My Fight!

Recently I joined the U.S. Census workforce as a recruiter assistant. After three days training I was confronted by two of the female supervisors and told that I was suspected of being anti-Hispanic. I couldn’t believe that I was being interrogated for “suspicion of being anti-Hispanic”. Does that sound as ridiculous to you as it does to me? What was my first response? I looked them straight in the eye and asked “would you be doing this if I weren’t a white man?”. The two went out of the room and came back and said that someone had heard me say that I wouldn’t deal with “those People”. Of course who made the accusation remained a mystery and the circumstances of the supposed incident also remained in the shadows.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a Catholic. Being a traditional Catholic just plain makes it impossible to be anti-Hispanic. Ninety percent of Hispanics are Catholic. I also have a habit of going to Our Lady of Guadalupe church for confession and I have been known to show up for Spanish Mass when I miss the Latin Mass at St. Joseph’s. Then too there’s the fact that my family and the Tetuan family are cousins. The whole thing is absolutely ridiculous.
What’s the most ridiculous part is the fact that a white man’s job and good name can be placed in jeopardy by being accused of being anti-whatever. The whole idea of finding yourself having to prove that you are not racist is itself absolutely insane. I informed them of these things and that I was the source of the only first class relic of St. Martin de Poores that Our Lady of Guadalupe church owns.

Realizing that they had marched straight into a minefield these two goofy gals decided to change tack and then accused me of being anti-woman. I of course had already realized that they were just pulling things out of their hand and throwing them down hoping to get something to stick. I looked at them as though I was watching a naked mime show and stated flatly, ”you’re crazy, I like women fine”. Well then they tried to say that I interrupted the instructor too much and that I used my phone too much. Well I have a Blackberry and I tend to use it. I don’t write down phone no.s and appointments I enter them into the Berry. So while the instructor was giving out instructions and phone no.s I was noting them down in my Blackberry. The gal sitting next to me was doing the same with her Blackberry. When I told my classmate she could hardly believe it. She especially couldn’t believe me being scolded for taking a call from my wife when the nursing home was trying to get hold of us. My mother-in-law is in hospice care and we were expecting to get “the call”.
The guy next to me had his phone ringer on and was interrupting the class constantly. All I did was to make myself available for a true emergency.

I talked to a friend about the incident and told him that I thought that I had been discriminated against because I take a couple of medications that make me act a little different, but he was sure that the reason I was being picked on is because I am a little over six foot tall and weigh over 300 lbs. and have a shaved head and ride a bike. Well I had posed the question as a less serious challenge. Then I realized what I was surely already suspecting when I asked if a white guy would be treated that way.

Let’s look at it seriously. Think about these words, bigot, racist, sexist. When we think on words we see pictures in our mind. It’s how we think. What do you think of when you think on those words? Is it a white middle aged to senior aged white man? Be honest. If you didn’t see an older white man with short hair in your minds eye then congratulations to you and your enlightened mind. Now think of a big ol’ biker guy with a shaved head and what do you see? Why do you think this way? Because you were told to. It’s that simple. Whenever the media wants to stress that something is unfair to anyone they often use the phrase “unfair to women and minorities”. Now what does that leave you with? It doesn’t matter what you think consciously. In the back of your mind you’re sorting it out and realizing that this is a left handed way of demonizing “white men”. That statement does it’s magic even if those who hear it don’t realize it. “Unfair to women…” well that leaves men so this thing is only fair to men. But what kind of men? “Unfair…and minorities”. So that excludes minorities so the only thing left is white men. Go sit down and watch the news and when you hear mention of organizations for certain groups. There’s a program called the Black Star Project out of Chicago, its reason to exist is to further the cause of black children. There’s the NAACP founded to advance the cause of Coloured People. Let’s not forget the National Organization for Women who do you think they are looking to advance. There is no organization for the advancement of white men. When the schools mention studying diversity do you really think they are going to study white guys? No! They only mention of groups for white guys is the Ku Klux Klan. They would just as soon strangle me with my Rosary beads as lynch some poor black person.

Since I actually took stock of it I am part of the last actual minority. I’m a White, Heterosexual, Traditional, Catholic, Male. When the real prejudiced people look at those like me they see a racist, sexist, homophobe, and that being assumed we find ourselves in the absurd position of having to prove ourselves innocent of thought crimes in order to even hold a job.

Just to hammer home a point and hopefully not to belabour it. Consider the following statement,
"We must secure the existence of our people and a future for black children".
That statement probably doesn’t bother you a bit. You’ve been trained that way. The fact is that except for the word black the white nationalist or neo-Nazi will recognize that as the 14 words coined by David Lane of “The Order” inspired by Mein Kampf a book written by Adolph Hitler.
It actually reads “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”.

So, who’s the Nazi?

Not too long ago people were accused by their fellows and denounced and interrogated by the Gestapo for thought crimes. Our fathers stood against that. What now?