Its not very BM of me to cite this stuff. Ill just have to wear it (a yellow stain on m brown shirt). It seems barely credible that American Jews, who were at the forefront of the struggle for civil rights for African-Americans in the 1960s, should now be the target of anti-Semitic attacks by a new generation of blacks, gulled by teachers like Leonard Jefferies into believing in the historicity of hate-texts like that durable Czarist forgery, the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’. But thanks to the rise of Afrocentrist pseudo-scholarship, blacks are the only Americans among whom anti-Semitism, slowly waning elsewhere, is actually on the rise. [...it is in the nature of paranoid texts to inoculate naïve readers against their rebuttal; any reply becomes part of the huge global conspiracy itself. Harold Blackman’s response to Louis Farrakhan’s ‘The Secret Relationship’ – which makes claims of Jewish orchestration of and dominance over the African-slave trade. ] This sophistry is what enables the authors of the Portland African-American Baseline Essays not only to sow the curriculum with fictions about Egyptian science, but to insert the most ludicrous nonsense about science itself by equating it with magic. (Robert Hughes – Culture of Complaint pp. 118-125)
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:33:59 +0000