As a Korean American activist, I have been incredibly dishearted and by the lack of clarity, wisdom and compassion concerning the 10th Anniversary of Sa-I-gu.

Once again the KA voice and a clear accounting of what happened on 4.29 has been marginalized on this issue by a cartload of BS. Rhetoritician extraordinaires like the RCP and others declaring Sa-I-Gu as beautiful and a gain for the revolution.

If you study true revolutionary uprising like ones in Cuba, Korea, Vietnam, Nepal, and Nicaragua. One learns that there were times of chaos and tragically innocents were killed and harmed, but there were also clear tactics, objectives, organization, and an overwhelming desire to liberate and uplift the community.

Did people seize control of Parker Center? Did they occupy city hall? Did they go after the banks or the rich on the westside? Can anyone find any evidence of a communal mindset? No!

The mass looting and destruction were akin to a massive dose of narcotics for the oppressed in LA. A self-destructive,accessible way to unleash their rage, frustration, and desire for liberation. Individual taking of material goods doesn't add up to a communal redistribution of wealth. There is a reason the LAPD didn't do anything in the beginning. Why stop the oppressed from doing themselves in?

When the sense of empowerment and joy quickly faded, ashes, rubble and too many broken lives remained. And this rank capitalist system had its proof to further militarize the streets without an organized, militant people to challenge it. Instead of controlling banks or supermarkets, people of color had to clean up rubble from the streets and identify dead loved ones.

Were their exploitative KA businesses? Yes. Do these work places need to be worker controlled ? Yes. But the majority KA businesses were mom and pop with people just making ends meet.

It was this racist, capitalist system that placed KA's within other communities of colors as merchants. It was the system that created the bankrupt analysis that the KA's were the crux of the problem. The rage and hatred for this system of directed towards us, so as to prevent a true uprising.

Finally the masses of KA's in LA are working class or just climbing above, we have are fucked up problems the we need to solve. Our racist behavior towards other people of color needs to end, but we are also tired of facing racism from whites and other people of color.

White supremacy is the enemy not other people of color. And burning down our communities and dishing out slurs is not going to stop this system. Events like Sa-I-Gu are a fucking poor way to create radical third world unity, which is the only force that can take down this system.

In the early 20 century, when labor struggles were beginning to develop along revolutionary lines, a massive demonstration was held in San Francisco. Tens thousands of workers were rallied against capitalism.

The leaders of the demonstration declared that the capitalist bosses would be destroyed, but first they said, the Chinese must be purged. The Chinese were considered coniving and a parasite on the community.

The demonstration descended on Chinatown and spent three days destroying it and murdering people.

In struggle,

Sa-I-Gu Witness

The author points out the main reason we have not taken back our rightful place in society; why the bosses still control our future and why the left is continuing to be marginalized. We fight the wrong enemies. We look at whitey and say it is all his fault. We develop anarchist of color groups that will not allow white activists in. We continue to work against ourselves. This is a class issue not a race issue. Until we unite against the bosses we will continue to work at odds. Come one. Come all to Fascist Island this Saturday May 4th for a "not in our name" peace walk, to let your bodies act as a human peace sign. Wear your anti-war, pro-palestine message on a white t-shirt and meet at Fashion Island in Newport Beach between Nieman Marcus and Bloomindales. Violent speech or action is not welcome. In solidarity to a world at peace and in love with it's brothers and sisters. Solidarity. tom

This guy Thomas has no idea why the LA Anarchist People of Color group was formed. We don't see the whole problem as being one of race, but of class as well. I think class in the U.S. is very much divided amongst racial lines.

And the reason we chose to make this a space for People of Color is so that we, amongst ourselves, can hash out ideas and problems withint the anarchist movement(amongst other things).....eventually we want to have something open to talk about the general anarchist movement. To say this is exclusionary would be akin to calling a all Womyn's group exclusionary because it excludes men which is RIDICULOUS!!!

-NoChe!

noche makes plain what the above article also points out - that racial divisions are also often class divisions.

the idea that class unity can exist without all participants resolving racism, is naive. class unity is not the same as anti-racism.

anti-racism is a co-requisite to class unity. it's its own thing. it has to be dealt with simultaneously, but you can't fix one problem by focusing only on the other.