Are Meanness and Cruelty a Characteristic of White Culture?

Are meanness, unkindness and cruelty essential characteristics if not trademarks of White American culture? Is stone-age coldness and medieval evil-doing as All-American as Coke, hotdogs and Corvettes? I’m just asking… Is blind racial hatred the emotion which fuels the words and deeds of most White folks – some twisted core philosophy of contempt, bitterness, resentment and hostility toward all those not white?

I completely understand assholes come in all shapes, sizes, genders and colors. You can find them in all economic classes, all geographical regions, in all religions and occupations – but I’m sorry, if you just stop and ponder our contemporary environment for a moment, it clearly seems like right here and now, as well as over the last few hundred years here in America, White folks, specifically and particularly White men have an almost monopolistic stranglehold on being, mean, nasty, spiteful, heartless and cruel, if not soulless assholes. There’s not a racial/ethnic subgroup within America who won’t agree with that summation.

White people gone mad…!

School shootings… 9 out of 10 times it’s some angry White boy, who at age 17 already has no real concept of “I am my brother and sister’s keeper.”

Who unabashedly defends the separation of families seeking a better life in the land of a-plenty? White men. Who defends Brown children being locked in cages down on the Rio Grande, simply because they seek the American Dream? White people.

Who is consistently and constantly behind the trigger of senseless mass-shootings… the vast majority of times? It’s some pissed-off-at-all-of-society White man.

Vigilante Killer cop – White guy.

Silence of the lambs people-eaters, some Jeffery Dahmer type serial killer – White guy.

Who are the faces of unsympathetic, non-empathetic politicians and an aristocratic investor class which harbors no qualms about profiting off others’ medical ills and woes? – White folks.

Unsympathetic, non-empathetic politicians who want to block medical care, and profit off it during a global pandemic – White guys. Who are the heartless politicians who plot and plan to slow, if not halt, unemployment payments to the little people? – White dudes.

Who struggles to control women’s bodies? It’s Conservative (racist/sexist/elitist) White cats. Who, in the name of preserving life, is simultaneously willing to sacrifice the old, the poor and those of color to the global pandemic confronting the world, in the name of Wall Street’s never-ending profits? White dudes, the same group who opposes the Affordable Care Act and Food Stamps for the poor.

The contradictions, hypocrisy and duplicity of what the USA says it is, and what it is and does is so blatant and undeniable it would be laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic, trifling and tragic. Here, let the iconic Black Republican Frederick Douglass “put it where it’s at” with his 4th of July speech:

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-giving’s, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloodier than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.

Who, more than any other demographic group, wants to own anti-aircraft machine guns and personal tanks? White guys.

Who are the individuals during this lockdown who are confusing Constitutional rights and liberties with “Can’t nobody tell me what to do” – White guys?

Who is demanding Indian reservations, decimated by the Coronavirus, ignored by an administration which hates them, recklessly open the roads through their land to interstate trade, commerce… and Coronavirus – forcing a confrontation with Sioux Indians in South Dakota? Who? White folks. Stop me if I’m lying but there exists the possibility the Trump administration may send in the 7th Calvary to attack Sioux Indians.

As the last real legit President this decadent and divided nation had, Barack Obama characterized this regime’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic as an absolute chaotic disaster, and may now face Trumped up charges, and be handcuffed, marched off to jail… by white men, and what will the Democrat resistance do – pen a sharp and terse letter to the Supreme Court?

I believe the societal evidence illustrating this lack of decency and compassion is obvious and overwhelming. It’s also an historical fact. It is “business as usual.”

Look at US History. Who orchestrated the genocide of the American Indian? White men. Who strong armed the Southwest from Mexicans? – White men. Who was the backbone and force behind enslaving Black people? – White men. Who interned Japanese Americans during WWII? White men. Who raped so many African women over a quarter of a millennium that they created a race of Black Americans? White men. The Black race wasn’t hand crafted by Black men raping White women, nor Black women throwing themselves upon White men, no it was White men… gone mad, drunk with ill-gotten power and privilege.

Who shoots abortion doctors? White men. Who injected syphilis into Black people? – White men.

Who turned lynching Black women, children and men into a national pastime? – White men!

Who still wishes to forbid women and minorities from voting? – White men!

Who abandons the homeless, brands them all bums, hobos and worthless, lazy drug addicts who just need to get their shit together? Correct, the political party of White men who embrace the caveman notion of survival of the fittest.

Who has created a society where all the unwashed little people of color are left to fight over the crumbs? Wealthy White men. Who has crafted a society where clean air and water, a decent education, healthy food and quality health care is based on enriching already wealthy White men? White men.

Look, I’d never suggest that people of color do no wrong, we do. However, we function in a cutthroat “trickle down” environment where our mutual self-destruction is a given outcome. Who is slowing the evolution of America? Who is against inclusion, diversity and equality? White folks. Trump’s troops.

Is this culturally-wide ice-cold mindset based on hatred, indifference, a disconnection to humanity or fear of a demonization of those not like you?

Perhaps it arises from some form of righteous, well-earned paranoia? Is it that White America completely and totally understands that the “how” matters in what lengths they employed to constructed an empire damn near overnight? They used the blood, sweat, tears and land of colored folks, and that they’ve employed barbaric semi-medieval tactics to maintain that power, and so thus they believe like there will be a reckoning, that the “chickens do come home to roost,” that “every dog does has its day.”

The cultural-wide meanness and cruelty which appears to envelope WASP America is going to culminate in a race war, dig this – they want to have, making the bloody conflict inevitable and unavoidable.

Black America needs an exit strategy. Morality, compassion and empathy cannot be politically mandated – most of White America – Trump’s America couldn’t give a damn about inclusion, unity, and diversity which are enlightened concepts foreign and devalued by this subgroup.

Here are two realities: Trump’s America desperately desires to arrest and imprison Obama; they want that visual, while we, as Americans of color, would not shed a tear, not a tear if Trump were to be treated likewise. That’s just the polarized reality of our forced coexistence.