"However, some people believe it's as simple as “once a settler-colony, always a settler-colony.” This is metaphysical thinking. While it is true that the legacy of settler-colonialism in the United States certainly persists, the systems of oppression have not remained static. "

Did the crackers ever cede back all the land they took? Ever give power back to the Native tribes, the ones the crackers perennially violated the treaties they'd formed with? Did they ever reparate ANYBODY for the intentional-downing of Reconstruction? Then no, you crackers still run a settler-colony.

Garbage-assed white-'leftist' apologia like this is why I made it a rule: I only organize with Black formations anymore. I don't mind if my formation works with crackers/a cracker organization; but I personally will not share an org that has negligible-to-no melanin in its leadership with white Amerika. This landmass does not get to socialism without making Black folk whole and granting us our self-determination; and we can't even get white folk to think about that fuck I'd want to share an org with 'em for?

And now that I've gotten some sleep and a cup of coffee in me, lemme PROPERLY take this to task.

What does this mean? The U.S. isn’t an apartheid system, like “Israel” or “Rhodesia” for example. The horrific system of Jim Crow segregation that followed the betrayal of Reconstruction was itself uprooted by the Black liberation movement.

How I know an aggrieved cracker wrote this. Jim Crow never died; or can this cracker Sykes not tell that from the fact that more than a thousand of my brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, nephews, and nieces get put on morgue slabs every fucking year? The Civil Rights movement failed. All of our actual leaders got killed decades ago, and the only ones allowed to live were the ones who sold out the others.

We were never liberated, just given a few token victories that weren't even enshrined in the Constitution, so they can all be rolled back by the next Klansman cracker to take the figurehead in this country. But bet your ass the crackers' right to keep slaves stayed in!!!

And with respect to Mao Zedong, I don't care where the white supremacist brainworm originated, my fight is with everyone who espouses those brainworms; not just the capitalists, 'cause y'know what? IT ISN'T JUST THE CAPITALISTS KILLING US. It's the shitkicker in an Oregonian sundown town with a shotgun over his bed's headboard. It's the pig in a New York borough, dropping his knee on one of my brothers' necks. It's the 4channer in a different New York borough who beats a murder charge for killing a Black homeless man. It's the cracker streamer in Dallas that cultivates hordes upon hordes of "anti-woke warriors" in his Twitch chat every goddamn night.

It doesn't fucking matter where the brainworms come from, ANYONE CARRYING THEM is a threat. This 'essay' is the screed of yet another white leftist tryna say "class war only, we don't have a race problem"; and this is why I don't organize with the whites. If they don't overstand the need for my people's liberation, and the determination of our own destinies apart from the people who four-hundred-years-historically cannot be trusted to do right by us, they're an opp to me.