The Angry American

This Column moved me, well not really but it really felt good to see so well articulated that I am not alone. Though most of the people I know regardless of race or gender feel this way, I greatly wish this was written as The Angry American and not White Man.

If this doesn't apply to you, I think you should take a good look at yourself.


http://www.aspentimes.com/article/2008198091324


2/9/08 Gary Hubbell

There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain. Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians. There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard. His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard. The victimhood syndrome buzzwords — “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” — don’t resonate with him. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding. He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives. The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him. The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter. His last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American. He’s a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch. Women either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.” He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner. He’s not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English. Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don’t pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement. He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves. There are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush. He hopes that she will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum.

The Angry White Man is angry because he Voted for Bush in two consecutive terms and still doesn't realize how much of a retard he is.


I'm actually somewhat tired of these arguments and articles that basically reflect the same thing. The angry white man hates mexicans, racist or not having a real agenda the angry white man has had something done to him in the past from a "spanish" man, possibly his wife had cheated on him with the pool boy, Jose, whatever the case may be.

Though ,the Angry white man should have reason to be upset, I do agree with you on many points, but the entrepeneuership aspect of the argument I see as just being a complainer, yes you're going to have to pay a shit load of taxes, but get over it that's one of the many battles of owning your own company. Yes, if you happen to own a construction company, OR ANY COMPANY THAT SPECALIZES IN MANUAL LABOR, you're going to get a lot of possible immigrants, illegal or not, as well as the whtie trash unskilled workers of the world, it's both sides of the argument.

I guess I can somewhat fall into this category, but i'm not adamately placing it because of race, that's just stupid. There are Pissed of Men everywhere, all colors race size shape, as well as Women. There are a lot of pissed off Americans, and I would more-so argue that it's because of this never ending war, the gas prices that have skyrocketed while the Vice prez's company is profiting like nothing ever seen in the history of this world, as well as Prez Bush's daddy's company is over in Iraq drilling as well and profiting like crazy, New laws and regulations are pissing people off, just the way thigns have been running for almost the past Decade have really pissed people off, which is why I want Obama. Even though he may not have that long of a track record, I do feel he has the adequate judgement to help this country progress back to greatness, and really just empower the people to feel good about themselves again, somewhat similar to the Bill Clinton era when things we're running greatly, we just need a change.

I may reply to this later when I have time, but basically all I gathered from this is some pat-on-the-back-you're-an-old-world-retarded-racist-white-man sentiment.

This letter is just as bad as anything that would be written by evangelicals, or even by "poor me" liberals [I don't even know what this means, though].

If this doesn't apply to you, I think you should take a good look at yourself.

If this did apply to me, I would probably be a lot worse off.

I may reply to this later when I have time, but basically all I gathered from this is some pat-on-the-back-you're-an-old-world-retarded-racist-white-man sentiment.

Concur and...

If this did apply to me, I would probably be a lot worse off.

Concur.

The Angry White Man is angry because he Voted for Bush in two consecutive terms and still doesn't realize how much of a retard he is. I'm actually somewhat tired of these arguments and articles that basically reflect the same thing. The angry white man hates mexicans, racist or not having a real agenda the angry white man has had something done to him in the past from a "spanish" man, possibly his wife had cheated on him with the pool boy, Jose, whatever the case may be. Though ,the Angry white man should have reason to be upset, I do agree with you on many points, but the entrepeneuership aspect of the argument I see as just being a complainer, yes you're going to have to pay a shit load of taxes, but get over it that's one of the many battles of owning your own company. Yes, if you happen to own a construction company, OR ANY COMPANY THAT SPECALIZES IN MANUAL LABOR, you're going to get a lot of possible immigrants, illegal or not, as well as the whtie trash unskilled workers of the world, it's both sides of the argument. I guess I can somewhat fall into this category, but i'm not adamately placing it because of race, that's just stupid. There are Pissed of Men everywhere, all colors race size shape, as well as Women. There are a lot of pissed off Americans, and I would more-so argue that it's because of this never ending war, the gas prices that have skyrocketed while the Vice prez's company is profiting like nothing ever seen in the history of this world, as well as Prez Bush's daddy's company is over in Iraq drilling as well and profiting like crazy, New laws and regulations are pissing people off, just the way thigns have been running for almost the past Decade have really pissed people off, which is why I want Obama. Even though he may not have that long of a track record, I do feel he has the adequate judgement to help this country progress back to greatness, and really just empower the people to feel good about themselves again, somewhat similar to the Bill Clinton era when things we're running greatly, we just need a change.

I have many points to make here, I didn't vote for Bush, the only thing I like about him is his tax rate cuts, revenue increases, without them I will lose almost $30 per week, and with rent being $1200 it would hurt.

I don't see what race has to do with anything, an illegal is an illegal. Yes yes, my ancestors were immigrants too, but they watied in line. For example my uncle Pedro, from northern Africa/Portugal. He played the game worked for his citizenship and he resents the fact that people can just hop the border and get a piece of this American Dream, if you want to call it that. That was 25 years ago and to this day, the day he became a citizen is the proudest day of his life to him.

And while I agree that corruption has brought alot of big companies high profits, you must understand that vast percentages of these companies are owned by shareholders, normal people with retirement funds like teachers and firefighters.

Let me see if I can put this into perspective... ah here http://seekingalpha.com/article/6313..._editors_picks

Over the last three years, Exxon Mobil has paid an average of $27 billion annually in taxes. That's $27,000,000,000 per year, a number so large it's hard to comprehend. Here's one way to put Exxon's taxes into perspective. According to IRS data for 2004, the most recent year available: Total number of tax returns: 130 million Number of Tax Returns for the Bottom 50%: 65 million Adjusted Gross Income for the Bottom 50%: $922 billion Total Income Tax Paid by the Bottom 50%: $27.4 billion Conclusion: In other words, just one corporation (Exxon Mobil) pays as much in taxes ($27 billion) annually as the entire bottom 50% of individual taxpayers, which is 65,000,000 people! Further, the tax rate for the bottom 50% is only 3% of adjusted gross income ($27.4 billion / $922 billion), and the tax rate for Exxon was 41% in 2006 ($67.4 billion in taxable income, $27.9 billion in taxes).

This article represents to me, every American who has earned what they have, love freedom, and recognize the fact that entitlement spending will end us all.

Calling me names will not further your point, Grav.

Calling me names will not further your point, Grav.

1) I didn't call you anything.
2) That's what this entire article is.

Alright, show me what makes this "pat-on-the-back-you're-an-old-world-retarded-racist-white-man sentiment"

Show me how this is racist and retarded.