A Response on My Election Analysis

In the comments to my remarks on a forming White racial conciousness and the slow, but accelerating transformation, of what is now a pretty useless semi-conservative Republican Party into what its enemies have always said it is, i.e. the White People’s Party, many have raised objections to not seeing race as a factor in this election.

First, so that there is no misunderstanding on this point, let me add as a footnote to my observations that I started out my political life a true believer in the “classic” civil rights position of a color blind society in which government takes notice that one is an American (or not) and no further. However, it has been my experience that this is, in fact, not the case. That the government does, in fact, take race into account on many different levels, from the local police force ordered to allow a riot that ends up with the beating death of a White teenage (Seattle Police), to finding ways around anti-affirmative action laws in college admissions (University of California), to California Assemblymen who refuse to stand for the Star-Spangled Banner, yet leap to attention and salute during the Mexican national hymn (you can find this on You Tube easily).



In addition, one cannot fail to notice that Blacks (NAACP, Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus) are strictly organized on the basis of race and vote as a unified racial block. Latinos (La Raza, Congressional Hispanic Caucus) are similarly organized and vote as a block which would in any other country be regarded as a solid unified vote (2/3rds, roughly, vote the same every time) except for the presence of the amazingly unified Black vote.

That all around the nation on Tuesday the White Democrat became an endangered species in Red America, plus the exit poll data showing Whites (and, more importantly, White women) voting at 60% Republican, suggests strongly that a counter-reaction against the organization on the basis of race is occurring. In my view, while Blue American continues along more or less with politics as usual, we are seeing in Red America a clear move away from what passes as the current American ideology.

While I understand that people are wary of this for varying reasons (though, I ask, on what basis such concern? Surely if it is okay for there to be a Congressional Hispanic Caucus it is okay for there to be an Congressional White Caucus?), what I believe is being missed here is the deep and abiding hatred of the Elite and Blue America Whites for my people, lower to middle class Jacksonian Red Americans.

In one of his responses, Lewy14 points to a rant at Daily Kos that I believe makes my point for me. It’s important to note three things about this rant: first, that it appears without any hesitation on the part of those who run Kos and that Kos is and has been openly supported by many, many mainstream Blue America Democrats, including in fund raising; second, that its author, Tim Wise, is no mere pajama-wearing leftist, but a highly respected expert on racial affairs, as summarized by his entry at Wikipedia:

"Timothy Jacob Wise (born October 4, 1968) better known as Tim Wise, is a Critical Race Theory author and New Left political activist from the United States. He has lectured since 1995 at over 500 college campuses across the US. He has trained teachers, corporate employees, non-profit organizations and law enforcement officers in methods for addressing and dismantling what he claims is racism in their institutions.

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"In 1995, Wise began lecturing around the country on the issues of racism and white privilege. The following year, he returned to his hometown Nashville, and he continued his work around the US, gaining a national reputation for his work in defense of affirmative action.

"From 1999 to 2003, Wise served as an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute. Wise received the 2002 National Youth Advocacy Coalition's Social Justice Impact Award as well as the 2001 British Diversity Award, for best feature essay on race and diversity issues. He has appeared on numerous radio and television broadcasts, including The Montel Williams Show, Donahue, Paula Zahn NOW, MSNBC Live, and ABC's 20/20, arguing the case for affirmative action and to discuss the issue of white privilege and racism in America.

"Wise argues that racism in the United States is institutionalized, due to past overt racism and the ongoing effects of that past racism, along with current-day discrimination. Although he contends that personal, overt bias is less common than in the past (or at least less likely to be openly articulated), Wise argues that institutions have been set up to foster and perpetuate white privilege, and that subtle, impersonal, and even ostensibly race-neutral policies contribute to racism and racial inequality today."

Wise is known as an “anti-racism activist” and is warmly welcomed on college campuses and on television, and, more importantly, is recognized by authorities, ranging from police organziations to the United States Government itself, as an expert on race relations. However, it is beyond clear, given his words in which the mask splits, that “anti-racism” is nothing more than “anti-White.” Wise is a racist who hates me, my people and my children and would delight in my family’s destruction. You may think me an extremist, but I will reach for my gun to prevent that from happening, and in my view this is no different than what those men of Massachusetts did so long ago: one must be willing, in the final analysis, to fight for your people are you are simply unworthy of life and liberty.

And third, that this post should be viewed like the legal doctrine of the excited utterance exception to the Hearsay Rule, i.e. that people in the grips of strong emotion are much more likely to speak the truth and reveal their true feelings.

WISE'S POST:

For all y’all rich folks, enjoy that champagne, or whatever fancy ass Scotch you drink.

And for y’all a bit lower on the economic scale, enjoy your Pabst Blue Ribbon, or whatever shitty ass beer you favor.

Whatever the case, and whatever your economic station, know this…

You need to drink up.

And quickly.

And heavily.

Because your time is limited.

Real damned limited.

So party while you can, but mind the increasingly loud clock ticking away in the corners of your consciousness.

The clock that reminds you how little time you and yours have left.

Not much more now.

Tick, tock.

Tick, tock.

Tick.

Tock.

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And you will lose.

So make a note of it.

Tweet it to yourself.

Put it on your Facebook wall and leave it there so you’ll remember that I told you so.

It is coming, and soon.

This isn’t hubris. It isn’t ideology. It is not wishful thinking.

It is math.

Not even advanced math. Just simple, basic, like 3rd grade math.

The kind of math that proves how your kind -- mostly older white folks beholden to an absurd, inaccurate, nostalgic fantasy of what America used to be like -- are dying.

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And in the pantheon of American history, conservative old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.

Fine, keep it up. It doesn't matter.

Because you’re on the endangered list.

And unlike, say, the bald eagle or some exotic species of muskrat, you are not worth saving.

In forty years or so, maybe fewer, there won’t be any more white people around who actually remember that Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, Opie-Taylor-Down-at-the-Fishing Hole cornpone bullshit that you hold so near and dear to your heart.

There won’t be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won’t be any more white folks around who actually remember them, and so therefore, we’ll be able to teach about them accurately and honestly, without hurting your precious feelings, or those of the so-called “greatest generation” -- a bunch whose white contingent was top-heavy with ethical miscreants who helped save the world from fascism only to return home and oppose the ending of it here, by doing nothing to lift a finger on behalf of the civil rights struggle.

It's OK. Because in about forty years, half the country will be black or brown. And there is nothing you can do about it.

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And by then you will have gone all in as a white nationalist movement -- hell you’ve all but done that now -- thus guaranteeing that the folks of color, and even a decent size minority of us white folks will be able to crush you, election after election, from the Presidency on down to the 8th grade student council.

Like I said, this is math. And numbers don’t lie.

END WISE POST

Now, note the language itself. This isn’t about healthcare, folks. This isn’t about preferring this or that facet of public policy. This is about the scheduled elimination, through massive minority immigration, legal and illegal, of the historic European-American majority in the United States of America. This is ideological ethnic cleansing, and, while many of you won’t like it, I feel it my duty to report to you that this will not be allowed to happen. And the chances of peacefully avoiding this are passing rapidly.

I hate to paraphrase Trotsky again, but while you may not be interested in race, race is interested in you.

I hate to repeat myself again, but please take note of the political environment we live in which declares a man who joyfully anticipates the destruction of my people and my history is a respected expert consulted by government, while those who oppose this destruction are racist extremists. I beseech you to really think about that and what it means.

This war has begun, just as sure as the polemics and the heated discussion in the 1850’s are now seen as the beginning of the Civil War.