The War on Whites is All They Have
Graffiti on a condemned building
Someone finally said it. In the words of Congressman Mo Brooks, the Democratic Party’s push for more illegal immigration is “part of the war on whites that’s being launched by the Democratic Party.”
Of course, being a Republican, the Alabama Congressman immediately covered his truthful statement in half-truths and comforting lies. He continued that, “And the way in which they’re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. It’s a part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things. Well that’s not true.”
Brooks isn’t wrong – the Democratic Party does depend on identity politics to hold its coalition together. However, implicit in Brooks’s comment is the dreamy insistence that race, class, and interest conflicts simply don’t exist,and we are all “American” – whatever that is. White American conservatives – and only white American conservatives – cling to this desperate faith that a universal American identity can exist free of white guilt or tribal ties. Not surprisingly, in the eyes of academia and the media, “colorblindness” is the new racism. ...