Those who look to blame a group of people for the demise of American ethnic nationalism should instead blame the rise of cultural homogeneity.  When the cultural lines of religion, language and attitude approximately split along racial lines, then racial nationalism was convenient.  However, racial nationalism ended in America as soon as the non-whites became assimilated into American culture.  In a nation of immigrants, no group really has a “right” to declare itself indigenous; not the Anglo-Saxons from Britain and not the Native Americans from Siberia.  Multi-nationalism is actually widely viewed as the logical outcome of an experimental “nation of immigrants” like America.  It has been taken to an extreme, to the point where whiteness is a dirty a word, but it is, in moderation, the conventionally held logical outcome of the American state, even in the days of the founders.  While discrimination was often used in the awarding of citizenship, never was it a goal to build a white nation from Ocean to Ocean and PHYSICALLY throw out every Indian and Negro in the process.  Because that was never the goal, it cannot be argued that white nationalism existed in America.

Many racialists are abnormally fixated on Jews and attempt to accuse Jews of hypocrisy, arguing that they support Israel as an ethnostate but not America.  What they forget about is that ethnostates for European ethnic groups already exist – in Europe – and America itself was never set up as an ethnic state in any way except for the pragmatic exclusion of granting CITIZENSHIP (but not residence) to most non-whites during warfare with Indians and Agrarian Slave-Driven economies.  Chinese Immigration was banned at one point pre-1960, due to competition with local workers, but that was a national issues; never was Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Cambodian immigration banned (though citizenship was limited).  Such a thing as a “Free Black” always existed, various Indian tribes allied with the warring British and French colonialists when convenient, and Mongoloid Native Americans in the Spanish colonies mixed sexually with Southern Europeans Spaniards.  To call the American Continent (or even the American country) a one way racialist street that was derailed by Jews is a flat out joke and I laugh at anyone who takes the idea seriously.  Even the South had Blacks and Whites living closely to each other, even in the same households and plantations, just at a general different level of status.  At the time period between the fall of the Confederacy, the Reconstruction and the rise of the first Era Ku Klux Klan (which did not target Jews and Catholics), Blacks, at the hands of Yankees, actually temporarily ruled over the South.  If you do not believe me, then watch The Birth of a Nation.

The ideal was always to shed the American of his/her European skin, as Benjamin Franklin remarked, it was just that differences in culture with regards to Blacks and Indians prevented the full advancement of this ideal.  In terms of “who was white,” the definition was actual very liberal, including every Caucasoid group except for Asian Indians, even if immigration was controlled.  As soon as the culture of American imperialism became salient in non-whites as well as whites, the mild racialist legislation of America was repealed.  Subsequently, this liberal imperialism was militarily spread around the world in the name of “democracy.”  Not to mention, George Washington spoke openly in support of Sephardic Jewry, but that is a whole different issue (Ashkenazi Jews had not yet arrived).

As for the question of whether Jews have pushed racial liberalism as a group?  The answer is “Yes!”  However, it would have been more of a surprise, considering general American attitudes, if they did not do as they did!  The micro trend of Jewish attitudes did not largely contradict the macro culture and direction that the country was moving in, Jews or no Jews.  If one looks, one will find no European ethnic group that is consistently against Civil Rights.  In addition, one will even find minority European groups such as the Irish Catholics (including the Kennedy’s) who involved themselves in the Government at the time the legislation was passed.  If Jews can be charged with the accusation of using disproportionate influence as a minority to pass civil rights, then they cannot be charged exclusively and uniquely.

Needless to say, I argue AGAINST the American ideal and support ethnic tribalism like the Middle East does and to a lesser extent Eastern and Southern Europe do.  I view ethnic tribalism as irreconcilable with classic Americanism and that is where American internet racialists go wrong.  There needs to be a new order in America for true tribalism to rise, not a nostaligia for the America before the Civil Rights legislation and Immigration laws of the 1960s.  One cannot go back to the past, neither is it ideal to go back to the past.  Ethnic awareness must reinvent itself in a futuristic way.

Tags: america, Ethnicity and Race, Forest, Jews, Scapegoat, Trees

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