabling us to reconstruct our relationships to one another (isn't that what revolution is all about?),

NO, PINHEAD, IT ISN'T. IT'S WHAT A LIBERAL DULLARD LIKE YOU MIGHT THINK IS REVOLUTION. THIS IS LIBERALISM IN ALL ITS MORIBUND DEGENERACY. IF EVERY PERSON ON THE PLANET FUCKED EVERY OTHER PERSON IT WOULD NOT CHANGE A GODDAM THING, YOU FUCKING IDIOT. IF EVERY STRAIGHT MAN WERE FORCED TO WEAR HALTA TOPS, NYLONS, AND MINISKIRTS AND STRAIGHT WOMEN JOCK STRAPS, FAKE BEARDS, GREASY OVERALLS AND CHEW TOBACCO, NOTHING WOULD CHANGE. NOTHING. IN ORDER TO RECONSTRUCT OUR SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS WE FIRST NEED TO ELIMINATE ALL FORMS OF HETERONOMY. UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES PERHAPS SEXUAL MORES MAY CHANGE, BUT TO SUGGEST CHANGING SEXUAL PRACTICES, BELIEFS ETC. WILL ALLEVIATE ECONOMIC OPPRESSION IS INSIPID BEYOND ALL RECKONING.

THIS IS UTTER MADNESS; RIGHT-WING, REACTIONARY MADNESS.

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I believe a less rigid definition of masculinity may actually reduce violence -- from police brutality to domestic abuse.


IT WILL NOT. THE FUNCTION OF THE POLICE IS TO PROTECT AND SERVE CAPITAL. NO AMOUNT OF DEMASCULINIZATION TRAINING WILL CHANGE A FUCKING THING.

AND, OF COURSE, THERE IS NO DEFINITION OF MASCULINITY, RIGID OR OTHERWISE. THIS IS JUST MORE INFANTILE RACEBOT NONSENSE.

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While Gitlin tends to be slightly more sympathetic to feminism and gay and lesbian movements than Tomasky, they both view them as prime examples of dead-end identity politics.

THAT'S BECAUSE THEY ARE. THAT IS NOT TO SAY THAT SUCH CAUSES ARE NOT WORTHWHILE, BUT THEY WILL NEVER LEAD TO THE GRAND PRIZE. I HAVE PARTICIPATED IN MANY!!! FEMINIST AND LGBTQ ACTIONS AND REMAIN IN FULL SOLIDARITY WITH THEM, BUT SUCH REFORMS WILL NEVER EVEN PUT A DENT IN GLOBAL POVERTY. A FEW YEARS AGO I ABANDONED MY ANARCHIST PRINCIPLES AND ACTUALLY VOTED. ON THE BALLOT IN WASHINGTON STATE WERE PROPS FOR GAY MARRIAGE AND POT LEGALIZATION. BOTH PASSED DUE ENTIRELY TO THE MONSTER VOTE--EACH DEMOGRAPHIC OF PEOPLE OF COLOR VOTED AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE, EVERY ONE!--AND I WAS HAPPY TO PLAY MY PART, BUT NEVER FOR A MOMENT WAS I DELUDED ENOUGH TO THINK THAT THIS WAS GOING TO BRING US CLOSER TO EMANCIPATION. IT MADE LIFE A LITTLE BETTER FOR SAMERS AND BLUNTERS, GREAT! BUT WE ARE NEVER GOING TO BANG AND BONG OUR WAY TO THE FREEWORLD.

[PLEASE FORGIVE MY EGOISTIC DEMAND FOR RECOGNITION HERE, BUT IT WAS YOURS TRULY WHO COINED THAT PHRASE--AND I WANT IT INSCRIBED ON MY TOMBSTONE.]

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 On the other hand, when they proclaim a movement or issue "universal," they don't stop to analyze how race and gender shape various responses to issues.

WE DO NOW BECAUSE IT HAS BECOME SO PROBLEMATIC. ALSO, OF MUCH GREATER IMPORTANCE, THE SOCIALIST PROJECT AIMS TO LIBERATE RACES AND GENDERS FROM ALL SUCH PRECONDITIONING. RACE AND GENDER SHAPE ITS MEMBERS REACTION TO "ISSUES" BECAUSE OF THE IDENTITIES THEY HAVE IMPOSED UPON THEM BY THE EXISTING SOCIAL ORDER. AND THAT ORDER IS BORN OF CAPITALISM. FOCUSING ON DIMINISHING THE DAMAGE CAPITALISM DOES TO PEOPLE IS ALL WELL AND GOOD, BUT THE REAL CONCERN SHOULD BE IN STRIKING AT THE ROOT.

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For example, Tomasky believes he hit on a common value/agenda when he writes: "Working people in this country need a movement that will put their interests and livelihoods first." Fair enough. But without an analysis that takes racism, sexism, and homophobia seriously, or considers deep historical differences, we won't know what "interests" mean.

RIDICULOUS. WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANS AND THEY MEAN. ONCE AGAIN, THE LEFT HAS AND ALWAYS WILL TAKE THESE INTO ACCT. I DON'T KNOW A SINGLE PERSON ON THE LEFT WHO DISAGREES.

YOU KNOW WHAT RACES, GENDERS, AND HOMOSEXUALS HAVE IN COMMON? THEY ARE ALL BEING FINANCIALLY SODOMIZED. THAT'S WHAT INTERESTS MEANS. YUP, IT'S THAT BIG RED, WHITE, AND BLUE DICK THAT NEVER LEAVES YOUR ASS, THAT'S WHAT 'INTERESTS' MEAN.

THE BETTER QUESTION IS WHAT DOES KELLEY MEAN BY "DEEP HISTORICAL DIFFERENCES"? SOUNDS ALMOST LIKE...WELL...WELL...COULD IT BE?...I WON'T SAY IT.  NAW, NOT TEACH, A SLIP OF THE PEN, THAT'S ALL...RIGHT? YOU KNOW IT COULD BE MISTAKEN FOR...I WON'T SAY IT...

IMAGINE IF A WHITE HAD WRITTEN THOSE WORDS...

CRT IS A RIGHT-WING IDEOLOGY, AND KELLEY IS FUCKING NUTS.

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Let's take crime and the issue of neighborhood safety, an issue on which many people across race, gender, and even class lines can find common ground.

WHAT? DID HE SAY COMMON GROUND? IT'S THAT GROUND WHICH CRT REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE.

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Yet, racism -- not narrow identity politics -- persuaded many African Americans to oppose Clinton's $22 billion Crime Bill, and the majority of white voters to support it.

IT DID? THIS IS ANOTHER EXECELLENT EXAMPLE OF HOW CORRUPTING AND DEBILITATING RACE THEORY IS WHEN 1) KELLEY IS SO RACEBROKE THAT HE CANNOT EVEN CONCEIVE THAT WHITES VOTED FOR THE BILL WITHOUT A RACIAL MOTIVE. HE ATTRIBUTES RACISM TO THE WHITE VOTE WITHOUT ANY COMPUNCTION TO ADDUCE EVIDENCE. IN HIS RACEDRUNK MIND IT IS A GIVEN. SO, WHO'S THE RACIST? AND 2) HE NOTES HERE THAT THE VOTE SPLIT ALONG RACIAL LINES, BUT DIDN'T MENTION THE VERY SAME THING WITH REGARDS TO PROP 187. HE HAS EITHER BEEN BENUMBED BY RACE THEORY OR IS INTENTIONALLY MISREPRESENTING THE SITUATION--DECEIVING HIS READERS. WHITES VOTED FOR 187, TO WHICH HE ATTRIBUTES RACISM; BLACKS VOTED FOR 187, OF WHICH I'M GUESSING HE WILL NOT SAY THE SAME, BUT WE CAN ONLY SPECULATE AS HE DOESN'T EVEN MENTION IT.

I AM HOPING TO PERSUDE YOU, DEAR READER, THAT KELLEY IS AT BEST A RACE HUSTLER AND AT WORSE A RACIST. WHAT I BELIEVE I HAVE PROVEN IS THAT HE IS A LIAR, AND AS SUCH SHOULD NOT BE TEACHING
AT A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY.

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 For many black people, the issue of neighborhood safety is not just about more police but the kind of police -- where they live, how they relate to the community. Indeed, no matter what we might think of the Nation of Islam (NOI), many non-Muslims see its fight against drug dealers in black communities as more effective than the police.

NOI? THERE ALL YOURS. WE REAL LEFTIES DON'T BREAK BREAD WITH RACE SUPREMACISTS.

IS THAT BECAUSE NOI ARE BLACK? DOESN'T RACE MATTER? HAS HE JUST JUMPED SHIP? AGAIN?

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It is precisely this kind of economism that enables these people to claim, without evidence, that declining wages is universally more important to most black people than police brutality or having to wait an hour for a seat at Denny's.
 

HERE WE GO AGAIN. HIS ARGUMENT IS JUST SO MIND-NUMBINGLY STUPID THAT IT SHOULD NOT REQUIRE DEBUNKING, BUT HERE IT IS. FIRST, KELLEY SHOULD NEVER USE THE PHRASE 'WITHOUT EVIDENCE.' SECOND, THE PHRASING IS SO INEPT, THAT IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY DEFINITIVELY WHAT HE MEANS. 'UNIVERSALLY MORE IMPORTANT TO MOST' UNIVERSALLY OR MOST? ANYWAY, I DON'T KNO WHAT PERCENTAGE OF BLACK PEOPLE HAVE HAD TO WAIT AN HOUR AT DENNY'S, OR IF THERE WAS ANY RACISM INVOLVED--KELLEY DOESN'T PROVIDE ANY EVIDENCE. IT IS TRUE THAT PROLETARIANS AND LUMPENS ARE SUBJECT TO MORE POLICE BRUTALITY THAN HIGHER INCOME PEOPLE. THE LARGEST FIGURE I HAVE SEEN IS A THIRD OF BLACKS IN U.S. HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO POLICE HARASSMENT. THIS MEANS THAT 2/3 HAVE NOT. WHAT PERCENTAGE OF BNLACKS WORK FOR A WAGE OR LOW-MIDDLE SALARY OR ARE JOBLESS? SAFE TO SAY MORE THAN 2/3RDS. I DON'T MEAN TO MINIMIZE AGGRESSIVE POLICING, BUT WITH INSUFFICIENT INCOME BLACKS WON'T BE UNNECESSARILY PULLED OVER WHILE DRIVING BECAUSE THEY WON'T OWN CARS, OR AFFORD TO EAT IN DENNY'S.

KELLEY'S CLAIM TO BE A SOCIALIST IS RISIBLE. NO SOCIALIST WOULD SUBORDINATE 'ECONOMISM' TO WAITING AT DENNY'S.

MORE IMPORTANTLY HERE, KELLEY RETURNS TO HIS FAVORITE DECEPTION THAT IT IS EITHER/OR. IT IS NOT, AND IT NEVER HAS BEEN. THE REAL LEFT, THE ANTI-CAPITALIST LEFT, HAS NEVER BEEN INSENSITIVE TO RACIAL OR GENDER OPPRESSION. NEVER! IT'S JUST NOT TRUE.

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One is hard economics that unites people; the other is just narrow identity politics.


BINGO, TEACH, THAT'S IT, YOU GOT IT. ONE TARGETS THE ROOT, THE OTHER--WHILE IMPORTANT--ONLY RUFFLES THE LEAVES. I AM ONE OF THOSE LEFTIES WHOM KELLEY DISDAINS, AND I BET I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN MORE LGBTQ ACTIONS THAN HE. IT IS NOT EITHER OR, BUT, YES, THE EMANCIPATION OF LABOR IS THE BIG PRIZE. THE KIND OF MILQUETOAST REFORMISM KELLEY FAVORS GOES NOWHERE FAST.

 BUT UNTIL THEN, WE CONSCIENTIOUSLY AND HAPPILY, YES, HAPPILY PARTICIPATE IN LGBTQ ACTIVISM.

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Thus, when black gays and lesbians take to the streets to protest violence against them, that's "identity politics."

IN THE STRICTEST SENSE, IT IS, BUT AS I HAVE HAD TO SAY MANY TIMES HERE: IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE THAT THE LEFT IGNORES RACISM. IT IS A BIG FAT WHOPPING LIE.

HE NEVER STOPS. THIS APPARENTLY IS THE ONLY TUNE HE KNOWS.

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 When angry white males claim that affirmative action is taking jobs from them, that's class politics muffled beneath a racial blanket they themselves don't understand.

ONCE AGAIN WE SEE IDENTITARIAN ANTI-RACISM LEADING NON-STOP BACK TO RACISM.  IT IS A RIGHT-WING IDEOLOGY.

CLAIM? HOW ISTRUCTIVE.

FIRST, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DOES TAKE JOBS AND UNIVERSITY SEATS AWAY FROM WHITE MALES, THAT'S THE POINT. THAT'S WHAT IT IS FOR. THAT WAS THE CASE PRESENTED TO SCOTUS. THIS IS NOT TO SAY IT IS A BAD THING NECESSARILY, BUT TO SUGGEST THAT IT DOESN'T DISCRIMINATE AGAINST WHITE MALES IS PHENOMENALLY WRONG. SECOND, IT ISN'T CLASS POLITICS! IT'S RACE POLITICS! AFFIRMATIVE ACTION--THE GREATEST EUPHEMISM SINCE 'MARITAL AID'--IS REASSIGNING INMATES TO DIFFERENT CELLS WITHIN THE SAME PRISON. IT DOESN'T PUT A DENT IN CARCERALITY! IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO. THE ADMISSION OF BLACKS TO HIGHER LEVELS OF CAPITALIST STRATA DOES TWO THINGS FOR THE RULING CLASS: IT PLACATES BLACKS [BLACKS LIKE KELLEY ANYWAY] WITHOUT ALTERING PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS, AND ANTAGONIZES WHITES, PRINCIPALLY WORKING CLASS WHITES. PERFECT! IN OTHER WORDS, A-A STOKES RACISM, IT DOESN'T ALLEVIATE IT. IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO. MORE FIELD SLAVES ARE BECOMING HOUSE SLAVES, BUT IT IS STILL A PLANTATION AND WE ALL ARE STILL SERVING THE SAME MASTER. IF A-A DID NOT SERVE THE INTEREST OF THE PLUTOCRACY, IT WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED. IT WOULD NEVER HAVE REACHED THE SUPREME COURT.

AND THE STATEMENT ABOVE ENDS WITH A RACIST FLOURISH: WHITE MALES DON'T UNDERSTAND. YEP, IT'S TRUE, WHITE MALES CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT BLACKS CAN. IT'S ALL THAT ENNOBLING, ENLIGHTENING STANDPOINT EPISTEMOLOGY, WHICH WHITE MALES LACK. WHICH IS WHY THE CAN NEVER SEEM TO OVERCOME THEIR INFERNAL WHITEHEADEDNESS WHICH CONSIGNS THEM TO ETERNAL IGNORANCE...

PURE, UNADULTERATED, RACIST BULLSHIT. KELLEY AN ANTI-RACIST? WHAT A JOKE. IT SOUNDS JUST LIKE 19TH CENTURY ANTI-BLACK RACISM. HE SOUNDS LIKE GALTON.

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When white people vote for David Duke and Pat Buchanan, that's class politics, not identity politics. Something's wrong with this picture

UNBELIEVABLE. MACCHIAVELLIAN. FIRST, BUCHANAN IS A CONSERVATIVE, BUT HE IS NOTHING LIKE DUKE. PUTTING THEM IN THE SAME LEAGUE IS A GROSS DECEPTION. SECOND, NEITHER HAS EVER RECEIVED A MAJORITY OF WHITE VOTES NOR HAS THEY EVER MANAGED TO GARNER THE MOST VOTES IN ANY ELECTION/PRIMARY ETC.. EVEN THE FUCKING REPUBLICAN PARTY DISMISS THESE TWO. THE V A S T MAJORITY OF WHITES HAVE SPOKEN UNEQUIVOCABLY.

SECOND, NOBODY IS SAYING THAT WHEN THE FEW OUTLIER WHITES WHO VOTE FOR EITHER ARE ENGAGING IN CLASS POLITICS. THIS IS ABSURD, AND ABSURDLY DISHONEST. PURE INVENTION.

THIRD, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE IS THAT KELLEY HAS INTENTIONALLY MISPAINTED IT.

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Central to the neo-Enlightenment Left's case against so-called identity politics is a nostalgia for the Old Left, back in the days before the 60s when everyone who joined checked their race and gender identities at the door and embraced a radical universalism that transcended skin color, ethnic affiliations, and sex. Intense debates over the Negro Question or the Woman Question, not to mention charges of "chauvinism," simply vanish from this romantic narrative. Those were the days of "real" class struggle, the days of the CIO, the Knights, Labor, the IWW, the Reds, the rugged and manly Republican artisans in the Age of Jackson (Andrew, not Michael), the days before identity politics eroded the class struggle and we knew what the working class looked like. Then, around 1970 according to Tomasky, everything fell apart "when the American left cashiered traditional class-based politics for a new variant in which race and gender were preeminent. . . . For black activists, racism became more important than the exploitation of workers by capitalists; for women, sexism."

1) I BEGAN THIS CRITIQUE BY ASKING IF KELLEY WAS AN ANTI-RACIST. SHOULD A WHITE SPEAK SO DERISIVELY AND CONDESCENDINGLY OF THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION IT WOULD INDUCE HOWLS OF PROTEST FROM KELLEY AND THE LIKE. BUT I HAVE ALSO CLAIMED THAT KELLEY IS NOT AN ANTI-CAPITALIST. IF THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH ISN'T ENOUGH TO PERSUADE YOU THEN NOTHING WILL BE. WHAT SOCIALIST SPEAKS WITH SUCH UNCONCEALED CONTEMPT OF THE WORKERS' MOVEMENT? WHAT SOCIALIST MOCKS THE KNIGHTS, IWW ETC.? THERE IS A TRAIL OF BLOOD AND MARTYRS BEHIND ALL OF THESE STRUGGLES, WHO SCORNS SUCH PEOPLE? IT IS ONE THING TO BE A RACE-FIRSTER LIKE KELLEY, BUT HERE HIS TRUE COLORS LUMINESCE THROUGH HIS CAMOUFLAGE GEAR. ABOVE HE SAYS:

"Don't get me wrong. I'm not giving priority to 'identity politics' over the struggle to dismantle capitalism and to build a world we've never seen before -- a world free of market forces and all the terrible things that go with it."

CAN ANYONE BELIEVE HIM?

2) NOBODY ON THE LEFT DENIES THAT ISSUES OF RACE AND GENDER HAVE BEEN QUITE PROBLEMATIC AND THE SOLUTIONS ALIGHTED UPON SOMETIMES QUITE WRONG. NOBODY BUT NOBODY HAS BEEN MORE DISAPPOINTED BY THE EXQUISITELY FRUSTRATING BLOCKHEADEDNESS OF THE WHITE WORKING CLASS THAN I (THE BLACKS TOO). HOWEVER, 3 THINGS SHOULD BE NOTED: WHILE TRUE THAT WHITES HAVE THROWN BLACKS UNDER THE TEAM BUS, BLACKS TOO ARE GUILTY OF THROWING WHITES, ASIANS, AND, AS WE SAW ABOVE, LATINS UNDER THAT SAME BUS. THERE IS PLENTY OF GUILT TO GO AROUND. THIS LAST FACT IS SOMETHING THAT NEVER GETS MENTIONED IN THESE DISCUSSIONS, INSTEAD IT'S ALWAYS THE JIM SNOW TROPE OF WHITE MONSTERISM AND ENLIGHTENED BLACK BENEVOLENCE. SECOND, THESE RACE/GENDER PROBLEMS WERE NOT CREATED BY THE WORKING CLASS, WHITE OR BLACK. I'M SURE KELLEY KNOWS THE LEGAL HISTORY OF RACISM IN THE U.S., IT WASN'T WORKING CLASS PEOPLE ON THOSE BENCHES OR IN THOSE COLONIAL ASSEMBLIES ETC.! ANTI-CAPITALISTS HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH CIRCUMSTANCES NOT OF THEIR OWN MAKING.

3) THIS PROBLEM IS WAY MORE COMPLICATED THAN PEOPLE LIKE KELLEY ARE EVER WILLING TO CONCEDE. FOR MANY, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BLACKS, ANYTHING LESS THAN FULL, AUTONOMIC SUPPORT FOR ANY BLACK CAUSE WHATEVER THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND CONSEQUENCES, IS EVIDENCE OF WHITE SUPREMACY. ONE NEED ONLY ESTABLISH THAT SOME PEOPLE OF COLOR WILL BENEFIT FROM SOMETHING TO DEMAND COMPLIANCE A/O SUPPORT. HOW IT MIGHT ADVERSELY AFFCT WHITE WORKERS IS NEVER, EVER, A CONSIDERATION.

NOT SO FAST. AS I'VE SAID BEFORE, RACIOLOGY CAN ONLY LEAD BACK TO RACISM AS IT IS RACISM.

CONSIDER 2 BLACK LESBIANS, I'LL CALL THEM LEFTY AND RIGHTY FOR CONVENIENCE. ONE COMES WALKING DOWN WALL STREET FROM THE RIGHT, THE OTHER FROM THE LEFT. THEY BOTH APPROACH THE DOORS OF THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE AND START KNOCKING AGGRESSIVELY. RIGHTY SHOUTS 'LET ME IN! I'VE BEEN DENIED MY RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE EMPIRE. I CAN BE AS EFFECTIVE A BLOODSUCKER AS ANY WHITE, ANY MAN, OR STRAIGHT--I DEMAND ENTRANCE. IT IS MY RIGHT." LEFTY YELLS "I'M GOING TO COME IN THERE AND SHUT THIS PLACE DOWN ONCE AND FOR ALL BECAUSE CAPITALISM EMPOVERISHES THE MANY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FEW."

AS A WHITE REVOLUTIONARY, HOW SHOULD I FEEL ABOUT THEM? BOTH HAVE BEEN RACIALLY, GENDERALLY, AND SEXUALLY OPPRESSED, SHOULD I SUPPORT BOTH ON THIS BASIS?  SHOULD IT BE A CASE OF MELANIN RIGHT OR WRONG GIVEN HOW ABUSED BLACKS HAVE BEEN? HOW SELF-SACRIFICING SHOULD I BE? DO I HAVE TO SURRENDER MY PRINCIPLES AT THE DOORS OF THE GHETTO? THE ISSUE FOR ME IS NOT LEFTY, SHE IS MY COMRADE--I LOVE THAT GIRL. BUT WHAT OF RIGHTY? SHE IS CERTAINLY CORRECT THAT SHE HAS BEEN UNFAIRLY DENIED OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE TO WHITES, BUT SHE WANTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE IMPERIALIST EXSANGUINATION--SHE'S DEMANDING HER SHARE OF THE BLOODMONEY. SHOULD I FEEL DIFFERENTLY ABT HER FROM A WHITE MALE CAPITALIST?  AT WHAT POINT DOES THE VERY REAL PRESSURE TO SUPPORT ANY AND ALL BLACK CAUSES ITSELF BECOME RACIAL OPPRESSION? WHY SHOULD I SUPPORT ANYONE WHOM I REGARD AS REACTIONARY? DO I OBJECT ON PERSONAL GROUNDS--THAT IT SUBALTERNS ME? DO I ACQUIESCE ON THE GROUNDS THAT THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY FRIEND? ON THE BASIS OF ANTIRA UNITY? I AM AN ANTI-CAPITALIST AND AN ANTI-RACIST, SHOULD I SUPPORT RIGHTY?

THESE ISSUES ARE MUCH MORE COMPLEX THAN PEOPLE LIKE KELLEY WILL ADMIT, AND, NO, THEY HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN HANDLED ETHICALLY OR INTELLIGENTLY BY WHITES OR BLACKS, AND IF ANYONE IS SURPRISED BY THAT THEN THEY HAVE NOT LEARNED A THING ABOUT LIFE.

RACE THEORY, "CRITICAL" OR OTHERWISE, BEGETS RACISM. IF YOU START WITH RACE THEORY YOU END WITH RACISM. I WILL NOT SUPPORT RIGHTY. SHE IS NOT THE SOLUTION, SHE'S PART OF THE PROBLEM. THERE IS AN INDISTINCT BORDER BETWEEN ANTI-RACISM AND RACE ADVOCACY AND ONE HAS TO DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE. AS A LEFT, WE NEED TO LUMINOL THAT LINE, AND DIFFERENTIATE FRIEND AND FOE ACCORDINGLY. ANTI-RACISM--REAL ANTI-RACISM--IS REVOLUTIONARY; ADVOCACY ON BEHALF OF ANY RACE IS COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY. THE BROAD COOPERATION REQUIRED BY THE FORMER IS A THREAT TO POWER, THE ANTAGONISM INDUCED BY THE LATTER JUSTIFIES AND SUSTAINS POWER, BECKONS IT.  RACIAL ADVOCACY, CRUCIALLY, PRESERVES THE RACIAL DISTINCTIONS WITHIN THAT CLASS--THE PROLETARIAT--WHICH CAN UNSEAT CLASS RULE. AT BEST IT MIGHT PRODUCE RACIALLY PROPORTIONAL INEQUALITY, BUT IT CANNOT BRING THE MISERY TO AN END. THAT END, OR THAT BEGINING, MAY COME WHEN THE GREAT MASS OF THE WORLD'S PEOPLE DECLARE THAT WE ARE DONE WITH RACE. THAT MIGHT FREE ALL OF US.

SO, DEAR READER, ON WHICH SIDE OF THIS ISSUE DO YOU BELIEVE KELLEY FALLS? YOU CAN'T SPEND YOUR WHOLE LIFE DEFENDING RIGHTY AND MALIGNING "ECONOMISM" AND THEN CLAIM TO BE A SOCIALIST.

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO SELF-IDENTIFIED ANTI-RACIST BLACK LEADERS WERE ACUTELY CLASS CONSCIOUS. THERE WERE EXCEPTIONS, BUT THEY WERE HOPELESSLY OUTNUMBERED. THEY WERE SUPPORTERS OF DERACIALIZATION [NOW DERISIVELY LABELED 'RACE NEUTRALITY' OR 'COLOR BLINDNESSS'] WHO SAW BLACK LIBERATION AS A FRONT IN THE WAR ON CAPITALISM. WHILE MANY ANTI-RACISTS TODAY, LIKE KELLEY, MERETRICIOUSLY SLOUCH IN AN ANTI-CAPITALIST DIRECTION, THEIR PREDECESSORS LIKE DU BOIS, RANDOLPH, TROTTER, AND MANY MANY OTHERS CENTERED THE CLASS STRUGGLE AND WERE ALLIES WITH WHITE LIBERATION STRUGGLES AT HOME AND ABROAD. THESE ALLIANCES HAVE BEEN NEARLY SEVERED. NOW, A MAJORITY OF THE BLACK INTELLIGENTSIA ARE RACE THEORISTS, PO-MOs, INTERSECTIONALISTS ETC. SOME OF THIS CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO MONETARY CONSIDERATIONS--THERE'S A GOOD LIVING TO BE HAD IN THE RACISM BUSINESS, JUST ASK KELLEY, BUT THERE HAS BEEN A CONSPICUOUS PUSH AWAY FROM ECONOMIC ACTIVISM AND INTERRACIAL COOPERATION. WE'VE GONE FROM OUR LIBERATION IS DEPENDENT ON YOURS TO OURS IS REAL AND NECESSARILY INDEPENDENT OF YOURS AND YOURS IS A WHITE SUPREMACIST SMOKESCREEN. A SUPERB EXAMPLE OF THIS IS WHEN A MIXED GROUP OF ACTIVISTS PLAN  AN ANTI-RACIST ACTION AND PEOPLE OF COLOR ASSERT THE "RIGHT" TO LEAD THE EFFORT. IF AND WHEN WHITES OBJECT, AS I ALWAYS DO, THE PHRASE 'WHITE SUPREMACY' QUICKLY GETS UNSHEATHED. ONE MIGHT BE TEMPTED TO THINK THAT SOMEONE ASSERTING RACIAL PRIVILEGE AT AN ANTI-RACIST EVENT WOULD BE DENOUNCED BY ALL, BUT, IN MY EXPERIENCE, THAT IS NEVER THE CASE. WE HAVE GONE FROM THE GOAL OF ELIMINATION OF RACIAL PRIVILEGE TO THE WIDESPREAD CONVICTION THAT RACIAL PRIVILEGE IS JUSTIFIED BY PAST RACIAL INJUSTICES. AS M.L.K. SAID "TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT, JUST MORE WRONGS." IT PERPETUATES THE RACISM- AND IMPERIALISM-SUSTAINING MUTUAL HOSTILITY OF BLACKS AND WHITES WHICH IS THE PATHOLOGY UPON WHICH AMERICAN, AND MAYBE GLOBAL, CLASS RULE DEPENDS. YOU UNDERMINE THE CAUSE OF ANTI-RACISM (AND ANTI-CAPITALISM) WHEN YOU OFFER DETAILED, WELL ARTICULATED, EVEN ELEGANT, THEORETICAL CRITIQUES OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, BUT IN PRACTICE EMBRACE IT WHEN IT ADVANTAGES YOU SOCIALLY, POLITICALLY OR FINANCIALLY.

YOU CAN'T WIN A RACE ON A MERRY-GO-ROUND UNLESS YOU GET OFF THE PONY.

"DIVERSITY" MIGHT BENEFIT THOSE PARTICULAR PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN THE VICTIMS OF RACISM IN A GIVEN CONTEXT, BUT IT IS A NIGHTMARE FOR THOSE OF US WHO SEEK TO PUT AN END TO RACIAL INJUSTICE. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS RACIAL DISCRIMINATION; YOU CAN PROVIDE ELOQUENT JUSTIFICATIONS, BUT IN THE REAL WORLD IT IS NEVER GOING TO PLAY WITH THOSE PARTICULAR MONSTERIZED PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER OPPRESSED ANYBODY AND ARE THEMSELVES OPPRESSED AND NOW FIND THEMSELVES PUNISHED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF A RACIALIZED POLITY WHICH THEY DID NOT CREATE AND BY WHICH THEY TOO WERE VICTIMIZED. IN THE LAIRS OF WORKING CLASS MONSTERS, THESE "DIVERSITY" MEASURES ARE BITTERLY OPPOSED--AND SHOULD BE. I HAD A GREAT UNCLE WHO WAS A FIREFIGHTER. AFTER DECADES OF RISING THROUGH THE RANKS WHEN A MUCH DESIRED POSITION, FOR WHICH HE WAS NEXT IN LINE, WAS GIVEN TO A BLACK WITH ABOUT THREE YEARS ON THE JOB, HE WAS OUTRAGED. IF HE WASN'T A RACIST BEFORE, HE WAS NOW. WHEN HE COMPLAINED ABOUT BEING PASSED OVER, HE WAS OF COURSE TOLD THAT HIS WHITENESS HAD PRIVILEGED HIM ETC. HE SPENT HIS ENTIRE CAREER IN A SENIORITY BASED PROMOTION SYSTEM, WHICH WAS SUSPENDED JUST AT THAT MOMENT WHEN HE WAS TO BENEFIT FROM IT. AND THEN HE WAS TOLD HE DIDN'T DESERRVE IT BECAUSE HE WAS WHITE. I CAN ASSURE YOU, DEAR READER, WHEN AN IRISHMAN LIKE MY GREAT UNCLE HEARS ABOUT HOW BLESSED WE HAVE BEEN IN THE ANGLOPHONE WORLD, IT RINGS MORE THAN A LITTLE HOLLOW.

MY UNCLE WAS NOT A MONSTER, NOR WAS THE BLACK WHO GOT THE JOB HE DIDN'T DESERVE; BOTH ARE HUMAN BEINGS, WITH ALL THE GOOD AND ALL THE BAD WHICH INHERES. SO THEN WHAT IS THE PROBLEM AND WHAT IS THE SOLUTION? IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THE INJUSTICE MY UNCLE SUFFERED, ONE HAS TO RAISE COLLECTIVE (RACIAL) JUSTICE OVER INDIVIDUAL JUSTICE, THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO SANITIZE IT. I AM FAMILIAR WITH THE ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF COLLECTIVE JUSTICE, AND THEY DO HAVE MERIT: IT IS NOT SO SIMPLE. HOWEVER, FROM A PRACTICAL ANTI-RACIST POSITION, IT'S A DISASTER FOR US AND A CRUCIAL VICTORY FOR THE PLUTOES WHO OWN BOTH MY UNCLE AND THE BLACK IN QUESTION.

ALL MY GREAT UNCLE KNEW IS THAT HE GOT FUCKED; THAT HE WAS PASSED OVER FOR SOMETHING THAT HE LONG DESIRED AND BELIEVED THAT HE HAD EARNED AND IT WAS STOLEN FROM HIM. THIS TRIGGERED INDIGNATION AS INEVITABLY IT MUST, A STRONG EMOTION THAT WILL NOT BE ASSUAGED BY ANY HISTORICAL, OSTENSIBLLY LEGITAMIZING ARGUMENT WHATEVER ITS MERIT. HIS PAIN RADIATED FROM HIM TO THOSE AROUND HIM, SENDING OUT A RIPPLE OF HATRED FOR BLACKS, WHICH COULD NOT HELP BUT AFFECT PEOPLE WHO LOVED AND CARED ABOUT HIM. AND IN THE WIDER RACEWORLD, IT REINFORCES THE BELIEF THAT FOR RACIAL PROGRESS TO BE MADE INNOCENT BLOOD MUST BE SHED. IT'S US VERSUS THEM, BLACK VERSUS WHITE--JUST THE WAY WALL STREET WANTS IT--AND THIS IS NOT GOING TO LOAD ANY ANTI-RACISM BANDWAGONS. IT'S JUST GOING TO AID THE FLOW OF THAT LIFE'S BLOOD OF AMERICAN EMPIRE: MUTUAL RACIAL ANTAGONISM.

IT IS EASY FOR BLACKS TO ACCEPT RACIAL DISCRIMINATION WHEN THEY ARE THE BENEFICIARIES, BUT YOU CANNOT DEMONIZE RACIAL PRIVILEGE IN ONE BREADTH AND DEMAND IT FOR YOURSELF IN THE NEXT. ARE WHITES BETTER THAN BLACKS? NO. IF THE SHOE WERE ON THE OTHER FOOT, WOULD MY UNCLE HAVE BEEN WILLING TO ACCEPT A PROMOTION HE DID NOT DESERVE? YES. MY UNCLE WAS AN AVERAGE MAN, NO MORE OR LESS VIRTUOUS THAN THE NEXT. HE WOULD HAVE FOUND SOME WAY TO RATIONALIZE IT JUST AS THE BLACK DID. WHO LOOKS A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH? ONE FREQUENTLY HEARS THE CHARGE THAT THE WHITE WORKING CLASS IS TOO RACIST, TOO ENSCONSED IN GLOBAL CAPITALISM, TOO BOUGHT OFF TO PLAY A ROLE IN LIBERATION STRUGGLES, PARTICULARLY ANTI-RACISM. IN CRT LITERATURE PARTICULARLY, THE WHITE WORKING CLASS IS DEGRADINGLY DEPICTED AS NARCISSISTIC, ATAVISTIC, PROFLIGATE, CORRUPT, MONSTROUS, WHEREAS THE BLACK WORKING CLASS IS SELDOM IF EVER PORTRAYED AS SELF-INTERESTED.  YET, FOR THE LAST FEW DECADES WE HAVE WITNESSED THOSE SAME BEHAVIORS BY BLACKS THAT ARE ATTRIBUTED SO OFTEN TO WHITES.  WHAT WOULD MAKE ANYONE THINK IT WOULD BE ANY DIFFERENT WITH BLACKS WHEN THEY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO USE RACE TO THEIR ADVANTAGE? IT IS RACIST AND STUPID TO THINK THAT BLACKS ARE GOING TO ACT IN A BETTER MANNER THAN WHITES DID UNDER SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES. AN ANTI-RACISM MOVEMENT WHICH DEPENDS FOR ITS SUCCESS UPON THE ALTRUISM, ON SELF SACRIFICE, ON VICTIMIZATION OF INDIVIDUALS OR RACES, ON SITUATIONAL ETHICS, ON MORALIZING, PARTICULARLY BOURGEOIS MORALIZING, WILL NEVER CARRY THE DAY. ANYTHING WHICH INJURES, SUBALTERNS, OFFENDS, AGGRIEVES, ANYTHING WHICH HINDERS SOLIDARITY IS A THREAT TO ANTI-RACISM. THE TASK OF A REAL ANTI-RACIST MOVEMENT IS TO DEVELOP A PREFIGURATIVE, NON-RACIALIZED PRAXIS WHICH CAN BE GENERALIZED TO THE WIDER COMMUNITY. THIS WOULD NOT BE AN END IN ITSELF, BUT MIGHT HASTEN THE DEMISE OF THAT SOCIAL SYSTEM, CAPITALISM, WHICH UNDERGIRDS RACISM. WE NEED TO FIND WAYS TO RESOLVE CONFLICT EQUITABLY AND SO ON. AMERICA RUNS ON RECIPROCAL RACIAL ENMITY, THAT IS WHAT MUST BE ELIMINATED, AND YOU CAN'T DO THAT WITH "ME FIRST." THERE MUST BE A COMMITTMENT TO THE ABOLITION OF PRIVILEGES, AS COOPER STATES SO BEAUTIFULLY ABOVE,

AN ASIDE, BUT FIRST A TRIGGER WARNING: WHAT FOLLOWS MAY CAUSE A SUDDEN, LETHAL RISE IN BLOOD PRESSURE. IF OLD OR INFIRM, DOUBLE UP ON YOUR MEDS BEFORE READING.

THE GENERALIZED ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF DIVERSITY MEASURES CAN BE USED TO JUSTIFY WHITE SUPREMACY. IT WORKS BOTH WAYS. IN RELATION TO THE CHINESE EXCLUSION, WHITE SUPREMACY BECOMES FLUID. IT WAS WHITE RAILROAD BARONS WHO WANTED THE CHINESE SO THEY COULD REDUCE LABOR COSTS. IT WAS WHITE AND BLACK WORKERS WHO SUPPORTED THE ANTI-CHINESE LEGISLATION. DID WHITE SUPREMACY PREVAIL OR WAS IT OVERCOME? WERE THE WORKERS ACTING IN A WHITE SUPREMACIST MANNER, OR THEIR WHITE EMPLOYERS? WHEN IT'S WHITE PROLE VERSUS WHITE BOURGEOIS, THE NATURE OF WHAT WHITE SUPREMACY IS AND ISN'T, DOES AND DOES NOT DO, COMES INTO FOCUS.

IN THIS CASE, WHO WAS THE VICTIM OF WHITE SUPREMACY? THE EXCLUDED CHINESE? IF SO, THEN WE MUST CONCLUDE THAT THOSE CHINESE WHO HAD BEEN BROUGHT TO TH U.S. BEFORE THE EXCLUSION TO WORK FOR WAGES LOWER THAN WHITE AND BLACK WORKERS WERE NOT THE VICTIM OF WHITE SUPREMACY. IF THAT IS SO, THEN A LOWER WAGE FOR CHINESE WORKERS IS NOT WHITE SUPREMACY.  IF NOT, THEN WHAT IS WHITE SUPREMACY? WERE THE WHITE RAIL WORKERS PERPETRATORS OF WHITE SUPREMACY? IF SO, THEN BLACK WORKERS WERE THE BENERFICIARIES OF WHITE SUPREMACY. WERE THE RAILROAD BARONS VICTIMS OF WHITE SUPREMACY? THEY WANTED CHINESE LABOR AND WERE BLOCKED BY WHITE SUPREMACIST LEGISLATION. IF THE RICHEST WHITES IN THE RACEDOM CAN BE VICTIMIZED BY WHITE SUPREMACY, THEN THIS WHITE SUPREMACY THING SURE IS COMPLEX.  I'LL STOP HERE, BUT IN THIS CONTEXT "WHITE SUPREMACY" GETS EVISCERATED, AND WHAT IS UNDENIABLY LEFT, WHAT CANNOT BE REMOVED OR DISGUISED,  IS CLASS STRUGGLE.

A CENTURY AGO NO BLACK INTELLECTUAL WHO CALLED HIMSELF A LEFTIST WOULD HAVE COUNTENANCED ANY OF THIS CRT NONSENSE. THERE ALWAYS WERE BLACK NATIONALISTS, BLACK RACISTS/SUPREMACISTS, BUT THEY WERE FEW AND FEW OF THEM IDENTIFIED AS LEFTISTS. BACK IN THE DAY, THE BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT HAD AN UNMISTAKABLY UNABASHED MATERIALIST, INTERNATIONALIST, RACE-COOPERATIONIST, NON CLASS-COLLABORATIONIST, CLASS-STRUGGLE CHARACTER. THE VERY KIND KELLEY BELITTLES.  (GREAT BOOK ON THIS SUBJECT BY THE BRILLIANT CEDRIC JOHNSON: REVOLUTIONARIES TO RACE LEADERS.)

BUT THAT IS LONG GONE NOW.

CAPITALISM HASN'T CHANGED, SO WHAT HAS? WHENCE THIS DRIFT TO THE RIGHT? SINCE THE DEFEAT OF THE NAZIS, BEFORE WHICH REACTIONARY WINGNUTS COULD WALK AROUND IN PUBLIC AND HOLD RALLIES AND BREAK UP UNION MEETINGS, WE HAVE SEEN THE RISE OF POST-MODERNISM. ESSENTIALLY, IT IS ANTI-ENLIGHTENMENT, ANTI-RATIONALIST, INTERSECTIONALIST, ANTI-MATERIALIST, ANTI-DIALECTICAL, ANTI-TELEOLOGY, ANTI-ONTOLOGY MOVEMENT; A SHIFT FROM A BELIEF IN AND PURSUIT OF THE OBJECTIVE TO THE PERONAL AND SUBJECTIVE. WHILE WITHIN IT THERE ARE GOOD PEOPLE DOING GOOD THINGS, ITS INERTIAL DIRECTION IS, AND CAN ONLY BE, RIGHTWARD. THIS IS AN ENORMOUS TOPIC, TOO BIG TO DO JUSTICE HERE [GREG ROCKHILL HAS A YOUTUBE CHANNEL WHERE HE DELVES INTO THIS]. IT SUFFICES TO SAY THAT NOW THAT IL DUCE AND DER FUEHRER ARE GONE, CRT AND THE LIKE PROVIDE THE THEORETICAL WEAPONRY FOR THE PLUTOCRACY AND KELLEY IS ONE OF THOSE WEAPONEERS. SCIENTIFIC RACISM IS DEAD. SO CAPITAL NEEDS A NEW IDEOLOGICAL ENEMY TO FIGHT THE CLASS WAR. IT HAS REHABITUATED US TO RACE THINKING. IT HAS BEEN RENORMALIZED, REBRANDED, REMARKETED, REVALORIZED AND DEFUMIGATED AS "CRITICAL" RACE THEORY TO DISTANCE IT FROM THE NOW DISCREDITED SCIENTIFIC RACE THEORY OF THE FASCISTS.

WHENEVER I HAVE MADE THIS POINT THE RESPONSE HAS BEEN SOMETHING LIKE "YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS, YOU CAN'T COMPARE NAZI RACISM AND CRT." INDEED THEY ARE VERY DIFFERENT, HOWEVER, IT'S THE RIGHT-WING POLITICAL UTILITY THEY SHARE THAT MATTERS MOST. AT THEIR HEART IS A SUBVERSIVE FALLACY: THAT RACE IS THE CAUSE OF CURRENT GLOBAL INJUSTICE, AND THAT THERE IS A RACIAL PATH OUT OF THAT INJUSTICE. THIS WAS THE GREATEST DEBILITATING LIE OF THE LAST CENTURY, AND, ALAS, OF THIS ONE.

KELLEY REPEATS THIS LIE ENDLESSLY, SO HIS LAMENTING "NOSTALGIA" AND A FALSE PAST IS A LITTLE LIKE AL CAPONE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE RISING CRIME RATE IN CHICAGO.

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Who is he talking about? Black Power and feminism had radical and conservative tendencies, and neither uniformly privileged race or sex,

THE WORD 'UNIFORMLY' BEING UNIFORMLY NON-UNIFORM (REMEMBER THE NON-SPECIFICITY COMMANDMENT OF CRT, IF YOU NEVER SAY ANYTHING...), I GUESS THE ABOVE CANNOT BE REFUTED. IF THAT WORD WERE REMOVED, HOWEVER, THERE COULD BE NO OBJECTION TO DECLARING IT FALSE.

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or ignored class, for that matter.

TRUE, IT WASN'T IGNORED, IT WAS ATTACKED ENDLESSLY BY FAUX LEFTIES, CHARLATAN'S LIKE KELLEY, IN A FALSE-FLAG OPERATION. THINK MOUFFE.

 OLIVER EAGLETON [https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/11/what-chantal-mouffe-gets-wrong]:

 "This theory was immediately assailed as a capitulation to the Thatcherite settlement. Writing in New Left Review, the political theorist Norman Geras described it as 'a product of the very advanced stage of an intellectual malady,' which encapsulated 'all the key positions of a sector of the European left moving rightwards.' the historian Ellen Meiksins Wood deemed it an expression of the retreat from socialist principles that characterised the decade. The criticisms of Laclau and Mouffe were obvious: they railed against a crude caricature of Marxism that bore little resemblance to the reality; their rejection of “class reductionism” had broken with class analysis [summarily];  their avowal that ideology had no mooring in material conditions marked an absurd relativisation of politics; and their downgrading of socialism in favour of democracy signalled accommodation with the regnant liberal order."

TEACH, YOU ARE RIGHT, THEY DID NOT IGNORE CLASS. THAT WAS NOT THEIR MISSION.

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 And what about the black Left?


WHAT BLACK LEFT? THERE IS NO BLACK LEFT LEFT. CRT DESTROYED IT, WHICH WAS ITS MISSION.

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 If these activists and the New Left more broadly abandoned "the exploitation of workers by capitalists," why did so many of these folks join Marxist-Leninist organizations in the early 1970s and begin working in factories to organize industrial workers?


THE QUESTION IS WHY DID THEY THEN LEAVE. ALL PART OF THE BIG MINSTREL SHOW.

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Workers became very important for the New Left,


BECAME???????????? WHAT WERE THEY BEFORE?  DEAR READER, PLZ KNOW THE KELLEY IS FALSIFYING THIS HISTORY BEYOND RECOGNITION. THE NEW LEFT BEGAN NOT AS AN ANTI-MATERIALIST MOVEMENT--NOT AT ALL. IT REJECTED THE METHODS OF THE USSR, VOICED SKEPTICISM ABOUT SOME ASPECTS OF MARXIST ANALYSIS, AND IT PERCEIVED AGENCY BEYOND THE PROLETARIAT. IT DID NOT BEGIN AS A POST-MARXIST ENTERPRISE WHICH LATER DISCOVERED CLASS.  RIDICULOUS.

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particularly for African-American radicals. In 1968 and 1969, a fairly large contingent of black, radical students at Duke and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill helped organize key strikes of maintenance and dining hall workers. Former Wayne State students such as General Baker, Marion Kramer, Ken Cockerel, Ken Hamblin, Luke Tripp, Charles Johnson, and others organized the Revolutionary Union Movement in Detroit's auto plants, which culminated in the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW). Some of the organizers who split from the League joined former SNCC leader James Forman and founded the Black Workers Congress.

THERE'S LOTS TO SAY ABOUT FOREMAN AND THE BWC, ISN'T THERE, TEACH?  NO FRIEND TO THE PANTERS OR THE LRBW, AT LEAST ACCORING TO SOME ELEMENTS OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS. NOT EVERYBODY LOVES HIM--AS YOU KNOW.

TO ABANDON SOMETHING MEANS IT HAS TO HAVE EXISTED. THE CONTEMPORARY COUNTERPARTS OF D.R.U.M. WOULD BE IN THE 1619 MOVEMENT. THAT'S THE POINT. IT WAS PRECISELY THIS APPROACH WHICH YOU LAUD THAT HAS BEEN ABANDONED IN FAVOR OF RACEBOTICS.

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Not surprisingly, in his book Gitlin dismisses the industrial concentration movement coming out of the New Left in a sentence, probably because it contradicts his central thesis that the late 60s witnessed the flight from universal class struggle.

NOT 'UNIVERSAL,' MERELY PREDOMINANT, UNLIKE NOW.

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Yet, some of these same people contributed substantially to labor struggles during the "dark ages," and can take some credit for the current regeneration of the movement


WRONG. WHAT K REFERS TO AS THE 'DARK AGES' WERE THE 'LIGHT AGES,' SO HE HAS FLIPPED THE SCRIPT AGAIN. AND YES THESE 'SAME PEOPLE' CAN TAKE CREDIT FOR THE REGENERATION, BUT KELLEY CANNOT. HE AND COHORT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR SPINELESS QUALITY. KELLEY CAN TAKE CREDIT FOR THEIR DERADICALIZATION.

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- from Eric Mann, who led the campaign to keep GM Van Nuys open in the 1980s, to labor militants like Joe Alvarez, currently the political director for the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). Alvarez's presence is no small matter, for UNITE is one of the biggest unions in the country, formed in July of 1995 through a merger of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU). UNITE has also taken the lead in the fight against sweatshops throughout the Western hemisphere, building cross-border alliances from Latin America and the Caribbean to Canada.


ALL PRAISES TO COMRADE ALVAREZ, BUT OFF TOPIC. HE'S ADDRESSING A NON-ISSUE. WORSE, HE'S COMMANDEERING THE EFFORTS OF THOSE WHO DO NOT SHARE HIS VIEWPOINT--DOING THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT KELLEY SUPPORTS--AND PRESENTING IT AS EXAMPLES OF WHAT HE SUPPORTS.

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On the other hand, those white construction workers in the 1960s who battled antiwar protesters and supported Nixon -- the folks Gitlin calls "the Common men" -- were also notorious for having the most racist, exclusionary unions.


CRT IS A RIGHT-WING IDEOLOGY.

WHAT ABOUT THOSE BLACK WORKERS WHO BATTLED ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS? THOSE BLACK THUGS WHO ATTACKED STRIKING WORKERS AND ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS. R.A.M., LEST WE FORGET, ATTACKED WHITE WORKERS. ONCE AGAIN KELLEY IS PUTTING FORTH A RACIST/FASCIST ARGUMENT SUPPORTED BY DISINFORMATION BY MEANS OF OMISSION AND MISCHARACTERIZATION. IT IS A FICTION THAT ONLY WHITE WORKERS WERE PRO-WAR, THIS IS FAR FROM THE TRUTH! THE BASIC FASCIST LINE HERE IS THAT BLACKS ARE OPEN-MINDED, EGALITARIAN, FREE OF RACIAL PREJUDICES, PROGRESSIVE, MAGNANIMOUS AND WHITES ARE RACIST, ATAVISTIC ETC. THIS IS PURELY, UNMISTAKABLY RACIST LEITMOTIF COMING FROM OUR 'ANTI-RACIST' PROFESSOR.

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 Now, compare their unions to the local, state, and federal employees unions that supported black struggles for justice. Or compare them to, say, District 1199 of the hospital workers or some locals of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) -- unions that embraced the spirit (and the people) of the civil rights movement. Multiracial public sector unions were able to survive, even thrive, while construction workers belong to some of the most devastated unions in the country. Indeed, when unionization was on the decline, public sector unions increased their membership by 37%.

IS THIS A RESULT OF KEYNESIANISM? AS THE PUBLIC SECTOR GREW, SO DID ITS UNION MEMBERSHIP.

AGAIN OFF TOPIC. NOBODY IS CLAIMING THAT ANYBODY BENEFITTED FROM RACIAL STRIFE AMONG WORKERS, LEAST OF ALL UNIONS.

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In other words, given black workers' commitment to organized labor, despite being overrepresented in the unemployment rolls and in occupations that have historically been difficult to unionize, it is ironic that African Americans bear so much of the burden for the decline of "class politics."

FIRST, IT IS BALONEY THAT BLACK WORKERS WERE COMMITTED TO ORGANIZED LABOR AND WHITES WERE NOT, JUST MORE RACIST NONSENSE. TO THE EXTENT THAT UNIONS WERE MORE POPULAR WITH BLACKS--IF TRUE--MIGHT IT NOT BE BECAUSE THEY HAD MORE TO GAIN FROM THEM? WHERE WHITE WERE RESISTANT TO MINORITY MEMBERSHIP, MAY IT BE BECAUSE THEY TOUGHT THEY HAD MORE TO LOSE? COULD IT BE THAT, LIKE WHITES, BLACK WORKERS HAVE ACTED IN THEIR OWN MATERIAL INTERESTS REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES FOR OTHER WORKERS?

SECOND, ONCE AGAIN THIS OFF TOPIC. IT'S NOT ABOUT UNIONISM, IT'S ABOUT RADICAL UNIONISM. IT'S ABOUT REVOLUTIONARY ANTI-CAPITALISM. THAT IS  WHAT'S DIED, AND KELLEY IS ONE OF ITS KILLERS. MOREOVER, IT IS A RACIST MYTH THAT BLACK WORKERS HAVE BEEN MORE INCLUSIVE, MORE COLLABORATIVE, MORE RECIPROCAL, MORE MUNIFICENT, LESS PAROCHIAL, LESS INSULAR, LESS XENOPHOBIC, LESS PROTECTIONIST, LESS PROPRIETARY, LESS SELFISH THAN WHITE WORKERS. IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LABOR IS INVARIABLY PRESENTED AS KELLEY DOES, THAT BLACKS HAVE BEEN TEAM PLAYERS AND WHITES HAVE BEEN ALOOF, SELFISH, AND UTTERLY INDIFFERENT TO THE PLIGHT OF BLACK WORKERS. THE TRUTH IS THAT EACH "RACE" HAS ACTED IN THE MOMENT AND IN ITS OWN BEST INTERESTS SUCH AS THEY (OFTEN ERRONEOUSLY) PERCEIVED THEM. WHITES HAVE UNITED WITH OTHERS WHEN IT BENEFITTED THEMSELVES AND DECLINED TO DO SO WHEN IT WAS APPRAISED TO BE DISADVANTAGEOUS. BLACKS HAVE DONE PRECISELY THE SAME. BOTH GROUPS HAVE THROWN THE OTHER UNDER THE CLASS BUS.

THIRD, BLACKS DO NOT "BEAR SO MUCH OF THE BURDEN FOR THE DECLINE OF 'CLASS POLITICS,'" JUST A SHARE. THE BLACK WORKING CLASS HAS BEEN EVERY BIT AS DISAPPOINTING AS THEIR WHITE COUNTERPARTS. BOTH HAVE DONE INSPIRING THINGS, AND BOTH HAVE MUCH TO REGRET.

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Black workers, after all, have the highest union participation rate -- in 1994, 21% of the African-American work force was unionized compared to 15% of whites. Furthermore, a 1989 AP/Media survey revealed that people of color had stronger union sympathies than whites. When nonunion workers were asked: "Would you join a union at your place of work?" 56% of African Americans answered yes, as did 46% of Latinos. Among white workers, only 35% responded affirmatively.


COULD IT BE THAT THESE WERE RESULTS OF CLASS POLITICS? AND ARE THESE THE SAME BLACK HEROES NOW SEEKING REPARATIONS?

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If rebuilding class politics is the goal of the neo-Enlightenment left, and the labor movement is one of the vehicles for doing so,


YES, A LABOR MOVEMENT WOULD BE A GOOD "VEHICLE" FOR A LABOR MOVEMENT.

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 I don't understand why they would invoke Enlightenment universalism to promote a version of American nationalism and support for "majoritarian" values which -- it seems to me -- is the very opposite of the cosmopolitanism they claim to be embracing.


APPARENTLY, INTERRACIAL COOPERATION IS WHAT HE MEANS BY "ENLIGHTENMENT UNIVERSALISM." IF NOT, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE COULD MEAN.

CLAIM TO BE EMBRACING?

NOBODY ON THE LEFT IS PROMOTING AMERICAN NATIONALISM. THIS IS ABSURD. ANYONE DOING SO IS BY DEFINITION NOT A LEFTIST. ONLY IN THE RACEWORLD DOES THIS POINT NEED TO BE MADE:

YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO ACCEPT, PROFESSOR KELLEY, THAT HITLER WAS WRONG ABOUT A FEW THINGS. ACCEPT IT, YOU WILL FEEL BETTER. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS NATIONAL SOCIALISM. I KNOW HOW DISAPPOINTED YOU MUST BE, BUT NATIONALISM AND SOCIALISM DON'T MIX, THEY REPEL. ALL HITLER'S TALK ABOUT CLASS NEUTRALITY WAS A RUSE, A DODGE, HE NEVER REALLY MEANT IT. ONCE IN POWER HE ELIMINATED ALL FORMS OF WORKERS' CONTROL AND POWER AND LET THE UBERSCUM OF GERMAN CAPITAL RUN THE ECONOMY AS THEY SAW FIT. HE DIDN'T ELIMINATE CLASS OPPRESSION, HE RESCUED IT, AND HE DID SO BY FOCUSING PUBLIC ATTENTION ON RACE AND OFF CLASS JUST LIKE YOU. DO YOU UNDERSTAND, PROFESSOR? ALL THIS STUFF ABOUT VOLKSSTAAT, VOLKSGEMEINSHAFT, GLEICHSCHALTUNG, BLUT UND BODEN, IT WAS ALL JUST MARKETING. IT WASN'T REAL--IT WAS THE CRITICAL RACE THEORY OF ITS TIME. SORRY. BUT, ON THE OTHER HAND, HIS INSISTENCE UPON A RACIAL POLITICS PROBABLY WAS SINCERE. YOU CAN TAKE COMFORT IN THAT. CAN I GET YOU A CUP OF TEA?

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Gitlin deplores the fact that the Republicans have seized the symbols of patriotism and that progressives have failed to promote "Democratic Americanism, an Americanism of constitutional faith strong enough to override the racism of American history. . . ." What an incredibly naive statement; it ignores actual historical context and presumes one can miraculously disentangle the language of "Americanism" from its roots in white supremacy, conquest, and xenophobia.


 Tomasky's chauvinism is even more strident:

    The United States alone, simply because its power and wealth are still so vast, can set the direction for the rest of the advanced world to follow. . . . . An America that rises above its own particularisms and ethnic rivalries might be able to posit itself as an example for others, in Bosnia, in Macedonia, in Russia, in the Middle East and, with some credibility, lead a Western coalition that lays down principles that factions there must adhere to. And for the Third World, especially for those people making six dollars a day weaving those designer garments, an America devoted once again to working people will surely bear fruit.

Can labor really afford to rally behind this sort of nationalist rhetoric in the age of global capital? Imagine if the AFL-CIO had been supporting progressive unions across the world rather than U.S. foreign policy driven by Cold War imperialism? It took NAFTA to spur the AFL-CIO to take cross-border organizing more seriously, and though some campaigns are succeeding, labor leaders now have to break through a wall of suspicion and distrust following decades of AFL-CIO-supported Cold War policy. And yet Gitlin lampoons all Third World solidarity movements. The fact is, the South African divestment campaign as well as Central American solidarity movements opened doors to labor that might otherwise have been shut.


WHILE I AGREE WITH MOST OF THE ABOVE, THERE ARE ERRORS:

1) THE AGE OF GLOBAL CAPITAL IS ABOUT 3000 YEARS. BEFORE CAPITALISM THERE WAS CAPITAL-FUELED GLOBAL TRADE.

2) KELLEY KEEPS CONFUSING BOURGEOIS UNIONISM AND RADICAL UNIONISM. THE FORMER IS A PART OF THE GLOBAL CAPITAL SYSTEM.

3) IT DID NOT TAKE "NAFTA TO SPUR THE AFL-CIO" INTO CROSS-BORDER ORGANIZING. THA HAPPENED LONG AGO. [THERE IS A GREAT BOOK ENTITLED YANKEE UNION, GO HOME. CAN'T REMEMBER THE AUTHOR BUT DON'T SKIP THE INTRO IF YOU READ IT--A REAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.]

4) THE S.A. DIVESTMENT CAMPAIGN WAS A CUT OUT FOR THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION AND ITS POLICY OF "CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT" WITH THE WHITE MINORITY GOVERNMENT. AND THE CAMPAIGN, NOR THE SUBSEQUENT CAPITAL-CONTROLLED HANDOVER OF POWER TO THE BLACK MAJORITY QUISLING GOV DID A GODDAM THING FOR BLACK WORKERS. THIS IS MORE EVIDENCE OF JUST HOW REACTIONARY RACIOLOGY IS, HOW HARMFUL IT IS, HOW MUCH SUFFERING IT DISGUISES. THERE IS A NEW BLACK PROFESSIONAL MANAGERIAL CLASS IN S.A., AND EVEN A BLACK OWNERSHIP CLASS. THEY ARE DOING QUITE WELL, AND AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR FELLOW BLACK SOUTH AFRICANS. IF YOU ARE NOT A RACIST; IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT SOMEHOW BLACKS ARE MORE VIRTUOUS, LESS AVARICIOUS THAN WHITES ETC., THEN THIS WAS PREDICTABLE. AND IT WAS PREDICTED. NEO-ENLIGHTENMENT MATERIALISTS PREDICTED IT.

IT'S LIKE ALL THOSE RACISTS OF ALL COLORS WHO WERE ACTUALLY VAPID ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT BARAK OBAMA WAS GOING TO BRING A CHANGE TO AMERICA. THEY JUST DON'T GET IT. NOT THEIR FAULT, THEY HAVE BEEN RAISED IN THE RACEWORLD, ON IDENTITY POLITICS, CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND THE OTHER INNUMERABLE FORMS OF IDEOLOGICAL CLASS WAR. SINCE THE TRANSITION, A SMALL LAYER OF BLACK SAs HAVE PROFITED IMMENSELY, BUT AS A WHOLE BLACKS IN S.A. HAVE SEEN A SIGNIFICANT DECLINE IN STANDARD OF LIVING. IT'S GONE FROM HORRIBLE TO WORSE. THE NEW BLACK A.N.C. GOVERNMENT IMMEDIATELY FLUSHED THE FREEDOM CHARTER--WHOOOSH--SUPPRESSED WORKER UPRISINGS AS LETHALLY AS ITS WHITE PREDESSOR-BANG BANG, MARIKANA, YOU'RE DEAD, PRIVATIZED ROADWAYS AND UTILITIES ETC. MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, MOOOOOONEY. WITH THE RESULT THAT THE BLACK LUMPEN AND WORKING CLASS IS WORSE OFF ECONOMICALLY THAN UNDER THE WHITE GOVERNMENT. BEING A MINORITY GOVERNMENT, THERE WAS ONLY SO FAR IT COULD GO, UNDER MANDELA AND SUCCESSORS THE PLUTOCRACY HAD A FREER HAND. SOTH AFRICA'S GINI INDEX NUMBER IS THE HIGHEST THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN. THIS BLACK GOV HAS DONE WHAT THE WHITE GOV NEVER COULD: SA HAS BECOME THE GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR BLACK POVERTY, SETTING NEW STANDARDS FOR IMMISERATION. NATIONAL WEALTH IS NOW SO MALDISTRIBUTED THAT EVEN THE WORLD BANK IS CAUTIONING S.A. TO TAKE IT EASY. BUT IF YOU ARE A RACIST IDIOT, HAVE SUCCUMBED TO THIS FORM OF POLITICAL DUPERY, THEN EVERYTHING IS JUST FINE. IT'S A TRIUMPH INDEED: THE WHITE GOV HAS BEEN BANISHED AND BLACKS NOW GOVERN A MAJORITY BLACK POPULATION. HURRAH! POP OPEN THE BUBBLY! EXCEPT THAT THE WORKERS CALL THE NEW GOV HOUSING "KENNELS." THEIR INCOME DEFICITS THEIR COST OF LIVING MORE THAN EVER BEFORE AND MORE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE; SUBSISTENCE SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN CUT DUE TO AUSTERITY MEASURES WHILE TAX BREAKS FOR BUSINESSES HAVE BEEN INSTITUTED. THE SA BLACK WORKING CLASS AND LUMPEN ARE THE MOST OPPRESSED PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. 

DID YOU HEAR ME, RACEBOTS? LET ME SAY IT AGAIN: THE SA BLACK WORKING CLASS AND LUMPEN ARE THE MOST OPPRESSED PEOPLE ON THE PLANET.  AND, YES, RACEHEADS, YOU ARE IN NO SMALL PART TO BLAME. YES, ASSHOLE, I'M TALKING TO YOU.

THIS IS WHERE RACIOLOGY INEXORABLY LEADS. NO WORKER, REGARLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, GENDR, SEXUALITY, IS EVER FREE IN A CAPITALIST SOCIETY. FULL STOP. DON'T LET THE RACEBOTS FOOL YOU. RACE IS A DELUSION, A FRAUD, A DISTRACTION TO KEEP US FROM REALIZING THAT WE WORKERS ARE ALL LIVING IN KENNELS AND ON A GLOBAL PLANTATION. RACE IS BULLSHIT. THE WHITE GOVERNMENT WAS BULLSHIT, THE BLACK GOVERNMENT IS BULLSHIT. RACE IS BULLSHIT.

CRT IS A RIGHT-WING IDEOLOGY.

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Rather than worry about offending 'majoritarian sensibilities' the labor movement must make antiracism, antisexism, and anti-homophobia foundational.

NO, IF THE GOAL IS SOCIALISM, THEN THAT IS PRECISELY THE WRONG APPROACH. WHICH IS NOT TO SAY THAT THESE ISSUES ARE UNIMPORTANT, BUT THEY ARE NOT FOUNDATIONAL. WHAT IS IS WORKER CONTROL AT THE POINT OF PRODUCTION; THE ELIMINATION OF AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM WHEREIN ONE CLASS PRODUCES AND ANOTHER GETS MOST OF THE PROCEEDS. THAT IS FOUNDATIONAL

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The absurd argument that minority aggressiveness is responsible for white male backlash at the tail end of the 1960s

IF HE MEANS WHAT HE SAYS, HE DOESN'T GET IT. THE POINT OF JIM SNOW/CRT/DIVERSITY IS TO ANTAGONIZE. THAT IS ITS RAISON D'ETRE. AMERICA RUNS ON MUTUAL RACIAL HATRED. MONITORING IT AND CREATING IT IS JOB ONE FOR AMERICAN CAPITAL.

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masks the fact that it has been white racism that has tragically inhibited the growth of most progressive movements in the U.S.
 

THAT'S A RACIST LIE, AND HE KNOWS IT.

I WAS AROUND AT THE END OF THE 60S, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE CITES. HE DOESN'T GET TOO SPECIFIC--I GOOD IDEA FOR PEOPAGANDISTS. AS SOMEBODY ONCE SAID THE BEST WAY TO WIN AN ARGUMENT IS TO SPEAK WITH CONVICTION WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING. ONE WOULD THINK THAT HE MIGHT OFFER SOME EVIDENCE, PARTICULARLY IF THE ARGUMENT IS 'ABSURD.'

NOBODY ON THE LEFT IS SAYING THAT WHITE WORKERS' RACIAL ATTITUDES WERE NOT REACTIONARY AND COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. FIRST, SO TOO WERE BLACK ATTITUDES OFTEN MYOPIC AND COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. SECOND, WHERE DO THESE RACIAL ATTITUDES OF WHITES COME FROM? KELLEY HAS NOT OFFERED AN EXPLANATION. I GUESS THAT HE IS NOT WILLING TO ADMIT TO SCIENTIFIC RACISM, NOT PUBLICLY AT LEAST. IF IT IS NOT IN WHITE GENES, THEN IT'S ACQUIRED. WHENCE? IS THERE SOME CLASS WITH AN INTEREST IN INSTILLING RACISM IN THE WHITE MIND AND THE WEALTH AND POWER TO DO IT? TO HAVE IT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, REPRODUCED IN THE PRESS, TO NORMALIZE RACISM AND HOMOLOGATE IT? WHO HAS THE CAPABILITY TO INSTITUTE JIM CROW AND JIM SNOW? CUI BONO?

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As W.E.B. DuBois, Dave Roediger, Alexander Saxton, Ted Allen, Noel Ignatiev, Michael Goldfield, Eric Lott, David Wellman and others have demonstrated, racism has been a noose around white workers' necks since the American Revolution.

BEFORE, ACTUALLY AND YES, THAT IS WHAT RACISM IS FOR, WHAT JIM CROW AND JIM SNOW ARE FOR, WHAT CRT IS FOR

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In the South during Reconstruction, a misguided white majority sided with the wrong class

AS HAS KELLEY.

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 and rejected the black workers and sharecroppers who proposed a Democratic South with massive land redistribution.

WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK MISGUIDED MINORITY?

DURING RECONSTRUCTION AND AFTERWARDS, THERE WERE COUNTLESS EXAMPLES OF INTERRACIAL COOPERATION IN UNIONS AND POLITICAL PARTIES. THERE WERE ALSO EXAMPLES OF DISUNITY. WHILE RACEBOTS FIGURE OUT WHICH RACE WE SHOULD ANATHEMATIZE, LET'S HAVE AN HONEST DISCUSSION.  HOW MANY TIMES DID THE STATE OR STATE-ADJACENT ENTITIES ENFORCE INTERRACIAL COOPERATION? HOW MANY TIMES DID THE SAME SUNDER, BY LAW, SUBTERFUGES, INTRIGUES AND VIOLENCE, PARTIES AND UNIONS WHICH SOUGHT AND DID ACHIEVE AN INTERRACIAL MEMBERSHIP? ANSWER THOSE TWO QUESTIONS AND YOU WILL BE ON YOUR WAY TO RECOVERY.

PLENTY OF EXAMPLES OF BOTH RACES DOING PROGRESSIVE AND REGRESSIVE THINGS. THE SUGGESTION THAT WHITE WORKERS WERE AGAINST A MASSIVE REDISTRIBUTION OF LAND IS JUST COMICAL.

SINCE K CITES DU BOIS, SOMEDAY HE SHOULD READ HIM MORE CAREFULLY.

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Despite the fact that the black freedom struggle, in alliance with the radical wing of the Republican Party, enfranchised poor whites who didn't have the right to vote before the 15th Amendment, the vast majority of exploited white labor still chose color over class.

WHAT? POOR WHITES COULDN'T VOTE? YOU MEAN THE WHITE SUPREMACIST ESTABLISHMENT DISENFRANCHIZED WHITES? YOU MEAN CLASS TRUMPED RACE IN WHITE SUPREMACIST AMERICA? THERE MUST BE SOME MISTAKE. 

BOY THIS WHITE SUPREMACY THING SURE IS COMPLICATED.

VAST? RIDICULOUS. POOR WHITES DIDN'T CHOOSE ANYTHING. WHAT THEY ENDED UP WITH WAS CHOSEN FOR THEM. THE MYTH THAT KELLEY IS PEDDLING IS THAT THE WHITE WORKING CLASS HAS POWER AND CHOICE, WHICH IS ABSURD. WHITE SUPREMACY BENEFITTED---YES, NO TYPO HERE--AN ECONOMIC LAYER OF THE GHETTO, AND DISADVANTAGED AN ECONOMIC LAYER OF WHITEVILLE. NEITHER WERE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. WHITE SUPREMACY COULD NOT EXIST, OR AT LEAST WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SO PROFITABLE DUE TO INCREASED COSTS, WITHOUT THE WILLING ASSISTANCE OF A BLACK COORDINATOR CLASS, WHO WERE WELL COMPENSATED FOR THEIR EFFORTS. DURING SLAVERY, WHITE YEOMAN FARMERS WHO WERE OR HAD BECOME FREE, AND WHO COULD NOT AFFORD SLAVES AS MOST COULD NOT, COULD NOT COMPETE WITH LARGE PLANTERS. AS A RESULT, THE PLANTERS OWNED THE BEST LANDS AND YEOMEN WERE FORCED OUT OF THE MOST PROFITABLE CROPS AND ONTO THE WORST LAND. THE BIRTH OF REDNECK. WHITE SUPREMACY IMPOVERISHED THEM. 

DAMN THIS WHITE SUPREMACY THING IS ARCANE.

THE PRESENCE OF THIS FREE WHITE AGRICULTURAL UNDERCLASS WAS PROFITABLE FOR THE PLANTERS BECAUSE THEY LOCALLY PRODUCED FOOD FOR THE SLAVES--CAN'T FEED THEM COTTON--AT A LOW PRICE AND FREED UP ALL OF THE PLANTERS' LAND FOR THE MOST LUCRATIVE CROPS. POST-BELLUM HILLBILLIES SOMETIMES SOUGHT ALLIANCES WITH BLACK FREEDFOLK AND SOMETIMES REJECTED THEM. FREEDFOLK TOO SOMETIMES SOUGHT AND REJECTED ALLIANCES WITH WHITES. TO UNDERSTAND WHY ONE MUST KNOW THE PREVAILING, MICROREGIONAL CONDITIONS IN EACH CASE, INCLUDING SUCH CONSIDERATIONS AS PERSONALITY AND OTHER IDIOSYNCRATIC FACTORS AS WELL AS RACIAL ANTAGONISM. INSTEAD OF SUCH AN HISTORIOGRAPHICAL EFFORT WE GET JIM SNOW RACISM: ENLIGHTENED, INTELLIGENT, NOBLE, SAINTLY BLACKS DOING THE BEST THEY CAN TO CIVILIZE MONSTERS.

AND THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE, PLAUDIT WORTHY AS IT WAS, HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ENFRANCHISEMENT OF SOME PROPERTYLESS WHITES. THE ELITES DECIDED IT WAS IN THEIR INTERESTS TO INVEST POOR WHITES WITH THE RIGHT TO VOTE--AND PAY TAXES.

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 And in California, it was precisely anti-Chinese sentiment that galvanized the multi-ethnic "white" working class and forged a dynamic union movement on the West Coast during the late 19th century.

 OUR MENDACIOUS PROFESSOR HAS STRUCK AGAIN. REMEMBER WHEN HE TRYED TO PULL A FAST ONE BY ACCUSING CALIFORNIA WHITES OF BEING RACISTS FOR VOTING FOR 187, BUT DIDN'T MENTION THAT BLACKS VOTED FOR IT TOO. HE'S DONE IT AGAIN. BLACK RAILWAY WORKERS AND OTHER BLACKS ALSO SUPPORTED THE ANTI-CHINESE LEGISLATION. I GUESS KELLEY JUST FORGOT.

HE CAN'T DIVULGE THIS BECASUSE THAT MEANS BLACKS ARE RACIST TOO OR IT WAS A CASE OF JOB COMPETITION. AND JIM SNOW CATECHISM IS CLEAR ON THESE POINTS: ONLY WHITES ARE MOTIVATED BY SELF INTEREST, AND JOB COMPETITION IS A WHITE SUPREMACIST STRATEGY TO EXCULPATE WHITE CRIMINALITY AND SUBVERT BLACK SOLIDARITY.

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Of course, white workers were never uniformly racist and there are enough stories of interracial working-class solidarity to fill volumes.

WOW. THIS IS THE FIRST INSTANCE IN HIS LENGTHY ESSAY WHERE HE SAYS ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE. UP TO THIS POINT EVERYTHING HAS BEEN "UNIFORMLY" NEGATIVE. SO WHY CHANGE HIS TUNE NOW? INDEED THERE ARE VOLUMES BUT THESE VOLUMES NEVER REACH THE SCHOOLS, MEDIA, THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PEOPLE. KELLEY'S BOOKS GET READ. CRENSHAW'S BOOKS GET READ. JIM SNOW CANNOT SURVIVE AN HONEST RENDERING OF AMERICAN HISTORY. THAT'S WHY WE HAVE CRT. RACIOLOGY CANNOT ENDURE MUCH SCRUTINY.

AS I HAVE BEEN CRITICAL, I GUESS I AM DECENCY-BOUND TO THANK KELLEY ON BEHALF OF MY MONSTROUS, UNWORTHY RACE, FOR CREDITING US WITH ANYTHING OTHER THAN MALEVOLENCE.

LET'S NOT MISS THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS REVELATION. WHAT KELLEY IS SAYING IS THAT BEFORE CRT, BEFORE WHITE FRAGILITY, BEFORE IDENTOMANIA, DERRICK BELL, CEDRIC ROBINSON, BEFORE WHITENESS STUDIES, BEFORE POST-COLONIAL QUEER STUDIES, BEFORE THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, BEFORE THE COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE, BEFORE THE STREETS WERE ACLUTTER WITH STRAIGHT MEN IN MINISKIRTS AND STRAIGHT WOMEN WITH CHAW JAW, BEFORE IBRAM X KENDI CAME TO SHOW US THE TRUTH, THE LIGHT AND THE WAY, BEFORE EVEN THE VERY BIRTH OF KIMBERLE "BOARDROOM" CRENSHAW, THERE WERE ENOUGH INSTANCES OF INTERRACIAL WORKING CLASS SOLIDARITY TO FILL VOLUMES OF UNREAD BOOKS.

THIS MEANS THAT IF WHAT HE HAS JUST WRITTEN IS RIGHT, THEN EVERYTHING HE'S WRITTEN BEFORE IS POINTLESS, WRONG, AND WRONGHEADED, AND CRT IS NOT WORTH THE LOADED CHAMBERPOT IT CAME IN.

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But we also must recognize the price these men and women had to pay: white workers willing to commit "race suicide" often faced the worst of state repression, ostracism, and sometimes hostility within their own ranks. It's not an accident, for example, that the most militantly anti-racist unions emerging out of the CIO campaigns of the 1930s and 40s were the main targets of McCarthyite witch hunts.

WHAT? YOU MEAN STATE INTERVENTIONS WERE NEEDED TO THWART INTERRACIAL WORKER SOLIDARITY? HOW COULD THIS BE, WHITES ARE MONSTERS? 

YA KNOW, I'M HAVING REAL TROUBLE GETTING MY HEAD AROUND THIS WHITE SUPREMACY THING. SEEMS ABSTRUSE.

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I can't stress enough the importance of the fight against racism right now, especially with a growing backlash against affirmative action under the guise of supporting a "color blind" society.

CRT IS A RIGHT-WING IDEOLOGY. SOCIETY SHOULD BE COLOR BLIND AND RACE NEUTRAL. THE CONCEPT OF COLOR-SIGHTEDNESS IS THE CORE OF RACISM, IT'S UNIMAGINABLE WITHOUT IT. DURING THE INITIAL DAYS OF THE A-A MOVEMENT, THERE WAS BRIEFLY AN ALTERNATIVE DUBBED G.I.P.R., OR GIPPER: GUARANTEED INCLUSION, PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION--SOMETHING LIKE THAT. IT CONTAINED AN IMPRESSIVE RAFT OF RADICAL IDEAS, SUCH AS A CERTAIN NUMBER OF SEATS IN PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITIES BEING ALOTTED BY NEIGHBORHOOD/DISTRICT POPULAR COMMITTEES. I DON'T RECALL EVER READING ABOUT ANY POLLING ON THIS PROPOSAL BUT MY GUESS IT WOULD'VE GARNERED ALOTTA SUPPORT. THE PROSPECT OF POPULAR CONTROL OVER COLLEGE ADMISSIONS WAS EXCITING. BUT IT DISAPPEARED NEARLY INSTANTANEOUSLY, PROBABLY BECAUSE OF ITS RADICALNESS. THE RULING CLASS WANTED A-A AND, AS ALWAYS, GOT THEIR WISH.

THIS IS ONE OF THE LEFT'S MISSED OPPORTUNITIES. IMAGINE IF BLACKS REJECTED A-A AND PROPSED INSTEAD GIPPER OR SOMETHING LIKE IT. IMAGINE IF ORGANIZED BLACK LIBERATION ACTIVISTS, SPECIFICALLY THE BLACK ONES, HAD ISSUED THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT:

 "WE REJECT A-A. WE HAVE BEEN THE VICTIMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATIONS AND WE REFUSE TO BE A PARTY TO, OR PERPETRATORS OF, RACISM. WE DEMAND OUR FAIR SHARE AND NOTHING LESS, BUT NOTHING MORE. WE DO NOT WISH TO SEE ANY OF OUR WHITE SIBLINGS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST. WE WANT A PROPORTIONAL NUMBER OF SEATS RESERVED FOR US, AND FOR US TO DECIDE WHO GETS THEM."

TRAGICALLY, THIS DID NOT HAPPEN, BUT HOOOOOOOOOOOOOW THAT WOULD HAVE CHANGED THE CONVERSATIONS AROUND WHITE KITCHEN TABLES. WHAT A DEVASTATING, PERHAPS LETHAL BLOW WOULD HAVE BEEN STRUCK AGAINST WHITE RACISM IN PARTICULAR. IN MY CASE IT GAVE MY RACIST FATHER--WHO FREQUENTLY LAMENTED THAT HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON WAS A [BLACK]LOVER--LOTS OF AMMUNITION. "HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW," HE ASKED POINTEDLY, "YOUR [BLACKS] JUST STABBED YOU IN THE BACK." HARD TO ARGUE BECAUSE THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT DID HAPPEN. I UNDERSTAND BLACK NARCISSISM, AS I DO WHITE, BUT UNDENIABLY THIS WAS A CASE OF WHAT'S GOOD FOR US IS ALL WE CARE ABOUT AND FUCK YOU. HOW THE RULING CLASS WOULD HAVE TREMBLED IN THEIR GUCCHIS HAD THEY BEEN FORCED TO SEE BLACKS ACT SELFLESSLY, DEMOCRATICALLY, IN SOLIDARITY WITH WHITES. BUT, ALAS, IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. INSTEAD THE PLUTOS LEARNED THEY HAD THE MINDSET OF THE GHETTO RIGHT WHERE THEY WANTED IT. RIGHT WHERE CRT PUT IT. NOT FOR THE FIRST OR LAST TIME, THE BLACK WORKING CLASS BETRAYED THE WHITE WORKING CLASS, AS THEY HAD THEMSELVES BEEN BETRAYED MANY TIMES. AT SOME POINT THIS REACTIONARY CYCLE MUST BE BROKEN; THE HEGEMONIC PROTOCOL OF THE RACEWORLD; OF RACIAL PERCEPTIONS AND RACIAL DEFINITIONS AND RACIAL TRANSVALUATIONS AND RACIAL INCENTIVES AND RACIAL REWARDS, HAS TO BE OVERCOME. THE POINT OF JIM CROW WAS NOT MERELY TO SEGREGATE THE WORKING CLASSES, BUT ALSO TO ANTOGONIZE THEM. NO LONGER TENABLE, JIM CROW WAS CASHIERED AND JIM SNOW INAUGURATED, WHICH SERVES THE SAME PURPOSE. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH, BUT WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN IF BLACKS HAD MILITANTLY STATED: "WE WILL NOT LIVE IN YOUR RACEWORLD ANYMORE." THEY MAY JUST HAVE BROUGHT THE EMPIRE TO ITS KNEES.

[HONESTLY, DEAR READER, I HAVE GOOSEBUMPS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS. OH WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN...]

ALAS, THE "LEFT" NOWADAYS IS OF A MIND THAT WHATEVER IS GOOD FOR BLACKS IS GOOD, AND THAT CAN ONLY SERVE TO ANTAGONIZE WHITES AND CREATE RACISM WHERE IT DIDN'T ALREADY EXIST AND ENERGIZE IT WHERE IT DOES.

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Anyone seriously concerned about the labor movement and building multiracial unity must recognize the fundamental role racism has played in destroying internationalism.

WHO DOESN'T?

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 Anti-immigrant sentiment, for instance, is not just about class anger, because there really is no mobilization against Canadians or European immigrants taking what are essentially skilled jobs. Its about dark people


WRONG, DEAD WRONG, FACTUALLY WRONG, ANALYTICALLY WRONG, AND RACISTLY WRONG. NICE RACEBOT TRY THOUGH, MIXING SKILLED AND DARK. HERE HE DOESN'T USE RACE/GENDER/SEXUALITY BUT DARKNESS. THIS ONE WAS RESOURCEFUL. HE TAKES A TOPIC WHICH IS A REAL PROBLEM FOR RACEBOTICS AS IT SO DRAMATICALLY CONTRAVENES THE RACE-UBER-ALLES POSITION, BUT RACEBOT EXTRAORDINAIRE KELLEY MANAGES TO FIND AN ANGLE, A SPIN, WHICH IF YOU SQUINT REALLY HARD, AND TAKE LOTS OF LSD, CAN APPEAR TO BE TRUE. NO ANTI-CANADIAN IMMIGRATIONISM, THAT'S CRAFTY.

FIRST, THE WORST INSTANCES BY FAR OF WORKER NATIVISM IN THE LAST HALF CENTURY HAVE HAPPENED IN W. AFRICA. IN COTE D'IVOIRE AND NIGERIA AND ELSEWHERE, HUNDREDS, PERHAPS THOUSANDS, OF BLACK AFRICAN MIGRANTS HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY BLACK AFRICAN NATIVE WORKERS. THE MOBILIZATIONS IN THE U.S., MOSTLY ORGANIZED BY THE MINUTEMEN, WHO ARE RIVEN WITH AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE PERSONEL, HAVE BEEN QUITE MILD BY COMPARISON. THE AFRICAN NATIVISTS WERE NOT MOTIVATED TO KILL BECAUSE THEY HATED DARK PEOPLE

SECOND, KELLEY SPECTACULARLY  DISGUISES THE TRUTH. THERE ARE NO MOBILIZATIONS AGAINST E. ASIANS. OKAY, TO PLAY KELLEY'S RACEWORLD GAME BY RACEBOT RULES, THEY ARE NOT DARK.  HOWEVER, THERE HAS BEEN A CONSIDERABLE IMMIGRATION FROM S. ASIA AND E. AFRICA, THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY MASS UPROAR AGAINST THEM. THE MOBILIZATIONS HAVE BEEN ALMOST ENTIRELY AGAINST MEXICANS AND MESO-AMERICANS. CLEARLY, INCONTESTABLY, THEN, IT IS NOT ABOUT DARK PEOPLE. MOST OF THE INDIANS, SOMALIS, ERITREANS, ETC. ARE NOT POOR. I LIVED FOR A TIME IN THE SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD OF YESLER TERRACE WHERE SOMALIS--REALLY LOVELY PEOPLE--WERE A GREAT MAJORITY. (A BLACK FRIEND ONCE SAID TO ME "YOU REALLY LOVE THEM IMPORT [BLACKS], DON'T YOU.") THEIRS WAS A CAPITAL FLIGHT, THEY WERE NOT POOR HUDDLED MASSES. WHILE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT WHITE SEATTLITES, UNLIKE THEIR BLACK CO-CITIZENS, ARE PROGRESSIVE TO A GREATER EXTENT THAN ANYWHERE ELSE I'VE LIVED, NEVERTHELESS, IT WAS THE NATIVE BLACK COMMUNITY WITH WHOM THE SOMALIS HAD THE MOST TROUBLE. YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS WRONG WHEN SO MANY SOMALIS AND ETHIOPIANS CONFIDE THEIR MISGIVINGS WITH THE NATIVE BLACK POPULATION TO A MONSTER LIKE ME.

THIRD, KELLEY IS DEPICTING ANTI-IMMIGRATIONISM AS A WHITE-ONLY PHENOMENON, WHICH IS A FILTHY RACIST JIM SNOW LIE. REMEMBER 187?

FOURTH, THE POINT OF THE HIGHLY PUBLICIZED STAGECRAFT AT THE MEXICAN BORDER IS TO STOKE MUTUAL RACIAL ENMITY, WHICH IS HOW THE RULING CLASS RULES. THESE MOBILIZATIONS ARE OFTEN PLANNED IN QUANTICO. OF COURSE THERE IS REAL RACISM AMONG WHITES, BROWNS AND BLACKS, BUT MANY OF THESE EVENTS ARE PSY-OPS CONDUCTED TO PROVIDE GRIST FOR THE RACEWORLD MILL. JOB NUMBER 1 FOR THE PLUTOCRACY IS TO KEEP THE RACES HATING EACH OTHER. IT'S DO OR DIE FOR THEM.

TO SUGGEST THAT IT'S ABOUT DARK PEOPLE IS TO FUNDAMENTALLY MISREPRESENT THIS ISSUE, GOOD TRY THOUGH.

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 whether some invisible Pacific Rim empire run by "sneaky Orientals" or "wetbacks."
 

THE QUOTE-MINING GAME GETS US NOWHERE. WITHIN ANY MOVEMENT OR HISTORICAL CONFLICT THERE IS A MIX OF PEOPLE WITH ALL SORTS OF MOTIVES (THINK CRT), YOU CAN FIND ROTTEN APPLES IN ANY BUNCH. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE--OR FIND POLITICAL UTILITY IN SAYING--THAT ORIENTALS ARE SNEAKY. HELL THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO THINK WHITE PEOPLE ARE A RACE OF MONSTERS! SO KELLEY'S STATEMENT IS OF NO ANALYTICAL VALUE, ALTHOUGH IT MAY HELP KEEP THE RACEBUCKS FLOWING

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The history of conquest and, later, repatriation in the Southwest is fundamental to understanding anti-immigrant sentiment,

HOW SO? ABSENT ANY CHARACTERIZATION OF THIS HISTORY, THIS STATEMENT IS MEANINGLESS.

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 the English-only movement, and pro-Prop 187. Blanket support for "majoritarian" positions simply plays into American nationalism and chauvinism.

So, how might people build class solidarity without suppressing or ignoring differences?
 

HE LOVES THAT WORD MAJORITARIAN.

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How can we build on differences

WE DON'T NEED TO "BUILD" ON DIFFERENCES AS SUCH CONSTRUCTIONS IMPERIL THEM, WE NEED TO BUILD ON COMMONALITIES AS THOSE UNITE ON THE BASIS OF SHARED INTERESTS WITHOUT ENDANGERING DIFFERENCE. ON A PLANTATION WITH MANY SLAVES THERE WILL BE ALL MANOR OF ATTITUDES, SENTIMENTS, PREJUDICES, TEMPERAMENTS, IDIOSYNCRACIES ETC., BUT ALL WANT TO BE FREE.

THERE IS A WIFF OF FASCISM IN CRT. LIKE SEXUALITY, HOW ONE VALUES OR DOES NOT VALUE THEIR RELIGION, CULTURE, LANGUAGE, ETHNICITY, WHATEVER, IS A PERSONAL MATTER. ONE WHICH NEEDS TO BE UNTRESPASSED. THERE IS SOMETHING REALLY AUTHORITARIAN AND CREEPY IN KELLEY'S RACEWORLD LIBERALISM, SOMETHING OPPRESSIVE IN HIS MANICHEAN INSISTENCE ON FIXED CATEGORIES OF HUMANITY AND A POLITICS ERECTED UPON THEM. REFERENCING SPINELLI AGAIN: WE ARE ALL AUTONOMOUS CENTERS OF LIFE, THOUGHT, BEING, CONSCIOUSNESS, ESSENCE. EMANCIPATORY MOVEMENTS BEGIN WITH RECOGNITION OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE AND LIBERTY AND  UNDERSTAND THEIR PRESERVATION AS ITS GUIDING PRINCIPLE IF NOT ITS AIM. CRT, KELLEY CERTAINLY, DOESN'T REPRESENT THE END OF CONFINING HUMAN CLASSIFICATIONS, BUT RATHER THE FABRICATION OF NEW RUBRICS AND NEW BLOCS. TO PARAPHRASE EMMA GOLDMAN, IF I CAN'T DANCE, THEN I WANT NO PART OF YOUR REVOLUTION.

GRAMSCI SAID "“The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is...as a product of the historical process to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory…” EVERY HUMAN BEING IS THE TIP OF AN IMMENSE ICEBERG. THE GOAL IS TO CREATE A SOCIETY WHICH ALLOWS TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE THE UNENCUMBERED EVOLUTION OF ITS EVERY MEMBER, NOT TO DELINEATE OR DIRECT IT.

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 -- by which I mean different kinds of oppression as well as different identities

ARE SUCH ANIMOSITIES MORE EASILY EXPUNGED IN A CAPITALIST SOCIETY WHERE EVERYBODY IS TRYING SELL YOU SOMETHING, OR IN A SOCIALIST WORLD WHERE THERE WILL BE NO ECONOMIC, NON-PERSONAL REASON TO HATE?

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rather than in spite of them?

FALSE DICHOTOMY.

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One way to conceive of alliances across race and gender is as a set of "affiliations," of building unity by supporting and perhaps even participating in other peoples struggles for social justice.

WE HAVE BEEN DOING THAT FOR CENTURIES, AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN. I HAVE NEVER MET A WHITE ACTIST WHO OPPOSED SO DOING.

THERE IS A CLASS WHICH PRODUCES; THERE IS CLASS THAT OWNS THE MEANS BY WHICH THINGS ARE PRODUCED. ONE DOES ALL THE WORK, AND THE OTHER GROWS RICH. THAT IS THE PROBLEM. THERE ARE ONLY TWO CLASSES. ARE THE OWNERS GOING TO WAKE UP ONE MORNING, HAVE A SOCIALIST EPIPHANY, AND CREATE A CLASSLESS SOCIETY? UNLIKELY. WHO'S LEFT? THE 'AFFILIATIONS' WHICH CAN EFFECT EQUALITY ARE, AND CAN ONLY BE, THOSE WHICH WORKERS COMPRISE. IN A WORLD OF HAVES AND HAVE NOTS, WHO IS GOING TO REBEL?.

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Basically, that old fashioned IWW slogan, "An injury to one is an injury to all!" After all, contrary to the neo-Enlightenment narratives, African-American social movements have been practicing the principle of "an injury to one is an injury to all" for a very long time

RACIST TRASH, JUST MORE ANGELS AND MONSTERS. THAT STATEMENT IS AS TRUE OF WHITES AS BLACKS. REMEMBER THOSE VOLUMES OF INTERRACIAL WORKER COOPERATION? ONCE AGAIN, KELLEY IS DEPICTING BLACKS AS MORE PROGRESSIVE, INTELLIGENT, COLLABORATIVE, WHICH IS NOT ONLY RACIST BUT OBSCURANTIST. TO THE DEGREE THAT BLACKS MAY HAVE BEEN MORE AMENABLE TO CROSS-RACIAL [BLESS YOU, COMRADE] AND CROSS-CLASS [FUCK YOU, JUDAS] ALLIANCES WAS DUE TO THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES AS A MINORITY. THEY NEEDED SUCH ALLIES MORE THAN OTHERS. POST-BELLUM, JUST ABOUT EVERY KIND OF BOND, MANY OF THEM INSPIRING, WERE FORGED AND DISSOLVED AND THEN FORGED AGAIN. HISTORY WAS MOVING QUITE FAST. AT THE HEART OF KELLEY'S ACCOUNT IS THE RACIST MYTH THAT BLACKS ARE MORE VIRTUOUS THAN WHITES, AND THAT RACIAL DYNAMICS IS WHAT DROVE LABOR HISTORY POST-EMANCIPATION. I HAVE AN ANTI-RACIST VIEW: IF THE PRE-EMANCIPATION HISTORY OF THE U.S. WERE DIFFERENT, IF IT WERE A BLACK MAJORITY COUNTRY WITH A BLACK MAJORITY SLAVE OWNER CLASS AND WHITE MAJORITY SLAVES, HAD DRED SCOTT BEEN WHITE AND THE COURT WHICH RENDERED THE DECISION BLACK, THEN BLACKS WOULD HAVE ACTED LIKE WHITES DID AFTER THE WAR AND WHITES LIKE BLACKS. THAT TO THE EXTENT RACE WAS A FACTOR, IT WAS ARTIFICIALLY CONSTRUCTED AND INJECTED INTO THE BODY POLITIC PURSUANT TO ECONOMIC INTERESTS. HERE KELLEY ENDORSES THE BASIC CRT/FASCIST CANARD THAT RACE IS THE PROBLEM AND RACIAL POLITICS PROVIDES A SOLUTION.

RACISM CHECK: IF YOU BELIEVE THAT THE REVERSE HISTORY SCENARIO I PRESENTED IS INVALID BECAUSE BLACK PEOPLE WOULD NEVER DO THOSE THINGS, BLACKS ARE TOO GOOD, TOO PURE, THEN A) YOU MOST CERTAINLY ARE A RACIST, AND B) YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT WORLD HISTORY. NOT YOUR FAULT, OUR OVERSEERS EMPLOY AN ARMY OF RACEBOTS WITH KELLEY AT ITS HEAD TO ENSURE THAT YOU ARE KEPT IGNORANT ENOUGH TO BE A RACIST. RACISM AND TRUTH REPEL.

ONCE AGAIN, K IS DEPICTING PEOPLE AND INCIDENTS AS THOUGH THEY ARE CONGRUENT WITH HIS ARGUMENT WHEN THEY ARE NOT. THE WOBS INSISTED ON RACIAL EQUALITY BY REJECTING RACE ALTOGETHER, NOT BY EMBRACING RACIOLOGY. THE WOBS WERE AN EXPLICITLY, MONOLITHICALLY, INFRANGIBLY, MILITANTLY ANTI-RACEWORLD ORGANIZATION. RACEBOTS WERE NOT WELCOME. THEY WOULD HAVE RECOGNIZED KELLEY FOR THE SHILL HE IS INSTANTLY AND SHOWN HIM THE DOOR.

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 black male abolitionists supported women's suffrage when few white men would;

THE SUGGESTION THAT BLACK MEN ARE MORE SENSITIVE TO, OR TREAT "BITCHES" BETTER, REPECT THEM MORE, THAN WHITE MEN IS A VICIOUS RACIST LIE.

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 black radicals throughout the early part of the century supported the Irish struggle for self-determination;

AND, THANKS TO RACEBOTS, THEY HAVE ABANDONED THAT SUPPORT. JIM SNOW REESTABLISHES THE COLOR LINE FROM WHICH JIM CROW WAS DRIVEN.

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 black soldiers and journalists shed tears at the sight of Nazi death camps;

ACTUALLY, NO BLACKS REACHED DEATH CAMPS, THE LATTER WERE FARTHER EAST.

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and since Roosevelt, we have been mainstays in the Democratic Party

RACIOLOGY IS A RIGHT-WING IDEOLOGY. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY? IS HE JOKING? BLACKS, LIKE WHITES, SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THIS.

IS KELLEY AN ANTI-CAPITALIST?

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 even to our own detriment.

YA DON'T SAY!

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Black trade unions were never exclusionary;

I HAVE TO CONFESS I DO ADMIRE THIS GUY. HE IS FUNNY.

IF THEY WERE BLACK TRADE UNIONS THEN THEY WERE EXCLUSIONARY, OTHERWISE THEY WOULDN'T BE BLACK TRADE UNIONS.

HE IS FUNNY.

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 black labor leaders did not implement Jim Crow locals.

OH, CLEVER. THE WORDING IS BRILLIANT.

PERHAPS THEY DIDN'T 'IMPLEMENT'THEM, ALTHOUGH I BELIEVE THAT THEY DID. BUT THE ARGUMENT WOULD DEVOLVE AROUND THE WORD IMPLEMENT.

THE CODED ASSERTION HERE IS THAT BLACKS AS A MASS WERE MORE OPEN TO INTERRACIAL UNIONISM, AND THAT IS FALSE. SOME YES, SOME NO. THE CHICAGO STOCKYARDS WOULD BE ONE EXAMPLE WHERE MANY BLACK WORKERS, SEEMINGLY A MAJORITY, WANTED A SEGREGATED LOCAL DESPITE THE EFFORTS OF WHITE WORKERS TO DISSUADE THEM. BLACK WORKERS ALSO SHUNNED UNION-LED EFFORTS TO  PROVIDE SOCIAL SERVICES TO ITS WORKERS AND GENERALLY ACTED IN A SEGREGATIONALIST MANNER DESPITE BEING IN A VERY PROGRESSIVE UNION WHICH WAS TREATING THEM WELL. AGAIN, I MUST STATE THAT I UNDERSTAND BLACK NARCISSISM/RACISM/NATIONALISM ETC., BUT IT DOES EXIST AND, FUCK YEAH, IS A PROBLEM. IN THIS CASE THE UNION WAS ACTING AS A DESEGREGATIONIST AGENT AND BLACK WORKERS RESISTED.

IN ORDER TO RESOLVE THESE PROBLEMS, WE HAVE TO GET BEYOND KELLEY-STYLE, JIM SNOW RACISM. IN THE ABOVE EXAMPLE, WHITES WERE CLEARLY THE PROGRESSIVE ELEMENT AND BLACKS RETROGRADE. IN THIS INSTANCE IT WAS THE BLACK WORKING CLASS WHO WAS ACTING AGAINST ITS OWN INTERESTS. WORKER EMPTYHEADEDNESS IS NOT A WHITE-ONLY PHENOMENON. ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE HAVE BEEN MANY INSTANCES WHEN IT WAS THE WHITE WORKING CLASS WHO LED THE CHARGE IN THE WRONG DIRECTION. SORRY, CRT, THIS ISN'T ABOUT RACE, NEVER WAS.

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 And when the Chinese Exclusion Act seemed to have universal support among non-Asian workers, it was a black man, James Ferrell of the Knights of Labor, who told his comrades that they ought to organize the Chinese rather than attack them.

HATS OFF TO JAMES FERRELL, BUT HIS WAS A MINORITY BLACK OPINION. BLACK WORKERS SUPPORTED THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT FOR PRECISELY THE SAME REASONS WHITE WORKERS DID. IT WASN'T BLACKS WERE PRO-IMMIGRATION AND WHITES AGAINST IT. IT'S JUST NOT TRUE, AND HE KNOWS IT.

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The good news is that most elements of the labor movement understand this, unlike many academics who apparently find the idea of multiple identities too complicated to deal with.

NOBODY, NOT EVEN IN THE HALLS OF CAPITALIST ORTHODOXY, FINDS IDENTITY POLITICS COMPLICATED. THIS IS JUST USELESS, SELF-SERVING TWADDLE.
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 Despite their uncritical support of the Democratic Party,

DIDN'T HE JUST VALORIZE BLACKS FOR LOYALTY TO THEIR ENEMY.

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  the current leadership of the AFL-CIO seems to understand that the labor movement is not about transcending these other social movements derisively labelled "identity politics," but about building alliances and affiliations and learning from them.

TRAGIC, BUT TRUE.

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Across the country,

HE MEANS ACROSS THE RACESCAPE.

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for example, unions have embraced cultural diversity education to reduce white racism,

CRT IS A RIGHT-WING IDEOLOGY.

WHAT ABOUT BLACK RACISM? ONE-DIMENSIONSL ANTI-RACISM WON'T WORK. THIS IS WHY OUR RULING CLASS NEVER TIRES OF STOKING THE FLAMES OF RACIAL STRIFE.  IT HAS TO. IT'S NOT JUST REDNECK, BUT HOMEBOY TOO [THE BEEVIS AND BUTTHEAD OF AMERICAN POLITICS], THEY NEED EACH OTHER IN ORDER TO SURVIVE. THE POINT IS NOT JUST TO GET REDNECK TO HATE HOMEBOY, BUT ALSO TO GET HOMEBOY TO HATE REDNECK. THEIR INTERACTIONS MUST BE MADE FRAUGHT, OR THE WHOLE RACIAL ALIENATION SYSTEM COLLAPSES.

WHEN I WAS A KID, I WAS TOLD TO  "STAY AWAY FROM THOSE [BLACKS]." MY FATHER INSISTED "THEY HATE YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE WHITE. THOSE PEOPLE ARE NEVER GOING TO BE YOUR FRIENDS. THEY ENJOY NOTHING MORE THAN TO HUMILIATE A WHITE PERSON. THEY'D SLIT YOUR THROAT IF THEY COULD GET AWAY WITH IT." SADLY, THIS ATTITUDE WAS WIDESPREAD. ALL WHITE PARENTS I KNEW CAUTIONAED THEIR KIDS TO STAY AWAY FROM BLACKS. ALSO SADLY, THERE ARE ENOUGH BLACKS WHO FIT THAT DESCRIPTION--OR APPROXIMATE IT. EVERY WHITE PERSON HAS AT LEAST ONE HORROR STORY ABOUT AN ENCOUNTER WITH A BLACK WITH MORE HATRED THAN HUMAN DECENCY. AS A FORMER BUS DRIVER, I HAVE A BUCKETFUL. HOWEVER, ONE  HIGHLIGHTS THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE IN THIS RACEDOM WELL.

I AND ABOUT 12 WHITES WERE IN A MENSROOM AT HALFTIME OF A HIGHSCHOOL BASKETBALL GAME. 3 BLACKS WALKED IN AND THE BIGGEST SAID "I'LL KICK THE ASS OF ANY WHITE BOY HERE. YOU OUTNUMBER US BUT I BET NONE OF YOU WHITE [HOMOSEXUALS] HAVE THE BALLS TO TAKE ME ON. " OFFENDED BY THIS REVOLTING BIT OF RACISM, I DECIDED TO TAKE HIM UP ON HIS GENEROUS OFFER. I WAS OKAY WITH MY HANDS BACK IN THE DAY. I'D DONE A LITTLE BOXING, AND MY UNCLE WAS A PRO, FROM WHOM I HAD LEARNED A LITTLE. I SAID I'D FIGHT HIM, BUT I WAS GOING TO KILL HIM [YES, I WAS ANGRY] AND I MEANT HE NEEDED TO WIN THE FIGHT OR DIE. HE LOOKED SURPRISED, BUT NOT FEARFUL. HE THREW A RIDICULOUS LONG RIGHT, I CAME UNDER WITH A LEFT HOOK TO THE RIBS FOLLOWED BY A RIGHT UPPERCUT TO THE ABDOMEN AND A RETURN LEFT HOOK TO THE RIBS WHICH LANDED LOUDLY. HE TOTTERED FOR A SECOND, HIS EYES GOT BIGGER THAN BILLIARD BALLS, AND THEN HE RAN. HIS ACCOMPLICES BOLTED WITH HIM.

WELL, OKAY, A REAL RACIST SCUMBAG GOT WHAT HE DESERVED, BUT I HAD A PROBLEM. I WAS NOW A HERO TO WHITE RACISTS. "DAVID [MY NAME] SLEW THE [BLACK] GOLIATH." I WAS SEEN AS A DEFENDER OF MY RACE--WELL, I HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH THAT PER SE, BUT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE NOW LIONIZING ME WERE MY POLITICAL ENEMIES. AT AND IN THIS MOMENT I WAS REIFIED AS A GREAT SOLDIER IN A RACE WAR I WAS NOT FIGHTING. PEOPLE I DIDN'T KNOW CAME UP TO ME AND SAID THINGS LIKE "WAY TO GO, MAN, I WISH I HAD BEEN THERE WHEN YOU BEAT THE FUCK OUT OF THAT [BLACK]." I WAS AFRIAD THE NAZI PARTY WAS GOING TO NOMINATE ME FOR PRESIDENT. I WAS EVEN INDIRECTLY CONTACTED BY WHAT I WILL CALL THE ITALIAN-AMERICAN FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION WHO HAD HEARD THAT I WAS GOOD WITH MY HANDS AND WANTED TO RECRUIT ME TO BE ONE OF THEIR SECURITY OFFICERS. HOW HAD THIS HAPPENED TO ME? WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T I JUST WALK OUT OF THAT BATHROOM. I WAS DEEPLY CONFLICTED. STILL AM.

LIFE IN THE RACEWORLD.

RACISM IS A BINARY PHENOMENON.

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 ethnic conflicts, sexism, and homophobia

ALL WORTHY GOALS AND NOBODY ON THE LEFT OPPOSES THIS, AND, MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY, THESE EFFORTS, LIKE MINISKIRTED STRAIGHT MEN AND BEARDED, GREASE-STAINED  STRAIGHT WOMEN, WILL DO ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY NOTHING TO ALTER THOSE THINGS WHICH MUST BE BROUGHT TO AN END. IN FACT, THIS FACILE LIBERAL IMBECILITY DOESN'T COMBAT RACISM, IT SUSTAINS IT: WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE PROBLEM. IF YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS, THEN 1) YOU ARE A RACIST, AND 2) YOU DO NOT BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD YOU LIVE IN.

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...In Los Angeles, where Latino and Asian-American garment workers are spread across many small plants and shops, organizing shop by shop would prove costly and time-consuming. The Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) adopted a community-based strategy that has been quite successful.

YES, THEY WERE A CENTURY AGO AND STILL ARE.

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In Greensboro, North Carolina, UNITE's ability to build a strong base in the black community ensured the success of its boycott of K-Mart last year. Essentially, UNITE launched a campaign to protest racial inequities in wages: K-Mart workers at the nearly all-black facility were making a mere $4.60 an hour. In addition to filing a complaint with the EEOC, the union enlisted all the key local black community leaders and were able to get over 10,000 signatures on a petition to K-Mart's chairman demanding an end to discrimination. In other words, rather than simply appealing to black workers as "workers," they appealed to the black community and tapped a deep tradition of resistance to racism and injustice.

BETTER THAN NOTHING, BUT NOT MUCH. THIS IS A PYRRHIC VICTORY BECAUSE THEY ARE STILL WAGE SLAVES. BLACKS WITH FULL CONTROL OVER THE CONDITIONS/PRODUCTS/DISTRIBUTION OF THEIR LABOR, THAT IS THE GOAL. ABSENT THIS, THEY ARE STILL BEING SODOMIZED, STILL HIRELINGS IN THEIR OWN WORKPLACE, STILL IMPOSTERS IN THEIR OWN LIVES.

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Similarly, members of the Labor Party Advocates steering committee recognized that in order to have substantial representation of women and workers of color at the Labor Party's founding convention, they could not rely solely on established union contacts.

SO, RACEBOT, WHY WAS THIS NECESSARY? WERE YOU NOT JUST TELLING US ABOUT HOW COMMITTED BLACKS WERE TO LABOR UNIONS AND UNIONS TO BLACKS? NO, BLACKS, LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, ARE COMMITTED TO DOING WHAT'S BEST FOR THEMSELVES AS THEY PERCEIVE IT. THEY ARE NOT THE UBERVOLK OF KELLEY'S RACIST DELUSIONS. BLACK SOCIAL AND RACIAL ATTITUDES, LIKE WHITE ONES, ARE A PROBLEM. NO, WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT THE PROBLEM! IF YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU DON'T GET IT. WHITE AND BLACK PEOPLE ARE THE PROBLEM--EMPHASIS ON THE "AND."  THEY NEED EACH OTHER TO REPRODUCE RACISM. IF ONLY ONE WERE RACEBROKE, RACISM WOULDN'T WORK. AS THE FASCISTS OF YESTERYEAR UNDERSTOOD, THE REMEDIATION OF RACIAL CONFLICT REQUIRES RACIAL SOLIDARITY, WHICH CAN HAVE NO OTHER EFFECT THAN TO HINDER INTERRACIAL COOPERATION, THE VERY THING REQUIRED FOR CLASS POLITICS. THE RACEWORLD SUPPORTS NON-RACIAL PREDATORY SOCIAL RELATIONS, AS SUCH, POSES NO MEANINGFUL THREAT TO THE CAPITALIST ORDER.

WHAT CRT OBSCURES, IS THAT RACISM IS BINARY. UNILATERAL RACISM WON'T WORK FOR LONG. RACISM REQUIRES BLACK IDIOTS, LIKE MY FRIEND IN THE BATHROOM, AS MUCH AS IT DOES WHITE ONES. A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF AMERICAN BLACKS BELIEVE THAT WHITE AMERICANS ARE THOROUGHLY MINDFUCKED. BRAVO! I AGREE. NOW TAKE THE NEXT STEP. WHAT NOBODY SEEMS TO NOTICE IS THE OTHER 800LB GORILLA IN THE ROOM. TAKE OFF THE BLINDERS, DO THE MATH--IT TAKES TWO TO RACEBOT. MANY--NOT NEARLY ALL--BLACKS HAVE ALL KINDS OF RACIST IDEAS IN THEIR HEADS, AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW THAT THEN OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE NOT HAD THE WHITE EXPERIENCE IN THIS JIM SNOW RACEDOM. THIS IS NOT TO BLAME BLACKS (OR WHITES), THOSE HARBORING RACIST IDEAS ARE ALSO VICTIMS AS THIS PARTICULAR KIND OF IDEATIONAL INTERFERENCE IS NOT ONLY PSYCHOLOGICALLY UNHEALTHY, BUT HINDERS POLITICAL EFFORTS TO COMBAT RACISM. FOR OVER A CENTURY IN AMERICA, AS IS WELL DOCUMENTED, THE MINDSET OF THE GHETTO, PARTICULARLY ITS INTELLECTUAL PRODUCTION, HAS BEEN CAREFULLY MONITORED AND INFLUENCED BY THE STATE INTELLIGENCE/ENFORCEMENT APPARATUS. THERE IS COPIOUS EVIDENCE OF JUST HOW MUCH IMPORTANCE THE BUREAU AND OTHER AGENCIES PLACED ON KNOWING AND DIRECTING BLACK OPINION. THE GHETTO HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO MINDFUCKING TO SAME DEGREE AS WHITE AMERICA. BLACKS AND WHITES ARE THUS MADE PARTNERS IN THEIR OWN SUBJUGATION. BOTH ARE REQUIRED TO KEEP RACISM ALIVE. MY PARENTS TOLD ME WHEN I WAS A CHILD TO STAY AWAY FROM BLACKS BECAUSE THEY HATED ME BECAUSE I'M WHITE. I SUFFER TO REPORT THAT THEY WERE CORRECT. THERE ARE MANY, MANY LOVELY, BEAUTIFUL, BLACK, NON-RACIST PEOPLE WHO DO NOT WISH ANYBODY ANY HARM, BUT THERE ARE PLENTY OF BLACKS--PLENTY--WHO DO. THAT IS THE REALITY HERE IN THE RACEWORLD. THUS, IT WAS GOOD PARENTAL ADVICE I GOT IN MUCH THE SAME WAY THEIR TELLING ME TO LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING THE ROAD WAS GOOD PARENTAL ADVICE. GET IT? MY FATHER WAS A RACIST AND MY MOTHER REALLY WASN'T, BUT BOTH CAUTIONED ME TO BE WARY OF BLACKS. GET IT NOW?

IN THE MIDDLE OF MOST CITIES IN WHITE MAJORITY AMERICA THERE IS THE EXCEPTION TO EVERY NORM, WHERE THE SAFETY AND BELONGING WE FELT DISAPPEARED: THE GHETTO; A DANGEROUS NEIGHBORHOOD FULL OF DANGEROUS PEOPLE WHERE, IF YOU ARE WHITE, YOU ARE WARNED NEVER, EVER, TO GO. FOR WHITE AMERICA, THE GHETTO IS [NO PUN INTENDED] LIKE A BLACK HOLE. IT'S A MYSTERIOUS OTHERWORLD WHICH WE WHITES ONLY GLIMPSED IN TV CLIPS WHEN SOME BLACKS MADE THE NEWS BY GETTING ARRESTED. WE WOULD CRANE OUR NECKS TO SEE WHAT THIS HIDDEN REALM ACTUALLY LOOKED LIKE. IT WAS TO US LIKE A PIECE OF A FOREIGN LAND ON OUR SOIL. IT'S INHABITANTS WERE DOMESTIC ALIENS, FAMILIAR YET ALWAYS OMINOUS AND THREATENING. THE GATES OF THE GHETTO WERE WHERE AMERICA, THE AMERICA WE WHITES KNEW, ENDED AND THE SHADOWY, PRECARIOUS NETHERWORLD BEGAN. WHERE I GREW UP, AN INTERSTATE PASSED OVER THE GHETTO AND AT NIGHT PARTICULARY YOU COULD LOOK DOWN INTO THAT STRANGE LAND AND SEE MILLERS ABOUT ON THE STREETS. SOMEHOW, EVEN FROM THE SECURITY OF A SPEEDING CAR ON THE INTERSTATE, THERE WAS A DISQUIETING ASPECT TO IT. IT'S CREEPY TO GET A VIEW OF THE PLACE WHERE WE WOULD BE IN GRAVE DANGER SHOULD WE HAVE THE MISFORTUNE TO FIND OURSELVES. IT DIDN'T MATTER THAT THE PEOPLE BEING OBSERVED WERE NOT DOING ANYTHING OBJECTIONABLE, IT STILL REINFORCED THAT THIS IS A PLACE YOU DIDN'T WANT TO GO AND PEOPLE YOU NEEDED TO FEAR. 

THAT COULDN'T LAST WITHOUT HOMEBOY PLAYING HIS PART.

AS SHOULD BE OBVIOUS, THE WHITE AMERICAN PERCEPTION OF THE BLACK AMERICA WAS/IS MORE THAN A LITTLE DISTORTED. NEVERTHELESS, THE DANGER WAS REAL, MY PARENTS WERE RIGHT--NO DOUBT IT WAS A GOOD HEALTH AND WELLNESS STRATAGY TO KEEP MY WHITE ASS OUT OF THE GHETTO. THIS RACIAL ATMOSPHERE CAN DO NOTHING BUT GENERATE FEAR, LOATHING, RESENTMENT IN THE WHITE COMMUNNITY. THE GHETTO HAS EVERY RIGHT TO FEEL AGGRIEVED, NEVERTHELESS, IT CHANGES NOTHING POLITICALLY. WHEN THE PANTHERS WERE TOTING WEAPONS AROUND OAKLAND AND MONITORING POLICE ACTIVITY--ALL PRAISES, ALL GLORY TO THEM--THEY WERE OPPOSED BY SOME LIBERAL WHITES AS WELL AS CONSERVATIVE ONES. WHY? FEAR OF BEING SHOT--IT'S REALLY VISCERAL STUFF. THE PROSPECT OF IMMINENT  DEATH TRUMPS IDEOLOGY EVERY TIME.  

THE GHETTO IS WHAT THREATENS, INTERNALLY AT LEAST, THE PEACE OF AMERICA, HOWEVER OVERSTATED THE THREAT. BLACKS ARE NOT JUST A SOURCE OF CHEAP LABOR, THE EXISTENCE OF A HYPER-EXPLOITED, EMBITTERED, EMBATTLED, RACIALLY DEFINED AND DEGRADED UNDERCLASS, ONE WHICH CAN BE EASILY BROUGHT TO VIOLENCE BY PROVOCATION, AFFRIGHTS WHITE AMERICA. TO A POLITICALLY SIGNIFICANT DEGREE, THE ANGRY BLACK AMERICAN IS THE BOGEYMAN, WHO, TRADITIONALLY AT LEAST, HAS MADE THOSE PEOPLE INVARIABLY IDENTIFIED BY CRT AS WHITE SUPREMACISTS, OF WHICH A SMALL NUMBER ACTUALLY ARE, PASSIVELY ENDORSE RACIAL REPRESSION WHO OTHERWISE WOULD NOT. THE BLACK COMMUNITY HAS A TRADITION SOMETIMES REFERED TO AS 'THE TALK,' IN WHICH THE YOUTH ARE CAUTIONED TO BE WARY OF THE POLICE. THE WHITE COUNTERPART TALK IS TO BE WARY OF BLACKS. THE GHETTO SERVES TO KEEP WHITES SUPPORTING THE POLICE STATE, WHICH IN TURN FURTHER ANTAGONIZES BLACKS--AS IT SHOULD--WHICH FURTHER ALARMS THE WHITE COMMUNITY. IN PROTECTING THE WHITE COMMUNITY FROM THE PUTATIVE BLACK MENACE, THE STATE PERPETUATES RACISM AND WITH IT UPHOLDS PRIVATE PROPERTY, CAPITALISM, LOWER WAGES ETC. MOREOVER, AS WHITES UNDERWRITE POLICING, MASS INCARCERATION ETC., THE PRESENCE OF THE POTENTIALLY COMBUSTIBLE GHETTO IN THE MIDST OF AMERICA CHASTENS THE WHITE WORKING CLASS INTO GREATER POLITICAL COMPLIANCE AND DOCILITY. THERE CERTAINLY IS MORE TO RACISM THAN JUST THIS, CERTAINLY!, BUT THE AMERICAN RACESTATE IS PREDICATED UPON THE MUTUAL HOSTILITY OF THE BLACK WORKING CLASS AND THE WHITE AS A BINARY METHOD OF CLASS SUPPRESSION. THE RECIPROCAL ANTIPATHY OF REDNECK EUROPAEUS AND HOMEBOY AFRICANUS IS THE CORNERSTONE OF AMERICAN POLITY.

IN OTHER WORDS, IF EVERY BLACK IN THE COUNTRY LEFT OVERNIGHT, IT WOULD CREATE A HUGE PROBLEM FOR THE PLUTOES AS THE GHETTO SERVES AS A BRAKE ON THE WHITE WORKING CLASS. THE GREATEST WEAPON--SHORT OF DIRECT STATE VIOLENCE--THEY HAVE WOULD BE LOST. THERE WOULD BE AN ENORMOUS POLITICAL VACUUM, A POTENTIALLY DESTABILIZING ONE. THE RULING CLASS UNDERSTANDS THIS, HENCE IDENTITY POLITICS, CRITICAL RACE THEORY ETC. CRT DOESN'T COMBAT RACISM, WHATEVER ITS RACEBOTS MAY BELIEVE, IT IS THE LASTEST POLITICAL STRATAGEM FOR ITS PRESERVATION. THE RULING CLASS NEED BLACKS TO ABET EFFORTS TO CONTROL THE MUCH LARGER WHITE WORKING CLASS. ABSOLUTELY THERE IS MORE UTILITY TO THE GHETTO FOR THE RULING CLASS THAN JUST THIS, BUT THE OTHERS RECEIVE THE ATTENTION THEY DESERVE, AND THIS ONE SEEMS TO BE INVISIBLE.

IF MY FRENCH AND AFRICAN SIBLINGS WILL FORGIVE ME, I WOULD LIKE TO RELATE A RACIST JOKE I ONCE HEARD FROM AN ANGLO-CANADIAN, AND THEN REHEARD FROM ANOTHER ANGLO-CANADIAN. PARADOXICALLY, IT HELPED ME ESCAPE THE RACEWORLD. I USED TO THINK I WAS A RACIST, AFTER ALL, I'M WHITE, I HAVE THE RACISM GENE, ERGO I MUST BE A RACIST. AFTER HEARING THIS JOKE I BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND JIM SNOW FOR WHAT IT IS:

"AMERICA GOT THE BLACKS AND CANADA GOT THE FRENCH, BECAUSE AMERICA HAD FIRST PICK."

UPON THE SECOND HEARING I REALIZED THAT THIS SENTIMENT WAS FAIRLY WIDESPREAD IN ANGLO-CANADA. AS I BEGAN TO LOOK INTO THIS I WAS AMAZED BY JUST HOW CLOSELY THE ANGLO- AND FRENCH-CANADIAN CONFLICT MIRRORED THE WHITE- AND BLACK-AMERICAN ONE, DESPITE THEIR ORIGINS BEING QUITE DIFFERENT. NO SLAVERY OR JIM CROW, AND THE FRENCH AREN'T DISPERSED THROUGHOUT CANADA IN THE SAME WAY THAT BLACKS ARE IN THE STATES, NEVERTHELESS, THERE ARE UNMISTAKABLE PARALLELS IN THE DISCOURSE, POLITICS AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS WITH RESPECT TO RACEBOTICS IN THE U.S., AND HOW ALIKE THE RHETORIC AND ATTITUDES ARE. MOST NOTABLY HOW NON-ANGLO, NON-FRENCH WHITE CANADIANS TEND TO FALL INTO THE ANGLO CAMP AND ADOPT ITS ANTI-FRENCH OUTLOOK. MORE PARADOXICALLY, HOW NON-WHITE CANADIANS, AT LEAST OUTSIDE QUEBEC, TEND TO SIDE WITH THE ANGLOES. IN REALITY, THIS SHOULD NOT COME AS A SURPRISE BECAUSE PEOPLE, ALL PEOPLE, ARE NEITHER ANGELS NOR DEVILS, BUT ACT ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN INTERESTS, AS MANY A DEAD WHITE MAN HAS POINTED OUT.

THIS IS A BIG TOPIC, AND I WILL LEAVE IT TO MY CANADIAN SIBBIES TO ELUCIDATE.

AMERICA HAS BEEN A SUPERPOWER FOR ALMOST A CENTURY NOW. WE AMERICANS LIVE IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST. AMERICA IS A RACE-DEFINED, RACE-DELINEATED, RACE-CONSTITUTED, RACE-REGULATED, RACE-MOORED, RACE-FETISHIST POLITY. RACISM IS THE PRINCIPAL TOOL WITH WHICH RULING CLASS MAINTAINS A FAVORABLE BALANCE OF ANTAGONISTIC FORCES AND, THUS, ITS HEGEMONY. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE METROPOLE HAS CONSEQUENCES WELL BEYOND ITS BORDERS. THIS IS CERTAINLY ONE OF THE REASONS CRT AND ITS ARMY OF RACEBOTS HAVE BEEN FED SO FAT BY THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION--THEY ARE ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE IDEOLOGICAL CLASS WAR. CRT MOATS THE HOUSE OF CAPITAL. IT MAY BE HYPERBOLE TO SAY THAT THE GLOBAL CAPITALIST SYSTEM DEPENDS UPON THE MUTUAL HOSTILITY OF WHITE- AND BLACK-AMERICA, BUT MAYBE NOT. UNDENIABLY, IT IS A MATTER OF NO SMALL IMPORTANCE AS IS EVIDENCED BY THE OUTLANDISH SUMS THE PLUTOES HAVE SPENT ON IT. THE GREATEST DANGER IS THAT REDNECK AND HOMEBOY WILL STOP HATING EACH OTHER. THIS WOULD BE A DISASTER FOR AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL, MAYBE THE END. IT MUST BE AVERTED AT ALL COSTS. SHOULD REDNECK AND HOMEBOY EVER RECONCILE, SHOULD BILLY JO BOB HATFIELD AND D'AV'ON'TA' MCCOY BRING THEIR FEUD TO AN END AND DECIDE TO TURN THEIR ATTENTION TO THEIR REAL ENEMIES, THE WORLD MAY SHAKE EVEN MORE JOYOUSLY THAN IT DID IN OCTOBER, 1917. THUS BLACK MUST BE MADE TO HATE WHITE, AND WHITE MUST BE MADE TO HATE BLACK, A SERVICE PROVIDED BY THE GOOD OFFICES OF ROBIN D. G. KELLEY, NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES ETC.  WHERE REDNECK INTERACTS WITH HOMEBOY ON THE STREETS OF TULSA, ROCHESTER, BAKERSFIELD AND FLYNT, IT IS GROUND ZERO IN THE GLOBAL CLASS WAR. EXAGGERATION MAYBE, BUT MAYBE NOT.

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So they made provisions in the convention rules for "designated workers' organizations -- of women, workers of color and other workers' groups including those facing special discrimination" to have voting power if they endorsed the Labor Party. As a result, groups like the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, and Black Workers for Justice were able to participate and represent the interests of workers irrespective of union affiliation.

WHILE I DONT OBJECT TO THIS PER SE IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT WE LIVE IN A RACEDOM, BUT IF WE FAIL TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS APPROACH FURTHER EMBEDS LABOR IN THE RACEWORLD; IF WE DO NOT RECOGNIZE AND PUBLICLY VOICE THAT RACIOLOGY IS THE ENEMY AND NOT OUR NEWLY ADOPTED WAY OF PRAXIS; THAT THESE ARE STOPGAP MEASURES NECESSARY TO COUNTERACT THE INJUSTICES CREATED BY THE RACEWORLD AND IS IN NO WAY ITS VALIDATION, THEN THESE PRACTICES MIGHT DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD.

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 Finally, there are organizations, often products of the best elements of Third World, feminist and black Liberation movements, that don't see race, gender, and sexuality as "problems" and are, instead, moving working-class politics in new directions:

IF THEY DON'T BELIEVE THAT RACE ETC. ARE A PROBLEM, WHY ARE THEY PUSHING LABOR IN A NEW DIRECTION?

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we can point to the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic Justice, the Labor/Community Strategy Center, New Directions, Labor Notes, Solidarity, etc., many of which are led by white radicals (Ann Braden, Jerry Tucker, Eric Mann) who understand that antiracism and antisexism are fundamental to class struggle.

NOT CORRECT. NOT ALL THE FOLKS ASSOCIATED WITH LABOR NOTES AGREE WITH THAT. MORE IMPORTANTLY THIS IS BACKWARD: THE CLASS STRUGGLE IS CENTRAL TO ANTI-RACISM. IS IT POSSIBLE TO ELIMINATE ALL PREJUDICE FROM OUR SPECIES? I DON'T KNOW. MAYBE THERE WILL ALWAYS BE BLACKS WHO HATE ME, MAYBE NOT. BUT RACE IS MUCH THE SMALLER PROBLEM. SOCIALISM WILL ELIMINATE THE ABILITY FOR ANY RACE TO EXPLOIT ANOTHER. IF YOU CREATE ECONOMIC EQUALITY YOU FACILITATE GOODWILL AND RACISM MAY DRY UP AND ROLL AWAY AS LONELY AND FORGOTTEN AS TUMBLEWEED. BUT, MAYBE NOT, WHO CARES. RIGHT NOW PEOPLE ARE STARVING, NO FOOD SHORTAGE, JUST A GLUT OF CAPITALISM. ALL THIS FOCUS ON RACISM IS OBSCENE. I HAVE NOTHING BUT CONTEMPT FOR THESE ASSHOLES WHO WALK AROUND COMPLAINING ABOUT 'MICROAGGRESSIONS' WHEN PEOPLE ARE DYING OF CURABLE DISEASES EVERY FUCKING DAY. WHAT KIND OF NARCISSISTIC, SELF-IMPORTANT PIECE OF SHIT CAN DO SOMETHING AS SOCIPATHIC AS THAT? SADLY, THERE NO SHORTAGE OF SUCH PEOPLE HERE IN THE RACEDOM.

LIFE IN THE RACEWORLD.

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 -- a renewed labor movement

HAVEN'T YOU BEEN SAYIN THAT IDENTOMANIA HASNT IMPAIRED THE LABOR MOVEMENT? IF SO WHAT'S THE NEED FOR RENEWAL?

CAN'T SAY K DOESN'T HAVE A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR.

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 environmental justice, racial justice, immigrant rights, anti-poverty, etc.

ARE ALL THE PRODUCT OF CAPITALISM, IT IS THE PROBLEM, AND IT IS ABSURD TO THINK YOU CAN IGNORE THE CAUSE AND FIX THE PROBLEM.

HE'S GONE FROM ANTI-CAPITALISM, DISENGENUOUS AS IT WAS, TO ANTI-POVERTY.

OOPS, CONUNDRUM TIME FOR RACEBOTS, THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS IS IN PART DUE TO MIGRATION. I DON'T KNOW TO WHAT DEGREE, BUT THESE POST-N.A.F.T.A. MASS MIGRATIONS WITHIN N.A., AFRICA, AND EUROPE, AND AMONG THEM, IS PUTTING A STRAIN ON THE ENERGY SUPPLY AND CAUSING GREATER CARBON EMISSIONS. NOT TO MENTION JOB COMPETITION, WAGE REDUCTIONS...

HERE IS A SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVE: FIRSTLY, WE CAN NEVER SIDE WITH IMMIGRANT LABOR, OR AGAINST IT. I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE IS A CASE TO BE MADE IN FAVOR OF NATIVE LABOR, BUT I OPPOSE IT SO IT IS NOT MY MISSION TO PRESENT IT HERE. WE MUST BE NEUTRAL IN INTRAPROLETARIAN CLASHES. WE CANNOT PICK SIDES BETWEEN WORKERS. THE REALITY IS THAT THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE MIGRATED RECENTLY LEFT THEIR HOMELANDS BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO MAKE A SUFFICIENT LIVING IN THEM. THE PROBLEM OF MIGRATION IS CAUSED BY CAPITALISM/IMPERIALISM, AND CANNOT BE SOLVED SO LONG AS THEY EXIST. WE NEED TO MAKE THIS POINT AND PRESS IT AS HARD AS WE CAN. HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO MIGRATE JUST TO SUPPORT THEMSELVES. THAT SHOULD BE OUR MESSAGE. AS FOR INDIVIDUAL CASES, THEY NEED TO BE APPRAISED INDIVIDUALLY. WE CANNOT TAKE A GENERALIZED PRO- OR ANTI-MIGRANT WORKER POSITION. WE CANNOT SUPPORT THE WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF MIGRANT WORKERS IN W. AFRICA, BUT WE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THE KILLERS WERE ACTING TO PRESERVE THEIR LIVELIHOODS. THE MIGRANTS HAD BEEN INVITED IN BY CAPITAL BECAUSE THEY COULD PAY THEM LESS. THE NATIVE LABOR WENT DIRECTLY TO THE NUCLEAR OPTION, WHICH IS TRAGIC INDEED, BUT THEY DID SEND A RATHER CLEAR MESSAGE TO THEIR EMPLOYERS. IN AT LEAST ONE CASE IN COTE D'IVOIRE, THEIR WAGES WERE RESTORED. NO, NOT WORTH THE LOSS OF LIFE. NO! I DO NOT SUPPORT MASS MURDER-EVER, BUT THE ISSUE OF MIGRATION IS BEING HANDLED HERE IN THE AMERICAN RACEDOM ABOUT AS STUPIDLY AS IT COULD BE. THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY HERE WHICH BEHOOVES US TO SEIZE, BUT RACIOLOGY IS BLOCKING THAT PATH. WHAT WE DO IS A DOG AND PONY SHOW. THE BUREAU STAGES A PSY-OP AT THE BORDER AND THE RACEBOTS, RIGHT ON CUE, AUTONOMICALLY CRY WHITE SUPREMACY--JUST THE WAY THE PLUTOES WANT.

THE INSTANTANEOUS, REFLEXIVE, CLAPPING SEAL-BARKING DOG INVOCATION OF RACE COVERS OVER WHAT IS A COMPLEX PROBLEM, AND CERTAINLY ONE WHICH CRT WILL NOT TOUCH WITH THE PROVERBIAL 10-FOOT POLE. IF IN JIM SNOW AMERICA WE ASK IF WHITE WORKERS HAVE A RIGHT TO TRY TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION--WELL, YOU KNOW. IF WE ASK IF BLACK WORKERS DO, THE RACIST, APORIA-INFESTED, BLAME-WHITEY DISCOURSE FALLS LIKE A HOUSE OF CARDS. IT'S GONE. SO RACEBOTS DON'T ASK THE QUESTION THAT CRIES OUT TO BE ANSWERED. IN SO DOING, OR NOT DOING, RACIOLOGY DISENFRANCHISES WHITE WORKERS, BUT IT ALSO SILENCES THE VOICE OF THE GHETTO, WHICH IN THIS CASE, MUST BE STIFLED TO KEEP JIM SNOW ALIVE. HERE CRT FAILS SPECIFICALLY THOSE PEOPLE ON WHOSE BEHALF THEY PUTATIVELY CAMPAIGN. HOW COULD THESE ANGELIC BLACKS MAKE THE SAME ANTI-IMMIGRANT ARGUMENT AS DO THE WHITE MONSTERS? THEIR MELANIN MUST NOT BE WORKING PROPERLY, WHAT ELSE COULD IT BE?

GOSH THIS WHITE SUPREMACY THING IS ESOTERIC.

SO I POSE THIS MOST TABOO QUESTION: WAS KEVIN ROSS [BLACK] CORRECT? [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-24-me-54020-story.html] IS HIS ANTI-IMMIGRANT ARGUMENT VALID?  AS A LEFT WE NEED TO STOP BRAYING ABOUT WHITE SUPREMACY AND HAVE AN HONEST DISCUSSION ON IMMIGRATION. WE OWE IT TO OUR SIBBIES ON BOTH SIDES OF THIS ISSUE, AND WE NEED TO SEIZE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD CROSS-BORDER, INTERRACIAL ALLIANCES.
 

ABOUT 100 YEARS AGO, SACCO AND VANZETTI WERE ARRESTED. VANZETTI, WHO WROTE FOR THE ANARCHIST PAPER, "SUBVERSIVE CHRONICLE," HAD THE BEGINNINGS OF A SPEECH HE WAS TO DELIVER THE NEXT DAY IN HIS POCKET. VANZETTI WAS A SKILLED POLEMICIST, HIS CONTRIBUTIONS APPEARED UNDER A BANNER WHICH READ "AGAINST THE WAR, AGAINST THE PEACE, FOR THE REVOLUTION." IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I READ ABOUT THIS, AND I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER WHERE. I BELIEVE IT WAS ENTITLED "THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE." THIS IS HOW I REMEMBER IT:

"WORKERS; YOU HAVE FOUGHT IN ALL THEIR WARS, YOU HAVE WORKED FOR ALL THE BOSSES. YOU HAVE BEEN DRIVEN FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRY TO ANSWER CAPITAL'S CALL FOR LABOR? WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SHOW FOR IT? DO YOU HAVE ANY VICTORIES TO SHARE? DOES THE PAST COMFORT YOU? DOES THE FUTURE HOLD ANYTHING DEAR FOR YOU? ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN WHEN YOU LEFT YOUR HOMELAND? WILL YOU EVER BE?  WILL YOU FIND A SPOT IN THIS WORLD WHERE YOU CAN LIVE LIKE A HUMAN BEING, AND DIE LIKE ONE?..."

I DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER TO THE IMMIGRATION QUESTION, BUT WHEN A MIGRANT ARRIVES S/HE SHOULD BE HANDED A COPY OF "THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE." THAT'S A GOOD PLACE TO START.

AND TO DESIST FROM ALL THE BARKING AND CLAPPING.

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Public transit is a site of struggle that literally touches all these issues -- a lesson Labor/Community Strategy Center organizers understand well. They have consistently made connections between civil rights, environmental justice, labor struggles, privatization, and the problems created by capitalism. Bus Riders Union (BRU) organizers see their constituency in all of its "identities" -- as workers, consumers, largely people of color, and city dwellers tired of toxic living. The Union's demands -- more resources devoted to buses, a moratorium on overpriced rail service, lower fares, better service, safety, no-emissions electric buses, MTA policies that create jobs in inner city communities -- genuinely reflect a range of issues beyond the problem of transportation. The BRU is forging a new social movement, not by appeals to color blindness but by re-thinking class politics in a multicultural context.
 

GEORGE CARLIN: "LIBERALS THINK YOU CAN SOLVE THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS BY MAKING MORE BIKE PATHS."

I DROVE ELECTRIC BUSES AND TROLLEYS AND STREETCARS, NONE OF THEM WENT TO THE FREEWORLD. THEY ALL JUST CIRCULATED WITHIN THE RACEWORLD.

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[HE WRITES SOME MORE MEANINGLESS, RACEBOT, LIBERAL PRATTLE SIMILAR TO THE PARAGRAPHS JUST ABOVE. SKIPPING DOWN]

It's ludicrous to blame so-called identity politics of the 1960s for the collapse of the Left,

IT'S LUDICROUS NOT TO, AND HE KNOWS IT.

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 the derailment of progressive social movements, or our inability to roll back poverty and unbridled corporate wealth. We have others to thank for that: Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Cointelpro, white flight, red squads, red-lining, Contra-backed crack dealers, economic restructuring, the NRA, right-wing think tanks, complacent labor leaders. . . and the list goes on.

INDEED IT DOES, SO WHY DID YOU NOT KEEP GOING? EVERYBODY ABOVE IS WHITE. WHITES ARE THE PROBLEM AND BLACK PEOPLE ARE THE SOLUTION. JUST MORE RACIST NONSENSE.

THE PROBLEM ISN'T RIGHT-WING THINK TANKS, WE KNOW WHO THEY ARE. IT'S THE FAUX LEFT WHICH IS THE PROBLEM BECAUSE THEY ARE FALSE-FLAGGERS, AND THERE ARE PLENTY OF RACEBOTS OF COLOR IN THEM.

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Of course, the Left -- whatever that means now --

IT MEANS THE RIGHT IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING. IT MEANS RACEBOTICS.

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is not blameless. The scars of sectarianism run deep and trace their roots to the glorious days when the Old Marxists were supposedly more "universal." Street fights erupted between socialists and anarchists; battles raged between the Trotskyists and Stalinists and a variety of sects claiming to be the true heirs of Lenin. And then China entered the picture, along with Albania. These battles within the Marxist world contributed more to the internal implosion and proliferation of left-wing parties than feminism and black nationalism.

AGREED, AND I HAVE NEVER MET ANYONE WHO BLAMES FEMINISM OR B.N. FOR THE INTRA-LEFT STRUGGLES.

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Although identity politics sometimes act as a fetter on genuine multiracial/multicultural alliances,

NOT SOMETIMES, ALWAYS, THEY ARE NOT ANTITHETICAL, BUT DO, TRAGICALLY, COMPETE. CERTAINLY HERE IN THE UNITED STATES OF RACIOLOGY.

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 I believe it has also enriched our conception of class.

NO, IT HAS OBSCURED IT. CLASS IS NOT A DIFFICULT CONCEPT AT ALL. WHO WORKS FOR WHOM? WHO PAYS WHOM? WHO GETS RICH OFF THE LABOR OF THE OTHER? AND WHO ENDS UP STEALING CATFOOD FROM THE 7/11 WHEN THEY ARE TOO OLD TO WORK?

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 Indeed, there are many serious scholars -- I count myself among them -- trying to understand how various forms of fellowship, racial solidarity, communion, the creation of sexual communities, and nationalism shape class politics and cross-racial alliances. We are grappling with how self-love and solidarity in a hostile context of white supremacy, the embrace of certain vernaculars, can be expressions of racial and class solidarity, and the way class and racial solidarity are gendered. Not to recognize this is to wonder why more West Indian workers participate in Carnival than in the Labor Day Parade, or why District 1199 had the foresight and vision to maintain an 1199 float and/or banner in the West Indian Day parade. Those who pine for the good old days before identity politics, when class struggle meant rough guys who understood that simply fighting the bosses united us, forget that Yiddish was a source of solidarity within the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, to the point where union leaders were offering courses in Yiddish for black and Puerto Rican workers in the late 1950s, to their dismay. Identity politics, in other words, has always been central to working class movements, from minstrelsy on up.

ANY MORE SWEET NOTHINGS AND THAT RACEBOT IS GONNA GET DIABETES.

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More important, a careful examination of the movements dismissed as particularistic are often "radical humanist" at their core and potentially emancipatory for all of us. We need to seriously re-think some of these movements, shifting our perspective from the margins to the center.

WELL THAT'S A VOLTE-FACE, ISN'T IT. HE'S TRYING TO RE-ESTABLISH HIS LEFTISTS BONA FIDES.

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 We must look beyond wedge issues or "minority issues"

DOESN'T HE READ WHAT HE WRITES? HE JUST SPENT THOUSANDS OF WORDS DEFENDING THE OPPOSITE POSITION.

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 and begin to pay attention to what these movements are advocating, imagining, building. After all, the analyses, theories, visions emerging from the black liberation movements, the Chicano and Asian American movements, the gay and lesbian movements, the women's movements, may just free us all.

SHAKA-LAKA, SHAKA-LAKA. WHOOMP THERE IT IS. IT IS MOST INSTRUCTIVE THAT ON HIS LONG LIST OF THINGS WHICH MIGHT FREE US ALL LABOR IS MISSING.

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 We simply can't afford to abandon the subway,

OH, WHAT A FUCKING IDIOT.

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 with all of its multicultural messiness to jump on board the Enlightenment train of pure, simple, color- and gender-blind class struggle.

THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT WE NEED TO DO.

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Neither Locke nor Jefferson offer a truly emancipatory vision

ACTUALLY JEFFERSON DID. AS MUCH AS THE PHRASE JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY HAS BEEN ABUSED, THE WARD SYSTEM IS NOT SO BAD, DATED PERHAPS, BUT NOT TOO BAD. LIKE IT OR NOT, IT CLEARLY IS AN EMANCIPATORY VISION.

OOPS. I JUST COMPLIMENTED A SLAVE OWNER. MUST BE MY LATENT WHITE SUPREMACIST MINDSET. YOU KNOW WHAT? I FORGIVE JEFFERSON AND ALL SLAVE OWNERS. SLAVERY WAS INEVITABLE (MAYBE RACISM TOO), AS FAR BACK AS WE CAN LOOK INTO HISTORY SLAVERY ABOUNDED. ONE OF THE FIRST WARS THAT HAVE BEEN CHRONICLED WAS FOR CONTROL OF THE SLAVE TRADE ABOUT 5K YEARS AGO IN LAGASH, SUMER. AM I SUPPOSED TO HATE OUR WHOLE SPECIES? AM I SUPPOSED TO HATE MESOPOTAMIA? I FORGIVE THE LAGASHITES. I ALSO FORGIVE THOSE AFRICAN TRIBES WHO WERE COMPLICIT IN THE SLAVE TRADE AND DESPOLIATION OF THE AMERICAS. I FORGIVE THE EUROPEANS TOO. YOU KNOW WHAT? I FORGIVE THOSE THOUSANDS, YES! THOUSANDS, OF BLACK SLAVE OWNERS IN AMERICA WHO WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN THE ESTABLISHMENT "CHATTEL" SLAVERY AND WHITE SUPREMACY FROM WHICH THEY PARADOXICALLY BENEFITTED. AM I SUPPOSED TO HATE AFRICA? I FORGIVE THESE BLACK AMERICAN SLAVE OWNERS SOME OF WHOM OWNED WHITE SLAVES, ONE MAY VERY WELL HAVE OWNED MY ANCESTOR. I FORGIVE HIM TOO. I FORGIVE THOSE MIXED AFRICAN PIRATES WHO RAIDED THE SHORES OF IRELAND FOR CENTURIES UP TO CENTURY 20, WHO SOUGHT OUT BLONDE- AND RED-HAIRED WOMEN TO SELL AS SEX SLAVES TO BLACK AFRICANS WHO PRIZED THEM HIGHLY, WHO WOULD BE STRIPPED IN FRONT OF CROWDS LARGE AND SMALLTO BE GAWKED AT BY BLACKS WHO WOULD PLUCK HAIRS FROM ALL REGIONS OF THEIR BODIES TO KEEP AS SOUVENIRS. I FORGIVE THEM TOO. I ALSO FORGIVE THE NAACP (ALTHOUGH ADMITTEDLY THIS ONE IS MORE CHALLENGING) WHO SUED THE WOBS DEEP IN THE HEART OF DIXIE FOR--BRACE YOURSELVES, RACEHEADS--BREAKING THE COLOR LINE. THIS LINE DISADVANTAGED A VERY HIGH PERCENTAGE OF AFRICAN AMERCANS AND A SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF WHITES, BUT ALSO PRIVILEGED AND ENRICHED A THIN LAYER OF BLACKS. THESE, PREDICTABLY, SUPPORTED WHITE SUPREMACY BECAUSE IT WAS IN THEIR  MATERIAL INTERESTS TO DO SO.  

HAVE YOU GOT THIS WHITE SUPREMACY THING FIGURED OUT?   I'M STARTING TO THINK IT'S A SCAM OF SOME SORT.    

I DO FORGIVE THEM, BUT THIS IS WHERE CRT AND ALL FORMS OF RACE THEORY INEVITABLY LEAD--TO RACEWORLD. WE HAVE A RACE ADVOCACY LOBBY, THE N.A.A.C.P., WHICH IN THEORY EXISTS AT LEAST IN PART TO COMBAT RACISM, UNDERMINING AN ANTI-RACIST LABOR UNION WHICH WAS TRYING TO IMPROVE WORKING CONDITIONS FOR BLACKS. THE IWW WAS ONE OF THE FEW INSTITUTIONS IN THE U.S. WILLING TO TALK THE RACIAL EQUALITY TALK AND WALK ITS WALK, AND THE N.A.A.C.P. SUED THEM. (FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS INCIDENT, PLZ CONTACT ROBIN RACEBOT KELLEY rdkelley@history.ucla.edu
. HE IS MY SOURCE.)

THERE YOU HAVE IT. THE TRAIN IS NOW IN MOTION ONCE AGAIN. THERE IS NO "AND", THERE HAS NEVER FOR A MOMENT BEEN AN "AND." "AND" IS A LETHAL DELUSION. IT IS, WAS, AND WILL EVER BE "OR". THE SOLUTION? I AGREE WITH THE BRILLIANT PAUL GILROY WHO WROTE "THE CRISIS OF 'RACE' AND RACIOLOGY.": (PARAPHRASING QUITE LIBERALLY) FUCK RACE. IT ALL HAS TO GET FLUSHED. PUT IT BEHIND US, AND MOVE FORWARD.

WHO I DO NOT FORGIVE IS ROBIN D. G. KELLEY. HE IS A LIAR.

ON THE BRILLIANT PODCAST, "TIME TO SAY GOODBYE," THE BRILLIANT HOST, ANDREW LIU, INTERVIEWED THE BRILLIANT PROPHET, ADOLPH REED JR. THEY WERE LAMPOONING CRT AND LIU SAID AT LEAST THEY AREN'T BIOLOGICAL RACISTS, TO WHICH REED REPLIED "GIVE THEM TIME."

AT THE VERY END OF THE SECOND CHAPTER OF THE WORST BOOK I HAVE EVER HAD THE DISPLEASURE TO READ, DR. HENGINSTEIN (AKA GERALDINE HENG) GROUNDBREAKING RACEBOT TOME THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES, SHE WRITES THAT WHITES ARE A "MONSTROUS RACE." HER BOOK IS 500 PAGES OF UNCONCEALED, RACIAL CONTEMPT FOR WHITE PEOPLE AND CIVILIZATION.

A RACE OF MONSTERS. REED WAS RIGHT. SO IS GILROY.

WHAT  KELLEY CAN DO TO REDEEM HIMSELF? HE CAN GO TO THE GHETTO--IF HE CAN REMEMBER WHERE IT IS--AND TELL THOSE PEOPLE THE REAL HISTORY OF W. AFRICA, THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE, SLAVERY IN AMERICA, RECONSTRUCTION, ETC. TELL THEM THE TRUTH. THEY NEED TO KNOW THE COLLABORATIVE, PARTICIPATORY, CONTRIBUTORY ROLE AFRICA PLAYED IN THE NEW WORLD HOLOCAUST. MAKE SURE THEY LEARN ABOUT THE CRITICAL ROLE BLACK SLAVERS PLAYED IN TRANSFORMING NEW WORLD INDENTURED SERVITUDE INTO "CHATTEL" SLAVERY AND THE CREATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF WHITE SUPREMACY. MAKE SURE THEY KNOW. DON'T FORGET ABOUT AFRICAN MOTHERS LULLING THEIR KIDS TO SLEEP WITH TALES OF THEIR TRIBE'S SUCCESS IN THE SLAVE TRADE. OH, ALSO, TELL THEM ABOUT THOSE AFRICAN EMPERORS WHO TRIED TO SWING DEALS WITH EUROPEAN MONARCHS TO GRAB LAND FROM OTHER EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN EMPIRES. DON'T LEAVE OUT DAHOMEY AND THE HUMAN SACRIFICES EITHER. ALSO, BE SURE TO TELL THEM THAT MANY MORE EUROPEANS HAVE BEEN ENSLAVED IN AFRICA THAN AFRICANS IN EUROPE. MAKE SURE THEY KNOW THAT THE LARGEST EDIFICE EVER CONSTRUCTED IN AFRICA BEFORE MODERN TIMES, BIGGER THAN ANY PYRAMID, WAS BUILT BY WHITE SLAVES.  DON'T FORGET THAT.

KELLEY SHOULD THEN OPEN UP THOSE VOLUMES OF INTERRACIAL COOPERATION AND READ THEM ALOUD, FIRST PAGE TO LAST, FIRST VOLUME TO LAST. AND THEN DO IT AGAIN. ANTI-WHITE RACISM IS SO PERVASIVE IN THE GHETTO THAT ONLY A BLACK CAN DISABUSE THOSE PEOPLE OF ALL THE LIES THEY HAVE BEEN TOLD. WHAT OBJECTION COULD SOMEONE WHO IS AN ANTI-RACIST AND A TEACHER HAVE TO TELLING THE TRUTH?

I CHALLENGE KELLEY TO WRITE AN OPEN LETTER TO DR. HENGENSTEIN AND DENOUNCE HER. IF CALLING A RACE OF PEOPLE MONSTERS ISN'T BIOLOGICAL RACISM THEN NOTHING IS. KELLEY INSISTS HE IS AN ANTI-RACIST, WELL, HERE IS A CHANCE TO PROVE IT. HE'S GONE ON AND ON ABOUT THE EVILS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND HOW IT CAUSED SO MUCH HUMAN MISERY, WELL HERE IS A CONTEMPORARY RACEBOT ESPOUSING VIEWS WORSE THAN ANY ENLIGHTENMENT THINKER EVER DID, IDEAS KELLEY CLAIMS TO DESPISE. SO, TEACH, WERE YOU SINCERE ABOUT THAT? GOOOOOD! HAVE AT IT. THE GAUNTLET, PROFESSOR, IS THROWN. NO REAL ANTI-RACIST WOULD FAIL TO OBJECT TO SUCH VULGUR RACISM, OR REFUSE TO PUBLICLY DENOUNCE IT, RIGHT?

IF REDNECK AND HOMEBOY EVER SIGN A PEACE TREATY, THE WORLD IS GOING TO CHANGE. EMPIRES WILL FALL.

THE MONSTER aka DAVE FRYETT. 

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[1] HERE'S THE REAL WALTER RODNEY. HE'S FAMOUS FOR HIS BOOKS, BUT JSTOR HAS MANY OF HIS ESSAYS AND THEY NEVER FAIL TO ILLUMINATE. HE HAD A KEEN ANALYTICAL MIND. THIS VIDEO IS A GOOD EXAMPLE. BEWARE, RACEBOTS, HE THINKS CENTRIPETALLY, AND WRITES AND SPEAKS CLEARLY--YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LIKE IT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9szjOu-yIPs