Re: [A-List] The War After Iraq - Is it better for a prince to be loved or feared?

["Tariq Mahmood" <zaogir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that many living in the US do not agree with the demon. And that
lines of communication must be constructed "between those who are under
exterminist imperialism's heel and those who live in the belly of this
beast." But basing them on the basis of skin colour or racism will render us
guilty of the same offence as the beast.

Tariq

"bon moun" <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
 The War After Iraq - Is it better for a prince to be loved or feared?


 I think it is most interesting that Tariq rather automatically refers to
the US as "white Christian."  The fact that this impression prevails abroad
should tell us something.  For those outside the US, especially in the
global south, I can only remind them that three out of 10 of us haven't been
inducted into whiteness (a concept that shifts with our social evolution).
There is no doubt that our ruling class is "white" and exclusively male-led,
and that a signficant portion of our white "middle class" and working class
is motivated by racial self-interest. (The article Mark forwarded on fascism
should be studied very carefully... thanks, Mark)  The perception of white
Christendom being confronted with another Crusade (though certainly a coded
notion) underwrites much of the now weakening but still signficant public
support of the Bush Doctrine. But the point I want to put out there now is
that these three out of 10 here in the US exist in a very "colonial"
relation to the self-same (white capitalist) hegemon who is the author of
fear and hatred abroad (and don't take Stratfor TOO seriously... they are a
think tank of doddering generals and spooks who keep the Scotch industry
afloat).  While there are many unresolved contradictions in our own movement
building in the US, especially as it relates to oppressed peoples and
oppressed nationalities, the material reality of Black and Brown in the US
joins their interests directly with those who are fighting imperialism in
the global south.  I hope this forum and others will intentionally and
aggressively serve to construct lines of comunication between those who are
under exterminist imperialism's heel and those who live in the belly of this
beast.  For reasons too lengthy to go into here, I can say with some
confidence that any movement in the US that challenges the system
successfully in the long term will be led by Black and Brown people.  If
it's not, it will falter, as our history has shown us too many times to
count.  DuBois' color line remains our front line.

 SG

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