American Whites: From God Complex to Aggrieved
Poor whitey. He’s feeling picked on and the Wall Street Journal agrees. This isn’t much of a surprise as we have watched the rise of the Tea Party in the face of the Great Kenyan Usurper. By 2000, White America feels that “anti-white bias to be a greater social problem than anti-black bias.” Oh geez. I guess we will just ignore that fact that income disparity between whites and blacks has quadrupled from 1984 to 2007. And when I look a the leadership teams of the companies I have worked for, the white man has always held a firm grip on the power. As Gregory Rodriguez writes:
This doesn’t bode well. When even the majority group sees itself in a struggle for status and respect, it erodes any notion of the collective good. Forget the melting pot or the salad bowl; the metaphor for how we balance diversity and unity is becoming the fighting cage.
Tags: Ignorance, racism, White America
What happens to a society when a large portion decides that there is no objective reality? What happens when the angry paranoid group-think of a protected class crowds out objective reality? I guess we’ll be finding out.
Also, too, everyone knows the most persecuted group ever in america has been, and always will be, white Christians.
Just ask one of them, they’ll tell you the same thing, with an angry straight face.
From my reading of US history, it has been a standard reaction among the American majority to blame minorities and immigrants for their economic woes. Of course, the powers that be would prefer that reaction to the American people locating the real source of their frustration: the system of vested interests that creates vast disparities of income and considerable need and struggle. It’s not surprising, therefore, to see an establishment rag like the WSJ fostering that reaction.
Did anyone click through to read the study? It is interesting that white people see bias as a constant in the world — when you decrease the amount of bias inflicted upon black people, that bias applies to white people. Black people just see bias as going away. The zero-sum view of bias is itself the reaction of power to some perceived threat to it. But then, the people with who are most concerned with white people having to live with bias are those with a high school education or some college. Those people who are precisely living with the most risk in the current crash.
These white people are, of course, batshit crazy and they are exactly the same people who think that breastfeeding women are incompetent. Seriously, trust me on this one.
And apparently there are some white people who never seem to be able to escape the bias directed their way — and that would be the Anti-Semitic Bias.
As a person of native American heritage, few things unhinge me more than the assertion of privilege by white “patriots” on the right who claim that this is “their” country. Which may help explain the depth of my political anger. The “Nottingham Lots” that William Penn granted to settlers near Newark (in Maryland), just like any other land you’re sitting on today in North America, were taken by force from indigenous people who had lived here for centuries.
From all I can see, the practice of white domination and privilege is fully alive and well today. From businesses built on the backs of the poor, to laws enriching the funeral industry, to restrictions on voting to the rationing of healthcare based on personal wealth, the pattern of the white rich getting richer while others suffer is the story of our lives.
In the novel Coming of the Storm, Michael and Kathleen Gear fictionalize American Indian resistance to the murderous de Soto in the mid-1500s. In describing the white invaders, a character named Blood Thorn says, “They are maggot men without honor, and their given word is no more sacred than dog shit.”
Blood Thorn might say the same thing about the wrecking crew in charge of the North Carolina General Assembly today. I certainly would.
Lifted from a post at BlueNC
http://bluenc.com/death-taxes-and-coming-storm#ixzz1NyV39vJZ
Oh wait…who owns the WSJ these days?
crap, I was going to write more, but I think Palin is having dinner with Trump! I have to run now and see what this is all about!
The US has 5% of the worlds population’
The US has 25% of the Worlds prisoners
Of those prisoners 70% are non-white
I can really see where us white guys are getting screwed!
“Twenty years after an Irishman couldn’t get a fuckin’ job we had the Presidency, may he rest in peace. That’s what the n—–s don’t realize. If there’s one thing I have against the black chappies it’s this: No one gives it to you, you have to TAKE IT.”
– from the monologue exordium to “The Departed”
so classy. Delbert, do you live your whole life on sayings from movie villains?
More to the point, Del, remember the phrase “consider the source.” When Gordon Gekko, in Oliver Stone’s original “Wall Street,” says, “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” Oliver Stone is not endorsing that idea. Same with your quote.
shhh don’t tell him that. you’ll ruin his teabaggy life outlook.
Rather disgusting response from just another teatard who masterbates to Red Dawn, Rocky IV, Birth of a Nation, etc…
I didn’t know the Irish were brought over here in chains and subsequently labeled by the government as being “less than human” – 3/5ths, or something like that.
No, the Irish weren’t brought over in chains, they were starved out of their own country by the British. And it took a little longer than 20 yrs to go from “Irish Catholics need not apply” signs to the Presidency.
Slavery should not be the metric. Even after slavery ended, blacks were still treated like crap. As were the native americans, and every immigrant group who came here.
Immigrant suffering does not equate with slavery, but suffering did occur nonetheless.
Certainly agree with your last point.
I’ll draw the line where govt makes laws specifically to disenfranchise a particular group. Takes more than the presidency to help those who are still digging out of the hole we placed their grandparents in, and some today wish that hole was quite deeper.