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September 05, 2005

'Tribes' -- must read essay

by Bill Whittle. Excerpt:

I’m generally an optimist, and it’s been my pleasure to be able to write mostly about the good and the noble things in our lives. But the events in the Gulf – of Mexico – have brought to a head a summer and a year that has been getting progressively uglier and more painful to watch. ...

I believe that the human animal – the raw material of our physical bodies – is essentially interchangeable. By this I mean that I could take the children of Fallujah and turn them all into Astronauts, convert Jewish babies into fanatical, mass-murdering SS guards, and shake a generation of the poorest Voodoo-worshippers in Haiti into a cadre of top-flight nuclear physicists, chemical engineers and computer scientists.

Race has nothing to do with this – precisely nothing. The mobs of murdering Hutus and swarms of slaughtering Serbs are as different racially as it is possible to be, and they are cut from precisely the same cloth.

I know this is so because there have been murdering scumbags of every stripe and color in the long history of the human race – which is depressing – and that these animals, at any given time, represent only a small percentage of the majority of people, also of every stripe and color – which is not. There is no corner on virtue, and no outpost of depravity. Human hearts are indistinguishable and interchangeable. Anyone who claims otherwise is, without further argument or statements necessary, a complete God-damned idiot. ...

Only a few minutes ago, I had the delightful opportunity to read the comment of a fellow who said he wished that white, middle-class, racist, conservative cocksuckers like myself could have been herded into the Superdome Concentration Camp to see how much we like it. Absent, of course, was the fundamental truth of what he plainly does not have the eyes or the imagination to see, namely, that if the Superdome had been filled with white, middle-class, racist, conservative cocksuckers like myself, it would not have been a refinery of horror, but rather a citadel of hope and order and restraint and compassion.

That has nothing to do with me being white. If the blacks and Hispanics and Jews and gays that I work with and associate with were there with me, it would have been that much better. That’s because the people I associate with – my Tribe – consists not of blacks and whites and gays and Hispanics and Asians, but of individuals who do not rape, murder, or steal. My Tribe consists of people who know that sometimes bad things happen, and that these are an opportunity to show ourselves what we are made of. My people go into burning buildings.

Please read the whole thing. I'll wait.


Posted by Darleen at September 5, 2005 09:58 AM

Comments

For almost a week certainly, and probably a whole lot longer than that, I have been searching for the perfect explanation of my feelings, frustrations, and hopes. Bill Whittle just did it for me with a brilliant op-ed piece. Maybe, the NY Times and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal need to hire him and replace the hacks that spread the pink tribe's mantra. Thanks Bill

Posted by: cbank13 at September 5, 2005 03:13 PM

That was intense! I like the honesty of his writing. He says a lot of things that I think so many of us don't say.

Posted by: goldeneagle at September 5, 2005 09:34 PM

That was some intense writing!

Posted by: goldeneagle at September 5, 2005 09:36 PM