Rafael Renteria, introduces his essay, “Look in the Mirror, Ward Churchill and White America”, with a defense of Ward Churchill by convicted cop-killer, Mumia Abu Jamal . Posted on 02/27/2005 5:47:26 AM PST by Beckwith
Rafael Renteria, introduces his essay, “Look in the Mirror, Ward Churchill and White America”, with a defense of Ward Churchill by convicted cop-killer, Mumia Abu Jamal .
"It is not enough for us to merely dumbly intone that Churchill has a right to write what he does. No. We must do more. We must insist that Churchill is right, and no one, not some rabid talk show parrot, nor a political whore like Governor Bill Owens, has a right to demand what is wrong, Churchill is right. From Death Row, this is Mumia Abu Jamal."
Renteria then writes, “It's the frontline of a war. Those of us who have not seen our colleagues or mentors purged from the academy can grasp neither the pain of it nor the stakes. Those who are purged are those who dream, for all of us, of a more natural condition, those who have not partaken in the great forgetting of their humanity that characterizes pre-fascist America.”
He continues, “But those of us who have seen it firsthand know the venal face of what America is becoming. I have often joked that those who have never been to jail have no education, no true sense of the meaning of the violence that permeates this culture, like blood seeps through the bandage covering the wound of an Iraqi child.”
Renteria’s negativity soars as he pleads, “I want to speak to you in your isolation, I want you to be in touch with your despair as I speak. I want you to remember what you already know -- the Earth is dying; oil is running out; Iraq is only the first in what will be a series of resource wars, as the impacts of global warming and peak oil cause the infrastructure we call globalization to collapse.”
“I want you to remember that George Bush and 59% of all Americans believe in Armageddon, just the way that we believe in Justice. I want you to remember that there is no time. It may already be too late. I want you to remember these things because it is only at the bottom of our despair it is only by touching that bottom that we can find its exit and emerge again into the possibility of enlightened, meaningful, even spiritual, action.”
“I want you to remember that America kills everyone who could lead it who threatens to lead it - out of its bloodlust, the sleepless remembrances of its genocides and Columbines, its My Lais and Sand Creeks, its Wounded Knees, Fallujahs and Alamos.”
Renteria then kicks into lefty overdrive with the following tirade. “Equality is a word that America hates, so let me say it again -- I am your equal, and I have no regrets. I blow myself up on you. “
He concludes with “One shows an implacable face to the enemy. This is the way of war. They never had any regrets and we, the Mexicans, we, the Palestinians, we, the Afghanis, Iraqis and Iranians, we the Black, we the Red, are the enemy.”
link: http://www.counterpunch.org/renteria02262005.html
Rafael Renteria, a late-seventies KPFT (Houston) news director then known as Richard King, has evidently found his roots and they are cancerous.
Renteria writes a paragraph defending Ward Churchill, the anti-American poseur, liar, fraud and art forger, under the cloak of “academic freedom”. He then rails against the “white man” for 1,400 words in his defense of a white man. For Ward Churchill is no American-Indian, but a Caucasian pretending to be an American-Indian and Renteria knows that.
So why would this fool heap the sins of the world on the “white man” in the defense of a white man? The answer is that Ward Churchill is a brother in the Clan-of-the-Left-Wing-Nuts. Rafael and Ward are fellow-travelers and fellow-haters. If you are white and you hate enough, Rafael will forgive your whiteness.
I would bet that it has never occurred to Rafael that he is all the things he hates. What is this essay but a blanket condemnation of an entire race? That's racism, pure and simple. Renteria’s world-view is that all white people are evil. What does that say about Renteria?
Not only is this guy part of the tin-foil-hat wing of the far-left, but he is a stone racist, exposed by his own writings that are the purest form of bigotry and hatred.
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we the Red, are the enemy.”
He got that part right.
Equality is a word America hates.
Now those are thoughtful comments!
My goodness... just what drug induced state have these people come from?
I can't think of anything more ridiculous than the rants of the left as of late. Rush is right, when these people are out of power they go absolutely nuts.
Very good take, Beckwith.
" He then rails against the “white man” for 1,400 words in his defense of a white man. For Ward Churchill is no American-Indian, but a Caucasian pretending to be an American-Indian and Renteria knows that."
Exactly
Thanks for your service to this Country!
Semper fi!
>>>>>>Renteria then kicks into lefty overdrive with the following tirade. “Equality is a word that America hates, so let me say it again -- I am your equal, and I have no regrets. I blow myself up on you. “<<<<<<<<
This guy isnt my equal , but it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with having Shit for brains.
Anyone who quotes Mumia Abu Jamal, convicted cop killer, has to have shit for brains. Why hasnt Jamal been executed anyway? I dont think there would be any lack of volunteers to pull the switch on him.
The lunacy fueled by hate must be palpable to even the most casual, yet rational observer. We need more like him to come to the forefront – middle America will not tolerate such radicalism – I hope…
Thanks for the warning, Rafael. I now know that if I see you coming, to let you have it before you get near me...
Woo hoo! An endorsement by a dreadlocked, murderer who escaped the hangman only because he's got friends in high places. That will look good on Churchill's resume. Although I doubt that McDonald's will care too much.
I hope he gives out big plastice trash bags to wear.
bttt
Here is the Mumia aka Wesley Cook that these nuts defend:
December 9, 1981: According to court findings and testimony, Officer Daniel Faulkner stops a car in downtown Philadelphia for a routine traffic stop around 3:55 a.m. The car is driven by William Cook, Abu-Jamal's brother. Faulkner requests a police wagon for backup, and then gets into a fight with Cook. Abu-Jamal runs to the scene from a parking lot across the street and shoots Faulkner in the back. While falling, Faulkner fires at Abu-Jamal and shoots him in the chest. Abu-Jamal then stands over Faulkner and fires four more shots, the first entering Faulkner's brain between his eyes. Abu-Jamal then walks several steps away and drops down to the curb. Police arrive within one minute of Faulkner's call for backup, finding Faulkner and Abu-Jamal. Both are taken to Jefferson Hospital. Faulkner is pronounced dead at the hospital. While awaiting treatment, Abu-Jamal is heard to say that "I shot the motherfucker, and I hope the motherfucker dies."
-...I want you to be in touch with your despair as I speak...-
Oh, puh-leez. Another lefty in love with depression, and apparently ("as I speak") with himself.
Can't somebody b*tchslap this guy?
I would bet that it has never occurred to Rafael that he is all the things he hates. What is this essay but a blanket condemnation of an entire race? That's racism, pure and simple. Renteria’s world-view is that all white people are evil. What does that say about Renteria? It says that he is an idiot. Guys like him make it harder for others to understand that most latin people love America. I have always been treated fairly,but that could be because I was willing to work, and stay out of prison! So, thank you Mr. Renteria JACKASS!
"Clan-of-the-Left-Wing-Nuts."
Speaking of which, why the He|| is Donna (the gorilla) Brazile a panelist on Meet the Press? Is she a regular? Is she now considered a journalist instead of a total left wing Rat party operative (like steffysyphilis). It's time to raise hell with ABC if she a regular.
People like this raving left-wing fruitloop are the base of the Democrat Party. Not one word in this article will you read about the well-documented genocide committed by communists. Also, it's difficult to figure out what this self-hating white man's ancestry is when he rants that Hitler was a piker compared to Britain and Spain which "slaughtered 120 million of my ancestors". Rafael Renteria AKA Richard King must fancy himself as an American Indian or a black man.
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