Wednesday, May 24, 2023

BLACK RACISM IN AMERICA - In a speech late last year, Brittney Cooper, a black associate professor at Rutgers University, spewed so much hate against "white people," to the point of concluding, "We got to take these MFers out!" (

AMERICA'S BLACKS ARE THE MOST RACIST AND VIOLENT SUBCULTURE IN THE WORLD!

Are 'White People Committed to Being Villains'?

As discussed elsewhere, historical relations between Islam and the West have been utterly distorted in order to present the aggressors as victims and the victims as aggressors.

In this article, we look at a similar but even more urgent topic: how history in general has been intentionally distorted in a way that makes segments of the nonwhite population hate, despise, and even want to murder whites.

This is no exaggeration.  In a speech late last year, Brittney Cooper, a black associate professor at Rutgers University, spewed so much hate against "white people," to the point of concluding, "We got to take these MFers out!"  (Needless to say, she still teaches at Rutgers.)

At one point during her racist rant, Cooper said:

I think white people are committed to being villains, in the aggregate. ... What I think that white people viscerally fear, it's not that white people don't know what they've done — they know.  They fear that there is no other way to be human but the way in which they are human.  So you know, you talk to white people, and whenever you want to have a reckoning by them they say stuff like, you know, "It's just human nature.  If y'all had all of this power y'all would have done the same thing," right?

Right, indeed.  Some fifteen years ago, I wrote an article making this same point: if Europeans were abusive to nonwhites, that is not because they were intrinsically bad (a racist point, incidentally), but simply because they were able to.  And that's the virtual bottom line of all history: capability.

Europeans did not defeat and uproot American Indians, enslave Africans, and colonize the rest because whites lived according to some unprecedented bellicose creed innate to whites and alien to nonwhites.  Quite the contrary: they did so because they — as opposed to natives, blacks, etc. — were able to do so.  That is the fundamental difference.

Had pre-Columbian Native Americans developed galleys for transoceanic travel, or advanced firearms, or compasses, or organized military structures and stratagems, and had they arrived on the shores of Europe at its weakest point in history — what would they have done?  Would they have pillaged and plundered, conquered and subjugated, or would they have looked at the inferior pale savages and "respected" them in the name of "diversity," leaving them wholly unmolested?

What if sub-Saharan blacks were technologically or militarily more advanced than their northern neighbors in Europe during the premodern era, and therefore could easily have subjugated and enslaved them?  Would they have done so, or would they have left them in peace in the name of "multiculturalism"?

In her rant, Cooper acknowledges — but rejects — these rhetorical questions:

[I]t's like, no, that's what white humans did, white human beings thought there's a world here and we [whites] own it. Prior to them, black and brown people have been sailing across oceans, interacting with each other for centuries without total subjugation, domination and colonialism, right?

Not only is this "professor's" ignorance profoundly startling; it is the source of her desire to see whites liquidated.  After all, in her estimation, white people are intrinsically evil.  It's in their blood.

Back in the real world, all peoples — white, black, brown, yellow, red — warred on the "other" and, when capable — key word — went on the offensive in search of conquest and plunder.  Depending exclusively on their capabilities — bows and arrows (e.g., Africans) or guns and cannons (e.g., Europeans) — their efforts resulted in tribal or international hegemony.  As Michael Graham writes,

[w]hen thinking of pre-Columbian America, forget what you've seen in the Disney movies [reference to the 1995 Pocahontas]. Think "slavery, cannibalism and mass human sacrifice." From the Aztecs to the Iroquois, that was life among the indigenous peoples before Columbus arrived.  For all the talk from the angry and indigenous about European slavery, it turns out that pre-Columbian America was virtually one huge slave camp.

It's the same with Africans: they continuously warred on, slaughtered, and enslaved one another for eons before whites ever came to sub-Saharan Africa.  Moreover, as Michael Omolewa, a Nigerian diplomat, once explained,

the bulk of the supply [of African slaves sold to Europeans] came from the Nigerians. These Nigerian middlemen moved to the interior where they captured other Nigerians who belonged to other communities. The middlemen also purchased many of the slaves from the people in the interior . ... Many Nigerian middlemen began to depend totally on the slave trade and neglected every other business and occupation. The result was that when the trade was abolished [by England in 1807] these Nigerians began to protest. As years went by and the trade collapsed such Nigerians lost their sources of income and became impoverished.

These are not just historical observations.  Despite Western efforts to abolish slavery, there are currently more than 50 million slaves — all of them in the non-Western world.  To quote from one report,

[a]s the world marks 400 years since the first recorded African slaves arrived in North America, slavery remains a modern-day scourge. ... Africa has the highest prevalence of slavery, with more than seven victims for every 1,000 people.

None of this seems to matter to Ms. Cooper.  For this "professor," the scourge of slavery — indeed, any and every social ill — begins and ends with white, and therefore inherently evil, people.  Hence the need to "take these MFers out!"

Nor is she alone.  Many people in the West, above and beyond the woke crowd, subscribe to this version of history that juxtaposes evil, oppressive, conquering whites with noble, peaceful, and egalitarian nonwhites — a carefully manufactured lie that feeds a deep and abiding hatred for whites, including, and as a testament to its pervasive influence, among whites themselves.  

Raymond Ibrahim, author of Defenders of the West and Sword and Scimitar, is the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

Image: stevepb via PixabayPixabay license.


Professor who cursed students and destroyed pro-life display fired only after threatening the life of a reporter

The pernicious rhetoric of the left that words are “violence” justifying actual violence may have inspired a radical professor at Hunter College (part of the City University of New York) to destroy a pro-life display on school grounds.  That provoked an investigation by the University of the incident that was captured on video and displayed on Twitter.

Allie Griffin of the New York Post described the incident:

A Manhattan college professor flipped out on a group of students who set up an information table opposing abortion inside the school building — cursing and tossing their pamphlets, video of the interaction shows.

Shellyne Rodriguez, an adjunct professor, told the pro-life students they were “triggering” her students by tabling inside Hunter College in Manhattan earlier this month. (snip)

“You’re not educating s–t. This is f–king propaganda,” the art professor told the students tabling on May 2. “What are you going to do like anti-trans next?”

A male student behind the table calmly told her, “I mean no, we’re talking about abortion” and said he was sorry about “triggering” her students.

 

But it was only after she threatened to murder a reporter seeking her comment that she was fired by the municipally owned school. Fox News, where the reporter Reuven Fenton was interviewed on Hannity Tuesday night, reports:

New York Post reporter Reuven Fenton was threatened with a machete to his neck Tuesday when he knocked on the door of the Bronx apartment belonging to Shellyne Rodriguez, a Hunter College adjunct assistant professor of art. He was requesting an interview with Rodriguez after she was caught destroying a student group's pro-life display in an expletive-filled rant that went viral earlier this month. (snip)

In an appearance on "Hannity" Tuesday night, Fenton said he identified himself and requested to speak with Rodriguez when she began to verbally abuse him and his cameraman, threatening to "chop" them up. She then "barged out" of her apartment and put a machete to his neck, he recalled. (snip)

"We just wanted to speak to this woman…we thought we might have a chance given that she's obviously passionate about her beliefs and maybe if we showed up to her door, she'd be willing to grant us an interview," Fenton told host Sean Hannity.

"In my career, I've knocked on 10,000 doors…but I got a bit of a surprise when she opened the door," he continued. "This was a first for me. She first verbally threatened to chop us up with the machete and then proceeded to come out of her apartment brandishing the blade and pressing it against the side of my neck for about a second, and then I guess she realized she was being recorded and went back inside."

Here is video of the murder threat:

It appears that the threat of violence captured on video was enough for the university to fire her, not just investigate:

Hunter College announced Tuesday evening that Rodriguez had been fired from her position and will not return to teaching at the school.

"Hunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez and has taken immediate action. Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately and will not be returning to teach at the school," a spokesperson for the school told Fox News Digital.

With Rodriguez’s name in the media, it turns out that she is suing the NYPD over her arrest during the George Floyd riots. The UK Daily Mail reports:

Rodriguez is suing the NYPD after she was arrested in 2020, during the George Floyd protests.

Rodriguez claims in her lawsuit that police officers pulled her hair, shoved her face into a gate and repeatedly punched her in the stomach.

She was arrested in the Bronx and put in a police van with 14 others. 

She had her hands restrained with zip ties, which she alleges were so tightly-bound for two hours they caused her lasting nerve damage, impacting her ability to create art.

Charges against her were dropped in September 2020: she is due in court in July for the next hearing in her suit. 

It strikes me as contradictory (but not surprising) that someone who turns to violence herself objects to and litigates alleged violence from others. But that’s the left for you.

Photo credit: YouTube screengrab

All of this could help explain why NAACP’s board chairman Leon Russell lives in Tampa Bay, and why at least five of his colleagues have traveled to Florida for vacation since DeSantis was first elected in 2018.

The NAACP's "travel advisory" does not cite any

figures, which show that black Floridians enjoy

lower unemployment, higher median incomes, and

lower rates of both hate crimes and police killings

than their counterparts in other states.

                                     JOSPEH SIMONSON


The NAACP Says Florida Isn't Safe for Black People. Data Tell a Different Story.

NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images).
May 23, 2023

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last week cautioned black Americans to stay out of Florida, claiming that the state’s "openly hostile" policies put them at risk. But a Washington Free Beacon review found that minorities are far more likely to be the victims of hate crimes in liberal states like California.

The NAACP's "travel advisory" does not cite any

figures, which show that black Floridians enjoy

lower unemployment, higher median incomes, and

lower rates of both hate crimes and police killings

than their counterparts in other states. Instead, the

group cites Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R.)

"aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to

restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in

Florida schools," particularly a bill that prevents

public schools from offering AP African American

Studies courses.

Left-wing activist groups have warned minorities against traveling to the Sunshine State in response to DeSantis’s educational reforms. The NAACP’s travel advisory comes after the League of United Latin American Citizens and the gay rights group Equality Florida issued similar warnings, the New York Times reported.

These warnings paint a much grimmer picture than

the reality of life in Florida. Black unemployment

in the state stood at 3.8 percent by the end of 2022,

far lower than the national average of 6.1 percent,

or California’s of 7.5 percent. Florida is second in

the country for the most minority-owned

businesses, which may explain why median black

family income is higher there than the national

average or blue states such as Illinois.

Those economic facts may also explain why Florida has one of the largest black populations in the country—and why it has grown from 1.9 million to 3.2 million in the last 30 years. That's much different from the troubling picture the NAACP paints in its advisory, which claims "Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals."

The NAACP warns black travelers to "be aware of the open hostility towards African Americans and people of color" in Florida. But blacks have enjoyed a higher degree of safety there than elsewhere. Florida law enforcement recorded 127 hate crimes in 2020, compared with 1,537 in California and 466 in New York.

Three years into DeSantis’s first term as governor, the state saw a significantly lower amount of hate crimes than California. The reported hate crime rate in Florida was 0.6 per 100,000 people, according to the FBI, and 3.1 per 100,000 people in California.

There is also evidence that blacks are far less likely to be killed by police in Florida than California or Washington, D.C. A 2019 study published in science journal The Lancet concluded that the black mortality rate due to police violence was lower than California, Oregon, Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, and others.

DeSantis's two successful gubernatorial campaigns

can be in part attributed to his success with black

voters. In both 2018 and 2022, DeSantis saw

double-digit support from the black community, far

higher than typical for a Republican candidate.

All of this could help explain why NAACP’s board chairman Leon Russell lives in Tampa Bay, and why at least five of his colleagues have traveled to Florida for vacation since DeSantis was first elected in 2018.

Neither Russell nor the NAACP responded to a request for comment

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