The RC Community and the Working Class
Not long ago, Dan Nickerson (the International Liberation Reference Person for Working-Class People) asked each member of a working-class panel what the RC Community would look like if the working class were well represented. My immediate response was “no pretense.” Someone said that RC would be more accessible.
The following questions come to mind:
Which RC Communities have an increasing number of working-class, raised-poor, and Global Majority and Indigenous (GMI)* people? What have they done differently to make this happen? [* The peoples of Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands, and South, Central, and Caribbean America, and Indigenous people, are over eighty percent of the global population. These people also occupy most of the global land mass. Using the term “Global Majority and Indigenous (GMI)” for these people acknowledges their majority status in the world and interrupts how the dominant (U.S. and European) culture assigns them a minority status. Many Global Majority and Indigenous people living in dominant-culture countries have been assimilated into the dominant culture—by force, in order to survive, in seeking a better life for themselves and their families, or in pursuing the economic, political, or other inclusion of their communities. Calling these people “Global Majority and Indigenous” contradicts the assimilation.]
Have some rigidities held back our growth? Which ones have presented the biggest obstacles?
What questions would you ask to move us forward?
Albany, New York, USA
Reprinted from the e-mail discussion list for RC Community members
(Present Time 206, January 2022)