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Why did Obama hang with racist loons like this? His own Mother was White. What happened to the man? Everyone knows it's their duty to defend their Mom. Anyway, the Obama-Bot spin on this one should be entertaining.
It's been established that Barack Obama counseled his fellow Harvard law students to open up their hearts and minds to Derrick Bell because he was speaking "truth." A 1990 New York Times book review of Bell's "And We Are Not Saved The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice" sheds light on just how racialist was Bell's alleged truth, which Barack Obama embraced. Bell didn't only de-legitimize white critics based upon race, he de-legitimized his white liberals colleagues, as well, seeing them as incapable of being anything other than oppressors. (Emphasis mine.)
''Even liberal white scholars ... have to imagine that they are not oppressors. Black people have stories and experiences that provide the basis not only for their lives but for their scholarship.'' Does he then consider it impossible for white scholars to understand and to teach on this issue? "It's not that they can't, but they do face barriers to their ability to explain the reality of racism in America."
Racialism is so woven into the thinking of Bell, and many believe Barack Obama, any white individual, regardless of ideology or personal attribute lacks the ability to understand and relate racism in America. Consequently, the notion of racial quotas is not simply based upon some idea of equality of opportunity, they must be imposed as white's are inferior to blacks in an area Bell and Obama see as critical. While we like to think of equality as color blind, that is not the view Bell shared as a "truth" Obama embraced and encouraged others to do, as well.
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Derrick Bell: Liberal Whites Are Oppressors
It's been established that Barack Obama counseled his fellow Harvard law students to open up their hearts and minds to Derrick Bell because he was speaking "truth." A 1990 New York Times book review of Bell's "And We Are Not Saved The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice" sheds light on just how racialist was Bell's alleged truth, which Barack Obama embraced. Bell didn't only de-legitimize white critics based upon race, he de-legitimized his white liberals colleagues, as well, seeing them as incapable of being anything other than oppressors. (Emphasis mine.)
''Even liberal white scholars ... have to imagine that they are not oppressors. Black people have stories and experiences that provide the basis not only for their lives but for their scholarship.'' Does he then consider it impossible for white scholars to understand and to teach on this issue? "It's not that they can't, but they do face barriers to their ability to explain the reality of racism in America."
Racialism is so woven into the thinking of Bell, and many believe Barack Obama, any white individual, regardless of ideology or personal attribute lacks the ability to understand and relate racism in America. Consequently, the notion of racial quotas is not simply based upon some idea of equality of opportunity, they must be imposed as white's are inferior to blacks in an area Bell and Obama see as critical. While we like to think of equality as color blind, that is not the view Bell shared as a "truth" Obama embraced and encouraged others to do, as well.
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Derrick Bell: Liberal Whites Are Oppressors
