This is a footnote in some academic writing I am currently working on (the final chapter of my dissertation). What started out as a short aside quickly blew up, and while still short for what I normally post on this blog, it is quite within the norm for what I normally do write here. This is why I thought I would share it. I’ve broken what is in the chapter a single chunk of text, and placed the references from the bibliography at the end.
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This brief meditation/article on the link between a particular ethic and politic of coalition building and the devaluation of the capacity to act was inspired by a conversation in the car yesterday between myself and fellow Indigenous PhD student and Anishinaabekwe/kweer philosopher @revolutionkwe.

Time and again we hear this as a truism, so supposedly obvious that it needs no explanation. When we examine it, however, it blows away into dust.

– E. Tani & Kae Sera (1985, 202)

The truism that is being discussed in this opening epigraph by E. Tani and Kae Sera, authors of the underground militant classic False Nationalism, False Internationalism: Class Contradictions in the Armed Struggle (1985), is the oft recited trope that the colonized & racialized multitudes must wait for the white worker to move before we can start to make revolution and begin the process of overturning our 500 years of oppression.

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