{"id":39651,"date":"2012-11-08T00:47:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T07:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=39651"},"modified":"2014-12-30T11:01:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T18:01:49","slug":"four-pieces-of-correspondence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/11\/four-pieces-of-correspondence.html","title":{"rendered":"Four Pieces of Correspondence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Exhibit A:<\/a><\/p>\n

Instead of clinging with those Libertarians who live in lala land, give serious consideration to what happened last night\u2026and just who voted for this disaster.<\/p>\n

All the so-called Americans <\/strong>who are receiving government assistance, the minorities <\/strong>and the ideologues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Exhibit B<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got an idea. Let\u2019s abandon our principles and champion abortion, gay marriage, obamacare, wonen in the priesthood, legalize marijuana and same sez marriage, reduced military, abandon Israel, buddy up to Ahmidinijad and Chavez, open the borders, and forty acres and a mule for all black people<\/strong>. That ought to do it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s much to be said about these particular braindead responses to the suggestion that the Thing That Used to be Conservatism needs to take a fearless moral inventory<\/a> instead of wrapping itself more tightly in the veil of unreality it has woven for itself. But what I want to focus on here is the simple, raw, undiluted racism<\/a> both these responses telegraph. You know, like this<\/a> and this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Funnily enough, when a reader called the second guy on his racist remark, guess what he replied?<\/p>\n

what is it about you people that you interpret everything as racist? I am less racist than you in all likely hood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The likely hood that reader wears may or may not be white and pointy, but what I want to note here is simply that he repeats, without a movement of the grey matter, the braindead trope that \u201cyou people\u201d (meaning, in this case, an appalled Catholic who takes seriously the teaching of the Church on racism) just automatically and reflexively label all conservatives racist\u2013and uses it to lie about his racism.<\/p>\n

Yes, yes.\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 There are shakedown artists in the black community.\u00a0 Al Sharpton is a creep and Tawana Brawley was a fraud and Jesse Jackson is a crook.\u00a0 Some professionally aggrieved grievance professionals need insensitivity training<\/a>.\u00a0 Duly noted.\u00a0 But you know what?\u00a0 That does not exhaust the matter because here\u2019s the thing: this dude *is* a racist. So was the woman who declared minorities \u201cso-called Americans\u201d. And, you know, for some reason, as a result, I got the following mail from two of my African American readers, both of them serious about the faith, both basically social conservatives and serious Catholics on the core moral issues\u2013and both of them deeply conflicted about what to do since so many in the Thing that Used to be Conservatism treat them with casual contempt. Why do conservatives lose elections and fail to get traction with people from minority communities? Could have something to do with things like this:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m writing this message in regards to some of the comments that I saw and to which I replied on your blog. I\u2019m asking that you give serious chastisement to those who have made blatantly racist remarks, but more emphatically. I know it probably doesn\u2019t mean SO much to you, and while you think it\u2019s terribly wrong, that one should not ascribe to malice what one can merely ascribe to stupidity, to someone like me, it\u2019s a lot more than stupid. It\u2019s hurtful. It\u2019s actually scary. It makes me wonder what all the people I attend mass with are thinking. I don\u2019t know these people and they don\u2019t know me, and generally they aren\u2019t very friendly. When I see sentiment like that, I think \u201cdo they think that way, too?\u201d. I\u2019m a graduate student at Northwestern University with a bachelors cum laude from the University of Michigan for crying out loud. And I was grouped into a subset of the less appealing elements of my race merely for the fact that this skin that I bear is with me every moment of my life? I was utterly appalled, and I really feel that you should say something about it. While it isn\u2019t necessarily the fault of conservatives that the conversation of race is in the open, I don\u2019t think many of them are handling it very well at all. This just a humble request from one of your fans and followers. I hope you take the time to think this over, even if you decide that it wouldn\u2019t be within prudence to fulfill my request. Thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another reader writes:<\/p>\n

To My Brother In Christ,<\/p>\n

Your article \u201cWell That Didn\u2019t Take Long\u201d was a true blessing to me today. As an African American Traditional Catholic, I can\u2019t tell you how this election has tormented me. The identity politics alone have left me feeling tortured and homeless\u2013until I read not only your article but your responses to the comments that followed. I move between liberal and conservative communities\u2013feeling ill at ease and alienated by the discourse I find in both. So thank you for providing (even if just for a moment) a sense of community to me. Thank you for speaking truth to power. Thank you for not conflating Republican and Christian\/Catholic. Thank you for not excusing the racism that somehow gets swept under the rug (either as a necessary casualty or heaven forbid \u201cChristian\u201d). Thank you Thank you Thank you! Tonight I feel like someone gets it; and if you get it there must be others\u2013evidenced by many of the thoughtful, articulate and truly Christian responses that followed.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your example of putting Jesus and His Church front and center\u2013above self-interest and above some worldly notion of \u201cwinning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thanks for giving me hope! \u2013In Christ,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is not one good reason these two people\u2013and many more like them\u2013should have to feel this struggle. A smart politics informed by the Tradition instead of by Talk Radio would take them into account and regard them as the Church says to regard them\u2013as human beings and not as \u201cso-called Americans\u201d or moochers or as part of the 47%. A stupid one, like the Thing that Used to be Conservatism, alienates these natural allies. It does the same thing with Latinos, telling them things like \u201cAmnesty Equals Abortion<\/a>\u201d instead of treating with the reality that 12 million, hard-working, socially conservative, largely Catholic people who are integrated into our economy and only interested in a future for their families are not going anywhere. So\u2013brilliantly\u2013we equate them\u2013in a Catholic organ of GOP agitprop\u2013with \u201cabortion\u201d and then blame them for not voting for the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism. Smart.<\/p>\n

Am I saying all or even most conservatives are racist? Of course not. I am, however, saying that the undercurrent of racism is pronounced enough in the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism that it has, for instance, fueled the years long delusion that Obama was born in Kenya (read: is a foreigner and, \u2018ow you say?, only a \u201cso-called American\u201d) and that that he is a Muslim. Here\u2019s more reality. Obama was born in Hawaii. He\u2019s just not a Muslim. He is a garden variety secularized liberal Protestant from a politicized Black urban church tradition that sees the gospel almost exclusively in terms of \u201ccommunity organizing\u201d.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the right wing obsession with pointedly saying Obama\u2019s middle name as though this is conclusive proof of something (in other words, that he is African and Muslim, and therefore a \u201cso-called American\u201d and a terrorist enemy who has infiltrated good\u2013that is, \u201cwhite\u201d society) is likewise one of those common habits on the right that demonstrate once again the veil of unreality that the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism weaves around itself by a thousand little winks and nods. Sometimes, all the racism comes together in a perfect storm of repellent sickness, such as this little call for a lynching<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This was not on a Stormfront or KKK site. This was posted on the website<\/a> of the Sacramento Republican Party.<\/p>\n

All this filth is doubly duplicitous and delusional in that, while it clearly is about Obama\u2019s race making him a \u201cso-called American\u201d, it is persistently denied to be so. And the lie is so thorough that those who practice it are actually outraged and offended when people like my last two correspondents see it for what it obviously is and name it as such. To people like them the wounded response is consistently given: \u201cWhat is it about you people that you interpret everything as racist?\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing: to paraphrase Talleyrand, this is not merely sin, it\u2019s stupid, politically speaking. Because once again, anybody with eyes in their head standing outside the epistemic closure bubble of the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism knows perfectly well that all this stuff is trading on racism and suggesting that the Kenyan Muslim (he is neither) is only a \u201cso-called American\u201d. Unsurprisingly, African-Americans get the message that they are unwelcome, just as \u201cdeport the wetbacks\u201d does send a certain message to Hispanics. Mysteriously these people choose not to vote for a political movement that tolerates and, at the grass roots level,\u00a0encourages such messages. Who can fathom the mysterious mind of the minority group member?<\/p>\n

Solution: Stop putting up with sotto voce<\/em> racist BS. Do it, not because it\u2019s politically stupid, but because its a sin and God hates it. That means, among other things, stop already with the stupid crap about Obama being a \u201cso-called American\u201d, a Kenyan, a Muslim, etc. All that stupidity needs to go and reality needs to be addressed instead. Such stupidity springs from sin and, in this case, is a living laboratory demonstration of just how stupid sin can make people.<\/p>\n

Or, go on pretending there\u2019s no problem and losing elections\u2013and ignoring God.\u00a0 The consequences of the former are being felt by the Thing that Used to be Conservatism now.\u00a0 They should be taken as a gracious chastisement from the hand of God so that we will start obeying God and discovering happier and eternal consequences later.<\/p>\n

Update:\u00a0 In my comboxes, a reader writes: \u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cClaiming that this stuff is even 10% of the reason why Mitt lost is just ridiculous.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And a Latina reader replies:<\/p>\n

No, it\u2019s not.\u00a0 Supposedly 7 out of 10 Latinos voted for Obama, and let me assure you, most of them did not do that because they think abortions are awesome.\u00a0 They did it because for decades the GOP has made it clear, implicitly and explicitly, that we are not welcome in that party.\u00a0 They did it because the Democratic party has made a point of addressing our concerns (poverty, immigration, education) in a compassionate way.<\/p>\n

I did not vote for Obama this time around (he lost me forever when he passed the NDAA), but I have never felt welcome in the GOP.\u00a0 I\u2019m a white Latina (yes, that\u2019s a thing, Latinos come in all colors) who passes for \u201cregular\u201d white, so I have been lucky enough not to experience much racism directly.\u00a0 But my ability to \u201cpass\u201d means I also get to hear all sorts of comments made by conservatives and Republicans, things they say thoughtlessly or because they think their audience will agree with them.\u00a0 Not all conservatives and Republicans are racist, by any means, but many of them are clueless and carry a lot of unexamined assumptions.<\/p>\n

With all the hoopla of the presidential election, the media in the States has not paid much attention to what happened in Puerto Rico on Tuesday \u2014 for the first time, a majority of the population voted to become a state.\u00a0 Long ago, Congress promised to make P.R. a state if the people want it,* so the GOP, which controls the House, now has a chance to rethink its approach to Latinos.\u00a0 Will Republicans seize the opportunity to welcome P.R., to show that it cares about and values Latinos?\u00a0 Or will the GOP continue to focus only on white men, even as that demographic shrinks?<\/p>\n

*There are other factors at play, including economic factors and the fact that the new governor is of the Commonwealth party, but how Congress reacts to the vote is important.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update II:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m Korean American and a lifelong Catholic. I suppose I do identify more with the progressive agenda, but I\u2019m not a registered Democrat \u2014 and their support for unlimited abortion on demand is one reason (though not the only one). I\u2019ve always been pro-life \u2014 I\u2019ve worked in the pro-life movement \u2014 and I have held my nose and voted for Republicans in past elections because of it. But the direction the GOP\/conservative movement has taken in recent years, their contempt (laced with thinly veiled racism) for the President, their leaders\u2019 comments about \u201cthe end of the white establishment\u201d and a MILLION more comments\/articles\/blog posts along those lines, and their dismissal of what they view as \u201cracist identity politics\u201d of people of color \u2014 this all creates an atmosphere in which people of color cannot help but feel uncomfortable and unwelcome, regardless of our personal politics or motivations.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had friends, good friends, Catholic friends, accuse me of playing the race card or contributing to the \u201cover-hyphenization of America\u201d or becoming embittered against all white people. This doesn\u2019t sound like the conservatism I was raised with. It\u2019s gone in a pretty scary and awful direction. I don\u2019t feel that the GOP or its most avid white supporters WANT me in their party \u2014 unless I become one of those people of color who trots out the old line that race is completely unimportant to me personally and our society generally \u2014 so, for me, it\u2019s been an easy choice not to go there where I\u2019m neither accepted nor welcomed as the whole person I am. A lot of other Asian Americans evidently feel the same way, as 73% of us (according to exit polls) backed Obama this year.<\/p>\n

What I hear from a lot of conservative white Catholics is that they feel attacked by the President or his policies or his party. They feel discriminated against. I wish more conservative white Christians of all faiths could understand why it is that so many people of color feel the same way about the conservative movement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Time to escape the epistemic closure bubble and\u00a0treat with reality.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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