Interracial: Sara Seti off the Point

Irrational YouTube Rant on Interracial Relationships


For those who believe in the color theory of racial confrontation, that idea not only seems immature and inaccurate, it lacks any place in liberation politics. Take a moment to see what Brother Sara Seti is spitting on YouTube. By-passing the obvious problems with his presentation -- which I am sure many viewers have a good idea what I mean -- there are several inaccuracies concerning his perspective. Let me take them broadly without trying to address specific statements that he made because that can only require a more detailed breakdown which may be unnecessary.

Some folks believe our community suffers from an entrenched “Willie Lynch” mode and that represents the primary contradiction within black America. However, a definite distinction must be drawn between primary and secondary contradictions. The psychology of the black community is a secondary problem. And all of what Sara Seti has to say and the way he says it really derive from a low-rate view of our community. Perhaps the masses can see thru his open contempt for us by lecturing people in a way which propels them backwards to address less important and pressing issues than appear in our day-to-day living conditions.

So interracial relationships, for one, do not represent the primary problem within the black community. Our main problem remains based in the concentrated class question known as racism; interracial relationships of the sort he opposes actually dilute racism. Thus, it may be seen that Sara Seti prefers this demagogic approach rather attacking urgent problems facing our community, such as racism or its secondary effects like unemployment or health or housing. The genocidal, neo-fascist prison industry has been built on the back of African labor and is a major economic sector within US capitalism. Rather than focusing on the crises which deepen our oppression and misery, he places his energy into a demeaning attack on a fourth-rate issue. Actually interracial marriage looks like a last-rate issue, if it can be ranked as one at all.

In a community where people struggle to pay bills, anybody with time on their hands to spook up a campaign about who is married to whom wants too much control and threatens to be even more repressive than the present colonial apparatus. This is the problem in places like DR Congo, in the Motherland, where men with guns and armies invent pretexts for waging genocidal, subimperialist wars. These wars really turn out to be non-ethnic based conflicts, contrary to the Western media portrayal of what is going on. It turns out that Nkunda and Musaveni and Kagame and others are fighting each other over the extraction of columbite-tantalum (coltan) to supply SONY and other manufacturers. So Africans must remain extremely wary of all demagoguery and metaphysics.

Secondly, and this shows how low in rank this subject sits as a concrete, definable issue, if a negro man will only be happy with a white woman nobody can force him to be with a black one. In fact, had Clarence Thomas chosen instead a black woman to be his bride, how would that have stopped his role as a shill for Imperialism? Colin Powell is happily married to a black woman, and his whole career as a military man has involved massacreing poor populations in places such as Vietnam, Grenada, Haiti, Panama, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Mobutu Sese Seko had a black wife and was one of Africa’s worst bloodsuckers. Look again at Musaveni, Kagame and Nkunda, all parasitic excrescences on the body of African people. On the face of it, Sara Seti's argument so far proves not only fallacious but woefully inadequate in logic and reasoning.

The person with black parents and other family members, who must commit national suicide by waging a political struggle that takes place below the belt, will not be persuaded by the brother's argument. You may befriend any number of young people inclined to cross the tracks in search of their life mate. Talk to those who have filled themselves with African self-hate and loathing, who despise their nappy hair and dark skin and big lips. Poll them and see how many will heed his advice. You might also want to ask those white women and men who love African people to stay with their own, to leave us alone, we don't want their friendship and love. Let them kno we prefer hate and racism and Jim Crow and slavery to friendship and comradeship and solidarity. We are all okay. We don't need allies in our struggle. Tell them we need racial purity, racial cleansing, and then we will be perfect. I don't think that will fly, Hitler.

Finally, Sara Seti's line of reasoning peals faulty on the issue of who will carry out his campaign for cleansing bedroom politics. The whole idea just fills empty matter between peoples ears. 'Who will join the revolutionary crusade to patrol black America's bedrooms to end this filth! Who will bell the cat of interracial marriage, interracial sex, and interracial children!'

Sara Seti is not only demagogic, he has no idea of revolutionary thought. In fact, whatever literature he has read, if any, has led him in the wrong direction. It may not be his fault, as it may not have been the fault of Jonas Savimbi that he twisted against the Angolan Revolution and brought in the apartheid-era South African Defense Force to help him occupy Cuito Cuanavale. However, that was not the concern of the Angolan people, who had a duty to defend their country and their revolution against counterrevolutionaries. For that reason, they rose up as a nation, with allies from many revolutionary formations, to defeat the interlopers. I hope that Sara Seti does not permit his demagoguery to lead him one step further in dictating what African people must do, because he sets a trifling example.

Frantz Fanon, one of the greatest revolutionary thinkers of any period, married a French woman. Cheikh Anta Diop married a French woman. Amilcar Cabral had married a Portuguese woman, tho Cabral went on to become one of the revolutionary giants of the African liberation movement. So let us dispense with this notion that what goes on in the bedroom somehow has something to do with how a man or woman tends to look at the world and deal with it. Sara Seti and others involved in promoting the color theory of racist confrontation, instead of the scientific, class theory of racism, may hope to throw these brothers under the bus but in that case will find themselves in that unfortunate position instead. Seti's vid proves there is an ocean of difference between a rant and a theory.

Our efforts are better suited towards understanding the objective conditions which shape social trends, and then knowing and applying proven methods for changing society thru the historical process of revolutionary activity. We had best study the successful struggles against racist oppression made in Vietnam, Algeria, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. While we kno how these efforts were carried out on the battlefield, there were also necessary ideological and political components which shaped those revolutions along humanitarian lines. If American society someday begins to look like the populations of Puerto Rico and Brazil, where many people are blended with Caucasian, Indio and African peoples, that is not the contradiction. The class contradiction which gives expression to racism will continue to exist and racism will continue to be exported the way it is with Africans here being lulled into a type of comfort zone because of their personal relationships with the oppressor society. Peace and Revolution.

See Sara Seti's vid