Posted on 05/30/2021 4:57:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
There’s a quote I love, use regularly, and butcher just as often, “My favorite definition of an intellectual: ‘Someone who has been educated beyond their intelligence.” It comes from Arthur C. Clarke, but I first heard it from my friend Al, a just-post-Korean War vet and electrician I used to play in euchre tournaments back in Detroit. I have never met anyone with an advanced degree, outside of a couple of people in the fields of law and medicine, who didn’t personify that quote to a T. One prime example of this phenomenon is Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill.
Hill also hosts a show on BET and something called “Black News Channel,” which describes itself as “an independent network, minority-owned and operated. BNC is the nation’s only provider of 24/7 cable news programming created ‘by people of color for people of color.’” If you remember Hill from his cable news days, that he’d work for race-based networks wouldn’t surprise you. After all, he is a true man of the left, an adherent to the left’s identity politics. He was fired from his job at CNN not for his racism, but for anti-Semitism, back when anti-Semitism could get you condemned by the left.
On his BNC show this week, Hill interviewed the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo about Critical Race Theory. In what Hill must’ve thought was a “gotcha” question, he asked Rufo, “What do you like about being white?”
Rufo is a researcher, not a bomb-thrower. Not wanting to get in the mud with Hill, Rufo calmly explained how the concept of the question was stupid, though much more politely.
Hill wouldn’t accept that answer, it wasn’t what he wanted. He wanted something he could claim was racist, it’s his oxygen. He circled back, listing off things he likes about “being black.” He listed “cultural norms,” whatever the hell that means, and the “kind of commonalties I feel around the diaspora.” It was his whining way, of course, to insert slavery into the situation – saying he feels a kinship with descendants of slaves taken from their homeland. Presumably, that means he feels no commonalities with Africans who immigrated to the United States, if you wanted to play his game.
Rufo didn’t play his game, again rejecting the concept; reiterating the fact that he is an individual, not a member of a collective. Hill had baited his hook and came up empty, much to his chagrin.
I would’ve handled it differently. I am not an academic, nor am I one to suffer racists or casually. Or fools, as they generally go hand in hand.
My answer would’ve been blunt – What I like about being white is I’m free to think anything I like; believe anything politically and not be prejudged by liberals for it. I don’t have people assuming I vote a specific way, for a particular party, simply because of my skin color. That no matter what I believe, I won’t be called a traitor to my race, a sell-out, or some racial slur like “Uncle Tom,” or “Uncle Tim.”
What I like about being white is I don’t have to suffer the bigotry of leftists demanding I conform to how they insist I must think.
Hill and pretty much every left-wing pundit, TV personality, reporter, academic, actor, etc., do not extend that same courtesy to, say, any black conservative. Ever.
In that answer, it would have exposed Hill for what he was trying to do to Rufo, and it shows what the left is now: you are your skin color. If you refuse to conform, if you won’t be what they demand you must be, you are their enemy.
This was perfectly illustrated by a teacher in Portland who, on a Zoom call, made it clear that if any of her colleagues refused to teach Critical Race Theory, and instead did something stupid like teach children to read, write, or do math, they would be fired. “Evolve or dissolve,” this 8th grade humanities teacher gleefully and without reservation, said. She went so far as to say that state and national teachers’ unions were working to ensure anyone focusing on not indoctrinating children to believe they’re either irredeemable racists or victims of racism with no hope for the future because of it, would be fired.
Imagine being such a miserable creature, or part of the political movement that not only created this belief system, but enforces it with threats of destruction and exile should you have a non-white skin tone and refuse to obey their will. Not having to be subjected to evil whims of the left because of what I look like when I was born, that’s what I like about being white.
I agree 100% with Martin Luther King Jr on this...it's not the color of my skin,it's the content of my character.
I like being White because I can’t blame my failures on my skin color.
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He sure
an Ignoramus!!
a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
An old cliche, ‘God is no respector of persons’ meaning He doesn’t play favorites. The godless leftists who ignore and expunge paths of blessings from the Creator play the games of divide, conquer and assume their arrogant superiority as the inferior tyrants. The loving, beneficial and wise Creator gives gifts, blessings and favor to All who worship and follow Him. Glorious freedoms for All regardless of external differences which the Founders give reference by acknowledging Him. Godless leftism is truly stupidity of mind and soul while exalting the arrogant self in replacing the Creator. One chooses to be wise or fool regardless of externals.
Not reading the article, “just responding to the title”
NRTAJRTTT or in the case of a “headline” NRTAJRTTH
Now everyone make a mental note of these new acronyms.
I digress....
“What I Like About Being White”
I have NEVER even thought about “being white”.
Okay, yeah I AM white. So society tells me. I am 1/2 French. Yeah kinda “proud” of that or maybe just happy about it.
I’m 1/2 British ancestry although my father’s family has been here since before 1686. (90 years BEFORE there even was a United States).
ALL of them WHITE! (that I know of). Did I ever hear any of them proclaim “I AM WHITE”? No.
Was I taught as a child that I am BETTER because I was WHITE? NO!
Was my “Whiteness” discussed in our home? NO!
Do Blacks teach their kids, talk about “being” BLACK, in their homes? EVERY SINGLE DAY! FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES!
WHO are the racists? Who is obsessed with their skin color?
What do I like about being white? Having a solid excuse for getting beat on a post pattern......
Bill O’Reilly used to have Hill on his show a lot several years ago. He was an a$$ hat and clown then and is even more so today.
What I like about being white is I can read about the great inventions like the automobile, the airplane, and rockets and feel a sort of kinship with those who invented then even though I can’t even build a model of them without messing them up. I can look at pictures taken on D-Day or other historic battles, and feel a kinship with the men in those pictures as they braved enemy fire, even though when I was in the Army all I had to brave was mess hall food, and an irate seargent or two. Let’s face it, the history of the Western World was made by white people from a host of different countries. Some of that history is good, some bad, that is the way everything is, nothing is all good or all bad. I refuse to be held responsible for the bad things white people have done in centuries past. Do I feel bad about the bad things people of my race committed in the past, not particularly. The past is the past and you can’t do anything about changing the past. I’m only responsible for the things I have done or will do.
Good one! Thank you.
+1
There’s also another great quote I can’t remember exactly but goes something like...”A person’s higher learning inevitably comes at the expense of their common sense”
I couldn’t care less about an artificial category that someone has placed me in and then assumed that I have the characteristics that they have assigned to the category. I am not defined by the reflectance of my epidermis. I am much more complex than that. I reject your simple minded question and you for asking it.
That would have been my answer.
And that sir or mam, is just about the most perfect response you could offer.
Hear Hear!
It seems to me what these blacks are claiming is , they can’t compete with Whites.
They are the ones making that assumption, not us.
He was trying to elicit the criteria for the activity of "being white". What was important or significant in his past, present, or future that could be used to evaluate the experience of being white.
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