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                    December 7, 2007


What Wallowing in White Guilt Is Good for
A classic column by Sam Francis

     It must have been a tough decision for the editors 
of the WASHINGTON POST last week whether to lead on page 
one with the return of baseball to the District of 
Columbia or the story about the demonstration in 
Annapolis to acknowledge white guilt for slavery. As it 
turned out, the editors went with baseball, but the 
slavery-guilt wallow was at least the lead of the Metro 
section. Nothing quite beats white guilt, I guess, unless 
it's baseball.

     In fact, the Annapolis guilt wallow beat just about 
anything most white people could imagine. Calling itself 
"A Slavery Reconciliation Walk of Penitence and 
Forgiveness," the event attracted a whopping 24 
participants, 11 of them children, according to the 
WASHINGTON TIMES account. Actually, all of them were 
children, but leave that aside.

     The wallowers, the white ones anyway, draped 
themselves in chains and placards acknowledging their 
guilt for slavery, and wore T-shirts with the words "So 
Sorry" and armbands labeled "penitent." Black 
participants wore armbands with the word "forgiver." This 
tells you what sort of "reconciliation" the wallowers had 
in mind.

     If it doesn't, white wallower Carol Palmer, a 
38-year-old child in tears over her guilt, made it clear. 
"I am a descendant of a slave owner," she blubbered, "and 
I thought this would be a way of acknowledging the 
injustice and for others to see that I am truly sorry for 
the actions of my forefathers." Miss Palmer "was confined 
in a yoke with three other white persons," the TIMES 
reported.

     The guiltfest was sponsored by an organization 
calling itself the "Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation and 
Lifeline Expedition," after the late black writer who 
cranked out the book ROOTS back in the 1970s, a work 
purporting to explore the author's racial heritage in 
Africa and early America but which was later shown to 
have been mostly fabrication. The "expedition" that 
showed up in Annapolis last week "has held similar events 
in several European cities," the TIMES says.

     "Today we are here to show that we in Annapolis have 
the will to take persistent steps toward applying 
chemotherapy to that cancer, racism," proclaimed Leonard 
Blackshear, the group's president. Apparently he has 
nothing better to do than traipse around the world 
flagellating himself and whoever else will submit to it, 
and from the sympathy the POST exuded, maybe it's worth 
it.

     "The march comes during a troubled period for race 
relations in Anne Arundel County," the POST fretted. "A 
series of racially tinged incidents over the past few 
years has raised concerns among government officials and 
community leaders." Those "concerns" range from white 
opposition to a new black college in the county to the 
distribution of alleged "neo-Nazi" flyers at a local high 
school. Nobody seems to worry about the possibility of 
"racially tinged" incidents involving black "racism" 
against whites. That, you see, is not what 
"reconciliation" is about.

     "Reconciliation" recalls the similar initiative 
peddled by President Bill Clinton some years ago, when he 
too traipsed around the country (and even to Africa) to 
wallow in white guilt. Such wallows have become a regular 
institution for whites these days, and they always reveal 
the same underlying pattern of assumptions.

     Assumption One is that only whites have anything to 
feel guilty about. The eagerness of black African chiefs 
to sell their own men, women, and children into bondage 
to whoever could fork up enough beads and bullets is 
never mentioned.

     Assumption Two is that only the =evil= that whites 
are said to have committed is important. The fact that it 
was whites who outlawed and suppressed the slave trade is 
also forgotten, as is the fact that slavery endures in 
Africa to this day -- on a massive scale.

     And Assumption Three is that slavery was and is 
totally evil -- despite the fact that almost all 
civilizations have practiced it, that major philosophers 
and religious figures have defended it, and that, in the 
absence of slavery, most Africans (and indeed many Middle 
Easterners and Europeans, whose ancestors often 
experienced slavery under one empire of the past or 
another) would still be living in savagery.

     The guilt wallow was right about one thing. Whites 
did indeed practice slavery, whether as Greeks, Romans, 
Americans, Englishmen, or other Europeans. You don't have 
to approve of slavery to see that they did so because 
they shared a deep and unshakeable faith in their own 
race and civilization, a faith that created and sustained 
their will to conquer the world.

     The real reason we have to put up with the kind of 
guilt wallow that slopped around in Annapolis last week 
is that whites today have lost that faith in themselves. 
Wallowing in guilt and phony "reconciliation" that barely 
masks an anti-white agenda is a good way to make sure 
they never recover it again.

[This column was originally published by Creators 
Syndicate on October 5, 2004.] 


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Political pundit Samuel Francis was an author and
syndicated columnist. A former deputy editorial-page 
editor for THE WASHINGTON TIMES, he received the 
Distinguished Writing Award for Editorial Writing from 
the American Society of Newspaper Editors in both 1989 
and 1990.

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