We must overcome the colonial denial

Wallerstein versus the woke

     If we want to overcome racism in the nation, we have to do it in the right way.  The anti-racism ideology distorts contemporary reality through the selection of facts and data, ignoring inconvenient yet available and relevant facts/data.  And the anti-racism ideology has a very limited understanding of history of the nation and the world, and thus it is disseminating among our people a superficial and partial understanding (see previous commentaries).  This is not the right way.  Our people have to be educated in accordance with a historical and analytically accurate understanding of our nation and the world.  Moreover, as a matter of strategy, rather than accusing people of racism or some other social sin, we ought to focus on understanding and changing the structures that are the legacy of the colonial foundations of the contemporary world order.  Because racism, like all dimensions of our social reality, is rooted in colonialism.

       Anti-racism ideology is influenced by phi…