Posted on 04/18/2016 8:46:37 AM PDT by rightistight
In his new book, "Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America," Professor Ibram X. Kendi argues that "almost everyone is some kind of racist." This includes people who though that African Americans should get an education.
Kendi, a Professor of History at the University of Florida, argues that people can be both overtly and covertly racist. His definition of racist is "any concept that regards one racial group as inferior or superior to another racial group in any way."
However, this includes people like William Lloyd Garrison, who advocated for social justice for black people and an end to slavery in the 1800s.
Garrison wrote that the enslavement of African Americans had caused them socioeconomic damage, but their intelligence and morality stayed uncorrupted. "Nothing has been left undone to cripple their intellects, darken their minds, debase their moral nature, obliterate all traces of their relationship to mankind," Garrison wrote.
To alleviate the damage done to them by slavery, however, Garrison believed that black people should have "educational development," in order to learn things that they were barred from while slaves. "Racist," Kendi says of Garrison.
According to Kendi, Garrison's assertion is racist because "he still accepted even temporary racial inferiority, to be remedied with education or other kindly forms of social uplift."
Kendi also argues in his book that asking black people to help end racism is racist in itself, as it is white people who need end racism. The Cosby Show, for example, was racist because it attempted to "redeem the Black family in the eyes of White America."
Even Barack Obama is a racist, according to Professor Kendi, because President Obama blamed racism equally on black and white people. "Obama ended up following in the racist footsteps of every president since Richard Nixon," he explains, "legitimizing racist resentments, saying those resentments were not racist, and redirecting those resentments toward political opponents."
The court case that ended segregation was "marred by racism" as well. Kendi writes that Chief Justice Earl Warren "essentially offered a racist opinion in this landmark case: separate Black educational facilities were inherently unequal and inferior because Black students were not being exposed to White students."
Oh ... it doesn’t ... I admit it proudly ... I’m a racist
For example:
Q: What culture or group is ‘superior’ at mindless brutality in a war situation?
A: Arabs in the ME...
It doesn't mean people living in Finland or Iceland aren't capable of mindless brutality, but they're clearly naturally inferior in that area.
There's thousands of examples...
The most beautiful rugs come out of the ME which means African rugs are inferior...
So what?
That must be a short book, easy read .
They just want everything to be racist, so they can play the race card.
Why think about anything? Play the race card.
Why work hard? White people work hard. Play the race card.
Why better myself, I am fine the way I am, fool. Now let me play the race card.
Is he a muslim? His name would indicate so.
His logic and method of thought only makes sense if you add the word “Muslim” in front of the word “black” every time he says it. He is speaking about the necessity for Muslim (black) domination and rule.
Do that, and you can identify his thought processes.
Kendi is racist.
Hardly. They pass laws that fortifies this crap. This is why blacks feel nothing to attack whites.
You dont just ignore it because at some point you will be unable to.
According to the black profs (and assorted black journalists, politicians, and rabble-rousers) Evil Whitey is that evil, nasty, racist thing that just continues to keep black people down. Melville's Moby Dick, even as it brought Ahab to his doom, was a fictional whale.
And while there are real, white racists, Evil Whitey in general does not exist and does not keep black people down. But the black profs keep on chasing Evil Whitey thinking that if they finally catch Evil Whitey, all black problems will cease.
This clown is not a real professor.
He is a semi literate dork who would fail New York’s old Regents Exam required for a high school diploma.
This tells much about quotas and the academic standards of the so called universities that go along.
He also embarrasses the blacks out there who actually took classes requiring a college level IQ.
And pray tell, how are we evil white folk supposed to do that?
Slave owners weren’t too keen on their slaves getting educated either. Same concept, different plantation.
Teaching social "sciences" doesn't count, since you aren't actually educating them.
[[University of Florida Professor: Wanting Black People to Get an Education is “Racist”]]
soooo what is he saying? Ban black people from attending colleges and schools in order to avoid racism?
Would sharing water fountains, rester aunts and bathrooms be considered racist too to this professor? Would giving black folks jobs also be considered racist to him?
What kind of twisted sick logic would claim that wanting black folks, to be educated, so that they could enjoy the same privileges white folks were enjoying, and which was illegal for them to enjoy at the time, is a form of racism?
Wow! Just wow!
I can’t remember the exact quote but it’s something about black leaders who promote hate in order to fill their own pockets,
In other words, he is saying that racism is actually a good thing.
I guess this means the folks who run the United Negro College Fund are a bunch of racists.
i do not think one racial group is superior or inferior to another. i do think a cultural group can be depending on the culture. urban ghetto culture is inferior to WASP culture regardless of the race of the individuals.
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