Re: [Marxism] Defining White Privilege

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

sobuadhaigh wrote:

<The problem with the theorists of race consciousness is that their
descriptions are lovingly constructed, with all the post-modernist
tools at their disposal, and then their arguments end with no
prescriptions. What is the solution? How is the white privilege web
site (from which the above quote originated) making it difficult
for anyone who does not already believe that all white people,
because of their race, must be racist? >

Here's one answer. from said website.

Greg McD



Meet the authors:

Chip Smith has been active in anti-war, labor and community movements  
for more than 40 years. As a volunteer in Laos from 1964-'66 he  
gained a first-hand understanding of U.S. intervention gone wrong --  
and then worked to end the war in Vietnam. Influenced by the Black  
Panther Party and Students for a Democratic Society, Smith left  
medical school in 1969 to better ground himself in the social  
movements. He worked as a hospital lab tech and then ran a metal  
lathe for ten years -- serving as a departmental steward and  
representative to the Philadelphia Central Labor Council for his  
local of the International Association of Machinists.

Smith was the main care provider for his two sons while his wife, Kim  
Eng Koo M.D., trained to become a neurosurgeon. He also began  
pursuing a Ph.D. in economics at this time, authoring a dissertation  
(Temple University, 1994) on the impact of Philadelphia's de- 
industrialization on low wages, African Americans and unionization. A  
long-time advocate of community-labor alliances, Smith drew on his  
decades of activism in 1999 to staff the start-up of Philadelphia's  
Jobs with Justice coalition.
After moving to Fayetteville, N.C. with his wife of 30 years, Smith  
co-initiated the formation of Fayetteville Peace with Justice in the  
fall of 2001. He holds a third-degree black belt in Shotokan Karate  
and assists his wife in running their twice-weekly karate club at the  
YMCA. Smith practices a secular form of Zen Buddhism and attends from  
time to time a sangha in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh.

Full: http://costofprivilege.com/AboutUs.html
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