Racism is our secular society’s version of the “Hail Mary.” It wards off evil. It has magical powers. It is a word employed in the most dire of circumstances to provide explanation and excuse, from a major crime to a failing presidency.
Shooting sprees are disturbing events, often perpetrated by angry, depressed, suicidal men. When they occurred a decade ago in public schools, “bullying” or “southern gun culture” were blamed. When that sicko shot up the LA Fitness in Pennsylvania, it was blamed on the nascent culture of “game” and the suspect’s deep misogyny. Sometimes idiosyncratic mental illness is blamed. But when the recent Connecticut shooter, Omar Thornton, who was black, blamed racism at his company, all of a sudden a new approach emerges. It’s considered a major mitigating factor. His white girlfriend has even, uncharacteristically, jumped to his defense. No one dares to ask if this claim was just a pretext, the delusional interpretation of innocent behavior by a sick-minded individual. And, even if true, his actions are no more justified than if he had murdered his coworkers for being cliqueish or denying him a promotion. Shooting up innocent people is crazy behavior by crazy, self-absorbed, and morally vacant people.
And the media, so notable for its pat explanations in places like Littleton, Colorado or Pearl, Missisippi, all of a sudden wants to defend this messed up person, to make him an “avenging angel” whose actions, if disproportionate, are at least explicable. And we’ve seen this reaction time and again in the face of horrendous black crimes: in the LA Riots, in the Huey Newton affair, or even recently among the brutal Jena Six.
“Racism” today has nothing to do with real racism. It is an incantation to promote black power and inculcate white powerlessness. It is used by both whites and blacks to shame and disorient individual whites caught up in such charges. Remember the ridiculous suggestion that Hillary Clinton was racist during the primaries. Yet it threw her off balance. And this kind of thing happens in great and small ways every single day, on the job, on the street, in educational settings, and in politics.
Racism is widely perceived as the greatest sin of liberal society, greater even than the historical summum malum of murder. And, worse, it is a charge impossible to defend against, as there is now an alleged scourge of “invidious” racism that hides behind such seemingly anti-white and pro-black measures as affirmative action and the election of a black president.
The only two ways our culture will negotiate this apparent contradiction is the utter subjugation of the white race or the mass rejection by whites of racism as a serious matter. The former possibility speaks for itself; we will become like the whites of Rhodesia or, increasingly, South Africa, useful at most for our technical expertise. Alternately, if this growing farce is rejected, “racism” will be relegated to the level of “foul language” or “intemperance” in the pantheon of sins because it would be seen as no longer having any relevance to the lives of either blacks or whites. It would be recognized chiefly as a means of character assassination agianst whites and excusing the inexcusable among blacks. Indeed, the increasing frequency of charges of racism and the draconian consequences of being “found guilty” of such a charge, coupled with the near complete undoing of real racism, may be the undoing of liberalism. After all, anti-racism (or more accurately anti “white racism”) has become central to the meaning of contemporary liberalism, but the injustice of the current state of affairs is more and more obvious to anyone with eyes to see. And there are 9 dead bodies in Connecticut to prove it.
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The only two ways our culture will negotiate this apparent contradiction is the utter subjugation of the white race or the mass rejection by whites of racism as a serious matter.
The more I think about it the more I believe it is too late. I think this cultural marxism stuff is too far ingrained in the majority of white folks for them to ever reject. Case in point is this white woman, who upon seeing a strange black man next to her car in a parking lot, proceeded to go to her car despite her trepidations because she did not want to appear racist. Her gut feelings were correct and she was raped. But, she was not a racist!
Examples like this show me that whites would rather die than be labeled racists. Maybe this is similar to how the Spanish were able to take over the New World. The Indians outnumbered them by the tens of thousands, yet thought the Spaniards were godlike and were easily defeated.
Here’s a thought: the multicult makes much ado about the four civil rights workers killed in Freedom Summer of 1964. Yet this fellow Thornton kills twice as many people in the name of anti-racism, and what is the PC response? Will we perhaps see these killings held up as an example of the pathologies of anti-racism?
Consider the casualties of Freedom Summer, per Wikipedia:
* four civil rights workers were killed (one in a head-on collision)
* four people were critically wounded
* eighty Freedom Summer workers were beaten
* one-thousand and sixty-two people were arrested (volunteers and locals)
* thirty seven churches were bombed or burned
* thirty Black homes or businesses were bombed or burned
Now compare this with:
* The devastation wrought by the Long Hot Summer riots of the 1960s–all in the name of civil rights.
* More recent urban conflagrations in the name of anti-racism (e.g., the Rodney King Riot).
* The assaults on speakers deemed “racist” on university campuses.
* The loss of employment by people whose “crime” was to make a joke or use a word deemed “racist” by race hustlers.
* The criminalization of “hate speech” which will probably result in more arrests than 1062.
* Not to mention the disproportionate numbers of black-on-White crimes which were motivated in some fashion or other by minority resentments, inflamed by multicultist propaganda.
Heck, even one urban riot caused more deaths and destruction than the Segregationist response to Freedom Summer. And let us note the deaths and destruction caused in the name of civil rights go on today, if we may include such things as the striking down of laws attempting to control the flood of illegal immigration into the USA.
And I am not even going to go into such things as the number of Whites murdered/tortured in the new South Africa in farm attacks and such. These numbers are rapidly approaching the total number of blacks lynched during the entire segregation era.
It’s all stuff to ponder …
Very well said, Californian.
Thanks!
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