American Renaissance There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world. — Thomas Jefferson Vol. 21 No. 2 February 2010 How to Build Your Own AR Club

What grew out of an AR our people—the sort of thing AR had the energy level, and the AR Confer- long talked about. A ticket to a confer- ence was charged with excitement, as conference. GPEGCPFCUWDUETKRVKQPVQCOCIC\KPG people discussed dissident ideas with may not seem like much in response to like-minded people face to face, many by Reilly Smith the September 11 attacks, but that was for the first time. There was always O[YC[QHUWRRQTVKPICPQTICPK\CVKQP spirited conversation among conferees s someone who had just ar- that spoke intelligently and civilly for and speakers in hallways, the lobby, the rived at his second American ARenaissance conference once said, “It’s great to be among the living again.” He was right. There is nothing like spending a weekend with 250 other people who understand, and the contrast between that atmosphere and what we ſPFKPQWTFCKN[NKXGUEQWNFJCTFN[DG greater. However, you can be among the living a lot more often than the every two years when AR conferences are held. You can start an AR club in your own area, and get a dose of sanity whenever you need it. This article explains how four men HTQOVJG%JKECIQCTGCOGVHQTVJGſTUV time at an AR conference, and went on to build one of the more successful clubs CHſNKCVGFYKVJVJGOCIC\KPG+YQWNF like to explain how we went about it and what we learned, and I hope our experi- white people like me, and in defense of bar, the restaurant, as several hundred ence will inspire others to start clubs. QWTEKXKNK\CVKQP people found themselves free—“Free at The 2002 AR Conference was in I had attended a variety of political last! Thank God Almighty!”— free from NCVG(GDTWCT[LWUVſXGOQPVJUCHVGTVJG conferences on the Right, but this was the chains of racial orthodoxy. This was September 11 attacks; it was the attacks O[ſTUVTCEGTGCNKUVGXGPVCPF+FKFPŏV the atmosphere I wanted to take back that motivated me to subscribe to AR know what to expect. Any reservations with me to Chicago. and go to the conference. Before that, I might have had, though, were instantly Many people had their state or city on I was already aware of the Left’s anti- allayed. I met wonderful and interesting their name tags, and during the banquet, Western and anti-white agendas. I had people and was impressed by their high the AR staff had the good sense to seat warned friends and family and anyone people by region. This was how I was who would listen about multicultural- You can be among the liv- able to meet three other people from the ism, Islamic jihad, and Third-World Chicago area whom I could have missed immigration. I considered myself ing a lot more often than in the excitement of meeting and talking something of a paleoconservative, once every two years. to so many other people. We agreed to FGGRN[KPƀWGPEGFD[5CO(TCPEKUCPF meet again. Pat Buchanan, particularly on issues of level: people with Ph.D.s in many sub- This was especially important for race and immigration. jects, doctors, lawyers, scientists, engi- me because there were so few people I Still, the Muslim attacks on our neers, teachers, retired police detectives, knew at home who shared my views. soil shocked me to the core. I began MBAs, internet developers, accountants ;QWECPGCUKN[ſPFEQPXGPVKQPCN4G- to believe paleoconservatism was not and many retired people who were con- publican, conservative, and libertarian enough, that the country needed some- tributing their time and wisdom. groups, but they do not discuss the de- thing more nationalist and explicitly for At any conference you can sense Continued on page 3

American Renaissance - 1 - February 2010 include blacks in the groups because white people won’t say what they really think as soon as a black person expresses an opinion. They are afraid to disagree with a black for fear of being thought “racist.” 4GƀGEVHQTCOQOGPVQPYJCVVJKU means. What does cowardice of this kind bring to jury deliberations, faculty hiring committees, school boards, or legislatures? Just imagine how many terrible things have happened because whites said nothing for fear of offending a black person. This reminds me of something Mi- chael Levin wrote about in Why Race Matters. He noted how easily blacks Sir — You may recall that early this work themselves into a fury about “rac- Letters from Readers year, the Pentagon issued a report warn- ism” or “oppression,” and described Sir — AR did confused country- ing that Mexico is on it way to becoming how this effects whites. Most whites music fans a real service by publishing a “failed state,” to use the current eu- do not get furious over nothing, so they “Implicitly White, Explicitly Anti- phemism for descending into savagery, assume blacks must have a good reason White” (see December 2009 issue). Dis- and that a “wholesale collapse of civil to be angry. They may not completely cussions about the anti-white tendencies government” is entirely possible. grasp what a furious black is complain- of some performers take place every day I have no love for Mexicans, but ing about, but they believe that if he is among thinking fans, but we are not in their defense, if the drug trade has screaming he must have a real griev- likely to see such careful arguments laid produced thugs powerful enough to ance. So they give in. out in print. This is another case of our threaten the government it is only be- The same thing happens when blacks culture being corrupted and used to un- cause Americans buy their products. I riot. Whites believe blacks are express- dermine traditional Americans and their ¿QGWKHOLEHUWDULDQDUJXPHQWVLQIDYRURI ing legitimate rage over real injustices. heritage. Thank you for this thought- legalizing drugs convincing. We would Because whites cannot imagine rioting provoking and informative article. be better off if drugs were legal, and the for no good reason, they do not think D. Tyrone Crowley, Prattville, Ala. Mexicans would be much better off. blacks would either. All this keeps And it is worth thinking about what whites cowed and blacks on the moral would make life better for Mexicans. offensive. Sir — The review in your January If Mexico begins to look like Somalia, I think most blacks would be unable issue of the book about Mexico was just think how many Mestizos will head to describe the process in the terms eye-opening. I did not know drug smug- QRUWK,IZHNHHS¿JKWLQJWKLVIRROLVK I have, but they have an instinct for glers have a patron saint to whom they “war on drugs,” Mexico could reach the keeping whites off balance. Whites will make grateful pilgrimages after a suc- point where it made sense to invade the continue to be treated this way until they cessful run. Nor had I heard about the place, destroy the cartels, and prop up show some backbone. cult of Santa Muerte (“Saint Death,” of the government. If there is any country Jeffrey Goldsmith, Poughkeepsie, all things) that seems to attract under- on earth where the folly of “nation build- N.Y. world types. This is the kind of deep ing” could conceivably be defended it superstition one expects of Haitians or is Mexico. Congolese pygmies. Of course, we would never go in Sir — Your collection of racial But even more surprising is the bra- and straighten out Mexico, no matter anecdotes in the January cover story \GPPGUUQHVJGVQRETKOKPCNU%CP[QW how badly it needed it. That would be reminds me that many blacks just want imagine Bernie Madoff living it up in a “insensitive” at best and “imperialist” or to humiliate whites whenever they can. top-security prison, carrying on affairs, even “genocidal” at worst. Better to let James Baldwin, the black novelist petted running his con game just as before, the country collapse than open ourselves and adored by whites in the 1950s and secure in the knowledge that his men to such charges! 1960s, put it this way: would spring him? Or someone on the Charles Hartwell, Albuquerque, “[T]here is, I should think, no Negro FBI’s ten-most-wanted list taking over N.M. living in America who has not felt, brief- 2GQTKCƀ[KPIKPJWPFTGFUQHIWGUVUCPF ly or for long periods, . . . simple, naked the latest top-40 band, and holding a and unanswerable hatred; who has not 24-hour party? Sir — I was very interested to read wanted to smash any white face he may Anything bad is possible in a country in the January cover story about radio encounter in a day, to violate, out of as rotten as that. It’s no wonder half of host Dennis Prager’s account of the motives of the cruelest vengeance, their all Mexicans admit to pollsters that they company that puts together focus groups women, to break the bodies of all white would move in with us if they could. to evaluate radio programming. Mr. people and bring them low . . . .” Carter Jennings, Cheyenne, Wyo. Prager says that the company does not Sarah Wentworth, Richmond, Va.

American Renaissance - 2 - February 2010 is often enough to keep members from American Renaissance losing interest and not too often to burn them out. Jared Taylor, Editor 9JGPVQOGGV!9GſPF5WPFC[CH- Stephen Webster, Assistant Editor VGTPQQPUYQTMDGUVYJGPVTCHſEKUNKIJV Ronald N. Neff, Web Site Editor A race realist club I know of in New York City meets on weekday evenings, shortly after work hours because many American Renaissance is published monthly by the of their members are already downtown. New Century Foundation. NCF is governed by section 'XGT[ENWDECPſPFVJGUEJGFWNGVJCV 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code; contributions to it are tax deductible. works best. Subscriptions to American Renaissance are $28.00 per year. First-class postage is 3. Where to meet? A restaurant with CPCFFKVKQPCN5WDUETKRVKQPUVQ%CPCFC ſTUVENCUU CTG5WDUETKRVKQPU a private meeting room is ideal. It is outside Canada and the U.S. (air mail) are $40.00. Back issues are $4.00 each. Foreign an imposition on a member to open subscribers should send U.S. dollars or equivalent in convertible bank notes. his home for a meeting, and it may be Please make checks payable to: American Renaissance, P.O. Box 527, Oakton, VA a risk if there are new people coming 22124. ISSN No. 1086-9905, Telephone: (703) 716-0900, Facsimile: (703) 716-0932, whom none of us knows. Also, new Web Page Address: www.AmRen.com people usually feel more comfortable meeting us in a public place rather than Continued from page 1 for the club: http://www.chicagoamren. visiting the home of someone they have mographic and multicultural challenges com/. We used the site as a bulletin never met. facing the West. We established “Chica- board for events and to recruit new +PCHCTƀWPICTGCEJQQUKPICNQEC- goland Friends of AR” in order to talk members. We also used a service offered tion that is convenient for everyone has about the things that really matter. by the AR staff to reach other subscrib- to be a compromise. We have ended 9GJGNFQWTſTUVOGGVKPICVC'WTQ- ers in the area (see sidebar). We were up alternating between locations in pean-themed restaurant in the Chicago also able to contact people in the local Chicago that suit the city-dwellers and suburbs one weekend afternoon shortly chapters of the Council of Conservative UWDWTDCPNQECVKQPUVJCVQVJGTUſPFOQTG after the February conference, and it %KVK\GPU %QH%% CPFVJG/KPWVGOGP convenient. became our custom to meet at “Euro- As the club grew we reached the point where we could invite speakers. 6JGſTUVIWGUVVQCFFTGUUVJGENWDYCU William H. Regnery II, the founder of such prominent white advocacy insti- tutions as The Occidental Quarterly, Washington Summit Publishers, and the National Policy Institute. We found a Greek restaurant that would let us use its banquet room for no extra charge. The talk was a great success, with many additional new members showing up to hear it, and then signing up to stay informed about future meetings. We have also invited Serge Trifkovic, author of The Sword and the Prophet, Michael Hart, author of Understanding Human History, and AR’s editor, Jared Serge Trifkovic. Taylor. Guest speakers are always a A powerful motivator. good way to boost turnout. 4. How to stay in touch? We use the EGPVTKEŒTGUVCWTCPVU6JGſTUVOGGVKPI We have held a few movie screen- contacts members are willing to give was small—just the four of us plus two ings. One was of Africa Addio, a remark- us: usually e-mail or telephone. Some guests, but it was a success. We recap- able 1960s Italian documentary about people prefer regular mail. tured the energy and conviviality of the VJGFGEQNQPK\CVKQPQH#HTKECVJCVYCU 5. How to keep out Leftist spies and AR conference. never distributed in the United States other riff-raff? In fact, there isn’t much Since then we have grown through because of pressure from egalitarian of a problem with spies. The Left is a variety of ways. Each of us brought groups. We also watched Islam: What VGTTKſGFQHRGQRNGNKMGWUCPFRTQDCDN[ friends and family members to subse- the West Needs to Know, which featured thinks we would shoot anyone who quent meetings, and we found members one of our speakers, Dr. Trifkovic. turned up without a sheet or an arm- who left e-mail addresses on AR mes- Along the way, the club worked out a band. In any case, a lefty trying to sound sage boards or the comments pages on number of decisions other groups might like a “racist” is practically a comedy the AR website. As we grew, we were ſPFWUGHWN routine and very easy to see through. lucky enough to have a member with 1. How often to meet? We have Almost without exception it is not hard the Internet savvy to build a web page found it best to meet once a month. That to sense who belongs in the club and

American Renaissance - 3 - February 2010 ceremonies, follow Roberts Rules of Or- FGTQTJCXGCFGſPKVGUVTWEVWTGVQVJGKT meetings. Our meetings tend to be more unstructured. If we bring in a speaker, of course, the meeting is more formal. I know of other clubs that have tried a more structured approach with assigned who does not. by the variety of perspectives our mem- readings and so forth, but they failed. Once we had some rough-looking, bers bring to them. Members skipped the assigned readings tattooed types show up and invite the At the other end of the spectrum, or other preparation, and drifted away. whole club to the Adolph Hitler birth- anti-white Leftists have called our club If anything, we may have gone too FC[RCTV[VJG[YGTGQTICPK\KPI+VJKPM “extremist” and a “hate” group—so far in the direction of the “bull ses- our very down-to-earth, unmistakably we are clearly doing something right. sions” that crop up on the margins of middle-class demeanor put them off; The Anti-Defamation League called AR conferences, but that was the feel- they never came back. us “extremist” for honoring the life of ing we wanted to preserve. The club That said, we are an “inclusive” Sam Francis, and for inviting William in New York City I referred to earlier group. Anyone who agrees with AR Regnery to speak. The Southern Pov- has a social hour, then a formal hour of QPVJGTCEGCPFEKXKNK\CVKQPCNKUUWGUKU erty Law Center (SPLC) has put us on discussion, followed by another social welcome. Our members are Protestant, their Chicago-area “hate group map,” hour. This, too, sounds like a promising Catholic, and Jewish. We have atheists, so we’re lumped in with the Nation format. QH+UNCO*GVGTQUGZWCNU1TICPK\GFHQT 9. Outreach. Be on the lookout for Recruiting With the a Moral Environment (anti-gay), the local events that might attract new mem- %QWPEKNQH%QPUGTXCVKXG%KVK\GPUCPF bers. When we invited Dr. Trifkovic Help of AR the Jewish Defense League. to speak, we knew of an immigration R offers a handy way for 6. Who runs the club? AR readers to meet other We have no legal structure, Asubscribers in their area. but the four of us who $GECWUG#4IWCTCPVGGUVJGEQPſ- started the club act as an dentiality of subscribers, it cannot informal board, largely simply send you the addresses of making decisions of where people who live nearby. Instead, if and when to meet. At meet- you specify the area you would like ings, the “board” asks for to cover, AR will tell you how many opinions of members. subscribers are in that area and ask 7. Education or activ- you to prepare a mailing for them. ism? Some people show up You then write a letter introduc- seeking a more politically ing yourself, describing what you active club, along the lines have in mind, and explaining how of, say, the Minutemen or the recipients can contact you. AR the CofCC, and may be will copy and mail the letters and disappointed to learn we charge you a modest fee for postage are mainly a discussion and handling. That way, subscriber group. We see our club as KPHQTOCVKQPTGOCKPUEQPſFGPVKCN more of an “intellectual and recipients can choose to reply to salon” than a campaign you or not. Whether your contacts headquarters. We empha- grow into a full-blown AR club UK\GDQQMUKFGCUURGCMGTU or just establish friendships and and so on. This does not The loonies are not a big worry. networks, it is a great way to meet mean we exclude discussion of politics reform conference that was meeting like-minded people. or discourage people from being politi- in Chicago a few weekends before our cally active; far from it. Indeed, we often event. Some of us attended the confer- agnostics, and the occasional Odinist. discuss upcoming political and activist GPEGCPFRCUUGFQWVƀ[GTUCDQWVQWTENWD We have Creationists and Darwinists, events, but we are mainly interested in and the Trifkovic event. That helped us and everything in between. We have ideas. build attendance. Zionists and ardent fans of Kevin Mac- 6JKUJQYGXGTOC[UKORN[TGƀGEVVJG If you do hold an event—say a Donald. We have Hispanic members, personalities of our members. There is speaker, or a screening of something like and were recently contacted by an Arab- no reason why different AR clubs need the movie Zulu or Craig Bodeker’s A American who is an AR fan and wants not have different characters, and I can Conversation About Race (Mr. Bodeker to join. All members are in fundamental easily imagine a club becoming very will be speaking at the AR conference in agreement on the vital necessity for involved in local and even national February), you can ask the AR staff to white survival and maintaining white issues. alert other subscribers in the area or even majorities. If we have a litmus test, that 8. How much structure? Many civic to announce your event on the AR web is it, and our discussions are enlivened QTICPK\CVKQPUJCXGHQTOCNCIGPFCUCPF page. It’s good to remind local subscrib-

American Renaissance - 4 - February 2010 ers about your group even if they can’t ties, weddings, dinners, and other social come to a particular meeting. events. Also, you should know that some There are now several clubs around people will show up who will seem like the country that are moving from “sur- wonderful new members to your club— vival” to “stability.” After a network and then never come back. We have a of such clubs is established, we expect long list of people who share our views to move beyond just our own fans and and have attended a meeting or two, members. Clubs could sponsor public but for whatever reason do not return. debates or bring speakers to a local li- We are still able to reach many of these brary or college and encourage others to people. They are still for our cause and subscribe to AR. In time, we can bypass read our announcements with interest. the Left’s stranglehold on the media, and We know from the Internet and the OQTGCPFOQTGRGQRNGYKNNſPFVJGEQP- AR web page that we are far from alone ſFGPEGVQRTQOQVGVJGRTKPEKRNGFYJKVG and isolated, but for us there is nothing racial consciousness that is necessary for like meeting like-minded people face QWTTCEGHQTQWTEKXKNK\CVKQPCPFHQTQWT to face. In our case, good friendships very survival. have formed outside of club meetings, Reilly Smith is an lawyer who lives and members invite each other to par- in Chicago. Walking on Eggshells (Part II)

How to be white in multi- council once explained at a rally for to the rest of us. ‘Look! What’s that reparations for slavery, that he some- motherfucka doin’ ridin’ through here?! cultural America. times wants to go up to a white person, +UJGETTCCCC\[!ŏ9GECWIJVJKOQP tell him, “You can’t understand this, it’s Cavalier Boulevard and knocked him off Part I, in the January issue, described a black thing,” and then “slap him just the bike. . . . Ignoring the passing cars, the complex etiquette whites must follow for my mental health.” we stomped him and kicked him. My in all matters relating to race, and the During his 2002 reelection cam- price they pay for violating it. Non- paign, Sharpe James, mayor of whites are generally exempt from these Newark, New Jersey, referred to his requirements. light-skinned black opponent as “the faggot white boy.” A largely-black here is another kind of pressure GNGEVQTCVGTGVWTPGFJKOVQQHſEG blacks and other non-whites do Comments like these would have Tnot face. They can say pretty ruined the careers of white politi- much anything without being called a cians. “racist.” Claire Mack is a former mayor One of the clearest examples of of San Mateo, California. In a 2006 blacks not having to face the same newspaper interview, she complained music as whites is from the auto- that too many guests on television talk biography of Nathan McCall, who shows were “wrinkled-ass white men,” worked as a reporter for the Washington Apache attack helicopter. The Army was no doubt trying to insult Indians with the name. and wondered why there were not Post. In Makes Me Wanna Holler, he more blacks. No one ever asked her to wrote about an episode from his early stick partners kicked him in the head and CRQNQIK\G years: face and watched the blood gush from Daisy Lynum, a black commissioner his mouth. I kicked him in the stomach of the city of Orlando, Florida, angered and nuts, where I knew it would hurt. the city’s police when she complained “We walked away, laugh- Every time I drove my foot into his balls, VJCVCőYJKVGDQ[ŒQHſEGTJCFRWNNGF ing, boasting, competing I felt better . . . one dude kept stomping, JGTUQPQXGTHQTCVTCHſEUVQR9JGPVJG for bragging rights about like he’d gone berserk . . . . When he police union demanded an apology, she who’d done the most ſPKUJGFJGTGCEJGFFQYPCPFRKEMGFWR refused, saying, “That is how I talk and the white dude’s bike, lifted it as high as I don’t plan to change.” damage.” he could above his head, and slammed When a white man explained to Wil- it down on him hard. . . . We walked lie Brown, then mayor of San Francisco, “The fellas and I were hanging out away, laughing, boasting, competing that racial preferences for blacks could on our corner one afternoon when the for bragging rights about who’d done hurt whites, he replied, “I don’t care strangest thing happened. A white boy the most damage.” about your idiot kids.” Mr. Brown’s . . . came pedaling a bicycle casually Mr. McCall expressed no regrets for political career suffered no harm. through the neighborhood. . . . Some- this brutality, and this and subsequent Charles Barron of the Brooklyn city body spotted him and pointed him out books were so successful he had to

American Renaissance - 5 - February 2010 leave the Post to meet the demand for dent of the Latino Leadership Alliance, the legislatures of Alabama, Maryland, his lectures. said that decades earlier he had been New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, Whites, on the other hand, can’t even called “pork chop.” The team owners CPF(NQTKFCCNNQHHKEKCNN[CRQNQIK\GF name sports teams without checking said they had never heard of the term be- because their states had once permitted with the diversity police, but the deck ing used that way—neither have I—but slavery. One Virginia delegate, 79-year- is stacked against them whichever way they renamed the pig “Ferrous.” old Frank Hargrove, was having none of they turn. A team named the “Rebels” it. There’s been no slavery for 140 years, is unacceptable because it glorifies JGUCKFCPFőQWTDNCEMEKVK\GPUUJQWNF slave-owning Confederates but the name get over it.” Of course, the heavens fell “Indians” is unacceptable because it on poor Mr. Hargrove, and he quickly insults Native Americans. Obviously, wilted. He didn’t just change his mind what is going on here has nothing to and express the “profound contrition” do with consistency, but with trying required of the apology. He went even VQſPFCP[RQUUKDNGYC[VQVJYCTVCPF further and introduced a proposal to hector whites. make Juneteenth—June 19, 1865, when It is obvious that the Army named the last slaves found out they were an attack helicopter the Apache out of free—a Virginia state holiday. CFOKTCVKQPHQTſIJVKPIUMKNNUQH+PFKCPU The great irony in all this self- The people who named teams the At- ƀCIGNNCVKQPCPFITQXGNKPIKUVJCVKVKU lanta Braves or Washington Redskins other whites who make it possible to clearly felt the same way. In any case, keep whitey in a state of fear. There is Rebels have been more or less wiped no better way to advertise racial virtue out, and activists are hard at work try- Couldn’t dare call him “PorkChop.” than to kick a fellow white after he has ing to exterminate the few Indians who Houston wanted to name its soccer been smacked down for “insensitivity.” survive. In 2009, a 17-year lawsuit to team the Houston 1836 after the year If at least a few whites in the Virginia CDQNKUJVJG4GFUMKPUſPCNN[ECOGVQCP the city was founded, but Harris County legislature had stood with Mr. Hargrove, end only because the US Supreme Court Commissioner Sylvia Garcia led His- he might have stuck to his original, refused to hear it. In California, activists panics in a campaign against the name. sensible guns, but he was a target too persuaded the legislature to forbid the She said it was no good because that was tempting for other whites to resist. Spit- use of any Indian-related team name by the year Sam Houston defeated Santa ting on him was an irresistible chance any public school, except for schools Ana’s army at San Jacinto, securing to prove that elusive negative: that they near “Indian-controlled land.” Indians Texas independence. That should have were not “racists.” on reservations are the only people who made the name even better, but the team In his excellent book White Guilt, can use Indian names. owner folded and changed the name to black author Shelby Steele argues con- The Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, the Houston Dynamo. vincingly that black power exists only as Triple-A baseball team, the IronPigs has Occasionally some misguided white a byproduct of white guilt. Blacks have a large, furry pig mascot. Two days after person tries to stand up to the pres- nothing like enough real power to push naming it “PorkChop,” the team had to sure, but he usually doesn’t last long. whites around if whites locked arms and change it because a Hispanic said it was #OGTKECPUJCXGCRQNQI[ſVUHTQOVKOG refused to be pushed, but blacks have KPUWNVKPI)WKNNGTOQ.QRG\XKEGRTGUK- to time, and between 2005 and 2008, two enormous advantages. First, most whites are spineless and give in right CYC[5GEQPFGXGPKHCHGYUJQYſIJV the spineless ones—who only under these circumstances cease to be inert— gang up on them. It is whites who have loaded the gun, handed it to blacks, and told them, “Here’s the trigger, fellas.” And, of course, every other race is now fully armed.

Signs of change?

Are things changing? There may be some signs that they are. Barack Obama’s endless spending and his ideas about medicine have stirred up vehement opposition, almost exclusively from whites. Lefties insist this is “racism.” Actress Janeane Garofalo—although why anyone pays attention to inconse- quential twits like her is a mystery—said They’re all white so they must be racists. of the anti-tax Tea Parties, “This is about

American Renaissance - 6 - February 2010 hating a black man in the White House. themselves. bit with the system, he will be badly This is racism straight up.” What is most striking about these wounded. The great black hope is prov- Princeton professor Melissa Harris- accusations of “racism” is that they are ing to be dangerously vulnerable, and no Lacewell says she doesn’t trust people a virtual admission that whites do have matter what happens, he will be badly YJQUC[UQEKCNK\GFOGFKEKPGYKNNGPEQWT- sound racial reasons for objecting to battered even before he brings up the age people to depend on the government high taxes and new handouts. No one issue that really matters: amnesty for rather than their knows how many whites have con- illegal immigrants. own resources: scious, racial motives for yelling about That is when whites will show wheth- high taxes and “Obamacare.” The fact er they have been completely denatured remains that they have every reason to or whether they are capable of doing oppose yet more government indebted- something in their own interests—and ness their grandchildren will have to pay doing it in their own name. There will QHH6JG[JCXGGXGT[TGCUQPVQſIJVC giant medical bureaucracy that will put indigent, alcoholic, illegal immigrants Whenever there is debate on the same waiting list for brain surgery about government spend- CPFFKCN[UKUCUVCZRC[KPI75EKVK\GPU ing and lefties accuse Whenever there is debate about govern- their opponents of “rac- ment spending and lefties accuse their opponents of “racism,” you can be sure ism,” you can be sure that that the plan is to milk whitey. the plan is to milk whitey. So far, these accusations aren’t work- “That ing. Whites who have no racial motive DGCVGTTKſEſIJVQXGTCOPGUV[VJCVYKNN lan- and just oppose creeping socialism are make the current debate about medicine g u a g e getting angry about the name-calling. look like a minuet. White people are of personal Whites who do have a conscious racial slowly getting angry enough to say it responsibility is of- motive already know it and certainly out loud: that they refuse to sit quietly ten a code language aren’t going to change their minds just while their rulers turn the United States used against poor because actresses and Princeton profs into a Third-World dung heap. This will and minority communities.” As usual, start screeching. Very few whites are be one of the all-time great battles over leftists claim to be able to read the actually going to admit to racial motives, the future of the country, and there is an minds of people they have never met. but, for now, it doesn’t matter. excellent chance we will win. They just know why people went to Tea +H$CTCEM1DCOCHCKNUVQUQEKCNK\G Mr. Trueaxe is a Washington, DC- Parties even if they never went to one medicine or manages only to tinker a area businessman. The 2010 Census

The Census Bureau is con- native whites with foreign parents, Octoroons, 107,475 Chinese, 2,039 and 9,121,807 foreign whites. They ,CRCPGUGCPF%KXKNK\GF+PFKCPU fused about race. accounted for nearly 88 percent of the Hispanics had to be counted as either YJKVGQT%KXKNK\GF+PFKCP by James Schneider 6JG%GPUWU$WTGCWFGſPGFCP1E- toroon as anyone with 1/8 Negro ances- he 2010 census forms will be try or less, but how many people know mailed to Americans in Febru- who all eight of their great-grand parents Tary and March. Although nearly were? I suspect quite a few Octoroons GXGT[LQWTPCNKUVCPFRWDNKEſIWTGUC[U didn’t even know they were supposed race does not matter, the form offers to classify themselves as black. Even more choices than ever for racial clas- Quadroons are technically more white UKſECVKQPU5QOGRGQRNGUC[VJGTGKU than black, and a Quadroon would not PQUEKGPVKſEDCUKUHQTTCEGVJQWIJVJKU really be telling a lie if he said he was does not stop them from supporting YJKVG.CVGTVJGDWTGCWUKORNKſGFVJKPIU CHſTOCVKXGCEVKQPCPFQVJGTHQTOUQH by counting only blacks and mulattoes, discrimination against whites. In any YKVJCOWNCVVQFGſPGFCUUQOGQPGYJQ case, the racial categories our govern- had at least a trace of Negro ancestry but ment uses are badly muddled. was not fully black. The 1890 census had a relatively In the 2000 census, 12.9 percent of simple way of counting Americans. It total population. In addition, the census the population said it was black, and divided whites into three categories: reported 6,337,980 Negroes, 956,989 only 0.6 percent claimed to be black plus 34,358,348 native whites, 11,583,075 Mulattoes, 105,135 Quadroons, 69,936 some other race. Many more blacks than

American Renaissance - 7 - February 2010 print whatever you like. The Census Bureau doesn’t under- stand race. It seems to think Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans are different races, and explicitly offers “Thai” or “Cambodian” as racial categories. Those are not racial categories any more than “French” or “English” would be. It is interesting that the bureau counts the ſPGFKUVKPEVKQPUDGVYGGPFKHHGTGPV#UKCP nationalities but throws all “whites” into the same pot. We are told that Hispanics can be of any race, but if that were true, it would be logical to classify them by race and eliminate the Hispanic category. Span- iards—who are European but can claim to be Hispanic—would call themselves white, and most Latin Americans would be South American Indians, along with some number of Africans or Negroes. It is just as well the census has a “His- panic” category, however, because most /GUVK\QUYQWNFENCKOVQDGőYJKVGŒ CTVKſEKCNN[KPETGCUKPIVJCVECVGIQT[ The Census Bureau thinks these Afghans are the same race . . . The census form gives no hint as to YJGVJGT2QTVWIWGUGQT$TC\KNKCPUCTG that are mixed, so it is interesting that Japanese ő*KURCPKEŒCPF$TC\KNKCPUKPRCTVKEW- only a small number either know they Korean lar, are likely to be confused, especially are mixed or cared enough to say so on Vietnamese if they are dark-skinned. Officially, the census form. Most blacks appear to Native Hawaiian the Census Bureau says they are not be following the “one drop rule.” Guamanian or Chamorro Hispanic. Nor are Basques or people This year’s census form asks whether Samoan HTQO$GNK\GQTVJG#\QTGU*QYGXGT you are Hispanic before it even asks Other Asian—Print race, for ex- this has the awkward effect of making your race, and it lists many options: ample, Hmong, Laotian, Thai, Pakistani, NKN[YJKVG5RCPKCTFURQVGPVKCNDGPGſEKC- Cambodian, and so on. ries of racial preferences, while ruling “Not of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish 1VJGT2CEKſE+UNCPFGTō2TKPVTCEGfor QWVUYCTVJ[$TC\KNKCPU;GCTUCIQVJG origin example, Fijian, Tongan, and so on.” Small Business Administration took the Mexican, Mexican Am. [sic], Chi- NGCFKPTGYTKVKPIVJGRTGHGTGPEGUFGſPK- cano In case these choices are not enough tion of Hispanics so as to kick out the Puerto Rican you can check “some other race” and Spaniards, keep out the Portuguese, but Cuban Another Hispanic, Latino or Span- ish origin—Print origin, for example, Argentinean, Colombian, Dominican, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, Spaniard, and so on.”

After you have decided whether you are Hispanic, here are the “race” options. You can check just one or as many as you like:

“White Black or African Am. [sic], or Ne- gro American Indian or Alaska Native— Print name of enrolled or principle tribe. Asian Indian Chinese Filipino . . . as these American sorority girls.

American Renaissance - 8 - February 2010 include non-white Portuguese speakers. DTQMGQWVVJGPQP'WTQRGCPUVJGſIWTG is handy when you apply to college or This made it possible to keep the racial for whites would drop below 50 percent for a job. If someone tells you you are lines neatly drawn in a consistently anti- even sooner than the current forecast of not an African American you can reply, white manner despite the Census Bu- 2042 or so. This is a milestone many “My ancestors are from Africa. I hope TGCWŏUFGſPKVKQPU8KTVWCNN[GXGT[QVJGT liberals look forward to; why not give you are not going to discriminate against ITQWRVJCVJCPFUQWVDGPGſVUD[TCEGJCU them this victory a little earlier? me because my skin is lighter than that CFQRVGFVJKUCPVKYJKVGFGſPKVKQP of some of my cousins.” The “white” category, however, is When whites get their 2010 census unsatisfactory because it includes people HQTOUCPFſNNKPVJGőTCEGŒKPHQTOCVKQP who are clearly not white: Arabs, Per- I suggest that they check the “other” box sians, Afghans, and North Africans. The CPFYTKVGKPő'WTQRGCPŒQTCURGEKſE Census Bureau, which is at such pains to country of origin. Another option would distinguish between Fijian and Tongan be to honor their ancestors of 150,000 “races,” apparently thinks Egyptians years ago and say they are African are no different from Scots—they’re American. Or is it more important to get “white.” Some people suspect this is a results that can be compared to previous dodge to keep the decline in the percent- censuses so we will know what is hap- age of whites from looking even more pening to our country? alarming than it already does, but it’s *QYGXGT[QWſNNQWV[QWTHQTO[QW probably just bureaucratic stupidity. can be sure that Hispanics and Asians I would recommend that the Census will be crowing over the results, while Bureau eliminate the white category whites grin nervously, trying to pretend and replace it with three others: Euro- We’re all Africans, aren’t we? that long-term oblivion is what they peans, Arabs, and West Asians. Perhaps To further complicate things, many always wanted. it should even divide Europeans into anthropologists believe all humans have James Schneider is the founder of Northern Europeans and Southern Eu- a common ancestor who lived near what the Center for Perpetual Diversity (per- ropeans; after all, a Neapolitan looks is today Kenya about 150,000 years ago. petualdiversity.com), an organization more different from a Dane than a Ko- If that is true, everyone could say he dedicated to preserving the European rean does from a Chinese. If the census was African or African American. This element of diversity. The Belgian Government Applies Sharia Law European “submission” to two separate kitchen at Forest-Bruxelles other way around. was too expensive. To solve the prob- Sharia rules now apply to more and Islam. lem, management decided that since more products: meat, chicken, drinks, pork was forbidden for Muslims, they deserts—there are even halal cosmetics, by Guillaume would simply ban it for all prisoners. It which do not contain the slightest trace has become the rule in this country that QHRQTMIGNCVKP6JGETC\GHQTTGNKIKQWU eople are generally unaware of Belgium adapts to Muslims and not the prohibition knows no bounds. what is going on in their own Pcountry because the media cover up so many important facts. La Dernière Heure [a French-language Belgian daily paper] somehow failed to toe the line in a recent article, in which it reported that pork is no longer served in a num- ber of prisons, including the prison of Forest-Bruxelles [a prison for women in Brussels], and that pork was taken off the menu several years ago. Ittre prison [a luxury prison with single cells that opened near Forge de Clabecq in 2002] can accommodate all manner of dietary whimsies, religious or not. According to La Dernière Heure, 80 percent of the inmates at Forest-Bruxelles are Muslims—this fact itself is not usually for public consumption. Because pork must not be handled with the same utensils used for cooking halal [Muslim kosher] meals, having

American Renaissance - 9 - February 2010 A Muslim alderman—a Social- HTGSWGPVN[EKVGFGUVKOCVGHQTVJGUK\GQH phobia, but they do their best to live ist by the name of Daif—introduced the halal market in France alone is €4 beyond the bounds of the European sharia cooking in the public schools of billion. The German Islam Council has Community, of European practices, Molenbeek St-Jean, a Belgian town of UGVWRVJG'WTQRGCP*CNCN%GTVKſECVKQP and of European culture. How can they 70,000. After several months, however, +PUVKVWVGVQUWRGTXKUGEGTVKſECVKQPHQT complain of ostracism when they shut the experiment came to an end because it the entire continent, though there are a themselves away from non-Muslims in YCUVQQFKHſEWNVVQMGGRVTCEMQHYJKEJ PWODGTQHUOCNNGTQTICPK\CVKQPU a closed community that increasingly students were keeping halal and which Halal is run by Muslims for Muslims, practices Sharia law? were not. The solution was, again, to so non-Muslims have no share in the 6JGTGKUCPQTICPK\CVKQPKP&WDNKPQH eliminate pork from the menu for all all places, called the European Council students, so that what is banned for for Fatwa and Research, whose job is some is banned for all. to introduce Sharia in Europe and to The same goes for dress codes for supervise its obligatory practice when girls in public schools. The traditional that happy day comes. The fatwas, or Belgian dress codes must make way QHſEKCNQTFGTUVJCVKVKUUWGUCTGOGCPV for Sharia. According to the Islamists, to be followed by all Muslims living to forbid veils would be an act of Is- KP'WTQRG+PKVUQHſEKCNUVCVGOGPVU lamophobic, racist dictatorship. They it has made its priorities clear: “The demand “submission”—that is what Sharia cannot be amended to conform Islam means, after all—rather than to changing human values and stan- adopt the customs of the countries in dards, rather, it is the absolute norm to which they live. It is this intransigence which all human values and conduct that is pushing Sharia so successfully must conform; it is the frame to which in Europe; according to press reports, they must be referred; it is the scale on there are already 80 Sharia tribunals which they must be weighed.” in Britain. On cannot help wondering what In Holland as well there are a num- anti-discrimination groups like the ber of prisons that serve only halal Human Rights League [established in food. A non-Muslim in Sittard prison Increasingly common in Europe. 1889 in France in order to defend Alfred brought suit against this practice, and RTQſVU/WUNKOURCVTQPK\GVJG/WUNKO Dreyfus during the “Dreyfus Affair,” the prison was forced to end the Islamic butcher, the Muslim grocer, the Mus- and now one of France’s best-known regimen it had introduced. According lim fish-monger, the Muslim baker, CPVKőTCEKUOŒQTICPK\CVKQPU?YKNNFQ to the Dutch press, there were at least the Muslim hairdresser, the Muslim about this. They have been tireless in ſXGQVJGTRTKUQPUVJCVUGTXGFQPN[JCNCN pharmacist, and, if at all possible, the their defense of non-Europeans; when meals and they, too, had to stop. It ap- Muslim doctor. There are Islamic banks will it dawn on them that Europeans pears that the Dutch Minister of Justice and Islamic travel agencies. In Belgium have rights, too? JCFUQOGMKPFQHRTQſVCDNGCTTCPIGOGPV there is a guide to restaurants that serve with the companies that were supplying halal food, and owners must pay €18.50 This essay appeared on November halal meat to the prisons. a month to be listed—yet another 10, 2009, at chantducoq.blogspot.com, #PFJCNCNKUDKIDWUKPGUU6JGEGTVKſ- RTQſVCDNG+UNCOKEOQPQRQN[4GXGPWG which chronicles European submission cation process is a monopoly, and halal from businesses off this kind mostly VQ+UNCO6JGCWVJQTKFGPVKſGUJKOUGNH KPURGEVQTUKORQUGCTGNKIKQWUEGTVKſEC- circulates among other Muslims for the QPN[D[JKUſTUVPCOGDGECWUGJGEQWNF tion tax that brings millions of euros DGPGſVQHVJGEQOOWPKV[TGUWNVKPIKPC be prosecuted under Belgian law for KPVQVJGEQHHGTUQH+UNCOKEQTICPK\CVKQPU kind of “Muslim autarky.” “inciting hatred” against Muslims. that, in turn, support mosques. The most Muslims complain about Islamo- Translation from the French by AR. Gloom, Despair and Agony John Derbyshire, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, Crown Forum, 2009, 272 pp., $26.00. The time for happy talk is Review Online (NRO). He is an en- gaging writer with an interest in many over. things—politics, mathematics, science, poetry, and history—and has the breadth reviewed by Stephen Webster of knowledge and experience to write about them with a politically-incorrect ohn Derbyshire is one of the few forthrightness that makes one wonder grown ups still writing for National how he manages to survive among the JReview, and his articles, blog post- Buckleyites. We Are Doomed considers ings and “Radio Derb” podcasts are the prospects for the modern conserva- about the only reason to visit National tive movement, and as the title suggests,

American Renaissance - 10 - February 2010 it is not optimistic. sume that all inner-city blacks could go VKEGVWTPGFKPVQCHſTOCVKXGCEVKQPTCEG Back in 2004, when it was clear to all to Harvard if only we shoveled enough quotas, grievance lawsuits, the Reverend observers outside of the White House money at them. A true conservative, Mr. Jeremiah Wright, and everlasting racial that George W. Bush’s Iraq strategy Derbyshire argues, is by nature pessi- rancor.” As early as Prohibition, it was YCUPŏVYQTMKPICPWPKFGPVKſGFUGPKQT mistic. He understands the fallen nature clear that progressives were at war with presidential aide explained to New York of mankind, and ought to pour cold wa- human nature itself, a war that continues Times reporter Ron Suskind that the “re- ter on any attempts at mass uplift. That to this day. conservatives do not There are many fronts in the war do this shows only against human nature, and the bulk how successful the of We Are Doomed is spent survey- liberals have been at ing them. First up is diversity, which, getting them to swal- Mr. Derbyshire writes, is nothing to NQY CPF KPVGTPCNK\G celebrate. Much of what he cites, from their agenda. the work of Harvard professor Robert Needless to say, Putnam to individual examples of ra- the vast majority of EKCNEQPƀKEVCTGHCOKNKCTVQ#4TGCFGTU Americans who call (see, for example, “Diversity Destroys them “conservatives” Trust” in the September 2007 issue), are abusing the lan- but he does have an entertaining spin. guage. As the late He regards diversity as a cult and a false Sam Francis used ideology, and notes that the “downside to point out, anyone of ethnic diversity will keep cropping who isn’t even inter- up throughout my book” (it does). Mr. ested in conserving Derbyshire understands the diversity Building nations in the name of empire. his own racial stock is mindset quite well, and boils it down to ality-based community” was outmoded a freak, and certainly not a conserva- its essence as follows: and that it was a mistake to “believe that tive. And when so-called conservatives “Different populations, of different solutions emerge from your judicious adopt the Left’s puerile optimism about races, customs, religions, and prefer- study of discernible reality.” The aide revamping human nature and transform- ences, can be mixed together in any went on: ing the world, they are not so much numbers or proportions at all, with “That’s not the way the world really conservatives as dupes. harmonious results. Not only will the works anymore. We’re an empire now, It has not always been this way. Mr. and when we act, we create our own Derbyshire reminds us that America’s reality. And while you’re studying that Founding Fathers were a pessimistic reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll lot, given their Calvinist religion and act again, creating other new realities, the unforgiving nature of life in the which you can study too, and that’s how early colonies, where death—whether things will sort out. We’re history’s ac- from disease, childbirth, accident, or tors . . . and you, all of you, will be left Indian—was a constant companion. If to just study what we do.” the early settlers were inclined to forget What that statement illustrates— this, “there were always bears, wolves, aside from the astonishing arrogance of and crop failures to remind them of the the Bush administration—is what Mr. biological facts.” As America grew, >D[UJKTGKFGPVKſGUKPWe Are Doomed and the frontier advanced beyond the as the central failing of the modern Eastern seaboard, the “optimistic rot” conservative movement: its inability to began to set in. Calvinism gave way to accept reality, whether in foreign policy, Unitarianism, which paved the way for education, immigration, or for that mat- Transcendentalism, which led to the Former leader of our great republic. ter, nearly any other aspect of society. birth of “the modern style of vaporous results be harmonious, they will be Conservatism, he writes, “has been happy talk.” Mr. Derbyshire observes DGPGſEKCNVQCNNVJGRGQRNGVJWUOKZGF fatally weakened by yielding to infantile that the reformers abolished slavery, im- They will be better and happier than if temptations: temptations to optimism, to proved the social condition of women, they had been left to stagnate in dull wishful thinking, to happy talk, to cheer- reduced “promiscuous drunkenness” homogeneity.” ily preposterous theories about human and some other things, but over time, This is hogwash, of course, but there beings and the human world.” these blessings turned into blights. are people who believe it. Mr. Der- As a result, conservatism cannot Improving the lot of workers led to byshire refers to them—the lawyers, give society the dose of cold, hard real- “featherbedding, the Teamster rackets, educators, corporate and government ity it needs to deliver itself from these auto companies made uncompetitive by bureaucrats who make their livings temptations. Thus we foolishly try to GZVTCXCICPVDGPGſVUCITGGOGPVUCPF shilling for diversity—as “Diversicrats,” FGOQETCVK\GVJG/KFFNG'CUVDTKPIKP government unions voting themselves and fears that they will never give up. uneducated Somalis and expect them GXGTDKIIGTUJCTGUQHVJGſUE6JGECO- *GKUFKUOC[GFVJCVUQOCP[ſTUVTCVG VQDGEQOGRTQFWEVKXGEKVK\GPUCPFCU- paign for full civil rights and racial jus- minds, like Prof. Putnam’s, have been

American Renaissance - 11 - February 2010 corroded by an ideology that is “demon- RGQRNGTWPPKPIVJGőGFDK\ŒFQPŏVJCXG debate, because many of them adhere to strably—easily demonstrably—false” a clue about how to educate children— a belief Mr. Derbyshire calls Religion- and is particularly disappointed that so “From false premises they proceed to ist. The Religionists do not accept the many conservatives, who should know false conclusions”—but notes that noth- science of the Biologians, which makes better, have embraced it. By doing so, ing is likely to change, given the power- them easy prey for Culturist, diversity- they “have surrendered key political HWNKPƀWGPEGQHVJGVGCEJGTUWPKQPUQXGT friendly propaganda. Again, for most positions: equal treatment under the both political parties. AR readers, this is settled territory. law, allegiance to one nation, freedom The racial achievement gap, the of association, public education in one behavior gap, the math gap between language . . . .” Had conservatives not boys and girls—closing all of these given in to the Diversicrats, “we might gaps is the single most important have maintained the principles of a free goal for educationists. It is where republic, and saved ourselves much all the money and effort goes, and trouble and expense.” explains why honors and gifted Mr. Derbyshire is equally disgusted programs have to be cut back. What with politics—“We have . . . lost our do the uplift artists have to show for republican virtue, traded it in for a all this? Nothing, but they persist passel of gassy rhetoric”—and modern KPVT[KPIVQſPFCYC[VQENQUGVJG gaps because they cannot admit they are biological and cannot be closed. These Mexicans seem well assimilated to us. Education therefore becomes “a vast Race realists will also be familiar sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot with many of the arguments in the chap- VJGQTK\KPICPFECTGGTKUVNQITQNNKPIŒ ter on immigration. Mr. Derbyshire has Arguably the most important chapter little patience for sentimentalism in any in the book is on human nature, in which aspect of public policy, and none at all Mr. Derbyshire provides a concise when it comes to immigration—which summary of the state of the nature vs. as he reminds us, is simply another nurture debate, although he prefers the national policy, like farm supports or terms Culturist and Biologian. Anyone national parks maintenance. It should who has even a passing familiarity with be based on the national interest, not on the science knows that the Biologians PQUVCNIKCQTUQOGJC\[OQTCNKORGTC- The colossal talent that is Elizabeth have the upper hand—decisively so. To tive. Mr. Derbyshire deplores what he Alexander. the extent that the general public does ECNNUVJGJ[RGTOQTCNK\CVKQPQHKOOKITC- culture—“It’s not so much the filth not understand this it is testimony to tion, and considers the complicity of aspect of pop culture as the impression the power held by the Culturists—who “cheerily optimistic conservatives” in that there’s nothing there.” include most of the media and educators. this as “perhaps their greatest sin against Mr. Derbyshire cites the poetry of Conservatives are largely AWOL in this good sense and proper conservative 'NK\CDGVJ#NGZCPFGTYJQRGTHQTOGF at Barack Obama’s inauguration. “I had never heard of this lady before the president-elect tapped her for the inau- guration spot,” he writes. “Taking a wild shot in the dark, I guessed her to be a whiny black feminist, as most female poets are nowadays.” After providing examples of her work, he writes, “You could sum up her thematic range as ‘I’m black! Black black black! And I have a XCIKPCŒ*GNCOGPVUVJGHGOKPK\CVKQP of society, and even questions the wis- dom of women’s suffrage, noting that “women incline to socialism much more naturally than men.” Of education, Mr. Derbyshire writes, “There is no area of social policy where we see more clearly the destructive ef- fects of the modern epidemic of happy talk, no area where the magical thinking of our intellectual cheerleaders is so clearly, painfully at odds with cold grim facts.” He goes on to provide grim fact after grim fact demonstrating that the Don’t look for John Derbyshire in the men’s auxiliary.

American Renaissance - 12 - February 2010 UMGRVKEKUOŒő4QOCPVKEOQTCNK\KPIŒJG international crusades to spread democ- VJKUVKOG/T>D[UJKTGKUſTO9G adds, “belongs on the political Left.” racy and engage in nation building, na- are doomed, and the best we can hope The problem with too many of to- ively asserting that American exception- for, “if we approach the universe more day’s immigrants is not just that they are alism will somehow protect us from the realistically—pessimistically” is better not assimilating, but that they are actu- consequences of bad policies, and who preparation for the nasty consequences ally absimilating, that is, moving further nature is sure to throw at us. He also al- away from mainstream American soci- lows for the possibility—the very slight ety. This is especially true of Mexican possibility—that the happy-talk scales immigrants—second and later genera- will fall from the eyes of conservatives, tions do worse than their parents—and but he’s clearly not betting on it. of second-generation Muslims, who are We Are Doomed, despite its serious far more likely than their parents to go subject matter, is an entertaining, even radical. And yet to point out this or any witty book. It wouldn’t be accurate to other problem with immigrants leads describe it as light reading, but it is more to accusations of nativism and racism, a work of Internet-era opinion journal- often at the hands of conservatives, too ism than of scholarship. There are no many of whom, Mr. Derbyshire writes, footnotes or index. Still, it is refresh- “have been cheerleaders for a vast ing to read a mainstream author who experiment in social engineering.” He is not only undeceived about race, but continues: willing—even eager—to talk about it in “Rather than carefully project the a way that verges on race realism. results of the experiment, they simply Overall, however, race realists will declare those results to be inevitably ſPFNKVVNGVJCVKUPGYKPWe Are Doomed. good, on no grounds at all but their own Most are already pessimistic, and have vapid optimism and wishful thinking. long since given up on the mainstream Aren’t conservatives supposed to be 4KIJV/QUVNKMGN[VQRTQſVHTQOVJKU hostile to social engineering schemes? Abu Ghraib: That’ll teach ’em democracy. book are conservatives who are begin- Why do so many conservatives swoon use their positions in government and ning to lose faith, who are starting to with approval at this one, while snarl- business to squander American wealth doubt that diversity is a strength, are ing at immigration skeptics as heartless and to bury our children and grandchil- tired of pushing one for English, who xenophobes? The question is rhetorical. dren under a mountain of debt. wonder why the newspapers don’t I have no idea what makes people so Normally in a work that paints a print the races of criminal suspects, stupid and dishonest.” bleak picture, the author tries to end and are starting to notice the correla- Mr. Derbyshire is similarly contemp- on a positive note, offering a ten-point tion between good schools and white tuous of conservatives who promote plan that will turn things around. Not neighborhoods. O Tempora, O Mores!

Speak Spanish or Else Another Side of Immigration Debate, DGECWUGVJGUEKGPEGNCDUOCKPN[DGPGſV Naples News, Dec. 21, 2009.] white students. %JCTNKG)W\OCPCPFCEQWRNGQH Mardi Sicular-Mertens, who has friends went into the laundry room of White Science taught science at Berkeley High for 24 their apartment complex in Immokalee, Florida to wash some clothes. Mauricio Berkeley High School in Berkeley, Escalante, a 33-year-old illegal alien and California, suffers from America’s some of his pals were already using the universal failing: blacks and Hispanics facilities and the two groups of men be- do worse than whites and Asians. This gan talking. The discussion grew heated must be particularly galling to ultra- because Mr. Escalante objected to Mr. liberal Berkeley, because the gap is even )W\OCPURGCMKPI'PINKUJKPUVGCFQH greater than the already yawning state Spanish. Mr. Escalante went to a nearby average. What to do? apartment, grabbed a knife, came back The school’s governance council, CPFUVCDDGFVJG[GCTQNF/T)W\- which is made up of teachers, parents, man to death. Mr. Escalante was no and students, has decided to eliminate stranger to the Collier County Sheriff’s all the science labs and fire the five 1HſEGDWVDGECWUGJKURTKQTQHHGPUGU teachers who run them, and spend the were only for public drunkenness, he money on “underperforming” students Only for whites? was never turned over to immigration instead. Paul Gibson, an alternate rep- years, insists that the labs help blacks authorities for deportation. [Brent resentative on the governance council, and Hispanics, too. She notes that Batten, Immokalee Stabbing Shows says the decision was made in large part there are 12 black students in her AP

American Renaissance - 13 - February 2010 classes and that her environmental sci- The Arkansas Democrat Gazette be encrypted to avoid detection by the ence classes are 17.5 percent black and gets credit for including the race of the $QTFGT2CVTQN/T&QOKPIWG\ENCKOU 13.9 percent Hispanic. Apparently no killers, and for running a photo of Mr. the Transborder Immigrant Tool is one dares argue that science labs are Wise, clearly showing he was white. designed “to save lives” rather than important even if whites are the main [Chad Day, Major Shot at Salvation DGPGſEKCTKGU Army, Dies, Arkansas Democrat Ga- The proposal to terminate the sci- \GVVG&GE/CLQTŏU5JQQVKPI ence labs will be on the agenda for the a Tragedy for Community, Say Authori- next meeting of the Berkeley School VKGU#TMCPUCU&GOQETCV)C\GVVG&GE Board. The board usually endorses 25, 2009. Tom Parsons, Salvation Army the recommendations of high school Major Shot in Front of 3 Children, AP, governance councils without debate. Dec. 25, 2009.] [Eric Klein, Berkeley High May Cut Out Science Labs, East Bay Express, Aiding and Abetting Dec. 23, 2009.] 4KECTFQ&QOKPIWG\KUCPCUUQEKCVG 7PſVVQ2TKPV professor of “new media arts” at the University of California at San Diego On Christmas Eve, two gunmen (UCSD). He describes himself as an shot and killed Salvation Army Major “artivist”—an artist-activist—who 2JKNKR9KUGQWVUKFGVJGQTICPK\CVKQPŏU helps illegal aliens. With the aid of re- promote illegal crossings, but admits community center in North Little Rock, searchers from the California Institute that “in terms of the civil disobedience Arkansas. Mr. Wise was walking in with for Telecommunications and Infor- we follow, we consider the right of safe passage to be a trans-global right.” The phones will also have short po- ems loaded on them—no doubt in Span- ish. “We wanted to have a hospitality tool,” he explains, adding, “At the core of the poems is a rethinking of the idea that good fences make good neighbors. Borders do not make good neighbors. We should be welcoming.” [Bill Morris, Border Crossings: There’s an App for That, Sphere.com, Dec. 18, 2009.] Mexican Manners On December 16, Mexican naval troops managed to kill one of Mexico’s most notorious drug kingpins, Arturo Beltrán Leyva. The “Boss of Bosses” died in a hail of lead along with six henchmen during an attack on his luxury compound in the resort city of Cuernavaca. Mexican media hailed what was undoubtedly the greatest success in his three young children, when the men OCVKQP6GEJPQNQI[/T&QOKPIWG\ President Felipe Calderón’s three-year approached, demanded money, and has invented something he calls the war on the cartels, and the lone soldier OWTFGTGFJKO6JGIWPOGPƀGFKPVQC “Transborder Immigrant Tool.” This killed, Marine Ensign Melquisedet An- nearby housing project and, as this issue is an inexpensive Motorola cell phone gulo Córdova, was declared a national went to press, were still at large. TGVTQſVVGFYKVJC)25U[UVGOVQJGNR hero and given a state funeral. The local newspaper, the Arkansas illegals sneak across the border. It helps Beltrán Leyva’s cartel, the Zetas, Democrat Gazette, and the Associated with basic orientation, records distance wasted no time in showing they were 2TGUUDQVJſNGFUVQTKGUQPVJGKPEKFGPV from the destination, and shows where still in business. Hours after the fu- but the AP story forgot to mention the VJGTGKUYCVGT/T&QOKPIWG\YJQ neral, gunmen burst into the marine’s shooters’ race. It noted that both killers has received some $15,000 in grants to family home in Paraiso and murdered were still on the loose, so a description develop his “immigrant tools,” plans to his mother, his sister, his aunt, and his could have been helpful. The story did, sell them for around $30.00 each. He brother, and seriously wounded another however, offer the alert reader a clue hopes churches and Hispanic activist sister. The message was clear: anyone when it noted that the shooting took groups such as Border Angels and No YJQſIJVUVJGFTWIECTVGNUTKUMUJCXKPI place is “a low-income neighborhood Mas Muertes will distribute them to his family exterminated. troubled by gangs and drugs.” Mexicans. The telephone’s signal will Sadly, President Calderón made the

American Renaissance - 14 - February 2010 revenge killings possible by revealing items. The man, Gregory York, man- 50.6 percent of the vote. Missing from Ensign Córdova’s identity and letting CIGFVQƀGGYKVJCVNGCUVVYQRCEMUQH much of the post-election analysis was the media cover his funeral. Mexican steaks, but police caught him a short VJGHCEVVJCVHQTVJGſTUVVKOGDNCEMU troops normally wear black ski masks time later, thanks to the detailed descrip- Hispanics, and Asians cast the majority tion they got from of votes. Non-whites have long been the the store manager, majority in New York, but because so who had a good OCP[CTGPQVEKVK\GPUVJGTGYGTGOQTG look at Mr. York white voters. Whites were 56 percent while holding him of the electorate in 1989, 55 percent in by his dreadlocks. 1993, 53 percent in 1997 and 52 percent [ J a m i e B u r c h , in 2001. In the 2009 election, whites Store Manager were just 46 percent, followed by blacks Grabs Shoplifter at 23 percent, Hispanics at 21 percent By His Dread- and Asians at 7 percent. locks, WKRG-TV Demographic change has helped non- (Mobile), Dec. 23, YJKVGUYKPUGXGTCNRTQOKPGPVQHſEGU+P 2009.] /T6JQORUQPDGECOGVJGſTUV 2. Baggy pants. black comptroller and in Queens, Helen Ensign Córdova’s funeral. On December 23, /CTUJCNNDGECOGVJGſTUVDNCEMDQTQWIJ career criminal Hector Qui- president. In November, John Liu took during operations to avoid being rec- nones burst into a Manhattan apartment over from Mr. Thompson, becoming the QIPK\GFCPFRTGXGPVTGVCNKCVKQP6JG and killed his former prison cellmate, ſTUV#UKCPGNGEVGFVQEKV[YKFGQHſEG identities of two other marines who were %CTNQU4QFTKIWG\,TCPFVJGOCPŏU In an interview after the election, wounded in the raid remain secret. HCVJGT%CTNQU4QFTKIWG\5T*GVJGP Mr. Thompson told New Yorkers they President Calderón vows that he is stabbed to death the 87-year-old grand- should expect to see “even more diverse unintimidated, but the criminals are HCVJGT(GTPCPFQ)QP\CNG\LWUVCUVJG candidates.” Bruce N. Gyory, a politi- rattling sabers, too. Following Beltrán YKHGQH/T)QP\CNG\TGVWTPGFVQVJG cal consultant, notes that “all the room Leyva’s death, signs began appearing apartment with her daughter. Mr. Qui- for growth in the electorate is amongst in Cuernavaca reading, “It’s not even PQPGUVQQMCUJQVCV/TU4QFTKIWG\ Hispanic, Asian, biracial and black New the beginning of the war . . . you’ve ITC\KPIVJGDCEMQHJGTJGCF*GVJGP Yorkers.” He adds that “this polyglot made the terrible mistake of messing lunged for the daughter, who just man- electorate will demand the jigsaw- with THE business.” [Ruth McLean, aged to step out of reach when he tripped RW\\NGUMKNNUQHEQCNKVKQPDWKNFKPICPF Mexican Drug Gang Massacres Family over his low-slung pants. She ran into a diplomacy.” [Sam Roberts, For First of Hero in Revenge for Boss’s Death, DGFTQQOENKODGFQWVQPVQCſTGGUECRG Time, Minority Vote Was a Majority, Times (London), Dec. 24, 2009.] and called for help. Mr. Quinones tried New York Times, Dec. 25, 2009.] to kick down the door, but then decided Bad Ideas VQOCMGCDTGCMHQTKVFQYPCPQVJGTſTG TB Roars Back escape. Again, he tripped over his baggy People planning crimes would do pants, and this time, he fell three stories Tuberculosis (TB) kills more adults well to avoid the following: to his death. worldwide—two million a year—than 1. Dreadlocks. On December 23, Police think Mr. Quinones wanted any other infectious disease. One in employees of Greer’s Food Tiger in to rob his former associate. They found three people across the globe is infected, Mobile, Alabama, noticed a man stuff- CőUKIPKſECPVCOQWPVŒQHJGTQKPCPFC though only 10 percent of them will smaller amount of cocaine develop active TB. The disease has in the apartment, as well as been found in 4,000-year-old Egyptian a lockbox stuffed with cash. mummies, and killed as many as one in [Larry Celona, John Doyle four Americans and Europeans as late as and Laurie Kamens, Killer the 1850s. In 1944, doctors began treat- Tripped on Baggy Pants, ing TB with antibiotics, which were so Plunged to Death after effective that by the end of the 1960s, Slaying Three, New York then-US Surgeon General William H. Post, Dec. 18, 2009.] Stewart announced it was “time to close the book on infectious diseases and de- Majority Minor- clare the war against pestilence won.” TB is now making a comeback, ity thanks to misdiagnosis, misuse of an- New York City mayor tibiotics, and immigration. In the Third Michael Bloomberg spent World, ill-educated doctors failed to ing steaks into his pants as he walked more than $102 million to win a third treat TB effectively, and it spread among through the aisles. The store manager VGTOKP0QXGODGTLWUVUSWGG\KPID[ VJGRQQT+OOKITCPVUƀQQFKPIKPVQVJG challenged him and grabbed him by a black man, former New York City West spread it to places where it had the hair, which made him drop several Comptroller Bill Thompson, with just been virtually eradicated. Even when

American Renaissance - 15 - February 2010 9GUVGTPFQEVQTUTGEQIPK\GF6$VJGKT seven nights,” she says. “I didn’t feel patients often failed to complete the like I had that connection. I tried to share full course of antibiotics. This let the my experiences with others but no one bacterium mutate into various more else was celebrating it.” powerful forms: multi-drug resistant Keith Mayes, an assistant professor (MDR),extensively drug-resistant of African American & African Stud- (XDR) and extremely drug-resistant ies at the University of Minnesota and (XXDR). Doctors estimate there are author of Kwanzaa: Black Power and more than 500,000 annual cases world- the Making of the African-American wide of MDR-TB, which cost $100,000 Holiday Tradition, estimates that just each to treat. There are fewer cases of 500,000 to 2 million of the nation’s 40 XDR, but it is more lethal, killing 52 of million blacks celebrate the holiday. the 53 people who were diagnosed with *GUC[U-YCP\CCJCUGXQNXGFCYC[ it in South Africa in 2006. There are only from its radical roots, and is now all a handful of XXDR cases worldwide, about “inclusion, diversity, goodwill, but it is deadlier still. multiculturalism.” He notes that white #OGTKECIQVKVUſTUVECUGQH::&4 institutions now celebrate it as part of TB in 2007—though this was kept their commitment to diversity. This no from the public until just a few weeks doubt drives away some blacks. CIQ2GTWXKCP1UYCNFQ,WCTG\YCUKP Others reject it for other reasons. Ni- the US studying English when he was cole Duncan-Smith of Brooklyn, thinks diagnosed, and it took nearly two years form of malaria has been discovered -YCP\CCFGVTCEVUHTQO%JTKUVOCUCPF of isolation in a Florida sanitarium to in Cambodia, a growing number of doesn’t think it has anything to do with cure him to the point where he was no AIDS patients in Africa are infected African heritage. She also notes that longer contagious. Dr. David Ashkin, with a form that is harder to treat, and -YCP\CCŏUHQWPFGTŏUHGNQP[EQPXKEVKQP a leading TB specialist who treated drug-resistant staph infections kill more was for torturing two women who were /T,WCTG\UC[UVJCVYJKNGJKUECUGQH people in the US each year than prostate in a faction of blacks opposed to Prof. ::&4YCUVJGſTUVKPVJG75KVYQPŏV and breast cancer combined. [Margie DGVJGNCUV/T,WCTG\ŏUEWTGEQUVVCZ- /CUQPCPF/CTVJC/GPFQ\C(KTUV%CUG payers $500,000—money Dr. Ashkin of Highly Drug-resistant TB Found in believes had to be spent. “This is an US, AP, Dec. 27, 2009.] airborne spread disease . . . so when we treat that individual, we’re actually Kwanzaa Fizzling? treating and protecting all of us. This is true homeland security.” -YCP\CCKUCJQNKFC[HQTDNCEMU “There’s a lot of MDR and XDR-TB created in 1966 by black power radical, that hasn’t been diagnosed in places like convicted felon, and tenured professor South Africa and Peru, Russia, Estonia, at California State University, Long Latvia,” says Dr. Megan Murray, a Beach, Ron Karenga, (see “We Wish tuberculosis specialist at Harvard. “We You a Phony Festival, AR, February Karenga. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder of think it’s a big public health threat.” Dr. 2002, for a closer look at the colorful $10& $TQVJGTJQQF1TICPK\CVKQPQH Lee Reichman, a TB expert at the New RTQHGUUQT -YCP\CCJCUDGGPDNGUUGF a New Destiny) and author of SCAM: Jersey Medical School, says, “You’re D[VJGOGFKCVJGRQUVQHſEGVJG2TGUK- How the Black Leadership Exploits really looking at a global issue. It’s not dent, and the greeting card companies, Black America, believes the holiday is a foreign problem, you can’t keep these but fewer blacks are lighting the black, racist. “Get rid of it,” says Rev. Peterson, TB patients out.” red, and green candles and observing who is black. “Reject it completely. Just That sounds like liberal hogwash. the seven principles: Umoja (unity), as we would do if a white racist came Eighty-two percent of American patients Kujichagulia (self-determination), up with a false holiday to celebrate with the various forms of drug-resistant Ujima (collective work and responsibil- whiteness.” TB are foreign-born. There are ways to ity), Ujamaa (cooperative economics), The Obamas do not celebrate Kwan- screen immigrants for TB, but to do so Nia (purpose), Kuumba (creativity) and \CCDWVNKMGJKURTGFGEGUUQTU$KNN%NKP- GHſEKGPVN[YQWNFTGSWKTGEQPEGPVTCV- Imani (faith). ton and George W. Bush, the President ing on people from certain countries, Camille Zeigler, president of the KUUWGFCPQHſEKCN-YCP\CCOGUUCIGKP KGRTQſNKPI+H#OGTKECPUECPŏVGXGP Atlanta Alumnae Chapter of the black which he said that the seven principles bring themselves to admit that young sorority Delta Sigma Theta, says many QH-YCP\CCőJCXGUWUVCKPGFWUCUC Muslim men are more likely than Japa- of the girls who attend the sorority’s nation during our darkest hours and nese grandmothers to be terrorists, they CPPWCN-YCP\CCEGNGDTCVKQPMPQYXGT[ provided hope for better days to come.” are certainly not going to admit that little about the holiday. Sorority member =/GICP-5EQVV-YCP\CC%GNGDTCVKQPU Vietnamese are more likely than Danes 'XKVC$TQWIJVQPEGNGDTCVGF-YCP\CC Continue, But Boom is Over, AP, Dec. to have TB. HQTVJGſTUVVKOGYKVJJGTHCOKN[HQWT 17, 2009.] When the British burned Other diseases are developing drug- years ago, but has skipped it ever since. Washington, Madison was no doubt resistant strains. Scientists say a mutated “It felt like a school project that lasted greatly comforted by them.

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