black & other colonized people, have been beaten into submission, ideologically via colonial christianity & liberal pacifism, and thinking we are better people (in which we are for other reasons) for accepting our colonial subjugation won’t end in us being rewarded by our masters
this idea that individual whites or the white power structure at-large is gonna wake up one day, and realize “oh you’re not all violent animals wanting revenge? here are some human rights!” is ahistorical at-best, but actively buys into harmful “docile negro” tropes
wherever the slaves, colonized, dispossessed, and superexploited resides—there will and has always been rage, armed struggle, and revolt. history proves this. you can hide from it, postpone the inevitable, whatever. history shows it’s the most effective approach.
there’s a reason empire has spent trillions of dollars repressing scientific socialist & pan-africanist ideology and movements—both domestically and abroad—whether through coup d'etat, destabilization, assassinations, mass propaganda and incarcerations, etc.
and until we stop asking, begging, and pleading to the conscience of those who have proven time and time again not to have one, and finally collectively accept the reality of what needs to be done... people will continue to die
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joel olson, on whiteness as power as opposed to cultural identity:
"the problem, of course, is that whiteness historically has not been an expression of culture so much as a form of standing reflecting relations of inequality, discrimination, privilege, and terror."
"it is more useful to understand whiteness as a form of power rather than as a culture. after all, it is not white culture that unites a brooklyn cop, a silicon valley entrepreneur, a rural west virginian, a portland hippie, and a phoenix metal head; it is white power..."
"whiteness studies’ failure to understand whiteness as a form of power follows from the politics of recognition’s tendency to understand racial conflict in terms of the misrecognition of cultures rather than the persistence of relations of privilege and subordination."
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this just speaks to the larger phenomenon of viewing racial violence thru the lens of individual prerogatives as opposed to an actual existing structural institution of power. who has the power to enact racial violence w/impunity? how is orientalist racism ideologically enforced?
you can’t understand contemporary instances of racial terror & violence, specifically as it targets asian people, without understanding colonial-imperialism—and even if non-white faces can/do serve as upholders of such structures—who/what are they serving?
even if it’s true that indiv. black persons are the primary proponents of racial terror against asians (it’s not regardless of ig polls stating otherwise); the phenomenon has to be understood as an ideological consequence & continuation of an imperial-colonial state’s mechanisms
i just love how you can always bet on western bourgeois gay/lesbian organizations & media publications to come in right in time—as an established wing of empire—when it is time to beat those drums for imperialist war. just incredibly consistent in their role.
what we’re seeing here is a consequence of the ‘lesbian & gay rights movement’—which was petit-bourgeois in nature—belittling the struggle for gay liberation to “marriage equality.”
and divorcing said struggle from the struggle against other forms of violence: imperialism/war, colonialism, racial capitalism, etc. what a tragedy we find ourselves living in the afterlife of, homonationalism continues to be a useful instrument of imperial warfare.
this criticism is incredibly misplaced & inaccurate. the implication that deray’s inorganic, opportunistic positioning as “movement leader” is comparable to malcolm or mlk… then, implying it’s some innate privilege to be hypervisible when they were both assassinated young?