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Anonymous Berkeley Professor Shreds BLM Injustice Narrative

An anonymous history professor at U.C. Berkeley has penned an open letter against the current narratives of racial injustice underpinning the BLM movement and ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd.

In the letter, the professor cited success of Nigerian immigrants in the US as to why BLM racism claims are the total nonsense and that racism can not be used as an excuse as to why Black Americans can't get their sh!t together,

Read the letter below:

Dear profs X, Y, Z

I am one of your colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley. I have met you both personally but do not know you closely, and am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job, and likely all future jobs in my field.

In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them.

In the extended links and resources you provided, I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. The explanation provided in your documentation, to the near exclusion of all others, is univariate: the problems of the black community are caused by whites, or, when whites are not physically present, by the infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism into American brains, souls, and institutions.


Many cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including from within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or 'Uncle Toms'. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders. Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques.

The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians. Instead, it is being treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its profound flaws, or its worrying implication of total black impotence. This hypothesis is transforming our institution and our culture, without any space for dissent outside of a tightly policed, narrow discourse.

A counternarrative exists. If you have time, please consider examining some of the documents I attach at the end of this email. Overwhelmingly, the reasoning provided by BLM and allies is either primarily anecdotal (as in the case with the bulk of Ta-Nehisi Coates' undeniably moving article) or it is transparently motivated. As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black incarcerated Americans. This proportion is often used to characterize the criminal justice system as anti-black. However, if we use the precise same methodology, we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black.

Would we characterize criminal justice as a systemically misandrist conspiracy against innocent American men? I hope you see that this type of reasoning is flawed, and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties. Black people are not incarcerated at higher rates than their involvement in violent crime would predict. This fact has been demonstrated multiple times across multiple jurisdictions in multiple countries.


And yet, I see my department uncritically reproducing a narrative that diminishes black agency in favor of a white-centric explanation that appeals to the department's apparent desire to shoulder the 'white man's burden' and to promote a narrative of white guilt.

If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy. Even Jewish Americans are incarcerated less than gentile whites. I think it's fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews. And yet, these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews. None of this is addressed in your literature. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and ad hominems. "Those are racist dogwhistles". "The model minority myth is white supremacist". "Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime", ad nauseam.

These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress discourse. Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing orthodoxy tactics they are, common to suppressive regimes, doctrines, and religions throughout time and space. They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department.

Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM's problematic view of history, and the department is being presented as unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position. Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position, which is no small number.

I personally don't dare speak out against the BLM narrative, and with this barrage of alleged unity being mass-produced by the administration, tenured professoriat, the UC administration, corporate America, and the media, the punishment for dissent is a clear danger at a time of widespread economic vulnerability. I am certain that if my name were attached to this email, I would lose my job and all future jobs, even though I believe in and can justify every word I type.

The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people. There are virtually no marches for these invisible victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC regents, deans, and departmental heads. The message is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and demands solution. Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is.

No discussion is permitted for nonblack victims of black violence, who proportionally outnumber black victims of nonblack violence. This is especially bitter in the Bay Area, where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic proportions, to the point that the SF police chief has advised Asians to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors, as this attracts the attention of (overwhelmingly black) home invaders. Home invaders like George Floyd. For this actual, lived, physically experienced reality of violence in the USA, there are no marches, no tearful emails from departmental heads, no support from McDonald's and Wal-Mart. For the History department, our silence is not a mere abrogation of our duty to shed light on the truth: it is a rejection of it.

The claim that black intraracial violence is the product of redlining, slavery, and other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is for historians, therefore, to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn't led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively. Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. However, both groups outperform white Americans on nearly all SES indices - as do Nigerian Americans, who incidentally have black skin. It is for historians to point out and discuss these anomalies. However, no real discussion is possible in the current climate at our department. The explanation is provided to us, disagreement with it is racist, and the job of historians is to further explore additional ways in which the explanation is additionally correct. This is a mockery of the historical profession.

Most troublingly, our department appears to have been entirely captured by the interests of the Democratic National Convention, and the Democratic Party more broadly. To explain what I mean, consider what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter, an organization UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent mailers. All donations to the official BLM website are immediately redirected to ActBlue Charities, an organization primarily concerned with bankrolling election campaigns for Democrat candidates. Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden's 2020 campaign. This is grotesque given the fact that the American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run. Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades; the 'systemic racism' there was built by successive Democrat administrations.

The patronizing and condescending attitudes of Democrat leaders towards the black community, exemplified by nearly every Biden statement on the black race, all but guarantee a perpetual state of misery, resentment, poverty, and the attendant grievance politics which are simultaneously annihilating American political discourse and black lives. And yet, donating to BLM is bankrolling the election campaigns of men like Mayor Frey, who saw their cities devolve into violence. This is a grotesque capture of a good-faith movement for necessary police reform, and of our department, by a political party. Even worse, there are virtually no avenues for dissent in academic circles. I refuse to serve the Party, and so should you.

The total alliance of major corporations involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning flag to us, and yet this damning evidence goes unnoticed, purposefully ignored, or perversely celebrated. We are the useful idiots of the wealthiest classes, carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other actual, real, modern-day slavers. Starbucks, an organisation using literal black slaves in its coffee plantation suppliers, is in favor of BLM. Sony, an organisation using cobalt mined by yet more literal black slaves, many of whom are children, is in favor of BLM. And so, apparently, are we. The absence of counter-narrative enables this obscenity. Fiat lux, indeed.

There also exists a large constituency of what can only be called 'race hustlers': hucksters of all colors who benefit from stoking the fires of racial conflict to secure administrative jobs, charity management positions, academic jobs and advancement, or personal political entrepreneurship.

Given the direction our history department appears to be taking far from any commitment to truth, we can regard ourselves as a formative training institution for this brand of snake-oil salespeople. Their activities are corrosive, demolishing any hope at harmonious racial coexistence in our nation and colonizing our political and institutional life. Many of their voices are unironically segregationist.

MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today. We are training leaders who intend, explicitly, to destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history. As the PRC, an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the US, I ask you: Is this wise? Are we really doing the right thing?

As a final point, our university and department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd. Floyd was a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant stomach. He terrorized the women in his community. He sired and abandoned multiple children, playing no part in their support or upbringing, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer, a swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors.

And yet, the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal, elevating his name to virtual sainthood. A man who hurt women. A man who hurt black women. With the full collaboration of the UCB history department, corporate America, most mainstream media outlets, and some of the wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA, he has become a culture hero, buried in a golden casket, his (recognized) family showered with gifts and praise. Americans are being socially pressured into kneeling for this violent, abusive misogynist. A generation of black men are being coerced into identifying with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our race and species.

I'm ashamed of my department. I would say that I'm ashamed of both of you, but perhaps you agree with me, and are simply afraid, as I am, of the backlash of speaking the truth. It's hard to know what kneeling means, when you have to kneel to keep your job.

It shouldn't affect the strength of my argument above, but for the record, I write as a person of color. My family have been personally victimized by men like Floyd. We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democrat party against our race. The humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM, that we need special help and lower requirements to get ahead in life, is richly familiar to us. I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be easier to deal with open fascists, who at least would be straightforward in calling me a subhuman, and who are unlikely to share my race.

The ever-present soft bigotry of low expectations and the permanent claim that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively on the goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is psychologically devastating. No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites.

No message will more surely devastate their futures, especially if whites run out of guilt, or indeed if America runs out of whites. If this had been done to Japanese Americans, or Jewish Americans, or Chinese Americans, then Chinatown and Japantown would surely be no different to the roughest parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today. The History department of UCB is now an integral institutional promulgator of a destructive and denigrating fallacy about the black race.

I hope you appreciate the frustration behind this message. I do not support BLM. I do not support the Democrat grievance agenda and the Party's uncontested capture of our department. I do not support the Party co-opting my race, as Biden recently did in his disturbing interview, claiming that voting Democrat and being black are isomorphic. I condemn the manner of George Floyd's death and join you in calling for greater police accountability and police reform. However, I will not pretend that George Floyd was anything other than a violent misogynist, a brutal man who met a predictably brutal end.

I also want to protect the practice of history. Cleo is no grovelling handmaiden to politicians and corporations. Like us, she is free.

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So, there you have it.

Nigerians in the US are not considered inn any way or form to be like the niggers over there.

Vast majority of Nigerians are hardworking, intelligent, skilled , law abiding and honest people.

Even the ones that engage in crime are seen as intelligent and very smart as their crimes are highly sophisticated and draw higher returns with no single violent measures.

If any of you has been to the US, you will agree with this letter from the Berkeley Professor.

Nigerians in the US do not get harassed by cops. Maybe only at the airports but that is understandable as we are coming over there to actually compete for their jobs.

Finally, why is this thread important?

It is important so as to know that in the US, white Americans and other ethnicities other than the Black Americans (who hate Nigerians with passion out of pure jealousy and envy) see Nigerians as well mannered, cultured and hardworking people.

We should not get involved with the rubbish BLM movement which is nothing short of a the US DNC using their pet monkeys to cause anarchy just as Arewa usese their almajiris to blackmail the nation.

Very insightful. I have a problem with ur signature though. What exactly are you OP?

VERY INSIGHTFUL


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THROWBACK
MUYIKEM
ALLTHINGSGOOD
WALEDEJI
IMAM LUCASBALO AKA ABBEBAILEY
THATFAIRGUY

The majority of the article sticks to professionalism.

But it is a shame that the solid message was soiled by the common
drivel usually promulgated by Trump's worshipper.

So much for a professor of history that can't separate emotions from facts.

We know Nigerians are hardworking.

We also know that George Floyd was a scumbag.

And if he's being given the hero treatment today, don't blame us, blame the useless cops who are either racists or mentally disturbed.

That he was a scumbag doesn't mean that he deserved to die out there on the streets.

There are very many innocent black people, male and female who have been killed and are being killed extrajudicial style in America and UK.

They are whom the protests are for.

The groups mentioned by the professor haven't had to go through what the blacks in the US went through. 400yrs of slavery.

I don't particularly like Black Americans because of their attitude to other blacks from the mother continent. But truth should always be told.

Xisnin:
The majority of the article sticks to professionalism.

But it is a shame that the solid message was soiled by the common
drivel usually promulgated by Trump's worshipper.

So much for a professor of history that can't separate emotions from facts.

By drivel, you mean FACTS.

Facts always beats your emotional bants.

Feels vs Facts?

I choose facts any day anytime.

As a Nigerian who has been to the US, I concur with the professor.

Black Americans have no sense of agency or responsibility not only to their community, family, children or even themselves.

You can blame the Jew slave breaker, Willie Lynch for this and the DNC for perpetuating this servitude on the black community in America through paternalistic and plantation handouts but at the end, the American negro is his own worst enemy.

TripleOh7:
We know Nigerians are hardworking.

We also know that George Floyd was a scumbag.

And if he's being given the hero treatment today, don't blame us, blame the useless cops who are either racists or mentally disturbed.

That he was a scumbag doesn't mean that he deserved to die out there on the streets.

There are very many innocent black people, male and female who have been killed and are being killed extrajudicial style in America and UK.

They are whom the protests are for.

The groups mentioned by the professor haven't had to go through what the blacks in the US went through. 400yrs of slavery.

I don't particularly like Black Americans because of their attitude to other blacks from the mother continent. But truth should always be told.

9 black Americans were killed last year in the entire US by the police and majority of them acted violently against the police.

Just last weekend, over 30 shootings occurred in a black ghetto in Chicago which by the way is now dubbed Chiraq with 18 deaths. This was black on black violence.

Agboriotejoye:
Very insightful. I have a problem with ur signature though. What exactly are you OP?

Pest exterminator

ZyklonB:
9 black Americans were killed last year in the entire US by the police and majority of them acted violently against the police.

Just last weekend, over 30 shootings occurred in a black ghetto in Chicago which by the way is now dubbed Chiraq with 18 deaths. This was black on black violence.

I'm not doing this game of false statistics with you.

You choose to believe that there isn't systemic racism in the US, that's your prerogative.

Don't ask me to share it.

ZyklonB:
Pest exterminator

And Jews are pests?

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TripleOh7:
I'm not doing this game of false statistics with you.

You choose to believe that there isn't systemic racism in the US, that's your prerogative.

Don't ask me to share it.

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If you bothered to read the letter, you will see where it was cited that if racism was such a big issue why are Nigerian immigrants not being targeted by Police?

Why are Nigerian immigrants climbing the socio-economic ladder in the US?

Are Nigerians not black again?

I also find it highly hypocritical by you to be pointing fingers when here in Nigeria you encourage a far worse form of discrimination.

Agboriotejoye:
And Jews are pests?

109 countries, kingdoms and empires could not have been wrong.

109 countries being places they have been expelled from since Egypt.

If a student keeps getting expelled from every school he attends will you blame the school or the student?

109 countries. Let that sink.

Xisnin:
The majority of the article sticks to professionalism.

But it is a shame that the solid message was soiled by the common
drivel usually promulgated by Trump's worshipper.

So much for a professor of history that can't separate emotions from facts.

Don't be like that. What he wrote is also fact. BLM is a Democrat party offshoot. They simply shout, scream and cause confusion. What they really want nobody knows. Obama was a black man who occupied the white house. While he was there, BLM began. But you know the funny thing. The only thing of note he ever did for the black community was to sing Amazing Grace at a black victim's funeral. It's just like our south south brothers asking Buhari for fiscal federalism and resource control when a GEJ did five years as president and did nothing towards that.

ZyklonB:
109 countries, kingdoms and empires could not have been wrong.

109 countries being places they have been expelled from since Egypt.

If a student keeps getting expelled from every school he attends will you blame the school or the student?

109 countries. Let that sink.

I checked your profile. Seems you're from the East. Are you guys not supposed to be black Jews?

What affinity do you share with Hitler exactly?

Agboriotejoye:
I checked your profile. Seems you're from the East. Are you guys not supposed to be black Jews?

What affinity do you share with Hitler exactly?

I am not Igbo. But that doesn't mean I won't support their just cause to leave this Jewish multicultural cesspit experiment.

I am a staunch believer in Plato's code of Nationalism as defined by a homogeneous race of people.

And I am totally against the parasitic marxist sh!thole latrine called ''one Nijeriya''.

Hitler and the NAZIs where the good guys. If they weren't, why is this Jewed world such a bad place to live?

ZyklonB:
I am not Igbo. But that doesn't mean I won't support their just cause to leave this Jewish multicultural cesspit experiment.

I am a staunch believer in Plato's code of Nationalism as defined by a homogeneous race of people.

And I am totally against the parasitic marxist sh!thole latrine called ''one Nijeriya''.

Hitler and the NAZIs where the good guys. If they weren't, why is this Jewed world such a bad place to live?

How exactly is Nigeria a Jewish experiment? I'm missing something here.
Germany has apologized for Hitler and the Nazis. But you seem to think otherwise. How is the world "Jewed"

Looking at the writing style and usage of words, I can tell that this article claimed to be written by an anonymous history professor was most likely written by a Nigerian.

I can't take anything the author of this article wrote seriously since he did not have the balls to include his name. That singular act makes this history professor a coward, that is if he is even a history professor to begin with. OP did not even bother to include the link of his or her source. This smells fishy to me.

Moving on...

You clearly don’t understand race relations in the US. It’s real!! Being a descendant of a “slave” in the same country that enslaved your ancestors and systematically marginalizes your kind is no Joke. Nigerians and African Americans don’t face the same struggle.

America gives visas to the best of us. They give visas to those who they believe will add value to the US not just the average Joe.

IJOBA2:
VERY INSIGHTFUL


LET ME INVITE MY JIHADISTS BRETHREN


THROWBACK
MUYIKEM
ALLTHINGSGOOD
WALEDEJI
IMAM LUCASBALO AKA ABBEBAILEY
THATFAIRGUY

Please, what are you smoking lately? How am I a jihadist and how does it relate with the issue here? SMOKING IS INJURIOUS TO YOUR HEALTH, STOP IT

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ZyklonB:
If you bothered to read the letter, you will see where it was cited that if racism was such a big issue why are Nigerian immigrants not being targeted by Police?

Why are Nigerian immigrants climbing the socio-economic ladder in the US?

Are Nigerians not black again?

I also find it highly hypocritical by you to be pointing fingers when here in Nigeria you encourage a far worse form of discrimination.

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Silly assertion if you ask me.

1. Compare the number of Nigerian Americans to other black Americans.

2. Assuming that all racially motivated killings that happen in the US actually get reported in a country that has deep rooted systemic racism shows you don't understand the subject matter at all.

Nigerians have been killed in the US by cops. Don't rely on the letter of a professor somewhere in Boston Massachusetts, ok?

And Nigerians have been killed by racists in the UK too.

I am sure if you are interested in knowing of these cases you will actually search the internet and get.

But you are eager to defend your narrative. So you rely on the opinion of a teacher whose main area of specialty isn't security or national statistics.

ThatFairGuy:
Please, what are you smoking lately? How am I a jihadist and how does it relate with the issue here? SMOKING IS INJURIOUS TO YOUR HEALTH, STOP IT

NA ONLY JIHADISTS FIT GO AGAINST FREEDOM FIGHTERS


I REST MY CASE!

Stop talking nonsense, don't comment on this topic if you have never been outside the shore of Nigeria, do you know that most white with the same experience and qualifications earn more than a black person.
Do you know its easy for a white person with the less credit score than black person to get mortgage.
Do you know it's easy for a white person to see a specialist doctor whereas a black person have to wait for 3 months or more.
Black are not lazy but the system was designed to make us look like that.

People need to educate themselves before jumping to conclusions that blacks are lazy. Kindly Google black wall street/ Tulsa 1921

ZyklonB:
Jamaicans nko?

Haitians nko?

The only other African people that have a bad rep are Somalis as they refuse to integrate and are also lazy and prone to crime.

I don't even know if you are arguing to point anymore.

What about these groups you've mentioned?

What about them?

Were their ancestors enslaved and shipped across the Atlantic ocean to work in someone's sugarcane plantation?

Do you think that America's killer cops just started with George Floyd?

You may need to read up on that.

If we are hearing more about it today, it's because of social media and the internet.

IJOBA2:
NA ONLY JIHADISTS FIT GO AGAINST FREEDOM FIGHTERS


I REST MY CASE!

You're still not making sense. when and how did I?

ZyklonB:
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Yoruba people and your hate for Trump is nothing new.

I knew how you all wanted Hilary because of her ties to Tinubu.

Now you are rooting for Biden so as to get that same plantation connection just like the Almajiris of America.

Now let me tell you something...

Donald Trump is not racist. If he was a White Supremacist his daughter won't have married a Jew.

Donald Trump won't have had an award bestowed on him by Jesse Jackson.

If he was racist he won't have dated a black American model (Kara Young)

Lol.

You are naive.

So dating a black girl to you signifies that he isn't racist?

Oh lawd!

Have you heard of fetishes and sexual fantasies before?

Where white men fvck black girls with the pretense that they are acting out the slavery period when white men raped their black slaves.

You have a lot to learn.

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ZyklonB:
And who shipped them to America, auctioned them and had them as slaves in America?

If the negro of America could just learn to read they would have know that their enemy is not the White man but the Jew rats.

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Off point.

Stick to the point.