From: "My'dRin" <My_dRin-AT-charter.net>
Subject: Re: Race Traitor: "Abolish the White Race"
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 11:07:49 -0500


What was it bullworth said?

"what we need is a voluntary, good-natured, plan of reproductive racial
deconstruction...Everybody just has to keep fucking everyone else until
we're all the same color."

"Rich people have always stayed on top by dividing black people from white
people."

LOL  You wouldn't think that so much wisdom could come out of such a funny
movie.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim" <from_alamut-AT-yahoo.com>
To: <postanarchism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: Race Traitor: "Abolish the White Race"


> Instead of the abolishing the "white race" how about
> raising everyone up? This is in the tradition of
> "masters without slaves." Really now, revolutionaries
> are not going to get very far demanding that a
> majority give up their privledges. It is more likely
> to get them to share and include more and more people
> into it.
>
> And I would like to know what privledges my "white
> trash" cousin (who does live in a trailer and on food
> stamps) has over my African-American physician who
> lives in a gated community? Is there something I am
> missing?
>
> The real problem is class. Race has always been a
> tactic of the ruling class to divide the opposition.
>
> jim davis
> ozark bioregion
>
> --- "J.M. Adams" <ringfingers-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Abolish the White Race - By Any Means Necessary
> >
> > by Race Traitor
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > In the original film version of ROBIN HOOD (starring
> > Errol Flynn), the Sheriff of Nottingham says to
> > Robin,
> > "You speak treason." Robin replies, "Fluently." We
> > hope to do the same.
> >
> >
> > ====> > "The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the
> > 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the
> > exception but the rule...power no longer has today
> > any form of legitimization other than emergency."
> >
> > - Giorgio Agamben, Means Without Ends: Notes on
> > Politics, 1996
> >
> > For cutting-edge analysis of contemporary war visit
> > http://www.infopeace.org
> >
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