Randall Robinson, the godfather of the reparations movement
and uncritical embrace of Fidel Castro’s dictatorship.
Such conservative black scholars as John McWhorter, Shelby Steele and Thomas Sowell have no place in Robinson’s world. Indeed, he seethes with hatred for Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell. “As for the two of them (Bush appointees) that are ours,” he writes, “I am all the more ashamed…They are killers, remote perhaps, but killers nevertheless, like all the others, but more cowardly than the ordinary street types.” Powell, in particular, receives the harshest rebuke. He is, according to Robinson, a “Ronald Reagan rectal success of a conscience-dead black man.”
Robinson does not just hate America, though; he also viscerally hates white people. Whites and “white countries” (he would lump the multi-racial United States into this category) are of no use to blacks. He insists, “the mere contact with whites invariably…has produced for us all [black people] one plague or another: slavery, colonialism, plunder, conquest, massacre, economic globalization, culture transplantation.” White people, wherever they are, pose a mortal threat to civilized and humane values. “Western whites,” fumes Robinson, “once well inside the place of another’s different, less pugnacious, more welcoming culture, destroy it, root and branch. For inexplicable reasons, they are seemingly constrained by some aberrant force of nature to disparage all culture, all history, all religion, all memory, all faces, all life not theirs.” Nonetheless, he asserts it is the whites who are racist, not him. “Whites don’t give a sh-t what we think,” he proclaims. “Never did. Never will.” Whites are, in sum, “little more than upper primates,” exactly the kind of gutter language the Ku Klux Klan uses in regard to blacks. Unlike the Klan, Robinson gets rave reviews in the New York Times.
"the mere contact with whites invariably…has produced for us all [black people] one plague or another: slavery, colonialism, plunder, conquest, massacre, economic globalization, culture transplantation.”
That's our guy! (Funny, but surely slavery, conquest, massacres existed amongst blacks before they came into contact with whites.)
You are a machine, KCVL. Just amazing.
Man, you and David Horowitz wrote exactly the same thing. That's some coincidence.
Nonetheless, he asserts it is the whites who are racist, not him. “Whites don’t give a sh-t what we think,” he proclaims.
Well he is right about one thing; I don't give a sh-t what he thinks.
" White people, wherever they are, pose a mortal threat to civilized and humane values."
Yea, there's some fine human values goin' on over in Africa...
Not.