Daniel Greenfield
February 23, 2021 @ Sultan Knish Blog
The
Nation of Islam may be the largest racist religion in America. It is
certainly the most influential with Louis Farrakhan’s original Million
Man March drawing some 400,000 racists and allies of the hate group,
including a young Barack Obama, who would later be photographed as a
senator with the black supremacist leader at a Congressional Black
Caucus event.
House
Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn, the third highest ranking Democrat,
and the kingmaker who got Biden the Democrat nomination and the White
House,
had thanked Farrakhan for, "offering up a number of precepts that we ought to adhere to.”
Clyburn is one
of a number of congressional Democrats who have Nation of Islam links.
Despite
a history of violent terrorism by the Nation of Islam and its spinoff
groups, its racist theology which believes that white people are
subhuman devils who will be killed off, and its antisemitism and
conspiracy theories, the hate group is also incredibly culturally
influential.
Black Nationalist theology, politics and culture are built on the ideas of the Nation of Islam.
Raphael Warnock, the Senate Democrat from Georgia,
said,
“its voice has been important for the development of black theology.”
He neglected to mention that he meant black nationalist theology of the
kind trafficked in by Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s mentor, a Farrakhan
supporter, and another ally of Warnock’s whose bigotry the Democrat
politician
had defended.
Culturally, a long list of musicians and other entertainers are fans of the Nation of Islam. The
violent racism of
Amiri Baraka
(“dagger poems in the slimy bellies of the owner-Jews”), (“I got the
extermination blues, jew-boys. I got the Hitler syndrome figured”), and
(“Rape the white girls. Rape / their fathers. Cut the mothers’
throats”), distilled Nation of Islam theology into poetry.
“Jews
double crossers stole our secrets crossed the white desert to spill
them,” the former Poet Laureate of New Jersey wrote in The Black Man is
Making New Gods. "The fag’s death they gave us on a cross… they give us
to worship a dead jew and not ourselves.”
This is a brief summary
of the narcissistic black supremacist theology of the Nation of Islam
which believes that an evil Jewish mad scientist named Yakub (Jacob)
used eugenics to create Europeans, Indians, and Asians from the original
black master race after leaving Mecca.
That Baraka is remembered
as a respected poet, that his hatefilled rants that would have made
Goebbels blanch are taught in academic settings, is a tribute to how
black nationalism mainstreamed hatred and the racist theology of the
Nation of Islam into academia.
One of the most fundamental beliefs of the Nation of Islam is that white people aren’t human.
Some may remember Malcolm X ranting about white devils, at least until he dropped the NOI, in part over its alliance
with the KKK,
converted to normative Sunni Islam and was murdered by the Nation of
Islam, but treated it as a commentary on segregation and racism in
America.
That’s a dangerous mistake.
The Nation of Islam
literarily believes
that white people are an illegitimate race of devils created by a mad
scientist who are “made by nature a liar and a murderer”. That belief is
no longer confined to the racist hate group. It spilled into what
Warnock misleadingly calls, “black theology” and into the foundational
texts of what is even more misleadingly called “antiracism”.
As
antiracism has taken off on college campuses and at major corporations,
the old NOI belief that white people are not human has become the heart
of a new breed of diversity training.
A Middlebury College lecture
titled,
Facilitate the Demilitarization of White Bodies, argues that,
"Whiteness must be demilitarized so that bodies designated as ‘White’
might become human."
Antiracist rhetoric that defines white
people as non-human is commonplace in academic settings. For example, a
University of St. Thomas course
titled,
“Becoming Human”, insists that “The only way to “become human” is to
confront the legacy of white supremacy”. Its implicitly oppressive
message is that people of all races and creeds who don’t define their
sense of self through the warped funhouse Marxist mirror of critical
race theory are not truly human.
Online antiracist seminars offer
white people the ability to “Re-Become Human” by “healing from
internalized whiteness”. While antiracism buries its dehumanization of
white people and minorities opposed to the toxic racism of critical race
theory under a slew of academic jargon and intersectional buzzwords,
its underlying worldview is cultish and derived from a racist cult.
The
Nation of Islam adopted and inverted racist white supremacist ideas.
Its theology is a grabag of random elements looted from Islam,
Christianity, and Judaism, along with a Science Fiction racialism
assembled in an era when pseudoscientic mythologies had begun to pervade
popular culture and breeding a master race through eugenics appeared to
be on the horizon.
Antiracism not only doesn’t teach you how not
to be racist, but is a bad copy of a bad copy of the KKK, which the
Nation of Islam had allied with, and Hitler, whom black nationalists
from Marcus Garvey to Louis Farrakhan had admired, run through an academic jargon filter.
Critical race theory is built around black nationalism. That’s why it
explicitly rejects
Martin Luther King Jr’s call for brotherhood and instead champions
racial separatism and original sin. And black nationalism is just a copy
of white nationalism complete with a master race and inferior races.
The difference between racism and antiracism is that racists don’t deny
they’re racist.
The much more fundamental difference between
liberal tolerance and leftist antiracism is that the former believed
that the core issue was hatred while the latter formulated it as power.
That Marxist reading of race was destined to defeat the religious
inflection of the old liberalism.
At stake are irreconcilable questions about hate, equality, and the nature of the society we want.
The
old civil rights movement argued that we could achieve equality by
letting go of hate. Black nationalist movements and their leftist allies
found hate uplifting and didn’t want equality. The fusion of tribal
racial hatred on one side of the partnership and Marxist reductionism on
the other birthed a racist movement dedicated to perpetuating racism
while calling itself antiracist.
Antiracism offers both black
nationalists and white leftists what they want. Black nationalists
receive uncritical affirmations of racial superiority and a license to
hate, while white leftists are encouraged to dismantle their
civilizations from buildings and statues to language and mores, in the
name of combating a concept of whiteness that encompasses thousands of
years of history.
The pivot for both sides is an idea copied from white supremacists by black supremacists.
The
racist origins of antiracism are why its ideas inescapably manifest as
racism. A movement whose guiding lights are racial supremacy and racial
inferiority is not going to stop being racist, even if you pack it with
academic jargon and then make sure to put “anti” in front of the
“racism”.
The only way to pass off antiracism as anything other than racist is by redefining racism.
Antiracism,
like every form of racism, distinguishes between justified and
unjustified hatreds based on the moral superiority of one group and the
moral inferiority of other groups.
Declaring white people to be less than human because they’re racist isn’t antiracism.
It’s still racism.
Nor
is it some sophisticated idea processed through academia. It’s an
argument put forward a century ago by the Nation of Islam, along with
its fantasies about mad scientists creating the moon and white people,
while its Shabazz leaders used Africa to breed a superior master race.
Racism
is not, as white supremacists and their black supremacist imitators
argue, our destiny. Hating other people is a choice that we make.
Stopping it doesn’t require training, consultants, or a curriculum. Like
any bad behavior, we can choose to stop it any time we want to.
Antiracism
doesn’t stop racism. It enables the bad behavior while pretending to be
fighting it. It’s the equivalent of giving an alcoholic a bottle of
whiskey while labeling it “anti-whiskey”.
Confusing the issue
with jargon, or by treating whiteness and blackness as not just races,
but social concepts that permeate everything, doesn’t change the racist
outcome. And the best evidence of whether an idea is racist is whether
spreading it leads to more or less hatred.
Antiracism has made America a lot more racist and racially divided than it was in a long time.
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About Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield is a journalist investigating Islamic terrorism and
the Left. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz
Freedom Center
