The Rebirth Of Race

[Douglas Mercer]

Douglas Mercer
April 24 2023

A funny thing happened on way to post racial color-blind future. Against all expectations race was reborn and it's no surprise for anyone who has been paying attention; race is both the oldest and the most new, and the thin gruel of a content of your character world view will never satisfy. When we speak of civilization or culture or politics we speak of the delicacies; but when we begin to talk about race we go down into the mines.

In the decades following the Second World they really thought they had finally stuck the stake in the heart of race and that it would never be heard from again on this side of the vale. They were drooling over their newfound bogeyman Adolf Hitler, he had made racial thinking central to his movement, so now race thinking had been discredited, or at least that's what they told themselves to soothe the demons away. They truly thought that ideology had trumped race, that they had put an end to the concept of race, had put the supposedly evil genie back in the bottle, had bottled it up in the corner dead as a doornail from where it could never rear its ugly head. But a funny thing happened on the way to the one race human race future: race was reborn.

It was the era of desegregation, it was the era of pressure to end Apartheid, they had their UNESCO statement on race which said there were no races, and certainly no superior ones; it was the high-water mark and heyday of natural equality, of no innate differences, of countries based on paper and citizenship and never of blood. It was we are the worldism run amok, it was a time when they say we had put the racism of the past behind, where a mulatto could ascend to the Presidency and magically make the world post racial. It was a time when diversity was trumpeted as a universal cure all, and when White homelands became a lot less White; it was a time when Coca Cola could have a gaggle of cult like mixed raced youngsters tell us that they wanted the world to sing in perfect harmony. It was the time of bussing, it was the time when they got George Wallace to apologize, it was the time of the New South and of cities that were too busy to hate. It was the time of coming together, and a time when the White race learned to be humble. That is it was the time of all men are created equal and they were sure that race was a thing of the past.

They tried to consign race to oblivion, but it waited, and it brooded and it bided its time; and has now returned with a vengeance and with all of its old fury. That is a funny thing happened on the road to equality. Race was reborn.

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When the races were largely separate no one talked that much (if at all) about race. Race was something which they simply had, they lived in the perfect, primal innocence of race. But there was no language for race because none was needed. Like the fish in water race was something they swam in but could never really think about. This dearth of speaking about race leads race deniers today to say that the ancients were not interested in race--this of course is an historical misnomer, for what they had instead of tomes on race was race itself through and through.

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The original birth of White racial consciousness happened in roughly the 1830s. In America the abolition movement began to get more fanatical, and though the seat of the pants defense of slavery and White Supremacy had a long tradition the intellectuals of the South realized that more was needed. It was no longer enough just to dig in, and being gentleman they realized that a moral justification for White Supremacy was required. No longer was the "slavery is a necessary evil" line going to cut it, so they turned the tables and entered the promised land. Following the lead of the always brilliant John Calhoun they wrote and argued that slavery was a positive good. This was predicated on the obvious and important point that Whites and black were different, would always be different, and that this vast chasm of difference was based in nature. After this the fallacy of natural equality would never hold real water. In the American 1790 Naturalization act it was specified that only Whites could be citizens but in the subsequent decades no literature arose around this issue. But now White Southerners became voluble on the subject; so much so that a few decades later Stephen Douglas could say what everyone knew all along but had not been willing or able to put in so many words: that America was a White country, it was formed on the White basis, it was created by and for White people, and was for White people alone and was so for all time. Not only must no one else need apply, no one else had any rights the White man need ever respect.

Whiteness of course had always existed, but as is said nowadays the construction of Whiteness had taken wing, and a glorious day it was.

Simultaneously in Europe the landmark book by Count Gobineau (Essay On the Inequality Of The Race) was published. In one fell swoop the author cut though the morass of historical analysis. Economy, ideology, great men, climate, political structure, all were swept aside as historical factors and in its place came the linchpin: race. He was a race essentialist, and a racial reductionist, and argued that race was the bedrock of everything, that race was the master key to the master class of history, the Rosetta stone of life, the prism through which everything on earth could be understood when it cast its all-encompassing and golden light. When his former mentor the weak-minded Alexix de Tocqueville read his seminal book he said that Gobineau would go very far and do much harm. On the former he was correct on the latter he could not have been more wrong.

In Europe in the wake of Gobineu came Wagner, Chamberlain, de Lapouge. Back in America came the advent of Jim Crow, the eugenicists, the racially motivated 1924 Immigration Restriction Act, and the Virginia Racial Integrity Act of the same year. Everywhere in the White world Whites were waking up to the perils in their midst and were taking massive precautions to preserve their race, and doing it explicitly. Then of course came the Germans, the past masters of racial thinking. Alfred Rosenberg went so far to say that in its essence National Socialism was nothing more than applied biology. Race was king--until it was toppled from its throne.

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So vexed, spooked, and troubled by the race idea was the Regime that they pulled out every stop to stop it. With Hitler out of the way massive propaganda was poured into the idea that there were no races and that racial thinking was evil. Ideology and the reign of the "last man" (ie, the end of race history) was put forth as the prevailing norm. Of course it was a house of cards built on a sinking pile of sand and was destined to be blown over by the first good breeze. And so it came that a funny thing happened on the way to the post racial color blind world: race was reborn.

Of course epochal and seminal thinkers like Revil P Oliver and William Pierce plied their noble trade; the inheritors and perfecters of the ideas of Gobineau, Grant, Stoddard, and Hitler they sat atop the very apex of philosophy, with a totalizing and birds eye view of the world. Sitting at the pinnacle they cannot be surpassed. But in view of the demonization they underwent their ideas were never going to pierce the public sphere, save by secret osmosis. The irony is that their ideas were smuggled back to prominence by their enemies; the critical race theorists. Both they and us are what the color-blind ideologists cannot abide: race essentialists.

But race is essential. And it's an idea whose time came, went, but has now come again.

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Recently researchers at Brown and the University of Wisconsin did a study called Who Agrees With Hitler? What they did was give quotes from Hitler on Jews, Stephen Douglas on blacks, and from White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo. They found very quickly that all three sounded very much the same. Which of course is true because our implacable enemies in CRT are simultaneously our secret sharers. We all believe that not only does race matter but it is the only thing that matters. We are two sides of the same coin, one good (us) and one evil (them)--but the same coin nevertheless.

"The researchers found that sweeping claims about all members of certain demographic groups seem to be on the rise in some circles."

Indeed they are; it's what happens when the truth comes calling. So all those articles that talk about racism, all those seminars on "holding the weight of Whiteness", all those references to White Supremacy, all the Whiteness Studies papers that come out, all the schools that teach ethnic studies of critical race theory, all those mugs that go on television and bewail White privilege, all the books and paper on anti-racism, all of them we should welcome, for all of them are paradoxically good for us. They force the dialectic and heighten the contradictions. In a word they put the word White on everyone's lips and in everyone's ears and get people to begin to think of that magic word.

This is just the inevitable prelude to our victory, to the time when Oliver and Pierce finally prevail as prevail they must, for having heralded the truth.

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The conservatives and the middle of the road liberals who cling to the worn-out theory of one race the human race, of color-blindness, of a post racial utopia, are both out of their minds and are fighting a rear-guard action. Race is a magisterial subject and race is the hard rock and bedrock of reality, it masters everything because it is behind everything, it rules ideology, politics, culture, and civilization; everything is downstream from it. In the long future the last seventy odd years will be seen as an aberration, when people who felt that they were "singed by Hitler" stuck their heads in the sand and up in the clouds and convinced themselves and enough people that the most basic part of reality (race) was not only a fiction but an evil fiction. But nothing which ignores what is actual can ever survive or ever deserves to survive; at long last it will be the anti-racists and the racists who rise to the top for the final battle and anyone paying attention has to like our chances. Because for all of their insight into the fact that race is the linchpin and race is of the essence, our final enemies make the signal error of thinking that Whiteness is the cause of all problems, that it is the cancer of the world; when in fact it is the elixir, what will usher us into our halcyon and glory days; when not only race but the White race will be back in the saddle, a preeminent position from which is can and will never be dislodged.

[Jim Mathias]

Race is at the heart of all of the human species' affairs, true. Massive amounts of Jewish propaganda confuse the minds of millions on the subject. Overcoming the confusion of their propaganda takes an sharp mind, one that Mr. Mercer has.

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