When White Is Called Black, Anything Goes… And Rationality Is the First Thing to Go.

Races, racism, and the way to describe them: “black”, “negro”, “colored”, “red skin”, “whites”, are all US racist constructs. So is the “one drop rule” behind it all. To use them is to become oneself racist, just as using Nazi semantics about Aryans, non-Aryans, Jews, half-breeds to talk “races” without decrying them stridently, is to become oneself somewhat of a Nazi. This is the first paradox of all too much vociferously noisy antiracism, as it presently stand: it is itself racist. 

Excess brings its own destruction: Nazism, for example, by going insane into its “defense” of the white German “race” helped bring its own replacement by what it had proclaimed to detest (ten million white Germans died in WW2, and often the most “Aryan” of them all, thanks to Hitler and company… and those ten million have been more than replaced by millions of… colored immigrants; so the white race obsession of the Nazis brought a considerable darkening of average German skin color, the exact opposite of what they wanted!)

Using skin color to classify people, whether they have it, or not, is beyond the pale. It’s an outrageous social construct based on a discrimination which literally paints “black”, in the racists’ mind eyes, people whose characteristic is to have a drop of recent Sub Saharan African genetics. That “one drop rule” is straight racism of the most outrageous type, because that one drop is supposed to make people into a different “race”… thus affirming the purity of the “white race”… which becomes, by definition the one untouched by that (apparently infinitely) black drop of recent African genetics.  

Col. Hans Christian Heg, who immigrated to the United States from Norway, became a newspaper editor and an outspoken member of the anti-slavery Free Soil Party. When the Civil War broke out, he was chosen to lead a regiment from Wisconsin.
The statue of Heg, an anti-slavery activist who fought and died for the Union during the U.S. Civil War, was decapitated and thrown into a Madison lake. Mob rule has no rule but blind rage.

Right now it’s trendy among “whites” to embrace “Black”. Talk is cheap, embrace not too intimate with all the COVID around. Wishful talk will not change the reality of tax and power structures which determine who rules. 

Racism is, fundamentally, a denial of reality, and, first of all, the reality of the one and only human race. Calling “Black” individuals whose skin is not even black is a blatant way to deny the importance of reality, in this case, paradoxically, the reality of color as wavelength, and brandishing the importance of racial prejudice, and making it sacrosanct. The more the obsession with “Black”, the less the grasp on reality.

The less the grasp on reality, the more one is ready to confuse “millions” and “thousands” (as Joe Biden is prone to do). We have seen that movie before: in the Fourth Century, Roman emperors imposed “Orthodox Catholicism”… and reality became a distant memory, submerged by barbarian invasions, and the love of getting slapped on the other cheek.

Patrice Ayme