Lots of information about Derrick Bell’s radicalism is flooding out onto the web. Lots of Leftists are rushing to his defense. Others are coming out as authorities on Bell and the rancid critical race theory which he espoused. But there was this curious statement over at National Review Online about Bell from Stephen Thernstrom.
Thernstrom also notes that, “my other comment on this whole matter is that no one is going to find any tapes of Derrick Bell sounding remotely like Jeremiah Wright. Bell certainly was radical, but he had a mild and gentle personal style, with a soft southern accent.”
Southern accent? Bell was born in the Hill District in Pittsburgh and never lived in the South. He lived in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, D.C., Boston and New York. But that’s small potatoes, shall we say, compared to the absolution some are giving him on his radical statements. Not remotely like Jeremiah Wright? It depends on how you define remotely. Living “to harass white folks” and claiming the anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan is a “great hero for the people” sounds at least within shouting distance of the good Reverend. I’ll leave others to comment on the whiff of anti-Semitism in Bell’s Space Traders.
It’s time people start branding nasty racialism as nasty racialism and stop giving quarter simply to sound thoughtful.
Amen..
Wait, forgot MY Southern accent stuff. Amen y’all..
I’m a typical white folk who doesn’t buy any excuses for black racism. The cowards in power don’t want to have this long overdue conversation. Andrew lives.
“I don’t see what Obama’s opinion of Derrick Bell has to do with allowing club-wielding Black Panthers to stand in front of a polling place.” Jim Treacher
Jim must not follow things at DOJ too closely. Google Quin Hillyer at American Spectator on NYFD. That’s a good start to understanding what is going on. Lots more out there for those with eyes that see.
Just a few years ago they were saying there was nothing wrong about what “Reverend” Wright preached. Now they’re saying “well, this guy’s not as bad as Wright”? So they lied about Wright before?
“Bell certainly was radical, but he had a mild and gentle personal style, with a soft southern accent.”
Nobody picked up on this? Sounds a lot like Obama, no? This is how the O fools people into thinking he’s moderate—his personal style.