I'm going to let you the reader in on a secret: I'm old. I'm old enough to have done a thing called research and study before becoming the Pan-Africanist that I am. Oh, you didn't know I was a Pan-Africanist? Well if that surprises you the reader, it is either because you're new and have no clue who Garvey is or you're an old reader and don't know who Garvey is. Now I say that because as an old timer, I know that in days of old things like segregation and assumed black inferiority were things that lefty black people
did not like. So it is of little amusement to see lefty blacks being at the forefront of the New Segregation movement (Safe Spaces) as well as the New Black Inferiority movement. Indeed blacks have so approved these things that lefty whites are now able to make clear arguments of black inferiority that haven't been seen since the high days of Jim Crow. These arguments have reared their head in the so called 17th Annual White Privilege Conference that was held in Philadelphia.
At this conference one masculine looking Heather Hackman
opined:
“The racial narrative of White tends to be like this: Rugged individual, honest, hard-working, disciplined, rigorous, successful,” she said. “And so then, the narrative of U.S. public education: Individual assessments, competition, outcome over process (I care more about your grades than how you’re doing), ‘discipline’ where we care more about your attendance and making sure you’re not tardy than we care about your relationships … proper English must be spoken (which is just assimilation into standard U.S. dialect), hierarchical power structure, and heavy goal orientation.”
So lets be clear. Hackman is saying that it is
white or
"acting white" if one is "honest, hardworking disciplined, rigorous and successful." Therefore to be non-white is to be dishonest, lazy, undisciplined, lax and generally a failure. Moreover to be black is to be emotional ("How you're doing") and to not be able to master the language.
I have read such ideas about black people that goes back to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. That no one in Hackman's circle even paused and said: Umm, you know this sounds awfully familiar shows that these people have simply not done the research.
Hackman said when she was a professor, she freely employed these methods with her own students. She once let a student complete an essay assignment as a graphic novel, and allowed students to write in non-standard English or even foreign languages she herself couldn’t read.
Meaning this "woman" decided to not do her job. It's one thing to have a command of English but have issues with grammar and spelling (things that happen here often). It's entirely different to simply allow students to
not master the language at all because you're trying to make a racial point.
Here's a quick example of how full of shit Hackman is. Imagine that the organization that was responsible for landing a probe on a fast moving comet ran under the ideology of Hackman. In order to land that probe you have to be on time, which means being disciplined. It takes mastering mathematics and putting in a lot of work to design the probe. This takes hard work, discipline and rigor. You can't be late with the landing because you'll miss the comet and/or destroy the probe. In other words it is impossible to master high tech or to run a highly technological society without the so called "narrative of white".
Welcome to the New Left Crow and the new White Supremacy movement.
