It’s not often that you find a White man who is unabashed in telling the truth about his race. In Michael Bradley’s, “The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man’s Racism, Sexism, and Aggression”, he begins Chapter 1 by stating:
This book is racist.
For among other things, I will attempt to show that racism itself is a predisposition of but one race of mankind – the white race.
I believe that I can show that our converging contemporary crises, like racism itself, has its origins in the prehistory of the white race alone. We attribute various threats to our survival to Man’s folly…but this is a conscious and self-protecting euphemism.
Nuclear war, environmental pollution, resource rape… all are primary threats to our survival and all are the result of peculiarly Caucasoid behaviour, Caucasoid values, and Caucasoid psychology.
There is no way to avoid the truth. The problem with the world is white men.
Throughout the book, the author states other obvious truths such as:
Our ‘abnormal’ and uniquely racial history has been characterized by dualistic, antithetical conflicts. At base, all our dualistic conflicts are one: a struggle between the ‘spiritual’ and ‘material’ aspects of human existence. …Our wars of religion, our Inquisition, our philosophical conflicts have no parallel among yellow, red, brown, or black men. It is the kind of violence that makes our history appear senseless to other men, and senseless and baffling even to ourselves.
We are human, but in the perspective of the entire human population, we are a pathology.
Not intelligence, nor morality, nor ‘spirit’, but aggression is responsible for the white man’s ‘superiority’. Aggression is responsible for expansion of Caucasoids, both geographically and culturally, at the expense of other races.
We invite you to read portions of this book, not for any of the theories the author espouses, but for his courage in telling the truth about White people.
White people are generally aware of the pain racism can cause, but never imagine themselves inflicting it. They know it, but say nothing and do nothing. White silence is rooted in good White people’s blindness as agents of White supremacy. Until a critical mass of White people begin to see themselves as they are and work on eliminating racism with their own minds and spirits, then the status quo remains.
Non-Whites have been persistently resisting racism and protesting for equality for centuries. What is missing is White people’s need to perform deep and honest introspection of their own relationship to White supremacy. Only by embracing truth about themselves can the White man begin to grow and heal. It’s apparent they cannot do this work on their own, so a higher sense of humility is needed for them to follow Black people who can serve as an example of kindness and tolerance towards others.
