Friends, this country's "conversation" about race isn't just unhealthy -- it's getting downright bizarre. Check out this article about the AP's decision to capitalize "Black" but not "white". Their reasoning (to the extent that it can be called that): "Black" people have a shared culture (of victimization). "White" people (sorry I capitalized that -- it was at the beginning of a sentence, so I had no grammatical choice in the matter) do not. Well, let's reconsider that. Actually "white" people do share a culture, as the media never tires of telling us: it's the culture of white supremacy, white privilege, white guilt, yadda yadda yadda. So, we "white" folks are coherent enough as a group to be described as an inveterate curse on America, and as the fount of all oppression and prejudice, but we're not coherent enough to merit respect in the form of...capitalization. Because, let's face it, capitalizing both groups might give rise to the view that "white" identity should be protected or valued in the same way as "Black" identity, and it's thinking like that that the Left finds most abhorrent of all. So, in a nutshell, "Black" people are to be pitied/admired, while "white" people are to be, as per usual, despised. And the AP is a "news" organization? Or maybe we should revise that. It's actually a "News" organization, because its mission is sacred and profound: to teach us poor rubes how to think in a more "woke" fashion. Or is it "Woke" now? Who can keep track...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-says-capitalize-black-not-135815240.html
This is a thought-provoking article. Ben Shapiro is right: if a large percentage of Americans reject the Founders, and the basic goodness of America, what future do we have as a people? The good news is that most people don't share these toxic attitudes...but will enough of the Silent Majority unite behind Trump to stop the cultural bleeding? We shall see.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ben-shapiro-fox-news-poll-nations-founders
Lastly, this is an excellent article about how blind and arrogant many leftists have been. They genuinely believe that they can dispense with white working class voters, because the flood tide of voters of color will soon wash whitey away once and for all. Biden, to his credit, is not as myopic as many of his leftist peers. He may have enough "juice" with white voters to win in 2020. And Biden himself may not be so bad, but the people who will actually run the country in a Biden administration -- yikes!
https://www.persuasion.community/p/demography-is-not-destiny
I'm always amazed at how long The United States of America has survived as a: multi cultural, multi racial, multi religious, multi linguistic, and multi ethnic national state!
ReplyDeleteIn any event, our African-American population is trying to make a case for Black is Superior, Black is Beautiful and so on. Unfortunately, the word "BLACK" simply does not conjure up happy thoughts. Take, for example: The Black Death, Black As Sin, In A Black Mood Today, and whatnot. Also, if my ancestors were slaves I would certainly try to hide it, and not advertise it. In terms of American slavery, it would mean that the tribe they came from as a slave was too weak to avoid being captured as a slave in the first place. Then to endure slavery without throwing off the yoke completely indicates that they were too disorganized to do so successfully. So now, all they are able to do without presenting any real evidence that they are better because they are Black is to demonize WHITE PEOPLE. Good luck BLM, the only thing you have left is brute force, and that will not work forever. The more bizarre BLM gets the more those WHITE PEOPLE are going to start disliking Black People. One other thing, in the final analysis, all this BLM b.s. is a form of reverse racism. Fails every time!
Food for thought. How is it that the WHITE ancestors of Australians were rounded up as convicts and sent to that sub-Continent, where they developed the advanced society that exists there today? Did the Black aboriginals who were already there do all that as slaves? Historically and realistically the answer is NO! The same applies to New Zealand. Did White Europeans who made the advances they did, do so with Black Slaves? Even the Ancient Romans built roads and bridges that still exist, but they were built by White Romans supervising White Slaves. In addition, I don't see any Black People present at the U.S. Constitutional Conventions. The fact remains that Black People in the U.S. continue to play the race card and the victim card.
ReplyDeleteBottom line for me as a WHITE PERSON is that I don't feel guilty about being WHITE at all! Fact is my ancestors had nothing whatsoever to do with Black misfortunes of slavery in this country. All of my ancestors, as well as my wife's came over from Eastern Europe in the early 20th Century to avoid persecution from other White people over there. They then landed in Ellis Island where they had to process as LEGAL immigrants, before moving on to very westerly directions in The United States of America. Sorry, BLM, but this WHITE guy is not on a guilt trip about the racist b.s. you have decided to slap on us.
ReplyDeleteRay, I can pretty much guarantee you that some of your ancestors, and some of my ancestors, WERE slaves. So what? Slavery is virtually a human universal, in historical terms. It's also been abolished for almost 200 years. I think it might be time to pat ourselves on the backs???
ReplyDeleteSure, BLM is the DEFINITION of reverse racism...but that doesn't mean that it won't succeed. Racism often succeeds. Hate often succeeds. Intimidation often succeeds. Let's be honest: the future of the modern Left relies on its ability to convince at least a plurality of white people to hate white people. As best as I can tell, so far it's working!
Ray, historically, I don't think there's much evidence that slavery produces advancement. Quite the opposite. Slavery makes a small elite wealthy, and gives them no incentive to advance technologically, because they can simply live off the backs of others.
I don't feel even slightly guilty for being white either. I believe there is, in fact, systemic racism in America, but most of it today is focused on advancing people of color and punishing white people and laying a guilt trip on them. I've met enough liberals to know that reverse racism is PERVASIVE on the Left, and it is expressed shamelessly and constantly. So, no guilt here. Fear, yes. I will soon be in the minority -- and I will be part of a despised minority (the worst kind).
At this point I think White People need to have a militant organization of their own. (However, the KKK is OUT!) This has to be something new, accepting membership only from those White People who don't look and act like morons. That would be SPONGE, The Society for the Prevention Of Negroes Getting Everything.
DeleteWhat's developing here is "people of color" are above the law because they are victims, so let's defund the police and so on. The end result of this is that people of No Color (Whites) will probably start arming to the teeth, and get ready for a race war. That's a worst case scenario, but right now it's on the way, or s it seems.
ReplyDeleteRay, I think you should keep in mind that the present chaos serves a purpose, from the perspective of the Left. It intimidates many conservatives, and it keeps the whole country melancholic and off-balance. The goal is, as ever, to beat Trump and retake power. Once that's done, street thuggery may start to look less charming to the Dems. In fact, if you really want to diminish crime, a Marxist dictatorship could be just the ticket! I continue to think that any organized, right-wing counter-violence would be counterproductive. As a conservative white person who lives in a very blue city, I'm beginning to doubt that my safety is a high priority, or even a low priority, for the Dems who run things. That's a good argument for moving to greener pastures, but were I to take to the streets and mix it up with the rioters, I doubt I would accomplish anything except my own demise.
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