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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNow Is the Time For A New Abolition Movement
http://www.alternet.org/now-time-new-abolition-movement***SNIP
Why? Global race-based capitalism is not a system of the past with lingering effects. It is a living, breathing organism of the present. White racism is as much a part of our structure in 2014 as free markets, private property, the jury system, cable TV, Major League Baseball, representative democracy and the Second Amendment.
Thanks to the work of historian Gerald Horne, especially his most recent book, The Counter-Revolution of 1776, we have a much better understanding of how thoroughly the creation of the first apartheid state set the course we are still on more than 200 years later. Well beyond the nefarious three-fifths of a man so-called compromise language in the Constitution, the nations core document institutionalized white privilege.
White racism will not just wither away. It surely will not disappear just because whites become a minority. It cannot be dismissed into oblivion by calling any discussion of it playing the race card, or repeating loudly and frequently that it is in the past.
Neither will it be eliminated in the course of achieving liberal political objectives such as the Affordable Care Act or comprehensive immigration reform, the decriminalization of marijuana or a reduction in the size of the prison population. Indeed it is the other way around. Until racism is addressed a more humane social contract is unattainable.
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Now Is the Time For A New Abolition Movement (Original Post)
xchrom
Sep 2014
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Great article. Aside perhaps from some very minor details, I can't argue with any of it.
nomorenomore08
Sep 2014
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JustAnotherGen
(31,681 posts)1. God bless ya xchrome!
I'm going to observe this thread - right after I give a nice solid rec.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)3. Great article. Aside perhaps from some very minor details, I can't argue with any of it.
All of DU (and beyond) needs to read this one.