As a general rule, an identity group is understood to have political demands insofar as it can address the state with the claim to have been injured on the basis of its identity, and demand redress for those injuries. According to this logic, the challenge to the hegemony of the white ruling class by social movements is the same injury as that experienced by white residents of poor rust-belt towns who are unable to afford basic necessities of life [...] if poor whites were to decide that they rejected the white identity, if they refused to identify with the white ruling class, the national-popular bloc at the foundation of Trump's strategy would be undermined.

What is instead necessary is a far more difficult task: to reject the assumption that movements against racial oppression can be effectively understood in terms of the category of identity. When the ruling class encourages us to reduce the struggle against racial oppression to the ultimately individual demand to redress an identity-based injury, this is not a milder version of the collective struggles of the past: it is their neutralisation.