Red Bandana Radio #8 - No Hate in My Holler

We’re gonna talk about what’s meant by antiracism. Ain’t everybody against racism? Now you should already be able to answer that one. You’re ignorin’ a lot of news and world events if you think that’s true. Racism is a systemic, collective problem with white supremacy and colonialism as its core. All individuals internalize this structure but it was started and is continued as a top-down program. So is an antiracist somebody who doesn’t identify as a racist? Not quite. Antiracism is active opposition to white supremacy and colonialism. It’s active support for the abolition of whiteness as a concept. We’ve got one org to mention for this episode but this is another area of activism that faces heavy repression and is often not public-facing for that reason. Although antiracism should be a focus of any group of activists worth their salt and pepper.