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Why do they hate us? (White rage)
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CULLED FROM:
Jamaica Gleaner Online Email Edition
for Thursday | February 8, 2007
Why do they hate us? (White rage)
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070208/cleisure/cleisure3.html
published: Thursday | February 8, 2007
by Melville Cooke
After the attacks on America on September 11, 2001, George Bush led the
way in asking and then answering the question written in the dust of the
World Trade Center's towers and inked in the blood of those who jumped
from 80 floors up, choosing to fly home rather than burn.
Why do they hate us? (Whoever 'they' is).
It is a question that I suspect he had more answers to than the ones he
gave as he held up Lady Liberty's torch as a beacon of freedom that the
forces of darkness wished to douse. I do not, however, have a clue why
white people hate my skin colour so much.
While I could point to the United Sates' unwavering support of Israel's
brutal treatment of the Palestinian people and the overthrow of Iran's
democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 as two
legitimate reasons for well-thinking persons of that region to despise
the hypocrisy of the United States, I cannot identify one single
incident why those white people who really have clout hate my skin
colour so much.
Unrelenting
There is this rage, this white rage, towards black people which is
consistent and unrelenting, which is as individual as a black body
swaying under a tree (Strange Fruit, Lewis Allan - a Jew, incidentally -
wrote and Billie Holiday sang) while a sea of white faces looks up and
as all-encompassing in apartheid South Africa or the initial refusal of
drug companies to allow cheaper versions of AIDS drugs to be provided to
Africans.
This rage is not, of course, universal to every single white person and,
in one of the more bitter ironies of the racial divide, the Caucasians
who have cause to be consistently physically closest to blacks are often
the ones without the persistent prejudice, the reserved rage. But they
are not, in the final analysis, the ones who make the real decisions.
The ninth edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines a 'white lie'
as "a harmless or trivial untruth". There is no definition for 'white
rage', but since a lie is a lie is a lie, I have taken the liberty of
making a substitution in the meaning of 'white lie' to define 'white
rage' as 'harmless or trivial anger'. Which it is not, of course, but
these days on the face of it is a polite rage, seemingly harmless or
even non-existent.
Why lynch a black man when you can simply fail him in the school system?
He will be killed by another frustrated black man or the police, anyway,
or simply live as an example of a race's failure.
The cruelest irony of this white rage, which is not restricted to black
people but seems most harshly directed at we darkest of the
darker-skinned races, is that it is the whites who have been the
initiators.
From the sailing of the SS Jesus of Lubeck as the flagship of the first
fleet in West India Slave Trading Company through to the partition of
Africa, Jim Crow laws in the southern U.S. and apartheid in South Africa
(which is not yet over), it is the white people who have raged against
the blacks, with sporadic and often futile reaction.
Still, I am yet to know the source of that initial hate.
I do have a theory about the continued prejudice, though. A rapist, I
understand, almost invariably hates to see his victim after the deed. He
hates the evidence of his guilt and shame in the flesh (in more ways
than one). Similarly, the raging whites prefer to be politely vengeful
against the descendants of their cruelty rather than consider their
race's behaviour the nadir of human decency.
And instead of responding as we should with black rage, we still ask:
what did we do to you in the first place, to stir this white rage?
Next week: The low black standard.
Melville Cooke is a freelance writer.
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