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Anti-white racism: why do whites keep taking it?
Imagine you’re a white person driving a bus to New Orleans to pick up the poor bedraggled people at the Superdome and take them to a decent place; or imagine you’re getting ready to open your home or your church to take in refugees from New Orleans, and you turn on the radio or the tv or open the newspaper and learn of black leaders saying that the disaster has happened because of “race and class,” that “America still has a racial divide,” that “whites show they lack compassion for African-Americans,” and you hear of people in the Convention Center saying, “if we had been Caucasian we wouldn’t be here.” And they’re making these incendiary statements, like heat-seeking missiles aimed at your gut, at the guts of all whites, even though it was the black-run government of New Orleans that put the hurricane victims in those terrible places and left them stranded there. If it were I who was driving that bus to New Orleans to help those people, if it was I who was preparing my house to make room for them, you know what I’d think? I’d think, “These people hate whites, they make the most vicious, scurrilous charges against whites, without a bit of evidence to back them up—and at the same time they also expect us to reach out and help them! Who needs this?” That’s what I would think. But maybe I’m not a nice person. Maybe I’m even racist. Or maybe I just don’t want to extend myself to people who, to the extent their leaders speak for them, openly show themselves as my unappeasable enemies. The way to understand blacks is to compare them to Muslims. No matter how many times America has helped out Muslims, in Somalia, in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in Kuwait, in Saudi Arabia, that doesn’t make Muslims like America one iota more. This is because their enmity toward America has deeper roots than any helpful or hurtful act that America can do to them. America is their enemy, not because of anything it does, but because of what it is, an infidel country. It’s the same with the indictment of whites that resides at the core of black America (though of course there are many exceptions). The animus, the suspicion, is not driven by any particular thing whites do or don’t do, and it can’t be ended by any particular thing whites do or don’t do. The sentiment that blames white racism for all the ills that befall blacks is a primary fact in the black psyche. Its roots lie in a history that whites cannot change, and in inherent racial differences that always leave blacks far behind whites and therefore resentful of whites. Given this complex of black attitudes (which is further encouraged and exacerbated by white liberalism), why would any self-respecting white want to involve himself with blacks, let alone invite them into his home and his life? Wouldn’t it be far healthier for whites to say to blacks and especially to black leaders something along the lines of what I’ve just said, instead of patiently accepting their hateful statements about us? If we told them, “Since you have these false and vicious views about white people, we don’t want anything to do with you, you’re on your own,” wouldn’t that draw the black leaders up short and maybe get them to modify their behavior, instead of letting them continue with the hateful charges?
Do the liberal media, does the evil Ted Koppel who along with correspondent Michelle Martin (whom I’ve very disappointed in, I thought she had long since gotten over her youthful anti-whiteness) turns his show over to blacks who so expertly play the racism card (again, without a single spot of evidence backing it up, and without a single request from Koppel or Martin for evidence), do these high-and-mighty media liberals, who supposedly care so much about black welfare, believe that by giving black racists free reign to attack whites, they’re getting whites to be more generous to blacks? Email entry |