Stacey Patton, professor of journalism at Howard University, has caused an uproar with her advice to white people who want to oppose this Administration. Patton told them that they had to follow the path of John Brown, who led a bloodbath before the Civil War that included killing white slave owners and pro-slave settlers.
In a blog titled “John Brown Didn’t Ask Enslaved People How to Be A Good White Ally,” Patton told white liberals to stop asking how to be a better “ally” to minorities. She writes:
“It’s a question that always lands heavy. Not because I doubt their sincerity, but because the question itself is still a form of protection that centers the asker’s confusion instead of the target’s danger. It’s a request to be taught, forgiven, and reassured, again and again. It’s another round of homework assigned to the wounded…It’s exhausting as hell because it’s still a form of emotional outsourcing.”
Instead, she tells whites to become modern John Browns and presumably unleash a new era akin to “Bleeding Kansas” and the infamous Pottawatomie massacre.
Brown was a militant slave abolitionist during the pre-Civil War “Bleeding Kansas” period. In 1856, he orchestrated the Pottawatomie massacre. He and fellow abolitionists dragged five Kansas settlers, at least three of whom were pro-slavery sympathizers, out of their homes and executed them.
Patton wants whites to emulate Brown, who “saw the horror for what it was and decided that ending this racist f*ckery mattered more than being understood.” What clearly makes Brown stand out for Patton is his violence: “So when white allies ask, ‘What can I do?’ here’s the answer: Be like John Brown. Ask yourself, what am I willing to burn so somebody else can breathe?”
Of course, a hanging might be a bit stiff for many liberals longing to be Antifa. So, Patton acknowledges, “If you don’t want to die like John Brown, fine. But understand that somebody always does.”
Not surprisingly, the professor has little time for those who want to embrace the alternative, non-violent lessons of Martin Luther King:
“Now, white liberals love to quote Martin Luther King Jr. because he is a man that can be polished into civility. But John Brown doesn’t fit the script. He was a m’fukin’ gangsta! He didn’t ask for gradual change, or healing, or bipartisan cooperation. He saw a nation addicted to violence and knew that moral persuasion alone couldn’t sober it.”
Patton’s column comes after the controversy involving the John Brown Gun Club, which was connected to flyers appearing on campuses like Georgetown reading “Hey, Fascists! Catch!” The phrase was written on unused bullet casings found after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. It went on to proclaim, “The only political group that celebrates when Nazis die.”
The recent charges against Benjamin Song, an Antifa member, also raised the group. Song was charged with three counts of attempted murder of federal agents in addition to three counts of discharging a firearm stemming from an ambush-style shooting at an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas. A dozen others were charged in the plot. He was also reportedly a member of the John Brown Gun Club.
Notably, this is a journalism professor in a school that has long been associated with advocacy journalism and the controversial hire of former New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones.
We previously discussed the release of the results of interviews with over 75 media leaders by former executive editor for The Washington Post Leonard Downie Jr. and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward. They concluded that objectivity is now considered reactionary and even harmful. Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle, said it plainly: “Objectivity has got to go.”
Downie recounted how news leaders today.
“believe that pursuing objectivity can lead to false balance or misleading “bothsidesism” in covering stories about race, the treatment of women, LGBTQ+ rights, income inequality, climate change and many other subjects. And, in today’s diversifying newsrooms, they feel it negates many of their own identities, life experiences and cultural contexts, keeping them from pursuing truth in their work.”
Now, objectivity is virtually synonymous with prejudice. Kathleen Carroll, former executive editor at the Associated Press, declared, “It’s objective by whose standard? … That standard seems to be White, educated, and fairly wealthy.”
Stanford journalism professor Ted Glasser insisted that journalism needed to “free itself from this notion of objectivity to develop a sense of social justice.” He declared that “Journalists need to be overt and candid advocates for social justice, and it’s hard to do that under the constraints of objectivity.”
Lauren Wolfe, the fired freelance editor for the New York Times, has not only gone public to defend her pro-Biden tweet but published a piece titled “I’m a Biased Journalist and I’m Okay With That.”
Former New York Times writer (and now Howard University Journalism Professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones is a leading voice for advocacy journalism.
Indeed, Hannah-Jones has declared, “all journalism is activism.” Her 1619 Project has been challenged as deeply flawed and she has a long record as a journalist of intolerance, controversial positions on rioting, and fostering conspiracy theories. Hannah-Jones would later help lead the effort at the Times to get rid of an editor and apologize for publishing a column from Sen. Tom Cotton as inaccurate and inflammatory.
Yet, Howard saw Hannah-Jones as perfect for a chair in its journalism school.
Professor Patton seems to have left not just neutrality but sanity behind with her implied support for violent action. It is unclear how such views impact her journalism courses at Howard University. However, she has featured prominently in The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education as well as ABC News, CNN, and MSNBC.
I think a lot of colleges are ripe to close. Civil war”s over, what you have left is entitlement hounds DEMANDING a lifetime free ride because of slavery. Show me a callus. A bruise. A whip mark. Abrasion. Anything, anything o indicate signs of forced labor, mistreatment, confinement, malnutrition, or other abuse. None to be found, because here are none. Instead, we americans, white black and otherwise, are the fattest softest sickest laziest whiniest most spoiled people on earth.
The 1960’s are over, and next month, SNAP benefits are not coming. Stop crying, and start filling out job applications. Massive national debt has come home to roost, and the entitlement mentality has brought us here. Slavery is over. Let go the past.
No SNAP benefits OR Welfare, good news you do not have to work for 20 hours a week. Always look on the bright side.
Sounds like Democraps have a lot to be fearful of since THEY WERE and ARE the SLAVE HOLDERS!
So, objectivity is intrinsically racist? Or socially unjust. Or unenlightened? Or something. IMHO, these “journalists” who are no longer journalists, are anarchists. They do not want to be hemmed in by any rules. Bottom line, they reject God. Being hemmed in by His rules for living, to them, means they can’t have any fun. We should all be able to emote and get laid. Emote and get drunk or high. Emote and scream racist at any and all who might look at them sideways. Don’t you dare think critically or we’ll burn you.. maybe literally. If they have any norms and standards at all, they are purely situational. Sad thing is, a lot of people… millions… think this way. SMH.
The disintegration of what used to be the “Official News Networks” or “Mainstream Press” continues apace in large part due to this kind of deranged behavior. Lowering standards to non-existence, the boring sameness of leftist drivel masquerading as “news”, driven by insufferable hackademics nobody really believes anymore, probably not even those who pose as concerned for “Democracy”. YouTube is now bigger than the networks, and it is of profound importance that a widening range of opinions and assertions of disputed facts are being permitted on the platform now. Chris Hedges on the nominal “left” and James O’Keefe on the nominal “right” (happily these either/or distinctions are eroding) both denied access to the network TV “news” offer dramatically different evidence for viewers to consider. No doubt competition from Rumble and other platforms is responsible for this development. Higher ed itself is in decline as a unform front though technical training and research aspects will continue; so many academics have failed so frequently to get much of anything right few pay attention to them anymore.
I agree. The journalism industry needs to police itself by implementing professional journalism licenses or certificate, just like engineers can obtain. In engineering, licenses are not required for most engineering work because the employing company is liable, but the certification provides proof of ability and ethics. Two tests must be taken on capability, and annual ethics and continuing education courses are required. An engineer’s license can be revoked by the state’s licensing board for technical or ethics violations. For journalists, the First Amendment prevents licensing from being a requirement, but it should be a credential advertised by the owner. Professional engineers use the notation “P.E.” after their name.
Evil succeeds when Good Men Do Nothing to stop it.
Madness advocacy…
Let’s kill everyone who drives a white car ( they are definitely racist), and then everyone whose license plate starts with the letter B, (they might be racist), along with anyone who wears a red tie on Tuesdays ( they are on their way to becoming racistd). That should solve the problem.
As for advocacy journalism, I am OK with not buying or reading your paper. Now you br OK with that.
Emulate John Brown?
No thanks, he got himself hanged…
Nutter…
Black women are absolutely loathsome and insufferable.
They’re the most disgusting gross creature on earth
And white men are the mirror of that – similarly absolutely loathsome and insufferable; also the most disgusting gross creatures on earth.
As examples, I give you the Biden’s, father and son, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, etc.
BTW, what’s your skin color?
My question is what, exactly, are we going to kill all these white people for? What are the white people doing? Which ones are we supposed to kill?
I think we should kill all of the people driving white cars. That should settle it
I had the same question. Most of the “No Kings” nut jobs are old white female hippies. Most of the pro-abortion demons are young, blue haired, angry white women.
“Most of the pro-abortion demons are young, blue haired, angry white women.”
Is any male, of any skin color, absolutely bat shyte crazy enough to crawl into bed with any woman like that?
I very much doubt they actually have a real fear that they may need an after the fact elective birth control abortion.
Until these advocates for violence feel the wrath of the positions they’ll continue on this path. Brutal corrective measures are required, much like spanking a defiant toddler who insists on standing on a busy street.
Usually when a White person, or Asian, Indian, or Spanish person wants to talk to White people about being an ally, they are talking about standing together against the most violent race in the country, the Black race. When will one of these highly paid Black professors ever tell us why most American Black people like to play eternal victim, and why every inner city Black area is so violent?
PS: Also, when are Black people going to thank White people for ending the transatlantic slave trade, something Africans and Muslims fought against?
Ahmen
“Usually when a White person, or Asian, Indian, or Spanish person wants to talk to White people about being an ally, they are talking about standing together against the most violent race in the country, the Black race.”
You Kluxxers have never been shy of hatred of anyone who didn’t visibly appear to be a Pure Blood White. In fact, you extended your hatred to similarly lily white Catholics and Jews. Now you want to claim Asians and Indians want to talk with you about going full Hamas on black Americans???
BTW, speaking of being the most violent and murderous… you hoping nobody noticed that the world class butchers Stalin and Hitler were just as Pure Blood White as you?
So…there’s a professor at an all-black university teaching her students to be violent?? Isn’t that like pouring gasoline on a fire??