Tuesday 18 January 2011

HABITS OF WHITENESS:
A Pragmatist Reconstruction
(2009)

RATING: 40%



One starts to wonder if these books are being written for their White author to get on the good side of Blacks in case the racewar does not go the way Whites would prefer. the naivety of such texts makes one believe the White authors are hedging their bets against being killed by vindictive Blacks as a cynic would profess belief in God not out if faith but just in case. for to fully understand White supremacism always leads to Whites accepting the existence of Black anger, resentment and rage at the centuries of Christian-led injustice heaped upon their heads for the sin of being a son of Ham. These thoughts have Whites quaking in their boots and produces mediocre work such as this in ineffectual response. Trying to appease and placate Blacks in this way is just more of the same White supremacist condescension that the book pretends to be against.

The book analyzes the central conceit of contemporary White supremacism: That Whites are not racist while Blacks are simply paranoid. That this is a White supremacist thought allegedly evades notice of the White supremacists who make it explains why White supremacism is an intractable problem for Whites because their culture is based upon it and would thus collapse without it. The fear of this collapse and the White lack of a replacement only produces more overt White supremacism to shore-up the more covert supremacism.

The book correctly assesses Whites lack of a true community, genuine empathy and cultural fullness through a millennial policy of excluding most of homo sapiens from the concept human. the remaining self-styled humans must then live with the perpetual fear of being expelled from the false community of Whites supremacists for being race-traitors for speaking-out against this - like those in a declining industry anxious about who is the next to be down-sized. Whites see anti-racism as a loss for themselves and a breaking of the deal with the devil they have made that traded cultural richness for material comforts.

Books like this are designed to avoid open racewar and civil unrest but their naive assumptions make this impossible. making Whites see sense on t if these issues has never worked in the past and theory of the unconscious racist is a myth perpetuated by those seeking to evade moral responsibility for their own thoughts, words and deeds - like the rapist trying to plead insanity to avoid jail. in reality White supremacists are quite clear in their own minds about their fear of Blacks and their attempts to pretend otherwise are mere reflections of this fact; hence, the need for the pretense in the first place. No-one, after all, needs to pretend to be something they are not if they are not - it should be self-evident.

As Whites themselves say when confronted by leopards who claim to have changed their spots: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." Blacks clearly need to proceed with caution when Whites like the author of this book want a discussion on race for when Whites continue to say one thing while still doing the opposite there is still great danger there. Comparable experience with criminal recidivists in the Western world does not give great cause for hope. The issue here is deliberate self-deception which the utterly fails to address. This all comes across as just another new year's resolution that will soon be forgotten about and the old behavior patterns restored.

The essential point of this book is that White supremacism is the bloody product of the materialistic nature of White Christendom and is (& was) designed to line the pockets of Whites at the expense of non-Whites. It is purely historical since it lacks a biological referent. In western culture this began some 500 years ago and still continues today unabated because the coonceot inevitably forces White supremacists into an intellectual corner. It becomes necessary to create a cultural void resulting from the inevitable loss of any real sense of humanity that racism entails. The only means of filling such a void is with the very concept that created it: White supremacism. this explains the longevity of institutionalized racism and the attendant guilt and shame of White supremacists - as well as the sense of entitlement to unearned White privileges that all White supremacists have and that all Whites receive allied to the exculpatory belief that racism is no longer a problem that White need address. The book contains the bizarre idea that Whites are unaware of these supremacist privileges even though it admits that books such as the present one are angrily condemned by White supremacists. Yet if White privilege does not exist, then why do Whites respond so angrily to the claim that it does?


Copyright © 2011 Frank TALKER. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute it in any format; provided that mention of the author’s Weblog (http://franktalker5.blogspot.com/) is included: E-mail notification requested. All other rights reserved.

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