October 22, 2005
Hey, It's Only Genocide...
After reading this post at Michelle Malkin's site, I felt a bit embarrassed that a story like this happened on my turf, and I completely missed it. I shouldn't have felt bad, because our local North Carolina media was doing all it could to ignore the story of a former North Carolina State visiting professor who called for nothing less than the genocide of every last white person on the planet.
Dr. Kamau Kambon
The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, collectively known as the Triangle, has a handful of major regional media. Those I frequent are:
- WRAL-TV (Raleigh)
- WTVD-TV (Durham)
- The News and Observer newspaper
- WPTF talk radio
As expected, the area also has a slew of smaller media including alternative and college newspapers, the local NPR affiliate, and even a rumored Air America outlet, though I don't know of anyone that has actually heard it. Collectively, they have little overall community impact.
Of the regional media I monitor --The News and Observer, WRAL-TV, WTVD-TV, and WPTF, only the Bill Lumay show on WPTF talk radio discussed the story before Malkin's Friday column, with a segment on Thursday afternoon.
Using Malkin's post as a template (but not using her as a direct source to keep from offending tender liberal sensitivities), I alerted the N&O, WRAL, WTVD, and WPTF radio of the story via email.
I'd missed WPTF talk radio earlier in the week, but the host himself, Bill Lumay sent back an email confirming they'd discussed the issue on Thursday afternoon.
The News & Observer, ran a story today, and actually credited bloggers with fanning the flames.
To date neither of the regional television news stations, WPTF-TV (Durham) or WRAL-TV (Raleigh), have deemed to give this story any notice at all.
Nationally, on the Washington Times has given this story mention in an editorial today.
In North Carolina, the only other mention of Kamau Kambon was in passing in the Wilmington Journal, "Part of the BlackPressUSA Network," which was happy to mention that:
Dr. Kamau Kambon, co-director of the Bennu Cultural Center and Blacknificent Books and More in Raleigh, spoke at a pre-Millions More Movement conference at Howard University on developing new black media for effective activism, that was carried by C-SPAN last Friday.Dr. Kambon said the black community must develop new systems of ensuring not only bits [sic] survival, but liberation, as it faces the challenges ahead.
Apparently the reporter, Cash Michaels, didn't think that the "exterminate white people" portion of Kamon's C-SPAN commentary was worth mentioning, unless that is what he meant with his comment about how the black community could ensure it's survival.
Apparently in this day and age, it is fine to be a genocidal racist psychopath, just as long as you happen to have the right skin color and ideology.
Note: Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom interviewed Kamon yesterday.
After reading Jeff Goldstein’s interview, I have even greater respect for the genius foresight that our forefathers had in adding the second amendment to the constitution. Kambon is a really detestable human being and what we used to refer to (in the Army) as an oxygen thief. If we could stem this guy’s hate speech we could avoid at least 2oF of global warming. Let Bennett make a comment that is reported out of context and the liberal media is on him like stink on s&*t, but this guy can genuinely advocate extermination of all white people and the liberal press is no where to be seen (or heard). What hypocrisy!
Posted by: Old Soldier at October 22, 2005 08:44 PMI'm embarrassed. I got my BSs from NCSU. I liked their humanities college, because most of the profs I met from there were very good teachers and taught interesting stuff, like the history of science or Chaucer. I was happy that they didn't have so many of the bullshit profs you found at Duke or Chapel Hill.
Well, I guess I'm wrong.
Posted by: meep at October 23, 2005 05:55 AMC.Y., does anyone know anything about this nutty professor's past? Was his given name at birth Ward Churchill, and he changed it to be Afro-centric? I'm sure any trip he made to Africa was funded by the same guilt-ridden white folks that he wants to exterminate!
Posted by: Tom T at October 23, 2005 08:00 AMSome one should ask this idiot whohas been busily exterminating African Animists in Sudan?
I think they are mostly Arabic Muslims with Chinese funding?
Posted by: Dan Kauffman at October 23, 2005 08:32 AMAfter reading Jeff Goldstein’s interview, and seeing the lack of coverage that this "professor" got in the national and local press, it just convinced me even more that the LLL doesn't have the guts to go after people with the viewpoint that this individual has. It read like the Communist/Black Panther Party propoganda from the 60's...
Memo to the LLL - if this guy had his way, you wopuld be in the business end of a gun or knife, since the majority of you are "Whitey", and your keeping him down....
Posted by: CK at October 23, 2005 11:31 AMA white man says that aborting black babies would reduce the crime rate- everyone takes notice and it makes national headlines, turn the tables let a black man make referance to "exterminat[ing] white people" and... nothing. Barely even a blink over it.
By the way, aborting every child of ANY RACE would result in a lower crime rate, due to a reduction in overall population. It's basic math.
Posted by: L. at October 23, 2005 02:35 PMThe URL gets blocked here but put this in google
The Forgotten Holocaust: The Eastern Slave Trade
Gives a different slant on the African Slave Trade.
You might have to look at the cache it seems to have gone over its bandwidth
Posted by: Dan Kauffman at October 23, 2005 05:58 PMActually L, the white man question, Bill Bennett, was specifically speaking out against aborting black babies, but people chose to take his comments out of context and twist them in a truly evil way.
Posted by: Confederate Yankee at October 23, 2005 08:40 PMStill nothing much on this.
Yet, two female 13 year old blond, blue eyed nazi entertainers from Bakersfield are all the rage in the media.
Go figure.
Kambon: white people want to kill us!
he's telling the truth. white's are the spawn of satan.
Posted by: truth at October 26, 2005 10:32 PMdR. kAMBON SHOWS ANOTHER EXERCISE IN THE HYPOCRITICAL SLANT NEWS MEDIA TAKES ON THE ISSUE OF RACISM.............BILL BENNETT USES AN EXTRAORDINARY ANALOGY AND ITS RACISM, KAMBON PROMOTES THE GENOCIDE OF WHITE PEOPLE AND WHO CARES
Posted by: jdb at October 26, 2005 10:46 PMPeople, use some "common sense".
Bill Bennet has served in two Presidential Administrations. He is a nationally known political analyst who regularly appears on every major news program. He has penned countless op-ed pieces run in major newpapers around the nation.
So, of course, any comment he makes is going to get more attention than some no-name former professor at a small(er) regional college.
Dr. Kambon is an idiot. Add to that, a buffon, just look at the name of his bookstore - "BlackNificent Books". Even worse, he is an idiot racist.
But, his influence and potential effect is extremely limited in it's scope. He's not even on the staff of any university at this time. Expecting national news to climb all over itself about anything he said is naive.
Try to compare apples and apples. So, if you want to compare Bill Bennett's situation to someone else, at least find a person of equal stature and visibility.
BTW, I'm black and find Kambon's statements disgusting, embarrassing, destructive, and ultimately harmful to everyone. Luckily, morons like this are given public exposure every once in a while so they can be ridiculed back under the rock that they came from.
I hope Kambon's fat mouth makes it hard for him to get hired at any University ever again. Perhaps, Bloggers and their fans can help make that possible.
Posted by: Common Sense at October 27, 2005 07:15 PMBTW, Bill Bennett should have known to clarify his off-the-cuff statement. He's been in the public eye far too long to not know that.
If he had simply paused and taken just a moment longer to put his point in greater context, a lot of the trouble could have been avoided.
Or, even better, if he had chosen a more effective analogy to make his point with, it all could have been avoided.
And, no, I don't think what he said was racist.
Posted by: Common Sense at October 27, 2005 08:19 PMthx Common Sense, even though the Piled High and Deep KK loser's remarks undermine MLK and other great Americans life's-work, they did cut deep to many of us white, mainstream, middle class folks that embrace our diversity as a strength. While in the Marines my troops were "purple". They acted it too. Thank God our country is NOT imbred like (to name a few I have LIVED in) Ukraine, Latvia, Kuwait, and Thailand. If some of you bloggers don't understand this comment just be glad you are Americans...and say "hello" every chance you get to your purple countrymen.
Posted by: BWDave at October 28, 2005 03:59 AM