There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. – Thomas Jefferson Vol. 8, No. 7 & 8 July-August 1997 The Myth of Diversity

Seldom have so many domestic consumption. In a 1996 will discover.” pretended to believe speech before the Australian parlia- Diversity has clearly become one something so absurd. ment, President Clinton noted that of those orotund, high-sounding senti- both the United States and Australia ments with which politicians lard their by Jared Taylor speeches. Of course, the idea that di- versity—at least of the kind that Mr. T he idea that “diversity” is one of and Mrs. Clinton are promoting—is a the country’s great strengths is now so great advantage for America is one of firmly rooted that virtually anyone can the most obviously stupid propositions evoke it, praise it, and wallow in it ever to see the light of day. without fear of contradiction. It has Nevertheless there is one kind of become one of the great unassailably diversity that is an advantage. A con- American ideas, like democracy, patri- tractor, for example, cannot build otism, the family, or Martin Luther houses if he hires only electricians. He King. needs carpenters, plumbers, etc.—a The President of the United States diverse work force. However, func- glories in diversity. In May, 1995, in a tional diversity of this kind is not what message recognizing the Mexican the Chief Executive is on about. He is holiday, Cinco de Mayo, William talking about largely non-functional Clinton said, “The Fifth of May offers were becoming increasingly diverse, differences like race, language, age, all of us a chance to celebrate the cul- and added, “And, yes, we [Australia sex, culture and even whether some- tural diversity that helps to make our and America] can prove that free so- one is homosexual. One might call nation great.” A few days later, when cieties can embrace the economic and this status diversity. he designated May as Asian/Pacific social changes, and the ethnic, racial What advantages would a contrac- American Heritage Month, he said, and religious diversity this new era tor get from a mixed work force of “With the strength of our diversity and brings and come out stronger and freer that kind? None. What are the advan- a continued commitment to the ideal than ever.” tages the United States gets from a of freedom, all Americans will share Hillary Clinton feels the same way. racially mixed population? None. in the blessings of the bright future In February, 1995, she spoke to the The idea that status diversity is a that awaits us.” In his 1996 speech strength is not merely a myth, but a accepting the nomination for Presi- Diversity has become one particularly transparent one. Explain- dent, he asked the audience to look of those high-sounding ing why diversity is bad for a country around the hall and take heart in how is a little like explaining why cholera varied the Democratic party was. sentiments with which is bad for it; the trick is to understand In his 1996 Columbus Day procla- politicians lard how anyone could possibly think it mation, he said, “The expedition that was good. Columbus . . . began more than 500 their speeches. In fact, diversity became a strength after the fact. It became necessary to years ago, continues today as we ex- students of her former high school in perience and celebrate the vibrant in- believe in it because skepticism would the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge. be “racist.” Otherwise intelligent peo- fluences of varied civilizations, not She noticed there were many more only from Europe, but also from ple began to mouth nonsense about non-whites among the students than around the world. America is stronger diversity only because of the blinding when she was a student, 30 years ear- power of the race taboo. After diver- because of this diversity, and the de- lier. “We didn’t have the wonderful mocracy we cherish flourishes in the sity began to include sex, mental dis- diversity of people that you have here abilities, perversions, and everything great mosaic we have created since today,” said Mrs. Clinton. “I’m sad we 1492.” else that was alien or outlandish, to didn’t have it, because it would have Appeals to diversity are not just for been a great value, as I’m sure you Continued on page 3

American Renaissance - 1 - July-August 1997 imposters who foolishly try to reverse God's scattering of the races will never banish interracial hostility out- side the church. Aren't white vices bad enough? Then why force us to mingle with black vice? John Taylor, Royal Oak, Mich.

Sir – In a June "O Tempora" item you refer to The New York Times' re- cent apology for a headline that re- ferred to affirmative action as "bias" (" `Bias,' as a term for affirma- tive action, was neither impartial nor accurate. It should not have ap- peared," the Times wrote). This has people who have an influence on inadvertently handed the paper's crit- Letters from Readers shaping the way we think. But why ics – i.e., anyone with an honest Sir – I disagree with Sam Dick- do professors think the way they do? mind – a useful weapon. son's May article on one point. Al- Perhaps the most important reason In the future, whenever the Times though there has always been a liberal is that some 85-90 percent of Ameri- runs one of its usual stories suggesting strain in Western society, I don't be- can professors depend on government that such phenomena as low black test lieve that our current problems are sources for their salaries. That has a scores or a lack of blacks in profes- due to either a genetic or cultural tendency to make them advocates of sions are due to "bias," alert readers flaw. Rather, I believe, along with big, redistributive government which, should flood the Times with letters Peter Brimelow, that the current dena- for a multitude of reasons, has a stating: "The Times' use of `bias' as an tured, post-racial, post-national con- vested interest in egalitarianism. Also, explanation for black underperfor- sciousness – which might be called academic salaries are low. This mance was neither impartial nor accu- "international universalism" – is a vi- causes jealousy and resentment to- rate. It should not have appeared." rus we contracted while fighting wards people in other professions Lawrence Auster, New York City World War Il. It is Hitler's revenge on who have much higher incomes. the victors. His pathological racialism There are even professors who find has given even the most attenuated sadistic satisfaction in creating psy- Sir – In the June cover story, Tho- expressions of racial consciousness a chological conflict between sons and mas Jackson basically says that blacks bad name – except for certified the fathers who pay their tuition. Fi- do not take part as subjects in medical "victim groups," i.e., all non-whites. nally, at a more subtle level, lies the research because they are too selfish There is room for hope in that no importance professors like to attribute to care about future benefits for generation lasts forever. Future gen- to their own efforts. They would like strangers. I wonder. erations not trained in the verities of to think that the intellectual environ- However, I do note a recent report the MLK civil rights movement – a ment they create is far more important in the Detroit Free Press (4/26/97) hustle that can be perpetrated only than genetically transmitted ability. confirming Mr. Jackson's statement once – will be less diversity-besotted Charles Weber, Tulsa, Ok. that blacks make their organs avail- and less likely to sacrifice their own able for transplant less often than interests in the name of abstract egali- whites. But there is a further problem. tarianism. The main threat here is im- Sir – Sam Dickson states that only Even when people agree to let their migration, because it can destroy the liberals "outperform Christians in the organs be harvested, their families nation in the interim. I would like to business of guilt." often refuse to permit it. In Michigan, see more in your newsletter about the St. Paul murdered Christ's friends, whites refuse about half the time, but need to curb immigration. but did he wallow in guilt? No; he in some black communities they re- Name Withheld, Norristown, Penn. writes "I press on" (Philippians 3:12), fuse 80 percent of the time. "forgetting the past" (v. 13) because Why? It is probably not possible to Christ died for Paul's true moral guilt say, but I would prefer to think the Sir – Sam Dickson asks "How is it and gave him courage to admit it. It is reason is some distinctive black atti- that the leading minds of our people wicked for modern "Christian" lead- tude toward organ donation rather have succumbed to the fallacy of ers to incite and exploit guilt trips in than brute selfishness. egalitarianism?" He then speculates their people because of their fathers' Is there really any evidence that on some sort of "genetic weaknesses" racial sins. personality traits like selfishness or on our part. Having taught for nearly God created ethnic groups by scat- persistence or gregariousness differ a third of a century in various univer- tering them at the Tower of Babel, yet from one race to another? sities, I am inclined to lay the blame interracial hostility has no place Roger Davis, Dearborn, Mich. on institutions of higher learning, within the Christian church which educate just about all of the (Colossians 3:11). But "Christian"

American Renaissance - 2 - July-August 1997 It does not affect the lives of millions. American Renaissance It will not reshape the structure of our

Jared Taylor, Editor daily lives, or really add importantly Stephen Webster, Assistant Editor to either our wealth or power.” James P. Lubinskas Contributing Editor The point here is not that the back- George McDaniel, Web Page Editor ers were wrong about the bill—even — — — — — — though in 1996, for example, there American Renaissance is published monthly by the were a record 1,300,000 naturaliza- New Century Foundation. NCF is governed by section tions and perhaps 90 percent of the 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code; contribu- new citizens were non-white. The tions to it are tax deductible. point is that “diversity” of the kind Subscriptions to American Renaissance are $24.00 per year. First-class postage is that immigration is now said to bless an additional $6.00. Subscriptions to Canada (first class) and overseas (surface mail) us with was never even hinted at as are $30.00. Overseas airmail subscriptions are $40.00. Back issues are $3.00 each. 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In 1965, before the discovery Of course it is only white socie- country turned its back on nearly 200 that “diversity is our strength,” most ties—and white groups within multi- years of traditional thinking about people would have been shocked by racial societies—that are ever fooled race and began its long march down the thought of such population by guff about diversity. Everyone else the road to nowhere. changes. recognizes the Clinton-Harvard-New Once the country made the fatal Today, the intellectual climate is York Times brand of diversity for ex- assumption that race was a trivial hu- different, but in entirely predictable actly what it is: weakness, dissension, man distinction, all else had to follow. ways. “Racism” looms ever larger as and self-destruction. Congress abolished not only Jim the greatest moral offense a white per- Crow and legal segregation but, with son can commit, and anyone who op- Immigration the Civil Rights Act of 1964, put an poses the arrival of yet more non- end to free association as well. The Despite President Clinton’s view Immigration and Nationality Act Once the country made that “diversity” started with Colum- Amendments of 1965, which abol- the fatal assumption bus, for most of its history the United ished national origins quotas and States was self-consciously homoge- opened immigration to all nations, that race was a trivial neous. In 1787, in the second of The was a grand gesture of anti-racism, a human distinction, all Federalist Papers, John Jay gave kind of civil rights law for the entire else had to follow. thanks that “Providence has been world. pleased to give this one connected As has been pointed out in such whites cannot but be “racist.” There is country to one united people, a people books as Lawrence Auster’s The Path therefore no longer any moral basis descended from the same ancestors, to National Suicide and Peter for opposing the prospect of minority speaking the same language, profess- Brimelow’s Alien Nation, the backers status for whites, and what would ing the same religion, attached to the of the immigration bill were at pains have been an unthinkable prospect same principles of government, very to explain that it would have little ef- before 1965 must now be seen as an similar in their manners and cus- fect on the country. “Under the pro- exciting opportunity. Thus did diver- toms . . . .” posed bill,” explained Senator Ed- sity become a “strength,” despite the This is not exactly a celebration of ward Kennedy, “the present level of suspension of disbelief required to diversity, nor was Jay an eccentric. immigration remains substantially the think it so. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, same. Secondly, the ethnic mix will This is a perfect example of an as- and Thomas Jefferson were all ex- not be upset. Contrary to charges in sertion, for purely ideological reasons, plicit about wanting the United States some quarters, it will not inundate of something obviously untrue. Like to be a white country, and in 1790 the America with immigrants from any the equality of the races, the equiva- first federal naturalization law re- one country or area.” The senator sug- lence of the sexes, the unimportance quired that applicants for citizenship gested that, at most, 62,000 people a of heredity, the normalcy of homo- be “free white persons.” Until 1965, it year might immigrate. sexuality, and the insignificance of was very difficult for non-whites to When President Lyndon Johnson physical or mental handicap, the immigrate to the United States and signed the bill into law, he also down- strength of diversity is one of a whole become citizens (an exception being played its impact: “This bill that we series of monstrous absurdities on made for the descendants of slaves). sign today is not a revolutionary bill. which liberalism depends.

American Renaissance - 3 - July-August 1997 Having started with race, diversity the Koreans, how are Americans sup- of non-white immigrants who have now includes just about anything. posed to get along with the Koreans arrived since 1965. Perhaps they have Feminists, angry people in wheel who live in America? now heard of the Cinco de Mayo festi- chairs, AIDS carriers, militant homo- If anyone really thought a diverse val, but even if they live in California sexuals, and people who would rather population is good for trade, we would or Texas how many Americans know speak Spanish than English presumably be adjusting the that it commemorates a Mexican mili- have all taken much of their mix of immigrants in accor- tary victory against the French? style and impetus from the dance with trade potential. Immigrants do not teach us about civil rights movement. De- There would be no point in Cervantes or Borges or Lady Mu- mands for “inclusiveness” admitting Haitians, for exam- rasaki and it would be silly to think almost always include the ple, since Haiti is a pesthole they did. Chinese stowaways do not language of grievance and and never likely to be an im- arrive with a curator’s knowledge of compensation pioneered by portant trade partner. After Ming ceramics and copies of the Tao- blacks. Fat people fight dis- Canada, Japan is our largest te Ching in their pockets. The one cul- crimination, ugly people trading partner. Does this tural artifact immigrants bring with struggle against “lookism,” mean we need more Japa- them is their language—which in- and at least one local gov- nese? No one ever talks creasingly becomes an Americanized ernment has required that the about immigration this way, farrago that would astonish their coun- stage set for a strip tease because no one really be- trymen—but the so-called “culture” of show be wheel-chair accessi- lieves immigration has any- immigrant settlements is a tangle of ble. Anyone who opposes thing to do with promoting peasant folkways, Coca-Cola, food “Lookist” oppressor. the glorification of the alien, exports. stamps, T-shirts with writing on them, the abnormal, and the inferior can be The example of Japan in fact and truculence. denounced with much fanfare and a shows just how little racial diversity High culture and world history huge sense of superiority. The metas- has to do with international trade. Ja- cross borders by themselves. Who in tasis of diversity is a fascinating story, pan is one of the most racially homo- America first learned of Tchaikovsky but the disease began with race. geneous nations in the world. By or the Mayans from an immigrant? Occasionally a mainstream author American standards, Japanese are Nearly every good-sized American sniffs around the edges of the popula- hopeless “racists,” “homophobes,” city has an opera company but it was- tion problem. At some risk to his pro- “sexists,” and “nativists.” They even n’t established by Italians. fessional respectability, columnist eat whales. Here is a country that What, in the way of authentic cul- Scott McConnell of the New York Post should therefore be a complete failure ture have Miami’s dwindling non- has pointed out that if it will be such a in the international economy—and yet Hispanic whites gained from the fact good thing for whites to become a mi- it is probably the most successful trad- that the city is now nearly 70 percent nority, there is no reason to wait until ing nation on earth. Hispanic? Are the art galleries, con- the next century. We could throw Taiwan and Korea are close be- certs, museums, and literature of Los open the borders right now and be- hind, with China now recording huge Angeles improved by the fact that its come a minority in just a few years. trade surpluses with the United States. population is now nearly half His- “Why deny ourselves and our children These countries are even more closed panic? How has the culture of Wash- the great benefits of Third Worldism and exclusionist than Japan. If they ington, D.C. or Detroit been enriched that we are planning for our grandchil- could ever be made to understand the by majority-black populations? If im- dren?” he asks. American notion of diversity, Asians migration and diversity bring cultural would politely wait until we had left enrichment, why is that the places be- Advantages of Diversity the room and then die laughing. Ger- ing the most intensively enriched are many is likewise one of the world’s the places where whites least want to On those rare occasions when peo- great exporting nations. Who would live? Like the trade argument, the ple actually attempt to defend diver- dream of thinking this was due to the “cultural enrichment” argument col- sity, the one claim they make with any presence of Turkish Gastarbeiter. lapses with a pinprick. semblance of conviction is that its ad- The fact that millions of Mexicans It is true that since 1965 more vantages will become evident as the now live in the United States does not American school children have begun world becomes more “international.” make our products more attractive to to study Spanish, but fewer now study It will be a great thing to have citizens anybody—certainly not to Mexico, French, German, or Latin. How is this from all around the world as nations which already has plenty of the things an improvement? People can, of have more and more contact; specifi- Mexicans know how to make. course, study any language they want cally, our “international” population “Diversity” adds exactly nothing to without filling the country with immi- will boost American exports. Of our international competitiveness. grants. Virtually all Norwegians speak course, since this view is based on the Racial diversity is also supposed to excellent English, but the country is assumption that people communicate bring cultural enrichment, but what not swarming with Englishmen. better with people like themselves, it are its real achievements? The culture Any discussion of the real advan- is an argument against national diver- of ordinary Americans remains almost tages of ethnic diversity usually man- sity. If it takes a Korean to deal with completely untouched by the millions ages to establish only one benefit peo-

American Renaissance - 4 - July-August 1997 ple really care about: good ethnic res- ness. deal of research, much of it quantita- taurants. Probably not even William Just as the advantages of diversity tive, goes into decisions about product Clinton would claim that getting an disappear upon examination, its disad- lines, new markets, establishing joint authentic Thai restaurant in every city vantages are many and obvious. Once ventures, issuing stock or moving the is a major national objective. a fire department or police force has head office. If there has been any seri- been diversified to match the sur- ous research showing that “diversity” Public Services rounding community, does it work improves profits it would have been better? Not if we are to judge from the first-page news long ago. Not even the At a different level, it is now taken never-ending racial wrangles over pro- most desperate data massage seems to for granted that public services like motions, class-action bias law suits, have produced a study that can make fire and police departments should reverse discrimination cases, acrimony such a claim. employ people of different races. The over quotas and affirmative action, Just how big a headache diversity theory is that it is better to have black and the proliferation of racially exclu- actually is for companies is clear from or Hispanic officers patrolling black sive professional organizations. Every the endless stream of news stories or Hispanic neighborhoods. Here do good-sized police department in the about corporate racial discrimination. country has a black officers’ associa- In just one month—November, we not have an example of one of di- tion devoted to explicit, racially com- 1996—“diversity” made quite a lot of versity’s benefits? petitive objectives. In large cities, news. Texaco agreed to spend $176 On the contrary, this is merely the there are associations for Asian, His- million on black victims of company first proof that diversity is a horrible panic, and even white officers. “racism,” and lawyers for the firm that burden. If all across Many government agencies and sued Texaco were getting about ten America it has been private companies hire professional calls a day from people asking how to demonstrated that “diversity managers” to help handle file for discrimination settlements. whites cannot police mixed work forces. This is a new pro- Just a few days later, 22 former em- non-whites or put fession, which did not exist before the ployees of the nation’s largest printing out their fires it only idea that diversity is a strength. Most company, R.R. Donnelley and Sons, shows how divisive of it boils down to trying to bridge the sued over what they claimed was $500 diversity really is. gaps between people who do not un- million worth of racism. The racial mix of a For whites Only? derstand each other, but since it con- In the same month, both the U.S. police force—touted cerns subjects about which manage- State Department and the Bureau of as one of the wonders of diversity— ment is afraid to ask too many ques- Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms set- becomes necessary only because offi- tions, some of it is pure snake oil. tled multi-million dollar class action cers of one race and citizens of an- Maria Riefler has trained Nestle, discrimination suits brought by blacks. other are unable to work together. The Walt Disney, Chrysler and Chevron. Likewise in November, three blacks diversity that is claimed as a triumph She likes to divide employees into brought a class action suit against an is necessary only because diversity groups that represent the body and the Avis Rent-A-Car franchise with out- does not work. “triune brain.” This is supposed to lets in North and South Carolina, The same is true of every other ef- help them understand how claiming they had been turned away fort to diversify public services. If “stereotypes are hidden deep within because of race. Within the month, the Hispanic judges and prosecutors must the primitive part of ourselves.” owner of Avis said it would break its be recruited for the justice system it It is a very peculiar “strength” that contract with the franchisee, and hired means whites are incapable of dispas- requires the constant attention of ex- a law firm to check up on other Avis sionate justice. If non-white teachers perts and other bumcombe artists. operators. Every one of these cases, are necessary “role models” for non- Like hiring black police officers to which are expensive, time-consuming, white children it means that inspira- patrol black neighborhoods, “diversity and emotionally damaging, is a conse- tion cannot cross racial lines. If news- training” is an admission that a mixed quence of racial diversity—and these papers must hire non-white reporters work force is a liability. were just the cases that made the in order to satisfy non-white readers it This is the merest common sense; news. means people cannot write acceptable it is hard to get dissimilar people to It would be edifying to count the news for people of other races. If work together. Indeed, a large-scale number of public and private organi- blacks demand black television news- survey called the National Study of zations that exist in the United States casters and weathermen, it means they the Changing Work force found that only because of its diverse population, want to get information from their more than half of all workers said they and that are not needed in places like own people. If majority-minority vot- preferred to work with people who Japan or Norway. The U.S. Civil ing districts must be set up so that were not only the same race as them- Rights Commission, Equal Employ- non-whites can elect representatives of selves, but were the same sex and had ment Opportunity Commission, Office their own race, it means that elections the same level of education. Even of Federal Contract Compliance, the are nothing more than a racial head- more probably felt that way but were Justice Department’s Civil Rights Di- count. All such efforts at diversity are afraid to say so. vision, and every state and local not expressions of the inherent These days there is much chirping equivalents of these offices exist only strength of multi-racialism; they are about how diversity is going to im- because of racial diversity. Every gov- admissions that it is a debilitating prove profits. American companies ernment office, every university, every source of tension, hostility, and weak- are hard-headed about profits. A great large corporation, and every military

American Renaissance - 5 - July-August 1997 installation has employees working and “bridge building” do not work, as Los Angeles’ North Hollywood High full-time on affirmative action, dis- even the New York Times unintention- School, when it took police in riot crimination claims, and other ally revealed in a June 18, 1990 head- gear to calm a melee that started when “diversity” issues. line: “Ethnic Feuding Divides Parade an estimated 200 to 700 black and Countless outreach programs, rec- for Harmony.” Hispanic students pitched into each onciliation commissions, blue-ribbon The idea that hostility is cured other. The spark was reportedly a panels, and mayoral commissions fret through contact is now enshrined as clash over what kind of music to play professionally about race every day. part of the diversity myth. George Or- at the homecoming dance, neither side Not one of these would be necessary well touched on this in his essay, Eng- having felt particularly “inclusive.” in a nation of a single race. There land Your England: Norman Thomas High School is must be tens of thousands of Ameri- “During the war of 1914-1918 the located at Park Avenue and 33rd cans consuming hundreds of millions English working class were in contact Street in Manhattan. In 1992, tension of dollars every year enforcing, adjust- with foreigners to an extent between blacks and Hispan- ing, tuning, regulating, and talking that is rarely possible. The ics erupted into a free-for- pure nonsense about the racial diver- sole result was that they all involving both boys and sity that is supposed to be our brought back a hatred of all girls. “The only thing peo- strength. Europeans, except the Ger- ple cared about was skin Indeed, Tom McClintock, a former mans, whose courage they color,” explained one 16- candidate for controller of the state of admired.” year-old. The New York California estimated that before the In America one need not City Board of Education 1996 state ballot initiative was ap- go overseas to have contact has “rapid mobilization proved to abolish racial preferences, with foreigners. What has guards” for just such emer- the annual cost just to administer Cali- been the result? In Chicago, gencies. fornia’s affirmative action programs Los Angeles, Detroit, and Farragut High School in was from $343 million to $677 mil- New York City, blacks have tried to Chicago is two-thirds Hispanic and lion. This figure did not include the drive Korean merchants out of their one third black. Recently, racial ten- cost of private preference programs or neighborhoods. They firebomb stores, sion built up to what the principal the cost of state and local anti- assault shop keepers, and mount boy- called “total polarization,” and it be- discrimination machinery, none of cotts against “people who don’t look came dangerous to let students mix which was affected by the 1996 meas- like us.” In Los Angeles, relations without police supervision. At the ure. were so bad that in 1986 a Black- height of the tension, extracurricular If diversity were a strength people Korean Alliance was formed to reduce activities were canceled for 30 days would practice it spontaneously. It tensions. It staggered on uselessly un- and the school’s homecoming football wouldn’t require constant cheer- til late 1992, when it was dissolved in game had to be played without a sin- leading or expensive lawsuits. If di- gle student in the stands, for fear they versity were enriching, people would Hispanic students rioted would attack each other. seek it out. It is in private gatherings because of the February In Huntsville, Texas, Hispanic stu- not governed by some kind of “civil- dents say they need to arm themselves rights” law that Americans show just observances of Black against violent blacks. In Dallas, His- how much strength and enrichment History Month. panic parents say their children are they find in diversity. Such gatherings afraid to go to school for fear of at- are usually the very opposite of di- mutual recrimination and accusations. tacks by blacks. Tensions of this kind verse. The more blacks and Koreans talked are usually reported only in local to each other the angrier they got. newspapers, and are probably quite Other Races There are now schools and school widespread. districts completely dominated by There is the same racial animosity Generally speaking, whatever timid blacks and Hispanics, which have race in jails. Guards keep some cell blocks opposition to diversity that ever arises wars involving no whites at all. Some in a near-constant state of lock-down is characterized as the whining of re- examples? Locke High School in Los because blacks and Hispanics kill each sentful, ignorant whites. Non-whites Angeles is almost exactly half-black other if they are allowed to mingle. are thought to have a better apprecia- and half-Hispanic. In February, 1996, Life in prison is more intensely inte- tion of the importance of inclusive- 50 police officers had to be called in grated than anywhere else in the coun- ness. This is just so much more non- to break up a pitched battle involving try. If diversity is such a good thing sense. Now that immigration has hundreds of students. After order was why is racial segregation always one added Hispanics and Asians to the tra- finally restored and school dismissed, of the top demands when prisoners list ditional black-white racial mix, fault police in riot gear had to keep students their grievances? lines are forming in all directions. from rejoining battle in the streets. Of course, high-school fistfights Though we are told over and over What touched off the battle? Hispan- and jailhouse brawls are nothing com- that it is ignorance and lack of contact ics were annoyed—certainly not pared to what can happen when diver- that cause antipathy, it is groups that “enriched”—by the February obser- sity really goes wrong. In the summer have the most contact that most dislike vances of Black History Month. of 1967, 83 people were killed and each other. This is why “outreach” A similar incident took place at nearly 2,000 injured when blacks ri-

American Renaissance - 6 - July-August 1997 oted all across the country. The na- “diversity,” that is to say, people who what few aliens arrived in the past. Idi tional guard had to be called out to differ from each other trying to live in Amin became ruler of Uganda in stop violence in Tampa, Cincinnati, the same territory. 1971. The very next year, his govern- Atlanta, Newark, northern New Jer- Most of the time, the reasons for ment expelled the 70,000 to 80,000 sey, and Detroit. discord are not even as salient as race. Indians and Pakistanis whom the Brit- Nor are race riots a relic from the They can be religion, language, or eth- ish had brought in to be merchants. 1960s. The single worst outbreak in nicity. From time to time, Americans Black Ugandans, who did not like the nation’s history was in Los Ange- have fought each other for these rea- dealing with people unlike them- les in 1992, when rioters killed 58 sons, but race is the deepest, most selves, were delighted. people and injured more than 2,300. constant source of antipathy. Unlike Hundreds of thousands of poor They also burned 5,300 buildings, language or religion, race cannot Mexicans sneak into the United States causing nearly a billion dollars in change. Differences between men that every year, but even Mexico is attrac- damage. There was smaller-scale vio- are written deep into their bodies will tive to some Central Americans, lence—all of it directed at whites—in always be a source of friction. whose countries are poorer still. Mex- Atlanta, Las Vegas, New York City, ico guards its southern border with and Richmond and San Jose, Califor- The Diversity Double Standard military troops, and is ruthless about nia. expelling illegals. Not even United The Los Angeles riots showed that Diversity, of course, is only for States citizens have an easy time mov- Hispanics can behave as badly as whites. Wherever only whites gather ing to Mexico, which has no intention blacks. Although the grievance was charges of “racism” cannot be long in of diluting its national culture in the ostensibly about a miscarriage of jus- coming. On the other hand, it would name of diversity. tice for the black criminal, Rodney be tedious to list the racially exclusive Only whites babble about the ad- King, more than half of the 15,000 non-white gatherings the country takes vantages of diversity. One of the al- people arrested for looting were His- for granted. Shule Mandela Academy leged advantages is so nutty, it is hard panic. in East Palo Alto, California is only a to believe it can be proposed by peo- “Diversity” can pit one set of His- little more outspoken than most when ple capable of human speech, but panics against another. Puerto Ricans its students meet every morning and since we are shooting fish in a barrel why not fire a final round? We are in Miami have rioted, claiming to pledge to “think black, act black, told that since whites are a minority of have been excluded by the city’s Cu- speak black, buy black, pray black, the world population (they are about ban power structure. “Cubans get eve- love black, and live black.” The same racial double standard is 15 percent of the total), they should rything; we get nothing,” explained found in national policies. It is only happily reconcile themselves to mi- one rioter. The greater the diversity, white nations—Canada, the United nority status in America, that such a the more varied the possibilities for States, and Australia—that permit status will be good training for life on disaffection and violence. large-scale immigration. Non-white an ever-shrinking planet. Diversity of the kind that nations are careful to maintain racial Of course, in a world-wide context, and cultural homogeneity and most every human group is a minority. is supposed to benefit the permit essentially no immigration at There are many more of everyone else United States is a all. than there are Hispanics or Africans, Some nations, of course, could at- for example. Does this mean that problem wherever it is tract no immigrants even if they Mexicans and Nigerians, too, should found. wanted to; there is not much pressure strive to become minorities in Mexico on the borders of Bolivia or Uganda. and Nigeria? Like so much that is said There has been a Sahara of hot air However, as soon as Third World about race or immigration, this idea about why blacks riot, with the official countries become even only a little bit falls to pieces as soon as it is applied pronouncement on reasons dating more prosperous than their neighbors to anyone but whites. back to the Kerner Commission Re- they quickly become keen to keep It is only whites who have ever at- port of 1968: “[T]he most fundamen- strangers out. Malaysia, for example, tempted to believe that race is a trivial tal is the racial attitude and behavior recently announced that in the case of matter, so it is only whites who think of white Americans toward black repeat offenders, it will flog illegal it may be “racist” to preserve their Americans.” Whatever one may think aliens, their employers, and anyone people and culture. Having decided to of this finding, there is one conclusion who smuggles them into the country. deny the findings of biology, the tradi- no one can deny: Race riots cannot The Ivory Coast, which is better-run tions of their ancestors, and the evi- happen without racial diversity. and more successful than its West Af- dence of their senses, they have de- An occasional glance at a newspa- rican neighbors, has launched an nied to themselves any moral basis for per is all it takes to learn that diversity Ivoirite (Ivorian-ness) campaign to keeping out aliens. They have set in of the kind that is supposed to benefit expel all residents who cannot prove motion forces that will eventually de- the United States is a problem wher- that their grand parents were born stroy them. ever it is found. Every large-scale and within the national territory. E. Raymond Hall, professor of bi- intractable blood-letting, be it in the Even nations that are unattractive ology at the University of Kansas, is Middle East, Ireland, Burundi, or the to immigrants sometimes display their the author of the definitive work on former Yugoslavia is due to feelings about diversity by expelling American wildlife, Mammals of North

American Renaissance - 7 - July-August 1997 America. He states as a biological law Human nature is part of animal na- that, “two subspecies of the same spe- ture. Racial diversity, which only cies do not occur in the same geo- whites promote—and always at their graphic area.” (emphasis in the origi- own expense—is nothing more than nal) Human races are biological sub- unilateral disarmament in a dangerous species, and Prof. Hall writes specifi- world. If current population move- cally that this law applies to humans ments continue, and if the thinking of just as it does to other mammals: “To whites remains unchanged, there will imagine one subspecies of man living Vanishing mammals? be little doubt as to which group’s fate together on equal terms for long with thinking and leads only to disaster and will be the “disaster and oblivion” another subspecies is but wishful oblivion for one or the other.” Prof. Hall so confidently predicts. ● Who Reads American Renaissance?

Responses to the AR Reader race, the huge majority of readers said Aryan, 3/4 negro.” He reports that his Survey. they were white, or some variant of racial views developed in the 1940s white. One fascinating character de- from reading Spengler, de Gobineau, by Jared Taylor scribed himself as “psychologically Chamberlain, and Hitler. Forty-five percent of respondents I n september 1996, all AR subscrib- General Characteristics were once liberals on race—one re- ers received a reader survey. As the ports that his liberalism was a youthful months began to pass, some began to Average Income $48,300 spasm that lasted about 20 minutes— ask when we would print the results, Median Income $45,000 and the rest have always had a clear and several wondered if we were too Average Age 53 view. We were hoping that some of embarrassed to print them. One sub- Median Age 52 the liberals we know to be scriber even wrote that he had been “monitoring” AR would respond, but thinking of letting his subscription none did. lapse, but was resubscribing only so Out of 391 replies: Two thirds of respondents believe in God, a figure lower than the na- he could see the results—and we had Have Children 224 tional average of well over 90 percent. better not disappoint him. We are Own a Firearm 268 Fewer than half practice a religion, sorry to have taken nearly a year to Believe in God 262 however. Of those who practice relig- finish this project, but it took time to Practice a Religion 177 ion, the great majority are Christian, tabulate the replies. Have Run for Office 41 but among the respondents were two Three hundred ninety-one subscrib- Like the Illustrations 337 Odinists, a Buddhist, a mystic, a Na- ers returned their surveys. This is only Now Registered with a ture-worshiper and a Swedenborgian a fraction of the readership, and we Political Party 264 (!). Two claim to practice religions of cannot know how representative it is. Was Once Liberal on their own. One Jewish subscriber does However, two indicators suggest that Race 174 not believe in God but nevertheless it is a good sample. We know that 4.5 Is Now Liberal on practices Judaism. percent of AR subscribers are women, Race 0 AR readers are well educated. Sev- and the percentage of women among Read AR Just to Follow enty-two percent of respondents have the respondents—4.8 percent—was the "Opposition" 0 a college degree and one third have virtually the same. Also, a comparison Ave. No. of People Who Read advanced degrees. They also appear to of the postmarks with the geographi- Each Issue of AR 2.3 cal distribution of subscribers suggests be fairly active in conservative organi- that every region and foreign country zations (see next page). In their spare responded in about equal proportions. Religion As the table on general characteris- Highest Level tics shows, readers are a mature group, Catholic 36 Christian 34 of Education with an average age of 52. The oldest is 95 and the three youngest are 19. Baptist 22 Bachelors 147 Readers are also well paid. Both aver- Protestant 16 Masters 71 age and median incomes are around Presbyterian 15 High School 55 $45,000. Forty-three (out of the sam- Jewish 13 Ph.D/Ed.D 40 ple of 391) report incomes of more Methodist 10 than $100,000, and one claims an an- Lutheran 8 JD 17 nual income of one million dollars. Episcopal 5 Associate Degree 16 Although a handful did not specify Identity 4 Some College 15 Mormon 4 MD 6

American Renaissance - 8 - July-August 1997 Activist Groups Favorite Fiction Writers Favorite Non-Fiction

National Rifle Association 63 Mark Twain 34 Writers Council of Conservative Citizens 34 William Shakespeare 27 Jared Taylor 54 Southern League 28 Jack London 26 Samuel Francis 38 Amer. Immig. Control Fdn. 23 Tom Clancy 25 David Irving 37 Sons of Confederate Veterans 22 Charles Dickens 23 Thomas Sowell 21 Fed. for Amer. Immig. Reform 14 Ayn Rand 23 Joseph Sobran 20 John Birch Society 9 George Orwell 20 Charles Murray 19 Gun Owners of America 8 Edgar Allen Poe 18 Freidrich Nietzsche 14 Liberty Lobby 8 Rudyard Kipling 16 Wilmot Robertson 13 National Association for the J.R.R. Tolkien 16 H.L. Mencken 11 Advancement of White People 8 Thomas Wolfe 15 Murray Rothbard 11 National Alliance 8 William Faulkner 12 Peter Brimelow 10 American Legion 5 Joseph Conrad 11 Revilo Oliver 10 Militia 5 Fyodor Dostoyevsky 11 Bible Authors 10 Ernest Hemingway 11 Arthur Jensen 9 Jean Raspail 10 Hobbies John Toland 9 John Steinbeck 9 Reading 151 Arthur Connon Doyle 8 Sports (all kinds) 102 Fortune (3), Organic Gardening (2), Music 73 another wrote William Clinton and Beekeepers (1), and Opera News (1). History 61 Albert Gore. Respondents could list more than Guns/Shooting 49 Readers subscribe to magazines one favorite non-fiction writer, so the Gardening 44 with a conservative tilt; Chronicles, list has more than 350 names. An Politics 42 Instauration, American Spectator, Na- openly partisan sample puts your ser- Writing 40 tional Review, and New American are vant at the top of the list, followed by Hiking/Camping 36 the most popular. However the entire columnist and AR contributor, Samuel Computers 27 list, including magazines read by only Francis. Michael Levin, Richard Traveling 27 one respondent, runs to over 300 dif- McCulloch, and Lawrence Auster are time, they are mainly readers and ferent titles, so there are readers who further down the list, each with three sportsmen, but there are three knife- take the New Yorker (8), Bon Appetit nominations, and Fr. James Thornton makers, ten genealogists, 11 film- (5), Mother Earth News (3), Soldier of got two. Philippe Rushton got six makers, 11 woodworkers, four reenac- votes and Carleton Putnam three, but tors, and one who wrote “bullfighting” Subscriptions there were some surprises: two re- without saying whether he was a spondents listed Vladimir Lenin as fighter or a fan. Chronicles 76 one of their favorite writers. Instauration 69 When it comes to non-Americans American Spectator 58 who have harmed or helped the white Favorite Music National Review 48

Classical 171 New American 32 Big Band 91 Southern Partisan 29 Foreigners Who Have Country & Western 28 US News 29 Damaged White Interests Rock and Roll 21 Spotlight 28 Oldies 20 National Geographic 25 Adolph Hitler 112 Jazz 9 Readers Digest 25 Karl Marx 89 Folk 7 Truth At Last 24 Gunnar Myrdal 76 Conservative Chronicle 23 Winston Churchill 70 Sam Francis Letter 19 Joseph Stalin 69 The musical tastes of AR readers Human Events 19 Nelson Mandela 65 are no surprise, with classical music Jrnl. of Historical Review 19 Vladimir Lenin 46 the overwhelming favorite. This cate- National Vanguard 19 F.W. DeKlerk 27 gory includes the 20 or so respondents Time 18 Mahatma Gandhi 17 whose replies were more specific: Ba- Barnes Review 16 Sigmund Freud 13 roque, German opera, chamber music, Commentary 16 The Rothschilds 13 etc. Their favorite novelists are of the Newsweek 15 Fidel Castro 12 manly genre, though further down a Confederate Veteran 14 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 12 list that runs to 260 different names, Rothbard-Rockwell 14 Desmond Tutu 12 National Rifle Assoc. 13 Muammar Qaddafi 11 one finds writers like Anthony Trol- Atlantic 12 Mao Tse-tung 9 lope (3), Voltaire (3), Nathaniel Haw- Guns & Ammo 12 Jesus Christ 9 thorne (2), and Oscar Wilde (2). One Reason 12 Ayatollah Khomeini 7 joker entered ABC, NBC, and CBS as Right Now 11 Ashley Montague 6 his favorite purveyors of fiction, and Sobran's 11 Cecil Rhodes 6

American Renaissance - 9 - July-August 1997 Foreigners Who Have Ad- Americans Who Have Ad- Americans Who Have vanced White Interests vanced White Interests Damaged White Interests

Adolph Hitler 75 Jared Taylor 120 Lyndon Johnson 230 Christopher Columbus 38 Patrick Buchanan 66 Franklin Roosevelt 140 Jean-Marie Le Pen 37 David Duke 64 William Clinton 107 Charles Martel 18 Thomas Jefferson 55 Abraham Lincoln 96 Winston Churchill 17 Samuel Francis 45 Theodore Kennedy 94 Arthur de Gobineau 17 Robert E. Lee 43 Earl Warren 94 J. Philippe Rushton 14 George Washington 36 Martin Luther King 87 Jean Raspail 15 Wilmot Robertson 33 John Kennedy 67 Charles Darwin 13 Nathan B. Forrest 31 Jesse Jackson 49 John Tyndall 12 Arthur Jensen 30 Richard Nixon 33 Isaac Newton 11 William Pierce 27 James Carter 30 Queen Isabella of Spain 10 Teddy Roosevelt 27 Franz Boas 26 Martin Luther 10 Charles Lindburgh 26 Dwight Eisenhower 25 Houston S. Chamberlain 9 Charles Murray 26 Eleanor Roosevelt 24 Hendrik Verwoerd 9 George L. Rockwell 26 Harry Truman 22 Jesus Christ 8 William Shockley 23 Woodrow Wilson 22 Oswald Spengler 8 Andrew Jackson 21 Robert Kennedy 21 John Calvin 7 Ronald Reagan 21 George Bush 19 David Irving 7 Henry Ford 19 Morris Dees 15 Neitzsche 7 Lothrop Stoddard 19 Louis Farrakhan 15 Margaret Thatcher 7 Jefferson Davis 17 Hubert Humphrey 14 George Wallace 17 Thurgood Marshall 13 race, three names appear on both lists: Jesse Helms 14 David Rockefeller 13 Adolph Hitler, Winston Churchill, and James Polk 13 William Brennan 11 Jesus Christ. Rush Limbaugh 12 Thaddeus Stevens 8 On the list of Americans who have Abraham Lincoln 12 Jack Kemp 7 advanced our interests, partisans were Madison Grant 11 Margaret Mead 7 once again at work, but the names still Carleton Putnam 11 John Wilkes Booth 6 make for interesting reading. Eight Louis Farrakhan 10 Felix Frankfurter 6 Ed Fields 10 Harriet Beecher Stowe 6 respondents thought O.J. Simpson was Revilo Oliver 10 helpful to our cause, and Marcus Peter Brimelow 10 ney Poitier.” “I moved to Los Angeles Garvey and Rodney King each got Pete Wilson 10 from Portland Oregon!” “I started liv- two votes. Once again, AR contribu- John C. Calhoun 9 ing in Oakland, CA.” “I was raised by tors Michael Levin and Lawrence Richard Herrnstein 9 a social worker father. Then I went to Auster got three each. The complete Theodore Bilbo 8 high school and actually had to deal list runs to nearly 300 names, and in- James Madison 8 with blacks as they really are.” cludes Audrey Shuey, John Tanton, O.J. Simpson 8 What type of material would read- Otto Scott, Phyllis Schlafly, Bill Lord, ers like to see more often in AR? Michael Hill, and Alan Simpson. news (14), Offended by racial double Many respondents were kind enough There were several questions that standards (12), Fear crime by non- to say they liked the editorial mix as it left room for open-ended replies, most whites (12), Amazed by the antics of is (49). Others want more articles of which could be put into fairly broad liberals (9), Saw effects of non-white about History (29), More O Tempora categories. We asked readers who had immigration (6), Someone personally items (29), Solutions to our problems once been liberal on race why they opened their eyes (4), Natural revul- (27), Promotion of white conscious- had changed. The most frequent reply sion for miscegenation eventually won ness (20), Pro-white activism, domes- was experience with non-whites (46). out over liberalism (4). tic and foreign (18), Book reviews Several people mentioned being at- To quote some of the more pungent (17), Science and genetics (17), Expo- tacked by blacks or serving in the responses: “My Southern pappy was sés of government and media bias military with non-whites, or having to right; my Ivy League profs were (15), Exposés of non-white thinking manage them at work. The next most wrong.” “Blacks are now blacker, His- and behavior (14), Immigration/ frequent reply was, essentially, that panics are more Hispanic, and whites demographics (13), Racial differences age and experience had opened their are becoming vegetables.” “As I ma- and IQ (13), Discrimination against eyes (45). Other reasons were: Studied tured I realized I had been duped.” “I whites (10), Exposés of Jews (9), Le- racialist and scientific literature (42), grew up in Minnesota where few gal/Constitutional matters (8), Crime Experienced or learned of the excesses blacks live. I lived six years in Man- (7), Useful statistics (7), Christian of “civil rights” laws (26), Was hattan and 12 years in L.A. and my points of view (6), First-person ac- shocked by the demands and attitudes views changed completely.” “I moved counts (6), Anti-white thinking and of blacks (15), Learned about non- into a mixed neighborhood and my behavior (5). white behavior, primarily through the neighbors were not Bill Cosby or Sid-

American Renaissance - 10 - July-August 1997 One reader wanted interviews with views,” “subjective bulls**t,” and One reader complained about interesting people. Two, to our consid- “boring essays by second-raters.” “mild Southern chauvinism,” and was erable surprise, wanted treatments of Well, we’re opposed to these things, presumably not asking for a more pro- 19th and 20th century German anti- too. nounced Southern chauvinism. An- liberals, and one wanted “articles that What did readers like least about other thought we could increase circu- credit enemies of the West with IQs of AR? The most frequent complaint, we lation with a “swimsuit edition,” and more than 70.” Another urged us to are happy to say, is that AR does not one dislikes “the ugly fellow at the publish more “inspirational, analyti- have enough pages and articles (46). head of the letters section.” One cal, thoughtful letters.” We publish The next most frequent complaint was reader didn’t like “the sense that a every one we get. the it does not deal with the Jewish small, smart, horrendously over- What did AR readers want to see question (23). Other complaints were worked group of people—a mere less of? There were far fewer com- as follows: It appears too infrequently handful—are behind it.” We don’t like plaints, but they are worth noting: (15), Does not offer solutions to racial that either. Christianity/religion (22), Statistical problems (8), Is too mild/tolerant/ We hope the results of the survey and technical material (12), IQ and broadminded (7), Does not have a are as interesting to you as they have racial differences (8), Evolution (7), large enough circulation (5), Illustra- been to us. As your editor, I try to pro- Articles by Jews (7), Scholarly/ tions are irrelevant (5), Is too Chris- duce a publication that satisfies its philosophical articles (5), Long arti- tian/religious (5), Makes depressing readers, and I have thought a great cles (4), Accounts of non-white be- reading (4), Needs more different deal about your suggestions and com- havior (4), Genetics (3), Pessimistic writers (4), Articles are too long (4), plaints. At the same time, AR has an articles (3). Articles are too technical (4), O Tem- educational purpose that goes beyond The survey was mailed in the issue pora section is unneeded/too long (4), satisfying either my reading prefer- following the one with a cover story Includes articles about evolution (4), ences or those of subscribers. We are by an Orthodox priest, Fr. James Is too extremist (3), Is meanspirited grateful to all of you who took the Thornton. Several referred specifically (3), Ignores good non-whites (3), time to fill in your surveys, and look to this article as the kind they do not Needs photos (2), Needs fresh mate- forward to any other suggestions you like. Some readers think we have too rial (2). may have to make AR as good and much in the way of “boring book re- effective a publication as possible. ● The Long Retreat

Nadine Cohodas, The Band Played Dixie: Race and Liberal Conscience at Ole Miss The Free Press, 309 pp., $26.00

The University of Missis- symbolic significance. The Univer- sippi and the Second Re- sity’s past helps illustrate the nature of A Southern Bastion construction. the South’s racial, cultural, religious and historical passion in the days be- The University of Mississippi reviewed by Victor Craig fore liberalism brought it to its knees. opened its doors in the small town of What happened after September, 1962 Oxford on November 6, 1848. It was T he rapid abandonment of South- is a grim chronology of constant de- founded to support “the process by ern resistance to integration is much feat that European Ameri- which a culture transmits remarked upon, but little understood cans would do well to un- itself across generations.” by white Americans who fear for their derstand if they hope ever At first it succeeded admi- race’s future. In the fall of 1962 the to reassert themselves in the rably. A little over a decade University of Mississippi, long viewed land of their ancestors. after its founding, a few as a bastion of racial awareness, was The Band Played Dixie, weeks before secession, a the site of a famous struggle between by Nadine Cohodas, re- student group called the the federal and state governments over counts the story of pre- “University Greys” began the admission of a black, James Mere- integration Ole Miss, the military training. A month dith. It was one of the pivotal battles details of the Meredith af- after the war began the in the fight to preserve segregation. fair and the school’s subse- school was forced to close, The eventual admission of Mr. quent history. Its perspec- since all but five students Meredith is a well known victory of tive is decidedly on the side had volunteered for Mr. the “civil rights movement,” which of racial mixing, and the Davis’ army. has today become part of the sacred author accepts the dogmas By 1865, 111 out the multi-racial history of America. Less of egalitarianism. Nonethe- 135 University Greys were well known is the background of Ole less, she has done her dead. The monument Miss, as the school is affectionately homework and the facts are by and erected to their memory on campus known, and why it achieved such large left to stand on their own. reads: “In honor of those who with

American Renaissance - 11 - July-August 1997 ardent valor and patriotic devotion would preserve their racial and cul- Miss Cohodas notes a report pre- sacrificed their lives in defense of tural identity, the students at Ole Miss sented to the university’s trustees in principles inherited from their fathers were little disturbed by the 1954 the fall of 1958 by two university and strengthened by the teachings of Brown decision. In 1956 a student poll alumni, state representative Wilburn the Alma Mater.” showed that only 19 per cent (the vast Hooker and former representative A commencement address by Rev- majority of whom were northerners) Edwin White, which detailed substan- erend T.D. Witherspoon in 1867 supported integration. Relying on the tial cracks in the school’s commitment showed insights his descendants firm rhetoric of its political leaders, to what they saw as its basic princi- would do well to keep in mind: “We the South thought it could resist the ples. They noted that books supporting must have an educational literature of “second reconstruction.” It was in for integration were displayed promi- our own, or we have no security for a surprise. nently for browsing on the library’s the future against a thralldom far shelves while those favoring segrega- worse than that of the bayonet.” Tolerance and Gradualism tion were kept in the stacks. They In 1882 the school admitted cited many professors who were less women. The case for their admission The Band Played Dixie gives am- than sympathetic to the Ole Miss was light years removed from contem- ple evidence of the two errors that world view. These were not frivolous porary dogma: “We are not teaching have led to the dismantling of tradi- points. One need only think of how women to demand the ‘rights’ of men tional social structures throughout much today’s top universities, for ex- nor to invade the place of men.” The Western nations in this century. The ample, safeguard their students from goal was merely to improve “the sen- first is a mistaken idea of the type of exposure to racialist arguments. How- sibilities of her aesthetic faculties, of dissent the social fabric can tolerate. ever, Miss Cohodas tells us, “White the moral and religious parts of her In societies as diverse as post-Franco and Hooker appeared to have been being, which fit her for the ways of Spain, post-Verwoerd South Africa, rebuffed in their crusade to rid Ole modest usefulness . . . and which in- and the post-World War II South, au- Miss of the alleged heretics.” vest her with that true womanly char- thority neglected its primary task acter that constitute the charm of so- which is the placing of life’s funda- Barnett’s Surrender cial life and the queen of the house.” mental assumptions beyond the In the 1920s, the ideals of Ole Miss boundaries of debate. Once these as- The sorry tale of Governor Ross were still intact. The chancellor, Al- sumptions become subject to critical Barnett’s secret negotiations with the bert Hume, once wrote that a hypo- debate they are endangered. Leftists Kennedys in the fall of ‘62 has been thetical professor who would suggest have always understood this, whether detailed elsewhere, but Miss Cohodas that Robert E. Lee was a “traitor” it be Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, or also touches on it. In public, Barnett would find his position “instantly va- the ruthless controllers of contempo- was telling his people that, “No school cant.” He would be told, if claiming rary public discourse. The right has will be integrated in Mississippi while academic freedom, “You are free, but rarely grasped it. I am your governor,” and “We must so are we, and you may not stand up like men and tell trample underfoot what we them never! We will not regard as sacred so long as drink from the cup of geno- you hold a position in our cide.” In private, he was beg- institution.” ging Bobby Kennedy to al- In 1936 the school low him to make a theatrical adopted “Rebels” as the public stand in opposition nickname for its athletic while allowing Meredith to teams. In 1948, at the height enter the school. of the enthusiasm surround- A popular song of the ing the Dixiecrat’s departure time illustrates the people’s from the Democratic Party in faith in their leader: protest of Truman’s support Never, Never, Never, No- for early “civil rights” legis- o-o Never, Never, Never lation, Ole Miss began the We will not yield one practice of having the cheer- inch of any field, leaders run onto the field at Fix us another toddy, football games waving Con- ain’t yieldin’ to nobody, federate flags while the band Ross’s standing like Gi- played “Dixie.” Cheerleaders A tradition until the 1990s. braltar, he shall never falter then tossed bundles of flags Ask us what to say, it’s to to the crowd, which would wave them The second error is the belief that hell with Bobby K throughout the game. The school’s revolutionary movements can be satis- Never shall our emblem go from mascot became Colonel Rebel, fied by granting “minor” concessions. Colonel Reb to Old Black Joe. dressed as a Southern plantation It didn’t work for Louis XVI or Miss Cohodas presents a rather owner. Nicholas II and it utterly doomed one-sided picture of the violence that Confident that their way of life South Africa and the American south. swept the campus after Meredith’s

American Renaissance - 12 - July-August 1997 admission, suggesting that it was dem- color.” (This was an old argument. In and it actively sought black profes- onstrators rather than the federal 1947, Pee Wee Reese refused to sign a sors. James Meredith, invited back to forces who struck first. Her bibliogra- petition launched by Dixie Walker to speak at a commemoration event cele- phy lacks Earl Lively’s 1963 book, protest Jackie Robinson’s presence on brating his admission, said that the The Invasion of Mississippi, which the team because he “didn’t care what Confederate flag, Colonel Rebel, and presents a perspective on those events color he was so long as he could help Dixie “must be removed as school unadulterated by the Washington re- symbols and songs.” gime’s propaganda line. Whatever the In 1990 Miss Ole Miss was black. details, though, the surrender had been By the mid nineties the Confederate accomplished; Ole Miss was inte- flag was furled. No longer would the grated. cheerleaders rush out onto the field waving the flag of their forefathers. The Slippery Slope Lately, we read that Ole Miss has just hired a public relations firm to The token presence of one black on study the university’s “image,” which campus was just the beginning. As the is apparently still unacceptable. Al- final chapters of The Band Played though polls taken in Mississippi Dixie amply demonstrate, the South show that the school’s supporters want could have continued its resistance in no more dismantling of tradition, many forms, but it chose instead to Chancellor Robert Khayat wants new bow down; not overnight, but slowly, supporters. His goal is to make Ole inch by inch. Miss Cohodas details it Miss 35 percent black. all. By November first of 1962, Chan- cellor Williams was warning the stu- Game’s End dent body to accept Mr. Meredith’s presence peacefully or be expelled. And so it was over. In a little over Despite opposition from a group three decades the University had been called the Rebel Underground, which transformed from a bulwark of South- labeled Williams “a liar and a Quis- ern tradition to an instrument of the ling,” students and faculty obeyed. multi-racial revolution. The next year Ole Miss played As the battle for Ole Miss raged in against an integrated football team for Lingering traditions - homecoming, 1996. 1962 a wise man remarked to me that the first time. (In South Africa this if the university did integrate we could the Dodgers win.” Why are there no was one of the first capitulations of expect three things. 1) Southerners tributes to the idealism of Dixie the post-Verwoerd government, which would be called upon to reject the Walker?) agreed to a match with an integrated heritage of their ancestors. 2) Integra- At Mississippi Southern the rugby team from New Zealand. Less tion would lead to crime, taxation and school’s mascot, “General Nat,” refer- than thirty years later the same Na- a breakdown of the social order. 3) ring to Nathan Bedford Forrest, had tional Party surrendered the entire Miscegenation would lead to the end been shelved in 1970 to placate black country without firing a shot.) of the white race. The first has come football players. In 1972 Ben Wil- In 1966, a liberal student group had to pass. The second is all around us, liams became the first black to suit up Bobby Kennedy speak on campus (!), except that whites survive by hiding in for the “Rebels,” and “black studies” and the event proceeded peacefully. the suburbs and paying protection courses began at about the same time. Kennedy’s words had an unintended money in exorbitant taxes. Why has By June, 1976, Williams was voted to ring of truth to them: “You have no miscegenation not led to the end of the the honorary campus leadership posi- problem the nation does not have. You white race? Perhaps because non- tion of Colonel Rebel! carry no burden that they too do not whites have too much racial pride to Blacks had slowly found their way carry.” mingle with whites. into the driver’s seat. An attempt to By 1969, there was a “Negro his- Will whites ever regain the racial provide Colonel Reb with a horse to tory celebration” and a “Negro His- consciousness needed to reclaim be named Traveler in honor of Gen- tory Week.” A sit-in on the steps of power in their own land? If it is to be eral Lee’s mount was nixed because of the chancellor’s office led to the inevi- our fate to follow South Africa into black protests. In 1980, over two table creation of a Black Student Un- the abyss, we will have many to thank. dozen “Rebel” football players were ion. The following fall, with over two Among them will be the Washington black, and in April, 1982, the first hundred black students attending Ole liberals who enforced integration black was elected to the cheerleading Miss, the basketball team was inte- while insulating themselves from its squad. He promptly announced that he grated. effects. Also responsible are the would not wave the Battle Flag at According to Miss Cohodas the Southerners of the 50s and 60s, who games. reason was the realization “that Ole so craved comfort and respectability. In the 1980s the university began Miss was not going to be competitive They first deceived themselves into various affirmative action programs to unless it tried to get the best players thinking that fiery words were the around regardless of their skin lower admissions standards for blacks,

American Renaissance - 13 - July-August 1997 same as firm resistance, and then com- Southerners and the Afrikaners has Victor Craig is the pen name of a pletely jettisoned their racial and cul- clearly grown anemic, long survive? clergyman and academic who remem- tural identities. Can a race, the blood The answer will be ours to give. ● bers the fall of ‘62 all too well. of whose proudest peoples such as the Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense

Alan M. Schwartz, Ed., Danger: Extremism, Anti-Defamation League 1996, 308 pp., $19.95 (soft cover)

Defamatory material from wide elections in Louisiana. Does this this was an oversight. Without putting the Anti-Defamation tell us anything about the it in so many words, the ADL has de- League. “mainstream”? cided who are the spiritual heirs to the The introduction’s central state- nation that began in 1776, but in so reviewed by Thomas Jackson ment of the mainstream is this: “The doing it has disinherited anyone who growth of opportunities to realize po- actually agrees with the Founders on G uidebooks about “right-wing ex- litical freedom can be best seen in the certain matters. tremism” are not ordinarily of interest evolution of the U.S. Constitution, So what is the danger and who are to anyone but the people who write which through the adoption of the Bill the extremists? Although the authors them. However, the third edition of of Rights, the emancipation of slaves concede that the days are long gone the Anti-Defamation League’s list of and the enfranchisement of women when the Ku Klux Klan had five mil- miscreants, Danger: Extremism, came greatly elaborated—at least in the- lion members, there is still much to to our attention because it includes ory—the document’s original concept worry about. First, quite a few people several pages on American Renais- of American citizenship.” don’t care for the federal government, sance. We were curious to see what Whatever this sentence may actu- and now that someone has actually sort of company we are said to keep, ally mean, we are to think of the his- blown up a federal building, it seems and were intrigued by the psychology tory of the United States as a remark- that any outspoken opponent of gov- of an “anti-defamation league” that able flowering of the “principles of ernment power can be suspected of writes unkind things about people who inclusion and social equality.” The plotting violence. have never given it a thought. evil of “right-wing extremism” lies in “More ominous [than this] is the “Watchdog” is a curious calling. In opposing this march to progress. rhetorical support these extremists a 13-page introduction, the authors The sheep and the goats are there- have received from the mainstream.” have a go at explaining what they are fore easily divided; anyone who thinks When the National Rifle Association up to but appear mainly to have as- Washington and Jefferson or even decries the high-handed tactics of fed- sumed the duty of deciding which Theodore Roosevelt got it right more eral agents, when G. Gordon Liddy opinions are not merely incorrect but often than Theodore Kennedy or Janet suggests that they should sometimes despicable. They then go hopelessly Reno is a hatemonger. Anyone who be dispatched with shots to the head, wrong by jumbling together violent when Congressmen permit themselves criminals with people who express to be interviewed on Radio Free these opinions—and basically treating America—this is disturbing evidence them the same. In this way the book of “the porousness of the line separat- implies that disagreement with its po- ing the mainstream from the fringe.” sitions is—or certainly should be— Not even the mainstream can be criminal. trusted! No one needs the Anti-Defamation Another big worry are skinheads. League (ADL) to tell him that murder The ADL seems to have counted and arson are wrong, but which opin- finds greater wisdom in some of the 3,500 of them, and we learn that their ions are at the same moral level? The social arrangements of the country’s numbers have not increased since introduction explains: “The ultimate first 180 years than in the last 40 is an 1993, but they are still a threat. The threat to American society posed by enemy of civilization. militia movement, of with the ADL extremism cannot be measured with- The book’s authors would probably counts 15,000 members, is an even out first gaining a sense of what de- not insist that Mr. Kennedy and Miss bigger threat. Of greatest concern, fines the American mainstream.” The Reno are actually wiser than the Foun- however, appears to be the World ADL is happy to define the main- ders. They would claim only that the Wide Web. Those who claim to cham- stream for us but this is trickier than it march of liberalism is simply carrying pion the American way might have lets on. As Danger: Extremism con- forward their good work. Therefore, if praised this breakthrough in free cedes elsewhere, one of its cherished the Constitution did not actually men- speech, but no: “wild-eyed, long- enemies, David Duke, received a ma- tion women in combat, welfare for discredited, paranoid fantasies pass jority of the white vote in two state- non-citizens, homosexual marriage, easily through cyberspace, looking and massive non-white immigration, spiffy on the screen.” Boobus Ameri-

American Renaissance - 14 - July-August 1997 canus might just fall for ideas not pre- a bomb. This way, people can be de- tions. Among them are the names one digested by higher authority. nounced, not for what they say or do, would expect—Tom Metzger, David Throughout the book, we have the but for what other people say or do, Duke, Willis Carto, William Pierce— left’s favorite analysis tool: links. A and tens of thousands of people can be but most are unknown to anyone but certain ostensibly reputable scholar is anointed with the odor of fertilizer and specialists. Who is Richard Scutari— “linked” to a disreputable scholar who jet fuel. or Oren Potito, Joseph Dilys, Shawn is “linked” to a certifiable nut who is The greater part of Danger: Ex- Slater or Margos Margoian? These “linked” to a man who once had lunch tremism is given over to short chapters chapters are boring. Who cares about with a man who is in jail for throwing on 57 individuals and 28 organiza- the leadership struggles of Klan fac-

himself with a howl of joy upon the thieving cutthroats, the Americans Stout Fellows bosom of his cher Georges, fling his are stout but simple, and though the arms about his neck, kiss him upon French are capable of producing an A s an antidote to today’s degener- both cheeks, nor address him as his occasional man of parts, they never acy, it is good to read novels that date little cabbage. Rather as his old bean, quite get it right. from the days before the white man in fact.” The story is one of valor, treach- lost his nerve. Beau Geste, is the Both men are serving in Africa, a ery, and innumerable opportunities classic 1924 story about life in the pestilential continent that must be for the heroes—three brothers—to French Foreign Legion. It is a rip- brought to heel and taught civiliza- show of what stuff they are made, roaring tale later made into a tion by the white man. Lawrence, as and it is here that Beau Geste is even “photoplay” starring Ronald Colman. it happens, is finally due for “leave more of a departure from the present The author, Percival Wren (1885- out of Africa”: than in its antique nationalism. The 1941), was an English hunter and “[T]he train would take him, after brothers hew to the highest possible world traveler who served in the le- a three days’ dusty journey, to the code, and will not violate its slightest gion, and the book is stuffed with rubbish-heap called Lagos, on the part no matter how great the reward. manly virtues. Bight of Benin of the wicked West They will not perform a dishonorable It is also stuffed with what are, by African Coast. There he would em- act, no matter how insignificant, even today’s standards, odious prejudices, bark on the good ship Appam, greet to save their own lives. two of which are in full view in the her commander Captain Harrison, These Englishmen behave as if book’s very first scene. their motto were “death After several years of before dishonor,” but separation, George Law- they would have rence of the Nigerian thought the phrase far Civil Service happens too grandiose. Heroism upon Henri de Beaujo- is simply a matter of lais, Major of the Spahis gentlemen doing their (native North-African duty, though they do cavalry commanded by permit themselves to French officers): say “Stout fellow,” to “For de Beaujolais, each other after surviv- Lawrence had a great respect and lik- and sink into a deck chair with that ing the worst. ing as a French soldier of the finest glorious sigh of relief, known in its Did real people ever behave this type, keen as mustard, hard as nails, a perfection only to those weary ones way? Probably not. However, our thorough sportsman, and a gentleman who turn their backs upon the Out- ancestors were reared to ideals like according to the exacting English posts and set their faces towards these. Honor was not a joke or an standard. Frequently he paid him the Home.” empty phrase for them. Today, it remarkable English compliment, Thus are we quickly introduced to would be impossible to publish a ‘One would hardly take you for a the British view of the world: Eng- book that takes duty for granted, Frenchman, Jolly, you might almost lishmen are the standard according to whose characters do not calculate be English,’ a bouquet which de which all Europeans must be judged, advantage. Today Percival Wren Beaujolais received with less concern and it is Europe’s duty to be master would be laughed out of every pub- by reason of the fact that his mother of the tropics. There is no soul- lishing house in New York City— had been a Devonshire Cary. searching in Beau Geste about em- and in London, would probably be “Although the Spahi officer was pire; it is the white man’s natural arrested for violating the Race Rela- heavily bearded, arrayed in what calling. tions Act. Lawrence considered hopelessly ill- Nor is there any question about For this, of course, we pay a price. fitting khaki, and partially extin- the superiority of the British. In the Boys who watch “Beavis and Butt- guished under a villainous high- Foreign Legion, the book’s three head” do not grow up to be the same domed white helmet (and looked as English heroes meet all manner of men as boys who read and thrill to truly French as his friend looked truly Europeans, but the Germans are Beau Geste. ● English), he, however, did not throw louts, the Italians and Portuguese are

American Renaissance - 15 - July-August 1997 tions or about the odd views of people mar they quote, and here is an impor- the ADL advertises with a flyer whose one is never likely to hear of again? tant message from an important hate- blood-red headline screams: “Who The most lasting impression this monger: “The moment I am seen to go Are The Most Violent Extremists In section leaves is that the people it pa- out with a bag, the Jewish poisoners America Today?” rades as terrifying hate-mongers are, employ thousands . . . to guard sub- for the most part, utterly ineffectual. way stations, bus stops, and all U.S. Threats to Jews Of the 57 the ADL would have us be mail boxes so that the Jews can know on the lookout for, three are dead, where I go and, specifically, into It is easy to mock Danger: Extrem- three are in jail, four are solitary pam- which U.S. mail boxes I mail my let- ism’s alarmism, but in all fairness it phleteers, three are with the Klan ters containing this document, which has unearthed some hair-raising (which the ADL concedes is essen- the Jews instantly steal.” This person threats to Jews. One Identity Christian tially moribund), and three appear to is a nut, not a menace to democracy. leader has reportedly claimed, “My have retired from whatever it was the The 28 organizations the book pro- Bible says that the Jews are the people watchdogs were watching them do. Of files are likewise very mixed. Seven of Satan . . . . And our God has com- the rest, aside from the names one rec- are defunct, either because their lead- manded us to exterminate them.” One ognizes, it is nearly impossible to ers are all in jail or because they have of the watchwords of something called disbanded. Three apparently petered SS-Action Group is reported to be American Renaissance, out back in the 1980s, and one won- “Six million more.” One group is said ders why the ADL still worries about to have distributed literature reading: great force for evil that it them. Of the rest, once again it is hard “When you’ve had enough and you’re is, gets four to judge their level of menace or ef- ready to kill Jews call . . . .” The tiny fectiveness. The Jubilee, “Common number of people who really carry on hand-wringing pages. Law Courts,” Christian Defense this way probably do bear watching— judge their influence. What sort of League, Committee to Restore the by the police. damage do Dan Gayman, Gordon Constitution, American Promise Min- But of the 20,000 murders and Winrod or Kim Badynski—to pick istries—are they really a danger to 1,000,000 aggravated assaults com- names almost at random—really do? anyone? There is no way to tell from mitted in this country every year, how Then there are the exotics. Robert this book. many are the work of “right-wing ex- Brock, is “the only known African- After all, American Renaissance, tremists”? This book frets about mid- American participant in the white su- great force for evil that it is, gets four dle-aged whites tramping through the premacist movement.” This is the hand-wringing pages—more than the woods with rifles but ignores young book’s silly conclusion from the fact National Alliance or Liberty Lobby. blacks shooting up cities with pistols. that Mr. Brock has apparently talked Why? AR is “a publication that uses They are more afraid of men with to Kluxers about the creation of a pseudo-science to justify racism.” It ideas than of thugs with guns. That black American homeland. There is “gathers racists together in the guise can be the only reason to have in- also Harold Von Braunhut who, if the of academic seminars.” It calls Arthur cluded AR in this uneven mix of ec- book got the facts right, is a pretty un- Jensen “a pioneer” despite the fact that centrics, felons, skeptics, dissenters, usual fellow. He is “a Jewish busi- Prof. Jensen has received money from skinheads, and Kluxers. nessman originally from New York the wicked Pioneer Fund. One of its And this leads to what must be the City,” holder of “more than 167 pat- “key contributors” is the wicked Sam- real purpose of Danger: Extremism— ents,” and an official in the Aryan Na- uel Francis, and such wicked people to blur the line between thought and tions, which “militantly advocates as Michael Levin and Philippe Rush- crime. People who are sure of their anti-Semitism.” No doubt he, too, is a ton have spoken at its conferences. ground do not defame their opponents fearful disturbance of the peace. And that wicked Jared Taylor has or treat them like criminals. Only peo- Part of the time, the ADL itself been heard to say, “Israel will change ple who fear debate, who lack convic- seems to be laughing at the boobish- in countless, unacceptable ways if it tion, who dread the exposure of their ness of the people we are supposed to ceases to be Jewish just as America own shabby prejudices are driven to fear. The authors love to write sic all will change in countless and unaccept- make bogeymen out of cranks and to over the misspellings and bad gram- able ways if it ceases to be white.” Is treat dissent as if it were a crime. ● this what one expects to find in a book The Future of the Species

Roger Pearson, Heredity and Humanity: Race, Eugenics and Modern Science Scott-Townsend Publishers, 1996, 160 pp., $16.00 (soft cover)

reviewed by Jared Taylor fundamental human question: the ge- been done under the current reign of netic future. In this short but important egalitarianism. He concludes with the In Heredity and Humanity, anthro- book, he traces the course of man's cautious prediction that modern ge- pologist Roger Pearson sums up a life- understanding of heredity, and de- netic research will eventually un- time of investigation into the most scribes the terrible damage that has dermine egalitarian dogma, but re-

American Renaissance - 16 - July-August 1997 minds us that Nature exacts a high to recover. Dr. Pearson traces the common knowledge to specialists, and price—extinction—from any species work of anthropologist Franz Boas how soon public policy will be based that flouts its laws. who, with his disciples at Columbia on fact rather than fantasy. Dr. Pearson points out that men University, drove biology almost com- Dr. Pearson expresses some fear have always had an intuitive under- pletely out of the social sciences. He that even in the face of the most con- standing of breeding; that the ancient also recounts the rise of Marxist ge- vincing evidence, Europeans will con- Greeks, for example, examined the netics, and the damage done by tinue to support dysgenic policies for lineages of their spouses with as much Lysenkoism. After the defeat of Na- themselves and to promote the inter- care as that of their horses. The dis- zism, the minds of nearly all intel- ests of other groups over their own. lectuals were captured by an egali- He finds some of the origins for this tarianism so fierce that it amounted to behavior in modern versions of Chris- willful blindness. tianity, but notes grimly that Nature In the latter part of his book, Dr. provides built-in correctives: "Any Pearson describes the difficult, perse- ethic which has overall dysgenic im- cuted work of scientists who have plications will eventually eliminate the tried to reestablish the importance of society which adopts it." Dr. Pearson genetics. As the author of Race, Intel- writes that if Western man does not ligence, and Bias in Academe wake up from his suicidal trance, Lord (reviewed, AR, June, 1992) Dr. Pear- Justice Lawton of Britain will have covery of Mendelian genetics and the son is a recognized authority on the been proven right, and the last chapter introduction of evolutionary theory subject, and leaves no doubt that the of his history can be called "The Age established the basis for a science of work of Arthur Jensen, William of Compassionate Fools." heredity, and Dr. Pearson recounts the Shockley, Philippe Rushton, Richard Dr. Pearson's entire career has been speed with which eugenic thinking Lynn, Linda Gottfredson, Thomas an effort to ensure that the age of com- spread across Europe and America. It Bouchard, and many others is building passionate fools will not the final one; was soon so well established that the up a virtually unassailable scientific that it will be followed by a healthier, 11th Edition of the Encyclopedia Bri- basis for the racial and genetic views more vigorous age. This little volume tannica, under its entry for "Civi- of the early eugenicists. is his summary of the ills that afflict us lization," predicted that future pro- Dr. Pearson also has high hopes for and the knowledge that can save us. ● gress would include "the organic bet- the Human Genome Project, which terment of the race through wise appli- will finally vindicate eugenics—by Heredity and Humanity is avail- cation of the laws of heredity." demonstrating its principles at the able directly from Scott-Townsend, This promising beginning was up- most basic, molecular level. The real Box 34070 N. W., Washington, D. C. set by a sequence of misfortunes from question is when the egalitarian media 20043 at a special price of $14.00, which science—and society—have yet will pass on to the public what is now which includes postage. Report From the Galtonian Front A sampling of recent sci- contains a report from a project whose “PSAs” [population-specific alleles] ence literature. principle goal was “to identify a set of useful for the task at hand. A PSA is a genetic markers that would allow the gene that is unique, or almost unique, by Glayde Whitney confident determination of ethnicity, to one race. for use in a forensic setting.” The au- The present report concentrates on This is the first in an occasional thors point out that crime suspects are the three population groups that con- series of articles by Prof. Whitney that often easily categorized by simple ob- stitute 95 percent of U.S. residents: will summarize the latest scientific servation, but it has been more diffi- blacks, whites, and Hispanics. It is findings in areas of interest to readers cult to specify the race of an unknown easiest to separate African ancestry of AR. We are pleased to introduce suspect from crime scene residue such from everything else, because Afri- this unique and valuable column. as blood or semen. cans are genetically most different The genetic markers often used for from all other human races. However, More on the Genetic DNA fingerprinting of individuals are the task requires the combination of not necessarily suitable for distin- results across a profile of PSAs, be- Reality of Race guishing races. The investigators set cause of the “admixture” of genes in out to survey published and unpub- the miscegenated population of the U. Although readers of AR are well lished data sets to see if they could S. It is estimated that genes of Euro- informed about the genetic reality of come up with a set of markers, already pean ancestry constitute about 25 per- human races (see “Diversity in the known, that could be used to specify cent of the genes in contemporary Af- Human Genome”, AR, March 1997), the race of unseen perpetrators. Al- rican Americans, while the European more is becoming public knowledge though individuals of various races genetic component is about 60 percent all the time. The April 1997 issue of share many genes, there are plenty of of today’s Hispanic population. It American Journal of Human Genetics

American Renaissance - 17 - July-August 1997 would not be difficult to select similar Prof. Lynn concludes, “My sug- sets of markers to differentiate other gested reading of the data is that 26 populations and combinations. studies all indicating slightly higher [Shriver, M. D. (and 6 co-authors), mean IQs in Japanese, Chinese and (1997) “Ethnic-affiliation estimation other East Asian populations is too by use of population-specific DNA other, while differing from their re- many for happenstance and that these markers” American Journal of Human spective communities. The authors results probably have to be accepted Genetics, Vol.60, pp. 957-964.] state “This result is consistent with an as valid.” [Lynn, R. (1997) origin for the Jewish priesthood ante- “Intelligence in Taiwan”, Journal of Priests Have Different Genes dating the division of world Jewry into Personality and Individual Differ- Ashkenazic and Sephardic communi- ences, Vol. 44, No.4, pp. 585-586.] The Cohanim, or priests, are still ties, and is of particular interest in (Professor Lynn’s book, Dysgenics: recognized by some Jewish groups as view of the pronounced genetic diver- Genetic Deterioration in Modern descendants of the kohen gadol or sity displayed between the two com- Populations, was reviewed in AR, “high priest” of the days of the first munities.” [Skorecki, K., (and 7 co- April 1997). temple of Solomon 3,000 years ago. authors), 1997, “Y chromosomes of Entry into the priesthood, which is Jewish priests”, Nature, Vol. 385, Caucasian Resistance to AIDS different from the rabbinate, is by p.32.] strict patrilineal descent, and a man Sure to provide grist for black con- can become a priest only if his father Oriental IQ Averages spiracy theorists is a new report con- was a priest. Being a priest carries so- About 105 cerning genetic resistance to HIV in- cial and religious obligations that help fection. DELTAccr5 is a gene that, preserve the identity of Jewish com- New data from Taiwan are consis- when homozygous (a person has two munities, and surveys of Jewish ceme- tent with those from most previous copies, one from each parent) appears tery gravestones suggest that priests studies in suggesting that children of to provide strong resistance to HIV make up approximately five percent of Japanese and Chinese ancestry tend to infection, even after repeated high-risk the seven million males of the world have slightly higher IQs than the Cau- exposures. Being heterozygous Jewish population. (For a wealth of casian peoples of the United States (having one copy) for the gene may background information see Mac- and Europe. Newly available data in- delay the progression to full-blown Donald, K. (1994) A People That clude scores on a standard test of in- AIDS of people harboring the virus. Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a telligence, the Raven’s Standard Pro- Previous work had found the DEL- Group Evolutionary Strategy. West- gressive Matrices, for a representative TAccr5 gene to have a frequency of port CT: Praeger Publishers). sample of 2,476 Taiwanese at 9 to 12 about 10% among people of European Something else that follows strict years of age. After performing appro- ancestry, and to be absent elsewhere. patrilineal descent is the human Y priate conversions and comparisons to Armed with a newly devised test chromosome, since it is the Y chromo- British IQ data, Professor Lynn esti- for the gene, the authors screened some that determines maleness. Every mates that this sample of Taiwanese 3,342 individuals from a globally- male has one, and he passes it to his have an average IQ of 104.7. distributed range of populations. The sons. Accordingly, a group of investi- These results are generally consis- gene was found at low frequency gators from America, Europe and Is- tent with most other studies in sug- throughout Europe, the Middle East rael set out to see if the Y chromo- gesting that on average Orientals score and the Indian subcontinent—the tra- some of Cohanim might be character- higher than Caucasians. A notable ex- ditional home range of Indo-European istically different from the Y chromo- ception is a well-known study by edu- (Aryan) peoples. Rare and isolated somes of lay Jews. For six gene mark- cational psychologist H. Stevenson occurrences of the gene elsewhere in ers on the Y chromosome, they com- and colleagues. Dr. Stevenson re- the world were most likely the result pared samples of priests and lay per- ported that children from Taiwan, Ja- of recent European gene flow into the sons from Ashkenazic (Jewish com- pan, and the American City of Min- indigenous populations. [Martinson, J. munities of northern Europe) and neapolis performed the same on ten J. (and 4 co-authors), (1997) “Global Sephardic (Jewish communities of different cognitive tests. Here Prof. distribution of the CCR5 gene 32- North Africa and the Middle East) Lynn points out that Dr. Stevenson’s basepair deletion,” Nature Genetics, populations. Minneapolis sample were virtually all Vol. 16, No. 1, May, 97] ● Sure enough, within each popula- white, and that whites in Minnesota tion the priestly Y chromosomes were are known to have an average IQ of Glayde Whitney is past-president significantly different from those of 105, a bit above the national average of the Behavior Genetics Association. the laymen. Further, Ashkenazic and of 100. Thus, if Dr. Stevenson found He is a professor in psychology, psy- Sephardic priests resembled each no difference between Minneapolis chobiology and neuroscience at Flor- (avg. 105) and Japan or Taiwan, his results are consistent with the rest of the literature in suggesting that Orien- tals average about 105.

American Renaissance - 18 - July-August 1997 O Tempora, O Mores!

Going Over Down Under killed for eating purposes like live- something like the right tone: “She is stock.” Of the Chinese employed to wrong when she suggests that Abo- Australian legislator Pauline Han- dig gold, he writes, “Hundreds of riginals are not disadvantaged. She is son (see AR, Dec. 1996), goes from them were ambushed, captured, and wrong when she says that Australia is strength to strength. Last year she was eaten at leisure.” in danger of being swamped by kicked out of the ruling Liberal Party Daisy Bates (1859-1951), a social Asians. She is wrong to seek scape- for saying that Australia is being worker who devoted her life to Abo- goats for society’s problems . . . .” he “swamped” by Asian immigrants and rigine uplift, writes that “baby canni- said in May to a private group that is that Aborigines are being coddled. She balism was rife among the central- trying to do more business in Asia. He refuses to apologize for the “white western peoples.” She wrote of went on to accuse her of “empty popu- Australia” policy that lasted until Dowie, a member of the Baadu tribe, lism, cheap sloganeering, and bitter 1973, and says that people are afraid and divisive recriminations.” to say what they think for fear of be- Meanwhile, opinion polls show ing called “racists.” Now she has that her party already has the support started her own political party, One of 10 to 15 percent of the public and Nation, and reports more than 40,000 its popularity continues to grow. With supporters. Australia’s system of proportional rep- She has also published a book, resentation, One Nation is likely to Pauline Hanson: The Truth, which seat half a dozen senators or, as the explains her ideas in greater detail. newspaper The Australian puts it, The first print run of 1,000 paperbacks “enough to hold the balance of power sold out immediately, and in May cop- who went through four wives, killing in the senate and to determine the ies were changing hands for about US and eating them as he tired of them. course of legislation.” Somehow, $40.00. What most infuriates liberals It is now mandatory in Australia to these interesting overseas develop- is her account of Aboriginal cannibal- think of “native peoples” as spiritual, ments have largely failed to make the ism. She first got in trouble on this peace-loving darlings brutalized by American news. subject last year when she decided to whites, so Miss Hanson’s book must turn the tables on people who think be denounced with invective rather Flying High at the Academy whites should feel guilty for having than facts. On May 25, at a four-hour civilized Australia: “Will the descen- anti-Hanson rally in Brisbane, a Jew- First Lieutenant Kelly Flinn, the dants of those blacks who cannibal- ish leader told the crowd that she and fornicator and now-retired lady- ized Chinese miners on the Palmer her book were the equivalent of Hitler bomber pilot, has been baking in the River in 1875 [a notorious event in and Mein Kampf. He said the name of limelight while one of her black for- Australian history] be required to bear her One Nation Party was suspiciously mer classmates at the Air Force Acad- the guilt of their forefathers?” Today’s close to the Nazi slogan, “One Nation, emy languishes in undeserved obscu- Australia prefers to ignore the Abo- One Folk, One Leader.” rity. Crista Davis, likewise a first lieu- riginal taste for long pig, and an Asians don’t care for her book ei- tenant, could get 55 years in prison if archbishop objected that questions like ther. She writes that if they keep pour- she is convicted of various charges, Miss Hanson’s should never be asked. ing into the country, by 2050 Australia including an adulterous affair with a Press reports describe Miss Han- will have a president named Poona Li married officer that produced a child. son’s book as if it did nothing more Hung, a “lesbian of Indian and Chi- The married officer in question, than toss off a few unsubstantiated nese background.” A Chinese group Maj. Greg Russel is, we hope, an un- accusations about cannibalism. Far has filed a petition with the Australian usual case. He is a black gentleman, from it. She quotes at length from Electoral Commission claiming that with tattoos on both arms and, when such books as River of Gold: The her new party violates the federal Ra- out of uniform, likes to wear bracelets, Story of the Palmer River Gold Rush cial Discrimination and Racial Hatred chains, earrings, and a ring through his by Hector Holthouse, The Passing of Acts and should be banned. If her pierced tongue. Until 1994, he taught the Aborigines: A Lifetime Spent party is not banned, the group vows to at the Air Force Academy, but was Among the Natives of Australia by join with every possible non-white suspended from teaching because of Daisy Bates, and Cannibalism and group to oppose her. various criminal charges, not all of Human Sacrifice by G. Hogg. Australian Prime Minister John which have been made public. He ap- Mr. Holthouse writes of the Abo- Howard has been accused of not de- pears to have misused an Air Force rigines of the Palmer River region that nouncing Miss Hanson with sufficient credit card and to have refrained from “they killed and ate their own women vigor. He has finally gotten the mes- repaying debts, but these charges were and children, and occasionally their sage from the people who really run dropped when military psychiatrists men. The older women were often the country, and has managed to strike determined that he had been legally

American Renaissance - 19 - July-August 1997 insane since 1992—two years before “Liberalism is rooted in individualism recommendation—employee training his teaching career came to an end. and that is part of the problem in our to be conducted by Towers Perrin. First Lieutenant Davis, now mother society, and it is rooted in possessive- Sample blather: “As the nature of of Maj. Russel’s child, Christophe, ness. Instead of having a proper revo- [insert company name]’s work began her affair with him in 1995, two lution in this country, we’ve had a lib- changes from a command and control years after graduating from the Air eral revolution and that is why blacks style to a more empowering style Force Academy. She claims that she are still where they are today, in the where invisible leveraging will be a thought he was single, but she is gutter, and why whites are still rich.” key to success, leaders must learn how charged with writing spiteful, obscen- Today, it is routine for whites who to build, lead, and facilitate both di- ity-laced letters to his wife, boasting worked for majority rule to be called verse work units and cross-functional about the glorious sex she was having “racists” by the people they helped put teams . . . .” (Douglas Blackmon, Con- with him. The recipient of these letters in power. sultant’s Advice on Diversity was has since become the third woman to Miss Suzman expects the best: Anything But Diverse, Wall Street divorce Maj. Russel. “Liberals are a sort of endangered spe- Journal, March 11, 1997, p. 1.) First Lieutenant Davis appears to cies, but as far as I am concerned we have been a miserable soldier. She is have won—look at the constitution, Why They Get Fat charged with absence without leave, the bill of rights, they are everything willful dereliction of duty, conduct we stood for—so let them rant. I am Nearly half of all black women and unbecoming an officer, making false surprised, but I am not wor- one third of white women are over- official statements, and disobeying ried.” (Richard Meares, White Liber- weight. Recent research shows that orders. Her lawyer claims that these als Face Hostility in New South Af- blacks are more likely to get fat be are false, vindictive charges, brought rica, Reuters, March 17, 1997.) because “she’s black, she’s female and she has exposed racism and sexism in Black Graduation the Air Force.” (Air Force Officer Faces Prison, Associated Press, May Affirmative action brings many 20, 1997.) unprepared blacks to universities. This is reflected in dropout rates. What fol- Doing Her Bidding low are the percentages of white and black students at various universities Black television personality, Oprah who manage to graduate within six cause they have more efficient me- Winfrey, has launched an on-air book years. University of North Carolina - tabolisms. In the resting state, fat club. She is so influential that all five whites 86 percent, blacks 64 percent; black women consume five percent books she has recommended have Rutgers University - 80, 60; U.C. fewer calories than fat white women. gone to the top of the best-seller list. Berkeley - 84, 58; University of Illi- (Jane Brody, Health Watch: Race, When she chooses a new book, her nois - 82, 54; Penn State - 80, 51; Uni- Gender and Weight, New York Times, producers alert the publisher in ad- versity of Delaware - 73, 56. (After March 26, 1997.) vance so it can print enough copies. Late Start, University Works Hard to She also insists that the publisher Graduate Blacks, New York Times, Importing Incompetence make 10,000 copies of the book avail- Dec. 1, 1996, p. 16.) able to libraries to meet demand. In March 1996, about one out of (James Howard, Oprah Plugs Book; The Diversity Hustle every 10 people in the United States, Price Rises $5, Rocky Mountain or 24.6 million, were foreign-born. News, April 19, 1997, p. 9D.) Towers Perrin is a consulting firm They were worse off than natives in that touts its customized, individually virtually every respect, with a poverty Will They Ever Learn? crafted “diversity programs” to help rate of 22.2 percent v. 12. 9 percent, bring companies into the multi-culti unemployment at 4.9 percent v. 3.8 White South African liberals have future for which we are said to yearn. percent, and with 5.8 percent v. 4.5 discovered that they get no gratitude The American subsidiary of Japan’s percent getting cash assistance form from blacks for the fight against apart- Nissan Motor Company recently paid the government. Needless to say, the heid. Helen Suzman, now 79, was one the company $105,000 to produce a native-born include many non-whites. of the original white anti-white activ- diversity proposal but was disap- (Census Bureau News Release, Eco- ists. “I am surprised at the hostility to pointed to find that everything in it nomic Challenges Wane With Time liberals these days, even from moder- was extremely general and not spe- Among the Nation’s Foreign-Born ates in the African National Con- cific to Nissan. In fact, Towers Perrin Population, CB97-55, April 8, 1997.) gress,” she says; “I expected it from has boiler plate diversity analyses that the right and the far left, who have it can slap together for most any cli- New Irish Eyes always called us ‘Lenin’s useful idi- ent. The Wall Street Journal got hold ots,’ but I didn’t expect it from them.” of eleven Towers Perrin diversity re- Ireland has become a popular desti- Professor Ithumeleng Mosala ex- ports and found startling similarities. nation for “asylum” seekers. In 1992 plains why blacks despise liberals: Most similar, of course, was the final there were 39 applications; in the first

American Renaissance - 20 - July-August 1997 three months of 1997 they poured in at hoods, and this is sure to lead to more back to Mexico,” yelled one of the a rate of 2,500 a year. Rumanians— rioting. (Michael Hedges, Violent Dis- blacks at the Mexican interpreter, and mostly Gypsies—account for a third turbances on the Rise; ‘Trust Level’ of lunged for her. Others had to hold the of the rush, followed by Zairians, So- Police, Courts Cited, Washington two women apart until police came. malians, Algerians, and Nigerians. Times, Nov. 25, 1996, p. A6.) (S.L. Wykes, Cops Halt Tumult at Ra- Many of the Gypsies speak no Eng- venswood Event, San Jose Mercury lish. They stand on street corners, News, April 25, 1997.) some suckling infants, and beg by Join ARMail Other states with large numbers of showing passersby hand-written cards immigrants are keeping a worried eye asking for money. (Paul Cullen, Im- AR has started a listserve, or on how California copes with ages Aimed at Tourists Attract Refu- electronic discussion group, in “diversity.” gees as Well, Irish Times, April 19, which subscribers exchange com- 1997. Nuala Haughey, Better Here, ments, news, and ideas. We invite They Never Miss a Chance Say Romany Gypsies, Irish Times, all readers who have email to join April 19, 1997,) us. Steven Spielberg’s new movie Please contact our Web Page about dinosaurs, The Lost World, is Editor and Mailmeister, George Race and Murder breaking new ground in race mixing. McDaniel, at our new e-mail ad- dress: [email protected]. One of the characters, played by Jeff Like many other cities, New York Goldblum, has a 10-year-old child has been enjoying a drop in its murder who just happens to be black. Her rate. A temporary lull in the number of mother, vaguely referred to as being in people in the most crime-prone age Diversity in California Paris, is never seen on-screen. The bracket is one of the causes, and we father-daughter duo is introduced are also seeing the effect of several From 1990 to 1996, the percentage without commentary. “I think the way years of longer sentences for offend- of California K-12 students who can- it’s dealt with in the film is neat,” says ers. When they are off the streets they not understand English well enough to Mr. Goldblum, “the way it’s not even cannot commit more crimes. How- know what is going on in class rose explained and kind of just ac- ever, the statistics for New York City from 18 percent to 25 percent. In the cepted.” (Steve Persall, ‘Lost World’ show an interesting racial disparity: past decade the number of such stu- Ventures into Multiracial Relation- Murder is down only for non-whites. dents nearly tripled from half a million ships, Chicago Sun-Times, May 23, In the two years from 1993 to 1995, to 1.3 million. By 2005—in just eight 1997.) the victimization rate for blacks years—more than half of all Califor- dropped from 54 per 100,000 to 32 per nia K-12 students are likely to be His- Harlem Pork 100,000 and that of Hispanics from 32 panic. The state’s fourth graders per- per 100,000 to 20 per 100,000. These form near the bottom in national After 23 useless years, the Harlem are significant reductions, and people achievement tests, but the problem is Urban Development Corporation has who used to sleep in their bathtubs for even worse than this, since many chil- finally been shut. It’s job was to bring fear of stray bullets are now back in dren who cannot speak English are renovation and new businesses to Har- their beds. The rate at which whites exempted from taking the test. lem, but even after running through are murdered has stayed the same at The Ravenswood School District in $100 million in state money it failed about eight per 100,000. (Bob Herbert, East Palo Alto is a good example of to attract a single new major commer- Ferrer’s Outta Here, New York Times, things to come. In a decade, it has May 16, 1997, p. A29.) gone from 85 percent black, to 68 per- cent Hispanic and 29 percent black. Riots Becoming More Com- Sixty-eight percent of the students are mon classified as “limited English profi- cient,” and qualify for special help. This means as much as $6,000 a year Researchers at Northeastern Uni- is spent on them as opposed to the versity in Boston report that rioting is $3,900 spent on native English speak- on the rise in America. Jack Levin and ers. (Julian Guthrie, Schools Struggle Benjamin Steiner define riots as vio- With Shifting Ethnic Balance, San lence by groups of more than 50 peo- Francisco Examiner, may 14, 1997.) ple, and find that there were nine in Many of the black students can 1994 and twelve in 1995. They note cial development. An audit of the cor- scarcely make themselves understood poration’s expenditures has found so that disturbances are often race-related in English either, and their parents and write that many are touched off by few records that its authors wonder resent the fact that so much money is whether “the lack of supporting docu- white police action against non-white spent on Mexicans. School board criminals. They also point out that the mentation for such an extremely large meetings have to have interpreters so number of transactions was a deliber- teenage population will increase 17 that the two groups can understand percent during the next nine years, ate attempt to conceal certain irregular each other, and at a recent meeting activities.” especially in non-white neighbor- tempers flared. “Take [your children]

American Renaissance - 21 - July-August 1997 One of the regular activities ap- cipal. There are homecoming queens 659-member Parliament. (Warren pears to have been car washes for the of each race, and the yearbook desig- Hoge, Bribery Case in Britain: Labor agency director’s car, at $50.00 a nates white and black class clowns Figure is Accused, New York Times, wash, no receipts. One lawyer that had and class flirts. Some student govern- May 20, 1997, p. A5.) contracted to provide services for ment offices are held in alternate years $30,000 actually got more than by a black and a white. Most students Multicultural Manners $170,000. Black New York Congress- find this system agreeable, and Harold man, Charles Rangel, complains that Kinchelow, Hernando’s black princi- Judging from his photograph, the audit is “a bunch of Republicans pal, says the policy worked so well George Perry is a black Hispanic. He going through the files of a defunct from the start that “we just never is a member of the Latin Kings gang. organization run by Democrats.” (A thought about it” again. There are Recently, he and five other Latin Troubling Audit for Harlem, New other schools in Mississippi that have Kings were on trial in Providence, York Times, May 5, 1997.) dual systems, but the state does not Rhode Island for murder and other keep track of their numbers. (School assorted crimes. Right in the middle of Starting Young Gives Separate But Equal a New his jury trial, he unzipped his trousers Meaning, Chicago Tribune, May 23, and urinated on the courtroom floor. Two black Chicago girls, aged 11 1997, p. 17.) He was ordered kept in his cell for the and 13, have been charged with a hate remainder of the trial. His five co- crime. They were with a group of Always In Season defendants filed for a mistrial, saying other black girls when they saw a 10- Mr. Perry’s behavior had prejudiced year-old white girl roller skating with A few good citizens have taken it the jury. Judge Mary Lisi denied the an 11-year old black girl. Children in upon themselves to nab some of the request. (Suspect Urinates at Trial, the group of blacks recognized the illegal immigrants pouring into Cali- Chicago Sun-Times, April 4, 1997.) black skater and someone shouted that fornia. Fifty-seven-year-old Robert she “shouldn’t be hanging around with Maupin leads a group called “Bob’s Send ‘em South whites” and that she was Boys,” which patrols Mr. Maupin’s “disrespecting her folks.” The two 250-acre ranch in San Diego County. The state of Arizona is considering hate criminals then knocked the black They carry rifles, dress in camouflage, operating a prison in Mexico to handle girl to the ground and punched her take along an Alsatian dog, and rarely most of its Mexican prisoners. Their white companion. (Jim Casey, Girls fail to find illegals. “My dog speaks number has gone from 58 in 1980 to Charged in Attack on Interracial Pals, their language,” says 2,373 today, and accommodations cost Chicago Sun-Times, May 23, 1997.) Mr. Maupin. “As soon $40 million a year. Labor accounts for as they see his teeth 70 percent of operating costs, and a Unsuitable for Prisons they understand him prison in Mexico could be run for half right away. We tell the US rate. The language of the Readers with a copy of the April, them to lay down on the prison would be Spanish and the mess 1997 AR, may want to take a look at ground and then we ra- hall would serve Mexican food, offer- page 11. We recently received some- dio for the Border Pa- ing what a spokesman for the state thing called a “Publication Denial trol.” calls a “more culturally compatible Notification” from the Texas prison There are other groups that operate environment.” The usual people have system, saying that the page “contains along other sections of the border. objected, saying that Mexican prisons material that a reasonable person Deputy Sheriff Robert Novak says, are hotbeds of corruption and cruelty, would construe as written solely for “We know these guys and they are and that our prisoners deserve better. the purpose of communicating infor- within their rights to arrest anyone (James Brooke, Arizona Looks into mation designed to achieve a break- they find trespassing on their prop- Building Private Prison in Mexico, down of prisons through inmate dis- erty.” (John Hiscock, Vigilantes Tar- New York Times, April 20, 1997.) ruption such as strikes or riots.” There get Illegal Mexican Migrants, Daily are three perfectly ordinary “O Tem- Telegraph (London), May 20, 1997.) District Hoppers pora” items on that page, none of which mentions prisons or prisoners. Muslim Politics In New York City, many of the Needless to say, nothing in AR is ever available public schools are so bad written even partly for the purpose of The recent elections in Britain re- parents go to extraordinary lengths to causing prison riots. turned the first Muslim member to sneak their children in somewhere Parliament. Mohammed Sarwar is else. A common trick is to pretend to Separate Works Best now discovered to have kept the cul- live in some other part of town or ture of his native Pakistan as well as across the line in a different commu- Hernando High School in Her- its religion. He appears to have of- nity where the schools are better. Par- nando, Mississippi does not pretend fered opposing candidates the equiva- ents fool the authorities by presenting that race does not matter. Ever since lent of $100,000 to stay out of the race fake leases or deeds. They also have 1970, when it was integrated, it has and to have paid another $8,000 to telephones installed in their own had a black principal and a white prin- conduct a listless campaign. Mr. Sar- names in the homes of friends who war is one of nine non-whites in the

American Renaissance - 22 - July-August 1997 live in good districts, or even have from jury duty. People chosen from that when he assumes the throne and their own names put on the utility bills voter rolls—all presumably citizens— becomes Defender of the Faith, Chris- of well-placed friends. get the same form, and 448 were re- tianity is not the only faith he would Some suburban districts that border cently found to have claimed exemp- like to defend. He is getting his wish. on New York City are so plagued by tion as non-citizens. Oh dear. Califor- In just five years there are likely to be freeloaders that they hire private eyes nia has been paying more attention to more mosque-going British Muslims to check up on suspicious students. voter fraud since it was discovered last than active members of the Church of The Mount Vernon school district in year that the Hispanic “rights” organi- England. Even without further immi- Westchester catches 100 to 200 dis- zation, Hermandad Mexicana Na- gration, young Pakistanis are flocking trict hoppers every year, and the Law- cional, had registered 700 non-citizens to The Prophet in such numbers that rence, Long Island district recently as voters. The situation in Orange mosques get about 32,000 new mem- filed criminal charges against Russian County is so bad that a Congressional bers each year. The Church of Eng- immigrants who had forged docu- committee has ordered the INS to land loses about 14,000 members ments and lied about their address. check the citizenship status of all 1.3 every year. At this rate, by 2002 active (Denis Buffa & Susan Edelman, Some million voters in the county. Mark membership in both faiths is likely to Families Teach Children Deception Rosenbaum of the American Civil stand at around 760,000. More than 101, New York Post, May 11, 1997, p. Liberties Union protests that such an 100 new British mosques are planned 6.) investigation would unfairly put non- to keep up with the boom, while white voters under a cloud of suspi- Christian clerics wonder what to do That’ll Do the Job cion. (Peter Warren, Citizenship with empty churches. Check Asked for 448 in Juror Pool, The Rt. Rev. Roger Sainsbury, On April 30th, the United States Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1997. Bishop of Barking, thinks he is on to Senate unanimously passed a resolu- Panel Orders INS to Certify All O.C. the secret of success. “One of the at- tion declaring that day “National Voters, Los Angeles Times, May 15, tractions of Islam to disadvantaged Erase the Hate and Eliminate Racism 1997.) young people is that Muslims cam- Day.” The resolution also calls on the paign on both racial and social justice. President to issue a proclamation call- The Price of Folly The Church of England should learn ing on all citizens to make eliminating from this.” Or perhaps the Bishop of racism and hate crimes a national pri- The Center for Immigration Stud- Barking should just convert. (Rajeev ority. “We hope to reinforce in the ies reports that the ten-year cost of the Syal & Christopher Morgan, Muslims American people that our diversity is Immigration Reform and Control Act Set to Outnumber Anglicans, Sunday something to be proud of,” said Sena- (IRCA) amnesty of 2.7 illegal aliens Times (London), May 13, 1997.) tor Max Baucus (D-Montana), who has been approximately $78 billion. American clerics are, of course, no helped introduce the bill. (Business This works out to a total federal, state, better. In May, the bishops of the Wire, April 30 Declared as “National and local government subsidy of more South Carolina divisions of the Lu- Erase the Hate and Eliminate Racism than $29,000 per amnesty. The center theran, Anglican, Catholic, and United Day,” April 30, 1997.) calculates that the illegals got $102 Methodist churches issued a statement Meanwhile, in Washington, DC, billion in direct government services confessing to the sin of racism and the YWCA was to sponsor a five kilo- and paid $78 billion in taxes. Another asking forgiveness. They asked God to meter “race against racism,” led by $54.6 billion went on services for their “help us in our struggles to overcome Olympic medalists and children and for Americans who have the sin of racism, the powerful preju- show-biz personalities. been put out of work. dice which pits one race against the “The Race Against Ra- IRCA was supposed to be a com- other to the damage of all.” The state- cism is part of the promise, in which illegals already in ment followed a two-day reeducation YWCA’s strong com- the country would get am- session on “racism,” in which the bishops fretted over how to increase mitment to help women nesty in return for stiff meas- and children to elimi- ures to keep any more out. the number of blacks in church nate racism, sexism and Only the amnesty came to “leadership positions,” and exhibited other forms of discrimi- pass. According to the Immi- anguish over the long-gone practice of nation,” explained gration and Naturalization relegating blacks to the balcony or the YWCA Executive Director, Prema Service, illegals continue to come in at back pews. (Bruce Smith, The Sin of Mathai-Davis. (PRNewswire, World such a rate that there are just as many Racism, Associated Press, May 16, Class Runners and Celebrities Support now as before the IRCA amnesty— 1997.) Cause, April 30, 1997.) some five million. Another 420,000 or so long-term illegals are thought to Thinking Positively Non-citizen Voting arrive every year. (Center for Immi- gration Studies News Release, May 5, The South African government has Juries in Orange Country, Califor- 1997.) just published a self-congratulatory nia are selected both from voter rolls pamphlet designed to fight “Afro- and lists of registered drivers. Since Offenders of the Faith pessimism,” or the feeling that the many drivers are not citizens, there is continent has run itself onto the rocks a box they can check to be exempted Prince Charles of England has said and can only get worse. The govern-

American Renaissance - 23 - July-August 1997 ment is afraid that screaming head- outline what alternative programs are lines about crime in Johannesburg and We Have Moved going to look like.” (Mark Barabak, slaughter in Burundi will scare away GOP Seeks New Image Among Lati- foreign investors. As the Times of American Renaissance has nos, Los Angeles Times, March 30, London points out in words that would moved to Virginia. Our new ad- 1997.) never be printed in the Times of New dress is included in the masthead. York, there are other reasons for self- This double issue has been pre- Blessings of Diversity promotion: pared because of the move, since “As continental leaders, South Af- we will not be mailing a separate Six months ago Leif O’Connell of rica’s elites see Afro-pessimism and August issue. You will hear from South Bend, Indiana was engaged to the assumptions that surround it as an us again in September. marry Annie Fulford. He was so obvi- affront to their self-respect and virtu- ously smitten that his friends would ally a suggestion that things would snubbed and belittled. Many are Indi- tease him about it. The couple had have been better if the Continent had ans who do not speak Spanish, and picked out a ring and planned to an- stayed under white-minority rule. Mexicans despise them. Latin Ameri- nounce their engagement on April They want to assert that Africans can cans often treat Indians as primitives, 18th, Miss Fulford’s birthday. “All govern themselves democratically and and they bring their attitudes with they talked about was getting married, well, that they are not innately back- them when they come north. (Julio settling down and giving me grand- ward or violent, and that their econo- Laboy, Mix of Hispanic Groups Cre- kids,” Miss Fulford’s mother says. mies can grow.” (R.W. Johnson, Pre- ates Workplace Tension, Study Finds, The bride-to-be did not make it to toria Launches Attack on Wave of Wall Street Journal, March 26, 1997.) her next birthday. She was shot to ‘Afro-pessimism,’ Times (London), death when the young couple walked May 13, 1997.) Stupid Party Gets Stupider into an attempted robbery by four blacks on Miss Fulford’s older Mr. Clinton Gets it Right! The Republican Party appears to brother. Mr. O’Connell was devas- have decided to court the ever-larger tated by the death of his fiancee and William Clinton wants to be known number of Hispanic voters. To this would come to her house every morn- to history as a racial healer. At a June end they will downplay opposition to ing and sob uncontrollably as he 14th commencement address at the affirmative action and immigration. stared at her ashes. Less than two University of California at San Diego One unnamed party official has told months later, he started shooting black he plans to unveil a great initiative the Los Angeles Times, “We need a men at random. On several separate that will endear him to posterity. A forays, he and a friend killed one man group of White House bureaucrats is and wounded four. When they were secretly working out the details. finally arrested, he told police that he “People have held back in private dis- felt better after the shootings. In July cussions,” says the President; “That he will go on trial for murder, and duplicity has to end because there are faces life in prison. Mr. O’Connell had ideas and convictions about race that no known history of antagonism to- must be challenged and changed, and wards blacks. (Nancy Armour, AP, neither can happen unless there is an Man Whose Girlfriend Was Killed In honest laying on the table of what we Robbery Accused of Shooting Black all believe and think.” Seldom do we Men in Retaliation, May 13, 1997.) find ourselves in such complete agree- ment with our President, but we won- couple of years off from controversial Correcting Official Racism der just what it is he plans to unbosom initiatives in the area of race.” He also as part of this “honest laying on the said he would do his best to derail any A Michigan County Circuit Court table.” (Wall Street Journal, May 21, ballot initiatives on race-related sub- Judge has found that the Michigan 1997, p. A16.) jects. “It doesn’t matter whether State Police have discriminated they’re good on the merits,” he ex- against whites and men. In Lewis v Happy Melting Pot plained. “You have to weigh the ef- Michigan State, he awarded $305,000 fects it has on our society to have as in damages to a white man who had The last census found 301,000 Sal- much racial controversy as we’ve been on the force for 24 years. Re- vadorans and 159,000 Guatemalans had.” cently, the same court awarded an- living in the Los Angeles area. A re- What he means, of course, is that other white trooper $850,000. The cent study finds that they are victims Republicans are afraid they may lose court found that the Michigan State of discrimination—from Mexicans. elections if they even flirt with race- Police have routinely inflated the test Louis DeSipio, professor at the Uni- related issues. Republican “strategist,” scores of blacks and women, and that versity of Illinois who managed the Dan Schnur, explains further: “If you it made a number of appointments two-year study, reports that Guatema- talk about cracking down on illegal strictly on the basis of race and sex. lans and Salvadorans compete with immigration, you have to act in sup- (Michigan Court Deals Another Se- better-established Mexicans for jobs in port of legal immigration. If you criti- vere Blow to Michigan State Police, the garment industry, and are often cize racial preferences, you have to PRNewswire, May 15, 1997.) ●

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