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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

THE OPPRESSED MAJORITY

I'm glad that this dkos blogger has taken the time to rip apart the arguments of the oppressed majority types. I've heard this shit entirely too often from my token white friends and acquaintances. You've heard it too, so you know how it goes:
... There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, Native Americans, etc. And then there are just Americans.

... You have the United Negro College Fund. You have Martin Luther King Day. You have Black History Month. You have Cesar Chavez Day. You have Yom Hashoah You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi You have the NAACP. You have BET. If we had WET (White Entertainment Television) ... we'd be racists.

... If we had a White Pride Day ... you would call us racists. If we had White History Month ... we'd be racists. If we had any organization for only whites to "advance" OUR lives ... we'd be racists.
If this person intended "just Americans" in an inclusive way, like "there are all these different races and ethnicities, but we're all Americans," this would be an admirable sentiment. But it's clear from the rest of it that to this person "Americans" = "White Americans."

Read it. It's very good.

As an aside, I'd probably be very interested in a channel called "WET", but not if it stood for "White Entertainment Television."



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