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Hello, I have returned to share with you the amended version Seattle DSA's Reparations resolution. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pLYEirlPKEnSI73I8GanOf41R5qHD5_8FolcyqfQmTU/edit
Highlights include
1: "White workers have benefited disproportionately from racist and anti-Black institutions" and as such much be brought to heel financially in a time of a massive economic downturn.
1: "White workers have benefited disproportionately from racist and anti-Black institutions" and as such much be brought to heel financially in a time of a massive economic downturn.
2. Stating the goal of this is to target global capitalism - which it will do nothing to threaten since capitalism is fine with the increased racial divide this brings and DSA will never challenge anything - so the local whites must pay up as a consolation.
3. *Increasing* the amount of money allocated from 10% to 30%.
4. Submitting an application to an unaccountable treasury body to determine how black one must be to receive funding. No language on whether or not skull measurements are required to determine one's temperament.
I don't really feel the need to critique this beyond it simply admits that in a time that capital is rapidly pressing down its boot on the neck of the working class as a whole, the interests of the working class differ by race and seeks to divide along those lines.
I'm not in DSA and I don't care what happens to DSA - I have friends in it in which I admire their hard, well-meaning work that I feel is ultimately for a doomed cause - but don't treat this as an isolated event. It will come to your chapter and to a national convention.
Lastly, *please* focus on the politics of what this is and engage it on those terms. DSA likely has legal concerns - but do not attempt to disarm it on procedural grounds or laugh it away as a "CIA op." Do not fear being called a racist. State your politics and fight for them.
