Tim Wise: Nice try. Dog won’t hunt this time!
Re: *Racism, Right-Wing Rage and the Politics of White Nostalgia
by tim wise
The dog is having a difficult time. This diary by tim wise has angered me due to the fact I think it is one more attempt to make us Blacks the scapegoat of the financial woes of this country. He knows damn well it was the neocons on Wall Street that caused this country to go into the economic free-fall it is presently experiencing.
From Truman to Clinton, it is my understanding healthcare reforms has been on the agenda and failed. It did not fail all those times because people thought it was reparations for Blacks or it would benefit Blacks more than it would whites with a few more inconsistencies as Mr. Wise writes in his diary. At this time, I am seeing only whites on TV talking about how things are bad for them with no health insurance. In no way have I seen a massive lineup of Blacks articulating these issues.
In my opinion, Mr. Wise has taken the course so many have taken in the past, “Never mind what we whites are doing. Never mind what we have done. Look at the niggers!”
Paul “After America” Starokin recently wrote regarding how American empires were built, “The prevailing practice in the most dynamic industries of this was not the rule of law, but the rule of cliques of ‘robber barons’ along with smaller-time operators who manipulated the law to their own selfish ends with impunity.” In my interpretation, Wall Street steals the money from our treasury, crippling our country and small time corner hoodlums and thugs like Mr. Wise direct the police to the Black communities telling them, “They went that-a-way!” As Mr. Wise is learning, there are a lot of whites who do not like that either.
I will admit everything in America is race related due to people like Mr. Wise but it is downright impolite to always frame it in the parcel of Black victimhood to save ones own hind-parts! Mr. Wise knows that if true anger were expressed regarding our financial condition, Abraham Foxman would not have enough time to send out decrees pronouncing people to be anti-Semitic. “Turn the conversation away from the neo-cons at all cost,” they scream hiding in closets and under their beds, “Blame the niggers!”
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. when people say they want to take this country back, they mean take it back from the neocons. Mr. Wise knows that. Who does he think he is fooling?
by tim wise
The dog is having a difficult time. This diary by tim wise has angered me due to the fact I think it is one more attempt to make us Blacks the scapegoat of the financial woes of this country. He knows damn well it was the neocons on Wall Street that caused this country to go into the economic free-fall it is presently experiencing.
From Truman to Clinton, it is my understanding healthcare reforms has been on the agenda and failed. It did not fail all those times because people thought it was reparations for Blacks or it would benefit Blacks more than it would whites with a few more inconsistencies as Mr. Wise writes in his diary. At this time, I am seeing only whites on TV talking about how things are bad for them with no health insurance. In no way have I seen a massive lineup of Blacks articulating these issues.
In my opinion, Mr. Wise has taken the course so many have taken in the past, “Never mind what we whites are doing. Never mind what we have done. Look at the niggers!”
Paul “After America” Starokin recently wrote regarding how American empires were built, “The prevailing practice in the most dynamic industries of this was not the rule of law, but the rule of cliques of ‘robber barons’ along with smaller-time operators who manipulated the law to their own selfish ends with impunity.” In my interpretation, Wall Street steals the money from our treasury, crippling our country and small time corner hoodlums and thugs like Mr. Wise direct the police to the Black communities telling them, “They went that-a-way!” As Mr. Wise is learning, there are a lot of whites who do not like that either.
I will admit everything in America is race related due to people like Mr. Wise but it is downright impolite to always frame it in the parcel of Black victimhood to save ones own hind-parts! Mr. Wise knows that if true anger were expressed regarding our financial condition, Abraham Foxman would not have enough time to send out decrees pronouncing people to be anti-Semitic. “Turn the conversation away from the neo-cons at all cost,” they scream hiding in closets and under their beds, “Blame the niggers!”
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. when people say they want to take this country back, they mean take it back from the neocons. Mr. Wise knows that. Who does he think he is fooling?
*Racism, Right-Wing Rage and the Politics of White Nostalgia
by tim wise
Excerpt:
Although I had been careful to point out that not everyone who opposes the President's agenda is a racist, but rather had made the more nuanced argument that racial resentment and white racial anxiety was the background noise of that opposition--often being stoked quite clearly by the radio talk show hosts on whom the mobs have been relying--my electronic interlocutor was having none of it. He had no more listened to me than he had actually read the health care proposals about which he was frothing so at the mouth.
And
"But that's not what we're talking about when we say we want our country back," another writer intoned, also angered by my televised comments: "We aren't talking about the racism part. We mean the rest of it." How fascinating. That it is factually impossible to separate out the "racism part" from the rest of it is something many white folks seem not to understand. They seem to think there was once a time of innocence when oppression wasn't happening, or that we can easily extract from our accounting of those crimes the great and noble things about our forefathers and view them in some patriotic vacuum. But we can't. Anymore so than we can say that the man who beats his wife might still be a loving father. Or that the company that poisons the air and water with toxic chemicals is still okay because they have a good record on labor or because they give a percentage of their annual profits to charity.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/17/768048/-Racism,-Right-Wing-Rage-and-the-Politics-of-White-Nostalgia
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