Posted on 06/14/2020 4:43:55 AM PDT by Candor7
Ping to a very important essay, something like Thomas Paine would write.
Excellent....
Thanks for posting this. Excellent read!
Great Long Read and well worth it!
Thanks for posting this!
“How many black history professors are there at Berkeley? I expect (if this letter is legitimate) the staff knows his identity.”
There are three: https://history.berkeley.edu/people/faculty
“A Brit (or taught to spell by one)?”
Here’s the author of the email: https://history.berkeley.edu/tabitha-kanogo
She was educated in Kenya, which is a from British Colony.
bkmk
“...the permanent claim that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively on the goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is psychologically devastating. No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites...”
Devastating. This man or woman is talking to the wind and knows it. Brilliant and sad.
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Fact or educated guess?
If it is she, then I wonder what the repercussions will be.
Excellent article, no matter who wrote it.
There are plenty of verifiable Black people, possessed of superior intelligence and sharp logical faculties, who are expressing similar concerns in different venues:
The Officer Tatum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSV_vW76yBc
Anthony Brian Logan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnIjgeWl7Mk
Educated guess: She is one of three black professors in the History Department; in the email she spells the word “organization” as “organisation,” which is how the word is spelled in the UK; having received her PhD from the University of Nairobi, she has apparently spent lots of time in Kenya, and may have been born and raised there; and Kenya, as a former UK colony, uses UK English syntax and spelling.
Maybe; but a lot of us (older) American-Americans grew up learning to read in households containing many old books, and with many diverse influences - and we also make those spelling errors.
(I finally got over ‘colour’; but the ‘z’ instead of the ‘s’ still trips me up.)
Its not a spelling error: That’s the way the work is spelled in UK English, which is what she would have learned and used in Kenya. Also, I know several engineers, lawyers, a dentist (mine), and a college professor from Kenya, and they don’t have the same mindset as blacks born and raised in the USA.
I think you missed my point.
Many of us who were born and bred in the US, from generations of Native Americans -
- and I mean ‘native’ in the literal sense, not the politically-correct one (see my handle) -
- grew up writing and spelling words in the old English way. It’s a hard habit to shake, when you learned it from a very young age as you learned to read and spell.
Perhaps this is too complex for you...
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