Shirley Sherrod: Cultural Marxism disguised as multiculturalism

Monday, July 26, 2010

Shirley Sherrod: Cultural Marxism disguised as multiculturalism

"Intellectuals and political hustlers who blame the plight of so many
blacks on
poverty, discrimination and the 'legacy of slavery' are complicit in
the
socioeconomic and moral decay," writes Walter E. Williams, quoting
Booker T.
Washington's 1901 autobriiography Up From Slavery, where the author
is
describing the motivations and modus operandi of the Jesse Jacksons
and Reverend
Sharptons of his day:

"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of
keeping the
troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the
public.
Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their
troubles, they
have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly
because
they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do
not want
the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose
their jobs.
Booker T. Washington's homegrown grievance industry turned toxic in
the last
decades of the 20th century, when multiculturalism arose from the
ashes of the
New Left, as Linda Kimball explained in her American Thinker essay
"Cultural
Marxism" a couple of years back:

Because the New Left lacked cohesion it fell apart as a political
movement.
However, its revolutionaries reorganized themselves into a multitude
of single
issue groups. Thus we now have for example, radical feminists, black
extremists,
anti-war ‘peace' activists, animal rights groups, radical
environmentalists, and
‘gay' rights groups …

Both communism and the New Left are alive and thriving here in
America. They
favor code words: tolerance, social justice, economic justice, peace,
reproductive rights, sex education and safe sex, safe schools,
inclusion,
diversity and sensitivity. All together, this is Cultural Marxism
disguised as
multiculturalism.

This unholy alliance of homegrown and imported grievance mongering has
come home
to roost in the person of Shirley Sherrod. While legacy media and
fellow
travelers in the blogosphere heard what they wanted to hear on those
notorious
NAACP videos and fashioned a narrative of Sherrod as earthly saint,
our friend
Dan Riehl actually sat down and listened to the whole thing. Far from
the uniter
portrayed by the usual suspects, Sherrod in her own words turns out to
be a
divider capable of accusing video promulgator Andrew Breitbart of
wanting "to
get us stuck back in the times of slavery." Then came the equally
sainted
husband Charles and Dan's latest coup this morning, videos of the
former SNCC
organizer declaring "We Must Stop The White Man And His Uncle
Toms ..." But
don't tell "former self-hating white person" Joan Walsh of Slate. She
"grew up
adoring black people" and let Matt Lewis know in no uncertain terms
yesterday
that "because Sherrod's father was murdered by a white man, she was
entitled to
call Fox News and Andrew Breitbart a "racist."."

I hope you caught the audio clip of howard dean making a fool of himself
when Chris Wallace interviewed him on the Sherrod affair.

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:05:17 -0700 (PDT), in uk.politics.misc,
"O'Donovan, PJ, Himself" , wrote

Monday, July 26, 2010

Shirley Sherrod: Cultural Marxism disguised as multiculturalism

"Intellectuals and political hustlers who blame the plight of so many
blacks on
poverty, discrimination and the 'legacy of slavery' are complicit in
the
socioeconomic and moral decay," writes Walter E. Williams, quoting
Booker T.
Washington's 1901 autobriiography Up From Slavery, where the author
is
describing the motivations and modus operandi of the Jesse Jacksons
and Reverend
Sharptons of his day:

"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of
keeping the
troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the
public.
Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their
troubles, they
have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly
because
they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do
not want
the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose
their jobs.
Booker T. Washington's homegrown grievance industry turned toxic in
the last
decades of the 20th century, when multiculturalism arose from the
ashes of the
New Left, as Linda Kimball explained in her American Thinker essay
"Cultural
Marxism" a couple of years back:

Because the New Left lacked cohesion it fell apart as a political
movement.
However, its revolutionaries reorganized themselves into a multitude
of single
issue groups. Thus we now have for example, radical feminists, black
extremists,
anti-war ‘peace' activists, animal rights groups, radical
environmentalists, and
‘gay' rights groups …

Both communism and the New Left are alive and thriving here in
America. They
favor code words: tolerance, social justice, economic justice, peace,
reproductive rights, sex education and safe sex, safe schools,
inclusion,
diversity and sensitivity. All together, this is Cultural Marxism
disguised as
multiculturalism.

This unholy alliance of homegrown and imported grievance mongering has
come home
to roost in the person of Shirley Sherrod. While legacy media and
fellow
travelers in the blogosphere heard what they wanted to hear on those
notorious
NAACP videos and fashioned a narrative of Sherrod as earthly saint,
our friend
Dan Riehl actually sat down and listened to the whole thing. Far from
the uniter
portrayed by the usual suspects, Sherrod in her own words turns out to
be a
divider capable of accusing video promulgator Andrew Breitbart of
wanting "to
get us stuck back in the times of slavery." Then came the equally
sainted
husband Charles and Dan's latest coup this morning, videos of the
former SNCC
organizer declaring "We Must Stop The White Man And His Uncle
Toms ..." But
don't tell "former self-hating white person" Joan Walsh of Slate. She
"grew up
adoring black people" and let Matt Lewis know in no uncertain terms
yesterday
that "because Sherrod's father was murdered by a white man, she was
entitled to
call Fox News and Andrew Breitbart a "racist."."