By Matthew Vadum ——Bio and Archives--August 21, 2015
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I would say temper your perspective with the urgency that black lives are actively under attack and we are in a terrible war with our own country, African-Americans are Americans and we are not treated like that. We are not treated as if black lives matter and when people say “all lives matter” it’s actually a violent statement because the only time that people say “all lives matter” is in opposition to black lives matter and it’s the most violent statement of love that you can do. It’s like “all lives matter!” yes, we understand that, it’s true, but in this country for the long time the United States acts like black lives don’t matter.
The term “black skin privilege” -- which is an indubitable fact of our social life -- hoists the racial hypocrites on their own petard. You want to talk about racism? Let’s talk about the racist attitudes and policies of progressives and lynch mobs of color that they inspire.(Horowitz and John Perazzo co-authored the David Horowitz Freedom Center pamphlet, "Black Skin Privilege and the American Dream." The PDF version of the pamphlet is available here.) There is no limit to the accolades heaped on racist black radicals and to the excuses their defenders in the media will manufacture. The New York Times Magazine published a long puff piece about young Black Lives Matter micro-bloggers DeRay Mckesson and Johnetta Elzie who endorse killing cops and rioting as legitimate forms of political activism. Both activists refuse to condemn violent activism. Mckesson and Elzie believe that the legacy of the Martin Luther King Jr. has been distorted. "He is held up as an avatar of genteel protest," the magazine author writes, "invoked by conservative politicians and leaders in the black community as a way to discredit their movement." But they "frequently point out that King was in fact a revolutionary who believed in the power of confrontation, and that it’s a crime against American history to confuse the real King with an appealingly passive one," the article states. "If you bring up nonviolence as the only civilized way to effect change, they will recite King’s words: 'A riot is the language of the unheard,' or they will say they don’t condone rioting, but they understand it," the article continues. The article notes, almost in passing, that black activist Ashley Yates "created T-shirts and hoodies that read 'ASSATA TAUGHT ME' — a reference to the former Black Panther Party member Assata Shakur — and that became part of the protest iconography." It leaves out the fact that Shakur is a fugitive who murdered a New Jersey State Trooper. Today's media fawns over the vile meanderings of black racist and fabulist Ta-Nehisi Coates. A professional whiner and race-baiter, Coates hasn't done much worthwhile in his life. Despite not having a college degree, he somehow blundered his way into a visiting professor gig at MIT. His fawned-over new memoir, Between the World and Me, is a wealth of "pseudo-Marxist legalisms in which 'black bodies' are the engines of commerce and culture on which a vast evil white conspiracy squats," according to Daniel Greenfield. The book is "bad poetry" and "a racist screed that masks its hatred in self-pity." "If it weren’t for the self-pity and the fake black preacher rhythm, you could easily imagine that Ta-Nehisi Coates just picked up some of Goebbels’ greatest hits and swapped out Aryan for Black," Greenfield writes. Coates, who fancies himself some kind of intellectual, writes in his book that the police officers and firefighters who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks “were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could — with no justification — shatter my body.” Coates writes "America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist ... One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen's claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard." His predictable answer to this invented dilemma is forcing U.S. taxpayers to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves. He'd prefer that laws not be enforced against African-Americans instead of risking the horrors of so-called racial profiling. He claims the popular backlash against New York City's small-c communist mayor Bill de Blasio is happening because the mayor has two (half) black children. He dismisses the threat posed by Islamists as irrelevant, claiming America has no right to judge terrorists "in a country built on theft, blood and slavery." Coates is richly rewarded for this racist, anti-American pabulum. He is "the beneficiary of big liberal media privileges," Greenfield opines. "He turned down a New York Times column while getting paid to blog about his thoughts on Spider-Man for The Atlantic. His only struggle is deciding which frustration with a taxi, waiter or butler to turn into a column about racism this week." In a book review, the New York Times hails Coates as a courageous soul who "speaks, unpopular, unconventional and sometimes even radical truths in his own voice, unfiltered." Acclaimed author Toni Morrison lauds the book for filling the "intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died." A Guardian (UK) reviewer slobbers, "I am in near-total agreement with Coates's view of this world we share." Slate drools that the book "is a monumental work about being black in America that every American urgently needs to read." U.S. News & World Report declares that Coates "writes in the tradition of black writers who have held the American dream up to the light and exposed its barrenness: Frederick Douglass asking, 'What to the slave is the Fourth of July?', Malcolm X proclaiming, 'I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.'" The Christian Science Monitor calls the memoir "a highly provocative, thoughtfully presented, and beautifully written narrative about the ongoing racial struggle in America." And so on and so on. Then there is Salon which is in a league of its own. As I wrote at FrontPage recently, the far-left commentary website Salon publishes morally reprehensible full-throated defenses of the Black Lives Matter movement whose supporters now openly endorse murdering cops and waging "war" against America. Salon cheered on the rioters in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., accepting as gospel the idea that blacks like Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, and Trayvon Martin were murdered by racist white people running wild. Black violence is routinely dismissed at Salon because it doesn't fit the Left's narrative. Black people are always victims and white people are always evildoers. Its writers embrace genocide against whites, claim the troubled Sandra Bland was murdered by the police, ignore black racism, claim Americans' supposed racism "can literally make black people ill," and claim white supremacist mass murderer Dylann Storm Roof is receiving preferential treatment in police custody because he benefits from "a textbook example of White Privilege." Its writers lie about almost all of the high-profile deaths of black Americans at the hands of police in recent years. It is worth noting that there are some black Americans who recognize the danger inherent in racializing everything. The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson warned of the dangers of applying double-standards to black Americans and coddling black leftists years ago.
I’ve been saying to white Americans for years now that they need to start speaking up, they need to get over this fear of being called a racist, because they have allowed this to happen for 50 years and they have trained other young blacks that Jesse Jackson and others can get away with intimidating us and you can do the same thing and now we have a far-left liberal socialist black Democrat who believes in the redistribution of wealth, he wants to take it from the white man and give it to those who are not earning their way because they’re trying to destroy the white man and that’s what this is about and if white people don’t get over the fear of being called racist it’s over for America.So far not too many people are listening. If they don't start paying attention soon, America in the not-too-distant future will become unrecognizable as a country, assuming the nation doesn't disintegrate before then.
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Matthew Vadum, matthewvadum.blogspot.com, is an investigative reporter.
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