Cockburn on Slavery

Christopher Niles cniles at ricochet.net
Fri Nov 13 17:01:04 PST 1998



>Exactly, why? And what do you suggest as a remedy: ink? Extermination camps?
>Melanine-enhancing genetic engineering? Bright sunshine?

Hmmm, I see. My remedy for "white" folks is that through struggle and sacrifice, they gleefully abandon their membership in the "white" race and join the human race, at which point they might actually discover "soulfulness." The notion that there is such a thing as a "white race" is a powerful mythology that flies in the face of good science, obfuscates history and frustrates attempts to build lasting solidarity among un-free people, working and otherwise. Being "white" is about enjoying, or expecting, relative entitlements, priviledges, and power. Being "white" is absolutely antithetical to truth, the blues, Stravinsky, freedom and justice, democracy and, generally speaking, the Lord's work. Being "white" is about kicking, directly or indirectly, Black ass. Being "white" is about being a willing or unwilling accomplice to the greatest evils of the last 300 some odd years.

Or in short, fuck "Black and White, Unite and Fight!" I am more interested in large number of "white" folks committing racial suicide--that is, beginning to feel some of the historical pain of Black folks thru "political" activity--as a prerequisite to building a powerful opposition to authoritarian rule.

Niles



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