In preparing to watch the CNN documentary/Town Hall Meeting-- Black In America , I actually found some of my earlier writings regarding white supremacy and the KKK. This was published in June of 2005 i think. Consider this a warm up because I am about to really bring the heat after this CNN piece. Sorry for the re-run but consider it one of those "lost episodes."
Enjoy-- Peace
New white supremacy
Using "Bushspeak," this is an act of terror and the enemy will be met by shock and awe. Cross burnings represent old school racism. This does not bother me. What does bother me is the new racism. In my world, legalized white supremacy surrounds my everyday life. Like Coca-Cola, Chevrolet, and apple pie, racism stands broadly side by side, shoulder to shoulder, with truth, justice, and the American way.
There are many cases, but I will use two to prove my point. In February of this year there was brouhaha over a busing issue in Wake Forest. White parents in the Wakefield community exhausted countless hours of the Wake County School Board to criminalize the DuBois modular school decision. The DuBois center was located in a predominantly African-American community. Far worse, the local news media, WTVD, WNCN, WRAL, fanned the fire by couching the story in racialized terms such as color lines and bad rap. In one particular story, no African-Americans were on camera, rendering members of DuBois center invisible.
Moving to state government, there are far more African-Americans at the low end of the pay scale, professional development tracks and managerial positions, yet African-Americans (men and women) represent the high-end disciplinary problems. In our culture, our state, our city, whiteness represents normalcy and undeniably, membership has its privileges.
Admirable as it may be, who can't protest a cross burning? When does the real protest start; when we fight the goliaths of legalized white supremacy and new racism?
W . RUSSELL ROBINSON
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