“Even though white is often associated with things, that are pleasant and pure, there is a peculiar emptiness about the color white. It is the emptiness of the white that is more disturbing than even the bloodiness of red.”
- Moby-Dick or, the Whale, Herman Melville.
It’s all Melville’s fault. Blame it all on him. It’s all right there in Chapter 42 in his seminal novel against all things white, Moby Dick, like an extended forefinger wagging accusingly in your face. In beautiful pillorying black type stamping across snowy white pages entitled, “The Whiteness of the Whale,” Melville ruminates on the mystical, scientific and philosophical implications of the color white. In this pillorying chapter, the novelist goes into great detail on the horrifying aspects of whiteness and their applicability to Ahab’s obsessive quest to kill the infamous white whale, Moby Dick. If I had as magnificent a mind as Melville, which I most certainly do not, I could expand on his philosophical exploration, but I’m not he nor Ishmael nor Ahab. Hence, my postulations will take me in quite a different direction as I hunt for the ultimate solution to that wicked scourge of what is now known as “Whiteness.”
In contemporary America, the White or Caucasian race has become somewhat of a Moby Dick obsession for what is called the “Progressive Movement.” With a figurative harpoon in hand, activist movements like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the enlightened Teacher’s Unions, have brilliantly erased two hundred years of struggling for racial equality by simply replacing that with racial equity, a vastly superior method of meting out ‘social justice,’ a justice ironically touted vigorously by those of Caucasian ancestry themselves, courageous Jacobins all, offering up their own necks on the guillotine of racial equity. Denouncing one’s own ancestry and racial impurities is, after all, a bold act of racial purification like a redemptive dip in the Lourdes River - one emerges spiritually cleansed.
No matter the origin of a “Whitie” or their individual belief system, their shared original sin is derived from their very lack of melatonin. It matters not if they or their ancestors ever owned a slave or opposed slavery, by the very fact of their skin color, they are inescapably guilty of a racial crime.
It matters not that Ben Franklin and Benjamin Rush started an abolitionist movement at the very founding of the United States of America or that three fourths of the founding fathers were opposed to slavery or that a John Brown or a soldier who died on the field at Gettysburg, gave his life in an attempt to abolish slavery, are all equally guilty of the inescapable crime of Whiteness.
No matter the ethnic origin of a Whitie, be they Anglo-Saxon, Gaul, Germanic, Slav, Latin, Jew, etc., all are thrown into the same white racial stew. One wonders, if at any time one is tanned, and so verging on some spectrum of brown pigmentation, is one forgiven transgression by the racial equity tribunals or does that bring a harsher penalty for attempting to mask one’s Whiteness and so cunningly committing the sacrilege of...
