RALEIGH, N.C.
North Carolina State University has distanced itself from comments made
by an adjunct instructor who recently said Blacks must “exterminate
White people off the face of the planet.”
Kamau Kambon, an author who taught in N.C. State’s Africana Studies
program as recently as this past spring, made the comments Oct. 14
during a conference at Howard University in Washington, D.C., that was
televised nationally by C-SPAN.
The conference was organized to discuss mainstream media coverage of racial issues after Hurricane Katrina.
Kambon explained how he grew up in Brooklyn and eventually began to
wonder why so many of his Black friends were dying. He concluded that
the reason was systematic oppression by a society designed and run by
Whites.
“We have to exterminate White people off the face of the planet to
solve this problem …,” he said. “So we just have to just set up our
own system and stop playing and get very serious and not be diverted
from coming up with a solution to the problem, and the problem on the
planet is White people.”
Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader and speaker at the conference,
immediately challenged the remarks, warning that Blacks can’t work
toward full freedom with “racial fanaticism.”
