Would an Obama presidency mean the rise of white America, or of Wright America?

Adela Gereth writes:

You wrote in the March 15th entry, “Obama’s incredible denial”:

“If, notwithstanding the current exposure of him, Obama is nominated and elected, that will not be bad, but good. Four years of Obama in the White House would be like four years of blacks dancing in the street over the OJ Simpson verdict. The white awakening would be irreversible. And if whites awoke and began to resist permanently the liberal lies about race, the lie that the races are the same, the lie that any race difference is whites’ fault for which they must forever atone, it could mean nothing less than the salvation of America.”

Twice before, I was sure America was on the verge of a much-needed awakening. Back in the early 80’s, I was sure that the emergence of AIDS would result in a return to a more traditional emphasis on and respect for family life. Back in 2001, I was sure that the terrorist attacks on America would result in a return to a more traditional emphasis on secured borders and a stringent immigration policy.

So even though I think an Obama presidency should awaken white America to the reality of the liberal lies about race, I’m braced for disappointment. How likely do you think such awakening is?

LA replies:

Yes, conservatives keep expecting that the latest liberal horror will finally be the thing that wakes up people against liberalism, but instead the liberal horror turns into the next liberal victory. AIDS is a classic example: everyone on the right thought it would lead to the discrediting of homosexual liberation, but instead it led to its apotheosis. Conservatives do not grasp the power of liberalism, because they have a superficial view of it. They think our country is basically normal, basically conservative, and that liberalism is this nutty thing that has been added on to it. They do not grasp that liberalism is the ruling principle of our society, a principle to which they themselves subscribe in its essentials, and therefore any resistance to the onward advance of liberalism (that is, any resistance that is not grounded in a non-liberal principle) will ultimately be rolled over.

So, for all I know, an Obama presidency might not lead to the white awakening I hope for, but to the Obamization of America.

But let’s look at it this way. If it turns out that conservatives after Obama is elected are willing to go along with Obama-type anti-white racism in the White House, or rather the Wright House, instead of attacking it as they’re doing so forcefully now, then there’s nothing they won’t swallow, and the country as we’ve known it is finished in any case. I’d rather have that test now, when there is still some kind of vital conservatism in America (unlike in Europe), rather than later, when conservatism will be weaker and the nonwhite population will be greater.

However, my feeling remains that conservatives have not reached the point where they will accept as normal the outrageous racial attitudes of Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright. They will be deeply offended by them, and they will fight them.

Adela G. replies:

You’re right, of course. We might as well know sooner rather than later whether the American majority is willing and able to wake up to liberal lies and ideology.

Something scary. My papa is nearly 84, alert, well-educated and a lifelong Republican. Last week he asked me what I thought of Obama. I said I thought he’d be disastrous as POTUS. Papa seemed startled so I added that electing Obama to represent America was electing someone not at all representative ethnically, culturally or religiously of the white majority, who were of Judeo-Christian, European ancestry. I could hear the dawning of a realization in his voice. Papa had simply never thought of it this way. He’d bought the liberal lie that blacks are just like us (the corollary being that biracial people are even more like us). So he thought of Obama as an intelligent, articulate American with an Ivy League education, kind of a darker JFK. He’d been so busy thinking of Obama as one distinct individual that he’d completely overlooked the significance of Obama as a member of groups out of and even opposed to the American mainstream.

So I see a problem with intelligent educated people failing to see the elephant in the living room (racial differences) because we’ve all been taught these last decades that nice people not only don’t discuss racial differences, they don’t even acknowledge their existence.

Actually, less educated people might wake up sooner because they’ll simply go with their feelings. (Frankly, this is the category I fall into.) They’re already vaguely, if extensively, uncomfortable with liberal ideology. Any more discomfort and they’ll just get up on their hind legs the way they did over the “Shamnesty” measures last year.

At least, I hope so.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 24, 2008 12:47 AM | Send