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."
Obviously the good professor was educated way beyond his intelligence.
If you are not black ... you are racist no matter what you think do or say.
More proof that liberalism is a mental illness.
“If you are not black ... you are racist no matter what you think do or say.”
Which is why it shouldn’t bother you.
Can they spell “Liberia”?
I am sure he has an exception for basketball.
Average IQ in that community is 85.
But the professor falls short of that mark.
Using this logic, giving any further form of reparations to blacks is a deadly insult.
He obviously didn't think this through.
If you want to carry it to this extreme - then having a positive self image is racist. Feeling good about your achievements? Racist.
Thanking God that you’re not some hoodrat in the ghetto? Extreme Racism.
And when you add in the fact that you were born a white person: RADICAL EXTREMELY BIGOTED HATE FILL RACIST.
(Yawn)
So I’m considered a racist. So what.
This turd is pushing a divisive and controversial agenda to sell books. He’s more racists than most he accuses.
Americans are bigger than Asians (Generally and statistically speaking). THAT’S RACIST, according to the clown behind this crap. The actual fact or intent should not get in the way of how something could be construed, interpreted or taken by an offended minority population or individual. No sir!
Racism is whatever a minority person wants it to be and can change for any situation.
Talk about ironic coming from a black professor. I’m assuming he only “educates’ white people because wanting black people to be educated is racist and all.
“And the god’s of the Copybook headings with terror and slaughter return.”
Another entitlement class/affirmative action/race-norming success story.
Senility, then dementia and now full-blown Alzheimer’s.
Why don’t idiots like this one (and there are many) shut up about negroes and the need to shove them into colleges regardless of the fact that many possess and IQ that seldom passes the 100 mark.
Eliminate central socialist government welfare thereby allowing the states to take care of the truly needy. Allow states to commit the mostly insane street people to state asylums where they can eat, bath and have a warm place to use the toilet. These unfortunates are insane! They don’t belong on the streets pushing Walmart grocery carts with their possessions.
But then, as usual, I digress.
Phony professors like this phony intellectual must never be tenured; rather, they should be probationary and then canned whenever they mumble or write something as stupid as this.
Let all Americans alone. Slash the central socialist government by, say, 75 percent.
Cut the federal income tax so that the rate is far below whatever taxes, if any, the individual states assess.
There will be plenty of jobs for low IQ Americans. They can tighten nuts and bolts, flip burgers, fill up taco shells with suet, or whatever, and never allow government to set wages.
Kind of reminds you of the wacko general Harry Morgan played (as a guest star during the Wayne Rogers-Mclean Stevenson-Larry Linville era of the program) in the episode “The General Flipped at Dawn”.
We sure as heck should want Black people to get a Job!
What the next step beyond racist?
Blah,blah,blah!
Race,race,race!
Racism,racism,racism !
Blah,blah,blah !
I’m so sick of it.
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I don’t even understand what they’re talking about anymore and won’t waste a minute trying to. It all reads like the Symbionese Liberation Army manifesto. Sorry, but I have no interest in it.
If you need to weep, do it out of sight where we can’t hear you. If you mean violence and revolution to achieve your goals, please understand that the United States of America is already a revolutionary nation and then go look in your own Maoist manifesto to read about what happens to counter-revolutionaries.
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