Connecticut Racism

[Douglas Mercer]

Douglas Mercer
November 3 2023

In Connecticut of late they are cowering in their attics apparently because they’ve had one of those rashes of racism you hear so much about, the spasms of Supremacy that White folks like to indulge in now and again. Really a more cowardly people is hard to imagine, and a more unimaginative people there has rarely been. What it really makes you think is what they would do if they ever got full-fledged and bona fide racism in their backyard? Or in their faces? How would they handle that? Probably run for cover and cry uncle at the first opportunity. But what they are experiencing is just the tip of the iceberg of what they have coming their way. These are just the first glimpses of what you get when you browbeat a people (White people) without cease or let. Eventually people get sick and tired of towing the prescribed line and they protest or blurt out what they are really thinking. When this bravura feeling becomes more widespread and more chronic it will form and gel into a movement. But for now the first evidence makes them shriek in horror as if some Brownshirts were patrolling the street and regulating. The over-the-top histrionics of it in the face of what is after all but the first stirrings is comic; and it tells you where their heads are; trying to head off at the pass what they can never ultimately control. And living in fear of what they must know in some dim recess is but a pale imitation of the real thing inevitably on the way.

“Residents of Bristol are standing up in the face of a string of racist incidents (October 15 2023). First, neo-Nazis gathered at a street corner with torches and a white supremacist banner in August. Then, the head of the town farmers market and member of the Rotary Club resigned after making racist social media posts. In late September, swastikas and racial slurs were found grafittied around town.”

That racist of the Rotary Club wasn’t all he was cracked up to be. He started off strong by saying that black people can’t be trusted (they can’t) and that the Democratic Leadership in this country should be tried and executed (all within the confines of the law), and that Whites can’t fix black culture (why would we want to?). That seems all to be rather moderate and reasonable but for some reason it set their teeth on edge. And of course exactly on cue the alleged malefactor did the infamous U Turn shuffle and about face and climb down claiming that his statements were “fat fingered” and he apologized for their insensitive nature. With racists such as that who needs anti-racists? This country used to get a better class of seat of your pants bigotry. For one instance Albert Johnson was a small-town newspaper editor from Washington State and was what you call a bar stool bigot. But when he came to lead the push against immigration in this country in the United States Congress he was feted by Madison Grant who took him to Cold Springs Harbor and whisked him around to the upper crust of Manhattan Society. When he was done Johnson was gratified that his untutored racism had proven to be totally avant-garde and cutting-edge science. Unlike today no toady apologies were forthcoming.

“Some residents of Bristol are still on edge after this series of racist incidents around town. Tony Lopes, a retired autopsy technician and one of the Diversity Council’s newest members, said after the events of the last few months, he felt called to stand up to racism and white supremacists. They don’t have a place here in Bristol, Lopes said. Several community members have asked the mayor Caggiano to condemn white supremacy. In August, Caggiano called racist social media posts from the former Rotary Club member very disturbing and said the individual would no longer be associated with the farmers market.”

They are all over this like white on rice—to lambaste Whiteness. Given what lies ahead for people like this the story is little more than a tempest in a teapot but they treat it like it’s a water volcano that’s about t blow and flood the town. Obviously this is not the first time someone has posted a symbol of National Socialism in their not so fair town because they already have a Diversity Council set up. Just for the record the city of Bristol was named after an English town befitting the Anglo-Saxon heritage of the place. The first settler was named Brownson not Garcia or Gonzales, had those been the first names the place would still be a barren wasteland riddled with diseases. Currently the place is 79 percent White, 17 percent greaser, 6 percent nigger and bringing up the rear 1 percent slope. Those are decent numbers, not great, but decent. And in this day and age almost unheard of. But that won’t stop the still clear majority of Whites from setting up councils specifically designed to thwart and vex them. The councils we used to have were Citizens Councils, meant to protect and defend White interests. We are the majority after all so why not? There was never anything wrong with taking our own side in life. And in the end it's the only thing that will save us. But this caterwauling at the drop of a hate about racism rashes, in addition to being downright embarrassing, will kill us in the end. After all if you are not fighting for yourself you are fighting for someone else.

“But Jaymie Bianca, chair of the city’s Diversity Council, said condemnation alone isn’t enough when the community feels unsafe. I feel like sometimes people just think they can say, Oh, we denounce hate, hate isn’t welcome here, she said. We not only need to say that we denounce white supremacy, but we need to have action. That action can include events, like an anti-racist speakers’ series, Bianca said, and the construction of a community center, where people from marginalized groups can come together and feel safe.”

Got to have that speaker series and they can bring in the furrowed browed slow-witted Congoids to rip the bark of the White man. They won’t have any points worth listening to but they can crib from the now exposed fraudster but top level anti-racist Ibram Kendi. They’ll talk all about ma-privilege and ma-supremacy and everyone will know what they mean. The kind of people they will bring to these events to stand up and lecture us are the kind of people who a few generations ago no sane White man would have let anywhere near any position of authority, and certainly no position where he had to use words to exhort, instruct, or persuade. These will be the kinds of people who in the old days would have been bringing up the rear in the janitorial service, maybe take out some trash or sweep up a bit and flash a toothy grin now and again but that’s about it. We used to pat the likes of them on the aforementioned fuzzy head and they caused no trouble. But now he will have his name printed up on flyers and a polite and scared audience of twenty fools no more intelligent than sacks of dried hair will listen to ominous mentions bias and affirmative ma action. Implicit bias might be a bit over his pay grade and his head because when he read about it once he did furrow his brow and scratched his fuzzy head and wondered to himself: what be ma-implicit? But ever given this signal lack of intellectual might by their lights they will take the White man’s funds on the back of yet another “nazi” rally and build that community center named after Harriet Tubman or John Lewis or Rosa Parks or some other nigger nonentity. And outside they will have a statue of those two nigger ladies who powered us to the moon or some generic darkie marching for his civil ma rights. And all the guilt ridden Whites and the greasers and the gooks and the blacks can gather together signing kumbaya or we shall overcome and try vainly to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony with the colored agenda. And they will say yet another round of the racism is upon them. An outbreak of berserker White price and a rash of domination and destiny. And they think that they will be safe there but it will be a very temporary fool’s paradise and they will possess not the slightest inkling that even as the darkie is speaking about that invisible knapsack the walls are closing in.

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Rockwell Park on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023 in Bristol, Conn. In September, a racial slur was written in chalk neat the skate park, just one incident in a series of recent racist and hate crime incidents in the city.

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New Bristol Diversity Council member Antonio Lopes speaks during a meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023 in Bristol, Conn. The council coordinates with City Departments and staff on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion best practices.

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Bristol Diversity Council Chair Jaymie Bianca leads a meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023 in Bristol, Conn. The council meets regularly, but has recently been addressing the string of hate incidents in the city.

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