Hawaii proudly represents at the DSA and stands up to denounce the white supremecy infection at the DSA Convention:
Regarding the DSA National Convention
If we needed confirmation that the Democratic Socialists of America, as a system, is one tone within the voice of white supremacy, we got it this morning. Class analysis without racial analysis in the US cannot ever be socialism - it is just more of the quintessentially “American” phenomenon of white economic anxiety carrying the day in liberal political spaces.
A feminized black person spoke up courageously & vulnerably, in the spirit of democratic debate and “within the rules” at the DSA convention and was essentially shouted down by a chorus of shrill white voices, on cue. She spoke of her experience of racialized sexual violence as she tip-toed into the privileged world of contemporary sex work facilitated by the supposed safety of tools the information age allows.
I was somehow simultaneously horrified and unsurprised at the pace and fervor in which white people tore at the gift the body of the DSA convention had just been given. Her voice was attacked on parliamentary grounds from multiple angles; the subject matter was debated (out of order, as it was a motion to reconsider); the physical reaction of multiple white people standing up and queueing in the aisle anxiously anticipating their turn to shout down the black voice of dissent that dared question the structure of colonialism and patriarchy that provides them their very temporary respite from the ravages of capitalism…
The chair, the parliamentarian, the members who dared have their rubber stamped majority even be commented on, the makeup of the membership generally, the United States, the world - all supremely white. We must dissent and we must center those most impacted by systems of oppression and exploitation. Socialism cannot and will not win unless it is intersectional. I am a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of Honolulu today - an organizing body co-chaired by a brilliant and brave leader who graciously held a mirror to the contemporary US “socialist” movement in DSA.