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Friday, June 05, 2009 12:13:17 PM
Breaking The Taboo: What We Face On Every Front
.........I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones,
So let it be with Caesar - Billy Shakespeare
This essay is taboo, this essay speaks an awkward, uncomfortable truth. This essay is controversial. This essay speaks plainly of something that is not easily spoken about. This essay will contain more caveats than I have ever written!
Los Caveats: Please read before proceeding.
For I place this essay before you today not to condemn a subset of humanity, not to say that they are evil, not to call for their heads, and certainly not to condemn every person reading it who shares any of the characteristics of the subset in question. I share them myself.
If you are reading this and yet do share some of those characteristics...you have probably been fighting your whole life to defeat....."it." Yet, it will probably still sting. You may feel a sense of shame, but I say to you now, with all of the honesty I can muster after examining my heart and conscience, I do not write this to shame you. You may what I am about to write and you are about to read... 'insensitive.' You may even find it insulting. You may become angry. The words on this page may make you feel.....a certain way. Which is why they are taboo. But they are, to the best of my ability to perceive it, The Truth. And though I take full responsibility for writing them, I do not take responsibility for how they make you feel. I did not make this Truth. I just have the temerity to set it in print.
As the subset I am writing about often are heard to say....I apologize if what I say offends you in any way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-apology_apology
If you have read and understand these caveats, you may proceed below the fold.
I would NOT have the temerity to write this essay if not for the quote below. For I come to bury the White, Christian, Male power structure, not to praise it. Just as with Caesar, it has done good. But the "evil" it has done lives on. As a matter of fact it is the "evil" it has done ...and is doing... that we who work for Progress in the world are fighting, in one of its iterations or another, every damn day.
Final (maybe) Caveat: being a White Christian Male does not Not NOT, a thousands time NOT, make you evil. The White Christian Male Power Structure was born long before you....the fact that it does exist does NOT make all White Christian Males part of it....nor does sharing any or all of the characteristics contained therein mean you support it, encourage it, or even (as in my case) mean you have even benefited from it much.
And as I say, if you are reading this YOU have probably spent much of your life and money fighting it, if not it directly, then certainly the effects of it upon the world.
Why do I feel the need to write about this taboo at this time? We will get to that after the quote, the quote that I would not dare to write about this without....for unless it had come from the horses mouth, it would, as it has for all of our past, be considered some "wild conspiracy theory" perpetrated out of "bitterness, envy and a desire for Class War"...or some such rationalizing, denial laden, Bullshite.
But here it is, straight from the horses asses mouth....
..........BILL O'REILLY: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you're a part, and so am I....
The context and attributions can be found here:" Preserving the 'white, Christian, male power structure.'"
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/31/preserving-the-white-christian-male-power-structure/
When you hear Republicans talk about REAL Americans.....this is what they are referring to.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-gabler5-2008oct05,0,3727511.story
So why do I feel the need to write about this taboo at this time? For virtually every reason we write about on the blogs.
Because on every issue we face as Progressives...those on the other side of that issue, the people trying to defeat us on that issue...virtually ALL share one key characteristic. They are all (even the few women) part of The White Christian Male Power Structure. And all of their efforts are in defense of The White Christian Male Power Structure.
It cannot be ignored. And we can no longer adhere to the taboo that has been put in place by The White Christian Male Power Structure....to protect itself.
The Insurance and Pharmaceutical Industries that are fighting against Health Care are controlled by....The White Christian Male Power Structure.
The Banking and Financial Industries (unlike the stereotype they advance to protect their industry from criticism) that have plunged us into a worldwide financial crisis are controlled by....The White Christian Male Power Structure.
The Military Industrial Complex that needs War and armed conflict to profit and thrive and has far to much influence to achieve their aims in Congress is....The White Christian Male Power Structure.
The very Senate itself that rules and legislates on these issues, consistently and unsurprisingly in favor of the The White Christian Male Power Structure....is controlled by the The White Christian Male Power Structure.
And most damagingly of all...
The Oil, Energy and Auto Industries that are fighting all efforts to keep the only planet we have habitable in order to continue their short term profits at the expense of every human being and all of our descendants....is controlled by the The White Christian Male Power Structure.
And of course, the information that the general public receives regarding all of these efforts to preserve the status quo that SO favors the The White Christian Male Power Structure are being (unconsciously?) shaped and manipulated and framed in favor of the The White Christian Male Power Structure, by the Corporate Media which is controlled by? You guessed it....The White Christian Male Power Structure.
Bringing this all in to stark relief was the campaign of Barack Obama. And the forces that opposed it. (The White Christian Male Power Structure) And that are now pounding the table in order to smear, deride and defeat EVERY SINGLE EFFORT TOWARDS THE CHANGE WE ELECTED HIM TO MAKE.
Including the two big news items from yesterday....equal rights for another segment of America...and the appointment of a non white male to the Supreme Court. To the halls of power that have been controlled since the inception of America by...The White Christian Male Power Structure.
The People Spoke loud and clear in the election. WE want change. Who is opposing that change? The Republicans are the most identifiable and clear opponents of Change. We say Change. They say.....NO.
The Republican Party IS, indisputably now that they have given up even the most token effort to be inclusive, the party of The White Christian Male Power Structure.
The leaders of this Party are Dick Cheney, who is currently advocating torture.
Newt Gingrich who led the effort to impeach a Democrat for violating family Values while himself indulging in serial adultery and, though driven from office in disgrace himself, is calling for Speaker Pelosi to be driven from office for telling the truth about the torturers in the CIA.
And Rush Limbaugh, who is currently trying to protect the racist White Christian Male Power Structure from a 'scary' Hispanic Female being appointed to a place of power historically reserved for you know who ....by calling her a racist...
..........."Here you have a racist - you might want to soften that, and you might want to say a reverse racist. The libs, of course, say that minorities cannot be racists because they don't have the power to implement their racism. Well, those days are gone, because reverse racists certainly do have the power. ... Obama is the greatest living example of a reverse racist, and now he's appointed one."
And of course because the The White Christian Male Power Structure must stick together and parrot the same meme at the same time to preserve their power, the rest of the The White Christian Male Power Structure is saying exactly the same thing...[Gingrich Tweets Sotomayor 'Racist'--On Visit to Auschwitz! by Jeffrey Feldman
Rush says "Well, those days are gone, because reverse racists certainly do have the power.'
It is incredibly premature to say that minorities currently have "the power" to implement much of anything. Especially since virtually everything that the "reverse racist" President Obama is attempting to "implement".......is currently being either defeated or watered down to meaninglessness by....
The White Christian Male Power Structure.
And even a segment of the Democratic Party is doing all that it can to defeat the change that Obama is doing his best to implement.
Why? People ask. Why would people in his own Party, people who are supposed to be on his side work to defeat or water down the Change that The People voted for? Why would people on OUR SIDE vote against the Change that we elected them, these "more Democrats" that we needed to effect change as we were told....why are they STILL not implementing change? And in many cases, actively blocking the Change that We The People demanded from out government in the last election?
Why?
Because they do NOT represent The People.
They do not, heh, even represent the majority of white Christian males.
..........Because the vast majority (like you) of white Christian males are NOT part of The White Christian Male Power Structure.
Which leads us to the raison d'etre and conclusion of this taboo essay:
The age of the The White Christian Male Power Structure is nearly over. Demographics dictate that. The demands of a changing world that has grown and evolved beyond the bounds of their very limited philosophy and archaic way of wielding power dictates that. The fact that we human beings, through the benefit of technology that 'shrunk the world' have made what we do as a nation the 'business' of the whole world dictates that.
Reality dictates that.
So why is it important to point out the fact that our opponents are not some faceless amorphous blob of power, but indeed an organized and coherent entity? Why is it important that we know and define our 'enemy?'
Because it is indeed the representatives of The White Christian Male Power Structure on our side who are blocking Change.
And if we are going to defeat them we have to do two things. First, we have to let them know that we know WHY they are blocking change.
And second because all of us who are NOT part of The White Christian Male Power Structure will have to band together, to work together, to put aside our minor differences that divide us to come together to defeat their efforts to block the Will of The People.
Including, of course, all of us White Males and all of you Christians who are NOT part of The White Christian Male Power Structure. Even though we may have some of the same characteristics of them. Because even though we may have some of the same characteristics....we do NOT have the same interests.
ALL of us have a stake in the future. All Seven Billion of us. There is a VERY small group of people working against those interests. They are organized.
We are not.
If we want to defeat their efforts to promote war, to wage financial Class War, to block health care, and to make our planet uninhabitable, WE must join together and organize to defeat them.
And we need to know who they are, and we need to let THEM know we are on to them.
We of course do not have to refer to them as The White Christian Male Power Structure....even though that is how they identify themselves
..........Once again - BILL O'REILLY: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you're a part, and so am I....
...we can call them the Ruling Class or the Powers That Be or anything we want that is less inflammatory...if we want to.
But we DO have to...no matter what we call them.....call them OUT.
Or we will never defeat them.
And defeating them is not a luxury, it is an imperative.
by: buhdydharma
http://www.docudharma.com/diary/13814/breaking-the-taboo-what-we-face-on-every-front
Violent Revolution does not work
Evolution does, and as we as a planet evolve into one humanity ....THAT will be the Revolution we seek
The natural laws ain't got no constitution
They've got a right to live their own life
But we keep paving over paradise."
--Jason Mraz
How beautiful one drop of rain can look. Sitting so still upon a leaf. The world reflected in it. An amazing world.
.........I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones,
So let it be with Caesar - Billy Shakespeare
This essay is taboo, this essay speaks an awkward, uncomfortable truth. This essay is controversial. This essay speaks plainly of something that is not easily spoken about. This essay will contain more caveats than I have ever written!
Los Caveats: Please read before proceeding.
For I place this essay before you today not to condemn a subset of humanity, not to say that they are evil, not to call for their heads, and certainly not to condemn every person reading it who shares any of the characteristics of the subset in question. I share them myself.
If you are reading this and yet do share some of those characteristics...you have probably been fighting your whole life to defeat....."it." Yet, it will probably still sting. You may feel a sense of shame, but I say to you now, with all of the honesty I can muster after examining my heart and conscience, I do not write this to shame you. You may what I am about to write and you are about to read... 'insensitive.' You may even find it insulting. You may become angry. The words on this page may make you feel.....a certain way. Which is why they are taboo. But they are, to the best of my ability to perceive it, The Truth. And though I take full responsibility for writing them, I do not take responsibility for how they make you feel. I did not make this Truth. I just have the temerity to set it in print.
As the subset I am writing about often are heard to say....I apologize if what I say offends you in any way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-apology_apology
If you have read and understand these caveats, you may proceed below the fold.
I would NOT have the temerity to write this essay if not for the quote below. For I come to bury the White, Christian, Male power structure, not to praise it. Just as with Caesar, it has done good. But the "evil" it has done lives on. As a matter of fact it is the "evil" it has done ...and is doing... that we who work for Progress in the world are fighting, in one of its iterations or another, every damn day.
Final (maybe) Caveat: being a White Christian Male does not Not NOT, a thousands time NOT, make you evil. The White Christian Male Power Structure was born long before you....the fact that it does exist does NOT make all White Christian Males part of it....nor does sharing any or all of the characteristics contained therein mean you support it, encourage it, or even (as in my case) mean you have even benefited from it much.
And as I say, if you are reading this YOU have probably spent much of your life and money fighting it, if not it directly, then certainly the effects of it upon the world.
Why do I feel the need to write about this taboo at this time? We will get to that after the quote, the quote that I would not dare to write about this without....for unless it had come from the horses mouth, it would, as it has for all of our past, be considered some "wild conspiracy theory" perpetrated out of "bitterness, envy and a desire for Class War"...or some such rationalizing, denial laden, Bullshite.
But here it is, straight from the horses asses mouth....
..........BILL O'REILLY: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you're a part, and so am I....
The context and attributions can be found here:" Preserving the 'white, Christian, male power structure.'"
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/31/preserving-the-white-christian-male-power-structure/
When you hear Republicans talk about REAL Americans.....this is what they are referring to.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-gabler5-2008oct05,0,3727511.story
So why do I feel the need to write about this taboo at this time? For virtually every reason we write about on the blogs.
Because on every issue we face as Progressives...those on the other side of that issue, the people trying to defeat us on that issue...virtually ALL share one key characteristic. They are all (even the few women) part of The White Christian Male Power Structure. And all of their efforts are in defense of The White Christian Male Power Structure.
It cannot be ignored. And we can no longer adhere to the taboo that has been put in place by The White Christian Male Power Structure....to protect itself.
The Insurance and Pharmaceutical Industries that are fighting against Health Care are controlled by....The White Christian Male Power Structure.
The Banking and Financial Industries (unlike the stereotype they advance to protect their industry from criticism) that have plunged us into a worldwide financial crisis are controlled by....The White Christian Male Power Structure.
The Military Industrial Complex that needs War and armed conflict to profit and thrive and has far to much influence to achieve their aims in Congress is....The White Christian Male Power Structure.
The very Senate itself that rules and legislates on these issues, consistently and unsurprisingly in favor of the The White Christian Male Power Structure....is controlled by the The White Christian Male Power Structure.
And most damagingly of all...
The Oil, Energy and Auto Industries that are fighting all efforts to keep the only planet we have habitable in order to continue their short term profits at the expense of every human being and all of our descendants....is controlled by the The White Christian Male Power Structure.
And of course, the information that the general public receives regarding all of these efforts to preserve the status quo that SO favors the The White Christian Male Power Structure are being (unconsciously?) shaped and manipulated and framed in favor of the The White Christian Male Power Structure, by the Corporate Media which is controlled by? You guessed it....The White Christian Male Power Structure.
Bringing this all in to stark relief was the campaign of Barack Obama. And the forces that opposed it. (The White Christian Male Power Structure) And that are now pounding the table in order to smear, deride and defeat EVERY SINGLE EFFORT TOWARDS THE CHANGE WE ELECTED HIM TO MAKE.
Including the two big news items from yesterday....equal rights for another segment of America...and the appointment of a non white male to the Supreme Court. To the halls of power that have been controlled since the inception of America by...The White Christian Male Power Structure.
The People Spoke loud and clear in the election. WE want change. Who is opposing that change? The Republicans are the most identifiable and clear opponents of Change. We say Change. They say.....NO.
The Republican Party IS, indisputably now that they have given up even the most token effort to be inclusive, the party of The White Christian Male Power Structure.
The leaders of this Party are Dick Cheney, who is currently advocating torture.
Newt Gingrich who led the effort to impeach a Democrat for violating family Values while himself indulging in serial adultery and, though driven from office in disgrace himself, is calling for Speaker Pelosi to be driven from office for telling the truth about the torturers in the CIA.
And Rush Limbaugh, who is currently trying to protect the racist White Christian Male Power Structure from a 'scary' Hispanic Female being appointed to a place of power historically reserved for you know who ....by calling her a racist...
..........."Here you have a racist - you might want to soften that, and you might want to say a reverse racist. The libs, of course, say that minorities cannot be racists because they don't have the power to implement their racism. Well, those days are gone, because reverse racists certainly do have the power. ... Obama is the greatest living example of a reverse racist, and now he's appointed one."
And of course because the The White Christian Male Power Structure must stick together and parrot the same meme at the same time to preserve their power, the rest of the The White Christian Male Power Structure is saying exactly the same thing...[Gingrich Tweets Sotomayor 'Racist'--On Visit to Auschwitz! by Jeffrey Feldman
Rush says "Well, those days are gone, because reverse racists certainly do have the power.'
It is incredibly premature to say that minorities currently have "the power" to implement much of anything. Especially since virtually everything that the "reverse racist" President Obama is attempting to "implement".......is currently being either defeated or watered down to meaninglessness by....
The White Christian Male Power Structure.
And even a segment of the Democratic Party is doing all that it can to defeat the change that Obama is doing his best to implement.
Why? People ask. Why would people in his own Party, people who are supposed to be on his side work to defeat or water down the Change that The People voted for? Why would people on OUR SIDE vote against the Change that we elected them, these "more Democrats" that we needed to effect change as we were told....why are they STILL not implementing change? And in many cases, actively blocking the Change that We The People demanded from out government in the last election?
Why?
Because they do NOT represent The People.
They do not, heh, even represent the majority of white Christian males.
..........Because the vast majority (like you) of white Christian males are NOT part of The White Christian Male Power Structure.
Which leads us to the raison d'etre and conclusion of this taboo essay:
The age of the The White Christian Male Power Structure is nearly over. Demographics dictate that. The demands of a changing world that has grown and evolved beyond the bounds of their very limited philosophy and archaic way of wielding power dictates that. The fact that we human beings, through the benefit of technology that 'shrunk the world' have made what we do as a nation the 'business' of the whole world dictates that.
Reality dictates that.
So why is it important to point out the fact that our opponents are not some faceless amorphous blob of power, but indeed an organized and coherent entity? Why is it important that we know and define our 'enemy?'
Because it is indeed the representatives of The White Christian Male Power Structure on our side who are blocking Change.
And if we are going to defeat them we have to do two things. First, we have to let them know that we know WHY they are blocking change.
And second because all of us who are NOT part of The White Christian Male Power Structure will have to band together, to work together, to put aside our minor differences that divide us to come together to defeat their efforts to block the Will of The People.
Including, of course, all of us White Males and all of you Christians who are NOT part of The White Christian Male Power Structure. Even though we may have some of the same characteristics of them. Because even though we may have some of the same characteristics....we do NOT have the same interests.
ALL of us have a stake in the future. All Seven Billion of us. There is a VERY small group of people working against those interests. They are organized.
We are not.
If we want to defeat their efforts to promote war, to wage financial Class War, to block health care, and to make our planet uninhabitable, WE must join together and organize to defeat them.
And we need to know who they are, and we need to let THEM know we are on to them.
We of course do not have to refer to them as The White Christian Male Power Structure....even though that is how they identify themselves
..........Once again - BILL O'REILLY: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you're a part, and so am I....
...we can call them the Ruling Class or the Powers That Be or anything we want that is less inflammatory...if we want to.
But we DO have to...no matter what we call them.....call them OUT.
Or we will never defeat them.
And defeating them is not a luxury, it is an imperative.
by: buhdydharma
http://www.docudharma.com/diary/13814/breaking-the-taboo-what-we-face-on-every-front
Violent Revolution does not work
Evolution does, and as we as a planet evolve into one humanity ....THAT will be the Revolution we seek
The natural laws ain't got no constitution
They've got a right to live their own life
But we keep paving over paradise."
--Jason Mraz
How beautiful one drop of rain can look. Sitting so still upon a leaf. The world reflected in it. An amazing world.
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