Is this UC Berkeley history prof's letter real? BLM

[masmdu]

Anybody know anything about this open letter supposedly by a UC Berkeley history professor?

It was sent to me by a family member but the site that host it is conspiracy minded. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't legiit.

I'd appreciate any info or views.

https://uncoverdc.com/2020/06/12/uc-berkeley-history-professors-open-letter-against-blm-police-brutality-and-cultural-orthodoxy/

ETA: To be clear I'm not posting this because I in anyway agree with it. I'm just trying to determine if it is real.

[regnaD kciN]

1. Anyone can write an "anonymous" letter...

[Thomas Hurt]

2. The last paragraph, essentially says Floyd got what he deserved because he was a bad man.

Anonymous history professor and christofascist rhetoric...and the author didn't include the prof's supposed supporting documents.

While it is certainly possible to have a christofascist at Berkley, this smells.

[brush]

4. Thinly vieled white supremacy cloaked in the robes of academia, or pretending...

to be so.

[Caliman73]

3. Same tired response.

The idea of White Supremacy does not make Black people powerless. It makes them have to operate in a world that is hostile to them. They still succeed and they still live with pride and dignity, but they have to fight for it every day of their lives, while other groups are able to pass or are at least "invisible" so that they are not actively sought out for problems.

I say this as a Latino, a group that has also been vilified throughout American History, you cannot compare the experience of other minority groups to the experience of Black people in the US. No other group was brought here and lived for centuries as "not human". As much as Jewish people and Latinos have been persecuted, we could still in many instances, blend in and acculturate.

Black people, who helped in major ways, to build this society and are FROM HERE, have never been accepted as American.

To say that society has put up major obstacles is not to absolve people from having to try and to live decent lives. It is just acknowledging that there are major problems that have to be addressed from outside the Black community, to make the playing field equal.


So, while the authenticity of the letter being from a Berkeley professor is real or not, the sentiment is certainly not a new one. It is the same tired "lift yourself up by your bootstraps" bullshit.

[brush]

5. Thank you. Well said. I've also always thought that African Americans, being the most visible...

minority get the most sh_t shoveled at us systemically by design. Most of us still manage to think and maneuver our way around the obstacles—most of the time. Not always though, as everyone has seen in the recent spate of murders-by-cop.

Try as they might, they can't stop us though. We're still here and ain't going nowhere.

What's pathetic is the need by some to feel superior.

[Solomon]

6. Well said.

I was thinking the very same things as I was reading that screed.