On the anniversary of September 11, Alexander Riley, Senior Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), warns that the heroism displayed on 9/11 might not even be reported correctly today. “[C]ertain categories of personhood that our elite culture spares no expense today to slander” have been declared off limits by America’s cultural gatekeepers.
In “White Guys and 9/11” in the September 11 issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Dr. Riley remarks that these gatekeepers, candidly and surreptitiously, echo what is now known as “the great replacement theory,” in which the trend of demographic realities in the United States are removing white males from the population. A professor of sociology at Bucknell University, he resorts to hard evidence to make his case.
“Did you know that white males took on a huge percentage of the mortal burden of that awful day?” White men constituted almost seventy percent of the victims of 9/11. Four al-Qaeda operatives commandeered United Flight 93 on a suicide mission to slam into a building in Washington DC. The leaders of the group who confronted the terrorists forcing the plane to crash land in a field in Pennsylvania in which there were no survivors were all white males.
The relentless attacks by the “despisers of the white ‘patriarchy,’” Dr. Riley laments, will not learn the needed lesson from such heroism. “[F]our white guys” did “the kind of heroic stuff that white guys in this country have been doing for a long time.”
Among his articles and books, Dr. Riley is the author of Angel Patriots: The Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America (NYU Press, 2015).
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