article on the Baby Drive as well. Only these folks didn't even have
the decency to let me know about it. Oh well...I guess helping your own
kind is considered a dissident thing to do...if you are white. Thanks
to a friend for forwarding this email to me, or I would not have even
known. Below is an interesting commentary..enjoy!
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GRINGOS, DYKES, and ARYANS, OH MY!
By H. Millard (c) 2002 - Posted Thursday, July 25, 2002
Orange County, Calif. -- July 25, 2002
http://www.americanpatrol.com/GUESTCOLUMNS/MILLARD/GringosDykesAryans020725.html
I've got three pieces of paper on my desk right now that illustrate some
of the idiocy and hypocrisy of our post-American America. To make sense
of this mad age that has often substituted labeling for critical
thinking, it sometimes helps to substitute terms and turn things around
to see the truth.
In today's editions, the Daily Pilot [of Costa Mesa] has devoted a half
page to a gushy restaurant review of a place called Mr. Juan's Gringo
Grill, which the Pilot writer likes. There was no mention of the fact
that the word "gringo" is a racial pejorative. Suppose the place were
called Mr. Juan's Nigger Grill, or Mr. Juan's Kike Grill, or even Mr.
Juan's Greaser Grill? Or, what if the place were simply called Sambos?
One doubts the newspaper would have run the review. So, why is gringo
acceptable? It's not cute and it's not funny. It's a
hate term aimed at whites. If some people, including whites, have such
low consciousness that they don't see the basic principle here, then
maybe it's time they woke up.
Also in the Daily Pilot is a front page article about a so-called "hate
group" located in the county called The Aryan Baby Drive. In the
article, readers are told that the Simon Weisenthal Center (presumably
not composed of Aryans) has issued a report about the group. The Pilot
then tells readers that the Aryan Baby Drive Web site "states the
movement was designed to distribute care packages for 'all white folk
who have children,' in an effort to help support Aryan families." Oh no!
What hatred! Apparently that's the best the newspaper could do as an
example of "hate." Substitute terms again. Would "Black Baby Drive," or
"Jewish Baby Drive," cause the hate hunters a problem? Of course not.
So, what's the rub with this group?
Okay, so the term "Aryan," which is really an ancient term used by the
invaders of India thousands of years ago, has been linked in the
popular mind to Nazi Germany. Still, the modern usage of the term in
Europe only meant "non-Jewish white Europeans." It is not a synonym for
Nazi. Is it hate for a group to use this term? Remember, it appears that
this group, The Aryan Baby Drive, is doing nothing more than helping
babies and hasn't called anyone any names. It is the Simon Weisenthal
Center that has apparently gone out of its way to call the group a name
and it is the Daily Pilot that has furthered the name calling in its
article. Who are the haters here?
The last paper on my desk is a letter delivered to a local government
body from the Orange County Dyke March which gives its address as Garden
Grove, CA. The letter says "The word "dyke" has often been used as a
term of derision in mainstream society. It is time for us to organize
and reclaim the term "dyke" as our own. When we claim this word for
unity and empowerment, it can no longer be used to hurt us!"
Of course, the Dykes have that right. They can call themselves whatever
they want and they can ask that others use the term that they,
themselves, wish to be called. Kind of like some whites calling
themselves Aryans.
Should whites reclaim "gringo?" Should blacks reclaim "nigger?" If there
is a principle of general application to be found here, it is that
those who are part of an identifiable people or group can call
themselves, whatever they want, and they also have the right to tell
others that they consider certain terms to be hate terms, and ask that
they not be used. The key here is that the people themselves choose the
term they wish to be called, and that it not be imposed on them from
outsiders.
