RASHID On Race

a the Quest e and Racism, Revolut caton, 300 Buia:
of the WX

“The economic nature of racism is nol simply an aside. Racismis a
fundamental characteristic of manopoly capialism.*
George L Jackson, 1571

Inroducton

Many peopie believe that racism - indeed the very Concapi of rce el - eveiops'
‘automatically when groups of peaple with diferent compiexions, nar, and body typas
are brought together. Thisis not sol Actually, the concept of race is barely 500 years
0ld. The commaon peaple have been programmed into acoeping “race" as a normal ana
natural thing, 10 prevent them from quesboning, invesigaling, and chalenging ne eas.
and roots of race and racism. Race and racism ase the nventons of a spaciic social
class. and davised (o serve a speciic socia purpose. The Crealors ard the oppressor

sharp dividing social factor, the hands of the capicalists can be seen puling the stANgs,
anditis only they who benefi from the conficts

George Jackson ciearly recognized this. He pointed out that while racis, the.
‘dominant form of racism in Amenka, expresses itsell as.

" the morbid Uaditonal fear of Blacks, Indians, Mexicans, (and] the aesis 1o
nfict pain on them whin they began to compete in the indusiral sectors. The
resentment and the seedbed offear is pariemed 110 every modem capitaist

saciely. 1 grows out of a sense of insecurty and insigniicance that is incuicaica
into the warkers by the conditions of fe and work under capitaism. This sense

The reation of the White Race and Pacism z

2rish Colonial Governor William Berkeley. The colonial govemment's principal concer
25 with any capitalst govemment), was fo maintain stabifty in the colonias whils
orotecting and expanding the hokdings and wealth of the ruing class. To achieve this

eeley promoted developing trade retations and peace with the Indians who fived on
surrounding fands. Bacon, however, promoted funning the Indians oft thei fand o
xpand the colonial seftlements. I defiance of Berkeley's policies, Bacon indopendently
eyanized and led poor farmers who fived on the outskirs of the colories (most of whor
were racertly freed indentured servants). on murderous terror raids against nearby
“~dian communities, But nstead of fleeing, the Natives responded with counter-raids
2gainst their attackers. Bacon, unable 1o match the Indian countr.attacks, sought but
3¢ daried mittary supportfrom Berkeley

Eac0n than tumed on the established colorial g class and Berkeley's
govermentHe armad and organized the colony's Afriken and English siaves with
promises of freedom, and in 1676 led them in revoll agains! the calonial rars. The

~avoit succaeded in overthrowing tha colonial ning class and govermment, and cactured
“he a0l at Jamestown, Virginia

However, $ix months into the revoll, and at the height of his power, Bacon died of
inflsenza. Eacon's Rebelion, deprived of s leader and omanizer, collapsed, and the
orionial nfing class and Council quickly regained contro, though ot without a

termined last stand by the core group of rebels, principally composed of Afrkan

. 1t was af this pot that the plantation elfe and theirreinstatad government
zed the immense dangar and power of a uniied working class. Consequertly they
#acided to ensure that no unfted revort ke Bacor's Rebeflion occurred again. Their
sohuon was 10 SOt the lower class by permanently ensiaving one sector whié
tha loyaty of another sector,inciing i fear and contempt aganst and using it o police

‘slaved sector. To divide, agtate, and rule was the plan. This they accomplished b

“vanting the concent of raos and dividing the lower class along racial ines.

Laws wers immediately passed that estabiished the categories of "negro” (Sparish
for “black’), and “White" as distinct raciaized social statuses. In 1682 legilation was
‘enacted that marde siavery a permanent and herediary stafus for al “Blacks,” and over
et snveral decades stavery and indentured servitude of Whites' wers phased out
Timhar 2w e passed that forbade and penalizad posve socil ineractions

Detween e races, pariculany esCapes, MAMagEs, ad pIOCTEALCN.

The poor white men mage up the body of he colonial Mlias a0, G4 1
‘were conscripted into manning slave patios undes fines and oar penalies if T
refused. This plantation poiics foroe was the forsrunner and grandparent of (0day’s
urban police forces that continue 10 be concentraled against people of col0r 10 (eprass.
them across Amerika with violence and te(Tor. In most areas, e siave pairols came
outnumbar tne black siaves. A variety of minor privieges were also Granied Lo the poor
whites, inciuding tiny plots of and 10 ive on - 3 the Indians’ expense - a MUSKEL, e
‘authority 1 kil rebelious Blacks, tax exemptions, and other bensfis for manning siave
patros, grater leniency in the eyes of the law than Blacks, voung prviiegas, Sic.

By inventing the social calegory of "wiie,” and granung e lowes Ciass Eurcpearis
share in power over the super-explorted and ensiaved AMTkans, e CapIasis Créaled
scheme that caused the poor Eurpeans a faise sense of prvicged Class unily wilh, 305
2 confused loyaly toward the ruiing cass which was the source of ail of g Iowar
classes’ poverty and misery. By seiiing out their Own Class Inler@ss 1ot elie, 1 foxt
whiles mace a deal with the devi thal saw them focus e frustTa0Ns on Biacks
instead of the capitalsts, and thus ensured thal they would 1EMaIN an iMpoveNsna aria
‘exploded class, just a siep above the Blacks.

To ensure the decication of the slave patiols, a1 whiles in gEneral, i Fepressig
‘and containing the black siaves, the ning cass generaiad & paranod fear of siave
revols and espacialy of "Negroes with guns. From every puipi, and evary canier o:
‘white social gathenng and influence, Blacks were depicied as aays FIOILNG 10 (€40i
Wi the aim of murdering all whites indisciminalely (men, wimyn, and chiren)
molesting wite wiMmyn, and subvering “0ood” whie Chiisan Gwikzation with Biack
“heathenism.* Both the poiucal and rebgious instmL0NS were, and femain 10Gay.
proponents of racism and white fear of Black revoll.

‘The Chuch hierarchy, wich was Ued in wih he rulng eute, aiso 3060uSH 10 T 1.
of racism by thealogizing the myth of whie racial superionty over ai other races.
claiming thai whites were the Crealor's “chosen people® Gestned o fuk over al oS
a5 a dine night, and that siavery was punishment orained by he Crealor for Biacns
5 the “Curse of Canaan " Itwas through these combined methods that write
supremacy” and the very concept of the "while” and "biack” races were bom ana spréad
and remai today normalized concepts that divide the lower cass 10 further tne nterests
of the wealhy ete.

The capitaists found race and racism such effecive 10015 for manipulaung ana
undermining the working class that appeals 10 race and racism, (overtly and.
subliminaly). have been their gensraiized metnod of SuDVerting working Ciass Sirugics
‘and manipulating workers o serve as mercenaries and Mndiess canNon fodcer in
fighting capitaist wars. To solidty lower class support the CapiTalsEs who were
strugging to break free of Brtish control appealed o poor whiles Lo fight e Amnkar:
Revoluionary War (1775-1763), 1 achieve an independent “whila naton” The
Declaraion of independence expresses this in s statement “When . f becomes..
necassary for one people to dissolve the polical bonds which Rave connecied them wilri
another * Because of the racialized identity of ‘hiteness,” the colonisis had Gome (o
dentiy themselves as a diferent “people" than the Engssn
Yy

From such weatthy elite notables and “Founding Fathers” as Benjamin Frankin (in
1751 10 John Jay), James Madison, Jedediah Morse (1o Andrew Johnson in 1854), they
al' emphasized in public and in privare leters that Amerika was to be a “white nation.
(Sea Steve Martinot, The Rule of Recisfzation, 2003). This was specfied in ane of e
st leqistative acts of the independent Amerikan govemment - the Naturafzation Act of
1730 - which stated tha the U.S. was 1o be 2 “whits republic.” The “White" racialized
dertty which,had its origins in the Virginia colony, was subsequently adopted into.
Eurcosan thinking and served as it had in North Ameria, 1 rafionaiize European
=oionizaton of people of color in Asia, Afrika, Austalia, and elsewhers, and to afienate
2 Eumoean working class from uniting with the supar.oppressed peaples of color

e Amerikan capitafists used the same device to sty their brutal and genocidl
72 of Indian and Mexican tands to expand their agricutural empire. They won the
373102 of the poor whites by promoting these acfions as white “Manifest Destiny,” a5
e 'y and caling of whites 1o conquer “inforior” peoples, and by giving o free fand
grarts. These same appeals are used today in pursuf of U.S. conquest and repression
=" pacle of color, only the concept of white supremacy and- Manifest Destiny” have.
S2come 50 ingrained and normakized in the collectve white Amerikan mind, that they.
223 ~t ba exaliciy stated. Moreover, 10 do 5o is poficall incorect and umwise in
ocay's world where people of color have proven umwiing fo acoept overty expressed
~acis! opression, (witness the national independence struggles of the 20" century

203125t European colonialism that swept Asia and Afika; the urban uprisings, cvi rights.
27 New Atckan, First Nation, Mexican, and Puerto Rican fberation struggles in

2 maea, the woridwide opposition to South Affkan Apartheid, efc ).

“herstore, the white supremacist appeal foday fs made and pursued more

Communiam.” efc. But any objective analysis quickly reveals that these policies, backed
5y extrame state vietence, and demonizing tabels such as “criminal,- Yerrorst” stc, are
consistertty applied to non-white peoples, and Ifs the white U.S, population thafs

200e2led 10 n order to back these pofiies. That the national identiy of Amerika remains
nat of 2 white nation s revealed by its population being st classified by race, with panic
#45ing anytime the effes claim some other race fike Latin Amerkan imfhigrants are

“~raatening to ovemun the “white majorty.” of hat Blacks are a danger o the stabilty
2 moral gty of Amerika,

Whita racism caused many whites, (especialy of the lower class), to becorre 5o
onsumed and intoxicated with the myh of their racial superiorty, their ight o repress
and contain Bllacks and others' ambitons, and the ide that their own poverty and fack of
cower was somehow the fauf o Blacks, fat theyve resorted o confused,
“urdamentalist reactonary viokncs to subvert every effortof Blacks to improve or
chaange their own condions. Thus, Black pofical and economic struggles and gains
have frequently been foflowed by reactonary white violence, or the rise of far right wing
whita terorist groups, fike the Ku Kux Kian and Nights of White Cameta for example,
“he white mobs tht attacked Blacks in Massachusetts (1850) and Philsdelphia, Boston.
2nd Cincinnafi (1830') to repress the Black vofe; the froquent hynchings during

Peconstruction (1865.77), white iots against Biacks communites when Blacks moved in
/232 numbers o Northen and Westem ciles to il industral jobs in the early 1900's,
kb avacks and violence o reoress vl rights stuggles i the south during the 1950's
2~ €773 ot Thig reacionary fanatizal rrial viencs and confic o aways upan

s

InCUaMEN of 1e NG G, 0 vt aNa NEwaZE T Jafger Of (EVGl 3 oy 365530 ol
ha working Giass agains! hei cias explotaton and poutcal impetence

Division Created Witin Raciai Ranss.
“The divide and rue scheme was further refined based Upon prCpOSa I

Carlobean siave owner. Wilie Lynch, 10 a gathering of planiaton owners 16 Virgi.a .
1712. Lynch proposed ot only insbgating Sharp division betwesn BLScks and wiites.
Dt among the black slaves as wel, by playing on Minor afferences batwésn MEM (0
generate fear and disinust. He proposed that e biack slaves shoukd LS N0 one
‘8xcapt the piantaion elte. That they should be hostie loward emseives &nd rat
hosility should be maintained between them and e lowar class whites. Lynch pu
tnis way.

“Genllemen. | greet you here o the banks of e James RIer i e 4éas of v
Lora 1712 First, | shall thank you, the gentiemen of the Colony of Virg.aia 1or 0
me here. | am here 1 help you soive some of your proDIems Wilh SIaves. Your inuiaic.
reached me on my modest plantabon in the West indies whers | have expenmenied widi
some of the newest and st ne oldest methods for contol of slaves. Ancent Rome
‘would envy us f my program was implemented. As our boat sailed SGuln Of 1 Jarmés
River, named for our ilustrious King, whose version of ma Bike we consi, | 5w
2nough o know that your prablem is not unique. Wi Rome sed Cords of wood &5
crosses for standing human bodies along its 0ld highway in greal nMBers, you aic .
using the tree and the rope on accasion.

"1 caught the whif of a ead siave hanging from a e & COUg Of Mues Caca 15
re not only losing valuable stock by hangings. you are having LpESINgS, sivés &
running away. Your Grops are sometimes letin the fieias 10 long for Maximum prot.

think about tnam. On 10p of my listis "AGE.” but i is thef becauss it SIANs with an "
the second is "COLOR" or "SHADE™. there s INTELLIGENCE, SIZE. SEX, STATUS G
PLANTATION. ATTITUDE OF OWNERS, WHETHER THE SUAVES LIVE IN THE
VALLEY, ON THE HILL, EAST, WEST, NORTH o SOUTH, HAVE FINE HAIR of
COARSE HAIR, oris TALL or SHORT Now It you have 3 lst of Giferences. | 551
Ve you an outine of ACTION - but before that | shall assure you that disist 15
Stronger than trust, and envy is stronge than adulation, respect or admiraiion

"The Black siave afier receiving Ihis inaockinauon snai carmy on 51a wli Geccric
satrefueling and self-generaung for hundreds of years, maybe tousanas.

“Don't forget you Must pitch the OLD BLACK MALE v the YOUNG BLACK.
MALE, and the YOUNG BLACK MALE vs the OLD BLACK MALE. You must use e
DARK SKIN SALVE vs. the LIGHT SKIN SLAVE and the LIGHT SKIN SLAVE vs (e
DARK SKIN SLAVE. You must use the FEMALE vs. the MALE and the MALE vs. 1o
cEMALE. é
Yeu must also have your white servants and oversaers distrust ol Blacks, but it is

acassary that your staves frust and depend on us. They mustlove, respect, and frust
e us

men. these Kits are your keys 10 control. Use them. Have your wives and
them. Never miss an opportunity - f used intensively for one year. tha
<25 *emselvas wil ramain parpetualy distrustful. Thank you, gentiemen -

ese mathods of dividing staves and Blacks versus poor whites can clearly be seen
<41 in operation today, and the effects stil remain with us - the distrust, fear, and envy.
i the lower classes have come to love, emuate, and depend on the prodatory
‘canatst class, its weath, uxury, and artficial prestige, are all obtained through the
‘cowerassness, and poverty of the working class. Yesterday's chattel saves are
+~tay's wage slaves only the slave ctass today has grown fo include all races and

Capitatsm Creates Racism Aty

“wame Niruma cbserved that the same gams of raca! divide and nle was played
riatem tonk oot in Aika.

“The close firks between class and race developed in Afica alongside
cavitalst exploftation: Siavery, the master-servant refationshp, and chea labor
ware basic 0 it The classic examole is South Africa, whers Afrcans.
‘2xmerience a doutte exploitation - both on grounds of color and of class.
Simitar cordtions existin the U A., the Carbbean, in Latin America, and in
cthar parts of the world where the nature of the development of productive.
“orces has resuied in 3 racist class structure. In these areas, even shades of
color count - the deqrea of blackness being 3 yardsfick by which socal status is
rmeasurd

[4] racist social structure. i inseparable from capitafist economic
evaiopment. For race is inextricably finked with lass exploftation; in a racist
cacialist power structure, caniafst explofation and race oppression are
complementary. the removal of one ensures the removal o the othar

“The eflects of industrialization in Africa as elsewhere, has been to foster the.
growth of the bourgeosie, and at the same fime the growth of a poitically-
conscious proletariat. The acuisition of property and poliical power on the part
¢ the bourgeoisie. and the growing socalst and Afican nationaist aspirations of
e werking class, both strike at the oot of the racist class structure, though each
s 2iming at dferant objectives. The bourgeoisie supports capalist developmant
#vle the profatariat - tve oppressed cfass - s striing fowards socialism

“In South Africa, whers the basis of effric retationships is class and oolor, the
bourgeoisie comprises about one-Mh of the poputation. The Brifsh and the.

20ers, paving joined forces to maintain thei positions of privilege. have spit up
+h remaining four-ffths of the poputation info “Blacks,” Coloreds.” and “Indians
~he Colored and Indians are minority groups which act a5 buffers 0 protect the.
minary whites against e incmasingly milkant and mvolufionary Black majorty

1116 Ol sete areas Of AINCA, & SUTUdS Caass 1056 S 15

*A Nof-acial society Can only be aChievea by SOGALS! (EVOWLON&Ty 410 Of
e masses. it will never come s a gt from e minorty ruling ciass. For K 15
Impossivle 10 separale race relauons from the captalst class relaGornsnips in
which they have their ools. 7

"Soulh Affca again provides a (ypical exampis. i was ol wilh Cpianst
‘SCONOMIC peneiration thal the Masier-servant feiAONSNIP GMArGEd, S wili
racism, color prejudice and apameid,

“Slavery and the masiar-servant (elaionsIp were Nereiors e Cause. (@Tiéi
nan the resu of racism. The positon was Grysialized ana feiniorEed win e,
discovery of gold and diamonds in Souh ACa, 30 the SMpIOYMen! of <resf
African labor in the mines. As time passed, and it was Thought necessary o
justiy the explotiation ana oppression of Affican workers, he mym of (acal
infenonty was developed and spread.

“IL S Oy 019 ending of Capualism, COONGWSM, IMPErASM 813 (EGLoxcra.e.
and the attainment of world COMMUNSM tal can ProVIGe e CONGONS uroer
‘which the race question can finally be abolshed and eiminaisd *

Kwame Nksumah, Class Suuggile in Amca 1575

The war's end i 1918 saw te retwm of me wikies i rewa of smpoyMenL 4 sucry
working class movement was already underway in the U.S.. which had the cagtausts 1t
2 panic. They feared working lass revoluion, ke the one inat had just succeead in

Whites against the Blacks, diverting their atienton away from challengung CapRaist crase
Oppression and toward ine Blacks Who'd "siolen" i j0bs and werd Gnving own
e ¥

™is apoeal fo reactionary race hate 1o channel the anger of white workers away from
=ha"enging working class exploftation provoked racial violence agains! Blacks which
=ul=inated in widesoread white race fots i the Red Summer” of 1919, These riots saw
over 20 incidents of white mobs converging on Biack nelghborhoods o gang rape Black.
wirmyn and girs. and murder and mam Black men, wimyn, chidren and e eldery
gty

forwarding to today, we now see an ienfical situation of competiton over jobs
2129 racial lines taking place between Blacks versus Mexican and Latin Amerikan
grats. Under centuries of colonial and neo-colonial poficies, U.S. captalists with
nemmant backing have obbed the fertie fand and resources and crushed the
2cenemies o their countries, imposing imperialst policies that have violently driven
miens voen milions of their rafive lands and inta complete insecurty, poverty and
2902y I desperate need of jobs 1o provide for their families, many are forced fo
igrate o Amerika, to fil jobs it pay starvation wages o deprive them of bensfits

12e1 by ‘lagal’ workers. Their predicament dupfcates that of Blacks who were forced
0 rrata 10 the northem and wester citfes from the south in search of employment
100n bang pushed of the 1and by Ktan terror, and othenwise competed fo e 1
~coverished servitude.

Butinstead of struggling alongside these migrant workers today, Blacks have been
rcitad by imperiafst agents and propaganda to assume much the same repressive role

Latin £merikans on the streets and inside U.S. prisons. Much of the violence, which
egins inside the prisons whers thesa Taces’ are forcibly confined in miserab close

' iust 2005, over 300 race riots occurred i the Caffomia prison system alone,
os*y batwmen Black versus Mexican and Latin Amerikan prisoners. These contlicts
~ave hoin xposed repeatedy as incted by the impertaist controlled prison guar
Jrizms. So. once again, the capitafsts, whose greedy ambitons are the cause of

~2seiia povart, fob shortages, tand thef, and forced migrations of both Blacks and the
+12%72 pecolas of ths reqion of the world, (who must rsk their fives to cross borders
“reate-d by e canitalists and white racism), have the commonly oppressed paooie, who.

s o class and raonal oporession, wanring amongst thamseives

The Race Game Played Between Whites

T™e Game of racism was not onty created and used 1o play working class whites

292t paople of color. 1t was also used between whites, and with the same purpose of

undarmining working dlass struggles against caphaist class exploiation. Indeed ft was

the principal method of whipping up mass hysteria in suoport of fascism-n Westem

‘Surmoe duing the early 1900's. And contrary to poputar deception, e US, capitafist
"~ government supported s purbose and funcion which was fo suporss working

235 revehyicn Thers is an eviensive alfhough reoressad rcord in proat of s

T tardanny in mainineam cicles and of the nfing class pmnaganda industry has
q

590 10 pant Garman Nazism, fo sxaimpie, as a son of 03a ltent Gemian ari-
‘Semitsm, which was brought 10 e surfaca by a mad" leader (Hibr), who by luca a1
‘ule found himsalf in power. Thi, howswe, uns counisr 0 he aciua fact i e
‘German and Amerikan capiaits consciousiy and delberaiely inanced sna pushea
il nto power o suppress a working ciass revokition hat was (halening 1o ke
‘powsr. The capiaist Greal Depression had disilusioned the workars across Europs
about the promises of capilaism, and they wers looking with hope e xaimpia of

By inciing "Aryan" racism - blaming non-Aryans for GefMany's 6conom.c crsis
which was actually caused by the capialists - 1o Nazis won over the Coniusea Germiar:
middle and lower class and youth o subvert the working ciass movement and rechannc.
s momentum toward attacking seciors of Geman sociely that were ciassica 25 non-
Aryan (infonors* and “degenerates”). Violent repression was thus targeted ‘againss e
‘German Communists and racical youth, who were leading and Organing e worKers'
struggle, and the Jews. Siavs, Poles, Gypsies, Gays and disabled people. Overt
fascism, like pure racism, was a desperaia politcal suaegy of the capiakst ciass
control

A8 said, the U.S. govemment and business community supporied Hiver and
Mussolini before Workd War i See for example:

Chiistopher Simpson, Tho Splendid Bond Beast: Money, Law and Genoc.ce
e Twentioth Contury. Montoe, ME: Comman Courage Press, 1955, pp 46.64

Davia Schmiiz. Thank God They 1o On Our Sice: The United Staias and Rignt *
Wing Dictatarships, 1521-1965, Chapel Hil, NC: University of North Caroling
Press, 1999, Chaplars 1 and 3;

David Schmitz, The United States and Fascist ialy, 1922-1940, Chapel Hil, NC.
University of North Caroiina Press, 198,

Jonn P Diggins, Mussolini and Fascism: The View rom Amenica, Prnceion, hv
Princaton University Press, 1972,
‘oro2” (See Schmitz, The United Stafes and Fascist taly, 1922-1940, . 140). U.S.

™= Amerikan charge d'affaires in Berfin wrote to Washinglon in 1933 thet Amerika
shou'd back the Nazi Party 25 the hope for Germany. He stated that Nazi
‘20022l 10 alt Cviized and reasonable people.” Amerikan Ambassador Frederic Sackett
~ot2d hat s perhas weN that Hitler is now in 2 positon to wield unprecedented
sower * (See Schmitz, The United Stafes and Fascist ftaly, 1922-1940, pp. 174, 133,
ant Chagken 9y

S comorations fike Ford Motor Company wers totafly approving of fascism;
and profited from the Fascists states, and paricinated in plundering Jewish
er Hitir's Aryanization programs.

“Many U S, companies bought substantal interests in established German
companies, which in tum plowed the new money into Aryanizations or nfo arms
oroductions banned under the Versallies Treaty. Acconding to.a 1838 roport from
Ambassador Witiam Dodd fo President Rooseveh, a half dozen key U.S,
comoaries - Intemational Harvester, Ford, General Motors, Standard Ol of New
Jersay. and DuPont - had bacome deeply involved in German weapons
eroduction,

“U.S investment in Germany accelerated rapidly after Hitler came to powsr,
desoite the Depression and Germany's defautt on virually il of s goverment
2nd commercialloans. Commerce Department reports show that U.S. investment
in Germany increased some 48.5 percent between 1929 and 1940, whie
declining shamly everywhere efse in confnental Europe. U.S, investment in

“3res* Btain baraly held steady over the decade, increasing only 28 percent

Ciistophar Simoson, The Splendid Blorids Bieast: Monsy, Law and
Genoside in the Twentieth Cenfury, supra, p. 64

The US. govemment did notin fact unanimously dectare European fascism an
rvowed enemy un it aftacked U.S. interests. And even then Amerikan business
Steras's st backed the Fascists. in fact, Prescott Bush, (grandfather of George W.
2ush), and his father-in-1aw, George Herbert Walker, were the Nazf's fnancers and
arers *rough periods of the Jewish Holocaust, ater their attacks on Britain and
"37ce, nd even after the bombings of Peart Harbor in 1941, 1t took the seizure of their

‘rinn 23nking Comoation by the U.S. governmant in Octoher 1842, undar the Trading
% o Enarmios Act 10 stop Bush and Watver

"

PROC0 WWWI U'S. SUppon 0f iauan Fascism was Muc T saime. i Ceseir,
1917. the Wilson administrabon expressed Tt he fsing IaCOF Movemant posed. e
Obvious danger of social revoltion and disomanizanon * Mussolini's Black Snins solvex
the problem wit violence. Refeming to Mussoini's Ociober 1922 march o Romc,
‘Which smashed ltaian democracy, the U.S. Ambassador noied with 3pproval tha
Fascists carried out"a fine young revoiuion.* Wih govemiment backing, 1 racist Ui .
bloadily reprassed working class agitabon. The U S. embassy noied, Fascism was
“Perhaps the mast polent factor in the suppression of Bolshevism in laly ~In & Feor.ry
1825 report. the embassy aiso approvingly observed inat e Fascisis had smasnea e
WOrKES sifuggle trough “resinciing e fight of free assembly, in aboushing frésacm of
he press and in naving al ts comMand a large Miltary- FANZAIION. I Wes 3150 Siaied
that “between Mussalini and Fascism and Gioll and Socaiism, betwsen sUong iema.
Peace and prosperity and retum Lo free speech, loose aaminisiraton and gencral
disorganization, Peace and Prosperity were preierred * (See Schmitz, The Uniteq Siais:
‘and Fascst tay, 1922-1940, pp. 76-77). These approwng pronouncemets are as
undemocratc a5 one could get. It shoula also bs remeimbered Mal when esé offica
champions of capitaism taik about "Gisorder,” a1 “peace” and “prospenty,” ey e
speaking about thesa things from the perspeciive of neir capuaist bosses n conia.
repressing, and conyoling e exploied workers, and against he worKers' SULGEs (.
gain Control over the society's economic and poliical inSILBONS and power.

The US business press spoke openly in suppor of Fascism Forung magazie ic
example, devoted a special issue 10 Fascism in July 1564, and in s arucie The Stae
Fascist and Total " It commented approvingly that he purpose and affect of Fascism =
10.un wop the wops.” and any views by Amenkan peopke that the alians Snoud fesert
Fascism, s a confusion, and we can Only et over ft € we anesTedze for e momen:
ouringrained idea that democracy i te only fight and just concepton of Govemme s,

The rise of counler-revoluionary racist Fascism in Europe was sccomparic by an
@nendant rise of far ight-wing facis! couniemevolulonary elemenis in AMenka. Thé Kia..

for exampie saw a resurgence, and ds memberstip swebed as never belore in e
1920,

Clearly when any struggle afises from witin e ranks of the working Ciass, e
‘capialiis incite a cortesponaing fisa of acist elements 1o ciide and courier (e i

shared the same language and had for centunies cooperated, suppoTtad, and sustaics
gach ather The Hutu were 85%, the Tuiss 14%, and tha Twa 1% of the popuiaton. The,
it raised crops, the Tutsis tended herds. ECONOMc reiabors between the was.
92524 40N the Hutu exchanging their surplus of vegetables for surplus Tutsi fvestock
Thai economies also sustaimed each other in that the Hutus set aside land for the Tutsis

gra7= thair 2nimals on. The manure of the animals in hum provided fertizer for the
i crocs,

n 1978 the European imperiaist League of Naions "awardad” Rwanda to Belgium
25 2 colony. This Afikan country presented a source of great waalth to the Belgian King
L.ecoold, n the form of vast forests of nubber trees. Rubber was in high demand in the
ustrial countries dua fo the recent invention of the infatable tre. Like the agricuMturs!
‘c2citalists of Amerika, the Belgians needed a localsiave class to work the rubber
ca~t2tons and a local middle level force 1o police them. The colonial Belgian
g0vemment, along with the Catholic Church played the race game 1o produce the.

r2d r2suft. They opened mission schoots to only the Tutsi and forbade the Hutu from
g an education. In the schools, Rwandan history was rewrtten to project the
Tutsi 25 The racial superior of the Hutus. The myth was taught that the Tutsi were a
‘o2rty Caucasian Hamitic paople because of their having taller statures, thinner features,
2nd fighter complexions than the Hutu. dentity cards were issued which ciassified the.

ve soclery a5 Huty, Tutsi, or Twa.

™o Belgians treated the Hutu with the most savage brutafty o enforce their
subrission. Millons upon millions resisted and were massacred, whils milfons more
2 2ars. noses, and imbs cut oft Tutsi chiefs were appointed by the Belgians over the.
it to serve as agents fo this brutafty. The Tuts, ke whites in Amerika, were pieased
2 b idantiad a3 aflies of the ruing powers and 1 befieve the myth of heir racial
uperiorty Consequenty., the Tutsi also ived in perpetual fear of Hutu revenge f the.
Uty aver came together in revolt.

1Whan the nations! independence struggles against European imperiaiism began o
‘sween acss Afrka in the 1950's and 1960's, e educated Tutsis fook notice and

2gva‘ed for Rwandan independence. i tum the Belgians backed the Hutu to repress the
Tutsi. Pwanda sl won independence from Belgium in 1962, but this saw the Hut take.
2ona! of tve unper levels of govemment. The Tusi remained in the lower ranks,
Coning to control the educational system, church, and fivestock. The Huty however
#~nt much of the Tutsitand upon taking powe. Many of the Tutsifled

2 973 coup saw 2 new Hutu govemment take power which changed the status of
e Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa from racial fo ethnic groupings, and sought to democratically
“estucture the efhnic groups within social insttutions according fo theic numbers, This
meat 2 farger shuare for the Hutu in the economy, church, and educafional insthutions.
Tousands of Tutsilost their jobs and fled the country. A few years fater the govemment
“umad sour, state property was privatized, and the economy collapsed. In addion fo
#1915 and famines, the imperialst Infemational Monetary Fund imposed a neo-beral
stuctural adfustment orogram that totally devastated the country. The Tutsi were
‘acrsesad and another wave fled Pwanda, fo refugee camps in Uganda

he genocigial war of 1994 was the resuftof he exlled Tufsis retuming and sesking fo
~2gain oower in Rwanda, The imperiaists, inchuing Amerika, were fult aware of
eracarations for the genocide before it began, but sat by as events unfoided. This “race”
war. e many other race based conflicts, saw “fespectable” people engaged in the
murdarnus frenzy. teachers, doctors, nurses, joumalists, and dergy. Husbands kfled
#7105 tronds kilad each oer, gang ranes were freauent, efc. Such i the resultof race.
hate, racism. and the violence thev soawn. Over 500,000 ware Kkild in 2 mafter of just &
fow months

The entire ‘racia” division in Rwanda was, ike that here in Amerika, created by
uling capitals effe, whose power and profits were served by dviding proviously
united people along racisl fines, granting one sector a sharo of reative power and.
elevated social status, and a sense of racial connection o the ruling effte, 30 (0 use i o
roress and cortrol the other suver-explofted sector, while in ity tha snfire dvided
‘People are collectively exploited by the ruling capialst ciass.

Reverse racism first ook oot on a targe scale with the teachings of Marcus Garvey,
¥ho preached the beauty and high cutture of Blacks. In colonizing Afrka, boginning

Association, supportig his “back to Afrka” movement. Garvey's teachigs offerad
Blacks new basis for pride, se-esteem, sefl-confidence, and respoct, a1 tied o 3
messianic notion of Black racial superioity. By tuming the feaching of white supremacy
on its head, Garvey brought together the argest Black organization i U S. istory

Following his arrest and exile, and the cotapse of his UNIA, Garvey's doctrine and its
Black capitafst underpinnings became the common docirine of Black organizations that

(formeny the 5% Naion), which promotes the Black man &s god and whiss as e
actual devi I

Another proponent of subjective reversa racism was Dr. Khalid Muhammed, another
‘excommunicaied member of the NOI, who led the New Black Parkher Pary (NBFP) up
unti his death in 2001. Dr. Muhammed steered the NBPP far away from the class-based
idoological and political line of the onginal BPP and in the direction of race-based ant-

white poliics, the NBPP's present pah.

‘The New Afrikan Black Panther Party - Prison Chapter (NABPP-PC) distinguishes
153 from such race-based poiics s promoted by the NBPP, as we are proponents of
class stiuggle and the revolutionary nationaiit iberation sinuggles of hose oppressed
by impecialism. We recognize that the captalsts creaied and use rce divisions 1o
perpetuale confic within the oppressed lowsr class sectors, and that racism and the
race biame game serves the inlerests of he oppressor class and undemings he
interasts of the oppressed. This is proven historical fact. Furthermors, as revolutionary
and warring among themselves, o divide, agitate, and rule. Toward the end of their
fives, both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr_came o realize that basing stugle
‘against oppression on race without chaflenging capitalist economic exploftation was a
losing battle. And it was at that point when they began to agitate o have thei followers
struggle against capitalism, imperiafism, and colonial oppression instead of exclusely
focusing on race, (merely struggling against white oporession), that thay were murdared
Geome Jackson pointed this out: IXs

IS o coincidence that Malcolm X and M. L King died when they did
Malcolm X had just put it together...You remember what was o his ips when he
died, Vietnam and economics, poliical economy. The professional kllers could
have murdered him long before they did. They let Malcolm rage on Musim
nationalism for a number of years because they knew it was an emoty rdasl, but
the second he got hs faet on the ground, they murdered him *

Fred Hampton St summed it allup perfecty in his November 1989 speech which
he defivered at the Universty of Northem inois and aptly entied: Trs Ciass Strggle
Goddamnit® Fred stated

“You know a ot of paople have hang-ups with the [Black Panther] Party
‘because the Party talks about a class struggle. And the people that have those
hang-ups are opportunists, and cowards, and individualists and everything that's
‘anything but revolutionary. And they use these things as an excuie 1 justfy and
10:0bi and to bonfy their lack of partcipation in the real revokstonary svuadle
So they say, Well, | carftcig the Panther Party because tha Panthers they are
engrossed with dealing with oppressor country radicals, or white pecple, or
hunkies, or what have you.” They say, these aro some of the {reasons] why | am
ot the struggle. We got a ot o answers for these people. Firstof i, we. say
primarily that the priory of ths struggle is ciass That Mars, and Lenin, and Cha
‘Guevara, and Mao Tse-Tung and anybody else that has ever said of krow o
practiced anything about revoluton, always said that a revolution is a ciass
struggle. Itwas ane class - the oppressed - against the other ciass, the
oppressor And I got to be a universalfact. Those that don't admit to that are.
those that dorit want to get involved in a revolution, because they know 25 long
25 they e dealing wih a race g, theyl nover be involved n a revolsion They.
‘can tak about numbers, they can hang you up in many, many ways

“TWe] never negated the fact that tere was racism in Amerika, but we said
the by-product, what comes off of capitafsm, that happens to be racism. That
capitaism comes first and next s racism. Thiat when they brought slaves over
here, it was to make money. So first the idea came that we want to make money,
then the slaves came in order to make that money. That means that “trough
historical fact, racism had to come from capitatism. It had to be capitaism first
and racism was a by-product of that

Like Malcolm X and MLK. and not even a monih after giving this spaech, Fred
Hampton was assassinated, shot in the head while asieep in bed, by Chicago police (n
colaboration with the FBI) in @ wellorchestrated ht. Comcidence?

The imperialsts ired quns made no protenses about murdering Fred No atiempts
ware made 10 concel theit involvement by using puDEe's or agants. They uised fnrres in
‘govemment uniform, and-a Black cop puled the Inggar at that. So wnat made Frea so
threaiening that the capialsts' goons would go 1o such open axtremes (o neutraiize
him? It was because Fred proved to be a much greater danger to the nuling cass than a
other leaders of the Black Movement combined. He was not only an exceptonal
‘organizer and inspirational leader and teacher of New Affikans, b he could wim the
‘most reactionary of while workers inio revokuionaries. n

It was Fred's work that ed o the formation of the Young Patril Party (YPP), a
revolutionary party of poor redneck white Appalachian youth whose symool was 4
‘confederale flag with a red star emblazoned on . Fred's approach was o appedl 1o

Niggers." They said, "No Niggers come in here,” and were ready to fight. He said, “On
yeah? Well the way | see i, they work y'ai ke Niggers, treat y'al like Niggers, and
make yall ve like Niggers. So that makes y'all niggers in my book, and | say fs time to
gel organizea and deal wat this shil

In another 1969 speoch Fred pointed out

"We got o face some facts. That the masses are poor, tat the masses belong to
what you call he lower ciass, and when | talk about the masses, Im talking abou the
White masses, (m talking about the Black masses, and the Brown masses. and the

to0. We'Ve gl 10 face the fact that some padple say you fiht irs best
it fre, bul we say you pul ire out best with waler. Wo say you don ight racism with *
racism - weir gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capialism with
10 Black capitalism; you ight capitaism with sociaism.

racial, muit-national, united front that included the BPP, the Puerto Rican
Young Lords Party, the Students for a Democraiic Society (belore the Weathermen
faction took over), and the 'Youth Movement . He even worked to

(police,
tonal Guard, amny. etc), are no less detemined.* (George Jackson). It was bacause
of ihe genuine hruat that Fred's rovoluonary praciice posad in bringing gethor
divided "races" ino a united movement to combat impenialism that ho had & be
iquidated

The position on race presented hers is ot to say that New Afrkans or “Blacks”
should abandon or hand over our iberation struggle to the intative or control of whites,
ot that our strugglein this regard shouid depend or walt upon the cooperation of those
who identiy s “whie. Quite the opposite: We are out own liverators! 17

New Afrikans are an oppressed and colonized nation within Amerika. As such,
reforms cannot secure racial and social equalty for us. Nor can whites dently with and
recognize the conditions we suffer under - no one knows our oppression, the forms it
takes and the fiberation we desire ke we do. W are a people with a history, a cutture,
and an identty that is our own, and was forged over cenfuries of common experience.
and oppression. It is therefore our place and no one elsa's 1o claim those things as
‘uniquely our own and develop them to thei Pighest pofential as a peopl. in order to
have any securtty as a people and not be dependertt upon the whims of any other
sectors, we must contro the basic means of our survival and govemance. I wo are not
‘able o deferid our own dektiny and selves, we arenotfreb. And ff we do ot break free
from the conditions of our colonization, we leave ourselves open to further colonization
‘under any number of reformed conefions and methods.

Merely joining up with Amerikan whites cannot ensure this because our oppression
‘exceeds theirs. We must be able o assert and protect our economic and polfical rights
‘whether whites support us or not. Seff.determination is the essence of our achieving
iberation, and itis our right and duty to run our own organizations and ibgration
struggle. As the victims of racism only we know best how fo resist . But overall we are
‘Oppressed 2s a nation and must free ourselves as a nation. In doing 50 w wil destroy
the basis of our colonized condition witin the Amerikan empire

1 8 of cur stuggle, e advanced sectors of whito Amerka should work o destroy
he otlon of whi skinpriviege and white nationsl chauvinsm, which are o underiyng
national identty of Amerike. Thev must sk us n protectig our domocrane nohts a1
deomocratc 1ight of al pecples, i cuding e own. 11 . we s ors U i he
entire muttefic, M national, and m-racl workg cias, rachcalyout.anc
ProgreSsive elements i a Uned Front Aguins! mporshom. 1o Smath the s
ot system

Imperiaiism is capitafism is coloniafism. The defeat of imperiaism requires the
fiberation of the colonized and neo-colonized nafions on which imperialism feeds But we.
must also remember that imperialism is capitalism, capitalism on a.global scala that
‘ensiaves and profits offnot only the workers of the non-industriafized nations and
‘oppressed nationities across the world, but also the workers of the industrially
advanced capitafst countres. To defeat capitafism we must join together in 3 urited
struggle of the entire working class of all nations, ethnicies, and “races” in a United
Fron Against Imperialism, and to ultimately overthrow the capitafst polftical economy
and is rufing class's power, privilegs, and domination over social fabor and weatth
‘Without a repressed working ciass under R thurb, capttafism cannot sxist Therefore,
the entire working ciass must deny the capftafsts s fabor power.

Poifical forms of organization to lead the whole working class are necessary, and we.
support them. The advanced and ar-mperiafst whites must also struggle against the
fanatical and backward white supremacist elements fike the Klan, Neo-Nazis, otc. These
elements represant overt fascism in embryonic form, who wil ba backed by or handed
state power 1o suppress and divide any working ctass and nafional indensndence
Sinuggle tat arises 10 cnalienga monopoly Capialism, &s e sl aré won 10 40, (and
Westem Europs in the early 1900's stands a5 & glaring example), when thair powar 1
threatened from beiow. They will mova the most rabid racists into posibons of pollica
and miitary power to aiack and smash revokstionary and progressive elements and
incite and engage in a divisive race war. They will certainly also incits e fanatical Black
Teverse (aGits 1 tum on and atack Black revolitonary elements. Thay wil usiy such
CtNS WiMh Glaims that hose who Collaborale with any wiies are “salrouts o frem
all whites are the enemy. as they have no concep f cass stnuggle and will back

in tum, Portuguese agents inside of Cabal's party assassinaied hum Those Black
ugons. Cabrarsfellow countrymen, were opponents of s cass-based stgglo and

19

Uriah Simango, whose clique professad all whites and mulatioes to be the enerny. was
purged from the ranks of Freimo (the revolutionary Liberation Front of Mozambique),
Subsequently Simango, exposed as an agent of Portugal, was implicated in the lefter
bomb assassintion of Freimo president Eduardo Mondiane. These elemertts bacame.
gents of their people’s imperiafist and colonial enemies and tumed their arms against
their own people’s revolutionary forces, namely the MPLA (Popular Movemant for tha.
Liberation of Angola) and Frelimo.

Ao time and in no place has playing the race card or e racial blame game ever
‘won any people freedom from oppression. But what it has done is generate most every
known major genocidal war that has occurred over the past several centuries, from the
genocidal extermination often of miflons of Native Amerikans o the genocida attacks
on Afrikans by Arabs in Southem Sudan foday. The racial game produces only a back
and forth cycle of bloodshed, camage, and misery between competing racial groups. For
its bind participants, racism offers nothing posilive except a subjective and superfcial
‘sense of belonging fo a group which professes fo be "superior” to-another group and the
destnuction of the natural compassion and sanify that would otherwise prevent mumyns.
from brutalizing and massacring innocent people. And it a double-edged sword. one.
“race" victimizes another and is in tum victmized, or another ‘race” becomes the farget
of the victim. The complicty of many Jews today in Anglo-Zionist race-oriented
genocidal policies agains! Palestians and ofher Arabs s an outstanding examole of a
People who were once victims of racial violence in tum victimizing anofher nnocen!
‘people in the name of race and caims of “God-given” right And al 10 advance tha.
‘wealth and power inerests of a captaist el

For white and Black supremacists here in Amerika, a race war would ot prove
beneficial to efther racer” It would only produce a cycle of mutual siaughter of members
of both races. No one would be “Tiberated” as a resul, but mutitudes of loved ones.
friends, and colieagues on both sides would be brutafized, butchered, maimed,
massacred,. and cisplaced. In the race hate game no one wins - thers i Smply o way
for a sane mind to romanticize . But in a uniied struggle of the oppressed cigsses and
nationalties against imperiafism, the very source of world suffering, misery, and raciem
tseffcan be uprooted and power tumed over fo thosa who can be frusted o use i
properly. namely the oppressed masses

In the fevered minds of racists, their fanafical howfings about violent repression or
‘annihtation of “nferior races" sounds fike fun: that is untl the bloodshed bagins and they
find themselves on the receiving end of courfer-violence that quickly spins out of control
To many racist southem whites, the brutal ensiavement of New Afrkans semmed like a
fun enterprise: that is unti revols fike Nat Tumer's furmed the guns back on them. At that
point a massive Black and white abolfionist movement sprang to e to end stavary.
There are simply no superior and inferior races. Indead the very concet of e < a1
ton. A comrade put it this way n a efter o me

“Racism is the spawn of coloniafism and is based on fies. The technological
‘edge the Europeans took advarttage of came Iafe in the game. Much of # was
borrowed from other cutures fie gunpowder from Chin, or the Lanteen sail
from Afrka, and potatoes from South Amerika. The combination of these
elements and the bty to s ther to establish global hagemony crated the
itlusion of white supremacy.

T realty we're Al pratty damn equal Even the diffarance batween smart and
umo people is fol S0 great. No one of us is really all that smar. Is capualsm
smart? Wa let thg nasuest men run the show by tha nastiest means and hope
that it wil work out alnight for the rest of us. Is that smart? We've got all these
‘gadgals running, but the sum of it s we've bued a hole in the atmosphere and
the ico caps are melting. 20

“Even the idea of Communism is not 50 biliant It is just common sense. Ants
worK together for their comman weifare. The genius hes in overcoming our own
stupidity 1o do wha is necessary (o survive, and this wal be big stggle and
ne we could lose. There is a time factor in our geting our collective act together.

“The good news is thal al e elements necessary for our survival as a
species are prusent. We just have to sot oul our politicak social organization, and
deal with the nasty men.”

Even mainsiream sources now admit that the concep of race is today a scientiically
unsustainable concept. That the “tneories" invenied centuies ago 10 vaiidats the idea
are invalidated by l0day's science. The Memiam Webster Collegiata Encyciopedia (2000)
defines and dismisses the noton of face thusly:

“Race: Temn once commonly used in physical anthropology to denole a
wision of Numankind possessing trais thal are transmissibie by descent and
suficient 1o charactenze a5 a distinct human type (e.g. Caucasowl, Mongoloid,
Negro) Today the tern has itle scientic standing, as older methods of .
diferentaton, inciuding hair form and body measurement, have given way o the.
comparaive analysis of DNA and gene frequencies relating 10 such factors as
5100 type, the excretion of amino acids, and inherited anzyme deficiencics.

solation does preserve genelic differences and alow popuiations 0 maximally
adapt 1o cimatic and disease faciors over long penods of time, al groups.
cumenty existng are thoroughly “mixed" genetical, and such differences as st
st do not lend themselves Lo simple typologizing. “Race* is 1oday primarly &
social designation, identiying a ciass sharing some outward physical
eharacteisics and some commonalies of cuure and history."

Ths same text goes on to admit that racism s a creation and ool of colonialim,
Racism: Belief that race is the prmary determinant of numan traits and

Capaciles and thal some races are inherendy supenor o others. Mors broady
he term refers 10 any racial prejudice or discriminaton hroughou the era of
Wih Supplying thé “scientiic” basis of the Nazfs racialst philosophy, used to
justy the persecution of Jews and other non-Aryans. South African socety was
bult on the principle of apartheid, or racial “separateness.” Today the genaral
trend is away from racism, thouoh thé problem of mcist hinking remaina
ntractable.” 2

Although this mainstream reference work totally avoids ponting out what social-
‘economic cass invented the entire racial conoept and ifs birth and role here in North
Amerika, t does make clear that both “race" and "racism" are foday proven 1o bo
scentifically baseless and live on solely as psycho-social concepts. So why then do he
Amerikan poffical and economic ruers st classfy Amerikan citizens by face? f is
‘Obviously because they desie to maintain s ole as a divisive undercurrent o bo
‘appealed to and whipped info hysteria when their power and privilege are threatened
from below. Thus, the nafional eniity of Amerika remains that of a “white nation

The concepts of race and racism, fike a deepty ingrained backward superstfion, are
50 deeply embedded in the social psyche and are so deeply influential orf social
atttudes and behaviors, that they cannot be simply ignored. The oppressed “races" must
collctively struggle against racial oppression and domination, while the conscious
members of the oppressor races must struggle 1o conquer the myth of racial superiorty
within their own “racial groups. Reverse racism must o be countared. In confronfing
racism we must be aware ofits counterrevolufionary nature and the forms 1t takes 1n the
minds of those who embrace it consciously or subconsciously Georpe Jackson aave A«
insightful analysis on this point. He stated:

“Racism is matter of ingrained traditional attudes conditioned through
insttutions. For some, t s as natural reflex as breathing. The psycho-social
effects of segregated environments compounded by btter class repression have.
served i the past o render the progressive movement aimost totafly imootent

“The major obstacle to a unitod lotin this country is white racism. There are
three categories of white racists the overt, sel-satisfied racist who doesn!
attempt to hide his antipathy; the selt.interdicting racist who harbors and nurturs
racism in spite of his best efforts, and the unconscious racist, who has no
‘awareness of his racist preconcsptions.

*AS Black partisans, we must recognize and allow for the existence of ol three
fypes of racists. We must undestand their presertoe as an effect of the system 1
8 the system that must be crushed, for it confinues fo manufacture new and
deeper contradictions of both ciass and race. Onos it is destroyed, we may be.
able to address the problems of racism at an even more basic level. But we must
2150 combat racism while we ara in the process of destroying the system

“The selinterdicting racist, no mater what his acquired conviction or
1declogy. wil seldom be able o contribute with his actions in any really concrete.
way. His role in revolution, barring change of basic character, wl be minimal
throughout. Whether the basic character of a man can be changad at afls <t a
auestion.

As Comrade George pointed out, our struggle demands fat we acknowledoe and
razoqnize the thraa catagaries of rarists. Howaver, we must alsn acknowiadgn and
g s e s s g st
e e S s o
gyt i oty cworg e el
sk kg i e e et B et
ey b s S L oty
TS ey e

Our Comrade Tom Big Warmor analyzed the process very well n a discussion we had
Some bme ago conceming a New Afrkan brother with whom | was sinuggiing o break
ot of 2 deeply ingrained hatred of whiles. This brothor's views had been imbedded in
him at a very young age by a now deceased grandfater, whose memory ha held in the
highest respect While he could not refute my arguments agains! race-based hatreds, he
also felt poweriess o change his feelings. Here is Tom:

"l understand what youre taking about with e brother who has deeply
fooled hatred of whites. I've got brothers in my naton who have the same issues
regarding Blacks, particularly among the hillues of mixed white-Native heritage.
It was bred into them from a very young age and reinforced by their social
practice (or lack of i) with Black folks.

“Hell, everybody in Amenika has been brainwashed on race. | know | have
besn affocted by i, but fve got the advantage of both a teorelcal understanding
and a ifetime of posiive social interacton with peopie of all sthric backgrounds.

(and paricularty Black Comrades), so | can identy and throw away fealings that
ome from racist programming as ihey come up.

I hink the key with this brother is © get hum o see that s fesiings are part of
e slave mentalty he (and his granafather) were programmed 1o have to keep
Black peope from throwing off thew oppression. i you cant inspire meak
submission and seif-deprecation, you Can inspire hate and fear, (which is the
et best thing), and this leads 10 allenation and division .

“The grealest threat in the South was unity beween the Blacks and poor
whites. who had common dass interests. S the big landlords played them
gainst each other by promoling bind hatred and racism.

“if he an grasp that his feelings are chains upon him causig him 1o act
againsi the interests of Black peopie and working peopls in general, (that he s
fallng nto the role of a *Nigger” set for hm by "Mr. Charie®), he will see that il
must be overcome so he can be a “ue Biack Warrior* and a genine
revolutionary.

“We fesl the way we feel because we think the way we tink. Changing our
thiking changes how we feel. In fact our foelings expose how we think at the

"1f the bratner wants to be a revolutionary. he can't be iberal with himself He
has to recognize that while people must be won to support Black liberaiion and
make proletarian revolution. Unless tis is done, Biack people wil continu (o be
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ooressed, and the imperiaists wi kesp fning the show z3

“He has 1o decide if he wants fo be part of the problem or part of the solution
The MCS, the house band of the White Panthier Party, had a song whers the
singer shouts out, Tt takes 5 seconds to decide and defermine your purpase hers.
on the planet, § seconds to decide f you are going 1o be a part o the pb
You are going o be a part of the solufion - KICK OUT THE JAMS
MOTHERFUCKERI"

“This is just what they were talking about - this mentaliemotional programming
that jams up our abiffy to make revolution. A nofhing fo do but kick it out, oet
9 of it 1o get to what neads to be done.

“When you reason with i he says, Yeah, yeah you'e igh, Brother.”
because you can't reasonably argue for racism. But he's not willing to let go anc
Dacksides ightback o 1 As f coumter revohion was e putposs o toe
plaret

It ime 10 invoke the 5 second rufe. Time for him to make commitment
‘and stop being libers! with himselt The worid cant wat for us fo got serious
about revolution

1t he really wants o honor his grandather's memory, he shouldn' fetthe
‘wounding that was done to him and ofher Blacks go on another ganeration You
cantplay the blame game and win.

“The pigs didrit kit Fred Hampton because he was good at organizing Black
people, but because he could tu redneck HiMbill crackers into Red
revolutionaries, which he did with the Young Patriot Party - that's e history.

“He was a better revolutionary than Huey Newton, Bobby Seale and Elcridge
(Cleaver put together, and he is the one we should measure ourselves and our
pravis by

“tis our practice thet determines our thinking, but here s dialectic betwean
theory and practice cafled praxis, n which theory becomes the determining
factor

“Thisis dfferent than ideatism, which Man« was siruggiing against This is
‘what Mao was talking about when he sai ideological and poltical fne wil

determine everything. 1t the diferance betwaen Utopian socialism and our
scientic socalism.

“We begin with a concrete analysis of concrete conditions and from this
develop theory. then apply our theory fo practice, then sum up our practice fo
strengthen and advance our theory, then go back to practice, over and over
getting sharper and sharper That' praxis

“Thats how a bush-wah intellectus! or a peasant or a umpen can ransfom:
into 2 proletarian revolutionary without working in a factary or even avers <eena
one 1t doest hapoen spentenecusi, it takes struagle.
VWhen we iy ecogaize tha e capuasts are i the oot ofracism, thl i a (oo
and weapon invented and used by inem L0 paseve i power and pviege and o
Kesp the lower lasses Givided, opprossed. misarabie, 37 powsress, then we must
als recognize our revolutonary uy 1o 158 &bove facitand foverse racel
programming. This i @ ddfcut task which demands concrele crachce. s because of
he Gepinof Face-condloning that the ibertion STudGle of New &GS and ol
Cop i e, v ot e oo e

Shoukd be sought and developed n process o buld a United Fromt Against
Impaakar. Thoa Karabor o nabons oppvesn satiots e 1
imperials system. Otherwise. he monopol capiales wil centine 1o era
independonce siuggles by alying themseNes wihracaist and comprador lements
Wit the bockes of ho oppressed natonaktes and races, push o i postiont of
ower. an hen use e 0 subver the kberauon Sins0gee o bing he asses back
under mperials contol. This i e essance of neocoloniassm and e moihod vee by
he imperialists {0 undermine mosta of e nabonal independence stgyies of e e
contury

I that ifs tne Capialist insiitutions that creale, perpetuate, and benef from racism,
(indesd they need to preservo il to maintain their eevated power and status), they will
assurdly mobilize resistance against all genine effots 10 buid cass-based racil
soidanity. They willuse the most rabid of white racsts, and incite many New Afrkans,
Native and other poopie of Color 1 fall out on the feaciionary side, and the more.

11 50 be clear by now that those of us who play ino racism act as agents of our
own imperialst oppressors, (whether consciously of not), and we aid in coninuing our
wn oppression and want. In fact, we increase and niansify our own oppression and
misery by inciting and perpeluating hatred, humilation, insensitiity, and violence not
only against the Othar race(s), but in tum against our “own face. Its a cycle thal no one.
bensfisffom excopt the oppressor class that st al the 10p laughing at what fools we.
are, whil their power and weakth remain securs form any real challenge. If s on this
basis that the New Afrikan Black Panther Party - Prison Chaper promoles, unies with,
and supports the White Panther Organization and all ant-imperiaists of al nationaiies
and races and all oppressed peopies i a common siruggle against impariaism. Wo

‘weicome ihe WPO as fellow comrades and Panthers within the democratic centralism of
our Vanguard Party.

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