renouncing whiteness

[Doug Henwood]

How does the white race go about abolishing itself? I heard a story 
once about Ted Allen getting into a cab and having the driver address 
him in a conspiratorial, racist fashion as a fellow white person. 
Allen denied he is white. But whiteness isn't a matter of 
self-identification alone, is it? It's how you're treated throughout 
your life. What is to be done?

Doug