White guilt is dead
Posted on November 16th, 2008 at 1:43 am by Troy La ManaI sure am glad we don’t have to worry about diversity anymore!
By Tom Adkins
Look at my fellow conservatives! There they go, glumly shuffling along, depressed by the election aftermath. Not me. I’m virtually euphoric. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not thrilled with America’s flirtation with neo socialism. But there’s a massive silver lining in those magical clouds that lofted Barak Obama to the Presidency. For today, without a shred of intellectually legitimate opposition, I can loudly proclaim to America: The Era of White Guilt is over.
This seemingly impossible event occurred because the vast majority of white Americans didn’t give a fluff about skin color, and enthusiastically pulled the voting lever for a black man. Not just any black man. A very liberal black man who spent his early career race-hustling banks, praying in a racist church for 20 years, and actively worked with America-hating domestic terrorists. Wow! Some resume! Yet they made Barak Obama their leader. Therefore, as of Nov 4th, 2008, white guilt is dead.
For over a century, the millstone of white guilt hung around our necks, retribution for slave-owning predecessors. In the 60’s, American liberals began yanking that millstone while sticking a fork in the eye of black Americans, exacerbating the racial divide to extort a socialist solution. But if a black man can become President, exactly what significant barrier is left? The election of Barak Obama absolutely destroys the entire validation of liberal white guilt. The dragon is hereby slain.
So today, I’m feeling a little uppity, if you will. From this day forward, my tolerance level for having my skin color hustled is now exactly ZERO. And it’s time to clean house. No more Reverend Wright’s “God Damn America”, Al Sharpton’s Church of Perpetual Victimization, or Jesse Jackson’s rainbow racism. Cornell West? You’re a fraud. Go home. All those “black studies” programs that taught kids to hate whitey? You must now thank whitey. And I want that on the final.
Congressional Black Caucus?
Irrelevant. Maxine Waters? Shut up. ACORN? Outlawed. Black Panthers? Go home and pet your kitty. Black separatists? Find another nation that offers better dreams. Go ahead. I’m waiting.Gangsta rappers?
Start praising America. Begin with the Pledge of Allegiance. And please - no more ebonics. Speak English, and who knows where you might end up? Oh, yeah, pull up your pants. Your underwear is showing. You look stupid.To those Eurosnots who forged entire careers hating America? I’m still waiting for the first black French President.
And let me offer an equal opportunity whupping. I’ve always despised lazy white people. Now, I can talk smack about lazy black people. You’re poor because you quit school, did drugs, had three kids with three different fathers, and refuse to work. So when you plop your Colt 45-swilling, Oprah watchin’ butt on the couch and complain “Da Man is keepin’ me down” Allow me to inform you: Da Man is now black. You have no excuses.
No more quotas. No more handouts. No more stealing my money because someone’s great-great-great-great grandparents suffered actual pain and misery at the hands of people I have no relation to, and personally revile.
It ’s time to toss that massive, obsolete race-hustle machine upon the heap of the other stupid 60’s ideas. Drag it over there, by wife swapping, next to dope-smoking. Plenty of room right between free love and cop-killing. Careful don’t trip on streaking. There ya go, don’t be gentle. Just dump it. Wash your hands. It’s filthy.
In fact, Obama’s ascension created a gargantuan irony. How can you sell class envy and American unfairness when you and your black wife went to Ivy League schools, got high-paying jobs, became millionaires, bought a mansion, and got elected President? How unfair is that??? How, Like a delicious O’Henry tale, Obama’s spread-the-wealth campaign rendered itself moot by its own victory! America is officially a meritocracy. Obama’s election has validated American conservatism!
So, listen carefully - Wham!!! That’s the sound of my foot kicking the door shut on the era of white guilt. The rites have been muttered, the carcass lowered, dirt shoveled, and tombstone erected. White guilt is dead and buried.
However, despite my glee, there’s apparently one small, rabid bastion of American racism remaining. Black Americans voted 96% for Barak Obama. Hmmm. In a color-blind world, shouldn’t that be 50-50? Tonight, every black person should ask forgiveness for their apparent racism and prejudice towards white people. Maybe it’s time to start spreading the guilt around.
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Troy,
What a FANTASTIC piece. Thanks for posting this!
I think a lot of us conservatives are finding more and more reason to not only ACCEPT the election results, but actually see the many silver linings in this (hopefully four year) cloud.
Seriously, the race card needs to go back in the deck, never to be drawn again.
And how does the black community explain their 96% allegiance to a black candidate? Imagine the backlash if the white folks whipped out a race card of their own….
This is terrible article. As I have said before, Obama never made race a central part of his campaign. Maybe made it into an offhand comment, but it was never the focus. Barack Obama was able to succeed not in spite of or because of his race, but with complete indifference (quoting from Mike Huckabee). He got where he is because he worked for it. He got so much African American support because he addressed may of the the issues most important to them throughout his entire career: education, the economy, predatory lending, government neglect, etc. Republicans have failed to reach out to this group.
There are still several barriers to be overcome in terms of race, religion, gender, sexuality, etc.
Let’s not pretend racism is over. Racism is still prevalent in today’s society. This election was proof of how much American society has changed over the past forty years, but how much work still needs to be done.
Please provide your evidence for this baseless claim.
He did not get into Harvard Law through affirmative action, as he has admitted himself. He became President of the Havard Law Review, through the basis of merit alone, as he met it with some resistance. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law. He beat out his opponents in the Democratic Primary despite having less money in order to be elected to the United States Senate.
And, when you finish with Cord’s request, please explain this one:
“He got so much African American support because he addressed may of the the issues.”
Despite my horrible grammar, I did later in that same sentence addressed those various issues, but I can elaborate more. Improving education in impoverished areas, rather than just using vouchers as a stop gap. Having an economy that focuses on the middle class, in which the Republican Party many times failed to mention. Throughout his career he has spoken out against predatory lending to minorities. He addressed the government’s neglect in Hurricane Katrina. He is the only candidate who on father’s day spoke about the responsibilities of being a father, especially in the African American community. Most importantly, he addressed racism in our society in his “A More Perfect Union” Speech in a way that no other presidential candidate or even president has ever addressed race.
One small note: 88% of the African American vote went to John Kerry in 2004, so African American community has supported the Democratic Party in large numbers before.
You and I watched different elections. I grant you that Obama never wanted the race card to be played but others in the Democratic party played it over and over again along with the MSM. Then again, this article never said Obama played the race card. It stated that the race card can never be played again because of the success of Obama.
Like I have said before, members of his party have played the race card (Congressman Murtha), just as members of the Republican party (California Republican Party handing out foodstamps with Obama’s face allong with fried chicken and kool aid), but not McCain personally. And I don’t think the race card should be played, but that does not mean racism in America is over. There are people in the south burning American flags over his election. Racism in this country is not over; far from it. Not only must we continue to address racism against Africans, but address how racism also affects Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, etc.
Is Obama not the one that said something like, “They’re going to try to scare you by saying my face doesn’t look like the rest of the faces on money”?
You don’t mention reverse racism. I was born and raised in the South. I don’t know too many white people who care about race or even bring it up, but I hear people from other races talk about it all the time. When I was in college, I would watch the news and people would get into fights about racism. I never understood why it was an issue until I moved to Chicago. I heard black people talk about being black ALL THE TIME. I couldn’t have cared less that they were black, white, brown, purple, or green, but I started hearing them reference there skin color so much that I started to get paranoid about whether or not they thought I was racist because I am white and it made me really uncomfortable to be around them. To be very clear, I was uncomfortable not because of their race, but because they dicussed it so frequently.
You did mention affirmative action… is that not a form of racism?
You’re right, I forgot that. I retract what I said. Obama DID use the race card.
As I said in my first comment, aside from offhand comments, he did not use the race card in the campaign. The crowd perceived it as a joke more than anything. The subsequent reporting blew it out of proportion. No one noticed when he had made similar comments before. His race was not a central part of his campaign. Like Mike Huckabee said, “As a Republican, I gotta tell ya, I am proud that our country is at a point where Barack Obama has gotten this nomination not because of his race or even in spite of it, but I think with indifference to it. We’re still a long way where we need to be as a country in terms of dealing with racism, but we have at least come far enough, and I’m glad I’ve lived long enough to see this moment.”
I said he did not get into college through affirmative action; he admitted this himself. I was showing how he worked hard to get where he is.
I really recommend you listen to his “A More Perfect Union” speech in its entirety then. He addresses reverse racism in it without actually mentioning the term. In it, he mentions the fact there is a way that black people talk when they are only black people around, just as there is a way white people talk when only white people are around. He mentions “the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America”. He has been critical of the black community just as much as he has talked about discrimination.
I think Condoleezza Rice said it best: “What I would like understood as a black American is that black Americans loved and had faith in this country even when this country didn’t love and have faith in them — and that’s our legacy”. This goes through the mind of African Americans and their struggles, with stories from their parents and grandparents about their struggles. And part of this legacy still lives today. If we don’t acknowledge and address the racism and discrimination in our society, then it will never go away.
Brilliant piece Tom…Absolutely brilliant…
Wow,are you seious??!! Brilliant piece?!!? Go ahead and feed yourself the idea that diversity is no longer needed and all races are ow on even playing fields..whatever it takes to get you to sleep at night. I had a well thought out diatbribe to refute the ridiculous notions expressed on this board, but I feel like common sense and morals would be lost on most of the people replying. So as you pay yourself on your hidden racist back, the real world has to deal with the ugliness.
Good luck with that. I might not be the oracle of delphi but I’m guessing that sharpton, et al will still enjoy the race baiting game.