Racism as a Consumer's Good

Legal Insurrection blogged here about the concept of "white privilege," and how there is an actual organization out there that aims to "Involve a multitude of people... in the discussion of how white privilege, white supremacy, and oppression affect their everyday lives." There is an annual "White Privilege Conference" going on and I'm assuming that this is somewhat pervasive throughout particular universities and community activist groups around the nation. The WPC webpage (or an affiliate, I don't care) is here, so you know I'm not making this up. I will not, however, give these nobodies anymore space than I already have on this blog.

Instead, I want to break out the horse pill that nobody can seem to swallow: I don't see racism as a bad thing, per se. I don't see the preservation of culture, habit, and familiarity as a social bad. On the contrary, racially homogeneous communities have a knack for remaining tightly knit and cooperative amongst themselves (Think Jewish ghettos and Asian communities within this country). I'm no expert, and I am not saying that high correlation of relatively peaceful interrelationships and racial homogeneity is causation. But the urge to associate with like-minded, physically similar folks with a common lineage is not something to spurn. I'm willing to bet that 'racist' inclinations are ingrained on the biological level. That is, nature is often the primary cause of racist sentiments, and nurture then exacerbates those natural tendencies. This need not always be the case, but at the same time, if the foregoing is even sometimes true, then it implies that anyone and at anytime, be him black, white or else, is biologically inclined to discriminate.

This does not imply racial violence, but this does mean that there exists the possibility that white (black) business owners will tend to higher a white (black) man over a black (white) man, given both are of equal skill. This does mean that racially integrated communities will have 'disintegrating' tendencies, and no amount of social engineering can change that.

If this is the case, then the WPC and all similar movements are futile. Even if we somehow erased history clean of all racial bigotry and pernicious discrimination, it would still manifest itself as a social preference. Kind of like how I don't like the taste of carrots, but I love me some raw salmon.

I can't apologize for that.