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Tonya
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THE BRIDGE: The Black Anglo Saxon, Part 2
By Darryl James
April 3, 2007
A key characteristic of The Black Anglo Saxon is his comparison to a group of people he defines as “Niggers,” who are all things wretched and all things horrible about the Black race. The Black Anglo Saxon defines “Niggerish” behavior and then assigns that behavior to some lower economic portion of the Black race.
However, the Black Anglo Saxon has a relationship with Niggers that is inextricably interdependent. In other words, the Black Anglo Saxon must have Niggers beneath him in order to define his exaltation above the •••••• experience.
The Black Anglo Saxon is to •••••• as poor people in collective are to Capitalists.
We who understand capitalism know that capitalism only works when there are poor people. People with great means can only feel value to their wealth when measured by their distance from people in abject poverty. They then have the power and the permission (of everyone on their financial level and everyone who aspires to their financial level, including some of the impoverished) to despise, pity and blame the poor collective.
And, we who understand the Black Anglo Saxon know that this state of being only makes sense when there are Niggers. Black Anglo Saxons can only feel pride and value to their social status as alleged Non-Niggers when measured by their distance from Niggers. They then have the power and the permission (of everyone on their social status and everyone who aspires to their social status, including some of the Niggers) to despise, pity and blame the Niggers.
The sad part is that with capitalism, there is a real measurement—money. Either you have it and you are then participating in the system as a capitalist if you so choose, or you don’t have it and you have no say so.
However, with the Black Anglo Saxon, there is no clear demarcation between his status and the status he assigns to Niggers. No matter what segment of the population the Black Anglo Saxon rises to, there are still people who will point to him and call him a ••••••. No matter what behavior the Black Anglo Saxon assigns to Niggers, some of that same behavior is found within people even he proclaims are Non-Niggers, including himself.
Two weeks ago when I wrote “Ghettos of Our Minds,” The Black Anglo Saxons quickly and vehemently declared that there really were Black people who behaved in a “ghetto” fashion and who should accordingly, be labeled “ghetto.” Yet, some of these same rotten-brained, self-hating and confused bags of crap accused me of creating labels for division when I wrote “The Black Anglo Saxon, Part 1.”
Ghettos of Our Minds: http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur32182.cfm
The Black Anglo Saxon, Part 1.: http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur32351.cfm
And, as I pointed out in Black “The Black Anglo Saxon, Part 1.” the Black Anglo Saxon feels compelled to speak for impoverished Blacks, frequently without asking them for their voice.
For example, Oprah Winfrey went to South Africa to build a Leadership Academy for girls, which in essence, is a very beautiful thing. But she couldn’t just build it and shut up. She had to speak for Black youth in America, claiming that they just don’t want more than iPods and sneakers.
Now, I know I just committed blasphemy to disparage the great Black Anglo Saxon goddess Oprah, but really, has she done a real survey of these children to be able to make such a blanket statement? I ask because I’ve seen a number of surveys, but never any survey where Black children are actually saying that they don’t want anything out of life but iPods and sneakers. They want those things and they want more. Just like the rest of us.
I hear all the time that people have lost faith in the education system, but in addition to Black youth, that sentiment comes from Black adults, white youth, white adults, Hispanic…well, you get my drift. A number of people across a wide cross-section of society have lost faith in this nation’s education system, yet the Black Anglo Saxon accuses Black youth of uniquely giving up hope and “deciding” to do poorly or to do nothing at all and focus on material things.
In “The Black Anglo Saxon, Part 1.”I mused that the Black Anglo Saxon knows nothing of Africa. The responses demonstrated this clearly. In emails and postings to websites, Black Anglo Saxons had no idea what Necklacing was, nor its importance to the freedom of South Africa. And, they insisted that all of the nations in Africa really are afflicted with AIDS, civil war and extreme poverty brought on by the wretched Africans who do not want to do better.
By making such a declaration on behalf of Africans, the Black Anglo Saxon is tacitly praising the European for his interference in African nations and secretly desires more, believing that Western Civilization is best for all parties involved.
These are the same rotten minds that give birth to backward concepts including the one that dictates that slavery was actually started by Africans who sold their own people to the pirates who took them to the new world.
You see, the sad thing about the Black Anglo Saxon is that he knows little about the history of the Anglo Saxons he worships, and even less about the history of Black people. He is shamed into silence when his white friends speak of African art or any other portion of the African cultural existence, which is a mystery to the Black Anglo Saxon.
In fact, the Black Anglo Saxon no longer compares his or herself to Africa, African descendants in America or even Africans from days gone by. Instead, comparisons are always made to or with European standards.
For example, in an age of permissiveness that has given way to out of control children, the Black Anglo Saxon now views physical discipline as tantamount to slavery, where the parent attempts to own the child and recreate slavery conditions. The Black Anglo Saxon can not see how ludicrous this is, when such a mindset would have the person attempting to recreate slavery, seeking to do so with spouses, friends, employees, etc. However, I would personally like to enslave a Black Anglo Saxon or two on my plantation.
It is important to note that some of our people in Africa are as deluded about us as some of us are about them. But when you look at the way that they view us and the way that they view race (Blacks vs. Coloreds), you realize that they have the same racist European influences.
It is also important to note that Black Americans are essentially a new cultural being. We have a unique experience in being Black in America, which is neither solely Black nor solely American, yet some of us want to shed the African ties and embrace solely the American ties. Even if we do so in our minds, we can never escape the burden of our skin color and our past. This is the tragedy of the Black Anglo Saxon, for whom escapism is a primary goal never to be achieved.
Not all of us are Black Anglo Saxons. Many of us seek self-awareness, knowledge of self and mental freedom as we struggle to define ourselves and our position in today’s society.
In summary, the Black Anglo Saxon is really yesterday’s deluded and sad House ••••••, all dressed up and pretending to be a part of some nebulous group that even he can not really define. And, for all of his genuflecting to Europeans the world over and attempts to distance himself from Niggers, the Black Anglo Saxon finds himself identified as a •••••• by members of the very group he attempts to emulate and join.
Darryl James is an award-winning author who is now a filmmaker. His first mini-movie, "Crack," was released in March of 2006. He is currently filming a full length documentary. James’ latest book, "Bridging The Black Gender Gap," is the basis of his lectures and seminars. Previous installments of this column can now be viewed at www.bridgecolumn.com. James can be reached at djames@theblackgendergap.com.
http://eurweb.com/story/eur32518.cfm |
Cynique
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 08, 2007 - 12:38 am: |
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I think Chrishayden neutralized Daryl James' gripes when he reminded us that "Anglo-Saxon" is not the primary make-up America's caucasian majority and thus the Anglo Saxon ethos is not that applicable in the argument he is trying to make. James can't even get the demographics of the country straight or his knowledge of anthropology sorted out because he is so busy pontificating, giving readers the benefit of his 40-watt enlightenment. All he is blathering about is a familiar behavior pattern that transcends race and ethnicity, and can be summed up in one sentence: "The patronizing "haves" lord it over the victimized "have-nots." So what else is new? |
Cynique
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LOL. I am waiting for somebody to expound on the merits of Darry James' rant. I'd like to hear some proof that he is an original thinker, rather than somebody who has reformatted the "black" dilemma. His use of the word "Anglo-Saxon" is compelling but does nothing but cloud the issue. All he had to do was to use the word "white" but, nooooooooo, that would expose his contentions for what they really are: the same ol same ol about the evils of capitalism and the vacuity of the black middle class and the contraints of racism. So I guess what he says is really for those who need to be told what others are already aware of. This serves to reinforce the posture he has taken as an "elite" intellectual, one who attempts to encapsulate a complicated dynamic into his version of reality, casting himself as an Oracle with all of the answers. But everybody who does not agree with him is not wrong. A multi-faceted problem has many possible solutions. |
Yukio
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 09, 2007 - 03:27 am: |
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uh...i'm tired of journalists, authors...whatever who are suppose to be 'intelligent' still use the term race as if it has any legitimacy. |
A_womon
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I'm curious Yukio, If one banishes the term "race" in all of its derogatory connotations, then what term replaces it? You are not the only person that I have heard disavow the term, yet not give another that will significantly explain each groups defining characteristics. ex. far easterners: no folding eyelids, slanted eyes, mideasterners--noses and hair, african americans, more melanin,coarser hair, caucasion ummmmmmmmmmmm white skin? Ha! I don't know but I hope you understand what I'm saying about features being different. This of COURSE is a broad generalization and I acknowledge any and all exceptions... |
Yukio
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It is a legitimate word to use. I'm not talkin bout banishing the term, but using it correctly. The problem is, race has become a catchall term for just about anything.
There is no such thing as a white race a black race or a yellow race.
Thus, your question about the defining characteristics of each group pertains to region and nationality not "race."
This means rethinking much of what we thought we knew. Many of us can't do it. But I wonder how long it took for people to believe that the world wasn't flat and that they wouldn't fall off... |
A_womon
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 06:13 am: |
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I see...what then is race? Should the term only be used when speaking of humans in general? If not how should the term be applied?
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Abm
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Yukio,
What would you recommend James replace "race" within his article above? |
Cynique
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So, Yukio, if "race" is an artifical concept then what does that make "racism"??? LOL. |
Yukio
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A_womon: There is another thread where we laid out what race is, and what it is not. There was disagreement, but once I find it I'll post it, and you can make your own decision.
As I understood the few articles I read on the subject, race is a social construct--that is, a social mechanism, phenomenon, or category created and developed by society.
What we understand as race--physiological differences--is not race, but . . . physiological differences.
ABM: James uses "race" various ways, and it would be a bit ambiguous if we weren't so normal for us to use it in so many ways. For example, if his article is to make sense, then the anglo saxon and the black race must be diametrially oppposed, it seems to me.
But anglo saxon has been characterized as a racial group and a regional group...but it doesn't mean the white race.
Anglo saxon doesn't even represent all of europe...and is he talkin about the black race--or African Americans? Africans were taken to Cuba, San Domingue, and South America....the portuguese, and the spanish, I believer, are not anglo saxon.
Cynique: cute! But you are assuming something as to be real for people to believe in it. Race is an excuse embedded in power relations.
Racism is the assignment of people to an inferior category and the determination of their social, economic, civic, and human standing on that basis.
As I have said before the british used "race" to obtain free labor--that economic, so that they could use this economic power to manage the society...in the South during slavery, the planters were also the politicians. Slavery--as abetted by racism--was a economic and political system.
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Cynique
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 02:34 pm: |
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What you say has merit, Yukio. But since the average person doesn't know the abstract dynamics of race, people function within the misconception of it, and what their action precipitates is a result, and a result is what it is and can take on a life of its own. So the question then arises as to what's more viable: words or deeds? |
Yukio
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cynique: if I can add to what you say, I would say "the average person doesn't know the abstract dynamics of race [or racism]."
Both! If the deeds, actions, and results are racism, then both.
Rather than talkin bout "race," as a form of identification[which is what James is doing], lets talk about racism, which is almost lost in James' analysis. Racism provides the context for talkin about intra-african american or black conflict.
So that in his words, though he does made some valid points, he paints a picture outside of the social, intellectual, political, and economic context of racism. |
Yukio
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cynique: if I can add to what you say, I would say "the average person doesn't know the abstract dynamics of race [or racism]."
Both! If the deeds, actions, and results are racism, then both.
Rather than talkin bout "race," as a form of identification[which is what James is doing], lets talk about racism, which is almost lost in James' analysis. Racism provides the context for talkin about intra-african american or black conflict.
So that in his words, though he does made some valid points, he paints a picture outside of the social, intellectual, political, and economic context of racism.
If I can return to my initial point, however, it is problematic because, as Ifill states in the other thread, James does have a voice, and I think his politics are sort of progressive, but at the end of the day he sounds mean spirited and rigid. |
Cynique
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I wasn't defending James because I had problems with his rant much along the same lines as you did, Yukio. Race is such a complicated subject that I was just musing about the complexity of its complexion. LOL |
Yukio
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I didn't think you were defending him, I was just was, actually, trying to better express why I made my initial comments. |
Tonya
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 05:33 am: |
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Um, helloooow. I think it was supposed to be a mean spirited rant. It was a harsh and swift follow-up written out of frustration, as alluded to, over the highly hypocritical responses to his other two pieces. |
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i didn't read the other 2 pieces, my dear, but i will do so. |
Cynique
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"Hypocritical" by whose definition??? Anybody who doesn't swallow his hokum is branded with this term by James. |
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