I lost count long ago of how often I heard white activists call critiques of white supremacy in movements and society little more than diversions from ‘real’ issues. It’s as if there’s an expectation that patriarchy, white supremacy and other oppressions are to be ignored for the sake of ‘unity.’ Such a refrain is one [...]
White people who are confronted with their white privilege and the white supremacist acts they perpetuate have been known to cry, “You’re being a reverse-racist!” That is completely true: people of color have the power and control to create, perpetuate, and maintain brutal systematic reverse-racism that oppresses white people every day. As such, we have created [...]
there’s this perpetual meta conversation about what white people should/shouldn’t talk about in debunkingwhite. starting with these basics: 1) get r = p + p. don’t make debunkingwhite rehash this again. 2) get the fact that you have white privilege. 3) stop reacting immediately when called on your white privilege. you will not learn about [...]
What purpose does anti-oppression training and workshops serve for those that attend? I recently attended an anti-oppression workshop that was delivered by three self-identified women and genderqueer people of colour that used innovative methods of exploring the effects of colonialism on entire communities, nations, lands and peoples. Participants consisted of people from different racial groups, [...]
My history as an organizer went from being an unofficial member of the International Socialist Organization to President of the United Socialist Movement of the Americas- Buffalo Chapter to the President of Fight the Power UB. That history has been one of narrowing the struggles I fight and one I stand by fully. As many of you have seen, [...]
I came out late. Growing up as an Afro-West Indian boy in Western Europe always had me very aware that I am black since childhood but I never had to “come out” as a black person. People around me, from my peers and classmates (by their questions about my skincolour), the parents of the boys [...]
Can POC organizers keep a sound mind and longevity in a career committed to anti-racism and anti-oppression? I’ve seen a lot of POC burn out and it leads to this reflection… Co-signing for White folks What this means is that you as a POC organizer are giving the go ahead for other POC organizers or [...]
Hugo Schwyzer, a Pasadena City College (Calif.) instructor promoted in some circles for his work related to gender, has been at the center of an online controversy since December when he disclosed an attempt to kill an ex-girlfriend. The Atlantic recently covered the story, for those not familiar with Schwyzer or the incident in question. The [...]
A POCO contributor has produced the following video. She writes, “In our safe spaces, we have every right to feel welcomed and not tokenized, harassed or ignored. We ask for you to listen to us when we speak about racism because we are being effected by it daily. This video is a compilation of things [...]
“He was suddenly overcome by an uncontrollable desire to leave everything here and go away once without even saying goodbye to anyone. He had a feeling that if he stayed here even a few days longer, he would irrevocably be drawn into this world, and that this world would become his world henceforward. But he [...]
This piece was originally posted on Rabble.ca here http://rabble.ca/news/2011/05/slutwalk-march-or-not-march “When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” — Audre Lorde Since April, when thousands marched in a Slutwalk in Toronto in response to a [...]
A number of sources posted the following Ashanti Alston piece, published about 10 years ago, with little context — Onward and Arsenal are defunct, some movement references are a bit misleading (the Panthers didn’t “[turn] toward Marxism,” but as pieces such as Black Like Mao explain, were always inspired by same from the start on [...]
By Umar ben-Ivan Lee Yesterday before work I read a copy of Metro which is a new yuppie oriented publication aimed at the Sex in the City/I waste my daddy’s money in Manhattan crowd. It is one of those publications you only read when you are bored on the subway or like me bored waiting [...]
National Public Radio recently ran a story called “New York’s Hipsters Too Cool For The Census.” This story has made the media-rounds with outlet after outlet (yes, even Stephan Colbert [video]) unable to resist grabbing the low-hanging fruit that is hipster-hate by arguing that hipsters in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn are too “cool” and busy Twittering to mail [...]
Lately I’ve had my fair share of run-ins with the hipsters and hippies, as well as the hippie/hipster “culture” at large, and have become increasingly annoyed at their depiction/co-option of my ethnicity as a First Nations person. by Jen Musari, on the Native Appropriations website Kelsey pointed me to this post on Sociological Images last week which [...]
Protests against Arizona’s SB 1070 continue. A case involving college students who used Facebook to hurl racial slurs at a Black student is making headlines. Resist Racism posts the whole exchange between Chelsie Palbicki and Anna Langevin, who refer to the woman as “obamacare” the n-word and other epithets. Peacecomrade posted a 1969 essay by Huey [...]
Checkout the former director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, and holder of a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University, Michelle Alexander, speak to a crowd in New York about her new best-selling [...]
By freelark If I’m to be a white ally, I figure I should take some of the burden off people of color to explain what’s wrong with some of the things white people say. With that in mind I’ve decided to compile a list of things that white people — specifically, white activists — should [...]
Forwarding this piece for discussion. While Epstein makes valid remarks in some respects, but leaves many open spots. For instance, to argue that whites are affected by any number of issues avoids a central question the New Left to now tussles with: what are the boundaries of white working class awareness and solidarity? Though surely [...]
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