Your 1. proves that there is a dialectical necessity for anti racism. Now what is anti racist *nationalism*?
2.black nationalism has the effect of confirming the existence of nations--and race based ones at that-- as the fundamental locus of identity.
3. what regimes are supported in terms of pan africanism? the ones that are really most african? how is that determined? isn't farakhan a pan africanist and pan muslim? Whose boots does he have to lick? The leaders of Sudan? Is this the kind of internationalism you want? What happened to feminism? By the way, while Malcolm X was impressed by new educational opportunities for women in the new post colonial African regmines, he also favored such education only for the professions for which women were putatively qualified, so he never broke from gender apartheid either. And what does such pan africanism have to do with the wretched of the earth? Fanon by the way was a fierce anti nationalist as evident in that forgotten chapter from Wretched of the Earth.
4. Why can't anti racist black nationalist consciousness reproduce the same petit bourgeois illusions of the white working class?
5. yes we need comprehensive criticism of the criminal justice system and the war on drugs in particular. Instead of simply pointing to actual racism in the the definition of criminal acts (crack vs cocaine), arrests, convinction and sentencing, I would say that discrimination by race is always confounded by discimination on the basis of the current or probable unemployment status of the person. Unemployed people are discriminated against in the system.
Black people are likely more likely to be unemployed (because of the economic deprivation in ghettoes in which they have been forced to live) and more likely to be imagined to be unemployed (both because of court's own racism and the correct estimate of employers' racism). So black people are likely to be first targetted if the state's unemployment policy has been criminalisation after the collapse of full employment macroeconomic policy in the mid 70s.
This said, the same class dimension should not be forgotten. Nor should a criticism of the ineffectiveness of the war on drugs be subordinated to a judgement of the system on whether it is racist. Even if the criminalisation of drug addiction could be deracinated--so to speak-- it may still be a stupid approach to the problem. I think I read a review of a book by Michael Massing on this. I think he argues that Nixon's detox centers were more effective than present decriminalisation. Another example of where Nixon was more liberal than Clinton? Another question: why in France are there actual movements of the unemployed while in the US we have spectacular racially exclusive marches (men, women and youth) by the very group which is over-represented among the unemployed?
Rakesh