Changing Color

"THE LAST WHITE MAN", a newly publisehd science fiction-fantasy dystopian sociological political novel by Mohsim Hamid, exemplifies its title. The protagonist, a white guy of Scandinavian descent, awakens one day to discover that his skin a surned a deep shade of brown. But he is not alone. In the unnamed country in which he lives, every other white person has the same experience, as if the universe wants the previously white race to understand the burden of dark skin by experiencing it personally. Hamid was inspired by Franz Kafka's iconic "Meatmorphosis", in which the central character turns into a giant insect. The people who turn dark are immediately treated differently, more poorly, by their friends and neighbors. This should not surprise them, but does. Thus has Hammid written an insightful examination of racism and personal identity. So much for white supremacy, numerical or cultural. Jews will not replace us? In the novel, the white race replaces itself, and joins the crowded club of darkly pigmented peoples. The current incarnation of the white Christian conservative Republican party knows the feeling, for it lives in a world in which white conservative Christians are being "replaced" by hordes of undocumented brown immigrants, courtesy liberalism. What a nightmarish reality which to invent, and in whcih to dwell. To be a Christian conservative must be sheer hell, constantly confronted with the hideious specter of ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity. the replacement project is neither random nor natural, but rather the carefuly orchestrated machination of......whom? A secret cons[iray of teh "deep state", millions of government bureaucrats organized to destroy traditional America, perhaps with the assiatance of the NAACP, the mainstream liberal midia, and the Democratic party? Upon further reflection, replacing America's paranoid delusional right wing with, damned near anybody, might not be such a bad idea after all. Glad they thought of it.