[Marxism] Re Obama and Some Black Workers

[Alex Briscoe]

No, he really meant "white people" as in "pretty much,
all white people"....

I've gotten this from other Black workers who've been
pretty emphatic...

Of course, given their experience with the political
outlook and actions of almost all whites they've
probably met, I can see how they would think this.

As I said before, the majority of white people buy
into white supremacy, de facto and/or ideologically.

However, given the dire state of organization of the
left among all people in this country, but also in the
Black community, with the crimes inflicted upon their
communities, I would think that most Black people hold
to some sort of under/un-developed Black nationalism.

Most white people I've met have an even more
under-developed notion of politics.  It's the way
things are in this country.

Alex


> The other day we were talking about history and
politics- he has a
> fairly, how should I put it?  undeveloped Black
nationalist take on
> things- ie white people just want to attack, steal
and destroy
> everything in the world, slavery in Egypt wasn't so
bad, etc.

Sorry to pick up on a minor point, but was this
person's so-called
Black nationalist outlook really so "undeveloped"?

It is a fact that on the whole the exploiters of the
world today (US
and European imperialism, for example), are largely
white. This does
not imply that their exploitation of people of color
is _because_ they
are white, but race is nevertheless an important fact
because of the
role of the colonization and enslavement of people of
color for
primitive accumulation and for a justificatory
ideology.


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