I am posting this article because I disagree with it and I want to comment. I also thought others would like to comment.
White Nationalism on the March
by Glen Ford
The campaign to bring White nationalism, the founding ideology of the United States, fully out of the closet, kicks into a higher gear on the Right’s anti-holiday, April 15. Newt Gingrich and the various tribes of White Rightists unveil their “Contract From America,” a scaled-down version of the manifesto the Republicans rallied around to win control of the U.S. House of Representatives, in 1994. The 2010 “contract” is leaner, built for mass Caucasian consumption. It is written largely in code, the language of obfuscation that American racists speak in an attempt to hide their white supremacist beliefs from others – and, in many cases, from themselves. Indeed, much of American mass political speech is conducted in code, allowing white people to identify each other through terms like “middle class,” “family values,” “taxpayers,” “patriots,” “law-abiding” – terms which, although literally applicable to people of every ethnicity, are understood to mean “good white American citizens.”
Corporate media almost universally describe the Tea Partyers as “anti-government” – which is nonsense. They oppose the government providing assistance – economic, legal, educational, real or imagined – to those that are “undeserving,” which in their world consists mostly of folks that can be defined by race, language or religion (using code words, when required by polite society). Naturally, the average Tea Partyer – when sober – will deny having “a racist bone” in his body, but any group whose unifying characteristic is daily engorgement on Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck is, by definition, racist. Anyone who tries to tell you different, is far too tolerant of bigoted behavior, assumptions and speech to be anything but a closet racist, himself.
Tea Partyers live in a world of throbbing hatreds that render them damn near incoherent.They shout and hoot and holler in fevered support of political statements with which they cannot possibly agree. For example, the highly popular “Limited Government” plank of The Contract states:
“The purpose of our government is to exercise only those limited powers that have been relinquished to it by the people, chief among these being the protection of our liberties by administering justice and ensuring our safety from threats arising inside or outside our country’s sovereign borders.”
That means, the government should provide only police, criminal justice and public safety services, and a national defense. No public schools or publicly supported colleges, no tax breaks for homeowners, none of the public supports that “middle class,” “law-abiding,” “patriotic,” “taxpayers” with strong “family values” have been demanding for themselves for the last 65 years. (“And don’t you dare touch my Medicare!”)
Any “movement” that actually believed in as shrunken a government as The Contract describes would be either very rich, or very tiny. The plank only begins to make sense when understood as a kind of scatter-shot code talk for restricting government assistance to “worthy” Americans, and cutting the flotsam and jetsam people loose.
What the Tea Partyers really oppose is a social contract among all the resident peoples of the United States. In this, they are indeed the direct political progeny of the Founding Fathers and the great mass of white settlers, who found the very concept of full U.S. citizenship for Africans and Native Americans monstrously repugnant, a devaluation of their superior white selves. Racism in the national womb prevented the United States from forging a genuine social contract between whites and Others. More to the point, white people rejected any relationship that did not recognize and maintain white supremacy. This was to be forever a White Man’s country, expanding as far as might and money could take it – but white, white, white.
The white nationalists want their white nation back. But they can’t have it. And, since there can be no bargaining on that issue, there is no reason whatsoever for Blacks and browns and people of good will to engage or humor the Tea Party’s white nationalists. There is nothing to concede to them, and nothing they can offer us to which we are not already entitled.
Prominent peace activists are eager to engage the Tea Party, in search of common ground in opposition to government waste through war. It is true that Tea Party darling Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian Republican and former presidential candidate, fights as hard as anyone on The Hill against bloated military budgets. But the anti-war movement will soon discover that all but a sliver of the Tea Party crowd are belligerent hawks, as racist in their global worldview as in their domestic outlook. Just as they reject a national social contract with non-whites, they reject any compact with other peoples of the world, particularly the non-white ones. White American nationalism is warlike, expansionist, and proud of it – a grave danger to the survival of humanity.
I have a question why is it ok for their to be a Black Agenda and not be considered racist towards white people? If there was a group called White Agenda we would be calling those people White Nationalists who hate Blacks and non whites. Hate is hate and should be treated as hate. I see and read about hate directed toward Whites and it is excused and praised but if a White person stands up and tries to point out the double standard today we are called evil racist. We are to just look the other way when it comes toward hate toward Whites. We must be brave enough to speak out against hate even if the hate is coming from Blacks, Mexicans or anyone else. I speak out against real White Nationalism.
One of the problems I see in fighting this war on hate is people not really listening. They have their minds already made up and are not willing to listen with an open mind to the other person or side is saying. There is also to much lumping together groups that are not White Nationalist. The groups and people must be seperated and not just treated the same way. Yet, there is like a refusal to even hear about the cases of Black hate towards Whites or Mexican hate towards Whites. It does happen. I have read some of the most nasty death treats toward Whites and what they want to do with us. If we are truly people of truth and honor shouldn’t we speak out against all hate and not just White Hate?
The sentence that got me started was ” The campaign to bring White nationalism, the founding ideology of the United States, fully out of the closet, ”
White Nationalism is not the founding ideology of the United States. You hate toward the United States is just as wrong as David Duke and his White Nationalists feel toward the United States as well.
This nation was built on FREEDOM!!!!! FREEDOM is not a word I would use to decribe what White Nationalists believe in. They believe in freedom for Whites but not for others who are different. George Washington, John Adams, and all the other brave men and women who fought the American Revolution were not White Nationalists. They were true American Patriots. Yet, you from the Black Agenda group hate your own country. If you are fighting against the United States than you are my enemy just as much as David Duke. Same hate spewed just another group of people doing it. Actually you Black Nationalists and White Nationalists have something in common. You both want a nation of only your own race. You are actually working for the same role but only reverse.
I got so angry at your first sentence that I didn’t read your article. If you would lie about who founded the United States and why we founded the United States, than I don’t want to read your article of lies. You and White Nationalists are on the same page. BOTH OF YOU BELIEVE THAT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED BY WHITE NATIONALISTS. That is a LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brave men like John Adams was not White Nationalist. Being from MA, he was against the use of slavery. He was one of the biggest voices for the American Revolution and how our Constitution would be like. He fought against slavery. He was NEVER A WHITE NATIONALIST LIKE YOU SAY HE IS.
This quote came from one of my Catholic groups at Facebook.
If God wills to prolong our trials, do not let us lament or try to find out the reason. . .We have to see God through the fire of thorns, and to do this we must go barefoot and renounce our own will and affection and accept the will of God wholeheartedly. St. Padre Pio
Why am I posting this quote on this thread? Because I felt it talked to me.
I have to see God through the fire of thorns, which is what I felt this article was to me. When people say things like the United States was founded as a White Nationalist nation, it gets me angry because that is a lie and not the truth. If this person from Black Agenda is right than that means David Duke is right. They both are saying that America was founded on the principles of White Nationalism. As a daughter I must stand up to that lie and fight for truth.
Some people might consider my not backing down from the truth when I know something to be true as a fault. Others might admire that quality. Being the extreem of anything is not good nor is it the American way.
One of my prayers when I pray is that God will open the door that he wants open and that whatever God’s will is for me that I will not whine, complain, cry, but will accept, be brave, and turn my lemons into lemonaide.
Have you considered than those who are fighting for the WN cause may too be praying for their victory? With the plethora of religious belief to sustain political aims, it is ridiculous to believe that god is helping them all in their separate endeavours.
I’m not mocking but stating a rational that while you are praying to save the US, the moslems are praying for your downfall and the jews are praying for a arab genocide to save them. These all seem like selfish motives, one nation getting the better of another and asking god to bless them white they do so. I believe there is little godliness in any of these nations including the US, that is why they are all at war or fighting to defend their selfish motives.