By • 1/19/09
Today, we launch together a new website, as well as, I hope, a new intellectual and political movement, called White America. It is not necessary to describe our premises and goals at length here as they have been spelled out in Principles of the Pro-White Movement. In brief, our thesis is that American culture is rooted in the biology of the race that created it and that our nation will decline if white people lose control of their land.
White America thus stands for the truths that our age most fears and wishes to suppress. Other articles on this site document in detail the phenomena of race denial and leukophobia, the first of which suppresses the truth that the races are naturally different, and the second of which casts whites as the great villains of history, rather than the bearers of civilization and humanity. The brazenness of the lies that are directed against us, and the hatred inflicted on those who combat them, demonstrate how powerful and terrifying the ideas that we defend are.
White America supersedes and replaces my previous website, The Inverted World. As I explained in From “The Inverted World” to “White America”, I decided to change the title of the website in order to give it a more political tone. Political activism will be a priority of White America—the activism section of the website has not yet been launched, but it will be shortly.
As you will see from the website’s banner and the illustration on this page, I have chosen as the emblem of our movement the image of a kind and noble young lady serenely holding out the flag of our nation. The image comes from an early 20th century greeting card and perfectly expresses the ethos of that era, when almost all Americans held it as self-evident that theirs was a nation for and by white people and that their national character was rooted in their racial nature. When I first viewed this image, I was shaken by an almost unbearable nostalgia. Whatever its faults, that time was a far wiser one than ours, and this emblem will remind us daily of what we have lost and what we must work to restore.
Many will no doubt judge that our movement was obsolete before it even started, founded as it is on ideas that the current age deems pathetically backwards and out of date. And indeed, this website is being launched on a day when our prospects seem very dark. Today we are reminded that the only national holiday that bears the name of an American is Martin Luther King Day. Moreover, tomorrow we will witness the inauguration of America’s first black president. Another irony is that we begin White America a few days after The Atlantic, one of our nation’s most respected magazines, published an article called… The End of White America!
It would seem then that we are too late, that we begin to defend White America at the moment when it has been decisively eclipsed and superseded. We respond that, however despised it may be, the truth is never out of date and delusion can never supersede it. For on matters of race America is beyond deluded—it is in a state of advanced psychosis, and this psychosis threatens to lead our nation into collapse. We stubbornly insist, in the teeth of conventional wisdom, that it is only from our perspective that the errors of our time can be clearly seen and their disastrous consequences be addressed and corrected.
“The End of White America” is a sterling example of America’s racial psychosis. Written by Vassar professor of English Hua Hsu, the upshot of the article is that “whiteness has become a vacuum,” and white people are “culturally broke.” Only non-whites have a thriving culture in which they can take pride, and all white Americans can do is look on in envy. As Christian Lander, the creator of the blog Stuff White People Like says,
Pretty much every white person I grew up with wished they’d grown up in, you know, an ethnic home that gave them a second language. White culture is Family Ties and Led Zeppelin and Guns N’ Roses—like, this is white culture. This is all we have.
The views of “whiteness studies” founder Noel Ignatiev have become mainstream today:
There is nothing positive about white identity. As James Baldwin said, “As long as you think you’re white, there’s no hope for you.”
To the extent that whiteness isn’t mere nullity, it is evil or at least obnoxious. White people are acutely conscious of the crimes, real and imaginary, that they have committed in history, such as slavery, segregation, and the Holocaust. To the extreme liberal imagination, other atrocities would also include the Iraq War and global warming. As Lander says,
Like, I’m aware of all the horrible crimes that my demographic has done in the world… And there’s a bunch of white people who are desperate—desperate—to say, “You know what? My skin’s white, but I’m not one of the white people who’s destroying the world.”
Hsu also suggests that our socioeconomic success is due to “white privilege” or pervasive bias in favor of whites in American society. He alludes to “the obvious material advantages that come with being born white—lower infant-mortality rates and easier-to-acquire bank loans, for example.”
The contempt for whiteness is a result of a change in the structure of American culture: “Instead of the long-standing model of assimilation toward a common center, the culture is being remade in the image of white America’s multiethnic, multicolored heirs.” The result is a nation “which prizes diversity above all else, and whose ultimate goal is some vague notion of racial transcendence.” Authenticity therefore requires white people to embrace this decentralization and become “race traitors,” as Ignatiev preached in his journal of that title.
The paradigmatic symbol of whiteness today is, consequently, the “wigger,” who imitates minority rap culture. However, even they do not rise to the level of true coolness: white rappers are, in the end, a “profoundly confused caricature” whose racial identity crisis becomes an “instant punch-line.”
There are some white Americans who adopt a white identity, but, in Hsu’s portrait, there is little that is attractive about it. The alternative to white self-loathing is a backwards, xenophobic, redneck culture, as symbolized by Kid Rock, Larry the Cable Guy, and conspiracy theories about Obama being a closet Muslim. Other examples of white identity are Mormons and picturesque nostalgia for the WASP culture of the past, symbolized by “seersucker blazers, whale pants, and deck shoes.” None of these is likely to inspire.
There is no reason to believe that Hsu’s article is out of line with the commonsensical vision of whiteness in America today. What he says is very much in accord with my articles on the leukophobia that pervades contemporary culture. The current age casts white culture by turns as stultifying, spoiled, rapacious, and backwards. We are the only race that has nothing to recommend it.
This website exists to convince the world that this view, however commonsensical it has become, is entirely inverted. It is an almost inconceivable injustice rooted in a tragic ignorance of history or willful blindness.
The most obscene distortion is the one that makes Larry the Cable Guy the symbol of our people. The world has apparently forgotten Shakespeare was white, Isaac Newton was white, Michelangelo was white. Indeed, nearly all the great innovators in science, technology, art, literature, and philosophy have been white, as Charles Murray demonstrated in Human Accomplishment. Despite the rise of east Asia in the 20th century, white dominance in creativity was as overwhelming as ever. Historian of ideas Peter Watson says of his interviews with 150 thinkers from around the world:
all of them—there were no exceptions—said the same thing. In the 20th century, in the modern world, there were no non-western ideas of note.
Indeed, white people created the whole moral system that condemns them. Today the world blames white Americans for slavery but forgets that whites were the first to formulate the concept of human rights that is the basis of this condemnation. Until the 19th century slavery was a universal practice, and Arabs, Africans, and Asians never realized it might be wrong until white people told them so and pressured them to abolish it.
In his response to Hsu’s article, Steven Sailer makes short work of the idea that whites are privileged. The idea that “easier-to-acquire” bank loans are evidence of white privilege “sounds completely clueless in the wake of the catastrophic 15-year-long campaign by the Clinton and Bush administrations to boost mortgage lending to uncreditworthy minorities.” There is no denying that affirmative action permeates American business, government, and education, and there is also no denying that it is minority privilege. If whites are more successful than blacks and Hispanics then, it is not because the game is rigged in our favor, but because of innate differences among the races in the traits that lead to accomplishment, like intelligence and providence.
Hsu’s failure to appreciate whites’ overwhelming dominance in creativity leads him to poo-poo the theory our demographic and cultural eclipse would lead to civilizational decline. “Civilization is not,” he declares serenely, “in the words Tom Buchanan, ‘going to pieces’ and America is not, in the phrasing of Pat Buchanan, going ‘Third World.’” Is he sure? After all, Hsu’s article was published in the middle of a financial crisis that has prompted respected and sober thinkers to warn of a new Great Depression. The end of white America seems to have coincided with the end of the stock market.
It has now been widely recognized that one of the major, if not the primary, source of the crisis was “affirmative action” mortgage lending, combined America’s increasing diversity. In other words, the darkening of the American population, combined with efforts to bring about socioeconomic equality among the races, is leading to a serious decline in the American standard of living. Furthermore, the global effects of the crisis may well result in serious social and geopolitical unrest. In short, America is indeed beginning to look more like the Third World, and civilization may well be in decline. Although we may disagree with much of what Pat Buchanan and Lothrop Stoddard have written, in this matter they are clearly on to something, and it is foolish to dismiss their ideas out of hand.
Understanding the fallacies that underlie Hsu’s article does not require great intelligence or any other special ability. Rather, all that is needed is the courage to recognize the obvious and the self-respect to defend oneself against slander. No matter how dark our prospects may seem, there are, consequently, good reasons to begin White America with optimism and confidence. After all, how long can white Americans remain blind to the obvious and deaf to slander? Not long, I think, especially when the disastrous effects of our racial psychosis grow more apparent every day.