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Sam Dickson Demolishes A Self-Hating White Guilt Self-Flagellator

[JdN: I have known Sam Dickson, a Georgia attorney and outstanding WN activist with a beautiful, light southern accent, for 25 years….an outstanding white man.]

Re: Our Silence Means More Violence: An Open Letter to Fellow White People — see below

Here’s something I sent to Carl Gibson:

Sam Dickson Demolishes A Self-Hating White Guilt Self-FlagellatorRe: Our Silence Means More Violence: An Open Letter to Fellow White People -- see belowHere's something I sent to Carl Gibson:Dear Carl:What a pity that you are either (a) so selfish and ambitious that you are willing to betray your own people in order to suck up to minority racists and advance your career or (b) you are so pathologically ill from ethno-masochism that you can only feel good by feeling bad.Here are a couple of causes you might have chosen to champion:1. The fate of young White prisoners in jails who - as is widely known - are subjected to Black gang rape an many of whom die of AIDs.2. The killing of thousands of Palestinians by the Jews in Israel. (Nope! Won't find Mr. "Look at me! I'm White and I'm against racism" touching that subject. Bad for business. Doesn't put groceries on the table.)So those White guys are going to have to go on getting raped and those Palestinians are going to have to go on being burned up with their houses...'cause Little Carl has his career to think about.I know your type all too well.I know you - because I was once like you.But I had the character to examine the other side, to test what teacher had taught me in school, to read books that challenged what I believed, to look at the human suffering caused by multiracialism and multiculturalism.I changed. But you never will - because you sucked up to teacher who told little Carl "You are the most educated generation in history." You believed teacher. It felt so good to know that you were so much better educated than your stupid parents and grandparents. And you also were SOOOOO GOOD! You were on the right side of every issue - from the slave trade, to Jim Crow, to McCarthyism, to Chinese males making women bind their feet. So were just so very, very good and virtuous. Just don't ever ask you to mow the grass for the elderly widow down the street.Little Carl - and big Carl too - just didn't have time to waste on little acts of charity. He didn't need too. He could dine out on the easy virtue of telling everybody else at the wine-and-cheese party how strongly he felt about segregation and that march at the Selma Bridge. Carl was so brave. He could say these things no matter what the price he paid.Teacher gave you a gold star. When you read out your little essay about Rosa Parks, teacher smiled approvingly and Little Carl got a gold star. Yes. Being so very virtuous came very easily to Carl. That's why people with more character than Carl aren't as impressed with Carl's behavior as Carl is and call it EASY VIRTUE.I KNOW YOU:1. I know that you think you are a great "intellectual."But you AREN'T.Because if you really were interested in ideas you would by now have read books that challenged what you learned when you were catechised (not educated) in your school and college.But you never have, Carl. You've never read a single book that ever disagreed with what teacher said.And you never will! Because you are not a great intellectual. You are a poseur. You are not educated. You were never educated. You were chatechised and indoctrinated. And you lack sufficient character ever to challenge what teacher said. You believe what teacher said. You believe you not only are educated, you are part of the "most educated generation in history."That's why - as Socrates (one of those dirty old White people for whom you have contempt) - said:"The person who can't be educated is the person who thinks he is educated.And that's why teacher - and all the other obedient teachers in the government schools - told you and others like you that you were so much more educated than anybody else. They knew that this would innoculate you against ever questioning what the government schools taught you.You aren't an intellectual, Carl. You are PATHETIC.2. I know that you love to think of yourself as "speaking truth to power."But, Carl, you are real careful about speaking. You know when to shut up and not to make a peep.Like in the matter of what goes on in prisons.Little Carl might get spanked if he ever touched that issue or maybe spoke up about some elderly White widow trapped in a demographically changed neighborhood whose life is a hell of dealing with minority racism.So Carl is very, very careful about what he says, when he says it and to whom he says it.You - and others like you - haven't spoke truth to power for generations. You have sucked up to power.You are a toady.3. I know something else about you.And in the unlikely event there is somewhere at the core of your rotten being some shred of integrity of which we as yet cannot see any evidence, you will look at yourself and you will admit that it's true!I know one of your fantasies, Carl.You imagine that some day when you are dead, tearful little Black children will come to your grave on your birthday and put flowers beside your tombstone. They will all stand around and say what a great guy you were.Who knows?If Carl sucks up enough and is lucky, he might get to be another Carter or Clinton. He might get to be a big time White sell out instead of a "community organizer" nobody like he is now.And surely all those descendants of the immigrants and the Blacks will honor Carl and be grateful to him and preserve his memory.Sorry, Carl.It aint' going to happen.Blacks honor Dr. King.They don't honor Earl Warren.The colonists didn't set up statues to Edmund Burke and the other Whigs who undermined the King's policies toward America and championed American independence.No. We honor George Washington and revere his memory.Nobody gives a passing thought to Burke and the other English sell-outs.Why should we?People honor their own leaders.Not traitors.So there will never, never, never be any tearful little Black children at your grave, Carl.You will be forgotten.As you should be.Sam DicksonOur Silence Means More Violence: An Open Letter to Fellow White People By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported Newshttp://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/27168-focus-our-silence-means-more-violence-an-open-letter-to-fellow-white-people Gibson writes: "As White people who aren't seething with racism, we have the duty to show solidarity with our Black brothers and sisters in the aftermath of the Ferguson decision."Dear Fellow White People, As White people who aren’t seething with racism, we have the duty to show solidarity with our Black brothers and sisters in the aftermath of the Ferguson decision. We have the duty to listen, and not lecture. And we have the duty to speak out just as loudly against police brutality, even if we aren’t the ones who are the most directly affected. Today, a White police officer kills a Black person every 28 hours. In Utah, police are responsible for more homicides than gangs, drug dealers, and child abusers combined. And the number of Black people killed by police has now outpaced the number of Black people who were lynched during the Jim Crow era (which never really ended, when you consider this statistic). FBI data shows that Black teenagers are three times more likely to be killed by police than White teenagers. In 2012, FBI statistics show police departments claimed “justifiable homicide” 426 times. To compare with another Western nation, police in Germany only fired a total of 85 shots over the course of 2011. Forty of those were warning shots, and only six were fatal. In Japan and the UK, there were zero police killings of civilians that year. The U.S. is far and away the leader in police acting as judge, jury, and executioner. Now, can you start to understand why the Ferguson community is so distraught by the loss of a teenager and the lack of even a show trial for the White police officer who killed him? But the anger Black America is currently expressing is more than just anger over Michael Brown’s killer walking away unscathed. Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was just recently killed in Cleveland for playing with a toy gun. Seven-year-old Aiyana Jones was killed in Detroit by a police officer conducting a raid who accidentally discharged his weapon (the officer, Joseph Weekley, has escaped charges twice). And Black America isn’t just targeted by the police. In the last several years, Black youths were killed by racist vigilantes for playing loud music and wearing hoodies. Only one of those vigilantes was brought to justice, and that was after he was taken to trial for a second time. Darren Wilson’s non-indictment means he won’t even face a trial for firing 12 rounds at an unarmed teenager who was over 100 feet away from him at the time of his death. As White people, the police treat us very differently. I stole candy from convenience stores as a kid and was never caught, let alone even suspected. But even if I had been caught any of those times, I have the privilege of knowing that because I have blond hair and blue eyes, at the very worst, I would have been required to pay a fine and do community service. I would even be given a second chance and the benefit of the doubt by future employers. And whenever I have encounters with the police and I’m not at a protest, I almost always get away with a warning, no matter how fast I was driving, what time of night it is, or what neighborhood I’m driving in. And if I refuse to consent to a search, the officer respects my assertion of my rights and backs down. But even White people who commit heinous acts of mass murder were treated better than Michael Brown, who was, at worst, an alleged suspect of petty theft at a convenience store. James Holmes, who killed 12 people in the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater and wounded many others, surrendered after the act, was brought in peacefully, and got a trial. This is all despite the fact that Holmes had an AR-15 assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and had booby-trapped his apartment with deadly explosives. Jared Lee Loughner, the man who killed six people in Arizona and almost killed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was also taken alive by police despite his having shot a member of Congress in the head. Now, White people, can you start to understand why Black America is taking to the streets? Sadly, a large portion of White America has been taken in by the corporate media’s over-hyping of the riots and looting following the grand jury announcement. A lot of you have said, “Why don’t they act more like Martin Luther King,” without taking into account that Martin Luther King was violently killed just the same, and that in 1999, a Memphis jury found local, state, and federal government agencies guilty of a conspiracy to kill Dr. King. Malcolm X was also killed for his beliefs, even as he grew more moderate over time.Medgar Evers was killed in the driveway of his own home, in front of his family, by a White man who wouldn't face justice for 30 years. The list of slain Black leaders goes on. Other well-intentioned White people are chastising those who have looted stores, saying corporate property destruction hurts the protesters’ cause, without taking into account that the Boston Tea Party, which led to the bloody revolution that created our Constitution, was, at its core, an act of corporate property destruction. Just as the Boston Tea Party participants did in their day, the people of Ferguson are simply expressing their rage in the only way they have left – by rioting – in the absence of accountable elected officials, a rigged justice system, and a militarized occupying force that terrorizes their neighborhoods and slaughters their children with impunity. White people who don’t understand this have the option of not having to understand this, which defines our privilege. This week, White families all over America will celebrate a holiday that began with White genocide of Native Americans, and will do so with family members they love and assume they will see again the following year. But the families of Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Aiyana Jones, Trayvon Martin, Rekia Boyd, Ramarley Graham, Ezell Ford, and so many others won’t have that privilege. We as White people must acknowledge that the problem of police brutality isn’t just an issue for members of one particular ethnicity to deal with – it’s a human rights issue. The Americans who protested in solidarity with Palestinians who lost lives, families, and homes from the Israeli bombing of Gaza did so regardless of their nationality. And so, White people must protest this week in solidarity with the Black community regardless of our ethnicity. Martin Luther King was right when he said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carl Gibson, 26, is co-founder of US Uncut, a nationwide creative direct-action movement that mobilized tens of thousands of activists against corporate tax avoidance and budget cuts in the months leading up to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Carl and other US Uncut activists are featured in the documentary "We're Not Broke," which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin. You can contact him at carl@rsnorg.org, and follow him on twitter at @uncutCG.

Dear Carl:

What a pity that you are either (a) so selfish and ambitious that you are willing to betray your own people in order to suck up to minority racists and advance your career or (b) you are so pathologically ill from ethno-masochism that you can only feel good by feeling bad.

Here are a couple of causes you might have chosen to champion:

1. The fate of young White prisoners in jails who – as is widely known – are subjected to Black gang rape an many of whom die of AIDs.

2. The killing of thousands of Palestinians by the Jews in Israel. (Nope! Won’t find Mr. “Look at me! I’m White and I’m against racism” touching that subject. Bad for business. Doesn’t put groceries on the table.)

So those White guys are going to have to go on getting raped and those Palestinians are going to have to go on being burned up with their houses…’cause Little Carl has his career to think about.

I know your type all too well.

I know you – because I was once like you.

But I had the character to examine the other side, to test what teacher had taught me in school, to read books that challenged what I believed, to look at the human suffering caused by multiracialism and multiculturalism.

I changed. But you never will – because you sucked up to teacher who told little Carl “You are the most educated generation in history.” You believed teacher. It felt so good to know that you were so much better educated than your stupid parents and grandparents. And you also were SOOOOO GOOD! You were on the right side of every issue – from the slave trade, to Jim Crow, to McCarthyism, to Chinese males making women bind their feet. So were just so very, very good and virtuous. Just don’t ever ask you to mow the grass for the elderly widow down the street.

Little Carl – and big Carl too – just didn’t have time to waste on little acts of charity. He didn’t need too. He could dine out on the easy virtue of telling everybody else at the wine-and-cheese party how strongly he felt about segregation and that march at the Selma Bridge. Carl was so brave. He could say these things no matter what the price he paid.

Teacher gave you a gold star. When you read out your little essay about Rosa Parks, teacher smiled approvingly and Little Carl got a gold star. Yes. Being so very virtuous came very easily to Carl. That’s why people with more character than Carl aren’t as impressed with Carl’s behavior as Carl is and call it EASY VIRTUE.

I KNOW YOU:

1. I know that you think you are a great “intellectual.”

But you AREN’T.

Because if you really were interested in ideas you would by now have read books that challenged what you learned when you were catechised (not educated) in your school and college.

But you never have, Carl. You’ve never read a single book that ever disagreed with what teacher said.

And you never will! Because you are not a great intellectual. You are a poseur. You are not educated. You were never educated. You were chatechised and indoctrinated. And you lack sufficient character ever to challenge what teacher said. You believe what teacher said. You believe you not only are educated, you are part of the “most educated generation in history.”

That’s why – as Socrates (one of those dirty old White people for whom you have contempt) – said:

“The person who can’t be educated is the person who thinks he is educated.

And that’s why teacher – and all the other obedient teachers in the government schools – told you and others like you that you were so much more educated than anybody else. They knew that this would innoculate you against ever questioning what the government schools taught you.

You aren’t an intellectual, Carl. You are PATHETIC.

2. I know that you love to think of yourself as “speaking truth to power.”

But, Carl, you are real careful about speaking. You know when to shut up and not to make a peep.

Like in the matter of what goes on in prisons.

Little Carl might get spanked if he ever touched that issue or maybe spoke up about some elderly White widow trapped in a demographically changed neighborhood whose life is a hell of dealing with minority racism.

So Carl is very, very careful about what he says, when he says it and to whom he says it.

You – and others like you – haven’t spoke truth to power for generations. You have sucked up to power.

You are a toady.

3. I know something else about you.

And in the unlikely event there is somewhere at the core of your rotten being some shred of integrity of which we as yet cannot see any evidence, you will look at yourself and you will admit that it’s true!

I know one of your fantasies, Carl.

You imagine that some day when you are dead, tearful little Black children will come to your grave on your birthday and put flowers beside your tombstone. They will all stand around and say what a great guy you were.

Who knows?

If Carl sucks up enough and is lucky, he might get to be another Carter or Clinton. He might get to be a big time White sell out instead of a “community organizer” nobody like he is now.

And surely all those descendants of the immigrants and the Blacks will honor Carl and be grateful to him and preserve his memory.

Sorry, Carl.

It aint’ going to happen.

Blacks honor Dr. King.

They don’t honor Earl Warren.

The colonists didn’t set up statues to Edmund Burke and the other Whigs who undermined the King’s policies toward America and championed American independence.

No. We honor George Washington and revere his memory.

Nobody gives a passing thought to Burke and the other English sell-outs.

Why should we?

People honor their own leaders.

Not traitors.

So there will never, never, never be any tearful little Black children at your grave, Carl.

You will be forgotten.

As you should be.

Sam Dickson

Our Silence Means More Violence: An Open Letter to Fellow White People

By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/27168-focus-our-silence-means-more-violence-an-open-letter-to-fellow-white-people

Gibson writes: “As White people who aren’t seething with racism, we have the duty to show solidarity with our Black brothers and sisters in the aftermath of the Ferguson decision.”

Dear Fellow White People,

As White people who aren’t seething with racism, we have the duty to show solidarity with our Black brothers and sisters in the aftermath of the Ferguson decision. We have the duty to listen, and not lecture. And we have the duty to speak out just as loudly against police brutality, even if we aren’t the ones who are the most directly affected.

Today, a White police officer kills a Black person every 28 hours. In Utah, police are responsible for more homicides than gangs, drug dealers, and child abusers combined. And the number of Black people killed by police has now outpaced the number of Black people who were lynched during the Jim Crow era (which never really ended, when you consider this statistic). FBI data shows that Black teenagers are three times more likely to be killed by police than White teenagers. In 2012, FBI statistics show police departments claimed “justifiable homicide” 426 times. To compare with another Western nation, police in Germany only fired a total of 85 shots over the course of 2011. Forty of those were warning shots, and only six were fatal. In Japan and the UK, there were zero police killings of civilians that year. The U.S. is far and away the leader in police acting as judge, jury, and executioner. Now, can you start to understand why the Ferguson community is so distraught by the loss of a teenager and the lack of even a show trial for the White police officer who killed him?

But the anger Black America is currently expressing is more than just anger over Michael Brown’s killer walking away unscathed. Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was just recently killed in Cleveland for playing with a toy gun. Seven-year-old Aiyana Jones was killed in Detroit by a police officer conducting a raid who accidentally discharged his weapon (the officer, Joseph Weekley, has escaped charges twice). And Black America isn’t just targeted by the police. In the last several years, Black youths were killed by racist vigilantes for playing loud music and wearing hoodies. Only one of those vigilantes was brought to justice, and that was after he was taken to trial for a second time. Darren Wilson’s non-indictment means he won’t even face a trial for firing 12 rounds at an unarmed teenager who was over 100 feet away from him at the time of his death.

As White people, the police treat us very differently. I stole candy from convenience stores as a kid and was never caught, let alone even suspected. But even if I had been caught any of those times, I have the privilege of knowing that because I have blond hair and blue eyes, at the very worst, I would have been required to pay a fine and do community service. I would even be given a second chance and the benefit of the doubt by future employers. And whenever I have encounters with the police and I’m not at a protest, I almost always get away with a warning, no matter how fast I was driving, what time of night it is, or what neighborhood I’m driving in. And if I refuse to consent to a search, the officer respects my assertion of my rights and backs down.

But even White people who commit heinous acts of mass murder were treated better than Michael Brown, who was, at worst, an alleged suspect of petty theft at a convenience store. James Holmes, who killed 12 people in the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater and wounded many others, surrendered after the act, was brought in peacefully, and got a trial. This is all despite the fact that Holmes had an AR-15 assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and had booby-trapped his apartment with deadly explosives. Jared Lee Loughner, the man who killed six people in Arizona and almost killed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was also taken alive by police despite his having shot a member of Congress in the head. Now, White people, can you start to understand why Black America is taking to the streets?

Sadly, a large portion of White America has been taken in by the corporate media’s over-hyping of the riots and looting following the grand jury announcement. A lot of you have said, “Why don’t they act more like Martin Luther King,” without taking into account that Martin Luther King was violently killed just the same, and that in 1999, a Memphis jury found local, state, and federal government agencies guilty of a conspiracy to kill Dr. King. Malcolm X was also killed for his beliefs, even as he grew more moderate over time.Medgar Evers was killed in the driveway of his own home, in front of his family, by a White man who wouldn’t face justice for 30 years. The list of slain Black leaders goes on.

Other well-intentioned White people are chastising those who have looted stores, saying corporate property destruction hurts the protesters’ cause, without taking into account that the Boston Tea Party, which led to the bloody revolution that created our Constitution, was, at its core, an act of corporate property destruction. Just as the Boston Tea Party participants did in their day, the people of Ferguson are simply expressing their rage in the only way they have left – by rioting – in the absence of accountable elected officials, a rigged justice system, and a militarized occupying force that terrorizes their neighborhoods and slaughters their children with impunity. White people who don’t understand this have the option of not having to understand this, which defines our privilege.

This week, White families all over America will celebrate a holiday that began with White genocide of Native Americans, and will do so with family members they love and assume they will see again the following year. But the families of Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Aiyana Jones, Trayvon Martin, Rekia Boyd, Ramarley Graham, Ezell Ford, and so many others won’t have that privilege. We as White people must acknowledge that the problem of police brutality isn’t just an issue for members of one particular ethnicity to deal with – it’s a human rights issue. The Americans who protested in solidarity with Palestinians who lost lives, families, and homes from the Israeli bombing of Gaza did so regardless of their nationality. And so, White people must protest this week in solidarity with the Black community regardless of our ethnicity. Martin Luther King was right when he said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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Carl Gibson, 26, is co-founder of US Uncut, a nationwide creative direct-action movement that mobilized tens of thousands of activists against corporate tax avoidance and budget cuts in the months leading up to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Carl and other US Uncut activists are featured in the documentary “We’re Not Broke,” which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin. You can contact him at carl@rsnorg.org, and follow him on twitter at @uncutCG.

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