Race and American Exceptionalism.

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(ThyBlackMan.com) This past Thursday evening at the University of Buffalo (UB) I was invited by the Young America’s Foundation Chapter at UB to deliver a presentation on “Race and American Exceptionalism.” Before I even arrived, the nature of my visit was made controversial when students on the campus ripped down flyers and even conducted a campus walking protest. Therefore, I knew this would be quite the hostile environment.

The question I have is, why?

Why is it controversial for a 61-year-old black man who was born in a blacks only hospital in the South to discuss said topic? After all, I have had quite the incredible experience of enjoying the blessings of liberty, freedom, and individual rights in this Nation. I grew up in the same neighborhood that produced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and attended a small black Catholic elementary school that was located across the street from his final resting place, near the intersection of Boulevard and Auburn Avenue, in the Old Fourth Ward.

What is controversial and upsetting about a black man who rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army and commanded hundreds of troops in combat? Especially knowing that his Dad, born in 1920, was a World War II Army Corporal who served in a segregated Army. One would think that to be a story of American exceptionalism.

Race and American Exceptionalism

Or, how about the same kid, born in 1961 in a blacks only hospital, becoming a member of the US House of Representatives for a congressional district that was 92% white. And by the way, in 1961 when I was born, blacks could not go onto the South Florida beaches and onto Palm Beach Island which at the age of 50 I humbly represented in Congress. I was the Chairman of the largest state Republican Party in the country, the Republican Party of Texas…which was founded on July 4, 1867 in Houston Texas by 150 black men.

Yes, the kid born in a blacks only hospital went on to earn a Bachelors and two Masters degrees. And even married a magnificent woman, a legal immigrant from Jamaica who herself has attained a Bachelors, MBA, and PhD, and her Dad served 24 years in the US Army and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Thursday evening at the University of Buffalo I spoke of Crispus Attucks, Frederick Douglass, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, and Booker T. Washington, but for some in the audience, it did not matter.

One young lady who stepped forward during what was supposed to be a question and answer session sought to disparage, denigrate, and demean me. She introduced herself as being the President of the UB Black Student Union and referred to me as an embarrassment. As she went on her uninformed and rather incompetent rant, I pondered what has so “triggered” these young black students, or should I say radical, militant little wannabe Marxists?

The answer was simple, a hatred within themselves, for themselves. They seek to be embraced as perpetual victims, never to be a victor. They cast aside the achievements of those who do not gladly welcome their delusion. If I had come before them and spoke against America they would have been pleased. Unfortunately for them, I took an oath to the embodiment of our Constitutional Republic, the US Constitution. Sadly for them, I am not seeking to surrender myself to a creed of ignorance and a philosophy of failure.

America has had its dark moments in history; then again show me any country that has not? And there are many countries, some of them on the UN Human Rights Council, who are far worse than our Nation. However, in 246 years, this Nation has sought to do what it says in the preamble of our Constitution…”in order to form a more perfect Union”. The exceptionalism of America is the target of the progressive socialist left. And these mini Karl Marx’s truly do not want anyone, but especially men and women of color, to profess anything that is contrary to their destructive narrative.

I will continue to speak about America, what it means to me, and what it has afforded me and my Family. I will recognize the negative, but accentuate the positive–its exceptionalism. Unlike Michelle Obama who stated that she had never been proud of America until her socialist husband became president, I have and will always be a proud American. I will stand and fight to ensure we Live Free in this Nation and enjoy its equality of opportunity.

I will not surrender this Nation to the abhorrent behavior that I saw at the University of Buffalo last Thursday…join me in that stand to preserve the last best hope for mankind, these United States of America.

Written by Allen West

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Pelvo White, Jr. says:

April 12, 2022 at 8:11 am

No one knows you better than your enemies. Your enemies study you up close and they note your weaknesses. Your enemies find ways to exploit your weaknesses. The American male is egoistic, puffed up by vanity, racist and practiced in being lauded. Americans are accustomed to conventional warfare, so the enemies fight unconventionally. Appeal to their racism so that they may not be easily unified to work as a team. Your enemies make jokes about our freedoms which they exploit as weaknesses and plan their overt and covert attacks on us based upon their observations of these weaknesses. The enemy note that the American has civil rules of war so remind him of these rules when you are captured and imprisoned so that your captivity may be made easier. The American loves children so strap the explosive device to the children and blow him up when he attempts to show affection for these children. The American male loves the company of your women so place the women conveniently among them so they may entice, tempt and extract important information, and also spread debilitating diseases.

The American is conditioned to fixed daylight work hours so commence many of your serious attacks at night so that they can’t get enough comfortable sleep. Never make a stand against the American, hit him and run away. Work his nerves so that he is anxious in many kinds of ways. Always turn his liberties into his anguish. The Russians designed the AK47 rifle to also utilize the bullets of the American M16 rifle. These are a few of the war strategies of the communist and the socialist. The reading of the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels was required reading at both universities I attended because American leadership need to know and experience the thoughts of those who openly declare their hatred of our pluralistic, representative democracy with its capitalist economic base that believes in an unequal distribution of available goods and services based on merit. The communist and the socialist despise our desired ownership and exploitation of property for profit. Were the acts and deeds of the republican past president Donald Trump those of a friend or an enemy ? Never loose sight of the fact that this republican past president presented himself to the people as an nihilist, white supremacist, white privileged, existential political figure determined to install an autocracy in America.

All American epistemology has its roots in Western European modes of thought, and these modes are rooted in ancient Greek thoughts. The great Greek philosopher Plato laid the intellectual foundation for Communism and Socialism in his work titled “The Republic.” Within the dominion of existing nihilistic autocracies, the Greek thinkers debated the strengths and weaknesses of autocracy and democracy long before there was a Donald Trump and a Joe Biden.

Past republican President Donald Trump achieved to great wealth operating within a democratic government with a capitalist economic base that believed in an unequal distribution of available goods and services based on merit, and yet, his world view matured to that of a wealthy nihilist who had the political power (i.e. political power meaning “who you know”) to make America anything he wanted it to be. Expressing the will of the white majority, through proof of the vote, Trump sought to reinterpret, and dismantle our existing democracy, and replace it with his white supremacy, white privileged nihilistic authoritarian political structure.

Trump inferred to much of the voting white majority through his rhetoric and political alliances, his form of existential freedom for the people. Trump was successful in capturing the prevailing sentiments of a large majority of the people who believed that they needed to be free from religious ethics which extended care beyond that reserved for family alone, unnecessary taxation, and free of governmental regulation of their political, economic, and social activities. His devoted white and black supporters loved his offer to deliver this kind of freedom to them and they cast their votes for him by the millions. First there was the idea of existential freedom through exercising capitalism under the political leadership of a nihilistic autocracy, then there were Trump’s political acts and deeds towards that end. Trump was defeated by the democrat Joe Biden in his bid for reelection to the office of President of the United States of America but only by a comparatively few votes. It is not over. You are a republican, and I think that you know, and understand where the rejection of that rhetoric that you are calling American exceptionalism is coming from.