We Are Respectable Negros Blog: The Power Of A White Woman's Tears
This post should go upon my "Microscope" blog but the irony is too great for me to pass up.
In the blog post "The Power Of A White Woman's Tears" my BQPFRC friends make the case that the White woman shown on CNN crying at the thought that the "Black Guy In Chief" has an agenda to indoctrinate her young White kid in his classroom is akin to the antics seen in the past, as depicted in the movie "Rosewood".
I realize that the Black Progressive-Fundamentalist doesn't often has his rationale checked by someone who is immune to his claims that "YOU ARE A RACIST IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ME" but certain argument go beyond the extreme.
Let me set this up with regard to the second clip:
In Rosewood - at a time when "No Black Man Had Any Rights That A White Man Need Respect" - the cries of rape by one White woman imperiled the safety of EVERY SINGLE BLACK MAN in rife shot of the clan who was charged to exact "justice" for this White woman.
This is seen as an adequate rebuttal to the "Crying White Woman On CNN" who was upset at what her BLACK PRESIDENT who presides over her and the nation MIGHT be intending to do to her precious little White school kid.
Our Black President is the most protected man in the world. If any person who dislikes the man because of his race attempted to act upon their hatred using the same physical means that were shown in Rosewood - the Secret Service's "bigger guns" would mow them down, thus showing their loyalties to the President, REGARDLESS of his color.
Sadly this is the type of "stoking" that is present on the Black left. To be clear - propagandists on all sides and races make use of this same type of hyperbole. The key difference is that most of these others don't escape criticism under the guise of them "Working Within The Light" against those in the "Darkness".
I wonder if the people at "We Are Respectable Negroes" would be interested in seeing my video series entitled "What Is Making Black People Cry Today"? In seeing this they would see clearly that it is not the "Rosewood Klan" that is prompting us to cry most frequently. The force that is upsetting us is much more local to us.
2 comments:
I saw this in the trackback. Thanks for the link.
My comments follow. But, a second irony--in bemoaning some Left liberal orthodoxy and conformity among black folks you seem to ignore the nuance of the project that you are criticizing. There is a great deal of diversity among black political thought and to use such a broad paintbrush as "Black Progressive Fundamentalist" actually separates you from a tradition that you may find a home in. Many Black conservatives fall into this trap where they want to claim that black right wingers and not the "confused" black masses (nor the black intelligentsia) represent the "mainstream" of black political thought. This does not stand up to empirical scrutiny or to the historical record but it is a comforting trope for many on the Right--both black and white.
And please look over the totality of a project before clustering it under one catch-all as with WARN--you will see that we are neither left nor right.
My original response:
You have to try harder than that Constructive--we 3 disagree with each other all the time. But, if you would like to be added to the list of things we don't like I can oblige. It would have to be for a serious charge though--lapdogging for the Right wing, being an Uncle Tom or Handkerchief head, lack of race pride, being an apologist for white racism or black foolishness. Do you fit any of those criteria?
I didn't have to "troll" too hard. But, what of the point that this hysteria is at least partly, if not wholly based, on Obama's race? and to return the "ironic" jab, isn't it funny that Obama as president, here meaning the office, isn't respected by these people by virtue of the fact that a Black man occupies it? These same folks as good "patriots" would cry and moan that the Left didn't respect the office of the presidency because Bush 2 was in power, but now they fail by their own standards.
On attempting a Rosewood against the president, don't be so literal. The point was about white hysteria, and the allusion to the woman's fake histrionics in the above video. Do you think there is any merit at all to this point? Or are we being too hard on these well intentioned, Palinesque, right wing populists? Good citizens and well intentioned all...
chauncey d
[quote]There is a great deal of diversity among black political thought and to use such a broad paintbrush as "Black Progressive Fundamentalist" actually separates you from a tradition that you may find a home in.[/quote]
I thought that the Progressive worked to expand the bounds of "Tradition"? I thought that the Progressive sampled the temperature of the water today and CHANGED the prevailing dogma to match the needs of the masses today?
Thus I am not seeking to "find a home" in particular. I am seeking to clear the way so that our Permanent Interests might actually be accomplished.
[quote]Many Black conservatives fall into this trap where they want to claim that black right wingers and not the "confused" black masses (nor the black intelligentsia) represent the "mainstream" of black political thought.[/quote]
You'd be surprised that I actually argue the reverse.
I argue that those I call "Black Quasi-Socialist Progressive-Fundamentalist Racism Chasers" ARE INDEED THE MAINSTREAM ESTABLISHMENT of Black Political thought. Thus I argue that your INCUMBENCY makes you accountable for the results within.
When one machine controls all of the key institutions in the areas were we are most concentrated, that our people look to for the important civic services - those embedded operatives are able to escape internal scrutiny only if they are able to get the masses of Black people to focus OUTWARD on a common enemy.
I counter that there is a need for more effective Human Resource Management.
I am not predisposed to "Racism Chase". If you can show me the impact that this Crying White Woman On CNN has with the school systems in Philly, Chicago, Detroit and elsewhere that are not addressing our people's needs - I WILL BITE and attack her just as well.
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