Blue Eyed Devils
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Blue-eyed devils is a term used by Avalon's Willow to demonize various members of the science fiction community, including Patricia C. Wrede, Lois McMaster Bujold, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Peter David, Will Shetterly, Kathryn Cramer, William Sanders, Luke Jackson, and Amanda Marcotte.
The term was previously used by W. D. Fard, founder of the Nation of Islam, to preach the racial superiority of American blacks:The man who founded the Nation in 1930, W. D. Fard, spread the message that American blacks belonged to a lost Muslim tribe and were superior to the “white, blue-eyed devils” in their midst. Under Mr. Fard’s successor, Elijah Muhammad, the Nation flourished in the 1960s amid the civil rights struggle and the emergence of a black-separatist movement.[1]Malcolm X also portrayed whites as "blue-eyed deveils."[2] In her post in which she uses the term, Avalon's Willow references Maclcolm X and the Nation of Islam:
I've been kidding, a bit, and saying since the middle of RaceFail V.1 that I've felt like I'm going backwards compared to Malcolm X's life, from his realizations in Mecca towards his speeches and flashes of clarity as a member of the Nation of Islam. And hell if I haven't arrived and gone even further back to certain moments in prison.
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- This Is What I See by Avalon's Willow
- Wikipedia entry on Demonization
- Between Black and Immigrant Muslims, an Uneasy Alliance by Andrea Elliott, The New York Times, March, 2007.
- African Americans in History, Institute for African American Studies, University of Georgia.
