CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: Yeah, and, you know, I don’t disagree with you, and that’s why I’m not letting nobody politicize black pain and tell us this is one person’s fault just because they are trying to win an election in November. This is America’s fault — and the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, segregation, slavery, all of those things are and have been the proverbial knee on the back of black folks’ neck. And ’til somebody’s willing to dismantle the mechanism of white supremacy, nothin’ is gonna change.
Now this is interesting. Here's the item list, which I will number: (1) the War on Drugs, (2) mass incarceration, (3) segregation, (4) slavery. Contrast this with Frederick Douglass, who wrote that the constitution when "interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT".
Normally, when phrases of this sort are used you don't even get a meaning of what the person using it is talking about. Here, you do, and it's a very interesting thing to note the disconnect. Does that mean that Charlamagne tha God is guilty of misinterpreting the constitution? Maybe. But the use of that specific phrase "the mechanism of white supremacy" four times, tells us a lot about the role of historical revisionism by academics in what people think of history. I actually have more to say about this, but that will have to wait for a future date. Sorry to leave anybody hanging.
This doesn't make any sense. They are not in conflict. Douglas is referencing the liberalism in the Constitution, whereas the mechanisms of white supremacy as laid out by Charlamagne are explicitly anti-liberal. I don't see how you could read Liberalism and Social Justice in good faith and not understand what they are after.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your reply. The reason why it makes sense is Social Justice is illiberal. Social Justice comes from progressives drive to destroy the United States Constitution - the COTUS is a product of liberalism.
DeleteYou say "the mechanisms of white supremacy as laid out by Charlamagne are explicitly anti-liberal" and yet most progressives consider the United States Constitution as both white supremacy and illiberal. We know this because they have written it and we also have the tearing down of statues such as George Washington and Frederick Douglass - all of whom were on the correct side of history.
Either Douglass is correct or Charlamagne tha God is correct, but it can't be both.