By Ian Jobling • 2/11/09
Recently, in the comments sections of my posts, there has been a groundswell of enthusiasm for a new political party that would advance at least some of the goals of the pro-white movement. On my last article, latte island raised the prospect of starting an “American National Party” that would work towards “modest goals like immigration restriction and an end to affirmative action” without, presumably, raising the more controversial planks in our platform such as innate racial differences and the right to racial discrimination. Several other commenters expressed support for this idea. On an earlier entry, Old Atlantic declared himself in favor of a “White America Party.” Recently, in the comments sections of my posts, there has been a groundswell of enthusiasm for a new political party that would advance at least some of the goals of the pro-white movement. On my last article, latte island raised the prospect of starting an “American National Party” that would work towards “modest goals like immigration restriction and an end to affirmative action” without, presumably, raising the more controversial planks in our platform such as innate racial differences and the right to racial discrimination. Several other commenters expressed support for this idea. On an earlier entry, Old Atlantic declared himself in favor of a “White America Party.”
I’m excited by this enthusiasm, particularly because I think that most of those who read this site are level-headed and intelligent people who would not suggest such a thing lightly and would set about the task capably. This is far from saying that I am confident of the project’s success. I have no experience with building a political party or anything like it, so I can’t evaluate the prospects intelligently.
Nevertheless, I wholeheartedly encourage this effort. If you succeed in creating a viable political party, you may change the course of American history. But even if you don’t succeed, you will gain valuable experience, knowledge, and skills from the attempt that may prove useful in some other context.
While I’m willing to help out with the work of creating a party, I would not wish to take a leading role in this effort even if I were asked to. First, if you create a party with “modest goals,” you should not associate it with me, as my thoroughly immodest goals are already a matter of public record and would discredit the party. Moreover, I believe the pro-white philosophy has enough intrinsic merit to be worth articulating and defending in its pure form even if it is too radical for the public now, so I will continue to devote most of my time to doing so. It may be that you have to tell the truth slant in order to be politically viable, but I believe that there is also a place for those who try to offer the world a direct view of truth’s superb surprise.
Many of you who are talking about creating a party are bloggers. I mean no offense, but I am very glad that you are considering devoting your energies to other tasks. This is not because I think your blogs are bad, but because there is a superfluity of pro-white opinion and news blogging these days—I sometimes even wonder whether my own work is superfluous. With so many excellent and informative pro-white sites, like American Renaissance, View from the Right, and VDARE, more work of this sort is of questionable value. Opinion blogging is interesting only if you have a novel perspective on the philosophy of our movement or novel information to share, as well as the time and energy to communicate your message effectively. Even if you can manage good opinion blogging, people are still likely to grow weary and impatient of endless discussion. What we need is more people trying to put our ideas to effect in political reality, and that is likely the best way for you to make a productive and interesting contribution.
One last thing: even if you found a party with “modest goals,” I recommend that you make combating leukophobia part of your platform. As Concerned’s activism on Howard Zinn demonstrates, anti-white slander today is so blatant and pervasive today that people are likely to respond sympathetically when you complain about it.