Kindly Uncle Nitnorth's Rant du Visite

>http://www.issues-views.com/TheRightofWhitestoOrganize.sht
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>Have you seen this? What did you think of it?

I think a lot of things.  First, I think that Issues & Views
is one of my favorite things anywhere:  a conservative black
magazine aimed at the black community.  That site was a good
education to me on how the black/white division came to be
what it is in this country since 1865.  It was also my first
exposure to Larry Elder, the Los Angeles commentator.

Then, I think that fashions come and go.  Right now, the fashion
is that preaching black factionalism is fashionable, but preaching
white factionalism is racist.  The same applies to quotas and
set-asides.

( One quote from a list that came across a humor list recently:
  You might be a Liberal if: ...You believe that standardized
  tests are racist, but that racial quotas and set-asides aren't. )

Then, I see this, in the quote from Jared Taylor on that page:

        Whites are cheerfully exhorted to "celebrate diversity,"
        but this is only asking them to celebrate their dwindling
        numbers and influence. Only a people bent on suicide would
        do this. Non-white organizations and the populations of
        non-white countries could never be browbeaten into
        welcoming their own displacement.

That's the true heart of the issue, and the thing that makes
the "liberals" correct in their condemnation of that attitude.
Unfortunately, that correct condemnation works the same way for
those who are trying to develop black, or Hispanic, or whichever
other factionalism.  If whites are wrong to feel that way, then
so is everyone else.

It's an attitude based on lots of unexamined, or at least unstated,
assumptions.  Whites have power and want to keep it.  The other
groups don't have power and want to get it.  The problem is that
each group wants to it to the exclusion of the other groups; none
of them believe it can or should be shared.  To forego any of that
power is to "lose" one's racial/cultural "identity".

Assumption: the culture my ancestors had is the one I and "my
people" should have.  It is the best for me and those who have
the same ethnicity I do.  There can be no better culture for me.

Assumption:  only one race's cultural identity can be preeminent
in one place at one time.  If it isn't mine, it will be someone
else's.  A synthesis of cultural identities, or creation of an
identity divergent from everyone's, is unthinkable.

Assumption:  if anyone else "wins" this battle, I lose.  There
is no solution where no one loses.

It's a different flavor of the same battle that insurgent groups
wage in small countries around the world.  No one fights to spread
the power structure; they all fight to replace it.  The old power
structure is bad (unstated: "because we don't have any of it"), so
we should usurp it.

Conversely, those in power fight to prevent that replacement.  The
revolutionaries are bad (unstated: "because if they win, they'll
treat us the same way we've been treating them"), so we must stop
them.

That's true in Nicaragua and in South Africa, and it's true here.
People who don't believe that are deluding themselves about human
nature, and are blind to history.

( There's more.  This is just where I stopped trying to fit words
  around it.  Point of ramble:  no one wants compromise, because
  no one wants to "lose".  It's exactly like siblings arguing
  passionately about $5k in a $2.5M estate:  don't even think
  about trying to take away any of my beans.  I haven't thought
  too hard about why I want them, or what I'm going to do with
  them, but they're mine and you can't have any of them, because
  if you do there won't be enough left for me.  Justification for
  that attitude?  None, except fear.  But fear is justification
  enough for lots of atrocities. )

                        -- Elton



[and further...]

Here you are, from :

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping
 the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before
 the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of
 their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising
 their wrongs--partly because they want sympathy, and partly because
 it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his
 grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."

 -- Booker T. Washington

Mr. Jackson, Mr. Farrakhan, are you listening?

                        -- Elton

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