Quote# 58732
Two points to be made:
Why are so many successful "Blacks" obviously mixed race - Bob Marley, Condileeza Rice, Colin Powell, Tiger Woods, Lewis Hamilton, and now Barack Obama? Put any of these next to real Africans and they almost look White!
What the US Election shows is that while Blacks have a fully developed racial consciousness and are proud of themselves regardless of achievement, Whites can be divided into:
(1) Racially conscious and proud (10%)
(2) Racially conscious and guilty (40%)
(3) Racially "subconscious" (40-50%)
(4) Racially unconscious (0-10%)
In the US Election, Group 1 voters were present in large numbers in the old South, where the White vote held up. Many of these people know Blacks and even like them, but still clearly identify with their own and are proud of it,
When polled Group 2 have a tendency to say they will vote for the non-White candidate and then not vote for him (Bradley effect) but many of them will vote for a non-White candidate out of sheer guilt and inverted racism, especially is the other candidate is poor (as was the case in this election).
Group 3 like to think of themselves as beyond racism and look down on the other groups, yet, strangely enough, you can find many of this group living in all-White neighbourhoods, going to all-White churches, sending their kids to largely White schools, and associating mainly with Whites or the occasional non-White who acts 'White.' They are acting as if they had White consciousness, which they do but at the subconscious level.
Since racial consciousness is a natural thing, Group 4 people are usually those with extremely low IQs or those who have damaged their minds beyond repair with drugs or alcohol, having reduced themselves to a point where the normal parameters of human identity no longer have any meaning.
Karl Baxter,
BNP 22 Comments [2/14/2009 5:35:57 AM]
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