On Larry Elder being called the new face of white supremacy.
Toe the line Larry! Kowtow! Don’t be independent, don’t think for yourself, don’t accomplish things on your own. Listen to “the leadership”. Be a good boy. That’s what they’re telling him he needs to do to avoid being a race traitor, a house negro, and so many of the other things he’s been called in public and private. But he seems to be determined not to listen, maybe even a little petulant and defiant. But who wouldn’t be? Still, it’s not a small thing to see yourself labeled in print as the face of something so despised by your friends and family.
On the upside, “white supremacy” in this case seems to be code for competence, timeliness, order, law, math, liberal government, rationality, and personal responsibility, so if Larry is the new face of those things that’s pretty sweet for him. I think it’s disgusting and racist to claim that those things are in any way “white”, but they are supreme.
Maybe that makes me a white supremacist too, according to the rules of Larry’s accusers. And I certainly hope to lay claim and loyalty to as many of these things as I could. But then I would never claim they were “white”, or in any way were a special possession of whites. I’m pretty sure virtually all races and cultures across time would agree with me, too, since they have sought and possessed them quite a bit. Unfortunately, some truly sick and confused people are claiming that, that competence and understanding are somehow uniquely white and white supremacist. So what can you do except own the label?
If that’s what white supremacy is, then we are all white supremacists, because everyone in the world knows that certain things are useful and powerful and wants to make use of them.
How did China achieve its power, or Japan, or the Babylonians or Persians? Did the Aztecs build their ziggurats and align them like a celestial calendar by ignoring timing and careful planning and preciseness and study? Were Stonehenge and the Great Wall built by ignorance and impulse? Did the Spanish aquire the rudder and compass by ignoring the value of universally useful things to be learned and acquired from other cultures? Did the Arabs shun Plato for being Greek, did Newton shun Archimedes for siding with the Cathaginians? Has anyone here studied the kingdoms of Ethiopia, or the wisdom of the Yoruba? They’re built on the same universal values that we’re being told underlie “white supremacy”.
Civilization is a collective story we’ve all participated in. It’s not some “white” project. It couldn’t have come to be what it is if it weren’t for the willingness of people all over the world to listen and share and recognize the practical use and wisdom of certain ideas, regardless of where they originated.
You can resent the fact that some European nations made use of this willingness to achieve some success, but it’s not as if they were the first or only ones, nor will they be the last or only ones. Fortunes rise and fall and kingdoms rise and fall in keeping with the willingness and ability of a civilization to keep its eyes open and mind clear and heart from corruption. Attacking the basis of universal power for all civilizations will only hasten the decline of your own, and most swiftly on those who you try to lead against it.
Black people in America are, for better or worse, the most wealthy and successful people of African descent to have ever existed. There are titans of American civilization who are black. They have a huge influence on the culture, and on world culture, because America is so successful and influential. That’s objectively awesome, if your main concern is counting team wins. If you pull all that down, that place where all this was achieved, you might not like the remaining options and opportunities.
As bad as “white” civilization has been to everybody, it has also afforded everybody the most opportunities for wealth, success, and freedom that have ever existed. The default outside of that civilization, which isn’t white but is actually pan-human, isn’t something even better where everybody naturally becomes amazing now that “white supremacy” is gone. What you get is a lack of supremacy for everyone, universal poverty.
Or, more likely, because people would never leave such useful tools on the table, if white people convince themselves to abandon the tenants of “white supremacy”, some other civilization that isn’t white will simply pick them up and use them for themselves and dominate the world. Good math kicks ass. Archimedes proved that thousands of years ago with his compound pulley demonstration. Close and careful reasoning and study and planning and education and conscientiousness and dedication and self-control give you power.
That’s not a white truth. That’s the message of every culture ever, except the stupid one we’re indulging right now in Western democracies today. And these academics and professionals are clearly using them to achieve their own success while preaching against them to their own people. What kind of scam is that? What sort of traitors are these? Those race prophets are the real racial traitors, not Larry Elder. A true friend is honest with you and tells you the same truths that they live by.
P. S.
I remember as a kid reading the wisdom from the Old Testament and Greek myths. I have books at home covering Arabic, Roman, Chinese, Yoruba, Nahautl, French, German, Egyptian, Danish, Persian, Indian, Irish and Hungarian stories, that are chock full of their values and wisdom. And of course, before every story, they all say “and this only applies to and belongs to us”.
The advice of Solomon that “whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly,” was of course just for Jews, a feature of Jewish supremacy. That’s why everybody else ignored it and never said anything similar or repeated it. That’s why Marcus Aurelius was at such pains to explain that the advice in his Reflections only applied to white people and only belonged to Romans. It’s why Lao Tzu said, “An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox, but only if you’re Chinese.” It’s why calculus only works for people who are descended from Issac Newton. As if truth belonged to anybody.
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