Andrew Breitbart, Derrick Bell and the Attack on Black Intellectuals

[jaxx]

Andrew Breitbart, Derrick Bell and the Attack on Black Intellectuals
Maya Wiley
March 8, 2012

Some political operatives work hard to drive wedges between us. And since this nation elected its first black president, these operatives have worked feverishly to stoke fear in the hearts of white Americans. One way they have done this is by literally telling white America that black intellectuals want them dead.

I wish I were exaggerating.

<..> We have many big problems we need to address in this nation—saving our homes, finding jobs that support our families, plugging into new sources of energy. The way we solve them is to think, talk, debate and work to advance solutions. Sometimes we advance solutions by fighting about them. Professor Charles Ogletree and Professor Derrick Bell have been intellectual leaders in a long tradition of calling on America to address racial unfairness. Professor Ogletree asks the nation to question our incarceration of huge numbers of black and Latino men. Professor Bell mounted a peaceful demonstration at Harvard to protest the fact that two black faculty members were, in his view as a colleague of theirs, unfairly denied tenure.

So the Andrew Breitbarts and Glenn Becks of the world tell us that it is racist to talk about race and tell white people to fear for their lives if black people talk about race. This is a profound attack on our national values of dialogue and debate. It is also a perverse strategy to attack a black leader by association—President Obama.

http://www.thenation.com/article/166695/...ellectuals

The wingers survive on fear. It allows them to buy mega guns and make accusations that are so far fetched that they must believe them. What else do they have without the fear and hatred?

[Brewman_Jax]

They don't like the idea of black people in any jobs or positions of power or influence. For these racist scumbags, black people should only be doing menial labor and leave the thinking to white males.

[KonaKane]

(03-10-2012 09:30 PM)Brewman_Jax Wrote:  They don't like the idea of black people in any jobs or positions of power or influence. For these racist scumbags, black people should only be doing menial labor and leave the thinking to white males.

That's why they take great pains to call Barack Obama "stupid" even though he is arguably one of the most intelligent, educated presidents we have ever had.

[jaxx]

(03-10-2012 09:32 PM)KonaKane Wrote:  

(03-10-2012 09:30 PM)Brewman_Jax Wrote:  They don't like the idea of black people in any jobs or positions of power or influence. For these racist scumbags, black people should only be doing menial labor and leave the thinking to white males.

That's why they take great pains to call Barack Obama "stupid" even though he is arguably one of the most intelligent, educated presidents we have ever had.

I think the wingers have hated anyone who went to Harvard since the days of JFK. It ain't Ole Miss ya know.

[Brewman_Jax]

(03-10-2012 09:46 PM)jaxx Wrote:  

(03-10-2012 09:32 PM)KonaKane Wrote:  That's why they take great pains to call Barack Obama "stupid" even though he is arguably one of the most intelligent, educated presidents we have ever had.

I think the wingers have hated anyone who went to Harvard since the days of JFK. It ain't Ole Miss ya know.

They aren't thrilled about black people going to Ole Miss, unless it's for sports. They were VERY unhappy when the Colonel Reb mascot was removed and rebel (aka Confederate Battle) flags in the stands were banned.

[Treestar]

On this subject. It's like the way they twist keeping other people from getting birth control coverage into "freedom of religion." They twist things around until they can claim they are the victims of racism. I know one who finds every case of black on white crime he can to "prove" blacks hate whites.