Is Worse Better? Some Surprising White Support For Obama

Is Worse Better? Some Surprising White Support For Obama

By Peter Bradley

If you pay a visit to Barack Obama's official campaign website, you
will find a host of subgroups in the "People" section boosting his
candidacy. The man who will help us overcome race has separate
categories for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Latinos, First
Americans (he is not talking about the ancestors of Kennewick Man)
and, of course, African Americans. If you are white and racist enough
to notice you are not part of Obama's rainbow, don't worry. You can
still join groups for students, women, veterans or the LGBT crowd.

If you are just what Obama notoriously called a "typical white person"
who is not part of these groups, then you are out of luck. But maybe
not for much longer.

A significant number of white race activists—they often call
themselves "white nationalists", analogous to black nationalists,
Hispanic nationalists or Zionists and not the same thing as white
supremacists—are supporting an Obama presidency as the lesser of two
evils and, possibly, the catalyst for a wake up call for white
America.

Newhouse News reporter Jonathan Tilove covered the 2008 American
Renaissance conference in late February and quoted a number of whites
who were ready to support the Senator from Illinois.

"We are facing the election of Barack Obama, or, even worse, McCain,"
said Sam Dickson, Atlanta attorney and longtime racial activist during
his closing speech. [A View Of Obama From The Trenches Of White
Nationalism, February 27, 2008) ]

Maryland attorney Howard Fezell wondered if black racial loyalty to
Obama could make some whites wonder why they can't do the same. "Only
white voters are expected to look beyond race," he said.

Even Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance, praised Obama's
campaign strategy and stated that he does not know who he will vote
for in November.

Paul Gottfried, who also spoke at the event, speculated that most of
the over 250 people in attendance would most likely support Obama over
McCain. "Better a black who is honest about who he is than a
conservative who is really delivering the liberal agenda," declared
Gottfried.

There seem to be three main reasons for this unexpected support for
Obama's candidacy.

- First: John McCain's stands on affirmative action, immigration,
official English, the Confederate flag, and other racially-tinged
issues are, in fact, pretty much the same as Obama's.

The Republican nominee recently told a black audience that his vote
against the MLK holiday was the greatest mistake of his political
career. He equates immigration reform with "bigotry." As I write this,
McCain is promising a renewed "War on Poverty" and criticizing an ad
by North Carolina Republicans that draws attention to the race-baiting
comments of Obama's spiritual mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Larry Auster of the mildly white-nationalist View from the Right blog
writes: "at least the Democratic president, as he welcomes Al Sharpton
to the White House, won't be giving us lectures on 'true
conservatism.'" Auster views McCain as a virtual death sentence for
conservatism in America.

- Second: Iraq and neoconservative foreign policy. Almost all
paleoconservatives and paleolibertarians are against the war and
interventionism abroad.

If we must have race quotas and amnesties, at least a President Obama
would get us out of a costly war. McCain could well get us into an
even deadlier conflict with Iran.

- Third, and most important: an Obama presidency could shake up the
current racial dynamics and bring about an end to white guilt and
passivity over racial issues.

As Jared Taylor told Jonathan Tilove, "I think many smarter, far-
thinking blacks are going to be worried that any time they start
talking about discrimination, certainly institutional racism, people
are going to say, 'Hey, look, you've got a black president for
heaven's sake.'"

TakiMag's Christopher Roach made the point that an Obama presidency
could make whites more racially aware even more bluntly: "a political
equivalent of the O.J. Trial for four years might be the right
catalyst for this sort of 'consciousness raising.'"

The Obama record on race is eye-opening for those who will look. The
racialism of his autobiography, the anti-white comments of his wife
and of his spiritual mentor, his attendance at Louis Farrakhan's
Million Man March, his support for the Jena Six race attackers, his
insulting "race speech" and slurs about "typical whites" and "bitter"
people in rural America all point to a man who has more in common with
Al Sharpton than Ward Connerly.

Marcus Epstein agrees on the potential for a white backlash. "We can
be sure that a president Obama will be push for the same anti-white
policies of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, while posing as a post-
racial unifier," he says. "The question is whether or not the public
will buy that facade."

As director of Pat Buchanan's American Cause, Epstein receives quite a
bit of feedback from blacks on the true meaning of an Obama
presidency. One of the more printable responses came from a black man
who told him: "You [presumably whites] have had 100 [sic]presidents,
why can’t we have one?"

The whites who support Obama tend to be young, affluent liberals who
truly believe the Obama campaign is about racial unity. But blacks are
not supporting Obama so they can hold hands and sing Dave Matthews
songs with rich white kids from the suburbs (I recently saw a news
clip of a free Dave Matthews concert given in support of Obama and
literally every face in the crowd was white).

Clearly these two main groups of Obama supporters are on a collision
course.

It is not hard to predict which race is in for a rude awakening.

Personally, I plan to vote for the Constitution Party which just
nominated Chuck Baldwin as its presidential candidate. Baldwin is an
immigration patriot and a strong conservative on all issues. A vote
for him will send a clear message to the GOP that the McCain-Bush type
of Republican Party is unacceptable and unworthy of support.

But an Obama presidency at least offers the possibility of an
energized right wing movement in which paleos and whites of the Jared
Taylor-Sam Francis school can find a home.

Just as forced integration and busing woke up many northern white
ethnics in the 1960s and 70s, a black race-driven president who uses
his office to excuse black rioters and defend black gangs who attack
white kids will be a real eye-opener for many a nice white liberal—to
say nothing of the slumbering "conservative" masses.

Peter Bradley [Send him email] writes from Washington, D.C.

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