USA: End of White Guilt?

[Vulpix]

White guilt? Done; over; history (http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20081109_White_guilt__Done__over__history.html)

by Tom Adkins

There go my fellow conservatives, glumly shuffling along, depressed by the election aftermath. Not me. I'm virtually euphoric. Don't get me wrong. I'm not thrilled with America's flirtation with neosocialism. But there's a massive silver lining in the magical clouds that lofted Barack Obama to the presidency. For today, without a shred of intellectually legitimate opposition, I can loudly proclaim to America:
The Era of White Guilt is over.


This seemingly impossible event occurred because the vast majority of white Americans didn't give a fluff about skin color and enthusiastically pulled the voting lever for a black man. Not just any black man. A very liberal black man who spent his early career race-hustling banks, praying in a racist church for 20 years, and actively working with America-hating domestic terrorists. Yet white Americans made Barack Obama their leader. Therefore, as of Nov. 4, 2008, white guilt is dead.


So today, I'm feeling a little "uppity," if you will. For more than a century, the millstone of white guilt hung around our necks, retribution for slave-owning predecessors. In the 1960s, American liberals began yanking that millstone while sticking a fork in the eye of black Americans, exacerbating the racial divide to extort a socialist solution to the country's problems. But if a black man can become president, exactly what significant barrier is left? The election of Barack Obama destroys the validation of liberal white guilt. The dragon is hereby slain.


So today, I'm feeling a little "uppity," if you will. From this day forward, my tolerance level for having my skin color hustled is exactly ZERO. No more Rev. Jeremiah Wright's "God Damn America," Al Sharpton's Church of Perpetual Victimization, or Jesse Jackson's rainbow racism. Cornel West? You're a fraud. All those "black studies" programs must now teach kids to thank Whitey. And I want that on the final.


Congressional Black Caucus? Irrelevant. U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.)? Shut up. ACORN? Outlawed. Black Panthers? Go home and pet your kitty. Black separatists? Find another nation that offers better dreams. To those Eurosnots who forged careers hating America? I'm still waiting for the first black French president.


No more quotas. No more handouts. No more complaining that "the man" is keeping you down. "The man" is now black.


It's time to toss that massive, obsolete race-hustle machine upon the heap of the other stupid '60s ideas. Drag it over there, right between free love and cop-killing. Careful, don't trip on streaking. Just dump it. And then wash your hands. It's filthy.


Obama's ascension also creates another gargantuan irony. How can liberals sell American racism, class envy and unfairness when our new black president and his wife went to Ivy League schools, got high-paying jobs, became millionaires, bought a mansion, and are now moving to the White House? How unfair is that? Now, like a delicious O. Henry tale, Obama's spread-the-wealth campaign rendered itself moot by its own victory! America is officially a meritocracy. Obama's election has validated American conservatism.


So ... Wham!!!
That's the sound of my foot kicking the door shut on the era of white guilt. The rites have been muttered, the carcass lowered, dirt shoveled, and tombstone erected. Dead and buried.

[The Dragonslayer]

I certainly hope it is. I'm so sick and tired of whites feeling guilty for being white, also feeling ashamed of what their ancestors may or may not have done. It's time to move on. Obama was the least qualified and most inexperienced candidate in the race. He got the nomination and won because he was black. People wanted to make history by putting a black man in the White House. They've succeeded now. I want the Sharptons and Jacksons of the world to quit playing the race card. Quit acting like a black man is so oppressed here that he can't get ahead. See how successful you can be in the Mother Africa. Obama got in office because many whites voted for him. Even with all the minority vote, he would not have won. It took whites to put him in there. I don't want to hear anymore that whites are keeping blacks down.

[Æmeric]

Obama election & his upcoming failures should do a lot to prevent White guilt among future generations but it will take personal experiences to cured some of the most hardcore cases of White guilt. Like the soccer moms. The best cure for them would be if some welfare Negroes were moved into those repossessed homes in the upscale vanilla suburbs. That would cure them of their afflection pretty quickly.;)



Obama's ascension also creates another gargantuan irony. How can liberals sell American racism, class envy and unfairness when our new black president and his wife went to Ivy League schools, got high-paying jobs, became millionaires, bought a mansion, and are now moving to the White House? How unfair is that? Now, like a delicious O. Henry tale, Obama's spread-the-wealth campaign rendered itself moot by its own victory! America is officially a meritocracy. Obama's election has validated American conservatism.

Thing about Barack & Michelle is they were both benifactors of affirmative action in both the public & private sectors. And they benifitted from White guilt, Obama never could have won the election, let alone defeat Hillary, if he hadn't been Black. Another important factor in Obama's success in anything he's done (besides playing the race card) is the fact he was raised by his Anglo-American grandparents! Where would he be today if he had been raised by his Kenyan family? Probably herding goats in some remote village in the Rift Valley.