Black NY Professor: Seeing Poor White People Makes Me Happy

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A professor of literature at SUNY Old Westbury has boasted it makes him happy when he sees white people on the street begging for money or food.

A professor of literature at SUNY Old Westbury has boasted it makes him happy when he sees white people on the street begging for money or food.

Nicholas Powers wrote in Race Baitr (the original article has since been deleted) that “white people begging us for food feels like justice. It feels like Afro-Futurism after America falls. It feels like a Black Nationalist wet dream. It has the feels I rarely feel, a hunger for historical vengeance satisfied so well I rub my belly.”

Thecollegefix.com reports: The professor is cognizant that this isn’t  a “good look”; however, when he thinks about Martin Luther King Jr.’s invocations of “be [thy] best self” and “show compassion to those who spite you,” he retorts “go fuck another secretary Martin!”

White people, Powers says, are a Rorschach test: “I see in them the history of colonization, slavery and mass incarceration that makes their begging Black people for money ironic—if not insulting. You wasted your whiteness! Why should we give to you?”

From the piece:

Here is a descendant of murderers who killed our ancestors now begging us to save their life. So let’s turn the other cheek! But it’s not always honest. It is the trick of internalized racism that Black anger is transformed into showy altruism to show the “white gaze” that we’re safe—good Negroes. So we aren’t attacked by more powerful whites—instead rewarded by them. …

[…] when a white person begs, maybe a white woman breastfeeding or a young white boy whining like a broken flute, I feel better. Good. It’s not just us. I feel happy. I feel like the scales of justice could shift.

The other day I jogged up the subway stairs and saw the homeless white boy again. “Can you get me something to eat,” he barked out to the river of people passing by. “Someone stole all my shit!” Scabs covered his mouth. He was sunburnt and thin. I ignored him but thought “Baby, you stole all mine.” I glanced at his blanket, shopping cart and books. Who is he? Why is he here? Where are his people?

According to his faculty webpage, Powers’ research interests include African American aesthetics, surrealism, Marxism, and feminist theory. His “personal website” is actually a page full of his writings for The Indypendent, a “free, progressive monthly newspaper and online news site.”

Read the full article.

13 Comments

  1. Laugh it up, Buckwheat. When you drive away the white influence in the world, you get a shithole like, well, all of Africa.

  2. Not the wisest thing to say. It’s called “colored racism”. Not just racism, but a different level with spite and purposeful supporting of anyone who is not deemed “white”. What will you do when all halfway decent whites are driven to South America, Europe, Asia and elsewhere? Hmmmm….

  3. This dude needs to dropped back into Africa where he can appreciate what America is and all her flaws. She’s not perfect, but she’s not a shit-
    hole country and I’ll take that! He’d probably last a couple days before he’s begging Trump to bring his beta ass back in. Naw, die in place!

  4. Ironically, if these geniuses were to be loaded up and shipped to Africa (or any other country that would take them), their new host citizens would think even less of them than the geniuses do of us whites in the US.

    In Ghana, for instance, they would be called obroni (the same thing as they call whites) because they are instantly recognizable by their hairstyles, their language (and other sounds they make), their body movements, their clothing, their often lighter skin, etc.

    Even if obroni is not derogative, it is declaration that “they are not one of them.”

  5. Racism is just the revenge the Black’s use against the White’s to excuse their lack of progress in the world and history.

  6. Why don’t you successful Black’s who hate the White world that you live in and hate so much help your brothers in Africa? No. It might expose what Black civilization is like: the White civilization of South Africa and Rhodesia turned over to Blacks like is being attempted to do to the rest of the White world. A civilization that deteriorates under the Blacks.

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