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.
That's a pretty convoluted way to say "he speak Ebonics".
blacks are comming race suicide with their “Thug Culture” Gangsta Rap thing, They are having more abortions and murder. When a black man gets someplace he marries a white girl—little by little ending his black race. disease, high blood pressure—over weight problems, diabetes etc.. and drugs are making sure there will be no blacks in the next century. They are destroying themselves.
Another racist sh##head thrown on the bunch
Step Away From The Koolaid
It’s the perfect pose ... For a mental institution.
This is the flower of the Black Liberation Theology/Marxism combine.
Unfortunately for these folks, they are a very unattractive minority and are unlikely to build a following outside those radicals who already support them.
In the end, Black conservatives and centrists will have to stand up against them if they don't want to be alienated from civilized society by the actions of the radicals.
“This is why parents need to be aware of the kind of school they send their kids to..they think they are sending their kids to a nice University where they will be taught good things to be used in Adulthood, instead they are being taught to be Commie freaks”
There is no “nice” Ivy League University. Add Duke, Stanford, Emory, Vanderbilt and the other near Ivies to the list plus many state universities.
I’m still promoting a local, community college education (first two years are required classes so College transfer or a Trade),and keep your college kids at home and commuting those two-three years. A twenty one year old is more mature if you train them, and safer leaving home than a 17 or 18 year old in our society, this isn’t your grandma’s world...it’s dangerous out there.
During Community College, read the books they are required to read, and explain to them the truth. Eat meals together and discuss their lectures and instructors. If they must go to a University for the last two years of a college degree....find a Christian one that actually adheres to the Bible. Get recommendations from students in the workforce who went there, and if the study was relevant to the career and finding a job. Whose money is it?
The Ivy League should be purged from the union.
If the states of New York and all those north and east were purged, America’s problems would be mostly solved
Obviously critical classes if one wishes to become a successful engineer or doctor........./s
White Privilege..... I need to start a clothing line with some catchy slogans:
WP: My Mom and Dad live together
WP: My brother from the same Mother
WP: I only wear Hoodies when it’s cold
WP: My pants fit
Cornell’s resident communist/Nazi, Prof. Russell Rickford, wants white people to jump out of their skin. Maybe if we send him a bucket of fried chicken, he might calm down.
‘dead black bodies in the streets’? They wouldn’t even be in the streets if Arabs hadn’t been in the slave trade business. Arabs sold black slaves to many nations - not just to the West.
The gentle intellect needs to go home to Africa.
Russell John Rickford (born c. 1975) is an American scholar and author. An assistant professor in at the History Department at Cornell University, he has written the only in-depth biography on Betty Shabazz. Rickford is an expert on the black radical tradition and on black liberal culture after World War II,..(emphasis added)
If blacks are going to run the world, whites are well out of it anyway. Who wants to live in Haiti or South Africa writ large? But actually, I don’t think that their new Chinese overlords would go for that anyway.
An average higher IQ amongst whites is considered “white privilege”. But once we’re gone, what will they do about the higher average IQ amongst Asians, who also have a total lack of “white guilt”?
“I don’t feel safe”-yes, I sympathise, as a white female, considering the rape statistics.
Yes, the first time I read his statement, my first thought was that I pray he outlives the rest of us whites, as the last white standing in his black-run paradise. But I don’t think it’s going to turn out quite the way he thinks-there are still the Chinese to contend with, and they are both powerful and have an utter lack of “white guilt”.
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