Thursday, April 19, 2007

Can Only White People Be Racist?

I did a search on racism at monergism.com. The search resulted in the following results.

Search Term: racismLinks Found: 12
Racism, Slavery & Terrorism Dr Peter Hammond
Racism, Sexism, Marxism John Frame
Biblical Antidotes to Racism (part 1) Ronald Kalifungwa
Biblical Antidotes to Racism (part 2) Ronald Kalifungwa
The Biblical Offense of Racism Douglas M. Jones III Though non-Christians may condemn racism, they have no justifiable ethical basis on which to do so. In contrast, the word of God not only specifies our obligation to be color-blind, but it prescribes how this obligation applies to soc
Prophets of the Apocalypse: White Supremacy and the Theology of Christian Identity How Christianity and the Bible is perverted to support white supremacist racism
Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its twentieth session, on 27 November 1978 Racism against
Racism against African
Racism against Asian
Racism against Hisapanic
Racism against Native Americans
Racism against Jews

There are a few observations that should be made about the results of this search. The first is that racism seems to be attributed only to white people. There are no articles here about the Black Panthers or the National Council of La Raza on this site. The only specific people that are blamed for racism are "white supremacists." If you follow the link to the article about the Christian Identity error you will find that the authors Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth cite the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Southern Poverty Law Center as reliable sources of information regarding internet hate groups. It's ashamed to see supposedly Reformed Christians believe such tripe.

My second observation is that apparently it is impossible to be racist against white people. Notice that of all the groups mentioned at the bottom of the list, white people are conspicuously missing. The idea that someone could be bigoted against whites apparently never occurred to the folks at monergism.com. The obvious problem is that modern Christians have bought into the modern notions about "racism." As a result, they have construed a sin that only white people can commit, and can never be committed against white people.

8 comments:

Laurel Loflund said...

I know for a fact that the most racist people are Latinos; I deal with them on a daily basis, and most of their judgments of others are based on race.

That site you referenced is very one-sided, to say the least.

ehud would said...

Here's a quote I picked up somewhere in the revived Little Geneva Docs. It fairly well explains the reasons behind the White Man's currently demoted social status:

"a quote from the 1912 book 'A Racial Programme for the Twentieth Century,' by the Jewish Communist Israel Cohen, which was placed into the Congressional Record in 1959 by a congressman from Ohio: 'We must realize that our party’s most powerful weapon is racial tension.... By pounding into the consciousness of the dark peoples that for centuries they have been oppressed by the whites, we can mould them to the programme of the Communist Party.... In America, we will aim for a subtle victory. While inflaming negro minorities against the white, we will endeavor to instill in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the negroes.... which will deliver America to our cause.'"

Laurel Loflund said...

Oh, goodness...that last is just painful to read, especially to realize how they've succeeded.

Sigh...

Laurel

ehud would said...

Well, as with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, they claim this quote of Cohen's to be fictiteous. But in both cases it seems to me that the skeptics miss the point: Even if they were fraudulent their prescient insights are so keenly accurate as to be called prophetic. The Civil Rights movement was a Communist endeavor by definition. Jews, Blacks and all other non-Whites have always been a unified front for Marxism. These are absolute trueisms.

The point is that the skeptics act as if proving the docs in question to be fakes somehow exonerates them from the charge of being Communist conspirators when in reality, the issue is rather irrelevant to their position. Call them fakes, I'll call them Political Parables written under pseudonym. Personally, I care little if they're shown to be of spurious origin (not that they are mind you). What counts is their accuracy.

...My Brothers' Keeper said...

They ("minorities" who are victims of nothing but their own violence and laziness) are just paying us (Whites who are guilty of of nothing but racial cowardice)back for "centuries" of exploitation and bondage (of which they do nothing but prosper from).

It's funny: When faced with crime stats, they say "Not all blacks/latinos/whatever are bad. You can't judge us all based on...blah blah niggety blah", but that argument doesn't hold up for us, even when 0% of White Americans alive today are slaveholders.

We're racists? Ha!

ehud would said...

Where'd you go S.F.?

Anonymous said...

"Most of our problems are a result of our collectively believing in unreal things that our presented to us as real and important.

Racism -- a thoroughly contrived sin, like witchcraft or heresy.

Equality -- a thoroughly contrived, impossible and wrongheaded ideal."

Anonymous said...

In the present case, it's not that racism on the part of non-whites is systematically denied; it's that white people (who by and large constitute the "chattering classes" don't interpret it as racism because they think they are deserving of abuse at the hands of these coloreds. It's a form of masochism, an engineered neurosis, not really intellectual dishonesty, though there's plenty of that about as well. Also, we must think of the economic angle: a "patriarchalist" or "theonomist" needs something even more scandalous to flog as a diversionary tactic. Else he might lose the wives; and if he loses the wives he loses the tithes. Fighting "racism" is a convenient target, since nearly everyone is agreed it's "a bad thing."