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		<title>Justifying the Rioting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rage is not justice.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sd.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246395" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sd.jpg" alt="sd" width="269" height="201" /></a>Rather than denounce the shameful lawlessness demonstrated by many “protesters” demanding “justice” in the wake of the grand jury decision about Officer Darren Wilson, progressives are doubling down by posting rationalizations for the rioting.</p>
<p>Marc Lamont Hill, for example, author of a book on “hip hop pedagogy” who hilariously <a href="http://www.marclamonthill.com/about">describes</a> <em>himself</em> as “one of the leading intellectual voices in the country,” <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/537112561221517312">tweeted</a>, “The story of ferguson tonight is way bigger than looting or violence. People are angry. People are hurting. They&#8217;re killing us with impunity.” This is nonsense. People don’t loot and burn down neighborhood businesses because they are angry and hurting; they do so because trumped-up racial controversies give a criminal element the cover to commit crimes against business owners who had nothing to do with the controversy. Rioters steal big-screen TVs and Nike sneakers because they’re hurting? Ridiculous. They steal them because they are opportunistic thieves.</p>
<p>The hugely popular Gawker site, in an <a href="http://gawker.com/actually-riots-are-good-the-economic-case-for-riots-i-1663629918">article</a> claiming that “riots are good,” actually argues that “rioting is economically efficient”: “Since state authorities are always and everywhere most concerned about capital and business interests, threatening to impose costs on them via rioting should have a similar impact on police incentives” – by which it means that destructive rioting now supposedly discourages the police from shooting innocent black males later. What it really dissuades economically is businesses starting up or rebuilding in a neighborhood devastated by looters. The costs it imposes are not on the police, but on the victimized local business owners and their employees. But then, celebrity gossip is Gawker’s strong suit, not economics or common sense.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most unintentionally comical defense of rioting is from <em>Mask Magazine</em>, “an online style + living magazine for antagonist youth.” With a title that could have come straight out of the satiric site <em>The Onion</em>, “Hey, Step Back with the Riot Shaming” explains irrationally that “[People of color] are criminals because we are <em>seen as criminals</em>.” [emphasis in original] So, simply being viewed with suspicion causes people to commit crimes? The writer argues (actually, he doesn’t “argue” anything; he just spews a lot of whiny victimhood) that blacks don’t “own” neighborhoods; there <em>are</em> black-owned businesses, he concedes, but in the next breath he claims that “we don’t have shit,” and so apparently it’s all right to loot and burn the black-owned neighborhood businesses that he says blacks don’t have.</p>
<p>Even before the grand jury decision, as early as August right after the shooting of Michael Brown, a site called the New Inquiry put up a piece with the straightforward title, “<a href="http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/in-defense-of-looting/">In Defense of Looting</a>.” It was Marxist, racist agit-prop written by a guy whose bio identifies him as “a member of the punk band Vulture Shit.” Here’s a sample: “Only if you believe that having nice things for free is amoral, if you believe, in short, that the current (white-supremacist, settler-colonialist) regime of property is just, can you believe that looting is amoral in itself.” Here’s another: “Looters are only stealing from the rich owners’ profit margins. Those owners, meanwhile, especially if they own a chain like QuikTrip, steal forty hours every week from thousands of employees who in return get the privilege of not dying for another seven days.” This sounds like easily dismissed, Occupy lunacy, but unfortunately it is representative of the “thinking” of a depressing percentage of young people.</p>
<p>Also in August, the radical Salon.com posted a <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/08/12/in_defense_of_black_rage_michael_brown_police_and_the_american_dream/">piece</a> “in defense of black rage,” in which the writer states about rioting, “I refuse to condemn the folks engaged in these acts, because I respect black rage… How dare people preach and condescend to these people and tell them not to loot, not to riot? Yes, those are destructive forms of anger, but frankly I would rather these people take their anger out on property and products rather than on other people.”</p>
<p>But what Salon and other riot apologists refuse to acknowledge is that those products and property don’t exist in a vacuum; they belong to people who had nothing to do with the controversy and yet whose lives are seriously damaged, and in some cases ruined, by the looting and burning of that property.</p>
<p>In addition to these intellectually insupportable attempts to justify rioting, other progressive voices took the opportunity to simply fuel the fire. In apparent response to tweets that the rioters should “go back to Africa,” <em>The Atlantic</em>’s popular Ta-Nahisi Coates, perhaps best-known for his recent article supporting slave reparations, <a href="https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/537742938248605697">tweeted</a>, “Not how this works. We are here to run you out, not the other way around.” If he’s saying that blacks are here to run whites out of the country, then that’s a rather militantly racist admission.</p>
<p>Another militant, UPenn’s willfully <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/24/after-reading-her-tweet-youll-understand-why-an-ivy-league-professor-deleted-this-racial-comment-on-the-vmas/">illiterate</a> Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies Anthea Butler – whose <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/the-4-most-unhinged-responses-to-the-zimmerman-verdict/">unhinged response</a> to the George Zimmerman verdict I have previously written about – <a href="http://religiondispatches.org/americas-racist-god-meets-miss-celie-darren-wilson-not-indicted/">posted</a> an equally unhinged response this time, an inflammatory article asserting that Michael Brown was a “sacrifice to the god of white supremacy.”</p>
<p>In all fairness, not all the progressive voices attempted to whitewash the rioting or fan the flames. Charles M. Blow of <em>The New York Times</em>, for example, kept a relatively even keel in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/opinion/charles-blow-fury-after-ferguson.html?_r=0">his Wednesday op-ed</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>No one of good character and conscience condones rioting or looting or any destruction of property. Those enterprises aren’t only criminal, they’re fruitless and counterproductive and rob one’s own neighborhood of needed services and facilities and unfairly punish the people who saw fit to follow a dream and an entrepreneurial spirit, and invest in themselves and those communities in the first place.</p></blockquote>
<p>“But people absolutely have a right to their feelings,” Blow continues, “including anger and frustration.” Of course. But what the riot apologists won’t acknowledge is that violent rage is not justice or justification.</p>
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		<title>Public Intellectual/Human Joke Claims Not Allowing Hamas to Kill Israelis is Offensive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days I'm convinced that Marc Lamont Hill is a joke played by CNN on us.]]></description>
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<p>These days I&#8217;m convinced that Marc Lamont Hill (I&#8217;m sorry, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill) is a joke who  exists for no other reason than to give cable news talking heads someone to roll their eyes at.</p>
<p>Back in<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/white-people-what-are-they-good-for/"> 2012, I wrote that</a>&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, a man whose website modestly describes him as a “Professor, Author, Speaker, Public Intellectual,”&#8230; attracts attention only as a specimen of the vapid core of what passes for African-American Studies.</p></blockquote>
<p>Saying racist things didn&#8217;t get the &#8220;public intellectual enough attention <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2014/07/30/did-alan-dershowitz-make-marc-lamont-hill-cry-during-israel-debate">so he moved on to bashing Israel</a>. Why? Because news networks will put him on to do it. And Hill is a worthless media figure who stops existing once he&#8217;s no longer on CNN.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the dirty little secret of Dr. Marc Lamont Hill. If there&#8217;s a flood tomorrow, he&#8217;ll figure out a way to insert himself into the story and be on CNN squawking about how floods are wrong even though he knows nothing about floods.</p>
<p>Speaking of that, here&#8217;s <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/connor-williams/2014/08/04/cnn-contributor-sees-problem-iron-dome-it-takes-away-hamass-militar">Dr. Marc Lamont Hill on Israel</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>But what the Iron Dome does is it also takes away all of Hamas&#8217;s military leverage which is very different than say, 10 years ago or 15 years ago in other wars like Lebanon, et cetera. As a result, it not only serves a defensive purpose but de facto serves an offensive purpose. It allows Israel to essentially assault and siege Gaza without any retribution or response on the other side. So again, to some extent, they are not just funding defense, they are funding an offensive war and ultimately an occupation. That for me, is the problem.</p></blockquote>
<p>The problem is that Iron Dome works which prevents Hamas from killing Israelis as effectively as it would otherwise. Which according to Hill, prevents Israel from being forced to lift its blockade of Gaza. But the blockade of Gaza only exists because Hamas keeps trying to kill Israelis.</p>
<p>Hill has its backward, but you can&#8217;t blame him for that because he has no idea what he&#8217;s talking about. Israel isn&#8217;t his department.</p>
<p>CNN is to blame for putting on a guy whose specialty is writing papers about social criticism in Hip-Hop to discuss a foreign war in a place he has probably never even been to.</p>
<p>Hill is a joke, but he&#8217;s an obvious joke. CNN is a less obvious, but equally ridiculous joke, for turning Hill into a debating partner on Israel&#8217;s war with Hamas. For that matter, why are Ross Douthat and Marc Lamont Hill even being called on to debate this on CNN?</p>
<p>Actually, why is there even a CNN? That might be the better question.</p>
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		<title>Dorner, Folk Hero of the Left</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody loves cop killers more than left-wingers do.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/dorner-folk-hero-of-the-left/chris-dorner/" rel="attachment wp-att-177684"><img class="size-full wp-image-177684 alignleft" title="chris-dorner" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/chris-dorner.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="225" /></a>Nobody loves cop killers more than left-wingers do.</p>
<p>The grotesque outpouring of love for cop killer Chris Dorner, an ex-cop now presumed dead in a fiery shootout at Big Bear Lake, California, should make all sane Americans fear for the future of their country.</p>
<p>Dorner is suspected of killing at least one police officer and two others. He allegedly gunned down 28-year-old Monica Quan and her husband-to-be 27-year-old Keith Lawrence outside their home. Quan&#8217;s father Randy, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer turned lawyer, represented Dorner in disciplinary hearings that resulted in Dorner&#8217;s dismissal. Dorner reportedly called Mr. Quan days after the murder to taunt him.</p>
<p>Dorner&#8217;s cross-country rampage has been met in recent days with Facebook fan pages, sympathetic statements on Twitter, and grassroots-level enthusiasm for this brutal sociopath.</p>
<p>But making vicious killers into folk heroes is nothing new for the Left. American history in recent decades is bursting with cop killers romanticized by the Left.</p>
<p>Among those who have stuck it to The Man by killing &#8220;pigs&#8221; are: Troy Davis, executed in 2011 for murdering police officer Mark MacPhail as he came to the aid of an assault victim; Lovelle Mixon, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://colorlines.com/archives/2009/04/lovelle_mixons_funeral_too_sad.html">killed</a></span> in a gunfight with police in 2009; Mumia abu-Jamal, imprisoned for life for the 1981 murder of a police officer; Leonard Peltier, convicted in 1977 for gunning down FBI agents; Assata Shakur, escaped from prison in 1979, a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and Black Liberation Army (BLA), having been granted &#8220;asylum&#8221; in Cuba; and 1960s radicals like <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/01/shocking-new-documents-detail-dojs-reasons-for-releasing-marxist-bomber/">Marilyn Buck</a></span>.</p>
<p>In a rambling self-incriminating manifesto that Dorner posted online, the ex-Los Angeles police officer says &#8220;No one grows up and wants to be a cop killer &#8230; but, as a young police officer I found that the violent suspects on the streets are not the only people you have to watch.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dorner argues that he is sacrificing himself for the greater good by going on his murder spree, which he refers to as &#8220;a necessary evil&#8221; aimed at effecting change in the Los Angeles Police Department. &#8220;The only thing that changes policy and garners attention is death.&#8221;</p>
<p>In one of several chilling <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/feature?section=news/local/orange_county&amp;id=8983607">passages</a></span>, Dorner waxes philosophical: &#8220;Let the balance of loss of life take place. Sometimes a reset needs to occur.”</p>
<p>In his online screed, Dorner praises an assortment of left-wingers. He lauds President Obama for doing what he considers a good job under difficult circumstances. For their anti-Second Amendment efforts, Dorner hails TV host Piers Morgan, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Vice President Joe Biden. He also gives shout-outs to a galaxy of celebrities and public figures. Complimenting the First Lady on her hairstyle, he interjects, &#8220;Off the record, I love your new bangs, Mrs. Obama.&#8221;</p>
<p>There are also those slippery souls who stop short of endorsing Dorner’s killing spree, but who ponder aloud whether society drove him to murder. Their musings bear a creepy similarity to the Left’s post-9/11 hand-wringing about the true &#8220;root causes&#8221; of the attacks on America.</p>
<p>MSNBC ranter Chris Matthews and death row groupie Marc Lamont Hill suggest that Dorner’s online essay is a kind of petition for redress of grievances that needs to be taken seriously.</p>
<p>Matthews <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2013/02/12/insanity-chris-matthews-wonders-if-journalists-should-seriously-cons">suggested</a></span> Americans shouldn&#8217;t be so quick to judge Dorner because he may have had a legitimate beef against the LAPD. He asked reporter Andrew Blankstein, &#8220;How do you write a story like this that&#8217;s objective for the big metropolitan paper, the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>?&#8221;</p>
<p>Matthews added, &#8220;Are there people in your newsroom, editors who are saying, &#8216;We have to be careful here. It&#8217;s not simple. This man may have a complaint.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Matthews, of course, has never been concerned about fairness for non-leftists. He prefers to lump nonviolent Tea Party supporters in with the Taliban and the Third Reich.</p>
<p>Hill, host of HuffPost Live and a professor at Columbia University, said the Dorner saga is a needed civics lesson for the public about racism and the excessive use of force. “This has been an important conversation that we’ve had about police brutality, about police corruption, about state violence.”</p>
<p>“As far as Dorner himself goes, he’s been like a real life superhero to many people,” Hill said. Adding an obligatory disclaimer, Hill said, “What he did was awful, killing innocent people was bad, but when you read his manifesto, when you read the message that he left, he wasn’t entirely crazy.”</p>
<p>Those cheering on Dorner were happy to see him exact vengeance against a corrupt system, Hill <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-panelists-dorners-exciting-rampage-like-watching-django-exact-revenge-for-police-brutality/">said</a></span>. “It’s almost like watching <em>Django Unchained</em> in real life &#8230; It’s kind of exciting.”</p>
<p>Hill has a soft spot for those who murder police officers. He co-authored <em>The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America</em> (Third World Press, 2012) with <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1330">Mumia abu-Jamal</a></span>. Mumia, as left-wingers affectionately call him, is celebrated as a political prisoner even though in court he has never denied shooting Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner execution-style.</p>
<p>The book is essentially a transcript of a mutual admiration society, as the two radicals trade compliments and insights about how rotten America is. Hill tells Mumia that &#8220;you&#8217;re in prison but somehow still free, while I&#8217;m out here feeling profoundly un-free.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even this highly successful black man with his Ivy League Ph.D. who is sometimes called a “celebrity intellectual,” feels oppressed by American society.</p>
<p>&#8220;But to some degree, I feel un-free because I&#8217;m still encumbered by the very things that I&#8217;m critiquing in my work: consumerism, patriarchy even White supremacy &#8230; I&#8217;m trying to heal, man.&#8221;</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, in 2009 Fox News <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/confirmed-marc-lamont-hill-fired-from-fox-news/">fired</a></span> Hill as a paid on-air contributor after he acquired a reputation for defending cop killers and racists. But somehow he keeps finding his way back onto TV screens.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the ever-resourceful self-described &#8220;communist&#8221; Van Jones is urging Americans <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/13/opinion/jones-chris-dorner/?hpt=us_t4">not to concern themselves</a></span> with Dorner&#8217;s decidedly left-of-center views.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the wake of a tragedy, it is understandable to ask why this happened,&#8221; says Jones. &#8220;It is appropriate to discuss ways to keep it from happening again. But we should draw the line at suddenly giving an exalted place in our national discourse to the political rantings of a murderer.&#8221;</p>
<p>How convenient, especially since Dorner&#8217;s views on cops seem to differ little from his own. Forced out as President Obama&#8217;s green jobs czar in 2009 for signing a 9/11 &#8220;truther&#8221; petition, Jones is a longtime supporter of convicted cop killer Mumia abu-Jamal. Jones founded Oakland&#8217;s Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in order to combat perceived police brutality.</p>
<p>But with Barack Obama in power, it is more difficult to be shocked by sympathetic reactions to Dorner.</p>
<p>The people doing the cheering are the Democratic Party&#8217;s electoral base.</p>
<p>Obama himself invites rappers who praise cop killers to perform at the White House.</p>
<p>One such entertainer, Common, is known for performing, &#8220;A Song For Assata,&#8221; which is a tribute to fugitive black militant Assata Shakur. Here&#8217;s one verse from the tune:</p>
<p>&#8220;In the spirit of God.<br />
In the spirit of the ancestors.<br />
In the spirit of the Black Panthers.<br />
In the spirit of Assata Shakur.<br />
We make this movement towards freedom<br />
For all those who have been oppressed, and all those in the struggle.<br />
Yeah. yo, check it-<br />
I wonder what would happen if that woulda been me?<br />
All this shit so we could be free, so dig it, y&#8217;all.&#8221;</p>
<p>Common believes Shakur is a martyr. That&#8217;s one of the reasons he was invited to the White House. Obama and those who sympathize with cop killers are on the same wavelength.</p>
<p>If someone writes a song about Dorner, don&#8217;t be surprised if the person shows up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.</p>
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		<title>Dr. Marc Lamont Hill and &#8216;Overrated White People&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An African American Studies Professor teaches America a lesson in racist hate.]]></description>
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<p>White privilege consists of being white. Black privilege consists of denouncing white people in ways that would be considered racist if the shoe were on the other foot.</p>
<p>Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, a man whose website modestly describes him as a “Professor, Author, Speaker, Public Intellectual,” has assembled <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-lamont-hill/15-overrated-overrated-white-people_b_1948679.html">a list</a> of what he believes are the 15 most overrated white people to prove the point. Any college faculty member who tried assembling a list of the 15 most overrated black people would soon be the target of the most overzealous witch-hunt since Salem.</p>
<p>But if we were assembling a list of overrated black people, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill might just deserve his own place on the notepad. Hill’s bio is the usual intriguing world of African-American academia, complete with essays on social commentary in Hip Hop. Hill writes, so he’s an author. He speaks, so he’s a speaker. And he was once a weekly contributor to the Star Jones talk show, so he’s clearly a public intellectual. Best of all, he’s an affiliated faculty member in African American Studies at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. IRAAS has a logo that features two iguanas mating and offers all the usual navel-gazing courses that exist only to waste tuition money, except they’re African-American navel-gazing courses.</p>
<p>Dr. Marc Lamont Hill’s list of the 15 most overrated white people displays exactly the intellectual rigor you would expect from a man affiliated with such a fine academic institution. It isn’t a list that’s oriented around anything but race. To be on the list, you can be a playwright, a musician, an economist, a football player or a politician. You can be American or European. You can be alive in the present day or dead for 400 years. It doesn’t really matter so long as you’re white.</p>
<p>This is racism, but it’s also the kind of mindless unthinking racism that we have long ago come to expect from social justice commentators doing their best Malcolm X imitations while having lunch in the faculty dining room and public intellectuals whose intellectual activity consists of saying racist things about white people and then defending their racism with the ubiquitous cry of white privilege.</p>
<p>Hill denounces Christopher Columbus, the man whose discovery made Hill’s entire profitable career possible, and William Shakespeare, the man who helped shape the language that Hill mangles while giving a tiny fraction of the world his thoughts on how much change is needed. (A lot. When it comes to change, the answer is always a lot.)</p>
<p>But where would Dr. Marc Lamont Hill be without that “immoral treasure hunter,” Christopher Columbus? If we asked Hill that question, we would have to sit through a long answer about slavery and slave boats. And he’s right. If Christopher Columbus had never existed, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill may very well be a slave. Slavery existed in Africa and the Middle East long before Columbus and it went on existing there after it was abolished in the United States.</p>
<p>Had Europe stayed out of America and out of Africa, the African slave trade would never have been disrupted by European colonialism and the millions of slaves who wound up shipped to America would never have found a place where millions of overrated white people would fight to free them from bondage.</p>
<p>Slavery still exists in the Muslim world and as a slave in Africa or the Middle East, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill would have been little better off than many of them. If not for Christopher Columbus, the odds are good that Dr. Lamont would not have a PhD, he would have a hoe. Indeed when overrated white people did liberate slaves and helped set up an African-American colony in Liberia, one of the first things that those former slaves did was set up their own system of forced labor for the African natives.</p>
<p>But black privilege means existing in a world where none of that matters; a world where a man who writes books on “Hip Hop Pedagogy” feels entitled to diss William Shakespeare. And who needs Shakespeare anyway? The guy probably never even listened to Jay-Z. According to Hill, Shakespeare is only well known because of “narrow-minded educational systems”; the kind that don’t teach Hip Hop.</p>
<p>Through Hill’s black privilege gaze, Reagan and Clinton are reduced to overrated figures guilty of shrinking the welfare state. And if all you can see is your entitlement to welfare checks, then that’s all that matters about two presidents in pivotal periods of American history. That’s black privilege too.</p>
<p>According to Hill’s black privilege, Elvis and Tim Tebow are only popular because they’re white and so he goes down the list of white people who took away all the fame that rightfully belonged to black people. Babe Ruth was only good because he played in a segregated league, Shakespeare probably couldn’t have measured up to Alice Walker and the NHL is just taking away attention from the NBA.</p>
<p>It’s arrogant, it’s racist and it’s also commonplace. It might be possible to assemble a list of overrated black people, but Dr. Marc Lamont Hill wouldn’t be on it because to be overrated, you first have to rate. Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is uninteresting as a figure; he attracts attention only as a specimen of the vapid core of what passes for African-American Studies.</p>
<p>Unlike any of the men he has listed, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill has contributed nothing, but he is in a position to contribute nothing. His entire field, like his article, is based around the negative; existing to take up space, to attract attention, to work up anger and to suck up money.</p>
<p>African-American Studies isn’t a research field; it’s what happens when grievance becomes academic. Dr. Marc Lamont Hill isn’t a public intellectual; he’s a poser in a field full of them.</p>
<p>White privilege is a degree in the post-evocative phase in semi-structured experiences. Black privilege is a degree in African-American post-evocative semi-structured experiences. The former is a fancy way of saying nothing at all. The latter is a fancy way of saying nothing at all while blaming white people for it.</p>
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