Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (93 page)

3
. “Angela Davis, Still Carrying the Torch in 2000,”
Lesbian News
, April 2000; Angela Y. Davis,
Are Prisons Obsolete?
(New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003), 7–8, 15–16.

4
. John H. McWhorter,
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
(New York: Free Press, 2000), 13; “Original Oakland Resolution on Ebonics,” December 18, 1996,
http://linguistlist.org/topics/ebonics/ebonics-res1.html
.

5
. Robert Williams, “Ebonics as a Bridge to Standard English,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, January 28, 1997.

6
. “Black English Is Not a Second Language, Jackson Says,”
New York Times
, December 23, 1996,
www.nytimes.com/1996/12/23/us/black-english-is-not-a-second-language-jackson-says.html
; “LSA Resolution on the Oakland ‘Ebonics’ Issue,” 1997, Linguistic Society of America,
www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/lsa-resolution-oakland-ebonics-issue
.

7
. Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable,
A History of the English Language
, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2002).

8
. McWhorter,
Losing the Race
, x, 124–125, 195.

9
. John H. McWhorter,
Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority
(New York: Gotham Books, 2003), xii–xiii, 33–35, 262–264.

10
. “Remarks Made by the President, Prime Minister Tony Blair of England (via satellite), Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and Dr. Craig Venter, President and Chief Scientific Officer, Celera Genomics Corporation, on the Completion of the First Survey of the Entire Human Genome Project,” June 26, 2000,
https://www.genome.gov/10001356
.

11
. Nicholas Wade, “For Genome Mappers, the Tricky Terrain of Race Requires Some Careful Navigating,”
New York Times
, July 20, 2001.

12
. Reanne Frank, “Forbidden or Forsaken? The (Mis)Use of a Forbidden Knowledge Argument in Research on Race, DNA, and Disease,” in
Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History
, ed. Alondra Nelson, Keith Wailoo, and Catherine Lee (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012), 315–316; Roberts,
Fatal Invention
, 4, 50–54; Nicholas Wade,
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History
(New York: Penguin, 2014); Yudell,
Race Unmasked
, ix–xi.

13
. United States,
Initial Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
, September 2000,
www1.umn.edu/humanrts/usdocs/cerdinitial.html
; Bob Herbert, “In America; Keep Them Out!”
New York Times
, December 7, 2000,
www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/opinion/in-america-keep-them-out.html
; Marable,
Race, Reform, and Rebellion
, 236–237.

14
. Ibid., 249–250; Randall Robinson,
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
(New York: Dutton, 2000).

15
. Marable,
Race, Reform, and Rebellion
, 240–243.

16
. Dave Chappelle, “Black White Supremacist,” Comedy Central,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQtysS7fB4k
.

17
. Roediger,
How Race Survived U.S. History
, 215; Marable,
Race, Reform, and Rebellion
, 243–246.

18
. Marable,
Race, Reform, and Rebellion
, 247.

19
. Donna Lieberman, “School to Courthouse,”
New York Times
, December 8, 2012,
www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/opinion/sunday/take-police-officers-off-the-school-discipline-beat.html?_r=0
; P. L. Thomas,
Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Education
(Charlotte, NC: Information Age Pub, 2012), 186–187.

20
. Marable,
Race, Reform, and Rebellion
, 247–248; Michael Eric Dyson,
Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
(New York: BasicCivitas, 2005); Micheal E. Dyson, “The Injustice Bill Cosby Won’t See,”
Washington Post
, July 21, 2006.

21
. “Transcript: Illinois Senate Candidate Barack Obama,”
Washington Post
, July 27, 2004.

CHAPTER 37: THE EXTRAORDINARY NEGRO

1
. Barack Obama,
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
(New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004), 98–100.

2
. Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Worst Movie of the Decade,”
The Atlantic
, December 30, 2009,
www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/12/worst-movie-of-the-decade/32759/
; John McWhorter, “Racism in America Is Over,”
Forbes
, December 30, 2008,
www.forbes.com/2008/12/30/end-of-racism-oped-cx_jm_1230mcwhorter.html
.

3
. “Washing Away,”
New Orleans Times-Picayune
, June 23–27, 2002; Daniels,
Cyber Racism
, 117–155; Naomi Klein,
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
(New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt, 2007).

4
. “‘Racist’ Police Blocked Bridge and Forced Evacuees Back at Gunpoint,”
Independent
(London), September 11, 2005.

5
. George W. Bush,
Decision Points
(New York: Crown, 2010), 325–326; Marable,
Race, Reform, and Rebellion
, 251–256.

6
. Larry Elder, “Katrina, The Race Card, and the Welfare State,”
WND
, September 8, 2005,
www.wnd.com/2005/09/32236/
.

7
. Harris-Perry,
Sister Citizen
, 157–179.

8
. Angela Locke, “Angela Davis: Not Just a Fair-Weather Activist,”
Off Our Backs
37, no. 1 (2007): 66–68.

9
. “Imus Isn’t the Real Bad Guy,”
Kansas City Star
, April 11, 2007.

10
. “NAACP Symbolically Buries N-Word,”
Washington Post
, July 9, 2007.

11
. “Biden’s Description of Obama Draws Scrutiny,” CNN, February 9, 2007,
www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/
; Roediger,
How Race Survived U.S. History
, 216; H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman,
Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S
. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 31–44.

12
. Harris-Perry,
Sister Citizen
, 273–277;
The New Yorker
, July 21, 2008.

13
. “Obama’s Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11,” ABC News, March 13, 2008,
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/DemocraticDebate/story?id=4443788
.

14
. Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki,
The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 33–60.

15
. Joy DeGruy,
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
(Portland: Joy DeGruy, 2005); Jay S. Kaufman and Susan A. Hall, “The Slavery Hypertension Hypothesis: Dissemination and Appeal of a Modern Race Theory,”
Epidemiology
14, no. 1 (2003): 111–118; “Doctors Claim ‘Hood Disease’ Afflicts Inner-City Youth,” NewsOne, May 17, 2014,
http://newsone.com/3010041/doctors-claim-hood-disease-afflicts-inner-city-youth/
.

16
. Barack Obama, “Transcript: Barack Obama’s Speech on Race,” NPR, March 18, 2008,
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88478467
.

17
. “What Should Obama Do About Rev. Jeremiah Wright?”
Salon
, April 29, 2008,
www.salon.com/2008/04/29/obama_wright/
; “Huckabee Defends Obama . . . and the Rev. Wright,”
ABC News
, March 20, 2008,
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/huckabee-defend.html
; Michelle Bernard, “Hardball with Chris Mathews,” MSNBC, March 21, 2008; John McCain, “Hardball College Tour at Villanova University,” MSNBC, April 15, 2008; Charles Murray, “Have I Missed the Competition?”
National Review Online
, March 18, 2008; Newt Gingrich, “The Obama Challenge: What Is the Right Change to Help All Americans Pursue Happiness and Create Prosperity,” speech at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, March 27, 2008, transcript,
https://web.archive.org/web/20080404112807/http://newt.org/tabid/102/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3284/Default.aspx
.

18
. “Text of Obama’s Fatherhood Speech,”
Politico
, June 15, 2008,
www.politico.com/story/2008/06/text-of-obamas-fatherhood-speech-011094
; Michael Eric Dyson, “Obama’s Rebuke of Absentee Black Fathers,”
Time
, June 19, 2008.

19
. “Life Expectancy Gap Narrows Between Blacks, Whites,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 5, 2012,
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/05/science/la-sci-life-expectancy-gap-20120606
; “Michelle Alexander: More Black Men Are in Prison Today Than Were Enslaved in 1850,”
Huffington Post
, October 12, 2011,
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/michelle-alexander-more-black-men-in-prison-slaves-1850_n_1007368.html
; Alexander,
The New Jim Crow
, 174–176.

20
. “On Revolution: A Conversation Between Grace Lee Boggs and Angela Davis,” March 2, 2012, University of California, Berkeley, video and transcript,
www.radioproject.org/2012/02/grace-lee-boggs-berkeley/
.

21
. John McWhorter, “Racism in America Is Over,”
Forbes
, December 30, 2008,
www.forbes.com/2008/12/30/end-of-racism-oped-cx_jm_1230mcwhorter.html
.

EPILOGUE

1
. “Dissecting the 2008 Electorate: Most Diverse in U.S. History,” Pew Research Center, April 30, 2009,
www.pewhispanic.org/2009/04/30/dissecting-the-2008-electorate-most-diverse-in-us-history/
; “Youth Vote May Have Been Key in Obama’s Win,” NBC News, November 5, 2008,
www.nbcnews.com/id/27525497/ns/politics-decision_08/t/youth-vote-may-have-been-key-obamas-win/#.VgyfvstVhBc
.

2
. “Obama Hatred at McCain-Palin Rallies: ‘Terrorist!’ ‘Kill Him!’”
Huffington Post
, November 6, 2008,
www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/mccain-does-nothing-as-cr_n_132366.html
.

3
. Michael C. Dawson,
Not in Our Lifetimes: The Future of Black Politics
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), 91; Jones,
Dreadful Deceit
, 290–292; Jill Lepore,
The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History
, Public Square Book Series (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), 3–4; Daniels,
Cyber Racism
, 3–5; “White Supremacists More Dangerous to America Than Foreign Terrorists,”
Huffington Post
, June 24, 2015,
www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/24/domestic-terrorism-charleston_n_7654720.html
.