Dr. Stephany Rose, an associate professor of women’s and ethnic studies at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and author of “Abolishing White Masculinity,” recently argued that successful black people who believe in the “American dream” perpetuate white supremacy.
She also suggested too many famous black people buy into the notion that the “American dream is available to any and everyone one as long as you work hard.”
“So white supremacist ideology doesn’t work simply because white people invest in it, but because there are other communities that invest in the idea that this is normal, that capitalism is normal,” Rose said during the radio show.“Like, to not even be able to imagine a world without capitalism.
To not be able to imagine a world without hierarchy and competition.”
...Rose’s faculty bio states her “scholastic interests emerge from a personal space of being an African American woman contextualized by the historical and contemporary dynamics of power and privilege operating at the crossroads of race, gender, class, sexuality, and religion that manifest in the United States and are transmitted via cultural imperialism throughout the globe.”
...Later in their radio discussion, Dr. Lewis circled back to the topic of black people buying into so-called white supremacist ideology, and argued that anybody “can be conditioned to fear the black male body even if it’s another black male body.”
“Look at Bill Cosby,” she said.
“I’m not even talking about his gruesome track record of rape and sexual assault.
I’m talking about the way he has hated black people in his many speeches denigrating us for names that we have, for the way we choose to speak, for the things we choose to do.
Look at Clarence Thomas.
Clarence Thomas might be one of the most ardent white supremacist I know in my life.”
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