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?
>Why else call themselves African-American.<
The reason for the usage of hyphenated Americans is that is increases the diversity. By doing so it prevents unity amongst the population, decreasing the chance of civil war against our socialist turning government.
What have I ultimately learned through the past 15 years? What you've written is true. Censorship, theft of earnings, and rights, and property. The whittling away at Liberty by the left.
What else have I learned? Even anchor babies are going to grow up one day and resent being thefted and dictated to.
Yes our healthcare and social security situation is in an abominable way. But when I think about what my dad's generation top medical technology had in the way of treating ear infections (hot needles) versus what's available today (antibiotics), there is good also. I say this by parable.
When Americans learned about the KKK and what was going on in the South - they were outraged, and moved to rectify the matter. The same will go, IME, in re the Black Nationalist movement.
As more people get thefted the minute they move above a certain income level, and realize they are being punished by Marxist legislators, they tend to do one of two things: look for more freebies from the government, or fight back.
Americans are ultimately no different from the majority of people anywhere in the world - loving their families, willing to work to live, and to live to work.
What I also realized, living in the SF Bay Area, that I was -- was that I was surrounded by people who'd not been mugged by reality. For now, the socialist platform, made them feel on the cusp of trend. It made them feel good about themselves, rather than to ever wonder what such trends portrended.
Being in such a situation, on the frontlines, as such, can leave one in a position of despair.
But when one pulls back or travels the country, one gains a much larger perspective, and the recognition that one specific area does not describe an entire country, and nor does one's personal reality define the whole.
I've had the fortune of witnessing the transformation of once-illegal immigrants into conservatives, etc.
If our troops can continue to stand fast and continually hold the line in Iraq, then I can bloody hell well do the same as far as continuing to speak my truths and observations about domestic US matters. I never let that stop me when awash in a Blue Zone, nor when in a Purple, and now in a Red.
Sometimes, it means I'm bannished from correctness society. Sometimes it means I'm punished just because I exist. Sometimes I can lose jobs over it, or even be persecuted by the "Strong Arm of the Local Bureacracies".
But sometimes, it means my message is heard, and it comes as a bright light of awareness and liberty to another who was struggling to make sense in the dark.
The point is, getting depressed because one's view is not appreciated is not cause for asserting all is "over".
Many times a prophet is never appreciated in his own town. And many times not until he has left that town, and sometimes not until after he's been dead.
And it is up to each of us to soldier on. And to never give up nor despair. The world, while seemingly small, is actually a much larger place and contextually.. Selective snapshots on any one issue can make the world seem a rather dreary, dire place.
It's rainy in one location, but sunny in another. There's slavery in Africa but not in America.
I don't mean to respond to your post with a homily, but I do intend to lift you up.
I'm a pragmatist. A pragmatist with Rose Colored Lenses. I prefer to aim my view and actions towards what some might call a Pollyannish perspective. I fight when I need to. But I do prefer a world which uplifts rather than depresses. As opposed to being a pragmatist with glasses always foggy from bawling.
I'll never give up.