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Some redskins on an intramural basketball team up at the University
of Northern Colorado got their feathers all in a bunch recently and
decided to show white folks--and especially those at nearby Eaton High
School, whose motto is "Fightin' Reds," and whose logo is
a caricature of an Indian-- |
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insulting it is to have their identity pre-empted this way. "Damn,
didn't the Sambo's Restaurant chain get into heap big trouble with blackskins
and have to change their name because black folks found it offensive
to be portrayed as anything less than nuclear physicists? If the blackskins
can back whiteskins down so easily, then certainly red skins can do
the same thing."|
To show the evil pale faces what it feels like to be made fun of, the
Injuns named their basketball team the "Fighting Whites" but
they don't appear too concerned with consistency--that's sort of an
anal retentive white trait, apparently--because the team is sometimes
called the "Fightin' Whites or the Fightin' Whities." The
team also adopted what looks like a clip art Father Knows Best looking
caricature of a white guy with a rocker slogan reading "Every thang's
going to be all white." "Yeah. Take that, white people! We
sure showed you." |
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Unfortunately for the Injuns, the thing backfired on them and most
white folks aren't offended, by the racial stereotype of them. In fact,
it appears that many whites think this whole thing is so funny (Or,
is there something else to this? More on this speculation below.) that
they've been deluging the team with requests for interviews and offering
to send big piles of wampum, and maybe some fire water to |
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At least on the surface today, it's the Indians and other people of color who are working on developing their group esteem and who have pride in their racial identity, while most whites seem to be trying to be aracial drones. Many Indians no longer want to pass as white, and many who have seen their Indian blood diluted via miscegnation now search to find that distant drop of Indian blood in their family trees so they can claim that they're Indians. Meanwhile, in a role reversal, many whites--at least on the surface--have become like the dispirited Indians of an earlier day, and don't want to be white. Or, do they? Will the Indians retain the rights to their cash buffalo of Fightin'
Whities T-shirts or will the white eyes be able to sneak in under the
teepee and buy T-shirts made and printed in China faster than the Indians
can buy them from that country? We'll have to wait and see. But, if
the Indians lose the market on this Fightin'Whities stuff it's their
own fault just as it was their fault that they lost the country. |
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Of course, the reason the Indians lost the country is because instead
of spending more time under the bear skins getting their women pregnant
and having papooses, they were busy bringing bows and arrows to gun
fights with the real Fightin' Whities back when whites were bold and
unapologetic for being white. Well, don't worry Injuns you may have
underbred yourselves almost out of existence, but the white folks are
now following in your moccasin steps. Oh, sure, we've got white guys
like Pat Buchanan who is telling white folks that they're dying off
because they don't have enough children, but Buchanan doesn't have any
children himself. And then there's Rush Limbaugh who spoke about Still, and this is what I alluded to above, this demand by whites for
the Fightin' Whities T-shirts may actually have more to it than first
meets the eye. Could it be that whites are starting to emerge from years
of self-doubt and are now actually subconsciously looking for things
about their people that make them feel proud? Could it be that whites
like the image of "Fightin' Whities," and because it is presented
by non-whites, whites can speak with forked tongues and secretly revel
in the imagery without having those guilt feelings that they're being
racist to wear and display such symbols of white pride? If the KKK produced
such T-shirts, would the whites who are now clamoring for them, still
Could it be that whites will develop white pride because of a bunch of Indian basketball players? Stranger things have happened. Sometimes a higher level of consciousness comes from something like a Zen slap. Other times it starts as a joke. Thanks Injuns, your Fightin' Whities parody may have helped raise the consciousness of many whites to the fact that they are a part of a distinct people. Still, there may be other explanations for the way whites are the way they are. For example, some whites are so alienated from their essential whiteness
that they see themselves as unconnected individuals who are not really
a part of a larger racial group. Not seeing themselves as part of the
white race they don't see insults to whites as an insult to them personally.
Also, other |
the
Fightin' Whities T-shirts on his radio program and who seems to be representative
of a certain type of self-indulgent comfort loving white person who
apparently finds it inconvenient to have children. Take heart you people
of various hues--whether you are red, brown, black or yellow--whites
have a low birth rate. Think, Last of the Mohicans, but in white face.
do
so? Probably not. Because if the KKK did it, there would be no ready
psychological defense against the self-guilt of "white racism."
Now, with the Indians producing them, whites can wear them and say "Hey,
this is the name of an Indian basketball team. What a yuk," and
no one will think that such whites actually like being white (which,
as you know, is considered by the aracial drones as being much, much
worse than being a serial killer).
whites
may be subconscious noblesse oblige racists who simply ignore insults
from "inferior" peoples the way they ignore feces thrown at
them by monkeys at a zoo. After all, in this type of thinking, these
lower animals aren't expected to act civilized, and one must not hold
them to the same high standards that these subconscious noblesse obligee
whites hold other whites to.|
Speaking of basketball. The Boston Celtics basketball team has few
people from Boston on the team and almost no Celts or any other white
people. To show the blacks on the Celtics team that whites don't appreciate
having their identity disrespected, perhaps we should do as the Indians
have done
If you want to contact the Fighting Whites--who are mostly not white--you can contact them through their new website. This is the official homepage of the Fighting Whites from Northern Colorado University |
with
their Fightin' Whities idea and start an all white basketball team from,
say, Alabama, and call it the Watts Watusis, or the Dancin' Darkies.
We'll accompany the name with a 1920's era caricature of a black eating
a watermelon with the slogan "Sure am good!" Of course if
we do that, then we should probably change the name
Fightin'
Whities to something more relevant to the way far too many white people
are today: the Whining Whities|
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