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Michael Tunison, The Root, July 22, 2008
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As a white person with a number of lifelong friends who are black, I can say I don’t feel that awkwardness in my personal relationships with them, but I know that these relationships retain an oddly-charged, often convoluted quality among some whites.
Granted, it’s not rare for white people of my generation to have friends who are minorities. In fact, those who don’t associate with people outside their race have long been the exception in most areas of the country. But that doesn’t mean that mixed-race friendships are any less sensitive of an issue today. Now, instead of having mixed-race relationships that cause controversy, it’s the absence of such relationships that draws the raised eyebrows. White people now feel pressure to overtly demonstrate their lack of racism to each other and to minorities by making a big deal of their minority friends or by embracing cultural symbols and behaviors associated with other races.
Today, being called a racist is the most contemptible label for a white person. {snip} This is certainly preferable to a time when racism was tolerated or even encouraged. But one of the sad upshots is that it has also fostered a sense of paranoia that stems from the inability or unwillingness to distinguish between actual hate-fueled racism and ignorance.
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Association with minorities has become a mark of authenticity for many whites, an indicator to themselves and others that they are not racist. The familiarity with minority cultures becomes worthy of bragging rights. Among young people, knowledge of some obscure slang or cultural wrinkle is held up as evidence that the person is accepted by that authentic minority culture.
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The racism label gets even more muddled in conversations among whites. In some parts of the country, where there are higher concentrations of minorities, young people often mock areas that are more uniformly white as backward and sometimes inherently racist. While the dearth of minorities in some of these areas may be the result of past racism, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the current residents harbor any animosity toward people of other races.
It’s no secret that white kids have a history of emulating black culture to the point that mainstream standards of coolness are almost entirely defined by those appropriated cultural elements. Mainstream youth culture has co-opted so many aspects of black culture that white kids may feel a familiarity with blacks without really associating with any of them.
At the same time, as hip-hop is considered the music of a generation, many white kids feel pressure not to be associated with seemingly benign pop-culture elements that are considered to be white. Take, for example, hockey or country music. Many white people of my generation avoid these activities in part because they are marked by an absence of minorities.
While mixed-race friendships and relationships have become commonplace, there remains enough underlying, authentic tension mixed with the paranoia of appearing racist that the subject of race can be considered an irrelevant one.
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(Posted on July 25, 2008)
Comments
I know plenty of white kids into hockey and heavy metal specifically because there are no blacks. This guy is writing about a small group of progressive hipster whites.
Posted by Civilized Neighbor at 6:40 PM on July 25
In the ’60s and ’70s the word was “Redneck.” That term I learned was what black slaves called white slaves as a derogatory term while they both toiled in their masters fields. But according to Tammy Bruce, the NOW insider who wrote a tell-all book, the Feminist Movement seized on the word because of their perception of the power it would have over white males.
We must defang the word. We must accept and make it a recognized condition - as it is - that everyone is a racist unless they are unnaturally conditioned to censor themselves. It is the unnatural psychology of self supression that is building tensions in this country to a dangerous point. The social engineers better recognize this before their game blows up in their face.
Posted by Whiteplight at 6:46 PM on July 25
Most of these White kids will grow up and notice that their Black friends didn’t keep up with them. They will keep mouthing anti-racist platitudes while gradually coming to realize that Blacks don’t have the ability to keep up. They will notice that their Oriental friends don’t fully accept them either, since everyone knows that Whites are instinctively racist and can’t be trusted. They will get prescriptions for prozac to squelch the cognitive dissonance that keeps them awake.
Posted by Schoolteacher at 6:57 PM on July 25
It appears to me that folks in politics, entertainment, and YUPPIES feel an obligation to “show off” their ties to minorities. I suppose that they believe it makes them appear enlightened.
When Barbara Walters revealed that she once had an affair with Edward Brooke, I immediately thought it was her way of saying to her peers, “You think you are enlightened because you have black friends? You ain’t nothing! I screwed one! Now, top that!”
Posted by spike at 7:06 PM on July 25
Is he saying there is no such thing as race, at the end?
I know what the ‘R’ word is, and it doesn’t stand for race. With enough proper enlightenment, it’s normal for people use the ‘R’ word, ‘redneck’, a racial slur, in order to show everyone else how enlightened they are.
Posted by Just another AmRener at 7:19 PM on July 25
What the heck is this guy’s point? I guess his point is that today’s white kids will be tomorrow’s homeless, jobless, cultureless, raceless, and nationless unwanteds.
Posted by GetBackJack at 8:37 PM on July 25
How times have changed! I don’t believe that my generation (boomer) harbored any particular animosity towards blacks, we didn’t co-opt their ways, either.
We enjoyed Motown, but refused to drink malt liquor.
Posted by kitty at 8:40 PM on July 25
I occasionally browse Webshots.com, which contains some serious photography but also has a lot of the antics of college students nationwide. It is interesting to see the number of white students at their frat parties who have one or two blacks present (I secretly call these their “token black friends”). It is almost unheard of, however, to see whites in a situation where they are a minority, except playing basketball. One almost never sees a white surrounded by black friends, for example. It seems that whites like having “minority” friends, but they are deathly afraid to be the “minority” themselves. Or maybe it’s just that most blacks don’t see it as a badge of honor to have white friends. Or a combination of both. I guess this shouldn’t be surprising, since, as someone once said, the purpose of a college education is to give people the “right” attitudes towards minorities—and the means to live as far away from them as possible.
Posted by Tim in Indiana at 8:42 PM on July 25
Well written. I think this goes hand to hand with what American Renaissance talks about. Even when one race goes so far as to actively try to be like another race, the racial divisions still remain. This is just further proof that race is a very real thing that can’t be swept under the rug or just abandoned like an old pair of shoes.
Posted by at 8:53 PM on July 25
“Today, being called a racist is the most contemptible label for a white person.”
Sir, I am a racist and proud to be. I do have black acquaintances. When a conversation comes to the point of race I tell who I am everybody, blacks or whites.
I am white. And I have nothing to be ashamed about it, and I have enough to be proud of my race immensely, as a representative of ANY race. Mrs. Obama said that she will always be black first and American second. I say that I will always be white first and American second. Now, I offer my interlocutors a choice: either we are both racists or neither of us.
Note. I dont believe you firmly, when you say you have “lifelong friends who are black.” For the purpose of this article you use the word friend instead of acquaintance.
Posted by alex at 9:04 PM on July 25
“Today, being called a racist is the most contemptible label for a white person. {snip} This is certainly preferable to a time when racism was tolerated or even encouraged.”
What cave have you been living in, Charlie? Anybody that watched the Reverend Wright tapes and who follows the black talking heads on the news shows, has seen rabid racism up close and personal.
What part of that are you too dense to understand?
Posted by ice at 9:17 PM on July 25
It’s fascinating how much power the accusation “racist” has upon people, that it can actually begin to shape people’s choice in friends, choice of cultural entertainment, choice of music, clothing, and lead to judgements of those who make different choices. As if one could escape capture by the thing called “racism” (a thing which seems to elude definition) through the “purchase” of particular “genuine minority experiences.” The metaphor of baptism strikes me as relevant: perhaps nowadays whites seek “baptism” in the waters of “diversity” or “multicultural” experience, which are thought in some manner to cleanse the “original sin” of the white man, e.g. racism. Those who have fallen by the wayside, such as Don Imus, seek instead an “absolution” by a “multicultural priest (thought police?) such as Al Sharpton: then they can “get right” (with the race gods?) once again.
Posted by WhiteIsAColor at 9:19 PM on July 25
This proves how forced and tenuous inter-racial relationships are. Everyone involved is merely putting on a happy face and pretending everything is OK.
But in the minds of each party, everyone has questions, everyone is suspect, and everyone is suspicious of reasons and motives. At the uttering of one wrong word, things can turn ugly, violent, or deadly.
I save myself the emotional energy of dealing with such issues by not associating with non-whites. I may be forced by law to have them as neighbors but there is no law that can make me their friends.
Posted by sbuffalonative at 9:54 PM on July 25
Associating with blacks and Americanized latios, and illegals on job sites is WHAT BROUGHT me around! They are NOT WHITE, and do not have the depth of character to form a ‘liberal’ civilization. This is obvious and apparent to anyone who would associate with them. I am really angry about being lied to, hence my interest in race based issues. The ones who talk “Liberal” are generally racially aware and conservative!
Posted by at 10:04 PM on July 25
“This proves how forced and tenuous inter-racial relationships are. Everyone involved is merely putting on a happy face and pretending everything is OK. But in the minds of each party, everyone has questions, everyone is suspect, and everyone is suspicious of reasons and motives”
That’s what the sex is for.
Posted by honest-to-goodness race mixer at 11:45 PM on July 25
Who writes such drivel? AVOIDING blacks is always your best strategy.
Posted by at 12:29 AM on July 26
“As a white person with a number of lifelong friends who are black, I can say I don’t feel that awkwardness in my personal relationships with them, but I know that these relationships retain an oddly-charged, often convoluted quality among some whites.”
Kid, if you only heard what they say about you when you’re not around…
Posted by Wild Eyed Charlie at 1:31 AM on July 26
I like some of the things Jim Goad says about how we deal with potential accusations of racism, in his book “The Redneck Manifesto.” He says, “‘Are you a racist?’ is about as quantifiable a question as ‘Are you a witch?’ By whose definition? …Please help…it’s so hard to keep up on what’s racist and what’s not.”
He also says something that makes me laugh because I feel the same way, “I didn’t even WANT to be white until you told me I couldn’t.”
On that note I’d add, “I didn’t even WANT to be amused by accusations of racism until you told me I had to change my whole life and go get (mutliculturally) baptized if anyone so much as breathed the r-word in my direction….”
Posted by WhiteIsAColor at 1:47 AM on July 26
In the real world outside elite liberal circles, most whites have nothing to do with blacks.
Posted by at 2:16 AM on July 26
The word “racist” is an incantation used to block thought and forestall discussion. It’s a hypnotist’ word, spoken to maintain a trance.
Posted by H. Dumpty at 9:08 AM on July 26
One of the most segregated events you can attend is a rock concert. The only non whites you’ll see are dope dealers or pimps hoping to add a drugged out teeny bopper to their stable.
Posted by Bob at 11:13 AM on July 26
How funny. At my high school, it’s almost all white, with a small handful of Asians, half-Asians, and half-something else who fit in easily. There’s only a few wigger kids, and pure, non-Asian minorities and we shun and mock them. One crude way to measure popularity at my school as how non-black you seem. A whole bunch of kids, including myself I must admit, (I’m a Asian-white mix) listen to certain kinds of music, go on certain websites etc. largely cause there are NO blacks involved. Not just out of principle, but because we can’t stand anything black. I’ve seen this with my friends for years. If you listen to Finnish or Greek power metal your much cooler than someone who listens to Fall Out Boy, who in turn is better than someone who listens to Lil Wayne. I hate blacks, Hispanics, and the damn Natives who go to school next door to us in something called Heritage High. I listen to stuff like the Pillows and Italian folk/speed metal that is about as far from black culture as you can get.
My school is very race-realist I think. I think that Gen Y’s supposed colorblindness is a myth, I hope so anyway, for the good of the country.
Posted by C.V at 11:21 AM on July 26
The reason white teenagers emulate black culture is because black culture tends to be rebellious against the established order and teenagers are naturally rebellious.
How many white teens do you think try to use Tiger Woods as a role model. If they used Tiger as a role model the only problem would be crowded golf couses.
Most young people just don’t like what’s waiting for them in life which is exactly the same as their parents. They find escape in black culture where there is little order. Sooner or later they figure out that little order also means few rewards.
Thier father may not have worn gold chains and smoked dope on the corner all day but he didn’t get shot or go to prison and he did own a house and drive a nice car. Once reality sets in the infatuation with black culture ends.
It has been written that a person under 30 that is not a liberal has no heart and a person over 30 that’s not a conservative has no brains.
Posted by Daniel at 11:28 AM on July 26
I find the idea that people associate with black culture out of fear to be laughable. In my younger days I enjoyed hip hop alot. Every nightclub I went to blared hip hop and revellers took to the floor everytime the latest hit was played. The music wassimply catching. People did not spend plenty of $$$ buying CDs just to look legit. That would be silly.
Now that I am in a corporate setting, I find that there are jerks from every race. Corporate America is cut throat. There are plenty of back stabbers. I tend to choose friends who wont stab me in the back regardless of race.
Posted by Da Vinci at 11:48 AM on July 26
for the record,the term” redneck” came from the labor movement
in the coal mines of West Virginia.the union miners wore red
bandanas around their necks to distinguish them from the non union.
Posted by jess at 12:50 PM on July 26
Today, being called a racist is the most contemptible label for a white person. {snip} This is certainly preferable to a time when racism was tolerated or even encouraged.
He writes that as if he believes it. How many times have I read the phrase “for fear of being called a racist” on this site? I don’t know how white people got so buffaloed by a stupid word. And yes, before you all point out the potential for career destruction, I’ve read about that. But it seems to me, that’s a result, not a cause of the madness. White people attack the “racists” among them in the hope that it will forestall attacks against themselves, like wolves turning on the weakest member of the pack.
Whenever somebody accuses me of racism, I immediately agree. Then I say, “I’m also a sexist. That doesn’t mean I hate women, it simply means that I don’t think they’re the same as men. Which is the main thing I love about them.”
As an aside, in South Africa the term “rooinek”, literally redneck, is a derogatory term used by Afrikaners (descendants of Dutch and French settlers who speak Afrikaans) to refer to English-speaking South Africans. The origin of the term is the sunburnt English soldiers in the Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902). So I was interested to read the explanation in a comment above of the etymology of “redneck” in the USA. So I googled it. There’s an interesting article on Wikipedia.
Posted by AnalogMan at 1:18 PM on July 26
Whilst it is true that most young whites will form friendships with non-whites (including racists like me), they don’t actively seek them out for social status, its just inevitable in an integrated society, where its illegal to say I don’t want to hang with you because your black.
However I think there is a certain class of whites, which Ian Jobbling on Inverted World refers to as the profesional class who do see a black friend as akin to a sports car.
I’m a twenty-something white guy and 80% of my friends will readily admit (between trusted friends) that they are racists, but at the same time recognise its a bad thing to be one. Kind of like someone who knows binge-drinking is bad for you but will does it anyway. The remaining 20% are either in or aspire to be in the professional class.
Posted by Whitesambo at 1:43 PM on July 26
C.V.:
If you are in fact a teenager, you must live in some rural part of the nation. And even there White kids do everything they can to adopt the behavior of Blacks.
Posted by James at 2:26 PM on July 26
Hmmm, interesting. At my school we make fun of those non-Blacks who listen to rap.
Posted by at 2:29 PM on July 26
2:16am:
That may be true for older Whites, but I cannot say the same thing aobut younger ones.
Posted by Phillip at 2:49 PM on July 26
One rule with whites and minorities, is that you can make fun of the white guy, but if you joke about his darker friend, (non-black) as an ‘equal’, EVERYONE will go quiet. Seen it a few times. Try it.
Posted by at 2:54 PM on July 26
A few centuries back, being accused of heresy or witchcraft was serious business; you could end up BBQ-ed. More recently, being called a commie could get you black-balled. Now it’s the meaningless term “racist” that’s making otherwise intelligent people soil their pants with fear.
Isn’t it time to toss our terror of being called “racist” into the dumpster of history, where it belongs?
Posted by JustPlainMean at 3:41 PM on July 26
This phenomenon is nothing new. In college in 1965, I noticed a not insignificant number of good-looking white coeds hanging around black students. I asked a friend why they might do that, and he said with the civil rights movement, being seen in the company of blacks was a status symbol to show you were “in” with the latest thought.
Posted by sedonaman at 4:43 PM on July 26
The article is simply propaganda to convince any Whites naive enough to believe it, to ignore what they see with their own eyes. The open contempt the black community has for Whites. Whites are the only group who have been trying to be color blind, and doing so has accomplished absolutely nothing but to reap even more contempt from the black community… re: Reverend Wright, and you thought Christian religious services was about loving your brother.
Posted by RED at 4:53 PM on July 26
“Today, being called a racist is the most contemptible label for a white person.”
Laughable, Comrade Tunison!
It is utterly beneath contempt for a “white person” of your: kind, age, and “education,” to even acknowledge that they are white since it is a “social construct,” and therefore meaningless; that is unless you wish to perpetuate “racism” and “white privilege.” So where are you coming from Comrade Tunison? One cannot be a “racist,” unless they admit the “fallacy” of being white; so are you: a white “racist,” a Red, or a multiculturalist?
I would have to say that you are: a “white racist” first, a Red second, and a multiculturalist third, because you admit you are “white” from the get go in this article!
Too bad, you were not simply a global and nonracial “human being.”
To the Ministry of Love with you Comrade Tunison, we must make you a “human being” and unperson.
Remember Comrade Tunison: Big Brother is always Watching!
Posted by John PM at 5:12 PM on July 26
I don’t know where this author is coming from but this simply isn’t true. When I was a young teen in the 90’s the “wigger” thing was cool. Today it is a joke. The only whites who think it is “cool” to mimic black culture and listen to rap music are trailer trash. I almost miss seeing wiggers everywhere - it is so fun and easy to mock them.
I think it is still true to an extent that many whites feel it necessary to have a few token black friends. However, I am noticing a trend among younger whites were being hyper-white is the new cool thing. Ten years ago, blacks were the “in” minority and rap music was the “in” thing to listen to. Today, Asians are the “in” minority and indie rock / emo music is the “in” thing to listen to. I especially thought CV’s earlier post was interesting. There does seem to be an emerging trend among young whites and asians to assoicate with each other and form a sort of alliance against the more violent ethnic groups. This has always been the case but it is becoming increasingly common.
Posted by at 7:11 PM on July 26
This article fails to note that although young people will be more liberal and socialize with blacks and other nonwhites more frequently, this attitude changes when they get older. I had black friends when I was in my early 20s, although these weren’t close personal relationships. I’m not even sure friend is the word I would use as I would associate with them in my environment but not in theirs. I was conditioned by what I read and saw in the media growing up into believing in far left ideology. I was into that alternative religions, vegetarianism, animal rights, women’s liberation, save the planet, etc. you name it. As I got more experience in life, I gradually moved more and more to the right until now I’m extreme hard right. Now I’m a Christian fundamentalist, racialist, nationalist, chauvinist, carnivore, anti-UN, don’t believe anything you read conspiracy theorist. I have absolutely nothing to do with minorities and live away from them.
Posted by at 8:16 PM on July 26
7:11pm:
Then you need you come to Westchester county, New York. These kids love emulating blackness.
8:16pm
Did these White kids in the mid 1960s beoome roomates with,share apartments with, have sex with, members of wedding parties, marry Blacks, Latinos etc…. with these Black students?
Because in 2008, these are a few of the many things that are happening with considerable frequency. Such activities demonstrate the most intimate form of friendships.
It is indeed alarming.
Posted by Zachary at 9:03 PM on July 26
The first part of my question was meant for Sedonman. Sorry
Posted by Zachary at 9:05 PM on July 26
“I was into that alternative religions, vegetarianism, animal rights, women’s liberation, save the planet, etc. you name it. As I got more experience in life, I gradually moved more and more to the right until now I’m extreme hard right.”
Actually, many white nationalists seem to be into many of those things too, especially animal rights. They are not mutually exclusive.
Posted by I should have taken the blue pill. . . at 11:07 PM on July 26
Spike,
You are right about yuppies. They are even more pungent with their intentional outward affinity about minorities. The problem is that so many of these yuppies have power and influence, which they use to perpetuate white guilt even further.
Posted by Jeff at 1:22 AM on July 27
I guess his point is that today’s white kids will be tomorrow’s homeless, jobless, cultureless, raceless, and nationless unwanteds.
Posted by GetBackJack at 8:37 PM on July 25
Most likely….that’s the end game for the social engineers to have a world created in their own image: the white power structure is ano-no that gots to go….(sic)
Posted by Lisette at 2:14 AM on July 27
One should be polite to non-whites and talk to them, but not actively seek them for intimate friends. While whites may associate with non-whites in the professional world, whites still need “white friendly space” where whites can associate with only whites. All other races have these spaces (e.g. black clubs, Asian clubs, etc), but whites are not allowed. The two questions are:
(1) Unlike all other races, why have whites lost any sense of tribalism?
and
(2) What can be done to regain a sense of tribalism?
Posted by William Davies at 9:49 AM on July 27
I remember waaaay back in the early 1990s on the Real World and one blond, blue-eyed girl was whining about how being white was so “boring” and she was envious of her Muslim black roommate.
In her mind, he was so much more interesting than she b/c of his history (the whole slavery issue), his daily struggles with racism from mean whites and being a Muslim in a predominantly Christian culture.
This, I think, epitomizes most white kids today. We’ve homogenized ourselves into this one word: “white”, which young people associate with being racist, bland, and boring. They don’t know and/or appreciate our American culture or their American immigrant culture (e.g. being Irish-American, Italian-American, etc.). This is our own fault.
Posted by at 10:04 AM on July 27
Since I can remember, I have always enjoyed a lot of black contributions to music. Blues, R & B, and some great groups out of the ’50s and ’60s. I have a decent collection of vinyl records and CDs ranging from the smooth Philly sound to Motown. But I have never felt the slightest inclination to associate with blacks or adopt any of their dress, language etc.
It is unfortunate that today such is not the case. Our young people are being brainwashed and conditioned to view blacks and what passes for their music today as some kind of lifestyle to emulate. Worse yet, they have come to despise their own whiteness. Whenever I see a teenager dressed like some rapper and blaring out music with lyrics that are either obscene or white hating, I want to shake some sense into them. What can we possibly do to counteract the forces that are molding them into self-hate?
I truly fear for our children and grandchildren.
Posted by Minerva at 2:53 PM on July 27
If there’s anything wrong with white kids today is that racial pride isn’t being instilled in them by their parents. There’s a lot to be proud of in the white race, too. Also parents get an F for not telling them that race mixing will destroy their race.
Posted by sandstorm at 7:13 PM on July 27
“Actually, many white nationalists seem to be into many of those things too, especially animal rights. They are not mutually exclusive.”
I wouldn’t intentionally hurt an animal but when activists harass children for drinking milk, call fishing cruel, throw blood on women wearing fur or dress up like a chicken and dissect a Colonel Sanders mannequin, your getting into the realm of the sick and mentally ill.
Posted by at 7:33 PM on July 27
Everyone involved is merely putting on a happy face and pretending everything is OK.
But in the minds of each party, everyone has questions, everyone is suspect, and everyone is suspicious of reasons and motives. At the uttering of one wrong word, things can turn ugly, violent, or deadly.
Posted by sbuffalonative at 9:54 PM on July 25
Sounds like marraige.
Posted by at 9:01 PM on July 27
I’m of the opinion, with the way the words nazi and racist are slandered onto everyone for almost no reason at all by the left today, that the word racist is losing it’s strength and power in society.
The charge is used constantly all day long against anyone who disagrees with someone from the left.
For example, if you are one of the 74% of Americans that oppose illegal immigration, then expect the charge of racism to be applied to you by someone from the left.
The charge of racism is made constantly and consistently by the left against all who oppose them almost as a knee jerk reaction.
As a result, the word is losing it’s hold on our society. Like the little boy that cried wolf so many times the villagers ceased listening to them.. the left’s misuse of this charge is starting to have the same result. Nobody believes them anymore when they use the word.
Posted by Unemployed WASP at 12:48 AM on July 28
(2) “What can be done to regain a sense of tribalism?”
Put a bone in your nose, get a spear and a grass skirt, and go show your friends your new three-piece suit.
Posted by tribal premise at 1:13 AM on July 28
“While mixed-race friendships and relationships have become commonplace, there remains enough underlying, authentic tension mixed with the paranoia of appearing racist that the subject of race can be considered an irrelevant one.”
The carefree, irresponsible lifestyle of “gangsta”/anti-social blacks will always appeal to some of our youth. It’s no surprise that with our cultures wholesale flight from responsibility that many rebellious young people try to act “black”. It takes maturity and experience to reject this self destructive lifestyle. However, in order to succeed in life whites, Asians and blacks must embrace an orderly work ethic and act (according to blacks)”white”. Hip Hop and the “gangsta” culture lead to prison, drug addiction, and an early death.
Posted by Sardonicus at 8:46 AM on July 28
“…The problem is that so many of these yuppies have power and influence, which they use to perpetuate white guilt even further….”
Posted by Jeff at 1:22 AM on July 27
Yeah, they especially use their power and influence and inherent money to live in gated communities with 24-hour armed guards.
And you wouldn’t expect them to send THEIR children to a government school where they might be beaten up and robbed by low-class minorities, would you?
That’s only for YOU and YOURS, not them.
They are true hypocrites, led by Bill Clinton, pontificating on high about the glories of multiculturalism ‘diversity is our strength’ and all that other garbage that is their mantra—but only for you and your loved ones, never for them.
And don’t forget to send them your tax money, and lots of it, because you might spend it wrong and can’t be trusted with it to do ‘the right thing.’
Bon
Posted by BonBon at 9:37 AM on July 28
In England, it always makes me chuckle the way so many BBC programmes portray blacks and whites buddying up on a scale that bears no resemblance to real life.
This shows the wishful thinking of the socialist race-mixers who control the BBC.
Posted by Robert Sharpe at 1:00 PM on July 28
I hope the person who wrote this article is speaking for him/herself.
If you are not willing to give up your Job, Home, Culture, Language and Country to non-whites, you are automatically a racist.
I guess I am a racist. Not the kind of racist that is in the Dictionary of course but the kind of despicable racist that refuses to lie down for aliens and blacks who refuse to be responsible for self and refuse to assimilate to the Country they CHOSE to live in.
I do not like hispanics or anyone from the Middle East at all. They refuse to assimilate to the American Culture. I guess I’m a racist. Not because I think my race is superior (that is the true definition of a racist) but because I love my Country and want to preserve our Language and Culture, I’m a racist.
It’s time for these people to go. If the American Culture and our English Language is not good enough, I’m quite sure those Countries your friends came from will suit you so much better.
To the author of this article: I will purchase a one-way ticket for you to anywhere except Europe as they don’t need another liberal who has respect none for American or White Culture at all. Europe must rid itself of their Traitors as well.
GOD BLESS JEFF DAVIS AND ROBERT E. LEE
May The South Rise Again!
Posted by Steph at 1:16 PM on July 28
C.V.,
Do you attend high school in Arkansas? The reason I ask, is at the end of the 2008-2009 school year I am moving my family from crime infested Florida to northwest Arkansas. I love the demograhics and low crime. I also noticed there is a school in Rogers named Heritage High. I’m trying to determine the best high school for my son. Thanks.
Posted by Beech Mountain Man at 3:20 PM on July 28
White college kids seem to be ashamed to be white and think its cool to be multicultural. This goes at the heart of the problem. These kids aren’t being raised right. The parents should be instilling in them to have white pride. They’re not. They should also warn them that they’re only 8% of the world’s population and the dangers of race mixing. They’re not. If they raised the kids right we wouldn’t be living in a cultural sewer right now.
Posted by sandstorm at 3:31 PM on July 28
I suppose we were the worst kind of racists (dubious), we didn’t care one way or another about blacks. Still don’t.
Blacks are nothing to me, not special nor a detriment, just nothing. I’ll compete anytime under any circumstances.
Some good, some bad, but never special.
Posted by jdavis at 4:58 PM on July 28
This is a black man writing this stuff.
Posted by markjaws at 9:03 PM on July 28
Unfortunately what this man says is more true than many of us would like to admit. Yet it doesn’t disturb as much as one might think it would. These are the consequences of white guilt and white guilt cannot last forever. In order to give white guilt its belated and much-deserved death punch we must persistently point it out and call it cowardly and corny every time we witness it. That is our duty, we owe to everyone
Posted by Stacey Decker at 9:09 PM on July 28
Hi, I think you folks ought to be a little bit more sympathetic towards Whites who are terrified of being called racist. I’m widely reviled as an anti-White black-loving race traitor by WN’s, but on the other hand, I have been called racist constantly in polite society. This has caused me problems at work and even in public, where I am known about town as the “local White Supremacist”. Why, you ask? Because I suggested that I think it’s a good idea for Whites to be proud. Because I said the phrase “Caucasian race”. Because I said the word “race” in public. Because I said the word “Semite” in public, and when asked to define it, said it was a branch of the Caucasian race. Because I gave someone a handout of my writings that had the words “Jews” and “Arabs” in them - evidence of racism.
You people don’t know what it’s like out there. This is California. The word race may not be uttered. You may never utter that any White person has any nationality such as “Spaniard” or “Polish”. That is racism. You may not say the words “Jew”, “Arab”, “Caucasian” or “race” in public. You may not note that Hispanics are Mestizos, which means that they are part White and part Indian (the overwhelming majority of Hispanics are not aware of this and think they are 100% Indian, or just don’t understand the whole subject). You may not say that if you are White, you have been attacked on the basis of your race. If you do, Blacks and Hispanics will leap up from their seats and scream “racist” at you.
You must be frozen and unemotional while non-Whites slam away at your race. You must grovel and admit that you are evil and that non-Whites are God-like. You cannot say the words “Black” and “White”. You must say European and African. Or, in other places, you may not say the word “White”, since the White race does not exist in any way.
If you violate any of these rules, you are a NAZI. In fact, I am widely regarded as a Nazi, a White Supremacist, a racist, a White Power guy, etc., much to my dismay. In fact, I am a leftwing anti-racist anifa type.
So go easy on Whites for being terrorized by this racist word. I understand that we need to take it back from the Moron Tide, but it’s going to be a long, slow process.
Posted by Robert Lindsay at 6:51 AM on July 29
Beach Mountain Man- I live in Washington State, about halfway between Seattle and Vancouver,
Posted by C.V. at 11:41 AM on July 29
“So go easy on Whites for being terrorized by this racist word. I understand that we need to take it back from the Moron Tide, but it’s going to be a long, slow process.”
Posted by Robert Lindsay at 6:51 AM on July 29
The “long slow process” will never work its way to a conclusion, Robert. The society you described is one that is on the brink of implosion. The contentious tribes aren’t just fighting with whites, they’re fighting with each other, as well, and little mentioned of those squabbles is that the battles between non-whites are much more numerous and of far greater intensity than any kind of white/black hostilities. A nation so divided cannot stand, if I might borrow a high-sounding phrase. We are in the initial stages of coming apart into open hostilities, breaking along lines of race, ethnicity, and religion.
And the coming conflagration will evolve from the ongoing battles we are seeing today between blacks and browns, plus blacks and everybody else, to a smaller degree.
Here’s just a few links. I have about two dozen more if these don’t suffice:
http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_12_19/cover.html
End of the Rainbow—Roger McGraph. Multicultural failure.
“Hate Crimes at all Time High in L.A. County”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D924C8902&show_article=1
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=68669
Race War Over Turf.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/education/769103/racial_tensions_spill_onto_streets_violence_rises_between_silverado_students/index.html
Racial violence spills over into streets
So, why is this happening? Well, part of the answer is that blacks say they want equality, but what they really want is power and control, as if they haven’t failed enough in Africa with it, as well as all the black run cities here in this country. They separate themselves in many other ways. And they fight with everybody. Everybody.
The Mexicans have been running through the streets holding the Mex flag overhead in what they perceive is triumphant victory, and everywhere they live they make sure they are separate and apart from the white majority. They want to colonize and eventually dominate and control like the blacks. Most of them are living near the blacks, but the two neighborhoods are strictly segregated and if either side forgets that and wanders into alien territory they could very well be shot and killed.
The Muslims want sharia law here, not the white man’s version of christianity, nor do they want anything to do with the culture and traditions of this country. I have no doubt their dream is to invoke sharia law throughout the land, with their feet on white necks.
So, Robert, the problems you described are the least of our worries, so far as the pitiful multicultural mess is concerned.
Don’t be fooled into thinking this diversity dungeon is whites versus everybody else because it certainly isn’t. It’s everybody versus everybody, and it’s getting worse with each passing month. What do you think will happen if the economy goes into the tank?
Posted by Ranger at 1:21 PM on July 29
A white person can never have black “friends” , associates yes, aquantances, maybe. They will always stab a white person in the back the first chance they get. Whites have been brainwashed into thinking that blacks could ever be their “friends”. Associating with blacks , for a white person, is equivelant to being in a pit with live rattlesnakes.
Posted by at 1:25 PM on July 29
In fact, those who don’t associate with people outside their race have long been the exception in most areas of the country.
If this dude really believes this, then he obviously hasn’t seen very much of the country. I’ve seen a whole heluva lot of it, and the truth is that the vast majority of people have precious few if any associations with people outside their own race.
Nearly all communities in America are predominately, often overwhelmingly, mono-racial. Even in towns which have significant numbers of more than one race, they split up into their own little enclaves and remain mostly separate. Since most people live out their whole lives and die within a radius of only a few miles, the opportunity to mix with other races on a large scale doesn’t often exist, even if they want it to (which mostly they don’t).
Mainstream youth culture has co-opted so many aspects of black culture that white kids may feel a familiarity with blacks without really associating with any of them.
This statement is depressingly true, even if the referenced familiarity is demonstrably false. I wrote about this on my blog (if you can call it that) a while back. Those who care too can read it here. Maybe you’ll find it entertaining.
Posted by BW Sam at 1:46 PM on July 29
Robert Lindsay at 6:51 AM on July 29 wrote:
“I think you folks ought to be a little bit more sympathetic towards Whites who are terrified of being called racist.”
Robert Lindsay is right. Read (or re-read) his litany of what happened to him when he started speaking up on these issues. Would you want that kind of persecution being directed at you?
Neither would I. Getting a rep as the local “White Power” guy in a majority-mestizo California town like his — a town that, for all practical purposes, might as well be IN MEXICO ITSELF — must be not only uncomfortable but DANGEROUS. He has my fullest sympathies on this one.
Without wanting to put Mr. Lindsay on the spot or make him reveal anything that might put him at further risk, I wonder if he would expand a little upon what EXACTLY he did and said that brought this on? It’s well known that Mr. Lindsay has attracted plenty of heat on his blog for racial heresies, but what he describes in this post — “Because I said the word “race” in public”; “Because I gave someone a handout of my writings…” — sounds like non-virtual, real-world confrontations with flesh-n-blood opponents. Correct?
Care to elaborate, Mr. Lindsay? Any pointers you can give us on what NOT to say in public? Anything you’ve said that wish you never did? Any particular words or statements you’ve found that set people off?
Posted by The Incredible Shrinking White Man at 4:45 PM on July 29
“…C.V.:
If you are in fact a teenager, you must live in some rural part of the nation. And even there White kids do everything they can to adopt the behavior of Blacks….”
Actually, it is obvious that “C. V.” is living in Canada, as only a Canadian (or a non-White with Canadian citizenship like C. V.) would ever refer to Indians and Eskimos as “Natives”. People down here in Yank-land just call them what they are: Indians and Eskimos.
Posted by at 6:06 PM on July 29
Reply to Robert Sharpe:
Well said. I have long noted this in British television, especially the propaganda-spouting BBC. The impression is that ever single English person in the U.K. has a black guy as his very best friend. Right, (sarcasm).
Posted by at 9:42 PM on July 29
“This is California. The word race may not be uttered.” (Posted by Robert Lindsay at 6:51 AM on July 29)
The chief (oops; don’t know if I’m allowed to say that word—there might be a Native-American present) Hispanic advocacy group has unabashedly named itself “The Race”, while we must not even speak the word!
If Hispanics are “THE Race”, could we at least organize and call ourselves modestly “La Raza Blanca”, paying respectful obeisance to Hispanics’ linguistic conquest of us while doing so?
Maybe we should take a page from the gays, who named themselves “Queer Nation”, and just call ourselves “Los Racistas Blancas” (“The White Racists”), and run with that. Be like the blacks and the gays, and appropriate for ourselves the pejorative used against us. It’s “in your face”, which we whites need to start being, and stop being bullied by, and waste time arguing about, the words being used against us.
We need the kind of approach Abbie Hoffman would have used if he had been one of us—proclaim “White-Racist Pride Week” and get out and march wearing tie-dyed sheets with “White Flour Power” emblazoned on them, carrying nooses made of garlands of flowers and placed around necks of whites in black-face who are dancing and singing Led Zeppelin’s “Hangman, hangman, don’t hang me from the hanging tree.”
That can all be much improved upon, but use humor to keep them confused and disrupt the paradigm.
Posted by H. Dumpty at 7:49 AM on July 30
Hi, problem is it is a long story.
In two cases, I passed out a copy of my writings on something called “Spot the Language”. It’s a series of posts I did where I took a snippet of usually European language, then added in a whole bunch of strange and oblique clues about the nation and tongue and asked people to guess the language. It totally failed because either no one cared or no one understood it. No one did it either. I had two paragraphs of another post that I did not scribble out, and it proved to be deadly. The manager confronted me, told me it was White Supremacist propaganda and would not be tolerated on the premises. The post was complex, but in it I was arguing with some White supremacists. I was urging them to at least see the White in someone part-White (Hispanic, US Black, Mongolian, etc.) and respect that White part of them, and I said that was the true meaning of White pride = to at least love the Mestizo for his 50% White. Well, this was completely misunderstood and seen as White Pride racism.
In another hangout, a gave the same quizzes to a guy I knew and he freaked out. He looked through the stuff baffled and got more and more upset. He said, “What is this? Jews? Arabs?” He acted like it was child porn (typical reaction). I said (joke) “Oh, those are just excitable Semites.” He didn’t get it. “What’s a Semite?” He’s baffled. “Oh, it’s a branch of the Caucasian Race, of the White race”. The guy goes nuts. “What? What’s that? What’s Caucasian? What’s the White race? Do you believe in that stuff?” He’s angry now. “Well, I think White people have a right to be proud.” “You believe in that?” He looks like he’s going to hit me. There’s two White girls in the shop and they are frozen, staring. I try to backtrack my way out of the conversation and get the handout back. Later I come in and apologize for making him mad. She says, “Well, in the future if you could avoid discussing that. Discussing people’s RACES.” I will note that everyone in this event is a *White* person. I had talked to the guy earlier. He lives in an all-White town and loves illegal aliens and Mexicans.
I discuss more in another post. Problem is that I have made some serious enemies with these idiots and they have been coming to my website engaging in character assassination and I am afraid they will follow me to this board and do the same thing.
Posted by Robert Lindsay at 4:51 AM on July 31
“I will note that everyone in this event is a *White* person. He lives in an all-White town and loves illegal aliens and Mexicans.”
Oh! Isn’t that SO typical? We’ve all encountered those types. They are our plague. Do as I say and not what I do!
Posted by at 7:43 PM on July 31
Where I live, Boston, there is alot of interacial frater-
nization and dating. In teen culture, Blacks are clearly looked
up to and are the natural leaders. Natural because Blacks are
strong at all the things teens value. And they are finished grow-
ing. A White kid has alot of change ahead of him, where as a Black kid will be the same at twenty five as he was at fifteen.
Blacks mature a year or so earlier too but that’s a minor point.
The main point is that Blacks are all done very early-thus they
have a natural maturity at an age that Whites don’t. Thus it is
desperately important to protect White kids from the influence
of this stunted race. As it is, they have no defence at the pres-
ent time.
Posted by Leif the Lucky at 12:45 AM on August 1