Mao’s cultural revolution comes to black studies in America

February 11, 2023 By Andrea Widburg

Vincent Lloyd is a progressive, black academic. At a guess, he’s in his thirties, so he’s part of the long second wave of the leftist revolution in academia, which ran roughly from the 1990s to the mid-2010s. Last summer, though, Lloyd came face to face with the third wave of the leftist revolution which, to his surprise, is pure Maoism. He doesn’t say so, but he’s lucky he was only “un-personed” (my word, not his). As the revolution gets more frantic, there will be blood.

Truisms are genuinely tied to truth because they are so darned obvious in what they say. “You get what you pay for.” “Tomorrow is another day.” “Life isn’t fair.” And there’s one that is less commonly stated but is just as obviously true: “Leftist revolutions always eat their own.” As leftism gains control over a society, each subsequent generation is more fervent than the last until, finally, the revolution burns itself out in a welter of blood and death. That’s certainly true for the direction of America’s race-based leftism, as Lloyd learned last summer.

Lloyd has published an essay entitled “A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell.” It’s very long (5,600 words), so I’ll summarize it as best I can. However, I urge you to read the whole thing because it is a distillation of everything that flows from introducing Critical Race Theory to young people............To Read More....