Black and White Americans

In light of several comments and emails I've received about yesterday's post: "Is White Nationalism Racist?" I'd like to clear up a few points:

The article was concerned with the fact that the White majority of the United States is being threatened by the influx of millions of immigrants, legal and illegal from non-white, third-world countries.

What it was not concerned with, is the unique situation of American Blacks.

While America has always been a decidedly and overwhelmingly white nation, we have always had a small black minority. Not one who demanded entry to take advantage of our good and generous nature, but whose ancestors were dragged here in chains quite against their wills. They have been in America for more generations than many whites (whose ancestors immigrated in the 19th and 20th centuries). And they are the co-inheritors of the American Cultural Heritage.

Black and White Americans share a culture, even if they sometimes try to deny it. My father, child of immigrants assimilated into the American Culture, leaving Italy behind as the child of slaves assimilated into the American Culture, leaving Africa behind.

We can pretend we are still Italian or African, but we're not. The fact is "Italian-Americans" don't return to live in the Old Country. And neither do "African-Americans". Because we are the children of America. And America is home.

That's why "White Nationalism" —as strange as it sounds— is just as important for American Blacks. It's goal is to preserve what is their culture too.

It was in this culture that Blacks were immersed since they were brought from Africa, It is the one in which they have been born and raised for generations, in which they became free, and struggled to equality. This is the only culture for good and evil that American Blacks have known since the 18th century. They could not help but absorb it, assimilate it, adopt it as their own.

Black and White Americans, co-inheritors of a culture under attack, are both being assaulted by an invasion of people who do not share, and do not wish to share, our cultural heritage or values. Values we share on a level much deeper than skin color. And it would be an oddly racist assumption to assume that because the foreign invaders' faces are brown, they are the "natural" allies of Americans whose faces are black.

The Gunslinger