There is a controversy brewing in the City of College Park, Maryland over its “racial equity” leader Kayla Aliese Carter, who is tasked with eliminating systemic racism in the departments of the liberal city. Carter has called for the United States to be burned down to allow for “Black Liberation.” The city says that it is investigating, but Carter is an interesting snapshot of what I have called the “radical chic” in academia and society. She is a revolutionary who called for violence while complaining that she is being asked to work for a living. In addressing the controversy, the City of College Park will now need to establish a free speech principle that will apply equally to revolutionaries and reactionaries alike.
In 2022, Carter joined the city workforce under Mayor Fazlul Kabir to implement a “racial equity” agenda across all city departments, affecting policies, practices, programs and budgets. Under Kabir’s leadership, she was to work on reviewing “all current policies and programs” for any bias and “disparate impact… for Black people.”
Carter however appears to prefer arson to analysis. She has long voiced violent and racist views. She helps guide fellow armchair revolutionaries on “how we will eat and live and grow after we burn it all down.” She has little patience with incremental changes and calls for others to “dismantle this s–t.” Carter maintains that it is only the destruction of society that will result in true justice: “I can’t wait for society to collapse so MY ideology can rise from the ashes!”
She also rejects criticism of violence, asking “Why do Black people always have to rationalize our violence and anger?” After all, she noted on Instagram, “we are at war against colonialism.”
She has posted on how she has facilitated and co-hosted events with people committed to her view of Black liberation. In these public statements, she repeatedly rejects calls for nonviolence in seeking the destruction of society: In one May 2020 post, she asked “Do y’all understand why the oppressed are constantly shamed out of using violence?? BECAUSE THE OPPRESSOR WANTS TO BE THE SOLE PROFITEER OF VIOLENCE. THEY DON’T WANT TO DEAL WITH BACK TALK. ‘DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO’ FACE A–. No.”
Using “yT” for white people, she even slammed those who tried to be inclusive at work:
“This yT man in my meeting just said, ‘I want to take a moment and give the floor to any Black… participants to… tell us what MLK Day this year meant to you.’ I SWEAR I AM WHEEZING WHO HIRES THESE PEOPLE?” While working at one of the most far left governments in the country, she portrays her life as working within a system of white supremacist oppression. In one posting, she added at the end “White man calling, I got to go.”
While the Kabir administration pays her $75,600, she is not happy with having to work to feed herself due to this white supremacist, capitalist system. Instead, she posts how she should be a “collage artist” or a “lady of leisure.” However, her preferred job description may not resonate with employers outside of the City of College Park government: “I need a new job but the problem is that I don’t want to work I just wanna lay in my bed being a girl can anyone help me with this?”
Yet, she says capitalism is to blame for forcing her back into criminal conduct: “Tired of being so underpaid also tired of applying to new jobs. I don’t wanna go back to s*lling dr*gs but this economy is getting desperate.”
Of course, these postings may lead many to ask the same question raised by Carter herself: “I SWEAR I AM WHEEZING WHO HIRES THESE PEOPLE?”
The city has announced that it will look into the matter.
The fact is that Carter has free speech rights in the system that she is committed to burning down. The question is whether the City of College Park would support the same free speech rights for an employee who attacked minorities on social media and called for liberation or violence for white people. We have previously discussed the double standard often applied in academia.
Radical professors are often lionized on campuses. At the University of California Santa Barbara, professors actually rallied around feminist studies associate professor Mireille Miller-Young, who physically assaulted pro-life advocates and tore down their display.
We have also seen professors advocating “detonating white people,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters, and other outrageous statements. University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis defended the murder of a conservative protester and said he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence. The university later elevated Loomis to director of graduate studies of history.
Conversely, that support was far more muted or absent when conservative faculty have found themselves at the center of controversies. The recent suspension of Ilya Shapiro is a good example. Other faculty have had to go to court to defend their free speech rights. One professor was suspended for being seen at a controversial protest.
If the City of College Park is going to defend free speech rights, it needs to be clear that it will extend equally to all views and all employees.
As we watch how this controversy will play out, the postings do offer another insight into the radical chic in America, including the call for revolution while hoping to realize the dream of being “lady of leisure.” So it is not just companies who are complaining about the lack of work ethic among young workers. Revolutionaries are facing the same motivational issues. In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote “IT HAS been objected that upon the abolition of private property, all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.”
They added that in a capitalist system
“Each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape . . . if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood. . . . in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity, but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow.”
So, in other words, collage artists unite against the yoke of the bourgeois City of College Park and their capitalist masters.
OT: In case anyone cares about intellectual honesty, Professor Turley’s post last week attacking the NYT for its “hypocrisy” given its failure to attack Gov. Hochul for her decision to use the National Guard to patrol the subways was ridiculously premature.
Within a week of the decision, the Opinion Section has a piece, which asserts a negative view: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/nyregion/new-york-subway-national-guard.html
Professor Turley’s post was written within 24 hours of the NYT NEWS article related to the decision. He conflated NEWS and OPINION in doing so, which is ironic given that he routinely attacks papers for failing to draw lines between the two.
Cotton has no right to feel the “hypocrisy.” For better or worse, the NYT Opinion Section has consistently disfavored the use of National Guard troops.
More importantly, I would love to see Professor Turley retract his blog post and acknowledge his error in conflating NEWS and OPINION.
I tried to read that, but it’s behind a paywall. However, I did see the headline which says the National Guard cannot ease all fears in the subway. That type of headline doesn’t signal to me that it’s a generally negative review. Is there content you can see which demonstrates such?
P.S. This is not a critique of your original point. I agree with you that the professor jumped the gun.
Basically, the writer argues that crime on the subway is a real problem but that troops will not help. To support that idea:
“In the view of Jeffrey W. Swanson, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Duke, who studies the relationship between violence and mental illness, the idea of placing the National Guard in the subway not only seems ineffective as a means of prevention among people not necessarily making rational decisions but could also turn out to be harmful. What might look like increased security, he noted, could also emphasize the notion that we “are living in a violent dystopia.”
The issue is “not a one-thing problem and a one-thing solution,” Professor Swanson continued. A militaristic presence could have precisely the opposite effect of what the governor intends. “If someone is in the midst of a psychotic episode, they might feel that everyone is out to get them, that they are threatened,’’ he said. “It could reinforce a false perception of dangerousness.”
Resources, per the writer, would be better used by increasing homeless services and mental health services, etc.
Her view is that the move was merely a political one – to make Dems look like they can fight crime too.
So, yes, it is a negative view, written by the weekly “Big City” NYT columnist. The main point here is that Professor Turley’s piece attacking the NYT for reporting the news of the Governor’s decision because its Opinion Section previously took a negative view of a similar type of policy was completely off-base. Not only was he conflating the two sides of the paper, but he attacked the NYT for failure to have a similar op-ed immediately after the decision was made.
Anyone who understands how WEEKLY columns work, should understand that, at a minimum, a week should be given before you can even begin to take this position.
Yes, I understood your main point, and noted that I agreed with the premise (the professor jumped the gun to make a political point). From your excerpts, I can see that you’re correct – it’s a generally negative review.
P.S. As for the writer’s criticism of the helpfulness of having NG troops there? It strikes me as laughable and typical leftist horsesh*t. I have two daughters who ride those subways and I don’t give a crap about whether some people now think we’re living in a violent dystopia. Clearly we are living in one, and that dystopia has been created by leftist policies in big cities. Just look at Portland or San Fran or Chicago or New Orleans . . . or NYC. What I docare about – and I believe most rational people care about – is that people such as my daughters are safe when they ride the NYC subways, and the presence of the troops gives me comfort that they are safer than they would be without them. Do I have scientific data to back that up? No, it’s a gut feeling.
As someone who often disagrees with you, I completely agree that the article is leftist baloney. Once upon a time, I canvassed in NH for a presidential candidate, who has nicknamed “America’s Mayor” for his ability to fight crime.
Unfortunately, I didn’t realize want a tool he would become.
I haven’t changed much since 2008, but our political parties certainly have. So much so that the Charlie Bakers and Ben Sasses of the world no longer have a voice in politics.
Whenever we discuss Trump’s latest stupid comment or legal transgression on this blog, I try to remember when Romney’s “binders full of women” was the baseline for political faux pas.
When neither party has a reasonable policy position, I defer to the adult in the room.
Excuse me but did the Times have a revolt? Did they say it was a danger for blacks? Did the little girls pee in their pants?
She must mean burned down like Haiti is burning down
On the bright side, the Haitians have found a new food source!
Floyd,
That was terrible!
Good one!
Good. I say give her some matches and gasoline and let her burn down the City Hall to the ground. The mayor hired her so let her do her thing. If leftist cities elect politicians who release violent criminals and hire vile pseudo revolutionaries who want to burn their town to the ground then so be it. I could not care less. Let them suffer the consequences. Just keep them out of my jurisdiction
She should take a look see at Haiti they like burning too, the end results are pretty ugly. Usually anyone who plays with fire will find themselves getting burned.
All her leftist cohorts like Ms. Fannie and Ms. Leticia James if given sufficient power would turn America into another Haiti or South Africa. Someone should give them a one-way ticket to Port of Prince or Joberg. That would mess nicely with the thugs of the ANC or the gangs of Haiti.
So she’s going to burn it all down and then rise from the ashes by “laying (sic) in bed being a girl.” What a plan. If FDNY’s attempt to “punish and reeducate” the firemen who exercised their 1st Amendment rights by booing Letitia James results in a lot of firefighters simply quitting and walking away, as I fervently hope, then maybe Ms. Carter will get her wish – at least the burning it down part. The building a brave new world from bed part is a little more problematic. Ask any teenager.
I wonder what would happen if someone employed by the City of College Park MD wore a Make America Great Again hat to work, or publicly expressed sympathy and/or support for Trump and/or the J6 political prisoners. Would they, too, be coddled in a 1st Amendment infant incubator? Or would they be canned? (It’s a rhetorical question – we all know the answer).
The problem with these so called revolutionaries is they do a lot of talking about burning it all down and nearly no talk about building things back up. Or they do it in a very simplistic sense.
What she does not realize is, if her and her fellow revolutionaries were to burn it all down, the life afterwards, the hardship of trying to rebuild would make her current life look like a life of leisure.
Unless, of course, they were to force a certain group of people into slavery to rebuild for them. I would not put it past her and maybe a few others who would endorse that kind of action.
Me? As I have stated on more than a few occasions, I am not white. And I will fight against that kind of thing. Evil is evil, no matter who is going it.
*doing it.
A century ago, W.B. Yeats described what we’re seeing today in his poem “The Second Coming”
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
. . .
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming
Meanwhile, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt did a LONG piece last night about a person they describe as a white nationalist who was elected to the city council in Enid, Oklahoma and who is now facing a recall. I’d estimate it was a good 3 minutes long. Considering they devote around 10 minutes of their 30 minute broadcast to pushing drugs in commercials on behalf of drug companies and selling other advertising, that one segment took up a decent amount of air time for the program.
Why do the NBC executives consider a city council recall election national news, I wonder?
Brandy Zadronzy, the far left activist who masquerades as an NBC “journalist”, was the front person for the piece. Everybody she interviewed support the recall – the two Democrats who led the recall and two Republicans. She did not interview one person who either voted for him or who oppose the recall. She says she tried to interview the fellow who was the subject of her hit piece, but he chose not to participate.
Let’s see if far left NBC activist Brandy Zadronzy does a piece on Kayla Aliese Carter’s racism.
We know the answer.
I have no problems with recalls, and while I would question the indiotic choices MSM makes, those get punished in the free market.
That is one of the things that Ms. Carter (and marx and Engles) and that is the free markets are the regulating force.
My problem with recalling this “white nationalist” – is that I have yet to hear evidence that this person actually hold views on anything so repugnant I would recall them. Maybe he does, but nearly always accusations of right wing extremism, homophobia, or racism have nothing to do with repugantn views and everything to do with ideology.
First, I know NOTHING about the man facing the recall. However, based on the NBC piece I know he is NOT facing a recall election for a legitimate reason: because he breached the public trust; abused his power; committed a serious crime, etc. No. He’s facing a recall election because of his beliefs.
Maybe he’s a terrible person with abhorrent ideas. I don’t know. But that does not matter. The time for challenging his beliefs was during the campaign. That’s why we have campaigns and elections. So voters can learn about the beliefs of candidates, their experience, policies they support, etc.
What’s happening now is that two AWFL (Affluent White Female Liberal) Democrats have decided they don’t like that someone with his beliefs won the election. So they initiated a recall petition for a do-over election.
And NBC decided to make a huge in-kind donation to the AWFLs cause by promoting this segment. The NBC producers or whoever made the editorial decision to run it likely have two goals: 1) to shame enough voters into not voting for someone NBC describes as a “white nationalist” and 2) by airing what was effectively an infomercial supporting the recall they expect it will get heavily promoted in the leftsphere leading to an influx of money from self righteous rich liberals.
It’s all wrong. The basis for the recall is wrong. NBC is wrong in promoting it.
What a radical concept, having to work for a living. This individual’s statements are a steady stream of contradictions. Wanting to burn everything down but also being a lady of leisure and feeling vey underpaid for doing “what?” I suppose she will not participate in the violence she begs for but will stand off to the side and cheer her minions on. Sort of like the Mullahs who send depressed young people off to self detonate in public places and wreck havoc on the innocent or the Japanese high command in WW2 who thought it was a great idea to have young people fly their planes into US ships. Or certain Soviet generals of WW2 who thought the best way to clear a minefield was to march a battalion or regiment through the field.
Is that her beef? She has to work instead of being a lady of leisure. I would say that is not racial but simple elitism. “Let me sit back and sip my champagne while the great unwashed throw themselves on the barricades and protect my lifestyle”.
Seems to me like she is wasting $75,000/year of College Park taxpayers money and the city needs a reduction in force.
Also calling for a racial war is seemingly stupid when you are a minority of a minority. That is almost an invitation to genocide to the minority. Wars and especially civil wars take on a life of their own and minorities suffers disproportionally. Lebanon, Yugoslavia, Russia, China, Rwanda should all caution one about calling for class or racial and/or civil war. They just spin right out of control.
“. . . this economy is getting desperate.”
She has a nihilistic desire for everything to collapse. Yet complains about the collapsing economy.
Odd, isn’t it.
In another community, the citizens are forming armed patrols to protect the streets from thugs.
Where would that be? Mississippi?, Texas,? West Virginia?
Nope
Residents of Hartford, Connecticut form an armed community watch group to protect their town from the rise in violence.
https://twitter.com/mrctv/status/1767908794443370919?
That one black dude, who said, “We are not vigilantes,” – No. You are vigilantes, and more power to you! When the government does not go after criminals, then the citizens must. Embrace your vigilantism!
Historically, the slave becomes the slaver. The oppressed become the oppressors. Robespierre is alive and well and living in the human heart and mind. Why should this night be different from all other nights?
I thought of you this morning @4:00 am when I arrived at the gym. There is a friendly elder man, mid-80s, retired physician, suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, had bilateral hip and knee surgeries recently, and always greets me with a cheery smile at the gym. He is an inspiration and a witness to all who come across his path: he is a fighter, is at the gym daily to train with weights as best he can in spite of the pain and discomfort, has an upbeat “can-do” disposition, and an individual who refuses to give up.
We should all be like him when we reach our mid-80s
L’Chaim
Once the more militant element in the black community realized in their particular city, community, or work location, they can say and do just about anything they want and not be held accountable or even dismissed from their position. This seems to be the case for the “Self-Professed Revolutionary “Racial Equity” Leader”. Who in practical, sensible terms, has not idea of what the he!! she is doing other than being a total pain in the a$$ because she can get away with it all due to her skin color. Is this a racist attitude on my part? No, it is reading the article and coming to an honest conclusion over the “over the top” rush to over-accommodate the past ills committed against the black community. It is the purposeful act of “keeping the racist pot” continuously stirred and the hatred and vitriol alive and well so the endless flow of cash keeps coming without taking responsibility for ones own life like Kayla Aliese Carter is fully engaging in. Even if she achieved her goal of not working becoming a lady of leisure, she would never be satisfied. She would continue to go down the same path of hating people of a different skin color than hers. Conclusion, she is a total, devoted, and practicing black racist. One worse that some of the white racist I have been around.
Affirmative Action’s finest glowing example.
Turley said: ” In addressing the controversy, the City of College Park will now need to establish a free speech principle that will apply equally to revolutionaries and reactionaries alike… If the City of College Park is going to defend free speech rights, it needs to be clear that it will extend equally to all views and all employees.”
This seems suspiciously like namby-pamby, self-hating, liberal horseshit to me. Why would the city of College Park not be legally entitled to enact a regulation that bars advocates of criminal violence and insurrection (I would think that “burning down the United States” would pass most tests for that classification) from holding a municipal position, and sack this hateful, ridiculous, wannabe-violent-criminal twunt? IANL, but I have to wonder how difficult that could possibly be?
“Why do Black people always have to rationalize our violence and anger?” After all, she noted on Instagram, “we are at war against colonialism.”
Its is war then.
Rules of engagement call for finding and killing the leader.
I recommend we believe people when the tell us what they plan to do.
Never believe a liberal. I’m still waiting for Streisand to leave the US, over Trumps election to POTUS!
Where does “yT” come from? It’s a texting contraction of the racist slur “whitey”, right?
Moderate centrists now are having to learn how to marginalize the intemperate, strident, self-righteous political zealot-activists among us. It’s had to look away and ignore, so light-hearted mockery is the best way to respond. Showing you can’t be pulled off-center emotionally while resisting is the thing they truly fear. Not being taken seriously is kryptonite to their ego.
(learn how to marginalize the intemperate, strident, self-righteous political zealot-activists among us). The moderates do not seem to be too successful at this. They are almost invisible these days anyway. Just where are they going to acquire the means to offset their fanatic brothers? How do you push back against antifa, blm, CRT, DEI without being ostracized by their own part – which is now dominated by fanatics?
We, on the right, tacitly allowed the likes of bill ayers and frank marchall davis to inculcate hatred and violence into the minds of so many generations of young people. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE for not stopping this destructive development within our media/education/government industries. Tail Gunner Joe, while a terrible messenger, had the right message and media/academia/democrats, shut him down to save their long agenda. Our problem now is how to rid ourselves of generations of mis-educated, malcontented, toddler-like wokesters until they age out because I am certain that we will never reap any benefit from their time here. Perhaps another try at a Liberia-like colony for the discontented. We could call it the land of grievances.
@whimsicalmama
‘Our problem now is how to rid ourselves of generations of mis-educated, malcontented, toddler-like wokesters until they age out because I am certain that we will never reap any benefit from their time here.’
My thoughts too, and for years. I honestly do not know what we will do with them. Due to being deficient and coddled (oh, the irony), she has no idea how delusional and puerile she sounds, and there are millions more just like her. It’s troubling, and it isn’t going to simply go away. It’s a woke thing, not a race thing.
Whimsicalmama,
Ignore them. Form up our own society, culture, economy, education system etc. running in parallel where the two shall never meet.
Give them the opportunity for all their social . . . whatever. If they make it work, good on them. If it becomes a failure, they have no one else to blame but themselves.
The alternative is a giving her, her revolution, which will not go well.
@Upstate
When one is trying to teach them everyday, it isn’t a possibility to ignore them. 🤷🏻♂️ And this gets worse and worse every year. When they stream into society, and I figure we have about ten years before they are like a zombie horde – nobody gets to ignore them. They don’t care about failing, and neither do many of their parents. 🤷🏻♂️
She should submit a job application to her local pimp.
Maybe her supplier?
Racism in itself