White Man Admits to Wide-Spread Racism Among Whites

Andrew M. Manis is associate professor of history at Macon State College in Georgia and wrote this for an editorial in the Macon Telegraph.

Andrew M. Manis: When Are WE Going to Get Over It?

For much of the last forty years, ever since America "fixed" its race problem in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, we white people have been impatient with African Americans who continued to blame race for their difficulties. Often we have heard whites ask, "When are African Americans finally going to get over it?

Now I want to ask:

"When are we White Americans going to get over our ridiculous obsession with skin color?
Recent reports that "Election Spurs Hundreds' of Race Threats, Crimes" should frighten and infuriate every one of us. Having grown up in "Birmingham" Alabama in the 1960s, I remember overhearing an avalanche of comments about what many white classmates and their parents wanted to do to John and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Eventually, as you may recall, in all three cases, someone decided to do more than "talk the talk."

Since our recent presidential election, to our eternal shame we are once again hearing the same reprehensible talk I remember from my boyhood.

We white people have controlled political life in the disunited colonies and United States for some 400 years on this continent.

Conservative whites have been in power 28 of the last 40 years. Even during the eight Clinton years, conservatives in Congress blocked most of his agenda and pulled him to the right. Yet never in that period did I read any headlines suggesting that anyone was calling for the assassinations of presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, or either of the Bushes. Criticize them, yes.

Call for their impeachment, perhaps. But there were no bounties on their heads. And even when someone did try to kill Ronald Reagan, the perpetrator was non-political mental case who wanted merely to impress Jody Foster.

But elect a liberal who happens to be Black and we're back in the sixties again. At this point in our history, we should be proud that we've proven what conservatives are always saying -- that in America anything is possible, EVEN electing a black man as president.

But instead we now hear that school children from Maine to California are talking about wanting to "assassinate Obama."

Fighting the urge to throw up, I can only ask, "How long?"

How long before we white people realize we can't make our nation, much less the whole world, look like us?

How long until we white people can - once and for all - get over this hell-conceived preoccupation with skin color?

How long until we white people get over the demonic conviction that white skin makes us superior?

How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites?

How long before we get over our expectations that we should be at the head of the line merely because of our white skin?

How long until we white people end our silence and call out our peers when they share the latest racist jokes in the privacy of our white-only conversations?

I believe in free speech, but how long until we white people start making racist loudmouths as socially uncomfortable as we do flag burners?

How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?

How long before we start "living out the true meaning" of our creeds, both civil and religious, that all men and women are created equal and that "red and yellow, black and white" all are precious in God's sight?

Until this past November 4, I didn't believe this country would ever elect an African American to the presidency. I still don't believe I'll live long enough to see us white people get over our racism problem.

But here's my three-point plan:

First, everyday that Barack Obama lives in the White House that Black Slaves Built, I'm going to pray that God (and the Secret Service) will protect him and his family from us white people.

Second, I'm going to report to the FBI any white person I overhear saying, in seriousness or in jest, anything of a threatening nature about President Obama.

Third, I'm going to pray to live long enough to see America surprise the world once again, when white people can "in spirit and in truth" sing of our damnable color prejudice,

"We HAVE overcome."
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It takes a Village to protect our President!!!

Joe Wilson, Card-carrying member of John BIrch Society and KKK

Joe Wilson was heckling the President of the United States of America! If that's not the most disrespectful act a GOP/Confederate/Republican Ass-Fucker could have done, I don't know what is?

Joe Wilson is as bad as that Iraqi who threw his shoes a Dumbass Dubya Bush... but for some reason no one in the White House is taking him to task. Thereby showing that the Democrats are a bunch of pussies.

Rahm Emanuel, so-called Mr. Nutcracker, asked for an apology from Joe Wilson... uh, hate to break it to you buddy, but you don't ask for an apology from a scoundrel like Wilson in the first place. What ever you get will be insincere, will be lacking any kind of humility and it let's him off the hook from getting attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked and then made the poster child of what is wrong the GOP/Republicans -- that over-weight Southern White Boys who back the Birther Movement.

Although what the media isn't saying about the Joe Wilson rebuke of the first Black President is -- just what is this childish man's mind state to make such a remark? It's plain and simple -- it's racism to Nth degree, and here's how and why. Joe Wilson is from South Carolina, so off the bat he's a Confederate who thinks the South Will Live Again, but also he must hold the greatest outrage over the fact that Barak Obama is President of the United States. Southerns over the age of 35, particularly those who have amassed power in the 80s and 90s, don't like niggers. Not one bit. They still think Black people are beneath the Whites, no matter what accomplishments or measure of intelligence, prestige, money or success the Black person has -- Niggers were our property only a 140 years ago, so I just don't see how they will ever been anything equal or better than us Aryans.



Joe Wilson's outburst was basically him saying, "boy, what kinda shit are ya spewin' ta yer betters?" I'm sure Wilson never refers to President Barak Obama as, "Mr. President," but probably always calls him, "Barak." Wilson just proved to me that adage that all Republicans aren't racists, but that all racists are Republicans! And mark my words, anyone who attempted to thwart President Bush's half-intelligible rhetoric would have been burned at the stake. I mean the Republican Party in ANY of its incarnations and formats didn't censure Wilson == and they fucking pricks for not doing so. Michael Steele, you were your Uncle Tom/Clarence Thomas mask with such aplomb!

Don't let the country be back on the Road of Prosperity because of the policies the Barak Obama put in place happen before the 2012 election... just it'll basically say, "America was saved by a Harvard-educated Black man! After a Yale educated White Man and his cronies stuck a hot poker up America's collective asses!"

Reverse Beatdown!

Birth of Fade Nigga Nation
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

This past week saw the "guilty" verdict handed down in Long Beach, CA in regards to a hate crime that occurred last Halloween in which at least 10 Black Youths beat THE FUCK OUT of three white girls (in their late teens/early 20s) -- and when I say beat down, I mean damn near massacring these babes and these niggas shouted: 'fucking whites! fucking whites" -- which immediately turned the attempted murder into a hate crime.

Skateboards and Timberlands were the weapons of choice, which lead to possible loss of eyesight, brokens ribs, arms and face bones.

Not to mention psychic scarring -- best believe these white chicks will think twice about even walking down the same sidewalk with a bunch of niggas!

Not pretty to say the least.

This event no doubt polarized the community in Long Beach... that sleepy town just south of Los Angeles that gave birth to Snoop Dogg and Cameron Diaz (who ironically were at the same high school at the same time), and doesn't crop up in the news -- at least the national news that much -- but there it was front and center.

Apparently, 9 out of 10 "Black Youths" were found guilty, but ironically they're only either facing time in the Juvenile Facilty or Probation!

For that kind of asswhipping?!?! I'm surprised they're not being hunted down and strung up by Aryans or by these Latino gangbangers that are looking to make a name for themselves by slaughter niggas in broad daylight.

Racial tensions erupt more and more in SoCal, because the economic situation continues to grow bleaker and bleaker, but people don't give a good fuck. Everyone is so concerned about their personal and familial struggles that they might be seeing that LA County is approaching the tipping point in terms it's ability to provided wages that aren't being eaten by inflation and extreme competiton that could provide extended prosperity for the bulk of the population.

Biggest issue facing SoCal is -- what does this part of the nation produce (that's in the urbanized zones) that couldn't be farmed out to India or Southeast Asia for pennies on the dollar in savings?

Not much... induststry is so threadbare compared to what it was in just late 80s, and yet 1000 people move to this city/county every fucking day.

Can anyone say, "Blade Runner?"

Brothers Gonna Work It Out!!!

I didn't know if this day would come before or after I had children, and I'm glad it's happened before -- what am I talking about? Well, we know that the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears are headed for a showdown in the SuperBowl, but is must remarkable is that no matter what happens A NIGGA IS GOING TO WALK AWAY WITH THE VINCE LOMBARDI TROPHY.

Yeah, that's right.
It's either Tony Dungy, who's been paying his dues since like forever, or Lovey Smith, who I'm sure has been paying his dues just as long, but not with the media spotlight that Dungy has had since Dungy's been a premiere NFL head coach for at leat 5 years.

After all those years of the Good Ole Boys claiming that Black men didn't have the mental capacity to be quarterbacks, let alone head coach in the NATIONAL Football League. Hats off to those Brothers.

You know the thing about it is Dungy and Smith are no doubt opening the doors for other minority head coaches, but I wonder if we'll see an Asian (any style - Indian, Chinese, Samoan) get on within the next decade or so (unless there already is one, I don't follow the pigskin gladiators all that much).

It's such a big thing though, because Black people -- particularly Black men -- have been systematically, institutionally and continually told that they don't have the "intelligence" to really kick it live in any era of so-called modern America. And yet here we are having two Brothas vie for the prize of all prizes, and in an era that is more complicated - technology-wise - than we've ever seen in pro football (in pro sports in general). That says something to me more than the fact that they are Black and are coaching, as there have been Black football coaches in college for quite sometime -- ever since all-Black colleges and universities suited up teams for the combat on the gridiron.

I wonder if Lombardi is spinning in his grave? I'm up on the fact if he kept niggas down or not, or even if he had niggas playing for the Packers (I doubt it though, too cold for Blacks to be up there anyway...)