Historic racism against blacks is atrocious and has left scars upon the community, as do all human rights violations against a community. The Holocaust against the Jews is no different. But when an offending group evolves (e.g., those of European decent), so should the offended group (e.g., blacks). This is not to say that ongoing racism does not exist, but one cannot deny a dramatic evolution in the West when it comes to the past sins of slavery and colonialism; there has also been an evolution from Nazi Germany — with its quest for Aryan “master race” dominance — to modern Germany, which has now flung its doors open so wide to immigration that the country is under siege with migrant crime.
The article below relates the poignant story of an era of black oppression, in which many black people who were successful were deemed to be agents of the Communists and investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee in a witch hunt. Charles S. Johnson, the grandfather of the Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, was the victim of a witch-hunt; he was a distinguished sociologist with a PhD, and also president of Fisk University, which was a “haven for black intellectuals in the Jim Crow-era South.”
Those were the days where few blacks prospered and when it was acceptable to violate their basic human rights; this is no longer tolerated in Western democracies. Racism is not society-wide, but limited to individual action. Although it is still widespread in some locales, it is also found occurring between visible minority groups, and also among visible minorities hating whites; for example, Louis Farrakhan told his followers in a sermon full of “Allahu akbars” that “white people deserve to die.” He also called for the murder of police last year in the name of Islam, and he invoked the Quran, stating: “The Quran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter. Then it says, ‘Retaliation is prescribed in matters of the slain.’ Retaliation is a prescription from God, to calm the breast of those whose children have been slain.”
Farrakhan promotes racism and hate, despite the fact that police killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015.
I have stated previously on Jihad Watch that “No matter what America – or the West — does in terms of correcting its past wrongs such as slavery and colonialism, it will always be deemed collectively ‘guilty.’ Americans and Westerners have not been able to fathom the hatred against them that is held by Islamic supremacists, who notoriously exploit the victimology narrative to try to destroy and conquer the West, and will stop at nothing to do so.”
Jeh Johnson, who has climbed the ladder in America to become Homeland Security Secretary, lives far above the standard of most blacks in America – and most whites for that matter – yet he is making racism comparisons between innocent black sufferers of racism in a different era and Muslims in the modern era. As Homeland Security chief, Johnson does not need to be told that blacks suffered dehumanizing racism because of the color of their skin, not because they had declared war against infidels and the West, as have jihadists — who are deemed martyrs for murdering innocents, not only in America and in the West, but in their own states as well.
Johnson states: “Why single out Muslims, a cleric from a mosque in West Philadelphia objected. What about the non-Muslim gunmen who have attacked U.S. schools, churches and movie theaters?”
A few questions back for Johnson:
Did Christian black preachers in Charles S. Johnson’s days deliver messages of murder at Sunday services? Was there a black version of the Islamic State, of al Qaeda? Did the innocent victims of black racism murder millions globally in the name of a religion? Were these innocent blacks backing malignant efforts toward the obliteration of a state because that state was Jewish? Did these blacks have people hiding among them who slipped across the borders to wage jihad war against host societies, and called for the murder of civilians? Did blacks preach the killing of gays, saying that such killings would put gays out of their misery as a duty of compassion? Did these blacks orchestrate a massive explosion at office towers, killing thousands, and then blame Jews for it? And did they issue calls for more such violence?
Martin Luther King was an icon in battling against racism and promoting racial unity and harmony. He was a peaceful man who found no excuse for promoting violence in an era of grave oppression of blacks. King lived by the statement that “nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.”
Martin Luther King also said in a speech:
“Nonviolence has also meant that my people in the agonizing struggles of recent years have taken suffering upon themselves instead of inflicting it on others. It has meant, as I said, that we are no longer afraid and cowed. But in some substantial degree it has meant that we do not want to instill fear in others or into the society of which we are a part. The movement does not seek to liberate Negroes at the expense of the humiliation and enslavement of whites. It seeks no victory over anyone. It seeks to liberate American society and to share in the self-liberation of all the people.”
How does Johnson reconcile King’s prized humanitarian words with the violent hatred spewed by jihadists worldwide, as well as by the influential Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan? Johnson blatantly ignores such hatred and danger to homeland security.
Johnson grievously uses the suffering of his grandfather to make outlandish comparisons, which is inexcusable given the knowledge he clearly has about the war on terror, which includes stealth jihad as a powerful tool. The sad era of Johnson’s grandfather was a time when it would have been inconceivable to imagine a black person in the White House, let alone as President. Johnson is using the extreme racism of the past to promote an us-versus-them agenda, which in turn erodes efforts in the war on terror, a very separate war from the fight against all forms of racism in modern society.
This is not a war that seeks to demonize Muslims, as Johnson suggests. There were few Germans who were out-and-out Nazis, but the Nazi influence was far-reaching and a formidable threat globally. When jihadists are moving and working among mainstream Muslims; when mosques on our soil are preaching violence; and when leaders such as Farrakhan and others who drive a hate agenda can do so with impunity, the public becomes rightly afraid. In addition, racists will take advantage as well, unfortunately, thanks to leftist failed leaders and their jihadi sympathies, and the promotion of white guilt to a boundless degree.
The Secretary of Homeland Security is not living up to his job title; while he points out the minority of jihadists among us, he disregards the explosion of Muslim crime across Europe and the domestic threat to homeland security.
Johnson regularly travels in the line of his duty – not to defend homeland security as per his job requirement, but “to meet Muslim leaders around the country, usually in private. He asks them to help authorities identify potential threats in their communities.”
Let’s hope this hunt for anti-Muslim Americans is matched by a hunt for anti-American Muslims, but somehow, this seems unlikely. As head of Homeland Security, Johnson is failing in his department, which is a “key part of U.S. counter-terrorism efforts”; and instead, he is employing a victimology subterfuge, well used and abused by stealth jihadists. In addition, one last note about these Muslim leaders with whom Johnson is regularly meeting: let’s hope that none of them espouse Sharia in the West, or are affiliated with unindicted co-conspirators to terrorism.
“Homeland security chief is guided by memories of how a communist witch hunt scarred his family”, by Brian Bennett, LA Times, July 27, 2016:
Jeh Johnson frowned. Cemetery groundskeepers had cut down a broad magnolia tree that once sheltered his grandfather’s grave from the sun. Lichen pockmarked the granite headstone.
“We got to get this stuff off,” he said, pointing to the mottled slab. Chiseled on it is the name of Charles S. Johnson, a distinguished sociologist who was president of Fisk University after World War II, when it was a haven for black intellectuals in the Jim Crow-era South.
The secretary of Homeland Security was in Nashville on business. But he asked his security detail to stop at his family plot in Greenwood Cemetery, a nearly all-black burial ground that remains a vestige of the city’s color line.
Johnson’s department is a key part of U.S. counter-terrorism efforts, and his grandfather has become a powerful personal touchstone for him as he juggles competing demands for national security and personal privacy, for government surveillance and civil liberties.
Johnson’s grandfather was a target of the communist witch hunts of the postwar era. In 1949 he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which investigated allegations of disloyalty and subversive activities.
The black college president was asked if he was then or had ever been a member of the Communist Party. He wasn’t and he hadn’t. The FBI investigated him but found nothing.
The family kept silent for decades about how the humiliations of the Red Scare touched them. Jeh Johnson only learned of his grandfather’s tribulation last fall while researching a speech.
“Basically in the late ’40s and early ’50s, if you were a black intellectual with a PhD, you were also suspected of being a communist,” Johnson said.
Now Johnson sees uncomfortable parallels to the animus and distrust that many Muslim Americans face for the terrorist actions of a few.
“We always risk a fundamental misunderstanding of who is an individual of suspicion and who should be subject to government surveillance,” Johnson said.
The issue is resonant because Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has made suspicion of Muslims a centerpiece of his campaign.
Trump has not only called for banning all foreign Muslims from entering the United States. After a gunman who pledged loyalty to Islamic State killed 49 people on June 12 in Orlando, Fla., he said that many American Muslims and mosques knowingly protect terrorists.
Court records show that since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Muslim clerics, family members, friends and others have repeatedly called the FBI to report suspicions, or have agreed to work as informants.
In fact, a member of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen’s mosque had told FBI agents the security guard was a fan of jihadist videos. The FBI dropped the case after interviewing Mateen. Two years later, he attacked the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
Johnson has voiced strong support for police after gunmen killed eight officers and wounded a dozen others this month in Dallas and Baton Rouge. But he also says he understands how a rash of police shootings of unarmed black men in several communities has sparked public outrage.
“I’ve had my share of unpleasant encounters with law enforcement when I was much younger,” he said on CNN this month. But, he added, “incidents of profiling, of excessive force, are not a reflection of the larger law enforcement community…. I think we have to remember that, especially now that tensions are so high.”
Johnson travels every few months to meet Muslim leaders around the country, usually in private. He asks them to help authorities identify potential threats in their communities, and he often describes his grandfather’s torment to show he understands how innocent people can be harmed when fear, fueled by politics, sweeps the nation.
“This is not an effort to enable us to spy in mosques,” Johnson said. “The U.S. government cannot and should not be everywhere, and so it is incumbent on community leaders, neighbors and others to help us in these efforts.”
It’s a carefully calibrated appeal, and it doesn’t always work.
On May 3, Johnson made his pitch to about 30 Muslim clerics and community leaders in a drab conference room in Philadelphia. He sought their help battling extremist calls to violence, asking them to report loved ones and friends who might try to join Islamic State or even launch their own attacks.
Why single out Muslims, a cleric from a mosque in West Philadelphia objected. What about the non-Muslim gunmen who have attacked U.S. schools, churches and movie theaters?
Johnson nodded, and told them that his wife, Susan, had received emails from a neighbor in Montclair, N.J., where they have a house. The neighbor warned that he’d seen a “Muslim-looking person” riding a bicycle on their street.
“My wife responded, ‘Thank you very much. That’s my son. He’s home from college. Thank you for your interest in national security,’” Johnson told them.
The group laughed — but kept pressing.
A woman in a yellow and green headscarf said authorities had visited the home of a local 14-year-old after he searched “Islamic State” on a high school computer. A man said his 4-year-old son, Abdullah, was questioned at an airport checkpoint because the child’s name was similar to someone on the terrorist watch list.
“As an African American whose ancestors were the subject of discrimination in law and in fact, I appreciate and understand, I think, the discrimination you face,” Johnson said.
As an African American whose ancestors were the subject of discrimination in law and in fact, I appreciate and understand the discrimination you face.
Sometimes Johnson reaches deeper into his family history.
His great-grandfather, Charles H. Johnson, was born into slavery in 1860, was freed three years later with the Emancipation Proclamation, graduated college by 23 and spent 42 years as a Baptist minister in Bristol, Va.
“When you’re the Baptist preacher in a black community in southwest Virginia [at that time], very often you were the preacher, you were the therapist, you were the marriage counselor, you were the estate planner, and every once in a while you had to break up a lynching,” he said.
Johnson’s grandfather grew up in the preacher’s house, surrounded by books and Bibles and the threat of mob violence that governed race relations in the post-Reconstruction South.
He would go on to earn a doctorate in sociology and spend his life writing about race in America. During World War I, he served as a volunteer in a segregated infantry unit that battled through France and Belgium.
After the war, he finished his studies at the University of Chicago and survived the 1919 race riots that left 38 people dead. He wrote an influential sociological study of the riots that closely examined race relations in Chicago.
His report helped lay an academic foundation for future integration policies and propelled Johnson to prominence among sociologists and in black intellectual circles…..

Wellington says
Jeh Johnson should ponder that wherever Islam dominates it sets up a Jim Crow system based not on race but on belief. Being a black man, you’d think this would resonate with him extra so——–but it won’t.
jihad3tracker says
Hello again Wellington — Jeh Johnson is identical to Obama in their self-hatred for being born African-American. There in NO genuine “black pride” in his heart — just deep resentment of whites — a degree of racism fully equal to KKK goons.
By the way, if you missed his appearance before the hearing chaired by Ted Cruz several weeks ago about WILLING BLINDNESS — THE SCRUBBING OF REFERENCES TO ISLAM FROM FBI TRAINING LITERATURE — I strongly urge that you find a video of their dialogue.
Johnson was totally soaked in obvious contempt for Senator Cruz, who was pressing him on why the DHS purged truth about Islam from essential security materials. I have rarely seen such a transparent display of disgust by anyone forced to be at a hearing — maybe John Erlichman WAY BACK during the 1973 Watergate investigation was the closest equivalent.
Wellington says
I did see that back and forth between Cruz and the clueless but arrogant Johnson. For me, it served as just another example of how the West is now led by fools.
Hope you are doing well, jihad3tracker, though it’s getting harder to do so and be so since the world is so effed up because of all those who despise freedom and by those fools who are free but have no idea why they are.
Mark Swan says
Hopefully He will be out soon enough, along with all the glut of such government appointments, which served hyperbolized interest, that meet none of our national needs.
PRCS says
That’s Jeh “Doh” Johnson.
Mark Swan says
“The Heritage Foundation is publishing a three-part Mandate for Leadership Series of documents over the course of 2016.
Each document educates the American public, specifically including Congress, the new American President, and the new President’s team.”
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2016/07/blueprint-for-reform
The following is taken from those Documents:
“The federal government of the United States has grown considerably both in size and scope under President Obama. Years of defense budget cuts have also resulted in a smaller and weaker military at a time when protection of individual liberties at home and abroad requires a strong national defense. The policies pursued by Congress and the President have led to a demonstrable reduction in personal freedoms and an increase in debt, resulting in declining economic freedom.
Federal debt has nearly doubled, from $9.986 trillion at the end of 2008 to $19.207 trillion in May 2016. By the end of this year, gross debt will have increased from 68 percent of the economy to 105 percent between 2008 and 2016, according to the Office
of Management and Budget.”
PRCS says
Thank you. I will take some time today to read that Heritage Foundation report.
jihad3tracker says
DAVID WOOD HAS A VIDEO UP ABOUT HOW COMPLETELY RACIST MUHAMMAD AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES WERE — Go to his blog http://www.answeringmuslims.com and type “Muhammad — the white prophet with black slaves” into the search box.
I have recommended that video several times, including in an earlier post today.
David cites many passages from the Hadith to back up his assertion, and, of course the moronic Louis Farrakhan is one of the grievance-peddling suckers fooled by that master con artist — the “prophet” — just as millions of other black-skinned humans have also been duped.
Dum Spiro says
Islamic source text information about Muhammad, The White Prophet with Black Slaves
You’ll learn a lot from this David Wood video too…
— Spero
jihad3tracker says
Thanks muchly Sir —
By the way, for youngsters here who were not on our planet back then, the brilliant imp David Wood — with that microphone in his hand — is referring to a “BLACK POWER SALUTE” of African-American competitors at a medals award ceremony for 1974 [???] Olympics.
TJFreedomjihad says
Thanks muchly likewise, I got distracted by the mike in hand, although after you mentioned it, it was ‘oh yeah’, all over again! Reminds of other images I can’t mention that today’s behavior regrettably bring back again. At least two periods, I lived through, with national guard taking over a major northern town. I have photos yet, in America, of course I speak.
Most yet seem to have no idea what Lyndon promised in ’67, and Democrats did to them. Alas, the lack of honor, virtue. America disserved mightily, set aside, for selfish and self serving power, lucre.
rooare says
It’s very difficult to understand how any honest person cannot see the difference between race and ideology.
Mark Swan says
They can see it is just a ploy.
Peter says
If Europeans had not brought African slaves to the New World, Jeh Johnson would not exist. My ancestors came to the New World after slavery was abolished. Why should I feel any guilt or be forced to pay reparations for what happened before then? Maybe Jeh should vet African immigrants (estimated at 13% of the African-American population), as no doubt some of their ancestors were actively involved in providing slaves to Europeans for transport across the Atlantic. That would be “fair,” wouldn’t it?
Ed Lee says
During the period when slavery existed in America, 1619 through 1863, there were more white southern Europeans kidnapped and sold into slavery by north African pirates, than all the black Africans brought to America as slaves. This is documented in two books that I found out about from Thomas Sowell. They are “Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters” by Robert Davis and “White Gold” by Giles Milton. Both books have been largely ignored by the media and academia alike. To anyone’s knowledge, has Jeh Johnson ever publicly given his opinion of Thomas Sowell?
vicki says
Please read http://www.frontline.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&id=312:the-scourge-of-slavery-the-rest-of-the-story
Mark Swan says
Thank You Vicki, I did read it, others should also.
خَليفة says
Remember that less than 5% of whites in America ever owned slaves.
There were white slaves too.
There were free blacks who waned slaves. In New Orlans, more than 30%of free blacks owned slaves. ( compared to less than 5% for whites )
Why do some people keep trying to keep the race-card in the game?
vlparker says
Johnson is a Democrat, isn’t he? That’s all one needs to know.
Goddess says
We FATHOM al of this JUST FINE. Deport muslims, destroy Islam, BLM is a terrorist group and should ALL be incarcerated, simple as that. FUCK your “reparations”.
Ray Sears says
AMEN BROTHER !
Angemon says
Well, were there reasons for that? Or is the accusation supposed to be the evidence? Also, weren’t there also whites suspected of being communists? We know for a fact that the Soviets exploited and exacerbated fracture lines in their targets. We also know for a fact that this is not the 40’s or 50’s – it’s 2016. If you’re going there perhaps you’d like to order the bombing and invasion of Germany, Italy or Japan – after all, you fought them in the 40’s…
pennant8 says
When Janet Napolitano left as head of DHS the position went vacant for some time. I was kinda keeping an eye on it to see which Islamophile or Islamoiiliterate Obama would come up with. I don’t know where he found this guy, but he fits the bill perfectly.
mortimer says
Johnson speaks as a man who apparently has not read the Islamic source texts for himself, but relies on abbreviated versions of them and commentaries that must be abridged, because he clearly hasn’t a CLUE about the Arab racism in Islam or the normative slavery in Islam or the bigotry against kafirs in Islam.
Johnson was promoted above his level of information and he has apparently done nothing to increase his understanding of Islam’s source texts.
He appears to be almost as empty of Islamic learning as when he started his present job.
vcragain says
Problem starts with the assumption that Islam is ‘just a religion’ like any other – why would you bother to go and ‘read their books’ if that is all it is – would you bother to get familiar with any other religion’s quaint ideas ? He is just trying to get everybody to be ‘fair’ to this religion too, not realizing that this cult is NOT just a religion, but has a severe political agenda, which will affect him too if he isn’t careful ! This is the big problem that needs to be shouted from the rooftops, because THAT is what makes this cult different from all others – they have an agenda for all of us and he does not know about it.
PRCS says
“Jeh Johnson: The Administration Must “Give Voice To The Plight Of Muslims””
“DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY JEH JOHNSON: We in the administration and the government should give voice to the plight of Muslims living in this country and the discrimination that they face. And so I personally have committed to speak out about the situation that very often people in the Muslim community in this country face. The fact that there are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world and the Islamic faith is one about peace and brotherhood.”
pennant8 (above) asked, ” I don’t know where he found this guy, but he fits the bill perfectly.”
Is there any doubt?
The entire article (including the video): http://tinyurl.com/nusk9go
david conti says
You can get a certificate absolving yorself of any white guilt from the great Walter Williams website here:
http://walterewilliams.com/WalterWilliamsAmnestyProclamation.pdf
What a great mind he and Dr. Sowell both have.
They were taught in the schools when excellence was expected of all students and now they just pass many students of all colors through with a fraudulent education. Dr. Williams book od essays “American contempt for liberty” is a must read.
Custos Custodum says
The article is suspiciously silent on the key question: was Charles S. Johnson personally a communist sympathizer?
A PhD in sociology is certainly not inconsistent with acting in furtherance of communism and subverting the U.S.
Of course, there was a lot of race-based discrimination back in those days, but there were also countless real communists (white, black, etc.) many of whom got away without every facing serious consequences.
Michael Copeland says
“Us-versus-them” is a defining component of Islam.
Richard Paulsen says
At the same time being envied because of pure good management and housekeeping and demanded to receive millions so called refugees and at the same time accused of oppressing them. Does not make sense.
How come so many of free will are leaving for Europe and the U.S.A., islam being so good according to the minority as well as the majority? Why go on with the same habits as before?
How many want to go to arabstates from the U.S.A. or from Europe, muslim or not? Seems as the worse thing in the world to happen to a person is to leave for an arabstate. Still complaining and attacking.
How is the past regarding the islamic world? Conquering all of the arabstates, most of Asia, Africa, parts of Europe. Destroying thousands of churches and up to 10,000 at least.
Several times trying to conquer Europe militarily. Killing others like Jews and Christians and gays. Oppressing women in the most appalling ways.
Like a time machine bringing us back some 1,500 years and to the arab world and way of living.
Killing eachother as well. Due to animosity based on tenets, historical events and different opinions regarding leaders and leadership. Not being able to form good leadership and societies.
Despite lots of economical and technical help things nevertheless growing worse.
Dum Spiro says
This news is BIGGER. In a radio interview yesterday (7/27/16) with a close staff member when HILLARY CLINTON was FIRST LADY, she said the infamous “N-word” when displeased with a black man after he left her presence! (That’s right — the racial slur word that rhymes with the first bolded word above.)
Someone sent me the link. Here it is: http://media.wben.com/device/mobile/a/116112960/7-27-the-tom-bauerle-show-hour-4.htm?
Voters and minorities can now learn how Hillary Clinton really is…
— Spero
Richard Paulsen says
In addition: Escaping but not allowing criticism of what escaping from. Not logical. Not escape, not protection, not enrichment. Just pure invading, imperialism, occupation.
DFD says
Bit off topic, but I think for American readers this bit about Clinton and money is interesting http://tinyurl.com/z2xgssn
Obviously that vast majority here on JW will not vote Clinton, unless you’re bombed out of your skull by ‘something’, on election day. However, it may be worth distributing to some undecided ones. which or whom you happen to know.
Lets hope we will somehow manage, or be granted, good leaders in the *near* future, otherwise we’ll a catastrophe.
Dennis says
As an American Jew whose ancestros where murdered by Christians, whose grandparents where abuses in Russia, whose Family was wiped out by the Germán nazis and whose immediate family, scientists and all were investigated by the House on Unamerican Activities (I think I got that correct). I bear no hatred to white Americans, to Christians or to Germans or Russians. I certainly don’t want to kill them. My South African Grandad remembers that he was classified as “colored” despite his red hair and blue eyes. Why should I hate these folks. Times have changed. Islam, coming to the west is a whole different story.
sidney penny says
“Farrakhan promotes racism and hate”
should it not be
Farrakhan promotes racism , hate and violence
CW why leave out such an important part?
Norger says
Unbelievable. This from the head if a federal agency tasked with protecting Americans, that refuses to study or even name our enemies’ self-stated motivating ideology. Muslims as victims. Not. Buying. It,