Why America is the Least Racist Nation on Earth
Why America is the least racist nation on earth.
by
David Gottfried
Before I explain why America is one of the least racist nations on earth, I ought to note that for the most part my politics have been in left field. Also, I do not for an instant deny that America has a long and sordid history of racism. I do not for an instant deny that slavery, Jim Crow, repeated Lynchings, the denial of voting rights and the exclusion from all facets of civil life dealt an atrocious blow to black people. And I might add, parenthetically, that the contemporary brutalization, debasement and outright murder of black people, at the hands of the police, fills me with revulsion. So you cannot dismiss my remarks as the unschooled, Archie Bunkeresque rantings of a white racist or, as Hillary might say, an “irredeemable” and “deplorable.”
However, I cannot stand the attempt to paint America as the most racist nation on earth, which is what many black activists seem to enjoy doing. I suggest that a review of the historical record proves that America, or a facet of America at one time, was the least Racist society on earth.
Do not get me wrong: I am not a jingoist who applauds and lauds every aspect of America. I was sympathetic to the National Liberation Front and North Vietnam, and I think American capitalism has a febrile and rapacious temper that is often quite odious.
Now let us examine a key aspect of the historical record insofar as race in this county is concerned:
Hundreds of thousands of white Americans died in the Union Army. They fought a war to vanquish slavery. Of course, some people say that they only fought to save the union, but such talk is rubbish. Yes, they fought to quash Southern secession, but why did the South secede: Because it hated Lincoln because of his antipathy to slavery.
Traditionally, historians estimated that 360,000 Union Soldiers died. More recently, historian J David Hacker has said that number is 20 percent higher (please see the New York Times, April 2, 2012, an article by Guy Gugliotta.)
By the end of the war, about 10 percent of the Union Army consisted of black soldiers.
We can conclude that rivers of blood were shed by white Americans to free black Americans. Essentially America nearly killed itself because of white hatred for slavery
Americans did more for blacks than any other nation ever did for a minority group it persecuted or killed.
I’ll prove it. Let’s do some globetrotting:
How many Englishmen fought London because of the Oppression of the Irish? Very few or none.
How many Spaniards fought one another because they disputed the way they treated the Basques? Very few or none
How many Frenchman marched on Paris to vindicate the cause of the beleaguered French Protestants, the Huguenots? Very few or none.
How many Northern Italians rebelled against the nation because of the oppression of Southern Italians? Very few or none.
How many Germans or Poles or Russians or members of other European nations fought to protest the treatment of the Jews? Very few or none except for some Frenchmen, Danes, Swedes, and Englishman.
With regard to Eastern Europe, there has been so much killing, and in almost all instances the majority group never questioned the legitimacy of their policy of gore, dismemberment and barbarism. The Poles merrily murdered Ukrainians and Russians and Ukrainians joyfully butchered Poles and Russians. The Baltics have a special penchant for persecuting Russians. The Germans thought the Slavs should be their slaves. The Russians have decided that the Polish people make a nice punching bag. And of course, everyone hates the Jews. In their infinite stupidity, they have massacred Jews because they decided to harbor the delusion that Jews used the blood of gentile babies to make Matzah. I am surprised that they haven’t embellished their legend with the belief that the Jews are behind Vampirism.
Let’s go South:
How many Iranians, Iraqis, Turks or Syrians rebelled against their nations for their mistreatment of the Kurds? Very few or none.
How many Turks rebelled against their government when the Ottoman empire committed genocide against the Armenians? Very few or none.
Have you ever heard of Egyptians protesting the oppression of the Christian Coptic minority? Of course not.
Have you ever heard of any Muslim country where more than an infinitesimal number of Muslims protested the pervasive and often deadly persecution of Jews, Christians and Hindus? What a silly question.
How many Arabs fought other Arabs to protest the persecution of the Christian Maronites in Lebanon? No, no one ever talks about that. When they talk about Lebanon, they only bash Israel.
And how many black African nations opted to intervene in Darfur to stop the slaughter of Black people in Darfur by the lighter skinned Arabs? And when, in the mid 90’s, about half a million blacks died in the slaughter between Hutus and Tutsis, how many black African nations saw fit to do a damn thing? None of them. And, in some black African nations, which we are told are lands of home-spun mother wit and good sense because, as the Clintons advised us, there is an African saying that “it takes a village to raise a child,” victorious African tribes do not merely kill their enemies; they disembowel them and use their intestines as a necklace.
I could go East, but I don’t want to overwhelm you with too much material.
In any event, as the poet Shelly and Mick Jagger have stated, the world is but a charnel house. People are constantly murdering people with abandon and the overwhelming majority of people are blithely oblivious to the omnipresent stench of death. However, America bears the noble honor of being perhaps the only nation on earth where hundreds of thousands died to, as the old civil war anthem goes, make men free.
And so, in conclusion I say to the hordes of ahistorical, squealing half-wits who become orgasmic when a simpleton on MSNBC utters the dullest, least imaginative platitudinous prose about American racism, shove it deep.