This is Professor Leonard. No, I'm not kidding.
Posted on 04/10/2012 7:51:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
David Leonard has spent years fighting racism and White privilege--and he's ready for his Caucasian brethren to get on board and see just how wrong things still are in this country.
Dear White folks:
Between the racist comments, the constant use of the race denial card (this country's most frequently used "race card") and the absurd claims of White victimhood, you have really grated my last nerve.
Sure, we got teary during The Blind Side and Antoine Fisher; we maybe even gave money to KONY2012 and after Hurricane Katrina; we maybe even donned a hoodie to protest the murder of Trayvon Martin. I don’t even doubt there are individuals out there who are genuinely concerned about racism and injustice; I don’t doubt that there are many Whites that marched with Dr. King and whose “best friends” might be Black. None of this matters if African Americans continue to die at the hands of guns held by security guards and police officers all without justice.
I have heard that “we are all Trayvon Martin” over the last few weeks, yet we are not Trayvon Martin – and we never could be. White America is never suspicious. White America can walk to the store without fear of being hunted down. White America can count on justice and a nation grieving at the loss of White life. We aren't Trayvon Martin, we are George Zimmerman: presumed innocent until proven innocent.
I want you to close your eyes for a second, and imagine that your son or daughter, sister or brother, granddaughter or grandson, ventured to the corner store for some Skittles and tea but never returned? Can you imagine if Peter or Jan were gunned down right around the corner from your house and the police didn’t notify you right away? Can you imagine if little Sydney or Bobby sat in the morgue for days as you searched to find out what happened them? Can you even imagine the police letting the perpetrator go or the news media remaining silent? Can you even fathom learning about background and drug tests on your child? Can you imagine the news media demonizing your child, blaming your child for his own death?
Can you imagine the outcry if seven White youths had been gunned down by police and security guards in a matter of months? Can you imagine the extensive political interest, the media stories that would saturate the airwaves? Can you imagine Fox News or any number of newspapers reporting about a school suspension for one of the victims or doctoring pictures in an attempt to make these victims less sympathetic? Can you imagine a person holding up a sign calling these victims “thugs” and “hoodlums.”Just think about the media frenzy, the concern from politicians, and the national horror every time a school shooting happens in Suburbia or every time a White woman goes missing...can you imagine if women routinely went missing from your community and the news and police department simply couldn't be bothered?
No, you can't. And you don't have to.
Yet, from Florida to Los Angeles, from Atlanta to Wisconsin, from Chicago to Ohio, Black families are burying the innocent and the future. Doesn’t that make you sad; doesn’t that make your angry? Our silence is telling. We can barely say their names much less acknowledge the epidemic in our midst: Stephon Watts. Trayvon Martin. Ramarley Graham. Wendell Allen. Dante Price. Bo Morrison. Rekia Boyd. Kendrec McDade.
All have lost their lives; and we don’t even say their names. All have died under similarly disturbing circumstances. All should have prompted national outrage and action; or at the least for us to say their names.
I don’t care if you cried during The Help and if the 'feel good' movie of the year featuring chicken-frying maids and affluent White women made you feel all post-racial tingly on the inside. Did you cry at the report of yet another lost Black life? If so, what have those tears done – have they led you to join a rally, to demand justice? I don’t care if you voted for President Obama; have you demanded dramatic changes to our criminal (in)justice system? It is time for us to check ourselves, to listen and demand a better America starting with ourselves. It is time to stop denying racism and defending White privilege, distracting and deflecting with “what ifs” and excuses. It is time to demand justice for the Trayvons and the Rekias, not because it could have been one of our sons and daughters--it couldn't--but because it is simply the right thing to do.
Sincerely
A member of White America
Tell that to Channon Christian and Christopher Newsome.
Tell that to the thirteen year old white boy set afire by black teens.
Tell that to all the victims of black on white crime that has been hidden by the media.
Tell that to whites living in neighborhoods that are being taken over by blacks where the crime predictably rises to dangerous levels.
OK, LMBO on that! Well-played.
Glad to see your post. I wish more black Americans would tell their success stories as an inspiration so others can follow their examples.
What the liberals and progressives have done to black Americans is criminal, degrading, retarding, and down-right racist. The ‘New Slavery’ of patronizing and “neo-plantationism”.
This crap is wearing real thin for alot of Americans....black and white. Get rid of the race baiters like Sharpton and Jackson and more than enough guilty whites like this idiot that wrote this article. Blacks have opportunities they could only dream of 45 years ago and alot of people paid the price to see that come about.
When I went to college, my roommate was black. We were great friends. She was one of the few conservatives on campus, and black to boot! Just about every other week we'd get different black groups on campus trying to recruit her to their particular cause. She just wanted them to leave her alone! When I'd answer the door, I'd get skeptical looks, like why would she room with me? We used to chat before going to sleep about how lucky we were because we were put together as roommates randomly as freshman, and we knew so many roommates that didn't get along.
Anyway, one year we did out financial aid forms at the same time and I noticed I had a higher GPA and my parents made less money but she was eligible for more scholarships and aid from the school then I was! She apologized to me. I said it's not your fault.
We had a black-panther like group come by to recruit her and I answered the door. She saw who it was and told them to go away. They saw her army uniform and said “Your rooming with a white person in the army, you are a traitor to your race!” she said that's my uniform, I'm in the reserves. Then the story changed to “The white man is making you serve him to get an education. Whitey (me) didn't have to enlist!” she told them “Whitey here works harder then all of you combined.” And slammed the door on them. We couldn't stop laughing that she had called me Whitey, and I felt bad that people associated her with these groups just because she was black.
He could make a good decoy to use to deflect attention while using an escape route if trapped by an angry rioting mob.
This would also kill two birds with one stone, since he is probably anxious to atone for his years of exploiting people of color with his unconscious white privilege.
:-)
Somebody should create a list of the recent crimes against whites by blacks and send it to this jerk “professor”. I can think of about 5 right now, and they all happened within the last few weeks. I hope this guy gets caught in the heart of Baltimore after midnight and then we’ll see how privileged he is.
David,
if our white child does “not return home” from his job, or from school, or wherever, statistically it’s because he’s been murdered by one of YOUR children or a gang of your children.
We are all too well aware of violence against ourselves by black people. Better shut your mouth about how bad you have it. You are the assholes murdering whites at a far higher rate than whites are murdering your children. Your other black children kill your children 93% of the time a black kid dies.
They do overplay the race card. It winds up backfiring and turns once-sympathetic whites into people like you and me that know what reality actually is.
Really sweetie? I would strongly suggest you look up the statistics on black on white violence. You might want to revise your statement.
Perhaps someday a white British tourist can tour the city without fear of being killed by some black punks.
But not if you have anything to say about it.
This is Professor Leonard. No, I'm not kidding.
Good grief, WSU in Pullman is one of the WHITEST areas in America.
That being said... Hey stupid, George was HISPANIC, not white.
Wow! Those white folks sure have the job descriptions!
“Leonard’s work is linked by its commitment to examining the ways in which racial meaning is constructed, transformed, and challenged across time and space. It focuses on the manner that representations and dominant discourses teach race within the popular imagination. His work also explores narratives and ideologies within a myriad of popular cultural spaces, examining the ways in which media culture becomes a space of contestation, rearticulation, reification, and even resistance. ...........”
Look! A bloodsucking, racist libtard with a pancake on his head!
The only thing worse than some swine of the Sharpton-Jackson variety claiming to represent the black community...is a white douche like this guy or creepy Father Pfleger claiming to represent the black community.
“These idiots are going to get people killed and blame somebody else.”
Well, yeah, that’s their plan.
The Reichstag will burn.
Once upon a time I had a roomy whose job at Universal Studios paid him easily four times what I made. He had a good friend who happened to come over quite often. He was a popular artist whose original paintings routinely fetched 5 figures. Both guys, healthy, good looking, had their pick of the ladies, successful etc...
One thing you could ALWAYS depend on, is after several beers, they'd both start whining about how tough they had it because they were black.
Go out to some of the mountain towns outside your bubble of Pullman if you want to see how 'easy' whites have it. Ass.
This loser “professor” is an embarassment to his self and to other human beings. What a pathetic clown mooching off the taxpayers so he can spout his ignorant drivel. Maybe he’ll be unlucky and some black guy will punch his lights out.
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