culture fix

"as an everlasting possession, i will give you and your descendants the land in which you are now strangers."

- God to Abraham, the book of Genesis.

i have decided that i want to form an organization for white people that looks out for our interests.

the only other organization that has done this in any significant way is the ku klux klan. but i'm not talking about starting a second kkk.

me and the klan disagree on one fundamental point. put simply, it goes a little something like this:

kkk - what's in the interests of whites is in the interests of white folk.

vs.

me - our whiteness is in conflict with humanity, so we'll never be human until we stop being white.

i believe that - as a result of our history of instigating and maintaining slavery, colonization, genocide and apartheid - whites are no longer human beings. we have lost everything that makes a "people" people.

we made ourselves white when we made africans into property (and negroes/blacks/niggers). so the only way out of our despicable position as whites is to rectify our relationship with black people - the descendants of slaves - in this country. sinces whites were made by making slaves/blacks, our connection to blacks is our only possible hope of resititution amongst the human family.

as adamantly as the klan insists that the only possible course of action is the perpetuation of white power at every level of society, i insist that the only possible course of action is the destruction of white as an identity in every shape and form.

for now, i consider my anti-klan clan to be essentially a moral position. morally, we as whites are desparately lost, pitifully wandering away from any connection to other human beings and constantly digging a deeper trench in which to fortify ourselves against any possible reconciliation. and yet, this description is based on a solid (and well documented) body of historical evidence. in that, the clan represents a politics- an expression of historical analysis in contemporary action.

in practical terms, our work as a clan is to assist - in whatever way we can - black people in their struggle to establish themselves as human beings and full participants in the society that they live in.

this is not at all like charity.

we must insist on struggling in our own interests.

we must realize that our only hope to live again on this earth, as people amongst peoples, is utterly dependant on our capacity to bury forever the wicked system of racialism that american slavery created.

people talk about "getting past" black and white, but we can't until there's neither. people talk about white privilege, but privilege is the entire substance of our whiteness, so why be redundant? people talk about being an "ally" to "people of color," but who will fight to be a helper, an assistant?

my clan will put things bluntly:

white folks are fucked; we can't be human if we've got to be white.

we've got to be white if folks got to keep being black.

we've got to do everything we can to help black people overthrow the system of american racial oppression.

once we get to be human beings - which will be the exact moment of black liberation from racialism - we can begin a discussion of human equality.

until then, a one-point program:

make whites people, now!