"The very means of class control by the rich is the least understood. White supremacy is more than just a set of ideas or prejudices. It is national oppression. Yet to most white people, the term conjures up images of the Nazis or Ku Klux Klan rather than the system of white skin privileges that really undergrids the Capitalist system in the U.S.

Most white people, Anarchists included, believe in essence that Black people are 'the same' as whites, and that we should just fight around 'common issues' rather than deal with 'racial matters,' if they see any urgency in dealing with the matter at all. Some will not raise it in such a blunt fashion, they will say that 'class issues should take precedence,' but it means the same thing. They believe it’s possible to put off the struggle against white supremacy until after the revolution, when in fact there will be no revolution if white supremacy is not attacked and defeated first.

They won’t win a revolution in the U.S. until they fight to improve the lot of Blacks and oppressed people who are being deprived of their democratic rights, as well as being super-exploited as workers."

From Chapter 1of Anarchism and the Black Revolution, subheading "Defeat White Supremacy!" by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

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