BIG BLACK BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
Figure 1. The newly formed Republican Party and its presidential candidate, John C. Frémont, threatened to impose abolitionism and women’s equality, among other radical reforms.
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“Thomas’ embrace of the Republican Party is consonant with a deep mistrust of white liberals, the institutions they control and the policies they try to advance in the name of “social justice.”
Alas, on July 2, 2022….I found the Big Black Beef of Clarence Thomas that his buddy Trump promoted at his racist rallies, by putting Black Republicans on stage behind him. Did the Thomas’s take credit for that? Clarances’ Great America Angst probably took root, when he went to a Anti-War Protest in Washington, and, could not pick up a white woman. I on the other hand, ended up making-out with a white woman under a great oak tree next to the Capitol, for two hours. We tried to fornicate in the gym room in a Church basement, but riot cops – burst in!
As a Radical Liberal Hippie, I had allot of Liberal White Women Lovers, the most historic being, Dottie Witherspoon….The Cracker of All Crackers! I fought the Mafia in Boston with my radical Black Brothers- and won! I was born in Oakland and bonded with Black Radicals. We discussed all the issues you ALAS read in this article.
I am going to put forth a theory………When Clarence went to that Anti-War Demonstration – THAT WAS A WHITE THING – he was utterly ignored. He concluded it was because he had black skin. He concluded that he could not have been a member of The Nazi Youth, because he was black. The conservative Republicans accepted him – if he continued to castrate the Liberal Left. With the rise of the White Christian Right, Clarence saw his chance to be A Black Nazi Dictator who could control the genitalia of half the white voters in America.
The Thomas overlooked the Radical Roots of the Republican Party. This will be their downfall, Take a good look at the Nazi Boy INSPECTING THE SUSPECTS to see if any of them are homosexuals. It’s fine with me if Thomas WANTED to be like a Nazi Youth most of his life, as long as he doesn’t serve on the Supreme Court.
My friends family was murdered by black radicals – like Thomas used to be. The world now gets to EXAMINE Thomas – till they are blue in the face! What did he do to divorce himself from HIS RADICAL PAST? Did he convert to Christianity? Thomas and I are on a historic collision course. I contend, becoming a Republican, does not change the spots on a leopard. I suspect Clarence made a plan to be the most radical black man in America. Ginni, a White Woman, helped him. The proof is in the pudding.
John Presco
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A 2019 New Yorker profile reported that Thomas also supported Black Panther leader Kathleen Cleaver and Communist Party member Angela Davis, both of whom had been wanted by police.
“When he was asked at his confirmation hearings what he majored in, Thomas said, ‘English literature.’ When he was asked what he minored in, he said, ‘protest,’” the article notes, pointing out that his first visit to Washington was to march against the Vietnam War and the last rally he went to demanded the release of two Black Panthers. “I was never a liberal,” the article quotes him as saying at a talk in 1996. “I was a radical.”
Thomas seems to have been put on this path by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. King had advanced a particularly optimistic view of white liberals and cross-racial advocacy. However, in the months leading up to his death, even he was forced to concede that “Negros have proceeded from a premise that equality means what it says, and they have taken white America at their word when they talked of it as an objective.”
What the reactions to Clarence Thomas post-Roe reveal about white liberals
Soon after the court handed down its decision, some pro-choice advocates began hurling outrageous and overtly racist remarks at the justice.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas sits during the formal group photograph at the Supreme Court on April 23, 2021.Erin Schaff/The New York Times / Bloomberg via Getty Images file
July 1, 2022, 1:14 PM PDT
By Musa al-Gharbi, Paul F. Lazarsfeld fellow in sociology at Columbia University
There were six Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade last week. The majority opinion was authored by Justice Samuel Alito. However, in the aftermath of the ruling, there has been an intense and particular focus on a different justice: Clarence Thomas.
Soon after the court handed down its decision, some pro-choice advocates began hurling outrageous and overtly racist remarks in Thomas’ direction (including liberal evocations of the “N-word” on Twitter) — often to the acclaim of some other left-aligned whites.
Thomas’ embrace of the Republican Party is consonant with a deep mistrust of white liberals, the institutions they control and the policies they try to advance in the name of “social justice.”
The remarks were so ubiquitous that “Uncle Clarence” began trending on Twitter, a reference to the eponymous character of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” who has emerged as a symbol of Black men who are too subservient to whites.
In practice, the term is primarily deployed against Black people who strike positions that elite liberals find distasteful. For instance, “Uncle Tim” previously trended on Twitter after Black Republican Sen. Tim Scott’s rebuttal of President Joe Biden’s inaugural address to a joint session of Congress.
Then again, in other cases, minorities who violate the preferences and sensibilities of liberals are literally declared to be white instead. At least insofar as Thomas and Scott are branded as race-traitors, critics still recognize their race.
However, there is a deep irony in characterizing Thomas as an “Uncle Tom” (or worse) given that, prior to pursuing public service, he identified with Black nationalism. He is currently married to a white woman and has aligned with the GOP. However, as political theorist Corey Robin has shown in his book “The Enigma of Clarence Thomas,” his views on race and racial issues have remained highly consistent over the course of his life.
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Indeed, Thomas’ embrace of the Republican Party is consonant with a deep mistrust of white liberals, the institutions they control and the policies they try to advance in the name of “social justice.”
This mistrust was widely shared among Black activists of his generation — and is in keeping with Thomas’ Supreme Court decisions, including overturning Roe. If anything, the racialized attacks many liberals directed at Thomas in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling confirm the pessimistic view of race relations that prevailed among many of the Black thinkers who shaped Thomas’ worldview and is exhibited by Thomas himself.
For instance, Thomas was deeply inspired by Malcolm X. He had a poster of Malcolm X that hung in his dorm room. He memorized many of his speeches by heart, and he continues to evoke him frequently to this day.
It was Malcolm X, of course, who famously declared that, “In this deceitful American game of power politics, the Negros (i.e. the race problem, the integration and civil rights issues) are nothing but tools, used by one group of whites called Liberals against another group of whites called Conservatives, either to get into power or to remain in power.”
He argued that white liberals and white conservatives differ “only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro’s friend and benefactor.” He continued, “By winning the friendship, allegiance and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or a tool.”
A 2019 New Yorker profile reported that Thomas also supported Black Panther leader Kathleen Cleaver and Communist Party member Angela Davis, both of whom had been wanted by police.
“When he was asked at his confirmation hearings what he majored in, Thomas said, ‘English literature.’ When he was asked what he minored in, he said, ‘protest,’” the article notes, pointing out that his first visit to Washington was to march against the Vietnam War and the last rally he went to demanded the release of two Black Panthers. “I was never a liberal,” the article quotes him as saying at a talk in 1996. “I was a radical.”
Thomas seems to have been put on this path by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. King had advanced a particularly optimistic view of white liberals and cross-racial advocacy. However, in the months leading up to his death, even he was forced to concede that “Negros have proceeded from a premise that equality means what it says, and they have taken white America at their word when they talked of it as an objective.”
In contrast, he wrote, most whites “proceed from a premise that equality is a loose expression for improvement. White America is not even psychologically organized to close the gap — essentially, it seeks only to make it less painful and less obvious but in most respects to retain it. Most abrasions between Negros and white liberals arise from this fact.”
The political theorist Robin notes that, in the aftermath of King’s assassination, which occurred when he was a student at Holy Cross in Worcester, “by his own report, Thomas has a realization that nobody is going to do anything for black people. And by nobody, he means white liberals and white leftists.”
By the time Thomas arrived at Yale Law School, he was militant on racial matters and more-or-less fully disillusioned with mainstream liberalism. Hillary Clinton, who overlapped with him in the early ’70s, recently declared that as long as she has known Thomas, he’s always been filled with “grievance,” “anger” and “resentment.” Unsaid, but critical context: These were feelings Thomas displayed toward white liberals in particular (like Clinton herself), who dominated Yale at the time, and who continue to dominate elite spaces today.
Thomas noted in a recent interview that people regularly assume he has difficulties around other Black people by virtue of his politics. “It’s just the opposite,” he declared. “The only people with whom I’ve had difficulties are white, liberal elites who consider themselves the anointed and us the benighted … I have never had issues with members of my race.”
In fact, there have been many prominent Black intellectuals and leaders whose Black nationalist-inflected mistrust of white liberals ultimately led them to conservativism. For Thomas, it was the work of Black economist Thomas Sowell that ultimately helped him channel his misgivings toward “white saviors” into a coherent, right-aligned political philosophy.
There is a deep irony in characterizing Thomas as an “Uncle Tom” (or worse) given that, prior to pursuing public service, he identified with Black nationalism.
However, Black nationalist impulses continue to influence his rulings and judicial philosophy. For instance, core to Thomas’ thinking, per Robin, is “a belief in Black self-defense.” This commitment undergirds Thomas’ staunch support for the Second Amendment. It also plays a role in his opposition to abortion.
Thomas has expressed repeatedly that his aversion to abortion is significantly informed by its deep and longstanding ties to racial eugenics programs. It should be noted that these eugenics initiatives were pushed heavily by white liberals of the time, also in the name of helping the marginalized and disadvantaged. Thomas has no trust in similar social justice rhetoric being deployed by abortion rights advocates today.
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Instead, the reactions many contemporary liberals have directed toward Thomas for diverging from their preferred policies on abortion — including an unabashed embrace of racial epithets and slurs, in the name of social justice advocacy no less! — seem to be a clear vindication of Black nationalists’ longstanding suspicion that, at bottom, many self-described “allies” are themselves deeply racist and simply use the Black cause as a convenient vehicle for shoring up their own power and influence.
As cultural critic Yasmin Nair put it in a tweet on Saturday, “Clarence Thomas is not your ‘I can be a racist’ card, people.” This is something that should never even have to be said to those ostensibly committed to social justice. The fact that it apparently must be said is telling.
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Black Mau Mau’s Killed Our Friend’s Family
Posted on August 4, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Joan Corbett was a good friend of my ex-wife and myself. She suffered from severe alcoholism due to her PTSD she acquired after coming home for Thanksgiving, and finding her family slaughtered. These latest shooters have targeted people of color. The Mau Mau Murders should be be labeled a ‘Hate Crime’.
Joan was at my wedding. Mary Ann allegedly was the wife of Thomas Pynchon, whose novel ‘Inherent Vice’ swirled around the Manson murders. It is clear I have been doing battle to the Real Bad Guys. I survived a hit by a Mafia associate.
I am going to contact Quentin Tarantino and see if he wants to co-author a story on the Mau Mau Murders.
John Presco
Copyright 2019
CHICAGO, Oct. 15 — Eight members of a group called‐“De Mau Mau” gang, which was formed by dishonorably discharged black veterans of Vietnam, were charged today with nine murders, including the mass slayings of two white families.
The police said that the murders, which date to last spring, appeared to have been racially motivated and were linked by ballistic tests.
Six of the eight accused men, wearing Army fatigue jackets, were arraigned early today. The suspects, described by Cook County Sheriff Richard J. Elrod as “the gang leaders and the triggermen,” were held without bail in Cook County jail. Two other suspects were being sought.
Several of the suspects were expelled last spring from Malcolm X University, a city university on Chicago’s West Side where one official described them as “bitter and full of hatred.”
“We are hopeful we can solve a number of other terrible killings in the area,” Mr. Elrod said.
He identified the six arrested men as Reuben Taylor, 22 years old; Donald Taylor, 21; Michael Clark, 21; Nathaniel Burse, 23; Edward Moran Jr., 23, and Robert Wilson, 18, all of Chicago.
The six were charged with the slayings of Paul Corbett, a retired insurance executive, and his wife, stepdaughter, and sister‐in‐law in their Barrington Hills home near Chicago; three members of the Stephen Hawtree family in Monee, Ill.; Army Specialist 5 William Richter, in Highland Park, Ill., and Michael Gerchenson, a Southern Illinois University student whose body was found near West Frankfort, Ill. All the victims were white.
Dr. Charles G. Hurst Jr., president of Malcolm X, said that members of the gang were expelled from the school last spring after they had beaten up students and intimidated teachers.
‘It Was Pure Terror’
“It was pure terror,” Dr. Hurst said. “Members of the Mau Mau would intimidate and beat up students and teachers. They were just frustrated, bitter young men.”
In the spring members of the group were expelled from the college. The ritual hand clasp of the gang was barred from the campus.
Dr. Hurst said that the group had formed in Vietnam and that the men got together when they returned with dishonorable discharges to the United States. He said that he had no idea how many members were in the gang.
“There never seemed any motivation in their violence. They were desperate men venting their frustration within the school. They had no way of living, no way to make money, no saleable skills,” Dr. Hurst said.
‘Disqualified From Society’
“The men had been disqualified from society,” he said. “They were into drugs. The Mau Mau was just bitter men left to wander aimlessly.
“It was never a political group. I don’t think it had to do with color or race. It was just plain hatred.”
At a news conference earlier, Sheriff Elrod told newsmen that four members of the gang had been previously arrested and charged with possession of marijuana.
“We had a good tip these linen might be involved in some of the unsolved crimes in the state,” he said. “After questioning, one lead led to another and we were able to charge four more members of the gang. We expect more arrests.” The sheriff added:
“We have the ringleaders and the triggermen now. We are hopeful we can solve a number of other killings in the area.”
Two of the men arrested were karate experts, the police said. The two had been arrested earlier by task force policemen after they attacked an undercover decoy in the subway, the police said.
“There’s not much I can say,” Dr. Hurst said. “I don’t know if these men are guilty. But it is all so tragic.”
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| Description | English: “The Great Republican Reform Party Calling on their Candidate”, an 1856 print which is a political cartoon about John C. Frémont, the first Republican party candidate for president of the United States. In the 1840’s and 1850’s, radical social reform movements (such as slavery abolitionism, alcohol prohibitionism, pacifism, socialism, and after 1848, feminism) and/or what were considered eccentric currents of thought (such as Transcendentalism, Mormonism, Oneida, “spirit-rappers” or Spiritualism, etc.) were sometimes stigmatized by being lumped together as “the Isms”. Southerners often prided themselves on the American South being free from all of the pernicious Isms (except for alcohol temperance campaigning, which was fully compatible with traditional Protestant fundamentalism). For example, on Sept. 5th and 9th 1856, the Richmond, Virginia Examiner ran editorials on “Our Enemies, the Isms and their Purposes”, while in 1858 “Parson” Brownlow” called for a “Missionary Society of the South, for the Conversion of the Freedom Shriekers, Spiritualists, Free-lovers, Fourierites, and Infidel Reformers of the North” (reference: The Freedom-of-thought Struggle in the Old South by Clement Eaton). And George Fitzhugh wrote “Why have you Bloomers and Women’s Right’s men, and strong-minded women, and Mormons, and anti-renters, and ‘vote myself a farm’ men, Millerites, and Spiritual Rappers, and Shakers, and Widow Wakemanites, and Agrarians, and Grahamites, and a thousand other superstitious and infidel Isms at the North? Why is there faith in nothing, speculation about everything?”[1]This cartoon seeks to stigmatize the Fremont campaign and the Republican party (which was the first broadly-successful political party in United States history to firmly and unyieldingly oppose all attempts at the geographical expansion of slavery) by associating them with the “Isms”, most of which were politically very controversial (and some of which were considered to be offensively immoral by many) at the time. The advocates of the Isms are shown making demands on Fremont:Advanced Fourierist/Transcendentalist thinker”The first thing we want is a law making the use of Tobacco, Animal food [i.e. meat], and Lager-bier a Capital Crime –“Woman wearing an extremely masculinized version of the Bloomer costume (with straight pants instead of harem pants, and extremely short skirts over them), and also smoking (which was considered a masculine prerogative at the time)”We demand, first of all, the recognition of Woman as the equal of man, with a right to Vote and hold Office. –“Roughly-dressed character, holding liquor bottle”An equal division of property, that is what I go in for –“Ugly woman (from Oneida?) wearing a dress with poorly-constructed narrow hoops (at a time when fashionable belles wore very broad hoops, while women who declared their relative independence from ephemeral fashion trends didn’t wear hoops at all)”Col., I wish to invite you to the next meeting of our Free Love association, where the shackles of marriage are not tolerated, & perfect Freedom exists in love matters, and you will be sure to enjoy yourself, for we are all Freemounters. –” [this last word a double entendre]Catholic prelate”We look to you, Sir, to place the power of the Pope on a firm footing in this Country–“Black man in exaggerated faux-dandy attire (representing abolitionism)”De Poppylation ob Color comes in first — arter dat [after that], you may do wot you pleases–“Fremont”You shall all have what you desire — and be sure that the Glorious Principles of Popery, Fourierism, Free Love, Woman’s Rights, the Maine law [alcohol prohibition], & above all the Equality of our Colored Brethren shall be maintained if I get into the Presidential Chair”.The cartoonist was motivated by political expedience in grouping Catholicism together with the more commonly-recognized “Isms” (which leads to a certain degree of internal inconsistency in the cartoon); it was the Democratic party which was more often accused of relying on the support of Catholic immigrants, whose presence some considered dangerous to the American political system. However, there was a political campaign smear rumor current in 1856 that Fremont was a Catholic (the purpose of which was to prevent Fremont from gaining support from those who were suspicious of Catholics).Edited from image http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/cph/3a10000/3a12000/3a12700/3a12793u.tif on the Library of Congress website.Bibliographic information found on the LoC site:TITLE: The great Republican Reform Party, calling on their candidateCALL NUMBER: PGA – Currier & Ives–Great republican… (B size) [P&P]REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-10370 (b&w film copy neg.)SUMMARY: Fremont is portrayed as the champion of a motley array of radicals and reformers. As he stands patiently at far right he is “called upon” by (left to right): a temperance advocate, a cigar-smoking, trousered suffragette, a ragged socialist holding a liquor bottle, a spinsterish libertarian, a Catholic priest holding a cross, and a free black dandy. Temperance man: “The first thing we want, is a law making the use of Tobacco, Animal food, and Lager-bier a Capital Crime”. Suffragette: “We demand, first of all; the recognition of Woman as the equal of man with a right to Vote and hold Office”. Socialist: “An equal division of Property that is what I go in for”. Elderly libertarian: “Col. I wish to invite you to the next meeting of our Free Love association, where the shackles of marriage are not tolerated & perfect freedom exist in love matters and you will be sure to Enjoy yourself, for we are all Freemounters”. Priest: “We look to you Sir to place the power of the Pope on a firm footing in this Country”. Freedman: “De Poppylation ob Color comes in first. arter dat, you may do wot you pleases”. Fremont: “You shall all have what you desire. and be sure that the glorious Principles of Popery, Fourierism, Free Love, Woman’s Rights, the Maine Law, & above all the Equality of our Colored brethren, shall be maintained; If I get into the Presidential Chair”.MEDIUM: 1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 30 x 39 cm.CREATED/PUBLISHED: N.Y. : For Sale [by Nathaniel Currier] at no. 2 Spruce St., [1856]CREATOR: N. Currier (Firm)RELATED NAMES: Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist.NOTES: Title from item. Probably drawn by Louis Maurer. The Gale catalog describes another, earlier state of the print, with only “ferences”. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné‚ / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2867. Weitenkampf, p. 117. Murrell, p. 185. Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1856-22.TOPICS:Abolitionism and abolitionists and the Kansas Strife.African Americans (portrayed).Catholic Church, hostility toward.Temperance movement.Women and women’s rights.FORMAT: Political cartoons 1850-1860. Lithographs 1850-1860.REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USADIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a12793 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a12793CARD #: 2003656588 |
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