A Conversation with Skip Gates: "My mother hated white people..."

CSPAN/Booknotes ^ | October 1994 | Skip Gates and Bryan Lamb

[Dinah Lord]

"LAMB: At one point you had a line in there, something to the effect, "My mother despised white people."

GATES: My mother hated white people.

LAMB: All her life?

GATES: Probably. I didn't know until -- in 1959 we were watching Mike Wallace's documentary called "The Hate that Hate Produced." It was about the Nation of Islam and I couldn't believe -- I mean, Malcolm X was talking about the white man was the devil and standing up in white people's faces and telling them off. It was great...And she loved Malcolm X and she loved what the Muslims were doing..."

[possumdawg]

Heck my northern Liberal white male friends accept the idea and even embrace the idea that they are guilt of something with respects to blacks.They cannot get over the fact I don't. Am I the only one that has expeienced this?

[Yaelle]

It doesn’t matter. The liberal media will cover for them.

Really, what would it take for them not to?

The old adage about a dead girl or live boy would surely not be enough. Obama would have to decree that all journalists be shot at dawn before they'd write one word of serious criticism.

[Dinah Lord]

I thought it was weird too, PghBaldy. In fact, I was a little freaked. LOL.

[HollyB]

Interesting find.

[SunkenCiv]

Obama’s won the election, remember? No need to throw Gates under a bus, particularly with the number and gusto of the partisan media shills.

[Dinah Lord]

Just how many industrialised democracies were in existence - wherein individual rights are protected - evolved organically in Africa?

Funny you should mention Africa...

At Yale, his interest in Africa deepened. Since the age of 10, he had obsessively studied African geography, memorizing the names of the "presidents, leaders, and petty dictators" of the emerging African countries of the early 1960s. At the same time, black kids were joking about "Ubangi lips"—and, as he puts it, "big-d*** motherf***ers" who would "swing in trees and shit, living in grass huts." All the kids watched Ramar of the Jungle on TV every Saturday morning. But Gates was also fascinated by "the idea that black people—Africans—could actually run a whole country or fly airplanes or do electronic technology without some white colonial looking over their shoulder." link

Fascinating.

[annieokie]

I have come to the conclusion that Blacks HATE everyone of every race except themselves. They just HATE, it must be a gene. They are angry at everything and everybody, even their own.

I could only wish that they could find something everyday to be glad about. Get up every morning and thank God they are living in America, and thank God their relatives were the ones responsible for them being here. Do they want to go back?

I see nothing now but for this episode with Gates to open the race cavern wider and wider, he and the President have given their permission to further inflame the race issue.

I don't hate anyone never have, except those that espouse hatred for they are of the devil as he is hate.

[Dinah Lord]

About Ramar of the Jungle (It was before my time. heh)

Making its debut in 1952, RAMAR OF THE JUNGLE was created by Jon Hall, who also starred in the show. As the doctor Tom Reynolds (who returns to the jungles of his youth to treat natives and battle villains), Hall entertained audiences for the next two years with his wild endeavors. With assistance from his associate Howard Ogden (Ray Montgomery), as well as a succession of native guides, the doctor encounters a number of exotic foes, including witch doctors, smugglers, scientists, fierce tribes, and wild animals. This collection of episodes includes the show's premiere episode entitled "Evil Trek," as well as "Contraband," "Jungle Terror," and "Striped Fury."

link

[Dinah Lord]

Thank you for posting this link...In the last few years I have followed his African American Lives series one and two with great interest, especially since genealogy is my passion. I learned quite a bit about him in the programs...

Your welcome. I had heard about the esteemed professor, but when I started digging I was kind of shocked to read the things that he had been quoted as saying. He sure seems to be carrying around a lot of racial baggage. IMO.

[Sioux-san]

And most of these white women end up abandoned with little children who will never know their father. Obama struggles with that one mightily. Double whammy for him - his Mom ditched him back in Hawaii to live with the Grandparents rather than let him stay with her and grow up in the streets of Jakarta. I still have money on someone else fathering Obama - Uncle Frank, Malcom X - who knows. Maybe both Gates & Obama had Mamas who loved the X-man.

[irishjuggler]

What happened to the first white wife?

EX-wife. See:

Henry Louis Gates' ex-wife: Arrest, aftermath was 'unfortunate'
http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/state/x540129139/Henry-Louis-Gates-ex-wife-Arrest-aftermath-was-unfortunate

[trialbyfire]

BINGO!

[thecodont]

It really startled me. Glad to see things are OK for now.

[STARWISE]

Just found that article ... easy to see how he and 0
could have much in common.

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“LAMB: At one point you had a line in there, something to the effect, “My mother despised white people.”

GATES: My mother hated white people.

LAMB: All her life?

GATES: Probably. I didn’t know until — in 1959 we were watching Mike Wallace’s documentary called “The Hate that Hate Produced.”

It was about the Nation of Islam and I couldn’t believe — I mean, Malcolm X was talking about the white man was the devil and standing up in white people’s faces and telling them off.

It was great. I mean, it’s what black people did behind closed doors, but they would never do it in — I mean, they were too vulnerable to do it, say, where they worked, at the paper mill or downtown, as we would call it. And here was a guy who had the nerve to do that, and I think if I had been a character in a cartoon, my eyes would have gone Doing! — like this.

I couldn’t believe it. As I sat cowering in a corner of our living room, I glanced over at Mama and her face was radiant. I mean, this smile — beatific smile started to transform her face. And she said quite quietly, “Amen.” And then she said, “All right now,” and she sat up and she said, “Yes.”

And she loved Malcolm X and she loved what the Muslims were doing. And I couldn’t believe it. It was like — as I write, it was like watching the Wicked Witch of the West emerge out of the transforming features of Dorothy. This person I had thought of as this pioneer of the civil rights movement really had a hard time with white people.

And the more I got to know her — and, you know, these weren’t easy anecdotes for her to repeat, but the older I got, she became more willing to share painful experiences of white racism — the way that she was treated when she was a girl and a servant in the house of wealthy white people just a block down the hill from where we lived.

My brother and I eventually went back and bought that house for her, and that’s how we found out that she had been so horribly treated by these people. She never trusted white people. She didn’t like white people. She didn’t want to live with white people.

But she wanted us to go to integrated schools. She wanted us to live in an integrated economy. She wanted us even to live in integrated neighborhoods. She wanted us to be able to get the best that American society offered.

She wanted us to be articulate, to speak white English, as we would call it, as well as black vernacular English. You know, she wanted us to know how to dress, how to talk, how to act, how to behave.

She wanted us to go to private schools, to the Ivy League. I mean, she wanted us to be as successful as it was humanly possible to be in American society. But she always wanted us to remember, first and last, that we were black and that you could never trust white people.

And so when I brought my fiancee home, who happened to be a white American, I thought World War III was about to break out between me and my mother, not to mention between my mother and my fiancee.

LAMB: And is your wife white?

GATES: Yeah. She’s white.

LAMB: How did your mother react to the — did she go to the marriage?

GATES: Oh, yeah. She was fine. I don’t think I could have done anything to make my mother stop loving me. But my mother took a long time to decide how she felt about my wife. And they had many confrontations, many bad — my mother used to do things like say, “I bet you hate black people, right?”

And I’d say, “Mama, please,” you know, “this is not the way we should start our relationship.” She’d say, “Just checking.” And we’d all laugh and my wife got used to it, but she fought my mother back. The key was to stand up to my mother. My mother wanted to see what she was made of. And I’ll probably do crazy things like that when my daughters bring their lovers home. I mean, who knows?

LAMB: How long you been married?

GATES: We’ve been married 15 years this September 1st.

LAMB: And how does the society that you live in and Harvard and places you travel deal with the mixed marriage?

GATES: Oh, I live in academic environments, and so it’s removed from the world. I mean, what do we do? We go downtown Boston, downtown New York, downtown San Francisco, European countries.

We function at a level where certain forms of racism don’t impact upon you so immediately or so obviously. But on the other hand, we go for drives in the country or, you know, we stop at a country gas station, people might look at you in a strange way.

But we experienced so much racism when we were first starting out in West Virginia. We met working for Jay Rockefeller in his gubernatorial campaign of 1972, and we took a lot of flack. And we lived together seven years before we got married, and we were harassed.

We’ve been stared at, we’ve been cursed. But, you know, if this had been the typical aspect of our experience, I would talk about it. But it’s been just the opposite. But had we been members of the working class or had we lived outside of an academic environment, then I think our experience would have been vastly different.

And our daughters have lived in integrated, academic communities essentially their whole lives and have gone to integrated schools. So they have a thorough knowledge of African-American middle-class culture, we might say, but traditional African-American culture they didn’t know very much about.

And that’s one of the reasons that I wanted to write this book. We also send them to West Virginia quite a lot, so they can be with all their cousins on my side of the family, and that’s full immersion in traditional black culture.

http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1220

[BunnySlippers]

His daughter on TV the other day looked white. I was wondering thinking it would not be.

[trialbyfire]

You need to read up on your history. Blacks fought in the Civil War.

[himno hero]

Here are a couple of great summaries
try:

http://www.bollywoodsargam.com/video_todayfeaturedvideo.php?blockbustermovieclip=Prhnc2fxAzg——The_shocking_video_Barack_Obama_does_not_want_you__to_see!!_featured_hollywood_blockbuster_video.html

and if you have time this man summarizes things real well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5I6ho0Qjco

[garyhope]

I lasted about a minute and a half before I barfed at this self-serving love fest of self indulgent fantasy.

“Liberals” are so totally full of magical thinking crap and BS that it’s unbelievable.

The real struggle today is between real, pragmatic reality and all the fantasy and magical thinking crap that the left, the Dims and the media believe and promote.

There is a gigantic disconnect between the reality that I know and grew up with and all the insane and phony crap that the left believes and is trying to shove down our throats.

It’s a struggle to the death.

There’s going to be an armed revolution in this country, people are going to die. There’s going to be blood in the streets. I simply think that a lot of people are going to have to be killed to save this country.

[airborne]

This is an interesting twist.

Yeah. I imagine it would make quite a story if the state-run-media would cover it.

Oh, and if it was actually possible for blacks to be racists.

Too bad, huh?

[Jeff Head]

"She loved what the Mulsims were doing"

Gates is another Wright, Pfleger, Ayers, Dohrn.

IMHO, that is one of the most revealing thing about the issue...that he is so clearly another person and instance of a pattern that fits Obama's other "close friends".

Racist, hate filled, angry, people who detest traditional America and the free market and whose seething hatred is only just below the surface...and in some cases always out in the open. Frank Davis, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Henry Louis Gates, even his own wife, Michelle (by her own admission)...and the list goes on and on.

There is a clear pattern here that the MSM not only knows, but refuses to report. And that is because most of them share this hatred.

Obama and all those pushing his radical agenda are abject marxist ideologues. Their "fundamental; change" is nothing more than a destruction of the American free market and fundamental republican principle.

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