Fighting "Whiteness"

By now, I am sure that most of the people who read my blog have heard about the guy who stated on C-SPAN who advocated exterminating white people.

Well, according to WorldNetDaily, this guy was a visiting professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh last spring.

So what to make of Kamau Kambon's remarks?

Well, as I said before, he looks like a cross between Willie Nelson and George Clinton, or put another way, I think he is probably a buffoon and am not worried about him having the charisma to build much of a movement.

However, it does seem to me that this is the logical progression of the phenomenon of people announcing that they hate "whiteness." Of course, the claim is that "anti-whiteness" isn't hatred of white people, but hatred of people using unearned privilege, of people trying to exclude other people, etc.. But in reality, the goal of anti-whiteness is to erase European culture to a great extent; in this old Salon article one notices that "whiteness studies" or whatever one wants to call the study of white people as white people, includes a siginificant number of people who think that "whiteness" is something to be ashamed of. I can't think of any other ethnic or other "group" studies that include people who dislike the characteristics associated with their group. When is the last time heard of someone teaching "black studies" who said that they were ashamed of "blackness" because of the large number of blacks in prison or the large number of black unwed mothers?

For that matter, if someone started talking about what a bad thing "blackness" was, and people objected to that as racist, and then they said that they used "blackness" to mean being on welfare, having babies out of wedlock, or being in prison, and have nothing against black people per se, would anyone take them seriously?

This is also a dangerous way to phrase issues of racism, because it ignores the fact that white people didn't invent racism; throughout history, plenty of people have decided that their group should dominate other groups. Just look at how many tribes' names for themselves translate to "the people" or "the true people," or something like that. As the number of minorities in the U.S. grow, there is likely going to be an increase in ethnic violence between people of two or more different minority groups (see this post by "Lying Eyes" Ziel), and this cannot be dealt with if you assume that all race-hatred has its roots in white people. Obviously, the intellectuals in the minority community can band together against the whites, but I think somehting more comprehensive is needed for the average Joes.

But it in any case, "hating whiteness" means exactly what it sounds like. A hatred of white people and white culture, and at best a desire that white people perpetually grovel at the feet of everyone else. At worst, it means a hope of exterminating white people. Kamau Kambon was simply honest enough to admit it.

So now that we see what "hating whiteness" really entails, I think there needs to be a movement against this idea.

That is all.