This is how a public university defends its values? By effectively evicting and contemplating expulsion for those who express hate for others based on their race? Is sending the white students packing even responsible? Is it educational? Whatever happened to the adage, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me”? And what about the principle of passionately rebutting outbursts of racism with speech of one’s own, while loving the racists? It’s that value to which Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. subscribed.
Michael Meyers of the NY Daily News bemoaned the University of Oklahoma's decision to hold it's Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter accountable for their Racist conduct. If Darren Wilson isn't punished for killing a black teen, who could justify or stomach White juveniles being reprimanded for singing about lynching a nigger?
Astonishingly, Meyers' plea for tolerance and mercy for the Sooner transgressors is not widespread. All members of the Oklahoma SAE chapter were suspended by their national organization, the chapter is banned from campus, the White students ordered to vacate their frat house, and two members (Levi Pettit, Parker Rice) have been expelled.
My counter-racist code demands that I not help Whites/Racists to the best of my ability. But the rampant, shameless White hypocrisy this incident has unleashed requires me to briefly channel Annalise Keating/Aibileen Clark and help the pounced upon SAE brotherhood.
Ann Telnaes, the president of the Univ. of Oklahoma David Boren and a host of others grabbed their rocks and commenced to throwing as if their house wasn't glass. As if they weren't members of the same White brotherhood/sisterhood that birthed, nourished, groomed, protected and instructed SAE. As if they weren't Racist.
As if SAE's Racist spectacle is an oddity, a deviation from the global White Supremacy norm.
A party at Clemson University has some of the student body upset. The party, held on Martin Luther King Junior day, poked fun at racial stereotypes with partygoers dressed in blackface and other offensive gear. Pictures from the event show one man who'd painted himself black, and other students gripping bottles of malt liquor with their hands duct-taped to the bottles. The theme of the party was 'Living the Dream.' Jan. 2007
Some Arizona State University fraternity students posted horrendously offensive photos of themselves dressed in basketball jerseys, bandanas, drinking out of watermelons and throwing gang signs in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., Day. Jan. 2014
An incident involving Wheaton College football players who dressed up in Ku Klux Klan robes as part of a parody of the Will Smith film "Bad Boys II" has rocked the college's campus, which already has been reeling from two other recent high-profile incidents. March 2015
A white student walking down the hall of her dormitory at Wheaton College found a noose hanging near the door of a black dormmate three weeks ago. It was the sixth apparently racist incident to occur at the college in the last two years. Nov. 1983
Two student associations at Lund University in southern Sweden have been reported for hate speech after a party featuring the sale of "slaves" complete with blackened faces and ropes around their necks. April 2011
It's a grotesque lie to trivialize the SAE footagee as youthful tomfoolery, a tragic mixture of booze and naivete, or a lone blemish to otherwise burgeoning race relations. White elders brazenly, perpetually carry out identical Racist rituals. Andrea Shea King announced to a live radio audience that Congressional Black Caucus members should be lynched in front of the US Capitol Building for opposing Prime Minister Netanyahu's address to congress. Kelly Tilghman told a live television audience that uppity Tiger Woods should be hung from a tree. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Department (Ohio) investigated five deputies (two were fired) for sending racist text messages for years. Those texts included - but were not limited to: “I hate Niggers. That is all.” “What do apples and black people have in common? They both hang from trees." And according to the Department of Justice investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, Darren Wilson's former colleagues have a lot in common with the boys of SAE.
This video is just the latest illustration of White Culture. The most recent reminder of what it means to be White. Hopefully, the straw that permanently cracks the spine of the cock-and-bull notion that young Whites are rehabilitated, not Racist.
One of the few things worse than the faux White outrage directed at Oklahoma is the repulsive, bogus spectacle of Senators Jeff Sessions, Rob Portman, former president George "doesn't-care-about-black-people" Bush and the White occupation of Selma. Whites invest enormous sums of time and energy creating photo ops that suggest a sizable portion of Whites are not racist and value black lives. Whites allocated more resources to parade across a bridge named after a KKK member, than to earnestly examine and report the death of Gregory Johnson, Jr.
Mr. Johnson was a 20-year-old student at San Jose State University in 2008. He made the unfortunate decision to reside in the all White Sigma Chi Fraternity House; he was the sole black resident. He was found dead in the Sigma Chi basement on November 22, 2008. Much like LaVena Johnson, Kendrea Johnson, Khalid Flimban and Lennon Lacy... Mr. Johnson's death was deemed a suicide. To quote Quentin Tarantino, "No one who'll be missed."
The Johnson family was justifiably unsatisfied with the suspicious death of Gregory. They've resiliently pursued the truth, and their examination lead them to query the Federal Bureau of Investigation. FBI officials reportedly denied them further information on the death of Gregory Johnson, Jr. on the grounds that it was "a matter of national security." Consequently, the Johnsons filed a $520 million federal lawsuit against SJSU, the University police and Sigma Chi Fraternity. SJSU is also facing a $5 million suit from Donald Williams. In 2013 Williams was an 18-year-old black freshman subjected to ongoing and unpunished White Terrorism from his roommates; they violently assaulted him and called him "3/5" and fraction.
The election of President Obama preceded both occurrences; neither incident provoked the tsunami of finger-wagging and White hand-wringing elicited by SAE's tacky ditty. Gregory Johnson, Jr.'s family could have benefited from the national wrath and expedience demonstrated in Norman, Oklahoma. If #BlackLivesMatter, Denise Johnson might have a more accurate understanding of why her child is dead. In fact, she'd still have her son.
Founded in 1856 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, SAE has its roots in the antebellum South. When the Civil War began, almost all its members fought for the Confederacy.
Tuscaloosa is approximately 76 miles from Selma. It seems reasonable that some of the White brutes who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson and sadistically mauled Congressman John Lewis and dozens more might be descendants of SAE architects.
Norman is 122 miles from Tulsa. It seems equally possible that some of the SAE members or general students compromising a University of Oklahoma enrollment topping 30,000 carry the genetic memory of White ancestors who slaughtered and plundered citizens of Black Wall Street.
The irredeemable Whites who sacrificed hundreds of thousands of White lives in defense of enslaving black people are the irredeemable White Terrorists documented in the 2015 report on the "egregiously underreported" lynchings of black people. This is the stock, the lineage, the foundation of the 21st century, global White collective. To restrict this pathology to SAE offers a disingenuous, inaccurate presentation of Whitefolks, Racism.
The White parents of the expelled kids insist their boys are good, got black friends, and are most certainly not Racist.
Apples and Racists don't fall far from the tree.
Whistleblower? Hero? Traitor?
High school drop out. Community college dropout. GED recipient.
Edward Snowden has one label in Gus' book. Suspected Racist. Wouldn't care if remained exiled in Siberia forever. None of his "leaks" have improved the quality of life for non-white people, avenged Trayon Martin, or helped solve a single problem. He's not even sharing "news". The System of White Supremacy is and will remain a "surveillance state". Whites have performed all manner of reconnaissance and infiltration on non-white people since time immemorial. In fact, wiretapping is mild relative to the limitless terrorism Whites have perpetuated against us.
Exhibit A: Leanita McClain's January 15th, 1984 column on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. McClain discussed the content of specious wiretaps against Dr. King - and countless other non-whites who worked to establish Justice. McClain was also a Victim of Racism; she struggled with depression and ultimately committed suicide. This essay is a part of her poignant, sad collection A Foot In Each World: Essays and Articles by Leanita McClain.
Curious can't undo King's heroism
Today is the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in its way a holy day for black folks.
Dr. King's heroism and power to stir remain with me and millions of other people of all colors who seeks and work for goodness and justice, though they may never find it. The nonviolent teachings, the valor, the love of Dr. King remain as surely as the remembrance of the sight of him, gesturing, enunciating and rising up physically at the lectern as if to soar along with the crescendo of his awesome message.
This is the first time this day has arrived with deserved national recognition, although the official federal holiday will not take effect until 1986 (on the third Monday of January). After 15 years of oversight, Congress last October finally passed legislation making Dr. King's birthday the 10th legal federal public holiday. The legislation was originally introduced within days of his assassination in April 1968.
In death, as in life, the perseverance espoused by Dr. King ultimately frustrated his maligners. Yet one of their ringleaders, Sen. Jesse Helms (R., N.C.), could not let the matter come to a close without vilifying Dr. King as an "action-oriented Marxist." Worse, Helms tried to impart some honor to his true intent by decrying the cost of yet another paid holiday for federal workers. And most unforgivable, he sought to have the courts lift the seal on FBI bugs and wiretaps of Dr. King, shamelessly disregarding the family's desire and agreement with the government that they be sealed for 50 years.
There is an issue on those tapes. It is: How solid are one's heroes?
Curiosity would have you wonder what is in them that is so spurious, that would be so calamitous if revealed. What is suspected about the contents of the tapes already gives them "negative inference," a legal term essentially meaning that the absence of proof that they are not damaging becomes proof that they are.
The tapes reportedly contain snippets revealing that the amazing marcher and preacher was also an amazing womanizer. I believe it was Jesse Jackson years ago who brushed aside the sexual innuendos with a remark to the effect that if indeed "Martin could have done all that marching and all that preaching and still run around, he was surely a 'king'."
On this, his birthday, I respond with a similar "So what?" Curiosity has me itching to know what is in the tapes, yet I respectfully grant the King family's right to and wish for privacy, in perpetuity if necessary.
Sources with even the slightest notion of the tapes' contents warn that a revelation might undo Dr. King's image and perhaps some of his social good, that besides the embarrassment to his family, bigots would have cause to revel.
But a crack in one's idol is not cause to smash it, to denounce it and turn away.
Such is the price paid by public people in their private lives. Or sometimes in their public lives, since the most fascinating twist on the story is that then - Atty. General Robert F. Kennedy, who is perceived as having been in step with civil rights, authorized the eavesdropping. Sen. Edward Kennedy, having to lower himself in acrimonious debate with Helms, defended his late brother: "If [he] were alive today, he would be the first person to say it was wrong to wiretap Martin Luther King."
And I think that, were Dr. King alive he would be the first to forgive the authorization.
Such was the manner of the public man in life, and such will he be throughout time.
What Dr. King did publicly was to shame this nation into searching its conscience and giving to a people what should have been theirs anyway. He flung words so might they pierced the hardest hearts and brought about civil rights legislation. These are what will last. What he did in private will not, not even on tape.
It's Spring again... Beautiful day in the Pacific northwest. Sun is shining. The weather is sweet. I thought I would take a moment to soak in some Vitamin D, rest my eyes - a l'il yard time in the Prison of White Supremacy.
White people are out in great numbers. Playing tennis. Tossing the frisbee. Volleyball. I witnessed a congregation of White folks out in the grass. They weren't yelling obscenities. No brawls. They were having a grand ol' time.
As I lay in the grass, I was thinking large groups of black people don't
d
o this. Come together in a harmonious exchange, good-natured frolicking and fellowship. Large numbers of Negroes tends to produce mo' beef then a cattle ranch. And we evidence this perpetually. The black church ain't even tranquil - I done observed more than my fair share of static about what happened at the deacon board meeting or what sister Johnson said to deacon Anderson. The System of White Supremacy conditions non-whites to have abject contempt for other non-whites. Black feuds have become legendary; the stuff of Hollywood epics and folk lore - this could easily fill up a week of Black History Month.
Booker T Washington vs W.E.B. DuBouis
Malcolm X vs Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Black Panther Party vs The United Slaves
2Pac vs Biggie Smalls
LL Cool J vs Kool Moe Dee
Hutus vs Tutsis
The Bloods vs The Crips
But I caught myself.
I'm just supporting the White man's stereotype's. Not every black gathering results in a melee and yellow tape. Most of us try to be sensible and respectful. Marcus Garvey said...
"Stop acting like a bitch... Yeah, I called you a bitch cause that's how you acting."
I thought my ears were deceiving me. This fusillade of scorn was so out of place with the tranquility of the sunny afternoon. And I hadn't seen any black people around, so I was stunned as to whom could be saying this.
"You niggas be cutting me off, and that's what bitches do. Now get the fuck away from my car."
To my dismay... black people arrived. And with an inhospitable entrance to boot. They exited quickly; I took a deep breath and returned to my solitude - the polite banter of the nearby Suspected Racists like rain on a tin roof, soothing. But I make sure I remember whom is to blame for the conduct of all non-white people in the known universe. WHITE PEOPLE. Specifically, the White people who participate in the System of White Supremacy. They are most responsible for any and everything that happens on this planet with regards to people - and most certainly with regards to the loathsome manner in which non-whites relate to each other. Our behavior is a direct reflection of our suffering .
I know we are capable of more, and many of us desire to see all non-white people functioning to the best of their abilities. Replacing White Supremacy With Justice is the only thing that will allow for this to happen. But in the mean time in between time... might be helpful to minimize/avoid contact with non-whites.
Absence makes the heart grow stronger.
Can't have an argument with someone you don't talk to.
(Pick which ever sentence you feel is applicable)
Los Angeles Times editorial:
Do not point your nose too high.
Do not swell your chest too much.
Do not boast too loudly.
Do not be puffed up.
Let not your ambition be inordinate or take a wrong direction. Let no treasured resentment rise up and spill over. Remember, you have done nothing at all. You are just the same member of society you were last week. Your place in the world is just what it was. You are on no higher plane, deserve no new consideration and will get NONE.
No man will think a bit higher of you because your complexion is the same as that of the [presidential] victor.
Remember that if it did establish the fact that man for man all through the two races, yours was capable of being wrought into the best [candidate] (which is not the case,) even then there would be no room for becoming swollen with pride. That would not justify your jumping at the very illogical conclusion that you are "on top". You are no nearer that mark than you were before the [election] took place.
This is from the Los Angeles Times July 06, 1910. It is in response to Mr. Jack Johnson - a non-white male - beating the former White heavyweight champion, Jim Jeffries. 100 years later, this warning is necessary.
The convergence of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday with Barak Obama's inauguration has created a global non-white orgasm.
We Have Overcome.
Yes We Did.
Non-Whites are renowned for premature jubilation.
While the eyes of the world converge on the post-racial mountain top - Washington DC and Mr. Obama laying hands on the bible of the Great Liberator, Abraham Lincoln, let us not forget...
There is a reason Rev. King is not here.
We are in a System of White Supremacy which mandates, encourages and celebrates VIOLENCE against non-whites. Especially those seeking CHANGE.
