American Renaissance There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world. — Thomas Jefferson Vol. 16 No. 10 October 2005 Africa in Our Midst

The media suppress Katri- day, Aug. 29. The levees broke on Tues- heads dispelled that view. day and the city began to flood. Before The day after the hurricane, a reporter na’s lessons. long, 80 percent of New Orleans was caught the atmosphere of high-spirited under as much as 20 feet of water. chaos at a Wal-Mart in the Lower Gar- by Jared Taylor The city’s 70,000-seat football sta- den District. People were grabbing dium, known as the Superdome, had things as quickly as they could, smash- n the aftermath of Hurricane ing open jewelry cabinets and Katrina, which blasted the scooping up double-handfuls. One IGulf Coast on Aug. 29, the man packed his van so full of elec- entire world saw images that left tronic equipment he could not no doubt that what is repeatedly close the rear doors. A teenage girl called the sole remaining super- passed out, face down, and people power can be reduced to squalor stepped on her. A man stopped to and chaos nearly as gruesome as roll her onto her back, and she anything found in the Third vomited pink liquid. “This is World. The weather—a Category f***ed up,” he said, and rolled her 4 hurricane—certainly had some- back on her stomach. An NBC cor- thing to do with it, but the most respondent filmed black, uni- serious damage was done not by formed police officers strolling nature but by man. through the aisles, filling shopping Much has been and will be carts. written about why the levees that At one store, a policeman broke are supposed to keep the water out of American-style hurricane relief. the glass on the DVD case so civilians below-sea-level New Orleans failed. been officially designated as a public would not cut themselves trying to break There will be bitter recrimination about shelter before the hurricane, and several it, but one man was ungrateful. “The whether the federal rescue effort could thousand people were already there the police got all the best stuff,” he said. have been launched sooner. Commis- night before the storm. It had some food “They’re crookeder than us.” One sions will ask questions and lessons will and medical supplies, but when the wa- woman stocking up on makeup was glad be learned. But there was another hu- ters began to rise, people poured in from to see the officers. “It must be legal,” man failing that was far more ominous. all directions, swelling its numbers to an she said. “The police are here taking No commission will study it, and offi- estimated 25,000. stuff, too.” cial America will refuse to learn from it. People came because their houses Violence of all kinds quickly spread In the orgy of finger-pointing it will be were under water, but also because New through the paralyzed city, where rob- all but forgotten. That human failing— bery, rape and even murder became rou- vastly more significant than the ones the The vastly more signifi- tine. There were still thousands of people commissions will investigate—is the trapped on rooftops and in attics, but on barbaric behavior of the people of New cant human failing Sept. 1, Mayor Ray Nagin called the Orleans. was the barbaric entire police force off of rescue work and New Orleans is 67 percent black, and behavior of the people ordered it to secure the city. The re- about half the blacks are poor. Of the sponse from the force? An estimated 200 city’s 480,000 people, all but an esti- of New Orleans. officers just walked off the job. “They mated 80 to 100 thousand left before the indicated that they had lost everything hurricane struck. This meant that aside Orleans very quickly collapsed into ban- and didn’t feel that it was worth them from patients in hospitals and eccentrics ditry. Looting began even while the going back to take fire from looters and in the French Quarter, most of the people storm was still blowing. At first there was losing their lives,” explained Henry who stayed behind were not just blacks, sympathetic clucking about the need for Whitehorn, chief of the Louisiana State but lower-class blacks without the means food and medicine, but news clips of Police. Many disappeared without a or foresight to leave. blacks wading happily through waist- word. Sheriff Harry Lee of Jefferson Katrina hit on the morning of Mon- deep water with television sets over their Continued on page 3

American Renaissance - 1 - October 2005 experimental means of identifying pow- erful, unconscious forms of prejudice, termed ‘implicit bias,’ that are all but universal and may shape behavior in subtle ways. What are the implications of measuring the prevalence of discrimi- nation for anti-discrimination law, and for strategies to overcome bias?” “Implicit bias” certainly is universal, and is nothing to be ashamed of. It is an integral part of our human makeup and guides our reproductive choices so as to preserve our biological distinctiveness. Even to consider passing laws to sup- press universal biological imperatives is a totalitarian outrage. My thoughts on “bias” can be would be considered completely alien to summed up in the following quote: Letters from Readers any European ethnic groups. Was her “There is nothing unbiased in the world. Sir — Wade Mackey’s article in the phenotype just an unusual, isolated ex- . . . Everything has a bias whether ac- July issue, “Race and the Fertility Para- ample? Photographs of Mehmet Ali knowledged or concealed.” dox,” like others I have read in AR, im- Agca, the Turk who tried to kill Jean Paul Bill Pepperell, San Francisco Friends plies that European populations are fated II, show a phenotype that is as non-Eu- of American Renaissance, Alamo, Ca- to decline indefinitely because of low ropean as that of Ms. Surucu. For an even lif. birth rates. This is not the case. The larger sample, look at the composition present low reproduction rate reflects the of the Turkish parliament, which can be introduction of reliable birth control. In found online. While some could pass as Sir — As webmaster of OurWayOf the evolutionary time scale, this devel- European, many others could not. Life.org, I disagree with Prof. Farron’s opment is very sudden, and will take Keep in mind as well that, just as dim assessment of its prospects, which several generations to correct. Mexican immigrants to the US are more appeared as a letter in your September If the average fertility rate for Euro- likely to be dark mestizos rather than the issue. In the few months of its existence, pean women continues at 1.55 children, white elite, so too Turkish migrants to OWOL has attracted over 70,000 page Europeans are doomed to oblivion, but Europe are likely to be from the Asiatic views and has over 170 members and this is an average rate, and is greatly in- masses rather than the whiter, more Eu- more than 250 postings. fluenced by the women who have no ropeanized elites. The Turkish gene pool We are pursuing two goals: first, to children at all. Whether this decision is is very heterogeneous, and there is ev- “lead by example” in showing those who affected by genes or social pressures, ery reason to think the Middle Eastern- espouse “neoconservatism” either out of these women will have no descendants Asian elements would be the ones emi- ignorance or out of a sense that it is the to carry on this custom. On the other grating to Europe. only option besides liberalism, that there hand, women who have several children Carl Lundgren is something better; and second, to cre- will pass that inclination on to their chil- ate an online community where racialist dren. Therefore the trend to lower fer- and non-racialist conservatives can dis- tility will bottom out and reverse. It will, Sir — It may well be that truth and cuss social and cultural issues and tear in fact, rise past the replacement level rationality will prevail in our struggle, down the barriers of taboo and ostracism of 2.1 until overcrowding eventually but we had better fight hard for it. Let that keep racialist positions out of the drives it back down to that level, the me draw your attention to an article in “mainstream.” natural stability point. the May/June 2005 issue of California Given these barriers, it is unremark- The choice is this: Should the van- Monthly, a magazine for UC Berkeley able that the Cato Institute would seek ishing Europeans be replaced by other alumni. The article, by Christopher to distance itself from Prof. Farron’s Europeans of higher fertility, but of the Edley, Jr., the black dean of the Berke- book. Nonetheless, a growing number same genetic stock and culture, or by ley law school, is called “Toward a Di- of whites have been, or soon will be, non-whites with different cultures? versity Research Agenda.” Dean Edley “mugged by reality” on the way to Charles Hayes, Tyler, Texas lays out 10 steps to guide Berkeley’s multicultural Never-never-land. When research for “diversity-related” initia- they wake up, they will need an ideo- tives, which would lead to “private prac- logical home. OWOL is working to build Sir — The picture of Hatun Surucu, tice and public policy.” that place—and to prevent the neocons the young Turkish woman murdered in Most of Dean Edley’s recommenda- from “kidnapping” the unwary before the “honor killing” mentioned in the tions are the usual laundry list of failed they get there. August issue of AR, throws light on the policy prescriptions, but his tenth is more Our site is off to a good start, with recent controversy in these pages about original: bright prospects for further growth. race in Turkey. Ms. Surucu’s phenotype “10. Understanding Bias. Jonathan E. Ardleigh, Webmaster, was very Asiatic/Middle Eastern, and “Cognitive scientists have devised OurWayOfLife.org

American Renaissance - 2 - October 2005 ing to leave a skeleton force—about 20 American Renaissance percent of the department—for leader- Jared Taylor, Editor ship and liaison with the troops while Stephen Webster, Assistant Editor we get some rest.”) Ian Jobling, Web Page Editor New Orleans has a high crime rate at George McDaniel, Web Page Consultant the best of times—it is usually in top contention for the American city with the American Renaissance is published monthly by the highest murder rate—and looted fire- New Century Foundation. NCF is governed by section arms spilled into the street. Some blacks 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code; contributions fired on any symbol of authority, blaz- to it are tax deductible. ing away at rescue helicopters and Coast Subscriptions to American Renaissance are $24.00 per year. First-class postage is Guard vessels. Several days after the an additional $8.00. Subscriptions to Canada (first class) are $36.00. Subscriptions outside Canada and the U.S. (air mail) are $40.00. Back issues are $3.00 each. Foreign hurricane, with desperate people still subscribers should send U.S. dollars or equivalent in convertible bank notes. huddled on rooftops, FEMA said it was Please make checks payable to: American Renaissance, P.O. Box 527, Oakton, VA too dangerous to attempt rescues. 22124. ISSN No. 1086-9905, Telephone: (703) 716-0900, Facsimile: (703) 716-0932, On Wednesday, along one stretch of Web Page Address: www.AmRen.com Highway 10, hundreds of volunteer firefighters, auxiliary coastguardmsmen Continued from page 1 suburban whites from applying for jobs, and citizens with small boats were ea- Parish in New Orleans also said his men and lowered recruitment standards so ger to reach people, but could not set were deserting. “They want to be with blacks could pass them. Katrina blew out because of sniper fire. “We are try- their families,” he said. “Well, I want to away any pretence that the force was ing to do our job here but we can’t if be with my family too, but you don’t quit competent (see next story). they are shooting at us,” explained Ma- in the middle of a crisis.” (On September 5, exactly a week af- jor Joey Broussard of the Louisiana State Two police officers, including the ter the hurricane, Mayor Ray Nagin of- Fisheries and Wildlife Division. “We department’s official spokesman Paul fered to pay for the entire police force, don’t know who and we don’t know why, Accardo, committed suicide by shoot- firefighters, and city emergency work- but we don’t want to get in a situation of ing themselves in the head. The London ers to go on five-day vacations—with having to return fire out there,” he said. Times estimated that one in five officers refused to work, and some of those who stayed on the job were useless. When Debbie Durso, a tourist from Washing- ton, Michigan, asked a policeman for help he told her, “Go to hell—it’s every man for himself.” Ged Scott, 36, of Liverpool, told BBC News what happened when a group of stranded British women shouted to po- lice for help from the rooftop of a flooded hotel: “They [the officers] said to them, ‘Well, show us what you’ve got’—doing signs for them to lift their T-shirts up. The girls said no, and they said ‘well fine,’ and motored off down the road in their motorboat. That’s the sort of help we had from the authorities.” “No one anticipated the disintegra- tion or the erosion of the civilian police force in New Orleans,” explained Lieu- tenant General Steven Blum of the Na- tional Guard. He said the city was oper- ating on only one third of its pre-storm their families—to Las Vegas or some Perhaps the most chilling accounts strength of 1,500 officers, and that the other destination. He said there were were from hospitals, where staff desper- guard suddenly had to switch from res- enough National Guard in the city to ately tried to move patients up stairs as cue to law enforcement: “And that’s maintain order, and that his men “have the water rose, while blacks looted the when we started flowing military police been through a lot.” He brushed off sug- floors below. Most hospitals had emer- into the theater.” gestions that this was dereliction of duty. gency generators, but these began to give New Orleans has had only black He even asked the Federal Emergency out. Two days after the hurricane, the city mayors since 1978, and has spent de- Management Agency (FEMA) to pay for had no running water, and as food ran cades making the police force as black the vacations, but FEMA refused. “We out, doctors and nurses gave themselves as possible. It established a city-resi- haven’t turned over control of the city,” intravenous feedings to keep going. dency requirement for officers to keep a city spokesman explained. “We’re go- Just outside New Orleans, gunmen

American Renaissance - 3 - October 2005 held up a supply truck carrying food, wa- when on a hurricane relief mission. This tion Center—too many people witnessed ter, and medical supplies that were on is a disgrace.” Cliff Ferguson of the same the degeneracy for it to be ignored. The their way to a 203-bed hospital. Patients battalion added: “You have to think first refugees had arrived at the Super- all across the city eventually had to be about whether it is worth risking your dome the day before the hurricane, on neck for someone who will turn around Sunday, August 28. The last finally left and shoot at you. We didn’t come here the stadium on Saturday, Sept, 3, so some to fight a war. We came here to help.” people may have spent nearly a week in Michael Brown, head of FEMA, said: what, after the toilets began to overflow, “We are working under conditions of became known as the “Sewerdome.” urban warfare.” General Blum of the Preparation for refugees was pitifully National Guard said half of the 7,000 inadequate. By day, as many as 25,000 guardsmen under his command had just people sweltered in temperatures that returned from overseas assignments and rose into the 100s. Whatever order had were “highly proficient in the use of le- been established soon melted away, and thal force.” He promised to deal with the stadium reverted to the jungle. Young Looter with a trunk full of beer. thugs “in a quick and efficient manner.” men robbed and raped with impunity. taken out, but rescuers met resistance. Shoot-to-kill orders were supposed to Occasional gunshots panicked the Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesan have gone out, and Louisiana Gov. crowd. At least one man committed sui- told reporters at an emergency headquar- Kathleen Blanco boasted that battle- cide by throwing himself off a high deck ters: “Hospitals are trying to evacuate. hardened veterans would put down the and splattering onto the playing field. At every one of them, there are reports Bodies of the murdered, and of infants that as the helicopters come in people and the elderly who died of heat exhaus- are shooting at them, saying, ‘You bet- tion began to accumulate. Six babies ter come get my family.’ ” An effort to were born in the stadium. Charles evacuate patients and staff from Charity Womack, a 30-year-old roofer, said he Hospital in downtown New Orleans was saw one man beaten to death, and was, stopped by sniper fire. Other hospitals himself beaten with a pipe. Crack ad- reported gangs of looters attacking and dicts—who had brought their most valu- overturning ambulances. able possession with them—smoked Chris Lawrence, a reporter with CNN, openly and fought over drugs. filed a report from the roof of a police A group of about 30 British students station: “Right now it’s the only safe Looters with bags of clothes. were among the very small number of place to be in the city. We were on the violence in no time. However, there were whites in the stadium, where they spent street earlier but the police said under few accounts of soldiers firing their four harrowing days. Jamie Trout, 22, no circumstances would you be safe on weapons. The London Times reported an economics major, wrote that the scene the street. They said anybody walking that a New Orleans policeman explained “was like something out of Lord of the in the streets of New Orleans is basically through tears that he had seen bodies Flies,” with “people shouting racial taking their life in their hands. . . . They riddled with bullets, and one man with abuse about us being white.” One night, directed some of the young women to the top of his head shot off. He said loot- word came that the power was failing, get off the street immediately.” ers were armed with stolen AK-47 What may have been the most shock- rifles, and that the police were ing headline of the entire crisis was in outgunned just like in Somalia. “It’s the September 2 issue of Army Times: a war-zone, and they’re [the federal “Troops Begin Combat Operations in government] not treating it like New Orleans.” The article was about the one,” he said. Louisiana National Guard massing near We will never know the full ex- the Superdome in preparation for a tent of the mayhem blacks loosed citywide security mission. “This place on their own city. Many victims will is going to look like Little Somalia,” not be found for weeks or even Brig. Gen. Gary Jones explained. “We’re months, rotted beyond recognition, going to go out and take this city back. their killers never found. Drowned This will be a combat operation to get or murdered, the bloated, stinking this city under control.” The amphibi- bodies that turn up by the hundreds ous assault ship Bataan was in the area, will look much the same. In their haste Called in to check for looters. but kept its helicopters on board after to get cadavers off the streets, the au- pilots reported sniper fire. thorities may not worry much about and that there was only ten minutes’ Many soldiers came under gunfire cause of death. worth of gas for the generators. Zoe from civilians. “I never thought that as a Smith, 21, from Hull, said they all feared National Guardsman I would be shot at From Hurricane to Jungle for their lives: “All us girls sat in the by other Americans,” said Philip Baccus middle while the boys sat on the outside, of the 527th Engineer Battalion. “And I In the two main refugee centers, how- with chairs as protection,” she said. “We never thought I’d have to carry a rifle ever—the Superdome and the Conven- were absolutely terrified, the situation

American Renaissance - 4 - October 2005 had descended into chaos, people were bane tells what happened when their down. Janice Singleton was working at very hostile and the living conditions group, too, heard the lights were about the stadium when the storm hit. She said were horrendous.” She said that even to go out: “I looked at Bud [Hopes] and she was robbed of everything, even her during the day, “when we offered to help said, ‘That will be the end of us.’ The shoes. As for the building: “They tore with the cleaning, the locals gave us gangs had already eyed us off. If the that dome apart,” she said sadly. “They abuse.” lights had gone out we would have been tore it down. They taking everything out Mr. Trout said the National Guard fi- in deep trouble. We were sitting there of there they can take.” nally recognized how dangerous the praying for a miracle and the lights Only afterwards did the public learn stayed on.” Mr. Hopes said the there were 50 police officers assigned Australians owed their lives to to the Superdome, but they appear to a National Guardsman who have been completely ineffectual. Toni broke the rules and got whites Blanco, a 24-year veteran, said police out to a medical center past could not arrest anyone because there seething crowds of blacks. was no place to hold suspects, and they Peter McNeil of Brisbane were afraid to use their guns for fear of told the Australian AP that his the crowd. “You felt helpless in the sense son John was one of the 65 who there was absolutely nothing we could managed to get out. The blacks do for the city,” she said. What did she were reportedly so hostile do at night, when conditions were worst? “they would stab you as soon She and another officer, Alecia Wright, The guard brings supplies to the Superdome. as look at you.” “He’s never been so would slip out to a patrol car and have a threat was from blacks, and moved the scared in his life,” explained Mr. good cry. “Many times we laid in the car British under guard to the basketball McNeil. “He just said they had to get and tears just rolled,” said Miss Blanco. area, which was safer. “The army warned out of the dark. Otherwise, another night, Some officers simply abandoned their us to keep our bags close to us and to he said, they would have been gone.” No posts and fled the Superdome. grip them tight,” he said, as they were American newspaper wrote about what Conditions were even worse at the escorted out. Twenty-year-old Jane these white tourists went through. Convention Center. Although on high Wheeldon credited one man in particu- When guardsmen began to show up ground not far from the stadium, it had lar, Sgt. Garland Ogden, with getting the in force on Sept. 1 and take control, some not been designated as a shelter. It was, Britons safely out. “He went against a blacks met them with cheers, but others however, beyond reach of the high wa- lot of rules to get us moved,” she said. shouted obscenities. Capt. John Pollard ter, and soon some 20,000 people were Australian tourists stuck in the of the Texas Air National Guard said huddled in its cavernous halls. There Superdome had the same experience. 20,000 people were in the dome when were no supplies or staff, and for sev- Bud Hopes, a 32-year-old man from the evacuation began, but thousands eral days neither FEMA nor the National Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, took control more appeared from surrounding areas Guard seems to have known anyone was and may have saved many lives. As the when word got out that there were buses there. stadium reverted to anarchy, he realized leaving town. Soldiers held their M-16s whites were in danger, and gathered tour- and grenade-launchers at the ready, and ists together for safety. “There were 65 kept a sharp eye out for snipers. of us altogether so we were able to look That same day, when it was time to after each other, especially the girls who board buses for Houston, soldiers had were being grabbed and threatened,” trouble controlling the crowd. People at the back of the mob crushed the people in front against barricades soldiers put No American newspaper up to control the flow. Many people con- wrote about what these tinued to yell obscenities whenever a white tourists went patrol went by. Some were afraid of los- through. ing their place in line and defecated where they stood. The Army Times re- Refugees in the Superdome. ported that Sgt. 1st Class Ron Dixon of Armed gangs took control, and occa- said Mr. Hopes. They organized escorts the Oklahoma National Guard, who had sional gunshots caused panic. There was for women who had to go to the toilet or recently come home from Afghanistan, no power, and at night the center was for food, and set up a roster of men to said he was struck by the fact Afghanis plunged into complete darkness. Degen- stand guard while others slept. “We sat wanted to help themselves, but that the eracy struck almost immediately, with through the night just watching each people of New Orleans only wanted oth- rapes, robbery, and murder. Terrible other, not knowing if we would be alive ers to help them. shrieking tore through the night, but no in the morning,” Mr. Hopes said. By the evening of Sept. 3, the Super- one could see, or dared to move. When “Ninety-eight percent of the people dome was finally evacuated, but the Police Chief Eddie Compass heard what around the world are good,” he said; “in state-of-the-art stadium was a reeking was happening, he sent a squad of 88 that place 98 per cent of the people were cavern of filth, human waste, and an officers to investigate. They were over- bad.” unknown number of corpses. It, too, had whelmed by superior forces and re- John McNeil of Coorparoo in Bris- been looted of everything not bolted treated, leaving thousands to the mercy

American Renaissance - 5 - October 2005 of criminals. At one time there were as many as set up a holding pen at the Greyhound It was not until Sept. 2—four days seven or eight corpses in front of the bus terminal. State Attorney General after the hurricane—that a force of 1,000 center, some of them with blood stream- Charles Foti said there were plans for a National Guardsmen finally took over ing from bullet wounds. Inside, there was from the armed gangs. “Had we gone in an emergency morgue, but a National with a lesser force we may have been Guardsman refused to let a Reuters pho- challenged, [and] innocents may have tographer take pictures. “We’re not let- been caught in a fight,” explained Gen. ting anyone in there anymore,” he said. Blum. “If you want to take pictures of dead Sitting with her daughter and other bodies, go to Iraq.” By Saturday, Sept. relatives, Trolkyn Joseph, 37, told a re- 3, the center was mostly cleared of the living. Refugees pulled shirts over their noses trying to block out the smell as they walked past rotting bodies. Later it would be learned there were 30 to 40 bodies piled into the conven- tion center’s freezer, almost all of them murder victims. Arkansas National Guardsman Mikel Brooks showed a re- porter the charnel house: “I ain’t got the stomach for it, even after what I saw in Gen. Blum explains. Iraq. In Iraq, it’s one-on-one. It’s war. White woman with 11-month-old baby at the It’s fair. Here, it’s just crazy. It’s anar- temporary court system, but no one knew Convention Center. chy. . . . And this is America. This is just how they were going to assemble juries 300 miles south of where I live.” or call witnesses. The grim business be- porter that men had wandered the cen- For the city as a whole, not even gan of combing the drowning city for ter at night raping and murdering chil- 50,000 soldiers and federal rescue work- corpses and the remaining survivors. dren. She said she found a dead 14-year ers could bring calm. On Sunday, Sept. old girl at 5 a.m. on Friday morning, four 4, contractors working for the US Army Reactions hours after the girl went missing. “She Corps of Engineers came under fire. was raped for four hours until she was Their police escort returned fire and The world reacted with astonishment dead,” Miss Joseph said through tears. killed four attackers. to sights it never expected to see in “Another child, a seven-year old boy, On Monday, Sept, 5, a week after the America. “Anarchy in the USA,” read was found raped and murdered in the hurricane and after virtually everyone the headline in Britain’s best-selling kitchen freezer last night.” who wanted to get out was gone, there newspaper, The Sun. “Apocalypse Africa Brumfield, 32, explained that was still widespread banditry. “We’re Now,” said Handelsblatt in Germany. women were in particular fear: “There Mario de Carvalho, a veteran Portuguese is rapes going on here. Women cannot What did the officers do cameraman, who coveres the world’s go to the bathroom without men. They trouble spots, said he saw the bodies of are raping them and slitting their at night, when conditions babies and old people along the high- throats.” Donald Anderson, 43, was at were worst and they were ways leading out of New Orleans. “It’s the convention center with his wife, who needed most? Slip out to a chaotic situation. It’s terrible. It’s a situ- was six months pregnant: “We circled a patrol car and have a ation we generally see in other countries, the chairs like wagons because at night in the Third World,” he said. there are stampedes,” he said. “We had good cry. Some Third-Worlders would have to survive.” been insulted. “I am absolutely dis- The very few whites in the crowd having some pretty intense gun battles gusted,” said Sajeewa Chinthaka, 36, of were terrified. Eighty-year-old Selma breaking out around the city,” said Capt. the looters. The Sri Lanka native added: Valenti, who was with her husband, said Jeff Winn of the New Orleans SWAT “After the tsunami our people, even the blacks threatened to kill them on Thurs- team. “Armed gangs of from eight to 15 ones who lost everything, wanted to help day, Sept. 1. “They hated us. Four young young men are riding around in pickup the others who were suffering. Not a black men told us the buses were going trucks, looting and raping.” single tourist caught in the tsunami was to come last night and pick up the eld- Brian McKay was one of 300 Arkan- mugged. Now with all this happening in erly so they were going to kill us,” she sas guardsmen just back from Iraq. He the U.S. we can easily see where the civi- said, sobbing. Presumably, the blacks was in full battle gear, including body lized part of the world’s population is.” wanted to take their places on the buses. armor, putting down insurgents. “It’s like In the United States, the stark contrast The center was not entirely without a Baghdad on a bad day,” he said. Another between endless scenes of appalling be- form of rough justice. A National Arkansan veteran under fire agreed: “It’s havior by blacks and rescue personnel Guardsman reported that a man who had just so much like Iraq, it’s not funny, who were almost all white was greeted raped and killed a young girl in the bath- except for all the water, and they speak with the standard foolishness. Some room was caught by the crowd—which English.” people accused the “biased” media of beat him to death. Since the old jail was flooded, police suppressing footage of rampaging whites

American Renaissance - 6 - October 2005 and heroic black helicopter pilots. from abroad, took a different view. day would be enough to drag them out Many blacks made excuses for loot- Leighton Levy wrote in the Sept. 2 Ja- of the muck. ers. “Desperate people do desperate maica Star: “I am beginning to believe things,” said US Rep. Diane Watson of that black people, no matter where in the Lessons California. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. from world they are, are cursed with a genetic Illinois, said we must not judge harshly: predisposition to steal, murder, and cre- Ninety-nine percent of the white “Who are we to say what law and order ate mayhem.” He wanted to know why people left New Orleans when the evacu- should be in this unspeakable environ- there was no footage of white looters: ation order went out. Some 80,000 ment?” Rep. Melvin Watt, North Caro- “Is it that the media are not showing pic- blacks could not or would not leave. lina Democrat and chairman of the Con- tures of them looting and robbing? Or is Whites did not “leave them behind,” as gressional Black Caucus, was perhaps it that they are too busy trying to stay the editorial writers keep telling us. No the greatest ass of all: “Whatever is be- alive, waiting to be rescued, and hiding one could have gotten some of them to ing taken could not be used by anyone from the blacks?” leave—a number of men cheerfully ad- else anyway,” he said. Most blacks and many whites fell into mitted they stayed in town to loot—but Many blacks took it for granted that the usual assumptions about omnipotent if it was anyone’s job to give them the federal relief was slow because the vic- white government and helpless Ne- tims were black. Rep. Elijah Cummings groes. If black people were suffering it said “poverty, age and skin color” de- was because whites had not done termined who lived and who died. Hi- enough for them. It did not occur to lary Shelton, director of the NAACP’s them that it was the responsibility of Washington bureau, blasted “disparate New Orleans and the state of Louisi- treatment” of Katrina victims. “Many ana—not the federal government—to black people feel that their race, their prepare for hurricanes. Before the property conditions and their voting pat- storm, Mayor Nagin issued a manda- terns have been a factor in the response,” tory evacuation only under pressure explained Jesse Jackson, Sr. He said the from the Bush administration. The rubbish outside the Convention Center mayor then did nothing to enforce the The evacuation begins. made the place look “like the hull of a order, leaving hundreds of city buses and slave ship.” Black activist and repara- school buses to drown, rather than use option, it was that of the black-run city tions-booster Randall Robinson said the them to offer transportation to people government. Of the blacks who stayed, relief effort was the “defining watershed without cars. probably only a minority committed moment in America’s racial history.” He Something of the mood of black New crimes, but they were enough to turn the said he had “finally come to see my Orleans was caught by Fox News film city into a hell hole. Some did unspeak- country for what it really is. A monstrous crews as late as Sunday, Sept. 4. White able things: loot hospitals, fire on res- fraud.” volunteers were trying to persuade a cue teams, destroy ambulances. No black woman and her small children to amount of excuse-making and finger- When blacks are left leave her flooded house. “You’ve got to pointing can paper over degeneracy like get out,” they explained. “The water isn’t that. Black people—and only black entirely to their own going away.” A black man at the top of a people—did these things. devices, Western Civiliza- multi-story building told a helicopter The Superdome and the Convention tion disappears. In a crew he didn’t need to leave. All he Center were certainly unpleasant places crisis, it disappears over- needed was some supplies. to spend three or four days, but 50,000 These people could not understand whites would have behaved completely night. something that was obvious to the whole differently. They would have established world: New Orleans had no electricity, rules, organized supplies, cared for the Democratic Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick no plumbing, no transport, and no food. sick and dying. They would have orga- of Michigan said she was “ashamed of Blacks refused to leave their flooded nized games for children. The papers America and . . . of our government.” homes, even though to stay meant near- would be full of stories of selflessness The mayor of New Orleans, Ray Na- certain death. and community spirit. gin—the man who gave city workers a Homeland Security chief Michael Natural disasters usually bring out the vacation when the feds arrived—shouted Chertoff noted how crazy it was to stay best in people, who help neighbors and and wept on local radio, demanding of in the wreckage. “That is not a reason- strangers alike. For blacks—at least the federal officials: “Get off your asses, and able alternative,” he said. “We are not lower-class blacks of New Orleans—di- let’s do something.” There was an un- going to be able to have people sitting saster was an excuse to loot, rob, rape dercurrent of fury at a meeting of black in houses in the city of New Orleans for and kill. leaders in Detroit. One audience mem- weeks and months while we de-water Our rulers and media executives will ber wanted to know whether the slow and clean this city.” try to turn the story of Hurricane Katrina federal response was “black genocide.” FEMA reported that it had pulled into yet another morality tale of down- Another shouted, “African Americans three Carnival Cruise Lines ships from trodden blacks and heartless whites, but built this nation. Descendants of slaves commercial duty to shelter the blacks of pandering of this kind fools fewer and are being allowed to die.” New Orleans. Maybe the chance of berth fewer people. Many whites will real- One black man, observing the chaos on the Ecstasy, the Sensation or the Holi- ize—some for the first time—that we

American Renaissance - 7 - October 2005 have Africa in our midst, that utterly To be sure, the story of Hurricane When blacks are left entirely to their own alien Africa of road-side corpses, cru- Katrina does have a moral for anyone devices, Western Civilization—any kind elty, and anarchy that they thought could not deliberately blind. The races are dif- of civilization—disappears. And in a never wash up on these shores. ferent. Blacks and whites are different. crisis, it disappears overnight. Ω Voodoo, Violence, and Victimology

New Orleans was ailing for $300 to kill the “whore,” 32-year- plained, adding that the victim was “the old Kim Groves, a Superdome security cute type. Boys liked her.” The stabbing long before Katrina. guard who had offended Officer Davis came just one week after two other teen- by filing a citizen’s complaint when he age girls went to prison for killing a 16- he New Orleans police depart- pistol-whipped one of her neighbors. year-old girl, also with a steak knife. ment has been struggling for “Yeah, yeah, yeah,” exulted Officer 2003 was such a bad year that a num- Tyears, but may have hit its low Davis when he got confirmation of the ber of black ministers asked for National point around 1995. That was the year killing; “Rock-a-bye, baby!” Mr. Davis Guard patrols in the most violent neigh- Antoinette Frank, a black woman officer, was sentenced to death for the killing in borhoods. That would probably have killed three people in a holdup at a Viet- 1996. been more effective than a different Between 1991 and 1995, more than crime-fighting plan from several years 45 New Orleans police officers were earlier that failed. A group of New Or- charged with crimes, including murder, leans citizens, led by Sallie Ann Glass- rape, bank robbery, racketeering, drug man, held a voodoo ceremony to drive trafficking, bribery, auto theft and aggra- away muggers and crack dealers. They vated battery. drummed, chanted, prayed, and asked In 1998, the force went through a rash the meanest voodoo deity of them all, of washouts from the police training pro- Ogoun La Flambeau, to keep out bad gram because black women kept failing Trying to do . . . the shooting course. The women said the gun was too big or that they were afraid namese restaurant where she moon- of it. At one point, the last ten people to lighted as a security guard. She ate din- fail the shooting test were all black ner there before she killed two of the women. owner’s children as they knelt on the Perhaps police incompetence had floor praying and begging for mercy. She something to do with the fact that in also shot a policeman, Ron Williams, 2003, while the rest of the country was who was on guard that evening. She had enjoying a drop in violent crime, New worked with Mr. Williams in the same Orleans had a crime wave. With a mur- precinct and knew him personally. Of- der rate of 54.5 per 100,000 it was eas- ficer Frank even had the effrontery to ily tops in the country. Some people respond to the police call from the res- wondered if the mayhem began when taurant, and sauntered in as if she had two public housing projects were shut . . . what this won’t do. no idea what had happened. She was down, and the redistributed miscreants sentenced to death in 1995. got into turf wars. guys. Miss Glassman, who has been Miss Frank was the fourth New Or- burgled and assaulted, explained that the leans officer—all of them black—to be Miss Frank was the New Orleans Police Department was not charged with murder in less than a year. doing its job. Miss Glassman was only Another city officer who made the news fourth New Orleans po- part right. As many as half of the black in 1995 was Len Davis. Federal agents lice officer—all of them men in the city could not vote because were already investigating him, and re- black—to be charged of felony convictions. corded him making the following cell with murder in less Black judges in New Orleans can be phone call while he sat in his patrol car: as surprising as black police officers. “Man, that whore’s standing out there than a year. Judge Charles R. Jones of the Louisiana right now with a black [expletive] coat Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals wanted on . . . with her [expletive] hair in that That year was notable in another way. the court to hire more blacks. On Jan. little bob . . . with [expletive] jeans on . On July 6, two 14-year-old girls stabbed 31, 2001, he lashed out at two white . . standing in the middle of the [exple- a 16-year-old girl to death with a steak judges on the hiring committee, Miriam tive] street. Get that whore.” knife. The victim could not run away Waltzer and Steven Plotkin. He started This was not an over-exuberant mes- because she had been shot in the leg the bellowing and cursing at Judge Waltzer, sage to the vice squad. It was instruc- year before. Her cousin said she knew accusing her of being in on a conspiracy tions to a crack dealer whom he had hired the killers. “They was jealous,” she ex- not to hire blacks. He was so angry she

American Renaissance - 8 - October 2005 thought he might hit her. When Judge New Orleans apparently has a lot of of Black Social Workers, the man at the Plotkin—at 155 pounds, much smaller racism that must be put down, and in registration desk told him he couldn’t than the 200-pound black man—tried to 1997, the struggle against bigotry got attend because he was white. When Mr. intervene, Judge Jones picked him up national attention. George Washington Parnell asked to speak to a conference and threw him against a table. Accord- Elementary School, 98 percent of whose organizer he got the same reply. Mr. ing to a deputy who witnessed the fra- students were black, decided to change Parnell, who has a special interest in the cas, Judge Jones was screaming “You are its name to honor Charles Drew, a black overrepresentation of backs in the child all sons of bitches, you are all f***ing surgeon. As Carl Galmon, a long-time welfare system, filed a civil rights com- sons of bitches.” Judge Plotkin ended up community activist explained, blacks plaint. on the floor in a daze, bleeding from the should not honor someone who owned Most of New Orleans is now under head. On August 8, the Louisiana Judi- slaves. “To African-Americans,” he said, water and evacuated. A place with no ciary Committee ruled that Judge Jones “George Washington has about as much people and no tax base does not need disgraced the bench, and recommended meaning as David Duke.” many police officers. Fortunately, there that he be suspended for three months The struggle against bigotry contin- are many other departments in the coun- without pay. Judge Jones said, through ued right into this year. In May, when try clamoring for experienced black of- his lawyer, that he thought the court’s Brian Parnell, a white social worker flew ficers, so New Orleans’ “Finest” should minority-hiring record deserved more to New Orleans to attend the national have no trouble finding jobs. Ω attention than the fight. convention of the National Association Criminal Aliens Kevin J. Mullen, Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 1850-2000, Palgrave MacMillan, 2005, $69.95, 224 pp. Immigrants brought their rush for gold but the conflict created by emerging from the newcomers’ cul- disparate groups with different values ture—more than is generally con- bad habits with them. occupying the same space. His new ceded—than to discrimination on the book, which reflects more than a decade part of the host society.” He further con- reviewed by Roger D. McGrath of research, develops a similar theme but cludes that the way the police operate over a century and a half. The breadth affects the level of violence: aggressive angerous Strangers is a must and depth of the study is spectacular and and rigorous policing does suppress vio- read for anyone interested in should firmly establish Kevin Mullen as lence. Dcrime, urban and immigrant the authority on crime and violence in Mr. Mullen plays no favorites. Aus- studies, or San Francisco. Author Kevin San Francisco. At the same time, the tralian, Irish, Chinese, Hispanic, and Ital- Mullen was a San Francisco cop for book is full of interesting anecdotes ian immigrants, as well as black migrants nearly 30 years, retiring as deputy chief and colorful descriptions that from the South, are all scrutinized for of the department. He knows the city could hardly be surpassed their contributions to criminal violence intimately and has studied its history by a detective novel. in San Francisco. Mr. Mullen under- thoroughly. He was born in an Irish Most impor- stands he will be attacked: “A book could neighborhood in the Noe Valley section tantly, espe- be written on each group—and many of San Francisco in 1935, and got on the cially in have—extolling their various accom- force in 1959 after serving in the Army’s today’s plishments and contributions to Ameri- 82nd Airborne Division. Central casting politi- can society. But this is not that kind of could not have supplied a more stereo- cally-cor- book. This is a book about criminal vio- typical Irish cop. With a mug that has rect climate, lence involving minority newcomers and the Emerald Isle written all over it and a Mr. Mullen thus must focus on the negative contri- six-foot two-inch heavy-boned frame, tells the story of butions of a numerical minority of each the red-faced Mullen could be mistaken immigrant and mi- group considered.” for nothing else. nority crime without One of San Francisco’s first criminal With a sharp mind and a devotion to omissions, euphe- gangs was the Sydney Ducks, which op- duty he rose rapidly through the ranks, misms, or convoluted erated in the 1850s. Criminal and Aus- all the time making mental notes on San rationalizations. Dangerous tralian even became nearly synonymous, Francisco, people, and crime. When he Strangers is simply the straight but Mr. Mullen reveals that the homi- retired, he indulged his intellectual cu- scoop. With a focus principally on ho- cides attributed to Australians were riosity by researching crime in pioneer micide, Mr. Mullen concludes that high wildly exaggerated. At the same time, San Francisco, which resulted in his first rates of criminal violence can be attrib- though, they did commit a disproportion- book, Let Justice Be Done: Crime and uted more to the characteristics of a par- ate number of robberies, and Robert Politics in Early San Francisco (1989). ticular immigrant group than to its re- McKenzie and “English Jim” Stuart, two In it, Mr. Mullen clearly demonstrated ception or treatment. As Mr. Mullen puts of the most notorious of the Sydney that crime and violence in the city were it, “It is also found that the violent be- Ducks, ended up at the end of a rope. not so much a consequence of the wild havior can often be traced to behaviors There have been many attempts to

American Renaissance - 9 - October 2005 explain the high rate of robberies by of Joaquin Murrieta. Most of what Cali- criminality with him from Mexico. Australians, including the extension of fornia students are told today about Another popular notion concerns un- San Francisco wharves, which elimi- Murrieta comes from a wildly fictional equal punishment. In San Francisco, says nated the need for boatmen to haul goods tale created by John Rollin Ridge, a part- Mr. Mullen, “from 1850 through 1859, over the mud flats—work that was domi- 15.6 percent of those punished for ho- nated by those from Down Under. The micide by hanging or imprisonment were most important factor, says Mr. Mullen, Hispanic (five of 32) against their ap- is not unemployment or any of the many proximately six percent of the popula- other reasons proffered, but a simple sta- tion.” It would seem that Latinos were tistic: nearly 20 percent of all Austra- suffering under the Anglo justice system lian men who arrived in San Francisco until one learns that they committed 15.1 already had criminal records. They had percent of the homicides during the same been criminals in Britain and Australia, period—a near perfect match. Moreover, and now they were criminals in America. most of the Hispanic killings described Although they were only six percent of by Mr. Mullen were Hispanic on His- early San Francisco’s population, they panic. committed 50 percent of the robberies. Mr. Mullen traces the Irish propen- “While the Australia from which the sity for violence to classical antiquity. Gold Rush immigrants came might not Posidonius, a Greek historian of the first have been particularly plagued with century said, “These Celtic warriors criminal violence,” concludes Mr. were wont to be moved by chance re- Mullen, “many of the Australians who marks . . . to the point of fighting.” Doz- answered the call to gold from Califor- ens of other such descriptions are re- nia definitely brought criminal propen- corded. “We have no word for the man sities with them.” who is excessively fearless,” said Contributing disproportionately to Aristotle, “perhaps one may call such a Joaquin Murrietta: not the romantic they criminal homicide in Gold Rush San say he was. man mad or bereft of feeling, who fears Francisco were Hispanics. Many were nothing, neither earthquakes nor waves, recent immigrants to America, giving the Cherokee who published a book about as they say of the Celts.” “The whole lie to the old argument that they were a the bandido in 1854. Ridge said Ameri- race,” noted Strabo, “is madly fond of conquered and oppressed people fight- cans drove Murrieta from his claim, war, high-spirited and quick to battle . . ing the new and hated Anglo establish- flogged him and raped his wife, and . . For at any time or place and on what- ment. Says Mr. Mullen: “We are willing hanged his brother. Murrieta, according ever pretext you stir them up, you will to accept criminal violence committed to Ridge’s tale, then set out on a course have them ready to face danger, even if by Anglos in the old West—like that of revenge, killing all the gringos respon- they have nothing on their side but their found in boomtown San Francisco or the sible. Actually, Murrieta was not a own strength and courage.” This was wild mining camps like Bodie—as Californio but a Mexican from Sonora 2,000 years before the Irish immigrated caused by some individual character who did not arrive in California until to America and faced prejudice. The flaw or because of some general soci- 1849. He was not flogged, his wife was Irish simply have a propensity for fight- etal condition—not enough law, alcohol, not raped, and his brother was not ing. Sean McCann in The Fighting Irish youth, and prevalence of firearms. Yet hanged. Murrieta led a gang that robbed describes an Irishman as “Quick-tem- when ‘people of color’ are involved, we and killed without compunction, attack- pered and yet still a brooder on hidden immediately start looking for some op- angers, has never been short of a fight, pressive condition imposed on them by One of San Francisco’s right or wrong, through any stage of his- the majority to explain their criminal be- tory.” havior.” Many of the Hispanic criminals first criminal gangs Mr. Mullen argues that Irishmen were recent arrivals from either Mexico was the Sydney Ducks, brought all this to San Francisco and that or Chile. The Chileans, says Old West which operated in the the propensity for fighting continued into historian Jay Monaghan, included rotos, 1850s. Criminal and subsequent generations. It’s in the blood. whom he describes as “landless vaga- Not by accident, many of San Fran- bonds who worked occasionally and Australian became nearly cisco’s cops and police chiefs were Irish, robbed often, proving themselves dan- synonymous. led by the city’s first chief, Malachi gerous highwaymen or excellent gueril- Fallon. In conversations with Mr. Mullen las . . . . Reckless, vindictive fighters, ing Americans, Mexicans, and Chinese. he told me that the toughest kids in San these ragged gangsters cared little for Murrieta and his bandidos killed nearly Francisco before and after his time on their own lives and not at all for the lives as many Chinese as whites, and Chinese the force were Irish. He remembers in of others.” were outnumbered by whites ten-to-one. the late 1940s and early 1950s the older Many Mexican immigrants could be One of Murrieta’s victims was black. guys he grew up with would leave their similarly described. Nonetheless, the Truth be told, criminal gangs like Irish neighborhoods and head for the myth of the peaceful old Californio Murrieta’s were very much in operation Fillmore district looking for blacks to turned avenger for his oppressed people in Sonora at this time—without any fight. persists as demonstrated by the legend Anglo oppressors. Murrieta brought his This love of a good fight continued

American Renaissance - 10 - October 2005 during the 1980s and 90s with the sons women suffered disproportionately. The tortion attempts. “From a reading of the of Irishmen who immigrated to San Chinese were effective killers, account- cases,” says Mr. Mullen, “Chinese ho- Francisco during the 1950s and early ing for some 20 percent of San micides were almost never committed in 60s. While many white kids had been Francisco’s homicides from 1850 the heat of passion, unlike those of the sissified or drug addled during the late through 1969, while comprising only non-Chinese with whom the rates of se- 1960s and 1970s, the sons of Irish im- about six percent of the population. vere punishment are compared.” More- migrants were like the kids Mr. Mullen “Model” immigrants they were not. over, many of the Chinese sentenced to was reared with in the 1930s and 40s. Unlike whites, especially in the early death had prior convictions, including They took no guff, especially not from years, the Chinese killings were not the convictions for murder. blacks, and were more afraid of their result of a bad night of drinking in the Far from being marginalized by the own fathers than of cops or anybody else. saloon. Disputes often came from old host society, argues Mr. Mullen, the Whites found in the Fillmore district animosities in China over political fac- Chinese in the 19th century chose to run during the 1970s, Mr. Mullen told me, tions or Triad associations. At the same their own affairs by their own standards. time, the Triads controlled pros- They did not let the police and courts titution, and Chinese women address their problems. Most of their were in short supply. During the conflict was internal and a good portion 1870s when the white sex ratio of it can be attributed to a decades-long had equalized, Chinese men still battle between the See Yup and Sam Yup outnumbered women 20-to-one. tongs, which helped keep the Chinese Typical was Ah Kow’s killing of homicide rate high until the 1920s. With Moon Ping. The murder, said the conditions changing in China—Sun Yat Alta California, the state’s lead- Sen had finally defeated the hated ing newspaper at the time, “arose Manchus and established the Republic out of the late difficulties about of China—conditions changed in San imported Chinese women.” The Francisco. No longer were large num- fashionable claim is that Ameri- bers of Chinese tong thugs arriving in can immigration policies caused California. the sex imbalance, but Mr. At the same time, San Francisco Chief Early Chinatown. Mullen explains that a prohibi- of Police Daniel O’Brien decided tion against emigration of women was Chinatown had to be reined in. He ap- were usually there to buy drugs. But by deeply rooted in Chinese custom and pointed Sgt. Jack Manion to lead the the 1980s and 90s the generation of Irish law. A Chinese publication noted that it department’s Chinatown Squad and or- sons of immigrants had come of age and, was “contrary to the custom and against dered him to do whatever it took to stop like the toughs of a couple of genera- the inclination of virtuous Chinese the killings. Manion specialized in pro- tions earlier, were there to fight. That women to go so far from home . . . .” filing. Chinese who had the characteris- they and their pale-blue eyes were strik- In China, protection money was the tics of tong killers and no visible means ingly out of place did not go unnoticed lifeblood of secret societies, and it was of support were constantly harassed and by the SFPD. “What might you be do- no different in San Francisco. Disputes arrested. Many were deported. He also ing in this neighborhood,” coppers that led to murder were often at- would ask. The Irish kids would answer tributed to extortion. Tong wars quite openly that they were looking for most commonly resulted from some blacks who had jumped a friend. battles over protection money for The fact that they were in a neighbor- brothels, opium dens, and gam- hood where they were greatly outnum- bling halls. The first tong war in bered seemed not to faze them. On the San Francisco erupted when the other hand, blacks avoided the Irish im- Suey Sing and Kwong Duck tongs migrant neighborhoods in the Sunset had a dispute over a prostitute district. known only as the Golden Peach. Mr. Mullen said that Irish parents re- There were Triad Society and acted very differently from others to re- tongs centuries before Chinese im- ports that their sons had been fighting. migration to the United States, and Most were astounded to hear their boys these groups had nothing to do were in jail just for fighting. “The lad with the host nation. San Francisco opium den. was fighting, you say, and you’ve put him Chinese convicted of murder were in jail for that? Bejaysus!” more likely than others to get the death held a meeting with all the wealthy and Chinese violence was usually over sentence. At first glance this would seem powerful leaders of the tongs and told women or involved secret societies and a racial injustice. Mr. Mullen reveals that them that if they did not cap the killings their competition for control of China- the disparity is accounted for by the he would have them deported. Manion town’s gambling, prostitution, and murder being coupled with another had a no nonsense reputation and it opium dens. While the pugnacious Irish crime, which usually brings a harsher brought results. were fighting, the Chinese were killing, penalty. Chinese criminal homicides Italians had twice the homicide rate often with knives or meat cleavers—and were often a result of robberies or ex- of non-Italian whites in the early decades

American Renaissance - 11 - October 2005 of the twentieth century. Again, Mr. the name, charge, and nativity of every- ing the last two years of the Second Mullen sees these rates as a product of one arrested and carefully noted all Ital- World War and had doubled by 1950. It the immigrants themselves rather than ians. Even after his retirement from the doubled again and again until, by 1970, of treatment by the host society. Before force he, like his friend Mr. Mullen, con- there were nearly 100,000 blacks in the 1890, Italians only trickled into San tinues to study crime in San Francisco city, comprising almost 15 percent of the Francisco; by that year the Italian com- and remains one of the experts in the population. Black criminal homicide, munity numbered little more than 8,000. field today. wildly disproportionate to population During the next several decades, how- The black community in San Fran- numbers, made San Francisco’s murder ever, the numbers increased dramatically cisco was also the product of immigra- rate soar. By the 1960s, black murder until there were 57,000 Italians by 1930. tion, not from overseas but from the victims were often white. By the end of Like the Chinese, says Mr. Mullen, the Deep South. Moreover, meaningful sta- the decade it was more common for a Italians generally came into the city as tistical data for blacks cannot be devel- white to be killed by a black than by young, single, males and, like the tong oped until the 1940s. Before then there another white. Things got worse for gangsters, Italian Mafia or Black Hand were so few blacks in San Francisco— whites in the 1970s. Part of this was a gangsters came to extort and kill. Ital- less than one percent of the population— consequence of the infamous Zebra ians, especially southern Italians, came that extrapolations can lead to wildly murders, perpetrated by blacks from a from a violent, vendetta-dominated so- erroneous conclusions. Mr. Mullen notes religious cult who were intent on de- ciety. “The propensity for violence of the the first murder by a black in San Fran- southern Italians was not a symptom of cisco was committed by Obadiah Paylin social disorganization caused by emigra- in 1853. He was treated rather leniently, tion,” says Rudolph Vecoli in The Aliens, sentenced to two years in San Quentin. “but a characteristic of their Old World His victim seems to have been black, culture.” although details of the crime are lack- Nonetheless, the Italian crime rates ing. Interracial killings were soon occur- never reached the levels recorded for ring, though. During the 19th century in Italians in Eastern cities. The Italian San Francisco, there were seven cases neighborhoods, such as North Beach, in which blacks killed whites and five were more easily policed in San Fran- cases in which whites killed blacks. cisco and there was a greater willingness Blacks certainly were not treated by San Francisco Italians to cooperate harshly by the justice system. Case after with the authorities. The gangsters sim- case described by Mr. Mullen reveals ply did not have the cover they had in surprisingly lenient treatment, even Eastern cities. Moreover, gang warfare when the victim was white. A black Malachi Fallon, the city’s first police chief. over bootlegging did not come to San named Lloyd Bell had some kind of dis- Francisco during the 1920s as it did to pute with John Ryan, an Irish bartender stroying the white race. During the Chicago and other Midwestern and East- at the Drumm Street boarding house for 1970s, 80s, and 90s the black homicide ern cities. Immigration reform contrib- seamen. One night in October 1873, Bell rate ebbed and flowed but always re- uted to reducing Italian violence as well. crept into the boarding house and, find- mained at least double the black propor- With drastic cuts in the number of Ital- ing a man asleep, swung an ax into the tion in the population and often triple or ians admitted to the US by new laws in man’s neck, nearly severing the head. As quadruple. 1924 and 1927, the source of fresh kill- it turned out, the man was not Ryan but The SFPD has tried a number of dif- ers was blocked. By the 1950s Italian a customer sleeping off a drunk. Bell got ferent tactics to suppress black homicide seven years in San Quentin, but on ap- but all have been discontinued after pro- peal his sentence was reduced to one tests. The most effective tactic harkened By the end of the 1960s, it year. He was out of prison only for a back to earlier times when police were was more common for a couple of years before he murdered given greater latitude in dealing with white to be killed by a again, this time his landlady in a dispute gangsters. A unit called CRUSH (Crime black than by another over rent. Again, he was sentenced to Response Unit to Stop Homicide) was San Quentin. organized in 1995 and, over the next two white. Black murders in San Francisco in- years, made 700 felony arrests and creased dramatically during the early seized more than 200 weapons. While crime rates in San Francisco were be- 20th century. Mr. Mullen suggests that murders dropped precipitously in Hunt- ginning to resemble those of other much of this was the result of a culture ers Point and other black neighborhoods, whites. of violence moving north with blacks complaints against the unit began to ac- Lou Calabro, who retired as a lieu- from the Deep South. The host society cumulate. “This was the cowboy unit of tenant from the SFPD and worked un- does not seem to have been responsible. the Police Department,” said public de- der Kevin Mullen, was relieved when he From 1900 through 1943 there were only fender Jeff Brown. Public defender came on the force in the early 1960s to two blacks killed by whites. During the Shelia O’Gara said that “it appeared to find his fellow Italians were close to the same time blacks killed eight whites (and us that they were transferring the most white norm. Mr. Calabro, with an in- many more blacks). volatile cops to the unit.” In May 1997 quisitive mind and attention to detail, The black population of San Fran- the unit was quietly disbanded. In his studied the arrest log books that listed cisco began growing dramatically dur- apartment in the Sunset district Dirty

American Renaissance - 12 - October 2005 Harry Callahan consoled himself with ceeding generation, as it had with other help but think of New Orleans and the another Jameson. groups, it got worse. Whenever the cops orgy of looting that occurred as a conse- Black crime seems almost intractable. cracked down—a theme that runs quence of passive or absent (or some- San Francisco was about as welcoming throughout Mr. Mullen’s chapter on times participating) police. Ω as any host society could be, but instead blacks—crime receded. Whenever the Roger McGrath is an author, histo- of the violence lessening with each suc- cops backed off, it surged. One cannot rian, and expert on the old West. O Tempora, O Mores!

Evolving Brains 6,000 years is a short time in evolution- pher at the University of Texas at San ary terms—no whites had this allele. Antonio. “If you look in the 1990s, in Researchers led by Bruce T. Lahn of Now half do. every one of the 50 states, non-Anglo the University of Chicago have discov- The research also suggests that brain Hispanic populations grew faster than ered that different gene variants that con- structure and intelligence are not the Anglo populations,” he explains. “It’s a trol the development of the brain have same in all populations. Since the two very pervasive pattern.” different distributions in different popu- genes are known to have an effect on As the country goes brown, analysts lations. The two genes in question, brain size, the alleles may help explain fear it will also become increasingly microcephalin and ASPM, are disabled the well-known race differences in brain poor, unless non-whites can be educated in a condition known as microenceph- size, which are correlated with intelli- and brought up to the level of whites. aly, in which the brain is much smaller gence. [J. Philippe Rushton, Race, Evo- They also fear more social friction as than normal. lution, and Behavior: A Life History states try to reconcile the needs of Seventy percent of people in Europe Perspective, 3rd ed. (Port Huron, MI: younger non-whites with those of an and East Asia and 100 percent of people Charles Darwin Research Institute), pp. aging, shrinking white population. [Ali- in three South American Indian tribes 113-146.] cia A. Caldwell, Texas Becomes a Ma- have one microcephalin gene variant or Scientists are nervous about this sec- jority-Minority State, AP, Aug. 11, allele, but it is very rare in Sub-Saharan ond implication, and they urge the pub- 2005.] lic not to draw hasty conclusions. Francis As non-whites continue to displace Collins, director of the Human Genome whites, many are questioning whether Project, says he is “worried about the the term “minority” has become obso- way in which these papers will be inter- lete. “Twenty or thirty years ago, we saw preted.” “One should resist strongly the the country as a majority-white country idea that [the alleles have] to do with with a black minority, but now you have brain size,” he adds. [Nicholas Wade, places where that is a woefully poor de- Researchers Say Human Brain is Still scription of what is going on,” says Evolving, New York Times, Sept. 8, Roderick J. Harrison, a demographer 2005.] with the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a black think tank. Brown Out He believes “minority” is “a confusing term as one thinks of today’s popula- According to US Census Bureau tion,” where more than a third of Ameri- population estimates, Texas has become cans will soon be living in areas in which the fourth state to have a majority non- non-whites outnumber whites. white population. Non-whites—mostly Luke Visconti of DiversityInc, a Hispanics—now make up 50.2 percent group which advises corporations on Africa. The allele appeared between of the population; in the 2000 Census, it racial issues, believes “minority” needs 14,000 and 60,000 years ago, with the was 47 percent. California, New Mexico to go because it implies second class sta- midpoint of 37,000 years as the best and Hawaii also have non-white majori- tus, and “language is the dominant way guess. ties, with Hispanics the largest non-white today of expressing oppression.” A new allele of ASPM appeared 500 group in the first two states, and Asians In 2001, the San Diego city council to 14,100 years ago, most probably in Hawaii. Five other states—Maryland, expunged “minority” from official us- about 5,800 years ago. Half of the popu- Mississippi, Georgia, New York and Ari- age, and also stopped referring to neigh- lations of Europe and the Middle East zona—are now 40 percent or more non- borhoods that are largely black and His- have this allele, but it is less common in white, and are expected to have non- panic as “Southeast San Diego” in or- Asia, and very rare in Africa. There are white majorities by the time of the 2010 der to “move away from the pejorative probably many different genes involved Census. Nevada isn’t far behind. In the connotations” toward “something that in brain growth and function, and it is 1990s, its population was 80 percent was respectful.” significant that the ones now discovered white. The figure is now 60 percent and What will replace minority? The me- are not distributed equally in all groups. falling fast. The nation is well on its way dia have begun using “majority-minor- The research suggests the brain is still to becoming majority non-white by ity,” while academics prefer “people of evolving. Just 6,000 years ago—and 2050, says Steve Murdock, a demogra- color.” Others prefer “multicultural,”

American Renaissance - 13 - October 2005 “diverse,” or “urban.” [Erin Texeira, sages like “Illegal aliens displace US [Samson Habte, Day Laborer Center Term ‘Minority’ Criticized as Outdated, workers” and “Stop rewarding illegals.” Stirs National Debate, Examiner (Wash- AP, Aug. 18, 2005.] The other group’s signs read, “No hu- ington, DC), Aug. 8, 2005. Christina “Invaders” does not appear to be on man being is illegal” and “Open your Bellantoni, Kilgore Urges Fairfax to the list of possible replacements. hearts to the poor and needy.” The town Drop Day Laborer Center, Washington let residents speak on the matter, and two Times, Aug. 9, 2005.] Ignoring the People of the meetings had to be stretched over This massive opposition came to more than one night to accommodate all naught. The protestors persuaded the Every morning, about 150 men look- the speakers. The majority opposed the Herndon Planning Commission to vote ing for work—most, if not all, Hispanic center. They said it would bring gang against the center, but on Aug. 18 the illegal aliens—gather in the parking lot violence and disease, as well as loutish town council voted five to two to ap- of a 7-Eleven in Herndon, Va., a Wash- behavior. [Carol Morello, Day Laborers prove it. PHH got a $175,000 contract ington, DC, suburb. These men have pro- Enter Fray Over Job Site, Washington from Fairfax County to run the center. It voked complaints from the neighbors, Post, Aug. 2, 2005. Building Setback for says it will not check anyone’s immigra- who say they drink beer, urinate in pub- tion status. [Christina Bellantoni, lic, frighten women and children, and Herndon OKs Day Laborer Center, lower property values. The police have Washington Times, Aug. 18, 2005. made 21 arrests around the convenience Christina Bellantoni, Center Staff Won’t store in each of the past two years, all Check Legal Status of Laborers, Wash- for nuisance crimes like public drunk- ington Times, Aug. 19, 2005.] enness and trespassing. A long-time resi- There is still hope for opponents. Ju- dent of the neighborhood, who some- dicial Watch has sued the town on be- times picks up beer bottles left by the half of six Herndon residents to block men, says few children come to the store construction, on the grounds that the now, whereas a decade ago the area was town is abetting illegal immigration. crowded with children. Neighboring Loudoun County has Since the town attorney said it would threatened to use zoning laws to block be “unconstitutional” to chase the men the center, which would stand near the away, the town proposed this year to Fairfax-Loudoun County border. Jerry build a day-laborer center for them and Day Laborers Site in Herndon, AP, Aug. Kilgore, currently the front-runner for make it illegal to solicit jobs anywhere 4, 2005.] Virginia governor, has reiterated his op- else. A coalition of non-profit groups Michael Graham, a local radio talk position to the center, and there is little called Project Hope and Harmony show host, urged listeners to call doubt that, if elected, he would take steps (PHH), which hoped for a county grant Herndon mayor Michael O’Reilly to to block it. [Carol Morello, Suit Filed to to run the center, began lobbying for it. protest the center on August 5. He said Block Herndon Labor Site, Washington The mayor, the police chief, and the mayor was “assisting criminal aliens Post, Sept. 2, 2005. Lisa Rein and Aymar members of PHH repeatedly went to the who are . . . destroying this country, steal- Jean, Day Labor Center Faces a Fight area where the center was planned to ing jobs, running drugs, raping people.” From Loudoun Officials, Washington reassure neighbors, but they objected The town hall got so many calls it had to Post, Aug. 19, 2005.] strongly. In July, one said five of the 30 shut off its switchboard. The town man- houses on her street were for sale. Resi- ager said the calls were “vile and re- White is Beautiful dents submitted a list of 70 questions to sembled hate speech,” and The Wash- the town, including, “Are the town and ington Post took him at his words, re- Southern California’s abundant sun- Hope and Harmony prepared to guaran- ferring to “hate calls”—without quota- shine holds no charms for many Asian tee that property values will not decrease tion marks—in the headline of its story. women. They believe sunlight will make because of this site?” and “How will the [Lisa Rein, Hate Calls Swamp Herndon their skin dark and unattractive. “There’s project managers ensure that my grand- Town Hall, Washington Post, Aug. 6, a saying, ‘If you have white skin you can children are not exposed to the workers 2005.] cover a thousand uglinesses,’ ” says while they are waiting for their school The debate struck a chord with many Margaret Qiu, a 36-year-old Chinese bus in the morning?” One resident sug- other towns that have the same problem immigrant who applies skin whitening gested putting up an eight-foot-high with illegals. Scott Lingamfelter, a local creams to her face twice a day. She’s not fence around the center. [Carol Morello, state delegate who opposed the center, alone. Many Asian women think a por- Herndon Roiled by Site for Laborers, discussed it on CNN. Rep. Tom Tan- celain-like white face is the feminine Washington Post, July 31, 2005.] credo, head of the House Immigration ideal, and are willing to spend a lot of The town held three meetings on the Reform Caucus, had a proxy speak for money trying to get one. Importing Asian hiring center in July and August that were him a town meeting. The Federation for whitening creams into the United States attended by as many as 250 people. The American Immigration Reform and Ju- has turned into a multi-million dollar first two were before the Herndon Plan- dicial Watch threatened to sue the town business. A set of cleansers and lotions ning Commission and the third before if it built the center. Jerry Kilgore, Re- that claims to control melanin produc- the town council. Outside the meetings, publican candidate for Virginia gov- tion can cost $100, and beauticians there were opposing demonstrations, ernor, urged Fairfax County, where charge $65 to apply whiteners. Asian with one side holding signs with mes- Herndon is located, to stop the center. women also shield themselves from the

American Renaissance - 14 - October 2005 sun with umbrellas, masks, and UV be given to a company owned by non- model who has Italian citizenship, said gloves. Even doctors are getting in on whites through a set-aside program. that Mr. Pera’s words amounted to “anti- However, this company was a Islamic instigation” and that “Italians front. A white-owned company [were] more tolerant than Pera.” Miss had bribed Mr. Teele to set things Jnifen, who is married to an Italian, pro- up so that it would do all the work motes herself as unofficial ambassador and get most of the contract for Islam in Italy. The Italian nationalist money. [US Dept. of Justice Press party, the Northern League, is part of Release, Dewitt Jackson, “Jack” Italy’s ruling coalition. Its newspaper Maxwell, and Arthur E. Teele, Jr. discussed her political ambitions under Charged with Conspiracy, Mail the headline “Mongrel Candidacies,” Fraud, Wire Fraud, and Money Laundering, July 14, 2005.] The other charge against Mr. Teele was for taking $135,000 in kickbacks from a black-owned construction company while he was head of Japanese beauties. Miami’s Community Redevelop- ment Agency (CRA). the action, charging up to $1,000 for a It had also come to light that Mr. Teele procedure known as a “mesofacial,” in patronized a male prostitute named which they use electric fields to deliver Frederick Davis. Mr. Davis said he had vitamins, moisturizers, and bleaching four or five cocaine-laced sessions with agents to a woman’s face. Mr. Teele, for which he was paid $450 Although immigrant women defend each. Mr. Teele also owed $1.7 million the practice as a cultural tradition, many in debt—$815,000 of it to the Internal younger, American-born Asian women Revenue Service. Many humiliating de- think the obsession with pale skin is an tails came out in a 14,000 word expose attempt to abandon their Asian identity in the Miami New Times the day Mr. and blend into white American culture, Teele committed suicide—and probably and may be a a reaction to racism. The helped drive him to it. [Francisco “Don’t be soft. Hold firm. Against thieving companies that market the creams have Alvarado, Tales of Teele: Sleaze Stories, Rome. Northern League.” taken note of this, and now refer to their Miami New Times, July 28, 2005. Luis products as “brightening” rather than Yanez, Teele Kills Self in Herald Lobby, and declared her slogan should be “Let’s whitening creams. [Jia Rui Chong, No Miami Herald, July 28, 2005.] mongrelize Italy.” [John Hooper, Mus- Tans for These Women, Herald (Miami), lim Socialite Splits Italian Right, Guard- Aug. 7, 2005, p. 12A.] Mongrelizing Italy ian (London), Sept. 3, 2005. Tunisian Beauty Aids Islam Debate, ANSA.it, Wages of Sin Marcello Pera of the Forza Italia Party Sept. 2, 2005.] is the speaker of Italy’s senate. “In Eu- Arthur E. Teele, a black man who was rope,” he said at a meeting of young Closing Ranks City Commissioner of Miami from 1997 Catholics, “the population is decreasing, to 2004, committed suicide on July 28, the doors are open to uncontrolled im- DNA tests are an increasingly com- after facing two indictments for corrup- migration and we will all become mem- mon way for people to prove their right tion. It was a dramatic exit: Mr. Teele bers of a mixed race.” This shocked to join Indian tribes. Until now, would- shot himself in the lobby of the Miami many in Italy, especially since Mr. Pera be Cherokees or Seminoles had to rely Herald building, in full view, through is the second highest official in the coun- on documentation of Indian ancestry; glass doors, of the street. Mr. Teele had try. Cardinal Tariscio Bertone said he now they can buttress their claims with reasons for suicide. Besides the indict- was “a bit stupefied” by the remarks. proof that they have a large share of In- ments, Gov. Jeb Bush had removed him Parliamentarian Bobo Craxi of the New dian genes. from the office of City Commissioner in Socialist party said, “His speech is very Many are taking the tests because of 2004 for threatening to shoot a police dangerous if you consider that Italy is a the cash bonanza for being Indian. The officer who was observing him for a country that lives at the center of the Chickasaw tribe of Oklahoma, for ex- fraud investigation. He was convicted for Mediterranean.” However, Deputy ample, has assets of $315 million, mainly that offense in March 2005 and got pro- Prime Minister Giulio Tremonti said he because of casinos. Also, the government bation. [Gov. Bush Suspends Miami agreed with Mr. Pera. [Phillip Pullella, pays reparations to Indians. In 1990, the Commissioner Arthur Teele, Jr., AP, Italy Shocked by ‘Mixed Race’ Remark, Seminoles got $56 million in compen- Sept. 22, 2004.] Reuters, Aug. 25, 2005. Tremonti: My sation because their ancestral lands in One of the indictments was for an Views Similar to Those Expressed by Florida were seized almost 200 years elaborate fraud that involved abusing a Pera, Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, Aug. ago. There are other benefits: Genuine city set-aside program. Mr. Teele ar- 22, 2005.] Indians can get federally subsidized ranged for work on the Miami airport to Afef Jnifen, a Tunisian-born former medical treatment, and some tribes of-

American Renaissance - 15 - October 2005 fer free school clothes for children, vo- to exclude the Freedmen, whom they racism. [Geniviève Oger, France’s Po- cational training, college scholarships, now claim were never really members lygamy Problem, Deutsche Welle, July low-interest home loans, and other ser- of the tribe and are not Indian. In 2000, vices. These incentives have swollen for example, the Seminoles kicked out tribal rolls. In 1980, there were 50,000 2,000 blacks, even though the blacks’ Oklahoma Cherokees; today, there are ancestors had been living with the tribe 250,000. since the 18th century. Blacks sued to regain their membership, but to no avail. The Freedmen thought they had found their vindicator in Rick Kittles, the head of African Ancestry, a company that pur- ports to be able to tell blacks where in Africa they came from. Mr. Kittles heard about the Freedmen’s plight and agreed to test their DNA. The results were dis- maying. A sample of 95 Freedmen showed African ancestry ranging from It takes at least two wives. four to 76 percent, white ancestry from 0 to 62 percent, and Indian ancestry from 31, 2005. Frank Renout, Immigrants’ 0 to 30 percent. The average Freedman Second Wives Find Few Rights, Chris- was only six percent Indian, almost the tian Science Monitor, May 25, 2005.] same as the average East Coast black who does not claim to be Indian. Sticks and Stones Nez Perce chief—it’s in the blood. Mr. Kittle did, however, offer a ray of hope. He pointed out that Freedmen Urban Outfitters, a trendy Philadel- Many people think it is worth testing had a greater share of white genes than phia-based retailer of youth-oriented their ancestry even if they are long-shots. most blacks do. Since ordinary Indians clothing, recently began selling a T-shirt The chief of testing service at DNAPrint also have substantial white ancestry, the with a printed slogan reading, “New Genomics says, “Ninety percent of the Freedmen’s white genes might prove that Mexico, Cleaner Than Regular Mexico.” people interested in Native American they were Indians after all. [Brendan I. The T-shirt has inflamed a number of ancestry are people who look as Euro- Koerner, Blood Feud, Wired, Sept. pressure groups. One calling itself pean as could be. They think they might 2005. Karen Kaplan, Ancestry in a Drop BlueLatinos.org claims the shirt could have a Native American ancestor three of Blood, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 30, promote “negative and racist ideas of or four generations back. We call it the 2005.] ‘the dirty Mexican.’ ” A spokesman for American Indian Great-Grandmother the ADL says the T-shirt “is an inappro- Princess.” Pampering Polygamists priate and unnecessary disparagement of However, even if tests show Indian [Mexico],” and that Mexicans “should ancestry, they do not guarantee tribal Polygamy has been illegal in France not be subjected to this type of ridicule membership. For one thing, the gene since 1993, but many African and markers that indicate Indian blood are Middle Eastern immigrants, particularly not exclusive to Indians. Someone with those from Mali, practice it anyway. In a low level of Indian markers—in the fact, there are between 8,000 and 15,000 four to six percent range—could have polygamous households in France, and gotten them from Greece or Turkey. Pa- each has an average of 10 children. This kistanis generally show about 30 percent can lead to squalid living conditions, American Indian heritage for reasons with families packed into small apart- scientists do not understand. Further- ments and houses. more, ancestry tests cannot distinguish Although polygamists are, techni- and debasing reference.” Both groups between Indians of different tribes, so cally, lawbreakers, France does not ar- are calling on Urban Outfitters to pull proof of Indian genes is not sufficient rest and deport African violators. In- the T-shirts from their stores immedi- for membership to any particular tribe. stead, the government encourages wives ately. One group that is particularly eager to “de-cohabitate,” sending teams of In 2003, the chain sold a parody of to prove its Indian ancestry is the Freed- social workers to offer them large, state- the board game “Monopoly” called men, or the descendants of slaves owned funded apartments and living expenses “Ghettopoly,” which made fun of by Indians in the 19th century. After they for themselves and their children. The “gangsta” rap and “hip-hop” culture. were freed in 1866, say Indians, former government encourages extra wives to Instead of houses and hotels, Ghettopoly slaves were accepted into the tribes as divorce their husbands, but this is not featured crack dens and housing pro- equals, and intermarriage was common. mandatory. So far, only 24 wives from jects. Urban Outfitters stopped selling However, once Indians came into polygamous families have divorced. the game after it got complaints and bad money from casinos and reparations, It is illegal to bring more than one wife publicity. [Wendy Tanaka, Sale of T-shirt they became more selective. In recent into France, but the French do not en- Sparks Protest, Philadelphia Inquirer, years, Indians have defined membership force the law for fear of accusations of July 22, 2005, p. C3.] Ω

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