White Anti-Racist Community Action Network (WACAN) is an antiracist
cult run by
a breakaway Rutgers college sociology department. It is what
happens when a sociology department and it's social service bureaucracy
exceed its allotted space and usefullness on a campus. WACAN is a
subsidiary of the corporation called Center for the Study of White
American Culture, Inc. or ominously "The Center" hosted at http://www.euroamerican.org
and
physically at 245 West 4th Avenue
Roselle, NJ 07203 Phone:
(908) 241-5439 Fax: (908) 245-4972.
Email: contact@euroamerican.org.
The staff includes: Sandra
Bernabei secretary (a 12 stepper guru), Mathilda Catarina treasurer
(multicultural educator), Charley Flint (female) president
(sociologist, black and lesbian issues activist), Jeff Hitchcock exec
director (white hype, nonprofit expert), Robin Parker (male) trustee
(racial sensitivity trainer), and Jorge Zeballos (latino expert/gay
propaganda). Ostensibly the group paves the way for a "white
studies department" which would preempt reactionary organizations from
forming independently on the racially and sexually balkanized leftist
campuses. Premptive groups like WACAN install the imperative to
"white-guilt" at the core of course material. However, the
organization also functions in a cybernetic and off campus medium of
websites, summits, advisory schemes, and fundraisers.
WACAN features quotes wherein white people confess their devilish
racism to black people in order to stop "continuing to benefit from
white privilege guilt-free." WACAN claims to have the right to
"operate an online space in which belligerent and oppositional stances
to our beliefs are not present." In other words, a cult. Their
beliefs, for which all adhering members must be pre-screened, are that
"white people have a responsibility and moral imperative to work
collectively with one another in alliance with people of color" for the
psychological dismantlement of what it believes to be "the white
community." In other words, white people are commanded by
Hegelian historical and Kantian ethical imperatives to form
communes overseen by people of color (the founding members of WACAN and
their agents). The founders weasel out of defining what
constitutes a "white person," leaving it to the prospective mark or sucker to self-label and be
cleansed of his sins over some indeterminate period of time, during
which he will bring new members into the fold of the organization, and
spread its gospel.
WACAN runs as a nonprofit corporation with a dot org website for the
dual purpose of being able to collect monies and to claim immunity from
ridicule by unbelievers.
The finances of the organization are used to draw guest speakers to
"summits." The organization boasts 801 members as of
3/24/06. New converts are encouraged first to participate as
individuals and later on as group leaders. Their organization
scheme is derived from the "People's Institute" which sells the
"Undoing Racism TM" (they
trademarked it) workshop. WACAN cosponsors the White Anti-Racist
Summit, also called the White Privilege Conference. In this
version of the "pay me for slavery" street con, individual white people
are charged from $150 to $285 to attend a conference in which
white-guilt will be used to grow the organization. The con is not directly related to a
known legitimate reparations movement by a registered PAC with an
actual address and having expenses related to facilitating passage of
law.
WACAN administrators require that all members agree with their beliefs
and supply true names and email addresses. However,
administrators routinely supply discussion threads anonymously,
creating an identity power differential within the organization.
Unnamed Admin, a person suspected to be Jeff or Charley anonymously
outnumbers member postings 43 to 1. Jeff Hitchcock posts 126 to 1, thus
being the most vocal arbiter of discussion. A Jon Raddatz has
also has 207 posts and Joyce D 66 posts. The rest post zero to
three comments.
WACAN admins idolize Time Wise, Judith Katz, Noel Ignatiev and other
writers of the lefty race-porn circuit.
Belief
Structure of Identity:
Based on a poll taken on 5/8/2005, 45.83% of members polled believe
that they should call themselves "white anti-racists." 16.67 percent
said "anti-racist whites." 20.83 percent said just
"anti-racists." 16.67 percent said "other," and 0% said "human
beings." Thus the majority of members believe that it is
especially significant that they are white
and anti-racist. This
means that they have the crusader mentality and have joined a body
which validates a sublimated form of whiteness, that being corrected whiteness, or mortified whiteness. "White"
anti-racist indicates that they have been converted from within the
"white community." They dislike "colorblind" or rearguard
anti-racists of the early 1990s, and instead view themselves as a
radical and subversive organization. Of major concern to WACAN is
altering the structure of the family unit to cleanse out perceived
racist attitudes which generally include failure to take a militant
stance against "whiteness." The organization is also concerned
with gerrymandering the seating arrangements of the members' privately
observed Thanksgiving holidays. The cult's official position on
Columbus Day is to either ban it, steal it, or otherwise act a
distracting fool during that holiday. Thus the group has an
anti-holiday agenda symptomatic of cults.
A cursory study of the 40 Massachusetts members include several
Unitarian Universalists, a "Holocaust Studies" minor, a Trekkie
Spiritualist, A PTSD lecturer and self-described "witnesser," a psych
professor/empath, a windbag lingust, members of Boston Anarchists, JP
Sluggers, the bicycle cult Boston Critical Mass, a "critical race
theorist" from UMASS, numerous college course planners and social
workers, an Interior Decorator, outreach facilitators, transsexuals,
vegans, earth cultists and folk singers. There is perhaps one
black member, making this largely a milk bubble phenomenon.
