by
Zeno
Potas
As
the media continues to stir the racial pot promoting anarchism, there
are other voices, voices afraid to be heard but feel they must be
heard. Not all people of color support what is going on in the
country. There are many that find it abhorrent. Many of these are the
well educated persons who believe in American ideals verses the
Socialist Communist agenda that is driving the media. One of those is
in academia, a professor at a major California college, who is
fearful of speaking out. He is afraid of losing his job, his home,
his stature, for speaking the truth. No longer able to remain silent,
he felt he had to do something to express reality over the mass
propaganda being forwarded as fact.
This
is his anonymous letter sent to a talk show host,* who posted it on Twitter, also to Wilfred Reily who
is an
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State
University, a historically Black college in Frankfort, Kentucky, and
Thomas Sowell.
Here
is his assessment. Just a note, this letter was removed from Twitter
and the author, as you will find as you read this, is a man of color.
Dear
profs X, Y, Z,
If
we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why
is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian Americans
are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is
a funny sort of white supremacy. Even Jewish Americans are
incarcerated less than gentile whites. I think it’s fair to say
that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews. And yet,
these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly
higher rates than Jews.
None
of this is addressed in your literature. None of this is explained,
beyond hand-waving and ad hominems. “Those are racist dogwhistles”.
“The model minority myth is white supremacist”. “Only fascists
talk about black-on-black crime”, ad nauseam. These types of
statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply
arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress
discourse. Any serious historian will recognize these for the
silencing orthodoxy tactics they are, common to suppressive regimes,
doctrines, and religions throughout time and space. They are intended
to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust
criticism from our department.
Increasingly,
we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM’s
problematic view of history, and the department is being presented as
unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being
aggressively marshaled into a single position. Any apparent unity is
surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly
lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious
position, which is no small number.
I
personally don’t dare speak out against the BLM narrative, and with
this barrage of alleged unity being mass-produced by the
administration, tenured professoriat, the UC administration,
corporate America, and the media, the punishment for dissent is a
clear danger at a time of widespread economic vulnerability. I am
certain that if my name were attached to this email, I would lose my
job and all future jobs, even though I believe in and can justify
every word I type.
The
vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed
by black people. There are virtually no marches for these invisible
victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC
regents, deans, and departmental heads. The message is clear: Black
lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected
and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and demands
solution.
Please
look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this
formulation truly is. No discussion is permitted for non-black
victims of black violence, who proportionally outnumber black victims
of non-black violence. This is especially bitter in the Bay Area,
where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic
proportions, to the point that the SF police chief has advised Asians
to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors, as this attracts the
attention of (overwhelmingly black) home invaders. Home invaders like
George Floyd.
For
this actual, lived, physically experienced reality of violence in the
USA, there are no marches, no tearful emails from departmental heads,
no support from McDonald’s and Wal-Mart. For the History
department, our silence is not a mere abrogation of our duty to shed
light on the truth: it is a rejection of it.
The claim that
black interracial violence is the product of redlining, slavery, and
other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is for historians,
therefore, to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of
European Jewry hasn’t led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and
low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively.
Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11, as have
Chinese Americans more recently. However, both groups outperform
white Americans on nearly all SES indices – as do Nigerian
Americans, who incidentally have black skin. It is for historians to
point out and discuss these anomalies. However, no real discussion is
possible in the current climate at our department. The explanation is
provided to us, disagreement with it is racist, and the job of
historians is to further explore additional ways in which the
explanation is additionally correct. This is a mockery of the
historical profession.
Most
troubling, our department appears to have been entirely captured by
the interests of the Democratic National Convention, and the
Democratic Party more broadly. To explain what I mean, consider what
happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter, an
organization UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent
mailers. All donations to the official BLM website are immediately
redirected to ActBlue Charities, an organization primarily concerned
with bankrolling election campaigns for Democrat candidates. Donating
to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign.
This is grotesque given the fact that the American cities with the
worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence
are overwhelmingly Democrat-run. Minneapolis itself has been entirely
in the hands of Democrats for over five decades; the ‘systemic
racism’ there was built by successive Democrat administrations.
The
patronizing and condescending attitudes of Democrat leaders towards
the black community, exemplified by nearly every Biden statement on
the black race, all but guarantee a perpetual state of misery,
resentment, poverty, and the attendant grievance politics which are
simultaneously annihilating American political discourse and black
lives. And yet, donating to BLM is bankrolling the election campaigns
of men like Mayor Frey, who saw their cities devolve into violence.
This is a grotesque capture of a good-faith movement for necessary
police reform, and of our department, by a political party. Even
worse, there are virtually no avenues for dissent in academic
circles. I refuse to serve the Party, and so should you.
The
total alliance of major corporations involved in human exploitation
with BLM should be a warning flag to us, and yet this damning
evidence goes unnoticed, purposefully ignored, or perversely
celebrated. We are the useful idiots of the wealthiest classes,
carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other actual, real, modern-day
slavers. Starbucks, an organisation using literal black slaves in its
coffee plantation suppliers, is in favor of BLM. Sony, an
organisation using cobalt mined by yet more literal black slaves,
many of whom are children, is in favor of BLM. And so, apparently,
are we. The absence of counter-narrative enables this obscenity. Fiat
lux, indeed.
There
also exists a large constituency of what can only be called ‘race
hustlers’: hucksters of all colors who benefit from stoking the
fires of racial conflict to secure administrative jobs, charity
management positions, academic jobs and advancement, or personal
political entrepreneurship. Given the direction our history
department appears to be taking far from any commitment to truth, we
can regard ourselves as a formative training institution for this
brand of snake-oil salespeople. Their activities are corrosive,
demolishing any hope at harmonious racial coexistence in our nation
and colonizing our political and institutional life. Many of their
voices are unironically segregationist.
MLK
would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today.
We are training leaders who intend, explicitly, to destroy one of the
only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history.
As the PRC, an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist
national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis
increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to
the US, I ask you: Is this wise? Are we really doing the right thing?
As
a final point, our university and department has made multiple
statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd. Floyd was a
multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He
broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her
pregnant stomach. He terrorized the women in his community. He sired
and abandoned multiple children, playing no part in their support or
upbringing, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a
human being. He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer, a
swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors. And
yet, the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History
department are celebrating this violent criminal, elevating his name
to virtual sainthood. A man who hurt women. A man who hurt black
women. With the full collaboration of the UCB history department,
corporate America, most mainstream media outlets, and some of the
wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA, he
has become a culture hero, buried in a golden casket, his
(recognized) family showered with gifts and praise.
Americans
are being socially pressured into kneeling for this violent, abusive
misogynist. A generation of black men are being coerced into
identifying with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our
race and species. I’m ashamed of my department. I would say that
I’m ashamed of both of you, but perhaps you agree with me, and are
simply afraid, as I am, of the backlash of speaking the truth. It’s
hard to know what kneeling means, when you have to kneel to keep your
job.
It
shouldn’t affect the strength of my argument above, but for the
record, I write as a person of color. My family have been personally
victimized by men like Floyd. We are aware of the condescending
depredations of the Democrat party against our race. The humiliating
assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM, that we need special
help and lower requirements to get ahead in life, is richly familiar
to us. I sometimes wonder if it wouldn’t be easier to deal with
open fascists, who at least would be straightforward in calling me a
subhuman, and who are unlikely to share my race.
The
ever-present soft bigotry of low expectations and the permanent claim
that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively on the
goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is
psychologically devastating. No other group in America is
systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole
generation of black children are being taught that only by begging
and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden
whites.
No
message will more surely devastate their futures, especially if
whites run out of guilt, or indeed if America runs out of whites. If
this had been done to Japanese Americans, or Jewish Americans, or
Chinese Americans, then Chinatown and Japantown would surely be no
different to the roughest parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis
today. The History department of UCB is now an integral institutional
promulgator of a destructive and denigrating fallacy about the black
race.
I
hope you appreciate the frustration behind this message. I do not
support BLM. I do not support the Democrat grievance agenda and the
Party’s uncontested capture of our department. I do not support the
Party co-opting my race, as Biden recently did in his disturbing
interview, claiming that voting Democrat and being black are
isomorphic.
I
condemn the manner of George Floyd’s death and join you in calling
for greater police accountability and police reform. However, I will
not pretend that George Floyd was anything other than a violent
misogynist, a brutal man who met a predictably brutal end. I also
want to protect the practice of history.
*I was sent this and felt the need to share it to a
wider audience on Twitter. I shared a link to the original post in the
tweet. Then, the post was removed, and I made the decision that this is
an important perspective not given an equal share in the marketplace of
ideas. It is for this reason that UncoverDC now publishes it, not only
because it is newsworthy, but because it is a critical piece of history.
Wilfred Reily, mentioned in the letter alongside Thomas Sowell,
retweeted my original tweet confirming that he personally received the
email, thus verifying its credibility.
participants in the struggle against racism. They are
instructed to know their place. The exhortation to know your place is
usually combined with the call to “Listen To Black Leaders”
and to "Behave As You Are Told." The notion that blacks can’t be
racist is ludicrous but truth is less important to the left than
advancing these postulates because black racism is the toxic glue
that holds the Progressive* coalition together. Therefore,
the left uses every opportunity to depict an event as evidence of
white racism and once enough people have been conditioned this way,
violence is no longer necessary. We reach steady-state
totalitarianism, in which the vast majority know what is expected of
them and play their allotted roles. This will be the end of the
Constitution, this will be the end of individual freedom, this will be the end of America, Comrades. What
are YOU going to do about it?
