The white revolution will not be noticed
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Yesterday, tens, possibly hundreds, of thousands of angry white Americans gathered in Washington, DC to show their Obama-hating, Glen Beck loving, tea bagging, patriotic selves and no one noticed. It’s not that no one noticed the protesters, but no one seemed to notice that the crowd was 99.9% white. At least the New York Times didn’t notice.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/us/politics/13protestweb.html?ref=todayspaper
If a hundred thousand Black or Latino Americans gathered in DC to say things like “We hope the President is afraid, very afraid” then the Times and other papers of record would be talking about a Race Revolution. But whiteness, as usual, gets to pass by as an unmarked race, just good ol’ Americans wearing silly Revolutionary War costumes and carrying (white successionist movement) yellow flags.
On a cloudy and cool day, the demonstrators came from all corners of the country, waving American flags and handwritten signs explaining the root of their frustrations. Their anger stretched well beyond the health care legislation moving through Congress, with shouts of support for gun rights, lower taxes and a smaller government…
Protesters came by bus, car and airplane, arriving here from Texas and Tennessee, New Mexico and New Hampshire, Ohio and Oregon…
Ruth Lobbs, 57, a schoolteacher from Jacksonville, Fla., said she flew to Washington on Saturday to protest how she believes the government has violated the Constitution. She said she did not vote for the president, adding that her anger has been building for years.
“It’s more than Obama — this isn’t a Republican or a Democratic issue,” Ms. Lobbs said as she held a yellow flag that declared, “Don’t Tread on Me.”
Sounds kinda cozy, right? Except that yellow flag with the Don’t Tread on Me is the Gadsden flag, used by armed militia around the country. And despite the sweet little ol’ school teacher/white militia supporter’s claim that this is not a Republican or Democratic issue, the white revolution is being funded and fueled by a fair number of Republican politicians.
Of course there were
sharp words of profane and political criticism were aimed at Mr. Obama and Congress.
But
many demonstrators expressed their views without a hint of rage. They said the size of the crowd illustrated that their views were shared by a broader audience.
Perhaps the Times might have mentioned that the broader audience is “white”? No, instead they quote Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) saying
This is not some kind of radical right-wing group. I just hope the Congress, the Senate and the president recognize that people are afraid of what’s going on.”
Hello, New York Times? This is Senator Jim DeNutcase who early on called on Republicans to use health care debates to “break Obama” and is a well-known tenther (these are the folks who think the 10th Amendment allows states to ignore federal mandates- so things like the Civil Rights Act cannot in fact be enforced).
What is it going to take for the mainstream media to start calling a spade a spade? The GOP and a variety of corporate interests have whipped up a racial revolution that is going to tear this country apart. The dissolution of the American Empire may be a good thing, but what’s coming after it will be scary, especially if you’re not white or don’t have ten assault weapons in your truck.
If the media doesn’t do its job and recognize a white revolution when it gathers in large numbers on their doorstep, then they will have the blood of patriots on their hands. Not the crazy white people running around screaming that Obama is Hitler, but the blood of real Americans who do not think that “guns and God” made this country great, but diversity and respect and a willingness to take care of one another when times are tough. It is surely these Americans who will suffer the consequences of the highly-armed wrath of the White Revolution.
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Some days it’s downright embarrassing to be in the privileged majority. I’ll be looking for some good YouTube coverage of racist comments that the speaker didn’t realize would sound racist … wallowing in people’s ignorance sometimes has a calming effect on me.
Maybe we should start renaming this group the Far Right and White movement. I wonder how these people would have reacted to armed Black Muslims showing up at a Bush rally.
Call it the Far White movement.
In response to another comment. See in context »As Tim Wise notes:
And they’re ignorant enough that they’d probably be flattered if we called them Amerikaners.
In response to another comment. See in context »Laurie,
I don’t know what the racial breakdown of the crowd was. I wasn’t there. Does it matter? If it was all black would it be more “important” to you? Maybe you should dissect their arguments, vs. attacking them due to their race. Isn’t that what the Civil Rights Movement was all about – getting us past race? Why does the left keep bringing it up, and beating everyone over the head with it? It makes people question if a post-racial society really is your true intent. I contend it may not be.
Whether you believe it or not, many of the people involved in these protests hate the GOP more than the Democrats. They view them as sell outs who lie about wanting smaller government and restrained spending. Many of these people really disliked Bush. Why the cardboard cutout, 2D, description? Does it make it easier for you to hate them then? Well, if you intent is to just hate a segment of society then by all means do so, but please change your subject heading to “Class Warfare Inflamer”.
Apparently the rights of a class only matter when it’s a class you identify with. I do agree with you on this, this may well come to a revolution. The people at the Tea Party protests are tired of 40 years of being called racists while having larger and larger chunks of their paychecks confiscated. I know you don’t see it that way, but since you feel confident enough to write a blog on class perhaps you can try to trade hats briefly. They just want government to leave them alone, and to quit trying to engineer society. They aren’t violent people, but they also aren’t going to allow endless growth of government and unbridled corruption indefinitely.
I honestly think some on the left won’t be happy until we are Mexico, or Zimbabwe or….I dunno. Hey, if that’s your goal, that’s your right, just know that the vast majority of Americans, of every color, find that idea repugnant and will fight fiercely to avoid it. I guess that makes us uneducated hicks to the progressive elite who know what’s best for us. How nice of them to think for us.
HAHAHA. You are hysterical. White revolution! LOL. You’re so stupid you can’t even see it’s just Americans fed up with intellectual idiots like you. Get over yourself. It doesn’t have a fucking thing to do with race.
The only people obsessed with race are idiots like you. I don’t care what color Obama is. He’s a fucking socialist and his policies will destroy this country. But hey, I don’t expect you to get that. You actually think we’re all just a bunch of racists who hate the black man… and dykish looking liberal women!
Haha, you sound cool as hell. We need to drink some beer and raise hell sometime.
In response to another comment. See in context »You are a complete, total nutcase. Not everything in this world is about race except to people like you. If a white person and a black person disagree to you it just has to be about race. What if two white people disagree? What is it about then.
White-on-white intellectual violence.
In response to another comment. See in context »I agree with you here on the invisibility of whiteness, growing out of the double-standard where brownness or blackness is notable but whiteness somehow neutral.