Derrick Bell’s Afrolantica, Part 8: We Have a Right to Your Property
Part 1: A Guided Tour Through Derrick Bell’s Afrolantica Legacies
Part 2: A ‘Euphoria of Freedom’
Part 3: What Could it Mean to Be White?
Part 4: The Wages of Antisemitism
Part 5: Thomas Jefferson, A Symbol of American Racism
Part 6: Why Meritocracy Must Die
Part 7: Unemployment Creates Crack Dealers
On page 22, Geneva Crenshaw (Bell’s idealized proponent of his Critical Race Theory theology) responds to the fictional speech given by President Clinton:
“…whites have chosen to protect their sense of belonging based on skin color over alliances with blacks that would have improved all of our lives.”
Thus, the capitalist system bears responsibility for a minority of minorities living in poverty. And since capitalism produces these disparities in racial achievements, capitalism itself is racist. (Bell rejects race-neutral and cultural explanations for inner city pathology.) Because free market economies lead to racist conclusions, this means that anyone who isn’t a socialist is a racist whether they realize it or not.
“We have not been passive in seeking our rights but even our best efforts seem to translate into more property for whites and more promises for blacks.”
When Bell refers to “seeking our rights” here he uses the term in the same way as Barack Obama and today’s mainstream Democrats, in the context of what government “must do on your behalf.” Rights = other people’s property that they acquired by luck and that progressives must redistribute to counteract the innate, permanent racism in American society. You have a Right for someone else to pay for your health care. You have a Right to have someone else supply your birth control pills.
Of course this political tradition has deeper roots in the Democratic Party than the Alinskyite infiltration of Obama’s cohort…
How much longer can it be before the 2nd American Civil War starts? God knows everyone’s loaded, locked and ready for action already. Ruger’s even refusing to take new orders because they’re so backlogged.
I’ll paraphrase what Lincoln said: I don’t know which side will prevail in this divided house, but I do expect that we will cease to be divided.
What government “must do on your behalf.”
Oh the implied threat there is plain enough: “Or Else.”
The Communist ideas of creating a society in which everyone does his best for the good of everyone is appealing and fundamentally a more uplifting idea than capitalism. Communism’s only real weakness seems to be that it doesn’t work.
– Andy Rooney
“whites have chosen to protect their sense of belonging based on skin color over alliances with blacks….” Why would I want to ally myself with someone that thinks that I am the devil incarnate and wants to appropriate everything that I have? Take a look at the recent histories of Zimbabwe and South Africa and weep, and then realize that this is what Bell wants.
I really appreciate your exposing CRT and Bell in depth.
We no longer have to speculate as to murky motives or philosophical bent.
Thank you!