Fearful of “rebranding” racism in a “post racial” America.
by Devona Walker, right (Contact)
In post-race America, life can get confusing. Fox News anchor GlennBeck, of all people, calls President Barack Obama a racist. Teabaggersare contemplating whether they should mimmick Black Americans andembrace the term much like Blacks have embraced the N-word. And thebelow anti-health care ad is running in the largely black WashingtonD.C. media area (link)
Racism, much like laundry detergents, is ripe for rebranding,repackaging, and re-entry into the mainstream. In fact, it works sowell that Jared Taylor, the founder of the white supremacist websiteAmerican Renaissance, was recently booked to debate immigration at aMidwestern college. The kids in charge of the speakers series invitedan immigration lawyer to present the liberal stance and Taylorrepresent the conservative stance.
“Undoubtedly the greatest threat to whites today comes fromimmigration. Racial preferences, guilt-mongering, anti-Westerneducation, even anti-white violence are manageable problems compared toa process that is displacing whites and reducing them to a minority,”said Taylor. “With a change in thinking at the right levels, anti-whitepolicies and double standards could be done away with practicallyovernight, but that would still leave us with nearly 100 millionnon-whites living in the country.”
The college speaking tour was fairly recent. But it’s not the firsttime Taylor, one of the most vocal advocates of white supremacydoctrine, has reared his head in the mainstream.
Under the guise of being a race relations expert, he was bookedrepeatedly on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday by radio host who wereunaware what he really was. Early that morning, he started at aColumbus, Ohio radio station. Within two hours, he was at another radiostation in Orlando. An hour later, he was Huntingdon, W.VA. Each time,he was introduced as a race relations expert. Duringeach presentation, he never once called King the N-word, instead herepeated the notion that King was a philanderer, a plagiarist and adrinker, that King’s legacy was racial division and resentment. And dueto those reasons, he was not worthy of a national holiday.
Taylor, a Yale graduate, fluent in three languages, has no use forwhite sheets or para-military uniforms. He preaches racism throughacademia, pseudoscientific theories, genetic imprints and deliberatelyassassinating the character of any black person that ascends togreatness.
It’s not racism, it’s racialism, get it. He is not anti-Black,Latino, Jew or Gay, but pro-white Christian Americans concerned “theircountry” is heading in the wrong direction, worried about the rampantimportation of poverty and crime via Mexico and South America,bewildered by crime and the apparent lack of morality in urbancommunities.
These folks have even adopted the grievance dynamic that minoritiesare more typically blamed for. They, in recruiting, say they are underseige. They are in danger. Their lives, way of living, daughters, andproperty are all at risk.
It’s very clever marketing and I fear will continue to be effectiveat needling its way into the dialogue of race, class and gender. Histactics are clearly already being mimmicked in the mainstream media andpolitical discourse.
“Anyone who departs from racial orthodoxy will at some point have tocontend with the charge of “racism.” “That’s a racist statement,” youropponent will say, in a tone that suggests he has just dropped anuclear bomb, and for timid people — about 95 percent of whites — thatends the argument,” Taylor wrote in teaching other racists how to argueeloquently and deflect the racist label. “(It) is actually an advantagefor us, because the people who make it have probably never seen itfail. You therefore have an opportunity to shock them by walking awayfrom ground zero without a scratch. If you are in a radio debate, orsome other forum in which you need to save time, deflect the “racism”charge in a light-hearted way by saying, “Come on, say somethingoriginal.” No one ever expects that reply, and during the surprisedpause that follows you can make a positive rather than defensiveargument.”
It’s always good to know what your enemies are up to.