Thursday, July 13: This post is old news. Read the latest.
Tuesday, July 5: A belated “Happy Independence Day” to all the left-leaning (and sometimes vulgar) bloggers linking to this wonderfully controversial post! From the bottom of my heart, I thank you for all the links, which have caused this blog to rise in the TTLB Ecosystem (#22 out of 50,000+ registered blogs ain’t bad!).
And the traffic meter is looking good, too. I’m touched. Really. If this post has your knickers in a wad, you should read some of my earlier stuff (est. November 2003). Grab a feed, sign up for e-mail updates, and keep checking LBC because controversy is my life. 
Update II (7/4): A sharp and well-meaning commenter wants to make sure I’m not sued for libel, so here’s a correction: I wrote that the NAACP gave out awards to pedophiles, plural. That’s not true. The dinosaur nominated a pedophile, singular, for an Image Award, but the pedophile didn’t win the award. Sorry for the confusion.
Update: You should see the kind of trolls trying to get through the spam filter. It is unfitting for a black person to write about such things, they imply (with the usual name-calling)…which only encourages me. When racial double standards are dismantled (as well as archaic ideas about what blacks should or shouldn’t write) I’ll change the subject. (Tip: If you can refrain from ad hominem, I’ll approve your comments.)
What do you think is motivating black liberals’ animosity toward me? Could it have something to do with “racial pride?” Do they consider me a “race traitor” because I seem to lack racial pride? I say that blacks can succeed without skin color preferences; they say otherwise. But I am the traitor, the one who lacks pride in my race? If that’s how their mental processes work, perhaps they’re right and I’m wrong. 
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Stop the presses! Jewish World Review columnist Julia Gorin defends white racialists, tongue-in-cheek, in her latest column, Razablanca.
And I agree with her wholeheartedly.
Gorin wonders why we stigmatize white racialists but embrace hispanic racialists like La Raza, which means The Race. She writes:
Among the chants that can be heard as people march for lawlessness is “La Raza unida nunca sera vencida!” or “A united [Hispanic] race will never be defeated!” The Race openly declares its intentions to “reconquer” the American Southwest, demands that illegals be allowed to get drivers’ licenses and free in-state tuition and health care, that state agencies and ballots be bilingual, and that the post-9/11 immigration laws be rolled back so that more illegals and terrorists can get in. The Race has been courted by both Democratic and Republican politicians…
Gorin proposes what I’m sure generated a lot of irate e-mail: If we can reach out and “dialogue” with Muslims who want us to convert or die (or hispanics who want to “conquer” us), why can’t we do the same with white racialists, who at least want to preserve the country? And why are hispanic and black racialist groups courted, while white groups are ostracized? Why, in other words, the double standard?
As you know, I hate racial double standards. Since I am black, I typically focus on blacks. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, I think it’s instinctual. To varying degrees, we’re all concerned about what happens to our families first, our racial group second, maybe other followers of our faith third, and the nation fourth. But I despise institutionalized lowered standards for blacks, and I’m embarrassed that blacks fight to maintain them. There’s certainly no “black pride” in doing that.
So why are white racialists vilified? That’s easy. Because whites are seen as historically powerful oppressors. Even when their colonialism and missionary work actually improved living conditions of the conquered and the heathen, they were and are still evil in the eyes of many. They are guilty as charged forever and have no moral authority to be proud of who they are, at least not in public.
One double standard example: The anger vented against 13-year-old Lynx and Lamb Gaede of the singing group Prussian Blue, who openly express “white pride,” but not against 7-year-old Autum Ashante’ (or her father), a “black nationalist” poet. A few months ago Michelle Malkin wrote a column about her. The child made the news recently because of performances at government middle and high schools in Peekskill, NY. Michelle quoted some of the “poetry.” What do you think?
Before reciting the “Black Child’s Pledge,” Ashante’ asked white students to remain seated. In a tax-subsidized school. If expressing white pride is hateful, so is the drivel that comes out of that child’s mouth. Incidentally, she and her father are members of the Nation of Islam.
Here’s why I think double standards will always exist. Blacks and other minorities are held to different standards because people believe they are less intelligent and can’t help themselves. For the most part, their racialist antics are clownish and don’t pose a threat. Agree or disagree?
Black and hispanic pride is all the rage. In fact, a black person runs a good chance of being called a self-hater if he doesn’t express pride in his race. But not a white man. Imagine the rioting and protests that would ensue if white pride went mainstream: Congressional White Caucus, National Association for the Advancement of White People, White Entertainment Television…
Blacks who don’t agree with this post will say, “But whites have always dominated America, so they never needed groups with ‘White’ as part of the name. It was understood that whites looked out for their own interests at the expense of blacks. So-called black pride is not the same as white pride. Blacks wanted their fair share, which was denied them all these years. Blacks needed to be proud of who they were after being told they were inferior for centuries.”
Am I close?
Such a response is legitimate, but the time has passed. Reconstruction is over. We should all be held to the same standards, and if not, get rid of the standards. If white racialism is evil, so is black, hispanic, Asian — whatever — racialism.
I blogged about La Raza a couple of years ago. Our own Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, is or was a board member of La Raza. In Top Cop Nominee Is Member of Racialist Group, I wrote:
Some say that La Raza is just another civil rights group like the NAACP, but an argument can be made that those organizations are also separatist. Here’s the hypocrisy: when whites do it, it’s called racist. When “minorities†do it, it’s called cultural awareness, improving opportunities or some such euphemism.
What’s the difference between La Raza and, let’s say…Council of Conservative Citizens (C of CC)? La Raza claims to “speak out†for Hispanics; the Council of Conservative Citizens, for white “European-Americans.†But one group is considered a hate group. Can you guess which one? Are only whites racists?
For the most part, we have freedom of association in America. Any racial group can get together formally or informally and advocate what they believe is best for their race, but black and hispanic racialists can go mainstream. In fact, they are courted and pandered to. Politicians listen to what they have to say. But groups like C of CC are ostracized and stigmatized.
Speaking of ostracized, a couple of months ago I wrote a post called The Weakening West. Surprisingly, I didn’t get any hate mail. I got responses from well-meaning readers who suggested that I shouldn’t have linked to a particular blog. Although I said I agreed with the post I linked to, some assumed I agreed with all the blogger’s views. I was simply agreeing that whites should be allowed to think and express racialist ideas without being cast as evil for doing so. I wonder if those same people would have written had I linked to a “black pride” site?
If defending and advocating for your race is a bad thing, it should be bad across the board. Disband the congressional black and hispanic caucuses. Shutter the NAACP, which has become nothing more than a clique of partying elitists who give out awards to pedophiles. Why are racial minorities allowed to honor their race, while whites are not? Why is there a stigma against being proud of your white skin, but not black or brown skin?
For me, anybody who loves America and is proud to be an American is on “my side,” even if they think I belong in Africa. It ain’t happening. I’m here to stay. But I don’t resent people who think that way. I resent people who want to destroy what took millennia to build (western civilization) and degrade that wonderful experiment called America, even if they claim to love me.
If you hate America, you hate me. If you want to destroy America, you want to destroy me. Self-preservation is a powerful motivator.
Addendum: Check out Peter Kirsanow’s series on affirmative action:
