Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO...

[W. Kiernan]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> It's interesting that there are so many complaints about the anti-IMF
> movement in the US. being almost exclusively white. Since most of the
> victims of the IMF are "people of color," shouldn't there be more
> solidarity coming from Americans of color? Why isn't there?

Maybe if I were a black American and someone came up to me and said I
should pay more attention to fighting the IMF's economic assault
against, say, Brazilians, I might say, "screw that, I'm focusing on the
social and economic battles right here in the U.S. against us blacks." 
I might even suspect that that guy is trying to distract me with
irrelevancies from my main issue.  I'm not saying that that is the
wisest position, possibly blacks would do better to take a more global
perspective, but there's a lot to be said for close focus.

Anyway I'm not black, I'm just guessing here.  (Talking out my ass, that
is, on a mailing list!  Unheard of!)

Yours WD "white like y'all" K - WKiernan at concentric.net