The White Man…as Chichidodo?
How is the white man a chichidodo?
Does the chichidodo exist?
Most references to this mythical bird are from West African sources, and all draw from Ayi Kwei Armah’s characterization of this bird. As a side note, virtually all of them are amateurishly written, predominantly attacks on various corrupt African “politicians” and self-appointed “leaders” who, honestly are aping their European antecedents in the corruption and mismanagement of their respective nations. The chichidodo feasts on maggots, but the places where maggots are found are absolute anathema to the chichidodo: toilets and compost heaps. Excrement. The chichidodo loathes filth to the very core of his being. But without this filth there are no maggots, and the chichidodo lives entirely on maggots. “Such,” writes Armah, “is the chichidodo.”
We can also say, “such is the white man,” or rather “such is the white race,” since the distaff end of white power isn’t a whit different. What does it take for a white man to live with himself? To continue living with the unconscious knowledge that you are sitting on a global tinderbox? You must push a lot of things out of your head and forget a lot of real things that are going on in the world. One needs to forget, and above all, lie. Make things light and fluffy. The lightness and fluffiness, the peculiarly childish and adolescent nature of what passes for white American culture, which is now just international westernized culture that one can find virtually anywhere in the world, with every shade of skin, every nationality…this “white” culture emphasizes silliness, is curiously lacking in real depth, and is ultimately empty.
The people in this white culture ask no real questions, and even when they do you can be sure that the questions they ask about anything lack substance. On message boards, in regular conversations, the topics are often mindless. To AVOID seems to be the greatest achievement one can attain in the affluent white man’s world. Avoiding the rest of the world and its massive dung heaps. Avoiding reality. It is in white literature, in the emasculated language, the need to purify language, bodies, to rid everything of smells, taste, etc. The lust for blandness is intertwined with a buried psychological need to escape Reality.
Disneyland serves the same function. The proscribed and hysterical blindness, the militant refusal to deal with people as they are but as safe caricatures, and wielding the power of your own skin, weaponizing your own whiteness and europeanness against anyone darker than you in order to get whatever it is that you need, which is usually something trivial anyway. White also equals — because of the obsessive need to escape historical and contemporary reality — absolute mediocrity.
Why do you think mediocrity flourishes like a weed in our world? True excellence will come with the necessity of recognizing that there are other people beneath you who can outpace you when given the chance. So those other people beneath you either have to be told to shut up, disappear or better yet, you drown them out. White mediocrity is preferable to a world wherein excellence can and will emerge from those who don’t toe the white man’s line. True black excellence is a negation of white supremacist thinking; black excellence that is tethered to white supremacist ideas (think, for instance, of Thomas Sowell) does not count, is in fact simply white mediocrity in Blackface. And not always from the right; very frequently this blackfaced white mediocrity comes from the alleged “left.”
How shall this white chichidodo continue existing, without losing his head in his various anxieties, fears and hatreds? Without the garbage mound of contemporary “civilization”? For the world at large is basically a garbage mound, and contrary to what the Western press will tell you, an American suburb or a nice Canadian, Australian or British city is not representative of how most of the world lives. Neither is Montmartre or Neukolln or even Kadikoy, Istanbul, though the latter may come closer to the truth. The Congo, Brazil (Rocinha), Mumbai, Cairo, Lahore, etc. are closer to the generality; these places, commonly dismissed as “Third World shitholes,” are where the bulk of the human race actually resides. They don’t live in Montgomery County, Maryland. Anyone who thinks otherwise is simply biased.
Humanity, for the most part, lives in a shit-heap, while the privileged white man does not. But it is within that shit-heap that he finds his “maggots.” Let’s call those maggots MONEY, POWER, NATURAL RESOURCES, SEX APPEAL, TRINKETS, and the rest of it. Useless material junk, with an astonishingly short shelf life.
Many of his unspoken anxieties center around the hard fact that everything he has achieved as a European has been at the expense of everyone not European, that he has come as far as he has in the world on the broken backs of those darker than he. His gorgeous cities, and some of them are indeed gorgeous — who would say that Wurzburg is an ugly place? — -were made possible by the relentless plunder of Africa, Asia and the Americas. This is the greatest moral failure of all time, and he knows it. None of the alleged petty crimes of “Negroes” come close to the absolute devastation that he has wreaked upon the planet to maintain his gorgeous cities.
The white man knows good and goddamned well that the true face of contemporary Western culture is not in the profane shenanigans taking place in the Paris Olympics, but the casual and barbaric slaughter of babies in Gaza. Israelis rioting for the privilege of raping gooks is the true face of Western civilization; the passport bros wandering the back streets of Bangkok looking for fourteen year old Thai girls is the true face of Western civilization. Shattered baby skulls, hanging guts, the riots in the UK, the police brutality in Berlin, in Paris, in New York, in Washington DC, in Milan, in Barcelona, in Brussels; the racist wild shrieks of nigger, monkey, and all the rest of it; swastikas, lynchings, pogroms, burnt and bombed neighborhoods (MOVE of Philadelphia, or Tulsa in 1921, or the penultimate in today’s Gaza) is what Western civilization looks like to most of the world.
So much of humanity today suffers from a blatant, mind-boggling stupidity, in addition to a horrible apathy and indifference. This is what Western civilization has reduced most everyone to. This is why the white man goes ape every time someone mentions something to him about African civilization or even Native American civilization, especially in North America, because according to his officially sanctioned “history” everything was created by him and him alone; niggers never built anything, of course, and gooks only lived in tee-pees and ran around splitting each other’s skulls with tomahawks. The Hawaiians, those other “gooks,” were a bunch of syphilitic, drunken, oversexed, gambling gorillas who needed the civilizing graces of some fucking German priest. Today it is important that the white man uses ISIS (one of his inventions, I don’t care who says what) to blow up what’s left of the civilization of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, so that in the future when one says “civilization” all they will think of, naturally, is his own narcissistic, flabby, flatulent and mediocre self. He has literally defined himself in opposition to reality.
He is so adamant about the moral failure of contemporary black culture, and insists that Sexyy Redd and Young Thug and their ilk represent an entire demographic of people. Like a good missionary he keeps telling these darkies to stop killing each other and stop taking drugs, stop the unwanted pregnancies, etc. Elon Musk insists upon it, you know. He presents stats showing how horrifically violent and morally depraved these New York Niggers (or is it Kaffirs?) are. There’s a hidden plea in Musk casually dragging up all these stats that purport to illustrate the violent and morally depraved nature of the Negro: we must ultimately return to industrial chattel slavery to keep these wild savages under control: this is the only way we can possibly save white civilization. How shall we do this, then? The same way we did it the last time: through sheer violence. By breaking the will and spirit of this savage African and/or “Ay-rab” or “spic” and put them back in the kitchens and cotton fields where they belong. Only there’s one problem with this white supremacist line of logic. It overlooks the real reason as to why all these “niggers” are so violent and depraved to begin with. Musk and company would have us believe it’s genetic rather than the end result of centuries of systemic brutalization and depersonalization.
The white man overhears his white woman, his children, brown, yellow and red people mocking the “nigger apes,” and he’s satisfied. Pleased as punch. What really pleases him is the extent to which he has managed to have everyone thinking like he does. When he enters a world in which people do not dance to his jarring and discordant tunes, then he is filled with anxiety, with an existential dread; the whole world becomes ugly, a barbaric and strange place that he must “civilize” — in other words, make it more efficient in satisfying his own needs, whatever those are. But since his own well-oiled civilization depends upon most of Africa and much of Asia, the Mid East and Latin America being a shambles, his civilizing project can never actually fully come to fruition since at bottom the uncivilization of niggerland is integral to his own civilization in honkyland. How else can the white man get the cheap resources necessary to keep his “civilization” a civilization? Therefore, “civilization” is a privilege reserved for him and everyone else he deems acceptable in his eyes. That is less than ten percent of the entire human race.
People know this and resent this. Virtually nobody in Africa, Asia or elsewhere really wants white civilization. Listen carefully to what black, brown, red and yellow folk say among themselves, whenever “whitey” is not around. Regardless of their own petty quarrels and all the long-standing hatreds and prejudices they’re caught up in, they actually can’t stand the whites; they have simply been forced by immediate concerns to silence their thoughts. They have been taught in schools that the only way is the white-oriented way, and that everything has to be a ridiculous parody of Los Angeles or Dallas, Texas.
Frantz Fanon, writing in The Wretched of the Earth, spoke of the non-white native as a being completely caught up in the ugly business of surviving the white colonial power structure, surviving, moreover, the obscene and hateful predation of the white chichidodo, who has taken everything from him yet continues to let him live, for reasons stated above.
This “native” has been debased, depersonalized. He’s been so robbed of his humanity that in many a case he’s sunken to the level of an untouchable, for whom the very presence makes this white chichidodo shriek in disgust. He is, in fact, shit. He lives in a shithole. Without brains, without culture and civilization — and he has his little white colonial vulture to thank for that — he’s been reduced to a boiling mass of nerves, a beast of burden who doesn’t know how to unwind anymore and takes all of his frustrations and energies out on his fellow native, be he nigger, spic or what have you. He’s “inferior,” just like this white vulture proclaimed him to be — and since the white vulture birthed him, he ought to know best. Intellectually “inferior.” A “knucklehead.” A “thug.” And dare we say it, a “nigger-monkey.”
The “nigger-monkey” dreams muscular dreams, running, jumping, fucking, shooting, kicking, punching. There is an extraordinary amount of aggression in this coon. “His brain is underdeveloped,” the white tells himself or herself. (The same was once said of Algerians.) “They are not of this world,” says Blaise Cendrars, who’s not entirely wrong; they are not of your world, or appear not to be so because your world is built directly on top of their world or to be precise, directly on their black backs. This is most definitely the period in which the niggers beat each other up, or to be honest slaughter each other gleefully. Insane crime stats surpass anything that ever existed in colonial Algeria by far yet pale in comparison with the ultra violent crime stats for Honduras, Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, and New Orleans. All of this insane violence perfectly justifies non black’s (especially Caucasians) total contempt of “niggers” and the notion that they are apes, sheboons, etc. By reinstating slavery or worse, attempting or at least trying to rationalize yet another genocide (one which will be reduced to cheap social media memes) the Elon Musks of the world will only find themselves saddled with even more violent, sick Negroes.
And the sad white hamster wheel of history just keeps turning. The ratchet negress and nigger thugs are simply the rotten fruit that just keeps falling from his poisoned apple trees; Johnny Appleseed is confused. Them big ole juicy apples he loves (and more than anything else in the world) hang right beside the poisoned fruit. He repeatedly asks why this is so. Well, Johnny can’t read and above all, he can’t think, either. He’s a dumb motherfucker.