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Anger Building
I continue to be amazed by the sheer magnitude of the rage and acrimony unleashed by the healthcare debate. Here’s a priceless gem from the Washington Post. Courtland Milloy, a negro columnist, writes:
I know how the “tea party” people feel, the anger, venom and bile that many of them showed during the recent House vote on health-care reform. I know because I want to spit on them, take one of their “Obama’s Plan: White Slavery” signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads.
I am sick of these people — and those who make excuses for them and their victim-whiner mentality.”
Any White columnist who wrote a similar column for a conservative magazine or newspaper threatening violence against blacks would be fired on the spot. He would be untouchable. His career in respectable mainstream journalism would be over. “White privilege” works in mysterious ways.
The Tea Party Movement can bury its collective head in the sand and pretend that the healthcare debate is not about race. The Left passionately disagrees. It is composed of professional grievance organizations (racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation) who are accustomed to thinking in ”us vs. them” terms. They look at the Tea Party protests and see scores of angry White people. The mental image of White resistance to the Civil Rights Movement (Bull Connor and firehoses) instantly comes to mind.
Once again, I will reiterate one of the oldest White Nationalist adages: you might not be interested in race, but race-based groups are interested in you. The Tea Party Movement is going to be demonized as “racist” for no other reason than the fact that the majority of its members are White, angry, and opposed to Obama. We’ve come full circle in America: White skin color is now enough to earn you hatred, vitriol, and racial abuse from the multiculturalist establishment.
Here are a few questions I would like to ask the Tea Party Movement:
1.) In light of recent experience, do you still believe we are “progressing” toward a “post-racial” society, or does it seem more likely that Whites will become a degraded over-taxed minority as our numbers dwindle?
2.) Do you think your White grandchildren will live in a better world than the one you inherited?
3.) Does the America you love seem to be slipping away?
4.) Barack Obama promised a “post-racial” America in his 2008 campaign. Does this seem like a “post-racial” society to you? If Barack Obama can’t move America beyond race, can anyone?
5.) Do you honestly believe all of these privileged race-based groups will suddenly fall to their knees and embrace individualism and colorblindness any time soon?
6.) Have you ever pondered the thought that America might be lost?
I suspect your answers are similar to ours.
In The Washington Times, Jeffrey Kuehner wonders whether America will break up in the future. He notes that the American Heartland is dangerously alienated from the political class in Washington. Kuehner points out that the rhetoric of state sovereignty, states’ rights, and nullification are back in the air.
White Nationalists have already accepted this fate. The broader American Right finally appears to be moving beyond its distraction with Islamic terrorism and realizing that the country itself is being subverted from within. The earliest glimmers of this awakening might portend unsavory consequences for the Obama administration.
Occidental Dissent, March 28, 2010
It’s probably a question of taste: Cro Magnon sounds more elegant than Gorilla. To me, that is.
This Jeffrey T. Kuhner fellow you mention is president of “The Edmund Burke Institute,” an orgnization devoted to making Burkean conservatives out of Blacks, Mexicans and Feminists. Their program has to be read to be believed: http://www.edmundburkeinstitute.org/programs.htm
And some people think we’re dreamers!
Mr. Devlin, I remember the Taki crew back in the day picking up on The Edmund Burke Institute, Spencer wrote an humerous piece tearing them apart. Indeed, they are bloody dreaming if they think they can apply the name Burke to just about anything that Burke would have vehemently denounced. It makes sense what they’re doing though. It’s in line with the rest of the faux-right, rebranding the leftism of yesteryear as conservatism, in this case; as Burkean.
These are all good questions and I would love to see one of these Tea Party folks honestly answer them. Unfortunately, if you met one of them in person and asked them these questions, they would probably just call you a “racist” for even mentioning race and refuse to answer. For good measure, they would probably quote some MLK for you and tell you what a great conservative he was.
Mr. Wallace, based on what I have picked up from reading grassroots conservative websites and from debating on-line with these tea partiers, I will answer the questions you posed how I honestly think the average tea partier would answer:
1) No we are not becoming a “post-racial” society but that is because Obama and the progressives are a bunch of racist. They obviously hate black people because they get them hooked on welfare and use them for votes. We need to just stop talking about race and keep telling minorities that we love them and that cutting taxes and deregulating the economy is good for them.
2) My grandchildren (I don’t care if they’re white or not, we are all part of the human race) will live in a better world than me because we are going to take America back from the progressives and teach creationism in school and lower taxes for millionaires.
3) Yes, the America I love is the America of MLK where we are all treated equally and this is slipping away because Obama hates black people and spends too much money.
4) Who can move America beyond race? A great black conservative like Lloyd Marcus. He may not have very much experience but he is very articulate and he is a great role model for black youth because he wrote a cool song about the Tea Parties.
5) No, that is why we need to show minorities that we don’t care about race because then they will see that they shouldn’t care about race either. My black son-in-law told me one time that he doesn’t care that my daughter is white, so I think this is possible. Also, I don’t think the illegal immigrant who impregnated my other daughter cares about race either, so I think this country is really making progress.
6) America can never be lost because we are Americans and we will overcome anything, no matter what.
I asked similar questions over at a libertarian blog discussing the Tea Party:
http://blog.mises.org/12319/are-tea-party-people-ungrateful-wretches/
Not surprisingly, little effective response was given.
Good write up Mr. Wallace. I always look forward to your work.
As far as I am concerned the vitriol being spat from the piehole mouths of leftist statists is based on one thing only: fear.
And I am glad for it.
What a lame insult: the cro-magnon’s had more cranial capacity than most whites of today, and ANY of the brownies, yesterday, today or tomorrow.
A simple anthropological riposte to the brilliant and scintillating Courtland Milloy would be:
If I, as a white man, and a advocate of the Tea Party’s views, am a “Cro Magnon”, what are you, a Neanderthal? Note to Courtland: speak (or write) about what you know, ASK about what you don’t. Addendum to note: “races” are “species”, and all the varieties or subspecies within them can interbreed. Therefore, all humanity is one race, or species. It is a “polytypic” species, but one species nonetheless. Additionally, it is actually a modern-day expression of Cro-Magnon, or post-Neanderthal man. It is also sometimes called “homo sapiens sapiens” meaning “wise man”; so, yes, many, if not most whites are “wise men”—–those who don’t know at least some of the above evolutionary truths, are, unfortunately, not!
Amazing post, honest!
http://www.gbbilder4you.com/