Touring Derrick Bell’s Afrolantica, Part 4: The Wages of Antisemitism
"Jewish groups utilize their formidable economic power to intimidate blacks into halting actions that Jews find offensive."
March 22, 2012 - 6:00 am
On page 98 we get to the crux of the matter:
“… I am moved to his side [Farrakhan's] by the ‘take no prisoners’ attitude of his attackers; for example, when Benjamin F. Chavis, the former NAACP executive director, warned his Anti-Defamation League (A.D.L.) counterpart, Abraham Foxman, that continued A.D.L. attacks on Farrakhan could create precisely what Jewish leaders say they fear: black anti-Semitism.”
Bell believed that the Jews were the guilty party in inspiring others to hate them. How is this doctrine different from Peter Beinart’s claim that settlement construction motivates the Palestinians to refuse peace with Israel? And why would the Obama administration object to new apartments in Jerusalem?
There can be no discussion of Bell, Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, Danny Davis, Alice Palmer, Don Warden, the new Blank Panters, Frank Marshall Davis, Eric Holder.
None, David.
There are a myriad of intertwined reasons for this.
1)The conversation would necessarily be harsh. When it comes to criticizing black overreach, black bad behavior, black treachery or black traitorism, it begins, ends and is wholly consumed by the adjective and the verbs and nouns never make an entrance. Once it is identified as a “black” anything, that is all it is and all it ever will be.
2)The “race card” trumps all facts, all evidence, all documents, all video, all speeches, all words, all ideas, all concepts. It is used as a sword AND a shield. Slavery is the sin that stains the great-great-great grandsons of slave owners AND sons of abolitionists as long as they are “white”.
It is uncleansable. And all roads lead to Rome, Georgia.
3)Black radicalism and the game of footsie black radicals play with small c communists is an open secret. Blacks have a very visceral reaction to the “Asian Invasion” where Pacific Rim immigrants come here speaking a different language, with little or no money and dominate the educational and small business scene with success after success.
It dampens (nearly destroys) the narrative of a “white societal advantage” that is the trading card of black radicals. When the failure to thrive does not cross neatly into other racial narratives, it requires a pretzel-bending about all groups that carries not a whiff of logic to it.
4)To suggest that the free market is simply a reflection on the cultures that play in it, an economic mirror…is a horrible thing for black radicals to gaze upon. The envy and enmity that gets heaped on Jews (and whites) is the tarp over that mirror.
Asians simply refuse to play the weak sister game, protesting the man in the mirror and suggesting that it’s somebody else’s fault.
5)Hispanics are divided on which path to travel. Take the blame whites and Jews for failure or simply build a culture based on success, not complaint. They do not have slavery to fall back on as the ultimate trump card. And, it is a bit hard for the offspring of the conquistadors to bleat out a “victim of conquering” foundational cornerstone of victimhood.
6)Too much of the black community, including…especially…the Fabian in the White House, grew up being mentally poisoned into the hucksterism of small c communism and with a strong bias against the free market.
The hippies, the dippies, the doofus left and the hard core communist revolutionaries sort of blended into a traitors melange of half-baked ideas, invented slanders and a menu of ginned up charges that have utterly zero basis in facts or truth to keep the game alive. To pump adrenaline in a dead concept and to keep their victims as a permanent underclass. Achievement and success would destroy the narrative. This is why the small c communists and black radicals are most responsible for keeping that culture down.
That’s a harsh conversation. It will never be had.
One side is too timid and the other is too invested. You can dress up a radical in a coat and tie ….Eric Holder, Obama, Van Jones, Farrakan, Jeremiah Wright, Bell. But don’t be fooled. It’s overthrow on their minds.
And hippie dippie leftists will provide them all the cover they need. Especially in the conspiratorial media. It serves both their needs.
Eric Holder was right. We are cowards when it comes to the discussion of race. In fact, he’s banking on it.
Excellently said.
If Michelle and Barry were agitating for hiring more professors like Derrick Bell at Harvard, they were agitating for morons.
Louis Farrakhan (JWright also an admirer of, his church gave Farrakhan some award) is a virulent and disgusting anti-Semite, by any sentient being’s measure of such.
Some of your points are reflected n a vignette from another PJM article today by Abraham Miller:
“The ego must defend itself. We are not about to be objective about our limitations. We are going to rationalize our experiences. If we are found wanting, we are going to denounce the standards that make it so.
A colleague once returned a graduate examination in statistical methods. The single black student in class stood up from his chair, pounded on the seminar table, and screamed, “This examination is racist!”
My shocked colleague asked, “How could it be racist? It’s all statistics. There’s no substantive content here.”
To which the student responded, “It’s racist because I’m the only black student in the class, and I obviously got the lowest grade.”
Sometimes when a golem is summoned to do its master’s work, it becomes violent and uncontrollable.
Bell himself touched on these themes. He felt the substantial backing Black rights movements received from Jews (MLK’s advisers were Jewish, >2/3rds of “freedom riders” were Jewish, 1965 Immigration Act), were self-serving, and motivated by a desire to weaken the dominant White Christian culture, rather than lifting up Blacks.
Disagree? Look at many of the articles posted on PM today – the bashing of White males in modern media, the cultural wages of Affirmative Action, etc. You will pardon my playing of a tiny violin. I’m rather busy surveying the wreckage of my culture and people.
Many thanks to David swindle for martyring himselfby reading Derrick Bell’s racist and anti-semetic hate writings. I remember being in tears in high school when my history teacher played the Nazi kristolnaught (sp?) Reels. My heart broke th#t there was not enough good people to stand up against this great wrong. I believed the world had learned never to allow anti-semistism and genocide to occur again. I am thirty years older and am again in near tears to see the ideas of Hitler, Farrikan, Bell, Obama, Holder, Islamisists have a believing audience. Will there be enough of us to speak up and call the racists in the black, Latino and Muslim community the racist and anti-semites that they are before another war? How many Jews and Christians must die in the middle east and elsewhere before we call Islam and black racists the cults of hate that they are? Where other religions have evolved into the 21st century, when will Islam and black racisits acknowledge the rights of the individuals, regardless of race, sex or religion?
While Arabs are killing and enslaving Blacks in Africa with Israel being the only country in the Middle East where those Blacks (who aldo happen to be Muslim) can fiond refude, Farrakan is attacking Jews. Says a lot about this Uncle Tom.
Treyvon never lived in a Japanese internment camp.