Something extraordinary happened this week. The Smith College administration — of race hoax and discrimination complaint fame — drew some heavy fire from a distinguished group of black leaders in a letter released on Monday.
The wording was particularly pungent:
“Before investigating the facts, Smith College assumed that every one of the people who prepare its food and clean its facilities guilty of the vile sin of racism and forced them to publicly “cleanse” themselves through a series of humiliating exercises in order to keep their jobs. When an investigation of the precipitating incident revealed no evidence of bias, Smith College offered no public apology to the falsely accused and merely doubled down on the shaming of its most vulnerable employees.
Many of us participated in the Civil Rights Movement, fighting for equal treatment under the law, which included due process and the presumption of innocence. We didn’t march so that Americans of any race could be presumed guilty and punished for false accusations while the elite institution that employed them cowered in fear of a social media mob. We certainly didn’t march so that privileged Blacks could abuse working class whites based on ‘lived experience.’”
These signatories struck a huge blow for common decency and fairness. They lent their considerable moral authority to a cause that has been, up until now, relegated to the outer fringes of polite society.
So, did this august group, made up of civil rights era luminaries, distinguished professors, business leaders and men and women of faith — all of them African-American — receive a fair and respectful hearing from President McCarthy at Smith? Not so far.
So far, the response from Smith College to this brutal call-out has been muted, to say the least. A few days after the letter was published, a “Professor of the Study of Women and Gender,” Carrie Baker, wrote a column in a local paper addressing the criticism Smith College has received in recent months from The New York Time and others — but which mysteriously did not mention the critiques from the black leaders this very week.
In a breathtaking display of wilful blindness, if not outright disrespect to the letter-writers, the article plaintively asks: “Are anti-racist initiatives really the problem?” Baker and her co-author, a recent Smith grad, actually dare to accuse The New York Times writers and other recent critics of CRT of “resisting the incorporation of perspectives, histories and theories of non-white people” — even as their article literally ignores the vociferous opposition from nearly 50 of black signatories to the letter.
I would like to speak directly to the white, college educated women who have entrenched themselves in critical race theory because they think it makes them “allies” of the poor, downtrodden masses: stop “helping”, start hearing the black voices who are dissenting from this damaging yet dominant bad-faith narrative of white supremacy. There are a lot of black dissenters — 44 of them in this letter alone — who at this point are practically screaming in your face that we are on a dangerous path. It is the height of privilege (the very thing you claim to fight against) to ignore them, as Smith College just did.
Do white “allies” among the education elites, understand the realities of black people better than black people themselves?
The biggest enemy of the Black Community in recent memory has been White Liberals without a doubt. Now they want to remove the filibuster when the last time it was used was by Robert Byrd to protest the Civil Rights Act for 14 hours. He is a noted psycho and great friend of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and others. Spiritually speaking, it’s more difficult to corrupt Black People, hence their low numbers in Secret Societies like Skull and Bones. I understand this comment might be too far for the scope of this blog so feel free to remove it if it creates too much tension.
A freckle-faced Irish American 16 year old, I was at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963 to hear Dr Martin Luther King give his memorable speech. With me were my father and a sister, along with the tens of thousands of others, to demand equal rights for our black fellow citizens. My position has never changed; I believe, as Dr King so eloquently said that day, that each individual must be judged on the content of their character, not on the colour of their skin. Young "woke" people, even in my own family, would like to reproduce the victories of those courageous struggles, ignoring the fact that they greatly improved the civil rights of millions of Americans. Pretending to believe that racism is America is still the scourge it was, is to display culpable ignorance of our country's history.
The biggest enemy of the Black Community in recent memory has been White Liberals without a doubt. Now they want to remove the filibuster when the last time it was used was by Robert Byrd to protest the Civil Rights Act for 14 hours. He is a noted psycho and great friend of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and others. Spiritually speaking, it’s more difficult to corrupt Black People, hence their low numbers in Secret Societies like Skull and Bones. I understand this comment might be too far for the scope of this blog so feel free to remove it if it creates too much tension.
A freckle-faced Irish American 16 year old, I was at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963 to hear Dr Martin Luther King give his memorable speech. With me were my father and a sister, along with the tens of thousands of others, to demand equal rights for our black fellow citizens. My position has never changed; I believe, as Dr King so eloquently said that day, that each individual must be judged on the content of their character, not on the colour of their skin. Young "woke" people, even in my own family, would like to reproduce the victories of those courageous struggles, ignoring the fact that they greatly improved the civil rights of millions of Americans. Pretending to believe that racism is America is still the scourge it was, is to display culpable ignorance of our country's history.