You don't have to look very hard to find racist sentiments bubbling to the surface in Greensboro's civic conversation. Take the comment thread below the News & Record's editorial today commending NC A&T University's laudable decision to distance itself from rapper Gucci Mane, whose dehumanizing lyrics celebrate homicide.
One commenter equates "rap" with "crap."
Another commenter poses the question: "Remember when America had cities where White people wanted to live?" Below the comment is a link to the website of white separatist, former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and onetime candidate for governor of Louisiana, David Duke.
Some of the headlines of the articles posted on Duke's website reverberate with the same message: "Obama's hometown a cesspool of black youth violence: Is this the new America?," "CDC report shows the dangers of black males" and "The Jewish-led alien invasion."
I'm certain that many African Americans objected to the messages of Gucci Mane receiving the seal of approval of a venerable and celebrated black institution of higher learning, so it's disturbing to see white separatists exploit the controversy to advance their agenda.
It's hard to avoid any other conclusion but that white supremacy and segregation is on the march.
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OK, so let's see how many students decide to skip this hoodlum's concert. Why would anyone follow a rapper who glorifies violence and murder?...unless they do, too.
I agree, Mike. I think it would make a powerful statement for A&T students to boycott the concert.
Of course, it's revenue for the Greensboro Coliseum and the city that's at stake, too. And judging by past performance, the coliseum doesn't place value judgments on the entertainers whom it accommodates with its facilities.
"It's hard to avoid any other conclusion but that white supremacy and segregation is on the march."
you conclude this from a reply by one crazy and one person who doesn't like rap? simply amazing.
Obama's pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright operated a racist training camp right from his pulpit. It lasted more than 2 decades before it was discovered. How many more racist camps are there like his?
I am convinced there are just as many African American racists as there are European American racists.
I was fired by Greensboro's incompetent black assistant city manager William Harrell. Six months later he was g-o-n-e. Poof! They said he "resigned."
The thought never crossed my mind that I was fired because I was white. But after seeing how Rev. Wright indoctrinates his parishioners I am wondering if Greensboro's incompetent black assistant city manager secretly hated white achievers like me.
I'm guessed Jordan was also drawing from the fact that the largest white power group in the country had their regional conference here, maybe that the KKK considered having a rally here last month, and also all of the comments on the N&R (and here) not to mention the entirety of the Rhino Times. Let's also not forget that officers of color are suing the City for racism, or all the recent controversy in the police department around the 'black book'. And of course there's the gang squad, which admittedly only focuses on people of color even though white gangs are involved in a huge drug trade.
People of color being biased or prejudiced against white people is different than racism. It sounds like Baron and some others need to learn about white privilege and how they benefit from it every day.
And don't even try to go on some tangent about me being racist against white people. I am white. I just recognize the system of privileges I receive because of it. I recommend you check out Peggy McIntosh's article called "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" or some of Tim Wise's writing.
Think how easy it is to find examples of people claiming that blacks hold some kind of unfair advantage, have engaged in corrupt and incompetent practices or are somehow morally deficient. They're abundant in blog posts, comments, the Rhino's Sound of the Beep and letters to the News & Record. And they're readily received, discussed and taken seriously.
In contrast, you will find few examples of people calling out white racism in these same forums. And when someone has the temerity to raise the issue of white racism, it's typically held up to ridicule or characterized as "playing the race card."
In the Reconstruction era, white radicals were often denounced as "waving the bloody shirt," a term of derision. It stemmed from a Republican lawmaker waving a bloody shirt in a legislative chamber to highlight the violence used by those who wanted to restore the whites' position of supremacy after the abolition of slavery. The radical-Republican claims about Ku Klux Klan outrages were held up to be fabrications, grievances about the treatment of blacks considered empty manipulations for political gain. We know now that black people's aspirations for equality and advancement in the late 19th century were, in fact, violently suppressed.
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