Future Hope Column: Anti-Racism Among the People
By Ted Glick
“It is not enough to be anti-racist on a personal level or even, if you are a white person, to be in active solidarity with the struggles of people of color. Also essential, particularly in this critical election year, is conscious work among other white people who have been so infected with the ideas of white supremacy that they’ll support a white, corrupt, billionaire-loving fascist before they’ll support a Black, Brown or Indigenous, working-class fighter for justice for all. Breaking more white people away from, or beginning to question, MAGA ideology and practice is very strategic in 2026.”
This is from one of these Future Hope columns I wrote in late February, as part of my 21st Century Common Sense series. These tasks for white activists, expanded upon below, are essential if we are to bring about the political, social, economic and cultural change in this world that is not just a good idea but absolutely necessary if human beings as a species are going to survive.
We need to take seriously the ways in which this European and European-American dominated world has impacted each of us on an individual level. We need to work with others to root out of our lives not just the overt but the less obvious, more subtle forms of racism and assumed white supremacy. We need to take time to study about our contaminated history. We need to develop personal relationships with people of color to come to appreciate racism’s destructive effects and to gain the courage needed to stand up to it. We need to become good listeners and deepening thinkers. We need to be trustworthy allies not just when it comes to the tactics of our fight for systemic change but in the way we live our lives.
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Ted Glick has been a progressive activist and organizer since 1968. He is the author of two books, Burglar for Peace and 21st Century Revolution, published in 2020 and 2021 and both available at https://pmpress.org. More info can be found at https://tedglick.com.