The words of Frederick Douglas where he answers the question as to what whites are to do with blacks remains valid today. “Everybody has asked the question. . .”What shall we do with the Negro?” I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!…let us alone”.
Coleman Hughs similarly rejects the patronage of whites and their fellow race grifters.
We will prosper together by disregarding the incidental accidents of skin colour and ethnicity. We are all mankind. We do not need to be divided by “race”, sex, hight, age and all the various differences that might advantage or disadvantage us in life. We are not just a category to be manipulated by the tyranny of social engineers.
We Whites may choose to leave the Blacks alone, Bray, but will they leave us alone? Unlikely as, regardless of what Coleman Hughe says, the more extreme black activists would like to hold us accountable for their every under-achievement.
That last paragraph of yours, by the way, reads like a bit of Justin Welby sermonising. Are you by any chance C of E? Do you really believe that ethnicity is an accident to be disregarded? Social engineers will never see themselves as tyrannical. Rather like Christian missionaries, they see themselves as changing society for the better – bringing light, truth and education to the small-minded and bigoted masses.
Andrew Horsman
2 months ago
One can only wonder what those uber (materially) wealthy manipulative predators have got in store for us now that their divisive and nasty race, climate, trans, covid, and various other narratives are all imploding (and their whole aliens thing, quite literally, didn’t take off); and more and more people are now, one by one, slowly recovering their senses, helped by books and articles like this. Little doubt that few of predator class are sleeping well at night (did they ever?), but one’s thing for sure is that they will fight dirty and to the bitter end.
Maybe it’s hopium but I have to believe that the common human decency shared by the vast majority of us on this planet will nonetheless ultimately shine through and all of this, one day, will seem like some horrible bad hallucination. Did they really say and do those things, and did people really believe them, the incredulous grandkids will ask. They did indeed, and it could happen again, so don’t you let down your guard for one minute, we’ll reply. (Either that or we’ll silently hang our heads in complicit shame.)
And always forgive those who hurt you, for they know not what they do.
Jim Veenbaas
2 months ago
I think people are waking up to the grift. Hispanics and blacks are jumping ship from the Democrats. Working class people of all colours and creeds have figured out the Dems only cater to upper middle class, university educated voters. Trump will almost certainly win a greater share of the minority vote than any Republican in 30 years.
Peter B
2 months ago
Finally some common sense.
The real racists these days are indeed the “anti-racists”.
Identity politics is what you get when middle class leftists get rich and no longer want to talk about money.
John Riordan
2 months ago
“A conspiracy theorist would argue that whites hit upon these ideas to trap black people in a mental prison designed to cripple their self efficacy — truly “systemic racism”.”
I came up with that one a while back myself. It occurred to me that intersectional politics has the odd characteristic whereby straight white men over 21 are the only social group left possessing no political defence against being held fully accountable for their words and actions.
What did the architects of intersectional ideology suppose would happen once this came into contact with market forces?
Adrian Smith
2 months ago
Coleman Hughes has long been a voice of sanity in the US. It is good that he is getting the recognition he deserves. He does a podcast you can find on youtube called Conversations with Coleman. Here is a good one with Munira Mirza which covers a number of UK issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuvkFKrNNBI
j watson
2 months ago
Article seemed less about Coleman, who is v impressive, and more about the Author’s book. Appreciate the Editor decides the headline but would have preferred more on what Coleman said too.
David Morley
2 months ago
Judging just from this review, one weakness of the book might be that it seems to treat race separately from other aspects of what we would now call “wokeness” but which predates the current use of the term.
Most of these oppressor/oppressed narratives have very similar structures. For example, highly privileged women currently see themselves oppressed because other women are, or because women were in the past.
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay are the best on the wider woke issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynical_Theories Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
The words of Frederick Douglas where he answers the question as to what whites are to do with blacks remains valid today. “Everybody has asked the question. . .”What shall we do with the Negro?” I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!…let us alone”.
Coleman Hughs similarly rejects the patronage of whites and their fellow race grifters.
We will prosper together by disregarding the incidental accidents of skin colour and ethnicity. We are all mankind. We do not need to be divided by “race”, sex, hight, age and all the various differences that might advantage or disadvantage us in life. We are not just a category to be manipulated by the tyranny of social engineers.
We Whites may choose to leave the Blacks alone, Bray, but will they leave us alone? Unlikely as, regardless of what Coleman Hughe says, the more extreme black activists would like to hold us accountable for their every under-achievement.
That last paragraph of yours, by the way, reads like a bit of Justin Welby sermonising. Are you by any chance C of E? Do you really believe that ethnicity is an accident to be disregarded? Social engineers will never see themselves as tyrannical. Rather like Christian missionaries, they see themselves as changing society for the better – bringing light, truth and education to the small-minded and bigoted masses.
One can only wonder what those uber (materially) wealthy manipulative predators have got in store for us now that their divisive and nasty race, climate, trans, covid, and various other narratives are all imploding (and their whole aliens thing, quite literally, didn’t take off); and more and more people are now, one by one, slowly recovering their senses, helped by books and articles like this. Little doubt that few of predator class are sleeping well at night (did they ever?), but one’s thing for sure is that they will fight dirty and to the bitter end.
Maybe it’s hopium but I have to believe that the common human decency shared by the vast majority of us on this planet will nonetheless ultimately shine through and all of this, one day, will seem like some horrible bad hallucination. Did they really say and do those things, and did people really believe them, the incredulous grandkids will ask. They did indeed, and it could happen again, so don’t you let down your guard for one minute, we’ll reply. (Either that or we’ll silently hang our heads in complicit shame.)
And always forgive those who hurt you, for they know not what they do.
I think people are waking up to the grift. Hispanics and blacks are jumping ship from the Democrats. Working class people of all colours and creeds have figured out the Dems only cater to upper middle class, university educated voters. Trump will almost certainly win a greater share of the minority vote than any Republican in 30 years.
Finally some common sense.
The real racists these days are indeed the “anti-racists”.
Matter + Anti-matter = Annihilation
Racism + Anti-racism = Annihilation
Identity politics is what you get when middle class leftists get rich and no longer want to talk about money.
“A conspiracy theorist would argue that whites hit upon these ideas to trap black people in a mental prison designed to cripple their self efficacy — truly “systemic racism”.”
I came up with that one a while back myself. It occurred to me that intersectional politics has the odd characteristic whereby straight white men over 21 are the only social group left possessing no political defence against being held fully accountable for their words and actions.
What did the architects of intersectional ideology suppose would happen once this came into contact with market forces?
Coleman Hughes has long been a voice of sanity in the US. It is good that he is getting the recognition he deserves. He does a podcast you can find on youtube called Conversations with Coleman. Here is a good one with Munira Mirza which covers a number of UK issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuvkFKrNNBI
Article seemed less about Coleman, who is v impressive, and more about the Author’s book. Appreciate the Editor decides the headline but would have preferred more on what Coleman said too.
Judging just from this review, one weakness of the book might be that it seems to treat race separately from other aspects of what we would now call “wokeness” but which predates the current use of the term.
Most of these oppressor/oppressed narratives have very similar structures. For example, highly privileged women currently see themselves oppressed because other women are, or because women were in the past.
We need to explain that commonality.
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay are the best on the wider woke issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynical_Theories
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody