It still astounds me that people can repeatedly fall for this crap. These days the primary racism is reverse racism.
I grew up in Buffalo. Not a big city compared to the likes of Chicago, NYC, and so on. Still, I seen more black on white hate in my 18 years there because of the fact they believed whites are inherently racist than I ever saw white on black hate in my 41 years of living.
Yes, indeed. I keep it in my back pocket, so to speak, in the event someone confuses white achievements with racism. I sometimes wonder why the peoples from around the world who lived in countries where there were few to no whites, never achieved much of anything in medical advancements, technology, or buildings that are able to remain standing during earthquakes. Incidentally, it is my understanding that Fred Reed has been banished from the U.S. I enjoy your substacks!
Fred Reed got so fed up with the anti-white racism that he wrote this very long piece: Fred Reed, Unz Review, June 25, 2015
"I find Cornel West, a black professor, complaining of White Supremacy, which he believes our black President needs to remedy. Obama, he says, is “niggerized.”
“A niggerized black person is a black person who is afraid and scared and intimidated when it comes to putting a spotlight on white supremacy and fighting against white supremacy,” West said.
I would like to explain to Professor West a few things about this dread supremacy:
We have White Supremacy, Professor, because for 2500 years we, whites, have produced the best minds on the planet, the greatest flourishing of the arts and sciences ever seen, the most complex and organized societies. We have White Supremacy, whatever exactly it may be, because we have been the earth’s most successful race. No other has come close. Deal with it.
We put probes on Mars and invented the thousands of technologies needed to do it. We developed the symphony orchestra, the highest form of musical expression. We invented the airplane, the computer, the internet, and tennis shoes. Putting it compactly, we invented the modern world. A degree of privilege, however you may conceive it, goes with the territory.
Blacks may not have the background to grasp the extent of our achievements. Still, permit me a brief and very incomplete list of things white people have done or invented:
Euclidean geometry. Parabolic geometry. Hyperbolic geometry. Projective geometry. Differential geometry. Calculus: Limits, continuity, differentiation, integration. Physical chemistry. Organic chemistry. Biochemistry. Classical mechanics. The indeterminacy principle. The wave equation. The Parthenon. The Anabasis. Air conditioning. Number theory. Romanesque architecture. Gothic architecture. Information theory. Entropy. Enthalpy. Every symphony ever written. Pierre Auguste Renoir. The twelve-tone scale. The mathematics behind it, twelfth root of two and all that. S-p hybrid bonding orbitals. The Bohr-Sommerfeld atom. The purine-pyrimidine structure of the DNA ladder. Single-sideband radio. All other radio. Dentistry. The internal-combustion engine. Turbojets. Turbofans. Doppler beam-sharpening. Penicillin. Airplanes. Surgery. The mammogram. The Pill. The condom. Polio vaccine. The integrated circuit. The computer. Football. Computational fluid dynamics. Tensors. The Constitution. Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Homer, Hesiod. Glass. Rubber. Nylon. Roads. Buildings. Elvis. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. (OK, that’s nerve gas, and maybe we didn’t really need it.) Silicone. The automobile. Really weird stuff, like clathrates, Buckyballs, and rotaxanes. The Bible. Bug spray. Diffie-Hellman, public-key cryptography, and RSA. Et cetera.
As a race, Cornel, we are happy for you, for anyone, to enjoy the benefits of our civilization, but that is exactly what it is–our civilization. It has become a global civilization because others among the competent–again, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Koreans–have found it to be in technical matters superior. It came from us. They, I note, do not complain of White Supremacy or White Privilege. They are too busy making computers and money.
Now, Cornel, I have often heard blacks demanding reparations for slavery. All right. I agree. It is only fair. I will pay a half-million dollars to each of my slaves, and free them immediately. I am not sure how many I have, but will try to give you an estimate in even dozens. Further, I believe that all blacks are entitled to a similar amount for every year in which they were slaves."
That is quite the rant. I wouldn't agree that all of the things he cited are "good," or that all he mentioned came from "white" people, nor do I care for how he framed some of it, but he does make some very valid points.
Racism is bias. Humans have always identified "us vs them". It's a survival instinct. Anything that doesn't look like "us" might be a threat / danger. To reduce racism we need to see each other as more "us" than "them".
A major problem is mistaking education for intelligence. In the past, minorities didn't have as much education. Compound that over centuries and you teach whites that other minorities are "dumb" when in reality they are just less educated. This takes time to erase. We've made a lot of progress over the past fifty years.
The one thing you can't do is legislate away bias. This is the great mistake of all these "good intentions". In fact, it backfires a lot because it creates friction between races.
I grew up seeing only one race - the human race. We had made far more progress, but politicians since at least 2008 (maybe even back into the late 90s) brought racism to the forefront and fomented it. In the 80s and early 90s, so-called "race relations" were in a much better state than now. We have regressed tremendously over the past two-to-three decades because politicians needed a way to sell themselves since their policies are so bad, and division through racism garners votes.
Imagine the decades spent working toward desegregation and finally accomplishing it to now have people claim that segregation is a better way. Astonishing.
It still astounds me that people can repeatedly fall for this crap. These days the primary racism is reverse racism.
I grew up in Buffalo. Not a big city compared to the likes of Chicago, NYC, and so on. Still, I seen more black on white hate in my 18 years there because of the fact they believed whites are inherently racist than I ever saw white on black hate in my 41 years of living.
Yes, indeed. I keep it in my back pocket, so to speak, in the event someone confuses white achievements with racism. I sometimes wonder why the peoples from around the world who lived in countries where there were few to no whites, never achieved much of anything in medical advancements, technology, or buildings that are able to remain standing during earthquakes. Incidentally, it is my understanding that Fred Reed has been banished from the U.S. I enjoy your substacks!
Thank you Sylvia. Interesting that he would be banished. I wonder why.
Fred Reed got so fed up with the anti-white racism that he wrote this very long piece: Fred Reed, Unz Review, June 25, 2015
"I find Cornel West, a black professor, complaining of White Supremacy, which he believes our black President needs to remedy. Obama, he says, is “niggerized.”
“A niggerized black person is a black person who is afraid and scared and intimidated when it comes to putting a spotlight on white supremacy and fighting against white supremacy,” West said.
I would like to explain to Professor West a few things about this dread supremacy:
We have White Supremacy, Professor, because for 2500 years we, whites, have produced the best minds on the planet, the greatest flourishing of the arts and sciences ever seen, the most complex and organized societies. We have White Supremacy, whatever exactly it may be, because we have been the earth’s most successful race. No other has come close. Deal with it.
We put probes on Mars and invented the thousands of technologies needed to do it. We developed the symphony orchestra, the highest form of musical expression. We invented the airplane, the computer, the internet, and tennis shoes. Putting it compactly, we invented the modern world. A degree of privilege, however you may conceive it, goes with the territory.
Blacks may not have the background to grasp the extent of our achievements. Still, permit me a brief and very incomplete list of things white people have done or invented:
Euclidean geometry. Parabolic geometry. Hyperbolic geometry. Projective geometry. Differential geometry. Calculus: Limits, continuity, differentiation, integration. Physical chemistry. Organic chemistry. Biochemistry. Classical mechanics. The indeterminacy principle. The wave equation. The Parthenon. The Anabasis. Air conditioning. Number theory. Romanesque architecture. Gothic architecture. Information theory. Entropy. Enthalpy. Every symphony ever written. Pierre Auguste Renoir. The twelve-tone scale. The mathematics behind it, twelfth root of two and all that. S-p hybrid bonding orbitals. The Bohr-Sommerfeld atom. The purine-pyrimidine structure of the DNA ladder. Single-sideband radio. All other radio. Dentistry. The internal-combustion engine. Turbojets. Turbofans. Doppler beam-sharpening. Penicillin. Airplanes. Surgery. The mammogram. The Pill. The condom. Polio vaccine. The integrated circuit. The computer. Football. Computational fluid dynamics. Tensors. The Constitution. Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Homer, Hesiod. Glass. Rubber. Nylon. Roads. Buildings. Elvis. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. (OK, that’s nerve gas, and maybe we didn’t really need it.) Silicone. The automobile. Really weird stuff, like clathrates, Buckyballs, and rotaxanes. The Bible. Bug spray. Diffie-Hellman, public-key cryptography, and RSA. Et cetera.
As a race, Cornel, we are happy for you, for anyone, to enjoy the benefits of our civilization, but that is exactly what it is–our civilization. It has become a global civilization because others among the competent–again, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Koreans–have found it to be in technical matters superior. It came from us. They, I note, do not complain of White Supremacy or White Privilege. They are too busy making computers and money.
Now, Cornel, I have often heard blacks demanding reparations for slavery. All right. I agree. It is only fair. I will pay a half-million dollars to each of my slaves, and free them immediately. I am not sure how many I have, but will try to give you an estimate in even dozens. Further, I believe that all blacks are entitled to a similar amount for every year in which they were slaves."
That is quite the rant. I wouldn't agree that all of the things he cited are "good," or that all he mentioned came from "white" people, nor do I care for how he framed some of it, but he does make some very valid points.
Racism is bias. Humans have always identified "us vs them". It's a survival instinct. Anything that doesn't look like "us" might be a threat / danger. To reduce racism we need to see each other as more "us" than "them".
A major problem is mistaking education for intelligence. In the past, minorities didn't have as much education. Compound that over centuries and you teach whites that other minorities are "dumb" when in reality they are just less educated. This takes time to erase. We've made a lot of progress over the past fifty years.
The one thing you can't do is legislate away bias. This is the great mistake of all these "good intentions". In fact, it backfires a lot because it creates friction between races.
I grew up seeing only one race - the human race. We had made far more progress, but politicians since at least 2008 (maybe even back into the late 90s) brought racism to the forefront and fomented it. In the 80s and early 90s, so-called "race relations" were in a much better state than now. We have regressed tremendously over the past two-to-three decades because politicians needed a way to sell themselves since their policies are so bad, and division through racism garners votes.
Imagine the decades spent working toward desegregation and finally accomplishing it to now have people claim that segregation is a better way. Astonishing.
Agreed! We had made a lot of progress and now the government is going backwards and making the situation worse.