Implicit Whiteness in Scott Brown’s campaign

The day before the election I happened to catch Keith Olbmermann at his smirking best — looking intensely into the camera and declaring that Scott Brown and all the people voting for him are racists. What’s the evidence for this? You see, Brown used a pick-up truck in his commercials. (Gasp!!) You know, pick-up trucks are pretty much the same as men in pointy hoods burning crosses. Next thing you know, candidates will seek endorsements from country music singers and NASCAR drivers.

What’s going on here, of course, is implicit Whiteness — implicit whiteness of a certain sort, that basically says “I, Scott Brown, am the candidate of the White working class.”

As I noted previously, the enraged Whites who are expressing themselves in the tax revolts and town hall meetings of 2009 are middle- and lower-middle class. These people are less able to avoid the costs of multiculturalism: They can’t move to gated communities or send their children to all-White private schools. Their unions have been destroyed and their jobs either shipped overseas or performed by recent immigrants, legal and illegal.They are very angry — but they can’t discuss the real reason they are angry: mass immigration and the dispossession of people like themselves and their culture.

Unfortunately, there were no exit polls for this election. It would be fascinating to see the racial breakdown. In the 2008 presidential election, 80% of the electorate in Massachusetts was White. Working class Whites voted overwhelmingly for Obama: 75% for incomes between $30-50K; 65% for incomes betwen $50-75K.

Obviously, that did not happen this time around. Although it’s still a long shot, we can hope that eventually candidates will be able to explicitly assert the legitimacy of White identity and White interests.

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12 Comments to "Implicit Whiteness in Scott Brown’s campaign"

  1. grace's Gravatar grace
    January 20, 2010 - 11:28 am | Permalink

    kevin,

    olbermann is such a jerk! of course msnbc is as well..so why am i not surprised that he says the stupid things that he does?

    • admin's Gravatar admin
      January 20, 2010 - 12:46 pm | Permalink

      I agree. It’s painful to watch him. When he finished his rant about the racists voting for Brown, he had this incredible self-satisfied smile–like “Well, I just told them!”

  2. dan neil's Gravatar dan neil
    January 20, 2010 - 1:42 pm | Permalink

    I listen to NPR and KPFP all they talk about all day long is Brown and Black power and coded references like people of color implying “white people not included” yet refern to whites as racist all day long.
    If the european white working class american people ever look at the other sides hyperethnocentricism and it’s own racist hateful exclusion of white lower middle class folk who make up the majorit of this country, they would be amazed.
    I am a A3p and the republican party is still dominated by zionist and anti-republicanist

  3. felipeb's Gravatar felipeb
    January 20, 2010 - 4:19 pm | Permalink

    Coakley carried large cities, the Yankee suburbs to the North and West of Boston and the still Yankee Berkshires. Outside of whacko Cambridge the heaviest margins in the East are Jewish enclaves like Brookline, Sharon and Randolph. The key was the Irish Riviera, the Catholic South Shore, those folks who moved out of Southie and Dorchester because of busing. It is the Reagan Coalition Redux that won.

    The political key is White Protestants, less the Abolitionist strain New Englanders, and the ethnic European heritage Catholics. There is no other political combination devisable that can produce majorities for White interests.

    The root of the Brown victory is race, the dispossession of the White Catholic working class by racist social engineers. It is happening on the national level to all White European heritage Americans. Yes, there were issues and issues are important. But observe closely how the the voters divided on those issues. They separated along the old racial borders of Implicit Whiteness..

  4. Geiseric's Gravatar Geiseric
    January 20, 2010 - 4:30 pm | Permalink

    Some people simply do not respect the law of diminishing returns…

  5. james k's Gravatar james k
    January 20, 2010 - 4:49 pm | Permalink

    We don’t get any breaks, do we? White working class people in MS vote for Obama but because they vote for a white Republican over a white Democrat they are now accused as “racists” by clowns like Olbermann? It’s unbelievable.

    Remember Hillary asking for the support of “white working families” during the WV primary? That wast the most explicitly white politicking I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime.

    If either of the parties came out with a populist pro-white platform and slate of candidates they literally could not lose. Until then I guess there’s A3P.

    Unfortunately, Scott Brown, like most Republicans, is now openly pro-torture, which is “code” for “more war for Israel.”

  6. Andrew's Gravatar Andrew
    January 20, 2010 - 8:11 pm | Permalink

    The election of Brown is interesting to me, because it points out how fast things can change politically when there is discontent. The election of a Republican would have been unthinkable just a year and a half ago. The combination of a recession and socialist policies has certainly had an effect. Imagine the discontent in the US in a few decades, where social programs begin to go bankrupt, ethnic strife increases, and the economy experiences instability from accumulated debt and structural problems. When Whites begin to feel the pain from this, and notice the ethnic voting patterns, we will see an awakening. For now, the tea party movement and Brown’s election represents just the very first stirrings of Whites, who are in the main still asleep.

  7. John Williams's Gravatar John Williams
    January 21, 2010 - 4:48 pm | Permalink

    There is one disconcerting revelation regarding Brown : reports that he is 100% supportive of Israel’s ethnic cleansing policy. If true, we know where his marching orders come from.

  8. Wikitopian's Gravatar Wikitopian
    January 22, 2010 - 10:34 am | Permalink

    @John
    The male model stooge who won in MA is tangential. What’s powerful here is the machine that installed him. The GOP’s conventional machine was overshadowed by the emergence of a new force, that of the decentralized tea party activists. In public, the GOP leadership is gloating, in private, they’re rightfully fearful of their ability to ride this awakening tiger of White American radicalism.

    We White American advocates shouldn’t hug the tar baby of Israeli policy. Brown is assuredly putty in the hands of zionist weasels, but we have very real battles, battles that actually matter for us. At the point that anti-ZIonism goes into “Peace, not apartheid” territory, it’s no longer in defense of our people and becomes obsessive and distracting jewmongering.

  9. Ivan the Terrible's Gravatar Ivan the Terrible
    January 22, 2010 - 3:17 pm | Permalink

    This is just the start of whites resisting their impending dispossession and elimination from the United States. It’s going to turn into a very bloody and violent civil war along racial and economic lines.

  10. George's Gravatar George
    January 22, 2010 - 11:43 pm | Permalink

    Perhaps this is how the reckoning begins.

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