Can be read in full here:
Tim Wise ? An Open Letter to the White Right, On the Occasion of Your Recent, Successful Temper Tantrum
Thoughts?
I personally don't care for his style (too histrionic IMO), but I think the substance of what he is saying is true.
Especially on social issues - something like gay marriage, for example, is an inevitability, and so long as the Right wants to align itself with this losing cause, it will continue to alienate new generations of voters who no have grown up without the prejudices of their parents. And those voters, over the next several decades will age and become older and will form the voting block, which they as youth, do not.
The American right is on the wrong side of just about every social issue, and they think that they can continue to be this way with impunity. They are virulently anti-immigrant, their message has inherently failed with nearly every minority community and they don't seem to care or ask themselves why. They do so at their own peril.
Tim Wise ? An Open Letter to the White Right, On the Occasion of Your Recent, Successful Temper Tantrum
I know, you think you’ve taken “your country back” with this election — and of course you have always thought it was yours for the taking, cuz that’s what we white folks are bred to believe, that it’s ours, and how dare anyone else say otherwise — but you are wrong.
You have won a small battle in a larger war the meaning of which you do not remotely understand.
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It is coming, and soon.
This isn’t hubris. It isn’t ideology. It is not wishful thinking.
It is math.
Not even advanced math. Just simple, basic, like 3rd grade math.
The kind of math that proves how your kind — mostly older white folks beholden to an absurd, inaccurate, nostalgic fantasy of what America used to be like — are dying.
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And in the pantheon of American history, conservative old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.
Fine, keep it up. It doesn’t matter.
Because you’re on the endangered list.
And unlike, say, the bald eagle or some exotic species of muskrat, you are not worth saving.
In forty years or so, maybe fewer, there won’t be any more white people around who actually remember that Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, Opie-Taylor-Down-at-the-Fishing Hole cornpone bullshit that you hold so near and dear to your heart.
There won’t be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won’t be any more white folks around who actually remember them, and so therefore, we’ll be able to teach about them accurately and honestly, without hurting your precious feelings, or those of the so-called “greatest generation” — a bunch whose white contingent was top-heavy with ethical miscreants who helped save the world from fascism only to return home and oppose the ending of it here, by doing nothing to lift a finger on behalf of the civil rights struggle.
It’s OK. Because in about forty years, half the country will be black or brown. And there is nothing you can do about it.
Nothing, Senõr Tancredo.
Nothing, Senõra Angle, or Senõra Brewer, or Senõr Beck.
Loy tiene muy mal, hijo de Puta.
And by then you will have gone all in as a white nationalist movement — hell you’ve all but done that now — thus guaranteeing that the folks of color, and even a decent size minority of us white folks will be able to crush you, election after election, from the Presidency on down to the 8th grade student council.
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We just have to be patient.
And wait for you to pass into that good night, first politically, and then, well…
Do you hear it?
The sound of your empire dying? Your nation, as you knew it, ending, permanently?
Thoughts?
I personally don't care for his style (too histrionic IMO), but I think the substance of what he is saying is true.
Especially on social issues - something like gay marriage, for example, is an inevitability, and so long as the Right wants to align itself with this losing cause, it will continue to alienate new generations of voters who no have grown up without the prejudices of their parents. And those voters, over the next several decades will age and become older and will form the voting block, which they as youth, do not.
The American right is on the wrong side of just about every social issue, and they think that they can continue to be this way with impunity. They are virulently anti-immigrant, their message has inherently failed with nearly every minority community and they don't seem to care or ask themselves why. They do so at their own peril.