DIARY ENTRY #3: Redneck Revolt

White Identitarianism in Response to Leftist Decolonialism

The historian Noel Ignatiev, in September 2017, expressed concern in regards to RedneckRevolt’s commitment to "defense of our communities". Ignatiev argued that "in this society those who share our material conditions, our neighbors, our family members, our friends, the people working alongside us, usually reflect which race they (and we) are assigned to", and contended that "The goal is not to defend the white community but to abolish it, and along with it all communities defined by racial preference or oppression." He also criticised the group for failing to challenge "institutions that reproduce white supremacy—neither the criminal justice system, nor the schools, nor employment discrimination, nor real estate lending and renting policies", and concluded that "white people organized as whites are dangerous to the working class and to humanity, and white people with guns organized as whites are doubly so—and this is true regardless of the intentions of the organizers." (source)

The point is that counter recruitment, for example, is supposed to be a third party maneuver, where one aims to make pacifists of antagonizing militarized forces (the term itself assumes there are at least two opposing forces who recruit people to fight for them).

But there are plenty of white people who are “pacifists” — white people who believe in passifism and capitalism, white people who are pacifists and believe in deportation, white misogynists who think women ought to be Catholics who serve dinner to the family and lay on their backs for cis men who… All the nastiness.

I am a partisan and I believe that there is no such thing as a “pacifist”. A “pacifist” can not exist if the globalized world’s dominating force of subjugation is antiblack capitalism (this is not redundant, because hegemony could design any order of abstractions): hoarding access to natural resources and wellbeing, making you work for scraps of the aforementioned, and making examples of you if you are Black, encouraging everyone else (including other Black people), to join in this protracted genocide that is social death and the infinite creation of Black people as fixed capital. A pacifist can not exist in that world because a pacifist is one that can afford to do so, else they would be dead and therefore, still not a pacifist because they would not be. A pacifist can not exist in this world because if they can survive while being one, they must have some material benefit from it that sustains them. And that is antiblack.

Redneck Revolt is even further degenerated from a militant Leftist ARA-styled activity, where a racist can be turned into race traitor with the goal of eroding white supremacy in its rhetorical precedences as both nonviolent and violent (regardless of the systemic truth that all white supremacy is violent). Instead, Redneck Revolt refuses to apologize for its reformist attitudes that have led to reformist activities which do no more but transform white supremacists into 'nice' white supremacists — white people who record themselves giving speeches with a basket of tokenized fixed capital behind them in the hopes of restoring faith in whiteness — because apparently there is no other way to Fight for Black People other than the hand-selecting Black people who suit your favor— those you will tokenize into the house, discarding the reactionary hoteps, the cooning neoliberals, the sad and mindless Black conservatives who are part of our [believe it or not] non-monolithic, always problematic and therefore scapegoated, tarbaby-reminiscent existence. Speaking on it is hard, not because I will miss any of the aforementioned, but because to secure a future for a New Humanity, I need to constantly remind people want all these subjugative agents of antiblack hegemony gone no less than I want whiteness to continue existiting, specifically because non-Black Leftists, and their tokens, must always punch down for the sake of rhetorical domination— otherwise they wouldn’t be oppressors. But luckily, I have this space, even for a moment, to say that I do not have to give up one for the other. I am an anti-bipartisan partisan against antiblackness.

In essence, Redneck Revolt refuses to create race traitors. Redneck Revolt instead embraces its white identity (no, it is not okay to be white), and claims that being working class means you are subaltern. There were working class whites, who owned slaves, raped slaves, caught slaves for money, and got away with it echelons more than there were Black slave owners anywhere in Amerika... Primarily because us Black people are socially dead and systemically scapegoated. However, that is besides the point. The point is that Black people were The Slaves— the bottom rung on a ladder of hegemony that everyone steps on to get to where they want to go. This war that has been going on since the Middle Passage has been against this systemic ontology being forced, without our consent, against our autonomy, limiting our agency and disabling our potential to be human through the records of material history.

On a personal I don’t understand why they let their members harass the Black people who help run my shared Facebook page when we have criticisms. I don’t understand why they aren’t working on pitting far-right people against each other instead of playing personal reformism. I don’t understand why whiteness must be coddled, as if it’s existence isnt solely for the scapegoating of Black people through casta and beyond.

Redneck Revolt has a clear need to secure the existence of white people and a future for white children, but I want to know why whiteness has to exist at all.

And I do.

Making white people nicer doesn’t stop whiteness as a hegemonic signifer in the Amerikan cultural superstructure from being supremacist. Neither does converting a white person from a right-winged ideology to a left-winged ideology— class reductionism as an obscurer of Blackness, case and point. It is convenient.

Every one of the few times I brought up one of these points at a meet I was met with class reductionism that posited the importance of working class over Black people despite our ontology as socially dead entities. This is also convenient. Still I was told I should become an active member because I am a Black transwoman. “They would eat you up.” I know they would, but that would be too convenient for The Greatest White Apologism Project Ever… Yes, greater than SURJ— probably because they are just SURJ with guns and a more desirable economic vision.

The convenience of the formation of Redneck Revolt alongside the increasing numbers of Amerikan far-right ethno-nationalists, alongside an international far-right fifth column, increased European-Amerikan solidarity, the defeat of far-Left militants in Spain and Ukraine, and of course, a certain Trump’s presidency that represented a wedge driven through Centrists seems to feed off the resurging popularity of J. Sakai’s ‘Settlers’, increased far-left decolonial activity in developing ‘far-left’ experiments like Rojava, the violent rise and graceful death of Afro-Pessimism 2.0, the memories in the form of statues we are prematurely tearing down (ironically even while the memory still lives), and an overdue re-evaluation of Black Power and what it means to be Black: a resurgence of incredibly important and strategic Afro-Latinx solidarity. I wish the convenience just wasn’t there.

I’ve written so much on what white people can do off Black people. I have white ‘friends’ (teehee*) who listen. But the rest of you will continue to read what I say, following up with sea-lioning, repeating your question over and over as if I have no voice. And I guess I don’t have a voice.

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None of us have a voice. That is because white supremacy is dominant enough to only give us a voice to its benefit. The social contract is: if we benefit you, we will have a voice— and still, this voice will be yours; it won’t be born of our agency. We are disabled in this way— allowed to die for your necessary survival. Your survival is always put first. White folks in Redneck Revolt, especially the middle-classed and upper class bourgeoisie, the land-owning, and the house-owning white ‘working class’ because the rest of y’all only harbor omnipotent potential to subjugate us (which in and of itself is also horrific) that we can never use, ought to give all their guns and other forms of defensive wellbeing to Black militants— pretty much all Black people when it comes to white supremacy, and most when it comes to the problems that come with money. Give us the keys to our shackles, so we can at least be free while fighting for our freedom. Give us your agency to smile freely and mean it. That’s dual power, isn’t it? It’s something white people don’t deserve unless they’re dying for us— as living people and/or as abstraction. The world would be a much safer place if no white people had weapons.