With left liberal initiatives of all kinds, of which The 1619 Project is emblematic, it is no longer merely what David Kaiser noted recently, in passages below, regarding white radicals deferring to negro radicals, both now and in the past.
It goes beyond radicalism to the middle of the political spectrum of liberalism.
Few Europeans even know this really yet, but their whole history since the dark ages is now being re written by American negroes!
Their other problem is they have so many coloreds in Britain and continental Europe that they have to pay Democratic lip service to the whacked views of these different varieties of coloreds in their midst in large numbers.
They burble nonsense like institutional racism, systemic racism, stuff like that, when no one in the past considered these darkies anything but inferior races, and they had their pathetic tribal cultures all around to prove it, to even a moron of observation or reasoning.
I would just point out that the nature of this white liberal attack on white civilization, history, and white society is made in terms derived from Stokely Carmichael, terms of black nationalism, black power, black separatism.
Institutional racism, systemic racism, societal racism, were his terms.
"...And this in turn leads me to a last comparison between leftism then and now. The student radicals of the late 1960s--few of whom came from genuinely poor backgrounds--claimed to identify with the people of Vietnam and other parts of the Third World, and with poorer Americans, especially nonwhite ones. Today, white activists effectively argue that their race and privilege makes it impossible for them to form correct political programs on their own and forces them to defer to others for leadership. This tendency has a few older roots too, as I discovered reading a remarkable article, "The Wages of Whiteness," in the current issue of the New York Review of Books.
"That article is an interesting document in itself. Its author, Hari Kunzru, appears to be a native born Brit of South Asian descent, and a very successful novelist. The essay is among other things a detailed treatment of leftist ideas on race in the United States. Kunzru quotes from a 1970 Weather Underground manifesto, Prairie Fire, on the relationship of white and nonwhite revolutionaries. 'The Black struggle for self-determination is the strategic leading force of the US revolution…. Black and Third World people’s right to determine the direction of their struggle is undeniable. Self-determination means the right of oppressed people to seize and organize their future and the future of their children…. Whatever decisions Black people and other oppressed peoples make in exercising this right to self-determination, white revolutionaries and anti-imperialists have a very clear-cut responsibility to support those decisions once they are arrived at. This does not mean to support only those choices one approves of.' Kathy Boudin was a white member of the Weather Underground who helped carry out a 1981 armored car robbery on Long Island in which a guard and two police officers were killed. Twenty years later, in the midst of a long prison sentence, she claimed that she hadn't known anything about the robbery in detail but had willingly participated in it because she supported a struggle that was 'not my struggle. I certainly don’t have the right to criticize anything. The less I would know and the more I would give up total self, the better—the more committed and the more moral I was'...." DK
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