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.
What we have foremost in common is that enemy. The White Man [and White Woman]. [They are] enemies to all of us. I know some of you think that some of them aren't enemies. Time will tell. - Minister Malcolm X
Dr. Baz Dreisinger was the first White guest on The Context of White Supremacy for 2015. She is the second Racist Suspect asked about the validity of Ta-Nehisi Coates assertion that, "White people are often sincerely and greatly pained by racism." [Incidentally, Gus asked Mr. Coates directly about this conclusion; he declined to comment.] Dr. Dreisinger declared that Coates speaks the truth; she and the White community are authentically anguished about the terrorism they have inflicted upon black people. She cited the recent infestation of Whites that have marched, held signs and die-ins for Michael Brown, Jr. and Eric Garner.
LMBAO was my initial response to Dr. Dreisinger's commentary as well as the photographic illustration of a sincerely and greatly pained White Man. But ROTF isn't a codified counter-racist response. A serious investigation of the latest swarm of White participation in black liberation reveals no altruism, no potency, no humor.
Where is the Well Meaning White Militia?
When Whites become earnestly committed to a cause, military might typically authenticates their sincerity. John Brown drenched the earth in blood to evidence his loyalty to ending black enslavement (so I been told). New millennium Whites claim his lineage - descendants with a birth right to complete his divine mission. But they're not strapped. "Anti-Racists" are not Cliven Bundy - armed, resolute Whites who contest unjust behavior and are willing to give or take a Racist life to produce Justice. Armed Whites publicly demonstrated their fury during the healthcare town hall meetings of 2009. Pale folks have continued packing in support of open-carry laws and in protest of possible firearm restrictions (symbolic White castration). One would think Whites who invest themselves in defending the 2nd Amendment would launch a siege on Ohio - an open-carry state; John Crawford, III and Tamir Rice were gunned down in Buckeye territory for holding toy guns. White gun enthusiasts didn't process these events as unconstitutional assaults on citizens' rights to arms. Apparently, it was just two niggers killed. No one who'll be missed. Black people are targeted for systemic, perpetual violence globally. Whites who allege to be against Racism are predictably lame, impotent and unable to adequately defend black life or rebuff White Terrorism.
"They Didn't Integrate It, They Infiltrated It."
Dear white protestors, this is NOT about you.
Stop cannibalizing our movements with hashtags about every other life
but ours. Stop plagiarizing Black people’s actual struggles for
fictionalized white pain (I’m looking at you Hunger Games, with your
whitewashed protagonist. “The Hanging Tree?” For real?). Stop
scrambling to stand atop the growing pile of dead Black bodies to use it
as your makeshift platform to secure more privileges and status for
yourself. Stop using protests that should be about Black lives to
exercise your white angst, break shit under the cover of darkness, and
then bask in the bright light of white privilege while Black lives are
declared to be worth less than the windows you broke.
An indispensable component of the System of White Supremacy is the concept of a White person that is not Racist. Victims of Racism are contaminated, Stockholm-Syndromed to yearn for White validation, White acceptance. It can be petrifying to think that every individual classified as White is a willing combatant in the army of White Terrorism. Invoking the name of John Brown or photos of Anne Braden or the presence of a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor in Ferguson is a tactic of White military science (White Supremacy PsyOps); "White allies" disarm black self preservation and accurate perception of Whites as enemies.
Frequently, these benign Whites have at least one commonality with Cliven Bundy, a focus on studying "the negro." Many Whites produced biographies, documentaries, dissertations and careers from their Civil Rights days of yore. Yet Racism remains. Minister Malcolm X and others have noted that White presence functions as a governor and surveyor of black efforts to counter-racism. The 1963 March on Washington, the film Selma or The Obama Presidency would not be possible or celebrated without direct White infiltration, domination. Whites are allies to White Supremacy, not black people; their attendance should always signal an attempt to control, corrode, and impede black liberation.
The C.O.W.S. was fortunate to feature a black activist from Toronto; she and her black comrades recognized the predictable ways that Whites practice Racism when they invade black counter-racism efforts. Consequently, they implemented a code to limit Whites' ability to remove focus from Whites practicing Racism against black people or divert attention away from black protesters to White participants. They didn't deviate from their code, and a sizable portion of Whites seethed, accused the black organizers of "reverse racism."
What Does It Mean To Be White?
This is one of Melissa Harris-Perry's first offerings of the year, and this Sunday broadcast was a revival for Viola Liuzzo, those two White boys killed with James Chaney, and James Reeb. Four Whites who've been dead a half century must be sanctified and acknowledged as sterling rebukes to any suggestion that all Whites are irredeemably Racist. Few question why the community of sincerely and greatly pained Whites has produced so few 'allies" willing to battle and die to end Racism or brand the puny crew of Benjamin Perry, Rev. Renita Lamkin, William Lloyd Garrison, and other "good" Whitefolks as statistically insignificant. At best, these are anomalies, White outliers that obfuscate the meaning of White Identity.
If anything, the dead bodies of Liuzzo, Reeb and James Chaney's White companions illustrate the "White" classification assumes unwavering devotion to White Supremacy and failure to comply can result in expulsion from the group and forfeiture of life.
Within days of Brown's shooting, Missouri State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal remarked:
The folks who were out last night, black and white. And when I kept saying the black community, you had a White couple to put up the black power sign up last night. That is an example of the community I represent. It was beautiful.
Following the the announcement that Eric Garner's killer would not be indicted, Spike Lee wanted to stress that a diverse New York collective assembled to object to the decision - which "has nothing to do with black and white." This is a predictable product of White Terrorism. White's have inflicted ceaseless, unpunished, White torture against black people; their mere presence makes many non-whites fearful, reluctant, or unable to communicate honestly about Racism - how Whites have and are tormenting us.
A White Man in a hoodie, brandishing an inadequately sized protest poster is a woeful expression of the power of White allies, rehabilitated race traitors who understand that the most they can do is the least they can do to end a Racist Empire that nourishes them.
This White lad's ability and will to vanquish Racism equal the likelihood of Cliven Bundy insisting that black #NegroLivesMatter. No disrespect to the Garner family, but don't hold your breath waiting on Whites that are not Racist.
