The Heart of Whiteness: Racism,
Wealth and IQ
by Manuel Garcia, Jr.
"The core basis of U.S. Government and capitalist policy is
the protection of White Supremacy Nationalism and White Supremacy
Super-Nationalism, or Empire."
This article originally appeared in Counterpunch.org.
Three items, then a response:
(1) A
photo-journalist friend returns from trips to Jordan, Israel and the West Bank,
and describes his experiences being graciously received in Arab homes, and his
shock at seeing the "separation wall" - really a separation corral
with machine-gun towers surrounding Bethlehem and other towns - and choke-point
checkpoints for Palestinians only (Israeli "settlers" getting
four-lane highways), which keep Palestinian family members only 2 miles apart,
near Jerusalem, from being able to visit each other for YEARS.
(2) I just
finished re-reading "The
Heart of Darkness," by Joseph Conrad. This is a story of European
colonialism and the ivory trade in Africa, published in 1903. It describes the
personal corruption of a careerist tradesman-class European whose ambition
reaches its apogee in the "Belgian" Congo (presumably), where he elevates
himself to a local god who can exact human sacrifices, in addition to receiving
a tribute of ivory; all by the magic of pure violence. The horror Kurtz, our
ephemeral white god, recognizes is that to achieve his ambition he has utterly
destroyed his own humanity by the very process used for his elevation: the
degradation of the Africans he exploits. The "heart of darkness" is
the illusion that an emptiness of soul can be released in the bush without
hazard to its owner.
(3) "Jewish
Genius," an article by Charles Murray, is published by the magazine Commentary.
In this essay, Murray, the author of the book The Bell Curve, on the
racial basis of intelligence, "mulls the roots of Jewish brainpower."
I.Q. is a measure of wealth. The children of gangsters
and war criminals (i.e., national politicians, corporate executives,
race-favored Americans, Europeans, and others from outposts of Pan-Whiteness,
e.g., Israel, Australia, New Zealand) will have higher I.Q. because they have
been brought up in material comfort, physical security, and they have
experienced the best educational systems in existence. There is no genetic
basis for this, but there is certainly a racist one.
"'We' are
defending our brother and sister ‘white' settlers in ‘Injun country.'"
Since the
days of Columbus, Pan-Whiteness has used technology (primarily explosives) and
piracy (now called finance) to steal world resources, and enslave and
exterminate "colored" people. "High" I.Q. is merely a
developmental indicator of race-based physical plundering by their elders and
ancestors in the children of the Race Warriors of the White Supremacy Crusade.
The
religious core of capitalism is white supremacy, which is why the nations
mentioned are bonded so tightly, and why the U.S. Government will often pursue
policies vis-a-vis Israel that logically seem to be at odds with "U.S.
interests" (e.g., the pursuit, with U.S. casualties, of war with Iraq and
Iran, not just for oil but in Israel's interest). It may be objectively true
that a particular policy (e.g., bankrolling Israel's theft of Palestine -
"settlements"), backing Israel's stonewalling and aggression (e.g.,
Lebanon) and blocking U.N. and international efforts to settle the Palestinian
issue) seems more to Israel's benefit than to "us." But, when viewed
through the emotive religious-mythical lens of white supremacy, the apparent
inconsistency dissolves.
"We" are defending our brother and sister
"white" settlers in "Injun country." Israel, like our
military bases and corporate installations around the world, is one of our many
Fort Apaches in wild territory, filled with "colored" natives hostile
to our manifest destiny to clear them off and "develop" the land. At
best, they could work as sub-human machines in our agricultural and mechanized
plantations, while being slowly ground down to dust and thence to disappearance
behind "Separation Walls" (which actually encircle isolated
populations, and so are corrals with machine gun towers - slow motion
Buchenwalds), and Border Fences and Free Trade Agreements.
"These zealots are motivated by a greed of
religiously-inspired magnitude: the compelling vision - the cult - of white
supremacy."
The core
basis of U.S. Government and capitalist policy is the protection of White
Supremacy Nationalism and White Supremacy Super-Nationalism, or Empire. This is
what we are fighting for. "We", the United States, are the 7th
Cavalry, the Crusaders riding to the rescue of Pan-Whiteness around the world.
The nature of your life and the degree of your prosperity is determined by the
degree of your complicity in this cult. People like Bush and Rove and Cheney,
Olmert, Sharon, the Israeli Zionist militarists, and, yes, Hitler was and are
not simply motivated by elementary greed, because theft is an act of
convenience, a short-cut, a matter of avoiding work. These zealots are
tireless, working furiously even to the point of death, because they are
motivated by a greed of religiously-inspired magnitude, and this is the
compelling vision - the cult - of white supremacy.
This is
racism at the level of the central nervous system, subconscious and
unconscious, a bond that expresses itself in a tribal level of identification,
similar to but of deeper power than the Mafia's Sicilian identification and
code of 'omerta.' This is what I imagine C. G. Jung would have called the
archetype of empire, which "we" - the high I.Q. children nourished on
the legacy of race plunder - inherited, and which enables us to
"feel" the cause and put our adult efforts to its benefit (a
transition that can be seamless in its unconsciousness), or to
"recognize" (to awaken, to become aware, to experience 'satori') and
to choose to fight against. "Whiteness" is not a skin color, it is a
frame of mind and a moral choice.
With this understanding, it is easy to see the basis of
much Black commentary since Frederick Douglass, and most pointedly from Malcolm
X. The argument presented here is no news to readers of Black Agenda Report and
similar outlets. It is easy to see Texas and Southern California as Israel USA
and Apartheid South Africa; and a city like San Diego as a sizzling Xanadu of
triumphalist colonial pleasure, continuing the Whiteness fantasy of Apartheid
Johannesburg or Tel Aviv.
"'Whiteness'
is not a skin color, it is a frame of mind and a moral choice."
There is
good money to be made by apologists for White Supremacy Nationalism, by
authoring "scholarly" books on the supposed genetic superiority, and
hence "god-given" nature of the status quo; and by
"colored" commentators singing the praises of their "white"
overlords, the overlord ideology and the naturally ordained baseness of their
own genetic pools. I, personally, know the costs in career and "earnings
potential" that can result from a rejection of work
"assignments" ("opportunities") in furtherance of the
fundamental cause (the "Prime Directive," if you will). Fortunately
for me, self respect is only expensive financially, in every other way it is
most bountiful.
It is
possible that an expanding awareness of self respect - even a popular
trans-national solidarity based on compassion (Fidel?, Chavez?, Mandela?) - may
ultimately topple the mighty military and financial powers of the White
Supremacy Tribe. Until then, we will have to consider civilization an idea as
yet unrealized.
Manuel Garcia, Jr. is a physicist, a native of New
York, and perhaps a Tralfamadorian.
E-mail received at mango@idiom.com.
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