Professor: Patriotism Is Bad Because It Is Drenched in Whiteness

Moonbats have never been big on patriotism. Ever at the forefront of uncovering new knowledge, academia may have discovered the root of this aversion. Thanks to a professor at the University of Florida, we now know that patriotism is “drenched” in whiteness:

“The paradox of black patriotism: double consciousness,” published May 31 in the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, is based on interviews with 22 black Americans conducted by Dr. Micah Johnson, a research assistant and graduate student instructor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law. …

Johnson said he was not surprised to learn that black people have fewer positive connotations with patriotism than do their white counterparts, since patriotism “casts whites as exclusively the true Americans” and serves to “imply that blacks are abnormal, illegitimate, uncivilized, and un-American.”

Allen West and his many fans would beg to differ.

Johnson goes on to claim that patriotism “expunges black contributions [to America] and signals that blacks are outsiders, parasitic companions, merely by-catch in the nets of European conquest,” arguing that the meritocratic ethos embedded in patriotism serves to “essentially oppose a Black identity.”

Now we could be getting somewhere. Imaginary racism isn’t the problem. It is “meritocratic ethos” that has Johnson bellyaching.

America represents freedom. That means we are free to succeed and free to fail. People who make their living pandering to disgruntled losers can be counted on to object noisily.

Johnson said he hopes his research motivates people to think more critically about patriotism in the future, hoping that people learn to “deconstruct meanings [of patriotism]” and “redefine what is normal” and “what is heroic.”

“Deconstruct” is an academic term meaning “to destroy using Critical Theory,” which is a sort of acid used by cultural Marxists to corrode everything constructive, honorable, decent, and sane.

On a tip from Sterling B.