When you were growing up, the term “abolition” likely referred to slavery.
But much history has since been made, and we’re in the midst of a racial revolution.
These days, a world of wokeness wants to “abolish whiteness.”
Is that possible?
Professor Zeus Leonardo of University of California Berkeley states that white people must be eradicated.
His faculty page provides some background information:
Some of his essays include: “Critical Social Theory and Transformative Knowledge,” “The Souls of White Folk,” “The Color of Supremacy,” “Contracting Race,” and “Dis-orienting Western Knowledge.”
The author’s most recent books:
- Race, Education, and Whiteness
- Frameworks for Race
- Racism and Education
Per The Post Millennial, in a video of the instructor’s lecture “Teaching Whiteness in a Multicultural Context and Colorblind Era,” Zeus asks, “Is it worth it to be white anymore?”
It is a common theme in many current headlines.
White folks, he waxes, “depend” upon whiteness:
“[I’m]You are trying to discern between whiteness and ideologies, white people and identity, and white body, but this is a literal understanding that we then graft onto the meanings for white people. However, if whiteness is considered an ideology (one that many abolitionists believe to be parasitic), then you can’t undercut it. And it’s an ideology that white people really depend on.”
Do they deserve to be free?
“If we give white people an option out of that, and it’s not just sort of words, right? It’s sort of structural transformations, then what I’m suggesting is that it also signals the withering away of white people.”
Professor gets all biblical. To quote John Lennon, “imagine”:
“If you can, imagine we didn’t have white people…let’s say, 600 years ago. The suggestion of abolitionists was that white people were made so they are not born white. A white Bible is a prerequisite for being taught whiteness. … [W]hites are taught as young children to be white.”
Usually, he asserts, “That means in opposition to the non-white, usually black.”
The instructor can’t fathom that colorblindness is real. “Colorblindness isn’t necessarily such a literal process of being blind to color,” he insists. “It’s about feigning being blind to color, because in a completely racialized globe, how do you not see race?”
The white people are able to identify their identity:
“[W]e…know just from personal experience, that if a white person took a non-white person home as a date, everything changes. Right? … To bring home a friend who’s not white, everything changes.”
Why in the world wouldn’t whites want whites to be abolished? This could possibly be because of their awareness about whiteness.
“So in some, at least, lived way, whites already know that they’re white. And that may explain why there’s sort of this defensive reaction towards abolishing whiteness and abolishing white people, because there is an investment here, okay?”
He understands that abolition is what must happen. But white bodies are going to get the benefit of the doubt.
“[M]Recent understandings have led to the conclusion that white people can be abolished if they are white. Okay, now that’s…different from white bodies, right? White bodies will still exist, but we will no longer consider them white people.”
UC Berkeley professor Zeus Leonardo: “To abolish whiteness is to abolish white people.” pic.twitter.com/F7S1cOwAAs
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 28, 2022
Does this really reflect what education is becoming? This seems to be the case.
The luster of whiteness, however, has been lacking in recent times:
Red State Spends Millions so Disabled Preschoolers Can ‘Deconstruct Whiteness’
Political Science: Academics Attack the ‘Whiteness in Introductory Physics’
Forensic Anthropologists Say ‘Cloaked’ Whiteness Soils Science, Cops Care Less About BIPOC Bones
Extremely White College Professor Fights the Lie — and ‘Disease’ — of Whiteness
Major University Trains Its Faculty in ‘Confronting Systemic Whiteness’
Mental Health Journal’s Article on ‘Parasitic Whiteness’ Laments There’s ‘Not Yet a Permanent Cure’
Back to Zeus, perhaps the most notable thing about his lecture isn’t its message, but the fact that it purportedly took place in 2007.
So for those wondering how academia and industry came to take their current position toward people of the pale, those ideas were planted long ago — so far into the past that a 2007 Zeus had learned to school his class accordingly.
This influence, even if it began ten years earlier than he expected, is now 25 years old.
We’re currently sowing seeds that are at least a quarter-century old.
What is 25 years away? now?What will the future look like for America in color?
If another Leonardo lesson is any indication, I’d say nowhere near unity:
Recommended reading from the professor of education at Berkeley includes concepts such as “white people are not born white”.
White people are “born human” and then “white parents physically and psychologically ABUSE them” into becoming “white people”. pic.twitter.com/GOtjrFCC7m
— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) October 18, 2021
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