Who’s As Bad As Ever?

According to the College Fix, a Duke University sociology professor, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, told an audience at Dartmouth that “white people are as racist as they’ve ever been.”

There is, however, a more compelling alternative theory: left wing sociologists are at least as dumb as they’ve ever been.

On his “Durham-In-Wonderland” blog devoted to the Duke faculty’s shameful role during the lacrosse scandal there, KC Johnson mentioned the following in his 2007 description of Prof. Bonilla-Silva:

At various points in his teaching or scholarship, Bonilla-Silva has used other names for the country of which he is a citizen. In his most recent book, his preface described the United States as “gringoland.” In a course syllabus used at his previous institution, Texas A&M, he wrote, “We conclude the class with a discussion of some of the solutions that have been proposed to deal with the racial dilemmas plaguing the United States of Amerikkka (I will remove the three Ks from this word when the USA removes racial oppression from this country!).” Without explanation, he dropped two of the “Ks” in a forthcoming essay entitled, “Latinos in the Midst: Where Will Latinos Fit in the Emerging Latin America-Like Racial Order in Amerika….”

Racism without Racists opens with the following claim: “In this country, racial ‘others’ of dark complexion are always viewed as incapable of doing much; we are regarded and treated as secondary actors only good for doing beds in hotels or working in fast-food restaurants” [emphasis added]….

In his writing, Bonilla-Silva regularly employs generic quotes, often invented by him, that he argues typify the “white” viewpoint. (These quotes almost always portray their “white” speaker as transparently racist) ….

Bonilla-Silva denies that he seeks “to demonize whites.” After all, he noted, “Historically, many good people supported slavery and Jim Crow”—just like the “good people” in the current environment who “oppose (or have some reservations about) affirmative action.”