The Sojourner Truth Organization: Notes Toward a History

Ah, white Skin privilege.  Years before I ever heard of the Sojourner Truth Organization, I had heard this term, perhaps initially in some sort of workshop for white people confronting racism.  By the time I graduated from college, I was familiar with the journal Race Traitor, whose primary editor I knew was Noel Ignatiev.  By the time I met Noel in person a year or two later, I was just becoming aware of the past existence of STO.  All of this is fitting, in a way, because probably the single greatest legacy of STO to the white left of the last two decades has been precisely the notion that people who are socially designated as white have specific privileges as a result. (more…)