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Traitor to My Race: The Abolition of White Privilege -- a Series in Three Parts

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This series is comprised of three articles which trace the origins of white supremacy and white privilege, their evolution since the American Revolution, and the lifelong personal transformation of the author into an opponent of white supremacy and privilege and an advocate for their abolition. The latter is advanced throughout the series as a fraught proposition since abolition involves the disavowal by white Americans of a belief in white supremacy key to their self-identity. Rejection of white supremacy and privilege and acceptance of the harm they've done to white as well as black Americans will entail a requisite commitment by white Americans to engage in a course of self-education similar to that outlined by the author. Only then might white Americans recognize that abolition, however costly, will be equally beneficial to both. The series concludes with exhortations by Martin Luther King and Joe Hill to adherents of abolition to take action and organize. References pertinent to all three articles are to be found appended to the last.

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