Chip on the shoulder of Resistance

There is a word press weblog euphemistically titled “resistracism”. I say euphemistically because it is not a blog about resisting racism, but spreading it. The writer features many articles that put down white people, and some of the comments posted by others, and published by this blogger, include statements of hatred towards white people, such as:

JCR Says:
May 15, 2007 at 10:12 am All us n***** need to stick together and give it to the man!

The following is the opening lines from one of resistance’s posts: http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/look-out/#more-814

You know that white bashing
Is what I like to do
And if you do not watch out
I will white-bash you.

In another, resistance says the media silences voices on racism and collectively blames it on white people:

Because clearly there is an agenda that supports privilege.

We’ve seen it before when the voices of people of color are suppressed. When the majority opinion is brayed forcefully in the media, and the dissenting voice is written off as radical. Or angry. Or bitter. Just those people playing the race card again.

Originally I stumbled across this website to here: http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/the-helplessness-of-white-people/#comment-2374

If you want to help spread racism and hatred against whites, this is the right site for you. I you are trying to understand racism as a whole, it’s still a good place to start. The article is a constant suspicion of white people no matter what they do–damned if they do; damned if they don’t. Whites are hated no matter what they do.

Here is a short excerpt of the article, and I recommend clicking on the URL for the whole thing, because it gets worse all the way to the end:

The helplessness of white people
Posted by resistance under privilege

Recently I attended a workshop about race and racism primarily attended by white people. And I was really struck by the expressions of helplessness with regard to dealing with racism: “We can’t do it by ourselves,” “We need people of color to help us,” “How can we make friends with people of color who can help us?” “We have no way of understanding race and racism.”

It was stunning to hear a bunch of well-educated people make so many statements about their inability to deal with the subject on their own. And it occurred to me that racism is still portrayed as the problem of people of color, to be solved by people of color. If white people are to work on anti-racism, we must carry them on our backs. Then we are expected to be grateful that they did any work at all. Yet this replicates long-held patterns of privileged behavior and denies primary responsibility.

This is often a problem with white parents with children of color who look to communities of color. Hey, if you weren’t involved in my community before, why do you think I should suddenly throw the door open wide and embrace you? The idea that you are welcome everywhere is one steeped in privilege….

I objected to resistance’s portrayal of white people and her or his attitude, pointing out the racism behind his or her article. I responded in the commentary, which was to be moderated:

Here, I’ll deal with racism if that’s what you want:

You have a mighty intense chip on your shoulder.

My criticism of White people in general is that they are entirely too trusting and take on far too much self blame for the behaviors and complaints of other races.

Did you know, sweety, that White people were also enslaved in America and still are around the world? Blacks were not the only slaves on this planet. Over a million Whites were enslaved by the Arabs, and White women are still kidnapped from Russia and Eastern Europe for sexual slavery, and most are taken into the Middle East–they are big business in Israel.

ALL of the Irish were enslaved–meaning that the 44 million Irish Americans are descendants of slaves. All of them. That is more descendants of White slavery than there are Black people living in America. Irish people who protested their enslavement were criminalized and sailed off to penal colonies in Australia and South Africa, never to see their families again. During the Potato Famine, one-third of the Irish were genocided by systematic starvation, and another one-third fled into exile. The Irish today are the remaining children of the survivors.

Thousands of other White people from throughout Europe were also slaves in America. Rape of slaves by White masters? Will you tell me how so many Black people in America also happen to have Irish genes???

White privilege?? You obviously have never been to Appalachia! White privilege is a bold-faced lie. The mostly White Appalachians have a much higher rate of poverty and unemployment than the rest of the country. They don’t know what privilege looks like up close. I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains, lived in poverty since babyhood, my father died before I was two, and I helped my mother grow vegetables for food that she canned in effort to make ends meet. She hand made over half of my clothes growing. Two years went by when she didn’t have enough money to buy me clothes.

White Privilege?? Who invented that terms? I recall seeing last April of 2007 where at the University of Colorado they had a weekend conference on White Privilege. Over half of about 15 sponsoring organizations were Jewish organization.

White Privilege? 59% of Bill Clinton’s administration and appointees were Jewish, even though their population is only 2.9%.

White Privilege? 25% of the student seats at Harvard University and 35% of the same at the Universtiy of Michighan are held by Jewish students even though their population is only 2.9%

White Privilege?? According to the website of the United States Department of Justice in the year 2005, in statistics of interracial rapes, over 37,000 White women were raped by Black men–this does not include gang rapes. The statistics of the reverse, of White men raping Black women?

ZERO.

Not one White man.

Line up many people of different races, all of equal knowledge and experience, for a job. White people, especially White men, are half as likely to get the job as Black people. Blacks are 12% of the US; Whites are 60%. You would think 60% of those who got the job would be White, and 12% would be Black if things were truly equal. Half as often as Black people means a Black person of equal skill by population ratio are 12 times as likely to get that job.

Every time Black people have any conflicts with people who are White the first theing they yell is RACISM. But when Channon Christiansen and Christopher Newsome, a White couple at a college in Tennessee were carjacked, raped, tortured, butchered, and murdered by five Black people last January people everywhere denied it was racism.

Gang violence against Whites is epidemic. In September 2007 three young Black men killed 12 year old Emily Elizabeth Haddock when she was home sick in Moore County North Carolina. Sounds privileged to me. Where were Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for her? Jackson admits to spitting in food about to be served to White people when he used to work in a South Carolina restaurant! I do believe that is called HATE and RACISM.

The Duke lacrosse team were certainly privileged–to have their names ruined by a lying Black prostitute and her White guilt carrying prosecuting attorney.

Stop pretending that all White people are slave masters. None of us are, and most Whites were not then. Many slave masters were Jewish, and many were Native American. Most of the people who captured Africans to be sold into slavery were other Africans–and they continue to be today. Most of the distribution was done by Jews. It was most certainly wrong that any White person ever bought slaves, but all races including your own did this to your ancestors. And you and I are no longer slaves today.

If I can pull myself up by the bootstraps out of poverty and not whine about what I don’t have or people didn’t give me, then I refuse to listen to anyone else whine either. Grow up and take some responsibility for YOURSELF.

Those people in your workshop were trying to be helpful. They carry “White guilt” for something they didn’t do. They want to be helpful because they are gullible and trusting. You don’t appreciate any of it because you are quite entitled.

AT LEAST THEY DIDN’T HAVE CHIPS ON THEIR SHOULDERS. And no White person put that chip on your shoulder–you did.

My comment was moderated–it was not published. It is an underwhelming and completely expected act of hypocrisy, given resistance’s complaint of the media’s banning of opinions that don’t uphold “white privilege”, and “the dissenting voice is written off as radical”. When you do the same thing to others what you complain is done to you, I don’t think you have a leg to stand on.

If one demands to be heard, they must begin with hearing. If one demands that racism stop, then they must stop being racist themselves.