Thoughts on Black Militants

I can't seem to find it now, but I distinctly remember reading something on a blog somewhere noting that Kamau "Kill Whitey" Kambon had written a book or a paper or something criticizing black people for not behaving well, or something like that. (If anyone has any idea where I could find such information, please put it in the comments).

As I recall, the poster reacted a little surprised that a black man with such a violent hatred and of whites and a desire to blame them for everything that goes wrong could write something asking blacks to take respnsibility for their lives (i.e. rather than just blaming everything on "whitey.")

This isn't necessarily surprising, I think. If the movie's portrayal of him was accurate, Malcolm X was a very self-controlled man with a strong sense of morality and responsibility, even before he left the Nation of Islam to become an "orthodox" Muslim. I also got the impression that he believed in responsibility and morality as a universal value, not jsut one for him.

Put another way, even when he was subscribing to a strongly anti-white and potentially genocidal philosophy, he seemed the type of man who would advocate that blacks take responsibility for their lives. So it is not surprising that Mr. Kambon could both believe in anti-white genocide and in personal responsibility.

In fact, in some ways it seems to me that any explicitly anti-white philosophy would have to involve an element of black self-suffiency, because someone who truly hates whites would neither want help from them not trust them to give it to him. Moreover, if one is to argue that all of the pathologies hitting the modern black community are the fault of whites, then trying to overcome those pathologies through self-sufficiency and responsible behavior could be seen as a way of "getting back at whitey" in and of itself.

Which ironically means that as long as the Kambons of the world do not actually get the resources to push their more asinine ideas, they may be less dangerous than the minstream leadership of today's civil rights leadership, who often pursue policies that are to an extent designed to make it unnecessary to become self-sufficient.

That is all.