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Re: The Key to Race: Depoliticize It
Written by jlandrith, on 09-10-2000 16:14
Jim Crow laws had nothing to do with libertarianism. Libertarians abhor Jim Crow laws. A libertarian nation would not have Jim Crow laws or slavery. Anyone who knows anything about the philosophy knows better. Libertarians oppose slavery and Jim Crow laws which violate individual rights. In America, the Democratic Party built and fostered segregation for nearly a hundred years. The most senior Democrat in the Senate is a former Klansman. Most people don't know that the only person currently serving in Congress with ties to the KKK is a Democrat. Don't put the KKK and Jim Crow laws on a philosophy that didn't even exist then. Jim Crow laws violate libertarian philosophy at it's very basic core. Put the blame where it really lies, at the feet of the Democratic Party who started building the current race-hating machine shortly after the Civil War, with it's support of the KKK, segregation and anti-miscegenation laws.

Many Democrats currently and vocally oppose multiracial self-identification to the tune of belittling interracial marriage, etc. Is this really acceptable? Belittling interracial marriage? Telling those who identify as multiracial that they are "running from their blackness" or "selling out"? This current resurgence of racism in the Democratic Party has all happened in the last 3 years. Not 150 years ago. I'll name a few names that participated in the biracial/interracial bashfest that was the 1997 round of multiracial census category hearings: Representatives Maxine Waters, Danny Davis, Carolyn Maloney, and Eleanor Holmes Norton, to name a few. Seems that Democrats are still having trouble shedding their anti-miscegenationist views and intolerance. I find this thoroughly disgusting and completely unacceptable. Don't blame libertarians, blame Democrats for the current state of race in America. I take plenty of post-shots at conservatives for their intolerance on immigration, freedom to practice or not to practice religion, etc., but I believe in telling the truth. Democrats get sole credit for Jim Crow, not libertarians who oppose Jim Crow laws and any other laws that restrict individual property rights. Libertarians oppose slavery in all forms. Libertarians believe in the right of the individual, not the state. Those who created slavery in America did not believe in individual rights. Those who created segregation and the post-Civil War anti-miscegenation laws did not believe in individual rights. Those who defended the practice of slavery and instituted most of the post-Civil War anti-miscegenation laws were DEMOCRATS, who didn't believe in individual rights. A large number still don't, judging from their treatment of racial self-identification. Attributing future Jim Crow laws and slavery (which violate the philosophy of individual rights) to libertarianism is a perversion of the truth, and indicative of a lack of knowledge of libertarian philosophy.

As far as loathing and fearing democracy go, I can't comment. I've never lived in a democracy. The United States is a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy, meaning that a tiny, elite group of professional power-mongers (less than 600), get to make decisions for 270 million people. That's about as far as you can get from a democracy.

The problem is America today is not racism. It's race. The concept of static "races" and the need to classify people as such, currently pushed by liberals like Maxine Waters, Danny Davis, and Carolyn Maloney and by conservatives like Steve Sailer is at the root of racism. Simply put, racism is just a symptom of race. Using quotas and set-asides as a means of fighting racism is the equivalent of putting a band-aid on a gunshot wound. It's simply wishful thinking. People who wish to discriminate will do so and continue to do so. Personally, I would rather that they did it out in the open so that I could spend my money elsewhere. Undercover racists are the ones to fear, not those idiots who do it out in the open, and seem oblivious to the fact that America is rapidly becoming "browner" and that whites be in the minority by 2050. Let them hang their racist signs in store windows and then watch them go out of business as their neighbors discover their true beliefs. 30 years of open and free miscegenation is not going to go away, it is going to continue to build more interracial families who have more multiraical children. There just aren't enough white people in America today to keep hundreds of thousands of white-only stores and factories open in today's America. Discrimination does occur and it is morally bankrupt, but so is government classification of people into "races." The people who would do something so economically stupid as to create white-only institutions are those who have no stockholders to answer to and who have no desire to create business empires. Large corporations, who penetrate markets that cross national, ethnic, and "racial" borders all over the world and want to make money, not live in the past, know better. Americans have been programmed from birth to believe in static "races" by government, activist groups and religious organizations of various political leanings from left to right. The government sends a huge "people are different" message every ten years in the form of the Census. The government says "don't discriminate" and then says "everyone get in your own box so we can divide the nation up based on race." Get rid of "race" and we can then start the process of getting rid of racism. It must happen in that order or it is just a huge circle jerk that will go on forever. It's time to stop treating the symptoms and start rooting out this cancer from the inside. It'll be a long, painful process, but our great-great grandkids will be better off for it. Getting rid of race won't make the symptoms disappear immediately. It will, however, start the healing process, which is more than has been done in the entire history of this country. If you are truly interested in ending racism, start by ending race.

Edited 10/10/00 12:33:13 AM ET by JLANDRITHJR

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