Recently a videotape was released of B. Hussein Obama lauding and embracing Dr. Derrick Bell, a key advocate of what is known as “critical race theory.” Most Americans, being too busy watching the NCAA Basketball tournament do not realize how significant the discovery of this videotape is. So, because Americans don’t care to understand matters of such grave import if they don’t lend a quick and easy explanation and are too apathetic or preoccupied to realize that the man who is called “President” has drank deeply from the well of Cultural Marxism, this entry is committed to setting forth, in an easy to understand way, why Obama, first lauding and embracing Dr. Derrick Bell and later requiring the reading of Bell’s works as assignment for his students is a matter to note.
Since some Americans learn better visually then by reading, I offer the below video for their consumption.
http://content.bitsontherun.com/previews/ITUgkkVN-svqBtzyp
For the rest we start our examination of Obama and Bell by noting that the critical race theory that Bell created and Obama embraced starts with an understanding that critical race theory is a subset of critical theory, or to put it another way, critical race theory is the critical theory of Cultural Marxism as applied to race.
For a brief explanation of cultural Marxism of which critical theory is a tool in order to advance see,
https://ironink.org/2010/09/gramsci_aamp_cultural_marxism/
https://ironink.org/2012/01/1300/
Critical theory became a key tool used by the Cultural Marxists who desired to overthrow the Christian influenced social order of Western Civilization. Critical theory was a tool of destruction introduced by a chap named Max Horkheimer in an essay entitled “Traditional and Critical Theory.” In Horkheimer’s essay we learn that Critical theory, in line with it’s Marxist pedigree, is a social theory dedicated not only toward critiquing a culture and prevailing social order but also to transforming it and changing it. In the creative hands of the Marxists the aim was to change and transform Western civilization. When considering this aspect of Critical theory keep in mind that Marx said that “the point is not merely to understand the world, but to change it.” Critical theory was oriented towards that goal.
Critical race theory then was, as we have already said, a subset of this Critical theory as applied to race, and as it is applied to race its purpose is to critique the idea of advance by way of merit and ability as merely a guise used by whites to maintain their power and dominance over blacks. Bell’s writings suggest that merit and natural ability were not the real reason for advantage but rather were the social construct used to explain white advantage over blacks. The consequence of Bell’s writings is that the reader was instructed that the differentiation in the degree of ownership is accounted for, not by sweat and hard work, but rather by institutional racism. The natural conclusion of this thinking was that the social injustice engendered by such a social construct racist system can only be rectified by a redistributionist economic model where whites have property stripped from them in order to give to the minority oppressed. This was coupled with the zealous pursuit of quotas and set asides, as well as a post-modern view of truth where a matter is true only if advances the critical race theory cause and a matter is false only if it does not advance the anti-white, anti-Christian, cultural Marxist agenda of Derrick Bell. Keep in mind in all this that this is the same worldview out of which B. Hussein Obama is living as evidenced not only by his support of Bell but only by his close relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright (who himself was a disciple of James Cone and was inspired by Derrick Bell) and by his close relationship with Bill Ayers.
Ayers affection for critical race theory is heard in the below 67 second clip.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/03/15/Ayers%20Revolution%20Needed%20To%20Stop%20White%20Supremacy
So we begin to see a tapestry being woven here. The Dunham family moved in 1955 to Mercer Island Seattle in order to put daughter Stanley Ann Dunham in a school that they knew was being led by self-admitted and known Communists John Stenhouse. There Ann Dunham was instructed by two teachers Val Fobear and Jim Winterman where subject matters such as Atheism, Materialism and Communism were covered. Not only did the Dunham’s send Ann to this school they also attended a Church led by Communist Stenhouse called “The Little Red Church on the Hill” where Stenhouse would teach on Marx’s planks of communism. Of course Stanley Ann Dunham would become the mother of B. Hussein Obama, who in his book, “Dreams Of My Father,” speaks of a mentor named “Frank” (Frank Marshall Davis). Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified Obama’s mentor as a Communist Party USA member. What’s more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations. While in college Obama has high esteem for cultural Marxist Dr. Derrick Bell, and later assigns Bell’s writings to the students of his classes. We also know that eventually Obama ends up in Chicago teaching the techniques of Cultural Marxist, Saul Alinsky (Rules For Radicals). During the 2008 Presidential campaign Obama has to disavow his pastor of 20 years Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who is himself a cultural Marxist of the Black Liberation theology variety and who practices in the pulpit, what might be called, “critical preaching theory.” Once elected Obama surrounds himself with Czars and personnel who have some connections to one Marxist variant or another (Van Jones, Donald Berwick, Leon Panetta, Kevin Jennings, Anita “Mao is my hero” Dunn, Eric “I don’t prosecute Panthers who are Black” Holder, etc.). In Obama’s first two Supreme Court appointments he places a woman who worked closely with Dr. Derrick Bell and a woman who gave a critical race theory soundbite when she said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” Finally throw in in this context Obama’s wife’s comment about “for the first time being proud of America” and one begins to see not merely a narrative but a Novel the size of “War and Peace,” that tells the Obama story. Really, does B. Hussein Obama have to walk up to a microphone and say, “I am a cultural Marxist,” in order for voters to understand that B. Hussein Obama is a Cultural Marxist who isn’t particularly fond of non cultural Marxist white people?
B. Hussein Obama’s whole career — his whole identity — has been shaped by Marxist / Cultural Marxist categories. From his Mother’s training in Communism, to his mentoring relationship with Frank Marshall Davis, to his affection for Dr. Derrick Bell, to his work as a communist agitator, er, I mean, community organizer of the Saul Alinsky stripe, to his friendship with known Marxists Bill Ayers and Bernadin Dohrn, to his Chief Executive appointments to various offices Obama while clearly Black on the outside is clearly red on the inside.
Right on! I was aware of most of this except for the early family ties of the Dunham’s to communism and Critical Theory. What an excellent summarization!
Good piece. Thanks for writing it.