Imperial White Racism in America
by Robert James (Auld Bob) Peffers
Aefauldlie, (Scots for Sincerely)
Auld Bob Peffers

Racism, the ideology that came into full flower as a justification for
European conquest of most of the planet, is now headquartered in the
United States.

There could be no justification for George Bush's aggressions, without

the underlying assumptions of racial superiority. Bush has committed
multiple crimes against peace, a capital Nuremburg offense for which a
number of Nazis were hanged. He is a war criminal, many times over.
However, he will never be prosecuted in the United States, because of
the pervasive ideology of imperialism, which is racist at its very
core: it dehumanizes the victims.

Race is, indeed, a construction, a very convenient one when you want
to take someone else's property, or kill them, or enslave them. It is
this construct that animates the American debate about foreign policy,
or even domestic policy when it comes to the so-called "illegal
immigrants" or "illegal aliens" of one kind or another in the United
States of America.

But it is deadly. It swarms countries, and consumes cities. The Iraqi
city of Fallujah was flattened, with
its main hospital the first target. Three hundred thousand people are
now refugees in their own country, because of US actions, and an
unknown number are dead. That is a war crime, but is not seen as such
by many members of the US public, who are under the sway of the
ideology of imperial racism. Fortunately, not all Americans are racial
imperialists and there are many good and decent people in the United
States of America (both white and non-white) alike who work hard to
fight against American racial imperialism. The death of an entire city
does not matter to them, because there were no real people there.
Racism does more than color the situation, it defines it. How do you
kill a city and call it victory? Why is this celebrated as a benchmark
of "progress"? Is the assumption that the white man's triumph is,
inherently, progress?

Imperial White Racism in America
by Robert James (Auld Bob) Peffers
Aefauldlie, (Scots for Sincerely)
Auld Bob Peffers

Racism, the ideology that came into full flower as a justification for
European conquest of most of the planet, is now headquartered in the
United States.

There could be no justification for George Bush's aggressions, without
the underlying assumptions of racial superiority. Bush has committed
multiple crimes against peace, a capital Nuremburg offense for which a
number of Nazis were hanged. He is a war criminal, many times over.
However, he will never be prosecuted in the United States, because of
the pervasive ideology of imperialism, which is racist at its very
core: it dehumanizes the victims.

Race is, indeed, a construction, a very convenient one when you want
to take someone else's property, or kill them, or enslave them. It is
this construct that animates the American debate about foreign policy,
or even domestic policy when it comes to the so-called "illegal
immigrants" or "illegal aliens" of one kind or another in the United
States of America.

But it is deadly. It swarms countries, and consumes cities. The Iraqi
city of Fallujah was flattened, with
its main hospital the first target. Three hundred thousand people are
now refugees in their own country, because of US actions, and an
unknown number are dead. That is a war crime, but is not seen as such
by many members of the US public, who are under the sway of the
ideology of imperial racism. Fortunately, not all Americans are racial
imperialists and there are many good and decent people in the United
States of America (both white and non-white) alike who work hard to
fight against American racial imperialism. The death of an entire city
does not matter to them, because there were no real people there.
Racism does more than color the situation, it defines it. How do you
kill a city and call it victory? Why is this celebrated as a benchmark
of "progress"? Is the assumption that the white man's triumph is,
inherently, progress?

Of course it is. That's what imperial racism is all about. There are
"enemies" and "others" who are not "Western", a euphemism for "non-
white", the construct they keep making up every time they want to
steal something. Their motives are well understood by everyone who is
not a racial imperialist. Everyone, that is, except the many (white)
Americans, who eat this crap up. However, as aforementioned this by no
means implies that all white Americans are racial imperialists, but it
quite sadly just appear to be the mentality of the mostly white
dominated Republican Party of George W. Bush. The uniform reaction of
the American corporate media to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that
something resembling the rule of law must prevail at Guantanamo Bay
and other U.S. installations, has been to frame the issue in domestic
political terms. The Bush administration had been politically
tarnished, was the conclusion: not that it had violated international
law, and was in fact an outlaw among nations. The situation has been
framed as one of domestic political peril for Republicans, maybe in
November, but not how the U.S. gets along with the rest of the world.

This is the mentality of mass murderers. But then, you can only murder
real people. Imperialism kills
non-people. That's the nature of the beast. It can only act that way.
American racism and imperialism are quite clearly the same thing.

My voice gets heard in large part because I am a white male holds a
professional job with status. In most settings, I speak with the
assumption that people not only will listen, but will take me
seriously. I speak with the assumption that my motives will not be
challenged; I can rely on the perception of me as a neutral authority,
someone whose observations can be trusted.

Every time I open my mouth, I draw on, and in some ways reinforce, my
own white privilege, which is in large part tied to race.

Imperial White Racism in America
by Robert James (Auld Bob) Peffers
Aefauldlie, (Scots for Sincerely)
Auld Bob Peffers

Racism, the ideology that came into full flower as a justification for
European conquest of most of the planet, is now headquartered in the
United States.