American Renaissance There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world. — Thomas Jefferson Vol. 20 No. 7 July 2009 A White Teacher Speaks Out

What is it like to teach is nothing like the day-to-day experience white women were particularly inept at of teaching black children and that is trying. I sat in on one woman’s class as black students? what I will try to convey. she begged the children to pipe down. They just yelled louder so their voices by Christopher Jackson Noise would carry over hers. Many of my black students would recall a bad joke that explains, in Most whites simply do not know what repeat themselves over and over again— crude terms, the relationship be- black people are like in large numbers, just louder. It was as if they suffered I tween blacks and whites in America today: “What do you call a white man surrounded by 20 blacks?” “Coach.” “What do you call a white man sur- rounded by 1,000 blacks?” “Warden.” I might add another line to this joke: “What do you call a white man sur- rounded by 30 blacks?” “Teacher.” Until recently I taught at a predomi- nantly black high school in a southeast- ern state. I took the job because I wasn’t knowledgeable about race at the time, and black schools aren’t picky. The school offered me a job and suddenly I was in darkest Africa. Except, I wasn’t in Africa; I was in America. Blacks outnumbered whites about five to one at this school and there Not quite the way it really is. were hardly any Hispanics. Some of my classes were all-black, or nearly so, CPFVJGſTUVGPEQWPVGTECPDGCUJQEM from Tourette syndrome. They seemed because the gifted and advanced classes One of the most immediately striking to have no conception of waiting for siphoned off most of the white students things about my students was that they an appropriate time to say something. and I taught regular classes. There were were loud. They had little conception of They would get ideas in their heads and some black teachers but the majority ordinary white decorum. It was not un- simply had to shout them out. I might be were white. WUWCNHQTſXGDNCEMUVQDGUETGCOKPICV leading a discussion on government and Most of the blacks I taught were from suddenly be interrupted: “We gotta get the area. They did not tend to travel very Blacks are loud. It was more Democrats! Clinton, she good!” much, and I am sure there are regional The student may seem content with that differences in the ways in which blacks PQVWPWUWCNHQTſXGUVW- outburst but two minutes later, he would speak and act. However, I suspect my dents to be screaming at suddenly start yelling again: “Clinton experiences were generally typical, me at once. good!” certainly for Southern blacks. Anyone who is around young blacks The mainstream press gives a hint of me at once. Instead of calming down and will get a constant diet of rap music. what conditions are like in black schools, waiting for a lull in the din to make their Blacks often make up their own jingles, but only a hint. Expressions journalists point—something that occurs to even and it was not uncommon for 15 black use like “chaotic” or “poor learning the dimmest white students—blacks just boys to swagger into a classroom, environment” or “lack of discipline” do tried to yell over each other. bouncing their shoulders and jiving back not capture what really happens. There It did no good to try to quiet them, and Continued on page 3

American Renaissance - 1 - July 2009 many have demanded my attention at the same moment.” His first known affairs were with black women but he claimed that they had turned on him. In his 1927 autobiography he wrote that these bad experiences “led me to forswear col- ored women and to determine that my lot henceforth would be cast only with white women.” In fact, he never gave up black women. Your article mentioned Johnson’s marriage to Etta Duryea whom you de- scribed as a “New York socialite.” She was certainly that. She was glamorous, wealthy, dressed elegantly, played the piano, and sang. When Johnson met memory. I actually saw the movie “The her at the Vanderbilt Cup car race, she Letters from Readers Great White Hope,” starring James Earl was 28 years old and had been separated Sir — Thank you for publishing my ,QPGUYJGPKVſTUVECOGQWVCPF/T from her husband for two years. Many article on the British National Party in 5JGHſGNFKUTKIJVCDQWVVJGUCPKVK\KPI#U fashionable young New Yorkers were your previous issue. However, I wish +TGOGODGTVJGſNOFGRKEVUVJGDNCEM chasing her but she took up with John- to clarify my reference on page 6 to the DQZGTCUCJGTQKEſIWTGXKEVKOK\GFD[ son. She certainly would not have taken “enemy within.” I meant to explain that evil racists because he dared to chal- up with a lout. the difference this time is that we are lenge white supremacy in the ring and Although Johnson was as unfaith- not under assault from foreign attackers the bedroom. His white love interest was ful to Etta as to any other woman, he and that the enemy is within our own played by lefty actress Jane Alexander, YCUJKOUGNHſGTEGN[LGCNQWU*GYCU country, in the shape of our own politi- and although I held liberal views on convinced Etta was sleeping with her cal establishment. In the words of Leo race typical of college students at the French chauffeur and hired a private McKinstry, a journalist who is a former time (the early seventies), I recall their KPXGUVKICVQTVQſPFQWV1P%JTKUVOCU parliamentary aide to the deputy leader love scenes made me squirm uncomfort- Day, 1910, he got into an argument with of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman, ably. If I knew that the story was based her about it and beat her so badly she had őYGCTGNGFD[CDWPEJQHVTCKVQTUſNNGF on a real person, I had forgotten it. The to be hospitalized—and this was before with loathing for their nation.” ſEVKQPCNDQZGTRQTVTC[GFKPVJGſNOKU they were even married. Somehow, she Tim Rait, British National Party nothing at all like the real one described took him back, and they were wed less D[/T5JGHſGNF+COGODCTTCUUGFVQ than a month later. As you note in your admit I fell for the Hollywood propa- article, Etta shot herself not long after. Sir — After reading Tim Rait’s article ganda of the time. She suffered from depression, and it in the June issue (“A Breakthrough for Chuck Quinn, Eugene, Ore. took a stouter constitution than hers to the BNP?”), I began reading British be married to Jack Johnson. newspapers online to follow the cam- Johnson’s next openly acknowledged paign. The press coverage of the BNP Sir — I enjoyed—if that is the correct girlfriend was an 18-year-old white has been appalling: “fascism” this and word—your article about Jack Johnson. prostitute named Lucille Cameron. Her “racism” that. The tabloid papers, the As you correctly noted, women were a mother disapproved. “Jack Johnson has Mirror and the Daily Mail are the worst, constant preoccupation for him, but you hypnotic powers,” she said, “and he has but the mainstream papers such as the failed to note the very real attractions exercised them on my little girl. I would Guardian and Independent are almost he appeared to have for them, black rather see my daughter spend the rest of as bad. Unlike in the US, British news- and white. He was no low-g Negro her life in an insane asylum than see her papers don’t pretend to be ideologically pugilist. Not many whites could have the plaything of a nigger.” They married neutral, but their coverage of the BNP written this: UQQPCHVGTDWVUJGNCVGTſNGFHQTFKXQTEG bordered on the hysterical. I wonder if “There have been countless women EJCTIKPI,QJPUQPYKVJKPſFGNKV[ the press is actually doing the BNP a fa- in my life. They have participated in His next wife, Irene Pineau, divorced vor by portraying it as a party of lunatic my triumphs and suffered with me in her white husband in order to marry him. Nazis. It is so easy to discover that this my moments of disappointment. They He must still have been charming at age is wrong and biased that I would think have inspired me to attainment and they 46. She stuck with him to the end, and many voters would be driven to learn have balked me; they have caused me when a reporter asked him what she more about the party. joy and they have heaped misery upon loved about Johnson, she said “I loved Emma Hughes, Savannah, Ga. me; they have been faithful to the utmost him because of his courage.” and they have been faithless; they have Like it or not, Johnson must have praised and loved me and they have been a remarkable man. Sir — “Whitewashing Jack Johnson” hated and denounced me. Always, a Sarah Wentworth, Richmond, Va. in the June issue triggered a youthful woman has swayed me—sometimes

American Renaissance - 2 - July 2009 are—but it is a matter of numbers and American Renaissance attitudes. Many black girls simply do not care that they are fat. There are plenty Jared Taylor, Editor of white anorexics, but I have never met Stephen Webster, Assistant Editor or heard of a black anorexic. Ronald N. Neff, Web Site Editor “Black women be big Mr. Jackson,” my students would explain. “Is it okay in the black community to American Renaissance is published monthly by the be a little overweight?” I ask. New Century Foundation. NCF is governed by section Two obese black girls in front of 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code; contributions to it are tax deductible. my desk begin to dance, “You know Subscriptions to American Renaissance are $28.00 per year. First-class postage is dem boys lak juicy fruit, Mr. Jackson.” CPCFFKVKQPCN5WDUETKRVKQPUVQ%CPCFC ſTUVENCUU CTG5WDUETKRVKQPU “Juicy” is a colorful black expression outside Canada and the U.S. (air mail) are $40.00. Back issues are $4.00 each. Foreign for the buttocks. subscribers should send U.S. dollars or equivalent in convertible bank notes. Blacks are the most directly critical Please make checks payable to: American Renaissance, P.O. Box 527, Oakton, VA people I have ever met: “Dat shirt stupid. 22124. ISSN No. 1086-9905, Telephone: (703) 716-0900, Facsimile: (703) 716-0932, Yo’ kid a bastard. Yo’ lips big.” Unlike Web Page Address: www.AmRen.com whites, who tread gingerly around the subject of race, they can be brutally to Continued from page 1 ATL tat it up. the point. Once I needed to send a stu- and forth, rapping 15 different sets of New York tat it up. FGPVVQVJGQHſEGVQFGNKXGTCOGUUCIG+ words in the same harsh, rasping dia- Tat tat tat it up. asked for volunteers, and suddenly you lect. The words were almost invariably Rap is one of the most degenerate would think my classroom was a bastion a childish form of boasting: “Who got things to have come out of our country, of civic engagement. Thirty dark hands dem shine rim, who got dem shine shoe, and it is tragic that it has infected whites shot into the air. My students loved to who got dem shine grill (gold and silver to the extent it has. leave the classroom and slack off, even dental caps)?” The amateur rapper usu- Black women love to dance—in a if just for a few minutes, away from the ally ends with a claim—in the crudest way white people might call gyrating. eye of white authority. I picked a light- terms imaginable—that all womankind They dance in the hall, in the classroom, skinned boy to deliver the message. One is sexually devoted to him. For whatever on the chairs, next to the chairs, under very black student was indignant: “You reason, my students would often groan the chairs, everywhere. Once I took a pick da half-breed.” And immediately instead of saying a particular word, as in, call on my cell phone and had to step other blacks take up the cry, and half a dozen mouths are screaming, “He half-breed.” For decades, the country has been lamenting the poor academic perfor- mance of blacks and there is much to lament. There is no question, however, that many blacks come to school with a serious handicap that is not their fault. At home they have learned a dialect that is almost a different language. Blacks not only mispronounce words; their grammar is often wrong. When a black wants to ask, “Where is the bathroom?” he may actually say “Whar da badroom be?” Grammatically, this is the equiva- lent of “Where the bathroom is?” And this is the way they speak in high school. Students write the way they speak, so this is the language that shows up in These are their heroes. written assignments. “She suck dat aaahhhh (think of a long outside of class. I was away about two It is true that some whites face a grinding groan), she f**k dat aaaahhhh, minutes but when I got back the black similar handicap. They speak with she lick dat aaaahhh.” girls had lined up at the front of the what I would call a “country” accent Many rap lyrics are crude but some classroom and were convulsing to the that is hard to reproduce but results in are simply incomprehensible. Not so delight of the boys. sentences such as “I’m gonna gemme long ago, there was a popular rap called Many black people, especially black a Coke.” Some of these country whites “Tat it up.” I heard the words from hun- women, are enormously fat. Some are had to learn correct pronunciation and dreds of black mouths for weeks. Some so fat I had to arrange special seating to usage. The difference is that most whites of the lyrics are: accommodate their bulk. I am not saying overcome this handicap and learn to Tat tat tat it up. there are no fat white students—there speak correctly; many blacks do not.

American Renaissance - 3 - July 2009 Most of the blacks I taught simply half breed.” The class agreed. I let the form rival groups, but the groups are not had no interest in academic subjects. I subject drop. different in any discernible way. There taught history, and students would often Many black girls are perfectly happy simply are no groups of blacks that are say they didn’t want to do an assignment to be welfare queens. On career day, one as distinctly different from each other or they didn’t like history because it was girl explained to the class that she was as white “nerds,” “hunters,” or “Goths,” all about white people. Of course, this going to have lots of children and get fat for example. was “diversity” history, in which every checks from the government. No one in cowboy’s black cook got a special page the class seemed to have any objection How the world looks to blacks to this career choice. Surprising attitudes can come out in One point on which all blacks agree class discussion. We were talking about is that everything is “racis’.” This is the crimes committed in the aftermath of one message of liberalism they have Hurricane Katrina, and I brought up the absorbed completely. Did you do your rape of a young girl in the bathroom of homework? “Na, homework racis’.” the Superdome. A majority of my stu- Why did you get an F on the test? “Test dents believed this was a horrible crime racis’.” but a few took it lightly. One black boy I was trying to teach a unit on British spoke up without raising his hand: “Dat RJKNQUQRJGTUCPFVJGſTUVVJKPIVJGUVW- no big deal. They thought they is gonna dents noticed about Bentham, Hobbes, FKGUQVJG[ſIWTGFVJG[JCXGUQOGHWP and Locke was “Dey all white! Where da on how he contributed to winning the Dey jus’ wanna have a fun time; you black philosopher a’?” I tried to explain West, but black children still found it know what I’m sayin’?” A few black there were no blacks in eighteenth- inadequate. So I would throw up my heads nodded in agreement. century Britain. You can probably guess hands and assign them a project on a My department head once asked all what they said to that: “Dat racis’!” real, historical black person. My favorite the teachers to get a response from all One student accused me of delib- was Marcus Garvey. They had never students to the following question: “Do erately failing him on a test because I heard of him, and I would tell them to you think it is okay to break the law if it didn’t like black people. research him, but they never did. They YKNNDGPGſV[QWITGCVN[!Œ$[VJGP+JCF “Do you think I really hate black didn’t care and they didn’t want to do been teaching for a while and was not people?” any work. surprised by answers that left a young, “Yeah.” Anyone who teaches blacks soon liberal, white woman colleague aghast. “Have I done anything to make you learns that they have a completely dif- “Yeah” was the favorite answer. As one feel this way? How do you know?” ferent view of government from whites. student explained, “Get dat green.” “You just do.” 1PEG+FGEKFGFVQſNNOKPWVGUD[ There is a level of conformity among “Why do you say that?” having students write about one thing DNCEMUVJCVYJKVGUYQWNFſPFJCTFVQ He just smirked, looked out the win- the government should do to improve believe. They like one kind America. I gave this question to three of music: rap. They will classes totalling about 100 students, vote for one political party: approximately 80 of whom were black. Democrat. They dance My few white students came back with one way, speak one way, generally “conservative” ideas. “We are loud the same way, need to cut off people who don’t work,” and fail their exams in the was the most common suggestion. same way. Of course, there Nearly every black gave a variation on are exceptions but they the theme of “We need more govern- are rare. ment services.” Whites are different. My students had only the vaguest Some like country music, notion of who pays for government others heavy metal, some services. For them, it was like a magical prefer pop, and still others, piggy bank that never goes empty. One God forbid, enjoy rap music. They have After Katrina, at the Superdome. black girl was exhorting the class on different associations, groups, almost dow, and sucked air through his teeth. the need for more social services and I ideologies. There are jocks, nerds, Perhaps this was a regional thing, but kept trying to explain that people, real preppies, and hunters. Blacks are all— the blacks often sucked air through their live people, are taxed for the money to well—black, and they are quick to let teeth as a wordless expression of disdain pay for those services. “Yeah, it come other blacks know when they deviate or hostility. HTQOYJKVGUŒUJGſPCNN[UCKFő6JG[ from the norm. My students were sometimes unable stingy anyway.” One might object that there are im- to see the world except through the lens “Many black people make over portant group differences among blacks of their own blackness. I had a class $50,000 dollars a year and you would that a white man simply cannot detect. I that was host to a German exchange also be taking away from your own JCXGFQPGO[DGUVVQſPFVJGODWVUQ student. One day he put on a Power Point people,” I said. far as I can tell, they dress the same, talk presentation with famous German land- She had an answer to that: “Dey the same, think the same. Certainly, they marks as well as his school and family.

American Renaissance - 4 - July 2009 From time to time during the presenta- convinced that if it were up to them Blacks are extraordinarily quick to tion, blacks would scream, “Where da they would give whites a considerably take offense. Once I accidently scuffed black folk?!” The exasperated German smaller piece than whites get now, but a black boy’s white sneaker with my tried several times to explain that there they would give us something. They shoe. He immediately rubbed his body were no black people where he lived in wouldn’t give Mexicans anything. up against mine and threatened to attack Germany. The students did not believe What about black boys and white me. I stepped outside the class and had him. I told them Germany is in Europe, girls? No one is supposed to where white people are from, and Africa notice this or talk about it but is where black people are from. They it is glaringly obvious: Black insisted that the German student was boys are obsessed with white racist, and deliberately refused to as- girls. White parents would do sociate with blacks. well to keep their daughters Blacks are keenly interested in well away from black schools. their own racial characteristics. I have I’ve witnessed the following learned, for example, that some blacks drama countless times. A black have “good hair.” Good hair is black boy saunters up to a white parlance for black-white hybrid hair. girl. The cocky black dances Apparently, it is less kinky, easier to around her, not really in a men- style, and considered more attractive. CEKPIYC[+VŏUOQTGCUJWHƀG Blacks are also proud of light skin. than a threat. As he bobs and Imagine two black students shouting UJWHƀGUJGCUMUő9JGP[QW insults across the room. One is dark gonna go wit’ me?” but slim; the other light and obese. The There are two kinds of re- dark one begins the exchange: “You RN[6JGOQTGEQPſFGPVYJKVG fat, Ridario!” girl gets annoyed, looks away Ridario smiles, doesn’t deign to look from the black and shouts, “I don’t wan- On-campus arrest. at his detractor, shakes his head like a na go out with you!” The more demure a security guard escort the student to wobbling top, and says, “You wish you girl will look at her feet and mumble VJGQHſEG+VYCUWPWUWCNHQTUVWFGPVU light skinned.” a polite excuse but ultimately say no. to threaten teachers physically this way, They could go on like this, repeating There is only one response from the but among themselves, they were quick the same insults over and over. black boy: “You racis’.” Many girls—all VQſIJVHQTUKOKNCTTGCUQPU too many—actually feel guilty because The real victims are the unfortunate My black students had they do not want to date blacks. Most whites caught in this. They are always white girls at my school stayed away in danger and their educations suffer. nothing but contempt for from blacks, but a few, particularly the White weaklings are particularly suscep- Hispanics. Whites were ones who were addicted to drugs, fell tible, but mostly to petty violence. They “racis’,” of course, but in with them. may be slapped or get a couple of kicks they thought of us at least There is something else that is strik- when they are trying to open a bottom ing about blacks. They seem to have locker. Typically, blacks save the hard, as Americans. Not the no sense of romance, of falling in love. serious violence for each other. Mexicans. What brings men and women together is There was a lot of promiscuous sex sex, pure and simple, and there is a crude among my students and this led to My black students had nothing but openness about this. There are many de- violence. Black girls were constantly contempt for Hispanic immigrants. They generate whites, of course, but some of ſIJVKPIQXGTDNCEMDQ[U+VYCUPQVWP- would vent their feelings so crudely my white students were capable of real common to see two girls literally ripping that our department strongly advised us devotion and tenderness, emotions that GCEJQVJGTŏUJCKTQWVYKVJCRQNKEGQHſEGT never to talk about immigration in class seemed absent from blacks—especially in the middle trying to break up the in case the principal or some outsider the boys. ſIJV6JGDNCEMDQ[VJG[YGTGſIJVKPI might overhear. Black schools are violent and the over would be standing by with a smile, Whites were “racis’,” of course, but few whites who are too poor to escape enjoying the show he had created. For they thought of us at least as Americans. are caught in the storm. The violence is reasons I cannot explain, boys seldom Not the Mexicans. Blacks have a certain, astonishing, not so much that it happens, fought over girls. not necessarily hostile understanding of but the atmosphere in which it happens. Pregnancy was common among the white people. They know how whites Blacks can be smiling, seemingly per- blacks, though many black girls were act, and it is clear they believe whites fectly content with what they are doing, so fat I could not tell the difference. I are smart and are good at organizing having a good time, and then, suddenly don’t know how many girls got abor- things. At the same time, they probably UVCTVſIJVKPI+VŏUWPECPP[0QVNQPI tions, but when they had the baby they suspect whites are just putting on an ago, I was walking through the halls usually stayed in school and had their act when they talk about equality, as if and a group of black boys were walk- own parents look after the child. The it is all a sham that makes it easier for ing in front of me. All of a sudden they school did not offer daycare. whites to control blacks. Blacks want a UVCTVGFſIJVKPIYKVJCPQVJGTITQWRKP #UKFGHTQOVJGRQNKEGQHſEGTUEQP- bigger piece of the American pie. I’m the hallway. stantly on patrol, a sure sign that you

American Renaissance - 5 - July 2009 are in a black school is the coke cage: wanted drugs. An addicted girl—black money to move them along, the school the chain-link fence that many majority- or white—became the plaything of any- looks good, and the teachers look good. black schools use to protect vending one who could get her drugs. Many of these children should have been machines. The cage surrounds the ma- One of my students was a notorious failed, but the system would crack under chine and even covers its top. Delivery drug dealer. Everyone knew it. He was their weight if they were all held back. employees have to unlock a gate on the 19 years old and in eleventh grade. Once How did my experiences make me feel about blacks? Ultimately, I lost sympathy for them. In so many ways they seem to make their own beds. There they were in an integrationist’s fantasy—in the same classroom with white students, eating the same lunch, using the same bathrooms, listening to the same teachers—and yet the blacks fail while the whites pass. One tragic outcome among whites who have been teaching for too long is that it can engender something close to hatred. One teacher I knew gave up fast food—not for health reasons but because where he lived most fast-food workers were black. He had enough of blacks on the job. This was an extreme example, but years of frustration can take their toll. Many of my white col- leagues with any experience were well on their way to that state of mind. There is an unutterable secret among teachers: Almost all realize that blacks do not respond to traditional white instruction. Does that put the lie to en- front of the cage to service the machines. he got a score of three out of 100 on a vironmentalism? Not at all. It is what Companies would prefer not to build test. He had been locked up four times brings about endless, pointless innova- cages around vending machines. They since he was 13, and there he was sitting tion that is supposed to bring blacks up are expensive, ugly, and a bother, but next to little, white Caroline. to the white level. black students smashed the machines One day, I asked him, “Why do you so many times it was cheaper to build come to school?” a cage than repair the damage. Rumor He wouldn’t answer. He just looked had it that before the cages went up out the window, smiled, and sucked air blacks would turn the machines upside through his teeth. His friend Yidarius down in the hope that the money would ventured an explanation: “He get dat fall out. green and get dem females.” Security guards are everywhere in “What is the green?” I asked. “Mon- black schools—we had one on every ey or dope?” hall. They also sat in on unruly classes “Both,” said Yidarius with a smile. CPFGUEQTVGFUVWFGPVUVQVJGQHſEG6JG[ A very fat black interrupted from were unarmed, but worked closely with across the room: “We get dat lunch,” Mr. VJGVJTGGEKV[RQNKEGQHſEGTUYJQYGTG Jackson. “We gotta get dat lunch and constantly on duty. brickfuss.” He means the free breakfast Rural black schools have to have and lunch poor students get every day. security too but they are usually safer. “Nigga, we know’d you be lovin’ One reason is that the absolute numbers brickfuss!” shouts another student. are smaller. A mostly-black school of Some readers may believe that I Crack cocaine 300 students is safer than a mostly-black have drawn a cruel caricature of black The solution is more diversity—or put school of 2,000. Also, students in rural UVWFGPVU#HVGTCNNCEEQTFKPIVQQHſEKCN more generally, the solution is change. areas—both black and white—tend to ſIWTGUUQOGRGTEGPVQHVJGOITCFW- Change is an almost holy word in educa- have grown up together and know each ate. It would be instructive to know how tion, and you can fail a million times as other, at least by sight. many of those scraped by with barely a long as you keep changing. That is why There was a lot of drug-dealing at C- record. They go from grade to grade liberals keep revamping the curriculum my school. This was a good way to and they finally get their diplomas and the way it is taught. For example, make a fair amount of money but it because there is so much pressure on teachers are told that blacks need hands- also gave boys power over girls who teachers to push them through. It saves on instruction and more group work.

American Renaissance - 6 - July 2009 Teachers are told that blacks are more love. Sometimes blackness seems too castaway, in and out of foster homes, vocal and do not learn through reading black for me, and whiteness is too sickly often abused, who is nevertheless almost and lectures. The implication is that they pale; and I wish every one were golden. an angel. Your heart melts for these chil- have certain traits that lend themselves Remember: long ago before people dren, this refuse of the modern world. to a different kind of teaching. moved and migrated, and mixed and Many white students possess a certain Whites have learned a certain way for matched … there was one people: one innocence; their cheeks still blush. centuries but it just doesn’t work with EQNQTQPGTCEG6JGEQNQTUCTGƀQYKPI Try as I might, I could not get the blacks. Of course, this implies racial from what was before me to what will blacks to care one bit about Beethoven differences but if pressed, most lib- be after. All the colors.” or Sherman’s march to the sea, or eral teachers would say different racial Tyrtaeus, or Oswald Spengler, or even learning styles come from some inde- Teaching as a career liberals like John Rawls, or their own ſPCDNGEWNVWTCNEJCTCEVGTKUVKEWPKSWGVQ history. They cared about nothing I blacks. Therefore, schools must change, It may come as a surprise after what tried to teach them. When this goes on America must change. But into what? I have written, but my experiences have year after year it chokes the soul out How do you turn quantum physics into given me a deep appreciation for teach- of a teacher, destroys his pathos, and hands-on instruction or group work? No ing as a career. It offers a stable, middle- sends him guiltily searching for The Bell one knows, but we must keep changing class life but comes with the capacity Curve on the Internet. WPVKNYGſPFUQOGVJKPIVJCVYQTMU to make real differences in the lives of Blacks break down the intimacy that Public school has certainly changed children. In our modern, atomized world can be achieved in the classroom, and since anyone reading this was a student. children often have very little communi- leave you convinced that that intimacy I have a friend who teaches elementary cation with adults—especially, or even, is really a form of kinship. Without school, and she tells me that every week with their parents—so there is potential intending to, they destroy what is most the students get a new diversity lesson, for a real transaction between pupil and beautiful—whether it be your belief in shipped in fresh from some bureaucrat’s teacher, disciple and master. human equality, your daughter’s in- QHſEGKP9CUJKPIVQPQTVJGUVCVG nocence, or even the state of the capital. She showed me the mate- hallway. rials for one week: a large poster, Just last year I read on the about the size of a forty-two inch bathroom stall the words “F**k flat-screen television. It shows Whitey.” Not two feet away, on the an utterly diverse group—I mean same stall, was a small swastika. diverse: handicapped, Muslim, The writing on that wall somehow Jewish, effeminate, poor, rich, symbolized the futility of integra- brown, slightly brown, yellow, tion. No child should be have to etc.—sitting at a table, smiling try to learn in such conditions. It gaily, accomplishing some unde- was not racists who created those ſPGFVCUM6JGRQUVGTEQOGUYKVJ conditions and it wasn’t poverty a sheet of questions the teacher is either; it was ignorant, white liber- supposed to ask. One might be: “These A rewarding relationship can grow als. It reminds me of Nietzsche: “I call kids sure look different, but they look up between an exceptional, interested an animal, a species, an individual cor- happy. Can you tell me which one in student and his teacher. I have stayed in rupt, when it loses its instincts, when it the picture is an American?” my classroom with a group of students prefers what is injurious to it.” Some eight-year-old, mired in igno- discussing ideas and playing chess un- One often hears from egalitarians rance, will point to a white child like til the janitor kicked us out. I was the that it doesn’t matter what color pre- himself. “That one.” old gentleman, imparting my history, dominates in a future America so long The teacher reads from the answer, culture, personal loves and triumphs, as we preserve our values, since we conveniently printed along with the defeats and failures to young kinsman. are a “proposition nation.” Even if we question. “No, Billy, all these children Sometimes I fancied myself Tyrtaeus, were prepared to hand over our country are Americans. They are just as Ameri- the Spartan poet, who counseled the to aliens who were going to “preserve can as you.” youth to honor and loyalty. I never had our values,” it simply cannot be done The children get a snack, and the this kind intimacy with a black student, with blacks. poster goes up on the wall until an- and I know of no other white teacher The National Council for the Social other one comes a week later. This is who did. Studies, the leading authority on social what happens at predominately white, Teaching can be fun. For a certain science education in the United States, middle-class, elementary schools ev- kind of person it is exhilarating to map urges teachers to inculcate such values erywhere. out battles on chalkboards, and teach as equality of opportunity, individual Elementary school teachers love All heroism. It is rewarding to challenge property rights, and a democratic form of the Colors of the Race, by award- liberal prejudices, to leave my mark on of government. Even if teachers could winning children’s poet Arnold Adoff. these children, but what I aimed for with inculcate this milquetoast ideology into These are some of the lines they read my white students I could never achieve whites, liberalism is doomed because so to the children: “Mama is chocolate … with the blacks. many non-whites are not receptive to Daddy is vanilla … Me (sic) is better … There is a kind of child whose look education of any kind beyond the mer- +VKUCPGYEQNQT+VKUCPGYƀCXQT(QT can melt your heart: some working-class est basics. Many of my students were

American Renaissance - 7 - July 2009 functionally illiterate. It is impossible to the bored, black faces staring back car, but making her innocent years safe get them to care about such abstractions at me. “What would happen if all the and happy. Give her the gift of a white as property rights or democratic citizen- white people in America disappeared school. ship. They do not see much further than tomorrow?” the fact that you live in a big house and “We screwed,” a young, pitch-black “we in da pro-jek.” Of course, there are a boy screamed back. The rest of the few loutish whites who will never think blacks laughed. past their next meal and a few sensitive I have had children tell me to my face blacks for whom anything is possible, as they struggled with an assignment. “I but no society takes on the characteris- cain’t do dis,” Mr. Jackson. “I black.” tics of its exceptions. The point is that human beings are not Once I asked my students, “What do always rational. It is in the black man’s you think of the Constitution?” interest to have whites in Zimbabwe but “It white,” one slouching black rang he drives them out and starves. Most out. The class began to laugh. And I whites do not think black Americans caught myself laughing along with them, could ever do anything so irrational. laughing while Pompeii’s volcano sim- They see blacks on television smil- mers, while the barbarians swell around KPIſIJVKPIGXKNYJKVGUGODQF[KPI the Palatine, while the country I love, white values. But the real black is not and the job I love, and the community I on television, and you pull your purse love become dimmer by the day. closer when you see him, and you lock I read a book by an expatriate Rho- the car doors when he swaggers by desian who visited Zimbabwe not with his pants hanging down almost to too many years ago. Traveling with a his knees. companion, she stopped at a store along For those of you with children, better the highway. A black man materialized a smaller house in a white district than

A portrait of a tragic peo- His American publisher is at pains to were farming and herding extensively in ple. note that Prof. Giliomee was “one of the surrounding countryside. With land the earliest and staunchest Afrikaner op- plentiful and labor scarce, the company D[(4QIGT&GXNKP ponents of apartheid,” and his failure to made the fateful decision to import consider racial differences requires the slaves from the Dutch East Indies. Some reader to supply his own interpretation writers (e.g., Arthur Kemp [AR, July en years in the making and draw- of some of the events described. It is 2004, Letters to the Editor]) believe ing upon a bibliography of nearly nevertheless a comprehensive treatment white reliance on non-white labor was Ta thousand sources, this epic of a remarkable people. the fatal mistake that doomed South Af- history of the African continent’s sole The Dutch East India Company spon- rica from the start. Needless to say, Prof. white nation is not merely monumental, sored settlement of the Cape of Good Giliomee does not discuss that theory; it is unavoidable; no other history of Hope in 1652 with the idea of setting up instead, he emphasizes the hierarchical the Afrikaners (as opposed to general a small and intensively cultivated colony nature of the society that emerged and histories of South Africa) is available whose sole purpose was to provision the chronic fear of gelykstelling—social in English. The author is a professor of Dutch ships en route to and from Java. leveling—that characterized the Afri- history at Stellenbosch University and The seemingly inexhaustible land round kaners ever afterward. already had a dozen books to his credit about exerted too great a temptation, Within a generation, whites were when this three-pound tome appeared. however, and within a few years settlers QEEWR[KPINCPFDG[QPFVJGſTUVOQWP-

American Renaissance - 8 - July 2009 tain range and were effectively beyond texts for muscling in. The climax of is no Herodotus. The Boers are clearly company control. They quickly broke VJKUPGY$TKVKUJ#HTKMCPGTEQPƀKEVYCU a colorful people, marked by that most of their attachments to Europe— the Boer War of 1899-1902. The Brit- combination of independence and with the important exception obstinacy that Americans of the Reformed Calvinist used to call “cussedness.” faith—and began thinking Prof. Giliomee presents of Africa as their only home. a wealth of information Settlers typically had East conscientiously, but lacks a Indian slaves who spoke novelist’s talent to bring his broken Dutch look after characters to life or let us their children. As a result, see through their eyes. later generations of whites The author covers the KPJGTKVGFCUKORNKſGF&WVEJ two and a half centuries that somewhat analogous to end with the Boer War in Pidgin English (where “me 278 pages, leaving the bulk go” replaces “I am going,” of the work—nearly 400 for example). This formed pages—for the last century. the basis of Afrikaans, an By 1910, the defeated Boer important badge of social republics were integrated identity in years to come. with the Cape Colony and The new nation was Natal to form the Union strengthened by the im- of South Africa, with the migration of Germans and borders it has retained to French Protestants: 20th this day. century DNA studies revealed that not The Dutch settle the Cape in 1652. Although whites made up only more than 40 percent of Afrikaner an- ish captured the Boer capitals by the CDQWVCſHVJQHVJGRQRWNCVKQPPCVKXG cestry is Dutch. Meeting little resistance spring of 1900 but a group known as resistance at first seemed less of a from the primitive native pastoralists bittereinders (“bitter-enders”) kept up threat to civilization than the so-called they called Hottentots (now more often a guerrilla campaign against the invad- poor-white problem, which was the known as Khoi or KhoiKhoi), the na- ers for two more years. By May 1902, most pressing political issue from the scent Afrikaner nation quickly spread attrition had reduced them to fewer than early 20th century until the 1940s. Af- eastwards along the coast for some 20,000, while the British had increased rikaners who could no longer support 400 miles. In the late 1700s, in the their forces to half a million. By the themselves on farms were streaming “Zuurfeld” region between Algoa Bay end of the war, 4,177 Boer women and into the cities. They were illiterate, un- and the Fish River, they encountered the 22,074 Boer children had died in Brit- skilled, and unwilling to work at wages tougher Xhosas, racially distinct from ish concentration camps. This history of blacks accepted. The 1925 replacement the Hottentots. For several decades, KTTCVKQPCNFGſCPEGKPVJGHCEGQHQXGT- of Dutch by Afrikaans as South Africa’s what Prof. Giliomee calls “the Eastern whelming defeat—something American EQQHſEKCNNCPIWCIGYKVJ'PINKUJYCU frontier cauldron” was an African coun- Southerners should easily recognize—is motivated in part by the need to educate terpart to America’s Wild West. an important element of Afrikaner folk these poor whites. In 1795 the British took control of memory to this day. The purpose of early racial legislation the Cape and tried to impose their law Even this brief summary may give the was to guarantee whites employment at and language on the Afrikaners, whom reader some idea of what Boer War hero a “decent” wage by insulating them from they regarded as cultural and moral Jan Smuts meant when he said, “What competition with blacks. This was justi- inferiors. The British abolished slavery ſGFVQNKDGTCNUMGRVKEUCUCVGORQTCT[ in 1834, and the Afrikaner frontiersmen “What young nation can measure that would let whites regain feared complete gelykstelling might be VJGKTHQQVKPICPFGXGPVWCNN[DGPGſVVJG KPVJGQHſPI boast a more romantic black majority as well. Implausible or So deep was their distrust of the history, one of more far- cynical as this may sound, it is more British administration that in the 1830s reaching human interest? or less what happened. By the Second several groups, without any central lead- World War, dire white poverty was a ership, took the radical step of moving Color, incident, tragedy thing of the past, and blacks and Col- hundreds of miles into the interior in a and comedy, defeat and oreds assumed many of the menial jobs migration known as the Great Trek (see XKEVQT[LQ[CPFUQTTQYŒ involved in wartime production. “The Great Trek,” AR, June 2004). They In later years, as the wrath of non- founded two new republics: the Orange young nation can boast a more romantic whites and liberals focused on “apart- Free State and the Republic of South history, one of more far-reaching human heid,” a legend grew up that race rela- Africa, later known as the Transvaal. interest? Color, incident, tragedy and tions had been relatively benign and For a time, Britain recognized the comedy, defeat and victory, joy and were improving before the Nationalists independence of the Boer Republics, sorrow . . . . If only we had the pen of came to power in 1948 and began to but when gold was discovered near the Greeks . . . !” implement their racial policies. In fact, Johannesburg, the British found pre- Hermann Giliomee, unfortunately, there had long been laws governing

American Renaissance - 9 - July 2009 race relations—the British themselves lar generalization of this policy that took grew dependent on them. The Afrikaner introduced the pass system in the 19th shape in the years before the successful nation that survived the Great Trek and century—and the wartime government 1948 elections. Its designers looked to the concentration camps of the Boer of Jan Smuts laid some of the founda- the American South for guidance, and 9CTſPCNN[ECRKVWNCVGFVQVJGGHHGEVUQH studied contemporary theories about prosperity. EQPƀKEVRTGXGPVKQPKPRNWTCNUQEKGVKGU Says Prof. Giliomee: “Hendrik Ver- Prof. Giliomee shows that, tendentious woerd [the “architect of apartheid”] arguments of leftist historians notwith- always believed that, confronted with standing, Nazi ideology had virtually a choice between being rich and inte- PQKPƀWGPEGQPCRCTVJGKF0CVKQPCNKUVU grated, and segregated and poor, the were, in his words, “unequivocally re- Afrikaners would choose the latter. jecting National Socialism as an alien But the strong surge of prosperity import into South Africa, and endorsing over which he presided tilted the scale parliamentary democracy.” heavily in favor of the former. Whites Apartheid was based on reciprocity had become accustomed to economic that was to guarantee its essential justice; growth producing steadily improved whites were granting blacks everything social circumstances and a comfortable they demanded for themselves: schools, lifestyle.” churches, homelands and (eventually) According to one grim joke, white governments, each operating in its own South Africans would rather be mur- language. A crazy-quilt patchwork dered in their own beds than make of Bantustans—reserved areas where them. whites were not allowed to purchase land—had been set up as early as 1913 ,CP5OWVUQPVJGEQXGTQHTime. and expanded in 1936. These areas were tions of apartheid. It introduced com- to be future independent homelands pulsory voter registration for whites where the “original social order of the only, built all-colored suburbs, and natives” would be re-established. The required employers to segregate work Afrikaners may have been projecting and eating areas. Local authorities were their resistance to British cultural and CNTGCF[ECNNKPIHQTCPQHſEKCNPCVKQPCN linguistic imperialism onto blacks, register classifying everyone by race, many of whom were happy to move to but segregation remained a ramshackle the cities, abandon their customs, and system of piecemeal responses to spe- speak English. EKſEUKVWCVKQPU The apartheid era was one of unprec- Even the liberals of the time heartily edented prosperity for South Africa, and disapproved of miscegenation. They blacks shared in that prosperity. From YCPVGFVJGKPFGſPKVGEQPVKPWCVKQPQHde 1960 to 1980 their average disposable facto residential and social segregation, personal income grew 84 percent, from but preferred social to legal sanctions, 4CPFVQ CFLWUVGFHQTKPƀC- and envisioned the eventual removal of tion), and life expectancy rose from 38 the color bar from the South African years to over 60. The Nationalists spent Constitution. The leading liberal in the more on education and medicine for Hendrik Verwoerd. United Party once admitted, however, blacks than previous governments. Some early apartheid theorists had that the assumption that social pressure According to the census of 1946, envisaged an eventual “total apartheid:” could take the place of laws “calls for whites made up 21.6% of South Africa’s an all-white state coexisting with several faith in no small degree,” and wondered population, and demographers expected black states, each with its own viable whether “it will ensure the white man’s VJCVſIWTGVQTKUGVQD[VJGGPF economy and separate labor force. In the position in South Africa” and “make of the century. To the consternation early 1950s, Afrikaner leaders explicitly South Africa safe for European civili- of demographers and the government, rejected this vision, and it gradually zation.” however, the black population grew disappeared from public discussion. The Afrikaners of the Nationalist rapidly—so rapidly that the average age Somehow, the homelands were never Party, who were painfully conscious of black South Africans fell to below developed. The truth is that South Afri- of their weakness in numbers, were not 16. The white share of the population can whites could not bring themselves prepared to take chances. Apartheid, dropped steadily, to 17 percent in 1976 to do without cheap black labor. or “separateness,” was to be a survival and 12 percent in 2000. Still, it was not inevitable that the plan. It was born unobtrusively in Dutch Black-white economic cooperation, Afrikaner nation would abandon its Reformed Church circles in the 1930s which apartheid was careful not to fate to the ANC. This catastrophe was as a mission strategy of working toward KPVGTHGTGYKVJDGPGſVGFDQVJTCEGUDWV brought about by the steady demoraliza- self-supporting and independent indig- by employing blacks in unpleasant jobs, tion of whites, their will sapped by years enous churches. whites were sowing dragons’ teeth. As of being treated as “the polecat of the Political apartheid was a kind of secu- the number of blacks increased, whites world.” As Prof. Giliomee makes clear,

American Renaissance - 10 - July 2009 the Afrikaners were never defeated; they simply surrendered. We may never know why the whites of South Africa—both the English and the Afrikaners—voted in a 1992 referen- dum to rewrite the constitution. Whites still had virtually complete control of the country, and the voters probably never expected their leaders to give up so much so quickly. As Prof. Giliomee puts it, “That [President F. W.] de Klerk and his negotiators would manage to re- tain so little despite a position of relative strength places a serious question mark over his leadership abilities.” This judg- ment is particularly thought-provoking, coming as it does, from an opponent of apartheid. ANC-ruled South Africa is a highly centralized state with no built-in guar- antees for minorities. Its current system of organized looting known as Black Economic Empowerment is giving the new ruling class a powerful taste for Afrikaners today. wealth, which in a few more years will generations Afrikaners cultivated the ahead, we other men of the West will no longer be there to loot. What will stop powerful racial and tribal conscious- ſPFQEECUKQPVQNGCTPDQVJHTQOVJGKT South Africa eventually from driving ness necessary for survival in the midst virtues and from their terrible mis- out whites and destroying its economy of alien and hostile races. Softened takes. as Zimbabwe has done? by prosperity and demoralized by the Dr. Devlin is a contributing editor to Afrikaner history is an inspiring story disapproval of outsiders, they ceased to The Occidental Quarterly and the author of a European people very similar to believe in themselves and surrendered of Alexandre Kojève and the Outcome America’s founding stock. For many YKVJQWVſTKPICUJQV+PVJGFGECFGU of Modern Thought. La Raza Eyes the Supreme Court

by Jared Taylor tion of how vehemently Hispanic she sit on the Supreme Court worries about is. Zbigniew Brzezinski and Antonin ſVVKPIKP9GJCXGVQCFLWUVVQJGTPQV resident Obama has surprised no Scalia don’t tell us to talk the way their the other way around. one by appointing a vividly race- Polish or Italian ancestors did. They Miss Sotomayor also appears to think Pconscious Hispanic as his first are Americans, and understand the way her role is to rule, not to ensure that nominee to the United States Supreme the laws are Constitutional. In another Court. Some of Sonia Sotomayor’s well-circulated comment she said that choicer observations have been widely a “court of appeals [the level at which reported: “I would hope that a wise she now sits] is where policy is made.” Latina woman with the richness of her No, Sonia, the legislative branch is experiences would more often than not where policy is made. It would be hard reach a better conclusion than a white to think of a statement that so blatantly male who hasn’t lived that life.” She also demonstrates a lack of what we used says sex and race “may and will make to call “judicial temperament.” This a difference in our judging.” (These woman is a ruthless liberal, and exer- remarks appeared in a publication that cises her power in an attempt to advance is called—apparently with a straight her politics. face—the Berkeley La Raza Law Jour- Miss Sotomayor’s record shows nal.) But what else should we expect that, like Justice Ruth Ginsberg, she from a member of the Puerto Rican Bar is likely to give foreign legal opinions Association, the Hispanic National Bar considerable deference. One European Association, the Association of Judges Americans speak. Not Sonia. It wasn’t NGICNƀQWTKUJOWEJCFOKTGFD[NKDGT- of Hispanic Heritage, and the National CNNVJCVNQPICIQVJCVRGQRNGVTKGFVQſV als is to justify clamping down on free Council of La Raza? in, and many newcomers even changed speech by arguing that some opinions The way Miss Sotomayor insists we their names to become more American. are too loathsome to be permitted. Miss pronounce her name is another indica- Now, not even someone who wants to Sotomayor has not yet had a chance

American Renaissance - 11 - July 2009 to try this argument out on the First ing her. whites, what fanciful principles will an Amendment, but I suspect she would Of course, justices such as Sonia KPETGCUKPIN[PQPYJKVGEQWTVſPFKPVJG NQXGVQ+HUJGKUEQPſTOGFUJGYKNN Sotomayor are what Americans, Constitution? Mr. Obama will no doubt end up like Thurgood Marshall, whose whether they knew it or not, were FQJKUDGUVVQOCMGUWTGYGſPFQWV racial preoccupations and biases eventu- voting for last November, and we can In the meantime, we can at least pro- ally became so simple-minded as to be count on more nominations of the nounce the nominee’s name the way it almost comical. same stripe: unapologetic race and sex should be pronounced: with the accent And there is little doubt she will be quotas designed to turn the Supreme QPVJGſTUVU[NNCDNGCPFVJGVYQNCUV EQPſTOGF#UPQVGFCDQXGUJGKUQP Court into an engine of increasingly syllables rhyming with “mayor,” as in record as saying, in effect, that Hispanic blatant dispossession. If a majority- the mayor of New York. If someone cor- women are wiser and better than white white court has repeatedly shown itself rects you, just explain that you are doing men. The spineless white men we call ECRCDNGQHſPFKPIVJCVGSWCNQRRQT- Miss Sotomayor the undeserved favor of UGPCVQTUYKNNRTQXGJGTTKIJVD[EQPſTO- tunity requires discrimination against treating her like an American. The BNP Goes to Strasbourg

Nationalist Right breaks bright orange banner ad that blared, a “sad day for British politics.” Arlene through in EU elections. ő5VQR0KEM)TKHſPŒYKVJCNKPMVQCP McCarthy, who headed the Labour list, anti-BNP website run by the far-left, told the crowd the BNP was “a party by Stephen Webster anti-white organization Searchlight. whose members include convicted rap- On election night, a violent crowd of ists.” BNP supporters replied with, “Get “anti-racist” agitators tried to prevent back to the trough!” a reference to the ritish politics changed dramati- Mr. Griffin from attending the vote continuing UK parliament expenses cally on June 4 as British voters, count at the Manchester Bsickened by the corruption of the town hall, surrounding his governing Labour Party and reluctant to car and pelting it with eggs embrace the opposition Tories, pinned as they screamed “Fascist their hopes on smaller parties. Among scum.” He had to give up the big winners was the British National his car and ride to the town Party (BNP), which broke through into hall in a police van. serious politics by winning two seats in /T)TKHſPYQPD[VJG the European Parliament. thinnest margin, and it was When ballots were counted three days CODGHQTGQHſEKCNUYGTG CHVGTVJGXQVGVJGſTUV$02XKEVQT[VQ able to announce the result. be announced was that of long-time 9JGPVJG$02NGCFGTſPCNN[ nationalist activist, Andrew Brons, who took the stage at Manchester won a seat in the Yorkshire and Humber town hall the other newly- region of North East England with 9.8 elected Euro-MPs walked off in $02%JCKTOCP0KEM)TKHſP percent of the vote. Hours later, the Brit- RTQVGUV7PFGVGTTGF/T)TKHſPVQNFVJG scandal, which has undermined support ish political and media establishment crowd that BNP success would “trans- for the Labour Party. reacted with even greater dismay to the form British politics.” Of his election, At the vote count in Yorkshire, the PGYUVJCV$02NGCFGT0KEM)TKHſPJCF he said, “This is ordinary decent people $02ŏUſTUV'WTQ/2/T$TQPUFG- won a second seat for the BNP in the . . . kicking back against racism, because nounced the “onslaught against us” by North West region with 8 percent. It racism in this country is now directed the media and other parties. “Despite was a historic achievement. No British overwhelmingly against people who the lies, despite the money, despite the nationalist party had ever won a parlia- look like me.” He added: “We’re here misrepresentation, we’ve been able to mentary seat of any kind, and now the to look after our people because no one win through,” he said. The dapper and BNP holds two, just as BNP candidate else will. For the last 50 years, more articulate Mr. Brons had been teaching Tim Rait predicted in his article in last and more of the people of Britain have politics and government at Harrogate month’s issue, “A Breakthrough for the watched with concern, growing dismay, College before reentering politics under BNP?” Unfortunately Mr. Rait himself and sometimes anger as an out-of-touch the BNP banner. was unsuccessful in his bid in South East political elite has transformed our coun- Labour Prime Minister Gordon England, where the BNP fell short with try before our very eyes.” Brown will face further pressure to 4.4 percent of the vote. The establishment politicians reacted resign after the BNP breakthrough and /T)TKHſPŏUXKEVQT[KURCTVKEWNCTN[ with typical contempt for the elector- his own party’s meager showing in UCVKUH[KPIIKXGPVJGOGFKCXKNKſECVKQP ate. Sir Robert Atkins, the head of the the Euro-elections. Says one unnamed he suffered during the campaign. The Conservative Party list in the North senior party leader: “It is one thing to press did not even try to hide its bias, West (see last month’s article on the lose to the Tories, but actually to do so routinely smearing him as a “fascist” BNP for how the Euro-elections are badly that we are letting in the fascists and a “racist.” On election day the tab- run), described the BNP as “an aberra- is quite another.” Health Secretary Andy loid newspaper Daily Sun ran a large VKQPŒCPFECNNGF/T)TKHſPŏUUWEEGUU Burnham agreed: “It is a sad moment.

American Renaissance - 12 - July 2009 There are concerns about immigration. positions. Danish People’s Party won 14.4 percent The Government have to get a response /T)TKHſPCPF/T$TQPUCTGNKMGN[ and will send two members. Renegade to those concerns. We have got to under- to play an important role in any par- Dutch politician Geert Wilder’s Free- stand why people have voted for dom Party stunned the establish- the BNP. We should redouble our ment by winning 17 percent of the determination to take them on and vote and coming in just behind the take them out of British politics.” ruling Christian Democrats. In Although the results were over- Hungary, a new party called the shadowed by the Euro-Parliament Movement for a Better Hungary, campaign, the BNP also broke which campaigns on the slogan through in county council elec- “Hungary belongs to the Hungar- tions held the same day, winning KCPUŒYCUVJGVJKTFRNCEGſPKUJGT a seat each in Lancashire, Leic- with 15 percent of the vote. estershire, and Hertfordshire. In An exception to the encourag- addition to these three seats, the ing record was the National Front BNP now has 55 town council- in France, which saw its percent- ors and 50 borough and other local /CPEJGUVGTRTQVGUVCICKPUV0KEM)TKHſP age of the vote drop from 9.8 percent EQWPEKNQTU/T)TKHſPYCPVUVQOCMG liamentary group formed by European in 2004 to 6.3 percent, with the result the BNP a mainstream political party, nationalists. Nationalists did well all that it is sending only three Euro-MPs and these victories will go a long way across Europe as support for the left to Strasbourg. Martin Schulz, leader towards achieving that goal. The party collapsed on the continent as it did in of the European Parliament’s Socialist will now get government funding, which Britain. In Austria, the Freedom Party bloc, summed up the feelings of the left: will help it contest future elections and won 13 percent of the vote and will send “It’s a sad evening for social democracy make it harder for the media to dismiss two members to the European Parlia- in Europe. We are particularly disap- the BNP as a fringe party and ignore its ment. In Denmark, Pia Kjaersgaard’s pointed. It’s a bitter evening for us.” O Tempora, O Mores!

estimated that the number of stateside from Puerto Rico, so she would speak Cuento del Lado Oeste 2WGTVQ4KECPUſTUVGZEGGFGFVJGPWODGT Spanish with her friends.” [Patricia Co- Much has changed in the 50 years back home in 2003. Most Puerto Ricans hen, Same City, New Story, New York since West Side Story debuted on Broad- have left Manhattan; there are 787,000 Times, March 15, 2009, p. 1.] way. For one thing, Puerto Ricans, or living in New York City, and only 6,700 “Spanish” as many called them then, are in the old West Side Story neighborhood. no longer exotic to New York City—one There is still a Puerto Rican Day parade is likely to be on the Supreme Court by down Fifth Avenue every year, and the summer’s end. Puerto Ricans started musical remains popular for school and coming to the mainland by the thousands amateur theatrics. after the Second World War, and num- A new version opened on Broadway bered 41,000 by 1960, making up 14 in March and has been nominated for several Tony awards. Arthur Laurents, who wrote the book for the original play and at age 91 is directing the revival, says it needed a fresh approach. He insisted that all Puerto Rican roles go to Spanish-speaking Hispanics, and that they perform all of their parts in Span- ish. Audiences therefore hear “Siento Hermosa” instead of “I Feel Pretty” and “Un Hombre Asi” instead of “A Boy Ticket sales matter, though, so Miss Like That.” Mr. Laurents isn’t reviving Scaglione’s looks have more in com- West Side Story to appeal to Hispanics, mon with Natalie Wood’s than Sonia who account for only 5.7 percent of Sotomayor’s. all Broadway ticket sales. He says the percent of the population between 58th Spanish “heightens emotional drama” ‘Too Christian’ and 110th Streets on the Upper West by giving audiences “a truer sense of the Side of Manhattan. Today, nearly 4 cultural misunderstandings at the heart In 1969, Queen Elizabeth established million Puerto Ricans live in the United QHŒVJGRNC[,QUGſPC5ECINKQPGVJG an award called the Trinity Cross of the States, and fewer than 4 million live on 21-year-old Argentine actress who plays Order of Trinity, to recognize “distin- the island itself. The Census Bureau Maria explains that her character “is guished service and gallantry” in the

American Renaissance - 13 - July 2009 former British colony of Trinidad and from twelve to four, and removing Miyar refused to explain, saying only Tobago. Sixty-two people, including references to the Cross or Christian that “claims were dismissed against the novelist V. S. Naipaul, have won the saints. Paul Flynn, a Labour member other defendants based on a careful as- award. The islands have been indepen- of the committee, said, “The titles are sessment of the facts and the law.” [Jerry dent since 1962 and severed ties to the now meaningless, they are a remnant of Seper, Career Lawyers Overruled on monarchy in 1976, but chose to retain another age and I don’t think they have Voting Case, Washington Times, May VJG$TKVKUJ2TKX[%QWPEKNCUVJGKTſPCN CP[RCTVKEWNCT%JTKUVKCPUKIPKſECPEGŒ 29, 2009.] court of appeals. In 2003, black poet Benjamin Trinidad and Tobago have a popu- Zephaniah publicly rejected the lation of 1.3 million; 80 percent are Order of the British Empire, saying either of African or Indian descent, it reminded him of white supremacy. and 30 percent are either Muslim or In 2008, Christine Grahame, a mem- Hindu. Hindus and Muslims have long ber of the Scottish Parliament, de- objected to the Christian symbolism of clared the George Medal, the highest the Trinity Cross—some have refused to British civilian award for bravery, accept it for that reason—and in 2004 as unsuitable for Scots because it a mixed group sued to have it renamed is “very clearly Anglocentric.” St. or retired. The High Court of Trinidad George is the patron saint of Eng- ruled that the decoration discriminated land. [David Brown, Queen’s Merit against non-Christians, but noted that it Decoration Ruled Illegal for Being did not have the power to invalidate a Too Christian, Times (London), royal award. May 8, 2009, p. 6.] 2CPVJGTUECWIJVQPXKFGQVCRG The plaintiffs then appealed to the In a separate matter, the state of Geor- Privy Council, which in May junked the Justice, Obama Style gia wants to make sure only US citizens award, saying it is “perceived by Hindus XQVGKPGNGEVKQPUUQKVUGVWRCXGTKſEC- and Muslims . . . as an overtly Christian In January, the US Department of tion system to check voters’ Social symbol both in name and in substance.” ,WUVKEG &1, ſNGFCXQVGTKPVKOKFCVKQP Security numbers and driver’s licenses. The Trinidad government established suit against the New Black Panther Last fall, Hispanic voters sued, claiming a new award called the Order of the Party. Three party members showed up discrimination, and in October, a three- Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and at a Philadelphia polling station last No- judge federal panel ordered the state to conferred by the president. vember, dressed like soldiers and armed seek Justice Department approval for It seems to have escaped the notice with billy clubs. Footage aired on Fox the ID checks under the Voting Rights of Muslims and Hindus that Columbus News and CNN showed them menacing Act of 1965. Georgia is one of several named their country in recognition of the voters and making racial threats. DOJ states that need federal permission be- lawyers argued that if it is left unpun- fore changing election rules because of ished, the New Panther Party will “con- a “history of discriminatory, Jim Crow- tinue to violate . . . the Voting Rights era voting practices.” Act by continuing to direct intimida- At the end of May, the department tion, threats and coercion at voters and TWNGFVJCVXGTKſECVKQPJCFCőFKUETKOK- potential voters . . . .” On April 20, the natory effect” against non-white voters department won a default judgment in and must stop. “This flawed system federal court when the Panthers named frequently subjects a disproportionate in the lawsuit—Chairman Malik Zulu number of African-American, Asian Shabazz, Minister King Samir Shabazz and/or Hispanic voters to additional, and and Jerry Jackson—failed to appear. more importantly, erroneous burdens on On May 5, DOJ lawyers were work- the right to register to vote,” a DOJ of- ing with Judge Stewart Dalzell to deter- ſEKCNYTQVGENCKOKPIVJCV,WUVKEGHQWPF mine what penalties they would seek, more than 7,000 cases in which the sys- but 10 days later they were overruled VGOOKUVCMGPN[ƀCIIGFCPGNKIKDNGXQVGT by political appointees in the department as an illegal. (According to the Georgia who told them to dismiss the complaints Secretary of State, there are 5,588,218 against Malik Zulu Shabazz and Mr. registered voters. Assuming Justice got The new medal bears no cross. Jackson. They were ordered to seek a the numbers right, that means the system judgment against only the ringleader, is 99.9987 percent accurate.) Holy Trinity. The name of Tobago also King Samir Shabazz, with the laughable Secretary of State Karen Handel, a could be offensive. The cigar-shaped penalty of being forbidden to display a Republican who is running for governor island’s name derives from the Spanish “weapon within 100 feet of any open next year, complained that “clearly, word for tobacco. polling location” until Nov. 15, 2012. politics took priority over common The British are squabbling over It is virtually unprecedented for the sense and good public policy.” She says awards and decorations, too. In 2004, a department to walk away from a default 2,100 people who attempted to register parliamentary committee recommended judgment. When asked why Justice to vote last year still have “unresolved reducing the number of decorations reversed itself, spokesman Alejandro questions” about their citizenship, and

American Renaissance - 14 - July 2009 that her inspector general is investigat- tiracial people with close to 20 percent, were born in San Francisco in 2007, ing more than 30 cases of non-citizens followed by Alaska and Oklahoma, both the most since 1994, and the number of casting ballots in Georgia elections. with about 4 percent. EJKNFTGPWPFGTCIGſXGJCUKPETGCUGF The US Supreme Court is considering “Multiracial unions have been hap- percent since 2000. Three fourths of the a challenge to the portion of the Voting pening for a very long time, but we are increase is among whites. San Francisco Rights Act that requires Georgia and a only now really coming to terms with Supervisor Bevan Dufty, a homosexual few other states to seek federal approval saying it’s OK,” says Carolyn Liebler, man raising his 2-1/2-year-old daughter before they can change election laws. with a lesbian partner, says, “There has [Shannon McCaffrey, Feds Spike Voter been a demographic boom in the gay Citizenship Checks in Georgia, AP, June community having kids,” but the trend 1, 2009.] isn’t just among homosexuals, nor is it limited to the Bay Area. Persistent Gap White families are fueling increases in the child population in several cit- More than seven years have passed ies that were worried about dwindling since No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), numbers. “I think there is a new gen- President Bush’s much ballyhooed ef- eration of white, well-off parents who fort to close the racial achievement want to stay in the city, in high-amenity gap, went into effect (see “Fantasy and cities like San Francisco, New York, Fraud: No Child Left Behind, AR, Feb. Washington, D.C., and Portland,” says 2004). There is little to show for the William Frey, a demographer with the $100 billion NCLB has cost taxpayers. Brookings Institution. “They are willing Blacks and Hispanics are getting better Tiger Woods with son Charlie. to pay for private schools and child-safe scores on standardized tests, but so are a sociology professor at the University neighborhoods in order to do this. It’s a whites, and while the gap has narrowed of Minnesota. She thinks many more trend that wasn’t apparent for the baby slightly since the 1970s, it remains wide. UKORN[JCXGPQVENCUUKſGFVJGOUGNXGU boomers, who left for the suburbs when The US Department of Education says accurately. “Millions are yet to come they started having kids.” However, he it is roughly equivalent to between two out,” she says. adds, “This is not a trend that’s going to and three school years’ worth of learn- Kayci Baldwin, 17, of Middletown, sweep the country. It’s going to sweep ing, meaning that blacks in their senior New Jersey, says she remembers how pockets of wealth and privilege and year test at about the level of whites her black father and white mother at the beginning of their sophomore YQTTKGFYJGVJGTUJGYQWNFſVKP years. “There’s not much indication that 9JKNGUJGCVſTUVUVTWIINGFYKVJJGT NCLB is causing the kind of change identity, Baldwin now embraces it, we were all hoping for,” says G. Gage sponsoring support groups and a Kingsbury, a testing expert who is a nationwide multiracial teen club director at the Northwest Evaluation with 1,000 members. “I went to my Association in Portland. high school prom last week with my Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president date who is Ecuadoran-Nigerian, a of the University of Maryland, Balti- friend who is Chinese-white and more County, believes schools need to another friend who is part Domini- do more for black students at an early can,” she explains. “While we are a age. “Where there are programs that en- group that was previously ignored in courage that additional work, students of many ways, we now have an oppor- color do the work and their performance tunity to fully identify and express improves and the gap narrows,” he says. ourselves.” upper middle-class lifestyles.” [Mike [Sam Dillon, ‘No Child’ Law Is Not About one in 13 marriages are mixed Swift, San Francisco Sees Baby Boom, Closing a Racial Gap, New York Times, race, with the most common being Mercury News (San Jose), May 24, April 28, 2009, p. A1] If whites got the white-Hispanic, white-American Indian 2009.] same attention, the gap might widen. and white-Asian. More than half of the multiracial population is younger than 21 Children, 11 Mothers, Not So Tragic Anymore 20 years old. [Multiracial America is Fastest Growing Group, AP, May 28, 1 Father According to the latest Census Bu- 2009.] Desmond Hatchett is a busy man. reau estimates, there are now 5.2 million The 29-year-old minimum-wage worker multiracial Americans. Since 2000 their White Baby Boom? from Knoxville, Tennessee, is father of number has risen 33 percent and they at least 21 children, ranging from new- are now 3.4 percent of the population. It used to be said that there were more born to 11-years-old, with at least 11 Demographers say celebrities like Tiger dogs than children in San Francisco, different women. In May, Mr. Hatchett Woods and Barack Obama are making but the city is now seeing its biggest appeared in Juvenile Child Support multiracialism more acceptable. By increase in the number of births since Court to explain why he hasn’t paid percentages, Hawaii has the most mul- the early 1970s. More than 9,000 babies what he owes to the mothers of 15 of

American Renaissance - 15 - July 2009 his children. The women are supposed to there was a racial element from the Mr. Finley and Mr. Crostley were get anywhere from $25 to $309 a month, word go until the very end,” he says. released from jail on June 4. They had but when his garnished paycheck is div- “Carolyn underlined it with her general been behind bars since they were ar- vied up, some women only get $1.98 a behavior towards Unathi. She pushed rested last September, since they were month. He managed to bring $400 to him away and her face was screwed up, unable to post bond. [Charges Dropped court, which was split among the moth- as if kissing him was the worst thing in in Black Man’s Dragging Death, AP, ers, but he faces jail time if he can’t pay the world.” He sees a larger tragedy: June 4, 2009.] Their release has attracted more. The court cannot keep Mr. Hatch- “It undermines what people did here NKVVNGCVVGPVKQP*CFDNCEMUDGGPſPCNN[ ett behind bars forever, which means he in the 60s, 70s and 80s in using theatre let out of jail after being found innocent will probably sire even more children to challenge apartheid.” [David Smith, of racially-charged accusations there for which the taxpayers of Tennessee White Actor’s Refusal to Kiss Black would have been much soul-searching will provide. [Cris Mullen, Man Has 21 Man Turns Into a Race Row in South about a primitive Texan justice sys- Children with 11 Mothers, WTSP-TV Africa, Guardian (London), May 28, tem that had falsely accused innocent (Tampa Bay), May 23, 2009.] 2009.] blacks. Kiss Off Not Guilty After All Uncharming City Carolyn Forword is a 22-year-old When Brandon McClelland’s man- Baltimore used to call itself “Charm South African actress who used to be gled body was found by police in Paris, City,” but these days the name rings hol- in a production of The Pied Piper of Texas last September, authorities feared low. Gangs of black thugs are roaming Hamelin with the Riverside Theatre they had another James Byrd case on the Inner Harbor and downtown tourist Company, based in Cape Town. There their hands. James Byrd was the black CTGCUſIJVKPIGCEJQVJGTCPFCVVCEMKPI are one black and three white actors in man who was chained to a pickup truck tourists. Most of the victims are white, a play that is intended to promote racial and dragged to death by three whites in and the attacks seem to be pure sport harmony to South African children. The Jasper, Texas in 1998. The Byrd death rather than robbery. The usual pattern script calls for Miss Forward’s character was frequently cited as evidence of the is that whites are attacked from behind to kiss the character played by the black need for state and national “hate” crime without warning by groups that may actor, 28-year-old Unathi Dyantyi. She laws and was an issue during the 2000 include young women as well as men. didn’t like kissing him and left the pro- presidential campaign. No one has been killed in the recent duction after 12 performances. Forensics tests determined that Mc- incidents, but a May 24 attack was a Clelland’s body was caught under a near miss. A gang of blacks jumped truck and that he was dragged at least off-duty policeman George Williams, 70 feet. Police arrested two white men, who was visiting Baltimore from his Shannon Finley and Charles Crostley, home in Brick Township, New Jersey, friend’s of McClelland’s who were with his girlfriend, Marisa Parish. Mr. drinking with him the day he died. Williams says four black men and three Prosecutors contended that Mr. Finley women attacked them as they walked and Mr. Crostley deliberately ran over along a downtown street. One thug McClelland, who was black, after a pulled a knife and put it to Miss Par- drunken argument. The case garnered ish’s face while a woman held her from national attention (the men were pre- behind. The men started punching and sumed guilty be the media), and brought kicking Mr. Williams, and threw him to Mr. Dyanti is angry. “She said she out protesters from the Nation of Islam, the ground. “They were using my head found it unnecessary and the kiss was the New Black Panther Party, and one for a soccer ball—back and forth, back unhygienic,” he says. He also thinks he lonely counter-demonstrator from the and forth,” he explains, and some were knows why she didn’t want to kiss him: Ku Klux Klan. shouting “you’re dead.” Miss Parish “There is still racism in South African Mr. Finley and Mr. Crostley always managed to break away and shield Mr. theater today, but it’s very subtle.” said they were innocent, and over the Williams’s head from further kicks. She “It is a play for eight-year-olds,” last few months the case against them was knocked out but probably saved counters Miss Forword. “They wanted has unraveled. They told police that they his life. Ironically, Mr. Williams’s me to kiss the guy for 20 seconds, which argued over whether Mr. Finley was too hometown, Brick Township, was voted is inappropriate for that audience. It drunk to drive, and McClelland got out America’s Safest City in 2006. wouldn’t have gone down well at a of the car to walk home. Investigators Baltimore police say that even with Catholic school, for example. It would EQWNFſPFPQPGQH/E%NGNNGCPFŏU&0# this rash of attacks, downtown and the have been unhygienic because it was a on Mr. Finley’s pickup. In May, the Inner Harbor are the safest places in the traveling show. I pulled out because the driver of a gravel truck gave a sworn city, at least during the day. They have director never gave my agent an idea of statement acknowledging he might have KPETGCUGFVJGPWODGTQHQHſEGTURCVTQN- where we were staying. It had nothing accidentally run over McClelland, and in ling the waterfront at night from 12 to to do with the kissing thing. But now June, prosecutors dropped the charges. 40, and have also stepped up foot patrols I’m seen as a racist.” “I think it’s very simple,” says David in other areas. [Justin Fenton, Assaults The play’s director, Leslie Ehrhardt, Turner, Mr. Crostley’s lawyer. “These on Rise in Downtown, Inner Harbor, supports Mr. Dyantyi. “Without a doubt fellows didn’t do it.” Baltimore Sun, May 31, 2009.]

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