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Are you a white race traitor? Why the hell not? As Howard Zinn
says, you can't be neutral on a moving train: you're either
ignorant of white privilege, or you support it, or you oppose
it. If you oppose the social privileges of whiteness, you
should become a New Abolitionist. The New Abolitionist Society
believes that:
The white race is a historically constructed social formation.
It consists of all 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 a system that degrades them.
The key to solving the social problems of our age is to
abolish the white race -- in other words, to abolish the
privileges of the white skin. Until that task is accomplished,
even partial reform will prove elusive, because white
influence permeates every issue, domestic and foreign, in U.S.
society.
The way to abolish the white race is to challenge, disrupt and
eventually overturn the institutions and behavior patterns
that reproduce the privileges of whiteness, including the
schools, job and housing markets, and the criminal justice
system. The abolitionists do not limit themselves to socially
acceptable means of protest, but reject in advance no means of
attaining their goal.
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