By Ian Jobling • 4/25/08
I haven’t gotten any activism suggestions since last month, and this makes my job considerably harder. I’ve acted on two of the suggestions I’ve gotten: the e-mail campaign to defund the National Council of La Raza and the protest of the History Channel’s King documentary. Both of those proved quite popular. You can always submit ideas for activism through the activism suggestions page. There’s a link to it in the right sidebar of the Inverted World homepage.
One idea for activism would be to protest leukophobic TV shows and commercials. An example is Washington Mutual’s obnoxious ad campaign that contrasted a hip young black man’s “power to the people” banking ideas with the greed of stodgy old white bankers. A man named Christopher Lease, whom I don’t know, wrote a petition protesting these commercials on the grounds that they were “appalling and degrading towards myself and every white man… in the financial industry.” He actually got an apology from Washington Mutual.
Protests like this have a lot of potential. However, I’m not in a good position to gather material for them, because I don’t watch network TV, and I fast-forward through all commercials now that I’ve got a DVR. So I’d need your help with that.
Another good target for protests would be diversity training. I was thrilled to read yesterday about this protest against a “white privilege” workshop at a diversity forum. The protest actually managed to scare off the professor who was supposed to lead it.
Just imagine if every time a corporation tried to force diversity training on its employees, it received a hundred or a thousand e-mails threatening a boycott. We’re a long way from that, but there’s no reason why it couldn’t be done. So if your employer ever forces you to listen to someone’s noxious lies about white privilege or the joys of diversity, you could send us a tip, and we could let him know what the white majority thinks.
I like the way the e-mail campaigns have been going, and apparently, so do race realists in general: the campaigns have resulted in an increase in traffic to this site. According to the polls I’ve conducted, there are about 30 people now acting on Inverted World action alerts. So please help me wage the most effective protests possible by sending me ideas.