From "A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell" by Vincent Lloyd (Compact). This is a long article, well worth reading.
Lloyd has a recent book, "Black Dignity" (paid link), highly recommended in by this essay in Sojourners:
Black Dignity is a must-read for anyone struggling against domination in a world constituted by anti-Blackness. For Lloyd, domination is the arbitrary exertion of one’s will over another, and its “primal scene” is the master/slave relation. For Lloyd, his use of the language of “domination” points toward a specific kind of relation that permeates the world: anti-Black violence....
Lloyd claims that all encounters between human beings are infected by the master/slave relation. Lloyd takes the grammar that emerged out of the Black Lives Matter movement and has circulated on social media —Black rage, Black love, Black family, Black futures, Black magic — and creatively ties them together to develop a philosophy centered on building a world that is radically free and beautiful....
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The quoted part was good but I bailed out with the thought that the guy didn't have a clue about getting to the point after that, when I linked off of instapundit. Doesn't anybody know how to write. I put it down to blacks' desire to give their life story along with any thought of the day they might have, as if the black experience were important in every context. Loury and McWhorter do the same thing.
Its alumni are ideologically diverse:
queer theorist Eve Sedgewick and
postcolonial theorist Gayatri Spivak (its first female member),
Georgia politician Stacey Abrams and
journalist Walter Isaacson (the chair and CEO of CNN),
neoconservatives Paul Wolfowitz and Francis Fukuyama
So... 'ideologically diverse'!! queer AND postcolonial theorists!! Stacy Abrams AND the CEO of CNN
PLUS!neoconservatives!!!
Raise your hand, if That sounds 'ideologically diverse' to YOU?
They created a monster and thought it would only eat everyone else.
OK, I had stopped saying peak crazy because I had been proven wrong daily, but THIS is peak crazy. The zenith has been reached. Live by the sword...
Looks like he succeeded.
Dignity comes from one thing, doing something for somebody else. Fuck all your wonderful beauty in the world, try that instead.
It's important because the official black strategy is the opposite. We'll have dignity finally when you give us stuff. It doesn't work that way. Their strategy guarantees everything getting worse.
Dignity as a race works the same way as dignity for individuals. If you want to see the sudden and unexpected appearance of black dignity, let blacks take up a collection for poor whites and see what suddenly seems to happen.
The dictionary definition of schadenfreude should just link to this article.
About 20 paragraphs into this bullshit, I tossed in the towel. No, it isn’t worth reading in full. It’s jibberish, dressed up in big words.
I quit my job as a church musician at an Episcopal parish when they required me to sit through a Kendi style struggle session. Cut through all the attempts to gussy up this crap with endless pseudo-intellectual rambling, and it’s just Hate Whitey racism.
I sat out of my work as a church musician for a year until i could return to work for orthodox Methodist and Catholic congregations. This writer and the kids he’s teaching have misplaced their desire for religious practice into stupid political ranting.
There is no intellectual content here. These students need to get the hell out of this ghetto of idiot crap and turn their attention to some sort of academic curriculum that serves their self-interest and might lead them to a profitable and useful occupation.
It’s hard to feel much sympathy when the Jacobins start to get their heads lopped off.
They had learned, in one of their workshops, that objective facts are a tool of white supremacy...
I invited them to think about the reasoning of both sides of an argument, when only one side was correct..
the only route to freedom is indoctrination: having me tell them what to think.
These children are being taught the IMPORTANT THINGS
FACTS are EVIL!
Only One Side is Correct!
Indoctrination is Freedom!
1984: it's an Instruction Manual
It is 11:59:59. The Revolution has gotten to the stage of sending their own allies to the guillotine. As someone who has laid low and kept quiet in order to protect my job, I eagerly await the coming executions of the Dantons (Kendi) and the Robespierres (DeAngelo).
There are other religions whose adherents have become more devout than their priests. They prove their purity by casting out the clergy.
Every revolution eventually eats its own.
Revolutions always end when the one-trick-pony zealots turn on one another. Some people need an enemy to have a life purpose. France couldn't stop its guillotine. Also see the USSR, China's cultural revolution, many tin-hat dictators across the lovely USA right now, etc.
Anarchy dies when the anarchists have no one left to destroy, or when no one remains to deliver their food. Consider that mass starvation followed the killing of the kulaks in the USSR.
Skin color and ideological words are an afterthought to basic angry group-destructive and self-destructive processes. This movement started with left / Black politics and it must end with insiders.
His being "trapped in anti-racist hell" seems to prove that true justice is sometimes achieved. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
It isn't about accuracy and truth, it is entirely about the mobs demonstrating their power. The facts don't matter. This poor professor, who may be a decent enough guy, is still laboring under the misconception that such students can be reasoned with somehow. Facts are only used instrumentally by such people.
It is sociopathic, not necessarily each individual in the mob, but in their collective action. Just as a sociopath will use racial, ethnic, or sexual insults in order to harm others and get what he wants from them - and then ally with another sociopath from that group in order to attack a third person - these students and those who encourage them want only to demonstrate their power and increase their status. Think of them as machines, or primitive power-feeding organisms that move without conscience through the pond seeking food.
Don't take it personally. It's business.
The only thing missing in that whining tale of the “Perfesser” and his gender flipped Lord of the Flies “seminar” mob was not bleating from the Little Red Book the CorrectThought of the day. If you wanted to write a parody of how intellectual rigor is transformed into a Red Guard struggle session, you could not have penned a better farce than his clueless screed. Hopefully Keisha grifts into the BLM royalty too and cons a few mansions before her game is up, she’s got the intimidation script down cold.
I have read The Crucible, thank you.
"I am a black professor, I directed my university’s black-studies program, I lead anti-racism and transformative-justice workshops, and I have published books on anti-black racism and prison abolition. I live in a predominantly black neighborhood of Philadelphia, my daughter went to an Afrocentric school, and I am on the board of our local black cultural organization...."
Are you sure this is the right place for you? I mean, you might some other ideal place that's more suitable for your pathetic self-wallowing.
I get a certain amount of joy out of a progressive being called out as a fascist or whatever. What? What? Why is the clock striking 12?
I had a seminar 30 years ago with the liberal Black Boston social worker and TV debater Hubie Jones and it was wonderful. He was of a different political persuasion than I, but the course was a continually robust discussion of interesting and difficult topics. Hubie died not too long ago so I wanted to give him a shoutout here. He would have been horrified by this article.
Another post on which our resident Leftist friends will never make an appearance.
I remember Vincent Lloyd. He did the WGN radio play-by-play for the Cubs back in the 60s and 70s.
We're entering the Robespierre is getting executed portion of the revolution.
Kudos to those expelled. It's a badge of honor.
serious question:
2 (at LEAST 2) children were "expelled" from the group.. BY THE OTHER STUDENTS
Then, The remaining students got rid of the teacher. And, WHAT did the Telluride people do?
NOTHING
The inmates had LITERALLY taken over the asylum, and the Owners.. Did NOTHING
objective facts are a tool of white supremacy
Didn't Biden say we should choose truth over facts?
Professor suddenly realizes there are negative consequences to weaponizing Black anger? Take a look at homicide rates in Black neighborhoods since the Summer of Floyd. At least Keisha's enraged minions weren't armed. And those Chinese kids kicked out of the residence would have had it a lot worse on the streets of NYC or Oakland.
But I didn't read him connecting those dots. "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
Defund the Victimhood.
"They had learned, in one of their workshops, that objective facts are a tool of white supremacy..."
Alas. Many children are going to learn some painful lessons.
The "anti-racism" people are like the eagles who eternally pecked at Prometheus' liver in the Greek myth. They are not there to influence his behavior or accomplish anything, really. They wish only to cause pain and gratify their own desires, in this case for attention and if possible power.
"the only route to freedom is indoctrination"
Maybe this is true, maybe there is only the illusion of freedom, and if you are deeply enough indoctrinated, you feel free. Deconstruction can never hit bottom, you only eventually end up at Nietzsche's will to power, and you are forced to boot strap a justification for it somehow, or nobody else will go along.
I bet a golf pro feels free when he swings a club, after tens of thousands, maybe more, training swings and practice swings he has been thoroughly 'indoctrinated' in the perfect golf swing, in both theory and practice. He feels free within the set of arbitrary rules of golf.
Sorry bud, you built it, deal with it. Just like democrats have built males showing their junk in minor females dressing rooms. As they say, you do not like it build your own, that is exactly what the red states need to do.
They are getting closer and closer to saying that blacks can’t cut it.
I read the whole thing. It’s very messy writing, but you get the (unsurprising) point.
However, it’s disappointing tha quite clearly, the academia, lecturers, professors and so on are now not in charge. Dialogue between (supposedly) intelligent students should, of course, be allowed but when it starts going off the rails, the institution has final authority.
He seems to imply the students ‘grew’ is some positive way, despite the harm (sic) that was being imposed. This is only to satisfy his own self worth (‘at least I did something’).
The lunatics are literally running the asylum.
Lloyd claims that all encounters between human beings are infected by the master/slave relation
In other words, it's all a power struggle. In other words, it's all leftist critical theory.
Push an entire race of people under the bus, you're now first in line for the next tire facial. So all revolutions go.
I like Lloyd's description of democratic life:
"Such is democratic life. We each have different, partial knowledge. We each get things wrong, over and over. At our best, we enter the fray by listening to each other and complementing and challenging the insights of our fellows. In the process, over years, decades, we are oriented toward justice and truth."
It was sad and scary to watch his democratic vision get sabotaged by a young, authoritarian teaching assistant. People yearning for liberation seem to succumb quickly to authoritarianism.
This movement from the democratic to the authoritarian is unsettling to me.
Strong Red Guard vibes here. By the way, is anyone working on (or published) the equivalent to Mao's Little Red Book?
And yet, despite centuries of oppressive, never-ending racism by the white supremacists, yellow people don't seem to have a problem filling up MIT, owning companies and beautiful homes, or spending a nanosecond thinking about "yellow dignity." Why is that, Vince?
The seminar was instructive. The students learned something: that they could get someone essentially fired if they didn’t like him. Lloyd, who recounts in seeming amazement the natural results of his belief system, learned nothing.
When the Mau-Mauing Mao-y Maoists get you in their struggle session sights, you either go to DefCon 1 and fight them or you accept the sign hung round your neck and dunce cap on your head and hours of insults tossed your way.
There is no middle way with these morons.
This guy's claim to fame is that he supports abolishing all prisons. Best of luck to his wife and baby girl living in Philly.
In other words, he specializes academically in literally seeking the conditions under which murder rates will rise. Given that most offenders and victims are young black males, maybe he does need some talking to.
And note that he didn't feel the need to defend the expelled Asian students (expelled by who or whom?), nor seek intervention from his leftist brainwashing Institute when they were purged -- only when he was threatened. He also praises murderers like Angela Davis, another tenured fascist.
He can't seem to see that he is the cult leader and has no business being around students of any race.
Racism as a public problem was declining until Obama. Now we see it eating its own. I remember the 1950s when two white boys age 18 could spend every Friday night drinking beer and shooting bumper pool in an otherwise 100% black bar in Chicago. I was one of the white boys. We were competing with black men who had been drinking and losing contests to us. We were never threatened and felt completely safe. I would not dream of doing that today.
I just read the middle book of Stephen Kotkin's bio of Stalin. He writes about the collectivization process. If I were given the choice of starving to death on a collective farm or undergoing the indignities of Jim Crow laws, I would unquestionably opt for being a sharecropper in Lowndes County, Mississippi rather than the collective farm. I would even pick Auschwitz over the collective farm experience. It takes quite a lot of historical ignorance to think that your own grievance is the supreme form of suffering and oppression. What bothers me the most is that Keisha is exactly the sort of person who was most enthusiastic about searching out the grain hoarders and forcing them to starve in order bring about a truly equitable society.
I wonder what algorithms push this crap to hour hostess's attention?
I am just laughing my ass off at this guy. And I am giving him credit for actually telling the truth in this essay, which I probably shouldn't do, but the truth is I want to believe he is suffering this way. I really do.
"I put it down to blacks' desire to give their life story along with any thought of the day they might have, as if the black experience were important in every context. Loury and McWhorter do the same thing."
I see it as a consequence of the unconscious racism of white people overpraising black people who are skilled at writing and speaking.
Tina Trent: Here's another one " literally seeking the conditions under which murder rates will rise."
"The owner of the popular bakery Angel Cakes, based in Oakland, California, has died after being robbed in a parking lot and from the injuries she sustained during the violent incident earlier this week.... Angel was a social movement activist and anarchist. In light of her deep commitment to community and social justice, her family made two announcements. Angel believed in community members relying on one another, leading with love, centering the needs of the most vulnerable, and not resorting to vengeance and inflicting more harm. Her friends and family aren't in support of arresting the ones involved in Angel's death. However, if the police do make an arrest, her family is committed to pushing for restorative justice and pursuing all available alternatives to traditional prosecution."
https://www.ibtimes.com/who-was-jennifer-angel-oakland-baker-dragged-50-feet-while-chasing-thieves-dies-hospital-3666608
A tragic story, but we know there's going to be crime and a lot of it, especially violent crime. So there will be victims, and many of them. So may the victims also be those who are pro-criminal and anti-civilized order, and not those who are pro-law enforcement and anti-crime.
They are getting closer and closer to saying that blacks can’t cut it.
Worse. They've defined "cutting it" as Whiteness, and expecting Black people to cut it, or try to cut it, is racist.
Duke Dan said...
They created a monster and thought it would only eat everyone else.
thread winner!
I see it as a consequence of the unconscious racism of white people overpraising black people who are skilled at writing and speaking.
I am unclear on what you mean here. Could you provide some examples?
"They had learned, in one of their workshops, that objective facts are a tool of white supremacy..."
One can see that this particular "tool of white supremacy" is going to "knock 'em in the head" a few dozen times in life.
Once out of the cloistered walls of academia many of these vulnerable fools will look around in amazement wondering why their trained mob has departed.
Lord of the Flies hits college campuses. It's the consequences of the tyranny of the majority (sometimes a minority) by allowing students to have control over curricula, the firing of staff, etc.
I keep imagining someone very wealthy will take a private institution and turn it into a new model of university. This new model will focus on fundamentals of education, limit the ratio of administrators to professors, balance research with in-class instruction, limit the protection of tenure, limit the expenditures for luxury digs, balance the number of degrees between STEM and humanities. In exchange, potential students get degree more valued by the real world at half the price. I think there's a niche for such a crazy idea..."Hey, get your great engineering or biology degree for $25k/yr". (heck, even a good English degree)
I sold my business and mostly retired, but the last five years found it difficult to find degreed employees who could write a grammatically correct paragraph. Now that have software for that.
Cries of racism, LGBT grievances, Climate Change hysteria, Covid constraints are all parts of the hydra-headed Marxist cultural revolution.
Nitwits who believe the parts are about what they claim to be about never know when they will be cannibalized to further the real cause and are shocked, appalled and taken aback when it happens.
Boo hoo!
At 10:06: "However, if the police do make an arrest, her family is committed to pushing for restorative justice and pursuing all available alternatives to traditional prosecution."
"Restorative justice" was a fad in the 1990s. It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now. It's all about criminals avoiding responsibility for their conduct and has never furthered public safety anywhere.
DIEversity.
They are getting closer and closer to saying that blacks can’t cut it.
Some, Select [Black] Lives Matter
William said...
If I were given the choice of starving to death on a collective farm or undergoing the indignities of Jim Crow laws, I would unquestionably opt for being a sharecropper in Lowndes County, Mississippi rather than the collective farm. I would even pick Auschwitz over the collective farm experience
This JUST Shows your racist white supremacist viewpoint. There is nothing (NOTHING!) Worse, than being a Black in 21st amerikkka.. NOTHING
Not the holocaust
Not the gulag
Not even 1920's Mississippi
NOTHING! Experiences of 21st century Blacks, are SO MUCH worse, than Anything (ANTHING!) ever before
You'd Know this, if you weren't a RACIST!!
Imagine someone being someone like William, that thinks that being starved to death, or put on a railcar, and sent to a deathcamp; is 'worse' than the HORRORS of being a Black in 21 century amerikkka! So, those people were killed, and turned into soap! That is NOTHING compared to what happens to Blacks in 21st century amerikkka..
And What is it? That happens to Blacks in 21st century amerikkka? I'm not sure, exactly; but i KNOW it is MORE TERRIBLE Than ANYTHING!! It involves... well, Something
Ann Althouse said: "I see it as a consequence of the unconscious racism of white people overpraising black people who are skilled at writing and speaking"
Ah: the soft bigotry of low expectations is finally, publicly recognized in places like Madison.
Perhaps there is hope for us yet!
I teach at a high school in Southern California that has a Confederate Cavalier as a mascot and the sports teams are called the Rebels. It's an almost exact rip off of the UNLV mascot. Even the same colors.
When I first started working there almost ten years ago I made the comment that I weas surprised no one complained about the mascot. Well two years ago, during the COVID lockdown, the administration announced the dumping of the name and mascot and the beginning of a search for a new one. They first announced a search for a new nickname and created surveys for the staff, students and community. A large majority voted to keep the nickname. So then began a search for a new mascot. There was a committee to study the matter, and a list of ten mascots was created, and again surveys sent out to staff, students and community. A large majority rejected the entire slate of ten mascots and stated they wanted the original mascot back.
To my complete surprise, the school board announced last week that the original mascot was coming back. One of the school's leaders in the BSU asked me thus week to help him write an argument about why the nickname and mascot should be dumped. He was shocked when I refused. I told him that if he had asked me while the process was ongoing, I would have helped him, but waiting until after a democratic process has taken place, and then demanding it to be overturned because you don't like the results is wrong. I also explained that he had the right to be offended by the image, but he didn't have the right to not be offended. I am absolutely offended that Biden was installed as president, but I have no option but to live with it.
I'm a little bit afraid for my job right now.
If I were wise and rich and a benefactor of humanity, I would commission a grievance studies program at some university. The point of the studies would be to show how the resentment of the underdogs can be just as disfiguring and biased as the arrogance of the top dogs.... I'll go first: DeValera led the Irish to independence. Although he himself had been born in Brooklyn to a Cuban mother, he believed in being Irish and especially in not being English. He thought that if the Irish lived on small farms, went to Church on Sunday, and spoke Gaelic, they would all be happy as Hobbits. His policies led the Irish to another two generations of poverty and malnutrition. The Irish were finally able to escape the stultifying hand of Irish nationalism when they joined the Common Market. Ireland was never as awful as, say, Poland or Ukraine, but it was a difficult journey and complicated by British imperialism and their very own mistakes. It's possible to be oppressed and wrong in how you manage your response to that oppression....The Germans, to give them credit, are aware how bad Hitler was and of their compliance in his rise to power. White southerners no longer brag about Robert E. Lee and their Confederates in the attic. I hope with the grievance studies program we will see a day where urban leftists like Keisha will learn of their participation in the crimes of the Jacobins and Bolsheviks. I think it would be a learning experience for all involved if her fellow students made her wear a dunce cap and pelted her with pig offal. By such small increments does humanity advance towards Utopia.
Lloyd is a little more honest than his academic comrades, but still resists self-understanding.
The cult is of his own making, Keisha is his own offspring, the "democratic governance" he advocates is itself a source of the abuse he experienced, disdain for facts has been cultivated by many radical thinkers, the demand for safety is itself a black thing, and so on.
Revolutions eat their own. History repeats itself as farce. It would be funny if progs weren't our masters.
"I see it as a consequence of the unconscious racism of white people overpraising black people who are skilled at writing and speaking"
Absolutely. Thanks to courses like this one, we the woke have come to realize that skill at writing and speaking, like logic and “objective” facts, are merely tools of the white supremacist patriarchy. They should be condemned, not praised.
"I teach at a high school in Southern California that has a Confederate Cavalier as a mascot and the sports teams are called the Rebels."
Any chance this is in Anaheim?
Another Dr. Frankenstein self identifies...
I see it as a consequence of the unconscious racism of white people overpraising black people who are skilled at writing and speaking.
Oh so eloquent.
I don’t read every word of this article (which seems like it’s so long because they didn’t have time to make it shorter), but everything I read seems to be blaming students, young people. But students haven’t always been like this, and these students didn’t come up with this attitude out of the blue. They learned it from older people, from highly educated people, from people who are presented as wise authorities. Don’t just criticize the young; ask how the older folks went so wrong as to produce these results.
I see it as a consequence of the unconscious racism of white people overpraising black people who are skilled at writing and speaking.
Ann is referring to those who are articulate and bright and clean.
"...the guy didn't have a clue about getting to the point..." The article provided context and a history of the school, including its liberal bona fides. If you read sound byte news stories, this might be too much for you.
"Doesn't anybody know how to write." If you're going to criticize someone's writing, it's a good idea to use correct punctuation.
"...as if the black experience were important in every context. Loury and McWhorter do the same thing." If you can't see how those two writers might want to put their experience and conclusions in the context of current black culture and their reaction to it, I think you might not be their target audience anyway.
deep in the essay he notes an Asian student said about slavery: At least they were fed.
No wonder both Asian students were pushed out of the group.
I remember the comment of my son, adopted at age 14, who, on reading a biography of a rich Chinese girl who lamented her family wouldn't pay for fancier food at her school, he commented: Why is she complaining? At least she had food to eat.
Learning about racism is good, but feeling sorry for yourself because your ancestors were slaves ignores the reality of history: there are worse things than being a slave: maybe starving in Chinese or Irish or African famines, or being a street kid who doesn't have enough to eat.
What do you expect? He's an affirmative action hire.
gpspencer:
"Are you sure this is the right place for you? I mean, you might some other ideal place that's more suitable for your pathetic self-wallowing."
Oh, I think he's just offering his liberal bona fides. He kind of has to. If he were a conservative, leftish readers would instantly respond, Well, you would say that; or, He's probably making this up; or, He probably said something in troglodyte that justifies his students' reaction.
My reaction on reading the article was a mixture of strong sympathy and mild, reprehensible amusement. Why is the western center-left so much more shocked by the purges than by the mass starvations in the USSR? Because the purges happened mostly to good, loyal communists.
rrsafety,
"[Hubie Jones] was of a different political persuasion than I, but the course was a continually robust discussion of interesting and difficult topics."
Thank you. I didn't know of him, but am glad to learn of him. In a related vein, I have come to greatly respect Cornel West, who I disagree with on most things, for his advocacy of free speech and robust exchange of ideas.
If universities are not liberal
and cannot respect the principles of free speech and equal protection
then they are Commie hellholes
and fascist to their very core
It's actually a pretty amusing little saga, but the author doesn't seem to understand what happened. He went to play a game that he is pretty good at, having had a lot of training and practice. But "Keisha" learned the game at a higher and purer level than he has ever played at. Of course she won. She's a pro.
Any chance this is in Anaheim?
Nope. Fontana.
I see it as a consequence of the unconscious racism of white people overpraising black people who are skilled at writing and speaking.
Or getting a Nobel Peace Prize for being black.
Liberals are so regressive and dehumanizing now. It's their official ideology. In real life they're not so bad. They recognize human beings on the street. But on the internet they revert to shallow and simplistic division.
Identity politics is a glib and stupid poison. It's obviously bad. And yet people on the left won't stop doing it!
People who are hostile to free speech and free thought are fascist at their core. It's a sign of a rigid thinker (non-thinker!) who is unable to break out of a mental jail.
It's kind of horrifying to read about bright and curious young people being taught to shut down their brains and repeat what they are told.
I attended Telluride Summer Program in 1969. It was my first encounter with people (fellow students) trying to make me feel historical guilt. I didn't buy it then, I don't buy it now. It was where I overheard two of the attempted guilt inducers complain about a fellow student who had bought it because she kept smiling at them. There is no point to a movement that won't take yes for an answer.
Is it really a good idea to claim that one is so weak, so without self-confidence, that one will necessarily collapse into a pile of angsty glop as a result of the micro impact of a micro aggression?
Only if there's some confidence that Authority will take it Seriously. So...what to do about such Authority? Point and laugh?
Is it really a good idea to claim that one is so weak, so without self-confidence, that one will necessarily collapse into a pile of angsty glop as a result of the micro impact of a micro aggression?
Only if there's some confidence that Authority will take it Seriously. So...what to do about such Authority? Point and laugh?
"I put it down to blacks' desire to give their life story along with any thought of the day they might have, as if the black experience were important in every context. Loury and McWhorter do the same thing."
I would say rather it is as if they believe their rather pedestrian thoughts derive significance from the fact that they are thinking them while black. And given their obvious immersion in and relative mastery of white culture, it probably is an ongoing astonishment to them that they are not like the others.
"Nope. Fontana."
Just curious. The teams at the high school I went to are also called "The Rebels".
"I see it as a consequence of the unconscious racism of white people overpraising black people who are skilled at writing and speaking."
Is it "unconscious racism" when they intentionally and knowingly overpraise mediocre writing and speaking? Do those who overpraise believe Blacks to be incapable of actual good writing and speaking? Do they also believe Blacks to be unable to detect the snobbery?
The author's hell is one of his own making and which he daily reinforces.
"Objective facts are a tool of white supremacy." Follow the science.
Just curious. The teams at the high school I went to are also called "The Rebels".
Savannah High? They went through a similar process in 2017, which resulted in them keeping the nickname but changing the mascot.
Don’t just criticize the young; ask how the older folks went so wrong as to produce these results.
We don't have to ask...we know. Just like Hitler told the world his intentions in Mein Kampf, the Left has been quite open in their push to take control of the institutions and impose an American hating pro-Marxist ideology on us and our children.
More importantly the folks responsible don't think anything went wrong, we're getting exactly the results they intended.
"Savannah High? They went through a similar process in 2017, which resulted in them keeping the nickname but changing the mascot."
That's them.
Wow. Could not happen to a more deserving apparatchik.
Just for the record, I applied for Telluride in (I think) 1983 and didn't get in. Do I get special points for that? I wrote them a really stupid essay on Watership Down that presumably sealed my fate. Silly wabbits!
Michelle: Watership Down? You might as well have praised Bellow's _Mr. Sammler's Planet_.
Their loss.
I doubt the essay was stupid.
Dope From Hope: "Angel's" family, and Angel herself by extension of her pre-murdered incarceration-abolition activism, are the ones wreaking hatred and vengeance on innocewnt crime victims in her community by trying to return killers to society.
They are no better than the people who killed her.
The blood of her killers'next victims will be on her family and on her.
How sickening do her parents have to be to value their daughter's life so little that they reserve their empathy for the monsters who killed their daughter, and to wish such heartbreakon other families?
Just typical liberals these days. Sick, sick people who reap what they sow in their childrens' blood and learn nothing from it.
Pride goeth before your daughter's ravaged body being torn to pieces dragged through the street.
No wonder she held such beliefs: her parents told her that her life was not important compared to the lives of murderers.
If they succeed in freeing these animals to prey on more victims, may they be sued into penury, or worse.
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