“I call it the niggerization of a people, not just black people, because America been niggerized since 9/11. When you’re niggerized, you’re unsafe, unprotected, subject to random violence, hated for who you are. You become so scared that you defer to the powers that be, and you’re willing to consent to your own domination. And that’s the history of black people in America. That’s the history of black people in America.” –Cornel West visits Riverside Church in New York (2011)
Cornel West coins the terms niggerization and niggerized
The N-word has been making its rounds this week. First, Obama used it in his discussion with Mark Maron for a radio interview. “Racism, we are not cured of it. And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public,” President Obama starts during the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. A comment many found offensive.
“That’s not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don’t, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior.”
This comment comes in the wake of the senseless deaths of the nine people shot by Dylann Storm Roof on Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC.
The N-word is not a term that President Obama backs away from; he used it several times in his memoir, Dreams from my Father. He isn’t the first scholar to defer to it in conversations. Dr. Cornel West, uses it quite often. In response to the President’s controversial interview with Maron, West says boldly on CNN on Monday, “Too many black people are niggerized. I would say the first Black President has become the first niggerized Black President.”
Gasp!
Breitbart.com’s John Nolte, couldn’t let this one ride. Check out his Tweets below.
