People in the dissident right are fond of quoting Singapore\u2019s first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew as saying, “In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion.”\u00a0 Now I understand the rationale when it comes to a place like Singapore.\u00a0 The cultural and social views of the Chinese, Malay and Indian populations are strikingly different and in a zero-sum game where losing means living in a society that would be highly antagonistic to your way of life, I could see how voting your \u201crace\u201d would be critical.<\/p>\n
But how would that relate to the United States?\u00a0 It seems to me that the popular culture is currently so strange to me that it couldn\u2019t get any stranger if this became a Latino or Chinese majority society.\u00a0 But in fact, what I notice is that younger, assimilated Latino and Asian Americans mimic the same weird standard culture that their white American friends use.\u00a0 All of them use a sort of hip-hop patois that seems to have been formulated on TikTok or some product manufacturer like Nike.\u00a0 Well, I can\u2019t imagine anything more alienating than that.\u00a0 So, I\u2019m not sure what I should expect from the majority minority (or is it minority majority) future we\u2019re waiting on.\u00a0 In fact, because the worst proponents of anti-white bigotry all seem to be really pasty white, I can\u2019t make up my mind how I want to fit into this scary future.<\/p>\n
My experience has been that most of the problems with minorities in the parts of American life that I have had experience with occurred because the government (or schools or corporations) run by white people decided that affirmative action was a good idea.\u00a0 Even in the terrible situation we find ourselves in today with the urban black underclass committing unsustainable levels of property and violent crime we could still improve our situation immeasurably if we just put an end to all forms of affirmative action and reestablished equal treatment under the law for everyone by getting rid of all the protected classes we\u2019ve invented.<\/p>\n
But what about the idea that I am better off sticking with my own kind?\u00a0 The truth is my own kind doesn\u2019t exist.\u00a0 I\u2019m a mutt.\u00a0 Both my parents\u2019 ancestors came from Southern Italian stock.\u00a0 There is absolutely nothing standard about that population.\u00a0 Just within my siblings I have a mixture of blue, hazel and dark brown eyes.\u00a0 Hair (where it still exists and isn\u2019t gray) is either dirty blond or close to black.\u00a0 Skin color varies from very light to olive.\u00a0 There are tall and short people and a whole slew of intellectual and personality traits exhibited.\u00a0 I grew up in an Italian ghetto of Brooklyn.\u00a0 But my neighbors included Irish, Jewish, Polish and Russian people and to be honest it wasn\u2019t like the Italians were some quantum leap closer to me personally than the other types.\u00a0 In fact, in grade school, my two closest friends were a German kid with ash blond hair and a kid whose parents were Irish and Italian.\u00a0 A lot of the Italian kids I knew in the neighborhood (not all of them of course) wanted to be mafiosi.\u00a0 Later on, they found out the hard way that they weren\u2019t.\u00a0 But they wanted to be and this made them extremely unpleasant neighbors.<\/p>\n
Now growing up in Brooklyn in that time I was well aware that there were black and Latino neighborhoods where I shouldn\u2019t go.\u00a0 These were dangerous because the inhabitants were welfare recipients that existed in a lawless environment.\u00a0 But as I grew up, I went to school with and worked with black and Latino New Yorkers that were just regular people doing their jobs.\u00a0 Some of them I got along with and some I didn\u2019t.\u00a0 A lot like the various varieties of \u201cwhite\u201d people I lived among.<\/p>\n
And in the engineering field over the last thirty some-odd years I have worked with lots of Indian and Chinese people.\u00a0 Like their white counterparts some were good people and some were real jerks.\u00a0 But once again, all the trouble I\u2019ve seen surrounding them has had to do with attempts to satisfy affirmative action.\u00a0 In fact, the most egregious cases seemed to be attempts to have women, mostly white women (and strangely mostly blonde white women) promoted above their levels of competence.\u00a0 So once again this reinforces my thoughts about affirmative action.<\/p>\n
So, to drive this home, who are my people?\u00a0 Are they random white people that include most of the woke young people?\u00a0 Are they Americans of Southern Italian ancestry?\u00a0 To be honest, I think my people are people who identify with the culture that was forged in mid-twentieth century America.\u00a0 They grew up believing that they could raise their families in an America that was based on working for a living and obeying the rules.\u00a0 It was a simple place where regardless of race or ethnicity they respected the Founding Fathers for setting up the Constitution that guaranteed us freedoms and allowed us to live together without chaotic violence or poverty.<\/p>\n
Of course, opening up the borders to millions of poor immigrants that won\u2019t be assimilated into the American culture is an obvious disaster that must be stopped.\u00a0 But the problems have been purposefully exacerbated by the Democrats and their shock troops like Antifa and BLM.\u00a0 Now that the Supreme Court has begun reversing some of the affirmative action judicial decisions maybe things can get straightened out.\u00a0 And after the borders are closed and the illegals sent home things can get back to normal.\u00a0 Or maybe they won\u2019t.<\/p>\n
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But honestly, I still feel that anyone can be on my team if he just tries to follow the rules and doesn\u2019t tell me I\u2019m the cause for all his problems because my skin is a light shade.\u00a0 Anyone who can\u2019t accommodate those two things isn\u2019t on my side.\u00a0 So, I hate to say it but my identity is American.\u00a0 I hope that doesn\u2019t sound too lame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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