American Renaissance There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world. — Thomas Jefferson Vol. 21 No. 3 March 2010 A Post-Racial President . . .

. . . or a man with an agen- why can’t whites be white?—Mr. tune. He criticized black ghetto behavior Obama works against it: If he’s neither and proclaimed, “There is not a black da? white nor black, why should you be America and a white America and white? Mr. Obama, in other words, is Latino America and Asian America— by Ellison Lodge both a living testament to the power of there’s the United States of America.” black racial consciousness and identity Political observers immediately ver since he caught hailed him as the new breed the nation’s eye, Ba- of black politician. In one of Erack Obama has been VJGſTUVOCLQTRTQſNGUQH/T careful not to be too black. Obama, Ryan Lizza wrote in At the risk of alienating the The Atlantic: pushier segment of his natu- “Mr. Obama’s ability to ral constituency, he has tried appeal to inner-city blacks, to cultivate a “post-racial” suburban moms, Republican image that does not scare dentists, and, well, me sug- off too many whites. It was gests that he’ll be able to ven- a balancing act that worked ture further than most black well during the presidential politicians—further even than election campaign, and cul- Carol Moseley Braun. ‘I’m minated in an almost Second rooted in the African-American Coming-like atmosphere for community,’ he frequently the inauguration. However, says, ‘but I’m not limited by after a year in office, Mr. it.’ Indeed, charisma, intelli- Obama’s post-racial pose is gence, and ambition, tempered wearing thin. Both his ac- by a self-deprecating wit, are tions and his appointments the particular hallmarks not so reveal a leftist and implicitly much of a great black politician racial agenda that is awaken- as of any great one.” ing whites to the fact that he In 2004, Al Sharpton sought does not stand for them. If he the Democratic nomination but does not shore up his rapidly failed miserably. Many could crumbling white support—and it is not and at the very same time a living renun- not help but notice how different Mr. clear how he could do that without repu- ciation of white racial identity.” Obama was from Mr. Sharpton. Uni- diating much of his record so far—2012 During the early part of his career, versity of Michigan African American could be the end of the road for Barack Mr. Obama plowed the same anti- Studies professor Angela Dillard said, “I Obama. white ground as Rev. Sharpton and Mr. think this is really the end of an era of race and politics. Something’s shifting 5CO(TCPEKUUCYKVſTUV and changing and people like Sharpton Mr. Obama was being can’t change with it, and something new Shortly before his death in February groomed as the Great and different is being created and it is 2005, frequent American Renaissance Non-White Hope for the about people like Obama.” contributor Sam Francis predicted Mr. Democrats as soon as he Yet the difference was in style rather Obama’s ascension to the presidency than substance. Jonathan Tilove, then and explained the dangers of his post- arrived in the Senate. the race and immigration correspondent racial façade: for Newhouse News, observed that Mr. “Moreover, while openly racial Jackson, but by the time he came to Obama “can argue for policies virtually candidates like Mr. Sharpton or Jesse prominence at the 2004 Democratic indistinguishable from Sharpton’s in Jackson helped instigate white racial Convention as a state senator running cooler, non-racial terms, while still af- consciousness—if they can be black, for the US Senate, he had changed his Continued on page 3

American Renaissance - 1 - March 2010 9GTKIJVN[OQWTPVJGFGCFCPF maimed. But others bear different stig- mata for which they get little sympathy but are the consequences of senseless wars they did not choose and should not JCXGJCFVQſIJV Paul Halberg, Tuscaloosa, Ala.

5KTō+GPLQ[GF,COGU5EJPGKFGTŏU CTVKENGCDQWVVJGUNQRR[TCEKCNENCUUKſEC- tions that will be used in the 2010 cen- sus. I suspect most Laotians or Tongans, for example, will be surprised to learn that the Census Bureau thinks they are separate races. And calling Egyptians and Tunisians “white” is comical. than half the electorate, all politicians 9GCTGCNNCEEWUVQOGFVQIQXGTPOGPV Letters from Readers must cater to these delusions. idiocy when it comes to race. From No 5KTō+GPLQ[GF5VGRJGP9GDUVGTŏU There are exceptions, to be sure; Child Left Behind to “disparate impact” review of We Are Doomed, since I con- some women are as stout as the best to calling diversity a strength—the sider it the best book I have read in a men. However, their numbers are so government can be counted on to get it while. I agree that it holds no surprises UOCNNCPFVJGKTKPƀWGPEGUQUNKIJVVJCV wrong. But it almost always takes pains for race-realists, but thanks to Mr. Der- those I know would gladly give up the not to hurt the feelings of non-whites. byshire’s wit and writing style, it is a franchise if it meant their sisters could be That is why some blacks have been pleasure to cover familiar ground. kept from meddling in things they don’t shocked to learn that they are supposed A criticism: On page 43, Mr. Der- understand. But we will have a sensible to check the box that says “Black or byshire implies that Teddy Roosevelt immigration policy before we take the African Am., or Negro.” Negro? CPF9QQFTQY9KNUQPYGTGVJGHKTUV vote from women. Shelly Lowe of the Census Bureau presidents to usurp authority, noting Carl Schultz, Salt Lake City, Utah has been reported as saying that a lot VJCV9QQFTQY9KNUQPVQQMVJGőQR- of thought went into “Negro.” She says portunity offered by war to aggrandize many blacks like the term and will JKUQHſEGŒ1HEQWTUGVJGſTUVRTGUKFGPV Sir — The photograph taken at Abu write in “Negro” rather than agree to to do that was Abraham Lincoln, who Ghraib that you reproduced on page 13 be called “black” or “African Ameri- took advantage of Congress’s being out of the February issue reminds me of yet can.” So, after much deliberation and of session to maneuver the South into another terrible price we pay for wag- many focus group sessions, the bureau ſTKPIVJGſTUVUJQVCPFVJGPYGPVQP ing wars not in our interests. The cost decided the advantages outweighed the to suspend habeas corpus, arrest state in lives, money, and world-wide ill will disadvantages. legislators, and commit many other is well documented and often criticized. 9GCTGUWRRQUGFVQVJKPMCNNDNCEMU unconstitutional acts. Less often pointed out is that some of are deeply insulted by the word “Ne- D. Tyrone Crowley, Prattville, Ala- our soldiers will inevitably behave like ITQŒ[GVKVCRRGCTUVJKUKULWUVCPQVJGT bama brutes. Americans in Iraq or Afghanistan example of elite opinion circulating so must live among people who would be YKFGN[VJCVYGHQTIGVKVFQGUPQVTGƀGEV Sir — So John Derbyshire thinks it alien and frustrating in the best of times. reality. was a mistake to give women the vote? Today, our soldiers live among them as Sam Henderson, Ossining, N. Y. I say, “Bravo.” I say further that it takes QEEWRKGTUCPFKPſFGNU'XGP+TCSKUCPF more courage to take that position than Afghans who are not actively trying to to put out 20 year’s worth of American kill them resent and hate them. It is a Sir — I noted with interest your Renaissance! There are dozens of race- tragedy but hardly surprising that some February “O Tempora” item about how realist or white-nationalist websites but of our soldiers react cruelly. Berkeley High School in Berkeley, Cali- how many urge the repeal of the 19th Those who brutalize Iraqis and Af- fornia, plans to improve the performance Amendment? ghans must be punished, and the ones of blacks and Hispanics. Since mostly Mr. Derbysire is right, of course. who committed serious crimes such as whites use the science labs they can be 9QOGPCTGPCVWTCNDQTPUQEKCNKUVU6JG[ murder or rape have ruined their lives. LWPMGF6JGUCXKPIUYKNNDGURGPVQP have evolved to function best within the Yet they, too, are in some respects vic- pet minorities. one group that actually does operate on tims of circumstance. Some are probably Face it: This was news only because the principle of “from each according FGXKCPVUYJQYQWNFDGKPLCKNYJGVJGT the Berkeley people admitted what they to his ability to each according to his they had gone to war or not, but others were doing. Gifted programs are disap- need:” the family. They think they can are men and women who would not have pearing everywhere and colleges teach apply that principle to public policy, and gone badly wrong if they had never done remedial English and math to freshmen. that “compassion” solves social prob- battle among inscrutable people who It’s for the same reason. lems. Now that women make up more could turn on them any time. 5CTCJ9GPVYQTVJ4KEJOQPF8C

American Renaissance - 2 - March 2010 many have already mentioned, we live American Renaissance in a society that remains separated in terms of life opportunities for African- Jared Taylor, Editor Americans, for Latinos, and the rest of 5VGRJGP9GDUVGT#UUKUVCPV'FKVQT the nation.” 4QPCNF00GHH9GD5KVG'FKVQT 9JCVDGVVGTYC[HQTVJGPCVKQPVQJGCN “the brutal wounds of slavery and Jim Crow” for the good of both whites and American Renaissance is published monthly by the blacks than to elect a biracial president? New Century Foundation. NCF is governed by section By the time Mr. Obama’s presidential 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code; contributions to it are tax deductible. campaign went into full swing, the idea Subscriptions to American Renaissance are $28.00 per year. First-class postage is that his election would end American CPCFFKVKQPCN5WDUETKRVKQPUVQ%CPCFC ſTUVENCUU CTG5WDUETKRVKQPU racism had become conventional wis- outside Canada and the U.S. (air mail) are $40.00. Back issues are $4.00 each. Foreign dom for many liberals and even for subscribers should send U.S. dollars or equivalent in convertible bank notes. conservatives. 2NGCUGOCMGEJGEMURC[CDNGVQ#OGTKECP4GPCKUUCPEG21$QZ1CMVQP8# One of Mr. Obama’s supporters told 22124. ISSN No. 1086-9905, Telephone: (703) 716-0900, Facsimile: (703) 716-0932, MSNBC prior to the Iowa Caucuses 9GD2CIG#FFTGUUYYY#O4GPEQO that she planned to support him partly “to prove that America has overcome Continued from page 1 for 2005-2006. He received an “Incom- TCEKUOŒ9TKVKPIKPSlate, Jack Schaf- ſTOKPICOGUUCIGQHTCEKCNKFGPVKV[CPF plete” for 2006-2007 only because he fer said that Mr. Obama represented uplift implicit in his very being.” was so busy campaigning he missed a őVJGHWNſNNOGPVof the American ideal, Mr. Obama won the Senate election lot of votes. Still, when he bothered to and by casting their ballot for him, vot- in a landslide, in large part because UJQYWRKP9CUJKPIVQPJGPGXGTXQVGF ers can participate in that transcendent Republicans thought they could counter against the NAACP’s wishes. OQOGPVŒ6JGHCXQTKVGYQTFLQWTPCN- his post-racial blackness by running In his book The Audacity of Hope, ists used to describe his potential was buffoonish black conservative and non- Mr. Obama explained the importance “transformational.” Illinois resident, Alan Keyes. Among of disguising an anti-white stance in 9JGPKVDGICPVQUGGONKMGN[VJCV/T Keyes’s absurd and allegedly conserva- universalistic blather. Because of “the Obama would receive the Democratic tive stances was a proposal to exempt success of conservatives in fanning the nomination, cracks appeared in his race- blacks from the Income Tax as a form politics of resentment—by wildly over- transcending window dressing. A few of reparations. stating, for example, the adverse effects commentators, such as Steve Sailer, QHCHſTOCVKXGCEVKQPQPYJKVGYQTMGTUŒ had called attention to Mr. Obama’s America had become a place where: “Rightly or wrongly [clearly, in his view, wrongly], white guilt has largely exhausted itself in America; even the most fair-minded of whites, those who would genuinely like to see racial in- equality ended and poverty relieved, tend to push back against suggestions QHTCEKCNXKEVKOK\CVKQPōQTTCEGURGEKſE claims based on the history of race dis- crimination in this country.” Rather than suggest that blacks should abandon their racial griev- ances, he urges them to promote them KPWPKXGTUCNVGTOU9JKVGUYKNNUVKNNXQVG With his pastor in happier times. against their interests if the alternatives RCUVQT,GTGOKCJ9TKIJV4GX9TKIJV are presented in terms of the general is a proponent of militantly anti-white welfare. Mr. Obama hinted at this in a black liberation theology, and Mr. speech in 2007: Obama named his book The Audacity “[Those who worked on civil rights of Hope after the title of one of Rev. Taken from a sermon title. in the past realized that] to achieve 9TKIJVŏUUGTOQPU*GCNUQRGTHQTOGF Mr. Obama was being groomed as the racial equality was not simply good for Mr. Obama’s marriage ceremony and )TGCV0QP9JKVG*QRGHQTVJG&GOQ- African-Americans, but it was good for baptized his children. Mr. Obama crats as soon as he arrived in the Senate. America as a whole; that we could not ECNNGF4GX9TKIJVőCHCOKN[OGODGTŒ He made little effort as a legislator, and be what we might be as a nation unless and his “sounding board.” All this focused on 2008. Post-racial platitudes we healed the brutal wounds of slavery YCUNCTIGN[KIPQTGFWPVKN4GX9TKIJV in speeches aside, he voted like a and Jim Crow. Now, we have made gave a lifetime achievement award to typical black politician, winning a “100 enormous progress, but the progress Louis Farrakhan. Minister Farrakhan, of Percent” report card from the NAACP we have made is not good enough. As course, has a long record of anti-white

American Renaissance - 3 - March 2010 and anti-Jewish statements that would uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that time in my life, history thrusts me to re- make even Al Sharpton blush. made me cringe.” ally seriously think about [voting Demo- In the ensuing weeks, more and more It turns out that his grandmother’s cratic].” As he explained to Fox News, HCEVUCDQWV4GX9TKIJVECOGVQNKIJV “ethnic stereotypes” were nothing more “Among black conservatives, they tell After September 11, he said that blacks than her fear of an aggressive black me privately, it would be very hard to should not sing “God Bless America” beggar at a bus stop. She gave him a vote against him in November.” but “God Damn America.” Not an- Republican candidate John Mc- ticipating his protégé’s ascension Cain refused to attack Mr. Obama VQVJG1XCN1HſEGJGVQNFUVWFGPVU for anything remotely racial. He at Howard University in 2006 that denounced his own supporter, talk “racism is how this country was show host Bill Cunningham, mere- founded and how this country is ly for mentioning Mr. Obama’s still run. No black man will ever middle name “Hussein” at a rally, be considered for president.” For and told the North Carolina GOP good measure, he accused the US to kill a television ad that reminded government of inventing AIDS in XQVGTUQH4GX9TKIJV+HVJKUUVTCV- order to exterminate blacks. egy was supposed to woo blacks, In an April 2008 appearance it failed utterly: Only 4 percent at the National Press Club, Rev. voted for him—fewer than for any 9TKIJVUCKFJGFKFPQVőKPCP[ Republican candidate since blacks way disagree” with the originator got the vote. of black liberation theology, Dr. In fact, Mr. McCain probably James Cone, adding that “Jim” realized all along that he would was a “personal friend.” This went over Damage control in Philadelphia. get little black support. As Election the reporters’ heads because they were dollar but was afraid that if the bus Day approached, it was clear that only WPCYCTGQH&T%QPGŏUNWTKFXKGYULWUV had not come he would have attacked a radical shift in the campaign climate one sample of which is the following: JGT9JGP/T1DCOCNGCTPGFVJCVVJG could save him. He might have been “Black theology refuses to accept a beggar’s blackness probably added to able to achieve that shift with a sustained )QFYJQKUPQVKFGPVKſGFVQVCNN[YKVJVJG JGTHGCTő6JGYQTFUYGTGNKMGCſUV television campaign hammering home goals of the black community. If God in my stomach.” Mr. Obama tells this how close Mr. Obama had been to Rev. is not for us and against white people, story in his memoir of what amounts to 9TKIJVCPFTGRGCVKPIVJGRCUVQTŏUOQUV then he is a murderer, and we had better a life of racial obsession. The book is vitriolic anti-white diatribes. The media kill him.” essentially the tale of how a half white/ would have been scandalized but Mr. Mr. Obama tried to control the dam- half Kenyan raised by whites in age with his famous speech in Philadel- Hawaii eventually succeeded in phia that liberals have since compared to identifying as black. the Gettysburg Address and the “I Have During the campaign, while a Dream” speech. In fact, it was more of whites thought they saw a post- his usual combination of giving whites racial candidate, many blacks a few empty concessions about the need supported Mr. Obama solely for blacks to take “full responsibility for because of his race. Radio their own lives” and acknowledging that UJQEMLQEM*QYCTF5VGTPUGPV whites have “legitimate concerns” about a correspondent to Harlem who affirmative action and immigration, attributed several of John Mc- while still blaming the problems fac- Cain’s positions to Mr. Obama ing blacks on discrimination and white and asked blacks if they sup- “resentments.” ported them. For example, he *GVTKGFVQRQTVTC[4GX9TKIJVCU asked, “Are you more for Obama’s With grandpa and ‘racist’ granny. a crazy uncle rather than a mentor, policy because he’s pro-life or because McCain might have won. Perhaps his comparing him to his supposedly racist he thinks our troops should stay in Iraq fear of being accused of “playing the grandmother: CPFſPKUJVJKUYCT!Œ*GGXGPCUMGF race card” was greater than his desire “I can no more disown him [Rev. “Do you support Mr. Obama’s choice to be president. 9TKIJV?VJCP+ECPFKUQYPVJGDNCEM QH5CTCJ2CNKPVQDGJKU82!Œ1PGCHVGT Because Mr. McCain never chal- community. I can no more disown him another, blacks expressed their support lenged him on his association with Rev. than I can my white grandmother—a for the black candidate and their igno- 9TKIJV/T1DCOCPGXGTJCFVQLWUVKH[ woman who helped raise me, a woman rance of his positions. it. Nor, did not bother to moderate his YJQUCETKſEGFCICKPCPFCICKPHQTOG Although they were better informed, anti-white policies. He opposed black a woman who loves me as much as she even prominent black conservatives EQPUGTXCVKXG9CTF%QPPGTN[ŏUDCNNQV loves anything in this world, but a wom- put race before ideology. Talk show initiatives to ban racial preferences in an who once confessed her fear of black JQUV#TOUVTQPI9KNNKCOUUCKFő+FQPŏV Colorado and Kansas, and at a debate men who passed by her on the street, necessarily like his policies; I don’t like in South Carolina he stated, “I think and who on more than one occasion has OWEJVJCVJGCFXQECVGUDWVHQTVJGſTUV VJCVVJG%QPHGFGTCVGƀCIUJQWNFDGRWV

American Renaissance - 4 - March 2010 in a museum” rather than displayed in supporter of amnesty, he received only didn’t stir you, if it didn’t leave you public. He even hinted at support for one third of the Hispanic vote. teary-eyed and proud of your country, reparations for slavery when he told Mr. Obama ended up winning over 95 there’s something wrong with you.” a gathering of mi- percent of the black PQTKV[LQWTPCNKUVUő+ vote—the highest +PQHſEG consistently believe ſIWTGHQTCP[&GO- that when it comes to ocratic candidate— So how has America’s first non- whether it’s Native but he received only YJKVGRTGUKFGPVCEVGFKPQHſEG!*GKU Americans or Afri- 43 percent of the VJGſTUVVQCRRQKPVYJKVGOGPVQHGYGT can-American issues white vote. Mr. Mc- than half—42 percent to be precise— or reparations, the Cain’s 55 percent of of cabinet positions. Although whites most important thing the white vote would are 66 percent of the total population for the US govern- have been enough to and closer to 75 percent of Americans OGPVVQFQKUPQVLWUV hand him the election aged 42 to 60, they make up only 53 offer words, but offer back in 1976 when RGTEGPVQHCNN5GPCVGEQPſTOGF1DCOC deeds.” whites were 89 per- appointments. On immigration, cent of the electorate. The most notable diversity appoint- Mr. Obama followed Since then, mass im- OGPVJCUDGGPVJGſTUV*KURCPKE5W- his leftist instincts and migration has cut that RTGOG%QWTVLWUVKEG5QPKC5QVQOC[QT adopted the full anti- ſIWTGVQRGTEGPV who believes that “wise Latinas” make white position. The so Mr. Obama won DGVVGTLWFIGUVJCPYJKVGOGP'XGP immigration-control by a comfortable the New York Times recognized that group Numbers USA margin. her entire career has been one of racial gave him an F for his Liberals gloated activism: “[She] has championed the record in the Senate. over both the vic- importance of considering ethnicity in During the presiden- tory and the dispos- CFOKUUKQPUJKTKPICPFGXGPLWFKEKCN tial campaign, blacks session of whites. selection at almost every stage of her might have appreciat- “The face of America career.” At Princeton she headed Ac- ed some expression of is changing,” said cion Puertorriquena and at Yale Law concern about Hispan- C N N ’ s S o l e d a d 5EJQQNUJGLQKPGFVJG0CVKQPCN%QWPEKN ic immigration—they O’Brien. “And that of La Raza and the Puerto Rican Legal oppose immigration even more strongly face doesn’t look like Joe the Plumb- Defense and Education Fund (now Lati- than whites do—but Mr. Obama already er.” In his concession noJustice PRLDEF), had their support. At the same time, Mr. speech, even John where she became a McCain again made things easy for McCain congratu- board member. She him by promoting essentially the same lated Mr. Obama on filed complaints at pro-immigration positions, thus driv- overcoming “the old both Yale and Princ- ing away Republicans and whites who KPLWUVKEGUVJCVUVCKPGF eton to hire more might have supported him. our nation” and “the minority professors, Mr. Obama cultivated groups like cruel and painful big- protested the Bakke the National Council of La Raza and the otry” of the past. decision that limited National Association of Latino Elected 9JGP/T1DCOC outright quotas, and Officials, whom he told, “I’ve been VQQMQHſEGEQOOGP- then ruled against working with Latino leaders ever since tator David Horowitz white firefighters in I entered public service more than 20 gushed that “what- the Ricci case. [GCTUCIQ9GUVQQFVQIGVJGTYJGP ever happens in the #PQVJGTőſTUVŒHQT I was a civil rights attorney, working Obama presidency, Mr. Obama is black to ensure that Latinos were being well this Inauguration Attorney General Eric represented. And we marched together Day is a watershed Holder. Two weeks VQſZQWTDTQMGPKOOKITCVKQPU[UVGO moment in the his- after his Senate Con- That’s why you can trust me when I tory of America and ſTOCVKQP/T*QNFGT UC[VJCV+ŏNNDG[QWTRCTVPGTKPVJG9JKVG a remarkable event in gave a speech in which House.” He even blamed proponents of the history of nations, he called America “xenophobia” for an imaginary crime and thus a cause for “essentially a nation surge, stating, “There’s a reason why all of us who love of cowards” because hate crimes against Hispanic people this country” because “we average Ameri- doubled last year. If you have people it symbolized victory cans simply do not like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh over a racially di- talk enough with each ginning things up, it’s not surprising that vided past. New York other about race.” He would happen.” Times columnist Paul also noted that despite The pandering worked. Although Krugman went further: “If the election forced integration of schools and other McCain was the most vocal Republican QHQWTſTUV#HTKECP#OGTKECPRTGUKFGPV institutions, the country remains “vol-

American Renaissance - 5 - March 2010 untarily socially segregated.” Mr. Holder doesn’t seem nearly so in the Rodney King case. After he aban- In other words, even though we worried about voting rights for whites. doned communism, he organized rallies elected a black president and our media During the 2008 election, the New for Black Panther cop-killer Mumia Abu and political discourse are dominated by Black Panther Party were videotaped Jamal, and attended political events race, at a personal level, (white) Ameri- intimidating white voters in Philadel- wearing T-Shirts saying “Kanye was ECPUCTGPQVUWHſEKGPVN[EQPEGTPGFCDQWV phia. Liberal poll watcher Bartle Bull, Right” (referring to the rapper who blacks. This should have dispelled any who had monitored elections during said “George Bush doesn’t care about idea that the election of Mr. Obama the Civil Rights movement for the black people”). Mr. Jones withdrew his would heal America’s racial soul. Kennedy administration, called it “the nomination after his radical views were most blatant form of exposed. voter intimidation I Another disquieting black appoint- have encountered in ment was Mr. Obama’s chief diversity my life in political QHſEGTHQTVJG(GFGTCN%QOOWPKECVKQPU campaigns in many Commission, Mark Lloyd. “There are states, even going few things I think more frightening in back to the work I the American mind than dark-skinned did in Mississippi in black men,” he gloated. “Here I am.” the 1960s.” There may be reasons to be afraid. He This didn’t seem says there are a limited number of im- to bother Mr. Holder. RQTVCPVRQUKVKQPUCPFVJG[CTGſNNGFYKVJ Just before leaving of- whites, “and unless we are conscious of ſEGVJG$WUJCFOKP- the need to have more people of color, istration had initiated gays, other people in those positions we an investigation, but will not change the problem.” HQWTOQPVJUNCVGTLWUV Because Mr. Obama’s first year CUCLWFIGYCUCDQWV has been dominated by the health care to enforce a default debate, his legislative agenda has been settlement against the TGNCVKXGN[HTGGQHURGEKſECNN[TCEKCNKU- party, Mr. Holder’s sues. Still, his medical reorganization office dropped the plan has a number of anti-white aspects The President and his Attorney General. case. “[T]he facts and that have undoubtedly encouraged op- 0GQEQPUGTXCVKXGLQWTPCNKUV,QPCJ the law did not support pursuing” it, a position. The bill is full of loopholes Goldberg pointed out the obvious: spokesman claimed. “[T]o the extent we don’t talk about Fortunately, a few Congressional race in this country the primary reason Republicans, along with the US Com- is that liberals and racial activists have mission on Civil Rights—which is an annoying habit of attacking anyone independent from the Obama admin- who doesn’t read from a liberal script as istration—are pursuing the matter (see ‘racist’ or, if they’re lucky, ‘insensitive.’ page 15) but Mr. Holder’s office is 6JWUŎEQYCTFKEGŏKUFGſPGFCUTGHWUCN ignoring subpoenas by the commission to do as you’re told when that would in and requests from Congress to turn over fact be the cowardly thing to do.” internal memos. Mr. Holder has focused the Justice Mr. Holder’s support for “hate Department even more sharply on race crimes” legislation is also racially se- ECUGUCPFUC[UDGGſPIWRVJGEKXKNTKIJVU lective. He and Mr. Obama both urged division is his number-one priority. He passage of the Matthew Shepard Hate says hiring an additional 50 civil rights Crimes Prevention Act, which adds lawyers is “really only a start” because homosexuals as a new class of victims, 2TGUKFGPV$WUJKPƀKEVGFVGTTKDNGYQWPFU but during Congressional hearings, the on the civil rights effort “and it will take attorney general explained his views on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher—“Joe the some time for them to fully heal.” hate-crimes bills in general. The new Plummer.” One way to “heal” is to use the Jus- law would cover “crimes that have a that make government-funded medicine tice Department to ensure the election historic basis,” meaning those against available to illegal aliens, and Rep. Joe of black Democrats. Kingston, North “people who are African-American, 9KNUQPŏUET[QHő;QWNKGŒYJGP/T %CTQNKPCKUVYQVJKTFUDNCEM9JGP Hispanic, people who are Jewish, people Obama denied this is widely considered the voters switched city council elec- who are gay, who have been targeted a watershed moment in opposition to tions to a non-partisan ballot without over—over the many years,” but not the bill. RCTV[CHſNKCVKQPUVJG,WUVKEG&GRCTVOGPV whites or Christians. Mr. Obama’s proposed cuts in Medi- blocked the change, claiming that party There have been other colorful ap- care also have a racial angle. Many lib- CHſNKCVKQPYCUőVJGUKPINGHCEVQTVJCV pointments. Mr. Obama’s Green Jobs erals accuse conservatives of hypocrisy allows black candidates to be elected %\CT8CP,QPGUDGECOGCUGNHRTQ- for opposing government expansion into VQQHſEGŒ HGUUGFEQOOWPKUVCHVGTLQKPKPIRTQVGUVU health care while insisting on keeping

American Renaissance - 6 - March 2010 Medicare. Yet the larger truth is that Americans are not falling for this bait on immigration until unemployment whites are less than half of the uninsured CPFUYKVEJ9JKVGUYGTGIWNNGFKPVQ falls to 6 percent, an industrial policy but over 90 percent of Medicare Plan thinking they had elected a post-racial VJCVETGCVGULQDUJGTGCPFUVQRUUJKRRKPI $TGEKRKGPVUYJQUGDGPGſVUYQWNFDG president and do not want one who them to China . . . .” taxed. ignores the concerns of whites. Unfor- The Republicans are probably too The president has not had much time tunately, few Republicans are willing to stupid and too paralyzed by racial for the “comprehensive immigration challenge Mr. Obama on racial terms. In angst to take this advice. However, reform” he promised Hispanics, but his fact, they nearly universally denounced if Mr. Obama continues to show his ſUECN[GCTDWFIGVTGSWGUVRQKPVU &GOQETCVKE5GPCVG/CLQTKV[.GCFGT hand on race there could be enough the way: He wants to slash funding for Harry Reid as a racist for noting the ob- white resentment against him to elect the Secure Border Initiative (which in- vious: that it was a campaign advantage a stupid, paralyzed Republican in 2012 cludes the “virtual fence”) and cut 180 for Mr. Obama that he was not a typical anyway. In the meantime, Mr. Obama agents from the Border Patrol. black politician, but “light skinned” and will try to play a cagey reelection game Mr. Obama’s most publicized racial comments came when he said white %CODTKFIGRQNKEGQHſEGT,COGU%TQY- ley “acted stupidly” when he arrested black Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates for disorderly conduct. This was the well-known incident in which the professor had broken into his own house and became belligerent when Sergeant Crowley investigated what appeared to be a crime. Mr. Obama’s comments polarized the nation. Seventy-eight percent of blacks approved of the way the presi- dent handled the incident, while only 23 percent of whites did. In the following week, his approval rating among whites fell from 53 percent to 47 percent. This started a long dive in ratings as whites began to realize that Mr. Obama is not post racial, but an advocate for blacks. The Beer Summit: Who’s the odd man out? Mr. Obama’s white approval rate has without a “Negro dialect.” of hiding his anti-white agenda and oc- dropped from 61 percent at the time One of the few Republicans to rec- casionally reining in subordinates who of his inauguration to the mid-30s as ognize the racial dimensions of Mr. get too frisky. Like all politicians, his this article goes to press. His approval Obama’s fall from grace is Patrick VQRRQNKE[RTKQTKV[KUVQUVC[KPQHſEG ratings among blacks remain over 95 Buchanan. In a column entitled “Has and he still needs a lot of whites votes. percent. As the prominent liberal com- /T1DCOC.QUV9JKVG#OGTKEC!ŒJG It will be only if he manages to squeak OGPVCVQT6JQOCU'FUCNNPQVGUő9JKVG attributed growing white disapproval in for a second term that we are likely middle-class voters ceased to think of to the Sotomayor nomination, the Gates VQUGGKPHWNNƀQYGTVJG$CTCEM1DCOC Mr. Obama as a protector of their inter- affair, and the racial-transfer aspects who nursed his grievances for 20 years ests.” Perhaps they have begun to notice of the health-care bill. His advice for KPVJGRGYUQH,GTGOKCJ9TKIJVŏU6TKPKV[ that, as black New York Times editorial Republicans: United Church. board member Brent Staples likes to ő#PGPFVQCHſTOCVKXGCEVKQPCPF point out, Mr. Obama uses the pronoun ethnic preferences, an end to bailouts Mr. Lodge is a political commentator “we” when he talks about blacks. QH9CNN5VTGGVDCPMGTUCOQTCVQTKWO who works on Capitol Hill. Did Jefferson Sleep With His Slave? 9KNNKCO)*[NCPFIn Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal Thomas Dunne Books, 2009, 292 pp., $26.95. Verdict: Probably not. Hemings. Nearly everyone “knows” that the allegations of an affair at Monticello VJKUJCUDGGPEQPſTOGFD[&0#GXK- would be a historical footnote. dence. Lefties even claim that Jefferson 9KNNKCO*[NCPFCRTCEVKEKPINCY[GT reviewed by Thomas Jackson raped his slave. In fact, no one “knows” and board member of the Thomas Jef- any of this; the evidence for a Hemings ferson Heritage Society, has written early every American “knows” affair is unconvincing. If it were not for an important book that summarizes that Thomas Jefferson had sev- VJGHGTQEKQWULQ[VJG.GHVVCMGUKPDGNKGX- the evidence on both sides and argues Neral children with his slave, Sally ing the worst of the Founding Fathers, convincingly that Jefferson was not

American Renaissance - 7 - March 2010 the father of Sally’s children and prob- to Jefferson’s policies circulated these slave, and closely follows the Callender ably never slept with her. His book is a stories with some effect, and Callender version, even including the mistaken welcome antidote to the mountains of may have been right to claim that he had spelling of Jefferson’s father-in-law’s nonsense that paint the third president done more harm to Jefferson’s reputa- name that Callender used in his own as a lecherous old miscegenator. VKQPKPſXGOQPVJUVJCPCNNJKUQVJGT account. Mr. Hyland notes that there is critics had done in ten years. no other record of Madison ever having The muckraker

It was a contemporary of Jefferson’s, a transplanted Scotsman named James %CNNGPFGTYJQſTUVURTGCFVJGCEEWUC- VKQPUCDQWV5CNN[%CNNGPFGTYCUCLQWT- nalist and propagandist who had written so insultingly about British politicians and even the crown that he abandoned his wife and child and escaped to the United States in 1793, one step ahead of the sedition police. He practiced the UCOGXKVWRGTCVKXGDTCPFQHLQWTPCNKUO in America, and was convicted in 1800 under the Sedition Act for attacks on President John Adams. Jefferson, who opposed the Federalist sedition laws, Was Monticello an interracial love nest? defended Callender, and pardoned him Callender never claimed to have met claimed to be descended from Jeffer- on becoming president in 1801. How- “dusky Sally” or any of her children, UQP9GVOQTGJCFCRQNKVKECNKPVGTGUV ever, when Callender sought the position nor did he ever explain how he got his in besmirching Jefferson’s reputation of postmaster general of Richmond, information. Naturally, many people and may well have sought Madison out thought he made it up. John Adams— and encouraged him to claim he had an whom Callender called a “hideous illustrious father. hermaphroditical character who has The other paternity claim was by PGKVJGTVJGHQTEGCPFſTOPGUUQHCOCP 6JQOCU9QQFUQPCUQOGYJCVO[UVGTK- nor the gentleness and sensibility of ous black who claimed to be the son that a woman”—wrote of him: “I believe resulted when Jefferson impregnated nothing Callender said . . . . I would not Sally when she was only 15 or so. This convict a dog of killing sheep upon the is a particularly improbable claim, since testimony of two such witnesses.” Abi- Jefferson kept detailed records of all gail Adams called him “a libeler whom births to his slaves, and there is no record you could not but detest and despise.” of a child named Thomas or of a birth James Madison distrusted him, writing VQ5CNN[CVCDQWVVJCVVKOG9QQFUQPŏU that “it is impossible to reason concern- claim has also been disproven by DNA ing a man, whose imagination and pas- evidence, but this has not stopped his sions have been so fermented.” In 1803, descendents from claiming to this day Callender drowned in two or three feet that Jefferson was the father. of water in the James River, reportedly VQQFTWPMVQſUJJKOUGNHQWV DNA

Oral traditions In the late 1990s, DNA testing was carried out to see if the paternity of the The only other source for the Jef- Hemings children could be proven. The 8KTIKPKC,GHHGTUQPHQWPFJKOWPſVHQT ferson paternity allegations is a sketchy study was based on the fact that the Y QHſEGCPFVWTPGFJKOFQYP set of claims made by Hemings’ descen- chromosome, carried by all men, is Callender turned on his benefactor, dents. In 1872, 37 years after Sally’s passed intact along the male line, and and in 1802 started writing about Jef- death and 46 years after Jefferson’s, one is detectably different in different fami- ferson’s sex life. He claimed Jefferson of Sally’s younger sons, Madison Hem- lies. If Jefferson had fathered Sally’s had sired a son with “dusky Sally,” a ings, gave an interview to a newspaper children, the male-line descendents of “wooly-headed concubine,” who was GFKVQTPCOGF5(9GVOQTGKPYJKEJ her sons would have the Jefferson Y part of his “Congo harem.” Callender he claimed that Jefferson was the father chromosome. wrote that Sally was a “slut common of all six of Sally’s known children. Male-line descendents of the dubi- as the pavement,” who was “romping The interview, which is presented as QWU6JQOCU9QQFUQPCPFQH5CNN[ŏU with half a dozen black fellows,” and CXGTDCVKOVTCPUETKRVKQPKUKPƀQYGT[ last child, Eston Hemings, agreed to be JCFUGTXKEGFőſHVGGPQTVJKTV[ICNNCPVUQH language that seems entirely out of tested. Interestingly, the descendents of all colours.” Federalist papers opposed keeping with the vocabulary of an ex- Madison Hemings, the son who gave the

American Renaissance - 8 - March 2010 9GVOQTGKPVGTXKGYTGHWUGFVQDGVGUVGF evoke, there are Jefferson’s views and Sally was more child than adult and The results were announced with great character. He detested miscegenation, therefore not a good choice for a maid. fanfare in the November 5, 1998 issue which he considered bad for both Jefferson’s daughters, along with Sally, of the British magazine Nature. First, as races. He also was greatly disturbed probably boarded at their school rather PQVGFCDQXG6JQOCU9QQFUQPŏUENCKO by slavery, and abhorred the sexual VJCPWPFGT,GHHGTUQPŏUTQQH9JGTGXGT was bogus: There was no Jefferson Y in power masters held over female slaves. they were living, it is unlikely that Jef- his male line. These well-publicized views add to the ferson was carrying on an affair with a +VYCUVJGQVJGTſPFKPIVJCVIQVCNN lefties’ glee: They can call Jefferson a 14-year-old slave girl under the noses of the attention: Eston Hemings carried hypocrite. However, he was probably his daughters. All the evidence suggests the Jefferson Y chromosome. On the the most self-controlled of all American that he was not a very sexual man, and strength of this, Nature titled its article presidents. His motto of conduct was, there is no real record that he ever took “Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Last Child,” ő9JGPVGORVGFVQFQCP[VJKPIKPUGETGV a lover after his wife’s death. but the editors knew this was deceptive. ask yourself if you would do it in public; The charge that Jefferson fathered They knew that all male-line Jeffersons, if you would not, be sure it is wrong.” Eston—the son who did carry the Jef- including Thomas’s brothers and their To a remarkable extent, he lived by this ferson Y chromosome—is implausible sons, carried the Jefferson Y and were standard. for different reasons. Eston was born in equally likely, from a genetic point of The most lurid tale of fornication— 1808 and would have been conceived view, to be the father. It was only deep and one Callender promoted—is that while Jefferson was in his second term. KPVQVJGCTVKENGōHCTVJGTVJCPLQWTPCN- The Callender accusations had been ists were likely to go—that Nature circulating since 1802 and had been conceded this. Subtleties like this, of repeated with some damaging effect course, mean nothing to crazed lefties, by Jefferson’s enemies. Is it likely that YJQJCXGECEMNGFYKVJLQ[GXGTUKPEGCV ,GHHGTUQPYQWNFTKUMLWUVKH[KPIVJQUG the idea that Monticello was a miscege- CEEWUCVKQPUYJKNGUVKNNKPQHſEG! nist love-nest. Furthermore, Jefferson would have In fact, there were no fewer than 26 been 64 at the time of Eston’s concep- Jefferson men of reproductive age living tion, and his letters from that period are KP8KTIKPKCCVVJGVKOGQH'UVQPŏUEQP- full of complaints about migraine head- ception, who could theoretically have aches, arthritis, and intestinal infections. been the father. As we will see, Thomas Jefferson lived another 19 years after is not the most likely candidate. that but his health was poor. Moreover, There are a few other circumstantial after retiring from the presidency in arguments that can be made in favor of 1809, Jefferson moved back permanent- the love-nest claim. One is that Sally The Hollywood version of 15-year-old Sally. ly to Monticello, where he would have was reportedly light-skinned and at- access to Sally at any time, yet Eston tractive. She came to Jefferson as part Jefferson took up with Sally while he was her last child. In the very unlikely of his wife’s property, and there were was in Paris as Minister to France, and case that Jefferson, as a sickly, often- even rumors that his wife’s father was the 1995 movie Jefferson in Paris is absent, 64-year-old Chief Executive had Sally’s father. If that were true, it would full of amorous sport. This is deliberate fathered Eston, he would presumably mean Sally was Jefferson’s wife’s half- provocation. Jefferson lost his wife Mar- have had more children with Sally after sister. tha shortly before leaving for Paris, and he retired. Mr. Hyland notes that Sally Another argument is that Jefferson was devastated by the loss. He promised survived Jefferson by nine years, but seldom freed slaves, yet he freed Madi- on her deathbed that he would never there is no record of her ever claiming son and Eston Hemings in his will. Jef- remarry, and left for Paris by himself. that the president was her lover. ferson’s policy was to free slaves whom Later he sent for his children, and some- As for Madison Hemings, whose he thought could support themselves, descendants refused DNA testing, his and the Hemings men had learned conception would have occurred in trades. One would also note that Jef- Jefferson would have April 1805. Again, Jefferson was still ferson did not free Sally, either during been 64 at the time of president and therefore unlikely to do his life or in his will. Eston’s conception, and CP[VJKPIVQLWUVKH[CEEWUCVKQPUQHOKUEG- Finally, it appears that Jefferson was his letters from that pe- genation. He was present at Monticello at Monticello at the times when Sally’s for several weeks that month during the children were conceived. However, riod are full of complaints ſPCNKNNPGUUCPFHWPGTCNQHJKUFCWIJVGT Monticello was Jefferson’s home, and about his terrible health. Mary. He was grief-stricken by her it stands to reason he was there often. death, and the house was full of guests Also, no one knows where Sally was one in his household chose Sally—only CPFOQWTPGTU9QWNF,GHHGTUQPJCXG most of the time, and there are notes that 14 at the time—to be a maid for his nine- been sporting with a slave concubine at indicate she was sometimes living away year-old daughter Mary. Along with Jef- such a time? from Monticello. ferson’s 15-year-old daughter Martha, As she grew older, Jefferson’s eldest So much for the case for paternity. the girls traveled to Paris and stopped daughter Martha became the de facto 9JCVCTGVJGQRRQUKPICTIWOGPVU! on the way in London, where they met mistress of Monticello. Her father al- First, despite the lefty derision they Abigail Adams. Mrs. Adams wrote that ways liked to have her and her seven

American Renaissance - 9 - March 2010 children close, and she would have been many careful scholars, Mr. Hyland has adding that “the old gentleman had to at Monticello when Sally’s later children a prime suspect: the president’s younger bear the blame” for their misbehavior. were conceived. She was familiar with brother, Randolph. Jefferson’s oldest grandson, Thomas everything that happened on the plan- Randolph lived only 20 miles away, Jefferson Randolph, believed that Jef- tation and always vehemently denied was often at Monticello, and was prob- ferson was so indulgent towards the the remotest possibility of any kind of ably there at the right time. impropriety between her father and any There still exists a letter from slave woman. the president inviting Ran- Jefferson himself never explicitly dolph for a visit that would denied the Sally rumors, but during his have taken place exactly nine career he faced many accusations, and months before Eston was born. adopted the policy of not dignifying At that time he would have them with replies. Late in life, however, been a 51-year-old widower, a he did write that of all the many scurri- far more likely father than the lous things said about him only one was older and ailing president. true: that when he was a young bachelor Years later, a former Jeffer- he had made improper advances to the son slave, Isaac, wrote an ac- YKHGQHCPCESWCKPVCPEG,QJP9CNMGT count of life in the slave quar- This is an implicit denial of the Sally ters. Of Randolph, he wrote, affair. “Old Master’s brother, Mass Finally, there is the account of a Randall, was a mighty simple contemporary eye-witness, Jefferson’s man: used to come out among plantation overseer, Edmund Bacon. DNCEMRGQRNGRNC[VJGſFFNG Bacon probably knew better than any- and dance half the night”— one what went on at Monticello. In circumstances that could easily an account of his years as Jefferson’s lead to dalliance. Isaac’s ac- overseer he briefly mentioned the count says nothing about Thomas taking Carr brothers that he would never have an interest in slave women, and he was suspected them of fornication. never known to spend his leisure time There are a few other arguments and with slaves. counterarguments to be made on the It is worth noting that at the time of paternity question, and Mr. Hyland sum- Eston’s conception Randolph had four marizes them well. It should be clear, sons, ages 18 to 26, who would also however, that the case against Jefferson have carried the Jefferson Y. There is is hardly air-tight, and one would think no record of their presence at Monticello that the Thomas Jefferson Memorial at that time, but given the fraternizing Foundation, which runs Monticello, habits of their father, it seems unlikely would defend the president. Not so. that they always held themselves aloof The foundation drew up a committee to from slaves either. look into the allegations and appointed Randolph remarried after Eston’s CYQOCPPCOGF&KCPPG5YCPP9TKIJV birth and had several sons, so it is clear to head it. She is black, and a specialist that he was potent. His new wife is said in slave oral traditions. Not surprisingly, to have been a domineering woman she chose to believe the slave accounts. who did not often let him go back to As one white committee member later Monticello. Perhaps she did not want EQORNCKPGF/KUU5YCPP9TKIJVCPFCV him near Sally. least one other member clearly reached Finally, the Eston family tradition their conclusions before they examined was that he was descended from a Jef- the evidence. Guides at Monticello are Martha, Jefferson’s daughter, was in a posi- ferson “uncle.” Eston would have been instructed to say that Jefferson was the tion to know. of Jefferson’s children’s generation, father, and the foundation web site says paternity allegations but denied them. all of whom referred to Randolph as all six of Sally’s known children “are He wrote that instead of Jefferson he ő7PENGŒ6JKUVTCFKVKQPſVUVJGXKGYVJCV now believed to have been Thomas saw—and here the name is rubbed out the younger brother rather than Thomas Jefferson’s.” of the original manuscript—someone was the father. Mr. Hyland notes that aside from the else leaving Sally’s quarters “many There are suspected fathers of the fashion for mocking dead white men, a morning” when Bacon “went up to other Hemings children. One of Jeffer- the foundation may have another reason Monticello very early.” His account is son’s sisters married a man who died at for kicking Jefferson’s corpse: money. FKHſEWNVVQFKUOKUU age 30, leaving two sons, Sam and Peter Promoting Monticello as a secret sex Carr. Jefferson was very fond of the nest is good for business. In the years The likely suspect Carr brothers and treated them like his before the controversy, Monticello was own children. Peter later admitted that getting about $2 million in contribu- 9JQVJGPHCVJGTGF'UVQP!.KMG both he and Sam had slept with Sally, tions every year. After the DNA test,

American Renaissance - 10 - March 2010 EQPVTKDWVKQPULWORGFVQOQTGVJCP no greater contrast to the exquisite sen- ings and Communist associations (see million a year—a sad commentary on sitivity with which they protect Martin “The Unknown Martin Luther King, how Americans approach their own Luther King, Jr. American newspapers Jr,” AR, Jan. 2009). Some day, whites history. YQWNFPQVOGPVKQPJKUTGEQTFQHƀCITCPV will be able to look at the past without Journalists and academics took reck- plagiarism until the British broke the seeing it through a haze of guilt. Mr. NGUULQ[KPYTKVKPI,GHHGTUQPQHHCUC story, and they have largely kept mum Hyland’s book is an important step in miscegenating hypocrite. There could be on King’s well-documented philander- that direction. Mixed Martial Arts Whites are among the best in the world.

by Joe Kowalski

t is already one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States and shows Ievery sign of growing around the world. Its top promoter says it will rival the National Football League within a FGECFGQTVYQōCPFHGYFKUCITGG9JKNG athletes of all races participate in this URQTVCOCLQTKV[QHVJGDGUVCTGYJKVG Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) com- bines aspects of all combat techniques into one sport. Originally designed as a “who would win?” competition between boxers, wrestlers, and other types of martial artists, its top athletes are now Depiction of pankration on an ancient Greek urn. skilled in almost every kind of combat. To win, participants combine speed, of a downed opponent are forbidden as GPFKPCFKUSWCNKſECVKQPKHCEQORGVKVQT strength, stamina, and mental tough- are certain types of elbows to a downed repeatedly violates the rules. ness. But intelligence and strategy are opponent. A referee enforces the rules Fighting techniques can generally also important, as there are hundreds and ensures safety. be divided into three types. Striking of moves and countermoves the top Matches are usually held in a four- to refers to punches, knees, and kicks ſIJVGTUOWUVOCUVGTCPFCRRN[CVCP[ eight-sided cage—this has given rise from a standing position, and strikers given moment. VQVJGVGTOőECIGſIJVKPIŒōDWVUQOG most often use boxing and kickboxing The ancient Greeks actually had organizations still use a standard boxing techniques. Grappling refers to ground something similar to MMA, the popular ring. Non-championship matches go for ſIJVKPI#NOQUVCNNUWDOKUUKQPUJCRRGP Olympic sport called pankration, which VJTGGſXGOKPWVGTQWPFUCPFEJCORKQP- QPVJGITQWPFYJGTG$TC\KNKCPLKWLKVUW means “all powers.” Competitors used UJKRDQWVUIQHQTſXGTQWPFU and wrestling moves are most common. CP[ſIJVKPIUV[NGVJG[YCPVGFVQCPF Fighters win by knocking out op- 9JGPVJGſIJVGTUCTGQPVJGKTHGGVDWV were limited by only two rules: no biting ponents or getting a “submission,” that locked up, and one is trying to take the and no eye-gouging. is, causing so much pain—usually with other down it is called a clinch. Judo and CEJQMGJQNFQTCLQKPVNQEMōVJCVVJG wrestling throws are used in clinches, What is MMA? QVJGTſIJVGTIKXGUWR*GECPUWTTGPFGT VJQWIJVJGſIJVGTVT[KPIVQUVC[QPJKU either by yelling “tap” or by tapping the feet may use close-in strikes to hurt his There are now more rules than in the mat or his opponent. The referee looks opponent and stop a takedown. days of pankration and more have been HQTVJGUGUKIPUCPFYKNNUVQRVJGſIJV 6QRſIJVGTUVGPFVQDGIQQFCVCNN added since the early days of MMA. immediately if he sees a submission. VJTGGV[RGUQHſIJVKPIDWVGXGT[EQO- 2CTVKEKRCPVUWUGHQWTQWPEGſPIGTNGUU 6JGTGCTGTCTGECUGUYJGPCſIJVGTYKNN petitor has strengths and weaknesses. gloves to protect their hands and reduce not tap and goes unconscious, if he is 5VTKMGTUVT[VQMGGRVJGſIJVUVCPFKPIWR cuts to their opponents. There are now being choked, or has an arm broken. The so they can knock out their opponents. weight classes, so fights are usually TGHGTGGQTVJGſIJVGTŏUEQTPGTVJGPUVQRU )TCRRNGTUCPFſIJVGTUYJQCTGIQQFCV between men of equal size. Low blows, VJGſIJV6JGTGHGTGGECPECNNCVGEJPKECN YTGUVNKPIQT$TC\KNKCPLKWLKVUWWUWCNN[ head butts and eye-gouging are not al- knockout if a man is still conscious but try to take their opponents to the mat, lowed and when they happen—usually DCFN[KPLWTGF(KIJVUVJCVFQPŏVGPFKP where they are more likely to get a sub- by accident—the victim gets time to VJGUGYC[UIQVQLWFIGUŏUEQTGECTFULWUV mission and avoid the blows of a striker. recover. Knees and kicks to the head as in boxing. Occasionally a match will Despite the brutal sounding nature of

American Renaissance - 11 - March 2010 MMA, there has been only one death much more from the steady pounding larity and purses are going up, many in mainstream competition. Boxing common in boxing than from the less ſIJVGTUOWUVUVKNNJQNFCTGIWNCTLQD typically has a death or two each year. frequent but decisive knock-out blows 1PN[VJGVQRſIJVGTUOCMGGPQWIJVQ MMA also does less long-term damage. VJCVQHVGPGPF//#ſIJVU support themselves. For example, at the Interestingly, the human brain suffers Although MMA is growing in popu- Ultimate Fighting Championship 106 event last November, the headliners— (QTTGUV)TKHſPCPF6KVQ1TVK\ōGCEJ What it Takes to Win earned $250,000. Yet, in one of the razilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) is an Helio Gracie in a vale tudo match. main supporting bouts, Ben Saunders QHHUJQQVQHLWFQ+VQTKIKPCVGF One of the earliest accounts of the OCFGLWUVHQTFGHGCVKPI/CT- Bin Brazil in the early 20th cen- art is in a 1905 letter from President cus Davis, who pocketed $27,000. tury with Mitsuyo Maeda, a Japanese Theodore Roosevelt to this son Ker- 6JGOGPIGVCſZGFCOQWPVRGTDQWV KOOKITCPVCPFLWFQEJCORKQPYJQ mit, written after Roosevelt watched DWVECPTGEGKXGCUKIPKſECPVDQPWUHQT opened a martial arts school in Rio an early demonstration by Maeda and scoring the best KO or submission of de Janeiro. There he taught what be- Maeda’s teacher, Yoshitsugu Ya- VJGPKIJV -GGRKPOKPFVJCVKPLWTKGUKP came BJJ to various members of the mashita. The essential characteristics matches and training are common, and Scottish immigrant we see in BJJ today HGYſIJVGTUCVVJGVQRNGXGNUſIJVOQTG Gracie family. The are clearly evident: than three times a year. Gracies then spread “Yesterday after- //#ſTUVECOGVQVJG75KPVJG BJJ throughout Bra- noon we had Pro- early 1990s. Inspired by Brazilian zil by staging vale fessor Yamashita up matches in a sport called vale tudo tudo (anything goes) here to wrestle with CP[VJKPIIQGU VJGſTUVRC[RGTXKGY matches against prac- [US middleweight 228 EQORGVKVKQPYCUJGNFKP titioners of other mar- champion wrestler] and was a novelty event to determine tial arts. Grant. It was very VJGDGUVOCTVKCNCTV6JG228PWODGTU In what became interesting, but of were so good that the promoters decided known as “The Gracie EQWTUGLKWLKVUWCPF to do more events, and that is how MMA Challenge,” Carlos our wrestling are so was launched in the United States. At Gracie would place far apart that it is roughly the same time, MMA became provocative ads in FKHſEWNVVQOCMGCP[ popular in Japan, where it remains a top newspapers: “If you comparison between attraction, with some shows drawing as want to get your face beaten and well VJGO9TGUVNKPIKUUKORN[CURQTV many as 70,000 spectators. smashed, your ass kicked, and your with rules almost as conventional The answer to what was the most arms broken, Contact Carlos Gracie CUVJQUGQHVGPPKUYJKNGLKWLKVUWKU effective martial art was answered at this address . . . .” The Gracies and really meant for practice in killing conclusively when a lanky, 175-pound their growing number of students or disabling your adversary. In con- would almost always win these chal- sequence, Grant did not know what lenges, and their success spurred the to do except to put Yamashita on his growth of BJJ. back, and Yamashita was perfectly $,,KURTKOCTKN[CITQWPFſIJVKPI content to be on his back. Inside of a system designed to help smaller minute Yamashita had choked Grant, fighters overcome larger, stronger and inside of two minutes more he opponents. A common technique is got an elbow hold on him that would to take an opponent to the mat and have enabled him to break his arm; so then apply a submission technique, that there is no question but that he UWEJCUCEJQMGJQNFQTLQKPVNQEM could have put Grant out. So far this In a sports competition this leads to OCFGKVGXKFGPVVJCVVJGLKWLKVUWOCP CUWDOKUUKQPXKEVQT[KPCTGCNſIJV could handle the ordinary wrestler. the opponent is disabled or choked But Grant, in the actual wrestling and unconscious. Unlike wrestlers, BJJ throwing was about as good as the practitioners don’t mind being on Japanese, and he was so much stron- their backs, since there are still many ger that he evidently hurt and wore YC[UVQEQPVTQNCſIJVHTQOVJGDQV- QWVVJG,CRCPGUG9KVJCNKVVNGRTCEVKEG tom or “guard position.” in the art I am sure that one of our big Also unlike some other martial wrestlers or boxers, simply because of arts, BJJ does not hesitate to adopt his greatly superior strength, would effective moves from other disci- be able to kill any of those Japanese, Brock Lesnar, heavyweight champ. plines. For example, the kimura is a who though very good men for their Brazilian named Royce Gracie (see painful shoulder lock and popular BJJ inches and pounds are altogether too sidebar) tore through his much larger UWDOKUUKQPOQXGPCOGFCHVGTCLWFQ small to hold their own against big, opponents (including one who weighed master, Masahiko Kimura. Kimura powerful, quick men who are as well NDU VQYKPVJTGGQHVJGſTUVHQWT was one of the few men to defeat trained.” championships. Mr. Gracie practiced

American Renaissance - 12 - March 2010 $TC\KNKCPLKWLKVUWYJKEJYCUCNOQUV terweight (170 lbs) and lightweight (155 light heavyweight champion, he is unheard of in the US at the time. NDU 9JKVGUCTGEJCORKQPUCVJGCX[- almost 47 years old and still competes American and other fighters soon weight (Brock Lesnar) and welterweight YKVJVJGDGUVſIJVGTU*GOC[YGNNGCTP started studying the art and were able (Georges St. Pierre). Two white-Asian QPGOQTGVKVNGUJQVDGHQTGJGKUſPKUJGF to close the gap with the Brazilians. hybrids reign at light heavyweight Over the next several years, many white (Lyoto Machida) and lightweight (B.J. fighters became legendary in MMA Penn). A black Brazilian, Anderson circles, including Ken Shamrock, Dan Silva, is the top guy at middleweight. Severn, Don Frye and Guy Mezger. 6JGTGCTGCHGYGNKVGſIJVGTUQWVUKFG In the mid1990s, a new generation of QHVJG7(%9'%CZKUCPFD[HCTVJG MMA athletes appeared. Unlike the most important is Fedor Emelianenko. ſTUVIGPGTCVKQPOGPNKMG%JWEM.KF- A heavyweight from Russia, many EQPUKFGTJKOVJGFQOKPCPVſIJVGT Brown power. in MMA. Formerly the champion of the now-defunct Pride and Af- Should he win another championship ƀKEVKQPRTQOQVKQPUJGTGEGPVN[ as a middle-aged man in this grueling signed with Strikeforce and will sport, he will surely go down as one fight for—and no doubt win— of the most amazing athletes who ever their heavyweight title later this lived. year. The UFC has tried desper- 6JGTGCTGHGOCNG//#ſIJVGTUDWV ately to sign up Mr. Emelianenko they are not nearly as popular or nu- but has not been able to lure him merous as men. Since there are fewer away from his Russian promoter, competitors, it is harder for women to 8CFKO(KPMGNUVGKPVQYJQOJGKU ſPFIQQFQRRQPGPVUQTVTCKPKPIRCTVPGTU very loyal. In 2009, the two best women squared Some might argue that since off. Brazil’s Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos VJGVQRſIJVGTUCTGKPVJG7(% easily defeated American Gina Carano UQOGQPGYJQFQGUPŏVſIJVVJGKT in a match that attracted almost a million men can hardly have been tested viewers on Showtime. Unfortunately, against the best. However, Mr. VJGVCNGPVNGXGNFTQRUUKIPKſECPVN[CHVGT Georges St. Pierre pounds his opponent. Emelianenko recently dispatched two these two—both are white. dell, Mark Coleman, Randy Couture, former UFC champions—Tim Sylvia and Matt Hughes were often skilled at CPF#PFTG#TNQXUMKōDQVJKPVJGſTUV Race both striking and grappling. In a culture TQWPF/QTGQXGTYJGPJGYCUſIJVKPI VJCVINQTKſGUDNCEMCVJNGVGUOCP[[QWPI for the now defunct Pride organization Overt displays of racial identity whites were pleased to cheer on athletes in Japan, he defeated elite heavyweights, are rare in MMA but they do happen. who looked like them, and the sport got such as Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic, Hispanic heavyweight contender Cain an exaggerated reputation as a magnet Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, and Mark for skinheads. Coleman—all currently in the UFC. There is no doubting his ability. UFC Still, the welter of different sanction- ing organizations and weight classes Many fans refer to MMA as UFC means that there is endless debate about (Ultimate Fighting Championship). who are the top fighters. The most However, UFC is to MMA what Coca common discussions are about who is Cola is to soda or Kleenex is to tissues: best, pound-for-pound, and Yahoo and It is the best known of several promoters Sherdog.com publish the two most re- QTDTCPFUVJCVRWVQP//#ſIJVU9JKNG spected polls of experts. Three athletes there are other organizations, such as stand out: two white (Emelianenko Strikeforce, DREAM, Sengoku, and and St. Pierre) and one black (Silva). others, the UFC is by far the most popu- Sherdog lists five whites among the lar and most prestigious. Indeed, with a VQRſIJVGTUCPF;CJQQTCVGUGNGXGP few exceptions, the other organizations whites among the top 20. Brian Bowles, might be considered minor leagues for Mike Brown and Brock Lesnar are yet VJG7(%6JG7(%CNUQQYPU9QTNF more whites in the top ranks, and other 'ZVTGOG%CIGſIJVKPI 9'% YJKEJ highly rated whites include Jon Fitch, sponsors matches for fighters 155 &CP*GPFGTUQP7TKLCJ(CDGT-GPP[ pounds and below. Florian, Nate Marquardt, Frank Mir, So who are the champions? The UFC Jake Shields and Gegard Mousasi. Men Randy Couture. JCUſXGYGKIJVENCUUGUJGCX[YGKIJV at the top are champion athletes. 8GNCUSWG\URQTVUCő$TQYP2TKFGŒVCVVQQ (not over 265 lbs) light heavyweight One notable competitor is Randy prominently across his chest. Of course, (205 lbs), middleweight (185 lbs) wel- Couture. A former heavyweight and CſIJVGTYKVJCő9JKVG2TKFGŒVCVVQQ

American Renaissance - 13 - March 2010 would be banned. sites, such as Sherdog.com and MMA other races are beginning to follow the Lithuanian welterweight Marius Junkie. Many whites note the double sport. The UFC, in particular, wants to Zaromskis campaigned in Japan under standard represented by the “Brown attract the growing Hispanic market. the nickname “The Whitemare.” After Pride” tattoo, though others argue that #UHQTſIJVKPIUV[NGUVJGTGFQUGGO he won the DREAM championship in TCEKCNRTKFGKUſPGHQTPQPYJKVGUDWV to be race-based differences. The best 2009 he was signed by the US-based whites often started out as wrestlers, and Strikeforce and, surprisingly, was al- YKPſIJVUD[EQPVTQNNKPIVJGKTQRRQPGPVU lowed to keep his nickname. Black UFC on the ground. Brock Lesnar, Randy ſIJVGT3WGPVQPő4CORCIGŒ,CEMUQP Couture, and Georges St. Pierre tend often makes racial comments but says VQYKPſIJVUVJKUYC[6JGDGUVDNCEMU VJGOKPCLQMKPIOCPPGTUQHGYRGQRNG such as Rampage Jackson, Jon Jones take him seriously. and Anderson Silva tend to be powerful In December, the UFC banned its strikers who often win by knockout. athletes from wearing shirts from the 6JGVQR#UKCPUſIJVOQUVN[KP,CRCP Hoelzer Reich clothing company be- and are not as well known in the US. Not cause they use the Iron Cross and some surprisingly, they are respected for great apparently SS-themed symbols on their technique and strategy. Shinya Aoki is 6UJKTVU#HGYYJKVGſIJVGTUJCFYQTP RGTJCRUVJGDGUV#UKCP//#ſIJVGTCPF Hoelzer Reich clothes into the ring, has lethal submission holds. though it is not clear they were promot- 9J[KUYJKVGUWEEGUUKP//# ing white identity. important? The sports media are even In 2008, the Southern Poverty Law more politically correct than the news Center (SPLC) produced an article Anderson Silva. media, and never tire of glorifying titled “Racists Active in Mixed Martial YQWNFDGJCVTGFHQTYJKVGU9JGPVJGUG DNCEMCVJNGVGU9JKVG//#HKIJVGTU Arts” that lived up to the center’s usual discussions get too heated the posters such as Fedor Emelianenko, Georges St. standards for truth and accuracy. The are banned. Pierre, Randy Couture, and others give SPLC could name only one active MMA Perhaps a better indicator of the im- young white athletes sound role models ſIJVGTō/GNXKP%QUVCQHVJGTGNCVKXGN[ portance of race in MMA is the reaction who look like them. Most white mixed minor King of the Cage promotion— of crowds at sports bars. I have watched martial artists, especially the ones listed who is an open white nationalist. The many UFC matches in these establish- above, are also gentleman inside and pressure group seemed particularly ments, and have been pleased to see the outside the ring. They show that whites upset about a swastika tattoo Mr. Costa overwhelmingly white patrons cheering can succeed—and often dominate—in wears. Strangely enough, the SPLC had HQTYJKVGſIJVGTU1HVGPVJGfew blacks what is perhaps the most demanding PQVJKPIVQUC[CDQWV/T8GNCUSWG\ŏU OCMGPQUGETGVQHEJGGTKPIHQTVJGKTſIJV- sport in the world. “Brown Pride” tattoo. ers. Crowds at UFC events tend to be Joe Kowalski writes for Caste Foot- Race comes up at online MMA web- young, male and still mostly white, but ball, www.castefootball.us. O Tempora, O Mores!

‘Proud Racist’ is so out of touch with people in this Bob Kellar, a Republican, has state,” said Eric Bauman, chairman of been on the Santa Clarita, California the Los Angeles County Democratic city council for the past ten years. On Party. “Santa Clarita, even though it’s January 16, Mr. Kellar spoke at a rally a conservative community, is diverse. against illegal immigration and quoted I think I’m surprised that Republi- Theodore Roosevelt’s remarks that the cans have not stood up and spoken.” United States has room for only one Another Democrat, community or- ƀCICPFQPGNCPIWCIG*GTGEQWPVGF ganizer Carole Lutness, says, “[Bob what happened when he used that Keller’s] attitude is whites-only, and quote at a city council meeting: “The the rest need not apply.” She puts only thing I heard back from a couple CPVKKNNGICNKOOKITCVKQPTCNNKGUőLWUV of people was ‘Bob, you sound like a above the Aryan Nation.” Protestors racist.’ I said, ‘That’s good. If that’s have started picketing Santa Clarita what you think I am because I happen city council meetings, demanding a to believe in America, then I’m a proud vote of censure. racist. You’re darn right I am.’ “ Mr. Kellar, an Army veteran who The usual suspects reacted in the spent 25 years with the LAPD, isn’t usual way. “I think it’s a metaphor backing down: “I’m a conservative,” for California’s Republican Party that he says. “I have a big problem with

American Renaissance - 14 - March 2010 KNNGICNU9JGPCTGYGIQKPIVQUVQRCNN TCFKQRQFECUVKP,CPWCT[ő9GIGCTKPI The Senate will have no black mem- this foolishness? I stand by everything up for a showdown with this cracker. bers unless Harold Ford, Jr., succeeds in I said.” He keep talking—we going to Capitol a long-shot bid to replace Sen. Kirsten Santa Clarita is 70 percent white, *KNNYGŏTGLWUVIGCTKPIWRTKIJVPQY Gillibrand of New York. Since the end and most of Mr. Kellar’s constituents we’ll go to Capitol Hill.” Mr. Shabazz of Reconstruction, only four blacks have are with him. “Illegals are here at the is also critical of GOP chairman Michael served in the Senate: Miss Moseley expense of our community,” says lo- Steele, who is black, describing him as Braun, Mr. Obama, and Mr. Burris. cal businessman Larry Rasmussen. “I an “Uncle Tom” and “the black Negro 6JGHQWTVJ'FYCTF9KNNKCO$TQQMGQH agree with Bob. Our nation is a nation who heads the Republican National Massachusetts, served one term in the of laws.” Committee.” 1970s. [Andrew Greiner, Illinois Loses 1PGQHVJGRGQRNGLQKPKPI/T-GNNCT The Republican congressmen, as African-American Senate Seat, NBC- at the rally was Jamiel Shaw, a black well as the US Commission on Civil Chicago.com, Feb. 2, 2010.] man whose 17-year-old son was killed Rights, want to know whether two years ago. “My son was murdered politics played in a role in the dis- by an illegal alien that was released from missal of the charges, which came .#%QWPV[LCKNQPC5CVWTFC[PKIJVCPF LWUVCUCLWFIGYCUCDQWVVQKUUWGC on Sunday night, he had murdered my FGHCWNVLWFIOGPVCICKPUVVJG0GY son,” he told the crowd. “No one called Black Panther Party. Mr. Shabazz ICE. No one cared. If this makes me a denies any special treatment from racist, then hey, I’m going to be the best the Obama administration. “People one I can. It’s not racist to be pissed off, know that’s crazy as hell; they don’t and I’m a pissed-off dad. I miss my son.” owe us no favors. If the Obama [Susan Abram, Santa Clarita Council- people thought we were their politi- man Calls Himself ‘Proud Racist,’ Daily cal allies, they would run in the other News (Los Angeles), Jan. 24, 2010. Ann direction because we don’t give M. Simmons, ‘Proud Racist’ Comment them no political help.” #EEQTFKPIVQCPQNFLQMGQPVJGGXG Roils Santa Clarita, Los Angeles Times, Of the incident in Philadelphia, Mr. of Earth’s destruction, the Washington Jan. 28, 2010.] Shabazz says that the Panther poll Post’sJGCFNKPGYKNNTGCFő9QTNFVQ'PF YCVEJGTUőLWUVJCRRGPGFVQDGCNKVVNG Tomorrow; Minorities to be Hardest Panthers vs. ‘Crackers’ too black or too strong” and “made a Hit.” Now that Illinois voters will re- mistake” by carrying billy clubs. [Ryan place Barack Obama with a white man, The New Black Panther Party, ac- J. Reilly, ‘Red-Neck Republicans’ Out a similar headline could read, “Nation cused of voter intimidation in Philadel- To Get Them, New Black Panther Says, Elects Black President; Setback for Sen- phia during the 2008 election, has said MainJustice.com, Jan. 13, 2010.] ate Diversity.” little about the dismissal of the charges last May by President Obama’s Justice Black to White Department. Now that two Republican Meal Not Fit For a King EQPITGUUOCPō(TCPM9QNHQH8KTIKPKC Liberals are upset that the next US A recent controversy in Denver and Lamar Smith of Texas—are call- senator from Illinois, who will fill demonstrates the challenges faced by ing for a Congressional investigation what’s left of Barack Obama’s term, will purveyors of diversity. In January, Den- of the dismissal, New Black Panther be white. On February 2, Illinois voters ver Public Schools honored the legacy Party president Malik Zulu Shabazz chose Congressman Mark Kirk to be the of Martin Luther King with a special is silent no more. “These right-wing, Republican candidate, while Democrats meal: “Southern-style” (fried) chicken chose state treasurer Alexi Gian- and collard greens. Jennifer Holladay, noulias. Both are white. After a white woman married to a black, was Barack Obama became president, COQPIVJGſTUVVQEQORNCKP5JGKUCHQT- Illinois blacks were confident mer director of Teaching Tolerance—a they could keep the seat in black RTQRCICPFCRTQLGEVQHVJG5QWVJGTP hands, where it has been for 11 of Poverty Law Center, and the mother of a the past 17 years (Carol Moseley kindergartener. “Denver Public Schools Braun held the seat between 1993 are great because they are so diverse,” and 1999. Mr. Obama occupied it she says “but this sort of thing under- from 2004 to 2008, and Roland mines the positive things that kids can Burris has served since last year). get in school. These caricatures can slip Their efforts were derailed by in without any malicious intent.” disgraced former governor Rod Lecia Brooks, a director at the Civil Party President Shabazz. $NCIQLGXKEJŏUUEJGOGVQUGNNVJGUGCVVQ Rights Memorial Center in Montgom- white, red-faced, red-neck Republicans the highest bidder. Front runner Jesse ery, Alabama, says, “For me, it’s heart- are attacking the hell out of the New Jackson, Jr. was ensnared in the scandal, breaking for Dr. King and all he did and Black Panther Party, and we’re orga- which also tainted Mr. Burris, whom what he is about is now reduced to the ‘I PK\KPIPQYVQſIJVDCEMŒJGVQNFCP /T$NQIQLGXKEJCRRQKPVGFVQJQNFVJG Have a Dream’ speech and now chicken. interviewer named “Brother Gary” in a seat until the election. It’s very upsetting. If that is the message

American Renaissance - 15 - March 2010 young people are receiving, then why In 2012, the US is scheduled to hold event.” have a holiday?” VJG9QTNF#+&5%QPHGTGPEGCPFOCP[ /T.CPFTKGWVJGſTUVYJKVGOC[QT The Denver public schools apolo- activists were demanding that it be held in more than 30 years, acknowledged gized, calling the meal “well-intentioned elsewhere because of the ban. [US Lifts the importance of race. “People that say but highly insensitive in light of certain *+8#+&5+OOKITCVKQP$CP$$% that race isn’t an issue are either blind or hurtful cultural stereotypes still harbored News, Jan. 4, 2010. Marcus Franklin, deaf,” he said. “But you can’t go around in parts of our society.” [Jeremy P. *+8RQUKVKXG(QTGKIPGTU'PVGT75#HVGT it. You can’t go over it. You have to go Meyer, DPS Menu for MLK Birthday Ban Lifted, AP, Jan. 7, 2010.] through it and deal with it.” [Campbell Hard for Some to Digest, Denver Post, Robertson, Race Assumes Central Role Jan. 13, 2010.] Vanilla City? KP0GY1TNGCPU8QVG0GY;QTM6KOGU Jan. 12, 2010. Chris Herring, Landrieu Lifting the AIDS Ban During his reelection campaign in 'NGEVGF/C[QTQH0GY1TNGCPU9CNN 2006, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin Street Journal, Feb. 7, 2010.] In 1987, the Department of Health rallied the black vote by proclaiming CPF*WOCP5GTXKEGUCFFGF*+8CPF New Orleans a “chocolate city” and A Darker Future AIDS to the list of communicable dis- promising to keep it that way. Since GCUGUVJCVFKUSWCNKſGFCRGTUQPHTQOGP- then, even blacks have grown tired of his A recent analysis of Census Bureau tering the United States. The department antics, and many were looking forward FCVCHTQOVQUJQYULWUVJQY tried to lift the ban in 1991, but Congress to 2010, when term limits would force far the displacement of whites has gone. kept it. In 1993, other diseases came him out. 9JKVGEJKNFTGPōVJQUGWPFGT[GCTU off the list and AIDS became the only Elections in Louisiana are non- of age—are now a minority in seven medical bar to admission. Applicants for partisan, meaning all candidates run in states, including two of the nation’s permanent residency had to test negative CRTKOCT[TGICTFNGUUQHRQNKVKECNCHſNKC- most populous: California, Texas, Ha- for the disease. tion. If no candidate wins more than 50 waii, Maryland, Arizona, Nevada, and percent of the vote, the top two New Mexico. And white children are face each other in a runoff. The on the verge of becoming minorities in New Orleans primary took place ſXGOQTG(NQTKFC)GQTIKC/KUUKUUKRRK on February 6, with a victory for New Jersey and New York. a white man, Mitch Landrieu, America is also aging. Even with the current Louisiana lieutenant immigration and the higher birthrates governor, who is the brother of immigrants, especially Hispanics, no of US senator Mary Landrieu, state had a higher percentage of children and a son of New Orleans’s last in 2009 than it did in 2000. Experts say white mayor, Moon Landrieu. the changing demographics may lead to Mr. Landrieu won in a landslide, political strife between an older, whiter with 65 percent of the vote, de- electorate and a younger population spite running against 10 other that is more Hispanic, black, and Asian. candidates. Troy Henry, the These different segments will have very great black hope, was a distant different political and social priorities. UGEQPFYKVJLWUVRGTEGPVQH [Sam Roberts, Half of States See Dip in AIDS patient in India . . . at least for now. the vote. Under-18 Population, New York Times, State senator Edwin Murray would Jan. 2, 2010.] President Barack Obama has long op- have been a more promising black can- %CNKHQTPKCŏU5CP(GTPCPFQ8CNNG[ō posed the ban, describing it as “rooted in didate, but he unexpectedly pulled out of part of Los Angeles that once tried to fear rather than fact.” As he explained, the race in January, reportedly because secede from the rest of the city—used ő9GNGCFVJGYQTNFYJGPKVEQOGUVQ polls showed he would lose badly to Mr. to be the ultimate middle-class, all- helping stem the AIDS pandemic—yet Landrieu. The New Orleans Tribune, a #OGTKECPUWDWTDVTCPSWKNCHƀWGPVCPF we are one of only a dozen countries black news magazine, called Mr. Mur- YJKVG+VKUUVKNNCHƀWGPVDWVPQNQPIGT VJCVUVKNNDCTRGQRNGYKVJ*+8HTQOGP- ray’s withdrawal “a betrayal of the black YJKVG$[VJG8CNNG[YCU tering our own country.” He removed community.” percent Hispanic, 41.8 percent white, VJGDCPCPF*+8KPHGEVGFHQTGKIPGTU For New Orleans blacks, the mayor’s 10 percent Asian, and 3.6 percent black. started coming in January. Among the QHſEGKUőVJGHTCPEJKUGŒYJKEJFGNKXGTU In comparison, Los Angeles as a whole ſTUVYCU%NGOGPU4WNCPFQHVJG political appointments and city con- is 49.1 percent Hispanic, 28.9 percent Netherlands, who arrived in New York tracts. “The mayor has always been the white, 10.2 percent Asian and 9.5 per- HQTCYGGMNQPIXCECVKQPő(QTVJGſTUV citadel of strength for the black com- cent black. Forty point six percent of time, in a legal way, without lying about munity in this town,” says Bernard L. VJG8CNNG[ŏURQRWNCVKQPKUHQTGKIPDQTP O[*+8UVCVWU+ŏOXGT[RTQWFVQDGJGTG Charbonnet Jr., a lawyer who is active and only 40.4 percent of the households CUO[UGNHŒJGUCKFő2GQRNGYKVJ*+8 in black political circles. “It has always are exclusively English speaking. [Zach are not a threat to anybody, so there is been the prize.” Mr. Charbonnet says $GJTGPU%GPUWU4GRQTV5JQYU8CNNG[ no reason to exclude them.” it is unfortunate that Hurricane Katrina Residents are More Educated, but Spend The ban went into effect 22 years weakened black political power and sees /QTG6KOGKP6TCHſE.#KUVEQO,CP ago, so why the urgency to lift it now? the racial switch as “an earth-shaking 5, 2010.]

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