The White Man’s Fears
Let’s be real here, folks. Some people may think that my blog page is anti-white, and most of them are those suffering from the white racial mindset. However, in a society that’s obsessed with telling people of color how to live according to White American/European standards while criticizing and even criminalizing them at every turn, then it should be expected that some people of color reject them, tell them why and how they are wrong. Yet, having white privilege can seem to sheltered a white person so much that anything trivial can cause dread, including the thought of harsh, but needed, criticism. As such I’ve learned that a lot of white folks have a lot of fears.
White people have an unusual and even violent fear of the unknown, especially at first sight. This phobia has been in existence for centuries, probably longer. One of the most notable that still exists is the fear of melanin (dark skin). For years, many White Europeans and Americans have regarded darker skin tones as a sign of some inferiority trait i.e. ugliness, savagery, impurity, etc. The opposite was made clear during their prejudices and the myth of white supremacy was born.
This fear of ‘the dark’ has been stagnant up to this very day and has been influenced heavily and without permission to other groups including those of dark-skinned members. This version of white supremacy continues to make dark skin tones into a curse so powerful that leads to self-destruction.
Other known fears of the unknown have been recorded. The fear of women being equal or more powerful than men has been and still is evident. The fear of religions they do not understand is known. And the fear of sexuality they deem is ‘unnatural and inhuman’ has been in a number of conversations loaded with hatred and ignorance.
Another fear many white people have is the thought of extinction. Due to the campaign of white superiority, white people fear of losing their culture, physical features and genetic make-up. This fear is pronounced greatly with that of poor whites. However, the racial paranoia is across the socioeconomic spectrum. For reasons based purely on racial supremacy, the white gene must be preserved and reproduced so that the race must live on.
This probably explains why history, the media, politics and even religion have been whitened. The objective is that white skin and European features must not only survive, but shine at all costs.
White people are scared of losing their power and privileges. It must be known that some whites, especially lower-class whites, do not believe they have any privileges due to the (often) mistaken notion that white privilege is the same as wealth privilege. I digress.
Even though history shows that the United States’ origins of financial power is tied with Slavery and almost all of the wealth was distributed to whites, most white people did not, nor would their future generations, ever consider(ed) paying back African Americans for their role in involuntarily building the nation under brutal and violent conditions. They fear they would lose their dominion over other groups, and nations in particular. So, their course of action is to conquer and control.
Lastly, and most prominent is the fear many whites in this nation have, the fear of payback.
How many times have we heard the worlds ‘black-on-white’ in the same sentence as ‘crime’ and ‘violence’? How many films have we seen of Native Americans attacking white settlers only to be killed by white cowboys who turn out to be heroes? How many war films have you seen where American soldiers fight Asian soldiers? There are more questions to be asked, but they all seem to point to the paranoia of a racial backlash against white people by people of color.
Why does such a fear exist you might ask? All fears previously mentioned serve as components to this phobia. The fears of differences in mindset and appearance, extinction and lost of privileges is what galvanizes the white racial mindset. It is this fear that shelters many whites from the rest of the world and provokes them to scapegoat others. It is the shackles that hold them back from realizing their humanity, the humanity they traded in for becoming “white”.
Sadly, I have to agree with you here. The new thing now is to act as if you are completely insane of you bring this up to them. I love the darkness that is me. There are beautiful things about black and darkness that people don’t even notice. The weather is cool and idea for rest in the darkness of the night, a child feels safe hiding under the darkness of their covers, the darkness behind our eyelids blocks out the harshness of light, black is the saturation of color not the absence which is white, and its all so intimate to talk, cuddle, make love, and be in the dark with someone special…. Or maybe that’s just me!
Good points.
In order to survive genetically, they have to have an elaborate system in place world wide…
I don’t care what anyway says, does or how much they stick with “political correctness” when a black person and a white person produces offspring through lovemaking, the child is Black. This is because Black people carry the original genotype/genome of humanity–meaning we have a larger diverse gene pool. The smaller gene pools absorb into the larger gene pools. Racial mixing does not destroy the Black communities of the world genetically. This is a problem too painful for white people to face and many black people who have bought into the notion that IR love and “bi-racial” children means “post-racial” or “not black” for the latter….
You can observe the theme of the fear of genetic annihilation in British literature ALL of the damn time if you know how to read and pay attention–case in point–the BBC is airing a mini series shown on PBS titled “Call the Midwife”…in one scene, a white woman was giving birth, but in danger of having her baby stillborn if she didn’t put more effort into pushing. The midwives asked her “what is wrong, why are you scared? You have got to push” Her reply:
“BECAUSE I AM AFRAID IT IS GOING TO BE BLACK”
The midwife assured her that she didn’t care what color the baby was just so long as it got there alive. After several attempts, lo and behold, a dark brown black baby boy with kinky hair was brought forth from that white woman. There was no mistaking that her child was black! She knew it and SHE understood all too well that her genes absorbed back into the original gene pool.
We find out later that she is in fact married to a white man but had a brief affair with a black man while her husband was away.
Wow! You’re right about the genetics, but still…wow! I’ll have to check out that scene you described.
With all due respect, if said Black-Biracial child had a child with a White person, the bloodline would then be whitened. With enough race-mixing, some bloodlines will be absorbed. Where does Blackness end and Whitenes begin or Whiteness end and Blackness begin again? Not to mention that Black people carry the melanocyte gene which is responsible for all hair colors, from the blackest black to the the whitest blonde, as well as eye colors, from the darkest brown to the palest blue. After all, aren’t we all descendants of Mother Africa, regardless of race or racial mixture?
The thing is if we’re all descendants of Africa, why is it that whites abuse the land and its people?
I don’t know about some of that…i have seen “biracial” black women marry white men and their children are brown as can be with wavy to kinky hair.
Some famous people like this; Maya Rudolph- look at her kids all three brown although for some she looks “racially ambiguous” for a “biracial” black woman yet her husband is white…
The black side of one’s gene’s tends to dominate in many cases.
@Cleonette, That was poetic, I like that comment. Very creative.
@ brothawolf
To answer your question, it’s due to a lack if melanin. Lack of melanin creates lack of compassion, lack of empathy, lack of humanity.
They destroy because it’s what they do.
Yurugu has no soul.
They do lack those things for the most part. That’s true.
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@ Brothawolf,
Africa has a lot of natural resources that are being used and the citizens of the various countries are being exploited. The Congo has the most resources on the continent, probably in the world. From what I also understand, certain Asian countries have infiltrated the Nigerian economy and currently making money off of the Nigerians.
That’s a shame of extreme magnitude.
@phoebeprunelle,
The thing is that we do not always know a person’s racial makeup, or even our own. The Biracial-Black women who marry White men that have Brown children – how much Black blood do the children actually possess? The mother may be miexed, but still possess more than 50% Black blood – hence the visible non-Whiteness of the children. And what if the White husband is not as White as he thinks he is? It is estimated that roughly 20% of White Americans possess Black ancestry and they do not even know it. That could account for why some of these families have dominant Black genes that reveal themselves in the children’s physical appearance – both parents are mixed.
is it fear or is it hate. it was not fear that inspired these people to travel to distant lands to rape pillage and kill people who were doing nothing to them. perhaps it is fear today that motivates the white man who wants to continue to maintain a certain level of comfort and security but it is hate that compels him to crush the life out of others to do so
Wow that’s deep.
There is great irony, if not beauty, in the fate of peoples. Africans and those of African descent have been treated as untouchable and undesirable, but that has preserved the purity of the African, The European tells everyone it should be desired, and that leads to the mixing and diluting of the european stock. Consider the Americas where in 50 years the “white” will be the minority and already is except in North America. That is the price and irony of their media campaign – being bred out of power and out of majority status.
The poverty of the African has also served to protect the continent. Europe and the Americas are populated by various peoples because wealth, be it land or resources, attracted them. So that now the Americas are the most diverse lands and Europe will be equally diverse in the future. Asia, to some extent, is already diverse if you consider that 1.3 billion Indians and 200 million Indonesians share the continent with 1,4 billion Chinese. Africa. otoh, is the most ethnically pure continent and will remain so because poverty keeps the birth rate high.