Regarding Eric's post on the Arkansas Republican Party, quoting retired Army officer Curtis Reynolds as saying:

He added: "We need someone to stand up to Barack Obama and his policies. We must protect our culture, our Christian identity."

This is implicitly racist, and I mean with a capital R.

Racism, as an ideology that arose in the past several hundred years, has always a conflation of culture and biology. In fact, that is what makes it racism. Dividing people into groups was never the project.

"Racial science" purported to show culture and behavior were a result of biology, of blood, and thus permanent. That difference in cultures were due to distinct, underlying, fundamental, and indelible differences in our physical nature. (For instance, "Caucasoids" were industrious by nature, and "Mongloids" had choleric blood and were such and such by nature. Suffice it to say that the portryals were always favorable to whites and disparaging of non-whites.)

The excuse of the modern racist that they are talking about "culture", not race, doesn't fly, since race has always been a confusion of the two, ie. a theory of biological rootedness for behavior and culture.

Obama is being treated as less "American" or less "Christian" than a light-skinned person would be, based solely on his appearance. Nobody talked this way about Bill Clinton. They hated his policies but never had to defend their "cutlure" from him (or, I might add, disputed his birth certificate). "Culture" here obviously means White Culture, proving my point.

Similarly, that people like Pat Buchanan (an amazing case of the MSM coddling an old-school bigot) don't *really* believe that non-white people can really become fully "American", even after generations in this country, just shows how they have a hidden theory of biology. That somehow babies are literally born with a certain civic tendency, a work ethic, religious values, etc. all based on their skin color/hair type.It sounds incredibly ludicrous when you spell it out, but works fairly well when left as innuendo.

The point is that "culture" here is being used to mean race. The modern racist talks mostly about "defending culture". But little has changed, since that is what racism has always been about.