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UC Berkeley History Professor’s Open Letter Against BLM, Police Brutality and Cultural Orthodoxy

Dear profs X, Y, Z

I am one of your colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley. I have met you both personally but do not know you closely, and am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job, and likely all future jobs in my field.

In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them.

In the extended links and resources you provided, I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. The explanation provided in your documentation, to the near exclusion of all others, is univariate: the problems of the black community are caused by whites, or, when whites are not physically present, by the infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism into American brains, souls, and institutions.

Many cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including from within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or ‘Uncle Toms’. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders. Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques.

The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians. Instead, it is being treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its profound flaws, or its worrying implication of total black impotence. This hypothesis is transforming our institution and our culture, without any space for dissent outside of a tightly policed, narrow discourse.

A counternarrative exists. If you have time, please consider examining some of the documents I attach at the end of this email. Overwhelmingly, the reasoning provided by BLM and allies is either primarily anecdotal (as in the case with the bulk of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ undeniably moving article) or it is transparently motivated. As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black incarcerated Americans. This proportion is often used to characterize the criminal justice system as anti-black. However, if we use the precise same methodology, we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black.

Would we characterize criminal justice as a systemically misandrist conspiracy against innocent American men? I hope you see that this type of reasoning is flawed, and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties. Black people are not incarcerated at higher rates than their involvement in violent crime would predict. This fact has been demonstrated multiple times across multiple jurisdictions in multiple countries.

And yet, I see my department uncritically reproducing a narrative that diminishes black agency in favor of a white-centric explanation that appeals to the department’s apparent desire to shoulder the ‘white man’s burden’ and to promote a narrative of white guilt.

If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy. Even Jewish Americans are incarcerated less than gentile whites. I think it’s fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews. And yet, these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews. None of this is addressed in your literature. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and ad hominems. “Those are racist dogwhistles”. “The model minority myth is white supremacist”. “Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime”, ad nauseam.

These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress discourse. Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing orthodoxy tactics they are, common to suppressive regimes, doctrines, and religions throughout time and space. They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department.

Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM’s problematic view of history, and the department is being presented as unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position. Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position, which is no small number.

I personally don’t dare speak out against the BLM narrative, and with this barrage of alleged unity being mass-produced by the administration, tenured professoriat, the UC administration, corporate America, and the media, the punishment for dissent is a clear danger at a time of widespread economic vulnerability. I am certain that if my name were attached to this email, I would lose my job and all future jobs, even though I believe in and can justify every word I type.

The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people. There are virtually no marches for these invisible victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC regents, deans, and departmental heads. The message is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and demands solution. Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is.

No discussion is permitted for nonblack victims of black violence, who proportionally outnumber black victims of nonblack violence. This is especially bitter in the Bay Area, where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic proportions, to the point that the SF police chief has advised Asians to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors, as this attracts the attention of (overwhelmingly black) home invaders. Home invaders like George Floyd. For this actual, lived, physically experienced reality of violence in the USA, there are no marches, no tearful emails from departmental heads, no support from McDonald’s and Wal-Mart. For the History department, our silence is not a mere abrogation of our duty to shed light on the truth: it is a rejection of it.

The claim that black intraracial violence is the product of redlining, slavery, and other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is for historians, therefore, to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn’t led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively. Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. However, both groups outperform white Americans on nearly all SES indices – as do Nigerian Americans, who incidentally have black skin. It is for historians to point out and discuss these anomalies. However, no real discussion is possible in the current climate at our department. The explanation is provided to us, disagreement with it is racist, and the job of historians is to further explore additional ways in which the explanation is additionally correct. This is a mockery of the historical profession.

Most troublingly, our department appears to have been entirely captured by the interests of the Democratic National Convention, and the Democratic Party more broadly. To explain what I mean, consider what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter, an organization UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent mailers. All donations to the official BLM website are immediately redirected to ActBlue Charities, an organization primarily concerned with bankrolling election campaigns for Democrat candidates. Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. This is grotesque given the fact that the American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run. Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades; the ‘systemic racism’ there was built by successive Democrat administrations.

The patronizing and condescending attitudes of Democrat leaders towards the black community, exemplified by nearly every Biden statement on the black race, all but guarantee a perpetual state of misery, resentment, poverty, and the attendant grievance politics which are simultaneously annihilating American political discourse and black lives. And yet, donating to BLM is bankrolling the election campaigns of men like Mayor Frey, who saw their cities devolve into violence. This is a grotesque capture of a good-faith movement for necessary police reform, and of our department, by a political party. Even worse, there are virtually no avenues for dissent in academic circles. I refuse to serve the Party, and so should you.

The total alliance of major corporations involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning flag to us, and yet this damning evidence goes unnoticed, purposefully ignored, or perversely celebrated. We are the useful idiots of the wealthiest classes, carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other actual, real, modern-day slavers. Starbucks, an organisation using literal black slaves in its coffee plantation suppliers, is in favor of BLM. Sony, an organisation using cobalt mined by yet more literal black slaves, many of whom are children, is in favor of BLM. And so, apparently, are we. The absence of counter-narrative enables this obscenity. Fiat lux, indeed.

There also exists a large constituency of what can only be called ‘race hustlers’: hucksters of all colors who benefit from stoking the fires of racial conflict to secure administrative jobs, charity management positions, academic jobs and advancement, or personal political entrepreneurship.

Given the direction our history department appears to be taking far from any commitment to truth, we can regard ourselves as a formative training institution for this brand of snake-oil salespeople. Their activities are corrosive, demolishing any hope at harmonious racial coexistence in our nation and colonizing our political and institutional life. Many of their voices are unironically segregationist.

MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today. We are training leaders who intend, explicitly, to destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history. As the PRC, an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the US, I ask you: Is this wise? Are we really doing the right thing?

As a final point, our university and department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd. Floyd was a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant stomach. He terrorized the women in his community. He sired and abandoned multiple children, playing no part in their support or upbringing, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer, a swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors.

And yet, the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal, elevating his name to virtual sainthood. A man who hurt women. A man who hurt black women. With the full collaboration of the UCB history department, corporate America, most mainstream media outlets, and some of the wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA, he has become a culture hero, buried in a golden casket, his (recognized) family showered with gifts and praise. Americans are being socially pressured into kneeling for this violent, abusive misogynist. A generation of black men are being coerced into identifying with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our race and species.

I’m ashamed of my department. I would say that I’m ashamed of both of you, but perhaps you agree with me, and are simply afraid, as I am, of the backlash of speaking the truth. It’s hard to know what kneeling means, when you have to kneel to keep your job.

It shouldn’t affect the strength of my argument above, but for the record, I write as a person of color. My family have been personally victimized by men like Floyd. We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democrat party against our race. The humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM, that we need special help and lower requirements to get ahead in life, is richly familiar to us. I sometimes wonder if it wouldn’t be easier to deal with open fascists, who at least would be straightforward in calling me a subhuman, and who are unlikely to share my race.

The ever-present soft bigotry of low expectations and the permanent claim that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively on the goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is psychologically devastating. No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites.

No message will more surely devastate their futures, especially if whites run out of guilt, or indeed if America runs out of whites. If this had been done to Japanese Americans, or Jewish Americans, or Chinese Americans, then Chinatown and Japantown would surely be no different to the roughest parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today. The History department of UCB is now an integral institutional promulgator of a destructive and denigrating fallacy about the black race.

I hope you appreciate the frustration behind this message. I do not support BLM. I do not support the Democrat grievance agenda and the Party’s uncontested capture of our department. I do not support the Party co-opting my race, as Biden recently did in his disturbing interview, claiming that voting Democrat and being black are isomorphic. I condemn the manner of George Floyd’s death and join you in calling for greater police accountability and police reform. However, I will not pretend that George Floyd was anything other than a violent misogynist, a brutal man who met a predictably brutal end.

I also want to protect the practice of history. Cleo is no grovelling handmaiden to politicians and corporations. Like us, she is free.

What’s interesting is that the blacks never would have managed this on their own…once again it’s white people driving it. Pathetic never lived, 20 yr old rebellious university students who have never worked, raised a family or had any real life experience and sexual deviants who hate everybody who is not a lesbian, gay or transexual.

Cannot wait for the thugs to turn on them when they can’t start looting. Police should just look the other way. The think its fine to stroll into any hood because they have never done it.

They are tearing down statues but who are they going to replace them with? Miles Davis, Mohammed Ali, Jay Z, Beyonce? I am struggling to recall any blacks who have offered any where near the contribution to history in terms of science, engineering, physics, product development, commerce etc that white europeans have. Despite Africa having the largest natural resources and mineral deposits on the planet. Why is this I wonder?

Why were Africans not building ships and sailing them across the oceans to enslave us? If they had the IQ they would have done. Without the influence of white explorers these people would probably still be in mud huts in the jungle.

The Chinese are currently investing and developing infrastructure in Africa, do the Africans think it is for their benefit? When the Chinese take their ‘pound of flesh’ (back), the Africans will be begging white people to help them, as they always do.

If you don’t like a white majority country that has terrible white invented things like, decent roads, clean hospitals, welfare and benefits then go to any black governed country in the world and see how you like it there. Please take your sexual weirdo and angry student friends with you, I’m sure they would find the locals super tolerant of their chosen sexual identity and preferences.

Watched a documentary last night about Albinos in Africa, who are hunted down and murdered for witch doctors potions. They probably hate black people more than anyone on the planet, and have one guess who was saving them, giving them free surgery and medicine…evil whites! The irony is too much for me….

How far will this madness go?

There all descendants of Kings and Queens you know. No wonder they don’t want to work, by rights they should have servants and slaves looking after them. Whoops, said the ‘S’ word, by definition if there all royal who is the under class that supports them – us?

Hope you enjoyed it!

I wonder who will pay for all this and rebuild it when these idiots have grown tired of destroying it all? They should use the re-build as a chance for on the job training and apprenticeship schemes to ghetto youths so they can get the jobs they so desperately covet (LOL)!

I wonder how many would turn up / last a week / complete the training. Can you imagine? Oh I forgot there all going to rappers, oh well nice idea whilst it lasted!

Speaking of rappers, I recently had the pleasure of watching the Travis Scott documentary on Netflix thanks to my sister kids (little cherubs). No wonder there are so many aspiring rappers, looking at Mr Scott level of talent apparently its quite easy and very lucrative. Especially if you impregnate a Kardashian, again looking at how ugly Mr Scott is, this is quite easy.

What hope is their when the richest woman on the planet under 30 choses this ape to reproduce with. Im sure he will stick aroundd and be a great dad. If you can stand it, please watch it, it defies belief !

These people kill each other in the most barbaric ways over the most pathetic reasons and yet should anyone outside the ghetto or from another race be involved -they go absolutely bat shit! It makes no sense.

These people are so ignorant and brain washed, in their shared belief that white generated ‘institutional racism’ is the cause of all their woes, they just can’t see how ridiculous their moral position is. They seem to believe that the leading cause of death for young black males is white police officers, when clearly it is other black males. The leading cause of death for white and black police officers is probably young black males. the leading cause of death etc – Young Black Males. Americas secret serial killers!

I can’t understand how there is not one journalist who feels a moral obligation to report actual facts and truths regarding this. These idiots are using this an excuse to go get some new Air Jordans and a flatscreen. They couldn’t give a shit about another dead black criminal, any less than the people on this site!

They just love to be outraged and offended like most minorities. Try being white and conservative, outrage is our permanent state!

I moved here with my wife 5 years ago and was horrified to get to London and see the same sullen, angry, misbehaving fucking idiots that I had to deal with back home. Luckily guns are not as readily available but that doesn’t mean there is not fair share of gun crime and lots of knife crime to make up for it…guess who are there main offenders?

They play a game called post code wars , where outsiders are not allowed into the zip code. Teenagers are dying from it and its all black youth. Oh and if you’ve ever heard of the Notting Hill Carnival do not ever go, it is just 3 days of black violence and street robbery disguised as a an Afro-Caribean street festival. All the gangs come out to prey on innocents and fight. I saw a girl of about 15 get bottled over the head for no reason by a fully grown black man in his mid 20’s. It was disgusting.

They get extra feral when there all together and kind of buzz of each other, you can feel it in the air!

What I don’t get is how parents allow their kids to get involved with gangs and drugs at such a young age. I know its hard to know where your kids are all the time, but if its a case of life and death you would have thought they could do a little more to make sure they at least get an education to have some chance at life.

Learn to play the game, do they think any of us like getting up and going to work for someone else and taking shit and office politics and clash of characters? No, but its called LIFE, and looking after your family and building a future.

If when I was a kid, i was at risk of getting shot playing outside, my mum would never have allowed me out the house.

Its like they don’t want a different life for their kids from the one they had -poverty, drugs, jail etc so the cycle continues. The only thing holding back blacks, is other blacks. As per recent articles on this site, when they are around whites, they do well.

We need to look at the global problem of black disfunction, because in the UK they cannot play the slave card yet behave exactly the same and are responsible for the majority of violent crime.

Why were they not the ones to build boats and conquer the world whilst enslaving us hundreds of years ago – intellect, ambition, capacity of thought. They didn’t have it then and they don’t have it now! Its not even their fault really, they are just incapable of progress!

It’s just the same madness on repeat. The victims’ (the one who missed or wasn’t quick enough) family will be in oversized t-shirts with a picture of the angelic youth who would not have said boo to a goose and was just in the wrong place etc

The candle light vigil which will probably get shot up. The grandparents and the local pastor saying ‘WE NEED TO DO MORE’. The lack of after school photography and pottery classes are clearly the problem in these communities.

What white liberals don’t get is they are murdering people they know and went to school with, they may even have been friends at one point! If you are capable of murdering someone you have grown up with and you know has a family and kids etc with no hesitation and no remorse – over something as stupid as a pair of sneakers – WHAT HOPE IS THERE, FOR THE REST OF US?

Imagine if they really didn’t like you?!

Have you noticed how they have no remorse what so ever. Its like the empathetic part of their brain is missing, like a psychopath. They just don’t care, they only think of themselves.

The reason so many of these murders take place is because blacks have an incredibly inflated opinion of themselves -probably testerone related.

As such, someone disrespects them, they are justified in killing them. I have been around these people, unlike most of these pussy liberals who would no more walk through the ghetto than sprout wings and fly in the air, my views are based on first hand experience. That’s not racism, thats realism.

I agree we will look back at this plague and just think why the hell did we let it go for so long . What is the solution?

Tragic my thoughts go out to his family who hopefully will now spread the truth about just how dangerous interactions can be with the ghetto youth.

The mindset of the young black thug is to covet the material goods (clothes, cars, phones, proper food etc)that other people (races) have come to posses through hard work and legal means. They are told by the Left and the MSM, the reason they themselves do not have the means to purchase such things – is because they have been held back and forced into a life of poverty by the white majority.

So it is therefore thier right to simply take by what ever they want, by what ever means necessary. When they get caught (inevitably) they can simply blame it on oppression and being raised in the ghetto and of course….’Institutional Racism’.

‘Institutional Racism’ – the only thing stopping a pistol waving 18 year old from the hood, with no education or employable skills, who talks in ghetto slang and probably can hardly read or write from getting a job which affords him a $40k BMW (with the rims that spin at the lights).

The concept of work is a white thing and therefore unacceptable. They are so stupid they actually believe the rap they are being brain washed with.

They will be the one that live’s the gangster dream even though everyone they know living that life is dead or in prison. (Thats one thing I have noticed in black men, they have incredible fake hubris and arrogance. They really believe their own abilities.)

They are even inept at crime. If you know your not going to get a corporate job and your only choice of earning big bucks is crime, wouldn’t you at least try to be good at it?

They don’t plan or make any effort to elude police because they are not capable of thinking that far ahead. Its just bang..act on the spot, impulse and its done. They have seen generation of family members go to prison for similar crimes, and they never ever learn. They just repeat the same stupid behaviour and blame it on us.

How long can this go on for? We cannot afford to keep these people and their ever breeding off-spring any more – their culture of violence and anti social, counter productive behaviour, is just not sustainable within a western society.

I know this is slightly off-topic but I have no other forum to vent my frustrations. I was recently forced to watch a film on Netflix (no not tied down but rather than create a scene and storm out I read the paper whilst this rubbish went on in the background)

The film is called ‘All Day And A Night’ and opens with a surly black youth played by the actor Ashton Saunders (who incidentally has the most ridiculously over the top walk, which really wound me up -nobody walks like that you f’n idiot.)

Anyway he murders a mother and father in cold blood without an ounce of pity in front of their kids. We later discover he has just found out he had become a father himself by impregnating his amateur porn star black creature of a girlfriend after about a week of courtship. Just pure class. So he gives up his job and goes straight out and commits murders for money for a local drug dealer.

The rest of the film paints a picture of an abusive father with a cocaine habit and life in the hood though at one point, he actually finds a job in a sneaker store (black heaven surely?) after about 2 days of trying. So it can be done even with the ropes of racism holding you back?

The intent is to try and make him out to be the victim and therefore explain and justify his horrific violence for which he is imprisoned for life (in the same jail as his father). The narrative repeats the phrase’ Slavery taught us how to survive, but not how to live. I never felt free.’ We are actually supposed two feel sorry for him. Not one mention is given to kids who now have no parents. It’s fucking disgusting, I am so sick of these pathetic creatures.

We are actually meant to excuse these peoples uber violent behaviour because of events, that occurred outside of their lifetime by 200 years? The best part is reading the Google reviews for this film the most common them was other blacks experiencing the same racist problems. WHAT!!

I don’t think there is a white person in this film, let alone one making him go out and murder 2 people that he was in not danger from. Thats how these idiots minds work and the left just churns out this crap making sure they will never be held accountable. Please help me I think I am going mad.

Oh and stop walking like you’ve shit your pants you fucking idiot. Nobody white would be allowed to walk like that in Hollywood.

The Spirit of Salem has never really died in New England. Otoh, highest average IQ in the country and human feces are not a prevalent sight on the streets of Boston, so i’ll take that trade

Doesn't surprise me mass and conn are at the bottom of the list. They're liberal but I think most people who don't live in the area assume that means they are culturally similar to California or the west coast. Couldn't be further from the truth. There have been plenty of Irish and Italians grafted on over the years but there's still a lot of blood in the area descended from the old religious fanatics who founded all those seminaries like Harvard. The religions changed, but the mindset of the city on the hill has not

A better documentary would be the these two hours on election night: 8.30 pm to 10:30 pm.
At 8:30 the left-wing tv people were sneaking glasses of champagne during breaks. At 10:30 they were vomiting said champagne into trash cans under their desks.
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