An Open Letter to the White Right, On the Occasion of Your Recent, Successful Temper Tantrum (2010)

Tim Wise's blog ^ | November 3, 2010 | Tim Wise

[2ndDivisionVet]

*NOTE: PLEASE RE-READ THE TITLE OF THIS ESSAY BEFORE GOING FURTHER. NOTICE, IT IS AIMED AT THE WHITE RIGHT. NOT ALL WHITE PEOPLE. ANYONE WHO THINKS THIS ESSAY IS “ANTI-WHITE PEOPLE,” AS OPPOSED TO THAT SEGMENT OF THE WHITE COMMUNITY THAT IS RIGHT WING, CANNOT READ PLAIN ENGLISH. PLEASE TRY AGAIN.* _____

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

And for y’all a bit lower on the economic scale, enjoy your Pabst Blue Ribbon, or whatever sh***y @$$ 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.

I know, you think you’ve taken “your country back” with this election — and of course you have always thought it was yours for the taking, cuz that’s what we white folks are bred to believe, that it’s ours, and how dare anyone else say otherwise — but you are wrong.

You have won a small battle in a larger war the meaning of which you do not remotely understand.

‘Cuz there is nothing even slightly original about you.

There have always been those who wanted to take the country back.

There were those who, in past years, wanted to take the country back to a time of enslavement and indentured servitude.

But they lost.

There were those who wanted to take us back to a time when children could be made to work in mines and factories, when workers had no legal rights to speak of, when the skies in every major city were heavy with industrial soot that would gather on sidewalks and windowsills like volcanic ash.

But they lost.

There were those who wanted to take us back to a time when women could not vote, or attend any but a few colleges, or get loans in their own names, or start their own businesses.

But they lost.

There were those who wanted to take us back to a time when blacks “had no rights that the white man was bound to respect,” – this being the official opinion of the Supreme Court before those awful days of judicial activism, now decried by the likes of you – and when people of color could legally be kept from voting solely because of race, or holding certain jobs, or living in certain neighborhoods, or run out of other towns altogether when the sun would go down, or be strung up from trees.

But they lost.

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.

You’re like the bad guy in every horror movie ever made, who gets shot five times, or stabbed ten, or blown up twice, and who will eventually pass — even if it takes four sequels to make it happen — but who in the meantime keeps coming back around, grabbing at our ankles as we walk by, we having been mistakenly convinced that you were finally dead this time.

Fair enough, and have at it. But remember how this movie ends.

Our ankles survive.

You do not.

Michael Meyers, Freddie Kreuger, Jason, and that @$$hole husband in that movie with Julia Roberts who tracks her down after she runs away and changes her identity–they are all done. Even that crazy f***** in Saw is about to be finished off for good. Granted, he’s gonna be popping out in 3-D to scare the kiddies, so he isn’t going quietly. But he’s going, as all bad guys eventually do.

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 bull**** 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.

Nothing, Senõr Tancredo.

Nothing, Senõra Angle, or Senõra Brewer, or Senõr Beck.

Loy tiene muy mal, hijo de Puta.

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.

Bottom line, this too shall pass.

So enjoy your tax cuts a while longer.

Go buy whatever you people buy when your taxes get cut: a new car or two, a bigger house, an island. Whatever.

Go back to trading your derivatives, engaging in rampant financial speculation that produces nothing of value, that turns the whole world into your personal casino. Whatever.

Play your hand, and for the love of God play it big. Real big. As in, shoot for the moon big. As in, try to privatize Social Security, and health care, and everything else. Whatever.

At least that way everyone will be able to see what you’re really about.

We’ve been trying to tell them, but nothing beats seeing it with your own eyes, so “Go big or go home,” Bubba.

“Git ‘er Done.”

“Cowboy up,” or whatever other stupid catch phrase strikes your fancy.

Just promise you’ll do more than talk this time.

Please, or as one of your celluloid heroes might put it, “make my day.”

Do whatever you gotta do, but remember that those who are the victims of your greed and indifference take the long view.

They know, but you do not, that justice is not for the sprinters, but rather for the long distance runners who will be hitting their second wind, right about the time that you collapse from exhaustion.

They are like the tortoise to your hare.

They are like the San Francisco Giants, to your New York Yankees: a bunch that loses year after year after year, until they finally win.

You have had this confidence before, remember?

You thought you had secured your position permanently after the overthrow of reconstruction in the wake of the civil war, after the elimination of the New Deal, after the Reagan revolution, after the Republican electoral victory of 1994. And yet, those you thought you had cowed and defeated are still here.

Because those who have lived on the margins, who have been abused, maligned, targeted by austerity measures and budget cuts, subjected to racism, classism, sexism, straight supremacy and every other form of oppression always know more about their abusers than the abusers know about their victims.

They have to study you, to pay careful attention, to adjust their body armor accordingly, and to memorize your sleep patterns.

You, on the other hand, need know nothing whatsoever about them. And this, will surely prove politically fatal to you in the end. For it means you will not know their resolve. Will not fear it, as you should.

It means you will take their greatest strength — perseverance — and make of it a weakness, called losing.

But what you forget, or more to the point never knew, is that those who lose know how to lose, which is to say they know how to lose with dignity.

And those who suffer know how to suffer, which is to say they know how to survive: a skill that is in short supply amid the likes of you.

You, who could not survive the thought of minimal health care reform, or financial regulation, or a marginal tax rate equal to that which you paid just 10 years earlier, perhaps are under the illusion that everyone is as weak as you, as soft as you, as akin to petulant children as you are, as unable to cope with the smallest setback, the slightest challenge to the way you think your country should look and feel, and operate.

But they are not.

And they know how to regroup, and plot, and plan, and they are planning even now — we are — your destruction.

And I do not mean by that your physical destruction. We don’t play those games. We’re not into the whole “Second Amendment remedies, militia, armed resistance” bull**** that your side fetishizes, cuz, see, we don’t have to be. We don’t need guns.

We just have to be patient.

And wait for you to pass into that good night, first politically, and then, well…

Do you hear it?

The sound of your empire dying? Your nation, as you knew it, ending, permanently?

Because I do, and the sound of its demise is beautiful.

So know this.

If you thought this election was payback for 2008, remember…

Payback, thy name is…

Temporary.

[Disambiguator]

Tim Wise

"Timmah!"

[x]

Los Angeles had exactly one Hispanic Mayor in modern times (Villaraigosa). His replacement is not Hispanic (actually, Garcetti claims to be 1/4 Hispanic, 1/4 Italian and 1/2 Jewish, but his electoral base is not Hispanics.)

Indeed. And some of Miami's "Hispanic" or "Latino" mayors have been -- to all intents and purposes -- White guys who happen to have grown up speaking Spanish.

[slapshot]

I have three words for him: 2 action verbs and a personal pronoun

[miss marmelstein]

You have a career in literature, my friend!

[FreeAtlanta]

2nd, you had to go and get me agitated.

[FreeAtlanta]

The gravy train can’t last. Example Detroit. Eventually, it will be 3rd world chaos.

[chrisser]

People like Wise deserve to experience the world for which they advocate.

Unfortunately, they want to drag the rest of us into their living hells too.

I notice he doesn’t move to a liberal hellhole like Detroit to experience firsthand one of his fellow travelers’ creation.

[IronJack]

That pasty twat wrote this???? I had imagined some typical malcontent Hispanic, considering the sophomoric Espanol he used. But this twerp?

Dude, if the likes of you can ever supplant the likes of me, then you're welcome to the world you'll inherit. Cuz you won't last one generation before someone with balls wipes you out.

[buffaloguy]

Just another ignorant guy whose business it is to stir up emotions in order to get more funding.

I suspect there was a follow up with a paypal logo on the email.

[Jack Hammer]

Clearly a nut job.

[nascarnation]

I totally agree. But it will go on as long as the markets continue to swallow the 40% fake money the entitlement army runs on. If you can tell me when that is, we’ll both become moguls and move somewhere safe.

[VTenigma]

He might be good at 3rd grade math, but he’s really bad at higher math like, who does he think is going to pay for his utopian wet dream.

[wardaddy]

It is the white right.

Minority that vote Right nationally is no more than 3% of total vote for our side

And that is exaggerating given historical low Latino turnout overall

The winning votes easiest to cast net for are the white ones that stay home disgruntled

BTW Skippy.....Reagan Democrats are all dead or very close to it

Its been 34 years.....that was the WWII and New Deal whites sick of Dems lurching towards crazy progressive social positions

[Mastador1]

NO, I will not tag it, if you can’t figure it out on your own then I’m sorry for you

[robowombat]

The author is a piece of excrement that hasn't been sent to a sewage treatment facility. However, even fecal matter can be useful in showing where the stench is emanating from. I have posted before , here, that the long term goal of the globalist financial and commercial elites and much of the political class is to utilize allowing wave after wave of largely unassimilateable turd world no skilled actors of love to tilt the racial balance within the US. The goal is the diminution of the white race in CONUS and the creation of a dumbed down and often depraved population that is both violent and government dependent. The enemy of these people and their allies, human garbage such as this man, who are dark skinned NAZI’s is the white middle class and the culture of personal independence and individual accomplishment. As long as the middle class is as large and still relatively confident as it is the goal of a controllable and manipulable mob state will elude the puppet masters. The people on this site are the enemy of these people. They want to be able to treat us like Jews in Germany after 1936. Wake up now.

[RichInOC]

Tim, that you felt the need to add that disclaimer is a crueler commentary on the readers you attract than I could ever write.

[publius911]

NOTICE, IT IS AIMED AT THE WHITE RIGHT.

And who defines "White?"
Who defines "Right," Timmy?

You do??!!??

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[Terry L Smith]

First of all, he can’t be talking to me.

Why?

Because I’m a half-breed, Mojave/German.

Because I am an admirer of Ronald Reagan, who served after his referenced 1960’s pablum, didn’t he?

Because I believe any mentality, other than get up off your duff and do it right this time, is not an American trait.

Because I am something else that this “author” dislikes, a military disabled veteran, who still stands behind an Oath, that has no past-date clause.

Because I drink neither beer, wine, scotch or bourbon, since choosing to go dry cold turkey in 1986.

Because I do not give support, affirm to, nor give shelter to, anything of a Socialist or Communist ideology. Yes, I signed THAT paper, on the same day I took my Oath.

Because I believe that childish temper-tantrums, as displayed by this poor deluded teat-rejected human being, are a good enough reason, to deny him any further employment, with anything that influences the American public, for his own health.

[RobinOfKingston]

Wow! Right there, on tim wise’s web site it reads that tim is an “antiracist.” It really does. You can go look for yourself, if you don’t believe me.