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In the just-released trailer for a new comedy flick coming in March called The American Society of Magical Negroes (I’m not making this up), one black man asks another, “What is the most dangerous animal on the planet?” The other character begins to reply “Sharks” when the first one interrupts to answer his own question: “White people, when they’re feeling uncomfortable.”
Now imagine replacing “white people” in that joke with literally any other demographic: black people, Asians, Muslims, Jews, etc. (actually, considering the antisemitic bloodlust rearing its ugly head among young people all across America and migrant-colonized Europe, Jews would be the other exception in this case; but the neo-Marxist Left lumps Jews in with white people anyway as “colonizers” and “oppressors”). There would be nationwide fury among the Cancel Culture mob. Executive heads would roll at the movie’s production company. The harpies on The View would blame Trump for having empowered hate and racial division.
The reason Hollywood knows it can get away with a punch line smearing whites as “the most dangerous animal on the planet” is that white people are the only racial group it is culturally acceptable today to demonize, especially among younger generations. A recent Harvard/Harris poll, for example, revealed that 79% of Americans – four out of 5 – between the ages of 18-24 believe white people are “oppressors.”
And no one alive is more responsible for popularizing that corrosive perception than celebrity “antiracist” author Ibram X. Kendi (real name Ibram Henry Rogers). At a recent screening, for example, for the new Netflix documentary Stamped from the Beginning, based on his own bestselling 2016 book, Kendi drew vigorous applause when he stated that “constructions of whiteness” have shaped the personalities of white people worldwide and prevented them “from connecting with humanity”:
When you’re not able to see yourself in other human beings, that creates all sorts of problems. But not just societal problems, but personal problems, that I think hopefully this film and this work will liberate those folks from. It’s liberating all the way around. I think it will liberate all of us because we’ve all been told a lie about ourselves and other people.
The audience applauded this condescending, racist assumption about whites because, again, we now inhabit a culture in which white people are seen collectively as oppressors, racists, and genocidal colonizers – thanks in no small measure to the influence of Kendi’s books for adults, How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped From the Beginning (he has written antiracism books for children as well, because it’s never too early to sow the seeds of a racist worldview).
Stamped From the Beginning blends news and entertainment footage, animation, melodramatic historical reenactments, and interviews with (only) black or mixed-race activists and academics to elucidate the history of anti-black racism through the lens of Critical Race Theory (CRT).
(Interestingly, all the interviewees but Kendi are female, and all the historical figures to which the film devotes extended attention – anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells, poet Phillis Wheatley, slave autobiographer Harriet Jacobs – are female. Presumably he made this choice intentionally in order to amplify “intersectional” voices, but it’s curious that in a film on the history of racism in America, Kendi would deny black men the agency to speak for themselves.)
Though CRT is never mentioned by name, the false core assumptions of this ideological weapon are all there: that America was founded not in the seeds of liberty and justice for all but in slavery and racism; that the history of our nation is one of intentional, violent oppression of blacks by a power-hungry, white supremacist elite; and that systemically racist policies and institutions are still “baked into” American society today.
The film begins with the interviewees declaring that a false narrative about black people has been constructed by white people throughout history. The documentary then proceeds to construct a false narrative about whites – that they have literally and collectively conspired to dehumanize blacks and to punish them whenever they dare challenge white power by achieving any economic or cultural success. Activist and TikTok celebrity Lynae Vanee states that “black progress is so terrifying to white Americans that they will do anything to harness the power they thought was lost.”
Brittany Packnett Cunningham says that “somewhere along the line, folks figured out ‘Hey, if we link arms under this umbrella of whiteness, then we can protect our collective interests and make sure nobody else has access to our power.’” Somewhere along the line? Where? “Folks”? Which folks, exactly? Cunningham presents no details, no evidence, no source, no citation, that such a conspiracy among white people ever happened.
The interviewees, the most well-known of whom is lifelong Communist Angela Davis, blame a grand generalization called “white people” and “whiteness” for everything blacks in this country’s history have suffered from the Transatlantic slave trade forward (there is no mention of the black Africans who actually did the enslaving and selling of their fellow blacks). The film’s participants even personify “whiteness” as if it not only exists but has agency and feelings (Cunningham refers to whiteness being “uncomfortable” with blacks who aren’t “the right kind of Negro”) and intent, and that intent is to oppress blacks.
“White supremacy has been embedded in this country since its founding,” one activist declares. George Washington and the Founding Fathers – Stamped reduces them all to “enslavers.” Thomas Jefferson is a special target of antiracist condemnation largely for his relationship with slave Sally Hemings, which the interviewees repeatedly refer to as “rape.” Vanee declares with a chuckle that the principal author of the Declaration of Independence “was full of shit.”
Not only are America and Britain given no credit for being the first nations in world history to end slavery, it’s clear that the activists who appear in the film deeply resent any implication that whites played any more significant role in ending slavery than blacks did. They make it very clear that white abolitionists were not the real heroes of the anti-slavery movement, only problematic “allies” with mixed motives. Even that Abraham Lincoln “dude was low-key racist.” A chapter of the film is given to tearing down “The Myth of the White Savior,” arguing that whites today who are committed to, say, helping impoverished black Africans are doing so only to demonstrate “See? I was nice to the Negroes.”
Kendi has stated elsewhere that capitalism is essentially racist and that racism is essentially capitalist, so naturally his film’s perspective on economics is Marxist. Stamped claims that a “small group of wealthy white elites” – here we get images of Donald Trump, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos, among others – “continue to accumulate wealth and power on the backs of everybody else.” That’s not how the world actually works; it’s not how Trump, Gates, and Bezos got wealthy; and it gives the false impression that there are no blacks among billionaire power players. Kendi also smears poor whites, claiming that they believe the source of their economic “pain” is “people who don’t look like them.”
Visually, the film is packed antiquated cartoon imagery and old footage of Ku Klux Klan rallies and pre-civil rights era bigots, as if we still live in that America. It also features misleading clips of, for example, former presidents Trump and Reagan making law-and-order speeches, presented as if they are demonizing blacks; similarly, the film shows snippets of popular films like King Kong and Planet of the Apes as if every movie with a monkey is thinly-veiled racist propaganda.
Stamped decries the historical sexualization of black women but never acknowledges that the exploiter of black sexuality and the objectifier of black female bodies today is the black entertainment industry itself, which has raked in billions from the execrable gangster rap music genre. Gangster rap, which glorifies black criminals and demeans women relentlessly as “bitches” and “hoes,” has for 40 years dominated the popularity of any other form of black music, from jazz to soul to the blues. Has any single white figure in the past done as much to reduce black women to sexual animals as profane twerker Cardi B with her pornographic 2020 hit “WAP”? It was celebrated as Song of the Year by Black Entertainment Television (BET), no less, which ought to be ashamed of itself. Where is the condemnation of this self-exploitation in Stamped From the Beginning? Nowhere, because “whiteness” cannot be blamed for it.
Then we come to the segment of the film on crime. It explains away the reality of the disproportionate percentage of violent crimes committed by blacks by saying that white America has manufactured the lie that black males are dangerous predators through the intentional “invention of black criminality.” Yale historian Elizabeth Hinton says that in this construction, “crime becomes a code word for black.” Thus, presidential calls from Nixon to Clinton to Trump to enforce law and order are viewed not as assurances to the American people – including blacks – that they will not have to live in fear of criminal chaos, but as dog whistles for keeping blacks in their place.
Predictably, the film demonizes law enforcement, attacking the perceived police “massacre” of blacks as “state violence” and decrying policies “predicated on anti-blackness.” It attacks “policies, structures, and institutions that intentionally subjugate black people.” The point is hammered home that America was founded on the white supremacist subjugation of blacks and that the so-called “white elite” – whom Kendi says are willing to lie, cheat, steal, and kill to maintain power – continue to collude against black people to this day.
The film concludes with a call to dismantle society and rebuild a social justice utopia. Antiracists want whites to embrace a collective guilt; denial of that guilt is, as Kendi puts it, the very “heartbeat of racism.” Ergo, whites are racist, whether they admit they are or not; indeed, denial is itself evidence of guilt.
Slavery, as every reasonable person in America today would agree, was and is an ugly, unconscionable practice. No decent person in the Western world today would consider it or lynching or the sexual abuse of slaves to be anything but abhorrent. America has such a cultural revulsion toward anti-black bigotry that the most deplorable thing you can be accused of today is not political corruption or pedophilia or murder, but racism.
But antiracism, as its proponents define it – requiring that white people of today acknowledge their collective guilt for racist atrocities of the past, and actively assist blacks in dismantling America’s supposedly white supremacist institutions – is a racist scam. It boosts the academic credentials and public profiles of smug activists like the ones interviewed in Stamped From the Beginning, and it showers race hustlers and cherry-picking intellectual frauds like Ibram X.Kendi and his white female counterpart Robin DiAngelo with astronomical speaking fees, bestselling books, lucrative movie deals, and accolades – all in the service of promoting a false, divisive, racist, cultural Marxist ideology that exploits black rage and white guilt to deconstruct the demonstrable racial advances of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
(This fraudulence and intellectual emptiness was recently exposed when Kendi’s highly-touted research center imploded with literally nothing to show for its $40 million treasure chest.)
Like the debunked historical revisionism of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, Stamped From the Beginning runs everything through the distorted, reductively racist lens of cultural Marxism to further an agenda to tear down everything great this country has accomplished and built – including the advances of the civil rights movement (Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of color-blindness would mark him as a racist today). We will never get race relations back on track in this country until blacks and whites alike reject the ugly, exploitative narrative of the antiracist con artists.
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The only thing most people want to protect themselves from is bigotry and ignorance. This propaganda film has got it all. In spades..
I saw what you did there……lol
So the “antiracist” author Ibram X. Kendi has just proven that he is the most racist of all. No surprise for me, I’ve been saying for a few years now that blacks are the most racist. The whites have bent over backward for more years than we can count to help the black man and this is the result. The black males abandon their family obligations, can’t keep a job, and cause most of the crimes but it is all white man’s fault. Well, boo-woo and they can kiss off as far as I’m concerned.
The only thing most people want to protect themselves from is bigotry and ignorance. This propaganda film has got it all.
Envious eggplants hate wh1tes cuz outside of sports they can’t compete. When u can attain better then 3rd world dysfunctional failed states maybe someone outside of self loathing alabaster apologist leftist l00ns might listen what u have to say.
Yet another reason to scrap our Netflix subscription.
Ibram X. KREMENT.
Ouch! Good one.
Kendi is a Menace 2 Society. A fraud.
Typical Third World grifter ; I’ve met sooo many creeps just like him
Using guilt to manipulate others to do things that damage them and their families, in order to benefit you, is a sin of the worst kind. Gullible ethno-masochists fall for this bull Schiff every time.
Henry Rogers should visit South Africa and witness the crumbling infrastructure and rampant crime that is the end result of his model for a society.
Wakanda—the imaginary society that would exist if African blacks had invented the wheel. South Africa (as you describe)—reality.
If he did he would still blame it all on whitey. He blames every bad thing on whitey. He’s a racist. (Oh, I forgot. In the imaginary world people like him inhabit, only white people can be racist.)
So the truth is that 80 percent of 18 to 24 years olds come from special education classes in grades 1-12. After watching them on news clips it all makes sense.
The film should be banned as being racist against whites.
Ibram X. Kendi is nothing more then a Marxist intellectual lunatic & therefore is very dangerous.
Remember under Marxism ( Communism) there were over 110 million people murdered, foreign and domestic.
Everyone of this racist bigots ought to get on their knees and thank the Lord Almighty for white Christian men.
Tell all the White people on welfare, which the Left loves to point out, that they have any privilege, let alone White privilege.
Put yourself upon a big stool
nothin’ worse than an educated fool,
you want to be a graduated mother
but in reality you’re just another brother.
You’re funkier than a mosquito’s tweeter,
You got a mouth like a mess a boll weevils.
Same old thing, same old game
always rappin’ bout the same old thing.
This is the flip side of Tina Turner’s ‘Proud Mary’ and it is called Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter. It was written by Tina’s sister (!)
“Nothin’ worse than an educated fool.”
the meaning of “sophomore”. Wise fool.
Has anybody seen anything positive coming out of black racist voices. It’s all lies or hate speech. Not a single good word.
The fact that his 2016 book was a “bestseller” says it all. Kendi and his counterpart charlatan Robin diAngelo were in the right place at the right time when it comes to bamboozling the American masses with their fake intellectual nonsense about race, CRT, and just about everything under the sun. The less they are seen or heard on any media platform, the better. They are toxic.
Teaching the “wheel of privilege” and power will entrench AND establish hard and fast criteria and guidelines for justifying and promoting more intense systemic bigotry and racism than could ever be hoped for by the most resentful and revengeful person imaginable. Extending the opening of this pandora’s box around the world will make friendship and human relations so toxic that hatred and resentment will become the normal interpersonal and possibly international behavior …shame on the TDSB and others, particularly the virulent racist Ibram X Kendi for imagining this toxic brew and forcibly drugging innocents with it.All people who are taught these spectrums, as if they are factually written in stone, will learn to despise and resent all the others that either oppress or blame them…it is promoting psychopathological and destructive relationships across all of society, and when this monster reaches national levels, will destroy humanity. All personal responsibility is deliberately unmentioned, personal effort, hard work and self discipline are treated as though these things are non-existent and impossible in all humans, except the white male or female…this is beyond malicious, for such characteristics inhabit every successful person on the wheel if they choose to use it as avnatural part of their nature…X.Kendi needs the services of a professional psychiatrist immediately, before he takes one more step in his hate-filled desperate need for revenge and psychological “murder” of others, and if necessary, organized formal debates on his ideas should be planned at all grade levels, to prevent his severe obsessive mental illness from spreading. This lopsided ideology must be made balanced before it turns society into a grand melee or warfare for those who don’t think a dictionary is essential for us all.
All good points but you’re giving him too much credit. Idiots like him may reinforce their fellow ignorant but will not convince the masses.
Seems as though a film should be made highlighting all the criminal activity byblacks against whites. It is truly an avalanche. I have my own story, but it will most likely never make the headlines. A bullet in the chest, thousands taken, lives destroyed. The perps got off with NOTHING. All of the melanin-challenged variety.
The irony is that the islamic slave trade is always left out of their narrative. The moslems were behind the selling of the slaves to the traders/shippers, and the ones not sold to them were heading towards islamic countries where they were treated much worse such as genitalia cut off – either partially or fully. That is one example.
Then the omission that the slave trade is still alive and well today in the islamic world, some even brought their slaves to the USA. Some were caught and I am sure that not all have been freed in our country or even in other non-moslem countries since Obama dumbed down our security, intelligence, etc agencies including the schools that teach the above!!!
Alex Haley’s “Roots” series was a fraud, too. But it’s why we have so many faux-African names now..
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168815
You know, when a particular group is incessantly demonized, dehumanized, and blamed for every ill for any period of time, it does create “all sorts of problems.” Usually mass slaughter. See, e.g., Nazi Germany, Rowanda (Hutus, urged on by radio broadcasts, killed more than 800,000 civilians—primarily Tutsis in 100 days), Armenian genocide (1914-15,some 600,000 to more than 1,000,000 Armenians were slaughtered or died on forced marches). and so on.
Here’s the way forward!! First – DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS!! Second – END WELFARE as it’s knows!! Third – Put people of ALL COLORS to work! No work – no eat!! Fourth – Prosecute ALL CRIMES to the FULLEST!! Fifth – or maybe FIRST – HAVE DISCUSSIONS with the nation about the TRUTH of Slavery, Racism, Affirmative Action, Lax Justice, GANGS, ILLEGALS, Poor Schools, and CORRUPTION in our Gov’t! Maybe give warnings and Implementation Dates of each step. Discuss the background, the program, and expected results. And have periodic updates on the progress! Maybe HIRE a LOT of unemployed to assist in the DEPORTATIONS! Lot of ways to make IMPROVEMENTS while solving issues!! OH yeah, when people go to work and off welfare they pay taxes so it’s really like a twofer!
If we can do this we might can put the race hustlers out of business and get people back to respecting themselves and others!
You are 100% correct. The “Free Lunch” that many of the blacks have been enjoying since L.B.J.’s Great Society has only torn apart the black families. Most black children are raised by their mothers and most of that is done poorly. Stop the Free Lunch and most of the problems will subside… Go to Work!!!
Does Angela Davis still preach anti-whitemess? now that we know that her mothers father was white, and her ancestors came on the Mayflower?
My law school , Mitchell Hamline School of Law, paid Kendi $20,000 for his appearance for an hour on a webnar. It is now an “anti -racist law school”
Kendi
was engaged by the gay activist dean and a majority vote of the faculty..
I and some graduate friends no longer support the school.
Jesus said,” The poor you will always have with you”. Welfare can never fix poverty…only self control and discipline…some will always suffer from inescapable disabilities.. and must be the only welfare recipients.
He and his fellow grifters sound very similar to the racist white Democrats I knew growing up. They thought blacks were born bad and violent and could not be redeemed. Thank goodness my parents showed me that every person is unique and judged by god on their character.
If cultural Marxists were sincerely desirous of changing minds, then they would have begun their crusade where the seniors live.
Their lie about their motives was thus revealed because they did not do this – at all. Instead they preyed upon only – singularly – the most vulnerable; The Children (other people’s children), where minds could be shaped.
Kendi has no problem taking the the racist white man’s money….he lives off the backs of white people….another race hustler!