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The State of Racism: Part 2 - The Heart of Whiteness

Guy White - 3/18/2008

Massive white racism is taken as a fact of life. Blacks suffer at the hands of whites on daily basis, at every turn, as hate-filled white people abuse and assault the “people of color”. There are no non-racist whites and any white person who denies hate in his heart is a racist of the worst kind. In American universities teenagers study institutional racism, unconscious racism, white privilege, ideological whiteness, and other types of persecution that benefit whites at the expense of blacks. American history is nothing more than a history of racism. Western history is nothing more than history colonization and robbery of the Third World. Throughout history, whites did not contribute anything to the world except colonization and racism. Any white achievement is a by-product of racism, discrimination and persecution of the “people of color”, while all the black achievement came as a result of the extraordinary hard work in the “breaking of barriers” that whites created for everyone else. Whites must therefore repent and stand with their heads held low in the presence of blacks. Any “dialogue on race” degenerates into one-sided attacks where blacks blame all their problems on whites with the presumption that bad things only happen to the “people of color” as whites live in an unfair lap of luxury bordering on the Garden of Eden. But how much real white racism is there?

If there’s one fear white people have today, it’s to be accused of racism. There’re almost no incidents of open racism in real life (though on TV, one regularly sees shows that involve white violence complete with the N-word). Americans have given up their right to free speech, the right listed in the very first Amendment of the Constitution, in an attempt to eliminate racism. Most people are convinced that racism, not just actions but even mere words, is illegal. One way to guarantee to lose your job is to get accused of racism. Countless people have been forced to grovel in vain – you keep your job for a week as you apologize to every “African-American leader” and after the process is over, you lose your job in disgrace, getting no credit for your groveling and being turned into an example of all things evil. We are told that freedom of speech does not include the right to insult or offend people, no matter how sensitive or unreasonable these people may be.

Of course, when we talk about “people”, we mean “the people of color”. They are never to be insulted. Meanwhile, whites must accept every abuse imaginable. Whites can’t dance, whites are thieves who got rich stealing from others, whites have no culture (used as a reason why it’s normal to have blacks-only associations, but not similar whites-only groups).

Any accusation of white-on-black assault is not only instantly believed, but become immediate symbols of America’s race relations, while black-on-white murders, no matter how violent, even if racist language is used, are ignore. In the media too, only whites may be portrayed as unsympathetic criminals and when the movie or a TV series is based on real life, the real-life black criminal is played by a white actor.

No problem in the world today may be blamed on anyone except the white people, including conspiracy theories about AIDS and drug abuse. Poverty, crime, race relations, wars, environment and literally everything else must be blamed on whites to avoid a verbal and sometimes physical assault by the “anti-racists”. There is not a single problem that is not blamed on whites.

In our culture, racist jokes about whites are so commonplace that there’s practically no black comedian who doesn’t spend at least half his time highlighting the inferiority of white people’s dancing, penis size, parenting (think about it: blacks are making fun of the way whites raise their kids!) and just about everything else. Even leading Presidential candidate Barack Obama joked about the white people’s inability to dance. Just imagine what would happen to someone who responded that while fewer white people engage in (what should be embarrassing) sexual gyrations on the dance floor, they also dominate dancing that requires real skill – ballet, opera, theater and figure skating. To suggest that whites have excelled in these fields due to honest achievement would get one fired and banned from polite society. Where whites succeed, racism, persecution and discrimination is to blame, and any successful white person should therefore feel guilty.

But if racism against the “people of color” is so severe, why does the white race seem like a sinking ship that’s being abandoned? Anyone who is half-white/half-anything chooses to be non-white. No, he is not forced to be non-white. When given a choice, he chooses to reject the white race even when he is light enough to pass for white.

Similarly, anyone who speaks Spanish is also not white, even people with light skin and blue eyes who were proud of their race when they lived in Latin America. Even West Europeans from Spain and Portugal come to the United States and claim not to be white. Germans and Italians who wound up in Argentina or Uruguay for a generation are suddenly Hispanic, and not white.

Jews, who long rejected the claim that they are not white as anti-Semitic, suddenly aren’t so sure. Mike Wallace of CBS answered one of his interviewees on TV, “I’m not white, I’m Jewish.” Such a statement by a Jew would be unthinkable 50 years ago. Nobody who has a choice wants to be white.

Whether in school or in popular culture, being white is simply not “cool”. Prof. Mary Bucholtz, a linguist at the University of California found that that a nerd is a person who acts “hyperwhite”. But anyone who has been around young people didn’t need the study – white kids try to “dress black”, speak improperly to copy the way blacks speak, listen to black music, even one that openly discusses murdering whites.

Many whites take pride in being “race traitors”. Harvard Prof. Noel Ignatiev publishes a magazine called just that, “Race Traitor”, which states on top of the front page of its web site that “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity”. Leftist icon Susan Sontag famously asserted that the “white race is the cancer of human history".

With exception of a few loons affiliated with the various little organizations that each calls itself the KKK (there’s no one Klan as the name fell into public domain and now anyone is free to call his organization KKK), whites do not have their own churches, clubs and associations.

But try googling “black association” and you will find thousands of organizations for blacks-only.

To blacks, race is central. No black person would ever suggest that race is meaningless. To whites, race is to be non-existent. To express any racial solidarity or pride is the ultimate evil, and is to be equated with Nazism. Whites are told that they have no culture – just as Jews did not have a culture according to Adolph Hitler – and therefore while black associations are a legitimate expression of the “African-American culture”, white organizations are inherently racist.

In universities, we see majors such as “African-American studies” and “African-American history and culture”… and “whiteness studies”. Whiteness! We don’t have “blackness studies” that discuss anything and everything blacks may have done wrong. But the “whiteness studies” are meant to do nothing other than promote the view that the white people are to be hated because they are to blame for all things wrong with the world today.

These courses have nothing to do with white culture (which is supposed to not exist), white achievements (don’t exist either) or white contributions (nope, none of those ever happen). What the professors teach is nothing more than promotion of hate funded by tuition and government funding.

American “anti-racism” is nothing more than abuse of whites. Very few people can cite examples of open racism. Instead, we look for “disparate impact” (any situation where blacks do not come ahead of whites) and then explain it with claims of “unconscious racism”, “white privilege” and “institutional racism”, racisms that are so all-encompassing that they include each and every white person.

The ultimate racism is suggesting that each and every member of a certain group is diseased with some flaw. It is the kind of racism that Hitler was guilty of. It is the kind of racism that whites face today. There is no genocide against whites in the US, but racism is an ideology, not an act. Just because it is harder to physically assault whites, who are the majority of the American population, than it was to attack Jews, who were a small minority in Europe, does not mean that the hatred in the heart of “anti-racists” is different than the hate in the heart of the storm-troopers.

In both cases, the Nazis when it comes to Jews and the “anti-racists” when it comes to whites, believe that the group they are opposed to is inherently and universally evil to the last man. The hate is the same, only the ability to act on this hate is different.