The Last Gasp of Aging White Power: But Time Is Not on Your Side -- Tim Wise

[marmar]

Tim Wise


AlterNet / By Tim Wise

The Last Gasp of Aging White Power: But Time Is Not on Your Side -- Tim Wise
The "Leave It To Beaver" days that Tea Party voters yearn for are about to be swept into the dustbin of history.

November 5, 2010 |


And for y’all a bit lower on the economic scale, enjoy your Pabst Blue Ribbon, or whatever shitty ass beer you favor.

Whatever the case, and whatever your economic station, know this…

You need to drink up.

And quickly.

And heavily.

Because your time is limited.

Real damned limited.

So party while you can, but mind the increasingly loud clock ticking away in the corners of your consciousness.

The clock that reminds you how little time you and yours have left.

Not much more now.

Tick, tock.

Tick, tock.

Tick.

Tock.

I know, you think you’ve taken “your country back” with this election — and of course you have always thought it was yours for the taking, cuz that’s what we white folks are bred to believe, that it’s ours, and how dare anyone else say otherwise — but you are wrong.

You have won a small battle in a larger war the meaning of which you do not remotely understand.

‘Cuz there is nothing even slightly original about you.

There have always been those who wanted to take the country back.

There were those who, in past years, wanted to take the country back to a time of enslavement and indentured servitude. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/story/148727/the_last_gasp_of_aging_white_power%3A_but_time_is_not_on_your_side_--_tim_wise/

[tavalon]

1. Yep, they've won quite a few battles lately but the war is already lost

On my hardest days, I try to keep that in mind.

[Doctor_J]

2. Nice rant, but poorly reasoned

the children of the Limbeciles are reaching voting age. It's not only the trembling, aging white folk who are under the trance of hate radio. It's their kids, and grandkids, and the entire South. The people who are now coming of voting age have been indoctrinated with right-wing GOP propaganda their entire lives. Thinking that King Glenn and Limpballs are going away is really a mistake.

[liberalmuse]

3. This is an amazing article.

I highly recommend this! Being an angry person, reading this was like a soothing balm, oddly enough.

[handmade34]

4. highly recommend

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. It's a shame that I'll be too old to enjoy the return to common sense after

the deluded right generation is returned to the ground.

[Roma]

6. But who is he speaking of?

Grayson, Oberstar, Feingold, Childers, Fincher, Sestak, Boucher, Taylor, Ortiz, etc. etc. etc.?

All white, all male, all defeated.

Maybe Tim isn't so wise.

A bit of graveyard whistling I'd say.

[marmar]

7. Election's over. No need to linger.

nt

[southernyankeebelle]

8. Am 62 yrs old white woman. I have a white husband and son. I grew up in a liberal family. I

consider myself in the lower middle class. We have always been very supportive of all races. I have had the pleasure of having all kinds of people living near my family. Please don't mistake all whites in the same basket.

[less lee]

9. When I talk about this subject...

I get tombstoned! Why is that? I have a sneaking feeling some folks do not know the definition of racism?