Abolish the White Race - By Any Means Necessary

[RBG Street Scholar]

Abolish the White Race - By Any Means Necessary

http://racetraitor.org/

The white race is a historically constructed social formation - historically constructed because (like royalty) it is a product of some people's responses to historical circumstances; a social formation because it is a fact of society corresponding to no classification recognized by natural science.

The white race cuts across ethnic and class lines. It is not coextensive with that portion of the population of European descent, since many of those classified as "colored" can trace some of their ancestry to Europe, while African, Asian, or American Indian blood flows through the veins of many considered white. Nor does membership in the white race imply wealth, since there are plenty of poor whites, as well as some people of wealth and comfort who are not white.

The white race consists of those who partake of the privileges of the white skin in this society. Its most wretched members share a status higher, in certain respects, than that of the most exalted persons excluded from it, in return for which they give their support to the system that degrades them.

The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race. Until that task is accomplished, even partial reform will prove elusive, because white influence permeates every issue in U.S. society, whether domestic or foreign.

Advocating the abolition of the white race is distinct from what is called "anti-racism." The term "racism" has come to be applied to a variety of attitudes, some of which are mutually incompatible, and has been devalued to mean little more than a tendency to dislike some people for the color of their skin. Moreover, anti-racism admits the natural existence of "races" even while opposing social distinctions among them. The abolitionists maintain, on the contrary, that people were not favored socially because they were white; rather they were defined as "white" because they were favored. Race itself is a product of social discrimination; so long as the white race exists, all movements against racism are doomed to fail.

The existence of the white race depends on the willingness of those assigned to it to place their racial interests above class, gender or any other interests they hold. The defection of enough of its members to make it unreliable as a determinant of behavior will set off tremors that will lead to its collapse.

RACE TRAITOR aims to serve as an intellectual center for those seeking to abolish the white race. It will encourage dissent from the conformity that maintains it and popularize examples of defection from its ranks, analyze the forces that hold it together and those which promise to tear it apart. Part of its task will be to promote debate among abolitionists. When possible, it will support practical measures, guided by the principle, Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity. Dissolve the club

The white race is a club, which enrolls certain people at birth, without their consent, and brings them up according to its rules. For the most part the members go through life accepting the benefits of membership, without thinking about the costs. When individuals question the rules, the officers are quick to remind them of all they owe to the club, and warn them of the dangers they will face if they leave it.

RACE TRAITOR aims to dissolve the club, to break it apart, to explode it. Some people who sympathize with our aim have asked us how we intend to win over the majority of so-called whites to anti-racism. Others, usually less friendly, have asked if we plan to exterminate physically millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, of people. Neither of these plans is what we have in mind. The weak point of the club is its need for unanimity. Just as the South, on launching the Civil War, declared that it needed its entire territory and would have it, the white race must have the support of all those it has designated as its constituency, or it ceases to exist.

Elsewhere in this number, readers will find an account of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and some of the events it set in motion. Before the Civil War, the leading spokesmen for the slaveholders acknowledged that the majority of white northerners, swayed above all by the presence of the fugitive slave, considered slavery unjust. The Southerners also understood that the opposition was ineffective; however much the white people of the north disapproved of the slave system, the majority went along with it rather than risk the ordinary comforts of their lives, meager as they were in many cases.

When John Brown attacked Harpers Ferry, Southern pro- slavery leaders reacted with fury: they imposed a boycott on northern manufactures, demanded new concessions from the government in Washington, and began to prepare for war. When they sought to portray John Brown as a representative of northern opinion, Southern leaders were wrong; he represented only a small and isolated minority. But they were also right, for he expressed the hopes that still persisted in the northern population despite decades of cringing before the slaveholders. Virginia did not fear John Brown and his small band of followers, but his soul that would go marching on, though his body lay a-mould'rin' in the grave.

When the South, in retaliation for Harpers Ferry, sought to further bully northern opinion, it did so not out of paranoia but out of the realistic assessment that only a renewal of the national pro-slavery vows could save a system whose proud facade concealed a fragile foundation. By the arrogance of their demands, the Southern leaders compelled the people of the north to resist. Not ideas but events were in command. Each step led inexorably to the next: Southern land-greed, Lincoln's victory, secession, war, blacks as laborers, soldiers, citizens, voters. And so the war that began with not one person in a hundred foreseeing the end of slavery was transformed within two years into an anti-slavery war.

It is our faith - and with those who do not share it we shall not argue - that the majority of so-called whites in this country are neither deeply nor consciously committed to white supremacy; like most human beings in most times and places, they would do the right thing if it were convenient. As did their counterparts before the Civil War, most go along with a system that disturbs them, because the consequences of challenging it are terrifying. They close their eyes to what is happening around them, because it is easier not to know.

At rare moments their nervous peace is shattered, their certainty is shaken, and they are compelled to question the common sense by which they normally live. One such moment was in the days immediately following the Rodney King verdict, when a majority of white Americans were willing to admit to polltakers that black people had good reasons to rebel, and some joined them. Ordinarily the moments are brief, as the guns and reform programs are moved up to restore order and, more important, the confidence that matters are in good hands and they can go back to sleep. Both the guns and the reform programs are aimed at whites as well as blacks - the guns as a warning and the reform programs as a salve to their consciences.

Recently, one of our editors, unfamiliar with New York City traffic laws, made an illegal right turn there on a red light. He was stopped by two cops in a patrol car. After examining his license, they released him with a courteous admonition. Had he been black, they probably would have ticketed him, and might even have taken him down to the station. A lot of history was embodied in that small exchange: the cops treated the miscreant leniently at least in part because they assumed, looking at him, that he was white and therefore loyal. Their courtesy was a habit meant both to reward good conduct and induce future cooperation.

Had the driver cursed them, or displayed a bumper sticker that said, "Avenge Rodney King," the cops might have reacted differently. We admit that neither gesture on the part of a single individual would in all likelihood be of much consequence. But if enough of those who looked white broke the rules of the club to make the cops doubt their ability to recognize a white person merely by looking at him or her, how would it affect the cops' behavior? And if the police, the courts, and the authorities in general were to start spreading around indiscriminately the treatment they normally reserve for people of color, how would the rest of the so-called whites react?

How many dissident so-called whites would it take to unsettle the nerves of the white executive board? It is impossible to know. One John Brown - against a background of slave resistance - was enough for Virginia. Yet it was not the abolitionists, not even the transcendent John Brown, who brought about the mass shifts in consciousness of the Civil War period. At most, their heroic deeds were part of a chain of events that involved mutual actions and reactions on a scale beyond anything they could have anticipated - until a war that began with both sides fighting for slavery (the South to take it out of the Union, the north to keep it in) ended with a great army marching through the land singing, "As He died to make men holy, let us fight to make men free."

The moments when the routine assumptions of race break down are the seismic promise that somewhere in the tectonic flow a new fault is building up pressure, a new Harpers Ferry is being prepared. Its nature and timing cannot be predicted, but of its coming we have no doubt. When it comes, it will set off a series of tremors that will lead to the disintegration of the white race. We want to be ready, walking in Jerusalem just like John. What kind of journal is this?

RACE TRAITOR exists, not to make converts, but to reach out to those who are dissatisfied with the terms of membership in the white club. Its primary intended audience will be those people commonly called whites who, in one way or another, understand whiteness to be a problem that perpetuates injustice and prevents even the well-disposed among them from joining unequivocally in the struggle for human freedom. By engaging these dissidents in a journey of discovery into whiteness and its discontents, we hope to take part, together with others, in the process of defining a new human community. We wish neither to minimize the complicity of even the most downtrodden of whites with the system of white supremacy nor to exaggerate the significance of momentary departures from white rules.

We should say that there are some articles we are not interested in publishing. Since we are not seeking converts, we probably will not publish articles which lecture various organizations about their racial opportunism. Also we probably will not publish articles promoting inter-racial harmony, because that approach too often leaves intact differential treatment of whites and blacks and provides subtle confirmation of the idea that different races exist independently of social distinctions.

[Elisa Keisha]

i am checking the webpage. looks good
I cant undertsand how some people can misunderstand the aim of this "idea".
i would even think this has been started by white people, since its mostly directed to white people.
nowhere it talks about extermination! lol... just funny how folks have both concepts white and privilages so attached, that they think eliminating the privilage mean phisically eliminating white people. ha!

[RBG Street Scholar]

Originally Posted by Elisa Keisha

i am checking the webpage. looks good
I cant undertsand how some people can misunderstand the aim of this "idea".
i would even think this has been started by white people, since its mostly directed to white people.
nowhere it talks about extermination! lol... just funny how folks have both concepts white and privilages so attached, that they think eliminating the privilage mean phisically eliminating white people. ha!

Yeah it's just an academic scholar's way of saying what RBG Street Scholar has been saying all along.
But remember what i always say "Most white people are so racist they don't even know it" --it's cultural, socio-structural and institutional. My mother use to say "They got the can't help its"

"The Cost of Privilege: Taking on the System of White Supremacy and Racism."

http://harvardmagazine.com/2002/09/a...hite-race.html

[John P.]

yeah..this was good article. I'm checking the site out now...peace

[Sun Ship]

I was reading some of this and linked to the web page. I also looked up this Harvard professor Noel Ignatiev. I think there is something here worth studying, for the studying of whites is one powerful tool that Dr. Marimba Ani and Dr Francis Cress-Welsing exemplified by their works, as whites have studied us for so many centuries.

I myself have always rejected the concept of race, as it is a social construct designed originally to attempt to empower and humanize the concept of being something deemed “white people�, and racialization is a limited, lesser, and weak science that should not be used to define the complexities and the divineness of being an African, who are the original homo sapiens.

Some whites have seemingly come to realize that as long as they are self-described as “white� they cannot fully integrate or plant themselves into the natural order of this earth, and will always be a self-defined anomaly with limited genetic and spiritual resources. I think this professor and the so-called movement is exposing what the most maniacal white scientist and social engineers have also realized. I don’t think this concept or movement will affect the lives of Africans directly at this time, but we should watch this closely and take notes.

As a divine people we must keep a close watch on all creation, for to marginalize any extraordinary fluctuations in something like the “paradigm of white supremacy, or the racial social construct defined as “whiteness�, which has been so life-altering, oppressive, constraining, and genocidal to the African world would be imperceptive and an act of divine irresponsibility, to our ancestors and our future.

[RBG Street Scholar]

Originally Posted by Sun Ship

I was reading some of this and linked to the web page. I also looked up this Harvard professor Noel Ignatiev. I think there is something here worth studying, for the studying of whites is one powerful tool that Dr. Marimba Ani and Dr Francis Cress-Welsing exemplified by their works, as whites have studied us for so many centuries.

I myself have always rejected the concept of race, as it is a social construct designed originally to attempt to empower and humanize the concept of being something deemed “white people”, and racialization is a limited, lesser, and weak science that should not be used to define the complexities and the divineness of being an African, who are the original homo sapiens.

Some whites have seemingly come to realize that as long as they are self-described as “white” they cannot fully integrate or plant themselves into the natural order of this earth, and will always be a self-defined anomaly with limited genetic and spiritual resources. I think this professor and the so-called movement is exposing what the most maniacal white scientist and social engineers have also realized. I don’t think this concept or movement will affect the lives of Africans directly at this time, but we should watch this closely and take notes.

As a divine people we must keep a close watch on all creation, for to marginalize any extraordinary fluctuations in something like the “paradigm of white supremacy, or the racial social construct defined as “whiteness”, which has been so life-altering, oppressive, constraining, and genocidal to the African world would be imperceptive and an act of divine irresponsibility, to our ancestors and our future.

These are beautiful words and an excellent summary of the issue brutha.I agree with you.
I posted this thread as an expansion of the white people thread ( here's the link)
White people

The question in that thread is "should we let white people in join the forum" ?


This was my post response:

Of all the disciplines of study, history is best qualified to reward all research.
Fact: You can't change the spots on a leapord's back.
Fact: A rattlesnake was a rattlesnake a thousand years ago and is a rattlesnake today.

There is nothing, i repeat nothing a white person being openly welcome here will tell us that is not already well documented...But to even be in such a state of mind as to ponder the question of the thread makes me feel very sad and hopeless about our committment to self development...it suggest that i am in the mist of an ahisorified and not well read people.

Here's something from Harvard Magizine that should make those suffering from humanist-integrationist inbetweenity feel better about what i'm saying.

Abolish the White Race
http://harvardmagazine.com/2002/09/a...hite-race.html


"The good news is that there are now a host of writers and a growing number of courses and workshops designed to enlighten white people as to the real benefits and the great cost of their property in whiteness," writes former Harvard Law School professor Derrick Bell in his epilogue to When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories, edited by Bernestine Singley, LL.M. '76 (Lawrence Hill Books, $26.95). Many of those engaged in this Herculean task are white, Bell notes, among them Noel Ignatiev, Ed.M. '85, Ph.D. '94, C.A.S. '95, author of How the Irish Became White and a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, who writes....

Derrick Bell is Black

Their stuff is like Michael Bradley's Iceman Inheritance.

[tyydae]

they have one hell of a task on their hands BUT it can be done.

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[Langalibalele]

But the piece is on the point. White folks cant change their skin, but they can change their stinking ass reactionary politics! And that is the essence of "Whiteness". Thank you, my brother, for this timely post!