Blaming Whitey

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No One (White) Is Responsible for Anything.

That’s the screaming headline of the Rev. David L. Ostendorf’s lead article at Imagine 2050, the web publishing arm of the Center for New Community, a Chicago-based “civil rights organization.” Mr. Ostendorf is upset that White America is not being browbeaten into collective racial guilt over the Gulf Oil Spill.

Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP, is White. The BP Board of Directors is another inexcusable collection of pale faces. BP has failed to contain the Gulf Oil Spill. Thus, White America is responsible for this ecological disaster, as White Americans and their European cousins belong to the same race.

Among our other racial sins, White America is to blame for slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, the failure of “comprehensive immigration reform,” the plight of blacks, the failures of American energy policy, and the 2008 recession and financial crisis on Wall Street. Whenever Whites are involved, Ostendorf doesn’t hesitate to wag his sanctimonious finger and make group judgments.

These are the same people who demonize us as “racists” and “anti-Semites”  for pointing out that blacks commit a disproportionate number of rapes, robberies, and murders in America or that Jews are overrepresented in corrupt Wall Street investment banks like Goldman Sachs. They also like to pull out and wave the magic wand of individualism whenever these legitimate grievances are raised.

There is a clear anti-White double standard: when White individuals engage in bad behavior, Whites as a race are to blame; when Jews and non-Whites engage in bad behavior (or fail in their responsibilities), either the non-White individual or Whites are blamed.

In David L. Ostendorf’s twisted imagination, Whites are never held accountable for their actions. What planet does this guy live on?

George W. Bush was blamed and held accountable for Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq War, and the Wall Street financial crisis. The GOP was held accountable for outrageous levels of government spending, pushing amnesty in the teeth of overwhelming grassroots opposition, and two endless wars in Eurasia. Republicans lost control of Congress in 2006 and the Presidency in 2008.

I can think of several other recent examples: in spite of his seniority, Arlen Specter lost the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania; Bob Bennett lost the Republican primary in Utah; Larry Craig was shamed out of the Senate in Idaho; Reverend Ted Haggard was exposed to public ridicule and lost his former lucrative position in the National Association of Evangelicals; George Allen lost his Senate seat in Virginia after his “macaca” moment. White politicians and public figures are held accountable for their actions all the time.

It is blacks who are never held accountable for their actions. Jesse Jackson cheated on his wife and fathered a child out of wedlock. Yet he remained a credible public figure. Al Sharpton was not discredited by the Tawana Brawley fiasco or the Duke Lacrosse rape hoax. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a plagiarist and serial adulterer, but now looms larger than George Washington in the American pantheon of heroes. In the current environment of political correctness, comedians are terrified to crack jokes about Barack Obama lest they be accused of “racism.”

Blacks have destroyed almost every country in post-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa. They have laid waste to Detroit and numerous other American inner cities. It is more dangerous to spend a night on the streets of Chicago than to patrol the front lines of the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq. Blacks have never been held accountable for decades of consistent underperformance relative to Whites on standardized tests.

Every excuse in the world is made for blacks. Their plight is laid at the feet of nebulous unquantifiable abstractions (which, unlike IQ, leftists are sure exist) like “the legacy of slavery” or “the white racial frame” or “structural racism.”  Amazingly, blacks can succeed at basketball, but not in physics. The “structural racism” of academia (which includes millions of dollars alloted for multicultural centers and diversity hires) must be holding them back in a way that professional sports is not.

If the President of the United States was White and the CEO of BP was black, Rev. David Ostendorf would be defending BP and attacking the White House right now. The Left savaged the Bush administration for its “slow response” to the devastation of New Orleans. They would undoubtedly be pushing the same narrative today if the roles were reversed.

Barack Obama’s race has determined their response. Far from being irrelevant, race is the best predictor of their attitude on any given subject. Obama is forgiven for his neglect of Louisiana; Bush is excoriated. Arizona is compared to Nazi Germany for protecting its border; excuses are made for Mexico. Whites are blamed for “hate crimes”; blacks cannot be blamed for violent crimes.

There is at least one element of consistency in all this: in every case, Imagine 2050 tows the most anti-White line possible. Where they stand has never been clearer than in this article.

The term “racism” is a rhetorical ploy to dupe Whites into surrendering their racial interests. As we see here, racism against Whites is perfectly acceptable in self-described “anti-racist” circles.

White Nationalists learned this lesson long ago. Those new to our circles would be well advised not to take the rhetoric of our opposition at face value.