The Progressive Plantation: Racism Inside White Radical Social Change Groups

by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin

Fri, Oct 25, 2024 5:09PM

I cannot honestly say that white radicals will make changes in their organizations or themselves, but I can say that if they do not, peoples of color will soon rise up in a mass rebellion or revolution against the oppressive conditions they live under, and overthrow not only the capitalist state, but all of their collaborators, including the white-led nonprofit organizations and radical reform movements that receive corporate money and uphold the entire system of white wealth.

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Table of contents:

1. Contradictions of Race and Class in the Struggle
2. Internal Racism: the Example of Anarchism
3. Plantation Politics and the Left
4. Who Said You Were an Anti-Racist Ally?
5. "I can't possibly be a racist..."
6. Peace and Justice Centers are one hell of place for Peoples of Color to work
7. House Niggers of the Left
8. Class Snobbery, or why white radicals are afraid of white working people
9. The Anarchist and Progressive Movements: Still Too White, Middle Class and Self-Absorbed
10. Class Unity and POC Autonomy is the only real solidarity
11. Critique of the Anti-Globalization Movement
12. Occupy Wall Street: internal racism run amok!
13. The Total Uselessness of Anti-Racist Consciousness Raising Programs
14. What Should I Do About White Racism Inside my Organization?
15. Conclusion

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