Thursday, 20 January 2000
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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.
This is New Abolitionist Society <http://monkeyfist.com/articles/91>