THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

AFRICANS? ASIANS? THERE AREN'T ANY! | 2006-06-11

Some things are so obvious it's hard to talk about them.

Find me an American Indian who wants to live like an Indian and I'll find you a diamond that weighs a ton.

Find me an African who wants to be just like an 1800 African and I'll hand you Bigfoot.

But at the top of the list, find me an Asian who wants to live like the average Asian when their Great Civilization was the top of the world and I''ll give you Mars on a paper plate.

Get serious!

COMMENTS (7)

#1 Tim | 2006-06-11 21:17

Good point. I cannot wait to tell them to get out. I have a funny feeling it will not go over well. They will realise that 'me no get white technology unless me behave and play nice'. Everyone talks about what the minorities are going to do. How the Hispanics are going to vote etc..etc...well there are two sides. No one seems to be preoccupied with what the Whites are going to do. We are. But they are the ones who count. Thank Gawd I am White.

By the way, I found a form a democracy that appeals to me. Like most real White men alive I believe this current Democracy is more akin to Shamocracy. But with that said, I like the "Democracy of the Dead". My dead ancestors voted to make me White. Therefore, I must do whatever is necessary to carry on and vote in the same manner. Forget Party politics. Bring on the "Democracy of the Dead". What you think BW?

#2 Mark | 2006-06-12 00:17

"Find me an American Indian who wants to live like an Indian and I'll find you a diamond that weighs a ton."

A client of mine is a full blooded Indian. She is a chief in one of the Sioux tribes (had no idea a woman could be chief before meeeting her) and she loves to talk about how hard working and industrious Indians are. You get the opinion that god created man dnd then he created the Indian to make up for his mistakes.

It's intersting to note that her home is surrouned by waist high grass that never gets cut. She doesn't hesistate to go on float trips down the river and loves to swim, but also doesn't bat at an eye when her welfare paid home health care worker comes to clean the house for her.

She had the audacity to tell me that when and Indian gets too old to be a productive member of the tribe they, by instinct and tradition, find a river to sit beside and die. I guess that's after welfare has finished cleaning their teepees, of course.

#3 Shari | 2006-06-12 09:51

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No one wants to live like the "old days", but what's really cool is that Indians like blacks can get into "education" and college bureaus and look educated while conducting "traditional rites" for our edification. But it's getting pretty late for this house built on sand.

#4 Elizabeth | 2006-06-12 12:45

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A fellow named Chester Richburg wrote a book about Africa and

Africans from a black man's perspective. I think it was published

in 1993.

Terrific book, but it sank without a trace. Richburg admits

that, if it weren't for slavery, his ancestors and he would

not have had the opportunities that they did. (He was

a wire service reporter or photographer for several years,

covering African wars and such.)

#5 Bob | 2006-06-12 14:17

Dammit, Tim, you think I know all about dead people because of the way I smell!

#6 Bob | 2006-06-12 14:24

Elizabeth, I just ordered the book from Amazon.

#7 Derek | 2006-06-13 23:17

I know a lot of whites that think the same way as Indians or Blacks. Hippies - I call them. Then I seem on their cell phones and driving cars. I have little respect for them.