The Hatred of Derrick Bell’s Afrolantica Legacies
“and salvation achievable”
“one that stretches toward the divine”
“For some a prophetic power”
In Afrolantica Legacies Bell relies on a number of religious, mystical, and occult literary devices. His New Age presentation of Critical Race Theory as a secular, political theology mirrors the black liberation theology Obama imbibed at Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United. Politics, religion, and “blackness” merge together to produce a cult.
And cults do real damage to people’s lives. Bell’s ideas have circulated into America and left scars. Here’s a question to ask the biracial members of Generations X and Y: growing up, did you experience more race-based harassment from whites for being half-black or from blacks for being half-white?
Critical race theorists like to claim that only white racism has any significance because only whites have power in America. Try telling that to someone who lives without power: a biracial child. How should they react to the story of Afrolantica? Will they get to go? And what might they think about their own parents upon reaching page 148 where Bell states, “white men do not find black women attractive or regard them as ‘women’ as they would white females”?
This is personal. I’m not writing with any hope that beating the drum about Obama’s radical history will turn the outcome of the election. My objective is to begin a self-fulfilling prophecy of my own: 15 years from now, when I have children, they will not live in a political culture that protects and trains their tormentors. The anti-white and antisemitic racists will receive the same condemnation as the anti-black racists. (As opposed to their own MSNBC shows.)
For that day to come, the discussion of Critical Race Theory must continue.
Next in Part 2: Bell describes how blacks can feel a “Euphoria of Freedom”…
What a hoot! Bell and Sowell do agree that Black are just mascots to much of white America.
The trouble is that Bell and the Obamaites forget that silence is not assent, simply it is just a sign that they are insignif. Marxists have no sense of proportion, and also can’t count. Mohammed Ali made the point that Blacks simply could not directly confront the system.
As an old professor put it about the school paper, when Dave Schneiderman was editor: the fewer that pay attention, the shriller they get.
Hasn’t having a homeland for blacks already been tried with Liberia?
Yes that is true but it was a homeland without power and so it abnegated them. What instead they want is a homeland cut from America, as their due for building it through slavery, that would give them all the assets contained wherein. Only then would there be social justice.
They built squat from slavery. They picked cotton and tobacco – period. Let them go to Liberia and be failures there. Liberia could have been anything they wanted. They chose a failed state.
Lolly, how would you fair if I dropped you in the Australian outback with not tools, education or infrastructure? That is what happened in Liberia. Not only were they not given the tools for survival, they were not sent anywhere near their home.
What few Americans know is most slaves came from North and Eastern Africa. Liberia is in the West. So the “returned” slaves who were not of the same tribes or languages were dropped in the wrong part of Africa where the locals did not speak any of their languages and the region was totally unfamiliar.
Under those conditions the former slaves were set up to fail. Meanwhile Whites simultaneously got rid of their embarrassing baggage as slaveholders without having to grant them citizenship or reparations. A rational mind can see that this was neither a kindness or justice.
‘Dropped into the Australian outback without tools’ etc; Well that’s what happened to the convicts (indentured slave labor) here in Australia 220 years ago- and somehow they made it a great country. It took 6 months for any supplies to come by tiny sailing ships so they just had to invent stuff and make do- same for New Zealand- altough conditions were less harsh. But I digress- compare and contrast the behavior of white societies to black societies. The recent earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand for instance- people were organised and helped the victims in NZ and Haiti is still a pile of rubble with the homeless living in tents and women and children being raped and beaten- just like the Superdome during Katrina. Actions speak louder than words Mo- and the only action for the betterment of black societies seems to be done by whites.
“I’m finished. We argued with our feet generations ago, by actions, not by huddling up to the progress of others with arcane explations about how an opportunity for progess had been stolen by us, by running from problems instead of staying, working and dying to solve them.
“Look what that accomplished – it has nearly destroyed the most sophisticated and bright cultures that ever existed. Once those successful cultures redesigned their houses to suit themselves, made them safe and decent, you arrived, with only one set of talents, the talent to exploit compassion, ignore law and have babies. You brought nothing to the table but an ability to mimic noble words, words you turned on the people who created them, words you didn’t yourselves understand, practice or create. In the end the table was thrown down.
“You think you’re unlucky, Silvana. Exploited. I think you incompetent, ignorant. And still we lift you up, all the way to the Promenade, and still you turn on us, just as before – it never ends.”
“We are not unlucky,” said Silvana. “You are lucky, lucky to have been born on the Promenade. Unlucky to be too stupid to know you live on an upgunned version of a Britetown whorehouse; too stupid to understand why both the Promenade and Britetown make women at once the most desired and marginalized thing in your worlds. How do you know we wouldn’t be having this conversation with you here and me there except for fate?”
“Hah.” said Samson. “Me and mine would be who we are no matter if you dropped us in a swamp. What ready-made paradise did we ever move into created by others? We created ourselves, not fate, just as I created you. Who would you be without us? Why don’t you make a shining brightness out of your shanties? You don’t because you can’t.
You lie.
Lived there. You are wrong.
Fredrick Douglass was a worker in a shipyard.
They built a fortune for their masters, who could then invent things and prosper things. They are right on this issue, but they forget the Golden Rule which their forefathers, slaves, often knew. Tragedy.
As I recall from reading a book on Malcolm X, he specifically proposed that California be given to the Negroes, as they were called then. At the time, California was one of the most prosperous states in the country. Nowadays, not so much. Hmm. Maybe this is an idea whose time has now come: let the blacks have California. It will be interesting to see what excuses they devise if California doesn’t become the Utopia they envision…
I’m sure la raza’s reaction to that would be popcorn worthy.
california? heck, let them have detroit. and see what happens. oh. wait..
Unfortunately, it would have to come with whites to manage it in any sort of civilised way. Blacks, on their own, have never made a civilised country. They have however, destroyed every country they’ve taken over, turning it back into primordial jungle in short order.
That means that in order to placate blacks, we must be their slaves. That is what it truly represents, and to think otherwise is just to completely deny history, and that is what Obama wants. He’s already well on the way.
Ah, Liberia…yes, the Americans ex slaves soon became the ruling caste, treating the locals as minions….at least they did up to the 1980′s or so, when Sargent Doe overthru the president and since then (to use one description) the country went kaput…
In the last few years, things are better and they have peace and a new (US trained) president, so hopefully things will improve in that country.
I totally disagree about why Jews are hated i.e. the cornerstone of Western Civ. Instead the reason is that they are a small portion of the total population like blacks that actually yield power and so refute black supremacists arguments of being a minority means no power but otoh it buttresses their arguments that color is everything. It is rather like biting the hand that feeds them; Jews have power, privilege and status something blacks do not, but at the same time they are also very supportive of blacks which in turn black racist leaders interpret as the power trying to keep them down by buying them off cheaply. This makes secular Jews respond by supporting black racialness all the more because it is being misunderstood & their own guilt of refuting their religion yet using its tribal structure for their advancement. Anti Jewishness is not only a weapon of black leaders but also of Jewish Marxist leaders i.e. using the very prop they disdain to get ahead via networking.
Denver Bob….
After reading and listening to Sowell, I would have to disagree. Sowell is the antithesis to Bells corrupt mind.
Whereas Bell is biased and oblique in his corruption, Sowell is straight forward and brilliant in his analysis.
Too bad “The Anointed One” did not chose to listen to Sowell instead of the racist rants of Bell.
The good professor has a little trouble with grammar and vocabulary.
Wow, the faux controversies never end with you people. But, hey, you’ve got to do something with your Obama Derangement Syndrome, huh?
Anybody . . . A.N.Y.B.O.D.Y. . . that references Andrew Brietbart with admiration or uses the work “journalism” in the same sentence is going to automatically be looked at as a joke because Breitbart was a joke. Haven’t you figured that out yet? And what more fitting final testament to that could we have than the tape of of Obama introducing Derrick Bell back in his college days. Did you notice that no one else but you kool-aid-crazed cretins even raised an eyebrow? Probably not.
Even if what you said was true, Breitbart is not the GOP any more than the Trayvon Martin shooting is America.
However an expose comparing the incredibly racist remarks of the mainstream black press, celebrities and academics, juxtaposed with the writings of Nazis in 1930s Germany, would make for interesting reading.
When Stormfront.org starts having ads for GM, Facebook and Marriott Inns like black hate sites, let me know. I’ll slap them back into their mud hole if you’ll slap Henry Gates, Jr. into his.
Wow, where did you learn to converse with adults by engaging in a childish name-calling rant? I learned so much about your opposition to Breitbart’s work from your information-laden post. (Is sarcasm recognizable to you, I wonder?)
While I’ve read many conclusory allegations against Breitbart—and in the natural course of the logic of discussion, each such writer thus marking himself as a kind of mere and railing nut-job—I’ve read not even one such, supported in presentation with specific item and applicable logic: just in simple support of reasonable discussion, how ’bout if even one of Breitbart’s detractors would make even one cogent sentence, in reason, showing how and in what way Mr. Breitbart was such a bad guy?
Then, for the phrase: “Anybody . . . A.N.Y.B.O.D.Y. . . that references Andrew Brietbart with admiration . . . .” instead of: “Anyone . . . A.N.Y.O.N.E. . . who references Andrew Breitbart with admiration . . . .”, the supposed offerings in knowledge of anyone (any writer) who has not yet apprehended the correct use of the conjunctive “that” and the personal definitive “who”, are immediately held as suspect—but even more so, as here, when incorrect usage of them is employed in criticism of a fellow being.
Also, some basic familiarity with the Anglo-Saxon roots of language and knowledge will manifest to the writer the rules showing why, as in “Breitbart”, the “i” goes after the “e”, and not as our struggling “Obi-jonKenobi” would have things: “Brietbart”; one immediate advantage being that, knowing the rules, our flailing writer would not have to use up valuable brain-power just trying to remember things such as why some elements of grammar are this way, and some are that way.
Further, and in the way of abutment, in reckoning probabilities about the logic of discussion, that, “Brietbart” was not a simple typographical error, but was error in understanding, is suggested by the presence, in the bald and otherwise poorly put comment, of other manifest errors in understanding and logic, . . .
Some book-larnin’ might help, . . .
Some light reading for you to strengthen the foundation of your obviously detailed and extensive expertise in the English language. Specifically on the I before E rule, flawed that it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_before_E_except_after_C
You missed the clue in Germanic roots in language and knowledge, and use of true vowel sounds, Pal: Correct spelling of the name, “Breitbart” has nothing to do with ‘i’ before ‘e’, except after ‘c’, . . .
But then, . . . one would have to be able to recognize a German name “Breitbart” and apply the German language rule of unvarying sound and spelling and adherence to pure vowel sounds: the “e” sounding like “ah-h-h”, and the “i” like “e-e-e-e”.
Not at all difficult if you know anything about Breitbart’s family, and the Ashkenazi background of most American Jews. My name used to be Weinberg, so I have an advantage. But ignorance is the worst of all excuses…
As Soros must ramp up the Troll Empire to make it appear that there really are way more supporters of Obama than there truly are, quality suffers.
This is necessary because he can’t plausibly commit huge electoral fraud with the overloaded anti-Obama comments sections all over the web standing as witness to his crime. Even the New York Times comments are almost 50-50 on Obama, that from the Unholy Bible of stupid rampant leftism.
Along the same lines, what would election monitors say if, say, 90% of Whites voted for Romney? Wouldn’t they be very suspicious? Don’t we laugh knowingly when Putin or some other tinpot dictator gets 90%? So, how come nobody says a thing when Obama got 90% of the black vote? It is beyond preposterous that this was accomplished without massive ballot box stuffing. I give much more credit to blacks than that.
To say the American voters were aware of Obama’s love affair with a Negro radical is like saying the Germans were aware that Hitler would lead them into WWII and abject ruin. Obi, you just keep up the ranting and you will have your place in Obama’s land – assuming you can suck up enough to get ahead of the Chicago Negro mob.
we live beyond interesting times. it’s actually rather sci-fi as i can tell. let’s see. we have egyptian and jordanian arabs making up a “people” out of whole cloth, the Fakenstinians. compleat with a fairytale history, jew hatred, and the claim to a state that never existed. except, of course, in the minds of those with swiss bank accounts and the slobbering desire to live in paris.
so, why not Derek Bell?
authors noam chomsky and others of his ilk make up nasty wrong-headed things all the time. so does that guy who believes we are, or were or are supposed to be, lifeforms from outer space, including tom cruise. and, so forth.
obama’s mentors’ list appearing on an episode of south park would be no surprise. seeing as how closely it resembles eric cartman’s, obama’s dark (er, white) twin.
anyway, so long andrew goodman and mickey schwerner. and bye bye american pie.
Even a casual reading of history in the Mediterranean and how empire’s attract people from all over leads one to believe the notion of an indigenous population in the West Bank is suspect. For example, Mohamed Ali, famous in Egypt and revered, was a Albanian from Macedonia. His dynasty ruled for 150 years.
Yassir Arafat himself was from Cairo. Tons of subjects from all over the Ottoman empire descended on Egypt; one can presume there was a lot of that in the present day West Bank over 4 centuries. That means they didn’t simply go home but stayed and became part of the environment. It’s doubtful there is anything like a Palestinian people, other than including whoever happened to be there in 1967 which could be an awful lot of people from an awful lot of places.
“white men do not find black women attractive or regard them as ‘women’ as they would white females”
He’s right on that part. at least to my taste. I find black women much more attractive. That’s why I’ve married a black women.
My kids won’t give a flying spit about what that Bell has to say. They are way to smart to pay attention to such baseless ideas.
. . . . don’t know just which point our dear “Homer”‘s comment did attempt, but, to see in print, some sensible predicate on his topic: in every culture, women are expected to “marry up” (In Moslem nations, of course, that cannot be done.). When a Black woman marries a white man, say, she with her children are added to the superior culture—as a practical matter, women tend to follow the husband’s leadership, . . . in many things, and things which, in the inferior cultures are simply unavailable (Whether or not, the so-called “White culture” or “Anglo culture” is preferred, let each decide for himself.).
And in deference to completeness, in the nature of things, there are of course, those—fools, so I think—who say that, thus is the so-called gene-pool thereby corrupted, . . . but again, fools, . . .
And while for possible cant in this way, I’m not married to a woman of minority extraction, I do remain open to that; for, in reading the narrative of Moses marrying the Egyptian woman, it appears as quite arguable that, should a man of the superior culture take a wife of minority extraction, he stands—so to speak—to get points with G0D; though not explicitly so stated, but yet, for G0D’s firm reproof against Miriam’s and Aaron’s disdainful treatment of Moses, so it doth appear, . . .
Everyone into the gene pool!
The more about Derrick Bell that is refreshed/published, the more he comes across as a sad, isolated man. His entire academic product seems to have done nothing more than inspire a small number of another generation to seek their own, individual, and radical views. But his own scholarly output seems to have never gained any serious traction. For all intents and purposes, it has perished as a serious academic endeavor. Perhaps I give it too much credit by suggesting it may have ever been taken seriously.
But what has any black radical done for America? Look at Micheal “I talk too fast to really understand what I’m saying but it sounds good to me” Dyson, Mark “O’Really likes me” LaLaMont Hill, Cornell “I’ve had this beard for 100 years” West. What have any of them done? Nothing. Each of them share the same schict- exposing white racism everywhere.
But colleges and universities give them the red carpet treatment because they need the black person on campus to look diverse.
If the above nitwits and the others like JJ, Sharpton and those in Congress are what lead blacks then they are hopelessly ruined as a race.
As he so often does, Dr. Stowell cut to the heart of the matter: Bell was given tenure at Harvard for social reasons, not due to academic excellence.
Sotomayor acknowledges that her educational opportunities were not because she was the most qualified, but because of her gender and ethnicity. Michelle Obama, rising from humble beginnings is educated at Princeton and Harvard Law; secures a mid-six figure income, but has no reason to be proud to be an American before her husband is nominated to be president.
Self respect comes from success in free and fair competition; it cannot be endowed or bestowed. The recipient of unearned honors is the most sensitive to the emptiness of false recognition. Not only is false honor without merit but it invalidates all earned awards or honors to the recipient as it begs the question “was the honor deserved or is it more empty praise”? Typically the recipient presumes that everyone else also sees them as false honors. Honorary PhD’s are an excellent example: if the recipient expects to be called “Dr.” it’s seen by others as mere puffery.
In the absence of actual scholarship, the attempt to appear worthy often results in pseudo-scholarship; or outlandishly foolish false philosophies; or the projection of relationships with radicals that only the hippest admire: the academic equivalent of the childhood “invisible friend”.
This could be harmless and merely pathetic except for the embrace of these charlatans by multitudes of wannabes eager to presume sophistication by being their adherents.
Amazing the depth of stupidity of the left. Did they learn all this bovine scatology in school, uh public indoctrination institute, or did they come up with it through some sort osmosis with sewer effluent? I sincerely hope they get some truth knocked into their heads when the zero gestapo comes for them.
Ron
His writing is awful, almost unreadable.
But, isn’t it just wonderful? For worthless and destructive nonsense, could a driveling representative, more plain, possibly be imagined, for: “There is no counsel against the Lord.”?
What exactly does Mel Gibson’s obvious mental trials have to do with Bell? Why are the incidents with the Eszterhas family included in this article? As current events upon which Bell’s thinking has influence? As an example of psycho-sexual aberration? Whaaa! So out of place! This unfortunate man, for whom I have the greatest sympathy, is crude and mean when his alcoholism takes front and center. Again, why this inclusion in an article having to do with Bell’s influence on Obama?
Thank you, Mr. Swindle, for slogging through Derrick Bell’s unreadable festival of delusion so that we won’t have to. I couldn’t have performed such a service!
Yes ! Thank you for this great work !
We need to know all this, but digging so deep into this cr** must be absolutely disgusting.
Thank you.
Anyone who still doubts that the roots of fascism come from Leftist ideology, or that Leftists aren’t virulent racists, should read this book.
While it is not the most agreeable task to wade through the massive pile of steaming excrement that is “Dr.” Bell’s opus of insanity. I applaud your efforts to bring into the discussion his theology. By understanding the good Dr.s’ psychosis we as a society can use this as a tool to weed out the thistles in the garden.
Admittedly, I actually don’t find black women attractive, but it has almost entirely to do with their hair. And for me, its black and ONLY black women who are incapable of turning me on. Asian, Middle Eastern, Hindi, Hispanic… all of those are just fine. But I’ve never met or seen a non-mixed-race black woman I was sexually attracted to.
From what I’ve read of this science-fiction-like story, it might have qualified for the back of a 3rd rate SF pulp in 1946. Maybe. That’s what happens when you simply trust and admire by skin. IQ’s go up, talent, morality, killing 51 people becomes okay and beating a career criminal is not.
In fact, Afrolantica exists; it’s called Haiti, but I don’t think it’s quite what they had in mind and there are few people to blame other than themselves.
Interesting. Imagine a land populated with the morals of Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Farrakhan and their ilk. Where Ebonics is the language of the land; where Tawana Brawley moments are a constant; where this culture is 100% of both the population & it’s crime, instead of just 13% & 50%; where there is no room for actual truth; where…Hold. You already have this paradise–it’s called Liberia and it is accurately representative of this failed culture. Me thinks such a culture could be given every advantage (again) and still fail as miserably. You can take the man out of the ghetto, but getting the ghetto out of the man is another matter.
You Americans will continue to pay this racial piper forever, awash in your own White guilt, expiated however many times, from the Civil War (500k dead) through every one of Trillions of Dollars devoted to the New Society/Deal/Civil Rights Act/Affirmative Action, etc. It is a vortex with no way out. God bless you all
Has anyone noticed that both Bell and Louis Farrakhan have a flying saucer/aliens as centers of their thinking. Farrakhan and Elijah Mohammed both made many references to aliens coming from the “mother ship” and giving them guidance, help, etc.
So does Bell.
Are they both crazy? Probably.
Do they both support illegal aliens. Yes.
Are they both dangerous? Decidely.
Does Obama follow both men. Yes, Farrakhan thru the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
I wonder if Obama ever saw the movie “Mars Attacks”? There are real lessons in this sci-fi spoof for Obie to learn.
Interestingly, much of your thesis may be confirmed by this 14-year-old brief piece by NYT writer Neil Lewis.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/04/05/reviews/980405.05lewist.html
Let them try to walk that back!
Complete objectivity is an illusion. The human race is still evolving. Thus, it seems foolish, nay, the pinnacle of arrogance, to condemn an entire race, any race, unless one has found the vantage point from which human evolution can both be perceived and understood. Even then, such condemnation will be prevented by an accompanying knowledge of human reality, which these comments do not represent. Nor do they respect the forces of history and its primary law, the law of “change”.
The present period is when historic barriers between nations and races are crumbling. Previous forms of human interaction are becoming outmoded.
One can easily image how, centuries from now, history books will treat this period in human evolution as the time when all racialists precepts and presumptions fell under their most critical examination. So these largely well-written comments, here and elsewhere, on descendents of former slaves in America will contribute greatly towards shaping future perceptions of how even the most brilliant “white” people attempted to maintain their sense of cultural superiority by using quantitative materialism and the ability to mimic traditional forms of governance as key metrics. As well, Bell’s and others reactionary and highly imaginative racial ideas.