Why I Call Myself a Martin Luther King Racist
By John "Birdman" Bryant
I call myself a Martin Luther King racist because I want the best for my race, just like the Rev Martin Luther King wanted the best for his.
Neither MLK nor this writer understood the principle of transcendence. Our "race" is the human race. It split into various ethnic groups during the Stone Age because communication and travel were inefficient so genetic differences were reinforced. Since the invention of civilization at the close of the Stone Age the trend has been in the other direction, toward recombining the ethnic groups into ever-larger and fewer communities: transcendence. The institutionalization of "races" works to the detriment of transcendence by reinforcing our recidivist Stone Age instincts of intolerance of those who are different from us.
Certainly no one faults Rev King for wanting what he wanted
Hardly a true statement. Most of us are kind to the memory of MLK because he was a desperate man taking desperate measures and in the final analysis he thought he was working toward transcendence: the integration of American society. But with hindsight we can see that the result of his campaign was merely the fad of reverse racism: oppression of the majority by their own leaders in an attempt to create equality at an unnatural pace. Sending poorly educated people to college--no matter what the reason for their poor education--and then out into the workforce merely reinforces the stereotype of their incompetence in others, and in themselves it creates a sense of entitlement which works against the need to become competent.
I want my race treated equally under the law. I object to laws which discriminate against whites on the basis of race, such as affirmative action, set-asides, 'historical discrimination' and the like.
We libertarians have always believed in that. We lump it all together under the label of "Affirmative Discrimination." For the reasons I outlined above, no matter how well meant these laws are, "you can never do just one thing" and the second-order effects have been ruinous. A single illustration will suffice: gangsta rap.
I want a man to be judged by the quality of his character rather than by the color of his skin. In particular, I want good men of whatever race to have their good recognized
As I have noted in other threads, the USA and Haiti are the only two countries in the Western Hemisphere that freed their slaves by violent means. We are also the only two countries whose populations are not made up (more or less) of one people who come in all different shades of brown. We libertarians thank Lincoln for the intractable legacy of a 140-year-old war that should never have happened. Not only do black Americans and White Americans still not get along, but neither do Northern Americans and Southern Americans.
I also want people to judge the character of whites as a group by the fact that they have built the greatest civilization on earth.
Oversimplification. Much of this is historical accident, being in the right place at the right time, not any inherent moral or intellectual superiority. The Stone Age region now known as the USA and Canada had never hosted a civilization (because the Aztecs were not given enough time to expand into it) so its resouces were not on the verge of exhaustion. The slow trickle of Iron-Age immigrants from Europe did not overtax those resources so it was easy to build a great country. Previous civilizations had their own fortuitous circumstances. The "non-white" Chinese and Indians did as good a job of
creating civilizations from scratch as the Europeans did of
borrowing the concept from the Greeks and Romans, who had
borrowed it from the Mesopotamians. In some cases better: in the 17th century Japanese cities had public employees sweeping the streets, while Europeans ran a herd of pigs through their cities once or twice a year to eat the trash.
I want people to judge the character of blacks as a group by the fact that they have moved only from the slavery of the plantation to the slavery of affirmative action jobs, television, drug addiction, criminality, prison and 'de welfare'.
Same comment: accident of history. The squalor of the black community is a fabrication of the legislation of the civil rights era because "you can never do just one thing." Many black people my age who remember the bad old days speak fondly of separate towns run by and for black people in which--despite the handicap of Jim Crow--the people maintained high levels of decency. All they wanted, according to my fellow geezers of a different skin tone, was to be treated equally, not specially.
I want freedom from the oppression of other races. In particular, I want to be free from the oppression of blacks who live off my tax money.
You don't have to lecture a libertarian on the evils of confiscatory tax rates. "You can never do just one thing" and the second-order effects of our too-big-for-its-britches government, with millions of civil "servants" working for The Employer Of Last Resort looking for things to screw up, have created the country you see. Would that Affirmative Discrimination were the worst of our troubles.
, and freedom from Jews and their liberal sidekicks who cram 'equality' and 'multiculturalism' down my throat in every possible way
Well even oafs speak the truth occasionally and this guy is still an oaf. He doesn't understand the force of transcendence and he's standing in front of that train. The world is getting smaller. Our lives are affected by things that happen on the other side of the planet. Monoculturalism is no longer an available option so the oafs of the world who yearn to live in the past are going to have to get over themselves. The rest of us have voted and we don't want to backslide toward the Stone Age in which no one was comfortable with anything or anybody different from what they had in their own house.
I want my race to be free from genocidal policies. That means I want to have the freedom to live and work among my own people without the intrusion of forced integration, multiculturalism or the like, whose inevitable result is the destruction of my race.
"Race" is an artifact of the Stone Age. There used to be thousands of "races." Now there are only a handful. Transcendence is inexorable. Occasionally it is held off but not for long. The Dark Ages in Europe--that millennium of ignorance and squalor when Christianity ruled with an iron fist--were one of the longest periods of resistance to transcendence. The Nazis tried to turn back the clock on transcendence and their entire culture was destroyed in the backlash. The same fate surely awaits anyone who tries it in the 21st century with its improved communication and travel.
BTW, "genocide" is an act of violence. The fading away of an ethnic group by intermarriage and assimilation is not genocide. Not to mention calling "white" people an "ethnic group" is really stretching the definition. When I was born people of Italian ancestry were not considered "white."
I want civil rights for whites. That means the right to use my property as I see fit, the right to associate with -- or not associate with -- whoever I choose.
Libertarians are uncomfortable with the inherent dilemma in this. Clearly people must have the right to form communities where they can practice whatever they believe in--if only because we all need to
see the results of stupid life choices; lectures are not enough. Yet when those communities grow large, that conflict with the rights of outsiders to enjoy the basics of life such as jobs, education and housing. We have to live with a messy compromise. A private gated housing tract of some specified maximum size can limit itself to people of Anglo-Saxon or Italian ancestry, Catholic or Jewish religion, communist or libertarian economics, symphonic or rock and roll musical taste. A city cannot because cities were invented for the purpose of people learning to live in harmony and cooperation with people unlike themselves. The Friday Night Poker Club in your basement can exclude women or people with Spanish surnames. The Rotary Club cannot because it restricts those people's ability to find work. The little drenn-hole church on the corner can bar the door to gay people. The Boy Scouts cannot because it marginalizes those people from an important part of the experience of growing up as an American.
And the right of free speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment.
No argument there. We've seen the second-order effects of outlawing Holocaust denial: All the wackos got to have a festival in frelling
Iran, free from heckling. "The best disinfectant is sunshine," as Louis Brandeis said. Keep the cockroaches above the linoleum, where we can keep an eye on them.
** PROPERTY: I want to be able to rent or not rent to whoever I want; or to sell or not sell to whoever I want.
I'm satisfied with the compromise that I don't have to rent a room
in the house I reside in to people with children. As I said, individual tracts should be free to form communities, but that did not prove practical. We ended up with entire cities that required all black people to leave at nightfall. This compromise is messy but necessary, and hardly anything to cry over discrimination based purely on "race" is a textbook case of resistance to transcendence anyway. I would be more sanguine about it if it were something more personal like taste in music. I make a lot of money by being one of the few landlords in my townhouse complex who rents to people with dogs.
** ASSOCIATION: I want the freedom to have contact with people of different races, but I also want the freedom to NOT have that contact, if I so choose. That means if I want to live in a white neighborhood, or send my kids to a white school, or have only white employees, then I can do so.
Again, this is a matter of us having tried that and it didn't work. Rednecks became too powerful and the people on the wrong end of their discrimination suffered. It was difficult for minorities to get into
any decent school or get
any decent job. And again, I would be more sanguine if this were about anything except skin color and native language, two of the most ephemeral aspects of humans.
I want dignity. I do not want to have the media, the government and the courts constantly telling me how 'evil' my race has been, or how much 'white racism' has negatively affected others, or how much guilt I should feel because blacks, Jews and other minorities are constantly whining.
Paybacks are hell, ain't they? The minorities had to put up with this for centuries. I think it's amusing and instructive for us to have to experience what they went through. This too shall pass. Be the big man you claim to be and put up with it graciously. The whole idea is to imagine what it's like
not to be comfortably white, Christian, male, and anglophone. If you haven't figured that out yet then you need to be retained in the program for a couple more generations, until your great-great-grandchildren actually believe they're inferior.
I want my race to survive and prosper in its historic homeland. For whites, that homeland is Europe and North America. I am perfectly happy to let blacks have their own homeland in Wonderful Africa, to let Hispanics have their own homeland in Meso- and South America, to let Jews have their own homeland in Israel, and to let Asians have their own homeland in Asia. I believe everyone should have his own place in the sun -- I just don't want other people taking mine.
Beep. This is clear resistance to transcendence. The bulldozer of history is going to run this jackass down and nobody's going to shed a tear for him. There were countless little tribes who said that about the other little tribes over the hill. Eventually they were merged into bigger tribes and eventually the bigger tribes were merged into nations. Look at how the French and Germans have learned to get along. The next phase is to merge into one global community. We're halfway there already. This embarrassing redneck commentary from an American jackass is being read on this forum by dozens of people in other countries who are members of our "virtual community." I don't even know the skin color and native language of half the people I'm communicating with here, and I don't give a damn either.
In short, I want my race to be able to say, "Thank God -- Free at last!"
Your race is scheduled for transcendence just like all those that came before it. It's not going away so much as losing its importance. Its members will soon discover that there are many things in the universe far more important than "race" and they're going to associate with the people who have common needs and interests, not skin color, favorite food, and national anthem.
Transcendence: Love it or be rolled over. It's been happening for 12,000 years and it's not going to stop for you.
