There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. – Thomas Jefferson Vol. 7, No. 1 January 1996 Dispatches from the Front Lines I. Fighting “Racism” Rather than Fires

A first-hand report on the On our hands and knees, blinded non-white and female firefighters and consequences of affirmative by thick smoke, we crawled right onto officers, hired and promoted beyond action. two unconscious people. Ed hoisted their capabilities. His job in the Arson one of them onto my shoulder, took Bureau takes him all over town, and by Robert Charles he confirmed that fires that would have been handled quickly and effi- A ffirmative action always has ciently in the past now get out of hand costs. Usually, the costs are lower and become greater alarms. standards, poor performance, bad mo- What has happened to the smooth- rale, and lost profits. In a fire depart- running department that I joined ment there can be other costs: lost nearly 30 years ago? Why have the lives. Eds of my first fire been replaced by I joined the San Francisco Fire De- all-too-many slackers, dullards and partment in mid-1966, in the days be- women who can’t pull their own fore affirmative action. I got my first weight? Water weighs eight and one house fire, just a couple of weeks out third pounds per gallon, and always of the Fire College, while I was a pro- will. So why are we saddled with un- bie (a probationary firefighter) as- dersized quota hires who can’t drag signed to Engine 36. The fire was in water-filled hose lines, and are a li- an apartment building of six or eight ability in the six-man lift when we flats, just two blocks from Station 47. need to raise a 50-foot wooden ladder This meant the men from 47 would that weighs over four hundred probably get to kick in the door and the other himself, and we ran to the pounds? get first water on the fire, not us. ambulance, which took them immedi- Why do I have to take orders from Sure enough, 47 was already there ately to the hospital. Ed gave me a a quota-hire black lieutenant who when we pulled up and hit the ground “Nice going, probie,” and we went went to a parking lot, looking for a running. They were at the door of the back to work. “Cadillac” when he should have been burning flat, but because of the heat Back in quarters a couple of hours looking for a “cardiac”? What kind of they couldn’t advance beyond the later, while cleaning equipment, I kept grade did a quota-hire black get on his front door even though their nozzle thinking how smoothly the whole entrance examination when he writes stream was at full force. As we ran up on an injury report, “He jump out the the stairs, carrying bundles of hose, “He jump out the window window and have sprangs in his an- someone yelled, “There is an old cou- and have sprangs gle”? And what is the IQ of another ple in there; they’re not outside.” quota-hire black who wrote on an inci- Ed, a 20-year veteran who had in his angle.” dent report, “The deceased greeted us been assigned to break in the new pro- at the door”? And what of the affirma- bie, grabbed my arm and said quietly, thing had run, how each man had the tive-action black who said he could “Come on, kid.” I dropped the hose strength, the size and the intelligence interpret to a Hispanic woman what a and we ran out the hallway door to the to do what had to be done, and did it fire had done to her kitchen, and told outside stairway with access to the without hesitation and usually without her “El stovo broko”? back door of each flat. Smoke was orders. Unfortunately, this is fre- I well remember a fire in August, seeping out of the door we wanted. quently not the case today. 1993, at which a woman quota-hire With a couple of kicks, Ed shattered Recently an Arson Investigator told driver/pump operator was relieved of the panel next to the knob, reached in, me what he often sees when he arrives her duties on the spot because she at fires still in progress: inefficiency, threw the bolt, and we were in the (Continued on page 3) back porch. hesitation, and confusion, mostly from

American Renaissance - 1 - January 1996 the end of the belief in intrinsic racial differences in civilizational abilities– turns out to be a transparent fraud. But you don’t necessarily have to read the book to see that. One evening this past autumn as I got on a New York City bus with a copy of The End of Racism in my hand, the driver looked up at me and said: “What is that – science fiction?” Lawrence Auster, New York City

Sir – I think the two articles you referred to in the December O Tem- pora item, “Straws in the Wind” are a significant and encouraging sign. Ten Sir – In his November review, or even five years ago would a main- Letters from Readers Thomas Jackson calls Dinesh stream columnist like Scott McCon- Sir – Those who read your Decem- D’Souza’s The End of Racism nell have dared to write anything that ber article on the Kansas City school “splendid” and “impressively re- was not unremittingly hostile to the system will be relieved to know that a searched and bravely argued.” This idea of racial separation? It is likewise solution is in sight to all the problems glowing praise is inconsistent with the very significant that a distinguished you pointed out. Mayor Emanuel pervasive intellectual dishonesty that Brit like Paul Johnson should write Cleaver has just appointed a task Mr. Jackson also finds in the book. calmly and almost casually that the force to conduct what he calls “the Indeed, The End of Racism is even failure of blacks to fit in in the United first honest and in-depth examination more dishonest than Mr. Jackson lets States means that they cannot be as- of race relations in Kansas City in a on. Throughout his 600-page book similated in Britain either and should quarter century.” He says that “unless Mr. D’Souza insists that there is a be encouraged to leave. we make race an issue today, it will cultural explanation for the deficien- Once people have actually seen in still be an issue tomorrow .... If we are cies in average black intelligence and print the forbidden thoughts voiced by able to somehow erase this problem behavior that he relentlessly cata- Mr. McConnell and Mr. Johnson their of race in our community, we will logues, and he labels as "racist" any- minds cannot help but be permanently become the number one city on the one who believes that these black dis- shifted – if ever so slightly – to the planet.” The mayor's task force will advantages may be at least partly he- right. be overseen by the Urban League. reditary. But when he finally dis- Andrew Harding, Tully, New York Am I the only one to notice that cusses the hereditarian position at Mayor Cleaver is implicitly conced- length, Mr. D’Souza, after much hem- ing that race is the only thing keeping ming and hawing, reluctantly admits Sir – I was glad to see your report Kansas City from being heaven on that he has no arguments against it: on Cecil McCool and Richard Will, earth? Separation is, of course, the “The Bell Curve makes a strong case two whites who were stopped by only way to keep race from being “an that cannot be ignored . . . . The con- black Chicago police officers. The issue tomorrow,” but I somehow clusion of most scholars is that de- officers concluded that the driver was doubt that the Urban League will rec- spite many caveats, there is no scien- drunk, and impounded the car. Mr. ommend it. tific basis for rejecting the possibility Will, as you note, was later beaten and Stanley Hooke, Plattsburg, Kansas that race differences in IQ are partly then burned to death by blacks. Mr. hereditary.” McCool originally claimed that Mr. Having quietly conceded what he Will begged the officers for a ride out Sir – Judge Clark’s unconstitu- loudly denounces as “racist” every- of that dangerous part of town, and tional usurpation of the Kansas City, where else in his book, Mr. D'Souza their refusal was reported as possibly Missouri school system reminded me looks for an escape hatch: “It is possi- “racist.” Your readers should know of a prediction I have made. First, ble to reject the fatalism of genetic that Mr. McCool has now recanted, some federal judge's ruling will vio- theories of IQ differences, as I do. My saying that Mr. Will did not make late the constitution, either state or view is that . . . it is a ‘reasonable hy- such a request. This appears to have federal. The offended state's governor pothesis’ that [racial] IQ differences been just what the press needed. It can will reply, privately and via press con- can be explained by culture and envi- now treat the incident as one of racial ference, that if the judge wants to en- ronment.” But Mr. D’Souza offers not provocation by Mr. McCool – a typi- force his ruling he will have to deal a shred of support for that “reasonable cal, white attempt to blame blacks with the state militia. The “rest of the hypothesis,” other than his wish that it when something goes wrong. The fact story” will prove to be very interest- be true, and his hope that some future that a white was beaten and burned by ing. evidence may confirm it. blacks is now a mere detail. Name Withheld, Lewiston, Maine Thus Mr. D’Souza’s trumpeted David Goldberg, Evanston, Illinois “end or racism”–by which he means

American Renaissance - 2 - January 1996 over the country. The program was to American Renaissance be restricted to non-whites and—this

Jared Taylor, Editor was crucial—they were exempted Stephen Webster, Assistant Editor from taking the standard civil service James P. Lubinskas Contributing Editor examination. George McDaniel, Web Page Editor The exam I took in 1965 had been — — — — — — given since about 1950, and was American Renaissance is published monthly by the nearly identical in scope and difficulty New Century Foundation. NCF is governed by section to the test I took in 1959 to get into 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code; contribu- San Francisco State University. The tions to it are tax deductible. problem for non-whites had never Subscriptions to American Renaissance are $24.00 per year. First-class postage is been an “old boy network;” Asians an additional $6.00. Subscriptions to Canada (first class) and overseas (surface mail) just didn’t take the test and the blacks are $30.00. Overseas airmail subscriptions are $40.00. Back issues are $3.00 each. Foreign subscribers should send U.S. dollars or equivalent in convertible bank notes. who took it frequently failed. Please make checks payable to: American Renaissance, PO. Box 527, Oakton, VA The first group of 99 potential 22124. ISSN No. 1086-9905, Telephone: (703) 716-0900, Facsimile: (703) 716-0932, FSTs was cut down to 23 through lit- Web Page Address: www.amren.com Electronic Mail: [email protected] eracy and background checks. That left 17 blacks, one Samoan, one Arab, Continued from page 1 one walked out. two Hispanics, and two Asians. FSTs couldn’t do the basic job: supply wa- were supposed to have disadvantaged ter to the building’s stand-pipe system The Mission of the Department backgrounds, but this was a joke. One and get water to her crew, who had candidate’s father was a medical doc- taken their hose line directly to the We got here, of course, through tor, another was a high-placed civil seat of the fire. affirmative action. The mission of our servant, and at least two had parents Another failure of affirmative ac- department is to protect property and who were wealthy property-owners. tion occurred at the same fire, but save lives, but judges and other un- Some of these “disadvantaged” men with more tragic results. An inexperi- elected bureaucrats have decided that had graduated from U.C. Berkeley enced black lieutenant quota-hire lost race- and sex-based hiring is more and the University of San Francisco. his life because he didn’t recognize important than fighting fires. Stan- The idea was that FSTs would go the signs of an impending dards of strength, size, through special training that would back-draft (explosion). and intelligence, have bring them up to the level of men who Eight other firefighters all been lowered in the had thrown themselves to name of diversity. The One black fireman was the floor to avoid the heat cost has been great. that was sure to come The San Francisco literally killed by (later estimated at 2000 Fire Department affirmative action. degrees), but the medical started its first race- examiner’s report said based hiring program had passed the civil service examina- the man had been stand- in 1970, just six years tion, and they would then be put in the ing, and had not properly after the 1964 Civil field as full-fledged firefighters. After used any of his protective Rights Act, which was a year, they would take a follow-up clothing. Shouts from the supposed to have ruled examination to see if they should be firefighter bashing in the door to “hit out race as a job qualification. His- kept in the department. More than 20 the floor,” along with the eerie calm torically, the city had banned only years later, that exam has yet to be that precedes a back-draft were women from the department, and given. wasted on this unfortunate man, who there had been Hispanics on the force How did the first class do? Within was hired and promoted beyond his for decades. Blacks and Asians began three years, the Samoan had gone abilities. Affirmative-action literally to join in the mid-1950s, but their back to Samoa, leaving an unpaid bal- killed him. numbers did not satisfy the ethnic ance on a loan of more than $10,000 There was a bitter epilogue to this bean counters. Then, as now, the from the Firefighter Credit Union. incident. As they always do, hundreds charge was that an “old boy network” When the Arab failed to understand a of firefighters from the entire region explained the predominance of Irish, telephone message about a possible attended the funeral to pay respects to Italians, and Germans in the depart- heart attack, he was sent to a commu- a fallen comrade. The crowd spilled ment. nity college to improve his English. into the aisles and rear of the church. In an attempt to remedy imagined This so upset him that he sued the de- The former president of the San Fran- wrongs, the city established some- partment and the city and got a stress cisco Black Firefighters Associa- thing called the Fire Safety Techni- disability pension. One of the Hispan- tion—who was hired and given four cian (FST) program. The U.S. Depart- ics had simply walked away from the promotions because he is black—took ment of Labor took a close interest in job, and the other had died on duty— the opportunity to lecture the congre- it because if it proved successful, it from an overdose of heroin. Six of the gation about racism. It is a miracle no could be a model for departments all blacks have been fired or suspended

American Renaissance - 3 - January 1996 for alcohol or drugs. one of the blacks may never have means they have to go outside and get Those who were still on the job visited any of the 600 buildings as- a new bottle. Others decide to take up were not doing very well either. The signed to them that year and were fil- the self-appointed and utterly unneces- first promotions to which an entry- ing false inspection reports. One sary task of following hose lines from level firefighter can aspire are lieuten- claimed to have inspected 200 build- hydrant to pumper and pumper to ant, Arson Inspector, or Fire Preven- ings in a single day, whereas a typical building, while their crew mates are tion Inspector (which involves in- daily total for a conscientious inspec- inside putting water on the fire. At specting buildings for possible fire tor is fifteen. another fire, a woman who had just hazards). By the early 1980s, it was By late 1987 the scandal was too climbed a 50-foot ladder onto a roof clear that none of the FSTs was pre- widely-known to ignore and the de- announced that she was “dehydrated,” paring for the difficult examinations partment reluctantly conducted an in- and promptly climbed down again to that must be passed to get these jobs, ternal investigation. Political correct- get a drink of water. Another woman, but an unexpected solution to their ness triumphed: No action was taken told to connect a hose to a water stagnating careers presented itself. against the Asian and the black; in- The Bureau of Fire Prevention had stead, their white supervisor was rep- suffered a rash of retirements, trans- rimanded for not managing them fers, and promotions, and suddenly properly. needed more inspectors. Early in 1988, the same two in- Until then, the only way to become spectors, still under a cloud despite an inspector had been to get one of the their official exoneration, claimed to top scores on the Bureau of Fire Pre- have found a swastika in their office. vention exam. Firefighters spend Racial pressure groups and the liberal months and even years studying regu- media made an enormous stink out of lations and building codes in order to this incident, which “proved” there do well on the exam, and for good rea- was racism in the department. The two son. Inspectors are paid 20 percent inspectors filed suit for three million more than ordinary firefighters, do not dollars in “stress” damages. Curiously, source while her crew advanced the have to work at night, and do not have two other inspectors who shared the nozzle 100 feet closer to the seat of to risk their lives fighting fires. same office (one of whom was Jew- the fire, simply left the building with- This time, inspectors would be ish) told everyone that the incident out giving them water. “It was too chosen differently. The examination had been staged, but no one was lis- hot,” she explained later. was waived, and selection would be tening. Some women are simply too weak based on seniority of those who volun- The FBI was called in, with much to raise even the 24-foot ladder, one of teered for the job. It sounded like a fanfare, and eventually exposed the the lightest in use. A local Spanish once-in-a-lifetime chance for an easy hoax. The media suddenly went quiet, television station came by one day to and the inspectors dropped their $3- film the city’s first Latina firefighter The best women million suit. Two months later, the during her mandatory daily drills. black was promoted to lieutenant. The They politely excused themselves and are mostly Asian has been on unpaid sick leave left after she repeatedly dropped the lesbians since mid-1992. Such have been the ladder on her own head. Later, when results of the department’s first try at her officer gently suggested that she promotion, and it was—but not for race-based hiring. start a weight training program, she whites. Every one of the ten new no- accused him of sexism and filed a exam inspectors was non-white: six Women in the Department written complaint. Of course, women blacks and an Asian from the FST like her are in the department only program, and three other blacks with Although blacks were clamoring because physical standards are so wa- less seniority. When white volunteers for special treatment in the early tered down they are virtually mean- with more seniority than those chosen 1970s, the department didn’t hire ingless. When I talk to women about asked what happened to their applica- women until 1987. By 1995, thanks to the pre-female test I had to pass nearly tions, the Chief of Fire Prevention told drastically reduced size, strength, and 30 years ago, their eyes bulge; not one them they were “the wrong color.” agility standards, San Francisco had that I have spoken to thinks she could Fire Prevention Inspectors spend hired more women firefighters than have passed. The new non-standards most of their time out of the office, nearly any city in the country. Stories apply to men, too, so we have weak- presumably inspecting buildings. By of physical weakness and actual cow- lings of both sexes. 1987, it became common knowledge ardice are now legion. When the rats As if under-sized, under-muscled in the department that the Asian was and cockroaches are running out of a women were not bad enough, sex- working in his mother’s real estate burning building, some women find quota hiring means that recent immi- office when he was supposed to be on novel reasons to join them. grants from Europe and South Amer- duty, and that some of the blacks had For example, some distaff firefight- ica have gotten preference over better- rented a house, where they went to ers have let all the compressed air out qualified, native-born San Francisco avoid work. The Asian and at least of their portable air packs, which men. This only compounds the

American Renaissance - 4 - January 1996 unfairness and weakens the depart- der tremendous pressure from a con- what had happened to the cohesive, ment. sent decree, and promoted her after top-notch department they used to The best women are mostly lesbi- just two years. work for. Eventually they told me to ans. We have a group of athletic, out- She sued the department, making stop; hearing about it just made them going, sock-you-in-the-arm women the astonishing claim that she had sick. who are eager to at least try to perform been sexually harassed in 20 of the 25 It is impossible to know how often at an acceptable level, without whin- stations in which she had worked. The it has happened, but quota hiring has ing, without ducking work, and with- jury ignored the testimony of more undoubtedly meant that people have out filing frivolous sex-bias suits. than 40 witnesses against her, and died who did not have to die. Build- They’re not as good as the pre- awarded her $300,000 in damages. ings burned that did not have to burn. affirmative action men, but they can Fortunately, she is now looking for This is the price that all fire depart- do the job. another job, because one of the condi- ments pay for race-based hiring Of course, there are exceptions tions of the settlement was that she schemes that lower standards, reward among the lesbians. One was a mean- resign. She had such a foul disposition incompetence, overlook violations, spirited, scowling, probable sociopath, that even other lesbians in the depart- and destroy morale. ● who was lionized in the press as the ment called her “the unhappiest dyke” first women and first lesbian to make they had ever met. Robert Charles is a San Francisco lieutenant. It usually takes ten or 12 These are just a few of the sorry firefighter. His father, great-uncle, years for a firefighter to move up to results of affirmative action. I used to and uncle were also San Francisco that rank, but the department was un- talk to older, retired firefighters about firefighters. II. My Battle Against Multiculturalism

Even on a New York City cused on the brutality of slavery, communist ties.” I wanted to know schoolboard, it is possible to while ignoring many of the glorious why we must commit national suicide fight back. achievements of Western culture, the by focusing on every third world bas- most successful and moral culture in ket-case culture when we already have by Frank Borzellieri history. On the walls of the class- our own superior culture, which rooms were pictures of Maya Angelou should be taught to American chil- owhere in the United States is the and Malcolm X, not Thomas Jefferson dren. Nfury of the political thought police or Paul Revere. The interview just about turned the greater than in New York City. It is I was interviewed by a reporter city upside down. In a whirlwind of here, in the multicultural Mecca, that from Newsday, a major New York publicity, I appeared on virtually the truth about culture and race faces daily newspaper, and decided to show every local television and radio news the most brutal intimidation. her some of these books. One of them, program and on the full gamut of na- When I ran for election in 1993 to I Hate English, was designed to make tional television talk shows. Geraldo the District 24 School Board in Americans feel guilty about expecting Rivera nearly passed out when I said Queens, I made a campaign promise immigrants to learn English. Another that the NAACP was a “liberal freak organization.” Former New York City to try to end taxpayer funding of anti- was Jambo Means Hello: The Swahili mayor, Ed Koch, asked me on his tele- American multicultural Alphabet Book, which is vision program why the press had not books and materials in our promoted by radical multi- “discovered,” during my campaign for schools and libraries. The culturalists who want to the school board, that I was “the next New York City schools sys- force Afro-centrism on a student body that, according David Duke.” Newsday ran an edito- tem graduates thousands of rial entitled “Mr. Whitebread.” Noting incompetents and illiterates to surveys, doesn’t know that Abraham Lincoln wrote that I had told Newsday that “we are a every year but it still finds white Christian, British Protestant na- millions of dollars to spend the Emancipation Proclama- tion. tion,” an editorial in the New York on anti-academic, anti- Daily News asked sarcastically: Western trash. I also criticized a chil- dren’s book by Alex Haley, “Could you please point to the Borzel- After I was elected, I de- lieris on the Mayflower passenger cided to inspect classrooms and librar- Young Martin’s Promise, which portrayed Martin Luther King manifest?” ies in our district. I came across loads Then there was the school board as a virtual saint. I pointed out that of objectionable materials. One chil- meeting in Corona, Queens (a multira- King was a plagiarist, embezzler, dren’s book depicted Columbus as a cial heartland), where a vicious crowd adulterer, and known communist fel- pilferer and madman interested only in of 500 people spent four hours de- low traveler, and that it was ridiculous spices and riches. No mention was nouncing me. The audience included made of his heroism or of the fact that to canonize him but disparage Colum- supporters of Leonard Jeffries, the he brought Christianity to the New bus. I was quoted as referring to King black supremacist who says that World. History books consistently fo- as “a leftist hoodlum with significant blacks are the “sun” people and whites

American Renaissance - 5 - January 1996 are the inferior “ice” people. There ers, administrators, librarians, and our nation down the road to cultural were also representatives of the even parents. A respected veteran and racial ruin. NAACP, which six months earlier principal in the district told me, “I’ve So far, although I have attracted a tried to have a book banned in the been waiting for years for someone great deal of attention, I have not been public schools in Fairfax, Virginia be- like you to come along.” When I sug- able to remove any anti-Western cause they thought it was “offensive to gested that his support would certainly books from our schools. This would blacks.” In this dangerous atmosphere, help the cause, he replied sheepishly, require a majority on the school board I needed a police escort to get home. “You want me to say this publicly?” and, so far, I am the only conservative. Socrates said that men are by na- The sad irony is that the board has a A Wide Gulf seven-out-of-nine white majority, who Socrates said that men represent conservatives, but lie about However, when it comes to matters their intentions at election time. of race and culture, there is a wide are by nature slaves. I It would be possible to get a con- gulf between official, establishment believe that they are by servative majority on the school opinion, and the true sentiments of the board—and restore some sanity to the silent majority. With the exception of nature cowards. schools—but it would take a great two local radio hosts and National Re- ture slaves. I strongly believe in a deal of money and effort. It would view magazine, I had no public sup- slight variation of this, namely, that also be the greatest political earth- port. But letters came pouring in by people are by nature conformist cow- quake in New York’s history. the hundreds, almost unanimously in ards. They are consumed with fear of Strong as my local support is, even favor of my views. Dispossessed being lynched by the same hysterical my own reelection in May, 1996, is white people were writing as if I had mob I encountered. Their fear of being not assured. The political and media relieved them of a great burden. “It’s called a racist rivals only the fear of establishments could unite in an effort about time!” they all seemed to be death itself. This silence by the very to defeat me. On the other hand, non- saying, noting that I had said out loud teachers and administrators who are in white votes are likely to be split what they were thinking privately. the best position to support my com- among several liberal challengers. I Despite this man-in-the-street sup- plaints is in stark contrast to the total certainly expect to win, but only if I port, people in positions of influence lack of inhibition or fear shown by my work hard and manage to raise enough were silent. Many told me they agreed totalitarian enemies. money to get the message to the mid- with me, but were terrified at the In fact, most people exaggerate the dle-class neighborhoods where I am thought of being seen defending me. dangers of speaking out. Except for an popular. It is not easy to fight the ma- My Republican city councilman said, occasional unfriendly school board chine, but if you are determined you “I know you’re right, but I’ve worked meeting I have never feared for my can do it. ● too hard to get where I am to put up physical safety, and I have received no with flack from my colleagues.” “threatening” mail. Until the public at Contributions to Mr. Borzellieri’s This pathetic lack of backbone is large overcomes its fears and is will- campaign can be sent to Box 863525, also typical of the people who have ing to express its true beliefs we will Glendale, NY 11386. the power to make the greatest differ- continue to be dispossessed by fanati- ence in the schools—principals, teach- cal multiculturalists who are taking III. In the Academic Jungle

A law student, suspended being reassuring when it reminds stu- refused to expel the attacker, saying for political activism, sues dents that the campus police force that he probably suffered from his school. ranks fourth in size in the entire state “Vietnam Syndrome.” of Pennsylvania—just behind the Several years ago, a black janitor at by Kristina Saxon Philadelphia and Pittsburgh police de- the law school stabbed someone with partments. a screwdriver and then went back to T emple Law School has seen better There have been violent students as work. A witness said he was dumping days. Today the campus is entirely well. Temple Law School has admit- trash when the police arrived. It has surrounded by North Philadelphia ted a convicted murderer who served been reported that the dean of the law slums. Armed robberies, assaults, and time in prison. It also admitted a school, Robert Reinstein, served as a car thefts are common. Last spring, “homeless person,” and actually let character witness for the janitor, ask- several locals murdered a white under- him live in the law library. One morn- ing the city prosecutor for leniency. graduate who was withdrawing money ing the homeless man woke up and What happens, though, when a from an automated teller machine in choked a law student who had walked white, notoriously conservative stu- broad daylight. into his sleeping room to use a com- dent defends himself against a black The university administration puter. The two were wrestling on the attacker? The same dean of the law downplays the danger. It thinks it is floor when police arrived. The school school, Robert Reinstein, throws him

American Renaissance - 6 - January 1996 off campus, calling him “a clear and most constant uproar. At one point, door to the office and talk privately. present danger.” The story and its af- alarmed liberals proposed an emer- “No, leave it open,” replied the dean; termath are a dismal reminder of the gency Student Bar Association resolu- “you’re dangerous.” The dean had the political and racial climate on Ameri- tion, which would have disqualified astonished student escorted off cam- can campuses, but there is always the Western Heritage Society from pus by an armed guard. Dean Rein- hope—for those who are willing to receiving its share of university fund- stein warned him that if he returned to fight back. ing that is available to all other organi- campus he would be prosecuted for zations, regardless of political view. It “criminal trespass.” Clear and Present (Political) failed by just one vote, 19 to 18. Ordinarily, such an act of political Danger Things came to a head in April, intimidation might have gone unchal- 1994, when Mr. Herbert won the lenged, but Mr. Herbert filed a In 1993, Lincoln Herbert, a third- “David Horowitz Student Activism $6,000,000 law suit in federal court year student at Temple Law School, Award” at Harvard University from contesting the suspension. In October founded a student organization called the National Association of Scholars. of this year, 17 months after the sus- the Western Heritage Society (WHS), He exultantly publicized the award pension—and five months after Mr. which sponsored a pro- with his trade-mark red Herbert would have graduated had he gram of lunch-hour lec- posters. Two days later, not been suspended—a three-judge tures. Among the speakers Dean Reinstein wrote a panel concluded that Dean Reinstein were syndicated columnist personal “Letter to the Law had not followed procedural due proc- Samuel Francis, American School community,” ess in suspending Mr. Herbert. The Renaissance editor Jared sharply attacking Mr. Her- dean, a former civil rights lawyer, had Taylor, and author Law- bert and the WHS for their violated the student’s civil rights. In rence Auster. Prof. Linda “message of hatred and November, the U.S. Court of Appeals Gottfredson, who has done vitriol.” The letter was rejected the dean’s motion that the pioneering work on race posted all over the Law October decision be overturned. and IQ, was a speaker, as School (even over men’s This, however, is only a very par- was Raymond Wolters, room urinals) and then tial victory. The dean should not have author of The Burden of published in the student suspended Mr. Herbert when he did, Brown (reviewed in AR, newsletter. Mr. Herbert but the court left the school’s later July, 1993). was denied the opportunity conduct untouched. The law school’s Mr. Herbert advertised the lectures to publish a reply. disciplinary committee eventually sus- on bright red, 11" x 17" posters on About two weeks later, a black pended Mr. Herbert officially and or- which he reproduced political cartoons campus trespasser accosted Mr. Her- dered him to undergo a psychiatric and wrote provocative essays about bert, demanded money, pursued him the subjects of the lectures. He also into the law school, and shouted Almost single-handedly, wrote a spirited column called Notes threats at him. The man claimed to Mr. Herbert battled the From the First World for the law have a knife and threatened to use it. school newsletter. He inveighed Mr. Herbert had been a victim of orthodoxy that otherwise against “sodomites,” “MTV jungle street crime on three previous occa- silences dissent at music,” “white guilt,” “speech codes,” sions since enrolling at Temple Law Temple University. and the “cult of multiculturalism,” School, and had started carrying pep- claiming that most law students, espe- per gas. When the man rushed toward evaluation. These decisions, taken af- cially the liberals, were as brain- him inside the law school, Mr. Herbert ter Mr. Herbert filed suit, must be the washed as the “American sheeple.” sprayed him. Campus police arrived, subject of yet more litigation—which On one poster, advertising a lecture restrained the spluttering man, and will be expensive. about affirmative action, he wrote, took him away in handcuffs. Mr. Her- In its ruling, the appeals court inti- “Are there not striking parallels be- bert gave the officers a full statement, mated that the pepper gas incident was tween the techniques of thought con- went home, and thought no more of a pretext for punishing someone the trol in Huxley’s [brave new] world the incident. law school had other reasons to dis- and those of the propagandists of Af- Two days later, Dean Reinstein like. Mr. Herbert, if not an actual po- firmative Action . . . ? How better to called Mr. Herbert into his office and litical prisoner, is certainly a victim of wheedle majority America into acqui- handed him a letter suspending him political persecution. Anyone wishing escence to their own economic, cul- from the law school for two and a half to find out more about his case or to tural, and political dispossession than years. The letter did not even accuse help financially can reach him at 155 by making Inherited Guilt the new Mr. Herbert of violating school regu- Windsor Ave., Lansdowne, PA 19050, religion?” lations. Dean Reinstein wrote that he (610) 284-9928. ● Almost single-handedly, Mr. Her- thought Mr. Herbert’s account of the bert battled the political orthodoxy black man’s threatening behavior was Kristina Saxon is the pen name of a that otherwise silences dissent at Tem- “fabricated,” and pronounced him “a Temple law student who fears repri- ple University. His mix of provocation clear and present danger to the safety sals if she used her real name for this and populism kept the administration, of the law school community.” Mr. article. faculty, and liberal students in an al- Herbert asked if he might shut the

American Renaissance - 7 - January 1996 Two From the Social Contract Press Wayne Lutton & John Tanton, The Immigration Invasion, Social Contract Press 1994, 190 pp., $4.00 (soft cover) James Robb, Affirmative Action for Immigrants, Social Contract Press 1995, 120 pp., $12.50 (monograph)

The patient, factual case This is perhaps the first time since unnatural task of supplying rational the beginning of history that human justifications for behavior that should against immigration. groups have taken this view of their be instinctual. own identities. Tribes and nations No American, certainly no white reviewed by Thomas Jackson have always understood instinctively American, should have to explain why it is wrong for one sixth of the popula- O f all the threats to our national tion of Haiti to be living in the United stability, immigration is in many re- States. No one should have to point spects the most obvious and ominous. out why it is suicidal to grant Ameri- Anyone with the slightest understand- can citizenship to the children of indi- ing of history and human nature gent Mexicans who cross the border to knows that the arrival of large num- have babies. And yet, just as we must bers of aliens can dramatically change explain to a man who has lost his ap- any society. When those aliens are petite that if he does not eat he will culturally and racially different from a die, we must explain to whites who society’s original majority, change have lost their instincts for racial sur- will be profound and probably irre- vival that if immigration is not versible. stopped their nation will die. Non-white immigrants are trans- forming America. This is obvious in The Social Contract Press Texas, Florida, New York, and Cali- fornia, which receive the most immi- that cohesion requires blood-kinship Every quarter since 1990, The So- grants, but newcomers are pushing and shared history, and that member- cial Contract has been building the their way steadily into every part of ship is not open to all comers. No na- factual case against immigration. It the country. tion in which this instinct has died can describes the effects of immigration No healthy society permits this survive against the depredations of on schools, the environment, our cul- kind of transformation if it can help it. nations in which it is still vigorous. ture, our language, and our prospects Every non-white nation, including And yet instinct, almost by defini- as a nation. It is not usually explicit ones like Mexico and China that send tion, is not supposed to die. People do about race, but it makes every other huge numbers of their own people to not usually have to be persuaded to possible argument against current the United States, controls its border care for their children or to act in their policies. with a firm view to keeping aliens out. own interests or to eat. People who do The Social Contract has spawned a The urge to protect one’s tribal, racial, not do these things are so incompre- small publishing company of the same or national boundaries is almost as old hensible we hardly know how to help name. It has reprinted the classic (and and almost as strong as the urge to them. explicitly racial) anti-immigration protect one’s family. Every non-white Like people, nations or races rarely novel, The Camp of the Saints, group does this instinctively, without fail to act in their own interests. When (reviewed in AR, June, 1995) and has reflection or apology. they fail consistently, they are just as published several original titles. Of White nations appear to have lost incomprehensible as a human being these, the most significant is The Im- this primeval urge. All have officially that has lost ordinary urges. This is the migration Invasion, by Wayne Lutton rejected race as a necessary element of tragedy facing Americans who are and John Tanton. trying to call attention to the growing nationhood and some, like Canada and This handy, pocket-sized volume is demographic crisis. In this country, it the United States, have even rejected really an anti-immigration handbook, does little good to appeal to instincts language and culture. Any group, we packed with up-to-date information. of national and racial survival because are told, in virtually any number, can Part One, called “The Problem,” has if those instincts were still operating become American or Canadian. The chapters on such things as immigrant normally, there would be no immigra- United States, in particular, is said to crime, welfare costs of immigrants, tion problem in the first place. White be an “idea” in which Kurds and and the impact of immigrants on labor Americans who do not want their chil- Xhosas can participate just as authen- markets and the environment. A chap- dren to live in what Peter Brimelow tically as descendants of the Pilgrims. ter on race and culture describes the calls an alien nation therefore have the divisive effect of aliens.

American Renaissance - 8 - January 1996 Part Two offers a historical per- Hispanic and 36 percent are black. sue has never been litigated, most spective, which starts with a history of ● Illegal immigrants, who cannot probably because no employer who immigration law and explains who has (yet) vote, are counted for Congres- operates preference programs has ever been supporting current policies. The sional and other districting purposes, turned away a Nigerian or a Mexican book concludes with a firm statement so non-whites can often be elected to simply because he was not a U.S. citi- about the moral basis for immigration office with a much smaller number of zen. Many companies care more about reform, and includes a reading list and votes than whites need. filling government-mandated racial a directory of activist organizations. ● The mafia has been pushed out quotas than about hiring Americans. Every chapter is both a good intro- of the heroin trade by Chinese, Israeli, In an investigation of the extent to duction for people who are not aware Nigerian, and Mexican gangs. which affirmative action accounts for of the immigration problem and an up- ● Foreign gangs are virtually im- the large number of foreign students to-date reminder for people who are. possible to infiltrate because of lan- and teachers at American universities, Each page seems to offer its bit of in- guage and cultural barriers. Mr. Robb has come across what is tellectual ammunition. Almost a ran- ● Nearly one million Arabs now perhaps the one occasion on which a dom selection turns up such nuggets live in America, and are lobbying for major institution actually gave the as this: racial preferences. Almost all arrived matter any thought. Stanford Univer- ● Twenty-nine percent of immi- since 1965. sity had long had strong financial in- grants from Vietnam are on welfare ● More than one quarter of the centives to persuade academic depart- while 3.9 percent of those from Swit- inmates of federal prisons are aliens. ments to hire non-whites, but discov- zerland are. The Immigration Invasion shapes a ered in 1993 that more than half of its ● The average cost of an uncom- mountain of facts into a well- non-white faculty were foreign-born. pensated admission of an illegal alien organized argument for strict limits on It finally occurred to someone that a to a publicly-supported hospital is immigration. It is written in careful, native of Senegal might not be the $4,700. non-provocative language, and is an most effective “role model” for a ● Fifty-five percent of the Chinese excellent book with which to waken black from Chicago. Stanford there- over age 65 who have come to the slumbering instincts. It is priced low fore decided to restrict its racial pref- United States since 1980 are on wel- enough to be bought in bulk, and de- erences to American citizens. fare (as opposed to nine percent of serves wide circulation. The new policy was greeted with native-born Americans). Many are derision and talk of lawsuits. Stanford well off but give their assets to their The Cruelest Blow promptly backed down and, according children so as to qualify for handouts. to a spokesman, “tried ● After the 1994 California earth- Of more specialized to avoid resolving quake, the Federal Emergency Man- interest is James Robb’s these questions.” It is agement Agency’s no-questions-asked monograph, Affirmative surprising that Ameri- compensation policies were so gener- Action for Immigrants, can-born non-whites ous that there was a surge of illegal which is not an ordi- have not made more immigration just to take advantage of nary, type-set book but trouble over policies it. a bound, double-spaced that work to their dis- ● It costs the state of California $2 research paper. Few of advantage by widen- billion a year to educate illegal alien today’s racial lunacies ing the field of avail- school children, who are seven percent are as infuriating as ra- able quota-fillers. of the school population. cial preferences for The Stanford fracas ● Fifty-three percent of all the non-white immigrants. is only one of the ab- refugees who have settled in Califor- A weak, but not com- surdities that Mr. nia since 1973 are on public support pletely preposterous case can be made Robb chronicles. Unfortunately, he of some kind. for compensating the descendants of takes the saccharin position that racial ● In New York City, entire profes- former slaves, but there is no possible preferences for aliens are wrong be- sions have been colonized by aliens justification for discrimination in fa- cause they take jobs from deserving and are essentially closed to Ameri- vor of immigrants. Affirmative action American non-whites; he doesn’t cans. has expanded so smoothly from its seem to mind anti-white discrimina- ● Over three million illegals have original clientele to include virtually tion. Nevertheless, this is probably the taken advantage of the 1986 amnesty. all non-whites, only because racial only serious treatment available of ● Welfare agencies welcome im- preferences are part of a larger view of what is nothing less than a national migrants because they increase the American society that is increasingly outrage. ● need for welfare. anti-white. ● More than half of all faculty in Mr. Robb is surprised to discover Prices quoted above include post- American universities under the age of that no one in government seems to age. Two copies or more of The Immi- 36 are foreign-born. know whether there is a legal basis gration Invasion cost only $2.00 each. ● In Denver, although whites are either for including non-white immi- Orders can be placed by calling (800) 80 percent of the population, 57 per- grants in affirmative action programs 352-4843. cent of criminal gang members are or excluding them. Apparently the is-

American Renaissance - 9 - January 1996 O Tempora, O Mores!

What Whites May Think of Dialogue to talk about race. can society.] “Specially trained mediators” were Blacks have recently been offering provided by the city to 100 different Beat the Devil a selection of views on how whites locations in such places as churches, should think about race. Glenn Loury, schools, and fire stations to help the In Detroit, Halloween is now better a “conservative” professor at Boston public struggle with its feelings about known as Devil’s Night. The preferred University, says they shouldn’t think race. [Crucial Dialogue in a tense form of celebration is to set house about it at all; he wants people to stop time, LA Times, Oct. 26, 1995, p. fires. In 1994, there were nearly 200 writing about “black crime” and B10.] It is difficult not to recall that a fires on Oct. 31, far higher than the “black illegitimacy.” “We should be black-Korean mediation group that daily average of 50 to 55. Last Hal- colorblind as we gaze upon welfare was put together with fanfare after the loween was, by contrast, a huge tri- mothers, juvenile felons and the cog- Rodney King riots was disbanded be- umph: the number of fires was kept to nitively deficient. . . .” he writes; “We cause the participants kept getting into 61. The price of success was a six p. should see shouting matches. m. curfew and mobilization of 30,000 human be- volunteers who patrolled the streets ings with New Depths of Degeneracy with walkie talkies. Four thousand problems, police officers, 2,000 firemen, and not races of Jacqueline Williams, a 28-year-old thousands of other city employees people black woman from Schaumberg, Illi- were also on alert over the weekend. plagued by nois, had three children but could not Planning for the mobilization began in pathol- have any more. Miss Williams’ May, and the police chief, Isaiah ogy.” [Glenn cousin, Laverne Ward, had fathered a McKinnon likened it to war. “This C. Loury, child with a white woman named Deb- was our Desert Storm,” he said. [Jack Racial fixa- orah Evans and she was known to be Kresnak & Lekan Oguntoyinbo, ‘Next tions on the pregnant, probably with his child. Halloween we will be ready again,’ right, Washington Times, Nov. 3, Miss Williams and Mr. Ward, together Det. Free Press, Nov. 2, 1995, p. 1B. 1995, p. A19.] Presumably we should with Miss Williams’ boyfriend, de- Detroiters Smother Flames, Det. Free see “human beings in conflict” in the cided to wait until the white woman Press, Nov. 2, 1995, p. 1A.] former Yugoslavia rather than notice was nearly ready to have the baby, kill Majority-black Camden, New Jer- that there are Serbs, Croats, and Mus- her, remove the fetus, and claim that it sey has developed its own version of lims. was Miss Williams’ child. They car- Devil’s Night. In 1991, its worst year, Joseph Lowry, president of the ried out their plan in November. this city of 87,000 had more than six Southern Christian Leadership Con- The three blacks entered Miss Ev- times as many fires as on a usual ference has a low opinion of color- ans’ apartment and stabbed and shot night. For the latest Halloween, it dou- blindness. “It’s the most stupid, her to death. They quickly removed bled the usual number of firemen on unlearned position a supposedly intel- her unborn child, which appears to duty and quadrupled the number of ligent, educated person could take,” he have survived the operation without police. Thousands of volunteers explained at a three-day rally to com- trauma. Besides her mulatto toddler, fanned out to try to keep blacks from memorate passage of the voting Miss Evans had two other children burning the city down, and two heli- Rights Act of 1965. [Vickii Howell, who were white, a ten-year-old daugh- copters patrolled over head. As in De- Lowery: ‘Colorblind’ actions not an- ter and an eight-year-old son. The troit, the effort paid off; there was swer to racial problems, The Birming- three criminals stabbed the daughter to only an average number of fires. ham News, Oct. 10, 1995.] death in her bed, but carried off the [Melanie Burney, Volunteers aid Hal- Columnist William Raspberry, is son and tortured him before stabbing loween eve initiative, Record (Bergen willing to let whites think about race, him to death. The mulatto toddler— County), Oct. 31, 95.] but only so long as they think about son of one of the murderers— other races. He disapproves, in the witnessed the killing of his mother and Jews for Farrakhan? following terms, of an officer in the sister but was spared. In preparation Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Depart- for the crime, Miss Williams had been The November 7, 1995 issue of the ment who has started an Association telling neighbors she was pregnant. Village Voice ran a full-page ad by an of White Male Police Officers: She returned home with the newborn, organization called Jews for Farra- “It is hard to think of whites-only claiming it was hers. khan. Part of the text read as follows: groups formed for the benefit of their The murdered woman was on wel- “With skill, dedication and com- members that could gain our approval. fare, but was by all accounts an other- mitment, Minister Farrakhan has Perhaps an organization of white LA wise responsible, loving mother. brought the Nation of Islam out of police officers formed to help its [Andrew Martin & Tracy Dell’An- many years of isolation. He has cata- members improve their attitudes to- gela, 3 charged in addison slayings, lyzed and encouraged dialogue among wards minorities . . . . It’s always ille- Chi Trib, Nov. 20, 1995, p. 1. the broadest possible range of Black gitimate for white men to organize as Gretchen Reynolds, 3 are held in slay- leaders. . . . To the ordinary Jews of white men.” [William Raspberry, Du- ings of mother and children, NYT, America, we say, join with us. There biously Exclusive, Wash Post, Nov. Nov. 20, 1995.]] Shortly after the kill- is no need to repudiate Minister Farra- 24, 1995.] ings, House Speaker Newt Gingrich khan. There is a need to repudiate our Meanwhile, on October 24th, the evoked her case as an example of the own leadership.” city of Los Angeles sponsored a Day harm that welfare is doing to Ameri- Jews for Farrakhan is located at

American Renaissance - 10 - January 1996 200 W. 72nd St., Ste. 37, New York, viable non-racial local government for Hispanics it is 1.7 percent. [AP, NY 10023. The telephone number is institutions.” This was spent on a one- Lauran Neegaard, Study says 1 in 92 (212) 642-5207. day seminar in Pretoria about housing young men has HIV, Nov. 24, 1995.] and on bringing a handful of black The Welfare Wage South African legislators to the Black A Real Hoot Caucus’ annual convention in Wash- The libertarian Cato Institute re- ington. Given that members of the Hooters is an Atlanta-based ham- cently calculated how much a single black caucus vote on AID’s budget, it burger chain that hires only young mother of two would have to make, was highly irregular to have made women to wait tables before taxes, in order to have the same a grant of any kind. and dresses them in standard of living that welfare The Martin Luther King Center tight shorts and tank (including food stamps and other ordi- in Atlanta has swallowed $555,000 tops. “A lot of places nary benefits) provides. There is much to help South Africans learn about serve good burgers,” variation from state to state, but as- racial harmony. A full $40,000 of explains Vice President suming a 40-hour work week, a this went to rewrite the application Mike McNeil, “but the mother would have to make $17.50 an for the grant; the center’s first ap- Hooters girls, with their hour in Hawaii and $5.53 an hour in plication was not up to AID stan- charm and all-American Mississippi. Sixteen states and the dards. sex appeal, are what our District of Columbia offer general Racial preferences have been so customers come for.” welfare benefits that equal the after- obvious and have resulted in so The Equal Employ- tax earnings of a job that pays more much money going to organiza- ment Opportunity Com- than $10.00 an hour. tions that know nothing about for- mission has noticed this. In eight states and the district, wel- eign aid, that AID employees have It says the company fare pays more than the national aver- rebelled and the South African must pay $22 million to age salary for a first-year teacher government has complained. The men who were not ($21,600). In 12 states and the district, employees were transferred and hired, and that company welfare is the equivalent of more than the government was ignored, but the executives must be given sensitivity 90 percent of the average wage in the Office of Management and Budget has sessions. Hooters has declined. [James area. There are actually four states— started an investigation. [Sara Fritz, Bernstein, Male waiters at Hooters? Hawaii, Rhode Island, Massachusetts AID in S. Africa Draws Fire for Race Forget it, company says, Birmingham and Alaska—in which welfare pro- Criteria, LA Times, Nov. 18, 1995, p. News, Nov. 16, 1996.] vides a better living than the average A32.] wage. [Michael Tanner & Stephen African Affinity Moore, Why Welfare Pays, WSJ, Grim Harvest of AIDS 9/28/95.] Many banks offer what are called The United Nations estimates that “affinity” credit cards, through which Green Sheen 70 percent of the world’s AIDS cases the bank pays a small percentage of its are in Africa, and that Uganda proba- revenue from the card to a designated The Agency for International De- bly has the highest infection rate in the organization. There are cards for uni- velopment (AID) has been practicing world. So many young adults are cut versities, popular among alumni, and blatant racial favoritism in its assis- down by the disease that one in six- even one for the Sons of Confederate tance to South Africa, Early in 1993, teen Ugandan children have been or- Veterans. the director of the South African mis- phaned by it. School enrollment is The Boston Bank of Commerce sion, Leslie Dean, launched an across- dropping because children must now recently introduced the Unity Visa the-board program to ensure that as work and because so many teachers card, an affinity card for blacks. The much of the $100 million-a-year AID are dying. Farms lie uncultivated be- bank plans to donate one percent of budget as possible was funneled cause their owners are dead. A bank in every dollar charged, to seven black through black-owned companies, both Kampala is reported to have trained charities, including the United Negro American and South African. two people for an important job be- College Fund and the NAACP Legal A beneficiary of this policy was cause it could not afford to be left in Defense Fund. The card’s promoters Soft Sheen Products, a company that the lurch if it hired only one and he point out that five million blacks hold makes hair care products for blacks. It died. cards from Visa or MasterCard and got $300,000 to train South Africans The urban, educated classes are hope to persuade 20 percent of them to be beauticians. Oddly, the grant hardest hit because they are more pro- to switch. “African-Americans’ great- came just as Soft Sheen was introduc- miscuous. Their children are often est affinity is being African- ing its own products in South Africa. taken into the families of relatives. “I American,” says Senior Vice Presi- Soft Sheen was supposed to put 2,000 have two children,” says a Ugandan dent Teri Williams. [James Hirsch, new people to work in beauty parlors, UNICEF worker. “I lost three broth- New credit cards base appeals on sex- but only managed to place five. The ers. Now I have 13 children more to ual orientation and race, WSJ, most visible way the company spent feed . . . .” In Uganda the disease is 11/6/95, p. B5.] money was to hold a gala screening in reportedly called “the new slav- Johannesburg of Spike Lee’s anti- ery.” [John Balzar, In Uganda, a Racism Rides the Rails white movie, “Malcolm X.” This was scourge on families, LA Times, Nov. supposed to raise money but lost 18, 1995, p. A1.] Last fall, the New York Metropoli- $16,000. In the United States, three percent tan Transit authority raised the price The Congressional Black Caucus of black men between the ages of 27 of a subway ride from $1.25 to $1.50, Foundation collected $100,000 to help and 39 have the HIV virus. For or 20 percent. At the same time it South Africans “develop a system of whites, the figure is 0.7 percent, and raised the average commuter-train fair

American Renaissance - 11 - January 1996 by only nine percent. The Ur- tics. Its downtown is a ruin, ban League sued the transit Philippe Rushton and in 1992 it issued only four authority, claiming that the residential building permits for increases were illegal and to Address AR Conference all of its 50 square miles. “racist” because 60 percent of Forty-three percent of its chil- subway riders are non-white We are pleased to announce that the author of dren live below the poverty but only 20 percent of com- line. muter-train riders are. Aston- Race, Evolution, and Behavior (reviewed in AR, Dec., In 1967, Gary made news ishingly, in November a white 1994) will speak at the AR conference over Memorial as one of the first significant judge, Robert B. Patterson, Day weekend. Philippe Rushton’s r-K theory of the cities in America to elect a ruled that the increases vio- evolution of racial differences has put the academic black mayor, and it has been lated the Civil Rights Act of world in such an uproar that in 1989 the Attorney- run by blacks ever since. That 1964, and ordered them rolled is, until November, 1995, back. An appeals court when it elected its first white promptly reversed Judge Pat- mayor in 28 years. terson and let the higher fares When Thomas Barnes, the take effect. However, it warned incumbent, decided not to run, the transit authority that it a 44-year-old white lawyer, would probably let Judge Pat- Scott King, entered the De- terson try the case, and if the mocratic primary—the only fare increases turned out to be one that matters in Gary—and illegal, the authority would won. This shocked Marion have to come up with a way to General of Ontario investigated him for possible vio- Williams, a black who decided make refunds to riders. The lation of Canada’s “hate laws.” It took the Attorney- to run as an independent rather authority argues that it gets General six months to conclude that Prof. Rushton than leave the field to a white money from state, city, and was “not criminal.” In 1991, the Ontario Human man. Mr. Williams found that federal governments that is Rights Commission charged Prof. Rushton with vio- race worked against him: specifically earmarked for dif- lating the province’s Human Rights Code by “When I went door to door, ferent parts of the transit sys- people said ‘We don’t want tem and therefore cannot “poisoning the academic learning environment.” This any more of you people for switch funds from one to an- charge was finally dropped only in November, 1995. mayor.’ Those were African- other. [Richard Perez-Pena, Philippe Rushton is a professor of psychology at Americans.” Court hears arguments over the University of Western Ontario, and has written six The outgoing mayor sup- possible bias in fare increases, books and 150 journal articles. In recent years, no ported Mr. Williams, and NYT, 11/15/95, p. B1. Melanie other theorist on racial differences has been reviled as wrote a letter to constituents Kirkpatrick, How much is a urging them to keep a black subway ride? Ask the judge, savagely as Prof. Rushton. It will be an honor to pre- man in charge, but to no avail. WSJ, 11/15/95, p. A21.] sent this courageous man to readers of American Ren- The white Mr. King— aissance. conveniently married to a In Jeopardy black—outpolled Mr. Wil- Send in your registration liams better than four-to-one. Maya Angelou, the black [Peter Kendall, Gary’s black poetess who recited one of her form today! citizens appear ready for a creations at Bill Clinton’s inau- change, Chi Trib, Nov. 9, guration, is annoyed that there are so also wrote that the provision to deny 1995, p. 3.] few blacks on the television quiz pro- public education to illegals runs gram “Jeopardy:” “I mean, I have not counter to a 1982 Supreme Court case, As Others See Them seen a black person for two years on Plyler v. Doe, in which the state of ‘Jeopardy’ . . . so I’m boycotting it, Texas was forced to educate children U.S. News & World Report says although I love it.” A perplexed of illegal aliens. Judge Pfaelzer also more blacks would rather be called spokesman for the program explained ruled that measures to keep tabs on “black” than anything else. This is the there is no discrimination in how it suspected illegal aliens were state preference of 44.2 percent, followed selects guests. All that is required is usurpation of the federal government’s by 28.1 percent who want to be that they pass a general knowledge exclusive power to regulate immigra- “African-Americans.” The rest are test . . . . [Maya Angelou disappointed tion. She let stand a provision that es- split between Afro-American (12.1 ‘Jeopardy’ has so few black contest- tablishes criminal penalties for the percent), Negro (3.3 percent), colored ants; boycotts show, Jet, Nov. 13, sale and use of fake citizenship docu- (1.1 percent), “some other term” (2.2 1995.] ments. The state will appeal the ruling. percent), and “no preference” (9.1 per- [Paul Feldman, Major portions of cent). Prop 187 Gutted Prop. 187 thrown out by federal judge, Half of American Indians would LA Times, Nov. 21, 1995, p. A1.] like to be called “American Indians,” Federal judge Mariana Pfaelzer has while 37.4 percent want to be “Native struck down most of the provisions of White Man’s Burden Americans.” Only 11.7 percent of His- a California voter initiative that would panics prefer the trendy term “Latino,” have cut off most public benefits to Gary, Indiana is a once-thriving while 57.9 percent are happy to be illegal aliens. In a 72-page ruling she city that has been turned into a pest- “Hispanic.” A surprisingly large num- wrote that the state may not set eligi- hole by shifting demographics. Now ber (12.3 percent) say they want to be bility rules for programs that receive 90 percent black, it usually comes to called “of Spanish origin.” [American federal subsidies, which most do. She national attention only because of its Pie, US News & World Report, Nov. high ranking in national crime statis- 20, 1995.] ●

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