"Blatant Racism Behind BAC Rally"

"Blatant Racism Behind BAC Rally"

This column by Steven Crisp was the immediate cause of the Technician burning and protest in the Brickyard on September 25, 1992. Crisp realized that the column would be controversial before it was published so it came with a long disclaimer that claimed extensive fact checking of all the views that Crisp presented as representative of the Black Awareness Council. This article argues that the Black Awareness Council of UNC-Chapel Hill is a fringe group of African Americans who hold radical views that whites take an active role in oppressing African Americans and keeping them from achieving equality. Crisp claims that students of the Black Awareness Council believe that whites are engaged in a long conspiracy of genocide against African Americans and that they believed that whites engaged actively in erasing African American achievement from history. Crisp calls these allegations "bull----!" and goes on to compare the Black Awareness Council to the Ku Klux Klan and other racial hate groups. He feels personally attacked by their views and feels that the Black Awareness Council is calling for black superiority over whites. He ends the article with a hysterical warning about a coming race war. The column's offensive language, lack of civility, and racial name-calling inflamed students across campus, beginning with the burning of the Technician and resulting in the establishment of the Nubian Message as a separate news media space for African American students.

Steven Crisp

Steven Crisp, "Blatant Racism Behind BAC Rally," The Technician vol. LXXIV no. 17 (September 23, 1992): 8-9

1992-09-23

Cheryl Dong

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Before beginning, I wish to state that this column is written in response to comments made by the groups specifically named in the text and no others. Observations are made which in no way should be attributed to members of African-American organizations as a whole. All information, quotes, and general contextual impressions have been extensively checked with others who were at the rally to ensure that the statements of these groups were clearly elucidated and with the intent which was conveyed. I further hope that this column will be read without inherent bias toward the writer. Both blacks and whites need to take the positions of these groups seriously and consider the repercussions of such positions without pre-conceived prejudices towards myself.

If a certain group of black students at UNC-Chapel Hill, otherwise known as the Black Awareness Council, wanted tos way me in support of its cause Friday night, it blew it. Badly

The Black Awareness Council, the lead organization that sponsored the We Demand a Free-Standing Black Cultural Center Right Now or We’ll Rise Against You Oppressive, Racist, Honky Crackers rally, made the biggest public relations error I have seen since Watergate.

At the pre-rally press conference, the council’s entire statement consisted of, “Nov. 13, 1992. A Free standing black cultural center.” This was in reference to the date that this group of black racists gave as its deadline for UNC to accede to all demands. When asked after the press conference about the significance of this date, a member of this group intimated that there was a strong relationship to the movie “Friday the 13th.” Does this mean that if they don’t get their demands met, they are going to don hockey masks and slash all whites or does it mean that we will have to put up with their “We’re gonna kick whitey’s butt” philosophy until we get just as sick of hearing that as we did of hearing about Jason?

At the rally itself, here are some of the things I learned about the white culture: Whites are systematically eliminating young, black males from the gene pool by forcing them to commit crimes and become imprisoned so that they cannot reproduce. This is done to commit genocide against the black race.

Whites are in a conspiracy to force black people to do drugs and then kill each other with guns which whites, of course, provide them. Again this targets the young, black male specifically so as to destroy the gene pool.

White women are watering down the pure, black gene pool by seducing black men and mating with them. Whites do this because when white women seduce black men, the men are removed from circulation among black women. Black women are becoming barren because there are no black men with which to mate.

That African-Americans are not “African-Americans--just African: period.” Whites are forcing blacks against their cultural and wills, to be exclusively Euro-centric.

Many of the well-known figures that have shaped the world’s history are not really white, but black (This is a major lie fabricated by the white oppressors.) Including Christ. This is the most blatant vomiting revisionist history since Hitler tried to make the Jews the scapegoats for his own inadequacies.

I also learned that as a white, I am automatically a racist who wants to eliminate every black person from the face of the Earth and who will do anything to further these goals

As a white person, I actively deprive blacks of all opportunities to become educated, engage in business and trade, and practice any religion they choose. I deny them the means to learn about their own culture

To this, I frankly and succintly say bulls---!

Yes, my European ancestors enslaved blacks. African ancestors enslaved Jews. (After all, radical blacks are the ones who say all the Pharaos of Egypt were probably black men.)

My generation wrongly oppressed blacks. Blacks are currently doing this to their own people in Somalia, Ethiopia, Haiti...need me to continue?

My white, racist government designed and built sub-standard housing to segregated blacks and laughingly called it Urban Revitalization. I suppose that in every black-ruled country in Africa there are slums, hunger-stricken people or uneducated citizens

But these ideologically flawed, mindlessly following Louis Farrakhan racists have to answer for this

If whites impose any suppression to the cause of total black power, obviously it is the whites who are blatant racists. If the blacks disagree with this extremist position (which according to council speakers indicates “whatever necessary,” --violence and the final solution). It is the whites who have brainwashed the black brothers and sisters and turned them into Uncle Toms.

And by the way, how come if whites say that blacks are better athletes, this is considered racist? As throughout the rally it was repeatedly pointed out that if it was not for the overwhelming prowess of the black athlete, the Dean Dome and all the other sports arenas of the century wouldn’t exist.

How come the word “nigger” when spoken by a white is a racial slur but when said by a black gets a laugh from the crowd? And how come “cracker” and “honky” as racial epithets are fine for blacks to use when characterizing whites?

How come a black cultural center is demanded but even whispers of a white cultural center would result in riots in the streets?

Why don’t you narrow-minded, racist Klu Klux Blacks of the Black Awareness Council recognize that the only difference between blacks and whites is our skin color?

You want equality? Fine, let’s work together.

You want black superiority and dominance over whites (including myself for injustices I didn’t even take part in), then you will get a war that will make the Watts riots of 1968 look like toy soldiers playing in a sandbox.

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