2004 Presidential Election: Another Pyrrhic Victory for White Supremacy

The Black Commentator
November 18, 2004
Issue 114

The 2004 Presidential Election: Another Pyrrhic Victory for White Supremacy

by Dr. Alvin Wyman Walker
Guest Commentator


Why would so many US working and middle class citizens vote against their own class interests in the recent presidential election?

And what can really be said about the “morality” of those who oppose stem cell research, effective social programs for the poor and disadvantaged, adequate funding of schools, abortion and the right of women to control their bodies, national health care insurance, and affirmative action programs but at the same time support capital punishment, economic inequality with the most extreme income gap between “haves” and “have-nots” of any industrial nation, racism, both structural and otherwise, and the criminal invasion of Iraq with the slaughter of at least 100,000 children, women, and men all for the sake of Iraqi oil and imperialist dreams of conquest and domination, and white supremacist visions of world hegemony?

Given such glaring contradictions, one wonders if many US citizens are able to discern the difference between the wheat and the chaff and what is the quality of their reality contact.

Or is there another dynamic lurking just beneath the surface:  white control, white exclusivity, and in a word, white supremacy under the guise of so-called “Christian” values which are often egregious violations of many of the basic tenets of authentic Christianity including the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” a rule predicated on liberty, justice and equality, as well as other integrative aspects of Christianity like “Love thy neighbor as thy self” which speaks of socialism rather than unjust, misanthropic, dog-eat-dog capitalism and class conflict. As Jesus said, “What thou doeth to the least of these, thou doeth to me.”  This contrast is clear if you compare the teachings of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with those of Rev. Jerry Falwell.

Do you really think that the God of Christianity as revealed in the Bible is unconcerned about the environment, or war and peace, and injustice and poverty?  Does God want 45 million Americans to be without healthcare and does God support the racist exclusion of people of color and other out groups?

So we see that the deeply ubiquitous ideology of Euro-American supremacy trumps class interests and, in this instance, leads to a tragic, dangerous, and irrational choice, the election of an overtly racist, war criminal hell bent on destroying the last tattered remnants of the social safety net and seems intent on attempting to remake the world in accord with his own destructive, anti-democratic, white supremacist vision:  George Walker Bush.

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Care to explain?

No other reason for a whole race of people to need their own party except white supremacy; and I'd say white male supremacy.