Gregory Hood #crackpot #racist amren.com

Let Me Be Anything but White

There’s a reason our “first black president,” Barack Obama, built his image around his absentee black father rather than the whites who raised him. Colin Kaepernick, a biracial man raised by whites, is now a BLM icon (to the despair of his white biological mother). It’s not just that these men identified as black when they had other options. We would never have heard of them if they did otherwise. Whites understand that their race is a liability. Claiming to be an American Indian helped Elizabeth Warren make it to Harvard and then the Senate. Jeb Bush claimed to be “Hispanic” on a Voter ID card. Vice recently complained that “White People Keep Posing as People of Color for Clout.” It doesn’t seem to occur to Vice that they do this because “white privilege” is a joke. “White racism” is such a fiction that there is an advantage in pretending to be black, Cherokee, Hispanic, Puerto-Rican, or Middle-Eastern.

An “associate professor of comparative studies in race and ethnicity” tells Vice that the problem is not just Jessica Krug, but also Kim Kardashian (Armenian) and Ariana Grande (Sicilian). It’s true that Ariana Grande’s image and skin tone have changed. Like all entertainers, she was “positioned” to meet demand. Her repositioning shows there are benefits to being a “woman of color.” Also, are we to believe there’s something wrong with Armenians or Sicilians being considered non-white? I would say they are white, but it’s less clear cut than for Northern Europeans. For all we know, Kim Kardashian and Ariana Grande never considered themselves white. So what’s the problem?

The point is, there are careers, prestige, and opportunities that are not available to whites. Being the right race is a prize. Vice wonders why whites want to be in a “marginalized group.” They don’t. Non-whites aren’t marginalized; they’re privileged. The reason they’re angry at white interlopers is because handouts are limited. There have to be at least some “privileged” whites left to subsidize this racket.

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