nigga what?!?!?!?!

so i was on another blog site--'field negro' which though i have just found in the last couple of weeks, has some really nice posts. so nice that i've been all up in the archives (i think i've been under a rock). well i read a post on field negro's site that was a commentary by writer william jelani cobb, on a statement made by another writer by the name of john mcwhorter. now, i must include my own commentary. the original text by mr. mcwhorter, who i guess classifies as a conservative, justifies being racially profiled by cops:

'I cannot say that I walked away from that episode furious that I had just been swiped by the long arm of white racism...I felt that what had happened was a sign that the black underclass is America's greatest injustice, and that I ought to take it as a call to action to do as much as I can to help rescue the underclass so that such encounters with the police won't be necessary – because under the current conditions, whether we like it or not, they are.'

wow. i mean...fucking really. i don't even know where to begin, but what initially turned my stomach was this whole 'black underclass shit'. (who he callin underclass?!?!?!?) and that 'i got to help rescue the underclass' nonsense like he super-nigga...news flash: your black ass is the underclass!! question: what happens to us when we finish school, earn degrees and get certified by white folks as being useful? is that the point when we decide to take on this 'us and them' attitude toward our own people? acting as though the racism in america is only limited to them 'low class niggas'; cause surely, these good white folk don't look at all of us the same. i really don't know the whole story behind this cat so i can't completely criticize his entire position, but i must call attention to the dumb shit he said. what i have learned in my very brief research is that he is college educated and calls himself a conservative. apparently this gives him authority to publicly claim that our own 'victimology' creates our detriment, not the actual existence of racism in the america. interpretation: 'they say we ain't monkeys no mo' so get on wit it niggers!'

i must say, i do agree with him with regard to the victimology claim; he has just labeled the wrong group as victimologists. it is not the 'separatist' and 'un-intellectual underclass' that have a 'victim syndrome' as whorter states. it is the unintellectual assimilators, who continue to sub-consciously subject themselves to internalized hatred; these are the real victims. so much so, that they have obliterated the reality of what long term oppression does to the oppressed. ultimately, the frustration over the condition will be turned against those who are members of the oppressed group; whether it be in the form of violence or self-defeating rhetoric. unfortunately for people like m/i/s/t/e/r (period) whorter, whites will never respect his sell-out ass and real african centered black folk will never trust him; i am sure neither was the intention. end result--a self defeating, sub-conscious victimization resulting in alienation from either group.

but whatever....