{"id":85150,"date":"2016-01-13T13:49:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T21:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=85150"},"modified":"2016-01-13T13:49:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T21:49:37","slug":"the-presidents-blackism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=85150","title":{"rendered":"The President’s Blackism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Gottfried writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One truly fascinating commentary is his analysis of \u201cblackism\u201d as the recognizable worldview<\/a> of our president. In contrast to the representatives of Conservatism, Inc.,<\/a> Jack does not view Obama as first and foremost a \u201csocialist\u201d without a foreign policy. Rather he sees him as a blackist who \u201caffirms an explicitly\u2014and thoroughly\u2014racial conception of history.\u201d<\/a> Bam\u2019s socialism does not drive his ideology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a \u201cproponent of blackism,\u201d Obama embraces socialism, because he believes, rightly or wrongly, that it will benefit his race. Blackists further believe, Kerwick says, that<\/p>\n

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\u2026white racism is endemic\u2026Whatever gains black Americans and formerly colonized peoples of color in other parts of the world have made over the decades, white racism remains as formidable, and destructive, a force as it has ever been.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Blackism also requires from \u201call of its adherents in good standing\u201d that they \u201cexpress some measure of indignation or rage regarding the historical injustice suffered by blacks and the persistent omnipresence of\u2014what else?\u2014white racism.\u201d Blackists \u201cunabashedly heed the call for \u2018social\u2019 or \u2018racial justice\u2019\u201d for this means, in effect that \u201da robust and activist government\u2026will possess the power necessary to compensate blacks for the past harms that had been visited upon them by white racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally in what Jack describes<\/a> as \u201cthe Cliff\u2019s Note\u201d of blackist ideology, obviously absorbed by President Obama and his black supporters, \u201cis the idea of \u2018racial authenticity.\u2019 Racial authenticity can be achieved, it promises, by way of the very simple act of affirming blackism!\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack quotes Malcolm X<\/a> on the cultural implications of blackism, particularly the exhibition of revulsion for Christianity as the religion of white colonists and the association of America\u2019s founding with anti-black racism. In the words<\/a> of Malcolm X, blacks \u201cdidn\u2019t land on Plymouth Rock<\/a>\u201d but \u201cPlymouth Rock landed\u201d on blacks.<\/p>\n

Jack acknowledges that Obama, who in the last election won 38% of the white vote,<\/a> has had to cloak his blackism. But he cites Obama\u2019s speeches and comments to show that the same ideology and resentments that were found in Malcolm X periodically surface in the current occupant of the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

Jack argues<\/a> that it\u2019s perfectly compatible with \u201cblackism\u201d that Obama, in his National Prayer Breakfast<\/a> reminder of Christian iniquities in what was supposed to be a criticism of ISIS violence, turned his remarks<\/a> in a blackist direction: \u201cIn one and the same breath he speaks of both a white segregationist\u2019s refusal to associate with blacks<\/a> and an Islamic fanatic\u2019s refusal to grant mercy to a person he cages and eventually burns to death.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is not just Obama\u2019s \u201chistorical illiteracy\u201d and \u201cmoral idiocy\u201d that account for these rhetorical eccentricities. There is an anti-white, anti-Western ideology that drives it. Thus when \u201che talks of \u2018we\u2019 in implying moral parity between Islamic violence and the violence perpetrated by Christians in the past,\u201d \u201cwhat he is really saying is that you\u2014all of you white Christians\u2014must not shed any of that white guilt that\u2019s paid off so well for the Barack Obamas of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack is even tougher on those white scribblers who seem to be truckling to \u201cblackists,\u201d particularly faux conservatives whom he takes apart with obvious delectation. For example, in the wake of the Michael Brown <\/a> shooting, Kevin Williamson<\/a> of National Review <\/em>took to his high horse to complain<\/a> about the \u201cmilitarized police\u201d in Ferguson, ,Missouri<\/a> and across the US. This for Jack exemplifies<\/a> his charge that when the Left complains about racism, Conservatism, Inc.<\/a> respectfully dissents, but also puts itself at a safe distance from the real Right.<\/a><\/p>\n

As further evidence of this, Jack cites<\/a> National Review<\/em>\u2019s Reihan Salaam, who also writes regularly for the left-wing publication Slate,<\/em> on the outrage of \u201cintra-racial dating.\u201d Salaam expresses shock that so many people (presumably it\u2019s the white ones he\u2019s talking about) manifest strong\u201csame-race preferences\u201d on dating sites like OKCupid<\/a>. \u201cOne assumes\u201d, Salaam opines, \u201cthat many people who do have such preferences would either choose not to disclose them publicly or choose to skip the question entirely.\u201d [Is It Racist to Date Only People of Your Own Race?<\/a> Yes.,<\/em> Slate,<\/em> April 22 2014] Jack shows that Salaam, and at least implicitly his employer, believes that there is a positive duty to miscegenate.<\/a><\/p>\n

Although Salaam would probably be pleased to use government to bring this about, such a project (alas) does not seem feasible. He therefore urges for starters that all social and educational institutions encourage interracial dining.<\/a> Not one to deny deserved credit, Salaam insists: \u201cThe rural white Southerner who dines with nonwhites as a matter of course is doing more to tackle stigma than the urbane white hipster who hardly ever does the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack ends his comments on Salaam\u2019s homily by observing that what should be treated as a bad college freshman essay has been \u201cpublished in a widely-read venue (however much of a rag).\u201d And this \u201cis a truly scandalous commentary on the intellectual and moral state of our culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Jack has barely scratched the surface of the kind of leftist claptrap t<\/a> hat \u201cconservative\u201d publications now fill their pages with. Thus he quotes<\/a> the longtime, nationally syndicated \u201cconservative\u201d columnist Paul Greenberg<\/a> waxing orgasmic \u201cover President Obama\u2019s decision to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.\u201d Like Obama (and AEI- fixture Linda Chavez<\/a>), Greenberg insists that not legalizing illegals is incompatible <\/a>\u201cwith the America we know and still want to believe in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently the America that Greenberg and other neoconservatives wish us \u201cto believe in\u201d bears a striking similarity to President Obama\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Jack Kerwick\u2019s America does not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Gottfried writes: One truly fascinating commentary is his analysis of \u201cblackism\u201d as the recognizable worldview of our president. In contrast to the representatives of Conservatism, Inc., Jack does not view Obama as first and foremost a \u201csocialist\u201d without a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-blacks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85151,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85150\/revisions\/85151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}