June 29, 2020
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
White Guilt and Our Schools: The Monster Must be Beheaded
NOW
Friends,
As I carefully scanned the images
emerging from my 42” Sony boob-tube, it all become clear. In fact, although it
shouldn’t have surprised me, in a way, it did.
A goodly portion of those mostly
Millennial demonstrators (AKA, rioters and looters) in nearby Raleigh and, as
well, all across America who were participating in the Black Lives Matter
uprising, were and are white. That’s right: take a moment to closely examine
what you are seeing on your TV screens.
White faces, mostly 20- and
30-somethings, bearded and tattooed, pajama-guy white dudes and unwashed and
smelly obese feminists—with a sprinkling of aged-out former Hippie types who
never grew up or out of their youthful craziness. Mostly college educated—which
means they spent several years in an indoctrination facility/hot house where
they were pumped full of revolutionary post-Marxist slogans and tidbits, fed to
them by professors themselves who absorbed the “first wave” of socialist
nihilism from the 1960s. And not to mention their primary and secondary
schooling which served to prepare them like sausages for what is euphemistically
called “higher education.”
A lot of them, although very adept at
Twitter, Instagram and the latest computer technology, can’t (or won’t) find a
real job. Their education, such as it was, badly prepares them for that. Essentially they are ignoramuses.
Indeed, one rioter out in San Francisco—an archetypal feminist “womyn”—stated
that although she didn’t know who Winston Churchill is or was, she was happy to
see his monument toppled because, after all, “he is a white man” and “part of
the oppressive white patriarchy.”
Got that? It makes admirable sense
given our defecated and rotten tendentiously ideological educational
establishment. If it’s a white man (or even a white woman), it’s got to go. That’s
what is propagated in our colleges and in our primary and secondary schools.
And so, ironically, it is those white
social justice warriors, those “enragees”—those youngish and ignorant, heavily
indoctrinated creatures, severely seared with “white guilt” which will never go
away who have very often taken the lead in what is called the “Black Lives
Matter” movement. They simply believe, they feel, they must somehow expiate
that guilt, and how better than to burn down some small white-owned business
(causing the owner to go bankrupt, and the loss of jobs for his employees, many
of whom may be black).
Here is a very
short video which brings this home,
plus some of the ridicule of some black folk who look askance at the
ostentatious self-flagellation and penance-pushing of those white “bruthas and
sistas.”
Let’s go back and look at causes.
My first question—one I’ve asked
before repeatedly—is when are we going to have true and radical educational
reform? Not just papering over the problem, for it IS a problem on which the
future of our civilization depends. Not just throwing more money at “education”
and at the schools, as most Republicans and conservatives in state legislatures
do, so as not be savaged by Democrats or, more especially, by the Leftist
media, as “anti-schools” or “anti-student,” or, increasingly, as “racists.”
Of
course, charter schools are one way to go. Also, encouraging and supporting private
school education and, yes, home schooling where possible (perhaps with small
groups of parents taking the lead). But importantly and necessarily is tackling
the critical and systemic ideological problems in our public colleges. And by
that I mean restructuring, re-imagining (a word now the Leftists like to use)
radically what college education is meant to be, and that includes demanding
and insuring course changes and severe but equitable (and non-ideological)
faculty vetting (at the end of each school term). And if the Boards of Trustees
or Boards of Governors will not do it, then the legislatures must step in and
perform the actions needed.
Preeminent
historian Clyde Wilson of the University of South Carolina declares that our
colleges must be napalmed. While I don’t go quite that far, I do think he’s on
to something. Millions and millions of dollars are spent annually on retaining
a “national reputation”—as it is called—for places like the University of North
Carolina, the University of Virginia, and Old Miss. Millions of dollars go to
grossly overpaid academics who are little more than Leftist shills, apparatchiks
intent on the cookie-cutting reproduction of more Leftist apparatchiks, filled
with the kind of frenzied and hysterical passion we’ve witnessed in past weeks.
Of
course, there will be perfervid screams of “violations of academic freedom” or of
“academic integrity.” Overpaid faculty and administrators will protest and
threaten to leave; let them go. Others can be found…and they will be a vast
improvement. And those reformed universities WILL find students.
The real
object here among these later day revolutionaries surpasses the fondest dreams
of the old Soviet Communists, who at least partook of some of the forms of
creaky old Western civilization…the Commies never would tolerate transgenderism
and gender fluidity or same sex marriage: a sure fire means to land yourself in
a Gulag.
The
present contagion is in this sense “post-Marxist,” incorporating various ideas
that come from Marxist theory and the Frankfort School theoreticians, but polished
and perfected, if you will, by such fundamental texts as Frantz Fanon’s
influential anti-colonialist and anti-white tract, The Wretched of
the Earth (1961), and more recently
by radical organizer Saul Alinsky’s critical primer, Rules for Radicals.
1.
"Power is not only what you have
but what the enemy thinks you have. Power is derived from two main sources –
money and people. 'Have-Nots' must build power from flesh and blood."
2.
"Never go outside the expertise
of your people."
3.
"Whenever possible go outside
the expertise of the enemy."
4.
"Make the enemy live up to its
own book of rules."
5.
"Ridicule is man's most potent
weapon. There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works
as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions."
6.
"A good tactic is one your
people enjoy."
7.
"A tactic that drags on too long
becomes a drag."
8.
"Keep the pressure on."
9.
"The threat is usually more
terrifying than the thing itself. Imagination and ego can dream up many more
consequences than any activist."
10.
"The major premise for tactics
is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon
the opposition."
11.
"If you push a negative hard and
deep enough it will break through into its counterside. Violence from the other
side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the
underdog."
12.
"The price of a successful
attack is a constructive alternative."
13.
"Pick the target, freeze it,
personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the
target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster
than institutions."
Alinsky’s
minions in Antifa and Black Lives Matter have perfected these operative rules
in praxis, with an infusion of energy and globalist funding. And they have
correctly counted on the widespread and shameless cowardice of the so-called
“white oppressors,” too often themselves subject to the same ambience emanating
out of those ideological outhouses - AKA colleges. And fearfully confirmed by
establishment elites in the Republican Party and in the “conservative movement”
(see in particular Rules 13, 11, 10, and 1).
What we
observe before us is a contagion, another kind of pandemic, an infection of the
mind and intellect far more dangerous than COVID-19. It must be eradicated through
counter action in whatever form that may take. The Monster’s head must be
sliced off, its wellsprings dried up, its street partisans arrested and
imprisoned. And that is just the beginning.
If not,
then time to close the book of what remains of Western Christian civilization.
That is our choice.
