Over the years there has been many thing I have been proud of in man’s achievement to overcome the difficultalties we face. It brings me great shame when I see an email as disgusting as the Proud to be White email.
For reference, below I have included a picture of the email as the text is so disgusting I will not publish it. Also included is a picture of an anti-racism advertisement from the UK.
Proud to be Email Chain Email
The Proud to be white email is the most disgusting email I have ever read. I’ll tell you why all of that is racist.
The presupposition that everyone is equal is inherently wrong when you look at the following:
First, the nation of the USA, for a long time, held the belief that Europeans were naturally superior to other nationalities and eventually; and when eugenics came along, claimed that black people specifically were a dying, inferior group of people. No credible scientific observations were made by these scientists and their racial bias always bled through. Like many other facets of society, the scientific field was looking for and often doctored evidence to show that African-Americans were naturally inferior to the Anglo-Saxon, which strengthened the legitimacy of segregation. Even when Jesse Owens won the gold medal, he was thoroughly tested because the scientists thought he had an extra muscle. Luckily we’ve evolved beyond the theory of inferiority, though we still have people thinking that they’re genetically equipped to be faster than whites.
The “Black” colleges in the USA still exist because of their historical properties and the need for them still exist to this day. In the climate of socio-economic slavery, it’s not uncommon for a black kid to lose all hope for his or her life in the community he or she’s in because of the never changing condition of the institutions there. It is the same with Indigenous Australians. Inner city schools continue falling apart and stay underfunded every day, drugs are becoming more and more prevalent, and even a lot of rappers are glorifying the life of the ghetto. Not a lot of black people can get into Yale or Harvard or even West Virginia University because of the school system they were in, plus the money isn’t there either. These “black” institutions provide black people an opportunity to succeed and become something other than a poor black person on welfare. All of the hardships and the cultural outlets that promote them lead straight to nihilism, as Dr. Cornel West frequently emphasises. In America where getting an education is expense outside the reach of most especially people who come from poor areas you need help. How is it fair that George Bush gets to go to any colleage he wanted while a much smarter person from a poorer family, suburb cannot?
The racial epithets black people use about white people are nothing more than retaliation to the word nigger. Nothing more and nothing less. White people have always shrugged that off or used it as an excuse to commit civil rights abuses, so white people have nothing to bitch about regarding that. Many black people don’t even use them, unless they encounter a white person not from the ghetto, who they perceive to be racist. My experience so far has been the people who call us the worst names by far are those whom we call friends.
The use of the terms African-American, etc. is a trend toward political correctness. It allows people to affirm their heritage, while embracing their American nationality. White people go with American mostly because they can’t spell Caucasian, which of course is the fault of the school system for this. Technically, we don’t need these terms; however, for the purposes of enforcing affirmative action, the terms are useful for seeing how quotas are being reached.
Most of everything else is absurd because the author is presupposing that every one’s equal. White supremacy still exists, although it’s forced underground. It exists in socio-economic structures. 80%, more or less, of black people live in inner cities. Most of the jobs that black people use to have were manufacturing jobs and this group of people haven’t been able to make the transition from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. Once these jobs were lost, it became a struggle to survive in a socio-economic climate that forced people to take multiple jobs to pay rent and sometimes even that wasn’t enough to keep the water or heating and cooling going. Bill Cosby often comments on the inadequate parenting, but he doesn’t realize that parents either are too busy working to pay for the home or they’re on drugs and they’re paying for their fix. The children cannot be expected to grow up to be model citizens in this climate, it’s impossible.
UK Racist Brain print advertisement
The social aspect of the socio-economic structure also is telling. Chris Rock puts this in a proper light, explaining that he lives in a gated community. His house costs millions of dollars. He has cars, he has a wife, kids. He has everything he needs. In this community, there are only 3 other black people – Mary J. Blige (top-level hip hop artist), Eddie Murphy (top-level comedian), and Jay-Z (top-level rap artist). Chris’s next door neighbor is a white dentist. He goes on to say that the respect that he gets is equal to that of a white dentist, which suggests that a black dentist “would have to invent the tooth” in order to be allowed in.
To answer the question about “why only whites can be racist”, they aren’t. The New Black Panther Party has dipped into the extremes of Black Nationalism on many occasions. Sean Hannity has run a 30 second clip of one of it’s intellectuals calling for a “white extermination”. This is a radical form of “black rage”, which is something Malcolm X brilliantly articulated when he was alive. The inadequacy of black leadership, which Dr. West has observed, contributes to this idea that things are equal between everyone when they clearly are not. And even when attention is drawn to something, the leaders are now not taken seriously. Jesse Jackson, for example, has been involved in sex scandals and such, so a disconnect between him and MLK now exists in the minds of white and black people. Rev. Sharpton also tends to be a small potatoes type of leader. He typically rehashes the same arguments for all cases. Protests, boycotts, and Black Nationalism now get you nowhere today.
Regarding the phrase “that’s why we have lost most of our rights in this country” and I am sure you don’t think your American, that’s just ridiculous. In America and in Australia the evening of the right has meant that “we” didn’t lose the right to free speech, to vote, to think, to express oneself, to prosper, to pursue perfection, none of them because of the Civil Rights activists. White people have NEVER lost their rights and they never will, by the result of other nationalities. The only group that would subvert the rights of white people in a nation that’s usually run by a white majority in the government would be a power-seeking group of people inside the government.
It sickens me that people could forward such an ugly email and thing that they are not a racist. This is 100% racism.
