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Racism, Neo-Colonialism and Solidarity
SOLIDARITY IN THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE
Obviously, the fight against racism involves a critical area of social relations within the United States. It has become apparent with the Obama campaign how deep racism goes. While some people may believe that their past support for persons like Clarence Thomas and Colin Powell absolved them of being racist, it has currently become clear that is no qualification. In fact, support of blacks who gravitate to the most reactionary sector in American politics is validation of one's own racism, and that is coming out now in the presidential election. Whenever a white guy has to work two jobs to maintain a room -- not an apartment where you have to pay heat and light, mind you -- at the YMCA and he is worried that Obama will be a socialist, that is racist hysteria. Because he isn't worried about Obama spreading socialism; that is a dishonest assumption. He is worried that Obama will maybe do something to help black people. Socialism is code for "Obama might help the African Americans". By the same token, folks saying he is a Muslim are using code for "Obama is a nigger." The white media has made it abundantly clear his white mother and grandparents never raised him as a Muslim. Like some Muslims wrecked the economy and stole $700 billion. It is important to say that Obama represents neo-colonialism. We push the idea that class is at the heart of all struggles in America. Racism is the class struggle concentrated. Class existed before racism ever did. It existed in any society divided between kings and peasants, slaves and masters, workers and bosses. This state of affairs has endured for millennia, since the first state appeared in Egypt or Mesopotamia or China. Racism has only been around since the conquistadores and buccaneers began abducting Africans. Since capitalism used slaves to undermine the cost of labor in the Americas, thereby making a hierarchy of black slaves and white masters. This became the sharpest form of class struggle in history, opposed by the producing classes at every stage until now. What has blunted this struggle? Because the concentrated class struggle (racism) has been diluted by neo-colonialism. That's right. Neo-colonialism has diluted racism. It has diluted it on both sides of the question; the old boy network of redneck racists have seen their hysterical, bloodsucking fear of the black community blended into a new paradigm. And the anti-racist struggle has become blunted by the phenomenon of black mobility. Blacks have become mobilized into critical areas of the Imperialist ensemble, thereby blunting the objections of the revolutionary sector in the eyes of the working class. But this is still part of the class warfare being waged against working people, and only a class analysis will cut thru the deception. We kno racism still exists. That was obvious when the majority of people who were sold adjustable rate mortgages -- that were bound to rise and cause problems for homeowners -- were blacks and Latinos. It became obvious when all the objections to Obama's campaign turned an ugly shade of green. In spite of the deepening financial crisis caused by GOP voodoo economics, there is a sector of the white working class which cannot stand the idea of a black man running their precious republic. I can dig it, but that's the way the ball bounces. It is important for revolutionary and progressive forces to build solidarity during this period. We need a strong labor resurgence. We need reform for Social Security, public assistance, jobs programs and education. We need to defeat neo-colonialism and build our own independent movement, because Obama represents the continuation of business-as-usual. We need genuine unity and solidarity to uplift the most oppressed section of society, and damn the rich. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
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