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A Dream
Tell me if this sounds idealistic and immature:
It is my belief that a racist white working class man from, say, South Boston, and a young black woman who has only know white people in the context of discrimination and prejudice who is from, say, Roxbury, could find themselves fighting side by side for their mutual salvation at an Occupy protest, could lock arms in defiance of the police state that has oppressed them both, and in a moment of co-empowerment find solidarity that transcends prejudice. It is my conviction that such moments are all that can really meant by “smash racism.” And, it is my hope that the revolutionaries of the Occupy movement will embrace these moments, as opposed to preventing them before they can happen.
It is my belief that a racist white working class man from, say, South Boston, and a young black woman who has only know white people in the context of discrimination and prejudice who is from, say, Roxbury, could find themselves fighting side by side for their mutual salvation at an Occupy protest, could lock arms in defiance of the police state that has oppressed them both, and in a moment of co-empowerment find solidarity that transcends prejudice. It is my conviction that such moments are all that can really meant by “smash racism.” And, it is my hope that the revolutionaries of the Occupy movement will embrace these moments, as opposed to preventing them before they can happen.
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