Anarchists need to develop a perspective on racial issues that goes beyond ideological finger-pointing or moralistic sermonizing about white privilege delivered by do-gooder white people. The bottom line is that black Americans are a distinctively occupied and colonized caste within the American system. Always have been and always will be as long as the system stands.

The solution? Self-determination for majority African-American communities (i.e. many U.S. cities, urban districts, or the Black Belt), class-based reparations on the model suggested by Kevin Carson, and amnesty for prisoners held in the American prison-industrial complex.

ANTI-RACIST ACTIVISTS TO FOLLOW

Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Crow-In…

Deray Mckesson, twitter activist #BlackLivesMatter
https://twitter.com/deray
http://thisisthemovement.launchrock.com/

Johnetta Elzia, twitter activist #BlackLivesMatter
https://twitter.com/nettaaaaaaaa
http://thisisthemovement.launchrock.com/

Shaun King, blogger
https://twitter.com/shaunking

Feminista Jones, blogger
https://twitter.com/feministajones

Elon James White, This Week In Blackness #TWIB
https://twitter.com/elonjames
http://thisweekinblackness.com/

Franchesca Ramsey, YouTube activist
https://youtube.com/chescaleigh
Shit white girls say to black girls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylPUz…
Sometimes you’re a caterpillar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRiWg…

Akilah Hughes, YouTube activist
https://youtube.com/smoothiefreak
Meet your first black girlfriend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDiU0…
On intersectionality, feminism, and pizza:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgK3N…

Tim Wise, white anti-racist activist
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tim-Wi…

REFERENCED, SOURCES, AND FURTHER READING

WEALTH & HOUSING

Housing discrimination report
http://www.huduser.org/portal/publica…

The racist housing policy that made your neighborhood
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/a…

A battle for fair housing is raging but mostly forgotten
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2…

Race & income inequality
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/washington…

Racial disparities in lending
https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-c…

EDUCATION

Data snapshot: school discipline
https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/lis…

Status and trends in black education
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo…

EMPLOYMENT

Racial bias in hiring
http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/…

Whiter jobs, higher wages – EPI Report
http://www.epi.org/publication/whiter…

MASS INCARCERATION

Racial trends
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/p…

Is prison the new Jim Crow?
http://www.uua.org/multiculturalism/g…

International prison population trends
http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-…

US has largest prison population in the world
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014…

Racism in the prison industrial complex
http://www.colorlines.com/articles/ma…

Criminal justice fact sheet
http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-j…

RACIAL PROFILING

Race & the drug war (coke vs cocaine info)
http://www.drugpolicy.org/race-and-dr…

Show me your papers
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2012…

Blacks suffer under stop & frisk – man stopped 258 times
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/a…

Disproportionate minority contact – Report
http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publ…

Racial gaps in arrests – a staggering disparity
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/na…

POLICE BRUTALITY

Police militarization
https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-…

Police brutality statistics
http://graphs.net/police-brutality-st…

Twice a week white officers shoot black suspects
http://mic.com/articles/96452/one-tro…

SUMMARY
In this video, Laci Green talks about the nature of racism in 2015. She begins by challenging commonly held ideas about what racism is. She highlights how racist attitudes have created a racist system…which have created more racist attitudes. In order to stop the cycle, she illustrates 6 common ways that racism is institutionalized. Wealth disparities and housing, education, employment, mass incarceration, racial profiling, and police brutality are all touched upon. She ends by calling white America to stop making excuses that enable the past to continue and instead acknowledge the injustice right in front of us.