Therefore, there is no symmetry between the political identity as
whites on one hand and the political identities as Blacks and Indians
on the other hand.  In the political identity as Indians there lies a
germ of dissident anti-colonial consciousness, signifying the memory
of dispossession and displacement, and in the political identity as
Blacks there lives a potential for revolutionary working-class
consciousness (especially if Blacks don't reduce themselves to
"racial minorities" who are "African-Americans" and try instead to
identify with the fate of the Black diaspora from Africa to the
Americas), but to identify as whites is to identify with and support
the ruling class -- no more, no less -- losing class consciousness in
exchange for racial privileges.  It is a good thing that many of
today's young white youths, disdaining whiteness as a sorry mess of
pottage, would rather identify with Blacks and/or Indians than white
rulers, at least culturally speaking, which can become a ground of
political identification as well.  Think Black, think Indian, whether
or not you are Black or Indian in the eyes of the ruling class.
--
Yoshie

^^^^^^^

CB: Indeed. Eminem's approach has a lot of political potential.

The end of racism must be all white people becoming people of color. ( Don't
worry, white people, it's not as bad as it seems in the news :>)

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