In
response to David Livingstone Smith's provocative editorial ((linked at the bottom) "Fighting
hate is a losing battle" in the September 3, 2017 issue of the Sunday Globe I am perplexed by what he attempts to say.
The
main objection I have is that he offers no remedy of what to do about
the so called "Alt Right" whites who are upset by those "other" human
beings who are allegedly at the heart of their grievances and a threat
to their white power "heritage.” He gives one no idea of what to do
about the white majority who have perceived grievances against not only
one but various minorities because of an ascribed status those
minorities cannot change. The concepts behind white power anger against
their perceived offenders is often times demonstrably false.
Hate
put forth by the Alt Right including nationalists, the KKK or American
Nazis may be because of alleged grievances but it is hate nonetheless.
There are different kinds of hate or, for the purposes of this article,
grievances by them some of which not only cry out for verbal opposition
but demand fervent action against them as well. There are reasons
behind white hate, yes, but they are, more often than not, consummately
wrong at best if not insane at worst.
Nazis
did, in fact, hate Jews simply for being Jews which we know has a long
history in Europe sometimes entitled the longest hatred and tried to
enact the harshest most sadistic punishment possible on them because of
an ascribed status no Jew could change. It was not simply unjust
treatment of Jews it was, in fact, murder of them. It was not only
unfair but it was lethal. The number of six million Jewish dead at the
hands of Nazis has been scrupulously documented often by Nazis
themselves and it speaks for itself. What is a Jew in America to do
when he views white men parading like Nazis at night with Tiki Torches
and with swastika flag in tow? Perhaps just yawn? I think not.
Persons
of color in this nation were thought of by whites who owned them more
than simply chattel but an inferior subclass of human who could be
treated any way the white owner wished. The fate of the unlucky black
child whose only sin was to be born black and the harsh future that
awaited him/her was predetermined at birth by something they could not
change. The injustice perpetrated on blacks in this nation, too, for
three centuries has screamed out for opposition, demanded fervent action
and still does.
Relegating
various minority groups to submission to the dictates of a white
majority is not only noxious and unfair it is also life-threatening.
Whites have not been a minority and are not now a minority. They are the
majority. Statistics of prosperity, generally, among white men do not
lie. They do, on the whole, quite well.
This
nation was founded by human beings who did not want to be treated
unfairly by a tyrant. Emma Lazarus's poem on Lady Liberty that says
"give me your tired your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe
free ..." means something and requires us to reject hate which is what
is the product of the oppositional grievance and promulgated by those
white men who have for three centuries had it all.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/08/29/smith/j5F9Mf4ZqPohu4oxC6stTP/story.html
