Fakes do exist, and now we are coming across them. Each of these persons has a tail like a fox, that’s plain to all. The Monkey Sun Wu-kung is able to make seventy-two metamorphoses, but there is always one difficulty, changing his tail. He changes himself into a temple and turns his tail into a flagstaff, but the warrior god Yang Erh-lang spots the trick. And how? By spotting his tail. There is in fact a type of person who cannot hide his tail no matter how he disguises himself. — Mao Zedong, Criticism of Liang Shuming’s Reactionary Ideas

Every black person working in the revolutionary movement has been exposed to the white man with a fragile ego who thinks he’s highly qualified despite being, for all intents and purposes, useless. Despite doing nothing new or anything that black people have not done to equal or better quality, they seem to think that they are entitled to take up space, run their mouths despite having nothing of import or value to say, and steal resources and time. Sometimes they’re some redneck that crawled out of a hole somewhere and decided to stop saying “nigger”. Sometimes they’re an academic. Sometimes they’re refuse from the punk scene. Either way, they’re 100% useless. When we black revolutionaries reclaim our time and pull their tail, they lash out. I have had an opportunity to witness this in practice for the past few months in Saint Louis.

I met a guy handing out literature from another organization at a demonstration a few months ago. He had personal ties to a member of this organization, another of his type that I had butted heads with several times because of his consistent pattern of white chauvinist arrogance and reactionary behavior. Loud mouthed, edgy, bombastic, and useless. This person, of course, was white and alone, meaning that he was a political cypher in Saint Louis. I also know a wrecker and a shitbag when I see one. I could have ignored him, but I figured I’d see how far he’d let his whiteness go. He had no ties whatsoever to currently existing organizations in STL, and was fundamentally isolated. I brought him around members of the organization that I then chaired and still work with, and he began meeting some of us. Immediately he began contact with individuals in an organization that we’ve previously struggled with in an entirely different state, working as a fundamental spy. At this time we were doing distributions of clothing and food in Ferguson. He established contact with these individuals and told them, for no reason whatsoever, that we were “not residents” of Ferguson, despite all of us having participated in the struggle that began in Ferguson for years and myself having lived in Ferguson for 10 years. This individual lives in Illinois. This organization proceeded to take this information and use it to attack me and other members. Strike one. White people insinuating themselves and stirring the pot.

Second: We conducted a study group over J. Sakai’s Settlers. This individual refuses to participate because it makes him feel bad as a white male and it’d “turn him off” Maoism. If you refuse to read something because it hurts your feelings, you’re useless. Black people are exposed to reactionary settler narratives all the time, but we are expected to make accommodations for white men and their egos. He also decided that the black leadership of the organization (me) was oppressing him and that white comrades were being “lackeyish” and are “white guilt liberals” because they’re not engaging in his reactionary and pro-white sentiment. I didn’t force him to read the book, but this was another lesson by example. He then decides to pick up a Maoist cloak and present himself as “the only real Maoist” in Saint Louis to people in other cities, who proceed to put this white man on a pedestal. We see how the mainly white/white-excusing Maoist so-called movement in the United States would rather have a white charlatan that calls himself an “anarcho-Maoist” than an uppity nigger who doesn’t take their shit. He then proceeds to act as if he had been a member of our organization for years instead of a mere hanger-on, and send secret “criticisms” to people in other cities about me being a “commandist”, an “anti-white chauvinist”, and various other things.

Third: A few months later, this individual has decided that he would like to start a John Brown Gun Club. I vouch for him to Redneck Revolt. He decides that this is too slow and that he would decide to start something else dedicated to community defense. I key him in to a black comrade who I’d trust with my life and who has been doing this work for years. I also espouse the hope that there can be dual membership between our organizations. After this new, majority white organization has been established, he proceeds to ban members of my organization from it on a scanty pretext of a “security breach” on my part, and then another white male opportunist who decided he wanted to hold his criticisms in until it was time for him to resign and run off with the other white man resigned. This was another lesson, although I acted as if I was going along with this nonsense.

Fourth: This weekend, I catch the first cracker continuing to call members of my organization “white guilt liberals”. We all expose this. He then proceeds to threaten a white member with “knocking him the fuck out if he keeps talking shit”. When this is criticized, he asks “if we are going to call the police”. No, we aren’t. His white comrades also seem to have more interest in defending him and making excuses than actually struggling with him. This is natural, as white people cannot hold white people accountable. I’ve tried to make something out of him, he refused and decided to surround himself with other white people, mostly men.

Teachers by negative example are a good thing. Trotsky, Chiang Kai-Shek, Lin Biao, Liu Shaoqi, Gao Gang, Wang Ming, and countless others served their purpose by showing why we must constantly be on guard. I’m glad that Saint Louis had the opportunity to see how white racists, reactionaries, splitters, wreckers, and charlatans behave. Now that he has destroyed himself through his own stupidity and arrogance, we should all learn his lesson and move to isolate and destroy his type before they get entrenched.