[Peace-discuss] [sftalk] The seduction of Neoliberal "anti-racism"

[Roediger, David R]

No brief on these matters for Tim Wise and I've never, minus  15 minutes of love for Harold Washington, supported a Democrat in my life, least of all these ones now on offer. (Nor it seems necessary to add in this context, a Republican). But the Benn Michaels nonsense that talk about white supremacy is now mainly just a prop for neoliberalism is ridiculous on its face. E.G.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/12-2
and
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bet.com/news/national/2012/05/16/photo-what-if-trayvon-were-white/_jcr_content/featuredMedia/newsitemimage.newsimage.dimg/051612-national-trayvon-martin-what-if-he-was-white.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bet.com/news/national/2012/05/16/photo-what-if-trayvon-were-white.html&h=353&w=628&sz=104&tbnid=t5BEq7w52KeWpM:&tbnh=69&tbnw=122&zoom=1&usg=__v593iHaWu3OewaIzpgaRWQTxGzg=&docid=bZ_EWLaxQmhcHM&sa=X&ei=kKjgUdWlMq254AP93oFo&ved=0CEwQ9QEwBg&dur=2979

freedom now, dave roediger

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Subject: [sftalk] The seduction of Neoliberal "anti-racism"



Champaign-Urbana's local anti-war group, AWARE, has been from its founding a dozen years ago concerned with racism (AWARE = Anti-war Anti-racism Effort), principally for three reasons:

[1] the overt and covert employment of racism - anti-Arab, anti-Iranian, and anti-Muslim [sic] - by the Bush-Obama administration in order to build support within the US public for imperial war in the 'Greater Middle East';

[2] US support for Israel, a state based on racism, as its "cop on the beat" in the generations-long American attempt to dominate Mideast energy resources; and

[3] the US economic draft ("volunteer army") - instituted after the revolt of the US conscript army in Vietnam - which coerces into a criminal war a disproportionate number of non-white Americans.

But the rise in the 1970s of 'Identity Politics' - parallel to and connected with Neoliberalism, the counter-attack by the 1% on social progress in the US from the New Deal to 'the Sixties' - has led today to a reactionary anti-racism. Here John Halle anatomizes a few of its practitioners - race-fakers who might be compared to the labor-fakers of the Great Depression:

<http://lbo-news.com/2013/07/12/1938/#comment-9643>.

With thanks to Doug Henwood's LBO News. --CGE

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