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White America’s sad last stand
A celebration of the perceived demise of "white America" as he, a white law professor, and his leftist allies see it.[Salon] Donald Trump was born 70 years ago this month, at the very beginning of the baby boom. At that time, America was, in every sense, an unambiguously white country. First, in demographic terms, nearly 90 percent of the population was categorized as white. Thus endeth the "demographic part of this presentation. Next, et seq., the Marxist analysis. Groups that in the not-too-distant past had been considered only partially or imperfectly or not really white – such as Irish and German Catholics, Italians, and Jews – had by now been largely granted white status, as part of a melting pot ideology which claimed to transform a multi-ethnic population into a society in which race and ethnicity were subsumed into a single American identity.
I thought we were talking about race. But now, we're talking about ideology. What ideology, pray tell, is in play here? Second, the political, economic, and cultural dominance of white America was so taken for granted by white Americans that it was, as a social matter, invisible to them. At that time, whiteness in America was what sociologists call an “unmarked category.” It was an "unmarked category" because government did not keep track of ethnicity until the civil rights act. For example, if a white person had been shown a photograph of the Senate, it’s practically certain that he or she would simply not have noticed that it was made up exclusively of white people. (Nor would the observer have noticed that all these people happened to be men, but that’s a different topic.) Nothing I saw in the laws extant at the time prevent other minorities from running for Senate. The men who were elected to the Senate were out there to do one job: rob the rest of us blind.
In the Jim Crow south as well as the smug liberal north. Things weren't much better in the north than in the south. That country no longer exists: or rather it only continues to exist in the increasingly panicked imaginations of the sorts of white people who have – it still seems incredible when one puts it into words – made Donald Trump the Republican party’s presidential candidate. Panicked? Have you seen the anti-Trump riots? If anything the rise of Trump can be seen as a counter to a leftist racialist movement, which will be discarded once the left gets its eight year lease on the national pocketbook. On a personal note, I wouldn't vote for Trump if my life depended on it, but for the Red Queen. I personally am a 'molten lava' voter: I will swim through molten lava to vote against Hilarity... Today, barely three out of five Americans are non-Hispanic whites. In another two or three decades, “white” people, as traditionally defined, will make up less than half the population. White America is in the process of disappearing, and it’s no surprise that tens of millions of people who thought of this as their country are frightened by the thought that it isn’t any more. I fail to see, and I have yet to hear from Republicans I know in meat space about race. They are all to a man worried about the growth of government, and the unrelenting runaway power of those who are behind that growth. All this helps explain incidents such as Trump’s claim this week that a federal judge who has ruled against him in a lawsuit is a “Mexican,” even though the judge was born in Indiana. Clueless journalists treated this as yet another example of Trump’s apparently bottomless ignorance, when in fact it’s obviously a strategic choice on his part. Strategic choice because of another Affirmative Action jurist decides to press a civil suit. To Trump’s supporters, a person of Mexican ancestry is Mexican, rather than American, because Americans are white, and “Mexicans” aren’t. To the overt racists who make up Trump’s – and to a significant extent, the contemporary Republican party’s – electoral base, non-whites are at best Americans by courtesy or sufferance, because America has always been a white country. Again, I have yet to hear from the circles I move in anything about race. They are more concerned, as am I about the raw power of government. A few years ago, Trump discovered that there was an enormous untapped market, as he would think of it, for overt racism in mainstream American politics. This is why he laid the groundwork for his presidential run by constantly repeating paranoid nonsense about Barack Obama not really being an American. He was, as they say in the business schools, establishing his “brand.” I have never accept Obama as an American because he does not accept my beliefs in the Constitution.
The Democratic party is about subtle racism. Nah, the Democrats are not subtle about it at all...
Change your registration. I vote Republican, horrified as I am about a New York liberal running for president. Paul Campos is a Marxist, pro Hillary fluffer at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Posted by: badanov 2016-06-06 |
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