RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re-Gaddafi'sdonations to Sierra Leone

Dear Moses,
The point is taken. Can you give me the reference to your article?
I am sure it would be illuminating.




Professor Gloria Emeagwali
History Department
CCSU. New Britain. CT 06050
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Gloria, I wasn't part of your institutional racism discussion. You and KZS have handled it very well. I read what both of you posted, satisfied and edified. I made points about not dwelling too much on imperialist complicities of institutions in which scholars and progressives operate in because in the end if we push the inquiry in every direction everyone is likely to be implicated to various degrees, which would then discredit or devalue people's work and ascribe all the credit to a catchall, omnipresent imperialism. This was a specific point. I saw a story posted on Facebook by one of my friends, and it seems to illustrate the point I was making about inadvertent, vicarious complicities and imbrication in the structures of empire. I decided to share it. Don't shoot the messenger. It was an enlightening read for me, not that I didn't know that black Americans enjoyed such privileges outside America but the Thai angle is fascinating to me. By the way, although considered inferior and subject to both individual and institutional racism, African immigrants in America enjoy what one might call the privileges of foreign blackness in white dominated institutions and circles of America. That's the real divide and rule, which I have written about in at least one published essay.

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu<mailto:emeagwali@mail.ccsu.edu>> wrote:
We were talking about institutional racism and you have shifted to
divide and rule politics.



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This may be relevant to this thread--I don't know. But it seems to illustrate a missing piece of this discussion: the foreign cultural cachet conferred or made possible by American imperialism. Nothing wrong with enjoying a little privilege conferred by hegemonic difference but I think it goes to show the complexities and infinitely insidious complicities in which we all, to various degrees, are imbricated wittingly or unwittingly.


http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/05/black_in_thailand_we_re_treated_better_than_africans_and_boy_do_we_hate.html



Being Black in Thailand: We're Treated Better Than Africans, and Boy Do We Hate It

Black expats in Thailand and Australia describe the guilt they feel living fairly privileged lives in comparison with the discrimination that African immigrants and Aborigines face.


BY: DIANA OZEMEBHOYA EROMOSELE<http://www.theroot.com/authors.diana_ozemebhoya_eromosele.html>
Posted: May 26 2015 3:00 AM


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In all fairness, the Thai police officer was absolutely right for approaching the swing set and telling Stephanie Stew's friend—a grown woman in her 30s—to get off the swing.

Even though Jane (for anonymity, we changed her name) was swinging next to her young daughter, the swing set was intended for young children, and the added weight of an adult could pose a safety risk.

But when the officer issued his request to Jane—a black woman he might have assumed was Ghanaian or Nigerian, living and working in Thailand—and she responded with her black Americanaccent, he immediately switched gears and insisted that it wasn't a problem.

"Oh, I'm sorry," the Thai officer said. "You can stay."

When he realized that she was a black American, Stew explained to The Root, the officer didn't want to inconvenience Jane.

Stew—a 38-year-old black American who moved to Thailand last August with her husband and 3-year-old daughter—says that's just one of the many examples of how African-American expats practically have the red carpet laid out for them in the Southeast Asian country and are treated like gold, especially when compared with the black African immigrants who live and work in Thailand and are treated like, well, less than gold, and at times like s--t.

"That's not the first time," Stew explained, "that someone has mistaken us for an African" and then dropped their attitude or condescension once they realized that Stew and her crew were, in fact, American.

"We're treated better. ... We're treated better," Stew said twice, as if it's an idea that she still can't comprehend, or a guilt that's just too hard for her to swallow.

'We're treated better. ... We're treated better,' Stew said twice, as if it's an idea that she still can't comprehend, or a guilt that's just too hard for her to swallow.

Stew recalls the time an African hair-braiding stylist was trying to get up to a hotel room where Stew's sister-in-law was staying so that she could braid her hair. The hotel receptionist would not let the African woman get past the lobby, thinking that the hairstylist was a prostitute—even though the woman was older and not dressed scantily—because what could an African woman possibly be doing in such an establishment? (Stew says the hotel was not that fancy.) Stew's sister-in-law had to come down to the lobby and escort the hairstylist up to her room.


Stephanie Stew and her 3-year-old daughter in Bangkok

COURTESY OF STEPHANIE STEW'S BLOG<http://bangkoksgothemnow.wordpress.com/>

Tomasina Boone is experiencing something similar in Australia.

Boone—a 45-year-old black American who has been living Down Under with her husband and two daughters for eight years—immediately picked up on the way white Australians treated her, as opposed to the way they view and treat Aborigines—the country's brown-skinned indigenous people who are perhaps more comparable to Native Americans of the U.S.

"It's the craziest thing in the world. Australians do not view us as they view their Aboriginals," Boone said. It's a reality that bugs her because Aborigines view their treatment as comparable to the racism that black Americans experience in the U.S.

"I've never experienced racism here as a black American," Boone put it plainly.

'I've never experienced racism here as a black American,' Boone put it plainly.

Stew and Boone are two black Americans living fairly privileged lives because of their ethnicity and nationality. Living—dare I say—like many young and middle-aged white Americans live in the U.S., since, on one hand, they're not contributing to and certainly were not the perpetrators of the ethnic hierarchies in Thailand and Australia—hierarchies that place black Americans on a level several notches higher than that of Africans and Aborigines.

But while they certainly didn't cause the discrimination, boy, are Stew and Boone inadvertently benefiting from it—and, at times, feeling awfully conflicted about that.

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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:47 PM, kwame zulu shabazz <kwameshabazz@gmail.com<mailto:kwameshabazz@gmail.com><mailto:kwameshabazz@gmail.com<mailto:kwameshabazz@gmail.com>>> wrote:
Brother Moses,

Agree that "the man," cant be blamed for everything. As Chinweizu reminded us, there are many Black "matadors." The problem is that "the man" has hardly been held accountable for much of anything. And, moreover, African American freedom was been worked out mostly on terms amenable to the people who did/do the oppressing (i.e. white people). That being said, I dont sit around on my butt complaining. I've been organizing, picketing, writing letters, getting arrested, putting on programs, inspiring students to create a more just system for some time now. So, yes, agree that we must actually do things despite the hegemony. If "the man" would stop killing, harassing, smearing our leaders (some of whom, by the way, have been in jail since the 60s) perhaps we could do much more. I leave you with a (slightly modified) civil protest song:

Which side are you on, friend,
which side are you on?
Justice for Black Lives is
justice for us all.
We will fight for freedom
Till justice is won.

kzs

p.s. the Middle-belt wife and I love your book.

kzs
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EVERY ARTIST, EVERY SCIENTIST MUST DECIDE, NOW, WHERE HE STANDS. He has no
alternative. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction, in certain countries, of man's literary heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of national and racial superiority, the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. This struggle invades the former cloistered halls of our universities and all her seats of learning. The battlefront is everywhere. There is no sheltered rear. The artist elects to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice! I had no alternative! - Paul Robeson, speech about the Spanish Civil War at the Albert Hall, London,on 24th June 1937


On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com<mailto:meochonu@gmail.com><mailto:meochonu@gmail.com<mailto:meochonu@gmail.com>>> wrote:
Ok, KZS, no wahala. You're married to my Middle Belt sister, so I will not push further. You may be right that you and I just ascribe different deterministic weights to the imperialist regimes of the CIA/FBI/COINTELPRO and concede to individuals' differential abilities to maneuver and carry out autonomous actions within those overarching regimes of oppression.

When I was in grad school, my Af Am classmate told me a story about her cousin who was the radical black nationalist of the family. He always railed against "the man" and invoked "the man" to explain every setback in his life, to answer questions in family gatherings about his life. On one occasion, a witty family member, retorted to him that "the man" must be really busy trying to put him and and the entire black race down. I don't know if he got the import of the statement. Received or not, however, the sarcasm was rich in that, although it did not excuse or deny the pervasive nature of white oppression, it posited that you can't blame everything on the machinations of "the man" or suggest that it is impossible to escape "the man." More importantly, when "the man" becomes an alibi, a catch-all explanation, there is no incentive to examine the minutia of things, to actually look at the limitations of oppressive regimes and how individuals and groups assert themselves in the face of--and in spite of--hegemons.

Okay, I am done. I can now breathe.

Be well.

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:49 PM, kwame zulu shabazz <kwameshabazz@gmail.com<mailto:kwameshabazz@gmail.com><mailto:kwameshabazz@gmail.com<mailto:kwameshabazz@gmail.com>>> wrote:
Moses,

Breathe. Relax. Disagreement is fundamental to (western) scholarly production so its hardly a sin. And your original post was chock full of condensation so you sound like proverbial black pot.

Yes, I think you severely underestimate the pervasive of CIA/FBI (COINTELPRO) and other agents of white elite supremacy. No, pervasive and omnipotent are not synonymous. Yes, I typically agree that domination is never total. In fact I make this point frequently. I modified it just a bit on this this thread stating thus:

Domination is rarely total (but it is total when it kills).

That is to say, when a system kills massively it is total system. Say, for example, when Europeans entirely wiped out the Tasmanian people. Human extinction is total.

kzs
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EVERY ARTIST, EVERY SCIENTIST MUST DECIDE, NOW, WHERE HE STANDS. He has no
alternative. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction, in certain countries, of man's literary heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of national and racial superiority, the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. This struggle invades the former cloistered halls of our universities and all her seats of learning. The battlefront is everywhere. There is no sheltered rear. The artist elects to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice! I had no alternative! - Paul Robeson, speech about the Spanish Civil War at the Albert Hall, London,on 24th June 1937


On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:20 PM, kwame zulu shabazz <kwameshabazz@gmail.com<mailto:kwameshabazz@gmail.com><mailto:kwameshabazz@gmail.com<mailto:kwameshabazz@gmail.com>>> wrote:
Peace, Brother Segun.

Institutional racism as a point of analysis was developed during the Black Power movement by Charles Hamilton and Kwame Ture (then Stokely Carmichael). It builds on the earlier conceptual frames first articulated by Malcolm X. Malcolm often referred to it as "the system." However, he didn't have time to fully develop it as a theory of white supremacist oppression. It also grows out of a critique of liberal white racism developed by Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and contemporaries.

So what is it?

Institutional racism is the evil complement of personal or individual or intimate racism. Individual acts of bias and violence based upon gross stereotypes of racial groups. Whereas black Americans are sometimes racist towards whites, it is the logical outcome of centuries of white terrorism. Moreover, African Americans have never used institutional power to oppress whites as a group. For that reason I call the white-on-black (or anti-black) instance, "functional racism," i.e. the only form of institutionalized racism that actually exists in the USA.

I think of institutions as the building blocks of a society--the fundamental social units that make a society viable. Family structure, healthcare systems, spiritual systems, economy, labor, law, education, policing, and so on. In the USA these systems had/have as primary function the promotion and maintenance of white supremacy. Institutional racism is distinctive in that it is the method by which the dominant group (white Americans) negatively impacts to quality-of-life of Blacks, Native Americans, and other people-of-color (or, if you prefer, "non-whites") as groups (not individuals).

Prior to the 1960s, that is to say for most of America's existence, US institutions were explicitly anti-black. That only changed after CENTURIES of Black struggle, many lost lives, and perhaps immeasurable levels of physical and mental trauma. While it is true that a subset of whites supported full equality for African Americans, most have not and do not. It is also important to note that although the overt legal edifice of white supremacy was more-or-less dismantled, institutionalized racism continues ot severely impact the quality of life of African Americans.

Institutional racism in our educational system has been recently dubbed the "school-to-prison-pipeline"--an anti-black system, including universities, that disadvantages African Americans and privileges whiteness. The fact that institutional racism is promoted and reinforced in American universities is not disparagement of individual efforts on these campuses to challenge racism. But it is also true that liberal whites are often blind to their own racism. As Martin Luther King, Jr. once put it, "Often white liberals are unaware of their latent prejudices." White denial of the persistence of systemic racism only helps to reinforce its power to subjugate.

Here is how Carmichael/Ture and Hamilton framed it in their important work Black Power, p.4 (Random House, 1967):

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EVERY ARTIST, EVERY SCIENTIST MUST DECIDE, NOW, WHERE HE STANDS. He has no
alternative. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction, in certain countries, of man's literary heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of national and racial superiority, the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. This struggle invades the former cloistered halls of our universities and all her seats of learning. The battlefront is everywhere. There is no sheltered rear. The artist elects to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice! I had no alternative! - Paul Robeson, speech about the Spanish Civil War at the Albert Hall, London,on 24th June 1937


On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com<mailto:seguno2013@gmail.com><mailto:seguno2013@gmail.com<mailto:seguno2013@gmail.com>>> wrote:
Okay my colleague. How do you now define institutional racism?

Prof. Segun Ogungbemi

On May 25, 2015, at 11:59 PM, kwame zulu shabazz <kwameshabazz@gmail.com<mailto:kwameshabazz@gmail.com><mailto:kwameshabazz@gmail.com<mailto:kwameshabazz@gmail.com>>> wrote:

Segun, I have never claimed on this forum or anywhere else that all white people are racist. In fact, on this thread I said that institutional racism does not require a gang of racist white people to function.

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THE NEUTRAL SCHOLAR IS AN IGNOBLE MAN. Here, a man must be hot, or be accounted cold, or, perchance, something worse than hot or cold. The lukewarm and the cowardly, will be rejected by earnest men on either side of the controversy." Fredrick Douglass, "The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered" (1854).
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EVERY ARTIST, EVERY SCIENTIST MUST DECIDE, NOW, WHERE HE STANDS. He has no
alternative. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction, in certain countries, of man's literary heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of national and racial superiority, the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. This struggle invades the former cloistered halls of our universities and all her seats of learning. The battlefront is everywhere. There is no sheltered rear. The artist elects to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice! I had no alternative! - Paul Robeson, speech about the Spanish Civil War at the Albert Hall, London,on 24th June 1937


On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com<mailto:seguno2013@gmail.com><mailto:seguno2013@gmail.com<mailto:seguno2013@gmail.com>>> wrote:
I think we seem to be beating the issue of racism like a dead horse. In an attempt to make us believe that racism cannot be generalized in all cases in the US, Ken has become the sacrificial lamb. I agree with Ken that not all whites are racists in the US. I had many whites as friends when I was at Southern Methodist University in the late 70s and early 80s and some of them and their parents we still communicate till today. I spent my holidays in their home and went on ice skating together to have fun. They have at no time given me the impression that they were/are superior to me and I never presented myself as someone inferior or superior to them. You see, some of these things depend on our attitudes.
There may be a few whites who are chronic racists like the KKK. They are abnormal individuals.
Among Africans, my experience in some African countries that I have visited or worked is not different from the US. I was warmly received and treated with respect and dignity.
Given my own experiences as an example just like some of us might have had, Ken who has traversed the length and breath of Africa, Europe and Americas cannot be seen or understood as an alien in the world of racism.

Prof. Segun Ogungbemi

On May 25, 2015, at 9:17 PM, kenneth harrow <harrow@msu.edu<mailto:harrow@msu.edu><mailto:harrow@msu.edu<mailto:harrow@msu.edu>>> wrote:

hi kwame
if there were racial incidents at msu, does that mean the university is an instrument of white power? if a racist students scrawls an ugly word on a black student's door in a dorm, does that make the university an instrument of white power?

if thousands of students respond to these incidents, if faculty make points of discussing those incidents, if the administration comes out with statements reaffirming principles of anti-racism, does that not count?

why do you want to totalize, take an event, or even more, which i could tell you about, and then attribute white power and racism to everyone and the whole institution?
when i said we read events or texts differently because we are framing them different, that is an example.
for you it is reducible to the privilege of white power? for me it is the case that racial positioning is not an absolute, not all white, not all black--and it is clear that the vast majority of students, faculty, and administration, are deeply opposed to racism.
if you want to claim the white and black students, faculty, administration, see things somewhat differently, i would agree.
but you are erasing the word "somewhat" too much, and putting in something that feels like "totally."

lastly, i am not at all sure how my "white privilege" speaks. you seem to know it better than i, but you don't know me or the situation here. if i were to say, you say that because you are black you have the "privilege" to speak for the black community and perspective, as if it were automatic? is it, really, for everyone? who defines these racial markers? are you aware of how our committees work, how judgments are made, what does into hiring decisions, tenure decisions, reappointments? i am pretty sure it isn't what you imagine or that anyone would be able to call these processes "instruments of white power." they aren't.

the problem i have is that by making it all or nothing it makes it all the more difficult to struggle for racial justice and equality, it undermines the struggle against biases or racist assumptions.

that's how it seems to me.
ken


On 5/25/15 1:30 PM, kwame zulu shabazz wrote:
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Ken,
When you claim that Michigan State is not an instrument of white power, that's your white privilege speaking. I'm betting many in this room full of black Michigan State students (see image above) and allies would disagree with you. The story is below:
Michigan State University rocked by racial intimidation

http://thegrio.com/2011/10/06/michigan-state-university-rocked-by-racial-intimidation/


Here are a few more to help you along -

1. "No Niggers Please" Sign Posted At Michigan State University

http://hiphopwired.com/2011/10/07/no-nggers-please-sign-posted-at-michigan-state-university/

2. International students deal with social media racism

http://statenews.com/index.php/article/2012/07/international_students_deal_with_social_media_racism

3. End the Racist Attacks at Michigan State University!

http://www.bamn.com/affirmative-action/racist-attacks-michigan-state

4. Racial Intimidation on the Rise at Michigan State

http://www.bet.com/news/national/2011/10/04/racial-intimidation-on-the-rise-at-michigan-state.html



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EVERY ARTIST, EVERY SCIENTIST MUST DECIDE, NOW, WHERE HE STANDS. He has no
alternative. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction, in certain countries, of man's literary heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of national and racial superiority, the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. This struggle invades the former cloistered halls of our universities and all her seats of learning. The battlefront is everywhere. There is no sheltered rear. The artist elects to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice! I had no alternative! - Paul Robeson, speech about the Spanish Civil War at the Albert Hall, London,on 24th June 1937


On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:53 AM, kenneth harrow <harrow@msu.edu<mailto:harrow@msu.edu><mailto:harrow@msu.edu<mailto:harrow@msu.edu>>> wrote:
kwame
i think it is ok if we can establish our differences, and not necessarily come to agreement. it is productive to be clear on the different readings we have. i think you are using "global white supremacy" too absolutely. my university is not an instrument of "white power," as i see it. and death and destruction did not always follow europeans.
that's how i see it. in each instance of your critique, i would look for the very things you want to dismiss: relative domination, relative racial politics, relative negative or destructive practices, but alongside positive ones, alongside the absence of real power, and so on.

before we assess the impact or meaning of louis armstrong's visit, or any of the other incidents or features we've been discussing, there is the way we each frame our understandings differently. even when i want to condemn a given practice which you are also condemning, our different frames, different way of seeing the "conditions of possibilities" lead us to positions that are somewhat at odds with each other.

i have mentioned mouffe and laclau before, whose work i read some time ago and liked a good deal: they talk about coalitions of different critical groups, with hegemony a shifting feature of coalition politics--Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Toward a Radical Democratic Politics. i think they are still good guides for those of us who share some similar goals, but have different priorities or readings.
ken

On 5/25/15 11:24 AM, kwame zulu shabazz wrote:
who share some similar goals, but have different priorities or readings.
ken

On 5/25/15 11:24 AM, kwame zulu shabazz wrote:
Ken,

I said that Armstrong did not always follow the white supremacist script so my point was not made in a "deterministic frame." However, the US did promote Armstrong's trip for deterministic (read soft imperial) aims. This is documented in many places including American Africans in Ghana<http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-4966.html> by Kevin Gaines.

I have noted that you have a consistent habit of deflecting the perniciousness and pervasiveness of global white supremacy and that is unfortunate. Your university, in fact all American universities, are instruments of white power. That power was explicitly challenged by Black students in the late 1960s and early 70s. That battle is still being fought. Your consistent denials only serve to reinforce the racist system.

Wherever Europeans went in the world, death and destruction followed. That is an indisputable fact. America is a racist belligerent nation founded on the annihilation of indigenous people and the enslavement of Africans. Today, in the USA, black people are still second class citizens (the plight of Native Americans is arguably worse). That is the point of the Black Lives Matter movement.




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