Ouch! This, folks, is a must read, but I have to warn you of something. One can easily tell he is, in fact, a professor at Berkeley. I mean, I have a BA and an MA, and consider myself able to read. LOL I had to stop and go to my dictionary so I could get the full grasp of his comments. LOL. So don’t feel bad if you have to as well. This professor — gender unknown — has his/her stuff all in one bag. I received it as a link and I went to the website and read it and many of 100’s of comments, so it is legit. Should you want to read it yourself and see all the comments, mostly favorable and many from blacks, I have provided you with the link at the end.
Anyway, another piece of truthful facts about the true BLM organization and surprisingly where the donated money goes to; you’ll be shocked, at least I was. Read and learn, and pass it on to friends and family who think this is a worthwhile organization to support. Many blacks themselves are finally seeing it for what it is and condemning it.
As always look fwd to hearing from you.
Open letter from a professor of history at the University of Berkeley (UBC) against BLM, police brutality, and cultural orthodoxy
Dear teachers X, Y, Z
I am one of your colleagues from the University of California at Berkeley. I have met you personally, but I do not know you closely and I am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I fear that writing this email publicly will cause me to lose my job and possibly all future jobs in my field.
In your recent ministerial emails, you mentioned our commitment to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the lack of diversity of opinion on the subject of recent protests and community reaction to their regard.
In the extensive links and resources you have provided, I have found no cases of substantial counter-arguments or alternative narratives to explain the under-representation of blacks in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. . The explanation provided in your documentation, to the virtual exclusion of all the others, is univariate: the problems of the black community are caused by white people, or, when white people are not physically present, by white people. infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism in America brains, souls and institutions.
Many convincing objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or “Uncle Toms”. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative which strips blacks of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community to foreigners. Their point of view is completely absent from the departmental press releases and from the UCB.
The claim that the difficulties facing the black community can be explained entirely by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic assumption that should be vigorously challenged by historians. Instead, it is treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its deep faults, or its disturbing implication of total black helplessness. This assumption transforms our institution and our culture, with no space for dissent outside of a narrow and strictly controlled discourse.
A counter-narrative exists. If you have time, please consider reviewing some of the documents that I enclose at the end of this email. Overwhelmingly, the reasoning provided by BLM and its allies is either essentially anecdotal (as in the case of the essential of the undeniably moving article of Ta-Nehisi Coates) or if it is motivated in a transparent manner. As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black Americans incarcerated. This proportion is often used to describe the criminal justice system as anti-black. however, if we use the same precise methodology, we should conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black.
Could we qualify criminal justice as a systemic misandrist conspiracy against innocent Americans? I hope you see that this type of reasoning is imperfect and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties. Blacks Are Not Imprisoned at Higher Rates Than Their Implication in Violent Crimes Predicts. This fact has been demonstrated repeatedly in several jurisdictions in several countries.
And yet, I see my department reproducing indiscriminately a narrative which diminishes the black agency in favor of an explanation centered on white which appeals to the ministry’s apparent desire to shoulder the “burden of the white man” and promote a white guilt tale.
If we pretend that the criminal justice system is white supremacist, Why are Asian Americans, Indian Americans and Nigerian Americans incarcerated at much lower rates than white Americans? It’s a funny white supremacy. Even American Jews are less incarcerated than Gentile whites. I think it is fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of the Jews. And yet these so-called white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at much higher rates than the Jews. None of this is discussed in your literature. None of this is explained, except waving the hand and ad hominems. “These are racist whistles”. “The model minority myth is the white supremacist”. “Only the fascists speak of black crime on black”, ad nauseam.
These types of statements are not counter arguments: they are just arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress speech. Any serious historian will recognize them for the orthodoxy tactics that silence them., common to suppressive regimes, doctrines and religions across time and space. They aim to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department.
Increasingly, we are called upon to comply with and subscribe to Problematic view of history by BLM and the ministry is presented as unified on the issue. In particular, ethnic minorities are actively brought together in a unique position. Any apparent unity is certainly a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly result in expulsion or cancellation for those of us who are in a precarious situation, which is not a small number.
Personally, I dare not speak out against the BLM narrative, and with this barrage of the alleged unity being mass produced by the administration, tenured professor, UC administration, US companies and the media, the punishment for dissent is an obvious danger in an era of widespread economic vulnerability. I am sure that if my name was attached to this email I would lose my job and all future jobs, even if I believe in and can justify every word I type.
The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by blacks. There is practically no march for these invisible victims, no public silences, no sincere letters from UC regents, deans and heads of departments. The message is clear: black lives only count when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and requires a solution. Please look into your hearts and see how truly sectarian this formulation is.
No discussion is allowed for non-black victims of black violence, who are proportionally more numerous than black victims of non-black violence. This is particularly bitter in the Bay Area, where Asian victimization by black attackers has reached epidemic proportions, to the point that the SF police chief advised Asians to stop hanging lucky charms on their doors, as this attracts the attention of the invaders (overwhelmingly black). Invaders like George Floyd. For this real, lived and experienced reality of violence in the United States, there are no marches, no tearful emails from department heads, no support from McDonald’s and Wal-Mart. For the History Department, our silence is not a simple abrogation of our duty to shed light on the truth: it is a rejection of it.
The claim that black intra-racial violence is the product of redlining, slavery and other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is therefore up to historians to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jews did not lead to equivalent rates of dysfunction and poor SES performance among Japanese and American Jews respectively.. Arab Americans have been demonized since September 11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. however, both groups outperform white Americans on almost all SES indices – just like Nigerian Americans, who incidentally have black skin. It is the responsibility of historians to point out and discuss these anomalies. however, no real discussion is possible in the current climate of our department. The explanation is provided to us, the disagreement with it is racist, and the job of historians is to further explore the ways in which the explanation is also correct. This is a mockery of the historic profession.
The most disturbing, our ministry seems to have been entirely captured by the interests of the National Democratic Convention and the Democratic Party in general. To explain what I mean, think about what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter, an organization that UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent mailers. All donations to the BLM official website are immediately redirected to ActBlue Charities, an organization primarily engaged in funding the election campaigns of Democratic candidates. Donating to BLM today is making an indirect donation to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. This is preposterous considering the fact that American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police on black are overwhelmed by an overwhelming majority of Democrats. Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for more than five decades; “systemic racism” was built there by successive democratic administrations.
The condescending and condescending attitudes of Democratic leaders towards the black community, illustrated by almost all of Biden’s statements about the black race, everything except guarantee a perpetual state of misery, resentment, poverty and the resulting grievance policy which destroy both American political discourse and black lives. And yet, Donating to BLM means funding the election campaigns of men like Mayor Frey, who have seen their cities turn to violence. This is a grotesque capture of a bona fide movement for the necessary police reform, and of our department, by a political party. Even worse, there is practically no possibility of dissent in academia. I refuse to serve the Party, and so do you.
The total alliance of the big companies involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning signal to us, and yet this overwhelming evidence goes unnoticed, deliberately ignored or perversely celebrated. We are the useful idiots of the richest classes, carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other current, real and modern slavers. Starbucks, an organization using literal black slaves at its coffee plantation suppliers, supports BLM. Sony, an organization using cobalt from even more literal black slaves, many of whom are children, supports BLM. And apparently so do we. The absence of a counter narrative allows this obscenity. Fiat lux, indeed.
There is also a wide range of what can only be called “race scammers”: hawkers of all colors who take advantage of racial conflict fires for administrative jobs, charitable management positions, academic and advancement jobs, or personal political entrepreneurship.
Given the direction our history department seems to be moving away from any commitment to the truth, we can think of ourselves as a formative training institution for this brand of snake oil sellers. Their activities are corrosive, destroying all hope of a harmonious racial coexistence in our nation and colonizing our political and institutional life. Many of their voices are irrational segregationists.
MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he was talking on our campus today. We are training leaders who explicitly intend to destroy one of the only truly prosperous ethnically diverse societies in modern history. As a PRC, a national ethno-nationalist and aggressively racist chauvinist regime with zero immigration and without the concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the United States, I ask you: is this wise ? Are we really doing the right thing?
Finally, our university and our department have made several statements to celebrate and praise George Floyd. Floyd was a multiple criminal who had once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant belly. He terrorized the women of his community. He fathered and abandoned several children, playing no role in their support or education, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug addict and sometimes a drug dealer, a con artist who attacked his honest and hardworking neighbors.
And yet UC regents and historians from the UCB history department celebrate this violent criminal, elevating his name to virtual holiness. A man who hurt women. A man who injured black women. With the full collaboration of the UCB History Department, American business, most mainstream media, and some of the wealthiest and most privileged elites who shape opinion in the United States. United, he became a hero of culture, buried in a golden coffin, his (recognized) family inundated with gifts and praise. Americans are under social pressure to kneel because of this violent and abusive misogynist. A generation of black men is forced to identify with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our race and species.
I am ashamed of my department. I would say that I am ashamed of you two, but maybe you agree with me, and you are just afraid, like me, of the repercussions of telling the truth. It’s hard to know what it means to kneel down when you have to kneel down to keep your job.
This should not affect the strength of my argument above, but for the record, I write as a person of color. My family has been personally victimized by men like Floyd. We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democratic Party against our race. The humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM, that we need special help and lower requirements for moving forward in life, is familiar to us. I sometimes wonder if it would not be easier to deal with open fascists, who at least would be direct in calling me a subhuman, and who are unlikely to share my race.
The soft bigotry always presents low expectations and the permanent assertion that the solutions to the fate of my people rest exclusively on the good will of the whites rather than on our own hard work are psychologically devastating. No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are taught that it is only by begging, crying and shouting that they receive documents from guilty whites.
No message will more surely devastate their future, especially if white people are short of guilt, or even if America is short of white people. If it had been done for Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans or Chinese Americans, then Chinatown and Japantown would certainly be no different from the more rugged parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today. The history department of UCB is now a full institutional promulgator of a destructive and disparaging error on the black race.
I hope you appreciate the frustration behind this post. I do not support BLM. I do not support the Democrats’ grievance program and the undisputed Party capture of our department. I do not argue that the Party co-ops my race, as Biden recently did in his disturbing interview, saying that voting for democracy and being black are isomorphic. I condemn the way George Floyd died and join you in calling for greater accountability and police reform. However, I will not pretend that George Floyd was anything other than a violent misogynist, a brutal man who had a predictable brutal end..
I also want to protect the practice of history. Cleo is not a rampant handmaid for politicians and businesses. Like us, she is free.
Here is the link:
https://dateway.net/anonymous-berkeley-professor-shreds-blms-tale-of-injustice-with-overwhelming-facts-and-logic/
Originally posted 2020-06-14 15:57:06.
The professor is 100 percent spot on..The truth is glaring and uncomfortable to the weak minded useful idiots….Hope the rest of reasoning humans can tell when they are being lead to their own demise….
I beg to differ on the general’s opinion…More government dollars /action has resulted in 15 trillion dollars plus (still climbing)wasted in war on poverty that is a miserable failure. Defunding wasteful federal programs will force state and local politicians to then and only then to accept responsibility for their local problems…Too many examples like Baltimore, Newark, Chicago, and San Francisco now Seattle are my proof sources…Where in the Constitution does it state that congress is responsible for the re-distribution of property in order to try to solve social ills of a distant state, county or city??? And this flawed public policy has only benefitted the ruling class…Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell and their politcal appointees are the only ones whose situation is improving…unless we do something about it. Geography, and culture of this vast country ought to tell the logical brain a central authoritarian power is ill equipped to deal with failures on the local level…
Colonel,
Thanks for your leadership. Let us now stand for “truth.” All else is worldly bullshit! Chuck sends
Jim, This Professor made a lot of sense. If only everyone believed it.
QUESTION: Would the Floyd Choking death have been any less egregious if he had been male or female, white, or yellow, native American, or any other color skin? I think the truthful response to that has to be- “NO, any such death should be unacceptable to a society!” If that is so, then all the marchers were carrying the wrong banners, as they should have said “ALL LIVES MATTER!” The fact that 12.6% of the US population was able to “high jack” the issue and mobilize a huge part of the nation in the “cause”, is a clear indication that most Americans, of any sex or color, realize that we do have, in fact, a severe PREJUDICE issue. It is not limited only to color, but extends to nationality, sex- normal or gay- religion, and any other number of possible causes. Because this incident was centered around a Police Officer’s actions, the current “push” is to reorganize the Police Departments (some even advocating doing completely away with a “Police Force” and having a “Citizens Force”. This has usually resulted in “Vigilante actions”!) Our nation has an estimated 382.2 Million citizens and while there is no census of Police Officers, the estimate is there are between 750,000 and 850,000 sworn officers in the US. With those immense numbers, there is little possibility that we will ever reach “Zero Defects” and as a result there is certain to be a small number of “excessive force” events somewhere in the country; and with current video and cell phone pictures, these are certain to be picked up by the Press and blown out of proportion to the population involved. If we use a middle number of 800,000 it means we have about one Officer for every 410 citizens. Is this the correct number? Of course that number varies in different communities based on what is the perceived level of crime in that area. So what then determines the “level of crime” and should that not be the basis of size of Police forces? While race certainly appears as a major factor in “Police incidents”- it is not limited to just that area, as
according to the FBI’s latest statistics, Blacks are11 times more likely to be killed by someone of their own complexion than a white person. Where is the outrage in the black community over these black on black deaths? As to the issue of White Police killing blacks- the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA has done an extensive review of police shootings starting in 2015 and published a report that states: “We find no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers. Instead, race-specific crime strongly predicts civilian race. This suggests that increasing diversity among officers by itself is unlikely to reduce racial disparity in police shootings.” At the same time, if the BLM leadership was really concerned about “unnecessary deaths,” they would have recognized that the gathering of large groups of people during the current pandemic could well result in more total deaths from that disease exposure than the 1.003 lives lost to police actions in 2019. It would therefore appear that “enforcement of the laws in the existing population” is truly the issue being addressed- while the Law Enforcement community believes that is based on the crimes that ARE being committed.
But let’s get back to what so many believe is the issue- PREJUDICE. How do we fight and change prejudice, and what does it originate from? There are many strongly held reasons that should be addressed- starting with the cave man issue of “Tribe” or “Family”, or “you don’t look like me”, “you don’t talk like me”, “you don’t worship the same God I worship”, and a host of others. However, it would appear that there are two specific areas that have the best chance of overcoming all of the above- and they are ECONOMICS and EDUCATION! Look how huge groups from all ethnic backgrounds and races have been able to make a transition into the mythical “middle American class” and live peacefully in multiple areas of the country in our suburban developments. In almost all cases they did so by becoming better educated and thereby earning a better salary than their less fortune “Tribe” members- who still live in the ghettos of many inner cities. If we truly want to make long term gains (not short term temporary fixes- like doing away with Police Depts) we need to put huge funds into insuring the upcoming minority populations have superior education, not only available -but used by all! At the same time, public policy needs to change to insure the probability of a better “family life” within the home of each and every student. Providing economic assistance based on the number of children in a “fatherless home” should cease for all new births- putting an end to the “children factory” with no father figure present and 6 or 8 kids to insure an adequate income. In fact, for each year of no new offspring in an “unwed” mother situation should be rewarded with an increase in monthly income for those unable to gain meaningful employment. At the same time, we need to greatly improve the available housing for those still in the lower economic stratus of our society. With better education, better job opportunities will occur and gradually a transition of large segments of the minority community will occur. The “slums” as we know them will gradually decrease in size and the needed Police Force will also decrease as “crime as a way of life” is no longer the only way to “earn a living!” Addressing the existing “Drug Culture” across all levels of our society is another issue that needs to be separately addressed.
This will take years and massive amounts of tax funds to accomplish and some members of the minority communities will challenge the program as “one to reduce the minority population”; but both issues must be addressed head on and not allowed to stop the progress of stopping the existing PREJUDICE that currently exists. It is time to start the process and hopefully some “thinking members” of both the minority community and the legislative bodies will have the guts to step up and take leadership roles! In a society that has an economic system that has allowed current tax policies to reach the point that, according to the New York Times, “the richest 1 percent in the US now owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent!” And, as reported by Robert Reich in a 2013 documentary- “95% of economic gains went to the top 1% net worth individuals since 2009 when the recovery started”. More recently, in 2017 an Oxfam study found that “eight rich people, six of them Americans, own as much combined wealth as half the human race!” A tax system that produces this sort of financial inequities is badly in need in a major revision and the results should be applied by Government to solving the education and living conditions of the public for the greater good. This is not to create a “Well fare” State, but capital investments (including infrastructure that badly needs replacement) in Education and decent housing.
If you agree with what I have said here- pass it on to both your local, state and federal elected officials and indicate you support such actions- THEN HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE AT THE BALLOT BOX!
BrigGen Al Brewster USMC (Ret)
The author is a retired US Marine who fought in the Korean and Vietnam War during a 28 year service tour and then spent 10 years working in Washington, D.C., as a Government Affairs person for a Defense Corporation. He grew up in a segregated school system and did not have black classmates until attending college in New Mexico. His service career exposed him to multiple ethnic groups, where he quickly learned that there are “great”, “good”, “average” and “below average to poor”, individuals in every group of people. You have to deal with each based on how they want to perform the responsibility they have been given. He spent 28 years after retirement as an extremely active Rotarian and was an Executive Committee member for a with a national charity for the children of fallen military members. He also holds a Masters of Education Degree from Pepperdine University.
General, I thank you for the very informative (and long) comment. LOL I had to read it twice to see what I agreed with and not. I’ve printed it out and I’ll need some time to mull it around over a good single malt tonight at happy hour with my bride, and of course a half way good cigar. Your name rings a distant bell for me, but do not know where. Served in Korea and RVN, so you were ahead of me, but I am certain we were within shouting distances of one another a few times. Anyway, again thank you for your comment, you are a first. You sir, shall hear more from me when I have had time to absorb all you have said, and decided which I support and not — if any.
Semper Fi sir,
Jim