White Man:
Does it make you mad?

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. (Churchill)

Abby L. Ferber: in White Man Falling

"The Death of the White Race"

This provocative heading on a flyer distributed by Aryan Nations is meant to capture viewers' attention and entice them to read on. Beneath the prominent heading is a photograph of a white woman with her arms wrapped around the neck of a black man with the caption "The Ultimate Abomination." Throughout white supremacist discourse, interracial sexual relationships are defined as the greatest threat, the worst thing imaginable. At the root of white supremacist anxiety and fear interracial sexuality is the convenient threat deployed to guard against intrusions upon white male political and economic dominance.

There has been a great deal of white supremacist violence aimed at interracial couples and mixed-race families. On September 8, 1992, in Spokane, Washington, "a man walked into the downtown Greyhound bus station, pulled a .38 caliber handgun from his belt and fired five shots without warning" at a young couple. They were shot and wounded because the man was black and the woman was white. As the assailant explained, "I just knew they should die because of what they had done. I think he put his arm around her or something." [Ferber p 99]

Interracial sexuality [throughout white supremacist literature] is depicted as polluting whiteness. [Ferber p 101]

It is the white female and the black male, then, who are seen as polluting persons in white supremacist discourse. [Ferber p 102]

The image of a white woman with a black man is relied upon throughout the [white supremacist] discourse and serves as a powerful metaphor for the danger of interracial sexuality. ..... [T]he image of the lustful, dangerous black male is firmly rooted in, and reiterated throughout, American history. [Ferber p 103]

This narrative, which defines black males as animalistic and savage, is central to white American identity, and, as Houston A. Baker reminds us, "this scene plays itself out . . . with infinite variation in American history."

Even the mainstream media have exploited events of interracial violence in a sensationalistic manner.

Ferber refers to Valerie Smith who [citing cases like the Tawana Brawley case, the Central Park rape, the Willie Horton case, etc] argues that the mainstream media rearticulated and invigorated "myths of black male animalism and of the black male rapist. . . . In terms that recalled lynch law at the turn of the century." [Ferber p 104]

Valerie Smith "Split affinities: The case of interracial rape." In Theorizing geminism: Parallel trends in the humanities and social sciences, edited by Anne C. Herrmann and Abigail J. Stewart. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.

This narrative that positions the black man as a constant sexual threat is reiterated and manipulated in contemporary white supremacist discourse. The fact that discussion of interracial sexuality in this discourse pivots almost exclusively on this image reveals the staying power of this narrative and fear. [Ferber p 104]

The image of interracial sexuality between black men and white women is so powerful that it serves as a metaphjor throughout the discourse for not just all interracial sexuality, but all threats to the racial and gender order constructed and supported in the discourse . . . . This image is manipulated to not only rationalize violence against people of color but to justify white supremacy as natural and necessary. [Ferber p 104-5]

For white supremacists, interracial sexual relations between white women and black men are the ultimate affront to white male power.

Black males are defined as a threat to white women and therefore to white masculinity and the unrestricted access of white males to white women. White women are defined as innocent, frail, and passive, always in need of white male protection. It is white women who are at risk of being seduced into interracial sexual relationships. For example, a Thunderbolt article proclaims, "Let us warn our young White women of the great danger inherent in socializing with black males." There are no similar warnings for white men.

In white supremacist discourse, the battle over racial identity is fought over the bodies of white women. [Ferber p 106]

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Susan Brownmiller interviewed Bella Abzug on the issue of white women using black man as a scapegoat (and victim) especially in the South. Brownmiller asked: do you believe white women have a history of crying RAPE? (implicating the Negro) Abzug's response was: "I believe that the white woman was always the pivot, the excuse [for lynching]. The black man was always played off against the white woman and the white woman was played off against the black man, to keep both oppressed groups down." [p270. Against Our Will. paperback]

George M. Fredrickson quotes a passage from Mein Kampf revealing Hitler's visceral horror of the "bastardization and niggerization of Europe" -- which Hitler proceeded to blame on the lecherous Jew. By strange logic, he tried to argue that Jews and Marxists were behind Napoleon's use of Negro soldiers in the Rhineland, and thus responsible for the infatuation that German girls and howewives felt for these exotic black strangers from the tropics. After all, Schopenauer had written that blond women are compulsively attracted to the dark man, yet she could not help it. Women were not truly rational. In Hitler's tortured mind, the ugly Black thugs were ravishing his innocent frauleins. What eluded him was that the pure German frauleins obviously did not find the Black soldiers ugly, but perhaps almost irresistible. [see p120. Racism a short history]

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An Angry white preacher: the late Herbert W. Armstrong

More on these angry white males: Gordon Allport

White Male Diatribe: "Race Mixing DISASTER in every way"

Dr. Suzy (Susan Block): the Tiger Woods syndrome all over the place

Jealousy and racism : the new WHITE MAN'S BURDEN

StormFront paranoia: Interracial Dating and God's Judgment

White man's burden Gail Dines unmasks white man's interracial erotica

Thank Black Man (white women's rights) Louise Michele Newman

Women know what's real Turning more than ever to BBC

The New Martyrs

Review of Abby L. Ferber's new work The Construction of Black Masculinity: White Supremacy Now and Then How can a White supremacist nation, which subjects Black men to ongoing racism and demonization, at the same time admire and worship Black men as athletes? The author argues that key elements of White supremacy and the new racism are reinforced by popular representations of Black male athletes. In viewing far-right White Supremacist and sports cultures, two sites representing seemingly opposite ends of the spectrum of contemporary racism, the author examines the continuing significance of the historical image of the buck and the obsession with controlling and "taming" Black male bodies. The author examines four common themes that permeate the contemporary construction of Black masculinity and work to justify color-blind racism and inequality: a continued emphasis on Black bodies as inherently aggressive, hypersexual, and violent; concern with taming and controlling Black males; inequality depicted as a product of a deficient Black culture; and the naturalization of White supremacy and White male superiority.

Malcolm X pinpointed, probably accurately, "white man's two major dreads .... The first one was his own private belief that God wrathfully is going to destroy this civilization. And the white man's second most pervading dread was his image of the black man entering the body of the white woman." [p 306, Autobiography]

White man's rabid fear of black man (A 'DEFINITION' of Negro) "Negroes are the possessors of the darkest pigmentation of all mankind." Most are dark-brown or brownish-black in skin color. Negro hair is prevailingly coarse, and wiry, and tightly curled, kinky or woolly. Negro skulls are with few exceptions long and narrow. The occipital regions juts out, as does the lower portion of the face, rendering the Negro skull prognathous. This distinctive aspect of facial appearance is accentuated by the thick, everted mucous membrane that forms the lips. The Negro nose is broad, with flaring alae and a broad, deeply depressed bridge. The hair on the head, though thick, is short in length, while the male facial hair is sparse and the body skin smooth and virtually hairless. Musculature and genitalia. Facial prognathism marked.

Abby L. Ferber. White Man Falling: Race, Gender, and White Supremacy, 1998.

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Time to Repent, America