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RACE TRAITOR: JOURNAL OF THE NEW ABOLITIONISM (RT)
RACE TRAITOR: JOURNAL OF THE NEW ABOLITIONISM (RT)
Race Baiting Subversives
Posted by Charleston Voice, 4.11.2012
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A periodical that was established in 1992, Race Traitor: Journal of the New Abolitionism (RT) was guided by the core belief that “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” Defining the white race as “a historically constructed social formation” consisting of “all those who partake of the privileges” associated with being white, RT lamented that “white influence permeates every issue, domestic and foreign, in U.S. society.” To address this situation, RT held that “the key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race, which means no more and no less than abolishing the privileges of the white skin.”
This does “not mean we want to exterminate people with fair skin,” RT emphasized, but rather “that we want to do away with the social meaning of skin color, thereby abolishing the white race as a social category.” Such a perspective was akin, said RT, to rejecting the legitimacy of any privileges associated with royalty, while not “wanting to kill the king.” “Whiteness has a lot in common with royalty,” RT elaborated. “They are both social formations that carry unearned advantages.”
RT aimed “to serve as an intellectual center” for likeminded individuals, or “abolitionists,” who shared the worldview and objectives summarized above. Toward that end, the publication sought “to challenge, disrupt and eventually overturn the institutions and behavior patterns that reproduce the privileges of whiteness, including the schools, job and housing markets, and the criminal justice system.” By RT's reckoning, abolitionists by definition “do not limit themselves to socially acceptable means of protest,” and they “reject in advance no [potential] means of attaining their goal.”
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