renouncing whiteness

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 05:59 PM 11/26/00 +0000, Jennifer Young wrote:
>I have be involved in protecting the environment.  Once a man posted on an 
>environmental listserve expressing his opinion that the environmental 
>movement mostly benefited white middle class people, and he said the 
>movement was racist.  Naturally, I wanted to defend my own interest and 
>position, and explained that I was concerned with all living things on the 
>planet.  This was a situation where I could have admitted or acknowledged 
>that groups like the Sierra Club, or the Nature Conservancy tend to benefit 
>more affluent predominantly white folks. The folks with the SUV's to get to 
>these remote areas, the folks with money to buy all the hiking 
>paraphernalia, the folks who have nice boots and LL.Bean!

This is a very silly critique of the environmental movement, indeed. Sounds
like a canard pulled by corporate media hacks trying to pit the leisure of
the urban class against hard work of the rural folks. 

Attaching a racist label to this tripe is even more pathetic.  By the same
logic, Amerikun blacks are a bunch or racist scumbugs because by buying
Nike shoes they benefit from the exploitation of Third World labor.

wojtek