Re: White lawmaker tries to join black caucus-gets denied-NAACP asks for HIS resignat
75th said:
The former, but only because ignorance is always part of the problem.
Ok , I'll cater to this idea of black supremacy. Although , I generally think such a thing does not exist , I'll look into it as silly as I think this is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_supremacy
Black supremacy vs. white supremacy
In its simplest form, black supremacy is the belief in the inherent superiority of the "black race." Unlike many white supremacists, who often embrace the label,
black supremacists generally do not regard their belief in black superiority as equivalent to white supremacy, which historically has been reinforced and sustained worldwide by instruments of Western economic, political and military power. By comparison, there has never been any powerful, far-reaching nexus of instruments under black control with a corollary effect on whites.
In modern history, black supremacy has been a reactionary phenomenon most evident among various religions or cults as an ideological tool in framing a kind of liberation theology for the societally marginalized and oppressed. Scholar and philosopher Cornel West comments in his essay Malcolm X and Black Rage:
...The basic aim of Black Muslim theology -- with its distinct Black supremacist account of the origins of white people -- was to counter white supremacy. Yet this preoccupation with white supremacy still allowed white people to serve as the principal point of reference.
That which fundamentally motivates one still dictates the terms of what one thinks and does -- so the motivation of a Black supremacist doctrine reveals how obsessed one is with white supremacy....
In neither its intellectual nor its political context, however, is black supremacy -- as many are inclined to believe -- mere sophistry; it is a strongly held notion. Even so, black supremacy is little more than an intellectual construct; black supremacy, per se, as a corollary of white supremacy, does not exist. In Killing Rage: Ending Racism, noted author and social commentator bell hooks writes:
...it is the system that promotes domination and subjugation. The prejudicial feelings some blacks may express about whites are in no way linked to a system of domination that affords us any power to coercively control the lives and well-being of white folks. That needs to be understood. (1995, p. 154)
Black supremacy as a core belief in the inherent superiority of people of indigenous, black African decent has been a thriving, if marginal, notion among blacks for 75 years or more in the modern era.
Some black supremacist organizations have joined forces with white supremacist or extremist organizations. Marcus Garvey invited a Ku Klux Klan spokesman to speak at one of his rallies, and the Nation of Islam has ties to George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party. The NOI also has estabalished ties with a number of organizations across racial and ethnic lines, including the Unification Church; and has a working relationship with the organization of wealthy economist and outsider politico Lyndon LaRouche, widely considered a neo-fascist by the mainstream media. White supremacist Tom Metzger of White Aryan Resistance spoke at the "National Black Power Summit and Youth Rally," hosted by the New Black Panther Party.
So in essense black sumpremacy has
1. no effect on whites
2. is a reaction against white supremacy
3. a liberation theology
So in essense someone , who was probably white, created a label called black supremacy since white supremacy was definitly in effect. But atleast they were kind enough to point out that it is a reaction to white supremacy and is a liberation theology.
How can the word liberation (to be free or to free yourself) be associated with supremacy. How can one or a groups who's intent is to free themselves view themselves a better then what they are trying to free themselves from???
How can one be better then your oppressor??
This terms is a utter contradiction and one of the sillies things I've ever had to point out. Black supremacy does not exist...
No the ignorance in on BrothaBill and 75th for even going here.