Despite the best efforts of many Tea Party leaders to keep the movement focused on fiscal issues and put minorities and anti-racist conservatives in charge, the Tea Parties are beginning to touch on dangerous territory.
by Samuel J. Philips
White advocates are the most despised minority in the world. Throughout the post-West, “racist” is used as a slur by both conservatives and progressives. Even loose affiliations with proscribed figures or organizations can doom a political career. The vast majority of whites, out of fear, desire for conformity, or sincere conviction, believe that “racism” is a sin perhaps only rivaled by murder. Racism may actually be worse, as even serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer thought it was important that people knew he was no racist and didn’t choose his victims for that reason. If it is suspected that you are a racist, family members, friends, and colleagues may shun or even attack you. Even the most capable and effective of the few spokesmen for white advocacy are either smeared or ignored by the mainstream media.Nonetheless, white advocates dominate political discourse in the United States today. Almost every issue, movement, and political figure is analyzed not on its own terms, but as a possible indicator of white racial consciousness and explicit white political mobilization.