Another Awakening
By • 3/20/08Last summer, The Inverted World published America Awakes">America Awakes, which explored how the illegal immigration debate had altered Americans’ understanding of race. The sight of illegal aliens desecrating the flag during their teeming rallies, as well as the publicity given to Hispanic social dysfunction, caused whites to question the multiculturalist dogma that diversity was a strength. There were signs that whites were becoming racially conscious: that is, they were beginning to realize that they had a distinctive racial identity that was threatened by mass immigration.
It looks as though the Jeremiah Wright affair is having the same effect. The notoriously dispirited GOP base is suddenly showing signs of life again.
If Michelle Obama’s gaffe caused some ripples in the right-wing pond, the Wright videos have detonated the equivalent of a daisy cutter on the conservative landscape, awakening an otherwise dispirited party base.
“I usually get three or four emails a week on Obama,” said Michigan Republican chairman Saul Anuzis Monday. “Today I received more than 10, all of them on his minister.”
It seems that this presidential election will be similar to the last one. In 2004, what put Republicans over the top was not tax cuts or social security or even Iraq, but whites’ revulsion against slanders upon their race and nation. The Swift Boat Veterans publicized John Kerry’s baseless 1971 allegations before the Senate that American soldiers had committed atrocities against the Vietnamese because they “put a cheapness on the lives of Orientals.” We see again today that nothing riles the conservative base up like the stench of the “whites as cancer” myth.
The Wright affair has given the term “antiwhite” unprecedented currency. A search on this previously arcane term in Google News generates 225 hits. The newfound popularity of this concept is very important, as it inculcates in whites a sense that their race is under attack, which is an essential component of racial consciousness.
I believe Wright’s rantings will strengthen white racial consciousness in another way as well. While they revealed black culture’s hostility to whites, perhaps even more importantly, they also showed how deeply alien the values of black culture are to the American spirit. As I argued in What is the West? Part II, one of the key traits of Western culture is its respect for the truth. This respect is the source of our unique traditions of scientific discovery, self-criticism, and impartial justice. The sight of a black church, one of whose members was a US senator, going into ecstatic transports listening to Wright’s outrageous assertions seared on our brains how little blacks share our respect for truth.
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Also, Jeff Jacoby has pointed out Obama’s double standard in his judgments of Don Imus and Wright:
When Don Imus uttered his infamous slur on the radio last year, Obama cut him no slack. Imus should be fired, he said. “There’s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group.” When it came to Wright, however, he wasn’t nearly so categorical. Oh, he’s “like an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with,” Obama indulgently explained to one interviewer. He’s just “trying to be provocative,” he told another.” Far from severing his ties to Wright, Obama made him a member of his Religious Leadership Committee — a tie he finally cut only four days ago.
By on 3/20/08 at 7:30 pm
Do you favour the formation of a new political party in America?
Michael Savage has announced the formation of the Nationalist Party of America
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EHU1NY6HYiA
By on 3/20/08 at 8:15 pm
I’m not aware of any black pastor having repudiated Wright, and I’ve seen many who support everything he said on the infamous tape.
By on 3/20/08 at 9:08 pm
I’d vote for Michael Savage over any of the current choices, certainly. However, he does not seem to be a race realist.
By on 3/20/08 at 9:46 pm
Great news. Barack Obama is done. When this hits the MSM it will all be over for Obama:
Rev. Wright has reprinted a piece against Israel by Hamas, an internationally recognised terrorist organisation.
By on 3/20/08 at 9:49 pm
Larry Elder is a black commentator on Townhall.com who has written a book titled “Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card — and Lose.” I understand it is basically about just what Wright and company are doing. He seems to be one back man who gets the picture. There was also another black commentator on Townhall.com who is a preacher who took Obama and Wright to task. So, yes, there are a few who understand. The problem is it is just not many.
By on 3/20/08 at 10:04 pm
Thomas Sowell, another black commentator at Townhall.com says:
We don’t need a President of the United States who got to the White House by talking one way, voting a very different way in the Senate, and who for 20 years followed a man (Wright) whose words and deeds contradict Obama’s carefully crafted election year image.
Not exactly a severe reprimand - what’s ‘need’ got to do with the election of this particular candidate? Wouldn’t a sentence that said we don’t want such a man as president be more decisive? However, Sowell is clearly skeptical about the Obama phenomenon.
By on 3/21/08 at 7:51 am
Keith and Alex,
I know there are blacks like Larry Elder and Thomas Sowell who hold moderate views on race. However, none of them seem to become pastors. Moreover, all of them seem to be employed by white people. Moderate blacks wouldn’t stand a chance in a black majority society.
I know of no black commentator, however, who is capable of facing the reality of race. None of them has ever confronted the evidence for innate racial differences. Instead, they continue to cling to the illusion that racial social and economic equality is possible. Moderate blacks just choose a different scapegoat than the haters: they believe affirmative action and black resentment, rather than white racism, is holding blacks back.
By on 3/21/08 at 8:41 am
Black pastors are defending Jeremiah Wright according to this article.
Does anyone know of any black pastor who’s repudiated Wright?
By on 3/20/08 at 7:25 pm