Certainly one should be familiar with Julian Bond, who's been milking the "Civil
Rights" movement ever since Joan Baez strummed while Jerry Brown sang "We shall
overcome!" - and that was a long time ago. Bond is now a Ranking Satrap of The Great
Khan in the White House (no more street parades) and billed as a "Distinguished"
Professor of History at the University of Virginia (although I must confess to having seen
none of his "distinguished" articles, but then I don't subscribe to any journal put out by
the NAACP - nor Ebony for that matter.)
Ranking Satraps are accorded the Mongrolian Red-Carpet treatment, lacking only
Honor Guard and motorcades; but this is partially made up for by as slick a presence on
the Internet as unlimited funding allows. Take a look!
Notice that while the first clip merely hints at the street riots of yesteryear, the
central figure has now exchanged T-shirt for collar and cravat; and in the second, we see
the Ranking Satrap shaking hands with The Great Khan himself! (The puffery gets
better, but one can't reproduce the whole website. Lacking a peerage, tenure at the
university founded by Thomas Jefferson is about as high as a Satrap can rise. The
Constitution, alas, prohibits the creation of counts and dukes. What a pity!)
We can, however, recreate the Statrap's homily, which like the message to Macbeth may
be described as "full of sound and fury and signifying nothing":
An Ongoing Dialogue on Racism
Acknowledge, Understand White-Skin Privilege
by Julian Bond
Here is one thing -- the most important thing -- President Clinton's panel on
race ought to do.
It ought to find a way to get Americans of European descent to acknowledge
the privileges they enjoy because of their race.
Acknowledging and understanding white-skin privilege is the vital first step in
any honest dialogue on race. A forthright, candid internal exchange among
whites is a necessary first phase, the predicate to interracial conversation.
For years, blacks and some whites built a successful civil rights movement by
contrasting black inequality with the national promise of justice for all. The
stark divide between black and white life chances was a mighty fuel for the
civil rights movement of the 1960s.
But what had been a black-led interracial movement in the 1960s has largely
become a black-led black movement in the 1990s. For many, black life choices
are assumed to account for diminished black life chances. Discussions of race
focus entirely on the inadequacy or wrongness of existing remedies or on
schemes of community uplift. For a variety of reasons, white Americans today
demonstrate little interest or involvement in narrowing the great racial divide.
The Race Initiative -- and all of us -- must find some way to engage whites in
common struggle with blacks.
I despair that I cannot imagine how this is to be done -- perhaps through
structured and informal education, public forums and neighborhood-level
discussion groups. But who will come? Who will summon them?
It is remarkable to consider that the Promise Keepers are the only
predominately white group I can think of who have achieved racial harmony
as a core belief -- even if they do not acknowledge that something is wrong
between the races in America -- and have pledged to do something about it.
Why do they stand almost alone?
Julian Bond is Distinguished Professor in Residence at American University
and a member of the University of Virginia's History Department faculty. He
wrote the Preface to PRRAC's book, Double Exposure: Poverty & Race in
America.
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Well that explains it. Not having read PRRAC's book, Double Exposure: Poverty &
Race in America, I missed the "Distinguished Professor" Bond's Preface, which it seems
suffices to take him a professor at not one but two universities. (If he'd written anything
else, why didn't they list it? All they could come up with was a Preface - and the Satrap
has the chutzpah to babble about White-Skin Privilege!)
First of all, Euros aren't "white," but that's beside the point, I ask the reader to consider
the following scenario: a Euro-punk, with a police-record a mile long, drags Negro cops
on a speed chase through three cities, endangering the lives of god-knows-how-many.
When the police finally force him to a stop, he starts attacking them. The police beat the
holy-shit out of this scum-bag, which someone happens to video-tape. There are no
permanent injuries; he's just given a good thrashing. But because he's a Euro and the
cops Negroes, the cops are arrested for "using excessive force" and tried before an all-Negro jury which acquits them! At this point the Euros in L.A. (there are still a handful)
go berserk: smashing, looting, burning - inflicting some $2 billion damage. The Negro
cops are re-arrested by the Feds, for "violating the Euro's civil rights," retried by an
almost all-Euro jury, convicted, sentenced to federal prison - and the Euro-punk given
millions in damages. What you have been given is the Rodney King saga, nothing
changed except the complexion of those involved, to show that the Distinguished
Satrap is the same lying, whining, demagogue he always was!
Julian Bond babbles about "White-Skin Privilege" and yet is unable to cite one
example. He can consume 30,000 bytes in GIFs to puff-up his ego, but he can't cite one
example of Euro-privilege! We all know that Euros are given bonus-points on civil
service exams, because of their white skin. We all know that universities are forced to set
aside admission quotas for Euros, because rampaging Euros threatened to kill the faculty
if they didn't. We know all about the set-aside on government contracts for "palefaces,"
and government paid-for day-care centers for whelps foaled by unwed "mothers" in
junior high school!
As the Distinguished Preface-Writer and Ranking Satrap has seen fit to single out
one group (but not one "Honkie-Privilege" which causes him such distress), allow me to
single out an author - a real author, a real professor, and an honest Negro - Andrew
Hacker, whose long-standing best-seller Two Nations ... had to be revised after than
travesty of justice verdict garnered by O.J. Simpson, solely by the most outrageous
appeal to racism ever heard in a modern court room.
Prof. Hacker, on pg. 228 cites the "eminent black sociologist William Julius Wilson
of the University of Chicago," to the effect that a "race-specific approach" heightened
antagonisms between racial groups. Thus Julian Bond's whole fixation works to the
detriment of improving relations between Euros and Negroes. In his preposterous
arrogance, which he has been flaunting for more than thirty years, his "message" is the
Euro must first admit the privileges he enjoys simply due to skin color - and then
babbles on without naming ONE such "privilege"!
It is no understatement to state Bond is Beyond Belief!
Go Back!
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