Touring Derrick Bell’s Afrolantica, Part 2: A ‘Euphoria of Freedom’
Who needs to be eliminated to create the ideal society?
March 20, 2012 - 5:17 am
Click here for Part 1 of this series exploring the ideas of Critical Race Theory through Derrick Bell’s 1998 book Afrolantica Legacies.
“Only African Americans were able to breathe and survive there.”
“The first black visitors reported a sense of well-being, a ‘euphoria of freedom’ one called it, that they had never known in America.”
“Millions of blacks were determined to move to this new land, to begin an ideal society.”
Observe the end goal here. Bell’s utopia is not that Americans of all skin colors embrace one another. Instead, he sought to inspire a “euphoria of freedom” through the fantasy of an “ideal society” without Jews.
After the Civil War the freedmen were offered a chance to be transported back to Africa to the area that is now Liberia. Not unreasonably they flatly refused. I find it rather amusing that the more radical Civil Rights leadership wants a seperation of the races, a goal that the KKK has endorsed for decades. These roosters are very protective of their dungheap and until the Afro-American community kicks them out and integrates into the larger society they are doomed to be at best well paid government serfs and at worst perpetual wellfare clients.
Very interesting observation.
It’s rather interesting seeing what has happened in Liberia, which is essentially Afrolanta. I wonder what Bell would say went wrong there?
Dr. Bell is dreaming of what happened in Haiti. As I understand it, Haiti’s history is very nearly that of Dr. Bell’s vision.
And, as we all know, Haiti is a paragon of civility and justice to all.
Like OsoPardo said, it’s been tried before. How long would it take for some of them to realize that some are more Hutu and some are more Tutsi? New Yorkers and Texans don’t really get along either. Well, New Yorkers could probably tolerate Texans from Austin for a little while.
One man’s euphoria is a billion people’s hell. Can you imagine being inspired by this man? And yet the man at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue bonded with Bell, Book (Alinsky) and Candle (the fire-breathing hatred of Wright). What an unholy trinity to inspire a life.
Did Bell, or many of the other hustlers, ever actually go to Africa?
I could understand his illusion if he had visited the sexually agressive young ladies of St. Thomas in the Caribbean. Ghana and Sierra Leone also used to be very relaxed and pleasant. Used to be.
Malcolm X went to Islamic North Africa; upon his return, he declared that Black America must integrate. The excessively corrupt Elijah Muhummed was promoting a seperate Black Muslim breakaway state in Mississippi, and had Malcom shot for his heresy.
Muhummed then went on to designate Louis Farrakhan as his heir to the throne of the Nation of Islam.
Sorry. Muhummed as also getting a very great deal of money from both Moscow and the Democrats. He had 23 ‘wives’ to feed. As well as a lot of Panthers to arm and supply with heroin for the revolutionary trade. All with a wink and a nod from certain law enforcement officials in our government.
again, sorry. Much of the ‘trade’ money was invested in real estate and payoffs in those Republican strongholds, Chicago and Philadelphia.
and Oakland!
What does this have to do with Jews? It seems to me the author simply doesn’t want anyone non-black, including Jews, whites, hispanics, etc.
That’s not specifically anti-Jew, it’s anti-anyone not black!
D