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Defensive Racism (2005) An Unapologetic Examination of Racial Differences EDGAR J. STEELE Defensive Racism Edgar J. Steele Defensive Racism An unapologetic examination of racial differences ProPer Press. DEFENSIVE RACISM. Copyright © 2005 by Edgar J. Steele www.DefensiveRacism.com All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system, except for brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews, without permission in writing. Address inquiries to ProPer Press, PO Box 1255, Sagle, ID 83860. www.ProPerPress.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Steele, Edgar J. Defensive Racism: An Unapologetic Examination of Racial Differences / Edgar J. Steele p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-9761259-0-0 1. Racism. 2. Civilization, Western—Forecasting. 3. Social prediction—United States. 4. Social prediction—Europe. 5. United States—Social conditions—2004—Forecasting. 6. Europe—Social conditions—Forecasting. 7. United States—Population—Forecasting. 8. Europe—Population—Forecasting. 9. United States—Emigration and immigration— Social aspects. 10. Europe—Emigration and immigration—Social aspects. I. Title. First Edition, Second Printing: July 2005 Dedicated to those brave souls who have fallen in the struggle to achieve true equality for all races v "Men occasionally stumble over truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." —Winston Churchill "It's not the things you don't know what gets you into trouble. It's the things you do know that just ain't so." — Will Rogers Contents Page Introduction ix 1 Semantics 13 2 Intellectual Myths 17 3 Genetic Realities 25 4 Cultural Imperatives 37 5 National Disaster 51 6 Masters of Disaster 81 7 The Price of Empire 119 8 Immigration's True Costs 129 9 The Real Racists 145 10 Wag the World 155 11 Racists Everywhere 173 12 The Truth Hurts 187 13 Defensive Racism 217 14 The Future 229 15 Treading Water 253 16 World War III 277 17 Money's End Game: Depression II 309 18 New America 347 vii In Defense of Racism viii Introduction "Racism works. Racism is good." — (with apologies to Gordon Gecko, as played by Michael Douglas in the movie "Wall Street") Of course, whether racism "works" depends upon one's definition. One man's racism is another's multiculturalism, another's hell and yet another's nirvana. I'm not even going to bother with dictionary definitions. Let's deal in today's realities, instead. "Racist" is a term applied, not only to one who simply prefers his own race to others, but also to those who think their race superior to others and more deserving. Racist is an epithet in almost all contexts. Even those who might properly be called racist prefer to think of themselves as "racialists," as though the slight word change makes a difference to anybody but themselves. Racist connotes bigotry, the unthinking rejection of another based upon his or her skin color. Racist implies stereotyping, whereby certain negative characteristics found in certain members of a race are attributed to all members of that race. Are we on the same page here? In truth, "racist" is just as quickly applied to many who seek simple equality with others, most notably outspoken White people. In fact, there are those who argue with a straight face that only White people are capable of being racist. Thus, the term has lost much of its currency, together with its legitimacy. Interestingly, often the very same people quick to accuse one of anti-Semitism are the very ones who label others racist, too. ix Defensive Racism Racist has become like "Anti-Semite;" applied with a broad brush to swaths of humanity, virtually all White. "Racist" is used pejoratively, in precisely the same manner that "nigger" is used, though without the same consequences. Accusation, conviction and sentence, all in a single word: racist. There is no defense. Those who bluster about how they are not racists merely become more tightly embraced by that particular tar baby. At the risk of seeming naive, I believe that certain forms of racism are susceptible of being defended, and with great justification. Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes to the bone, some cynically jest. Many argue that the only difference between the races is skin color. If true, our discussion would end right here, because then racism of any sort truly would be reprehensible conduct. However, they are wrong. Race goes beyond the bone, in fact, and is lodged deeply within our DNA. A popular current myth has it that there are no intellectual differences between the races, despite contrary results derived in every study of intellect ever done by anybody. This myth also flies in the face of the personal experience of virtually every human being alive. If one can inherit a superior muscle structure, readily confirmed by the barest of glances at the racial makeup of pro sports rosters, then why is it such a stretch for so many to believe that superior intellect is genetically encoded, as well? Because those same myth purveyors believe that superior intellect makes for superiority, period, that's why. The good news is that they are wrong about the superiority thing. The bad news is that they are wrong about the lack of racial intellectual differences. The worse news is that they are in charge. Because raw intellect is measured so easily, there really can be no rational contesting of the obvious differences in racial IQs. For me, IQ has become a singularly uninteresting question. For those who x Introduction might take issue with me and become disappointed in my disinterest, there are many books and research study reports. Perhaps the best is "The Bell Curve." Read it. Though we will cover some of the more significant IQ studies later in this book, do your own research. Think it out for yourself. Until you can overcome your programming by this simple precursor, the rest of my discussion will be a waste of time for you. The more interesting questions concern differences brought about by racial culture, on the one hand, and one's genetic structure, on the other. IQ merely is one aspect of genetic determination, after all, as is skin color. Character, for lack of a better term, is a far more important result, one that only recently is being recognized as having a genetic component. We come to life with a full set of matching luggage, already partially filled on the day we are born; indeed, on the day we are conceived. As we grow up, our culture, composed of those around us, especially those with whom we identify, allows us to complete the packing of our luggage, which we drag with us through every moment of our lives. Culture and genetic predisposition or proclivity are mere kissing cousins, in my opinion. I like to think of genetics as being culture and prior behavior gone to seed. By the way, this outlook works whether one believes in evolution or creation as the source of man. In animals, we call this culture-gone-to-seed "instinct," of course. We humans often confuse it with reincarnation or various forms of extrasensory perception. It is a far more important cause of racial differences than intellect and has led to some, if not most, of the national disasters throughout history. By now, you should be agreeing with how irrelevant skin color differences are, incidentally, yet another uninteresting question. We have much bigger fish to fry in this book. I know—some reading this wonder if I am a racist. Well, it xi Defensive Racism depends, of course. The more interesting question is whether you are a racist. Stick around and find out. By the end of this book, the answer to both questions should be more than apparent. xii Chapter 1 Semantics "What is in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." — William Shakespeare Names and labels are funny things. Used as a form of shorthand, to facilitate communication, names often accomplish exactly the opposite. Worse, the damage is done in stealth, with nobody the wiser. A good deal of the world's conflict assuredly can be attributed to those who walk away from an ostensible agreement with very different understandings of what just took place. Marriage merely is one of the easiest-to-recognize occurrences of stealth conflict. The problem is one of semantics, in other words. It is critical to this book's central thesis to decide at the outset precisely what is meant by the words "racism" and "racist." Ask most to define the term "racist" and they will use words such as "bigot," "hate" and "intolerance." Even many who admit to being racist will employ negatively-charged words in describing themselves. Those who admit to having racist tendencies often try to distinguish themselves as being "racialist," rather than "racist," without realizing that makes no difference to most. They are kin to those who categorically deny being racist, all the while comporting themselves in classically racist ways. 13 Defensive Racism Racism is a sort of "gateway" concept, too. Once one sees oneself as a racist, one falls prey to a host of attitudes that simply are adopted whole cloth, with no rational examination. Kind of like how Democrats believe themselves to be liberal and Republicans think themselves conservative (another set of self-defeating shorthand words, to be sure). That is why self-avowed racists almost universally cannot give a rational explanation for disliking (for example) Asians and fall back on skin color as their sole mode of distinguishing others.
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