American Renaissance There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world. — Thomas Jefferson Vol. 18 No. 5 May 2007 Hispanic Racial Consciousness, Part II

They make no secret of nation is “an inevitability,” and should social and demographic trends continue, be created “by any means necessary.” He secession is inevitable. “One could ar- wanting your country. doubts violence will be necessary, how- gue that while Mexico lost the war in ever, because shifting demographics will 1848, it will probably win it in the 21st by Jared Taylor make the transition a natural one. “I may century, in terms of the numbers,” he not live to see the Hispanic homeland,” explained. “A secessionist movement is Part I described the not something that you deep racial/ethnic loyal- can put away and say it is ties Hispanic Americans never going to happen in retain to their countries the United States,” he of origin, and explained adds. “Time and history how they have turned change.” their backs on assimila- Xavier Hermosillo, a tion and expect the prominent businessman United States to accom- and leader of a Hispanic modate their loyalties activist group in Los An- and preferences. It con- geles, explained that cluded by noting that ev- “we’re taking it [Califor- ery year several thou- nia] back, house by house, sand Mexican-Ameri- block by block.” He adds: cans go home in coffins “People ought to wake up to be buried in the coun- and smell the refried try they consider their beans.” true home. Demonstrating for amnesty. Are they Mexican or American? Probably the best known Reconquista organization is the f some Mexican-Americans have he says, “but by the end of the century Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan, their way, they will not have to go my students’ kids will live in it, sover- better know by its Spanish acronym of Iback to be buried; Mexico will come eign and free.” MEChA. The word Aztlan in the organi- to them. What is called the Reconquista Juan Jose Peña, Hispanic activist and zation’s name means “the bronze conti- movement aims to break the Southwest vice chairman of the Hispanic Round- nent,” and is the name activists plan to off from the United States and reattach table of New Mexico agrees with Prof. give the new nation they carve out of the it to Mexico or even establish it as an Truxillo, adding, “I’ve studied lots of United States. One of its founding docu- independent, all-Hispanic nation. In his- civilizations. The United States is just ments, El Plan de Aztlan, describes white toric terms, it would reverse the territo- people as “the brutal ‘gringo’,” and calls rial consequences of the Mexican- for Mexicans to reclaim “the land of their American war. Reconquista is generally “We’re taking California birth” and “declare the independence of promoted by the best-educated Hispan- back, house by house, our mestizo nation.” The group’s motto ics, many of whom were born in the block by block. People is Por la Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza United States. ought to wake up and nada: “For the race, everything. For Charles Truxillo, a professor of those outside the race, nothing.” Chicano studies at the University of New smell the refried beans.” Founded in 1969 at the University of Mexico, thinks Republica del NorteX California at Santa Barbara, MEChA would be a good name for a new His- like any other empire. It’s not going to now has chapters on nearly every Cali- panic nation. The Republic of the North live forever. Eventually it will break fornia college campus and in most high would contain all of California, Arizona, down because of stresses.” schools in the state. It has a consider- New Mexico, and Texas and the south- Armando Navarro, Hispanic activist able presence in other Western states as ern part of Colorado. Its capital would and professor at the University of Cali- well. The official symbol of MEChA is probably be Los Angeles. The Albuquer- fornia at Riverside is another Recon- an eagle holding an Incan battle axe and que-born Prof. Truxillo says the new quista advocate, noting that if current Continued on page 3

American Renaissance - 1 - May 2007 Charles Ford, Jackson, Miss.

Sir — The photo on the cover of the April issue is of a group of smiling His- panics who must have been demonstrat- ing for amnesty. One holds a sign that says humanity is una raza or “one race.” Another holds one that says, in English, “I love diversity.” Curiously, every face in this little group appears to be His- panic. Like all non-whites, Hispanics “love diversity” only for whites. They are keen boosters of mixing when that means ad- mission for them into neighborhoods, institutions, or a civilization they could That’s how solutions are found. not create or maintain. Once they be- Letters from Readers Michael O’Rourke, Nelson, B.C., come a majority, they lose interest in “di- Sir — I wanted to express my appre- Canada versity,” instead preferring to turn what- ciation for Jared Taylor’s “Banned in ever part of the United States they have Halifax” in the February issue. It’s the conquered into foreign outposts. They best debunking I’ve ever read of the Sir — I’m glad to see that you are take from us only our material advan- mandatory group think of our times. I’ve selling copies of the Taylor-March de- tages and the crudest bits of our popular sent copies to several friends. bate on DVD. I know next to nothing culture; our demeanor, our way of be- It’s also a sad and shocking requiem about Peter March, but he has my re- ing, our ideals, and our heritage remain for a country of which the worst that spect. As far as I can tell, he got nothing utterly alien to them. could have been said was that it is a bit out of the debate, except perhaps seeing I suspect that the strong sentiment in cold and boring. African gangs in his name in the papers. I’m sure he didn’t this country against illegal immigration Winnipeg? MS-13 in Calgary, beneath win friends in the faculty lounge at St. is a sign that more and more Americans the glorious Canadian Rockies? How in Mary’s University. Let us be thankful understand this. Opposition to illegals Heaven’s name did they get there? No there is at least one man in Halifax who has become the one more-or-less accept- one could have even imagined this 20 still believes in free speech. able expression of a long-suppressed years ago, and yet Canadians seem to Irene Santrock, Kittanning, Penn. white racial consciousness, though even be determined to close their eyes to what this is constantly scrutinized for signs of they are doing to their country. “hate.” I have some optimism that anti- Robert Michael, Ft. Collins, Colo. Sir — It is indeed inspiring to see that illegal feeling now runs so high that there are some whites who unapol- Congress dares not pass a broad am- ogetically stand up for the interests of nesty. If Congress does take firm action Sir — So Jared Taylor was finally able their people, as do the men of the Vlaams against illegals, I would like to believe to tell the people of Halifax what he Belang (see “Men of the West, Stand and that sentiment against them will not dis- thinks about racial diversity (see “Re- Fight” in the April issue.) What is even sipate, that whites will begin to say more turn to Halifax” in the April issue). Last more encouraging is that the VB is a openly that it makes no difference I heard, the city was still standing, and powerful electoral force. When will whether it is legal or illegal—displace- if Ottawa has begun mass deportation there be an American party that speaks ment will not be tolerated. of non-whites, I must have missed the for whites? The giant is slowly awakening! story. What were these people so afraid Bill Travis, Plano, Tex. Aaron Harding, Columbia, S.C. of? If the left believes racial diversity and multiculturalism are strengths, why not let people like Jared Taylor take an Sir — As an American, perhaps I am Sir — Thank you for “Hispanic Con- opposing view? If everybody believes naive, but how can a court declare a po- sciousness” in the April issue. I’m sick millions of non-whites are a benefit to litical party illegal? I thought Belgium of pressing “one for English!” It’s re- Canada, no one will listen anyway. was a democracy. But I suppose in a freshing to hear someone discredit His- In fact, Mr. Taylor tells the truth, and country so sick that the establishment panics with their own words. Whatever the rulers of this PC empire don’t want curries favor with a hostile alien minor- these people are—saints or sinners— the people to notice they are wearing no ity—one that despises and seeks to de- they ain’t us, and they don’t belong here. clothes. I don’t agree with the AR posi- stroy its host—anything is possible. I’m looking forward to reading part tion on everything, but you make some What a pity Belgians don’t have Second two. Articles like this, and the earlier valid points. There are problems with Amendment rights. Frank Vanhecke and series on black racial consciousness (see racial diversity. I support a multicultural Philip Dewinter seem like the kind of AR, Sept, Oct. and Nov. 2006), are why Canada, and see absolutely nothing men who would use them for more than I subscribe to AR. wrong with talking about its problems. duck hunting. John White, Littleton, N.H.

American Renaissance - 2 - May 2007 cans are “terrorized” when Mexicans American Renaissance cross into what is in fact their own terri- tory. Jared Taylor, Editor The spirit of conquest need not be lim- Stephen Webster, Assistant Editor ited to the Southwest. Mass immigration, Ronald N. Neff, Web Site Editor and the unwillingness of native-born Americans to insist on assimilation by American Renaissance is published monthly by the newcomers leaves the impression the New Century Foundation. NCF is governed by section whole country is up for grabs. Riverside, 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code; contributions New Jersey, is one of a handful of Ameri- to it are tax deductible. can cities that have tried to pass ordi- Subscriptions to American Renaissance are $28.00 per year. First-class postage is nances to discourage hiring or renting an additional $8.00. Subscriptions to Canada (first class) are $40.00. Subscriptions outside Canada and the U.S. (air mail) are $40.00. Back issues are $3.00 each. Foreign to illegal immigrants. Rev. Miguel subscribers should send U.S. dollars or equivalent in convertible bank notes. Rivera, president of the National Coali- Please make checks payable to: American Renaissance, P.O. Box 527, Oakton, VA tion of Latino Clergy & Christian Lead- 22124. ISSN No. 1086-9905, Telephone: (703) 716-0900, Facsimile: (703) 716-0932, ers, noting that legal residency is not Web Page Address: www.AmRen.com required to purchase property in the US, said illegal aliens would retaliate by buy- Continued from page 1 United States, a country that wants to ing rather than renting. New owners a lighted stick of dynamite. The slogan speak Spanish because 33.4 million His- would welcome other illegals, who that goes with the symbol, Hasta la panics impose their culture.’ Ms. Ponia- would eventually dominate through victoria, siempre! (Until victory, al- towska added that ‘this phenomenon . . . sheer force of numbers. “Riverside is ways!) was a favorite of Fidel Castro and fills me with jubilation, because the His- going to be ours,” he said. the Cuban revolution. panics can have a growing force between On some campuses, conservatives Patagonia and Alaska.’ ” The Official Mexican View have called attention to MEChA’s ra- Even Mexican government spokes- cially divisive message, and Stanford men speak the language of irredentism. It is official Mexican government students voted by a narrow margin to At a symposium in Los Angeles on the policy to urge Mexicans living in the withhold university funding from the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of United States to remain loyal to Mexico. group. At the University of California at Guadalupe Hidalgo, which marked the This policy applies broadly to all natu- Los Angeles, the campus Republicans end of the Mexican-American War, the ralized and even US-born citizens of tried at least to get the group to denounce Mexican consul general, Jose Angel Mexican origin, but government spokes- the explicitly secessionist El Plan de Pescador Osuna observed, “Even though men direct their strongest efforts towards I am saying this part serious and part joking, I think we are practicing la Reconquista in California.” In 2005, Reconquista sentiment got an unusual public airing when 75 billboards appeared in Los An- geles advertising Spanish-language KRCA-TV. The billboards showed two newscasters in front of the downtown skyline, with “Los Ange- les, CA” written above them. The “CA” was crossed out, and “Mex- ico” was stamped over it in bright red letters. Below, it said in Span- Elena Poniatowska even wants Alaska. ish: Tu ciudad. Tu equipo. (Your city. Aztlan, but it refused. “We will stand by Your team.) Even a few gringos got the Mexican-Americans who hold elected the ‘El Plan de Aztlan’ because it has message. “The joke here is, ‘We’re tak- office. In 1995, for example, then-presi- guided us,” MEChA chairwoman Eliza- ing back California,’ ” explained Stuart dent of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo himself beth Alamillo explained. Fischoff, who teaches media psychology told a group of Mexican-American poli- Many Mexican intellectuals eagerly at California State University at Los ticians, “You’re Mexicans—Mexicans anticipate Reconquista. According to Angeles. “Underneath the joke is part of who live north of the border.” Two years one newspaper report: the truth.” later in Chicago, he took the same mes- “The Mexican writer Elena Ponia- Part of the great appeal Fidel Castro sage to the Hispanic advocacy group, the towska affirmed today that Mexico is has long enjoyed in Mexico is his un- National Council of La Raza. He presently recovering the territories lost wavering support for Mexican irre- “proudly affirmed that the Mexican na- in the past to the United States, thanks dentism. In a 1997 speech in Mexico tion extends beyond the territory en- to emigration: ‘The people of the poor, City, he renewed his call for the United closed by its borders and that Mexican the lice-ridden and the cucarachas States to return Texas, California, Ari- migrants are an important—a very im- [cockroaches] are advancing in the zona, and New Mexico. He said Ameri- portant—part of this.”

American Renaissance - 3 - May 2007 The administration of Vicente Fox million who live in the United States.” Secretary Santiago Creel once com- continued the policy of ensuring that On ABC’s Nightline on June 7, 2001, plained, “It’s absurd that (the United Mexican-Americans remained Mexican. he was candid about his goals: “I want States) is spending as much as it’s spend- In 2002, his government established the the third generation, the seventh genera- ing to stop immigration flows that can’t tion, I want them all to think be stopped . . . .” When he took over in ‘Mexico first.’ ” He has also ex- 2004 as the man in charge of border re- plained that Mexican immigrants lations with the United States, Arturo are unlike Europeans because Gonzalez Cruz explained that his ulti- they “are going to keep one foot mate goal was to see the border disap- in Mexico” and that they “are not pear entirely. going to assimilate in the sense At the time of the “A Day Without of dissolving into not being Mexi- Immigrants” demonstration in May, can.” 2006, Mexicans showed their solidarity Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, who by organizing what was to be a massive later became national security boycott of American products. Mexican advisor to Vicente Fox, described unions, political and community groups, the basic thinking of all Mexican newspaper columnists and a number of Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exte- administrations. In an article in the Mexi- government officials issued the call. rior (Institute for Mexicans Abroad) to can newspaper El Siglo de Torreon, he “Remember, nothing gringo on May 1,” promote “a more comprehensive ap- wrote that the Mexican government said a typical e-mail message, urging proach” to promoting Mexican loyalty. should work with the “20 million Mexi- people not to patronize McDonald’s, A primary function was to invite Ameri- cans” in the United States to advance Burger King, Starbucks, Sears, Krispy can elected officials of Mexican origin Mexican “national interests.” Kreme or Wal-Mart. The goal was to to Mexico, to deepen their Mexican All political factions in Mexico are pressure Congress into looser border identity. In October 2003, for example, the Instituto invited 30 American state legislators and mayors for two days in Mexico City, where they met Mexican legislators, ministry officials, scholars, and advocates for immigrants. The in- stitute had plans to bring 400 Mexican- American lawmakers and community leaders on similar trips in 2004. The Instituto also sends representa- tives to the United States. Jacob Prado, counselor for Latino affairs at the Mexi- can Embassy, explained to the National Association of Latino Elected and Ap- pointed Officials that it was in “Latino officials like yourselves that thousands of immigrants from Mexico find a po- litical voice.” He went on to explain: “Mexico will be better able to achieve its full potential by calling on all mem- bers of the Mexican Nation, including those who live abroad, to contribute with their talents, skills and resources.” American elected officials are still “members of the Mexican Nation.” One Instituto official, Juan Hernán- dez, typifies its approach. Born in the united in the view that the US-Mexican control and amnesty for illegal immi- United States, and therefore a US citi- border is illegitimate, and that Mexicans grants. zen, Mr. Hernández was at one time a have the right to cross it any time. In 2004, the government distributed professor at the University of Texas at Former president Vicente Fox’s official millions of free copies of The Guide for Dallas, but makes no secret of where his view was that any measures the United the Mexican Migrant, a comic-book-for- real loyalties lie. On the web page of the States took to catch or deport illegal mat set of instructions on how to sneak President of Mexico he reported in 2002 immigrants were a violation of human into the United States. It explained what that he had “been commissioned to bring rights. Felipe Calderon, who succeeded to pack for a desert or river crossing, a strong and clear message from the him in 2006, shared that view, adding, techniques for surviving extremes of President to Mexicans abroad: Mexico “like many . . . I have cousins, uncles, heat or cold, and how to avoid the Bor- is one nation of 123 million citizens— in-laws who are undocumented and live der Patrol. Once in the United States, it 100 million who live in Mexico and 23 in the United States.” Mexican Interior advised Mexicans to keep their heads

American Renaissance - 4 - May 2007 down and not attract attention. Grupo Beta is a government-funded organization set up in the early 1990s to help illegal border-crossers. It maintains hundreds of staging areas just south of the border, marked with blue pennants to indicate that drinking water is avail- able. Mexicans planning a run for the border can flag down its bright orange trucks any time for help. Grupo Beta fre- quently gives lectures on safety and con- cealment, typically ending them with the words, “Have a safe trip, and God bless you!” The Mexican state of Peubla has gone even further. In late 2006, it announced an innovative program to keep emigrants from getting lost when they cross the border illegally. Jaime Obregon, the co- ordinator for the Commission for Mi- grants, said the state would give hand- held satellite navigation devices to any- one who registered as a border-crosser. “Our intention is to save lives,” he ex- plained, saying he expected the state to hand out 200,000 devices during the fol- lowing year. ‘Guide for the Mexican Migrant:’ come one, come all. raged. “It’s against what we see as part Mexico takes against illegal immigrants of our life, our culture, our territory,” from Central America it was inconsis- exclaimed Fernando Robledo of the state tent to complain about American border of Zacatecas. “Our president should op- controls. In 2005, Mexican authorities pose that wall and make them stop it, at caught nearly a quarter million illegals, all costs,” said 26-year-old Martin mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and Vazquez of Mexico City. Jose Luis El Salvador. Soberanes, head of the Mexican Na- Mexico probably takes a more force- tional Human Rights Commission, didn’t ful and even high-handed interest in do- think the government was being force- mestic American policies than does any ful enough. “I would expect more ener- other country in the world. Mexican con- GPS will get them here safely. getic reactions from our authorities,” he sular officers work closely with Hispanic The view that Mexicans have a natu- said. “It’s preferable to have a more de- organizations in the United States to ral right to enter the United States ex- manding government, more confronta- press for amnesty, free medical treat- plains the vitriol that met American dis- tion with the United States.” ment, welfare benefits, driver’s licenses, cussions in 2006 about ways to stop il- Other Latin American countries were and in-state university tuition for illegal legal crossings, and an eventual Con- equally outraged. Guatemalan Vice aliens. The Instituto de los Mexicanos gressional vote to build a wall along cer- President Eduardo Stein said a wall en el Exterior keeps databases of Mexi- tain parts of the Mexican border. Presi- would be “absolutely intolerable and in- can activists who can be counted on to dent Vicente Fox called the plan for a human.” The foreign ministers of Co- pack the galleries of state legislatures wall “disgraceful and shameful,” and lombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hon- and city councils whenever there is a promised that if it were ever built it duras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and vote that might affect immigrants. Such would come down like the Berlin Wall. the Dominican Republic all gathered in a crowd was on hand during the Califor- Interior Ministor Santiago Creel boasted Mexico City to denounce the American nia legislature’s debates in 2003 over that “there is no wall that can stop” Mexi- measures and to coordinate strategy to whether to grant driver’s licenses to cans from crossing into the US. Foreign make sure the border remained open to illegals. When an assemblyman com- Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez warned illegal immigrants. plained, “This bill paves the way to that “Mexico is not going to bear, it is Latin American countries, them- Aztlan!” everyone in the gallery stood not going to permit, and it will not allow selves, carefully control their borders, up and applauded. When the city coun- a stupid thing like this wall.” He even but their governments insist that the cil of Holland, Michigan, debated said he would ask the United Nations to United States remain open. In an act of whether to accept Mexican consular look into the American plan and declare unusual candor, Mexican President identification cards issued to illegal im- it illegal. Felipe Calderon acknowledged in 2006 migrants, a Mexican official brought a Ordinary Mexicans were just as out- that in light of the harsh measures crowd of compatriots. They caused such

American Renaissance - 5 - May 2007 a disturbance the city council was un- 2000, for example, the Mexican consul Border Patrol is coming!” Advertise- able even to deliberate. in Atlanta urged Hispanics to start a na- ments for the theme park offer the chance As noted above, in May 2006, His- tional boycott of any company that does to “Make fun of the Border Patrol!” and panics in America mounted massive not offer services in Spanish. In San Di- to “Cross the Border as an Extreme demonstrations against proposed mea- ego, the Mexican consul officially urged Sport!” sures to control immigration. The Mexi- Mexicans who work as janitors to join a Many Mexicans believe the United can legislature issued a declaration of class-action lawsuit against California’s States cannot function without them. In support for the demonstrators, and voted supermarket chains. “This lawsuit is a 2004 Mexican film called A Day With- important because it involves large num- out a Mexican: The Gringos Are Going bers of our nationals, and because it in- to Weep, all the Hispanics in California sists that their rights be respected regard- suddenly disappear. In just 24 hours, less of their legal status,” said Luis pompous, helpless whites find that Cabrera Cuaron. Most Americans have schools have closed, grocery shelves are no idea of the extent to which Mexico empty, and piles of garbage clog the criticizes and tries to influence Ameri- streets. Martial law is declared. The His- can affairs. panics miraculously reappear the next Every Mexican institution nurtures day, and are greeted with hugs and unfavorable views of the United States, kisses—even by the Border Patrol. and immigrants bring with them the sen- The Mexican view of the United timents they learned as children. As one States is a mixture of historic resentment, American observed: envy, and contempt for a nation that sub- “I was visiting the Museum of Na- mits to insult and cannot control its bor- tional History in Mexico City where I ders. These sentiments start at the top. observed a class of perhaps 40 10-year- Near the end of his term, former presi- old school kids sitting on the ground in dent Vicente Fox, who frequently front of a huge mosaic map that was la- boasted of his close friendship with beled ‘Mexico Integral,’ or ‘Greater President George W. Bush, explained to Mexico.’ Their teacher expounded on Mexicans why they should be thankful how the Norteamericanos stole half of for their heritage. “We are already a step Mexico in 1847 in what the Vicente Fox says . . . Mexicans refer to as the North to send a delegation to Los Angeles to American Intervention. The show solidarity. These gestures received map showed Mexico to in- the overwhelming support of every po- clude Texas, Oklahoma, Colo- litical party. rado, New Mexico, Utah, Ari- Likewise, when California Governor zona, Nevada, California, Arnold Schwarzenegger denounced a most of Idaho, and Oregon and plan to grant temporary driver’s permits Washington up to the Alaska to illegal immigrants the assembly of panhandle.” Baja California promptly voted him According to one poll, 58 “persona non grata,” theoretically bar- percent of Mexicans believe ring Gov. Schwarzenegger from visiting the southwestern United States the neighboring Mexican state. rightfully belongs to them, and The Mexican government is careful 57 percent believe they have . . . keeping out illegals is ‘disgraceful and shameful.’ to see that Mexicans living in America the right to cross the border receive every possible benefit available without US permission. Mexicans also ahead, having been born in Mexico,” he to them. A few welfare programs are assume that America is not serious about said. “Imagine being born in the United closed to illegal immigrants but Food border control or citizenship. As Jesus States; oof!” Stamps are not. Some illegal immigrants Cervantes, director of statistics for When Mexicans in the United States hesitate to apply for them for fear their Mexico’s Central Bank explained, get in trouble with the law, the usual ex- status will be discovered and they will “There have been amnesties and reforms planation is that they were corrupted by be deported. Mexican consul Luis before, and they will continue to occur America. As Jesse Diaz of the League Miguel Ortiz Haro of Santa Ana in Or- periodically.” of United Latin American Citizens ex- ange County, California, went on Span- The illegal crossing into America is plained, “They’re picking up those bad ish-language television to tell Mexicans so much a part of the Mexican psyche habits of cheating, of drinking, and it was safe to apply. “This program is that in Ixmiquilpan, in the central state drugs” after they arrive, adding that US not welfare,” he said. “It won’t affect of Hidalgo, there is a theme park devoted popular culture undermines the “conser- your immigration status.” More than to reproducing the experience. At $15.00 vative Catholic values” they brought 1,200 people applied for Food Stamps a head, Mexicans can spend an evening with them from Mexico. the next day. crossing a fake Rio Grande, squishing This is essentially the average Mexi- No other country so frequently inter- through mud while a fake people-smug- can view. A 2006 Zogby poll gave the venes in the interests of its citizens. In gler in a ski mask shouts “Hurry up! The following results: 84 percent of Ameri-

American Renaissance - 6 - May 2007 cans said they had a positive view of ists and politicians tacitly agree with the makes it impossible for us to respond as Mexicans, but only 36 percent of Mexi- Hispanic view that immigration control any normal, healthy nation would re- cans had a positive view of Americans. is “racist”? spond to similar provocations. Eighteen percent of Americans thought Much of the answer lies in the fact Another reason for our passivity is the Mexicans were racist, while 73 percent that Hispanics are not white, and that fact that Hispanics are now nearly 15 of Mexicans thought Americans were most whites are so fearful of being racist. Forty-two percent of Americans called “racist” they dare not take a thought Mexicans were honest, but only stand against any non-white group. 16 percent of Mexicans thought Ameri- Let us imagine that France were cans were honest. sending us millions of poor, unedu- Mexicans are devoted soccer fans, cated Frenchmen who made no ef- and sports seem to bring out their true fort to learn English, who celebrated feelings. On February 11, 2004, the French holidays rather than Ameri- American Olympic soccer team played can holidays, who sent money out a qualifying match against Mexico in the of country but demanded free ser- Mexican town of Guadalahara. The vices, who expected ballot papers crowd drowned out “The Star Spangled and school instruction in French, Banner” with their boos, and shouted who ignored our immigration laws, “Osama! Osama! Osama!” as the US who insisted on hiring and college players left the field. This only repeated admissions preferences because they the treatment the Americans got just a offered us “diversity?” What if some few days earlier when they played a of them talked openly about taking match in Zapopan: hooting down the over parts of the United States and national anthem, booing when the kicking out the rest of us? Would our Americans scored, and shouting “Osa- press and politicians remain silent? ma! Osama!” However, that game was What if the French government not even against Mexico. The Americans openly encouraged all this? What if were playing Canada. it offered French-American elected officials free, loyalty-boosting trips back percent of the population, and their num- Why Are We Passive? to France, and encouraged French- bers are growing rapidly. Politicians Americans everywhere to work and vote from both parties say they cannot afford With the possible recent exceptions for French rather than American inter- to alienate Hispanics because of their in- of Iran and North Korea, no other coun- ests? What if the French jeered at our creasing power at the ballot box. They try treats us with such contempt. Gov- national anthem and chanted “Osama, do not seem to recognize the danger of ernment officials openly subvert our Osama” when our athletes took the field? currying favor with a voting bloc whose policies, ordinary people insult us, and Americans would be furious. We loyalties may not even lie with our own many Mexicans even appear to have would recall our ambassador. We would country. American citizens who place deport every French illegal, and severely foreign interests over those of the United limit further immigration from France. States do not deserve the same political If the French were to There would be calls to strip naturalized consideration as loyal Americans. What treat us as Mexicans do, Frenchmen of US citizenship—particu- if there were a sharp crisis with Mexico? there would be universal larly if they had shown their true loyal- Is there any doubt which side Mexican- outrage and immediate ties by maintaining French citizenship. Americans—citizens or not—would Let us not forget how angry Ameri- take? countermeasures because cans were when France opposed the in- It is already nearly impossible to dis- we would not be para- vasion of Iraq. That affront to our pride cuss immigration rationally, or even en- lyzed by the fear of being was nothing compared to what we have force laws that are on the books. If we called racists. suffered every day for decades at the are already afraid to take measures that hands of Mexicans and their govern- would antagonize 15 percent of the ment. If the French were to treat us as population, how likely are we to be able designs on part of our territory. Why are Mexicans do, there would be universal to act in our own interests if Hispanics we so passive? Why do American uni- outrage and immediate countermeasures become 20, 30, or even 40 percent of versities say nothing when Hispanic fac- because we would not be paralyzed by the population? ulty and students openly advocate break- the fear of being called racists. The number-one political goal of His- ing up the United States? Why do no With Hispanics, however, not only panics is amnesty for illegal immigrants politicians complain when many Hispan- does race make us powerless to resist, and yet more Hispanic immigration. If ics send home hundreds of dollars ev- race is part of what drives their refusal American politicians refuse to set policy ery month—and then seek medical treat- to assimilate and fuels their contempt for according to national needs, if they sac- ment at taxpayer expense? Why are we our culture and our interests. Demands, rifice the longer-term interests of silent when Mexicans take US citizen- insults and loyalties are ultimately in the America for the short-term political gain ship while openly proclaiming their loy- name of la raza, and that is what makes of placating Hispanic voters, they will alty to Mexico? Why do most journal- them so durable and so dangerous—and eventually find themselves pushed aside

American Renaissance - 7 - May 2007 by sheer force of numbers. should have learned that multi-racialism inchoate realization that drives ordinary Like those of blacks, Hispanic group is an endless Calvary of accusations, re- Americans and even a few in Congress interests are narrowly defined and do not sentments, demands, failures, and con- to see that we face a choice that is noth- leave much room for broader, national flicts. It was the worst of folly needlessly ing short of a civilizational crisis: Will interests. There is no sign that as His- to have established yet another minority we remain part of the West or will we panics increase in numbers they are ex- to tread this bitter and all-too-familiar leave to our grandchildren a shapeless, panding their horizons to include these ground. Third-World jumble in which the men broader interests. More and more Americans recognize and culture of Europe are on their way After decades of accepting sole re- that we are, in effect, giving our country to oblivion? We still have a choice if only sponsibility for the failure of blacks to away to foreigners who care nothing for we have the will. Ω become full-fledged Americans, whites us or for our traditions. It is this largely To the Edge of the Precipice Shelby Steele, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Right Era, Harper Collins, 2006, 181 pp., $24.95. A black man’s remarkable the William Clinton-Monica Lewinsky nocence. As he explains: scandal told us about how moral stan- “Surely genuine goodwill may also be racial insights. dards change. He writes that he recalls a part in such efforts. But the larger re- reading that President Eisenhower used ality is that white guilt leaves no room reviewed by Thomas Jackson to use the word “nigger” when he was for moral choice; it does not depend on on the golf course. That posed no threat the goodwill or the genuine decency of his is a short book—just 181 pa- to his presidency, just as Mr. Clinton’s people. It depends on their fear of stig- perback-sized pages—but it has debauching an intern posed no threat to matization, their fear of being called rac- Tmore good sense packed into it his. However, suggests Dr. Steele, had ist.” than books five times longer. Shelby each man done what the other did, they Whites submit to just about any hu- Steele, who was a black radical in the would have been hounded out of office. miliation if that is what it takes to dem- 1960s, has since acquired a view of both “Race simply replaced sex as the primary onstrate that they are untainted—what blacks and whites that is almost com- focus of America’s moral seriousness,” Dr. Steele calls “dissociation from rac- pletely unclouded by dogma. Dr. Steele, Dr. Steele writes and, as we shall see ism at almost any cost”—and he empha- later, he finds a connection between the sizes “the classic liberal mistake of try- two. The central insight of White Guilt is that “racism” is now America’s most despised crime. Dr. Steele is silent on how this came to be, but he is right to see it as the fundamental psychological transformation of our time. This trans- formation meant that far from being able to face other races with confidence and even a sense of superiority, “the idea of evil had begun to attach to America and to whites.” Anyone who could be ac- cused of “racism” immediately lost au- thority, and not just on social questions. “Racists” lost all standing as respectable human beings. As Dr. Steele points out, the rigid new structure of taboos thus “makes the moral authority of whites and Shelby Steele. legitimacy of American institutions con- who has been a fellow at the Hoover In- tingent on proving a negative: that they stitution since 1994, is perhaps the first are not racist.” (Dr. Steele’s emphasis mainstream author to analyze white guilt here and throughout) ing to pass off mere dissociation from and describe the tremendous damage it One of Dr. Steele’s keenest observa- racism as selfless virtue and real human does. Dr. Steele does not get everything tions, and the one that has earned him empathy.” Liberals preen themselves on right, but his elegant dissection of white the most liberal wrath, is that the rituals their compassion, but, as Dr. Steele self-absorption and black opportunism by which whites avoid the taint of “rac- writes, “in the age of white guilt, whites is one of the best antidotes now avail- ism”—protestations of love for blacks, support all manner of silly racial poli- able to the shelves of nonsense that pass denunciations of “bigotry”—have little cies without seeing that their true moti- for wisdom on race. to do with wanting to help blacks and vation is simply to show themselves in- Dr. Steele begins by musing on what everything to do with demonstrating in- nocent of racism.” Blind to his real mo-

American Renaissance - 8 - May 2007 tives the liberal genuinely believes he is way: real joy in black degeneracy. “a better man than the world has seen “If a young black boy cannot dribble before.” well when he comes out to play basket- The Souls of Black Folk One of the best recognized ways to ball, no one will cast his problem as an demonstrate guiltlessness is to practice injustice . . . . But if the boy’s problem is It did not take blacks long to discover racial preferences, to join the scramble reading or writing . . . . [c]areer-hungry the fun to be had in the brave new world to lure indifferently qualified blacks onto academics will appear in his little world, of white guilt. “By the mid-sixties,” college campuses. “And what is enough and they will argue that his weaknesses writes Dr. Steele, “white guilt was elic- minorities?” asks Dr. Steele. “Enough is reflect the circuitous workings of racism. iting an entirely new kind of black lead- just enough to clearly dissociate the in- . . . The boy will not be asked to truly ership . . . bargainers, bluffers, harangu- stitution from America’s old racist pat- work harder.” ers . . . who could set up a trade with terns. Without preferences it would be Low black test scores cannot be due white guilt.” The militant Shelby Steele utterly impossible to admit enough mi- to laziness, stupidity, or brutish parents. of 30 and 40 years ago “began to under- norities for a convincing dissociation. Instead, whites lather black students with stand that my country was now repen- Dissociation requires evidence of a pro- Afro-centric math, black history, Negro tant before me,” and that this brought a active effort, a self-conscious and highly role models, and multi-culti voodoo of new power over whites: “This power to visible display of minority recruitment.” every kind. Blacks can never save them- shame, silence, and muscle concessions selves, “so the very structure of the from the larger society on the basis of liberal faith—that whites and ‘so- past victimization became the new ciety’ must facilitate black uplift— ‘black power.’ ” locks white liberals into an unex- Dr. Steele writes that the older gen- amined white supremacy.” Dr. eration of civil rights leaders believed Steele notes that all this anti-racist their behavior had to be impeccable, that posing gives liberals a moral glow, they had to act better than white people but their inability to treat blacks if their call for equal treatment was to like real men with control over their be taken seriously. Things changed in the lives makes it impossible for them 1960s: to accomplish anything. “[B]lack power would no longer Merit, excellence and ability, come from being better than whites; it writes Dr. Steele, are “unfor- would come from not being better. . . . [I givingly exclusionary.” “Inclusion” had] the feeling that being black released requires that excellence be ignored, me from the usual obligation to common that mediocre Third-Worlders be decency and decorum. . . . I was licensed treated like great artists, that black to live in a spirit of disregard toward my tinkerers be hailed as geniuses, and own country.” that every obscure Negro be put on Even whites in positions of authority a postage stamp. This racial climate were cowed by black swagger. As Dr. creates a demand for snake-oil Steele explains, black power grew in salesmen, black and white, who claim to confer authority on whites by teaching them how to genuflect. Dr. Steele pushes his argument a bit too far, however, when he sug- How the army establishes legitimacy. gests that liberals may actu- Dr. Steele points out that all Ameri- ally want blacks to stay de- can institutions do this. The army angers graded: “Whites needed re- its white soldiers and stigmatizes its sponsibility for our problems blacks and browns with racial prefer- in order to gain their own ences—not because this improves the moral authority and legiti- army but because the white officer corps macy. So they set about—once again— Detroit 1967: ‘burn, baby, burn.’ that merit would produce would not meet to exploit us, to encourage and even nur- direct proportion to white guilt, and today’s standards for moral authority. ture our illusions, to steal responsibility could not have been possible without it. White self-absorption goes further. As from us, to take advantage of our back- Many people have noted that the black Dr. Steele points out, since it would be wardness just as slave traders had once riots of the 1960s came after the pas- “racist” to say blacks have any respon- done on the west coast of Africa.” sage of the major “civil rights” laws, not sibility for their failings, white liberals People in the uplift business might before, and it is likely that those con- ride forth to smite racism, promising worry for their jobs if they actually suc- cessions to black grievance encouraged uplift that does not require blacks to ceeded in helping anyone, but probably the very violence they were supposed to move a muscle. Dr. Steele puts it this not even the most cutthroat liberals take prevent. As Dr. Steele explains in this

American Renaissance - 9 - May 2007 particularly acute passage: trick to play on blacks. Just when un- ism. Global racism was the answer.” As “Anger is acted out by the oppressed precedented opportunities were open to Dr. Steele explains, “global racism en- only when real weakness is perceived in them white liberals and black hustlers ables blacks to frame racism to the scale the oppressor. So anger is never auto- told them success would never come of white guilt rather than to the scale of matic or even inevitable for the op- until whites transformed them- pressed; it is chosen when weakness in selves and their society. the oppressor means it will be effective But once again, Dr. Steele in winning freedom or justice or spoils pushes his argument too far: “It of some kind. Anger in the oppressed is is always the black who pays a response to perceived opportunity, not the price for white self-delu- to injustice. And expressions of anger sion.” He writes that even when escalate not with more injustice but with whites run elaborate programs less injustice.” of racial preference, they “will The last three decades of the 20th never suffer from the systems century were therefore the golden age they devise, but will be forever of the racial shakedown. The whole point celebrated for their good inten- of black militancy was to make whites tions, their courage in confront- responsible for black progress. Instead ing such an intractable prob- of feeling shamed by the failures of their lem. . . . [E]ven the most gifted own people, blacks could parade them and affluent blacks—many of as an accusation. And, of course, any hint whom can compete on their of “racism” was—and still is—a trophy own—must pull on the Sambo to be cherished, to be waved in the face mask and reinvent themselves of abashed whites as often as possible. as the sort of inferiors that will The most profitable pose a black trade well with white guilt.” could strike was therefore that of vic- Wrong on both counts. tim, and “when victimization is identity, There are countless whites who then the victim’s passionate anger can have been denied promotions, be called out even when there is no ac- recognition, or admission to tual victimization.” As Michael Levin university so that some black or has pointed out, the angrier blacks got, Hispanic could be pushed for- the more they were able to convince ward. And we hardly need feel whites there was something to be angry sorry for the unqualified black about, and the more likely whites were who gets a full scholarship to to do as they were told. the Ivy League. He pulls on no Sambo mask. If he puts on a mask at all, The more whites whoop about ‘diversity’ the “For black leaders in the it is the far more profitable one of ag- more resentments non-whites discover. grieved victimhood. white racism—too weak these days to age of white guilt the count for much.” problem was how to seize Global Racism Dr. Steele writes about pampered all they could get from black college students: “Global racism white guilt without Dr. Steele recognizes that hardly any- allows these students to feel aggrieved one in America has the slightest desire by racism even as they live on campuses having to show actual to oppress blacks, and that it is nearly notorious for almost totalitarian regimes events of racism.” impossible to point to anyone with any of political correctness—and to feel power who is a “racist.” That is what more aggrieved than black students did The old left had been trying to make gives rise to “the now common argument forty years ago, before the civil rights race an irrelevance; the new left discov- that racism is ‘systemic,’ ‘structural,’ and victories. This is because their feeling ered the tremendous advantages in be- ‘institutional,’ ” or “global,” as he calls of racial aggrievement is calibrated to ing as black as possible. Dazzled by the it. When no people can be found who the degree of white guilt on university rewards, not many realized that the vic- are “racist,” then institutional racism has campuses and not to actual racism.” tim pose came with a price. “[I]t quickly to be invented to explain black failure. He continues: “Global racism pre- became the most totalitarian and repres- Dr. Steele puts it neatly: “ ‘impersonal’ vails precisely where whites and institu- sive identity that black America has ever and ‘structural’ forces . . . worked by the tions most aggressively search for moral known. All dissent became heresy, pun- ‘invisible hand’ to stifle black aspiration authority around race. Even announce- ishable by excommunication . . . .” even when real racists were nowhere to ments of a new commitment to ‘diver- At the same time, “if you were black be seen.” sity’ within an institution will very likely and thus a victim of racial oppression, This fiction solved an important prob- increase feelings of racial aggrievement this new morality of social justice meant lem: “For black leaders in the age of in minorities. We blacks always experi- you could not be expected to carry the white guilt the problem was how to seize ence white guilt as an incentive, almost same responsibilities as others.” This, all they could get from white guilt with- a command, to somehow exhibit racial writes Dr. Steele, was the worst possible out having to show actual events of rac- woundedness and animus.”

American Renaissance - 10 - May 2007 Even the most hard-nosed businesses deeper and more compassionate human- out saying—is a death sentence to a race can be shaken down for millions in the ity.” Dr. Steele adds: “It was white guilt and civilization. “[B]eyond an identity name of global racism, because “even a that powerfully stigmatized (with racism, that apologizes for white supremacy, hint of racism proves the rule of systemic militarism, etc.) precisely the traditional absolutely no white identity is permis- racism. So these corporations never pay values that had always prevented a sible,” he writes. “In fact, if there is a to the measure of any actual racism; they sexual revolution.” white racial identity today it would have pay to the measure of racism’s hyped- up and bloated reputation in the age of white guilt.” The golden age of the race hustler may slowly be ending, but there are a great many campus officials and corporate executives who would do well to ponder Dr. Steele’s words. White Guilt goes on to make a num- ber of larger points, the most important of which is the following: “[W]hen white supremacy was deli- gitimized, whites did not simply lose the authority to practice racism. The loss of authority generalized well beyond that, so that whites also lost a degree of their authority to stand proudly for the values and ideas that had made the West a great civilization despite its many evils.” Some of the values that were discred- ited along with “racism” were: “personal The first generation ever to win its adolescent rebellion. responsibility, hard work, individual ini- tiative, delayed gratification, commit- There is much truth in all this. Once to be white guilt—a shared, even unify- ment to excellence, competition by the ancient distinction between black and ing, lack of racial moral authority.” merit, the honor in achievement, and so white was broken down, the 1960s made Dr. Steele is surely too smart not to on. How could these principles be im- short work of virtually every other dis- know that filling the country with Third- portant when they had coexisted so eas- tinction whites had taken for granted: Worlders will not bring back the stan- ily with racism? Weren’t they, in fact, a man and woman, heterosexual and ho- dards of excellence he says must be re- part of the machinery of white su- mosexual, normal and perverted, dili- asserted. Surely he must see that His- premacy?” gence and sloth, health and sickness, panics and other non-whites have taken With all traditional standards discred- good and bad. As Dr. Steele points out, their cue from blacks—not from whites ited, there was virtually no check on the collapse of so many traditions abet- —and have slipped into the pose of vic- adolescent rebellion for the generation ted the ’60s generation’s illusion that it tim as if they were to the plantation born. of the 1960s. For college students, the had a mandate to remake the world. Whites show no more backbone in the crassest self-indulgence could be passed Good as this book is, Dr. Steele can- face of non-white immigrants than they off as fighting “the system,” and the Hip- not be expected to understand that what show in the face of blacks, and unless pies found “a far greater collapse of adult he calls “racism,” though it undoubtedly they resurrect healthy racial pride, they moral authority than previous genera- gave rise to ugly excesses, was an es- will disappear as a distinct people with tions had experienced.” sential part of Western consciousness. It a distinct culture. It may be giving him The result? “The sixties generation of was at the same time the part most vul- more credit than he deserves, but Dr. youth is very likely the first generation nerable to clever appeals to Western Steele shows signs that he might not en- in American history to have actually won principles. But when whites lost the will tirely favor consigning the white man its adolescent rebellion against its elders. to conserve that which was most urgently and his civilization to oblivion, but until One of the reasons for this, if not the to be conserved—the biological integ- he understands the implications of de- primary reason, is that this generation rity of the people who built our civiliza- nying to whites any identity other than came of age during the age of white guilt, tion—they lost the will to conserve much that of penitent, he is as much our un- which meant that its rebellion ran into of anything else. That is why, as Dr. dertaker as the black frauds and con art- an increasingly uncertain adult author- Steele writes, “baby boomer-countercul- ists he despises. ity.” ture consciousness is now the establish- But let us not make too much of the “The loss of moral authority,” ex- ment consciousness, while traditional shortcomings of this book. Dr. Steele plains Dr. Steele, “went too far the other American values now constitute a kind comes closer than nearly all whites to way. . . . After America admitted what of counterculture.” When the central re- understanding the meaning and implica- was worst about itself, there was not doubt of racial consciousness fell, no tions of white guilt. If whites are to have enough authority left to support what outer rampart could remain standing. a future, they will have to see the preci- was best.” One prominent side effect was Something else Dr. Steele cannot be pice for themselves. Dr. Steele has widespread acceptance of “the idea that expected to understand is that one of his shown us more than we can reasonably a lack of sexual inhibition signified a assertions—tossed off as if it goes with- ask. Ω

American Renaissance - 11 - May 2007 Who Profits From These Registrations?

France tries to cheat the Roubaix, where it is well known that the Moroccan actor Jamel Debbouze, rap- majority of the population are foreign- pers Joey Starr and Daim’s [sic], and Nationl Front—again. ers, the number of voters rose more than Guadeloupian soccer player Lilian tenfold, from 52 to 577! Since the pre- Thuram. They have been beating the by Jérôme Bourbon vious presidential elections in 2002, the drum, reminding people in the occupied number of voters has increased 12 per- suburbs that Jean-Marie Le Pen made it The French presidential elections will cent in Marseille, 60 percent in Nancy, into the presidential runoff on April 21, take place on April 22. There are four and 76 percent in Amiens. 2002 (See “France Sets the Tone,” AR, major candidates: the socialist Ségolène What is true in the provinces is just June 2002), and are also doing their best Royale, the centrist François Bayrou, as true in Paris and the surrounding re- to make sure Nicolas Sarkozy loses. the right-of-center former interior min- gion. In the capital there has been an Leftist of all stripes can no longer count ister Nicolas Sarkozy, and Jean-Marie increase of 32 percent—330,000 vot- on the votes of native-born Frenchmen, Le Pen. If, as seems likely, no one wins ers—since the last presidential race, as whom they have continually betrayed, an outright majority the two top-poll- Bertrand Delanoë [the openly homo- despised, and fleeced, and are looking ing candidates will have a runoff two sexual, Tunisian-born mayor of Paris] to a new electorate: immigrants. This weeks later on May 6. keeps reminding us. Heavily-immigrant cynicism, which amounts to a crime suburbs like Saint-Denis (2,000 new vot- against France, has born fruit, with im- he mass media have been happily ers this year) and Gennevilliers (up migrants voting massively for the left— telling us that in 2006 the num- 2,300) have seen big gains, and Bondy, 67 percent for the Socialists alone. Tber of new voter registrations has which was a notorious hot spot during Will that always be the case, given broken all records. Registrations often the Ramadan riots of 2005 (see “France that the Socialists as well as the main- rise the year before an election, espe- at the Crossroads,” AR, Jan. 2006) now stream “right” couldn’t care less about immigrants and are just using them for electoral cannon fodder? Will these for- eigners realize, like Dieudonné, that they are being used? Dieudonné [a contro- versial mulatto comic who has been ac- cused of anti-Semitism and who now supports the National Front] has cer- tainly understood, and plans to perform between the first and second rounds of the election and to tell the audience to vote for Jean-Marie Le Pen if he is still in the running. Even the leader of the National Front has come to understand the importance of the non-white vote, and tried to ap- peal to it by means of that controversial poster (see “The National Front: Going Soft or Getting Wise?” AR, March, 2007). We will soon see whether that was a good tactic, but judging from press and TV interviews with these new voters— ‘This may be your last chance to vote against Le Pen!’ even if they have all been carefully se- lected—there is reason for worry. (They cially a presidential election, but this rise boasts 20 percent more voters. Trappes, are invariably identified only by first has been extraordinary. A glance at the yet another “exotic” suburb, had a re- name, which makes them sound less for- television images last December of long markable 90 percent increase. In France eign.) lines of people (of so many hues!) wait- as a whole, there will be hundreds of “Le Pen in the run off? I don’t want ing to register at city halls around the thousands of new voters this spring. that to happen. That’s why I registered country was enough to show what is hap- to vote,” explains 26-year-old Jennifer, pening. The Specter of April 21 waiting in line at the mayor’s office in Although the final voter lists have not Gennevilliers. “I’m afraid of France yet been made public, we already know There has been nothing spontaneous turning to the extreme right,” worries 22- that the number of registered voters qua- about this huge increase. It is the result year-old Quentin. “I don’t want Jean- drupled in Metz, tripled in Toulouse, and of a campaign mounted by the left and Marie Le Pen as president,” says Rachid. doubled in Nantes and Lyons. At by showbiz and sports personalities like “I have never voted before,” explains

American Renaissance - 12 - May 2007 Nathalie, in her forties, “but now I have theorist, 1869-1952] used to say, the re- played this trick, not scrupling to vio- to. In 2002 I felt responsible for what public governs badly but protects itself late the principles it is supposed to ven- happened . . . . Now I have a clear con- well, we can be sure that our rulers will erate: Less than five years after the Re- do everything possible to prevent a sec- public was established, the coup d’état ond political earthquake. They have been under the Directorate of September 4, ruthless in keeping out splinter candi- 1797 simply invalidated the results for dates, thereby herding everyone behind every royalist deputy (member of the their favorites, Sarko and Ségo. The plan National Assembly) elected—and then is for Mr. Sarkozy and Miss Royal each went on to sentence most of them to ban- to get more than 25 percent of the first- ishment in Guiana. Only supporters of round vote, thereby putting them beyond the Republic kept their seats, which reach of Mr. Le Pen, who could get as made for less contentious politics. More much as 24 percent. recently, in 1952, the executive clearly At the same time, we see this mas- violated the constitution by unseating 11 sive registration of freshly naturalized of 52 Poujadist deputies (named after na- citizens. It is hardly without precedent. tionalist and populist leader Pièrre In 1987, Charles Pasqua, who was inte- Poujade,1920-2003), thereby keeping rior minister for Jacques Chirac, sent the Poujadists from reaching the critical convoys of buses to the projects to haul number of 50 deputies required to form immigrants in to register in Marseille in a parliamentary group and thereby con- the runup to the 1988 elec- Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë. tions for the National Assem- bly. These Frenchmen-on- science.” Dabia and Yacine registered paper, who accounted for “in response to an appeal by Diam’s and half the new voters that year, Joey Starr,” while Dorothy and Arc’han- performed as ordered: Jean- tael (yes, that is a real name), both stu- Marie Le Pen, Bruno Mé- dents, say they woke up to politics in gret, and Jean-Pierre Stir- 2002. bois, another National Front The great tragedy is that the votes of candidate, lost by a hair— young native-born French people, dosed and not a blond hair. from their early school days with anti- We have also seen in the Le Pen propaganda, could be as disas- recent municipal elections in trous as those of the neo-French. Belgium how massive voting by immigrants, especially in Looking Out for Themselves places like Anvers, blunted the Vlaams Belang’s drive Ever since the last presidential elec- and kept it from winning a tion, we have seen how well appeals to single mayoral election in the horror of April 21, 2002, have Flanders (See “Men of the worked for all the parties that are part of West, Stand and Fight,” AR, Feb. 2007). Charles Maurras. the System. And let us not be deceived: trol committees, influence legislation, Even if it is mathematically possible for Despicable Methods etc. (Twenty deputies are now required Jean-Marie Le Pen to make it into the to form a group in the assembly.) It is final round this year as he did five years Even when the System does not suc- worth noting that the 11 deputies so scan- ago, it will be infinitely more difficult. ceed in completely betraying the elec- dalously eliminated were promptly and In 2002, the establishment was taken torate and the nationalist right wins an arbitrarily replaced by men from the completely by surprise, and panicked all election, as happened in Italy with then-governing parties. the way to the runoff on May 5. Gianfranco Fini [leader of the National We can count on the System: It will Why was no one prepared? The right Alliance] and in Austria with Jörg Haider show the greatest ingenuity when it had split in late 1998 (See “Crisis in the [former leader of the Austrian Freedom comes to strangling any nationalist re- National Front,” AR, Feb. 1999), and Party], the System fights dirty by using naissance in its crib. Which is to say that there had been poor results in the local some administrative trick to invalidate it will take all the talents, cleverness, and and European elections in 2001. Let us the results or finds some kind of retro- force of conviction of which the leader not forget that just one year before April spective ineligibility. We saw this in the of the National Front is capable, along 21, 2002, the National Front had won French cities of Toulon and Vitrolles, with the combined effort of every pa- only seven percent of the vote and the when three victorious National Front triot to overcome such formidable ob- breakaway faction from the National candidates for mayor—Jean-Marie Le stacles. Ω Front, led by Bruno Mégret, had won Chevallier, Bruno Mégret, and then his This article appeared in the Jan. 12, only three. wife Catherine Mégret—were declared 2007, issue of the French weekly Rivarol This year, knowing that as Charles ineligible one after another. (www.rivarol.com), and is translated Maurras [monarchist and conservative Republican France has frequently and reprinted with permission.

American Renaissance - 13 - May 2007 O Tempora, O Mores!

Safe for Whites Liberian President Ellen Johnson- this model of natural disasters, dispers- Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected woman ing the community and changing the Most of the 406 people murdered in head of state, has promised to crack electoral process in that community.” He Philadelphia last year died from gunshot down on sexual violence but Miss Parker added that his “chocolate city” remark wounds. Overall, the city had 2,004 shootings in 2006, up 31 percent from 1,528 in 2001, which means that on av- erage five people are shot in Philadel- phia every day. Most shootings take place on weekends (349 on Saturday, 336 on Sunday) between 9 pm and 2 am, with the most (192) from midnight to one am. Philadelphia criminals are not early risers—they shot only 23 people be- tween 9 am and 10 am. Most shooting victims (75 percent) are black men, and most are between 18 and 25 years old. The majority of shootings are in poor black neighborhoods. There is very little violence in rich, white areas. Criminologist Lawrence W. Sherman of the University of Pennsylvania spouts the usual mush: Shootings reflect a “sys- tematic placement of black males at the bottom of the social structure,” leaving them feeling “rejected” and prone to vio- lence. “We have to recognize the role of Children playing in the streets of Monrovia, Liberia. concentrated black poverty,” he says. He may have a point, however, when doesn’t think much will change. “The made him a target for people who want he says that “the untold story, the story vast majority of rape cases don’t even to make sure he goes no further. [Hamil the hotels want you to write, is that Phila- make it to a conviction, let alone to the R. Harris, Nagin Suspects a Plot to Keep delphia is a very safe place for white imprisonment of the perpetrator,” she Blacks Away, Washington Post, March people.” Indeed, of the 2,004 shooting says. “People are reluctant to report rape 17, 2007.] victims in 2006, only 341 were “white.” cases because of the shame that goes Since the Philadelphia police call His- along with it.” [Kate Thomas, Three Out Urban ‘Renewal’ panics white, the actual number of white of Four Liberian Women Have Been shooting victims is probably very small. Raped, Survey Finds, Independent (Lon- According to US Census Bureau es- [Robert Moran, Phila. Shootings Up don), March 8, 2007.] timates, native-born Americans are flee- 31% Since ’01, Philadelphia Inquirer, ing US cities. Between 2000 and 2006, Feb. 18, 2007.] Ragin’ Nagin more than 600,000 natives moved from New York, 200,000 from Los Angeles, Rape in Liberia New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin seems 188,000 from San Francisco, and to have a habit of saying what he really 101,000 from Boston. The native-born According to a survey by the medical thinks. The mayor angered many whites are even leaving smaller cities like Ames, aid agency Merlin, three out of four when he predicted last year that despite Iowa and Battle Creek, Michigan. These Liberian women have been raped. Some the population decline that followed cities are not losing population, however, of the victims are as young as three years Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans would because immigrants are replacing the old. Claire Parker, who is reproductive still be a “chocolate city.” In March, Mr. native-born. Despite losing more than health coordinator for the agency, says Nagin told an audience of black news- half a million natives, New York City nearly half the victims she sees are un- paper publishers and editors that the actually grew 2.7 percent between 2000 der age 12, and that some are as young slow recovery of his city is part of a con- and 2006, and Los Angeles grew 4.7 as three. As she explains, “If a person is spiracy against New Orleans and other percent. seeking a position of power here, there black-run cities to dilute their racial The Census Bureau says there are 36 is a traditional belief which says that if makeup and change their political lead- million immigrants living in the United you spill the blood of a child, or take the ership. “Ladies and gentlemen, what States—the most ever—and suspects virginity of a child, that will give you happened in New Orleans could happen that at least a third are here illegally. increased power.” anywhere,” he said. “They are studying [Without Immigrants, Metro Areas

American Renaissance - 14 - May 2007 Would Shrink, AP, April 5, 2007.] working for her, and that as a “woman times more likely. [Richard Garner, Chi- of color” she wanted to bring “diversity” nese Pupils Eclipse All Other Ethnic to the agency. Miss Heitzner says Miss Groups in English Tests, Independent Still Milking It (London), Feb. 21, 2007.] The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center recently sold a collection of the great Diversity at the CIA man’s papers—more than 10,000 docu- ments—to the city of Atlanta for $32 The Central Intelligence Agency has million. The papers will be kept at King’s done a lot of hiring since the Sept. 11, black alma mater, Morehouse College. 2001 terrorist attacks. Forty percent of Given this windfall, one would think the all current personnel have joined since King Center wouldn’t mind if others then, with the agency setting a hiring collected a few crumbs from the “King record in 2006. It expects to set another legacy,” but no, the center wants it all record next year. The agency particularly (see “Milking the Dream,” AR, April wants people who speak Chinese, Ara- 2002). bic, Farsi, Urdu and other so-called A woman who claims to be a child- “mission critical” languages (only 12 hood friend of King’s plans to auction percent of agency hires are proficient in off a small collection of his papers she foreign languages). has had for nearly 40 years. The uniden- Director Michael Hayden is using the tified woman says she got the papers, Kumiki Gibson: likes them young and non- hiring boom to get a more exotic racial which include first drafts of speeches and white. mix, on the assumption that in many letters, as part of a debt settlement with Gibson told her “that she did not see a countries non-whites will make more a radio station with which King was once place for me in ‘her vision.’ ” Miss Fur- convincing spies. In 2006, 23 percent of affiliated. Bidding starts on April 15, and long says Miss Gibson told her “that I new employees were black, Hispanic, the 25 documents could fetch $100,000 did not ‘fit’ in with her plans for the di- Asian or Indian. The CIA also wants to $300,000. vision.” Americans of Arabic, Iranian, and South The King family is fighting the sale. The lawyer for the two women says Asian descent. “Unless the woman has documentation they will also sue in federal and state that the papers were given to her, they courts. Miss Gibson denies any wrong- are owned by the King Estate,” says doing. [Fredric U. Dicker, Rights Isaac Newton Farris, president and chief Wronged Us: Suit, New York Post, executive officer of the King Center. March 8, 2007, p. 5.] [Another Set of King Documents Set for Auction, AP, April 3, 2007.] School Race Gap Too Old, Too White Britain has well established racial gaps in school performance. Passing New York state’s Division of Human rates for the national curriculum test for Rights enforces the state’s anti-discrimi- English, given at age 11, are: Chinese – Today, half of all CIA managers are nation laws. A black woman, Kumiki 86 percent, Indians 85 percent, whites – women or non-whites. Thirty percent of Gibson, who had been acting head of the 80 percent. For many Indians and Chi- CIA station chiefs are either women or division since January, was officially nese, English is not their native language. non-whites, as are 35 percent of Direc- appointed to the job in March. Miss Between the ages of 14 and 16, Brit- tor Hayden’s senior advisors. That’s not Gibson is a former senior vice president ish children are tested for what is called enough, says associate deputy director of the National Urban League and was the General Certificate of Secondary Michael Morell: “We need to do better.” once an advisor to Al Gore. Education, or GCSE. Again, there are [Stephen Barr, Fast-Changing CIA Puts The day after the New York senate well established racial differences in the New Emphasis on Recruiting, Washing- confirmed her appointment, two white percentages of students who get top ton Post, Feb. 19, 2007.] former employees filed with the federal grades in five or more subjects: Chinese The CIA is also airing radio spots, Equal Employment Opportunity Com- – 65.8 percent, Indians – 59.1 percent, touting America as the most diverse na- mission (EEOC), accusing Miss Gibson and whites – 44.3 percent. Blacks do tion on earth, and claiming it is our great- of age and race discrimination. Michele poorly, with only 22.7 percent, but they est strength. The ads are voiced by a Heitzner, 60, former deputy commis- are not the worst group. That honor goes black man. sioner, and Martha Furlong, 63, who to Gypsies, or Roma as they now like to worked in the personnel department, say be called. Only four percent get top Better than Detroit Miss Gibson fired them because they grades in five or more subjects. were old and white. They say that when At the next level of secondary In a March radio interview about Iraq, Miss Gibson took over as acting com- achievement, Chinese boys are four Congressman Tim Walberg (R-MI) told missioner, she had a conference call with times more likely than white boys to earn host Jack Elbing that 80 to 85 percent all her employees, in which she said she three or more A (advanced) level ratings of the country “is reasonably under con- wanted “young folks, young people” in science, and Indian boys are three trol, at least as well as Detroit or Chi-

American Renaissance - 15 - May 2007 cago or any of our other big cities. That’s “president of a France that is mixed-race race Norwegian religious historian who an encouraging sign.” When Mr. Elbing and proud of it.” grew up in Africa. She’s also the author said he hadn’t heard Iraq compared to Not to be outdone, at a campaign rally of a new book that claims Norwegians Detroit before, Rep. Walberg added, January 14 in Paris, Mr. Sarkozy de- and their over-generous welfare system “Well, in fact, in many places it’s as safe parted from his prepared text to praise are the reason so many immigrants are and cared for as Detroit or Harvey, Illi- “a France that understands that creation unemployed. nois, or some other places that have comes from mixing, from openness, “To criticize the [jobless] foreigners trouble with armed violence . . . .” from coming together, and from—I’m is like criticizing the symptoms and not Spokesmen for Detroit and Harvey, the problem,” she adds, accusing so- both 80 percent black, denounced the cial workers of “waiting at the airport congressman’s remarks. “It’s absurd Are You Fighting Mad and doling out social services avail- to compare Detroit and Iraq in any able for asylum seekers and immi- way,” complained James Canning, a About What is Happen- grants” instead of sending them to spokesman for Detroit mayor Kwame ing to Your Country? classes where they could learn to be Kilpatrick. “Unfortunately, for years “Norwegian.” “Lots of people have people have beat up on the city of De- interpreted this as an invitation not troit. Detroit is the word for negative. to work. Many have viewed Norway We are working very hard to trans- as a country where the state pays your form that image of our city.” monthly salary and where housing is Harvey mayor Eric Kellogg was provided.” less diplomatic, saying Rep. Wal- Norwegians, she concludes, “au- berg’s comments take “racial profil- tomatically feel sorry for people with ing and stereotyping to extreme lev- dark skin. We put them on welfare, els. . . . [W]e still have members of instead of putting them to work.” This Congress who suffer from the high- is because Norwegians think Third- est levels of ignorance and stupidity.” Worlders cannot work; Norway has [Michigan Congressman Who Says developed “a rock-hard segregated Parts of Baghdad ‘As Safe’ as Detroit society, where people are evaluated Draws Criticism, AP, March 22, in terms of ethnicity, not compe- 2007.] tence.” [Historian Blames Immigrant Woes on ‘Segregated Society,’ Aften- Liberty, Equality. . . Then do something about it. posten (Norway), Jan. 15, 2007.] France will be holding the first More Apologies round of presidential elections on Work for AR. April 22, and polls show a tight race merican Renaissance needs an edito- The senate of the state of North between Socialist Ségolène Royale rial assistant to work in our Oakton, Carolina has unanimously voted an and conservative frontrunner Nicolas AVirginia office. We want someone who apology for the state’s role in slavery. Sarkozy. can write and do general office work, but we Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand, During a campaign swing through will give you as much responsibility as you who is white, said the apology will the Caribbean island of Martinique, can handle. help legislators “to try to be better Miss Royale gushed, “Miscegenation We want someone who is good with com- children of God and better represen- is an opportunity for France.” She puters, and web publishing experience would tatives of all the people of this state.” be a plus, but brains and commitment are worth Black senators called the vote a more to us than experience. A recent college good first step: “This is a noble ges- grad could be just the person we need. ture, but . . . don’t let it end here,” This will be a great opportunity to learn said Democratic Sen. Larry Shaw. about writing and print/Internet publishing, “There’s plenty of work to be done.” while you make a real contribution to the race The North Carolina house has yet to realist movement. vote on the bill, so the apology is still Please send a cover letter, resume and writ- unofficial. [N.C. Senate Apologizes ing sample to AR, PO Box 527, Oakton, VA For Slavery and Jim Crow Laws, AP, 22124. No phone calls, please. April 6, 2007.] In March, the Maryland legislature not afraid of the word—miscegenation.” unbosomed a similar apology, express- [Ségo et Nico Apôtres de la France ing “profound regret” that the state’s citi- Métisse, Rivarol (Paris), Feb. 2, 2007, zens once “trafficked in human flesh.” p. 2.] [Maryland Issues Apology for Its Role in Slavery AP, March, 27, 2007.] Vir- Ségolène Royale. Too Many Handouts ginia started this recent trend, and the added that as president she would en- Missouri legislature is considering a courage immigration and would be Hanne Nabintu Herland is a mixed- similar proposal. Ω

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