Abolish the White Race - By Any Means Necessary

[American Dream]

http://www.surrealistmovement-usa.org/p ... ution.html


"Hammer and Rhino,"
Drawing By Robert Green



Introduction to the Surrealist Issue of RACE TRAITOR

This special issue of Race Traitor focuses on a particular group of race traitors—the world's first Surrealist Group in 1920s Paris, and its direct offshoot, the international (and multiracial) surrealist movement. With an unbroken continuity from 1924 down to the present day, the surrealist movement has helped develop not only a revolutionary critique of whiteness but also new forms of revolutionary action against it.

As a historically constructed social formation, the notion of a "white race" appears as ideology, mirage, hoax, con-game, racket, swindle: an altogether malevolent piece of duplicity and horror. But for those who buy it and sell it, whiteness is what Richard Wright once called a powerful "psychological reality," a commodity fetishized into a pattern of belief, custom, law'n'order. Millions of those who are deceived into thinking they are white are unhappy about it, but don't quite know how to divest themselves of this debilitating delusion. [i]How to quit being white[/i]—how to release the latent but repressed yearning to abandon the absurdity of whiteness and to become truly human at last—is one of the burning questions of the age.

For many Europeans and Americans of European descent, being surrealist has been one way of not being white—indeed, a way of actively undermining the white mystique and of sabotaging the repressive machinery that props it up. From the surrealist point of view, traditional anti-racist strategies—education against prejudice; support for civil rights; boycotts; picket lines; etc.—however important, clearly are not enough. The fact that white privilege is an inherently irrational phenomenon is proof that it cannot be overcome by rational means alone. Nothing less than surrealist revolution can abolish whiteness once and for all.

Surrealist intervention in this domain has always emphasized the active imagination, in keeping with


John Brown

surrealism's fundamental aim: the realization of poetry in everyday life. Of course it also involves revolutionary criticism, integral subversion, aggressive humor, and direct action. In poetry as in life, surrealism embodies the utmost fraternization and solidarity across the color-line as well as relentless struggle against the very existence of the color-line, and against all those who enforce it or tolerate it.

As we emphasized in our declaration on the Los Angeles Rebellion of April-May 1992,* whiteness corrupts and derails every impulse toward freedom, so that no solution can be found to any social problem without solving the problem of whiteness. Everyone knows that white supremacy is the single biggest obstacle to working class emancipation. It is also the major stumbling-block in the way of women's equality, for white supremacy is inherently androcentric. There are of course female white supremacists—a large part of today's "women's movement" is afflicted with this malady—but such women truly are no more than cheerleaders of the white male power structure. Can anyone doubt that overcoming whiteness is indispensable to women's liberation?

Similarly, it is no accident that the people most responsible for devastating the Earth's wild places, poisoning the air and water, driving uncountable species of animals and plants to extinction and otherwise wrecking the planet, are those who think of themselves as white. Only when humankind is free of the stifling burden of whiteness will we be able to develop a non-exploitative, ecologically sound relationship to the Earth and all its inhabitants. With rare exceptions, however, the organizations that currently pass themselves off as the "environmental movement" in this country are as devoted to white supremacy (and to capitalism) as the giant corporations whose depredations they pretend to oppose.

As surrealists, we are especially interested in how the "white problem" turns up in language, images, myth, symbols, popular culture, everyday life, the whole field of human expression. However, our goal at all times is to attack and abolish whiteness and its institutions—to attack and abolish the whole social/political/economic/cultural system that has made whiteness the hideous emblem of the worst oppression the world has ever had to endure.

With this presentation of the concrete experience of surrealists past and present in the worldwide struggle against white supremacy, we hope above all to provoke and inspire readers to develop their own abolitionist imaginations in new directions, and more generally to stimulate discussion and debate with all who uphold the motto "Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity."

THE CHICAGO SURREALIST GROUP

Chicago, April 1998

* The Chicago Surrealist Group, "Three Days That Shook the New World Order: The Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992," Race Traitor No. 2 (Winter 1993), 1-17[

[Wombaticus Rex]

Might be time to escalate the eradication campaign.

Via: http://qz.com/816229/a-lot-of-people-in ... -as-white/

A lot of people in the US are suddenly identifying as “white”

Many political commentators credit Donald Trump’s rise to white voters’ antipathy toward racial and ethnic minorities. However, we believe this focus on racial resentment obscures another important aspect of racial thinking.

In a study of white Americans’ attitudes and candidate preferences, we found that Trump’s success reflects the rise of “white identity politics”—an attempt to protect the collective interests of white voters via the ballot box. Whereas racial prejudice refers to animosity toward other racial groups, white identity reflects a sense of connection to fellow white Americans.

We’re not the first to tie Trump’s candidacy to white identity politics. But our data provide some of the clearest evidence that ongoing demographic changes in the United States are increasing white racial identity. White identity, in turn, is pushing white Americans to support Trump.

White identity

When we talk about white identity, we’re not referring to the alt-right fringe, the white nationalist movement, or others who espouse racist beliefs. Rather, we’re talking about everyday white Americans who, perhaps for the first time, are racially conscious.

The concept of “garden variety” white racial identity stands in contrast to conventional wisdom. In the last three decades of scholarship on whiteness as a race, the prevailing view has been that most whites fail to notice their own whiteness. In a society dominated by white people, whiteness simply fades into the background. Just as fish fail to notice the water around them, whites are unlikely to think about how they are members of a distinct group.

Our research shows that the era of “white invisibility” is coming to a close.

Non-Hispanic whites are projected to become a minority in the year 2044. This increasing diversity across the country is making whites’ own race harder and harder to ignore. Political and social phenomena, from Barack Obama’s presidency to the Black Lives Matter movement, are making whiteness even more salient to white Americans.

Trump and white identity politics

As whites increasingly sense that their status in society is falling, white racial identity is becoming politicized. Trump’s promise to “make America great again” speaks to these anxieties by recalling a past in which white people dominated every aspect of politics and society. That’s why media outlets from New York Magazine to The National Review have dubbed Trump an “ethnonationalist” candidate.

Hillary Clinton counters Trump’s exclusionary rhetoric with her message that all Americans are “Stronger Together.”

To test our ideas about Trump and white identity politics, we surveyed a nationally representative sample of about 1,700 white Americans. The survey covered racial identities, attitudes, and political preferences. In examining the relationship between white identity and ethnic diversity, we chose to focus on an ethnic minority of particular salience in contemporary politics: Hispanics. More than any other group, Hispanics have been in the Trump campaign’s crosshairs.

Do whites from heavily Hispanic neighborhoods show stronger white racial identity? To measure identity, we used a widely-used questionnaire. On a five-point scale, participants rated their agreement with items such as “Being a white person is an important part of how I see myself” and “I feel solidarity with other white people.” As shown in the graph below, there is a positive relationship between exposure to Hispanics and white respondents’ sense of racial identity.

And does white identity lead to support for Donald Trump? We examined the relationship between white identity and respondents’ likelihood of supporting Trump for the presidency versus Hillary Clinton or several Republican primary challengers. Consistent with others’ analyses, white identity strongly predicts a preference for Trump.

Whites at the high end of the racial identity scale are more than four times as likely to support Trump than those at the low end of the scale. Perhaps that’s because whites highest in racial identity are also the ones most likely to harbor negative attitudes against Latinos. Indeed, we found white identity was significantly correlated with another characteristic—prejudice.

However, differences in prejudice don’t explain the relationship between white identity and Trump support. The pattern in the figure above was tested while statistically controlling for levels of anti-Hispanic prejudice. Because the relationship between identity and support for Trump remains strong, we are confident that white identity independently predicts greater Trump support.

We’ve seen that living close to Hispanics leads whites to develop a strong sense of racial identity and that strong racial identity is associated with support for Donald Trump. We should therefore expect that whites in heavily Hispanic neighborhoods support Trump more often than those in neighborhoods with fewer Hispanics. This prediction gains credence from work by political scientist Ryan Enos, who finds that everyday exposure to Latinos can increase support for restrictive immigration policies.

[Iamwhomiam]

That last sentence ^^^ "...gains credence..."

Oh, really?

The rest was familiar to me through personal experience. I trust similarly, familiar to you as well, Mr.WRex?

[coffin_dodger]

^ A new Inquisition can't be far off.
Stern questioning, followed by red hot pokers will extract the correct answers.

[Searcher08]

The rest was familiar to me through personal experience. I trust similarly, familiar to you as well, Mr.WRex?

Maybe something is lost in the UK / USA translation.
For most Brits, language like this is actually extremely aggressive.
It means
"I hope you and I are on the same page. I am sure we are.
Because if we are not, then you are going to get royally fux0r3d..."

^ A new Inquisition can't be far off.
Stern questioning, followed by red hot pokers will extract the correct answers.

[coffin_dodger]

S08:

"I hope you and I are on the same page. I am sure we are.
Because if we are not, then you are going to get royally fux0r3d..."

Inevitable backtracking aside, that's the exact meaning in any language - you peacemaker, you.

[Novem5er]

Yes, interesting article! The part about not recognizing one's own whiteness clicked with me. As a kid, I don't remember even knowing what "culture" was until I was exposed to different cultures. I loved learning about the Native American culture in the Pacific NW; going to public pow wows, etc. Yet, even then, it didn't make me reflect on my own culture. I think I was in a "family" mindset as a youth, as in "this is what MY family does, and that may be different from what THAT family does", but I never connected the idea that millions of families might all have a certain way of doing things.

I grew up in a military family, so all of us had a similar family structure no matter was race we were. The Black kids in my class and on my street all had fathers who went to work every day for the military, just like mine, and the same was true for the many Filipino kids I knew. What's more, even with my white friends . . . all of our families were so DIFFERENT. Their mom's cooked different meals than my mom did. Some of them had parents that smoked and drank (mine didn't). Some of them went to church every Sunday (we never did). Some parents were on their second marriage and there were step kids all mingled under the same roof.

I was just as shocked at the differences from the white family next door as I was with the differences with the black family down the street. I think this was a military thing, that brought people together from all over the country, and then put a standard culture on top of that diversity.

Then I moved to the South. . . .and, yeah, I learned what culture was big time. People were segregated, by culture, if not by law anymore.

I will say that the last few years I worked very closely with some Mexican Americans at my last school. I loved my coworkers and we got along great, but it was never apparent how "white" I was until I was the minority sitting at a lunch table. Almost everything about me was "different" than most everyone else: what I brought for lunch, how I spent my weekend, our family relations, etc. It didn't make me dislike them at all. In fact, we had a lot of commonality, obviously; but yeah I never felt more "white" than I did being the only white man at the table.

But it also doesn't help that I don't fit in with most white people down here, either.

[norton ash]

I was sent from the dinner table when I was about 8 for the sincere comment that I thought Italians had more kids than normal people. I've learned a few things since then.

[American Dream]

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White Workers Resisting Capitalism and White Supremacy: An Interview with RedNeck Revolt

How is the white working class getting played by Trump? Do you think that the situation will worsen when Trump isn't elected?

The white working class gets played by all sides; we should be clear on that. When it comes to institutional organizations and political parties, we get played by the right wing, and we definitely get played by the left wing. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have the interests of any members of the working class at heart.

But Trump is speaking a language that the white working class understands and can relate to, even using some language from more liberatory elements of the left when discussing economics and conditions within working class communities. He stands against Free Trade, for example, a hallmark of globalized capitalism. He talks about bringing jobs back to the United States. And then he mixes in attacks on migrants and other xenophobic remarks that speak to the fear in the white community. He plays off the fear and misery that white working people feel. He speaks in clear and easy to understand soundbites. Although he is a billionaire, he has convinced millions that he speaks for them and their conditions.

The problem is that for decades now, those of us on the liberatory left have abandoned the white working class to the right wing. We don't enter those communities to do the hard work of organizing. We have relegated white working people to be backwards and inherently racist. While groups like SURJ and other "anti-racist" white groups use the same language of white supremacy to dictate that white people all experience the same privileges and power within our society, regardless of class or real economic or political power, upper class liberals have consistently positioned themselves as being superior or better to working class whites, especially from rural areas. We have all created a situation where working class whites have been alienated and pushed toward the right wing, where reactionaries stand with open arms to welcome white working people into the fold.

This is not to say that the white working class has not historically earned some of this venom and derision. After all, the white working class has overwhelmingly found itself on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of the struggle of other working class people. But that said, how have the efforts of those on the Left helped cement that relationship? How has the Left been complicit, especially in the last twenty years, to handing the white working class on a platter over to the racist right wing?

Whether Trump wins or loses, the terrain is dangerous and deadly at this current moment. Which brings us back to one of the other main focuses of our former work with the John Brown Gun Club that we want to revisit and revive. We need real formulated responses for the upsurge in reactionary and racist violence. We need armed community defense programs in every community. We need to be ready to rapidly respond to the armed right wing threat that menaces our communities. We need to stop being reactionaries when it comes to the topic of armed defense. We are approaching truly dangerous times. Will we be ready?


In what ways can white people support Black Lives Matter?

Again, it's important to conceptualize struggle in a way that does away with moral platitudes and calls for white people to feel guilt for their situations. It's nearly impossible to get most white working people to admit they have some relative privilege in society and that racism does in fact exist, when they are struggling to make ends meet and not get evicted from their decaying home. So, we must first understand that until we start to build movements in a way where white working class people also see that their interests are tied in ending white supremacy, white working class folks will consistently be found on the wrong side of social struggles including Black Lives Matter.

It is up to us then, as whites, to organize within white working class communities, speaking to the conditions on the ground, and building off the rich history and culture of white working people standing in solidarity with poor and working people of color to challenge capitalist, state, and white supremacist power. Putting out ally checklists and having endless workshops on white privilege will never cut it, and has helped maintain the situation we find ourselves in. We need people on the ground. At the gun shows, at the NASCAR races, at the swap meets and flea markets... We need people in the white working class communities speaking their language and bringing them over to the a liberatory political orientation. We need to be able to relate the conditions that white working people face to the conditions on the ground in communities of color.

More at: http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/redne ... rview.html[

[Novem5er]

I was sent from the dinner table when I was about 8 for the sincere comment that I thought Italians had more kids than normal people. I've learned a few things since then.

My youngest daughter recently got a few baby dolls for her birthday. One of them was a darker skinned doll with dark, curly hair in a little poof around its head. One of the other dolls had a wheelchair. Later in the day she set about naming the dolls and my wife was appalled that our 5 years old named her new doll "Blacksie".

She tends to name things by the traits they have, like spotted elephant will be named "spottie" and so on. We breathed a sigh of relief when "Blacksie" was named after the doll's dark hair, which is exactly like my wife's dark, curly hair which my daughter loves. Still, we convinced her to rename the doll "Glassy" for the eyeglasses it wears (also like my wife).

[Novem5er]

Regarding working class whites cooperating with minority groups (AD's post above). I found last week's SNL skit with Tom Hanks to be right along those lines. I think this is one of SNL's best skits in a long time, for a variety of reasons; and Tom Hanks is just a class act. Notice how he could have made his character a simple "deplorable" cartoon, but he brings instead a real sense of humanity. Well worth the watch:

[dada]

Since my screen name here is 'dada,' I feel a strange sense of responsibility to reply to the 'dadaism' and 'surrealist' post.

The dada you posted about is very dead, American Dream. Zombie dada. If I ever catch that dada on the street, I will not hesitate to shoot it with a shotgun.

Dada just happens to be my surname. I inherited it. If it were easy to change my screen name, I'd probably be 'link.' If it were a few years ago, probably 'duncan.' But really, what's in a name. Dada will do, it's as good as any.

What I'm trying to say is, I am not that dada. My politics may be surreal, but I'm not a surrealist, either. To the extent that surrealism is codified, reified, 'ism-ified,' is the extent that I reject it.

What I'm trying to say is, fuck surrealism.

Better yet, eat it. Digest it. Make it a part of you. Or wave it around, like another stupid flag. Be a fan.

It's just my recommendation. I found my new signature though, thanks for that.

[American Dream]

I hear that Dada and Surrealism faked their own deaths and are living now with new identities...

[kool maudit]

I heard that people calling for the abolishing of an ethnically identifiable group of people, in this case those of European descent, are genocidal maniacs to be shunned and scorned.

[Sounder]

Thanks for that 'Dadaism demands' article AD.

What a bunch of God imposter nuts those folk are. I will never understand people that think they are qualified to define proper expressions of being for everybody. (Humans flourish better when they learn to think for themselves, not when they only think what they are told to think.)

"Daily meals at public expense for all creative and intellectual men and women on the Potsdamer Platz."

This is especially rich, so these creative and intellectual people are not sharp enough to figure out how to feed themselves?

Yes, let the 'public' feed them, hmmmm, that is not at all elitist.

I'm starting to like you more and more AD, as you keep exposing the antecedents of your nutjoberry.