“To see those, those mon- keys from those African countries—damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes!” Nixon gave a huge laugh.
Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon discussing Africa voting against the U.S. at the United Nations in 1971.
When it comes to giving up the advantages assigned with “White Privilege,” you can be certain of one thing: they never will. General George Armstrong Custer was killed on June 25, 1876, in a battle with Sitting Bull and his Indian warriors at the Little Big Horn. This massacre has been called Custer’s Last Stand, but in many ways, it was Red Man’s last stand.
Today, Donald Trump rep- resents the White man’s last stand, and the MAGA-dominated Republican Party is waging the battle against the browning of America, and the world!
The Republicans already had a lot of weapons in their arsenal. They mastered tactics like systematic gerrymandering of voting districts, reducing the hours and number of polling places.
They champion the tough talk on crime, immigration and government intervention. If you don’t think removing straight-party ticket voting in Texas helped them, you don’t understand electoral politics.
They talk about immigration, but they never tax or punish the employers of the same people who are “taking jobs away from “Amu-ri-cans.”
They always have a hate campaign, but it is always pointed at non-White peoples.
Despite these and other tactics, America survived and flourished under its first Black president, and the Black woman who may succeed Biden shows signs of social promise.
All the aforementioned leads us to one crucial question: Could the “Trump/ Shay’D Vance” campaign be the latest White man’s last stand?”
MAGA is not new. It has some roots in the movement sparked under Nixon in the 1970s.
However, an article printed a few years ago in the N.Y. Times posed a scary proposition for White Nationalists; “Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States.”
It went on to unpack several salient points while it un-ravels a sudden social paranoia.
“The pattern started nearly two decades ago in a handful of states with aging White populations like Pennsylvania and West Virginia. But fertility rates dropped drastically after the Great Recession, and mortality rates for whites who are not of Hispanic origin have been rising, driven partly by drug overdoses. That has put demographic change on a faster track. The list of states where white deaths out- number births now includes North Carolina and Ohio.”
The study that generated these headlines also pointed to the high number of deaths among Whites from drug overdoses. This is right out of the White Nationalists textbook. Trumpism is a re-armed leftover dish that mixes hatred and racism with White grievance to form a toxic mix.
Just two years ago, a September 15, 2022, article appeared in the Texas Tribune. The shocking results of a population study didn’t get picked up by any of the major news outlets in Texas. “Hispanic Texans may now be the state’s largest demo-graphic group, new census data shows. For years, the state’s Hispanic population has grown significantly faster than the white population.
The new census data is the first to reflect Texas passing a milestone in its cultural and political evolution.”
Caucasians throughout the world believe they are superior to all darker-skinned people. They have invested heavily in faulty research that supports their insecurity.
But the pathology of privilege shared by most White Americans far exceeds anything the Europeans can muster.
Trump won a technical electoral victory by inferring that he could take America back to the racial paradise it once had.
MAGA understands that a growing immigrant population coupled with an inability to grow the GOP could result in the need to share power.
They know that it requires having White’s in power to keep White Power! And suddenly, their world is growing darker quicker than they can keep up with.
Custer and company fared well with the systematic destruction of the Native Americans.
MAGA, with Donald Trump, is the White Man’s Last Stand, and they don’t take it lightly!
A long-time Texas Metro News columnist, Dallas native Vincent L. Hall is an author, writer, award-winning writer, and a lifelong Drapetomaniac.
