Generally speaking, unlike a majority of whitish folk my age, I am all for the concept of Reparations. Seems pretty fair.

But I do have a question, for the more fierce advocates of said concept, a la Marianne Williamson.

What is your position, O Fierceness, on expanding the concept to the indigenous peoples, whom capitalism and democracy perpetrated a genocide upon?

How about to Japanese-Americans like our friend Mr. Sulu, who were sent to camps in the 1940s, their homes and businesses seized opportunistically under false ‘security’ pretenses?

Or even to poor Appalachian whites who were exploited by the mining industry for generations, until they tried to unionize and died of Pinkerton bullet wounds instead of black lung?

My point here is that the class war is at least as important as racially-based atrocities. We all suffer when oligarchs are in charge of the economy and the government, and sad to say, they pretty much have been since the founding.

Dr. King, before they killed him for saying it, and for coming out against their stupid endless wars, thought so too.

There are plenty of dim race baiters out there, never able to hold a candle to Martin King or Malcolm X, who would say that my privilege is showing, or some crap like that.

People like Ibram X Kendi.

Who, it is turning out, is not a deeply honest and pure soul like the two gentlemen mentioned above, but just another dimestore con op.

That doesn’t mean I believe that all people who would try to put race, or gender, or sexual preference ahead of class are grifters. We can differ on the finer points without needing to resort to that kind of generalization … I’m almost sure of that.

That’s probably about enough out of me for one day.

Details and embellishment at the link.

Class consciousness and solidarity on the road to anarchy now.