Does it invigorate or paralyze movements for racial equality? More important, does it subordinate the struggle for genuine national sovereignty to the paramount goal of gender-neutrality? Does it obscure the asymmetry between the imperial hegemonic United States and its virtual neocolony, the Philippines? To push further, which cause would advance a systemic solution to racist, sexist global capitalism?
The challenge for American activists and organizers is to now elevate these contradictions towards the primary question of class struggle; something that hasn’t been done since the Black Panther Party of the 1960s.
While racism in America does not disappear completely with Obama’s victory, the result of the US presidential elections reflected a significant change, a milestone in the struggle against the racist mindset. More importantly, it symbolized the American people’s clamor for change. But it would take more than the election of an African-American from the Democrats,…
BY THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FILIPINO CONCERNS (NAFCON)* DEMOCRATIC SPACE Posted by Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 36, October 14-20, 2007 The National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON) strongly takes the position that ABC’s one-paragraph “apology” for the racial spat against Filipinos in the Sept. 30 episode of Desperate Housewives was insufficient, inappropriate, and insincere. In…