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Title: The Master Race Author: Rob Los Ricos Date: Summer 2005 Language: en Topics: Green Anarchy, Green Anarchy #20, race, racism, civilization, whiteness Source: Retrieved on 12 September 2018 from http://greenanarchy.anarchyplanet.org/files/2012/05/greenanarchy20.pdf Notes: from Green Anarchy #20, Summer 2005
Race:...2. A group of people united by a common history, nationality or
tradition.
–The American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd Edition
The one thing that all civilizations have in common, their very defining
characteristic, is the creation of wealth and privilege for a ruling
elite. Regimes may come and go, but the structure is never more than
slightly modified. Elitism is preserved as the sole focus of civilized
societies, no matter who is in charge.
The ruling elite of the New World Order is not made up of any ethnically
“pure” people. People of all ethnic groups are allowed – encouraged,
even – to fight their way into the inner circle, provided they are
ruthless and cunning enough, and that they don’t present a challenge to
institutionalized elitism.
The lives of the wealthy and privileged are so dissimilar to those of
the poorer members of industrial societies, they constitute a distinct
race. The oppression of civilization’s have-nots by the master race can
therefore be accurately described as racism. This racism is the
cornerstone upon which western civilization was built. It permeates
every facet of the West’s social fabric, so that everything which occurs
everyday reinforces the domination of the world and its various peoples
by a tiny minority. The master race uses their wealth and power to
perpetuate racism.
Basing racial critique on skin color and ethnic heritage doesn’t grasp
the totality of racism. If one equates being “white” with being part of
the master race, then how does one explain away the generations of
Euro-Americans who have nothing but contempt for banks, corporations and
governments and are being warehoused in US prisons? Who is “whiter”,
according to the theory of skin privilege: the typical rural American
outlaw, or Clarence Thomas? Who has more power in this country, the
leader of the KKK or Condaleeza Rice?
There may well be more “people of color” among the global elite than
there are “white” people. Skin color is not relevant to the racism that
dominates us.
What the master race has in common is that they have received a Western
education and they do business with Western banks, for the benefit of
Western interests. It’s not ethnicity that makes one part of the master
race, it’s loyalty and service to Western institutions that grants one a
pass into the upper echelons of Western civilization.
(Eco-feminists in south Asia, among others, have pointed out that most
of the powerful and wealthy nations are in the northern hemisphere, so
in deference to their analysis, from here on, I’ll refer to the
colonial, imperialist nations of old as the North. Also, I’ll refer to
the master race as “whitey”, in order to keep the discussion in somewhat
familiar terms. And also because it’s fun.)
After pummeling one another for a millennium, the northern nations
discovered distant lands inhabited by a wide variety of peoples who
shared one thing in common: their societies were not devoted to
developing more efficient methods to slaughter their neighbors. I’m not
suggesting that warfare was unknown outside the North. I am, however,
observing that most peoples had other things to do besides scheming up
easier ways to massacre their neighbors.
The northerners, on the other hand, were so adept at wholesale
slaughter, Christopher Columbus salivated at the thought that his
armored, heavily armed sailors could readily subdue the Arawak and Carib
peoples he encountered on the islands he stumbled upon. He wrote to the
Spanish monarchs that these easy living peoples could easily be forced
to “accept our ways.”
It wasn’t enough to massacre, rape and plunder these other peoples.
Their cultures were to be obliterated and the unlucky survivors forced
to live in a manner acceptable to their conquerors. This was the
original shock and awe campaign.
The peoples conquered by the invading northerners were forced to convert
to Christianity, but more importantly were also forced to labor at the
creation of wealth for their conquerors.
Diseases, wars and forced labor killed off an incredible, incalculable
number of indigenous peoples wherever the invading northerners asserted
their military superiority. It’s no wonder, then, that most of the
survivors came to emulate their conquerors. To many, the choice was to
either adopt the alien civilization or face extermination. This is still
the false choice presented to all of us on a daily basis: work or
starve. The choice is false because it is actually a threat. The
effectiveness of the threat has not diminished over time. However, it is
not really a threat so much as it is a ruse. Because all of us have been
forcibly absorbed into civilization, we have come to accept such ruses
as truisms. “Money doesn’t grow on trees,” we all know. How many of us,
when confronted by such cliches immediately remind ourselves, “No, but
fruit does!” Who needs money, when food is readily available,
everywhere?
This brings up the question of private property, a concept outside of
most human societies throughout our existence. How can a person own a
forest, a mountain or a valley? The very idea is absurd. Land is
timeless. Human’s mightiest civilizations are fleeting.
Yet, here we are in the 21st century, and the work-or-starve ethic has
spread to every land on the planet. And, grotesquely enough, few people
can even question the sanity, much less the ethics, of the equation. Why
is that? Why must everyone on the planet have to live according to one
all-encompassing, suicidal social dictum? Racism, that’s why.
Not a racism based on ethnic or geographic characteristics, but a racism
which presents one and only one worldview as acceptable, and obliterates
everything that could potentially challenge it’s apparent omnipotence.
In a world where Whitey has conquered over all, Whiteyism reigns
supreme. Whitey doesn’t rule because Whitey’s ways are inherently
superior to other People’s lifeways. Whitey rules because everywhere
Whitey goes, the local population is infected with Whiteyism. The
various Peoples begin to see the world through Whitey vision. They
rebuild their societies to accommodate Whitey’s objectives. We all learn
to think, act and live like Whitey. Once a society is infected with
Whiteyism, everyone in that society wants to be Whitey. And the Whitey
wannabes will not tolerate anyone escaping Whitey’s grasp.
The clearest example is that of West Papua. Many peoples there –
stone-age living hunters, fishers, foragers and herders – have made it
clear that they have no desire to give up their cultures and become
Whiteys. They want no part of nation-states or “economic development.”
They want Whitey to leave them alone. Sadly, the Whitey Indonesian
government desires to develop West Papua for Whitey reasons. And the
tribal Peoples there, with their incredible diversity of languages,
stories and wisdom, will either accept Whitey’s ways or they will be
slaughtered. This is happening now.
So, where are the protestations about the racism so explicit in this
genocide? Instead, there are only mild disputes about how to spread
Whiteyism to the Peoples of West Papua. The kinder, gentler Whiteys wish
for the West Papuan Peoples to be allowed a voice in how they become
Whiteys, behind such catch phrases as “sustainable development”. But
almost no one outside West Papua demands that these Peoples be allowed
to live outside the realm of Whiteyism. And just try to argue that the
West Papuans be left alone. Then, all the familiar Whitey attitudes come
to the fore: “These people are ignorant savages”, “They need education
and health care”, “They need...” this and they need that. What almost
everyone in Whiteyland needs or wants is for these Peoples to be subdued
and Whitey-washed, just as they were! There can be no escape from
Whiteyism – everyone must be assimilated. If not, it points out how
complicit the rest of us are in upholding and reinforcing Whiteyism. Few
people in Whiteyland want out of Whitey’s grasp. Mostly, they want what
Whitey’s got.
People emulate Whitey and fight one another for a greater share of
Whitey’s plunder. Whitey’s wealth was stolen from lands and Peoples all
over the world, and Whitey’s been doing this for over half a millennium,
with no end in sight.
That’s why Whitey has vast stores of wealth hidden away, and why all the
poor, under-developed countries are in debt to their conquerors. It’s a
pretty good racket, isn’t it? Take away all the natural resources from
some people, then loan or sell it back to them at a hefty profit. It
makes me sick just to think of it. It makes me even sicker that so few
people see this extortion, this crime against humanity, for what it is,
and do all they can to stop it.
Instead, almost everyone in Whitey’s domain devotes their entire
existence to keeping Whitey in power. And, if called upon, most people
would destroy anyone or anything standing in the way of Whitey’s profit
lust. Just to earn themselves a share of Whitey’s wealth.
Not one so-called opposition group in the North stands against
Whiteyism. Instead, they all – feminists, marxists, syndicalists, ethnic
nationalists, liberals, religious fundamentalists – bicker over who gets
dibs on Whitey’s privileges. The clamor and competition to prove
themselves worthy of Whitey’s favors is disgusting.
We all know how humiliating work is. How employment grinds us down,
takes away our lives, leaves us numb and drives us insane because it
does not fulfill our lives at any level that matters: spiritually,
existentially, passionately, lovingly.
But still we serve Whitey’s will, because doing otherwise entails risk,
hardship and extreme danger. We cower at our jobs in order to keep a
paycheck coming. This is Whitey’s way of bestowing blessings on us.
Whitey rewards the devout with money, the adept with credit. Every time
we purchase anything, we are casting a vote for Whitey’s continued
reign. Every paycheck cashed is an act of devotion to Whitey. Every day
we report to our jobs or schools, we demonstrate our faith that Whitey
will still be in charge in the future, a future we are actively
creating, according to Whitey’s wishes.
Got a credit card? Then congratulations! You are a card-carrying Whitey.
That piece of plastic is nothing but toxic waste anywhere Whitey’s rule
is not firmly established. Your credit rating is the measure of your
Whiteyness: the more important one is to Whitey, the higher the credit
rating. Credit cards, paychecks and cash are worthless to the Peoples of
West Papua. Whitey has not conquered them. And until we cast off the
intellectual, religious, and social chains that bind us to Whitey,
Whitey will continue to rule over us. This is not an impossible task. We
can do this, but it will take real, determined struggle. We’ll have to
endure hardship, face danger, suffer great pain, to rid ourselves of
Whiteydom. This is not something that can be done quickly and without
sacrifice, or in one’s spare time. To tear down Whitey will take nothing
less than the complete commitment of our existences.
If we don’t withdraw our live’s energies from Whitey, we’ll end up doing
as so many generations before us have – sacrificing our lives to Whitey.
No amount of Whitey’s wealth is worth one minute of your life. Do you
doubt that? If so, let me know if you ever succeed in buying one back.