Ron on race.
Damned dog woke me up W-A-Y too early inna a.m. today, like 0107 or somethin like that. Couldn’t get back to Z-land. Mind kept kickin stuff around on the front porch . . . white guilt, racism, reparations, AnTiFa, BLM, Beto, Bernie, Biden . . . bummer.
Now . . . I don’t have any overbearing sense of white pride or loyalty to my ethnicity. I believe that cultures, civilizations, nations, and philosophies swing back and forth like pendulums, rising and falling in time like ice ages, droughts, floods, and non-anthropogenic climate change.
I don’t necessarily consider Caucasians particularly superior physically or cerebrally to other groups, but I do believe that physiological and intellectual differences exist between the races, some quite simple and obvious, others more complex and subtle.
Azamatterafact, based on what I’ve observed in human behavior over the past coupla hundred years, east Asians seem to have the edge over all the rest where intellectual potential is concerned. Blacks are demonstrably more athletic, especially in America, and Euros are characteristically destructive by habit. Western Asians are inbred morons.
Naturally, part of the success of east Asians in the American educational system is cultural; students are under great pressure to do well in school to avoid shaming the family. Also, parents and siblings provide major support and direct involvement in making sure kids do homework and pay attention in class.
By the 3rd or 4th generations, however, many of those Asian traditions become diluted in the US, allowing kids to be just as lazy, ambivalent, and rebellious as their standard American white or black counterparts.
And that pendulum? Well, it’s swinging pretty hard these days back away from the zenith of white ascendancy toward the nadir of white oblivion. White people, especially older white males, are now being vilified as the source of all conflict and trouble on the planet.
White history is being edited, revised, rewritten, or simply erased. The Founding Fathers of the US are no longer revered but reviled as slaveholders and oppressors, despite the truth that the majority of white immigrants to America between the early 1600s and the late 1700s were slaves or indentured workers there to perform enforced labor or penal servitude.
The popular trend today is removal of monuments and replacement of white men’s faces from currency, usually with black or brown faces. Schools have been pressured to remove American flags and plaques featuring excerpts from the Bible or the Constitution because they offend or “trigger” minority groups, many of which have no legal status allowing them to even be IN the schools in the first place.
Eventually Washington’s face will disappear from the dollar bill just as Jackson’s is in the process of doing from the twenty in favor of Tubman. One day someone will launch a massive effort to rid the country of ALL public reminders of white slaveholders, even to taking down the Washington and Jefferson memorials.
Without going deeply into the history of white slavery in America (it’s still googleable), Britain in the 1600s followed the practice of ridding itself of beggars, criminals, prostitutes, street urchins, Catholics, and other troublemakers by shipping them to the American colonies as field muscle, serfs, and thralls for planters, lumber mills, fishing fleets, and other businesses. Most were treated just as badly, if not worse, as many black slaves in the South.
What troubles me most about what’s going on is not racial role reversal but evolutionary reversal. An educated brain behind a black or brown face would very likely run things just as well as a Clinton or a Nixon or a Bush . . . given that that brain weren’t contaminated by false and misleading claptrap in its formative years.
But to award trophies just for showing up, to discontinue all competition in school so as not to intimidate weaker or minority students, to flood the system with unsupportable numbers of non-citizens whose “rights” are better protected than those of legitimate tax-paying members of society, to create “safe spaces” where snowflakes don’t have to listen to conservative ideas . . . that’s creating a population of uninformed, uneducated, unproductive, unhappy, and unfit throwbacks.
Going to extremes in protecting the weak while discouraging the strong will eventually dilute the DNA to the point of reversing nature’s survival-of-the-fittest schema toward denial of the fittest in favor of the infirm, the incompetent, the imbalanced. Looks to me that libs are evolving into a new species – “most likely to self-destruct.”
Kids who exit high school with certificates alleging their having been at least exposed to fundamental skills and concepts but never having experienced loss or failure or even disappointment will slam hard and painfully into reality when they discover that the nature of real life IS competition, learning through mistakes in judgment, and sometimes being not the windshield but the bug.
It’s also very disturbing to turn on the TV and see black faces more than 50% of the time when blacks comprise barely more than 13% of the population. Agitprops complain when blacks don’t get enough roles in movies about medieval Europe, or don’t get nominated for as many Oscars as whites, or when cities require foto I.D. for voting . . . but nobody complains about having a no-whites-allowed Miss America contest or a congressional black caucus or sports leagues that are predominantly African, such as the NBA and NFL.
I’m tired of hearing Tlaib’s anti-semitism, Omar’s anti-Americanism, AOC’s anti-capitalism. Even a cursory look into their histories demonstrates immediately that they should never have been seated in the first place because their elections were basically purchased for them by PACs.
Racism is the last resort of political slander that just ain’t quite workin the way the troublemaker wants it to. And equal opportunity STILL does NOT guarantee equality of results.
Aahh, who cares. And somebody left a snap-lid container with brownies and lemon pound cake on the countertop.