Republicans, please. If you're going to insist on referring to Obama as "emperor," you might want to make mention of the fact that the most imperial thing about his potential presidency is the scope of executive power that Bush and Cheney are feverishly amassing for him.
It might not win you points with the dead-enders, but it will go a little ways toward making you sound less ridiculous. Assuming you're into that.
(I'll take my thanks in the form of all-caps blog comments.)
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
A Message To My White Brothers, Whatever Their Skin Color Or Racial Derivation
Jeff over at Protein Wisdom has written a series of posts under the heading "Provocateurism" that led me to a little thought that is, in some circles, needlessly, in my opinion, characterized as radical. Which is a lot of commas for such a small bit of text. That thought is that those concerned with American racial divisiveness and angst and sturm and drang and cetera need to come to grips with the question "why is it that white people who procreate with other races don't have white children?"
Yeah, from the mouths of babes, right? In other words, why are caucasian attributes considered to be so fragile that they can't survive exposure to non-caucasian attributes in the genetic mixing bowl? Why is white skin considered to be so adulterable, in a way that Asian, African, Latino, Pacific Islander, et al are not (in the U.S., generally, at least)?
Is it a function of the majority-white demographic hereabouts? And if so, when said demographic shifts significantly enough that whites are just one more minority among many, instead of being the overwhelming majority, will that attitude change? Will more "half-white" and "quarter-white" children start checking the "white" box on their census forms and thereby cause some sort of (purely academic) resurgence in American whiteness? And, in an hilarious development, would some of them develop so ferocious a racial identity that the white power movement would experience an heretofore unexpected diversification within its benighted ranks? Leading then to some sort of schism between the hard-line and moderate white supremacists, the latter being perhaps more concerned with dwindling subscription rates, and willing to accept adherents of any skin-tone or maxillofacial configuration so long as their ideology is correct?
Some questions, you see, just lead to more questions.
Yeah, from the mouths of babes, right? In other words, why are caucasian attributes considered to be so fragile that they can't survive exposure to non-caucasian attributes in the genetic mixing bowl? Why is white skin considered to be so adulterable, in a way that Asian, African, Latino, Pacific Islander, et al are not (in the U.S., generally, at least)?
Is it a function of the majority-white demographic hereabouts? And if so, when said demographic shifts significantly enough that whites are just one more minority among many, instead of being the overwhelming majority, will that attitude change? Will more "half-white" and "quarter-white" children start checking the "white" box on their census forms and thereby cause some sort of (purely academic) resurgence in American whiteness? And, in an hilarious development, would some of them develop so ferocious a racial identity that the white power movement would experience an heretofore unexpected diversification within its benighted ranks? Leading then to some sort of schism between the hard-line and moderate white supremacists, the latter being perhaps more concerned with dwindling subscription rates, and willing to accept adherents of any skin-tone or maxillofacial configuration so long as their ideology is correct?
Some questions, you see, just lead to more questions.
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