“As a Fanonian, I agree that removing all elements of risk and danger reinforces a politics of reformism that just reproduces the existing social order. Militancy is undermined by the politics of safety. It becomes impossible to do anything that involves risk when people habitually block such actions on the grounds that it makes them feel unsafe. People of color who use privilege theory to argue that white people have the privilege to engage in risky actions while POC cannot because they are the most vulnerable (most likely to be targeted by the police, not have the resources to get out of jail, etc) make a correct assessment of power differentials between white and non-white political actors, but ultimately erase POC from the history of militant struggle by falsely associating militancy with whiteness and privilege. When an analysis of privilege is turned into a political program that asserts that the most vulnerable should not take risks, the only politically correct politics becomes a politics of reformism and retreat, a politics that necessarily capitulates to the status quo while erasing the legacy of Black Power groups like the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army. (emphasis mine. -Douglas) For Fanon, it is precisely the element of risk that makes militant action more urgent — liberation can only be won by risking one’s life. Militancy is not just tactically necessary — its dual objective is to transform people and “fundamentally alter” their being by emboldening them, removing their passivity and cleansing them of ‘the core of despair’ crystallized in their bodies.”
-Jackie Wang.
I found this quote on Rienfleche’s Tumblr, which I found through griff on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/501379921974136832
https://twitter.com/aintacrow/status/501389093314777088
A fellow comrade, m_anyfesto, had retweeted this on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/ciccmaher/status/501410602313854977
Remember these words in your movements through the struggle today. Remember that the revolution is for everybody, or it is for nobody.
The South Lawn 