By Robert Stanley | America has a history of dealing with radical factions like the Left. Only 100 years ago, New York was faced with a disastrous mob mentality that resulted in constant rioting. Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in New York City during the 19th Century, was littered with fights, brawls, and gangs.
Gangs were made up of Irish, Italian, Jewish, & Black people. They all hated each other. Liberals see whites as a monolithic group that could have never expressed prejudice inwards, but it’s simply not true: Italians had a particular disgust for the Irish at the time.
This is what the book “Gangs of New York” illustrates. Most people are familiar with the film, but the book is a much more in-depth and slightly MORE entertaining non-fiction piece about one of America’s most tumultuous racial periods post-Civil War.
What does it all mean? Well… we’ve been here before. 40 years after the Civil War is when all this happened. Now, over 50 years after Jim Crow ends, here we are again.
What GoNY teaches us is that separation into MORE identity groups isn’t going to be the solution. We barely made it out of white on white racism. The mainstream media doesn’t want you to remember white on white racism because all whites = racist! This isn’t exclusive to Caucasians either. Even in the African-American community, there’s the stigma of “the light-skinned” member who is hurled bigoted descriptions such as “soft”, “uncle tom”, “white”, ect.
We have to remember our history and stop lumping people into monolithic groups. We’ve come too far. Everyone has black, hispanic, white, asian and everything in-between friends. It actually is a multi-cultural society. We enjoy and even celebrate each other’s cultures daily even when we don’t think about it [we don’t need reminders.]
We are not collectives, we are individuals united by country. Identity politics play into liberal bigotry. They use the illusion of separation & gang mentality when we have never been more united in our history.
TL;DR – There is no race war. I’ll leave you with the Malcolm X quote:
“The liberal is more deceitful, more hypocritical than the conservative… By winning the “friendship” and support of the negro, the white liberal was able to use the negro as a pawn or a weapon in this political football game…”
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