That’s Right Nate

For many years, whites were not allowed to be Pullman porters

Like many Americans I had believed that racism was a thing of the past.   I had believed that if it hadn’t been ended by Bill Cosby and his constant parade of jazz musician friends on the Cosby Show, it most certainly had been ended by the election of Barack Obama.  I can see now that just below the surface of our color blind society was racism ready to rear it’s ugly head.

Racism in this country has a long and ugly history going back at least 100 years if not longer.   At first, racism was mostly something that happened to black people and other minorities, but as times changed racism has primarily been against white people.  For years, African Americans had their own baseball league called The Negro Leagues where whites were not allowed to play.   In literature, the entire Harlem Renaissance movement of the 1920s and 1930s excluded white people.   In more recent times, record labels like Motown in Detroit and Chess in Chicago all but ignored white artists.

I believe this recent spate of racism starts at the top.   Barack Obama is the most racist against white people President we have had in this country since Chester A. Arthur.   One need only look at poor Joe Wilson who has been lynched by the media for his supposedly racist act of yelling “You lie” at the President during his speech to congress last week.   I don’t see how that can possibly be considered racist.    Joe Wilson’s son defended his father.   “There is not a racist bone in my dad’s body,” said Alan Wilson, an Iraq veteran who is running for state attorney general in South Carolina. “He doesn’t even laugh at distasteful jokes. I won’t comment on former President Carter, because I don’t know President Carter. But I know my dad, and it’s just not in him.”

Joe Wilson is an honorable man.   He would never have been allowed in the Sons of Confederate Veterans if he wasn’t.   This is not the type of person who would do anything racist.  Joe Wilson has always honored our country’s troops and veterans, which is why he’s championed flying the Confederate flag over Southern state capitals in support of the brave sacrifices made by our country’s brave Confederate veterans.

I long for the days when different races can live together in peace.  I’ve mentioned before that my father marched with Martin Luther King in Chicago and while King got all the headlines for his speeches, it was my dad and his friends who patrolled the streets armed only with baseball bats  to make sure no race riots occurred.   I know that if he were alive today John Peele would make the plea to all of us, “can’t we all get along?”

The signs have been out there for some time now.   The sales of mayonnaise are stagnant in this country while salsa is flying off of grocery shelves.   Michael Jackson gets a huge funeral in Los Angeles, while Karl Malden gets a brief mention.   Even white youth are listening to hip hop and playing basketball.   The white male anchor is nearly extinct on local television as stations team up minority males and white women on their anchor teams.  We are losing the culture war.

It gets worse.   Being a white male used to insulate you from tough economic times, but now white men are barely making 20% more than the rest of society.  Even our country club swimming pools are no longer safe from mulit-culturalism.   We are soon to control only75% of the Supreme Court. You call that justice?

We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on our lawn.   Lately, it seems Pat Buchanan is the only one who gets this.  If we are going to survive in America as a people, it is important that our culture not disappear, but just as important is ecnomic empowerment.   If we support white owned businesses, they  can take that money and reinvest it in our gated communities.   By doing this, we can lift us all up.   This is going to be difficult and there are times we will have to live without.   You know I love good bbq as much as anyone, but I’m going to start shop only white owned businesses myself.  We all have to be in this together because white empowerment will lift us all.

Happy Saint Jing-Tao-Wow Eve.  As you know, Saint Jing-Tao-Wow Day is America’s newest holiday.  First created by Lou Dobbs, and promoted by myself and several other bloggers, Saint Jing-Tao-Wow Day is a celebration of the ethnic stereotypes that bind us all together.  Go on out there and indulge to your heart’s content.  I will say between the Pakistani cab drivers, Chinese drivers, and Irish drinkers–tomorrow is probably a good day to stay off the road.  As envisioned by the great Loud Dobbs, this day shows us that all Americans who enterred the country have had to deal with stereotypical bullshit as we’ve tried to find our place in this world.  Before Mexicans were taking all our jobs, it was Irish, Italians, Germans, Jews, Chinese, and Polish.  May you all have a wonderful Saint Jing-Tao-Wow Eve and be sure to toon in tomorrow for a recap of my activities for the day.  Do be sure to check out the interview with me at Zenyenta’s site. I think I did a good job explaining WASP culture for the uninitiated.  I like opportunities like this to broaden understanding.

A famous Chinese philosopher once said, “Chee chung chee chung chee chung.  Cho Ching Chung Chee”.    An even more famous American philosopher by the name of Lou Dobbs said only Tuesday, “”And by the way, I’ve got to wish to you, each and every one, Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! I do that, and I have to be honest with you, despite my fervent anti-ethnic holiday position. That’s right! I’m against St. Patrick’s Day. I’m against St. Columbus Day. Saint Joseph’s Day. I’m against all of those things. Is there, by the way, is there a Jewish, a Jewish ethnic holiday? Is there one? No? Okay. The Jews have disappointed me. I mean, is there a St. Mauritius? No? A Belize? I don’t know. We gotta have — there’s gotta be something else going on here! How about an Asian ethnic holiday? Is there one? You know, a Saint-Jing- Tao- Wow? Chinese New Year? All right, we can do that … I mean, what is with all of these ethnic holidays? I mean how about an American Day? How about were all the same kind of day?”

I was thinking that the 4th of July kind of celebrated Americans as does Thanksgiving, but not really our sameness.    It occurred to me that what unites all of us as a country are ethnic stereotypes and the people who have propagated them out of fear that we would mess up the great little country they had here.  OK, The Indians may have been right, but otherwise from the 18th Century Germans in Pennsylvania to the Mexicans of today, this melting pot has always been just one more ingredient away from going bad so on March 31st let’s all celebrate the patron saint of ethnic and racial stereotyping Saint Jing-Tao-Wow.

Now, everybody can keep this day in their heart with their own traditions.  I think celebrating the efforts of people like Lou Dobbs to keep this country pure is a great start, but let’s not stop there.  Let’s really celebrate those stereotypes.   I plan on oppressing minorities and then dancing really poorly.  If you’re Irish why not polish off a case of beer or have unprotected sex.  Germans do something really efficiently and without humor.  African-Americans–geez, take your pick.  You guys are lucky you get so many.  You Swedes, uhm I’ll get back to you.

When you decide how you plan to celebrate Saint Jing-Tao-Wow day proudly post it in the comments section.  If you have your own blog and want to advance this holiday then post and we’ll give you some linky love.  Remember, we’re doing this for Lou Dobbs.   Let’s go out there and celebrate our stereotypes March 31st.  Spread the word.

UPDATE: Check out the Saint Jing-Tao-Wow Day Video