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It needs to be said that some of the behavior of white Revolutionary Communist Party members at the 12pm rally for Trayvon Martin in Chicago today was egregious. Whether it was taking the mic to editorialize and contradict a woman of color after she spoke in the speak out at Daley, soliciting donations for the RCP cause, or just repeatedly telling the marchers that the solution is to listen to Bob Avakian, this was some shameful shit. This was not the time or the place for any of this, and it boggles the mind that anyone who claims to be aware of racial inequality in America could be unaware of that.

What’s particularly annoying is I would dearly love to give the RCP the benefit of the doubt and say that groups of all kinds must come together and work in spite of their differences to build a movement. But that MUST involve people, especially white people, knowing when to step back, when to listen, and when not to try to sell newspapers, recruit to their group or raise money.