Paul Craig Roberts surveys the circumstances of the white, heterosexual, able-bodied male – the WHAM – still surprisingly numerous out there in remote Middle America.
By Paul Craig Roberts
If you are a white heterosexual able-bodied male (WHAM), you need to understand that affirmative action is not about leveling a playing field. It is about leveling you.
You need to comprehend, also, that you are already pretty much leveled. Even the most recent immigrant from the Third World arrives in the U.S. with more legal rights than you or your sons have. As a “person of color” the immigrant is admitted to universities and job-training programs on the basis of lower standards than are applied to you. He has the right to be hired and promoted ahead of you despite lesser qualifications for the job. He can sue you for discrimination for a variety of reasons—for example, you don’t want to hire him, make him a bank loan, or rent him your house. But you cannot sue him for the same reasons. He can call you names, but you can’t call him names. His special legal status is growing as politicians pandering to him create new crimes that only he can suffer and only you can commit. His special rights are based on skin color. His official designation is “preferred minority.” He is a member of a new aristocracy with status-based rights. He is learning to see his preferred legal position as a race-based entitlement.
You may say, “Baloney! We WHAMs outnumber the minorities. We have all the power, money and best jobs. These Third World types work in McDonalds and clean our homes while we pull in the big bucks.” This is, for the most part, true. For now. But the fact remains that he has superior legal status to you. It is just a matter of time before he learns to use his superior legal standing to displace you.Indeed, you are already a smaller percentage of the population than you think. Many WHAMs—those in college and university faculties, media, entertainment, the Democratic Party, public employee unions, the bar association, the ACLU, and corporate executives—have allied themselves with preferred minorities. Moreover, these WHAM allies of minorities live mainly in urban areas where there are large concentrations of preferred minorities. In the last election, the urban vote in a relatively few counties matched the vote of the rest of the country and gave Al Gore a chance to steal the presidency.
Homosexual and disabled white males also vote against you. The latter have achieved preferred status and homosexuals are demanding it.
Feminists have split many white heterosexual women from you. It has become dangerous for a WHAM to marry. Laws have changed out from under you. You can be blameless, but your wife can walk away with another man, your children, half of your property and pension and a good chunk of your earnings for many years to come. If you resist, your wife may hit you with child abuse charges. You will not get a fair trial. Police sex crime units, desperate for cases to justify budgets that feminists have put in place, will use the charges to send you off to prison.
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