Peace Be Unto Those Who Follow Right Guidance.
Recently, during a Bandung2 Question Time-2 debate entitled "White Supremacy or Privilege?", Muslim counter-racist analyst, Isa Ibrahiim, stated that white "anti-racism" - which is NOT the same thing as counter-Racism - was a trick/con/deceit of White Supremacists (Racists) themselves. At the time I thought his judgement might be a little harsh, but understood where he was coming from and recognised that he might, in fact, be correct.
This morning, while checking out the Assault on Black Sanity blog, I came across a link to the following blog: White Anti-Racist: Have Your Cake and Eat it Too.
Although it MUST be a work of satire, the content on the blog vindicates Br Isa Ibrahiim's position regarding the "tricknology" [=con/deceit] of (much/all) so-called "white anti-racism". (Again, this might seem harsh; however, as Br Isa rightly pointed out during the aforementioned Bandung2 Question Time-2 debate, truth is truth, harsh or otherwise.) As evidence of this, consider, for example, the following statement which appears on the "Welcome" page:
By claiming a white-anti-racist identity, you will have the opportunity to be a "good white person" while being critical of racism while never risking the survival of the system of white supremacy and thus your own centrality and privilege.
I particularly enjoyed the following statement in the "How & Why It Works" section:
As a White Anti-Racist:
You Can: Verbally and/or in writing, invoke John Brown as your role model and hero
But You Don't Have To: Actually do what he did (i.e. pick up arms and forfeit your life)
What does all this mean for counter-racism?
It means that while it is true that NOT every white person is a White Supremacist (Racist), many of those whites who refer to themselves as anti-racists are, in fact, REFINED Racists (White Supremacists).
Judge them by their ACTIONS (behaviour), not by their SPEECH (discourse).
Peace
Peace Be Unto Those Who Follow Right Guidance,
Jazakallah Khairun for the insightful post. I find myself in very strong agreement with Br Isa's view on this issue.
At the end of the post you mention that we should judge "suspected" REFINED Racists by their ACTIONS (Behaviour) NOT by their SPEECH (Discourse). This is another observation that I agree with. And on that particular note I am not so sure that I can promote that guy Tim Wise.
I'll tell you why...
I only watched one SPEECH (Discourse) done by him and I was listening for specific things for him to mention that would convince me that he is not a suspected REFINED Racist. Sadly, I did not hear what I was hoping for from him.
Specifically I was hoping that he would mention somewhere in his "Discourse" the fact that White Supremacy is a "systemic/functional" form of Racism which is continuously being REFINED by Racists [White Supremacists] through major tools of "Deceit". He did not mention that. I was also hoping to hear him mention WHAT those tools of Deceit are and HOW non-White people can detect them and counter-act them. He did not. However, he did mention (What I felt to be) numerous "REMINDERS" of the pitiful position of non-white people under the system of Racism [White Supremacy].
However, as I mentioned earlier it was the only speech of his that I watched so I could be incorrect. It was my disappointment of that speech that I do not make any attempts to listen to him anymore.
Fi'Aman Allah,
Shak_Diesel.