Reaction to Understanding White Rage was overwhelming. Readers trashed General Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, after he blasted conservatives in a congressional hearing.
He said, "I want to understand white rage, and I'm white, and I want to understand it. So what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? I want to find that out."
By thousands he meant hundreds as Trump supporters did what liberals had done 30 months earlier and entered the Capitol in protest.
Milley is pushing an anti-American narrative to appease his Marxist masters. His behavior in the past year has been so outrageous that I can no longer advise anyone to join the military. With Milley in charge, I can no longer trust the regular Army, which I served in so many moons ago that I could make my own solar system with them.
The general also said, "I've read Mao Zedong. I've read Karl Marx. I've read Lenin. That doesn't make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding — having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend? And I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, noncommissioned officers of being, quote, 'woke' or something else, because we're studying some theories that are out there."
He should read the Constitution, which makes the president the commander-in-chief. Milley ignored that when he publicly rebuked President Donald John Trump last June.
Tucker Carlson called Milley a pig on national television. That was rude. I prefer Doorman, as a reader calls him and all the other political generals we have who will retire to lucrative defense contractor jobs.
If Milley believes in white privilege, he should resign, donate his 6-figure pension to the NAACP, get a box, and shine shoes.
One reader wrote, "My dad was career Army. I served 4 years. I don’t have words to describe what’s going on with military now."
I replied that I don't understand either.
A 75-year-old reader wrote, "I was born in Marlin, Texas and spent the first 5 years of my life being reared in Jim Crow era Texas along with my siblings by a black lady who looked like Aunt Jemima right alongside her own kids while my father worked in the oil fields and my mother worked as a telephone operator. She sent my wife and me a wedding present when we were married in 1968. She was the first non-family member I looked up when I returned from Vietnam, but she had died while I was overseas.
"At around 4 or 5 years of age, I was taken by my father, a World War I pilot, to what was called then The Old Soldiers Home near Waco, Texas. My father placed me on the lap of one of about a dozen Civil War veterans, and it was an experience I vividly remember today at age almost 75...funny, I didn't notice any White Rage or even any White Privilege.
"You probably have more sources and feedback than you can reasonably examine on the topics of White Rage and White Privilege, so I will simply provide a link below to the modest Veterans' memorial webpage I created to preserve the memory of eight of my comrades who were shot down in the early hours of February 5, 1973, over Saravane, Laos on EC-47 Callsign Baron 5, while enjoying some of that White Privilege. It contains links to the history sites our EC-47 and Security Services squadrons maintain. We flew Electronic Warfare Airborne Radio Direction Finding and Signal Intercept missions. The poem at the top of the page describes how my wife, our 3 year old daughter, our two week old son, and I spent the year that I was flying combat missions over Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and the ending is a salute to all who did not return."
He then said, "There is also a link to a poem by my late acquaintance 'Curly' Jim Musgrave, a Hall of Fame Western song writer, poet, singer, and PTSD counselor who helped me counsel a young returning Sand Wars Army combat veteran suffering from survivor's guilt."
I asked him if he meant his father was in World War II, not I.
He wrote back, "My father was born in 1900, I was born in 1946. Yes, he was a pilot in what they called the Army Signal Corps as I recall during World War I. He was the first to solo and survive from his flight training class...it was pretty dangerous back then. He was not a son of privilege, and there was another student who was the son of a governor or some big politician, and they wanted him to solo first. He was not ready, but they put him up anyway, and right there in front of the dignitaries sitting in the reviewing stands, he promptly augured in....pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall...too bad it cost the young man his life.
"My father in law quit high school his junior year to join the Navy in World War II and served on the destroyer USS Putnam DD-757 in the Pacific theater. He and about a dozen other teenage sailors entered burning oil-covered waters to help rescue some 100 fellow sailors from a sister destroyer sunk during the fighting at Okinawa. Years later, they had a ship's reunion at San Diego, they invited the survivors of the other destroyer, and he was reunited with one of the survivors of the other destroyer whom he had personally saved."
Now not all the sacrifices in war were by young white men. Far from it. From the Revolutionary War to Afghanistan, black men have died alongside white men. Google "Pearl Harbor Hero," and up pops the name of Doris Miller, a black Navy cook who on December 7, 1941, saved the lives of several sailors. He then shot down two Japanese planes using an anti-aircraft gun for which he had no training.
He died two years later when a Japanese submarine sank the Liscome Bay.
Not all the tales are military in nature.
One reader wrote, "I am an immigrant from Chile. My family of 4 boys came to America in 1970. Our ancestry was European, from Norway, Scotland, Austria and Spain. In Chile we were called Gringos. In the US we were thought to be Cubans. Nevertheless, our new nation has been a wonderful blessing to us.
"I started working at 13 collecting carts for our grocery store in Chicago for 4 quarters a Saturday night. This paid for my 8th grade trip to Springfield, IL for, among other things, a short meeting with Governor Otto Kerner. Kerner would later disappoint us all with his conviction for fraud!
"At 14 and 15 in Miami I cut grass and would loan my earnings to my mother to help her buy my younger brother shoes. At 16 I went to work at McDonald’s and for over a year I would set up the store for opening at 11:00 AM. This meant an early wake up on Saturdays and watching my friends stop by on the way to little league baseball, basketball and football. During summer, on their way to the pool or the lake.
"At 18 I began 4 years in construction as a carpenter and later a foreman to pay for my college tuition and books while going to school the majority of my college years at night. To save parking money I parked at the Atlanta Fulton County Stadium lots for 25 cents and walked to school. My guess, 2 miles, when I attended during the daytime. Several semesters.
"I paid for new clothing, new cars, car repairs, fun activities, dates, games, etc. From the time I was 16.
"I worked in fast food an additional 1.5 years after college as a trainee and later an assistant store manager. I then worked in banking operations in positions of increasing responsibility for 29 years with 2 large regional banks and have worked as a trained and certified executive coach for another 15 years.
"While in banking as a newly married guy and father of two I held a part time job for 4 years doing after work on call trouble shooting with my first bank’s ATMs, one week a month from 5 PM to 11 PM weekly at 8 AM to 11 PM."
His life had tragedy. He and his wife divorced, re-married, and re-divorced. Then she killed their daughter and herself.
Through it all, he remained positive.
He ended his email, "I write this to you to make a few points:
"1. America has been very good to my family! With the exception of our father we have all done well. America truly is an exceptional country! It has been the land of opportunity for us. But... we had to work hard for all we were able to accomplish. Nothing was a handout!
"2. Like me and my family, there are millions of similar stories. Of native born and immigrant people, of all races! This can only be accomplished so broadly in America!
"3. Every American family, regardless of race, experiences great challenges and sorrows in our journey through life. Pain, struggle, suffering happen to everyone. All that I have experienced has made me a better man and has grown my walk with God!
"4. I believe everything we experience in life helps us either grow and mature or become bitter and resentful. In the end, the choice is ours.
"5. In banking and as an executive coach I was blessed to have good people around me of every race. It was also my privilege to help all become all that God created them to be. Several minorities and others achieved positions of significant responsibility. They have all been very successful and they too are developing great people.
"6. In America, no matter your background, if you seek to overcome any obstacles and seek to do the right thing, anyone can succeed! I have seen it with my own eyes!
"7. I don’t have white rage. I feel sorry for those that succumb to propaganda. They are wasting their God given skills and talents. I am angry that Milley and his ilk have coined the term. Nothing wrong with righteous anger. What those now in power are doing to our traditions, norms, culture, constitution and do forth makes me rightfully angry. But, I won’t buy into language concocted by the left. We must ignore them, resist them, speak up, correct the language used, speak our truth and create our own language that speaks the truth! Damn the torpedoes! America is worth fighting for and our forefathers and mothers deserve nothing less."
Finally, a reader from Wayne County, West Virginia, weighed in.
He wrote, "Add my thanks to another long time reader for the explanation. White Privilege, the result of a life time of hard work, failures and successes sometimes going back generations.
"Thomas F. arrived in Philadelphia in 1726, made his way to eastern Tennessee. Dirt poor with a little more then a shirt on his back his son Isaack made his way being a shingle maker.
"Isaack's son Sherman and his brothers started working in a coal mine pulling coal pillars. This job paid extra because of the dangerous work. Sherman, my Dad's Dad was a UMW coal miner for 50 years. All Sherman' sons did better then he.
"My Father had a 9th grade education, my Mother graduated form high school. I was their only child. I earned a college degree from Concord College and Marshall University. Both my children earned collage degrees. Dad worked his why up private in the US Army to a job with the Huntington Corps of Engineers and then to the top salesman job with Ashland Oil.
"Son Freddie is an consulting PE electrical engineer with clients in Las Vegas, New York, Columbus, Tampa, locally in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. My daughter Molly a nurse graduated from Marshall and earned and MBA in nursing. She is manager of all programs and surgeries at The Joan Edwards Cancer Center.
"My grandsons are not adverse to hard difficult work and are the next generation.
"White Privilege (anybody's Privilege) is just the old time American Way to being what ever you what, bettering yourself from before the hard way---by earning it.
"I have many dark skinned friends who's story is about the same. My Jamaican brother started with a degree in engineering 30 years later he paid cash for a million dollar marlin boat he named Anticipation."
The reader is in his 80s. Retired comfortably from a chemical business he started and ran, he makes and sells craftworks. He's pretty good at it too. He doesn't need the money but he stays busy.
Just like me.
You can live in the future or you can live in the past. The problem with Milley and the rest of the CRT crew is they believe every black man is Doris Miller and every white guy is Bull Connor. That's as racist as saying all black men are Steppin Fetchit.
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