(8/2009 - The following column is reposted by request…It is dedicated to child prodigy Stephen Stafford and John McWhorter. Stafford is the hope of our future and a credit to Africans globally. Stafford makes me look like a child slacker! Clearly, McWhorter is neither. McWhorter makes me vomit incessantly!...}
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JOHN MCWHORTER'S RACIST NEOCON DELUSIONS PROVE THAT HE HAS LOST HIS MIND!!!
"The white man's ice is colder..."
-ancient Uncle Tom myth
"The white man's children are better and smarter students..."
-newest black neocon myth
I can no longer decide which is colder: mythical white ice or a black neocon soul...But, I do know this: John McWhorter is the newest and iciest neocon-in-blackface sold out to the highest Republikkkan bidder on the political auction block! He is the author of a "book" entitled “Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America”. It should have been entitled: "Losing My Mind: On Self Hatred and Being an Academic Saboteur in Black America".
I write this column with a level of disrespect deeper than any that I have ever known. Why? Because I have always felt alive on a university campus. Because I revere academia. Because McWhorter is pissing strongly on academia nationwide and calling it heavy rain!
Questions : How do you justify racist regressive legislation that legitimizes a mythical color-blind reality? How do you secure white power in an increasingly nonwhite world? How do you explain the sudden whitewash of academic landscapes immediately after Proposition 209?
Answers : Find one yellow insider (with that mandatory generic black neocon haircut) and encourage him to become the Clarence Thomas of academia. Find one house nigger with a Ph.D. and a post at a legendary academic institution. Find one who is willing to mask his neocon Republikkkan political agenda as new academic wisdom. Purchase his loyalty with a lucrative publishing contract. Make him pen a new versionof the "The Bell Curve"... Voila! We now have the perfect new book to justify the perfect new apartheid-ish look of academia!...
Just as truth cracked the hell out of “The Bell Curve”, truth will also win the last lap over "Losing the Race"!!! Laziness, ineptitude, and amorality are as common within all American students as hormones, acne, and caffeine. Who would dare say that they have never seen a pathetic student who is white or a superb student who is black?!?
Ironically, McWhorter claims that racism is a conspiracy. Yet, his own racist libel and slander are proofs of conspiracy. I am utterly disgusted by any racist fool like McWhorter who would dare to claim that African-American students have any monopoly on being poor students!!! Any honest and sane professor will proclaim that superior students come in every race, just as inept ones do. Being an inferior student is not a racial ill, it is a universally American cultural one.
Slackers are as universal as traitors like McWhorter. If my vastly white professors were as biased and racist as McWhorter, I would never have become a scholar in academia or a success in corporate America. From preparatory school to a superior university to Fortune 500 corporations to multimedia broadcast careers, and graduate school, I was blessed never to be abused by a psychotic, bigoted, and blind professor or manager like McWhorter.
Each day I am more shocked by the increasingly heinous betrayal of the black neocons of the world. They are soulless monsters like McWhorter and his clones like Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Colin Powell (Colon), Shelby Steele, flaming closet gay Armstrong Williams, psycho Ward Connerly, pimp trick Ken Hamblin, Larry Elders, Ezola Foster ("Ebola") etc.. They are eternal proof that overseers can be far crueler than their massas.
It is always easier to ignore reality than to dare to change it. I will die trying to improve reality. The cowardly and conniving McWhorters of the world will die justifying its glaring injustices and inequities. Karma and truth will bless my efforts. Karma and truth will curse theirs.
No other people in America have endured the abuses that African-Americans continue to endure. McWhorter's dementia and his blackened version of “The Bell Curve” are textbook examples of the unique self-hatred and suicide that continue to destroy African-American realities. McWhorter and his rabid Republikkkan ilk are doing all that they can to oppress and enslave us, even as they simultaneously and hypocritically demand that we regard oppression and slavery as relics of the past.
It is demonically duplicitous to claim that rich black kids have no typically urban or socioeconomic pathologies upon which to blame their alleged academic inferiority. Then, in the same foul breath, claim that these same rich black kids are victims of a poor urban mentality that makes intellectualism and achievement "uncool". I dare McWhorter to explain how these rich black kids acquired such ghetto mentalities? I also dare him to prove that rich white kids are superior to their elite black peers. Most rich white kids are far more obsessed with MTV's ghetto life and art than any rich black kid could ever be!
I grew up with many elite black kids who never spoke ebonics or slacked! We all coveted academic awards. It was never considered uncool to excel in my academic circles. In fact, academic excellence was our coolest aspiration and the focal point of our most intense competitions. Intellectualism was even mandatory for entry into and status within our elite black "in crowd."
I challenge McWhorter to spend a day away from the ivory tower that is his campus office. I suggest that he spend a day perusing through the academic file cabinets of white Greek fraternity and sorority houses where he will locate backdated droves of the scored exams and papers that impress him so much. I suggest that he spend a day with some excellent international students. (I recommend Africans, Asians, or Jamaicans.). He should hang out in a computer lab with a few Internet wizards. They could download some term papers or theses to dazzle him from websites that are all owned by white students. He should chat at length with them about things generally foreign to all American students, irrespective of race or class. They should discuss things like work ethics, starkly idyllic American dreams, ethnic mentors, and cultural unity.
McWhorter and his ilk intensify racism and oppression by championing the mythical inferiority of African-American students from elite black families who attend elite white academic institutions. I am one of those students. It is why I loathe McWhorter so deeply for his completely libelous, personally offensive, and lauded pack of lies!!!!
I want nothing more than to see more African-American students excel academically. Education is the key to success. For four brief years, President Select Shrub/George W. Bush and his ilk will make success more difficult than ever in every arena. I know the value of superior education because I have always cherished and been blessed by my own:
In 1976, I began attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), at the age of 12. I was admitted due to my superior intelligence and my acceptance into a university preparatory school program. In order to be admitted to that adult curriculum as a pre-teen, I endured several days of intensely competitive testing with predominately white students. My parents and I were interviewed extensively. My IQ was tested and my parents were instructed to keep my bona fide genius score a secret...
I was the only black girl in my class for three years. And, each year I graduated at the top of my class. In 1980, I proceeded to become a formal undergraduate student at that same university. In 1984, after extensive extra-curricular pursuits (including paraprofessional peer consulting, becoming an honorary mock attorney, attending formal conferences to speak for faculty members, ad hoc membership on Chancellors' committees, leading numerous afrocentric student organizational actions and protests, managing The Daily Illini, the award winning campus newspaper office, and founding black campus radio station WBML etc...), I graduated as a member of Who's Who in American Universities & Colleges. In a graduating class of 7500, I earned a selection as a member of Senior 100 Honorary.
In 1984, I began a fifteen year quadruple career as a corporate staffer, a radio producer/host, and a columnist. Now, at 37, I am currently completing a Master of Arts degree in Interpersonal and Organizational Communication at the top of my class with a 4.0 cumulative grade point average.
Unlike the admittedly insecure and professionally haunted McWhorter, I do not doubt any of my qualifications for any of my posts. And, I never will. I am certain that I have earned every post that I have ever held. In fact, I am certain that I would have been rewarded with even greater posts had my skin been white. I regret that McWhorter feels he may have been handed his career by liberal Democrats. My hands are worn from the toil that I have spent earning each of my own careers.
In the real world, we elite black students know that, as a rule, we must work three times as hard as our white peers to obtain the same grades. We can see that there are millions of students who look like us that do not come from elite schools or educated families. We know that we must succeed, by any means necessary, not only for ourselves, but for all Africans, rich or poor, gifted or average. And we do so because, unlike the deluded, racist, and elitist McWhorter, we understand that we will always be lumped together by racists like him! Thus, we must remain one collective and defiant exception to the racist rules of sabotage, slander, and libel that are promulgated by McWhorter and his sadistic posse of rabidly self-loathing blackish fools.
Unlike McWhorter, I love myself. I respect my own performance and posts. And, I love African-American people. I know that the hopelessness of anyone or anything is easiest to endure when one is totally detached from that person or thing. (Ask any family member in pain because they dare to love the children of toxic deadbeat kin!!!). Neocons like McWhorter are cowards in pain. I know this because I am braver and stronger than these poster houseboy puppets.
I am brave enough to admit that real African-American pathologies exist and that they enrage, shame, and repulse me. And, many African American students are as pathetic as the very worst of their white peers. Yet, unlike McWhorter, I embrace the complex realities of those ills and resolve myself to mentor, drive, and even curse inferior African-American students beyond their flaws into excellent futures. McWhorter would rather chant racist mantras, and promote mythical nonsense that invites genocidal political schemes. He prefers to ensure such students have no academic futures at all. McWhorter and his fellow traitors solely champion schemes like"school vouchers" that will precede the total annihilation and abandonment of urban school systems.
I am a salvation. He is a saboteur. I want campuses to blacken, so that I will have afrocentric intellectual kindred company. He wants to make campuses even whiter than they are, so that he will shine more brightly as the sole golden Negro company man. This is a classic house nigger tactic that is an ongoing symptom of Post Traumatic Slavery Stress Disorder (PTSSD). Because McWhorter is still a slave, he wants students who are darkies banished from his academic plantation.
I strive to empower and emancipate black scholars, as McWhorter works overtime to secure the deadbolt locks on the doors to ever whitening bastions of academia. McWhorter and I are both enduring excrutiating racial pain. My pain is numbed by African-American excellence. His is numbed by African-American eradication. I seek to increase our numbers in universities. He seeks to sanction our scarcity.
Millions of African-Americans from diverse socioeconomic and educational backgrounds are intellectually superior and successful. We have spent our entire lives working diligently to become superior scholars and professionals in every arena. However, unlike McWhorter and his ilk, we do not allow that success to blind us to reality. We do not become demented by delusions of our own uniqueness or grandeur. We do not fall victim to the compliments of racist whites who view us as anomolies as they divide and conquer us. We question our rarity. We do not revel in it.
We look beyond our egos to view those who fell prey to racist and elitist obstacles that we were blessed to evade. We reach back to pull others who look like us up with us. We build academic afrocentric bridges that the eurocentric McWhorters of the world desire only to burn down. They torch those bridges as they sit grandly upon their own thrones. They are ruthless and honorary niggers in academic Big Houses. See their antics exposed in the books and links below.
Affirmative action is mandatory for affirmative discrimination. Abolishing affirmative action is mandatory for affirmative ghettoization. Saboteurs like McWhorter and their suicidal self-loathing ilk enjoy being regarded as intellectual novelties. They enjoy propagandizing for racist politicians who will ensure that they remain the only black faces in their elitist white circles.
The betrayals by McWhorter and his ilk will ensure that our struggle for racial equality will become increasingly difficult. They enjoy the lies that they spread. They enjoy the games that they play. They are as efficient as they are cursed...
McWhorter, his peers, and his puppeteers never really desire racial equality in academia or anywhere else. Wherever true racial equality is achieved, African-Americans excel. In the armed forces and in athletic arenas, African-Americans habitually and historically shine brighter than any of their white peers. In medicine, Dr. Ben Carson shines. In child education, Marva Collins shines. When academia purges itself of more racists like McWhorter, we will shine in academia also.
Public Enemy and Maya Angelou said it best. "It takes a nation of millions to hold us back.... And, still, we rise." I close with a poetic dedication to McWhorter:
"Still I Rise"
by Maya Angelou
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops?
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise.
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise.
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise.
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise.
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the
hope of the slave.
I rise.
I rise.
I rise.
Don't believe the racist Reuplikkkan academic hype!!!
Read about the REALITY of racism and black excellence in academia:
The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America
Steve Fraser
Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined
Joe Kincheloe
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
Richard Hernstein & Charles Murray
Intelligence, Genes and Success: Scientists Respond to the Bell Curve
Bernie Devlin
Think Big
Ben Carson
Gifted Hands
Ben Carson
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
Andrew Hacker
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think About The American Obsession
Studs Terkel
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Derrick Bell
The Rage of a Privileged Class
Ellis Cose
Poisoned Apple: The Bell Curve Crisis
How Our Schools Create Mediocrity & Failure
Betty Wallace & William Graves
Living with Racism: The Black Middle Class Experience
Joe Feagin
Member of the Club: Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World
Lawrence Otis Graham
Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
Lawrence Otis Graham
The Shape of the River
William Bowen, Derek Bok & Glenn Loury
DeBunking The Bell Curve: Scientific Racism
Mamadou Chinleyu
Inequality by Design
Claude Fischer et al
Marva Collins' Way
Marva Collins
Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers
Marva Collins
Darwin's Athletes
John Hoberman
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TESTING REALITY
STANDARDIZED SABOTAGE
RACISM IN ACADEMIA
{There are those who dare to call me a racist because I dare to pen truths about racism. These same fools ignore reality as they spin fantasies about me. I dedicate this column to all of my enemies. Your lies, offenses, slander, libel, trifling denial, delusion, and disrespect are all my greatest inspirations. I sincerely thank you all. Read on...}
Despite the permeation of neocon lies in media, race relations are not OK in America. Things will never be OK as long as we continue to evade the realities of racism in literally every arena. Academia may be less OK than ever before. Too few professors look like the students they increasingly teach. Campus attrition rates are skyrocketing.
James Baldwin wrote:
“To be conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage”.
I would like to qualify his eternal wisdom for the New Millennium: “To be conscious in an America that is decreasingly white is to be in a constant state of rage that is increasingly red hot!” Initially, the fires of my red hot rage were stoked by attacks on affirmative action. Racist whites realize that white supremacy, nepotism, and good old boy networks can no longer secure white power, due to their rapidly declining numbers. So they have reinforced affirmative discrimination by revamping redemptive institutional rules.
Later, my fury raged on when racist white women, who have benefited most from affirmative action, collectively decided that they preferred the alliances of white skin over those of gender. They decided it was better to secure white supremacy by reuniting their political forces with sexist white males. These racist feminists became traitors and fools, while true white feminists and black womanists resigned ourselves to the fact that racism is much stronger than sisterhood.
Most recently, our racist white enemies have constructed new barriers in academia. As more Blacks, Asians, and Latinos excel in academia than ever before, the rules of higher learning are changing, yet again. Those who demand that we "pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps" continue to devise evil schemes to keep us barefoot. Those who blatantly lie about fictitious level playing fields, continue to brazenly make certain that those fields are more unlevel daily.
No one can deny that global economic divides exist. In America, most persons of all races do not own a computer. Most Blacks and Latinos are poor. Poor people are roadkill on the information superhighway. Impoverished schools do not even have enough books to distribute to each student. Thus, typing labs/classes and PC rooms are even more scarce or absolutely nonexistent.
Yet, ruthlessly, racist elitists in academia have decided to handicap students based upon their typing skills. They have methodically and quietly decided to make all standardized entrance exams manditorily computer based. So students who are superior typists will garner superior test scores. Those who have attended privileged schools with PC’s, whose parents can afford PC’s, or who have spent droves of hours in local libraries, will now have ruthless advantages over students who are less PC savvy.
Now culturally biased tests will be compounded by mechanical biases. The acquisition of PC and typing skills, far in advance of college testing and instruction, are great academic assets. They should not be exploited as pseudo intellectual advantages. College experiences should enhance these skills rather than penalize those who lack them upon entry into academic arenas. New students should be judged and admitted by their intellect, not their typing skills.
Republikkkan school voucher scams will cause urban schools to worsen. Rather than being just severely neglected, they will now be totally abandoned. School PC budgets will become tighter than ever.
This grossly unfair trend goes far beyond socio-economic bias. I have been blessed with educated professional parents and elite schools. I am a superior typist, and a gifted student. I recently earned a Master’s Degree in Interpersonal and Organizational Communication, Summa Cum Laude, with a 4.0 cumulative grade point average. Yet, my concentration is easily broken. A persistent cough, the nagging sound of a pen pressing loudly upon a nearby desk, conversations behind a closed door etc...all distract me immensely. I perform best in silence.
Nothing is louder than the cacophony of sounds coming from keyboards being pounded in unison during an exam. Such distractions are severely time consuming. They force me to backtrack etc...All standardized tests are rigidly timed. Those who can tune out loud noises better or type faster have a huge and unfair advantage on all computerized exams. Computerized testing should be optional, not mandatory.
I loathe this American trend in academe. It reminds me of a favorite song by Patrice Rushen. I have used it for years as the official theme song for my AM talk show
“Outlook”
. It is entitled
“To Each His Own”
. Its lyrics include:
“If all men have the right to choose prosperity, I wonder why this choice is such a rarity?”
.
Even as this new barrier is constructed as a weapon against those who are not proficient typists/PC operators, there are droves of campus officials who are blinded by racism/elitism/denial/delusion/apathy who will say:
“Blacks just choose not to type/study/enter college/excel on standardized tests/compete/achieve....”
If only these fools would choose to see beyond their fear of a Black planet, they would open the doors of academia completely and fairly. Anyone with the aptitude to walk through campus doors, irrespective of race or class or PC typing skills, would be allowed to take entrance exams. Now, the campus doors designed to selectively filter students are being made two-ply.
There is a renown and practical science to test taking. Often, clues to responses are imbedded within other questions. It is often necessary to return to previous questions to check or edit responses. Computerized testing makes this impossible or monitors it. Such strategic information should be private. Technical restrictions act as sabotage.
Unlike paper exams, computers are not foolproof. The anticipation of technical errors or delays increase anxiety. Increased anxiety further sabotages performance.
Statistics from those who are unable to type tests, or who forcibly type tests and garner lower scores, will not be used to reverse these new ruthless testing rules. There will be no comparative research done to secure paper tests as options. Instead, these statistics will be fiercely collected to support racist and bogus theories about genetic intellectual inferiority. Genetics will be scapegoated for the sabotage of environments.
I took my first formal typing class at 15. But, I began programming computers in prep school at the University of Illinois at age 12. So, for three years prior to my first typing class, I fashioned my own unorthodox style of typing. I struggled in that typing class. I retain that unique style to this day. My typing skills have often paid my rent. Yet, every column or paper that I have ever composed has been penned on paper first. I must do it that way. It is a comfortable ritual that has served me well for over 26 years.
As an undergraduate, I was blessed to attend a large international university where 24 hour computer labs and typing services were abundant. I was blessed to afford to have most of my papers professionally typed. As a superior student, I always completed my papers in advance. Later, after 15 years in corporate America, I attended graduate school. Fortunately, I owned my own PC. Still, every paper, and even my 118 page thesis, were penned on paper in advance.
Unlike racist elitists, I have empathy for those who have not shared my material or academic blessings. Unlike callous fools, I am not arrogant about my socio-economic ignorance. I respect variances in individuals’ experiences and needs. I embrace racial and economic diversity. I strive to understand and improve reality, not deny and distort it.
I was blessed with superior parents who taught me superior life lessons. The greatest of all was the lesson that reminds me to never allow my fortunes to make me blind or apathetic to the misfortunes of others. They taught me never to allow the trappings of their success to cause me to forget those who were trapped, by the hatred of racism, the weight of poverty, or the mentacide of white supremacy.
They taught me to live and represent the best of humanity, and my African-American race, while simultaneously embracing and fighting for those deemed as the least among us. That lesson has given me a unique strength, mission, and emotional anchor. It is that lesson that guards my sanity and saves my soul...
Generally, I have never really liked this world. That is why I will never give birth to another life to dwell here. A world so ugly and unfair deserves no fruit from my womb. Because my parents chose to give birth to me, I will do my best to make this world a better place before I exit, gladly and completely.
There are many successful Blacks who fail to endure these ongoing racist nightmares. One who touched me deeply, when I was an aspiring journalist at age 16, was journalist Leanita McClain. I admired everything about her. I shared her pain. My innocence died with her suicide. I shared her hopelessness. My determination was reborn with her death. I endure now because she did so then. She is my inspiration and salvation. [For more on Leanita see http://www.cjr.org/year/01/6/1989.asp]
Every time I see Black people dominate a sporting event, I wonder if we will ever be given a fair chance to do the same in intellectual and occupational arenas. Each time I see fans worship Dr. Dre, I wonder why more do not equally worship Dr. Ben Carson. I loathe Dr. Dre. I revere Dr. Carson. I wonder if Dr. Carson was a great typist when he began his illustrious medical career. If he were a teenager today, would his legendary surgical gifts be sabotaged by his lack of PC skills?
Author Ellis Cose, in
Rage of a Privileged Class
, explains how familiarity breeds wisdom and contempt. Author Otis Graham, in
Member of the Club
, explains how even wealth is often a weapon, but never a shield, against racism. Successful Blacks hate racist whites even more than those who never excel. It is precisely because we have never lived in a ghetto, have attended superior schools and universities, and have secured coveted white collar jobs that we experience such excruciating brands of racial pain and disgust, when we find that our black skin is
still
a barrier that even character and genius cannot erase.
We still endure racism daily within our ivory towers inside academe and beyond. We still train less educated and experienced whites to become our managers and chairs. We still witness less qualified white peers rapidly burst through glass ceilings that never even shatter for us. We play expertly by the rules and still we never win the games. We dwell upon those playing fields that racists dare to call level. And we know their treacherous and bumpy terrains as intimately as we know the taste of our own tears...
Slaves dreamt of freedom while captives, won by access and excellence. As their progeny, we find that we are still enslaved, irrespective of excellence, with access that is always tenuous at best. Our access is constantly blocked by newfangled obstacles and racist double standards of evaluation. We strive to live ancient and collective American dreams, only to find that we still cannot awaken from ancient and collective Amerikkkan nightmares. I live with a recurringly broken heart. It is broken daily.
My heart breaks every time any one refuses to see the validity of my anger...every time I see African people refusing to be as beautiful and loving as we all should be...every time white friends evade my Black reality...every time I stand alone on righteous ground...every time I hear any blind fool proclaim that racism is a relic...every time I see any televised awards show that looks like Apartheid...every time I see faceless, Black, naked, gyrating, female bodies on a music video...every time I grimace at Michael
Jackson’s gruesome and ghastly bleached visage...every time I see another violent doomed child...every time I see Mumia in chains and O. J. free...every time I think of all the kids being raised like puppies, who will inherit this earth...every time I think of their subhuman “parents”...every time I see a grandmother raising her grandchildren, while her golden years slip away...every time I see a racist professor strive to break, rather than make, a Black student...My heart never heals.
It is only African ancestral angels and God who hold the bloody pieces of my perpetually broken heart together inside me. My entire life is an eternal gift from them. My eternal rebellion is my gift to them...
Not a single African-American was ever meant to survive slavery. Yet, millions of us have done so. Thus, each of us is a living miracle. Every wall that racists fashion is one that pain and time have specifically prepared all of us to climb.
African
Labi Siffre
is a poet, a gifted lyricist, and a sacred singer. He is also a kindred homosexual rebel spirit, with the voice of an Afrikan angel. When I am grieving over racist obstacles fashioned to destroy, I play a special song by Labi. It is entitled
Something Inside So Strong
:
“The higher you build your barriers
The taller I become
The farther you take my rights away
The faster I will run
You can deny me
You can decide to turn your face away
No matter, cause there’s (CHORUS:)
Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Though you doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone
Oh No
There’s something inside so strong
Something inside so strong The more you refuse to hear my voice
The louder I will sing
You hide behind walls of Jerico
Your lies will come tumbling
Deny my place in time
You squander wealth that’s mine
My light will shine so brightly it will blind you
Cause there’s (CHORUS:)
Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Though you doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone
Oh No
There’s something inside so strong
Something inside so strong Brothers and sisters
When they insist we’re just not good enough
Well, we know better
Just look them in the eyes and say
We’re gonna do it anyway
We’re gonna do it anyway
Because there’s (CHORUS:)
Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Though you doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone
Oh No
There’s something inside so strong
Something inside so strong”
For more information on racist sabotage in academia read another column herein:
“Losing the Race, Lost his Mind”
. Also read:
Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools
by Jonathan Kozol
Rage of a Privileged Class
by Ellis Cose
Member of the Club: Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World
by Lawrence Otis Graham
Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class
by Lawrence Otis Graham
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, and Unequal
by Andrew Hacker
For more information on racism in academia and beyond, see these additional columns herein:
AMERIKKKA 2000: RACE-ING INTO THE MILLENNIUM RACISM IN ACADEMIA: CALIFORNIA READING LISTS EBONICS 1: BLACK ENGLISH-WHITE WEAPON EBONICS 2: ON ARROGANT IGNORANCE EBONICS 3: REVISIONIST RACISTS
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Affirmative action is mandatory for affirmative discrimination. Racist employers have proven that they will only be fair when forced to be so legally. Affirmative action ensures fairness in increasingly hostile and ruthless workplaces.
Neoconservatives paint affirmative action as a program that favors the hiring of community college graduates over Ivy League graduates. It does no such thing. It does INCLUDE Black Ivy Leaguers in otherwise exclusively white Ivy League personnel pools. Racism forces most Black college graduates to be academically superior to their white peers. Whatever we do, racist professors force us to do it better than white students to achieve the same grades. Fortunately, we excel with habitual ease.
Masterfully, neocons are revamping affirmative action programs to benefit white South Africans and conservative white, female Americans exclusively. Actually, it has always benefitted whites more than Blacks, as “quotas” are always predominately white numerically. Sexism is still more rampant than racism. Black men still earn more than Black women in similar jobs. White women fare better than all Blacks in every occupational arena.
In 1984, author George Orwell coined the term “Newspeak”. Neocons speak it fluently. “Affirmative action reform” really means “securing the good old white boy networks in offices everywhere”. Racism is STILL a reality, especially in employment. The playing fields in the offices of America have never been made level. And, the racist coaches never changed the rules of the game. Don those helmets. This game is getting tougher daily. The New World Order is in progress. The Revolution is in the streets...
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