by Paul Craig Roberts reprinted by permission of the author
This is an introduction to a letter written by a black American professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He says that the University no longer serves scholarship and has become a servant to the Democratic Party and Black Lives Matter. He says that the university is akin to a suppressive regime that crushes real diversity and exiles free debate. At the end of his letter, he damns the University of California regents and the Berkely history department for eulogizing George Floyd, a depraved, drug-ridden thug “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.”
Here is an honest and highly intelligent black American professor at a prestigeous State University who understands that the collapse of white confidence has destroyed scholarly integrity and respect for truth. He understands, unlike the dumbshit white regents of the university and the dumbshit propagandists in the history department who pretend to be objective historians, that this is a threat to him, to black Americans, to white Americans, to a multicultural society, to the United States, to Western civilization, and he is despondent that he cannot state his views except anonymously.
The history department has denounced the letter as an unpardonable statement of truth.
Here is his letter: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/491889-anonymous-uc-berkeley-professor-blm/
Read it. Read it again, and again. You will understand what The Saker means when he says the United States has entered the final stage of collapse. If you want a clear picture of your future, read The Camp of the Saints, if you can find a copy of this best seller that has been withdrawn from publication and suppressed.
I disagree with the basic thesis of this post (although a PCR admirer usually). reason: China is not collapsing while american academia, being part of the service industry, is. Once people are too poor to even get indebted for college, and this is happening as we speak, the chasm between the people and academia will widen further. Once people who got into debt will be unable to find a job, they will see that is an incredibly overpriced absurdity.
And it will become clear to most that academia is just a mouthpiece for and creation of the 0.001%.
pertinent to my prior comment
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/nyu-prof-hundreds-if-not-thousands-universities-will-soon-be-walking-dead
Difficult to undermine a cultural system when you are unemployed. And militarily speaking, these are a bunch of women.
drb
I have trouble understanding your statement that “China is not collapsing while american academia, being part of the service industry, is”. Why mention China ? Yes, China is not collapsing, as it has five thousand years of history and culture behind it.
The article pertains to American universities. The private ones exist for the kids of the elite, while the state ones exist as training grounds for the kids of the middle class, who are trained as “technitians”, making the country function. They take orders, of course, from the elite.
As for George Floyd, he was used as a double excuse. One group of people demonstrated against police brutality and the state of affairs in the US, while another group of people used his death for good old fashioned internal subversion, causing riots and looting. This second group was obviously controlled by someone.
And the actual death of George Floyd ? Pretty bizarre. One cop is apparently choking him, with three others watching. The event is filmed. The cops do not react to the filming. Why ? Was this a psyops, the intent being to provoke wide scale condemnation and insurrection against Trump ? One website has even stated that the real George Floyd died three years ago, while the one portrayed in the video was his double, something I cannot confirm. However, more than one website has confirmed that the autopsy discovered a drug in his body.
And the overall conclusion ? In think we can conclude that the elite in the US is pulling the strings as far as American universities go, the ultimate motive – for the time being – open for debate.
this is a spin.
usa as a company or biz model is doing fine.
what we’ve got here is getting rid of the dead-weight.
and brilliantly the 0,0001% are achieving this thru
BLM, one part of the lower classes beating down the other one.
genius move.
another reason for BLM is to be alluring for Africans. this is how the
AngloZionist Empire is contesting for african resources against China.
just look at the many “inside africa” shows on CNN or BBC.
third reason for toppling the statues is, USian history is to be erased.
and a new nation to be born, the north americans.
…………..
off topic:
btw, i heard the news today that trump is scared to get infected by corona.
guess they showed him kennedy’s movie – they assassinate him and blame it on
corona?! gonna be interesting days ahead.
“btw, i heard the news today…..”
Source of that gossip, please.
And what that source very likely said for the last nearly 4 years……….. about Trump being a puppet of a foreign state…….in a pathetic attempt to frighten silly American children of all voting ages ….to get back under Tavistock Institute AngloZionist Empire mind control.
I’d appreciate it.
Cheers!
Perhaps, Trump is unthreatened and is just being the POTUS he wants to be. That might actually be a much more worrying scenario.
… but in reality there is no threat from China or Russia !
( “Putin and China” ? )
Things have become complicated and confused and a reset is hard to imagine.
What’s happening is not about who George Floyd was. It’s about the fact that he was executed. The cop that murdered him knew him. Eric Garner was executed for suspicion of selling cigarettes, not crack, not weapons, not pussy, just suspicion.
George Floyd was executed for suspicion of passing a fake twenty. The interview I’d like to see, had you real skills, is the one with the wussie who called the law on the guy. Anyone can wind up with fake money, it doesn’t mean you printed it. It doesn’t mean you should die.
Executed for falling asleep in a drive through line? Different black guy. Same sentence?
I lived blocks from UCB for years. The only way it ever impacted me was they pay people to steal your cat out of your yard and take it to UCB where they perform horrible experiments which result in the death of Fluffy and throw your dead cat in the university dumpster where my 10 year old Siamese was found among 40 or so other dead cats. I paid missing pet detective Sherlock Bones (google it nonbeliever) to find my cat and that’s where the trail ended.
A tracking dog found the little son of a bitch that cat napped my pet. He was responsible for a number of pet disappearances. He was an illegal alien. The police wouldn’t prosecute. My neighbors went over with baseball equipment and invited him to play. I think he must have fallen down a lot. He soon appeared to have gone back to his own country.
So, F this professor, obviously a disgrace to his race. Bless the saker for being on the wrong side of history. Since 1970 I’ve championed “Fuck America”. Since the theft and murder of my cat I’ve championed ‘Fuck UC Berkeley’.
You are incoherent with hate, and infantile rage, poor man.
The black professor is not incoherent. He makes a great deal of sense and exhibits courage, an element of love.
Police may arrest if they see a crime being committed………….but they are never supposed to prosecute….nor judge a case on the spot, as you evidently insisted that they do.
Meanwhile, administering your own “justice” by assaulting an individual with baseball bats IS A CRIME.
Seek help. Please!
You need it.
While I have always disagreed with the American approach to policing and justice, the fact is that George, who had near fatal doses of fentanyl in his system according to the autopsy, is being celebrated. That makes it relevant, b/c nobody is sticking to your story about the person of George not being germane. In theory it is not, but in practice, the celebrants of his life and memory have made it so.
But I agree, the popo could easily have defused the situation and reparked the drunk’s car and dropped him off at home … and that is true of most confrontations, very few of which involve imminent danger to anyone.
What people in the know, know is the taser was already fired two times before it was taken from the cop. After that it’s just a flash light making some wierd noise. The cop knew it too. That’s why that coward pulled his gun and shot him in the back. Then, gloriously put his boot on a dead man’s throat.
Eric Gardner: sold the cigarettes every day in the same spot on Tompkins Park off Victory Blvd – FACT !
Floyd: Should George Floyd Be Put on a Pedestal?
Despite all the observances memorializing George Floyd, you may not have heard the most relevant facts. Mr. Floyd was not the innocent victim that has been portrayed. As a narcotics user, porn star, and violent felon, is he really the kind of role model we want for our children?
Cause of Death: Fentanyl and Meth
Asphyxiation was NOT the cause of Mr. Floyd’s death. The Hennepin County Attorney stated that he “had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease. The combined effects of [police restraint], his underlying health conditions, and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death.” [1] The medical examiner found “no life-threatening injuries”. [2] Right away this undermines the police brutality narrative. The toxicology report reveals that Mr. Floyd was high on deadly narcotics at the time of death, with a fentanyl concentration of 11 ng/mL (four times a lethal dose), norfentanyl 5.6 ng/mL, methamphetamine 19 ng/mL, morphine 86 ng/mL, and marijuana metabolites. His blood also contained 4-ANPP, an impurity found in fentanyl preparations. From this, one might conclude that George Floyd killed himself!
Violent Criminal History: “What is not being told is the violent criminal history of George Floyd. The media will not air this,” police union president Bob Kroll told his members. [4] Mr. Floyd had been incarcerated for five years in 2009 for an assault and robbery, and had previously been behind bars 4 times for offenses ranging from theft with a firearm to drugs. [5]
Porn Star: Mr. Floyd also starred in numerous amateur porn videos using the name “Floyd The Landlord.” [3]
Meanwhile, other Black police officers died maintaining order during the ensuing riots, and their sacrifice has largely been ignored.
When was the last time we saw politicians kneel for a fallen police officer, soldier, fire fighter or first responder? Justice demands that we honor those who serve our communities by protecting life and property. The hero-worship of George Floyd is phony, contrived and misplaced.
[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/29/george-floyd-died-police-restraint-combined-health/
[2] Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office Autopsy Report on deceased George Floyd, No. 20-3700 (6/3/2020)
[3] TheHabibShow.Com/YouPorn
[4] George Floyd had ‘violent criminal history’: Minneapolis police union chiefhttps://nypost.com/2020/06/02/george-floyd-had-violent-criminal-history-minneapolis-union-chief/
[5] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8366533/George-Floyd-moved-Minneapolis-start-new-life-released-prison-Texas.html
Mr Floyd never had his day in court to face Officer Chauvin, who summarily executed him. George Floyd
was no saint, he should have gone to jail, not the morgue. An additional autopsy, politically motivated, said there was evidence that his carotids were shut down by pressure, depriving his brain of oxygen, which led to a coronary event. Like cimate change, we will only believe the scientists we choose to believe.
George Floyd should not have died as he did.
A guy who was that high on drugs should ahve been farily easy to restrain.
I do find most suspicious the fact that Floyd and the cop apparently knew each other.
That thickens the plot.
Whatever the truth about Floyd and Chauvin, we should not turn Floyd into a cultural hero.
What is going on now is ludicrous.
Katherine
“Asphyxiation was NOT the cause of Mr. Floyd’s death.”
I’m sure anyone else who was knelt on the neck by a uniformed thug with a history of violence towards people of colour would have been fine, then. I’m for instance sure that you, being I’m certain a fine upstanding person, would not have been asphyxiated had that happened to you. But I absolutely hope that it does not, because I wouldn’t want to risk your being wrong about that.
Thank you for posting this, Saul. I couldn’t agree more.
F**k UC Berkeley and f**k the police for executing too many young men and women in cold blood, men and women of all colors.
This black professor is obviously pro-police and sees all police brutality victims as thugs who got what they deserved.
Sadly there are far too many with the same attitude, and many more than I expected on this website.
Just wait until you’re the one with a permanently destroyed eye because you got shot with a rubber bullet by some overzealous, angry cop with something to prove for doing nothing other than having walked down the wrong street at the wrong time. Then you will understand.
Here near where I live there are protests going on surrounding the death of Elijah McClain… I wish his death would have gained more traction in the media when it happened because he didn’t have a record and he was clearly a well-meaning person without any stains on his personality. They wouldn’t be able to smear him as just another “thug” and a “criminal” like George Floyd. The way the Aurora PD murdered him was unbelievably cruel. If you don’t believe me, look it up. Then as he lay dying the medic injected 500mg of Ketamine into him which finished the job. For those that don’t know Ketamine is a hardcore psychedelic drug, and 500mg is a huge dose. Imagine being injected with a hardcore psychedelic right as the cops are beating the shit out of you. You’d probably die from a heart attack too. It is unbelievable what they did to him.
Anyway, there was a local protest which was peaceful and it was lawful. Everything was fine, and the protesters were playing violins to commemorate him when the same Aurora PD that murdered him in cold blood rolls up and starts firing tear gas and pepper spraying PEACEFUL protesters who weren’t doing anything wrong. It’s enough to make your blood BOIL to watch this happen in our country and it is totally understandable to me why there are thousands upon thousands out there protesting. And if you people can’t understand that, then you’re part of the problem. As for the Saker, I still trust him but – the root causes of and it’s just contributing to even more division.
All these people talking about how George Floyd deserved what he got, well, what do you say about the thousands more that didn’t have a criminal record and were completely innocent when they were either beaten bloody or even outright murdered by the police?
“All these people talking about how George Floyd deserved what he got,”
Some do say that, but most do not.
Certainly not the person of color who wrote the letter to the UCBerkeley History Department, or members of that department.
This person is saying that the response to the BLM movement is undermining the academic and First Amendment standards of free enquiry and expression at his university. Also, that his department has been inveigled into untransparent yet direct partisan support of one political party.
Katherine
“Sadly there are far too many with the same attitude”
Malcolm X had a name for those people.
The unknown professor, supposedly from UC Berkeley, obviously hates his own kind as can be judged from the article that Dr Roberts refers to, whereas, in striking contrast, Dr Roberts who, it must be admitted, has taken a courageous anti-imperialist stand on many international issues, when push comes to shove, sides with his own kind! Not a word of condemnation from him about the brutal state killing of George Floyd! That is why US conservatives and the alt-right can never be trusted in the end, however progressive their slogans may sound. Their thinking cannot get beyond the cocoon of white nationalism in which they are ensconced. As I had written earlier, it behooves all of us, including the Berkeley professor, to read and listen to Malcolm X once again, e.g. his remarks on “The House Negro and the Field Negro” which is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kf7fujM4ag
Your lamentation that PCR won’t collapse into a frenzy of self-denial and self-hatred is wryly amusing. Do you actually expect people who are not mental, spiritual and physical degenerates to commit treason to themselves and their kin? To expiate sins that exist only in your mind? Yes, you are completely correct that white Southerners, like PCR, are going to put themselves on their own side. That means your side is going to get the fight you seek so badly, But in the end, the Bourgeois Bolsheviks, the Frankfurt School fanatics, Antifa, the rest of The Resistance and your non-white cannon fodder will not fare well in the execution of your genocidal plans.
It is strongly worded and eloquent letter with strong & weak points.
The strong points include the author’s claim there is no debate and room for dissent at US universities, and that he/she felt compelled to write anonymously for fear of losing his/her job. This probably applies not just to race but also to other issues such transgenderism, Russia gate, Trump etc.
Another strong point was the description of BLM as purely a political tool working with the Democratic party and not a good faith organisation for police reform. This is not surprising given what is known about this organisation, and its source of funds.
Unfortunately the letter goes off on an unnecessary tangent by claiming that China is “an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist” with ” null immigration and no concept of jus solis”..?
The comments about George Floyd being a wifebeater, deadbeat dad etc are irrelevant as his significance in this whole story is purely posthumous.
Universities are especially being destroyed by the internet, which renders a lot of classes futile and contributes to grade/degree inflation because of online classes where it is too easy to cheat. Many jobs de facto require a degree, and some even legally require a degree to get a license. Yet schools are insanely overpriced. It’s a form of mandatory debt slavery. You need a degree to earn a living, yet you can’t get a degree just by proving your knowledge: you must become a debt slave. You go to school, sit in a class, study at home on your own, take a test (often a meaningless test because people cheat), and pay the school tens of thousands of dollars you don’t have to do paperwork while you teach yourself.
The root problem is that universities revolve around money. The curriculums are controlled by money, the students go there so they can earn money in the future, the professors are in it for the money, and meanwhile many brilliant intellectuals can be found around the internet who work non-academic jobs and share knowledge for free in their spare time. It would not be hard for the best minds and purest hearts in academia to come up with a much better system, but who would put them in charge? If this one root problem were solved, the ideological degeneracies of schools would become less severe. As long as universities revolve around money, they will be subjugated by whoever can throw the most money at them.
Perhaps interesting….Ivanka says government should recruit people by skills testing…not necessarily degrees.
https://sputniknews.com/us/202006271079735775-Ivanka-Trump-federal-hiring/
However UK seems to wish to continue its self believe privelege style of education
Getting ridiculous…?https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8465629/British-universities-told-protect-foreign-interference.html
Although seems to be some sensible ideas for synchronising school educational year and exams timetables…to get over dodgy “predicted grades and university offers system” at present that ends up in the chaotic nightmare “clearing system “where uni’s desparately offer places to anyone with some brain cells on the same courses where firm offers at high grade levels have previously been inforce, so it seems at times rather than checking their skillsets(hence high dropout rates in first year)….best one being take exams later in the year not May..get your actual grades…find the right uni for you plus accommadation….prepare properly for uni learning methods and subjects you are persuing….start uni the following January.
I highly doubt that a black history professor who mentions his faculty affiliation could remain anonymous, especially since his general attitudes must be somewhat known to colleagues and students.
I agree with the gist of what he is saying, but I think he is the ghost standing in for the real writer.
Your problem here is that public debate is a kind of pseudo or virtual debate which is managed behind the scenes by proffesional propagandists for unstated reasons. Your debate then becomes a conflict between such propagandists, who represent rival groups within the deep state, with their rival unstated objectives. Managed public debate cannot do the work that is required from public debate and the result is decline instead of change.
The Open University is a public research university and the largest university in the UK for undergraduate education. The majority of the OU’s undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off-campus; many of its courses can also be studied anywhere in the world.
Address: Walton Hall, Kents Hill, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom
Number of students: 168,215
Phone: +44 300 303 5303
Vice-Chancellor: Tim Blackman
Founders: Harold Wilson, Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge, Michael Young, Walter Perry, Peter Venables
The OU was established in 1969 and used the original television studios and editing facilities at Alexandra Palace, in north London, which had been recently vacated by the BBC. The first students enrolled in January 1971.
The course fees for the whole degree are about £5000. So £625 per annum over 8 years.
“Mr Buckley, who was awarded an MBE six months ago for his work with vulnerable youngsters across Manchester, warned of the ‘neo-Marxist’ policies of Black Lives Matter UK – which include tearing down capitalism and abolishing the police – and said they risked dividing communities.
But his 570-word blog sparked uproar among campaigners who branded him a racist and launched an online petition demanding that he be sacked. The 52-year-old was dismissed within days.”
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The mob rules…..
Post modern art, like literature and music sets out to manufacture trash in all output in the hope that skills will be devalued and everyone can write a play, paint a picture and compose a musical masterpiece. Should they be sufferers of ‘grievence’ then their works should be even more prized. In the US their time in the sun is extended. In other places their time in the sun is limited. Such will be the decline of the US, not external factors. That is why I believe China and Russia amoungst others are patient.
https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/06/27/glenn-loury-were-being-swept-along-by-hysteria-about-racism-in-america/
Interview with a black american professor….history and context is important ..
The current turmoil, much of it caused by agents provocateurs is hardly about race or revolution. COVID-19 was a bioweapon directed initially at China and Iran. I suspect that maybe the USA was in their sights all along, too.
The Davos crowd knew that the more collectivist nations of the world like China and Russia could deal with it, but we obviously can’t. It has also served as cover for the biggest transfer of wealth in human history, $7 trillion last I heard, from the US treasury to the banksters and the big corpse. The lumpenproletariat are out in the streets rioting and looting, engaging in all manner of self-destructive behavior, drugs, alcohol, etc. They are playing right into the hands of the banksters and the big corpse who will soon prod the idiot Trump into declaring martial law and the complete suspension of the US Constitution. They also know that they will be as superfluous as pack animals in the coming new economy. Their menial jobs are never coming back and they know it. What do they have to lose at this point?
The big corpse?
What big corpse?
Seriously, as the man who helped supervise Reagan’s first stab at gutting America’s welfare state and facilitated the gross theft of wealth from working people to corporations and the wealthy, PCR has a lot of f–king moxie to speak ill of George Floyd and those who are struggling to institute racial justice in a Republic that was set up to ease the life of those who stole black people and murdered indigenous folk. I was OK with Roberts when he seemed repentant and when he saw the conclusions of his own Class War begin to destroy America under the Bush family, but a Patrician is a Patrician to the bone, I guess and the recent turn of so many contributors into ceaseless critics of both those who have sought a more just distribution of America’s wealth and those seeking to redress centuries of racial injustice; I’m beginning to wonder why I spend time here.
Dr Roberts is a defacto supporter of the Confederacy as evident from one of his recent articles in which he castigated Abraham Lincoln, in striking opposition to Karl Marx who praised Lincoln for being on the right side of history. In a 1860 letter to Frederick Engels, Marx wrote:
“In my opinion, the biggest things that are happening in the world today are on the one hand the movement of the slaves in America, started by the death of John Brown and on the other the movement of the serfs in Russia.”
Later, as the Head of the International Workingmen’s Association (i.e. the First International), Marx wrote the following to Lincoln in response to his reelection as president:
“Sir, we congratulate the American people upon your reelection by a large majority. If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your reelection is Death to Slavery.”
A brief historical summary of this is available in the article “Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx: ‘Death to Slavery’ by John Wight (https://www.globalresearch.ca/abraham-lincoln-karl-marx-death-slavery/5717111).
Dr Roberts and his supporters should also revisit some of the terrible and brutal history of racial oppression in the US, one example of which is the 1919 ‘Red Summer’ race riots. The riots, which occurred two years after the Bolshevik Revolution and in which scores of African Americans were stoned to death, burned and lynched by rampaging white mobs, were very conveniently blamed by bourgeois newspapers like the NYT on the (supposed) incitement of communist agitators. This is similar to the diversionary tactics of today as evident by the oft use of imprecise and nebulous terms like “cultural Marxism”, “neo Marxism”, “globalism” and “Deep State” by the alt-right, adherents of whom are blamed for all the ills which are currently bedeviling and rending apart the capitalist societies of the West, e.g. the recent and ongoing mass protests of the murder of George Floyd. A brief summary of the historical events of Red Summer can be found in the article “Lynching, stoning and burning: The 1919 ‘Red Summer’ race riots that America and Britain want you to forget but which echo today” by Andrew Dickens (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/493037-red-summer-race-riots/).
https://archive.org/details/the-camp-of-the-saints-jean-raspail-1973
i think it is this book he mentioned, it is free to download from archive. org.
“The Anti-American Universities Are a Much Greater Threat to Us than Putin and China”
That’s the sweet irony of it: The Pindos brought colour revolution mayhem upon themselves without even one (1) foreign rabble-rouser. But still, it would be very wrong to downplay the highly significant Russian and Chinese contributions in bringing down the US Empire. Their leaderships are top-class while what passes for “leadership” in the West is, to make an understatement, no match for them.
What’s not to like?
The Camp of the Saints can be easily found on http://libgen.lc. The direct link is at http://93.174.95.29/main/ccafe5d2661fddaf1e496a84222914fe. Just click on the blue GET on top
Edited for discourtesy – (Mod)
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Jean Raspail’s The Camp of Saints is flat-out White paranoia. Raspail imagined — wrongly — that Europe was to be betrayed by its Left. Maybe understandable for a piece of reactionary fiction garbage written in the early 1970s, but Raspail was to be proven wrong. It was Europe’s corporatocracy and George Soros that were to let in ‘the great unwashed’ as a planned course of action, put into practice by premeditated imperialist war in North Africa and the Middle East.
Desperate migrants, often very highly qualified, willing to work for a pittance and to do almost anything to avoid being sent back where they came from = a perfect neo-slavery. Better than de jure slavery, actually, since their employers/owners don’t have to pay to feed, clothe, and house them, fund health care for them, and so on. If they quit, well, there are plenty more where they came from because their home country is still being destroyed beyond recovery. From the capitalist class viewpoint, what’s the problem with that?
you can acces a digital copy of Camp of the Saints here:
…w.jrbooksonline.com/PDFs/Camp_of_the_Saints_2col%20.pdf
Traditional historians or the Positivists from the English, French and German schools saw history as fact presented by the historian to serve the interest of the ruling class.
Lies are presented as facts by a historian who depends on the ruling class to publish, and journalists who depend on their daily bread on what they write. They manipulate facts to influence social behavior until even the most oppressed accept them as true. Slavery produced human conditions of acceptance.
The letter from our good professor provided hereby Mr. Roberts omits a major fact “The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it.”
The dominant class in America sells the concepts of honour, loyalty, nation, and flag as belonging to America alone. Since America’s existence, the elites used torture, police, and the military to deny these same tenants to other nations.
Similarly, concepts of freedom, equality, family, parenting, religion, and children, had a different meaning for the owners of property which they did not apply to the racial minorities particularly natives, Asians, and predominantly black. The ruling class itself overall accepted this to be so.
In his letter, our good professor used the Jewish and Japanese persecution experience as an example for the black community to look at.” Using the research of Jewish historians, the 1830 census, Jews actually had a higher per capita slave ownership than for the other white population.” Japan, also, was a slaveholding society, but the concept of the family always remained.
The good professor with his letter wants us to believe the axiom “that facts speak for themselves” He omits that interpretation and observation of the facts should be the cornerstone of historical writing including those he provides in his letter. He only tells part of the story and like many historians, he discriminates in what he emphasizes and selects as facts, while omitting the answers to the questions he posed. As a historian, I am sure he knows that recording of facts without evaluation is pointless.
This interpretation must not be colored by one’s environment, social, and political position. Interpretation of the facts connects to the understanding of the present but more importantly, it may provide a key to shaping a more just future.
In regard to ‘higher education’ in the USA: it has been ripe for a major disruption for quote some time.
Pandemic fears, income loss and a younger generation of USAns that are simply weak and impractically minded will likely see over 1000 schools go belly up. In the end money talks and BS walks, due in part to the fact that everything has been commodified. An 18 yr old in 2020 looking at a 100,00 USD debt. with compund interest has to be very well funded or if not then severly limited in terms of being able to forcast “likely outcomes”.
In essence, college and university has been transformed into winter camp for young adult complete with a hefty debt pricetag and a whole lotta indoctrination. So little Gertrude majored in “grievence studies” and has nothing to show for it. Heck she and her friends will have plenty of time and energy to join the mob and help burn down whatever is left of the suburbs….
Wow, after reading this I’m sure Floyd deserved to be knelt on his neck for nine minutes until he died. Thanks for clearing that up!