The American
landscape is starting to horrifically resemble a 1958
black n� white Godzilla flick...with Black folks
filling the lead role of the prehistoric monster come-to-life,
and TEA Partying White folks playing to the over-the-top
hilt, the victimized role of the Japanese folks...running
around in absolute terror as the tyrannical creature is
about to devour them, whole.
These fanatical
extremist, who�ve crowned themselves �Real Americans,�
despite ruthlessly almost �cleansing� this land of the
Red Man, the imprisonment of Blacks, the treatment of
Latinos and Asians, but yet somehow in a cartoonish, delusional
manner, they have the audacity to feign fear - brand Blacks
as Neanderthals.
Now if that
ain�t that savage calling the barbarian uncivilized...
The only fear
Whites have of Blacks is our legitimate and righteous
beef; you�ve screwed us, as a people � individually /
collectively � in more twisted ways than can be counted...and
truthfully, your anger towards us rests in White guys�
n� gals� internal feelings of inferiority, not superiority.
Here, permit
me to quickly run down the white sheet of events which
ought-be weighed and measured in determining the alarming
but all-so-predictable level of �extremism� running-rampant
throughout the country which can be traced to �WASP Culture,�
and not the times we are a�livin� in.
Let�s commence
with Florida�s Republican TEA Party Congressman Allen
West and his recent horrific re-creation of the infamous
�Red Scare,� with his, let us say, blending of
Benedict Arnold and �Crazy Joe� McCarthy into one mindless
Frankenstein claiming the �Commie / Pinko bastards� are
at the gates. And of course, all the Black Democrats in
Congress are card-carrying Communists, have this Uncle
Tom tell it.
Tell me Mr.
West, what did your GOP �owners� give you for getting
your hands dirty, doing the heavy lifting on this one:
a car dealership, a 2nd home in Europe?
Now let�s couple
West with John Derbyshire�s revealing literary
masterpiece, What White parents tell their kids,
which did little more for me then solidify in concrete
what most Black folks already know: trusting White folks
is a calculated risk. Interacting with them, befriending
them, doing business with them is always a tricky, dicey
endeavour, merely because you know they think like Derbyshire.
Thank you Mr.
Derbyshire for letting the better of your vulcan emotions
get to you and for slipping, verbalizing the paranoid,
angry, insecure White American company lines that so many
adhere to, but publicly deny. It vividly explains so much...lends
rhyme n� reason to so much.
What I got out
of this overtly racist chunk of junk was: you blame Blacks
and other Americans of Color for crying racism, when in
fact, your hearts n� minds are far from bare of biases.
The 15-point �talk� Derbyshire gives his
offspring warns of �the hostility many blacks feel toward
whites,� implores them to �avoid concentrations of blacks
not all known to you personally,� and advises them, �before
voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character
much more carefully than you would a white.� (He defines
this last point, �In a pure meritocracy there would be
very low proportions of blacks in cognitively demanding
jobs.�)
�If you are
white or Asian and have kids, you owe it to them to give
them some version of the talk. It will save them a lot
of time and trouble spent figuring things out for themselves.
It may save their lives,� Derbyshire concludes.
Ain�t that a
bitch ....?
Next up on the
barometer, The American Nazi Party has apparently
registered its own lobbyist on Capitol Hill. Ponder that
advancement, these folks want to influence prospective
clients, civil servants potentially interested in doing
business with...the Nazi Party.
The financial
backbone behind �the people�s candidate, the White
people�s candidate, Rick Santorum, Mr. Foster Friess,
the ga-zillionaire who bankrolled a large portion of Santorum�s
failed presidential bid, laid this one on the table just
recently: he �hopes President Obama�s teleprompter�s are
bulletproof.�
Is it me or
what, but you�ve got to feel, sense, taste, hear the malice,
the disdain festering, percolating out of the millions
upon millions of angry White people who constitute this
country�s �Right.� It�s not a �new thang,� it�s an �old
hang-up� being resurrected.
Somewhere between
the fear, abhorrence, disgust, abomination, repugnance, aversion, nausea, repulsion, distaste, odium, revulsion - if not outright blind hatred
of Black people - is the deeply-seeded belief Black folks
are animals, half-human animals.
Evidently that�s
the estimation / guess-timation of what millions upon
millions of White folks believe Black folks to be. Nothing
more, and perhaps something even less. Or maybe barbarians
or cannibals, but nonetheless some form of quasi-literate
�savage.� And, being children-for-life emotionally,
we stand-on-the-verge of going-on-the-warpath - at the
drop-of-a-dime, triggered by a Treyvon Martin verdict
we don�t like, or a presidential election with which we
don�t concur.
Derbyshire�s
devaluation of Blacks, on a whole, more then explains
the past, the present and the future of this nation. WEB
DuBois had no idea how accurate he was when he stated
race, the color-line would be the defining issue of
the 20th century. Toss in another century or two for
sure.
For race to
remain the combustible, volatile issue that is in 2012,
clearly there�s an internal debate within White America
regarding the status of Black folks: are we fully
human? And, whatever their conclusion may be, can they
as the White race be willing to �mix n� mingle� with the
little people, the folks formerly and affectionately known
as �the help.�
I easily submit
that well over half, if not a solid 75% don�t want to
interact with other races, based on not desiring to get
their hands dirty. And the darker the people, the less
many, many, many White Americans want to have to do with
them, and that�s the fact.
Weigh n� measure
the facts:
- Circa
1708 - classified as human property - For White folks
It was �logical� to enslave Blacks, for we were by our
very nature...really not human.
- Circa
1899 - Jim Crow, Black Codes - it was still logical
to segregate us, pimp and exploit us...because we were
inferior.
- Circa
1964 - Separate and Unequal; it made all the sense in
the world to oppose civil rights, human rights for Black
folks, so much so we know well over half of the US White
population half-heartedly wanted to integrate, and have
since made half-assed efforts to incorporate Black folks
into mainstream US society.
- Circa
1984 - Ronald �666� Raygun, the grandfather of today�s
White backlash, opposses an MLK national Holiday; the
Civil Rights martyr was a Communist, and he opposed
South African Apartheid.
To the point
that here we are, circa 2012...and the question on the
table is, in the face of urban riots: �will it be practical,
logical to intern us,� as the Japanese were in WWII -
place us all on �Reservations,�yet another novel, practical
logical calculation carried out against a minority group,
or just start shooting us on the street like stray dogs,
like what we just witnessed in Tulsa.
Gee, 3 out of
every 4 White guys in America claims to be pissed off
at or afraid of Black folks, particularly men, and the
gun n� ammo sales illustrate just that.
As I�ve tried
to state all-along the way; the bulk of White America
is isolated n� insulated deliberately, strategically,
for they�ve a vast array of issues and concerns when it
comes to Black people - they�re not sure we�re human.
We�d better
not ever forget that. We�d better start remembering it.
BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Desi Cortez, was hatched in the
heart of Dixie, circa 1961, at the dawning of the age
of Aquarius, the by-product of four dynamic individuals,
Raised in South-Central LA, the 213, at age 14 transplanted
to the base of the Rockies, Denver. Still a Mile-Hi. Sat
at the feet of scholars for many, many moons, emerging
with a desire and direction� if not a sheep-skin. Meandered
thru life; gone a-lot places, done a-lot of things, raised
a man-cub into a good, strong man, produced a beautiful
baby-girl with my lover/woman/soul-mate� aired my mind
on the airwaves and wrote some stuff along the way. Click
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