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March 23, 2018 5 comments

An Advocate’s Progress:
Quinn Replaces Michener, A Review of White Like You

Morris van de Camp

1,008 words

Spencer J. Quinn
White Like You
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2018

James A. Michener, a popular writer of my grandparents’ generation, didn’t publish his first book until he was 39, and this was after he had served as an officer in the US Navy in the Second World War. It seems one needs about four decades of life experience in order to write a decent book. At present, the books written by those born in the middle of Generation X, such as Spencer J. Quinn (born in 1976), are just beginning to be published. What they are writing is remarkable for how it is different from the works of the recent past.

A great deal of James A. Michener’s work should be seen as the view of a Pennsylvania Quaker of the GI Generation on the United States’ ascent to global power following the war, especially in the Pacific in the late 1940s. Michener creates a number of characters who are “gooks” of some kind, with an industrious, fair-minded Pennsylvanian trying to get out of all of them. In his novels, all humanity follows the same vision: it’s only the structures, policies, and/or hearts and minds that are the problem. He also created a set of archetypal characters who all came from Pennsylvania, went to another place, married a local (sometimes non-white) woman, and then took over.[1] With Michener, it’s all semi-biographical and it always works out.

In Quinn, one sees a new kind of literature developing based on life experiences wildly different from that of Michener’s generation. For Quinn’s generation in particular, America’s policies in Asia have always been of the post-Vietnam era, unlike in Michener’s, when they were formed in the period immediately following Hiroshima. Therefore, if we compare the two, Asia’s relationship with the Americans is quite different. Michener’s polite, recently-bombed Orientals who were under the thumb of American occupation have become immigrants in America itself: sullen, hostile, and taking Americans’ jobs and university spots.

Generation X also never suffered the illusion that government institutions were the cause of racial inequality – in their time, the schools, armed forces, and even the Department of Motor Vehicles have always been integrated. Affirmative Action has always been a fact of life. “Civil rights” have always been government policy. Martin Luther King, Jr. has always been an object of worship. And yet things have always been a mess. The promised world of Abraham, Martin, and John didn’t disappear; it failed to materialize in the first place.

The fact that White Like You has been published at all lays bare the fraud of Michener’s integrationist philosophy and the utopian schemes of earlier generations. It demonstrates that new ideas and new circumstances gives rise to new types of artistic works. Today, the conditions wrought by multiculturalism are increasingly intolerable. White Like You’s title is an ironic recasting of that of a work of 1960s civil rights propaganda that was written by a white man who claimed to have traveled through the South in a blackface disguise: Black Like Me (1961).

The story follows Ben Cameron, a middle-class professional who writes standardized test questions for public schools in a mid-twenty-first century dystopia. In Ben Cameron’s world, the United States is a believable mix of the worst elements of the early Clinton administration and the post-2012 Obama administration. The US government is effectively waging war – a high-firepower war – against the American people without regard for (white) collateral damage on behalf of an Obama-style “coalition of the ascendant” consisting of Muslims and other Third World peoples. It is Waco 1993 and Ferguson 2014 all rolled into one.

The book presents the concepts of white advocacy as well as the challenges involved in it. Ben Cameron’s personal journey begins with the problems he encounters with non-whites who are integrated into his profession, which turn him towards white advocacy. How it is described matches what I’ve experienced in my own private journey. After losing everything, Ben joins a serious, stigmatized, and underground social movement. This is a realistic allegory. The characters are often quite literally underground, communicating with each other via a coded internal network. Just like our actual movement, breaches in security – doxing – bring down a great deal of figurative, and occasionally very real, fire and destruction upon them.

The story contains many cloak-and-dagger and sci-fi thrills, as well as plot twists and turns. Within all of this is a serious study of the racial situation in the United States. It provides the moral understanding for why a white advocacy movement exists in the first place. One character says:

I’ve come to understand that white people have produced things of great beauty and brilliance over the years because we ourselves are beautiful and brilliant. It sounds conceited until you actually live in worlds created by non-whites, especially the Arabs, the Hispanics, and the blacks. You know beauty and brilliance by seeing their opposite all around you. You know there must be an absolute Good, because the worlds these people create, with all the crime and corruption and oppression and poverty, are undeniable Bad. That’s the essence of why I’m here. (p. 153)

There is also a fictionalized study of the concepts and philosophical differences between the various elements of the white advocacy movement. There is a study of the “JQ.” There is the question of how to move forward: peaceful gatherings or violent revolution? There is also a critical study of traitors, and most importantly those who are reckless and morally unbound. “Becoming who you are” is a disaster if “who you are” is, in fact, a sociopathic criminal.

A lot of important ideas are packed into this compelling story. The last two chapters in particular will serve to broaden one’s mind. It’s a bit like John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. It is so compelling that I can say that this is the first novel I’ve read in a very long time that I put down on the nightstand just before bed and then awoke early the next morning to finish reading.

Note

[1] Two are Pentaquod (Chesapeake) and Levi Zendt (Centennial).

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5 comments

  1. Peter Quint says:
    March 24, 2018 at 11:04 am

    I will purchase a copy on 03/30/18. Is it as good as “Mister?” This is what we need a growing number of high quality white nationalist novels, as well as an increasing number of intellectuals in our cause. We must build a grass roots movement on quality, because we are not going to get as second chance–the jews will see to that.

  2. FinDeSiecle says:
    March 25, 2018 at 10:54 am

    Definitely enjoyed this novel, quite nuanced in its depiction of the resistance and its methods. The disguises in particular were a unique but practical aspect that I don’t think anyone has used (at least since that Connery James Bond film set in Japan).

    I was so so on the actual ending, but the novel is action packed, brutal and imaginative. Shades of The Iron Heel come through quite a bit.

  3. Stronza says:
    March 25, 2018 at 11:58 am

    The story contains many cloak-and-dagger and sci-fi thrills

    Too bad about those sci-fi thrills. If not for that, I would eagerly buy this book. I’ve recently been looking for some good reading material, but I am a big supporter of reality. Upward and onward.

  4. M.A says:
    March 26, 2018 at 2:11 am

    Just purchased, At only £2.21 for the Kindle version, it seems excellent value.

  5. ster plaz says:
    March 26, 2018 at 2:08 pm

    I’ve just purchased White Like You and plan to start tonight after dinner. I bet it will be great to read.

    I’d read several of Michener’s books back in the 1970s and 1980s. I remember that one called Centennial with the Lancaster Dutch/Deutsch (Levi Zandt as you mentioned). I personally didn’t think that was too historically accurate. According to Madison Grant’s wonderful book Conquest of a Continent, the Germans (Lancaster county or otherwise) were known throughout the 1800s to form settlements among their own and keep to their German language. Just basically recreate their life from back in Germany. Grant found sources from those times that said the German immigrants were sometimes so numerous in one locale they would demand that court/legal business be done in German instead of adopting English. Grant believes that this caused the Germans to not participate in the building of the country like the English and Scandinavians.

    Grant said the same about the Catholic Irish in the 1800s. They basically just formed their own colonies (in urban ghettos) and many times kept to Gaelic even to the beginning of the 20th century.

    Grant was also prescient about the Meskins; they too these days are just recreating small sized Mexicos here in the USA.

    Anyway, I thought that in Centennial Michener made it seem as if the various “minority” groups are the ones who settled the West when in real life (per Grant’s book Conq. of Cont.) it was overwhelmingly the Whites of Nordic and Alpine stock who constantly moved out to the frontier (wherever that happened to be at the time).

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