February 21, 2019
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
Dr. Jack Kerwick Comes to North Carolina to Offer a Major Speech on
March 2: Make Plans to Attend Now
Friends,
Today something out of the ordinary in this
series: I want to mention and highly recommend an upcoming event here in Raleigh,
North Carolina that I hope many of you might be able to attend. I recognize that a goodly number on this list
live outside of North Carolina, so that would be difficult. But, for those of
you living in some proximity this will be an occasion to “show the colors”
against Political Correctness, to stand in support of our heritage and its
historic symbols, as well to hear Dr. Jack Kerwick, one of America’s foremost
writers and thinkers who stands in the trenches defending that heritage and
history.
What follows are: (1) a portion of a press
release announcing the visit of Dr. Kerwick to North Carolina, with all the
details you will need to make plans to attend; and (2) a recently-published
essay by him on the Jussie Smollett scandal—which will give you an idea of his analytical
skill and ability to understand and cut right through to the heart of an issue.
(I have in the past passed on essays by Jack, so some of you may recall his
articles.)
Here is the news release, and it is followed by
a current essay by Jack:
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ONCE again, this year,
Saturday, March 2, 2019 (at 6 p.m. in the
evening) the North Carolina Division will celebrate the 31st
annual Confederate Flag Day at the historic 1840 State Capitol
Our guest this year is Dr. Jack Kerwick. He is an eloquent, fierce and unreconstructed defender of the South and
its heritage. And his talk, titled “The South Was—and Is—Right!” will discuss
the fact that it was and has been the South that created and produced the
American nation, and that Southern beliefs and constitutionalism are the
authentic American heritage, and what else we see today is, in fact,
anti-American.
Dr. Kerwick is Professor of Ethics and
Philosophy at several colleges in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and has written for numerous national publications, such as American Greatness, LewRockwell.com and Townhall.com. He earned
his BA from Wingate University here in North Carolina, his MA from Baylor
University in Texas, and PhD from Temple University. He is the author of four
highly-praised books including Misguided Guardians: The Conservative Case Against Neoconservatism and the recently
published, Higher
Miseducation: A Dissident’s Essays on the Assault Against Liberal Learning.
It was back in the
1980s that Governor Jim Martin proclaimed Confederate Flag Day, and since then
we have had such great guest speakers as Dr. Clyde Wilson, N.C. Chief Justice
I. Beverly Lake, Jr., Dr. Don Livingston of the Abbeville Institute, and
internationally-known author Dr. Paul Gottfried.
This year will be no
exception. Dr. Kerwick is a true defender of our traditions and a fearless champion.
This event is something that I strongly urge every member and their friends and
family to attend.
As usual, there will
Confederate-themed music and a color guard to accompany our flags. The Reverend
Dr. Herman White will offer the invocation and benediction. Attendance is open
to all those interested in our heritage.
Doors at
the Capitol will open at 5 p.m., and the ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. and
should be completed by 7:30 p.m. Parking
near the Capitol will be free and plentiful (especially in the lot facing the
Museum of History on Wilmington Street.) Please make plans NOW to attend. It is
the ONLY event at the Capitol sponsored by the North Carolina Division of the
SCV, and this year it will be of even greater importance as we face continued
efforts to limit our voice. For additional information, contact: Dr. Boyd
Cathey, Flag Day Chairman: parsifalCSA@aol.com.
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And to offer a sample of some of Jack’s very
acute and spot on commentary, I offer an essay he just published at LewRockwell.com. As usual, it offers Jack’s great commentary
with ironclad logic:
Jussie Smollett’s Hoax and the Pseudo-Religion of
Blackism
Jussie Smollett, a black and gay
actor who claimed to have been assaulted—in Chicago during one
of the
coldest nights in the city’s history—by a couple of MAGA
hat-wearing white, racist homophobes has now been exposed by the Chicago Police
Department for the fraud that some of us knew he was from the moment that he
made his outlandish charge.
It’s
no wonder that Smollett, having witnessed all of his life the awesome political
and cultural power wielded on behalf of blacks by the Racism-Industrial-Complex
(RIC), would be eager to cash in on his melanin by making himself into a victim.
There is another question, though, that deserves probing:
How
could Smollett have thought that there was anything so much as remotely
plausible about his account of this fake attack? How could he not have
known that millions and millions of Americans would see straight through this
for the nonsense that it is?
The answer can be given in one
word: Blackism.
The Racism-Industrial-Complex
couldn’t function if not for the ideology of Blackism, the pseudo-religion that
provides RIC with its theoretical justification. Most black
Americans, and certainly the vast majority of black American celebrities and
public figures, are proponents of the ideology of Blackism.
But what is Blackism? Being that
it is an
ideology, Blackism, like all ideologies, is the simplification, the gross
oversimplification, of a more complex cultural tradition. If Blackism can
be said to be a pseudo-religion, then it is a form of orthodoxy,
not orthopraxy, for its focus is on a set of
beliefs. Blackism is designed for anyone and everyone who is biologically
black—however culturally illiterate they may be with respect to the black
experience.
Blackism
consists of what we can refer to as its Five-Fold Path, five doctrines that all
Blackists are required to affirm.
(1)History is ultimately
reducible to a perpetual conflict between racial
classes. More exactly, history is comprised of endless
contests over power between the White Oppressor and Oppressed Peoples of Color,
with blacks constituting the Uber-Oppressed.
The
Blackist is quite provincial, though, for his focus is limited mostly to the
oppression of blacks in America.
(2)”White Racism” or “White
Supremacy” remains, in the present day, omnipresent. As such it accounts, at
least theoretically, for all of the problems plaguing blacks.
(3)Because White Racism is the
gravest and most ubiquitous of evils, it is a demonic-like force in the fight
against which every conceivable measure, however otherwise objectionable, and
even reprehensible, is justified.
White
Racism must be fought “by whichever means necessary.”
(4)The fight against White
Racism demands a government potentially unlimited in its scope and power.
(5)Racial
authenticity is the Holy Grail for many
blacks, particularly those blacks with little to no familiarity with black
culture. By affirming its Five-Fold Path, Blackism guarantees its proponents
instant racial authenticity!
Blackism, not unlike any other
religion, relies upon its own mythologies. Some variation or other of
Alex Haley’s Roots is the myth at the core of Blackism’s
central narrative. According to this tale, blacks enjoyed an Eden-like
paradise in Africa before the Devil, in the guise of the White Man, spoiled the
Garden that was this ideal African condition by exploiting, subjugating, and enslaving
the continent’s black inhabitants. The latter have ever since been forced
to endure the Desert Wilderness that is America, a spiritually and morally
barren wasteland throughout which black Americans will wander until they can be
delivered unto the Promised Land of racial awareness, until their lost racial
identity is restored.
Blackism
has its prophets. These are almost always middle-class and upper-class
blacks, usually black celebrities, whether in Hollywood, politics, academia, or
sports. But if Blackism can be said to have a High-Priest, its own “seal”
of its prophetic lineage, so to speak, it would have to be Malcolm X.
Malcolm X, raised and educated as he
was around mostly white children, needed Blackism as much as he helped to shape
it. Malcolm would frequently appeal to what he called “the authority of
history” while charging whites for having “stole[n] our fathers and mothers
from their culture of silk and satins and brought them to this land in the
belly of a ship [.]” White are “blue-eyed devils” who, by way of “conquering,
killing, exploiting, pillaging, raping, bullying,” and “beating,” marched
“through history,” “waving the banner of Christianity” in one hand and “the
sword and the flintlock” in the other.
Malcolm insisted that the black leaders
and popular heroes of his day weren’t authentically black. According to Bruce
Perry, an admirer of Malcolm’s who authored what remains the most honest and
fair biography of the man to date—Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America—Malcolm
“characterized Booker T. Washington as a ‘white man’s nigger’” while blasting
“the NAACP as a ‘black body with a white head.” Nor did Malcolm refrain
from denigrating Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis, men who he had once lionized:
Both were “stooges” for whites.
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Malcolm said was a “chump, not a champ.” King, along with Roy
Wilkins, were “modern house Negroes” and “Toms.” Moreover, all proponents of
racial integration were “Quislings” and “Toms.”
Black
liberation—black racial authenticity—required a purging of the White Supremacy
that had poisoned the minds of most black Americans. And this purging
would have to be had “by any means necessary.”
Malcolm
X’s mind epitomizes Blackism. It’s marked by: a racialized conception of
history, one that neatly bifurcates history into White Oppressors and Oppressed
Peoples of Color; a conception of a world within which the aspirations of
blacks are thwarted at every turn by omnipresent White Racism; and the
imperative to defeat this most evil and ubiquitous of forces by hook or by
crook, regardless of the costs.
Malcolm
as well embodies in his person Blackism’s final tenet, the principle that only
by endorsing the ideology’s other tenets can one achieve authentic blackness!
The point here, then, is that Jusse Smollett,
given his commitment to Blackism, lives within a world where blacks are
ruthlessly victimized by whites. It is a fictional world, of course, a
“possible world” bearing no affinities whatsoever to the actual world that is
21stcentury America. Whether Smollett and his
fellow Blackists know that their worldview is a lie is questionable. Two
things, however, seem to be certain.
First,
recognizing, as they undoubtedly do, that Blackism heaps no small share of
psychic, social, and professional benefits upon its adherents, they have at the
very least tried to convince themselves that Blackism’s vision corresponds to
reality. The Blackist is either profoundly self-delusional or dishonest.
Second, insofar as he accepts the
tenets of Blackism, the Blackist holds that he has a mandate to deceive if
it’s necessary to advance his ideology.
Bearing
in mind that Jusse Smollett is a Blackist, his readiness to lie about having
been victimized by white racists becomes more understandable.
And
as long as Blackism prevails, we can all be sure that race hoaxes will
proliferate.
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