|
|
A Response to
White Like Me
by Jared Taylor
It is odd that Thomas Fleming should write so contemptuously in the November issue of people he calls "racial nationalists." A strong racial consciousness was part of the intellectual equipment of virtually every eminent American until the mid-20th century: Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the slaves and expel them "beyond the reach of mixture." Teddy Roosevelt cursed his Southern ancestors for bringing blacks to America. Woodrow Wilson was a firm segregationist, and Harry Truman wondered in his private papers why blacks couldn't just stay in Africa and Asians in Asia.
Every President through Eisenhower was a "racial nationalist." Why is it wrong to be faithful to the tradition of Madison, Clay, Monroe, Calhoun and Taney, whose enduring wisdom is borne out by the failure of every liberal racial policy of the last 50 years?
It is likewise curious that Dr. Fleming, who endorses independence for Northern Italy and the American South, should find racial loyalty incomprehensible. When Northern and Southern white children go to the same schools do they spontaneously segregate in the lunchroom and on the playground? At university do they join separate clubs and live in exclusive dormitories? Are their parents so different that "Monday Night Football" is the only common item on their lists of 20 favorite television programs? Does every American city have different churches for Northerners and Southerners?
Does one group have a violent crime rate ten times higher than the other or a syphilis rate 50 times higher? Do both groups somehow manage to seek each other out and live in different neighborhoods in every city in every state?
No. Race matters vastly more than region in virtually every aspect of American life.
In an article that shows little understanding of his subject, Dr. Fleming is correct only when he states the obvious: that race and nation are not identical. However, to build a nation -- be it a new Confederacy or a Northern Italy -- the first ingredient is race. Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee would have been dumbfounded at the idea of an Afro-Hispanic-Celtic Confederacy. But after all, they were benighted, hate-filled "racial nationalists."
Jared Taylor
A Review of the Article
White Like Me
by Dennis Wheeler
[The article White Like Me was written by Dr. Thomas Fleming and first appeared in Chronicles magazine in November 1997.] To read Dennis Wheeler lengthy response to Dr. Fleming's article Click Here.
|
