A-Infos (en) US, Agitator Index, Not on Donovan Jackson, on Haters Who Claim We're White By juan de la qruz

[a-infos-en@ainfos.ca]

This is borne out of an article entitled, ?On Donovan Jackson and
White Race Traitors Who Claim They?re Down? by Heather Ajani
and Ernesto Aguilar. I say borne out of the article, because this is not
a direct response to it, even if it did provoke what is written here.
That it is not a direct response is both from refusal and inability due
to three fundamentally problematic and highly unprincipled ways in
which Ajani and Aguilar?s article is written.
Foremost, it is a deliberate distortion of the politics of Bring the
Ruckus (BTR). Deliberate because, as their notes to authorship of the
article states, both were former members of BTR, Ajani a founding
member, and to put forth distorted views of a politic one helped
develop is not achieved by mistake. Second, the basis for their
argument is the notion that BTR believes Mitchell Crooks is a race
traitor. This false assumption was derived from the article, ?The
Color of Authority? by BTR member Roy San Filippo in which he
states, ?Crooks?s act was instance of race treason?(my emphases). It
is not possible to debate arguments based on this false assumption
until they can at least argue against San Filippo's actual points. Third,
this false assumption along with other false or ill-conceived
arguments made in the article, seem to be used simply as a platform
to critique BTR as a group not entirely made up of people of color.
Therefore, we have "white" politics. This demeans, downgrades, and
ignores the people of color representation, contribution, and
leadership within BTR. Ajani and Aguilar themselves undeniably had
leadership during their shared and separate tenures in BTR.
However, to intimate that people of color representation,
contribution, or leadership left with them and was non-existent
before them is not only fraudulent, but also self-important. This
?BTR is white? distortion has tremendous personal resonance with
me. Indeed, it is the reason why I strongly believed that I alone
should be the one to write something up in regards to this rather
than, as a Coordinating Committee member, so.li.cit volunteers from
the membership.

Based on these three fundamental problems as well as the lack of
principle practiced, a direct response is neither appropriate nor
possible. Frankly, a timely response was not given due to a now
lacking political respect for the authors.

Instead, I would like to focus on a point in the article that was made
twice simply in passing, that "White 'race traitor' theory is wholly
based on the participation of white folks" and "the approach of groups
like BTR make the discussion of race too dependent on the
participation of whites." Essentially, I agree with the sentiment
behind this argument. Indeed, I have made it myself more than a few
times within BTR. Had this been the crux of the authors' argument
rather than a footnote, a valuable and necessary debate would have
taken place much sooner outside of our organization.


Still a point of contention between those influenced by Race Traitor
politics within BTR and me, this all-too-heavy reliance on whites is
the flaw of Race Traitor theory, even if I do not necessarily disagree
with the theory. That this long standing point of contention exists,
particularly as a long standing member of BTR, is merely one
illustration that BTR as an organization is neither simply a derivative
nor copycat of Race Traitor or a Race Traitor organization. We have
never represented ourselves in this way or in the ways put forth in
Ajani and Aguilar's article. Race Traitor is simply one of many
political influences within our group.

I welcome and highly encourage critique of the actual politics and
practice of Bring the Ruckus. It will only help further develop the
politics and practice of our organization, as well as further develop
debate outside our organization. However, I fail to see how
misrepresenting what we say or do, and critiquing us based on those
distortions benefit anyone, particularly the authors of such
distortions. Personally, I would like to see the discussion centered in
what I perceive to be the flaw of Race Traitor theory as well as the
strategy put forth in Bring the Ruckus politics.
juan de la qruz is a member of Bring the Ruckus*.
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* [Bring The Rukus is an antiauthotitarian anticapitalist
direct action revolutionary initiative.]

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