What's Really Bothering You?

Perhaps my misanthropic streak is a bit overdeveloped. But, speaking as a white man who has been one for the majority of his life, I have to ask this of white supremacists: what is so blindingly great about white people?

What is it that is so inherently superior about us that it drives you to extremes like mass murder to advance your point of view? Why do you feel we and we alone should rule the world? Even worse, why do you feel that we and we alone should populate the world?

Yes, white people have contributed some wonderful things to world culture: Democracy, baseball, classical music, penicillin and Stand 'N Stuff taco shells.

But does hands-free taco preparation really qualify us to rule the world?

We have participated in genocide. We have imposed brutish regimes upon people, subjugating them for commerce and political power. We have ruthlessly exploited and degraded planet Earth, even when we knew better.

We have raped—and pillaged.

So what is it?

Could it be that you suffer from some sort of sensory issue? Do you identify with the band Van Halen, who couldn't handle the sight of brown M&Ms in their post-concert candy dish? Is it a case of homogeneous or hell for you?

I'm guessing you feel like a failure. You feel everyone has it easier than you. You resent any competition for your victimhood, which in this case are immigrants. Never mind they are frequently attempting to escape deprivation and abuse you can't imagine.

Like a middle child, you rail at any attention not directed at you, and seek to harm its recipients.

In a perverse sort of over-compensation, you also feel superior to immigrants, if only because you don't look like them. And the ignorant society in which you live sees more potential, diverts more resources and seems to care more for these inferior beings than it does for the likes of you.

It's an outrage, isn't it?

And only you have the answer.

One of the great quirks of humanity is its belief in qualitative monopolies. Only this demographic is qualified to lead. Only this demographic can be trusted. Only this demographic is intelligent.

The inconvenient truth is that no group has a monopoly on anything, expect perhaps its skin color.

Humanity is an impossibly complex and unpredictable mass of abilities and prejudices and dreams. Despite the alluring simplicity that encourages us to believe that A is always and unequivocally this and B is always and unequivocally that, it simply is not true.

Non-whites are no more a scourge than whites are a godsend.

Perhaps this segment of our population, immersed in a simmering rage as it sees itself marginalized while another portion of our population pull farther and farther away economically, will one day understand who the real enemy is.

Per usual, I'm not holding my breath.