A reply to "An Open Letter to White Progressives and Radicals"

There is a letter on infoshop.org that characterizes many things that is wrong with the anarchist movement today.  A letter written by APOC is characteristic of the anger and hatred towards white culture as defined by contemporary America.  As a person of white European descent I call bullshit on it's premise: that there is anything white people can do appease your sense of of injustice or being misunderstood. 

There is nothing whites can ever do to appease your feeling of injustice.  Nothing short of complete cultural and annihilation will suffice to meet your demands.  I've met your kind before, growing up in the projects, attending the schools your culture dominated. Even looking down the barrel of a gun pointed at my head.

When I first became involved with the anarchist movement a decade ago APOC nearly turned me away from it then.  It's been my perspective based on my experience of interacting with black people in many States across the country that there will always be that lingering collective unconscious as long as the American experiment of diversity continues. 

Now I personally can't solve peoples psychological hangups about race or any other issue for that matter, but I sure as hell know when to stay away from a lunatic on the street. 

For all you White Progressive Radicals out there listen closely to APOC's demands, you have a choice to make, and you make that choice daily. 

It's really pretty simple.  The anarchists I know will pay lip service to what APOC says and agree in principal that it's right on and that something must be done to smash white supremacy.  For some that means having non white children.  For others it means not having children.  Others will be become completely engrossed in "battling racism."  The vast majority of others though will, naturally, continue to ignore them in practice and thereby justifying the declaration of race war within the anarchist movement.  You have an open invitation to accept their demands and do as they say.  Or you can deny them the right to dominate your life with their issues.  It's my belief that the anarchist struggles of the past in Spain and the Ukraine were in part successful due to the common nationality of the people that participated in those struggles.  But thats getting off topic.

The National Anarchist movement rejects the characterization of an entire diverse ethnic group of being guilty of "collaborator in white supremacy," as a "completely arrogant and pretentious to think" that "You are just another white person who benefits from the powerlessness of people of color, and does so proudly and without remorse or regard" and bow to the eternal graces and wisdom of complete abandonment white people have been involved in creating. 

If this is anti-racism you can eat shit and die.

The BANA network denies APOC the privilege of setting the revolutionary agenda of our times and we will do so without hate and without malice and with no intention of collaborating you on any level. 

Congratulations, you got what you asked for.