Christopher Dorner And His Racial Identity
By Darron Smith
The recent events surrounding Christopher Dorner and his troubles with allegations of institutional racism embedded within the LAPD as well as his seeming struggles with his racial identity, as he articulated in his manifesto, are sobering. Racial identity is shaped by beliefs and attitudes and is believed to be part of self-concept, which may influence the way in which black people see the world and their place in it.
Dorner, who was born in 1979 in New York and grew up in the Southern California suburban communities of Cerritos, Pico Rivera and La Palma (along with some time in Southern Utah), went to mostly-white schools. He recounts a story of attending Norwalk Christian Elementary School in Norwalk when a kid called him a racially insensitive word. “I struck him hard and fast with a punch and kick,” Dorner penned. The kid reported him, and Dorner was outraged. Both he and the other kid were swatted in punishment. But Dorner’s feelings of anger that day were something he kept with him throughout his life. “How dare you swat me for standing up for my rights for demanding that I be treated as an equal human being?” he stated in his very public treaty. “That day I made a life decision that I will not tolerate racial derogatory terms spoken to me.”
Could Christopher Dorner’s spiraling decline (in part) have come as a result of his internal and external troubles with his black skin? His ex-girlfriend Ariana Williams thinks so, telling ABC 7 that Dorner hated himself for being black, and at one point, asked her to act more like a white woman. Searching for racial identity in this racialized world has claimed the lives of too many people of color. As disconcerting and distressful as this is in this “free” nation, it is no justification for murder.
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That is deep for the article to say “His ex-girlfriend Ariana Williams thinks Dorner hated himself for being black, and at one point, asked her to act more like a white woman.” Dorner was still a young man in thinking like that. But I have seen some older Blacks who still think like that too: Allen Keyes, Allen West, Herman Cain, Michael Steele, Cornel West and now Dr. Carson. These think are superior to President Obama because he is African-American. They say they are Black-Americans (of English descent). They avoid NAACP and Urban League because these institutions are for Blacks. I am sorry for them. Dorner, at his age, needed help to know there was nothing wrong being Black or White. This was unfortunate. I am black and I don’t feel black until some Whites or some Blacks treat me differently because I am Black. The only difference is that I don’t take arms to get even. I go to court and sue. So Dorner should have appealed his case to court. I am sorry for Dorner and all those killed. These deaths could have been avoided.
As long as non whites- so called minorities continue to pray to a caucasian man as god nothing will ever change.
This bytch is lying!!! The media (mindless evil devils in action) are doing their dirty deeds, as usual to try to make Black people THINK, that he (Dorner). hated himself, which is LIE!!!!
HE HATED CRACKERS FOR ABUSING AND MISUSING HIM…PERIOD
Negroids will beLIEve anythang this racist news media tells them; therefore, this female is just a scapegoat being used to make Black people feel inferior.
These honkeys ARE PROFESSIONAL LIARS, THEIVES, AND WILL DO ANYTHANG TO DEGRADE THE BLACK MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD!!!
These honkeys are the ones, who HATE THEMSELVES, but they will never admit it. They really hate that pale, mushy colorless skin, and this is why they take all that medication because they hate being albinoids and caucasoids!!!
REAL TRUTH!!!!
Im always uncomfortable with your tone, but I agree with some of your points.
I believe you are right, he didnt hate himself. He hated the way he was treated by whites and he could never wrap his mind around it enough to live through it. He seems like he took a very hardline approach to being disrespected like that and in the end? He used his last days to vent on the people he despised the most. The Racist LAPD..
Darron Smith of Kulture Kritic and all other African Americans please don’t get caught up in believing and printing more fake garbage from Christopher Dorner’s quite obviously transparent, pathetic, and awfully tacky old ex-girlfriend Ariana Williams. Both while Dorner was on the run and now since his death this women has tried her best to get paid and receive 15 minutes fame from a five year ago relationship with Dorner over the course of which Dorner didn’t marry her and likely did not propose marriage based on what I read she did to him after their relationship ended indicating she was still p****d about it. Ariana Williams is trying hard to smear Chris Dorner’s name for which someone is likely paying her to falsely portray the man and, if I was Dorner’s mother or sister, I’d find an excellent way to kick Ms. Williams behind. Dorner’s body barely cold and not buried and this wicked piece of womanhood is spewing fantasy bullshit about this man. Dorner clearly should have ended his relationship with non-classy, insensitive, and wacko Ariana Williams much sooner than he did. There is no question in my mind Christopher Dorner by virtue of his written Manifesto and life achievements was a highly intelligent, educated, strong, confident, and well trained African American man who was very proud of it and didn’t suffer injustice, bullshit, or fools gladly.