America Does Not Like White People Very Much

One game I try to avoid playing is pointing out double standards. One could spend all day complaining, "what if a Republican had said this," or, "what if a white person had said this?" A classic example that comes to mind is Harry Reid "complimenting" Barack Obama by saying that Obama "had no Negro dialect unless he wanted one."

I have accepted that this double standard is part of the price of being anti-cultural marxist. Pointing it out is hackneyed and trite, low-hanging fruit.

Nevertheless, the double standard was apparent in ESPN's Bomani Jones' recent comment about Carolina QB Cam Newton. Jones pushed back on criticism about Newton's on-field celebrations. Jones concluded that America, "does not like black people very much."

I respect Cam Newton's ability, but I do not like his on-field act. Near the end of the NFC Championship game, while Carolina's defense was on the field, Newton crossed the sideline into the field of play to celebrate. That is called "showing up" your opponent, and it used to be contravened by the unwritten rules of the sport. I doubt that is still true, but it's still something that I adhere to.

You don't stand at home plate and admire your home run. You put your head down and circle the bases. That respect for the other players is what we used to call "good sportsmanship." Nowadays athletes gyrate and prance and fist pump after making even routine plays. A good reason why my interest in sports declines every year.

Did Bomani Jones benefit from the double standard? I believe so, because there are traces of projection as well as self-pity in his statement. Bomani Jones doesn't like white people very much, and his comment is a way for him to deal with this uncomfortable feeling, and a less impolitic way at that.

I imagined what would have happened if a white newscaster or sports analyst came to the conclusion that America "doesn't like white people very much." That person would have suffered consequences, not been celebrated as "speaking truth to power." On the surface, it seems like a ridiculous statement, but under the surface, there are elements of truth.

There was a study recently by economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case that showed that over the last fifteen years, mortality for middle class whites has been increasing. Mortality for all other groups is flat or decreasing.

Fareed Zakaria believes the reason is that whites are fearful that they are losing, and that is why whites are supporting Donald Trump, because he will "make them win again." Zakaria continues, "but he can’t. No one can. And deep down, they know it."

The tone of satisfaction in Zakaria's comments was self-evident.

Could one infer from rising white mortality rates then, that America doesn't like white people very much? Consider the breathless anticipation of essays that are counting down the days until America is a white minority country. The sense of white guilt is so internalized that many white people are happy about this. Pride is a feeling that is encouraged of all ethnic groups except white people.