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Of course the pressure that is generated by the desire for integration is fundamentally opposite to the pressure that is generated for liberation, for revolutionary reordering of society.
Integration simply seeks a stable state of intercultural relations within the nation, once subjugation is no longer feasible. (Dear Republicans: SUBJUGATION IS NO LONGER FEASIBLE. IT AIN’T HAPPENING.)
Liberation not only embraces but CREATES instability for the sake of a better future. Liberatory movements and integrationist movements are temporary allies of convenience.
Insofar as we were debating, in 2014, what Obama’s response to murdered black children should be—and by extent the response of the US federal government—we were not debating liberation but merely the terms of integration.
And the terms of integration make life better for black people, for brown people, for poor people, for queer people, for women, for Asian people, for not-cis people, for minorities and underprivileged people. But terms of integration ain’t ending oppression.
And I think most people exist in between wanting to negotiate better terms of integration and wanting a radical end to oppression. Personally—what I want is the most aggressive, radical terms of integration we can possibly manage, with as much space for liberation as possible.
But still, that’s very different than liberation. Anyway, we’ve got a lot of social movements in America that gain their force from changing material circumstances.
And I’m still trying to think though how we harness that energy for social change vs how we use the growing power of marginalized people towards revolutionary ends. I don’t know. I really, really, really don’t know.
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