This Blogger’s father was a Trotskyite; as such he worshiped the dialectic “…. the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions.”
Which may be the reason why this Blogger, as an undergraduate, attended meetings of both the left wing SDS(STUDENTS FOR a DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY) and the right wing, YAF(YOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM). That experience taught this Blogger that no one political organization, or viewpoint has ALL THE TRUTH…..some political organizations have some of the truth, maybe most of the truth, but not all of the truth. It takes the Dialectic to get as close to the truth as possible.
One of the most disturbing highlights of the current unrest in America is how many Liberals are closet Stalinists, opposed to the Dialectic. 2020 American Liberals believe, by the process of Group Think, that they have the whole truth, and that their truth is ex –cathedra.
That Stalinist frenzy was exposed in the American Liberal Media by the James Bennett Purge, at the NEW YORK TIMES, over his approval of publishing an OP-ED by Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas.
That is one of the key Trotskyite reservations for this Blogger; this Blogger also has Jungian Blood Memory concerns about the Liberal Elite in this crisis. This Blogger is very wary that Vice President Joe Biden, at this critical moment, decided to reach out to American blacks by employing as liaison, as an American black whisperer, a Haitian immigrant, Karine Jean-Pierre; just as he is concerned about the Liberal Media placing Haitian-American journalist ,Yamiche Alcindor as its avatar. Both ladies come from a blood memory culture whose highest contribution to political thought was the Tonton Macoute. There is a reason that when Graham Greene covered the Haitian political class, he called them THE COMEDIANS. "Greene wrote that the book "touched him [Duvalier] on the raw." Duvalier attacked The Comedians in the press. His Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a brochure entitled, "Graham Greene Demasqué" (Finally Exposed). It described Greene as "A liar, a cretin, a stool-pigeon... unbalanced, sadistic, perverted... a perfect ignoramus... lying to his heart's content... the shame of proud and noble England... a spy... a drug addict... a torturer." ("The last epithet has always a little puzzled me," Greene confessed.)
The Democratic Party, Liberals in America, are trusting the future of American race relations to products of a system that eliminated white discrimination by massacring all whites in Haiti.
"The French massacre of 1804 was carried out against the remaining French population and French Creoles (or Franco-Haitians) in Haiti by Haitian soldiers under orders from Jean-Jacques Dessalines. He had decreed that all suspected of conspiring in the acts of the expelled army should be put to death.
The massacre, which took place throughout Haiti, occurred from early January 1804 until 22 April 1804, and resulted in the death of 3,000 to 5,000 people. Squads of soldiers moved from house to house, torturing and killing entire families. Throughout the early-to-mid nineteenth century, these events were well known in the United States, where they were called "the horrors of Santo Domingo". These events polarized Southern U.S. public opinion on the question of the abolition of slavery.”
What was the end result of ending white discrimination against blacks by massacring all the whites? The Haitians promptly set up a new caste system, with light skinned blacks at the apex, exemplified by the former wife of Dictator Baby Doc Duvalier, Michèle Bennett, discriminating against darker Haitians.That is the best blood memory, Alcindor and Pierre has to offer; their rise is only due to their adherence to the Stalinist need to extinguish the dialectic.
“Wesley Lowery woke up in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 14, 2014, his cheek sore from where a police officer had smashed it into a vending machine…..Lowery would go on to make his name in Ferguson as an aggressive and high-profile star, shaping a raw new national perspective on racial injustice. Six years later, few in the news business doubt Mr. Lowery’s premise: that American police are more brutal and dishonest than much of the media that came of age pre-Ferguson reported.Historical moments don’t have neat beginnings and endings, but the new way of covering civil rights protests, like the Black Lives Matter movement itself, coalesced on the streets of Ferguson. Seeing the brutality of a white power structure toward its poor black citizens up close, and at its rawest, helped shape the way a generation of reporters, most of them black, looked at their jobs when they returned to their newsrooms.
And by 2014, they had in Twitter a powerful outlet. The platform offered a counterweight to their newsrooms, which over the years had sought to hire black reporters on the unspoken condition that they bite their tongues about racism.
Now, as America is wrestling with the surging of a moment that began in August 2014, its biggest newsrooms are trying to find common ground between a tradition that aims to persuade the widest possible audience that its reporting is neutral and journalists who believe that fairness on issues from race to Donald Trump requires clear moral calls.
The conflict exploded in recent days into public protests at The New York Times, ending in the resignation of its top Opinion editor on Sunday; The Philadelphia Inquirer, whose executive editor resigned on Saturday over the headline “Buildings Matter, Too” and the ensuing anger from his staff; and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And it has been the subject of quiet agony at The Washington Post, which Mr. Lowery left earlier this year, months after the executive editor, Martin Baron, threatened to fire him for expressing his views on Twitter about race, journalism and other subjects.
Mr. Lowery’s view that news organizations’ “core value needs to be the truth, not the perception of objectivity,” as he told me, has been winning in a series of battles, many around how to cover race. Heated Twitter criticism helped to retire euphemisms like “racially charged.” The big outlets have gradually, awkwardly, given ground, using “racist” and “lie” more freely, especially when describing Mr. Trump’s behavior. The Times vowed to remake its Opinion section after Senator Tom Cotton’s Op-Ed article calling for the use of troops in American cities infuriated the newsroom last week.
…….“Walking in circles and then realizing later on that it was simply an unconstitutional rule, it changed the way I thought about reporting — it made me think I have to question everything, including the rules of our reporting,” Ms. Alcindor, a former Times reporter who is now White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour, told me in an interview.
….some of the lessons learned in Ferguson — about race and the particular experience of black reporters, among others — carried over into the next challenging era: the arrival of Mr. Trump, whose bigoted language and tactics shattered norms. Black reporters were joined by other journalists in pushing, inside newsrooms and on Twitter, for more direct language — and less deference — in covering the president.
…that pattern continued last week, as Times staff members began an extraordinary campaign to publicly denounce the Op-Ed article written by Senator Cotton. Members of an internal group called Black@NYT organized the effort in a new Slack channel and agreed on a carefully drafted response. They would say that Mr. Cotton’s column “endangered” black staff members, a choice of words intended to “focus on the work” and “avoid being construed as hyperpartisan,” one said. On Wednesday evening around 7:30, hours after the column was posted, Times employees began tweeting a screenshot of Mr. Cotton’s essay, most with some version of the sentence: “Running this puts Black @nytimes staff in danger.” The NewsGuild of New York later advised staff members that that formulation was legally protected speech because it focused on workplace safety. “It wasn’t just an opinion, it felt violent — it was a call to action that could hurt people,” one union activist said of Mr. Cotton’s column.
Times employees sent the publisher a letter, which a reporter shared with me, saying Mr. Cotton’s “message undermines the work we do, in the newsroom and in opinion, and is an affront to our standards for ethical and accurate reporting for the public’s interest.” A NewsGuild spokesman said more than 1,000 Times employees signed the letter, but that the names weren’t being made public or shared internally.
The protest worked: The paper veered into internal crisis, and the publisher, A. G. Sulzberger, decided he could not continue with Mr. Bennet running the Opinion section, which had repeatedly stumbled in ways that infuriated the newsroom.
Mr. Bennet acknowledged that he had not read the Op-Ed before it was published, which people at all levels of the Times saw as a damning admission. He said in a virtual meeting with nearly 4,000 Times staff members on Friday that he had long believed that for “ideas and even dangerous ideas, that the right thing to do is expose them on our platform to public scrutiny and debate, and that’s the best way, that even dangerous ideas can be discarded.” But, he said, he was now asking himself, “Is that right?” (Mr. Bennet declined to discuss the situation further with me.)
At the same meeting, Times executives thanked staff members for their public outrage, and later that day published an editor’s note atop Mr. Cotton’s article, saying that it contained allegations that “have not been substantiated,” its tone was “needlessly harsh” and that it should not have been published.
And while those angered by Mr. Cotton’s piece dominated the Twitter and Slack conversations and won the day, some staff members disagreed in private and public with the decision.
“A strong paper and strong democracy does not shy from many voices. And this one had clear news value,” Michael Powell, a longtime reporter and sports columnist at The Times, wrote on Twitter. He also called the editor’s note an “embarrassing retreat from principle.”
…... When the highly regarded Sunday Business editor, Nick Summers, said in a Google Hangout meeting last Thursday that he wouldn’t work for Mr. Bennet, he drew agreement from colleagues in a chat window….. the shift in mainstream American media — driven by a journalism that is more personal, and reporters more willing to speak what they see as the truth without worrying about alienating conservatives — now feels irreversible. It is driven in equal parts by politics, the culture and journalism’s business model, relying increasingly on passionate readers willing to pay for content rather than skittish advertisers…..He(Lowery) still has Twitter, though. On Wednesday, he tweeted that he’d canceled his subscription to The Times and demanded that Mr. Bennet resign…..“American view-from-nowhere, ‘objectivity’-obsessed, both-sides journalism is a failed experiment,” he tweeted of the Times debacle. “We need to rebuild our industry as one that operates from a place of moral clarity.”…. ….NEW YORK TIMES.”
The Stalinist purge of Editor Bennett was defenestration of respect for the dialectic. His sin was that he published an OP-Ed, from a sitting United States Senator, from Bill Clinton’s home state, which disagreed with the deadly fanaticism of the Tonton Macoutes masquerading as NEW YORK TIMES reporters.
How can Reporters be afraid of words? Of Ideas? Oh yes, they are Stalinist Tonton Macoutes…COMEDIANS.
On July 17, 2016, this Blogger published the following:
“Since this race crisis began in earnest, anyone watching CNN and MSNBC or reading the Liberal Print media is stunned and appalled by their incomprehension of, unawareness of. unconsciousness of, unfamiliarity with, inexperience with, lack of knowledge about, or lack of information about American white males, American white cops, American racists, and American racist white cops.
The Liberal Elite not only makes it a badge of honor not to know any racists, they don’t even have a channel of communication with racists.
In 1966, the black writer, Alex Haley, the author of ROOTS, went, by himself, to American Nazi Headquarters, to interview the Brown University drop out, George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party.https://archive.org/stream/1966PlayboyInterview/MicrosoftWord-Document1#page/n0/mode/2up
It was the most enlightening national conversation about Racism in America ever recorded. Rockwell grew to respect Haley so much that he swore Haley had white blood in him, why else would he be so smart?
The Liberal Elite has failed to reconcile the races because they don’t know what the white men with guns are thinking, because they won’t ask……
White cops shooting innocent blacks are caused by the following: Racism, flat out racism. The Liberal solution would be to bar racists from being policemen; alas America’s police forces are under manned, very few Liberals like being cops. White male racists like being cops; they are drawn to positions of authority in which they can lord it over the lesser peoples, and unfortunately, white male racists are usually braver than white male Liberals, and being a cop is a dangerous job. The obvious Liberal solution is psychological testing, but society needs brave cops, and if the brave cop is a racist, what is one to do?
Each state should establish a State Police Academy, which will standardize training in a facility away from the home cities. The trainees should board and eat with each other, and do a police version of basic training together. The racists should be identified and placed into rooms with other races; the goal of the training is not to change the racists’ worldview, but to train them to keep their racism out of the public sphere, especially when they are on duty.
……The daily life of a cop is out of Albert Camus’ Existentialist masterpiece THE STRANGER; every day the cop may encounter a life or death decision. The existentialist fact is that the cop may choose to kill if his stomach aches, or his wife is divorcing him, or his unwed teenage daughter is pregnant or if the sun is in his eyes, or if he feels discomfort.
American society must recognize and address the existentialist nature of the cop’s daily life; America is working their policemen too hard, asking them to work too long.
Cops should not be asked to work a five day work week, but three days on and two days off.
Rest, freshness mitigates the deadly existentialist reactions of the police officer.
American society needs to hire more police and cut back on the work schedules of those that it has. Michelle Obama promised $70 million dollars to help empower Pakistani girls. That funding should be withdrawn from Pakistan and spent on American police forces.
….America must end black despair in this society, by JOBS.
Not $15.00 an hour jobs flipping hamburgers, but real manufacturing jobs with a future; Jobs currently residing in Mexico and China because of Globalization.
Black young males have four career choices: rapping, playing basketball, pimping or selling drugs. America can really go a long way in solving race problems in America by offering old fashioned middle class paths to contentment, which mean blue collar jobs in abundance….THE MAXEY CHRONICLES.”
This Blogger believes that this nation, this republic does not want to stay the way it is in regards to young black males; but it sure as hell does not want to go the way of Haiti.
The way forward is the Dialectic……THE NEW YORK TIMES should republish Senator Cotton’s OP-ED with rebuttals.
One final note, please note the similarity in Papa Doc Duvalier's attack on Graham Greene and the attack on James Bennett by the Tonton Macoutes in the NEW YORK TIMES newsroom. The moral clarity of both is striking.
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