Jerry Hough (1935- ) is an American political scientist, a professor at Duke University. About to retire, he is no longer holding his tongue on his racist views.
On May 9th 2015, in the wake of the Baltimore riots, the New York Times printed an editorial: “How Racism Doomed Baltimore”. It spoke of:
“the century-long assault that Baltimore’s blacks have endured at the hands of local, state and federal policy makers, all of whom worked to quarantine black residents in ghettos, making it difficult even for people of means to move into integrated areas that offered better jobs, schools and lives for their children. This happened in cities all over the country, but the segregationist impulse in Maryland generally was particularly virulent and well-documented in Baltimore, which is now 63 percent black.”
Hough commented:
“In 1965 the Asians were discriminated against as least as badly as blacks. That was reflected in the word “colored.” …
So where are the editorials that say racism doomed the Asian-Americans. They didn’t feel sorry for themselves, but worked doubly hard.
I am a professor at Duke University. Every Asian student has a very simple old American first name that symbolizes their desire for integration. Virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration. The amount of Asian-white dating is enormous and so surely will be the intermarriage. Black-white dating is almost non-existent because of the ostracism by blacks of anyone who dates a white.”
The US is fine the way it is. All Blacks have to do is:
- Not feel sorry for themselves.
- Work doubly hard.
- Have a very simple old American name.
- Date and marry a White.
This comes one month after a noose was found hanging from a tree at Duke.
Duke defended Hough’s academic freedom to say what he wanted, but also said:
“The comments were noxious, offensive, and have no place in civil discourse.”
Twenty-eight Asian Americans at Duke and nearby UNC Chapel Hill said Hough’s comments were:
“deeply misguided and fundamentally racist.”
They said he misused:
“Asian-American experiences at large not only to berate African Americans and deny them racial justice but to uphold white supremacy.”
That is a common use of the Model Minority stereotype.
Hough was unmoved:
“I am strongly against the obsession with ‘sensitivity.’ The more we have emphasized sensitivity in recent years, the worse race relations have become. I think that is not an accident.”
He says that no one had proved him wrong – they just called him “ignorant” and “racist”:
“I am 80 and I figure I can speak truth as I see it. Ignorant I am not.”
And besides, Martin Luther King is his hero.
He has three degrees from Harvard and has written 13 books. He is a revisionist historian who says that Stalin’s level of terror has been overblown. He was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a think tank.
Whites like to think racism is dead and that education is a cure.
Thanks to Stephanie B. for suggesting this post.
– Abagond, 2015.
See also:
- New York Times: How Racism Doomed Baltimore
- Chapel Hill shooting – three months ago
- Model Minority stereotype
- Racist Uncle
- Freddie Gray and Baltimore
- Not a cure for racism
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I read about this old demented fossil three weeks ago on another blogsite. Tsk, Tsk, smh, so close to the grave and so angry.
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He even looks like he is mixed race himself probably one of those self hating black from that era who passed for white.
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“He has three degrees from Harvard and has written 13 books. He is a revisionist historian who says that Stalin’s level of terror has been overblown. He was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a think tank.
Whites like to think racism is dead and that education is a cure.”
Love the last line abagond. Clearly education has not worked to cure Mr. Houghs racism as it’s on full display.
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Kiwi,
You are so right on the money about intermarriage. As long as white men have access to women of Color, it’s alright. But let it be men of Color dating/marrying white women, It’s guaranteed that the creepy Duke professor would sing a different tune. He’s just mad that Black men have access to white women and Black women dating/marrying/having families with Black men and Black women’s agency.
My two cents on Jerry.
S.B.
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One other thing, interracial relationships aren’t cure for racism. 400 years of rape/violence of Black women by white men show us that.
S.B.
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Also this gHough uy is a perfect example of the contention that racism is a mental illness. Here we have somebody who is onjectively intelligent. He has not one, not two but three degress from Harvard and has written 13 books and he is a professor at Duke but when it come to race, he sounds as igbnorant as any stereotypical Bubba.
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Man, I’m in a typo mania! My previous post s/b:
“Also this guy Hough is a perfect example of the contention that racism is a mental illness. Here we have somebody who is objectively intelligent. He has not one, not two but three degress from Harvard, has written 13 books and is a professor at Duke but when it come to race, he sounds as ignorant as any stereotypical Bubba.”
@Mary Burrell,
You may be on to something there…..it does have a bit of that feel to it.
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@ks: Good to read you.
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I think he has some valid points, but he put them in a very nice-nasty way. I’m African American, and some of us fit those images. Hough grossly exaggerates the degree of Blacks who fall under that category of course, but some Black parents expect the school systems to cover their deficiencies. I come from a family of educators, and the Hispanic kids are beginning to pull wayyyyy ahead academically because their parents are heavily involved.
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@Mary Burrell
I think one of his parents must have been. What is the estimate? About 15-20% of white Southerners have recent African ancestry? Some of them are the ones who are the most racist against blacks. It is if they had to become hyperwhite (or their parents) to prove that they are white.
That is a legacy of the 19th century where
– part black meant slavery, or later, Jim Crow
– part native american meant removed from your homeland and sent to Oklahoma.
So mixed race people did all they could to prove they were white.
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@jefe: I agree
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@Cee
“some Black parents expect the school systems to cover their deficiencies”—I agree, but I also think some of those parents lack the education to truly help their kids in the manner that will allow them to truly succeed. That coupled with working odd hours and jobs that don’t allow them to be home can be a great hindrance in being there for the kids.
Then there is always the parents that just are not there because everything under the sun is too darn important for them, but there kids.
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@Mary B. I thought that old coot was “mixed” somewhere down the line too when I first saw his pic!
@ Kiwi “But the vast majority of Asian-white dating and intermarriage is between white men and Asian women. If this is an indicator that Asian women are integrating, then it is equally an indicator that Asian men are not. A racist double standard is being applied.” THIS!!!
@ Cee ““some Black parents expect the school systems to cover their deficiencies”, true for Some-but this in my personal experience as someone who has been an active member on PTA groups have seen this happen from pretty much Every ethnic background (including Latino/Latina) groups who did not participate actively in their child’s educational process, and have simply left everything up to the instructor instead. Dare I say there have been quite a few from this background, actually and the sad part is that is often gets overlooked whilst anything a couple of Black folks may or may not do always is scrutinized and blown over proportion..I have lived all over this nation/plantation, and can Honestly say that the Majority of people who I have seen do their best to give a rat’s azz about their kids’ education has been that of both Black (American, and non) and Asian parents alike..
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Hi everyone. Probably won’t comment here much going forward, as I end up rehashing the same arguments with the same people time and time again, which is probably tiresome for most readers (myself included).
However, it interests me, given the importance of the “R” word in shaping the Narrative(TM), that there don’t seem to be gradations of this term. This type of guy, who thinks MLK is his hero and believes in personal, “colorblind” accountability, is very different from the race realist guys who don’t believe steps 1-4 above will work, and probably a lot less dangerous to the Narrative. Why are there not separate variations on the “R” word to take this into consideration? Would having variations cause people to think more about actual context and detract from the intentional defamatory power of the term? It’s kind of a rhetorical question, but I know I’ll get insults for putting it out there.
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@Kiwi/Stephaniegirl
The vast amount of asian marriage is between asian women and white men.
Asian Men date/co-habitate at the same levels.
And those 400 yrs weren’t “relationships” so much as rape. Didn’t really have to interact with them as equals or consider them as people even in the sense of how men looked at women of those era’s.
Thinking about it; the south has the highest amount of inter-racial relationships per rate or whatever if I remember right and if you look at where the riots are accurring lately.
Its Ferguson and Baltimore, that’s the mid-west and kind of the north right?
@Post in General
To be “fair” to Hough he doesn’t seem to be denying that racism exists…..just saying that different groups have reacted and been treated differently.
That asians have made more attempts to assimilate.
Which is true; racism against black people with black sounding names does cause them to get less call backs…..
That in order to do better all they have to do is work harder.
Well; yes in order to do better in a racist system they will need to work much harder than they should have to.
Basically the biggest problem isn’t that he’s out and out “wrong” here but that he’s “accepting” of the status quo.
As Abagond said; even though he hasn’t flat out said or maybe even straight out thought it……ultimately he’s think’s there’s nothing wrong with how things are or simply doesn’t care enough to think that they need to change.
Basically; even if he’s right, he’s still wrong.
I mean; even going with what he puts forward that the asians have managed to prosper and accomplish amazing things under racist scenario’s where black people haven’t.
I mean; shit’s still racist that shouldn’t be racist.
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@ biff
How would the gradations help?
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King:
For killing someone, there could be various degrees of murder, voluntary and involuntary manslaughter, justifiable homicide (shooting in self-defense), etc. These different gradations help quantify the culpability of the shooter and the appropriate punishment (if any).
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..I lived on the West Coast long enough to concur with the assertion that Cali does indeed have the most “mixed” couples-though it is growing in the South at a significant rate too. albeit a lesser degree in most places. As for not wanting to “whiten” one’s name, that is the lamest excuse for not viewing a fellow citizen as any less patriotic as the next. No one (these days,anyway) are making Italians for example, change their names. As a matter of fact, they generally (and rightfully) take Pride in their heritage and the names that go along with them and are even celebrated for them! Why aren’t those with Dutch, French, Armenians, etc. being nit-picked about not changing their original names on the level that Black U.S. citizens are?
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I have a question in regards to the name issue. Is the difference between Black and White first names also noticable in the middle class? Because we have a very similar discussion in Germany about lower class names.
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I’ll be more sympathetic after Asians don’t have to have a higher median score for uni acceptance than any other ‘race’. Pardon me. I just said good bye to a friend who would have gotten a free ride scholarship had he been White or Hispanic or Black.
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So Hough believes in the old “melting pot” method of acceptance for non-whites and the suspiciously swarthy:
1) Shed everything concrete about your culture (save for the stuff that can be distilled down to a kitschy, overly-simplistic representation – teepees for the natives, Pizza and mobsters for the Italians, shamrocks, St. Patrick’s Day and public drunkenness for the Irish).
2) Adopt the all-American work ethic at the detriment of your own physical and mental well-being.
3) Exclusively date and marry Whites in hopes of further acceptance.
4) Deny your offspring their cultural heritage (save for the cheezy schlock) and have them date and marry White as well.
5) Rinse and repeat as necessary until your family FINALLY becomes white as enriched rice.
It worked for the Irish, Italians, Scots and Eastern Europeans. Even the Roma. But not so much for blacks.
Turns out dumping several buckets of white paint into black paint doesn’t do much but make infinite shades of grey.
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Yes, but, to my knowledge, we are not, convicting people of racism. We are just using the term to identify a category of actions and/or attitudes.
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What is truly frightening about this is that this guy is a political science professor at Duke University, and yet can be so dramatically stupid in the field of political science.
First, the Hypocrisy. When have Whites ever assimilated anywhere? Take Hawaii for example. Whites came to live there long before it became a state. But did they adapt and fit into the Kingdom of Hawaii? Did they take on Hawaiian names and customs? Did they marry the natives in high numbers? No. And the same is true all over the world. There are “New Londons” and “new Hampshires” and New Englands” on just about every continent! And the people who settled there ate european food, wore european clothes, spoke european languages, and married almost exclusively to fellow europeans. Can a social science professor really be this stupid? He is piously pointing his finger at behaviors that his own people never have followed.
And yet the accusation he has made against American Blacks are also shockingly untrue. Take the name thing. Just take five minutes and go down the roster of past or present NBA teams. What percentage of the players have non-european names? I mean seriously, Erving Johnson (Magic), Julius Winfield Erving, (Dr. J) Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain… even a guy named Shaquille has the last name, O’Neal. Look at our Civil Rights leaders, Martin, Malcolm, Medgar, Rosa! Even our rappers, Shawn Corey Carter, (Jay Z), Sean John Combs (Puff Daddy). Where does he get this data suggesting that most Blacks in America have not adopted european names? Is he a Fool?
But then you go to hard work… How many Blacks for how many centuries were doing the most backbreaking agricultural labor in this country? Blacks were only allowed to do manual labor at pretty low wages and often under pretty bad conditions. We have done every hard job that there is in America for most of our generations living here. But then again, I guess he is not the first to announce that hard work is the key to overcoming racist hatred. The inscription on the gates of Dachau read: Arbeit macht frei (Work Will Make You Free)
But it never did. You just die as a slave.
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What would Hough think of a Black professor in South Africa who said that Whites should:
1. Not feel sorry for themselves.
2. Work doubly hard.
3. Have a very simple old African name.
4. Date and marry a Black.
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Ha! That would be a great thought experiment!
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@Mary and Jefe
I agree with you both.
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@King
Well said.
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@agabond,
Regarding he last two items on your list. What makes you think that white South Africans aren’t patiently waiting for someone to tell them to do just that. Hmmmmm…….. You never know.
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@MB & Sharina,
I just read this:
(http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/26/the-education-of-professor-jerry-hough/)
This was probably his family’s strategy (ie, his mixed race grandparent’s), so if his grandparent can do it and produce white identified grandchildren that can pass as white, so can any black person. The cure to anti-black racism in America is to amalgamate and become white.
What puts the nail on the coffin for this postulation is the series of lectures I received from my white identified grandmother in the Deep South when I was a child. She stressed the utter need to be identified as a white person, and that is why I must marry a white person and my kids must also. Even though I could never be white, by that time my grandchildren, or definitely my great grandchildren should be white enough to be considered more or less as white.
She used to talk exactly like Jerry Hough. The four points that Abagond summarized above is almost a carbon copy of the lecture I received from my Alabama grandmother.
Later I saw a 19th century photograph of her grandmother in Georgia. She looked like the triracial black/white/native Americans that I grew up with (ie, definitely brown). I asked her if she was white, and with a look of dread on her face, she told me that as far as she knew, she was white. “Black Dutch” they called it. ha-ha.
My brother picked this up this line of thinking and even tried teaching her part Chinese daughter (ie, my niece) to marry white. He uses anti-black language (even the n-word) liberally within ear shot of whites – ie, hyperwhite anti-black behaviour in the presence of whites. In high school, his daughter got pregnant with a triracial man who had a black father. She left home at 17 to move in with her boyfriend. She had a miscarriage, but got pregnant again and now has a baby who is black, white, Chinese and Native American descent, who, to me, can pass as Mexican. She doesn’t talk much to her father (my brother).
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@Jefe
Jefe, you have an interesting family. It seems like be around your extended family might be a problem to the depression and social anxiety plaguing my existence….
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Someone born is 1935 doesn’t remember what the good ol US of A was like? Rather convenient. My bullshiteometer broke when lined up his face with his words. Basically, everybody should want to be “white”! Excuse me while I vomit.
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I read the essay, “The Education of Jerry Hough”. What is not mentioned in the Jerry Hough controversy is the racist history of interracial relationships. I know this is discussed on this website but mainstream America wants to avoid its evil history in order to tell Blacks to “get over slavery, jim crow, etc.”, marry whites, and work harder than whites. Here’s what the author said:
“From Thomas Jefferson to Strom Thurmond, however, white men’s sexual relations with black women, often coercive, has not appeared to elevate white consciousness toward African Americans at a systemic level. They still managed to hold slaves, defend segregation, and rant against “miscegenation.”
“Between the high horse of popular indignation and the steady decency of Duke’s response, much of what absolutely needs to be said has been said. Sadly, though, most of the conversation leaves everyone that is not a forthright bigot or a clumsy racialist feeling all pristine and rosy. There are two places, however, where much of America appears to agree with Hough but doesn’t want to say so.
First, Hough’s brief history of American ethnic politics, which faults African Americans for their own dilemmas and paints other groups as shining successes who have risen by hard work and positive outlook, is something you can hear all over the country, from boardroom to poolroom. Many people of all hues cannot decide whether it is cultural or genetic but agree with Hough that something is wrong with black people.
Hough’s commonplace “history” is the shallow, impressionistic and wrong-headed account that uses invidious stereotypes, sweeping tysonbloodgeneralizations and convenient falsehoods to reach preordained conclusions, overlooking the messy and painful realities of our actual history. “An invented past can never be used,” writes James Baldwin. “It cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.”
For African Americans, this country has been the insoluble melting pot, the one that doesn’t melt. It has been the dark and bloody ground. We have operated by the one-drop rule; that is, any visible evidence of African ancestry makes you black. And black Americans, for their part, have seen overwhelming evidence that unity, pride and power are the engines of progress and dignity.
After Emancipation, hope for African Americans citizenship died in white mob violence that overthrew the Reconstruction governments and installed white dominion by force, fraud, and slander. In the Jim Crow South, black citizens lived “under the heel of a regime that elevated armed robbery to a governing principle,” writes Ta-Nahesi Coates. The fruits of their labor, any land they acquired, the privileges of citizenship, any economic ground they gained, and sometimes their very lives were stolen from them. After World War II, black Southerners struggled for decades to obtain a narrow legal equality, and white opposition to their gains continues to define Southern politics.”
Hough’s obtuse ignorance of true American history toward Blacks is cringeworthy.
S.B.
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@Gen
That was indeed the common refrain I heard from Jim Crow era white southerners. My grandmother is approximately one generation older the Jerry Hough and she could not understand otherwise.
Truth be told, there are plenty of skeletons in those white closets. Many whites have blacks and Native Americans in their family tree, but they must forget about them. It is the only way that they can forget about the evil past – have the descendants become white.
Then I think, how is this any different from the Han Chinese?
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This guy’s comments bring trouble to my mind in a few different ways, but I’m still processing it? And I never had heard of him before this article. Interesting that this isn’t ‘trending’ on facebook. Just wanted to make a couple comments, briefly… I was working in a store today, to which I had never been before. All the employees were white, there were 3 of them at that time which they decided to have a ‘spirited’ chat. Previously, the manager had told me, once i started opening ceiling tiles, that his ‘weed was up there,’ and for me to ‘leave it alone,’ fair enough, i would smoke weed all day if i could, so it was amusing. Perhaps he was ‘sizing’ me up to see if I was a religious person who would take exception to the convo that was about to pursue? Then he asked me if he could get porn on the new surveillance system i was installing. I told him ‘that’s on you.’ A few minutes after that, i was regaled with a conversation about some redhead woman’s ‘carpet matching the drapes’ and her private parts shaving proclivities. After that, they talked about the confederate flag, one guy saying that it was just showing that you were a sportsman or something? and just enjoyed hunting and fishing. I have no idea where this guy got that story from, and he said he had spent some time down south. I made a noise of disbeliefe, kind of a ‘sheesh’ thing and they toned that down considerably, but I think they only missed religion in terms of “what not to talk about at work.” I was up on a 12′ ladder and rather busy so I just kind of listened? Don’t forget, some people are just idiots. Some people work at cultivating ignorance.
I also hope this thread starts some talk regarding the underclass again. Had a not so pleasant conversation with my mom today as well, and she is a firm proponent of the ‘bootstrap’ theory, and we had a rather long conversation about benefits for the poor and disabled, my thing is drugs and alcohol should be a real disability. There’s too much in that subject to really conquer in this one message, but in reflection (we did move off our nasty, beat up, drug infested block), almost everyone i came into contact with in SW Philly (which is obviously skewed away from workers but I find there be some merit to my research) and almost everyone I encountered (and got close enough to to discuss the like) got benefits, SSDI, stamps, welfare (very rare), etc etc. My mom, you know, like regarding the black wife, since me and the wife are kind of jammed up for a spot to live for a few reasons, isn’t THAT liberal regarding having her come stay for a couple weeks until we get a place, and also she’s turning into quite a republican, startling me even, regarding working people ‘footing the bill’ for public aid receipients, I told her she should look into the military budget first, so there’s a lot to unpack and parse here, but I would like to discuss the underclass, someone above in this thread i believe did use the term ‘low class’ people (well kartoffel did anyway), it’s a real phenomenon!
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Just think would should have the link to the New York Times articles that Jerry Hough reacted to:
How Racism Doomed Baltimore
(www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/opinion/sunday/how-racism-doomed-baltimore.html)
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Re:
Both of these statements are really off the mark.
The highest rate of interracial relationships and marriage is on the west coast, esp. in places like Seattle.
Baltimore is right at the crossroads of 3 cultural traditions
– to the North and Northeast (moving towards Philadelphia and south Jersey) is the middle-Atlantic Quaker kind of culture that was heavily influenced by German-Americans
– to the west (moving towards West Virginia) is the Appalachian culture, with some German-American influence in the Maryland Piedmont
– to the South, in Southern Maryland and the Eastern shore along both sides of the Chesapeake bay and lower Potomac (ie, Tidewater Maryland), the culture is decidedly more Southern, the legacy of a plantation culture manned by black slaves.
We could say that Baltimore is at the northern apex of the South. Some of its Jim Crow laws were even more stringent than the Deep South.
I have not been to Ferguson, but have been through St. Louis. The hinterland surrounding east, north and west is more mid-western, but moving south along the Mississippi River, it becomes decidedly more southern. St. Louis is also very much a boundary city between the North and South.
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@Jefe
I added that NYT link. Thanks.
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@ biff
That is a great idea, distinguishing which kind of racist someone is. Just like what they do with Muslims. So you could have moderate racists, fanatical racists, extremist racists, former racist, and so on.
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Reblogged this on Steph's Blog and commented:
The US is fine the way it is. All Blacks have to do is:
Not feel sorry for themselves.
Work doubly hard.
Have a very simple old American name.
Date and marry a White
– According to Jerry “Springer” Hough
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Does anyone know where Jerry Hough was born and raised?
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More cringeworthy commentary by Jerry Springer Hough at HuffPo:
Meanwhile, concerned parents have contacted Hough while one in particular has written to him to say she will not be sending her daughter to Duke because of him. In response, Hough wrote a letter to the parent that he later shared with HuffPost. He noted parts of this letter are specifically addressed to the parent and not what he “would emphasize to a more general audience.”
Read his full response below:
I do not teach on this subject, and 2016 will be my last year of teaching at Duke. Your daughter can avoid me next year. Unless things have changed the last year, her problem if she wants to date a white or Asian at Duke is the enormous pressure from the black mail [sic] population, who, I am told, do not want competition. I too see many black-white couples on the streets of DC and for a half century have thought intermarriage between whites and blacks was as crucial as for other ethnic groups. I have not seen such couples on the Duke campus. I have asked students why and get a generally uniform answer.
I have been at Duke for 40 years and was a disciple of Martin Luther King in the 1950s. I am very disappointed in the lack of progress that I have seen. So I think would Dr. King. 60 years since Montgomery is a long time to say that the current black experience is the result of them not being voluntary immigrants when almost but Caribbeans have roots that go back before the Revolution. A very, very long time. Those blacks who come from the Caribbean were not in the Americas voluntarily.
I remember the 1940s and 1950s. The Japanese concentration camps for American-Japanese showed the deepest of prejudice. One was not far from where I lived in the California desert. The Chinese were brought as contract labor. They too felt deep prejudice The Japanese who were imprisoned did not come out saying that they could not rise because of the prejudice and the scars of the camps. They and the Chinese rose. I do not think the reason was genetic.
I think that lack of freedom of speech on this issue is one reason for the problem. Dr. King was talking for a melting pot America not a diverse one narrowly defined. I voted for Obama because of what he said about red America and black America. I hoped that he would say he was melting pot, half white and half black, and reach out to the red voters (the lower and middle income whites). He did not, and I am not surprised that polls say race relations are worse than for a long time.
They are many ways to achieve acceptance. I think they should be debated. The Supreme Court has 6 Catholics, 3 Jews, and 0 Protestants. That is the opposite of diversity, given the enormous hostility of white Catholics, Jews, and Protestants towards each other in the past. Blacks should ask how that hostility dissipated so much that today we don’t even notice the lack of diversity.
Race in the early 20th century was defined by culture. Poles and Italians were called races, and there was a lot of mutual hostility between them. Poles were subject to the most humiliating of jokes about their stupidity. Go to the archives at the time Pope John Paul II was elected and read such jokes about him in the Duke Chronicle. Coach K was at Duke at that time. He didn’t say that the jokes about Polish stupidity (or stereotypes about drunkenness) prevented him from rising. Instead he showed his incredible intelligence and discipline in the biggest of the big leagues, and he has been an historic force in destroying the prejudices against Poles in this country. His daughter married an Italian, and I remember when she gave birth to a son, Coach K told a press conference that the last thing he ever expected as a young man was a grandson named Giovanni. His experience provides lessons too.
Blogs are places where there is some sloppiness and (in the NYT) about 300 word limits That editorial in the NYT was the worst that I think I have ever seen. There were typos in my outrage towards it and I could have been more careful (but hard in the space limits), as I have, I think, in this letter. But the Times is the voice of a party that is an unholy alliance of Westchester County and Harlem. That party gives Westchester a tripling of the market and Harlem (and everyone in the bottom 90%) a decline in wages over the last six years.
The Times speaks for those in Westchester and other places such as Marin County who are its readers. It and its party gives Harlem nothing but symbolism and talk of racism of which I think that the editorial was a prime example. I think the worst problem for blacks is the Westchester wing of the party, not the white middle and lower income who vote red. I know there are blacks in the 20% of the population who own significant stocks, but for most of the black population I think the time has to focus more on the Asian experience and its lessons for them. That is a debate we need, and perhaps I should write a book that opens it up.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/duke-jerry-hough-racist_n_7309148.html
S.B.
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@LofM
I was just wondering if he is from the southern Appalachia region (ie, the area ringed by eastern Tennessee, NE Alabama, NW Georgia, NW South Carolina, and the mountain regions of North Carolina), as that is where I heard people talk like him. It is also the region where a lot of mixed white/black/Native American people passed into white after the Civil war.
But Stephaniegirl’s linked article text said he lived in the California desert in the 1940s-50s, so he must have grown up there.
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@Stephaniegirl; Thanks for that link.
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This video exemplifies why black people Will Never be able to “integrate” into a colour-blind society– it’s not because they don’t want to — it’s because white American will Never let them.
Jerry Hough lives in fantasy land.
Texas Cop Suspended After Video Emerges of Him Pulling a Gun on Group of Teens at Pool Party
“Police were notified that several juveniles at a pool were there without permission and reportedly did not live in the area.
Brooks, the white 15-year-old who shot the YouTube video, told BuzzFeed News many students had arrived at the end-of-school celebration at the pool on guest passes.
“I think a bunch of white parents were angry that a bunch of black kids who don’t live in the neighborhood were in the pool,” said Brooks, who is white.
Grace Stone, a white 14-year-old, told BuzzFeed News that when she and her friends objected to the racist comments about public housing an adult woman then became violent, fighting with a black teenage girl.”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R46-XTqXkzE)
So, an adult white woman hits a teenager, who objected to being called a “n-g” and the police in turn, terrorize the black children.
and somehow, according to Jerry Hough, it’s black people’s faults that they are being treated like second-class citizens in the USA
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Which Asian is this guy even talking about? South Asians do better than East or South East Asians generally. Maybe he meant South Asian since some can be considered “White”.
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SMH, WTF.
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Mckinney was once lilley white up until a few years ago black people have been buying homes and the white people have been feeling some kind of way about it. I remember two years ago for my birthday my best friend took me out to eat at a restaurant there and we went walking around downtown and in the neighborhood. It’s nice and quaint but i guess they don’t want too much melanin in the community with the exception of the Asians. That’s how it goes in Texas.
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@stephaniegirl: To Hough — Any fair discussion of the Asian experience and any relevance to Blacks would also have to include objective discussion of the DIFFERENCES between the two, and the ramifications of those differences for Blacks’ position in society and what is available for them to get ahead.
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I’d also say that if Hough wants a melting pot and wants all the cultures to mix together, for the melting pot to be FAIR WHITES would have to “assimilate” THEIR culture to BLACK and ASIAN norms as well, a convergence of cultures EQUALLY, not everyone assimilating to a WHITE Norm, which is RACIST as all getout.
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@ Linda
Ha! I posted the same video on Open Thread
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Just now hearing about this educated fool. Since when has interracial relationships or interracial sex been a panacea to the racial problems of society? Answer: never. I think suggesting that Blacks/other poc marry whites is a lazy solution to the racism in society. Basically this professor recognizes that there are issues but doesn’t want to implement laws in society that would help to overcome racist practices. Tra la la we’ll just sex it away with no real changes being made and more importantly without inconveniencing white people.
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I find it interesting that he is suggesting that Blacks intermarry more with whites as a solution to racism. Does he tell white people to stop holding on to racist attitudes towards Blacks and be more open to marrying Blacks? He also mentioned something about Blacks not doing this more because of ostracism they (we) face from other Blacks. I wonder if the good professor has a case of sour grapes.
Was there a Black woman in his past who refused to date him?
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This clown Jerry reads and looks like a character out of the Onion or MAD magazine! What’s scary, is that he is ‘real’.
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[…] Jerry Hough (1935- ) is an American political scientist, a professor at Duke University. About to retire, he is no longer holding his tongue on his racist views.Continue reading, if you want to understand how the doctrine of White Supremacy, ethnocentrism and racism is spread through academia. […]
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@Steven Dietmar (@DietmarSteven)
Viele danle / thanks, but, personally, I’ve already made a deal with another bank 🙂
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