White Skin Privilege - A weapon of war.

On December 26, 1969, in Flint Michigan, roughly 300 college students – almost exclusively white – gathered in a run-down dance hall called the Giant Ballroom. The ballroom was located in the heart of one of Flint’s black neighborhoods, and also one of its most violent. A bullet hole in the front door marked the spot where, the night before, a disgruntled patron had fired a shotgun into the hall inadvertently killing a black customer who was there to celebrate Christmas, and was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.[1]

The attendees were members or alumni of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the largest radical movement on university campuses during the 1960s. They had come to attend the last “National Council” meeting of SDS.

The organization’s recently elected leaders, who called themselves the “Weathermen” were billing the event as a “National War Council.” The name was not rhetorical. Their intention was to transform SDS into an underground terrorist army whose mission was to be an “enemy within,” taking up arms against America, in behalf of the non-white peoples of the world whom America allegedly oppressed. They intended to play a key role in the struggle to defeat the global empire of U.S. imperialism, and replace it with a communist state.

Columbia graduate, Mark Rudd, the National Secretary of SDS, described the venue of the gathering in his memoir Underground: My Life With SDS and the Weathermen. “The Detroit collective had decorated the ballroom unlike any other dance hall I’d ever seen. A six-foot cardboard machine gun suspended over the stage set the tone, as did psychedelic portraits of our heroes Fidel, Che, Ho Chi Minh, Lenin, Mao, Malcolm X, and Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panthers.”[2] Cleaver had earned his spot by breaking with the Panther leadership over his call for a shooting war against America starting immediately.

The evening’s speeches began with Weatherman’s queen bee, Bernardine Dohrn issuing a signature call to arms. Dohrn mounted the platform wearing a brown mini-jumpsuit and thigh-high Italian leather boots causing a stir among the tie-dyed, blue jeaned Weather army sitting at her feet. Referring to the date on which the Weathermen had staged a three-day riot in Chicago billed as the “Days of Rage” specifically targeting police, she said “Since October 11th we’ve been wimpy….

“A lot of us,” she went on, “are still honkies [radicals’ derogatory term for whites] and we’re scared of fighting. We have to get into armed struggle.” Dohrn then began to talk about the demented killer Charlie Manson and what she referred to as the “Tate Eight” – a reference to the pregnant actress Sharon Tate, brutally murdered along with seven others, by the Manson gang who, to emphasize their contempt, stabbed her sixteen times, stuck a fork in her pregnant belly and scrawled “Pig” on the front door of the house they were in.[3] The deranged Manson had planned the attack, hoping to join a race war by blacks against whites.[4]

“Dig it!” bellowed Dohrn. “First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!” Then she held up three fingers in a “fork salute,” which immediately caught on with the crowd.[5]

Dohrn was followed to the stage by John Jacobs, known as “J.J.,” a charismatic inspirer of violence and hatred directed against white “Amerikkka,” as the Weathermen preferred to spell the name of their country. “We’re against everything that’s good and decent in honky Amerikkka,” he ranted. “We will loot, and burn, and destroy. We are the incubation of your mother’s nightmares.”[6]

They sounded eerily like Dostoevsky’s Russian revolutionaries as he portrayed them in The Devils (also translated as The Possessed): “We shall proclaim destruction—why? why – well because the idea is so fascinating! But – we must get a little exercise. We’ll have a few fires – we’ll spread a few legends… And the whole earth will resound with the cry: ‘A new and righteous law is coming.’”[7]

Next up was Rudd who joined the nihilistic frenzy ginned up by J.J. and Dohrn. Rudd’s later reflection on what he said, recorded in his memoir Underground, is revealing: “My own madness—possibly to keep up with that of my comrades—slipped out of my mouth as I paced the floor back and forth in front of the assembled troops. ‘We have to be like Captain Ahab, we have to become monomaniacal and take the harpoon of righteousness and kill the white whale of imperialism.’”

Rudd apparently forgot that the white whale was triumphant in Moby Dick. Then he added: “It’s a wonderful feeling to hit a pig. It must be a really wonderful feeling to kill a pig or blow up a building.” [8] In recalling the speech years later, Rudd was mystified at how he could have said what he said. “Where did these words come from?” Rudd asked as though he was not their author.

He answered the question this way: “Posturing alone doesn’t tell the story. They came from my righteous anger—and my grief—over what our country was doing in Vietnam and what the police were doing here at home.” Rudd was a man clinging desperately to his receding humanity, succumbing to the pressure to conform to the “madness” of the moment, but then seeking to justify it.

In fact, Rudd remained permanently uneasy with the criminal, even inhuman hatred displayed by his comrades. Dohrn’s speech particularly shook him as he linked it to the extreme anti-white racism of his comrades: “There were crazy discussions at Flint over whether killing white babies was inherently revolutionary, since all white people are the enemy. Out of this bizarre thinking came Bernardine’s infamous speech praising Charles Manson and his gang’s murder of actress Sharon Tate [and her friends]. The message was that we shit on all your conventional values, you murderers of black revolutionaries and Vietnamese babies. There were no limits now to our politics of transgression.”[9]

Though he recognized the “madness” he had become party to, Rudd never gave up the sanctimony of self-justification – the “righteousness” of what he thought he was doing. For revolutionaries, the end always justifieds the means.

Outside the ideological bubble of the left, however, the Vietnamese Communists were ruthless aggressors who hardly represented the Vietnamese people as a whole, while the Panthers, despite their rhetoric, had little support in the black community because they were a criminal street gang responsible for the murder of a dozen blacks and several police officers, as well as arson, extortion and rape, all of which had put them on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.[10]

While Rudd never left the bubble, the doubts he was experiencing proved to be paralyzing. Because of them, he was only months away from being pushed out of the leadership of Weatherman (the collective name of their army), and then out of the party itself.

Rudd’s dilemma highlighted the problem that had led to the creation of “Weatherman” in the first place. It explains why the National War Council of 1969 and its aftermath are so remote from the massive violent attacks that became a feature of the nation’s landscape half a century later, when hundreds of American cities were attacked by Black Lives Matter radicals, and torched in the wake of George Floyd’s death.[11] Scores and eventually thousands were killed and $7 billion worth of property was either damaged or destroyed.[12]

Even though the 1960s collegiate left condemned American policies in Vietnam and what they believed was America’s treatment of blacks at home, and contemplated killing white babies, the fact was that white middle class students were generally not criminals and did not yet have the stomach for the savage violence that Black Lives Matter unleashed and that revolutionary war demanded.

The problem facing the militant Weathermen was dramatized in the poor attendance at the War Council itself. The previous June, the National Council meeting had attracted 1500 attendees, or about five times the number that showed up for the December event. The decline in support for the new militance of the organization was evidenced in the months leading up to the council. “Earlier that fall” Rudd noted, “an avalanche of chapters had disassociated themselves from the National Office. Others had folded up, their members demoralized by the factional fighting and violence of the past year.”[13]

To explain this drop-off, Rudd singled out the “Days of Rage,” the three-day riot the Weatherman leaders of SDS had staged in Chicago, which they hoped would be a test of their activists’ willingness to provoke an actual combat with police, and had hyped as an event that would deliver a death blow to U.S. imperialism. Instead, Rudd lamented, the event had “killed SDS.”[14]

The Weatherman militants had hoped to attract thousands to the battle in Chicago. But only hundreds showed up willing to risk their lives and take others. Unlike the anti-police rioters fifty years later, who attracted millions to support them, inspired criminal violence that lasted for months and produced a general crime wave in its wake, the revolutionaries of the Sixties were too middle class, too civilized and moral to come anywhere close to matching the destructive achievements of Black Lives Matter and its followers.

Nonetheless, the core of would-be terrorists who attended the Flint War Council did go underground, concealing their comings and goings with safe houses provided by their families and supporters, forging fake identities and disappearing into the urban wilderness, only to surface in acts of violence against police stations and policemen, and symbolic buildings like the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon. A new leader named Billy Ayers -paramour of Bernardine Dohrn and future confidant of Barack Obama – emerged in the Underground and later wrote a memoir, Fugitive Days, in which he described their joy in violence: “Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon. The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.”[15]

There were several thousand bombings in the next few years, many but not all perpetrated by the Weather Underground (as they now described themselves).[16] Fortunately, most of the bombings (but not all) targeted empty buildings, avoiding human casualties. Even the Weather Underground hit a wall when it came to the cold blooded but “righteous” murders they fantasized.

On March 6th, just over two months after the War Council, there had been an explosion in a New York townhouse that leveled the building killing three Weatherman leaders, including 23-year-old Terry Robbins, one of the most violent members of the group. The explosion was the result of three “anti-personnel” bombs they were building – dynamite packed with nails – to detonate at a dance scheduled to be held at Fort Dix for recruits and their dates. The entire Weather leadership, including Ayers, Dohrn, J.J. and Rudd, were aware of the plan and had approved it.[17]

Rudd talked to Robbins a few nights before the explosion. “Terry had told me what his group was planning. ‘We’re going to kill the pigs at a dance at Fort Dix,’ he said.”[18] But their incompetence prevented them from carrying out the plan. After the bomb exploded prematurely, killing three of the bomb-makers who were lovers and friends – the Weather Underground pulled back from the extremes towards which they were pressing, and confined most of their actions to empty buildings.

The event also precipitated Rudd’s exit from the group. Eventually, he wound up a fugitive hiding in Santa Fe, New Mexico, working as a teacher and eventually writing his memoir. In it, he remembered the months preceding the fateful War Council. “Terry and J.J., the two East Coast leaders, sure of where we were going, were providing leadership. In our many meetings in New York City, one or the other would rant, ‘White people are pigs. This whole society has to be brought down. We have got to defeat white skin privilege; we can’t let the Panthers and the Vietnamese bear all the costs.’”[19]

“White skin privilege,” the self-justifying term that crystalized their hatred for “Amerikkka,” had been picked up by Weatherman and promoted within SDS during the year of the War Council. The term was coined by an auto-didact and political communist named Theodore Allen, who had written a book called The Invention of the White Race, and a Harvard lecturer named Noel Ignatiev.[20] It was popularized by a group of radical Harvard academics that included Ignatiev and also Cornel West, a shallow ideologue and Harvard professor known for his theatrics, which had made him famous throughout the academic world. The Harvard radicals were grouped around a magazine called Race Traitor, which bore the motto: “Treason to the White Race is Loyalty to Humanity.” [21]

Six months before the National War Council in Flint, The New York Times reported that the National Office of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was calling “for an all-out fight against ‘white skin privileges.’”[22]

The other indispensable combat term, “pigs,” to describe police and military personnel, and then by extension any adversary perceived to be defending “U.S. imperialism,” was inspired by the Black Panther slogan “Off the pigs!” – a direct incitement to murder cops.

A Weatherman manifesto explained: “…Pigs really are the issue and people will understand this, one way or another. They can have a liberal understanding that pigs are sweaty working-class barbarians who over-react and commit ‘police brutality’ and so shouldn’t be on campus. Or they can understand pigs as the repressive imperialist State doing its job. Our job is … to emphasize that they are our real enemy if we fight that struggle to win. A revolution is a war; when the Movement in this country can defend itself militarily against total repression it will be part of the revolutionary war.”[23]

The indispensable nature of the two derogatory terms to the revolutionary cause is obvious. You can’t eliminate an enemy that you don’t first demonize and hate. “White skin privilege” and “pigs” are racist poisons intended to dehumanize the enemy, erasing him in advance of the actual death blow. The intended result is that there be no counter-productive, paralyzing, guilt. The history of Weatherman shows that even if one is determined enough to dehumanize the enemy, the flesh and blood reality of murder makes delivering the actual death blow for people who are not naturally psycopaths or criminals, difficult.

As isolated as Weatherman and the Panthers were at the time, they were still able to seed the culture and make these poisonous terms a currency in the political left. It took fifty years to grow them into a rhetoric that would permeate the culture itself – that would find currency in the White House and the ruling political party, and among the nation’s intellectual elite led by the New York Times, underwriting an indictment of Amerikkka as a “white supremacist,” “systemically racist nation,” whose oppressor class is defined by its skin color.

These libels justified to millions of supporters, the Black Lives Matter criminal riots, lootings and arsons that followed the death in police custody of a delirious, high on fentanyl, career criminal who had resisted arrest. They also rationalized the coverup – from the White House down – of the greatest eruption of civic violence in American history as a “social justice” movement that was primarily “peaceful.”

There is in fact no systemic racism in America that would justify the months of arsons, lootings and shootings, and “De-Fund the Police” actions demanded by Black Lives Matter’s criminal leaders. If there were “systemic racism” touching “every facet of American life” as Joe Biden proclaimed during his first week as president,[24] the Department of Justice would be launching massive prosecutions of police departments and other institutions for violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which explicitly outlaws systemic racism. There are no such prosecutions – not even in one of the eighteen thousand local police departments in this country – because there is no systemic racism in America.

There is, however, one exception: affirmative action programs in education. These received a specific exemption from the Supreme Court, which promised back in 1978 that they would be temporary. But instead of being temporary this official discrimination not only became a permanent feature of American life but forty years later was escalated as Biden’s “equity” policy – into a massive unconstitutional redistribution of wealth on the basis of skin color.

The vehicle for spreading the poisons that underwrote both the mayhem of 2020 and the anti-white racism that has metastasized like a cancer into the mainstream culture is an educational system subverted and corrupted by anti-American radicals. In the 1970s many of them were pursuing graduate careers in order to avoid the draft. Even so, the transformation did not happen by accident. In that decade, the most popular intellectual figure among leftwing academics was a deceased Italian Communist named Antonio Gramsci.[25] Gramsci wrestled with a problem that had burdened leftists since the First World War: Why had the Marxist proletariat failed to make a revolution? Gramsci not only came up with an answer, he proposed a solution.

According to Gramsci, the answer could be found in the fact that the capitalist ruling class exerts a cultural hegemony over society, which allows it to dominate its culturally diverse population. Through its hegemony, it is able to manipulate the culture of society as a whole – its ideas, beliefs, perceptions, and values, so that the worldview of the ruling class becomes the accepted cultural norm. The industrial proletariat is unable to overcome this disadvantage. Therefore, the revolutionary vanguard must be drawn not from the proletariat but from the intellectuals who deal in ideas, beliefs, perceptions, and values.[26]

Instead of taking over the means of industrial production as the fulcrum for transforming society, as Marx had advised, under Gramsci’s plan the revolution would instead be advanced by taking over the means of cultural production – the universities, churches, philanthropic institutions and media. Having achieved that goal, the radical vanguard would be able to manipulate the ideas, beliefs, perceptions and values of the population as a whole to support its revolutionary goals.

Over the next 50 years, this set of ideas shaped a movement, which succeeded in manipulating the cultural and political institutions that shape the nation’s worldview in behalf of its goal of achieving what Barack Obama called the “fundamental” transformation of the United States of America.[27] Its center was a quiet revolution in the halls of academe. By the turn of the century there were hundreds of “Whiteness Studies” courses in universities across the country, taking their place alongside the ethnic and gender “studies” programs that had been launched at the end of the Sixties. All these other ethnic- and gender-oriented academic fields celebrated their subjects after framing them as victims of white and male oppression. “Whiteness Studies” was the exception. The hundreds of programs were universally devoted to the proposition that “whiteness” was evil and needed to be “abolished.”

The racist perspective of the Whiteness Studies field was summarized by Jeff Hitchcock, executive director of the Center for the Study of White American Culture at the “Third National Conference on Whiteness” held in 1998, in these self-abasing terms: “There is no crime that whiteness has not committed against people of color. There is no crime that we have not committed even against ourselves. . . We must blame whiteness for the continuing patterns today that deny the rights of those outside of whiteness and which damage and pervert the humanity of those of us within it.”[28] A Google search today for “abolition of whiteness” yields over one million results.[29]

Mark Rudd never gave up his anti-American animus when he settled in Santa Fe, but he did become a teacher. Bernardine Dohrn became a law professor at Northwestern University. When Billy Ayers retired as an unrepentant terrorist in the 1980s, he became a lecturer and then a very influential professor of education at Columbia Teachers College where he edited a series of educational guides for K-12 schools, whose titles always began with “Teaching Social Justice” and whose tendentious texts often embraced the most unlikely subjects like mathematics, where the pedagogy was to use body counts in Vietnam for simple arithmetic problems.

Kathy Boudin, who was one of two terrorists to escape the Townhouse where she was part of the bomb building team, went on to join other Weather alumni in the “May 19 Communist Organization,” a support group for the Black Liberation Army. In October 1981 they robbed a Brinks truck, killing one guard and two officers, including the first black hired to the Nyack, NY police force, leaving 9 young children without fathers.[30]

Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert were part of the robbery team, and were tried and sentenced to prison. Their son, Chesa, was raised by their comrades-in-arms, the unrepentant terrorists, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Chesa eventually became one of the radical prosecutors funded by George Soros to dismantle the criminal justice system. His pro-criminal policies quickly led to a record crime wave in San Francisco.[31]

Chesa’s father, David Gilbert, was eventually released from jail because of his prosecutor son’s efforts. His mother Kathy, who had been tried and sentenced to twenty years in prison, was paroled early after years of effort by progressives, and in particular by The New York Times, which falsely portrayed her as a reformed and repentant inmate. On her release she was hired to head a program at the Columbia School of Social Work, where her faculty was entirely composed, in accordance with her wishes, of convicted felons.[32]

The most important aspect of these episodes – and there were many others like them – is the welcome these criminals received from the radicalized faculties and administrators of the schools to which they flocked. One need look no further than the “bias” in the media, the courts, the philanthropic foundations and the Democrat Party apparatus to understand how fashionable and sympathetic a terrorist history and anti-American mentality had become in a university system that fed these same institutions and had effectively purged its conservative voices.....

a passage excerpted from David’s recent book The Radical Mind, published by Humanix Books.

From the article
“Kathy Boudin, who was one of two terrorists to escape the Townhouse where she was part of the bomb building team, went on to join other Weather alumni in the “May 19 Communist Organization,” a support group for the Black Liberation Army. In October 1981 they robbed a Brinks truck, killing one guard and two officers, including the first black hired to the Nyack, NY police force, leaving 9 young children without fathers.[30]

Think of the maternal Bernadine Dohrn “ raising” Chesa .
Think of her as a babysitter for the kids of barack and mike obama.
Think of her as the woman who stole a credit card from a customer at the children’s store where she worked…and used it to rent the car used by the murderous Brink’s robbery team yet was never charged as an accomplice.
Lucky for her she was the daughter of a rich influential capitalist pig and that privilege shielded her from justice for being a domestic terrorist. Just like most of the radical red diaper babies from wealthy liberal dynasties.

Somewhere out of the military, there are a group of special ops veterans, waiting to strike at the heart of the elites, their families and interests. They will be labled far right, but their target is the far left. As they say, all is fair in love and war.

If trump is elected, we will not have defeated anything. This doesn’ end until one side or the other no longer exists. Satan won’t allow anything else to happen.

The blunt and perverse truth is that if the conservative population were to survive an all out civil war in America, Satan would still be overjoyed from the all out carnage that took place.

Either way Satan wins. Until Jesus has had enough.

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