What exactly did you find objectionable?
Posted on 12/05/2003 5:44:11 PM PST by freedom44
According to political scientist Carol M. Swain's unsettling new book, "The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration," the U.S. is on the brink of an explosion of white "tribalism" that could trigger unprecedented levels of racial antagonism and an epidemic of violence. The underlying cause: a swelling "white nationalist" movement fueled by simmering resentment of affirmative action programs like those used by the University of Michigan. "The book is a wake-up call to warn people that we're following a dangerous course by pushing identity politics and multi-culturalism," explains the Vanderbilt law school professor. "There's nothing special about the U.S. that says we couldn't have ethnic cleansing and violence here like in Bosnia or Rwanda."
It's shocking to hear such a dire prophesy from a scholar like Swain, who is rapidly establishing herself as one of the leaders of a new, increasingly vocal neoconservative brand of black political analysis that rejects affirmative action and reparations for slavery and holds blacks responsible for their own uplift. Until recently, most left-leaning black theorists derided her as a hopeless optimist. Her previous book, "Black Faces, Black Interests," ruffled many black politicians by dismissing their fear that a Supreme Court ruling that struck down the use of race in the creation of majority black congressional districts would be a disaster. Instead, Swain predicted, the ruling actually would be good for African Americans. As she foresaw, even in the Deep South strong black candidates were capable of winning enough support from whites to prevail in districts where black voters were outnumbered. She also argued that disbursing blacks into mostly-white districts could make it easier for liberal Democrats to compete with conservative Republicans by building multi-racial coalitions. Blacks "need more representation of their liberal views of policy than they need people who look like them" in Congress, Swain contended. Anyone looking at the toothlessness of the Congressional Black Caucus in the Republican-dominated House would find it difficult to disagree.
But, as Swain says, she "turned from a Pollyanna into a Cassandra" as her research into a book criticizing racial preferences made her aware of the spread of what she calls "the new white nationalism," a form of racial extremism more dangerous than the Ku Klux Klan because of its veneer of erudition and mastery of the Internet. Groups such as former Klansman David Duke's National Organization for European American Rights and the National Association of White People eschew the discredited notion of white supremacy. Indeed, they don't claim that whites are superior to anyone else and may even be inferior to Asians.
Instead they push the notion over websites, in publications such as Jared Taylor's "American Renaissance " magazine and through on-campus recruiting drives that all racial groups have unique interests and the god-given right to fulfill their destiny. They see themselves, as Swain has written, as "defenders of the legitimate civil rights of white people against what they allege are a host of racial double standards." In short, that affirmative action has made whites the most discriminated-against group in the country and that it can only get worse as a tide of immigrants transforms the U.S. from a white nation into a rickety Third World republic. The language white nationalists use to promote their insights is stunningly familiar to anyone who has listened to black nationalists like Louis Farrakhan — but that's not surprising, since the white nationalists appropriated it. As Swain observes, "the multicultural left has provided a language that works very well for whites who want to push white-identity politics," says Swain. "They say that if it's good for blacks to celebrate their heritage, it's good for whites to celebrate theirs."
What concerns Swain the most is such groups now seem to be finding an audience among mainstream whites whose gripes about racial preferences and high crime rates among blacks have been tuned out by white liberal politicians. Though she has no proof that the membership of such groups is mushrooming, their influence is being felt widely. Indeed, some of the rhetoric used by white nationalists is indistinguishable from the verbiage used by President Bush in his assault on the "quotas" supposedly used by the University of Michigan. "If we keep going down this road, it's going to increasingly pit racial groups against each other," she warns. "Some white people, who are otherwise good people, who don't hate blacks, are going to be pushed into the arms of these extremists if we don't change course."
Swain thinks there's only one way out of this bind: recognizing that whites have "legitimate" beefs about race that should be openly debated by politicians and scholars. She also believes we should immediately do away with racial preferences in university admissions, hiring and government contracts that not only fuel white resentment but send the message to blacks that they can't meet the same standards as everyone else. Swain's detractors say such steps amount to no more than a cowardly capitulation to racism, but she won't back down because she does not believe that blacks need the crutch provided by race-conscious policies. For Swain, a deeply devout evangelical Christian, such beliefs are not academic. Now 49, she went from being a high school drop-out and single mother in rural Virginia to a Ph.d and a chair at a leading university. "Somehow, we've got to embrace an American national identity that pulls us together instead of dividing us into warring camps," says Swain, "perhaps through a renewed emphasis on the Judeo-Christian idea of a common creator and the brotherhood of man." It's an old-fashioned idea that could prevent Swain's troubling predictions from coming true.
Nothing a little government money won't fix.
My wife bought me my first firearm shortly after the LA riots, where we saw the cops running away from the rioters.
Look at it from the cops perspective: if they start shooting rioters to protect white homeowners, they risk being charged and jailed, or at least being fired and losing their pensions. If they "show restraint" and stand around, or suddenly find other places they should be, they do not subject themselves to any personal risk. Better yet, in a riot situation, they would be strongly tempted to go home and protect their OWN homes and families.
A cop is just a civil service worker who wears a badge and gunbelt.
Then if some white guy says "I believe in looking out for the interests of white people" the media, the politicians and the universities all scream "hatemonger! Racist! NAZI! You must be punished! You must be silenced! You are EVIL!" Then the forces of all of those institutions are directed against the heretic, and they are destroyed in any number of ways, personally, professionally and politically. If they don't wise up and shut up quick they usually end up in jail.
It's disgusting, it's craven, and it makes me sick.
It's good to see that Time mentions Jared Taylor's "American Renaissance". Hopefully, such mention will give them _more_ exposure, not less. And the more exposure they get, the more adherents they will get, as well. Their message is simply too logical, too powerful, and to timely to be refuted with the usual "hate group" smears.
AR has been my favorite publication since I was tipped off to its existence 'way back in the early nineties. You can get a sampling at amren.com. They also have a "best of" book available, containing an anthology of their best articles.
For example: this month's lead article is a comparison of the immigration history and policies of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Sweden seems headed for the abyss, whereas Denmark is taking fairly strong steps to discourage nonwhite immigration, particularly by Islamics.
The emergence of white "tribalism" (Ms. Swain's terminology) _must_ happen if there is any hope to save America "as the nation it was". Without the burgeoning of such "identity", whites will eventually be overwhelmed by third-world "tribalism" and culture. We are in imminent danger of demographical conquest by Mexicans/Central Americans (this does not have to be explained to those who live in certain areas of California).
Amreica once was a "white, Christian nation". Does anyone disagree with that?
If you accept this reality as part of our history, do you _not_ wish to maintain/restore America as such?
Cheers!
- John
In my van (with its 30-gallon gas tank), I've gone from Philadelphia to South Carolina on one tank. "Tankful" can be a BIG radius. Something to remember
The majority of interracial crime is Black on White - by far. Hispanics are statistically unique ... when they are the perpitrators of crime they are considered "White" but when they are victims of crime, they are considered "Minority."
If we are talking about more than a handful of rioters, the police will make very sure that they are elsewhere
A sudden, non-repeated attack is one thing, and your scenario would probably hold -- which is all the more reason to become familiar with your neighbors, and feel out who would be effective and who would hide. An effective neighborhood defense can be set up in just a few minutes IF a few critical people are mentally prepared (but going door to door right now organizing a militia would be a bad idea, PR wise).
If we are talking about repeated attacks over a period of time, then neighborhoods would come together.
The stages would be
I believe you are correct. The first small step toward PC academic/racial celebrity has just been taken by this author by making racial assertions that are a little off of PC (to be noticed).
Do you remember, by any chance, Hillary Clinton's statement (regarding the Pledge of Alliegance) that she could only pledge alliegance "to the America that could be"?
Believe me, "America as it was" is NOT what the left has in mind for us. I have a 23 year old homosexual nephew who is VERY much into the lefty-PC-race-gender reconstitution of America movement, and I have no reason to believe he is unusual (for the left) in his beliefs and desires which mimic Hillary's perfectly. His parents back him virtually 100 percent since they only important thing to them, really, is that he gets what he wants.
There are a lot of Hillary-style leftists out there committed to the brave new world of "multi-gendered, endlessly-RACIAL Amerika" and also an awful lot of sheeple who simply will not believe what lies in store for them if the left has its way with this country. It's already happening in the EUrinal and in KKKanada.
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