From IllVox.org</p> How bad must it get?
People the world over live under repressive regimes of varying extremes. In the United States, the war against people of color has been especially oppressive and insidious. From chattel slavery to the denial of voting rights to the rhetorical long knives coming out for a Black candidate, people of color constantly get the message that they are not valued by this white supremacist system, and they will be hatefully resisted in their efforts for freedom and dignity at every turn. A few generations after the Civil Rights Movement, after concessions for education, work and basic human rights were won after hard battles, the status of people of color remains in terrible shape. The colonial cop brigades that have murdered thousands of people of color remain a systemic problem. The election merry-go-round is still trash.

It is not as if no one has made this declaration before. People from Malcolm X among others have implored people of color to end their allegiance to this corrupt, racist government. Militants over the years have struggled over this same question. Certainly socialist and Communist campaigners bring very little that is desirable to the lives of people of color. Anti-authoritarian visions offer a possibility, but it will take more than an article, or a thousand, to get us there. read more


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