Black Jacobins (1938)

RATING:	100%
FORMAT:	Book

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Fantastic and superbly-written book about the only successful slave revolt in history that shows just what Blacks can do given the right circumstances and leadership.

This book that gets right to the heart of why Whites approved of African slavery for 500 years. Without the guilt and shame of a typical White historian this is an eidetic view of the challenges posed by White supremacy - then and now; exposing the real reasons for the abolition of racial slavery: Free trade is more profitable than mercantilism since one can then sell to the highest bidder and not just ones own government. As well as the fact the British government’s jealousy of the French making more money than they at the traffic in human misery that the possession of India meant the British need no longer indulge in.

Humanitarianism is absent from this account since a humanitarian country would obviously never have become involved in racial slavery in the first place. The book then comes to the obvious conclusion that White history books simply lie about the ethical role of Whites in the emancipation of African slaves.

What makes this book so readable is the precision with which the writer effectively skewers White politics as quintessentially White supremacist with humor, wit and irony.

The mixture of fear and envy Whites have for the exotic is stressed here through their repeated claim that anything foreign is inferior while being embraced to fund the English (17th century) and French (18th century) revolutions. A supreme irony of history is that both these bids for freedom and statements of the inalienable rights of Man were made possible by a bourgeoisie made rich from African slavery. The moral contradictions of White culture today stem from such institutions as the writer here makes many links between the past and the present.

That the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery itself never simultaneously abolished the various European empires and the White racism that drove them on is a telling legacy that remains with us to this very day.

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CIVILIZATION OR BARBARISM: An Authentic Anthropology (1981)

RATING:	80%
FORMAT:	Book

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Impressive, if overly-scholarly work of Afro-centrism; successfully countering the European tendency to speak of civilization as somehow an inherently White characteristic and invention.

Specifically, the book counters the claim made by White Egyptologists since 1830 that ancient Egypt was a White civilization that somehow was not actually in Africa a view that arose to attempt a scientific justification for White imperialism in Africa and the racial exploitation that went along with it. The book thus necessarily charts the movement from an exclusively European Egyptology toward an African one.

The book’s major flaw is that the author conflates the concept of Race with Phenotype - as Whites do - and does not understand why modern biology tries to avoid racial classification because it was misused in the past by White supremacists to justify White supremacy.

However, the author (Cheikh Anta Diop) also shows that Greek civilization owes a substantial debt to Egyptian ideas and accomplishments and that, as Greek ideas of civilization influenced Europe, Egyptian ideas influenced Greece. Scientific racists try to assert that humans became intelligent and civilized only after they left Africa, that Homo sapiens sapiens (The Wisest of the Wise) is indigenous to Europe, but this does not explain the achievements of ancient Egypt, great Zimbabwe nor the Songhay empire.

Unlike most White history and archaeological texts, this book foregrounds its political zeal to abolish the self-defeating obsessions of White supremacy and replace them with a more objective look at the past. One that vindicates Blacks as full members of the human race while never falling into the racial propagandist traps to which White hagiography aspires and simultaneously spends a great deal of time denying. This book is a truly metaphysical, epistemological, ethical and political work about the past that few White histories are or ever could be.

This is a rather scholarly and often obscurantist text that is sadly Marxist-influenced. Yet it nails White supremacy and its desire to claim everything worthwhile was invented by Whites right on the head.

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Negro in the Making of America (1964) [Third Edition: Revised, Updated & Expanded]

RATING:	60%
FORMAT:	Book

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Despite being a massive necessary corrective for the common White attitude that Blacks are among us but part of us, this book has something of the House Negro about it.

The author never mentions that the Black troops who fought in the US Civil War were only allowed to be officered by Whites and were segregated from White troops. Here, there is the sense that Blacks have to earn their rights to full citizenship when Whites have rarely had to do this. This issue is not fully explored in the attempt to vindicate human rights when no such vindication is required by virtue of both E Pluribus Unum and the opening of the US Declaration of Independence; namely, that all men are created equal. Thus, Whites have effectively claimed that rights are granted at birth, unless you are Black (Nigger), Jewish (Kyke) or Italian (Dago).

This approach falls into the White trap of assuming that any discussion of Blacks is a discussion of something that is a problem for Whites. The problem of White supremacy is seen differently by the beneficiaries of it and those who are victimized by it, such that the problem is never clearly defined. As Judaism was the Jewish Question to the White supremacist National Socialists, so Blacks were the Negro Problem for the White supremacist United States.

The fact that the book is based on the naive political premiss that Whites understanding Black achievements will make them less racist, proves how little the author understands Whites and their deliberate creation of Institutionally-Racist cultures. In such cultures, intergroup harmony is simply as impossible as Whites wish it to be.

Historically accurate (albeit dully academic) yet delighting in unproven absurdities like 'discrimination against the Negro antedated the need for his labor' when White supremacy has always been used to justify racial slavery. Or, that Whites have 'psychological needs that could be resolved in some measure by holding view of others' when this is not specific to racial slavery.

Being written by a White, the book takes the implicitly legalistic and White approach that racial slavery was legal and so morality can be given short shrift. There is no real sense of the emptiness of White culture that it feels the need to overturn principles it claims are cherished when it comes to non-Whites. Here, White supremacy is presented as though it were some kind of anomaly when in reality it is part-and-parcel of the wider White culture. Big-picture thinking is not part of the remit of this book, hence its lack of perspective and insight; preferring, instead, to drown in a mass of scholarly detail in order to evade the wider truth about the essential degeneracy of Whites.

Benjamin Quarles – White a man who knows his subject but does not understand it.

What the book gets right is the rich and varied contribution to US culture that is beloved the world over along with much of the depth and scope of the White response to the presence of those they fundamentally dislike. Yet Blacks still assimilated and, thereby, transformed the culture in which they lived; largely without becoming a part of the problem of White supremacy.

More than anything, however, this book is aimed at the general reader and avoids, therefore, being a dry-as-dust academic exercise; bringing the history it details vigorously to life.

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TROPIC OF CHAOS: (2011)

RATING:	60%
FORMAT:	Book

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Ignorant and self-regarding as only a White could be: The author clams that anthropogenic climate change will cause wars - which smacks of blaming the victim rather than the victimizer.

This writer just loves the sound of his own voice. He conflates Cause with Effect by avoiding stating that water loss is an effect of 100s of years of colonialism, skewed markets bases upon economic exploitation and state-subsidized welfarism for business interests.

This book is White supremacist claptrap since it largely avoids blaming White supremacists for Global Warming or the White-dominated World Bank & the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - who destroy entire economies with neo-liberal orthodoxy to create new, short-lived markets for Whites.

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Last Exorcism (2010)

RATING:	60%
FORMAT:	DVD

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The Alleged Need for Exorcism

1. Christian erotophobia manifesting itself in the repressed outpourings of young girls;
2. an empty White culture that believes in anything because it believes in nothing; nature abhorring a vacuum;
3. a desperate attempt to prove the existence of God because the necessary faith is lacking;
4. any number of unresolved psychic issues;
5. frustrated White supremacy bottled-up and expressing itself in psychic disturbance and rage;
6. anger at a deep emotional loss; &
7. Christian fundamentalism.

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