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"Childhood's End" by James Landrith
Written by George Winkel, on 13-04-2001 11:30
I would like to remark what a wonderful, well-written piece James Landrith’s April/May editorial commentary is, on his Multiracial Activist/Abolitionist Examiner web page. I think James is a leading contributor to our community, and he is closely allied with Interracial Voice.

What I especially liked about James’s editorial was his clearly indicating our purpose to debunk "race," erase its mythical "race lines." Whatever our new movement’s name was or will be (Multiracial?), James framed its historical significance -- finally confronting the centuries-old consequences of society’s noticing (and becoming morbidly obsessed with) the range of innocent natural variation in peoples’ looks.

James’s title, "Childhood’s End," reminded me too of an analogy -- children imagining that they can see images in the clouds. I recall childhood doing that. And the so-called "man in the moon" is the same imaginative idea -- I remember straining to see him. There was a considerable time when everyone older than me could see the "man in the moon" and I couldn’t. Seeing "races" is a learned skill, too. "Race" seeming obvious, self-evident and so on, only underscores the combined forces grinding it into our core beliefs -- brainwashing us. The "lessons" may start too early in childhood to be remembered. (That was not the case for me, though. I remember arguing with my older sister, for instance, adamantly denying I was "white." It seemed ridiculous.) The "race" illusion/delusion has been exposed to me very recently. I accidentally snapped its hypnotic trance only after I discovered Interracial Voice and Multiracial Activist on the Web. Editor Charles Byrd’s remarks about "race" not existing seemed so absurd that I began researching, thinking it over. My "undoing" came from preparing to argue supporting "race," much as J. Philippe Rushton and Steve Sailer do. (Well, is Steve Sailer coming around? See the nice UPI article he wrote praising Multiracial Tiger Woods, and racially "mixed" people.) When I turned "race" over in my mind and realized it is only a way of looking at people, I recalled my "man in the moon" efforts. That was it! "Race" got dumped in the "tooth fairy," "Santa Clause" bin. With cloud and moon faces, at least, no one ever deceived me to think those things were real. Even "tooth fairy and "Santa Clause," their sweet deflations were long ‘ere childhood’s end. It is hard to a half-centenarian accepting one’s gullibility. (I still get mad as Hell!)

James importantly targeted the government’s complicity in our "race" brainwashing. Our government entangles itself in "race," preserving it at the behest of "minority" intellectual elite -- folk who ought to know better. But they are blinded by self-interest. They have good jobs in the government-subsidized, "racism fighting," prison-industrial complex. Years ago Government helped "majority" "whites" maintain their "supreme" dominant caste. The racial segregation of the "Jim Crow" era was not based on hatred exactly. It was based on tribalism (same as modern Multiculturalism is). Pseudo-science invented "race" as a rubric justifying Eurocentric "white" supremicist tribalism. Reacting tribally, "white" men once grounded their exclusive access to "white" females on allegedly shared "race." Legal segregation sought to prevent "race-mixing" ("miscegenation"), which was recognized undermining the "separate races" concept. (For the same reason modern leftist Multiculturali! sts oppose interracial marriages, and their progeny self-identifying "mixed.")

Now government reinforces the "race" illusion/delusion all over again (all its cast-building), supposedly trying to unwind the racism which centuries of "race"-mythology bred. This is perfectly Orwellean "doublethink." It is self-fueling "doublethink." (Compare this Townhall.com column by Paul Greenberg.) Like a perpetual motion machine, the "racism" which government-subsidized racialism purports to fight depends on "race" -- the ultimate source of all racism. One consequence of this "doublethink" contradiction stuffs our prisons with "minorities" now. (When discrimination was serious & legal, "minority"-crime, prisoners were underrepresented.) Another consequence is that NO young "minority" American can confidently attribute achievement to his/her own talent or effort. Defenders of AA affirmative action (and white supremacists, too) inevitably will attribute any young "minority’s" achieve! ment to AA’s assistance if they dare to criticize AA. Ward Connerly and John McWhorter are among those who have heard themselves accused of "pulling up the [AA] ladder behind them." Die-hard AA proponents are truly heartless. The AA benefit is illusory, and "minority" intelligencia would see it if they possessed courage to see past their own narrow self-interest. The most serious consequence of the "doublethink" is that "race" is reinforced -- made to seem real, substantive. Everyone is deflected away from realizing that "race" is only a bad idea -- abstract labeling of people. "Race" is only a way of viewing people’s "attributes," just as we learn as children to see the face of the man in the Moon.

I applaud James’s showing this society’s way clear to childhood’s end.

George Winkel

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