USA: do whites now feel 'vested in the future'?

November 13, 2008

President Bush said to CNN:

The election of Barack Obama is an historic moment for our country. There are a lot of people in America who did not believe they would ever see this day.

It is good for our country that people have hope in the system and feel vested in the future and President-elect Obama has a great opportunity.

So if black folks can only feel a vested interest if "my president is black" then doesn't that imply a lot of white folk will now feel alienated? How is that good for your country?

Or is alienation only peculiar to blacks and not whites?

Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.

Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the postelection glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America...

Potok, who is white, said he believes there is "a large subset of white people in this country who feel that they are losing everything they know, that the country their forefathers built has somehow been stolen from them."

No matter who is elected there will always be a large subset of alienated people for the same reason that the USA and UK remain largely segregated: because people prefer their own kind. A large subset of people will only feel vested in the future when they have a leader of their own kind. And the only way to solve that problem is the end of diversity and a return to racial homogeny. And that sure sounds better than the 'revolving door of the alienated' to me.

Obama said prior to the election ...

It was Michelle, Axelrod remembers, who stopped the show. "You need to ask yourself, Why do you want to do this?" she said directly. "What are [you] hoping to uniquely accomplish, Barack?"

Obama sat quietly for a moment, and everyone waited. "This I know: When I raise my hand and take that oath of office, I think the world will look at us differently," he said. "And millions of kids across this country will look at themselves differently."

Yep, and a large subset of white kids will now look at things differently too ...

Auster post-election

November 04, 2008
Lawrence Auster

9:49. Gov. Tim Pawlenty, the almost VP pick, whom I've never seen before, is talking on ABC. His message? In an America that is changing culturally and demographically, in which blacks and Hispanics don't vote Repubican, the GOP cannot be the majority party. So the GOP has to become more "pragmatic," and talk about real people's real needs. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. The same GOP illusion! As if the GOP has not done everything under the sun to win blacks and Hispanic support, as though that has not been a continuing GOP obsession for years and years. Hey, Pawlenty, you're in a dream world. The only way the GOP can win among blacks and HIspanics is by becoming the Democratic party. That's what happens when you let America be transformed into a country of low-skill, nonwhite people with high illegitimacy rates who look to government to provide their needs. So there is only one way conservatism and Republicanism can survive long-term in America: not by treating "demographic change," i.e. the browning of America, as a god before whom we must automatically bow, but by treating it as an error that must be stopped and reversed. And that can be done, by stopping virtually all further non-European immigration, by getting all illegal aliens to leave, by re-asserting America's European-American majority culture and ceasing all special favors to nonwhites, and by white people gaining renewed confidence in the future and having more children. Maybe that's impossible. Maybe it's too late to turn this process of national suicide around. But how can we give up on the hope of doing it, when it's never even been tried?

But if it can't be done, if European America—its culture, its historical memory and identity, its ideals, its way of life, its intellectual and moral standards, its Constitution, its true freedoms—cannot be saved, then the only recourse for those who still care will be for traditional Americans to start gathering together in certain states and regions of the country and form governing majorities there, with the ultimate aim of becoming independent of the Brazilianized entity that the United States will have then become.

Racial solidarity behind a wall? Now that's something I can believe in.