Tamara’s [Kil Ja Kim's] Open Letter to the White Anti-Racist
TAMARA: FIRST, FIGURE OUT WAYS in which whiteness needs to die as a social structure and as an identity in which you organize your anti-racist work. What this looks like in practice may not be so clear but I will attempt to give some suggestions here.
FROM RACETRAITOR.ORG:
| The White Anti-Racist Is an Oxymoron: An Open Letter to “White Anti-Racists” By Tamara K. Nopper [aka Kil Ja Kim] I received an annoying e-mail about white people and their struggle to do anti-racist work. I keep reading and hearing white people talk about their struggle to do anti-racist organizing, and frankly it gets on my nerves. So I am writing this open letter to white people who engage in any activist work that involves or affects non-whites. Given that the US social structure is founded on white supremacy, and that there is a global order in which white supremacy and European domination are at large, I would challenge any white person to figure out what movement or action they can get involved in that will not involve or affect non-white people. That said, I want to begin with what has become a realization for me through the help of different politically conscious friends. There is NO SUCH THING AS A WHITE ANTI-RACIST. The term itself, “white anti- racist” is an oxymoron. In the following, I will explain why. Then, I will begin to detail how this impacts non-white people in organizing work specifically, along with how it affects non-white people generally. |
Posted in Palabras
Love it.
What’s going on? I thought this Open Letter was written by Kil Ja Kim.
edit: Nevermind. It’s the same person.
thanks! i added the other name. if she/he uses both, best to have both here.