Greetings Ayinde,

for what it is worth my opposition to babylon, and attempts at its deconstruction is not based upon some sort of crusading effort to 'save' black people, but upon my own own personal perspective of its evil and downpression of all peoples, even those who supposedly benefit from it.

The fact that this may have other potential benefits for other people would be best categorised as a fortunate side effect. In short, i choose to fight my own battles for my own reasons, though i am more than open to advice, reasoning, and criticism from other allied or like minded folks, whoever they are, and wherever they happen to hail from. This, of course, includes black people such as yourself and others, who are far closer to the worst aspects of the dominant world system than myself. You will always know more about the racist aspects of babylon than i will, in the same way that a woman will know more about its sexist aspects than either of us. As to the absolute necessity of taking advice from black people, well i agree, though this would still require some critical thought on my own part as there would appear to be no more consistency about where we are headed among black folk than there is amongst anyone else.

I would also needto be informed by women, the old, the poor, asian people, in fact anyone who babylon disempowers. For me that is what babylon is fundamentally about, power, which manifests itself in the form of things like racism, sexism, and religous, social, and economic discrimination. And to paraphrase Sun Tzu, it pays to know that which you are fighting for, and against as well as you can.

In fact this intent is a large part of my motivation for reasoning here... and else where for that matter.

love and life
paul