PoliticalChic
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1. The multicultural project and the National History Standards were major ideological assaults on our nation’s mission. Besides an emphasis on group consciousness over individual citizenship, and on ethnic subcultures over national identity, the standards described the Cold War in terms of moral equivalence (e.g., the “sword play of the US and the USSR”
and actually reversed our history (“Americans believed in the perfectibility of man”.
Where was the belief and emphasis on equality of individual citizenship, strong American identity, anticommunism, and they faith of the Fathers of our Nation?
a. Substituted was the progressive utopianism of the Soviet-leaning Vice-President Henry Wallace. No wonder sentient Liberals such as Arthur Schlesinger, jr. launched vigorous attacks on multiculturalism in his book “The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society.”
Fonte, “Sovereignty of Submission,” p.79
2. Based on their influence on the New Left from the ‘60’s, these neo-Marxists have largely succeeded in terms of secularizing American culture and undermining traditional values and institutions, and much of its ideology, inspiration and tactics were gleaned from the Frankfurt School’s Institute of Social Research. Thus, there is a straight line from the Frankfurt School to the formation in many colleges and universities of programs, and departments of African-American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Feminist Studies, Peace Studies, and LGBT (Lesbian/Gay/Bi-sexual/Transgender) Studies.
Breitbart, “Righteous Indignation.”
3. Shelby Steele graduated in 1968, and immediately went on to design the first Black Studies programs in the country. He refers to this as his "far-left liberal days." "I was one of those who invented the idea. It was about Black Power. We wanted separate departments, we wanted to grant degrees, we wanted our own curriculum..." But the scales soon fell from his eyes: he realized that what they were putting together had nothing to do with education.
4. He describes the people involved, not as educators, but as hustlers. "Very few of the people I was working with were more than minimally literate. Anything we asked for, we got. So I learned what white guilt was."
a. "Every time I attend a conference of white writers, I have a method for finding out if my colleagues are racist. It consists of uttering stupidities and maintaining absurd theses. If they listen respectfully, and, at the end, overwhelm me with applause, there isn't the slightest doubt: They are filthy racists."
James Baldwin, 'Professing Feminism'
b. The point? Honest folk treat blacks, women, Chicanos, etc., the way they'd treat anyone else, and tell them when they're full of baloney.
5. When white guilt is combined with the lust for power by the hustlers that Steele speaks of, society winds up with the likes of Leonard Jeffries, who, despite a long record of venomously anti-white and anti-Semitic statements, including his famous distinction between brutal, violent "ice people" (whites) and gentle, warmhearted "sun people" (blacks), served for more than two decades as chairman of the Black Studies Department as CCNY- and remains a professor to this day.
6. Over time, there came to be two kinds of black professors...indeed, two kinds of black, and Chicano, and women professors. There were the "mediocrities and hustlers, who wanted independent departments so that they would not be under the purview of serious academic standards, so that they could hide out there and enjoy all the perks of tenure, and not have to be judged according to any standards of achievement.
And, at the same time, black, Hispanic, women scholars who were first-rate, serious people."
a. In comparison, Steele points to the Black Studies program at Harvard (the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research) directed by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in which every one if those invited by Gates said "I'll teach for you, but my professional credibility requires that I be appointed to the English Department, or the Sociology Department, or whatever."
b. "It's a shame...My generation has been ruined by this....It's made us into hustlers....That's how you move ahead: you keep trading on your race."
7. W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was the first African American to be awarded a doctorate; we was an educator, activist, and author, and a cofounder of the NAACP. While his 1903 book, "The Souls of Black Folk," is probably the seminal work of Black Studies, his emphasis would most likely be considered anathema to many taught today. He pointed out that, to both blacks and whites, the necessity of a thorough grounding in Western history and culture. His constantly repeated point was that the heritage of the West was the heritage of all.
8. He wrote this, in "The Souls of Black Folk,"...
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not;
I move arm in arm with Balzac and with Dumas,
where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls.
From out the caves of evening
that swing between the strong-limbed earth
and the tracery of the stars,
I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will,
and they come with no scorn or condescension. I Sit With Shakespeare
9.Sadly, this is not the direction most Black Studies takes. Rather than focus on the commonality, Black Studies looks to imbue hostility and anger, to separate the races. It remains for history to determine whether it was Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois,.... or Robert F. Williams and Ron Karenga were the most helpful to American blacks.
Bruce Bawer, "The Victim's Revolution."
I have my suspicions.
and actually reversed our history (“Americans believed in the perfectibility of man”. Where was the belief and emphasis on equality of individual citizenship, strong American identity, anticommunism, and they faith of the Fathers of our Nation?
a. Substituted was the progressive utopianism of the Soviet-leaning Vice-President Henry Wallace. No wonder sentient Liberals such as Arthur Schlesinger, jr. launched vigorous attacks on multiculturalism in his book “The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society.”
Fonte, “Sovereignty of Submission,” p.79
2. Based on their influence on the New Left from the ‘60’s, these neo-Marxists have largely succeeded in terms of secularizing American culture and undermining traditional values and institutions, and much of its ideology, inspiration and tactics were gleaned from the Frankfurt School’s Institute of Social Research. Thus, there is a straight line from the Frankfurt School to the formation in many colleges and universities of programs, and departments of African-American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Feminist Studies, Peace Studies, and LGBT (Lesbian/Gay/Bi-sexual/Transgender) Studies.
Breitbart, “Righteous Indignation.”
3. Shelby Steele graduated in 1968, and immediately went on to design the first Black Studies programs in the country. He refers to this as his "far-left liberal days." "I was one of those who invented the idea. It was about Black Power. We wanted separate departments, we wanted to grant degrees, we wanted our own curriculum..." But the scales soon fell from his eyes: he realized that what they were putting together had nothing to do with education.
4. He describes the people involved, not as educators, but as hustlers. "Very few of the people I was working with were more than minimally literate. Anything we asked for, we got. So I learned what white guilt was."
a. "Every time I attend a conference of white writers, I have a method for finding out if my colleagues are racist. It consists of uttering stupidities and maintaining absurd theses. If they listen respectfully, and, at the end, overwhelm me with applause, there isn't the slightest doubt: They are filthy racists."
James Baldwin, 'Professing Feminism'
b. The point? Honest folk treat blacks, women, Chicanos, etc., the way they'd treat anyone else, and tell them when they're full of baloney.
5. When white guilt is combined with the lust for power by the hustlers that Steele speaks of, society winds up with the likes of Leonard Jeffries, who, despite a long record of venomously anti-white and anti-Semitic statements, including his famous distinction between brutal, violent "ice people" (whites) and gentle, warmhearted "sun people" (blacks), served for more than two decades as chairman of the Black Studies Department as CCNY- and remains a professor to this day.
6. Over time, there came to be two kinds of black professors...indeed, two kinds of black, and Chicano, and women professors. There were the "mediocrities and hustlers, who wanted independent departments so that they would not be under the purview of serious academic standards, so that they could hide out there and enjoy all the perks of tenure, and not have to be judged according to any standards of achievement.
And, at the same time, black, Hispanic, women scholars who were first-rate, serious people."
a. In comparison, Steele points to the Black Studies program at Harvard (the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research) directed by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in which every one if those invited by Gates said "I'll teach for you, but my professional credibility requires that I be appointed to the English Department, or the Sociology Department, or whatever."
b. "It's a shame...My generation has been ruined by this....It's made us into hustlers....That's how you move ahead: you keep trading on your race."
7. W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was the first African American to be awarded a doctorate; we was an educator, activist, and author, and a cofounder of the NAACP. While his 1903 book, "The Souls of Black Folk," is probably the seminal work of Black Studies, his emphasis would most likely be considered anathema to many taught today. He pointed out that, to both blacks and whites, the necessity of a thorough grounding in Western history and culture. His constantly repeated point was that the heritage of the West was the heritage of all.
8. He wrote this, in "The Souls of Black Folk,"...
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not;
I move arm in arm with Balzac and with Dumas,
where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls.
From out the caves of evening
that swing between the strong-limbed earth
and the tracery of the stars,
I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will,
and they come with no scorn or condescension. I Sit With Shakespeare
9.Sadly, this is not the direction most Black Studies takes. Rather than focus on the commonality, Black Studies looks to imbue hostility and anger, to separate the races. It remains for history to determine whether it was Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois,.... or Robert F. Williams and Ron Karenga were the most helpful to American blacks.
Bruce Bawer, "The Victim's Revolution."
I have my suspicions.
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