For list members who would like to see a very
politically incorrect book well worth reading,
I recommend The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad.
This hard-hitting book, a brilliant defense of
white trash, kicks the hell out of every liberal
illusion out there and gets down to the bare
naked truth I understood 35 years ago: what
we have in this country is primarily a problem
of class injustice, not race injustice.
The dewey-eyed airhead liberals, no more than
servants of the capitalist ruling class, encourage
blacks to blame the common white man for everything
in order to keep the heat off the real enemy.
Rednecks, hillbillys, and trailer park white
trash have been set up as the new scapegoats.
I have known this for years, but Goad's book gives
me a lot more substance than I had before seeing
it.
Goad makes the historical case that most white
Americans are little more than descendants of
Europe's social refuse who sent them to the New
World as a convenient dumping ground. For the
most part, our white ancestors weren't slave
owners and exploiters. On the contrary, most of
the white arrivals to the New World in the 1600s
and 1700s were themselves convicts or white
slaves ("indentured servants.") Yet blacks and
Indians are now being encouraged to hate the
common white man for "stealing our land" and
"enslaving our ancestors." Such rubbish of course
is just the same old divide-and-rule strategy the
true oppressors have used to stay in power since
the day one.
Here's a good sample of Goad's hard-hitting
prose:
Harriet Beecher Stowe, authoress of Uncle
Tom's Cabin, would have been a white liberal
were she alive today. Her problem wasn't that
she criticized black slavery in the South, it
was that she was a wealthy New England society
chippie who ignored all the mangled white
factory workers and bruised white kiddie laborers
huddled right outside the debutante ball. She
was a Northern aristocrat who scolded Southern
aristocrats for how they treated their under-
class, yet she defecated on the underclass in
her own hometown.
Stowe toured Great Britain in 1853 and was
hosted by the Duchess of Sutherland, another
wickedly wealthy white salon lady who habitually
hoisted tea and crumpets on behalf of Negrowth
and Afrocharity. After her trip, Stowe called
the Sutherland family 'enlightened.' This must
be what she meant: Starting back in 1811, the
Southerlands had begun a systematic expulsion
of the Scottish peasantry who'd lived for
centuries on common lands. Out of a disputed
800,000 acres, the Sutherlands claimed 794,000
for themselves. They hired British police to
forcibly drive out the aboriginal Scots and
burn their homes. One elderly woman was torched
alive while still in her hut. Peasants were
being beaten and set adrift. Many starved to
death. The Sutherlands' brand of enlightenment
created fifteen thousand homeless people and
replaced them with sheep. It was very altruistic
for the Duchess of Sutherland to shed tears over
black slavery in the American South when she had
raped her own peasantry. She would have been a
white liberal, too.
I'm sure that I'll be denounced as a "white
chauvinist" for this, but Goad's book ought to
be required reading for every airhead pseudo-
left politically correct pretentious Gore-
loving liberal in America -- including the ones
on this list !
~ Michael Wright
Norman, Oklahoma
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