Kill Whitey
By Brian Yates (11/06/03)
After the Bank One t-shirt incident on campus in the spring of last year, a $50,000 contribution was made to the school in order to further the progress of diversity. According to Diane Whitlock, Administrative Assistant to the Vice Provost for Diversity, a committee comprised mostly of students decided to use those funds to establish a diversity lecture series on campus.
Presumably the goal was to educate the student population on the stupidity of prejudice based upon the color of one’s skin. Instead, what we got was an angry rapper and the black equivalent of David Duke.
“Souljah was not born to make white people comfortable. I am African first. I am black first. I want what’s good for me and my people first. And if my survival means your total destruction, then so be it,” is a line from the aptly named recording, “Hate that Hate Produced.” Whoever produced her hatred did one hell of a job, because the hate in her is truly something to behold. Black people are living in the ghetto today because of the evil white man. White girls are just “cute and stupid” and walk around all day looking like Brittany Spears or Jessica Simpson. Not even missionaries could manage to escape her venom. They’re just asking you for money and never telling you how it’s really the evil white people who caused these African kids to grow up poor.
Souljah became famous (or infamous, rather) after being criticized by then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton (the first black president, no less!) in 1992 after her comments concerning the L.A. riots. She explained the riots as being “revenge” against white oppression and claimed that blacks are “at war.” And she continued by saying, “I mean, if black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?” Don’t ask me how kill whitey week makes any attempt at fostering diversity or better race relations. I suppose that, in the name of complete diversity, we should ask the KKK to burn a cross out in front of the SAC too.
I spoke with several people who attended the event, all white, and all had been greatly offended, not only by the disgusting words of the speaker, but also by the overall level of intolerance by the crowd. At one point during the speech, a mother got up to take her young daughter out and was told to “go on and get the f—k out.” If this passes for diversity at U of L, I would hate to see their definition of intolerance. Fifty-thousand dollars could be used for a lot of things – especially in a budget crunch – but I can’t seem to understand how bringing in a speaker who can do no better than to incite hatred among the audience does any good at all.
Possibly though, evil white people are not meant to understand her. “I don’t make my work for you to interpret it. I make it for black young people so that they can understand that we are at war,” she once explained to Bill Moyers. She told the Washington Post that, “I don’t think that anything we can do to white people could ever equal up to what they’ve done to us…In the real world, black people die on a daily basis. Always rooted in the hands of white supremacy. That’s what I know.”
According to Diane Whitlock, “the views of the speakers on diversity will not necessarily reflect those of the university.” I should certainly hope not. Questions to people associated with the event as to the cost of bringing the Sister to campus have gone unanswered and calls to her speaker’s bureau were not returned. However, even had she come for free, it would have still been too expensive. I thought the goal of this lecture series was furthering diversity on campus. However, I can’t seem to find the difference between “Ten Reasons a Beer is better than a Black Man” and “have a week and kill white people.” Two hate-filled messages; neither of which belong on this campus.
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