U.S. Private Colleges & The Culture of Fascist Dynasties
There’s more to the corrupt culture of the Private Ivy League Colleges than for example the Kushner-Harvard scandal. This article seeks to uncover what can best be described as Transatlantic / Transnational Fascism and Intergenerational Fascism.
This link archives the correspondence between W.E.B. du Bois and Irene di Robilant. The letters are in reference to how prominent Italian Fascists in the U.S. sought power, influence and support for their ideology through a minority group; namely influential and talented African Americans.
It is sad to read that Augusta Savage struggled so, both financially and socially. Yet it is hard to believe that she could have thrived in Italy under the auspices of a Fascist.
The essay, “Impegno Nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle” by Charles L. Leavitt IV breaks down the Italian — American relationship and history with African Americans. Here is an excerpt:
Daisy di Robilant, another relative, was Mussolini’s go-to woman for implementing eugenicist-based Social Policy on the women of Italy, under the guise of Fascist “benevolence”. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1317873/…
The same family boasts a Military Colonialist; Carlo Felice Nicolis di Robilant and a voluntary Nazi Waffen Schutzstaffel; Carlo Manfredo di Robilant. Enrico di Robilant himself a militant Fascist, named his son Manfredo di Robilant after the Nazi. https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/349991
Manfredo di Robilant’s apologist article for Italy’s Fascist architects attempts to whitewash history in favour of Fascists and Fascist collaborators not being held accountable for the projects which they worked on and profited greatly from under Mussolini’s Fascist Dictatorship. The article works under the dangerous and entirely false notion that being bourgeois (“bourgeois moderation”) and Fascism are mutually exclusive when the exact opposite is true.
Going back to the Second World War, Edmond di Robilant, was a senior executive of the Lati airline employed by the Italian police aka “Hitler’s “petits chiens” — “lapdogs”, to start a secret shipping-movement monitoring service. “The fact that he failed to provide a single report did not spare him from a fourteen-year sentence for espionage after Brazilian police arrested him in September 1942.”: http://147.83.93.163/cops/epubfs.php?data=4745&comp=Text~SLASH~Secret~DASH~17.xhtml
Today, a direct descendent of these individuals, Professor and Associate Dean for “Equity Justice & Engagement” at Boston University’s School of Law, Anna di Robilant, coming from this very same wealthy militant Fascist German-Italian family is meanwhile devising “5 Year Plans” and actually spearheading work on Race & equality with Black staff and students within the Legal profession in the U.S. aka Transatlantic Fascism.
https://bu.edu/law/2020/10/19/strategic-plan-for-equity-diversity-inclusion-town-hall-for-students/…
https://bu.edu/law/about/diversity/equity-justice-engagement/…
History has taught us that this kind of “benevolence” comes at a price.
There is a crystal clear repetition of history and the roles that this family plays in shaping and controlling society today. They are not elected; they are selected and this is off the back of inheritance furthermore feeding the typical Fascist preoccupation with what is “inherent”. This is a very provably dangerous system, is far removed from Democracy and the fact that criticising this family, with a deep rooted history of Militant Fascism, has actively been censored is deeply troubling.
A former BU Law student has shared her testimony of classroom racism by Associate Dean Anna di Robilant:
It would be a mistake to think that BU School of Law is not related to any of the other BU Schools, or other Colleges, or the wider context of Society and Education, or that that this is simply an internal problem within BU Law. Corrupt culture trickles down and the the Law is relevant to everyone.
The fact that BU Law have remained mostly silent with a couple of exceptions, invokes this statement; “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” — Benito Mussolini, October 28th 1925, Milan.
I really hope that the freedom and equality for Black and indigenous people and populations all over the world is fully realised and actualised without interference from such fundamentally corrupt, dangerous and self-interested sources.
This is likely to be censored, again, however I would like to dedicate this writing to Giacomo Matteotti, Augusta Savage, and all those who fought and fight against Fascism.
Irene di Robilant’s involvement in Fascist propaganda initiatives: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/j.ctvr7fcgj.13.pdf
Further reading in journalism: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/jun/25/artsandhumanities.highereducation
