Guest Post by PF Whalen
There was a time, not long ago, when calling someone a ‘racist’ was about the worst possible insult we could give. Depending on the individual, such an accusation might have even been considered fighting words. In the aftermath of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, most Americans recognized the evils of slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation, and passionately rejected the ideologies that facilitated them.
For those of us who lived and worked in diverse communities from the 1970s through the 1990s, the words that were most commonly used to identify such people were ‘prejudiced’ or ‘bigoted;’ whereas ‘racist’ was reserved for the most exceptional cases. Even still, no one strived to earn any of those identifiers. Television character Archie Bunker, for instance, was an entertaining bigot, but we laughed at Archie, and not with Archie. The overwhelming majority of us sought racial harmony, and we wanted to move forward; to progress. We didn’t want to be called bigoted, prejudiced, or racist.
This mindset was largely successful. Throughout the 1980s, race relations seemed to progressively improve across the country. When the horrific beating of Rodney King at the hands of the LAPD came to light in 1991, virtually all Americans were horrified, regardless of our race. Four years later, there was a racial component to the O.J. Simpson trial – thanks to Simpson’s lawyer’s making accusations that resulted in the coining of the phrase “playing the race card” – but that trial was not particularly divisive to our nation; at least not compared to today’s divisiveness.
Only thirteen years after Simpson’s trial, America elected its first black president in Barack Obama, and then elected him again four years after that. In January 2010, a year after Obama took office, a poll by Pew Research found that that “Seven-in-ten whites (70%) and six-in-ten blacks (60%) [said] that the values held by blacks and whites have become more similar in the past 10 years.“ Those numbers came only fourteen months after a similar poll found “nearly half of white voters (48%) and three-quarters of black voters (74%) expected to see race relations improve during Obama’s presidency.”
We had a black president, we were over forty years removed from segregation, and our future looked bright. “Look how far we’ve come,” we thought. Such opinions were in fact held by many of us who didn’t vote for Obama. Virtually no other country in the world had elected a racial minority to lead them even once, let alone twice. Full-steam ahead was our thinking; there’s no stopping us.
Now twelve years after Obama’s inauguration, race relations in America seem as deeply divided as ever, but why? There are undoubtedly a variety of reasons, including the likelihood that our optimism from a decade ago was never actually justified. But one factor that is both inescapable and immeasurable is phenomenon of the flippant usage of the word ‘racist.’ A word that previously was used on only rare occasions is now used at the drop of a hat, and that overuse has now evolved to the point that sensible, considerate, open-minded Americans could reasonably interpret being called a racist as a compliment.
In 2008, Barack Obama didn’t need to use the word ‘racist’ yet many Americans were aghast when he disguised such an accusation. Obama simply implied the word when he suggested McCain and Republicans were “Going to try to make you scared of me. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.” He didn’t call McCain a racist by name, but the verbiage was just a technicality, and McCain and other Republicans were vociferous with their objections.
Eight years later, the term became commonplace within our political discourse when the target became Donald Trump. In 2015 when Trump said he wanted to keep rapists and criminals from coming to the U.S. from Mexico, they called him a racist in spite of the fact he specifically stated not all Mexicans are criminals. After he was elected, when he stated there were some “good people” in Charlottesville who wanted to preserve aspects of their Confederate heritage, again they called him a racist. For any perceived infraction by Trump, and for just about any reason imaginable, they threw out the word without hesitation. Many of us thought it couldn’t get any worse, but indeed it has.
We now have self-proclaimed racial scholar Ibrim X. Kendi, who essentially states the following: if we’re not anti-racist, then we’re racist. It’s a binary situation. So what does it mean to be ‘anti-racist?’ According to Kendi and many others on the left, it means we must admit that any aspect of the American system that results in unequal outcomes by race is in itself inherently racist.
Therefore, capitalism – our fundamental economic system and the system that has given us the greatest standard of living the world has ever known – is racist because there are unequal outcomes by race. Our education system, and particularly our advanced education system, which is the envy of the world, is racist because again, there are unequal outcomes by race. And our military, the strongest on the planet and one which protects us in ways other countries can only dream of, is also racist for the same reasons.
If there’s a practice, or department, or tradition that the left and their media don’t like, they label it as racist. The most recent example is the Senate filibuster, a parliamentary procedure that has been in place for over a century. The filibuster is an impediment to the most radical aspects of the Democrats’ agenda, so what does that make it? It makes it racist, of course. None other than Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the same white woman who railed against imaginary white privilege while pretending to be Native American, pulled no punches in her attempt to abolish the filibuster, alleging the “filibuster has deep roots in racism.”
We must therefore consider and assess these allegations of racism and their merit.
Almost 60% of Americans have a favorable opinion of capitalism. If capitalism is racist, as the left contends, and if you embrace capitalism like the vast majority of Americans, that must mean you are a racist. If so, take the accusation as a compliment.
If America’s colleges and universities are racist, and if you indeed cherish that education system and proudly proclaim your participation in it, that must again mean you’re a racist. Again, consider their assertion as flattery.
The same goes for our military. If you love our military and the men and women who serve in it, and if that military is racist, we should embrace their intended insult and consider it as high praise.
And if you believe that the Senate filibuster is both proper and legitimate, and if you believe that the process promotes needed compromise amongst our legislators, then let them label you as racist and accept it with honor.
The entire debate would be funny if it weren’t so dangerous. The most glaring problem with the left’s willy-nilly use of the word is the fact that racism does indeed exist, and is growing fastest on America’s left. Racism is alive and well. Any group which views virtually every aspect of American society through the lens of race, and which openly supports the idea of shunning businesses due to the color of their owners’ skin can only be called racist.
But there are also genuine white supremacists – authentic and traditional racists – and the left has diluted the term so extensively, its impact is being lost. A word that should make us shudder instead makes us shrug our shoulders, or even accept it with pride. The left has twisted the meaning of ‘racist’ to a point that many of us must take such an allegation as a compliment, and that bastardization of the word is sending America down a very dark path.
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The more we use it and embrace being called it, the better. It will desensitize everyone and disarm them.
I am afraid I have to chuckle at Mr. Whalen´s article. As a Southerner, let me say that the current race relations disaster was predicted many years ago by the “bigots”. Let me be clear. I would like nothing more than for all God´s children to love each other and live together in peace. Further, black Americans are as American as anybody else (if they are not recent African or West Indian immigrants, who should not have been allowed to come here at all). Taking a hard look at American history and human nature, it is clear that it was never in the cards that we would live in a racial wonderland of sweetness and light. Accepting that premise, we could have made better decisions.
I have a friend who was a highway patrolman. He and two other troopers – one of them black – would frequently have breakfast together. The black man, who my friend liked and respected, was one of those quiet, respectful, decent black guys who we all know and appreciate. The other trooper was a typical Southern cop. They all got along. The black guy was usually the jovial, smiling one of the group. Not an Uncle Tom at all, but not Louis Farrakhan, either. One day the other trooper put down his coffee cup, looked the black trooper in the eye, and told him to knock it off. “Your great-grandad was a slave, mine was a slaveowner. Neither of us will ever forget. Drop the act.” The black trooper looked in straight in the eyes, smiled, and said, “Damn right.” They still got along after that, but the cards were on the table.
Black people are not white people with dark skin. They know that even if white liberals can´t get it through their heads. Their entire history in this country and their genes ensure that. They have their gifts and their faults, like all people. American would not be America without them. We Southerners know that better than anybody else.
The fatal error that has led us to what I think is a point of no return was the decision by a relatively small group of white men in the North to put their political and economic interest above their duty to stand fast with their fellow white men in the South.
I do not mean that they were wrong to oppose slavery. On the contrary. Slavery in the Western Hemisphere arrived virtually with the first Spanish ships and was a critical, if not the critical, element in allowing European conquest and development. It is ironic that by 1861 the world was on the verge of the inventions that would make slavery not merely morally wrong but economically irrelevant and totally obsolete. Wise men at the time understood this and knew that it would fade away over the next decade or two. But, as they say, the war came.
What embittered Southerners after their defeat was not that fact. After all, they had made a good fight and there was no dishonor in losing to a superior force. They were not hypocrites and only a miserable few went hat in hand to the victors begging forgiveness. The only regret most had was that the South lost. And relatively few regretted the end of slavery. They may have resented the actions of some of the free slaves but in general they were prepared to move forward, as long as the North understood the problems of dealing with a huge mass of uneducated black men, many (but not all) unprepared to be on their own and with no means of earning a living in a devastated country.
What Southerners were not prepared for was the attempt by some Northerners to place the black man above the white. This was never going to happen, but it took terrible bloodshed and years of vicious semi-guerrilla war to defeat this sordid effort.
Southerners understood perfectly well who was behind it. First, the raving lunatics who, with the help of hothead Southerners, had helped bring on the war, the Abolitionists. Do not confuse Abolitionists with men who were opposed to slavery. The Abolitionists were religious fanatics, albeit without any real belief in God. They were driven not by any love or concern for the black slave but rather by a burning need to find devil figures to contrast with their own saintliness. The baccy-chewing, slave-driving,, whisky-gulping, gun-toting monsters of the South fit the bill nicely. There is ample evidence to suggest that these pious Abolitionists also had a perverted resentment at what they imagined in their fevered minds was a sexual free for all down on the old plantation.
Second, the cynical carpetbaggers who went South to strip the bones of a conquered country. It is amazing how much loot these fellows made off with.
Then there were the ordinary people in the North, who were justifiably enraged by the losses the North had suffered in what they saw as an unnecessary war. They didn´t really care much about the blacks (as long as they stayed down South) but they were pleased to go along with the other two groups just to make sure the Southerners got punished good and hard.
Reconstruction was the ugliest period in American history and nobody came out looking good. Despite the efforts of Communists like Eric Foner to paint Reconstruction as a kind of “lost opportunity” to build heaven on earth, it was in fact a brutal and thoroughly corrupt period. At the end normal folks in the North were so disgusted with the stealing and corruption of the black and carpetbag puppet governments in the Southern states and tired of the endless violence, they withdrew their support for the equality fanatics and the crooks.
As for the white Southerners, Reconstruction functioned like Weimar Germany did to the German people. It coarsened them, made them even more inclined to using violence, and discredited the older generation of gentlemen leaders. It was a hard, angry, poor and sullen South that emerged from it.
But one good thing came out of it. White solidarity. The Negrophiles were banished to the wilderness. Bad for the blacks, perhaps, but essential to rebuilding the country and reunifying it.
There was always push back from certain elements but many blacks, taking a cold, hard look at their situation, were determined to make the best of it by creating their own black institutions, churches, schools, and businesses. The crackpot attempt to install black rule or forced integration in the South had failed miserably. Maybe this would allow black and white to live side-by-side, as neighbors and fellow Americans, but without the conflict.
Booker T. Washington was the main proponent of this source of action and was by a wide margin the main leader of black America. His dignified approach won the support of many of even the most radical white Southern politicians.
Unfortunately, their was opposition to this from the start, fomented by men like W.E.B. Du Bois. Washington was a black man, born a slave in Virginia. DuBois was a very light-complexioned mulatto born in Massachusetts after the Civil War of free black parents. His pretentious name – William Edward Burghardt Du Bois – hints at the mindset of his parents.
Du Bois fiercely opposed the self-help program of Washington and fought for so-called “racial equality”. It is hardly necessary to point out how much personal resentment at his status in Gilded Age America stoked his anger and rancor. He was one of the founders of the NAACP, together with a collection of white do-gooders. This organization, with help from leftist circles, spearheaded the campaign that led to the 1960´s civil rights movement. One of its first objectives was to destroy the vision of Booker T. Washington of an autonomous black society in America.
Now I will skip to our current situation. The civil rights and racial equality movements had only a secondary objective of eliminating racial injustice. The true objective was and is the destruction of the historic American core population, i.e., white America. It is not necessary to spell out who many of the actors who have played the major role in this treasonous, vile conspiracy, are. It is a pity that many innocents will eventually pay for the actions of a relative handful.
We are now in a dreadful position and the country is slipping into an abyss. Plenty of idiot whites, such the despicable General Stanley McCrystal, Wray at FBI, Biden when he is lucid, and a host of others, are busy sharpening the machetes which will used on their own throats.
We are one major crisis away from tumbling down the slope. What will it be? I don´t know. But if you think you would never dream of becoming a soldier in a racial war (like Mr. Whelan), think again. You are in one.
Well done, Sage.
Regret a few typos, American for America, their for there, etc.!
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/275583182/
2A very informative comment. Thank you.
I was I could be as articulate Sage,thanks!
“We are one major crisis away from tumbling down the slope. What will it be?”
My money is on a cyber attack, a computer virus which strikes at the heart of the financial institutions and branches out from there.
“All the money gone, nowhere to go…”
Of course it won’t be gone, just further consolidated.
Actually, I laughed with Archie. So,blow me.
I did, too. Meathead was a meathead and has proven that again and again in the years since. Archie had good old common sense and an understanding of the real world. Of course, the creeps who tried to make a laughingstock of Archie were too stupid to understand that their liberal clichés and bullshit that they thought would make conservatives look like morons had exactly the opposite effect. The average person – contrary to what Whalen thinks – knew Archie was usually right.
Agreed we should defang the word race. It should be a word like fuck. It is an all purpose word an adjective a noun a verb and an adverb. Make it meaningless. With that said I disagree with SS. I’m all niggered out and want nothing to do with them , if at all possible.
I hear ya! Just in a be nice mood. If I see one more buck hanging on some white slut I will puke.
Races are not all the same, and anyone who says we are is a liar. We have serious cultural and psychological differences, and until we acknowledge that truthfully and honestly we will continue to be enemies of each other.
This linked article contains the scientific indisputable studies that have been done over the years with the proof of the cultural and psychological differences.
Sounds like this faggot loves niggers or something.
Prolly likes faggot niggers too! Just words…just like the word racist.
It is as sad as it is dangerous. Our children and grandchildren are becoming the new Khmer Rouge. This is not going to end well. Emigrate while you still can.