Posted on 12/05/2014 9:10:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
•Prof. Russell Rickford says capitalism and white supremacy are responsible for the police brutality toward brown, black, and poor people.
•The professor claims 'dead black bodies in the street is a sacrifice America makes to the gods of white supremacy.'
An assistant professor at Cornell University (CU) told white students they must commit race suicide and reject the inherent privilege of their skin color to move past the events in Ferguson.
Russell Rickford, an assistant professor specializing in black radical tradition and black political culture after WWII, discussed the events surrounding Ferguson, Mo. to a packed auditorium of students on Wednesday. Casey Breznick and the staff of Cornell’s conservative student paper, The Cornell Review, videotaped the event, titled “Ferguson: The Next Steps”
“There’s still a slender minority of white folks, a very slender, but a slender minority of white folks, that are ready to commit race suicide,” says Rickford, nearing the end of his speech. “Which is to say, they are ready to reject corrupt skin privileges. They’re ready to perform treason to whiteness, as an expression of their loyalty to humanity.”
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Up to that point, Rickford had primarily spoken on the country’s treatment of minorities and the poor, and how police were “mercenaries for the corporations and the rich.”
“We attempt to negotiate with a system that has demonstrated time and time again its utter disdain for the sanctity of black lives,” Rickford declares at 8:32. “Not only its disdain, but its deep commitment to the slaughtering of black and brown people.
“Let’s be very clear about what is going on. One every 28 hours, dead black bodies in the street is a sacrifice America makes to the gods of white supremacy. Yet, the petite bourgeoisie, including black and brown folks stands [sic] on the sidelines mumbling, asking white supremacy to please crack fewer hits.”
Rickford believes that America’s disciplinary tactics for those who practice their “human right to revolt against fascism,” as he claims relevant in the Ferguson case, is repressive to the poor and those with black or brown skin.
“The propertied classes leverage state violence to discipline, repress, and contain them. America fears and despises all poor people,” Rickford says at the 10:07 mark in the video. “But it reserves a special hatred, a distinctive form of violence for poor black and brown people. Poor black and brown people are the primary victims of American capitalism but they are not just victims. Many of the people who have taken to the streets in Ferguson for example, are exercising their human right to revolt against fascism.”
Rickford also argued that “white supremacy as a system is inextricable from the system of capitalism, imperialism, militarism, and the systems of the carceral-state mass imprisonments,” and rallied students to stand up to America’s corrupt authoritarian regime.
“The statement ‘[expletive] the police’ is one of the most astute, honest and meaningful responses to the events in Ferguson,” the professor says at 12:11. “[expletive] authoritarianism and white supremacy. This is uncompromising politics, the politics of resistance.”
The professor continued to refer to the police as terrorists.
“We’re charging genocide. We’re charging genocide,” Rickford says a few minutes later. “This is a question of human rights….when you cannot walk down the street as a black person without the threat of being attacked by terrorists, that’s a violation of your humanity, that’s a violation of human rights. You’re being treated as subhuman. And you know that Darren Wilson said of Mike Brown, ‘it looked like a demon.’”
Campus Reform spoke to Breznick, the editor-in-chief of the Cornell Review, regarding the event.
“I disagree with everything he says, but I'm trying now to understand what he is saying. The thing you have to know about Rickford and his ilk is that they are operating within a totally different paradigm of thought,” Breznick wrote in an email response to Campus Reform. “They view the world in terms of race and class.
“There is no individual. Notions like self-improvement, self-reliance, and individual rights are nonexistent to them. It's truly frightening, how they've co-opted the liberties and rights this country affords them to turn against that very country and those liberties and rights.”
Professor Rickford has a history of being controversial. In January, he claimed that Martin Luther King Day was a far-right imperialist holiday and led students at a “ Stop Police Brutality” protest this past September.
Rickford did not respond to Campus Reform’s request for comment.
Yep, this guy is an idiot.
Killing each other by the bushel on the streets and abortion by the 10’s of thousands a year doesn’t factor into this idiot’s delusional musings I’ll wager. Not when you have a “boogeyman” called Whitey.
Talk about a self-perpetuated genocide.
He’s racist.
“Zippadee doo dah, zippadee day, my oh my what a wonderful day!”
I saw that guy in a Disney film with a bluebird on his shoulder.
The communists have been race hustlers long before now. Stirring up racial hatred is one of their specialties. They make the KKK look amateurish.
Maybe this fight needs to be taken to the literal doorstep of these ignorant, incendiary academics. Just putting it out there, for purely academic discussion.
Depending on which one, you might not be safe there, either. I speak as one of the very few conservative educators, with 25 years experience (Secondary) in the 4th largest school district in the nation. Even the most conservative schools usually have at least one token liberal or a bunch of libtards still in the closet who just want a job. There is always a way to inject your political ideology into the classroom. I see it all the time.
Trust me, I know. My cousin went to a “Christian” college, and he’s come out not only liberalized, but agnostic (perhaps atheist) with a degree in philosophy.
The rest of us are arming up, Perfessor. Who do ya' think is buying all the guns and ammo?
Do the math, it ain't that hard.
I have some 30.06 168gr Hornady moly-coated boattail hollowpoints with 54gr IMR 4350 for anyone who thinks I’m ready to commit “race suicide”. No shortage of .223, .45ACP or 00buck either.
This is the same template that South African Communists used to defeat apartheid. Nelson Mandela was a member of the South African Communist Party’s central executive committee. Communist subversives know the race strategy plays on the strong human emotion of envy and the promise of wealth redistribution.
Is America a black majority nation like South Africa?
He's mighty confused.
Capitalism?
Socialism and Fascist Marxism have done to to “his” people and it is the Leftists in this country, Not the Ted Cruz right!
Slap the boy upside da head.
The people who will listen to this moo poopoo are leftist loons, Democrats. Any kind of suicide that will take them out of the political equation is a good thing. Perhaps in committing white suicide, they can move into inner-city, black neighborhoods, where they will be beaten, mugged, raped and killed, martyrs for a worthless cause.
I wish it were ZERO - instead it’s well into negative territory.
This is another reason I’m not paying for my kid’s tuition. They’ll be taking responsibility into their own hands and I’m not going to pave their way so they can remain naive idealistic idiots. It’ll teach them to appreciate their learning experience and take responsibility for it.
Here’s his “bio.” I guess he’s one “Rev.” Jim Jones missed with his cyanide laced coolaide.
Born in Guyana, Rickford grew up in Palo Alto, California.[2] His mother, Angela E. Rickford, is a professor of Special Education at San Jose State University[3] and the author of I Can Fly: Teaching Narratives and Reading Comprehension to African Americans and other Ethnic Minority Students.[4] His father, John R. Rickford, an authority on African American Vernacular English and the author of numerous books and scholarly articles, teaches linguistics at Stanford University.[2] Russell Rickford attended Gunn High School in Palo Alto and won a National Merit Scholarship.[2][5]
He went on to study journalism at Howard University, where he also served as Alpha Phi Alpha president for two years and wrote for The Hilltop.[6] Rickford earned his bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in 1997.[2][6]
This guy has NO sense of unintended irony. None whatsoever.
And that is symptomatic of total indoctrination, weak personality and a closed mind. It must SUCK to be Russell Rickford.
But here’s what sucks even more: to know that this weak-minded reprobate is getting paid big bucks to indoctrinate the offspring of Americans. What an utter waste of resources.
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