THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

GOOD POLITICS IS STEPPING ON THE RIGHT TOES | 2003-01-11

Until September 11, 2001 anything anti-white was good and all racial profiling, no matter how realistic it was, was bad. Police were indicted for checking out black people despite the fact that black people were ten times as likely to be up to something criminal as whites were.

Blacks were given jobs that white workers wanted and everybody cheered.

After all, the only people hurt by anti-white policies of this kind were working people. Rich people have plenty of police protection, so it didn't really matter if the police were made less efficient by being forced to check out as many whites as blacks.

But after September 11, 2001, all these silly anti-profiling ideas began to hit people who mattered. Nobody minded when busing led to dangerous schools where children were searched.

But after September 11, 2001 white American grandmothers were being strip-searched and the media started raising hell.

No, it wasn't just that grandmothers were being searched that caused all the trouble. What mattered was that the WRONG grandmothers were being searched.

At the airports after September 11 the whole nonsense of nondiscrimination began to cause problems for people who fly in airplanes. Al Gore got searched. Rich people got searched. Potentially dangerous Arabs did not get searched because profiling was outlawed.

Step on white working people and the media will worship you. But the minute you hit the upper middle class, expect to get kicked in the teeth.