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(A comment from the professor emeritus on my blog post.)
I usually don’t do this sort of thing, and I suspect some reaction is
what he wants. Nevertheless, Proyect’s dishonest — e.g. he should know
the line that he attributes to Debs is wrong; see William P. Jones,
“‘Nothing Special to Offer the Negro:’ Revisiting the ‘Debsian View’ of
the Negro Question,” ILWCH (2008) — and puerile — e.g., he asserts that
I “turn a cold shoulder toward the the protests of the George Floyd
murder” while discussing a 2016 essay — but I need to say one for the
record. I’m beyond sick and tired of sanctimonious white assholes — and
this includes you, Michael Yates — denouncing me for not understanding
or caring about racism in the United States. If one wants to go around
finding instances of racism all around — and that’s your politics, not
mine — the hubris that tack displays couldn’t be a clearer example of
it. Neither of you, nor the others who play this game know a fucking
thing about me, my history, views, practice or life. For instance, if
Proyect read what I’ve written on the monuments controversy in New
Orleans, he’d know that I largely grew up under Jim Crow and lived its
indignities for much of my formative life. My point in the piece from
which he cherry picks quotes was to caution about the fact that the
monuments’ removal was being interpreted by governing elites as a
validation of current forms of neoliberal inequality, which also have a
disproportionate impact on black people. So you two, and all the rest of
the cretins whose play on the internet includes denouncing me, Cedric
Johnson — another, albeit much younger black Lousianan whose experience
of racial injustice is direct and unmediated by books — and others as
“class reductionists,” especially at this moment when race-first
politics has generated nearly $2 billion (and counting) of corporate
support, including from an outfit as transparently hideous as ALEC, can
go fuck yourselves. That that goes double, and in spades, for the white
ones for whom this game suggests that, if they really want to find
racism, they should just look in the motherfucking mirror.
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