THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

WHITE GENTILES CAN'T SUFFER OR BE EXPLOITED | 2002-12-07

Tariffs exploited white Southerners and black Southerners, but nobody is going to mention it. Our society says that white Southerners cannot be exploited.

So we sit still while people say that "Jews have a history of Suffering." This indicates that all gentiles have a history that was one long party.

My grandfather and his entire family were isolated in his home by a flood. They were jammed together in the cold and stench for days, and both his parents died, leaving him to raise his brother and sisters.

But that wasn't Suffering.

Nowadays, you don't have to be a Jew to say you Suffered, but you have to be at least a member of a minority group.

Nowadays, when we talk about immigrants we mean the heavily Jewish immigration that went through Ellis Island in the late 1800s and the early 1900s.

THEY Suffered.

The Ellis Island immigrants were in Third Class and ate bad food and were delayed coming into New York by immigration rules.

A white Southerner's ancestors were on dangerous, leaky wooden boats smaller than a good-sized yacht today, with rats the size of dogs. They had rats for companions and they often starved when they got here. And I don't mean Jane Fonda's "starvation." I mean the real thing.

Please see July 5, 2002 - WERE SOUTH CAROLINIANS STARVING CHILDREN?

How often did somebody starve at Ellis Island?

But I forgot. They Suffered at Ellis Island.