This post began as an email reply to Benjamin Galbraith's A Diversity of Whiteness essay. |
Most minority empowerment before the death of Martin Luther King Jr was about allowing minorities full access to the monoculture, to the economy. Around the time of MLK's death, a new American Left was coincidentally coming into existence. This was a critical mass of ( usually white ) academics or pop visionaries. They were opportunists in a wave of truly experimental sonic exploration and widespread use of somatic drugs. While it should be kept in mind that the FBI, Nixon, and the assassins of Kennedys and MLK where mean people supporting an unfair status quo; it is also plausible that the new American Left was prone to societal abuse because of their distance (per their professions) from such mundane pragmatics as running a Fire Department or building durable Interstate bridges. In short, the new American Left lacked exposure to the practical, making the development of their ideas prone to pathos, prone to malformations, prone to deformations.
When this Postmodern Left took on the fight for minorities, they locked those minorities out of engineering schools, medical schools, and running the Fire Department. To the new Left, those schools are superficial manifestations of the disease. The "disease" is the monocultural economy. This new Postmodern Left had a case of very fundamental worship of a horrible, white, romantic idea from earlier centuries -the noble savage. The Postmodern Left assumes non-whites of the world are better, always, because, always, they are more strongly bonded with something humans did 10,000 years ago. In short the Postmodern Left believes the dark skinned person is always more savage, and that savagery is always better. (Equally despicable, the Postmodern Right equate the same as always savage and that savage is always worse.)
Fortunately this idealization called "noble savage" doesn't really map onto the world I've seen. From my experience in life, the world is full of many people that are the top candidates for engineering schools, medical schools, and the Fire Department. An inconvenient truth for the KKK, myself the white guy, and the Postmodern Left is most of these top candidates are East African, Vietnamese, Indian, Arabian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.
This fact about the real world castrates every hateful scumbag KKK member, and every loving scumbag Postmodern Left revolutionary.
And like everyone that is castrated, the KKK types and the Postmodern Left won't have representatives later in this century.
For anyone noticing the excitement around Senator Obama, here is a label to put on that excitement: He is representative of the minorities I speak of, and the symbolic demise of the Postmodern Left and Right. He is the rise of a Postmodern Center, with the discussion of minority inclusion or exclusion negated by a real world asserted over privileged people's idealizations.
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