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To: goldworldnet who wrote (114)	11/26/2007 12:03:24 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9626

This author agrees with Sowell up to a point. Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South by Grady McWhiney >>McWhiney's Cracker Culture is indispensable cultural history. That fact is made all the more obvious by the ancient Anglophilic hatred of Celts that remains a significant factor in denouncing such cultural views as everything from impossible for Celtic culture surely could not exist post-English conquest to racist. How it can be that study of Celtic heritage is racist while study of African heritage is anti-racist is never addressed, nor is it addressed how study of both Europe and North America through English eyes and prepossessions is objective and definitive while small steps taken to uncover long denied Celtic heritage are racist and intolerant. As George Orwell knew, in the world of Marxism, cultural as much as politcal/economic, some animals are more equal than others, and in this contemporary PC time Celtic and Southern are two of the greatest whipping boys. While the book is not perfect, many of the objections raised by serious readers are not fully valid because McWhiney does treat them, though quickly. For example, McWhiney is well aware of the importance of Southeastern AmerIndian culture on Southerners, claiming that in many ways those AmerIndians and Celts found much to admire in one another and so reinforced one another's basic cultural views and practices. The many marraiges between whites of Celtic ancestry in the South and AmerIndians (leading to both whites of some Indian ancestry and members of Indian nations, such as Cherokee chief John Ross) suggest that McWhiney is correct in that regard. But as that is not the focus of the book, it is not belabored. Another example is that McWhiney certainly addresses the complexity of many citizens of England (especially in the north and the west, near Scotland and Wales) being of mixed, and often largely Celtic, ethnicity and culture. In fact, many academic attacks on McWhiney have denied this very fact that McWhiney acknowledges, asserting that English citzenship equlas pure Anglo-Saxon ethnicity and culture. This work is slowly blowing away the cultural bigotries that have seen no whites save Anglo-Saxons as making significant contributions to America. amazon.com