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Thread ID: 11713 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2004-01-02
2004-01-02 20:59 | User Profile
[B]Racial Displacement [/B]
by Richard McCulloch
One of the common effects of the process of racial change can be referred to as racial displacement. This occurs whenever a member of another race takes the place or position of a person in our lives with whom we interact or form a relationship. These positions vary in importance. They can be major or minor, primary or secondary, central or peripheral, close or distant, but they all, in greater or lesser degree, have an effect, impact or influence on our lives.
These positions can be a matter of free and discretionary choice, as in a husband or wife, or in the children, and relatives-in-law, that are the result of our choice in a mate. But mostly they are a matter of opportunity, over which we have little control if we are to interact or function in the larger society outside our home. Often they are in our own family, positions occupied by those chosen by a relative. The positions over which we have little or no control can be that of a step father or mother, a step brother or sister, a half brother or sister, the husband or wife of a sister or brother, nieces or nephews, a neighbor or co-worker, a teacher or student, an employer or employee, a barber or bank teller, the girl behind the drugstore counter or the children playing in the neighborhood.
Whenever one of these positions in our lives is filled by a member of another race they are taking the place of someone of our own race who would have filled that position in a homogeneous, monoracial society. A relationship or interaction that would have been with a member of our own race occurs instead with a member of another race. The more places in our lives taken by members of other races the fewer that remain for members of our own race, the more we are deprived of contact with members of our own race, and the more difficult and uncommon it becomes for us to form relationships with members of our own race. The places in our lives are filled more and more by members of other races, replacing members of our own race. We constantly see them and become used to seeing them. They become familiar and we often develop feelings of loyalty and friendship with them. But we fail to see the members of our own race who would have occupied those positions in our lives, and with whom we should have shared those feelings, if they had not been displaced by the members of other races.
Even the selection of a mate, which should be a matter of choice, is limited by opportunity and availability, factors largely beyond our control. As more and more of the prospective mate positions in our lives are taken by members of other races, displacing members of our own race, fewer positions are available for members of our own race, and our opportunities for finding a mate of our own race lessen. This greatly increases the likelihood that a mate of another race will be chosen. In this manner racial displacement promotes racial intermixture.
from "The Path of Destruction" [url]http://www.racialcompact.com/pathofdestruction.html[/url]
Philosopher Richard McCulloch is the author of The Ideal and Destiny (1982), Destiny of Angels (1986), The Nordish Quest (1989), and The Racial Compact (1994). His website, [url]http://www.racialcompact.com/[/url], contains an extensive collection of his important essays.
2004-01-03 05:25 | User Profile
I've started making a conscious choice (when possible -- I AM trapped near Atlanta -- the {shudder} "black capital of America") to patronize white-owned/run stores; I pick the check-out line with the white staff (when there IS one {sigh}), and try to be seated in a white-served section in restaurants.
When I need assistance in a dept store, I go FIND a white salesperson (if there is one... {heavier sigh}) and do NOT accept offered help from black staff.
Carolontheweb have been an example for me -- I'm not yet ready (or able) to be entirely forthright, but her example of asking for a white teller, because the bank has provided a hispanic for the mexicans, a black for the blacks (well, probably a mulatto -- a teller needs to be able to count and add, after all), and an asian for the asians -- but I AM making the choice to take the white teller's line (when there is one).
I am struggling with the need to be polite (it's not actually the fault of the poor black teenager checking people out that our country is being ruined), but I am also no longer willing to just go along...
2004-01-25 19:32 | User Profile
That's good Avalanche, every small effort helps in the long run. I always looked at it like these people won't extend their hand to us, why should we to them? I know we're different but this is what's displacing us now. Whites treat non-whites better then their own. White anti-racists for example will stereotype 'air-headed blondes' but never anyone else.