The Racial Question: Liberals vs Archie Bunker Liberals and other 'sophisticated' folk have long regarded those who promote white racial consciousness as ignorant and prejudiced -- 'not smart enuf to think their way out of a paper bag', as one wit put it. Instead, liberals have supposed that such people have been brought up in a parochial Southern backwater which nurtures a milieu of hatred that keeps them from seeing that blacks, Jews and other 'outsiders' are merely their brothers under the skin, and that 'there is only one race, the human race'. In truth, however, the liberals have gotten things exactly backward. The ugly reality is that, unlike the generally-well-off liberals, the 'hicks, 'rednecks', 'Archie Bunkers' and other white members of the lower economic class do not have the financial wherewithal to move from the urban ghetto to the tree-lined glades and gated communities of the 'good' neighborhoods once their own area begins to darken. The result is that those whom liberals call ignorant and prejudiced are merely those who have received instruction in racial differences by living cheek-to-jowl with the darker denizens of the multicultural nightmare; and when such people obtain a PhD in the College of Hard Racial Knocks, as they invariably do, they are unlikely to embrace a coat-and-tie approach to the problems that were once regularly handled with a rope and ladder. What is even more important, however, is that while the rest of us may congratulate ourselves on how 'unprejudiced' we are and how uncompromisingly we reject 'hate', the approach to the Racial Question by the unsophisticated lower-class white -- crude as it may be -- is far better grounded in fact and reason than the liberal foolishness to which we have been subjected for the last half century. The Archie Bunkers of our world may be an easy target for Hollywood comedy and the documentaries of Morris Dees & Co, but such 'ignorant and prejudiced' whites at least know what liberals will continue to deny until they are forced 'up against the wall, mother fucker', namely, the difference between Black and White.
Poster Comment:
I'm becoming more and more comfortable returning to the political definitions of the right and left. Sure there is an elite that doesn't care about either side of the equation, but we need to tailor our message to the new folks who are about to get a dose of reality. Once they land on their feet, their education can progress further.