He's quoted in "Black Lives Matter Plaza Is Gone. Its Erasure Feels Symbolic. The movement that prompted 'Black Lives Matter' to be painted in bold yellow near the White House is in retreat. Its leaders are asking what comes next for social justice" (NYT). From the article:
After a brief window of conversation about the ways racism had impeded the progress of Black citizens, the country in November chose to return President Trump to the White House, after he called the words “Black Lives Matter” a “symbol of hate” and Black-centered history “toxic propaganda” at the end of his first term.... The millions of dollars that flowed to groups with “Black Lives Matter” in their titles have slowed to a trickle.... Words with even a hint of racial, ethnic or gender sensitivities are being struck from federal websites and documents.... [Mayor Muriel] Bowser, who is Black, told laid-off federal workers earlier this month that the mural was a significant part of the city’s history, but circumstances have changed. “Now our focus is on making sure our residents and our economy survive,” she said....
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okay, a Serious Question:
What good.. What good AT ALL;
came from the "Black Lives Matter" movement?
i mean good for black people, not the 3 women that came up with the scam..
what good came for the American people?
what good came for the WORLD?
Other than the riches bestowed on those 3 women..
What good came of this?
Oh, it’s “a statement”, alright.
Some folks get upset when the grift is terminated.
Dude has cornered the market on diacriticals.
Black Lines Matter!
JSM
Another overpaid idiot heard from.
An answer to Gilbar's question - I'd like to know as well.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, a Georgetown philosophy professor (who, we're told, is black).
LOL!! I will have to look it up but there is a 50% chance he was born with a name like James Smith.
The BLM-Antifa crap felt similar to COVID,
Manufactured for maximum destruction.
Available here for free: https://archive.ph/aHKwb
Amidst the detailed chronicle of millions in donations that are tapering off, not a single mention of the rampant graft and criminal siphoning off of funds to amass impressive personal real estate portfolios, by the principals.
The article is in the style of the relentless propagandizing we've come to know, underscoring and perpetuating racial divisiveness. African Americans are 'Black', as opposed to, say 'white'. "Justice' is a preferred outcome that is achieved through social pressure and intimidation, rather than the legal system. Backward progress can only be due to system white prejudice.
What comes next is that we tear down all of the corrupt institutions that support and fund racism and various segregation projects like the University of Georgetown.
Babies lives Matter. (Imagine the meltdowns if they painted THAT on the street!!)
Táíwò writes from a Marxist perspective. His critique of Bowser's "cynical" move is consistent with his critique of identity politics -- that it's susceptible to "elite capture."
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, a philosopher, studies Marxism and its application to social and political philosophy, particularly in the context of Africa and the African diaspora, exploring themes like colonialism, modernity, and identity politics. Táíwò draws on a Marxist framework to analyze historical and contemporary issues, particularly in relation to Africa and the African diaspora.
Critique of Identity Politics:
He has written extensively on identity politics, arguing that it can be susceptible to "elite capture," where the interests of the most marginalized are not adequately represented.
Táíwò's book, "Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics and Everything Else," explores how powerful groups can manipulate identity politics to their own benefit.
Alternative to Identity Politics: Táíwò proposes an alternative to the current model of identity politics, advocating for a politics of collective agency organized along radical democratic principles to construct a just society.
Táíwò is also the author of "Legal Naturalism: A Marxist Theory of Law" (1996/2015), "How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa" (2010), and "Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto" (2012/2014). Táíwò's work has been influential in the fields of philosophy, social and political theory, and African studies.
…caving immediately to the faintest hint of pressure…
…you have to save the Hawaiian judges for the important stuff. Seriously it demonstrates how effective is opening too many fronts for the well-funded opposition to organize media ally talking points and hire grassroots protestors. They’re gonna run out of resources…
The erasure is symbolic. America is done with divisive racial chaos. It was over when a White women with BLM was yelling in a Black cop's face about how racist the police are. Trump just made it official.
Black leaders could help make America great again by working for regular justice.
George "Fentanyl" Floyd syndrome is a drug-induced respiratory suppression that selfie-aborts thousands of lives annually. Some, Select [Black] Lives Matter is a dogmatic belief in progressive sects that have adopted the Pro-Choice religion. The Black Lives Matter movement was a KKK-like national insurrection that destroyed property and threatened diverse lives. That said, social justice anywhere is injustice everywhere. #BabyLivesMatter #HateLovesAbortion
LOL!! I will have to look it up but there is a 50% chance he was born with a name like James Smith.
These types renounce their “Slave Names” and then take new Muslim names, not realizing that there is no culture on earth that has enslaved more people than Islam.
Here's an idea. Just toss this one around. Get a handle on crime in DC. Among the worst in the nation. Get a handle on the school system in DC- arguably the worst in the nation.
And quit taking direction from professors in the faculty lounge who think a label on the street proclaiming division and separatism is the path forward.
"It's leaders are asking what comes next for social justice."
Any use of the word "justice" that comes with any modifier other than "equal", isn't.
The US has become less white but not more black.
BLM was the last gasp of the Social Justice Grift. There are almost as many Mexican Americans as Black Americans. And Mexican Americans are about 60% of Hispanic Americans.
I have a serious question too, for Marxist philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. How can you possibly study that philosophy for all those years and not be even remotely aware that it has been an abject failure, bringing death, cruelty, and poverty everywhere it has been practiced?
"Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, a Georgetown philosophy professor (who, we're told, is black).
LOL!! I will have to look it up but there is a 50% chance he was born with a name like James Smith."
Olufemi is legitimately a black man. He is the son of Nigerian immigrants; dad an engineer and mom a pharmacologist, which is not an unusual (albeit not the most common background) for Nigerian immigrants here in Cincinnati where he grew up.
""Black Lives Matter Plaza Is Gone. Its Erasure Feels Symbolic. The movement that prompted 'Black Lives Matter' to be painted in bold yellow near the White House is in retreat. Its leaders are asking what comes next for social justice"
"Social justice." It's a thinly veiled euphemism for class struggle.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is his given name, Yoruba ethnicity of Nigeria, raised in San Francisco, and steeped in Marxist thought.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò - his website.
Hassayamper said...
"These types renounce their 'Slave Names' and then take new Muslim names, not realizing that there is no culture on earth that has enslaved more people than Islam."
James Baldwin once rhetorically asked why he should throw off the name from his Christian slave masters for a name from the Muslims in Africa who likely enslaved his ancestors in the first place.
Islam spread through Africa when it did precisely because Muslims are not permitted to enslave fellow Muslims, but could enslave non-believers. Africans converted for one or both reasons.
...correction... raised in Cincy, educated at UCLA.
YouTube: People finally have permission to say the quiet parts out loud.
“window of conversation”? It was a shut-up-and-listen struggle session of neck-snapping finger-pointing hectoring.
Reminds me of my ex-wife.
- Krumhorn
"Bowser caving immediately to the faintest hint of pressure on the name of the plaza is somehow even more cynical than the move to name it Black Lives Matter Plaza in the first place."
Said Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, a Georgetown philosophy professor.
That's pretty close to a limited statement I could agree with. I would use the word "pandering" instead of "cynical" to describne the original decision. Where Olúfẹ́mi and I would part ways is where to go from that statement, though.
What is most symbolic of BLM is that two of the three LA mansions that a BLM leader bought with all the money she siphoned off it were burned down in the fires.
Bowser, resident racist.
gspencer said...
"Bowser, resident racist."
And a royal koopa who is the arch-enemy of Mario & Luigi.
And it's a good thing they are returning Mushrise Park to its former glory.
We have been talking for 60 years about the way racism has impeded the progress of Black Americans. How about a brief window of respite from that? Maybe more progress would be made if we weren't having this endless "conversation."
Of course Taiwo has to say that Bowser's new decision is more cynical than the earlier one. Was it? Is there an objective answer to the question? Taiwo thinks that BLM was right and principled and business and other voices calling for a return to normality are cynical because he has to think that. Others will view the situation differently.
Qwinn, "Any use of the word "justice" that comes with any modifier other than "equal", isn't." You beat me to it.
Did anyone build Stop Asian Hate Plaza?
"How can you possibly study that philosophy for all those years and not be even remotely aware that it has been an abject failure, bringing death, cruelty, and poverty everywhere it has been practiced?"
I used to wonder the same thing but I eventually came to realize that death, cruelty, and poverty everywhere was the actual goal.
I read the article. It didn't seem at all fair. The three star victims of the BLM movement were Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and George Floyd. They all used brute force to negotiate their way through life. It's a tactic that works until such point as one tries to negotiate with someone stronger.....Whatever tolerance BLM and its supporters preach, doesn't extend to law enforcement, and their three star victims were far more intolerant than their opponents......The article says that Floyd was murdered. Well, that's what the jury said, but as murders go it wasn't quite as overt as those of the Boston Strangler. Worse, the three officers that were with him were also convicted and sent to prison. It is claimed that they should have taken affirmative steps to stop this ambiguous murder. Their conviction is demonstrative of the social justice aims of the BLM movement. These are not tolerant or fair minded people.
I don't care what color he is, he has grossly exceeded his allotted quota of diacritics.
Black Lives Matter: Making Black People Wealthy, One Black Person at a Time.
"Black Lives Matter Plaza Is Gone. Its Erasure Feels Symbolic. The movement that prompted 'Black Lives Matter' to be painted in bold yellow near the White House is in retreat. Its leaders are asking what comes next for social justice"
The main learning from BLM is that street violence and city burning worked, but the public became inured to it. So they need to come up with something more extreme, I think we are close to the point where they will actually kill random people and pile them up in the street.
And the NYT will praise them for their desperate stand for final social justice.
Trump could rule forever if he seized the street and painted a new mural with a big rooster image and the legend "White Cock's Fatter!"
JSM
To lessen the controversy, he could do it around Dupont Circle....
JSM
As best we can tell, none of the freed slaves took on the names of their former owners. That is a myth. Instead, they took on names of Presidents they admired (Washington, Jefferson, Jackson are in the top 10) or names they just liked that almost always turn out to be Scotts-Irish or Welsh (Jones, Davis, White, Brown), ethnic groups that were too poor to own slaves.
I don't know when the myth that African-American last names were those of slave-owners got started, but it was heavily promulgated in the 1960s by Marxists seeking to exacerbate racial division.
I tell my African-American students all the time: language history says you have every reason to be proud of your last name, as it was deliberately chosen by your FREE ancestors.
Choosing Muslim names was also a 1960s phenomenon. Inventing amazingly creative first names (the very best of which is D'Brickashaw--note that his last name, Ferguson, is Scotts-Irish) got started at the end of the '60s but really took off in the '90s.
Bowser is best understood as a black female version of the one-time RINO NYC mayor and 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg: They are both driven by money, money, money, and money. She's always been a massive advocate of return-to-work in DC, as it provides make-work service jobs to her supporters and increases the value of recently worthless DC office real estate.
Bloomberg said "Throw 'em up against a wall and frisk 'em." of young minority males.
Bowser threw BLM in the trash at the first chance because it didn't fit her money goals.
Black lives matter ... unless you're a 13-year-old fighting brain cancer.
The violent crime rate in DC is roughly three times the national average.
Black lives don't matter to blacks themselves.
I hate to make fun of someone's name, but "Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò" had me trying clean the little spots from my screen.
whar was so called BLM, but an urban insurgency plotted out by former Maoist May 19th member Susan Rosenberg, the one who actually bombed the Capitol in 1984
Bowser caving immediately
He was OK, I guess, but I was never a big Sha Na Na fan.
What comes next for "social justice" should be defunding in full, followed by a patient but forceful explanation that "social justice" is a Marxist euphemism for income redistribution, followed by an explanation that the only justice there can be is based on individual rights held equally by one and all. And to stop with the Marxist crapola.
the Kellogg Foundation was where she spun her web, of course it's based in Berkeley, where Marcuse told his tales,
I await the city of Minneapolis turning George Floyd Square back into 38th and Chicago. Not holding my breath.
His brand of 'philosophy' is not my cup of tea; what did amuse when I checked at Wikipedia is that there is another Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, also a 'philosopher'. What are the odds?
I remember when Obama's AG, Eric Holder announced that we needed to have a conversation about race. But it wasn't a conversation at all. It was a lecture. It was ironic considering that Obama was just elected. Race relations seemed to take a step backwards. Which didn't make sense.
As I've gotten older, I've found I have less tolerance for obvious nonsense. So I look for red flags before devoting any of my valuable time to a topic.
For example: "Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, a Georgetown philosophy professor (who, we're told, is black)". Three flags in a row. Time to go.
I suppose Olufemi might say something worthwhile, but my experience says it's unlikely. I can live with that.
I meant to write this much sooner but lost track of the original post, so probably no one will see it.
But at any rate, while I don't know anything specific about Yoruba, languages in the part of Africa I worked in commonly had far more vowel sounds than English, and many of them were tone languages as well. The standard way to handle that sort of thing with a Roman alphabet is to use diacritical marks.
Nothing pretentious at all going with the spelling of his name.
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