A return to normalcy?
Van Wijk writes:
Apparently a television actor named Duane Chapman became upset that his son was dating a black girl and went on a racial epithet-laden tirade which was recorded and got into the media. See a short blurb here, and more mea culpas here.
Every radio host in my neck of the woods has taken the subject up and, of course, denounced Chapman. But the host of the show I was listening to was shocked when he encountered a slew of callers who stated that, while there was no excuse for his language, they agreed with Chapman in principle; they emphatically did not want their sons and daughters marrying non-whites. Would these phone calls have been made five years ago?
The many callers were divided about 50/50, which led the host to declare that it was the most bizarre hour of radio he’d ever encountered. He just couldn’t believe that his state could be so full of racists.
Anyway, I thought the whole event was heartening. White racial consciousness is growing.
LA replies:
Of course it’s humanly normal that most people would want their relatives to resemble themselves physically. Only the contemporary West makes it a thought-crime to have normal thoughts and feelings. Maybe, just maybe, liberalism has gone too far and there will be, if I may coin a phrase, a return to normalcy.
Warren G. Harding, who a friend just the other day said was the most underrated president in U.S. history, said as a presidential candidate in Boston on May 14, 1920:
America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration;… not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality….
It is one thing to battle successfully against world domination by military autocracy, because the infinite God never intended such a program, but it is quite another thing to revise human nature and suspend the fundamental laws of life and all of life’s acquirements… [requirements?]
My best judgment of America’s needs is to steady down, to get squarely on our feet, to make sure of the right path. Let’s get out of the fevered delirium of war, with the hallucination that all the money in the world is to be made in the madness of war and the wildness of its aftermath. Let us stop to consider that tranquillity at home is more precious than peace abroad, and that both our good fortune and our eminence are dependent on the normal forward stride of all the American people. …
LA continues:
“Acquirements,” in the phrase, “suspend the fundamental laws of life and all of life’s acquirements,” strikes me as an odd word in this context. An acquirement is an ability that has been acquired by training. Given the reference in the same phrase to “the fundamental laws of life,” it seems more likely to me that the correct word is “requirements.” But I find only a couple of quotes of this passage on the Web, and they use “acquirements.”
Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 02, 2007 08:51 PM | Send