America, You Have Been Had

Liberals are right about the "Right-wing Noise Machine." It really is a wonder to behold, and last week it was performing like a well-tuned NASCAR race car. They say that liberals are all prepared for the inevitable "swift-boating" of Barack Obama. Look behind you, liberals. It already happened and, like last time, it was an own-goal scored by liberals.

This time it's Bill Moyers' fault. Why, oh why, Bill, did you decide that you had to put Reverend Wright up Bill Moyers Journal on April 25, 2008 so that we could all hear his side of the story? You must know that the sooner Reverend Wright is rusticated to his $1.5 million house in a gated suburban Chicago development and never heard from again the better.

So when Reverend Wright indicated on Bill Moyers' show that his sermons had been taken out of context the eevil right-wing talk-show host Hugh Hewitt saw his opening. He put the whole of Reverend Wright's post 9/11 sermon and his post Iraqi Freedom sermon up on his website and ran them on his show in drive time.

It comes as a blow to the solar plexus to confront the fact that in urban African American communities all across America a frank racist hate-filled rhetoric is not merely condoned but actually celebrated. We white conservatives have been taught for the last generation to button our lips and never to give utterance to a racist thought. We thought that we were parties to a bargain: that if we shut up and truckled to the liberal race bullies sooner or later we would emerge from the post civil-rights era and its hypocrisies of affirmative action and diversity and we would ascend to the sunny green uplands of post-racism.

Yes, we've been had. Or, rather, our "leaders" have been had. I never believed that celebrating that which makes different (diversity) would bring us together. I alway knew instinctively that seperating us would, well, seperate us.

Lawrence Auster got it right.

The Path to National Suicide by Lawrence Auster (1990)

An essay on multi-culturalism and immigration.

Click the Pic!!!!

Excerpt....

How can we account for this remarkable silence? The answer, as I will try to show, is that when the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 was being considered in Congress, the demographic impact of the bill was misunderstood and downplayed by its sponsors. As a result, the subject of population change was never seriously examined. The lawmakers’ stated intention was that the Act should not radically transform America’s ethnic character; indeed, it was taken for granted by liberals such as Robert Kennedy that it was in the nation’s interest to avoid such a change. But the dramatic ethnic transformation that has actually occurred as a result of the 1965 Act has insensibly led to acceptance of that transformation in the form of a new, multicultural vision of American society. Dominating the media and the schools, ritualistically echoed by every politician, enforced in every public institution, this orthodoxy now forbids public criticism of the new path the country has taken. “We are a nation of immigrants,” we tell ourselves— and the subject is closed. The consequences of this code of silence are bizarre. One can listen to statesmen and philosophers agonize over the multitudinous causes of our decline, and not hear a single word about the massive immigration from the Third World and the resulting social divisions. Opponents of population growth, whose crusade began in the 1960s out of a concern about the growth rate among resident Americans and its effects on the environment and the quality of life, now studiously ignore the question of immigration, which accounts for fully half of our population growth.

This curious inhibition stems, of course, from a paralyzing fear of the charge of “racism.” The very manner in which the issue is framed—as a matter of equal rights and the blessings of diversity on one side, versus “racism” on the other—tends to cut off all rational discourse on the subject. One can only wonder what would happen if the proponents of open immigration allowed the issue to be discussed, not as a moralistic dichotomy, but in terms of its real consequences. Instead of saying: “We believe in the equal and unlimited right of all people to immigrate to the U.S. and enrich our land with their diversity,” what if they said: “We believe in an immigration policy which must result in a staggering increase in our population, a revolution in our culture and way of life, and the gradual submergence of our current population by Hispanic and Caribbean and Asian peoples.” Such frankness would open up an honest debate between those who favor a radical change in America’s ethnic and cultural identity and those who think this nation should preserve its way of life and its predominant, European-American character. That is the actual choice—as distinct from the theoretical choice between “equality” and “racism”—that our nation faces. But the tyranny of silence has prevented the American people from freely making that choice.

Very poignant clip from Mr. Auster's thoughtful book.

But now, when looking at stats, where and in what cities is crime the highest? It's usually Democrat or Black Leadership locations. Where is black on black crime the highest? Dittos.

The continual assertion by Black Leadership that until they are completely and utterly in charge of the "system" crime and chaos like this will be the result due "white racism" is inclined to make most people look askance at such utterances and declarations.

If, in fact, as Wright asserts, Blacks innately process thought differently from Whites, this is singularly even more alarming, if current trends give a glimpse into a picture of a future.

America is not over. Black Nationalists demanded power, they got power. And I don't think Americans are at all as spineless as Mr. Auster paints.

Quite the contrary. I think Americans listen to others "different, not deficient" from ourselves. We go quiet often, in order to permit others to voice themselves. That some in our larger community haven't a clue as to that, is their problem.

When Americans have had enough, they begin to raise their objections, and take their thoughts into the voting booth.

If Americans didn't appreciate NEWNESS, there's no way America would be the super Economic power that it is: Americans are intrigued by newer inventions and creations, newer personalities, assisting and taking part in the productive and positive evolution of mankind.

And, frankly, I think they resent being told to shut up by some special interest group thinking it has the lockhold on any and all conversation (through the use of "racism, homophobia, ad nauseum).

In the article I posted, Mr. Chantrill's last couple of paragraphs sum neatly what might have been Wright's response, instead of what he delivered.

I've not been at all quiet all these past years as sex/race identity political groups plied their rhetoric in "path to power." "The Path to Suicide" is what describes what has been going on inside each of these race/sex political identity groups. High stats in re abortion, massive crime, tribalism in our cities and towns.

And along comes Wright to proclaim we outta have more of that.

A liberal becomes a conservative, usually, once he's been mugged by reality. And if the comments section at the San Francisco SFgate.com are any indication, it has been quite interesting to observe the transformation as more muggings continue, and now in the tonier parts of the City.

We white conservatives have been taught for the last generation to button our lips and never to give utterance to a racist thought. We thought that we were parties to a bargain: that if we shut up and truckled to the liberal race bullies sooner or later we would emerge from the post civil-rights era and its hypocrisies of affirmative action and diversity and we would ascend to the sunny green uplands of post-racism.

Now we hear the ravings of Reverend Wright and realize that we have been had. While we were buttoning our lips and attending compulsory diversity seminars liberals were not holding up their end of the deal and neutralizing the Reverend Wrights of America and their vicious racist bile. On the contrary, liberals were pumping them up! We used to wonder how it could be that blacks voted 90 percent for Democrats. How could this be, we wondered, when you can never get more that 60 percent of the rest of America to take sides on anything?

(my thought exactly...after bringing our kids up to be decent people who do not judge on skin color, only to find out blacks have been doing the opposite all these years? In church?)

You have to remember that Auster wrote that twenty-eight years ago. If you've read the entire thing (it's long, I know) most of his thesis is based on where he predicted we would go. There are many of predictions that have come true.

From Auster: "As reported by Robert R. Detlefsen in the April 10, 1989, issue of the New Republic, a speaker at a recent “ra cism awareness” seminar at Harvard said that 85 percent of white Americans are subtle racists and the remaining 15 percent are overt racists."

Sound like Wright? It does to me. Wright's success as a "speaker" is predicated on the idea that only whites can be racists. Without that he would be a failure. Thirty years ago when this whole diversity/multiculturalism thing got started it laid the groundwork for the Wrights, Sharptons and Jacksons of the world. The premise of "diversity" is based on the idea that we all must be different. That opened the door for speakers like Wright to find a niche group that would support his idealogy.

As for the blacks regarding immigration many of these radical black groups don't see themselves as American but rather as displaced Africans. Why else call themselves African-American (I absolutely despise that)?

I talk to a guy at work whose ancestors have probably been here for over a hundred years but he still considers himself African. He also sees himself as a slave to this day. He wants Obama to win simply because it "would put a black face in the White House". When I point out that Obama is half white he shrugs that off as if it doesn't apply. He also told me that if Obama won it would finally end the notion that the U.S. is racist. I couldn't believe that. I don't believe that. There is too much money to be fleeced by engendering the slavery issue one hundred and forty plus years after it's abolition.

America is not over. Black Nationalists demanded power, they got power. And I don't think Americans are at all as spineless as Mr. Auster paints.

Hmmmm..... I would have to disagree. Why else would we allow the rampant theft of our property in the name of diversity? Why else would we allow Jackson and Sharpton to remain in their positions of "power"?

When I talk to people at work the whites simply call me "a right wing nut" and the minorities call me a racist.

When a guy pointed out that a girl, who was here illegally, was "finally doing the right thing" by getting her papers. (She already has at least one anchor baby) I challenged him and said, "If she was doing the right thing she wouldn't have come here illegally in the first place!"

He went off on me about my hating hispanics. Never once had I used the word "hispanic". He's Puerto Rican (and a very good guy I add) but he sees this issue from a racial perspective. Why? because as Auster points out using the word racist carries enough weight to silence just about all whites on any subject.

I, of course, did not back down. But, how many others would have once the racism card was shown? Quite a few from my experience.

See my tagline. It's been posted for over two years. There is a warning that all Americans should be aware of: "You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!"

Who do you think Juan and Juanita will vote in once they are old enough to reward madre and padre with our children's tax dollars?

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