Having watched the video of Jamie Kelso’s experience at the CPAC, I was struck by Mr. Kelso’s insistence on the right of White people to control their traditional homelands. I believe the main reasons why he failed to make headway with his propositionist challengers is that he was attempting to win an ontological argument about race with abstract logic, when beliefs about race (like religion)—not despite, but because they are ontological—are singularly impervious to reason. There is nothing Mr. Kelso could have said that would have persuaded his opponents. There are things he could have done, but more on that later. Firstly, I would like to contradict Mr. Kelso and state that, no, presently White people neither have the right to exist nor the right to control their traditional homelands. We had that right in the past, but not anymore.
Concepts like rights are meaningless without force, or at least the willingness to use force. An abstract code of law, perhaps even morality, may grant people any number of rights; but in practice, it is the possession and unfettered use of overwhelming might that makes rights, not the other way around. This is why the American Indians have no right to claim possession of United States: it is not that the European settlers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century proved in a court of law that the former too were immigrants, or that they demonstrated that Europoids had inhabited the region before the American Indians’ ancestors immigrated from Siberia. None of this was even known at the time, and certainly the European settlers would not have cared if it had been. The American Indians were simply unable to match the technological and organisational might of the European colonists, and their constitution was also weak in the face of alcohol and newly introduced European viruses.
Much is made in our circles of the lack of rights for Whites in modern South Africa. Whites once enjoyed superior force in relation to the Bantu Blacks that comprised the majority of the population there. Then the Whites decided to cease their use of force and hand over their country to the Bantus. The Bantu, armed with their numbers and the White man’s weapons and state apparatus, seized the opportunity to use force against their former masters, many of whom subsequently deemed it safer to emigrate (a great number of them now reside in their ancestral homeland in Britain). Yet the Bantu are not indigenous to the region: they came originally from what we call Cameroon and arrived in Southern Africa in the fourth century—that means they were still relatively recent arrivals when the White man came. The much older tribes, the San people, whose presence in Southern Africa goes back some 10-22,000 years, remain more or less rightless under Bantu domination, much as they were before (see my TOO article, Deconstruction: I Know How to Do It Too).
When it comes to rights, therefore, we must for all practical purposes treat them as inextricably bound up with force, and when it comes to force, it is a case either use it, or lose it.
