Sure we can -- let's go right ahead. I'm far from satisfied with racial representation in socialism, the ISO, and this list.
At 9:00 PM -0500 12/31/02, Chuck0 wrote:
>I think the anarchist movement is doing a good job of talking and
>doing something about this situation.
It appears that there has been much denial that "this situation" is a problem at all.
At 9:00 PM -0500 12/31/02, Chuck0 wrote:
>We aren't vanguardists who recruit people of color as tokens and
>window dressing for our organizations, so pardon us if we do things
>a tad bit differently.
Do you think of people of color in the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, socialist orgs ("vanguard" or rearguard), etc. as "tokens" or "window dressings," in other words dumb tools of smarter white people? It's not a good idea to underestimate the intelligence of people of color whose politics differs from yours. They know what they are doing.
Besides, things have changed since the USA of the pre-civil-rights days. Institutions with which I've compared the anarchist movement unfavorably have gone beyond "tokens" and "window dressings." We don't live in the days when all positions of power were exclusively in white hands, all well paid jobs were monopolized by white workers, etc. any more. It's time to confront the reality of historical change, even though the result of historical change is still far from proportional representation. There were times when the anarchist movement in the US was more racially inclusive than US Congress; now it's the other way around. -- Yoshie
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