American Renaissance There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world. — Thomas Jefferson Vol. 14 No. 7 July 2003 Zimbabwe: 23 Years of Black Rule

The view from neighbor- ing white farmers off the land, and kill- consolidating power beyond the slight- ing and muzzling political opponents— est threat, he seemed to think his fame ing South Africa. have finally forced a reluctant world to would reduce Mr. Mandela to insignifi- recognize him for the brute that he is. cance. by Arthur Kemp Whatever the motives, in early 2000, Zimbabwe launched a program imbabwe—when it was ruled of violence and ethnic cleansing by whites and known as Rho- against whites, and began systematic Zdesia—was the most prosper- terror against black Zimbabweans ous nation in southern Africa. When who dared to oppose the government. black rule began in 1980, the country had excellent railroads, good high- Ethnic Cleansing ways, and clean, well run towns. It was rich in gold, chromium, platinum, The campaign against whites has and coal, and Rhodesia was such an been simple but effective. Truckloads agricultural success it exported food. of self-styled “war veterans”—the It has now been reduced to a shattered vast majority of whom are far too ruin, facing famine, with whites and young to have fought the white re- black dissenters murdered and tor- gime in the bush war that ended 22 tured. years ago—show up at white farms, It is fashionable to blame the where they camp out, get drunk, country’s failures on the man who has threaten the farmer and his family, been president since 1980, Robert Thabo Mbeki (left) and Robert Mugabe— and beat up black workers. The official Mugabe. Even the famous white South bad news for the whites of southern Africa. fiction is that this is a spontaneous move- African liberal Dorris Lessing writes of There seem to be two additional mo- ment of Zimbabwean peasants who have his “arbitrary cruelties,” and tells us tives beyond his usual avarice and cru- lost patience with the refusal of whites “crimes have been committed in the elty behind Mr. Mugabe’s current cam- to give up land they “stole” from blacks, name of political correctness.” Mr. paigns. Since his government had pil- but the invading convoys are clearly sup- Mugabe is undoubtedly a bad character, laged every other source of wealth, in- ported and supplied by the government. but so are most of the people who rule cluding the mining sector, the 4,000 or The police refuse to evict the “war vet- African countries. It is possible he has- so white farmers who continued to be erans,” and the government has ratified tened Zimbabwe’s decline but decline the backbone of the economy were the the occupations by issuing decrees to was inevitable once blacks took over revoke white ownership. institutions built by whites. Most farmers have managed to get out In the eyes of the world, black rule is In the eyes of the world, alive, but 11 have not. The first two to so fine a thing it must never be spoiled black rule is so fine a die were David Stevens and Martin Olds. by describing it accurately. The press thing it must never be Their murders, which took place in 2000, therefore ignored the thievery and anti- spoiled by describing it set the tone for the ethnic cleansing that white hatred of Zimbabwe’s new gov- has followed. ernment. It looked the other way when accurately. David Stevens, who shared profits Mr. Mugabe’s North Korean-trained with his workers, was a member of the Fifth Brigade killed thousands of Nde- only source of prosperity still available opposition party, Movement for Demo- bele tribesmen for failing to support their for “redistribution,” that is to say, ap- cratic Change (MDC). On April 15, new president from the Shona tribe. propriation by Mr. Mugabe’s friends. At 2000, Mugabe-supporters attacked him When, as early as the mid-1980s, the the same time, Mr. Mugabe appears to on his farm in the Macheke area, about United Nations reported that the Mugabe have been deeply envious of the world’s 60 miles east of Harare. He managed to government was as greedy and corrupt adulation of Nelson Mandela next door escape to police protection, but the mob as any in Africa, there was silence in the in South Africa. By making one final and of “veterans” stormed the police station West. Mr. Mugabe’s latest antics—driv- dramatic “anti-colonial” gesture, and by Continued on page 3

American Renaissance - 1 - July 2003 The New Deal ideology was not dis- tinct from that of the Progressive Era from which it emerged. As historian William S. Leuchtenberg writes in Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (p. 33), “The New Dealers shared John Dewey’s conviction that organized so- cial intelligence could shape society, and some, like [A.A.] Berle [Jr.], reflected the hope of the Social Gospel of creat- ing a Kingdom of God on earth.” Sociologist and historian E. Digby Baltzell in his classic work, The Protes- tant Establishment, also discussed the importance of Boas as well as of John B. Watson, founder of behaviorist psy- chology, and his brother-in-law, New Poverty, the “most rounded and power- Deal Interior Secretary Harold C. Ickes, Letters from Readers ful note in a growing chorus,” helped who was so solicitous of blacks that he Sir — While I appreciate Prof. Steven popularize the idea that “an environment was sometimes called the “Secretary for Farron’s description of my review of that had been made by human beings and Negro Affairs.” “It is important to see,” Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate in the could be changed by human beings” Baltzell wrote (p. 271), “that the New March 2003 issue of AR as “perceptive,” “determined all men, institutions, and Deal’s efforts to change the economic I have to disagree with him and main- ideas,” and that “legislating a better en- and cultural environment, largely tain what I said in the review, that “much vironment, particularly a better eco- through legislating greater equality of of what the Progressive Era, the New nomic environment, could bring about conditions between classes of men, were Deal, and the Great Society did or tried a better world, and bring it about before a reflection of the whole intellectual cli- to do was justified in terms of the blank unconscionable centuries.” Goldman mate of opinion at the time. In almost slate doctrine.” Prof. Farron writes that also discusses the role and impact of every area of intellectual endeavor—in he “cannot see how any of the programs Franz Boas himself on Progressivist the theories of crime, in law, in religion, of the Progressives . . . or New Deal . . . thought and policies about race. and in the arts—there was general agree- were motivated or justified by” that con- ment as to the sickness of the bourgeois cept. society and the need for environmental But the “blank slate doctrine” is es- reform.” sentially the idea that the minds and be- Prof. Farron describes the reforms of havior of human beings are not the prod- the Progressive and New Deal eras as ucts of nature or genetic inheritance but consisting of “direct election of senators, of the social environment. As historian referendum and recall at the state and George E. Mowry wrote of the intellec- municipal level” and “social security tual atmosphere of the American Pro- [and] the National Labor Relations Act.” gressive movement in The Era of These were certainly reforms of those Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of eras, but much of their theoretical ratio- Modern America, 1900-1912 (p. 37), nalization as well as that of the many “Central to this new intellectual formu- other measures supported by reformers lation was the firm belief that to a con- in these periods was grounded in the siderable degree man could make and John Dewey environmentalism advanced not only by remake his own world . . . . Both the ris- Historians Arthur S. Link and Rich- Boas and Watson, but also by even ear- ing social sciences and the new social ard L. McCormick write in their mono- lier environmentalists such as Charles H. gospel promised that basically men were graph, Progressivism (p. 24): “Since Cooley, Lester Frank Ward, John Dewey, more alike than different and that they social scientists accepted environmen- and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. As were not evil by inheritance, but, if any- talist and interventionist assumptions Baltzell also writes (p. 162), “All were thing, were inclined by their own nature implicitly, they believed that knowledge opposed to racism, Social Darwinism, to be good. . . . the great inequalities of natural laws would make it possible imperialism, and all forms of hereditary existing among them at the moment were to devise and apply solutions to improve determinism; and all assumed the mal- not natural, and from the viewpoint of the human condition. This faith under- leability of human nature which was ca- social peace and human welfare were pinned the methods used by almost all pable of responding to improved social decidedly bad.” reformers of the time: investigation of conditions,” and (quoting Dewey), Historian Eric Goldman in his stan- the facts and application of social-sci- “there must be a change in objective ar- dard account of Progressive Era politi- ence knowledge to their analysis; en- rangements and institutions; we must cal thought, Rendezvous with Destiny trusting trained experts to decide what work on the environment, not merely in (pp. 78-79), explains how the thought should be done; and, finally, mandating the hearts of men.” of Henry George’s book Progress and government to execute reform.” Samuel Francis, Arlington, Va.

American Renaissance - 2 - July 2003 The self-styled leader of the farm in- American Renaissance vaders, the late Chenjerai Hunzvi, was Jared Taylor, Editor a prominent Mugabe supporter, who Stephen Webster, Assistant Editor personally lead militants onto more than James P. Lubinskas, Contributing Editor 1,700 farms. He actually did fight against George McDaniel, Web Page Editor the white regime, and liked to go by the name of “Hitler.” He was a member of American Renaissance is published monthly by the the Zimbabwe parliament, and at one New Century Foundation. NCF is governed by section time was probably the second most pow- 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code; contributions erful man in the country. No one worked to it are tax deductible. harder to drive whites off the land. In Subscriptions to American Renaissance are $24.00 per year. First-class postage is May 2000, Hunzvi publicly urged his an additional $8.00. Subscriptions to Canada (first class) are $36.00. Subscriptions outside Canada and the U.S. (air mail) are $40.00. Back issues are $3.00 each. Foreign countrymen to seek out “British passport subscribers should send U.S. dollars or equivalent in convertible bank notes. holders”—whom he called “ruthless, Please make checks payable to: American Renaissance, P.O. Box 527, Oakton, VA cunning people”—and force them out of 22124. ISSN No. 1086-9905, Telephone: (703) 716-0900, Facsimile: (703) 716-0932, the country. Web Page Address: www.AmRen.com Electronic Mail: [email protected] “Hitler” was only following govern- ment policy. In April 2000, Mr. Mugabe Continued from page 1 done the same. Nearly a year later, 68- told a television audience that white and abducted him in view of the several year-old Gloria Olds died in a hail of farmers were “enemies of the state.” In officers who did nothing. The blacks bullets early one morning as she opened October, he elaborated on whites: dragged him into the bush, where they the gates to her house. Her attackers also “These crooks, really, we inherited as tortured him and shot him at point-blank shot her three dogs. part of our population . . . . We cannot range with a shotgun. They then mixed On December 12, 2000, a gang of expect them to have straightened up, to his blood with alcohol and drank it. Mr. “war veterans” gunned down another be honest people, and an honest com- Mugabe himself approved the murder, munity, all told. . . . Yes, some of them saying Stevens “had it coming to him” are good people, but they remain cheats. because of his work with the opposition. They remain dishonest.” On August 18, Martin Olds, the second farmer to die, 2001, Zimbabwe’s Vice President Jo- was alone on his farm 400 miles south- seph Msika explained that “whites are west of Harare. He had sent his wife and not human beings.” two children to relative safety with Anyone who tormented whites or friends because of death threats. He told helped drive them out was therefore a the local police about the threats but they great leader. In June 2001, shortly after did nothing. At dawn on April 18, 2000, Hunzvi died of AIDS, the ruling party hundreds of armed men arrived at his politburo, headed by Mr. Mugabe, de- farm in a convoy of 14 cars and a tractor clared Hunzvi an official national hero. trailer. They attacked the farm house but He is buried in Zimbabwe’s Hero’s Acre. the 42-year-old former soldier held them In his funeral tribute, Mr. Mugabe said off with a rifle and a shotgun. He tele- the dead man’s “leadership was particu- phoned his mother, who called the po- larly inspiring in that it came at an his- lice four times but they refused to inter- toric time.” vene. At one point a rifle bullet shattered Chenjerai ‘Hitler’ Hunzvi No doubt because he can hardly be- his leg. He radioed to friends: “I’ve been farmer, Henry Elsworth. He was a 70- lieve the British would abandon their co- shot and I need an ambulance.” year-old cripple, hobbling on his racialists to death and dispossession, Mr. Farmers rushed to his assistance, but crutches when he was killed in Kwekwe, Mugabe is convinced Anthony Blair’s were fired on when they approached his 125 miles southwest of Harare. His son government is constantly plotting against compound. They reported that many of Ian, who took five bullets in the leg and him and is responsible for many prob- the blacks were drunk. Police, who had groin during the attack, said his father lems. Mr. Blair has, in fact, said a few set up a road block outside the farm, had received many death threats in the mild things against Mr. Mugabe, but has would not let an ambulance through. Mr. months before the murder, and had even not lifted a finger to prevent outrages Olds splinted his own leg and went on left the country briefly in the hope ten- against whites, almost all of whom are fighting, wounding several attackers. sions would subside. of British stock, and many of whom also The two-hour gun battle ended only Terry Ford, the tenth white farmer hold British citizenship. when the blacks set his house on fire and killed, had given up resistance and was forced him out. They beat him to mush actually leaving his property after an at- Black Victims and then shot him twice in the face at tack by 20 “war veterans.” Other “vet- close range. The “war veterans” then got erans” stopped his car, forced him out, There is no doubt Mr. Mugabe wants into their vehicles and drove away. stood him up against a tree, and executed to expel whites, but the vast majority of His widow, Kathy Olds, fled to En- him. Many other whites—men and his victims have been black. The non- gland with their two children, a suitcase, women—have been beaten, threatened, partisan Zimbabwe Human Rights Fo- and £60 in cash. His mother should have and intimidated. rum has drawn up a list of 142 Zimba-

American Renaissance - 3 - July 2003 bweans killed in political violence since either their homes or their jobs since the river silt and poisonous plants in order 2000. Only 11 were white, and almost farm invasions began, and this figure to fill their stomachs. all of the remaining 131 were support- does not include wives and children. The The entire economy is starving. To- ers of the opposition Movement for majority of displaced workers have no- bacco, once the leading export product, Democratic Change (MDC). Mugabe where to go. Countless thousands are was largely grown by white farmers. thugs have also killed another 115 black now scattered around the farming areas, Now, hard currency shortages mean gas farm workers. Their crime is to have sometimes simply camping along road- stations run dry. Finance Minister Simba opposed the campaign against whites. sides with no possessions. They join the Makoni admits the country is bankrupt. Many blacks who worked for white estimated 600,000 “internally displaced” “No one is investing in the country, nor farmers were happy with their jobs, and people in Zimbabwe. It is not well is there any likelihood anyone will, and knew ruin would follow the land grabs. known that a few prosperous blacks have there is no foreign currency available to Very few blacks can operate a mod- import food,” he says, in a rare dis- ern, commercial farm, and when play of government honesty. Food whites are run off production relief—the United States is a ma- grinds to a halt. Any black worker jor donor—is distributed along po- who shows the slightest hint of sup- litical lines, further consolidating port for whites or for the opposi- Mr. Mugabe’s power. tion MDC becomes an “enemy of the people.” The “war veterans” White Institutions have operated like Maoist Red Guards, forcing farm workers to at- When black rule began, Zimba- tend political rallies where they bwe still had all the institutions of were made to identify MDC sup- Western government whites had set porters. The Mugabe thugs then up, and although Mr. Mugabe has beat the opposition supporters or essentially dictatorial powers, he make other workers beat them. The has not yet completely destroyed farm invaders also love to make these institutions. For example, people sing songs in praise of Mr. Zimbabwe still has elections, in Mugabe and his party for hours at which political opponents run for a time. They have burned some farm The brown (light-colored) areas in the eastern office against the ruling Zanu-PF party. workers out of their homes and looted part of the country were a lush green before In the early years, Mr. Mugabe could af- many others. whites were driven off. Now Zimbabwe faces ford to hold elections with relatively famine. In the Karoi district, black workers little vote-rigging because he and his reported more than 1,000 cases of as- lost farms. Anyone identified with the movement were still popular. Now he sault by Mugabe gangs in the two-month opposition can be treated just like a rules through force and intimidation, and period of June and July 2000 alone. The white. opposition politics is a dangerous career. police did nothing. After farmers and The economic consequences of rap- In connection with the June 2000 par- black workers complained, the local ing the countryside have been immense. liamentary elections alone, Mugabe sup- police chief, Superintendent Mabunda, While it is true that southern Africa is porters murdered more than 30 political responded with threats: “Do you want suffering from drought, there is no doubt opponents. Dozens of opposition politi- war? If you want war, I will bring troops that the food crisis now facing Zimba- cians have been arrested, assaulted, or and we can have war. I think we will have bwe is the result of Mr. Mugabe’s land had their homes attacked. Human rights war today.” policy. When whites could still farm groups charge that during the elections A huge number of blacks lost homes, freely, Zimbabwe was the breadbasket there were more than 19,000 cases of jobs, and access to schools and medi- of southern Africa, and exported a range politically-motivated violence and tor- cine, as the “war veterans” rampaged of food products. Now there are only an ture. Since the vote, Mugabe thugs have through the country, shutting down estimated 350 commercial farmers left, killed another estimated 60 to 80 oppo- farms. Many once-prosperous farms are many operating under impossible con- sition supporters. The elections them- now looted, overgrown wrecks, and food ditions. selves were spectacularly corrupt, but production has plummeted. Many of the The catastrophic drop in food produc- still left opposition parties with 48 per- high-ranking blacks who have officially tion means that an estimated eight mil- cent of the 120 contested seats (30 par- taken possession do not even pretend to lion of Zimbabwe’s 13 million people liamentarians are directly appointed by farm. They live in the cities and come face starvation, according to the UN and Mr. Mugabe, so the MDC has 57 of 150 out for picnics. other international bodies. Corn meal— seats). According to the Zimbabwe Agricul- the staple food—bread, milk, sugar and Another gift of white Rhodesians to tural Welfare Trust (ZAWT), an organi- other commodities are scarce, and long black Zimbabwe was a tradition of press zation that helps blacks suffering from lines are common. In the Masvingo dis- freedom, a tradition Mr. Mugabe has the chaos of Mr. Mugabe’s polices, be- trict, a BBC reporter was shocked to find gradually snuffed out. During 2002, the tween February 2000 and the end of Zimbabweans scratching in the dirt look- authorities threw two journalists in jail, 2002, about 1,300 commercial farmers ing for roots to eat. Other journalists detained 32, and assaulted five. The of- were forced to stop farming. An esti- have found Zimbabweans eating rats, fices of the Daily News, the one remain- mated 200,000 farm workers have lost ing independent paper, have been

American Renaissance - 4 - July 2003 firebombed three times in the last two opposition, and no one would guaran- Zuma, said Mr. Mugabe had “convinc- years. In May, police forced the last for- tee your safety.” ingly explained his land policies.” South eign correspondent, Andrew Meldrum, Judges, respected and independent African Labor Minister, Membathisi onto a plane and expelled him for pub- when they were Rhodesian, are now Mdladlana said in Zimbabwe on Janu- lishing “false news.” tools of the regime. Many magistrates ary 11, 2003, that his country “had a lot A once-independent police and judi- are Zanu-PF-appointees or are too in- to learn from President Robert Mugabe’s ciary are yet more casualties of black timidated to act against the government. program of land reform.” rule. According to the Amani Trust in In March 2001, the government forced When Mr. Mugabe’s government ex- Harare, which monitors human rights the country’s chief justice, Anthony pelled outspoken journalist Mercedes abuses, the police have been purged of Gubbay, into early retirement after he Sayagues, the foreign affairs spokesman anyone suspected of disloyalty to the ruled against the seizure of white-owned for the ruling African National Congress regime, so that the force is now effec- farms. Other judges who tried to take a (ANC), Ronnie Mamoepa, said he had tively another Zanu-PF militia. This is stand have resigned after threats to their no reason to doubt Zimbabwe’s expla- lives and families. Courts have issued at nation that the expulsion was not a threat least two orders to the authorities to clear to press freedom. Likewise, South Afri- farm invaders off private land, but the can Justice Minister Penuell Maduna government paid no attention. argues that measures taken against A Zimbabwean High Court judge, judges do not undermine judicial inde- Ben Hlatshwayo, ignored an order by his pendence or the rule of law. In March own court barring him from moving onto 2001, Frank Chikane, Director-General a farm confiscated from a white family. of the South African presidency, an- In December 2002, Mr. Hlatshwayo nounced that his government believes moved onto the 900-acre farm anyway, there are no human rights abuses in Zim- accompanied by a police escort. babwe. Other African countries are just While the government ignores the as supportive. A meeting in Angola in courts at will, it uses the law as a weapon December 2001 of African heads of state against opponents. The MDC leader, from the 14-nation Southern Africa De- Morgan Tsvangirai, is on trial for alleg- velopment Community (SADC) un- edly plotting to assassinate Mr. Mugabe, equivocally backed Mr. Mugabe’s lead- and could be put to death if found guilty. ership, and refused to impose sanctions The causes of Zimbabwe’s misery are of any kind. so clear that many people continue to Particularly worrisome for white risk death to oppose Mr. Mugabe. In South Africans is the “Amendment to the early June, the government sent tanks Land Restitution Act” promulgated by into the street to put down what was to the government on May 9, 2003, and Usula Frost with her boyfriend, farm manager be a five-day general strike called in the likely to pass easily in the ANC-domi- Duncan Cooke. In December 2001, six govern- ment officials were inspecting farm land for hope of driving Mr. Mugabe from of- nated parliament. It is an almost perfect expropriation. When Mr. Cooke asked them fice. copy of the Zimbabwean farm seizure to move their car so he could drive a tractor Ben Hlatshwayo had conveniently legislation, and will give the South Af- past it, one of the men slashed him with a ma- issued an injunction against the strike, rican Minister of Agriculture and Land chete. and police arrested Mr. Tsvangirai for Affairs the power to take urban or rural why appeals for help from whites or po- the capital crime of treason. Police land without any judicial process if it is litical opponents are fruitless, and why disperesed demonstrators with live fire, “in the interests of land reform.” At attackers are not prosecuted. The army tear gas, and water cannon. There were present, land can be “redistributed” only and the Central Intelligence Organiza- hundreds of injuries, but miraculously, by court order and if there is an agree- tion—the Zimbabwe secret police, no one was killed. ment between the current owner and the which is accountable only to Mr. claimant of the land. The ANC clearly Mugabe—are just as partisan. At a po- Interest and Admiration intends to follow the Mugabe path. litical rally in 2000, then Zimbabwean Although observers from Europe and defense minister Moven Mahachi ex- Although Zimbabwe’s measures the United States dismissed the March plained how to handle the opposition: against white farmers are destroying the 2002 presidential election—won hand- “We will move door to door, killing . . . . country, and have been met with univer- ily by Mr. Mugabe—as a fraud, the head I am the minister responsible for defense; sal condemnation in the West, Africans of the South African observation team therefore I am capable of killing.” look on with interest and admiration. said the vote was legitimate, and that the All public employees soon learn Most ominous is the reaction in South ANC sent “warm congratulations.” where their primary loyalty must lie. In Africa, which has had a less well-publi- Other African heads of state endorsed June 2001, Mr. Mugabe’s foreign min- cized campaign of murdering white the elections. Benjamin Mkapa of Tan- ister, Stan Mudenge, told trainee teach- farmers. In August 2001, South Africa zania even called Mr. Mugabe a “cham- ers: “As civil servants, you have to be sent its agriculture minister to Zimba- pion of democracy,” and a spokesman loyal to the government of the day. You bwe to discuss “helping understand for Nigerian President Olusegun Oba- can even be killed for supporting the farmer settlement,” and in October 2001, sanjo said his government would urge South Africa’s Deputy President, Jacob Europe and the United States to accept

American Renaissance - 5 - July 2003 the election results. President Daniel signed in October 2002. The state- took three months to march the men Arap Moi of Kenya sent his congratula- owned South African electricity and oil through the parched, mountainous wil- tions. Namibia conveyed its “warmest companies, Eskom and Sasol, supply derness to Magdala, where Napier re- congratulations to His Excellency, Com- Zimbabwe on credit—something no one duced the fort and rescued the hostages. rade Robert Gabriel Mugabe,” and else will do—and have very little chance Emperor Theodore committed suicide. President Sam Nujoma announced plans of collecting on tens of millions of dol- That was a time when Britain—and for a farm seizure program of his own. lars worth of debt. The cost is borne by the white man—were not to be trifled The Organization of African Unity South Africans, of whom the largest with. Other nations took note, just as (OAU) observer team in Zimbabwe re- number of paying customers are white. Namibia and South Africa are now tak- ported that “in general the elections were The continuing cost of ANC support for ing note of Britain’s spinelessness as Mr. transparent, credible, free and fair.” By Zimbabwe has been reflected in the cur- Mugabe drives whites off the land. Ac- African standards, of course, the elec- rency markets; the South African rand tion in defense of one’s people is strictly tion was entirely as it should be: it kept lost 25 percent of its value in 2000 alone, a question of will, which the British once the incumbent in power. and has declined steadily ever since. The had but now do not. They could arrange A wide-spread view of Mr. Mugabe country’s annual inflation rate is more a “regime change” in Zimbabwe with was expressed in New African magazine, than 250 percent. one 20th of the men they sent to Iraq, which is read all over the continent. Its Mr. Mugabe will probably succeed in but the British are now incapable of us- May 2000 cover story was unequivocal: driving whites out of the country. Some ing force to defend race and heritage. “Mugabe is Right.” he will force out physically, and others Zimbabwe teaches several lessons. Africans everywhere seem to love Mr. will leave voluntarily as Zimbabwe sinks Two are all too familiar: blacks make a Mugabe. Last September 12, after ad- further into Third-World misery. mess of Western institutions, and some dressing a session of the UN General There was a time, not so long ago, will brutalize whites if they get the Assembly in New York, he accepted an when whites could not have been treated chance. South Africa will meet the same invitation to speak at New York’s City this way. In 1866, Emperor Theodore of fate; it is only a matter of time. But los- Council chambers, where he gave a long Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) imprisoned a ing southern Africa to savagery is far less talk about his land policies to a dozen number of British subjects, claiming important than the fact that Britain, the or so members of the City Council’s Britain was not showing his regime United States, and all other European Black and Hispanic Caucus. Charles enough respect. Diplomacy failed, and countries are letting it happen. If the Barron, a former Black Panther, and the the emperor took his hostages 400 miles British cannot bring themselves to save council member who had invited Mr. inland to the mountain fortress of their Zimbabwean cousins from white- Mugabe to City Hall, hugged him and Magdala. Under orders from the prime hating barbarians, they cannot be held his hand aloft like a victorious minister and Queen Victoria, Sir Robert counted on to save themselves either. If boxer. No council member protested the Napier equipped an army of 13,000 Brit- immigration continues, and disposses- visit. ish and Indians in Bombay, loaded the sion comes to the home islands, there South Africa offers Zimbabwe mate- men and nearly 30,000 head of livestock will be no mother country to ignore their rial as well as moral support, providing (including 44 elephants) onto a great pleas for help. Ω seed, fertilizer, fuel and transportation fleet, and sailed across the Indian Ocean Arthur Kemp is a Rhodesian-born aid under the terms of an aid package to Massowah on the Red Sea coast. It journalist and author. Another Institution Dies order to shoot only whites, killing six he South African Defense Force, former PAC guerilla inducted into the officers and a civilian woman, and once by far the strongest army on SANDF went on a rampage, killing and wounding five soldiers. Another soldier Tthe African continent, has dis- wounding whites at the Tempe military later died of his wounds. solved into near-anarchy since the intro- base in Bloemfontein. The leader of a Since then, whites have slowly been duction of black rule in 1994. Fewer than special police investigations team re- squeezed out of the army, leaving an half of its “soldiers” are medically fit, overwhelmingly black force—with it has an AIDS infection rate estimated predictable consequences. A South Af- at 60 percent, and its equipment is de- rican parliamentary subcommittee teriorating to the point that the coun- briefing on defense, held in July 2002, try has only four working tanks and found that: eight armored cars. The decline began * More than half of South Africa’s after the handover of power to the 76,000 soldiers were medically unfit ANC, when members of the armed for duty. wings of both the ANC, and a smaller * The SANDF could deploy only more radical black movement, the Pan one operational brigade of 3,000 men. African Congress (PAC), were incor- * Training had virtually come to a porated into what was renamed the halt. Rooikat: too hard to maintain. South African National Defense Force * Equipment was in a deplorable (SANDF). ported he was “reluctantly forced to ad- state, with only four out of 168 Olifant Incorporation has not always been mit” that Lieutenant Sibusiso Madubela, tanks and eight of 242 Rooikat armored smooth. On September 16, 1999, a 28, brushed aside black colleagues in cars still operational.

American Renaissance - 6 - July 2003 * There was not enough money to buy 0.5 percent on new equipment. ion turns in 175 sick notices a week in fuel. In the air force, funds were allo- * Seven out of every 10 deaths in the the winter, which prevents it from par- cated for only 2,400 flying hours instead armed forces were AIDS-related. A ticipating in certain training programs. of the 7,200 requested, and pilots were medical specialist at a military hospital Many of the army’s other 38,000 unfit resigning in droves. “The air force usu- said six out of every 10 soldiers admit- soldiers reportedly have dental prob- ally runs out of aviation fuel every Sep- ted to hospital tested HIV-positive, and lems, too. tember,” said a member of the commit- that an AIDS infection rate of 60 per- Generals have faked their qualifica- tee that handles military matters. cent was “feasible.” tions to land plum jobs. At least two, * Reduction of the armed forces from Some details of the decline of the Ernest Zwane and Petronella Mari, both 104,000 in 1994 to the present 76,000 SANDF seem almost comical. In August from the ANC’s armed wing, were ar- involved massive cash payouts that, ac- 2002, Colonel T.C. Mokhosi, who com- rested in November 2002 for forging cording to committee member Hendrik mands the 1st South African Infantry university qualifications. The year be- Schmidt, turned the defense force into Battalion, told another parliamentary fore, police arrested two other former “an armed welfare department.” subcommittee that “dental reasons” ex- ANC fighters, a colonel and an ex-colo- * The force was seriously top-heavy, plain why only 138 of his 612 men can nel, on charges of diverting about R20 with a ratio of one general for every 293 be deployed internationally. Presumably million from the SANDF demobilization men, compared to one general for every 77.5 percent of his men have such bad fund in 2001. Upon learning of the scan- 2,000 men in the United States Army. teeth they are unfit for service, but the dal, Defense Minister Mosiuoa Lekota * More than 52 percent of the defense SANDF refuses to elaborate. Col. replied, “I remain satisfied that there is budget was spent on personnel, and only Mokhosi also told MPs that his battal- nothing we cannot deal with.” Ω The Pioneer Fund: Science Under Fire Richard Lynn, The Science of Human Diversity: A History of the Pioneer Fund University Press of America, 2001, $54.50 (soft cover), 643 pp. The foundation that kept The Bell Curve, this book relied heavily description of the media pogrom on the ideas and findings of the thirteen launched against the fund on ABC’s racial science alive. Pioneer grantees cited in it. As Prof. World News Tonight in 1994 by Peter Jensen has said, “The name ‘Pioneer’ is Jennings, who spiced his commentary reviewed by Ian Jobling indeed very apt.” with pictures of emaciated victims of the Nazi camps. On the same program, jour- lthough it is a small foundation nalist Greg Easterbrook called the fund that oversees a modest endow- “an Aryan crank organization,” and pro- Ament and has no paid staff, the fessional anti-racist Barry Mehler com- Pioneer Fund has, since its inception in plained about its “dirty money.” Hysteri- 1937, changed the face of social science cal attacks of this kind have prompted and the public understanding of race and picketing of Pioneer scholars, attacks by human genetics. Without the Pioneer student groups, and abuse and obstruc- Fund, there would probably be very little tion by university officials. scientific data on race differences in in- telligence and behavior. Most of the Founders and Scholars major research in this area has been done by Pioneer grantees, such as Audrey Although the 50-page preface by Shuey, Frank C. J. McGurk, R. Travis Harry F. Weyher, president of the fund Osborne, Arthur R. Jensen, J. Philippe from 1958 until his death in 2002, in- Rushton, Linda S. Gottfredson, and Ri- cludes vivid portraits of a number of chard Lynn. Pioneer grantees such as Pioneer founders and scholars, this book Prof. Lynn, William B. Shockley, is mainly a summary of their work. Au- Seymour W. Itzkoff, and Daniel R. thor Richard Lynn, an emeritus profes- Vining have also done almost all the re- Original pioneer: Wickliffe Draper. sor of University of Ulster in Northern cent work on dysgenic fertility, and have For its staunch and unyielding defi- Ireland, and a major grantee, also pro- been the most forceful advocates of eu- ance of political correctness, the fund has vides valuable information about the genics in our times. drawn the abuse of journalistic and aca- calumny the pioneers have suffered, and Pioneer also made possible Thomas demic swastika-painters. This was espe- describes some of their disputes with in- J. Bouchard’s landmark Minnesota Twin cially true around the time of the publi- tellectual adversaries. Project, which showed that identical cation of The Bell Curve, which may Persecution and hatred have been the twins reared apart are vastly more simi- have publicized Pioneer-supported ideas result of Pioneer scholars’ powerful as- lar than fraternal twins reared together. more successfully than any other book saults on the great lie of this country’s Although Pioneer did not finance Rich- in American publishing history. The Sci- intellectual and political elites: the lie ard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s ence of Human Diversity opens with a that human nature could be molded to

American Renaissance - 7 - July 2003 suit utopian political reformers. Assum- one’s mind just how long the basic facts While the fund has been spectacularly ing that human nature was infinitely about race differences have been known successful in carrying out the second malleable, these reformers believed they and how long the academic establish- objective, the same cannot be said of the could eliminate racial divisions, make ment has refused to recognize them. first. Pioneer has funded only one eu- blacks equal to whites, integrate Third- Certainly, this refusal has been unforgiv- genic project, the Air Corps scholarship World immigrants, abolish traditional able since at least 1958, when Audrey plan, which started in 1937. It began with M. Shuey produced her encyclopedic a study of the fertility of officers in the The Testing of Negro Intelligence. US Army Air Corps (predecessor to the Air Force), who were thought to have Wickliffe Draper the fitness, intelligence, courage, and character the fund wished to promote. The main force behind the establish- This study found that the officers’ fami- ment of the Pioneer Fund was Wickliffe lies were not replacing themselves, and Preston Draper, born in 1891, and heir that they wanted more children, but were to a fortune made in textile machinery. restrained by financial considerations. Draper’s life was characterized by a re- The fund promised $4,000 for the edu- lentless thirst for knowledge and adven- cation of every additional child born to ture. As a young man, he traveled on families that already had three children. horseback through Mexico and wit- This assistance was provided only for nessed the Zapatista revolution. Later, children born in 1941, after which the he did anthropological and archaeologi- plan was discontinued. Prof. Lynn esti- cal research in Africa. He served in both mates that it resulted in the birth of only World Wars, in the first as an artillery seven children, and believes there were soldier and in the second as an intelli- no more Pioneer eugenic programs be- gence officer in India. cause the Air Corps project proved how Audrey Shuey’s early classic. Draper’s overriding intellectual inter- difficult and expensive they were. sex roles, and otherwise rid American est was dysgenic trends in Western popu- Aside from their scientific work, fund society of what they deemed to be back- lations. In 1928 he established the Eu- recipients have opposed the racial inte- ward prejudices (see March, 2003 re- genics Research Association Prize, gration forced on Americans since view of The Blank Slate). awarded to scholars who wrote about Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Pioneer grantees stubbornly insisted dysgenic fertility, the decline of white Writing immediately after the historic on the biological obstacles to this uto- birthrates, and racial differences. He also pian vision. They argued that social en- believed America’s greatness was made Marie Jahoda argued gineering could never overcome racial possible by racial homogeneity, and was that in thinking blacks differences in intelligence and person- a strong supporter of the 1924 Immigra- ality, that racial integration would fail tion Act, which privileged the immigra- were lazy, childish, and because humans have a natural prefer- tion of Northern Europeans. He sup- promiscuous, whites were ence for their own race, that mass Third- ported activist groups that wished to re- projecting on them their World immigration was tantamount to patriate blacks to Africa and that op- own repressed urges, and white genocide, and that the elimination posed racial integration. Draper also of traditional sex roles would have a funded the work of two Congressional that the only solution to devastating dysgenic impact on fertility. committees that opposed John F. Ken- this problem was forced They maintained that biological prob- nedy’s disastrous immigration reform in residential integration. lems require biological solutions, and the 1960s. that current social welfare programs en- Draper established the Pioneer Fund case, Pioneer grantee Ernest van den courage reproduction by the weak, the in 1937 with fellow eugenicists Harry Haag defended school and neighbor- stupid, and the irresponsible. An im- H. Laughlin and Frederick H. Osborn. hood segregation on the principle of free provement in the quality of a population The Fund’s Certificate of Incorporation association. He argued that even if white requires a decrease in the frequency of explained its objectives: First, it would preference for segregation were based undesirable genes and an increase in provide financial assistance for the edu- on prejudice, prejudice is not illegal, and desirable ones. The wrath that has cation of the children of parents who had the Constitution gives the government greeted Pioneer scholars is, in short, that “such qualities and traits of character as no mandate to combat ideas. The policy of the charlatan and his dupes against to make such parents of unusual value of “compulsory togetherness” was more the doctor who discredits quack cures as citizens.” Especially to be aided were likely to exacerbate racial problems than and insists upon less palatable medicine. the descendants of the inhabitants of the solve them. Many of the scientific findings sum- original thirteen American colonies and Writing in the 1960s, University of marized in the book will already be those of “related stocks.” Essentially, Hawaii philosophy professor A. James known to readers of AR, but The Sci- Draper’s first goal was to pay gifted Gregor wrote that ethnocentrism was ence of Human Diversity offers a wealth people of northern European descent to such a strong human attribute that it was of detail on dysgenics, eugenics, and the have more children. Second, Pioneer unlikely racial integration would be suc- biological bases of personality and race would fund the study of heredity and cessful. Anticipating J. P. Rushton’s “ge- differences. This book also impresses on eugenics. netic similarity theory,” Prof. Gregor

American Renaissance - 8 - July 2003 wrote that we prefer to associate with tude tests, helped abolish “race norm- fugalism:” “that which is foreign and people of our own race because of in- ing.” Introduced in 1981, this was a sys- strange, particularly if persecuted, [has nate aesthetic preferences. He wrote that tem of separate evaluation standards for become] the ideal.” He noted that, like feelings of racial identity emerge early different races on employment exami- the citizens of Beirut, we are not likely in children, typically by the age of four nations. Prof. Gottfredson and her col- to find it ideal for long. That city, once or five, and that for this reason racial league Jan Blits point out that race called the Paris of the Mediterranean, segregation is the natural human state. norming gave blacks and Hispanics an was torn apart by ethnic conflict. Prof. Prof. Gregor also found that racial inte- unfair advantage; race norming was Hardin believes immigration is geno- gration lowered the quality of education banned by the Civil Rights Act of 1991. because black/white differences in intel- In his 1998 book Why Race Matters, ligence and behavior result in lower stan- Pioneer grantee and City College of New dards. He also noted that all-white com- York philosopher Michael Levin demol- munities are safer than mixed neighbor- ished the premises of affirmative action hoods. and other forms of reparations: that Prof. Lynn describes some of the sil- whites have harmed blacks, who there- liness Prof. Gregor was combating. One fore deserve compensation. He pointed opponent was psychologist Marie out that almost all African slaves were Jahoda, who claimed that racial preju- sold to whites by other Africans, and that dice was a form of psychological disor- the descendants of slaves enjoy a much der. She argued that in thinking blacks higher standard of living than Africans. were lazy, childish, and promiscuous, It is therefore not unreasonable to con- whites were projecting on them their clude that the slave trade benefited own repressed urges, and that the only blacks. He argues further that in light of solution to this problem was forced resi- black criminality and destruction of dential integration. Prof. Gregor’s posi- housing stock, it would be more reason- Garrett Hardin tion was that “speculative gymnastics” able for whites to demand reparations cide, albeit of a relatively bloodless kind. of this kind “obscures the nature and from blacks. Genocide is the elimination of one character of social problems.” As part of a detailed analysis of ra- people by another, and is inevitable Several other Pioneer scholars op- cial differences in intelligence and be- when highly fertile non-white immi- posed integration. In the 1970s and ’80s, havior, Prof. Levin applies his subver- grants arrive among less fertile whites. University of Northern Iowa psycholo- sive common sense to the question of (It displaces natives even when immi- gist Ralph Scott reported that busing did discrimination. If blacks are ten times grants are not especially fertile—see AR, not improve black student performance, more likely than whites to commit cer- Feb. 2003.) and that even black parents overwhelm- tain crimes, it is rational to be more sus- Several fund recipients have proposed ingly opposed it. He argued that racial picious of them. Likewise, it is no more eugenic improvement of the American integration was the reason American reprehensible for an employer to deny a population. The outstanding figure in education compared poorly to that of job to a black than it is for a landlord to this field was William Shockley, the col- other developed countries, since the refuse to rent a room to a motorcycle orful Nobel Prize-winning physicist, main effect of school integration was to gang member, since blacks and Hell’s who became a tireless advocate of eu- hold back gifted students. Angels are more likely than others to be genics, after realizing the dangers of In 1991, pscyhologist Lloyd G. criminals or behave obnoxiously. dysgenic fertility. He said he was con- Humphreys pointed out that many whites Among Pioneer grantees, the most verted by a news story about a teenager had fled to the suburbs to avoid racially significant advocate of immigration re- who blinded a delicatessen owner dur- integrated schools. He attacked the ob- form has been ecologist Garrett Hardin, ing a robbery. The criminal was one of vious hypocrisy of liberals like Senator emeritus of University of California at 17 illegitimate children of a woman with Edward Kennedy, who advocates inte- Santa Barbara. Prof. Hardin estimated an IQ of 55 who could remember the gration for public schools, but sends his that the carrying capacity of the earth names of only nine of her children. The own children to private schools. Rich was reached during the last quarter of robber himself had an IQ of 65, and Dr. liberals rarely support integration in their the 20th century, and that further popu- Shockley was horrified to think that own neighborhoods, but insist on it for lation growth would lower the quality some day such people might become a the lower classes. of life. In the United States and Europe, majority in America. An even more common target of fund fertility is low, so whites would not suf- Dr. Shockley proposed several eu- recipients has been affirmative action. fer the ills of overpopulation unless there genic policies, one of which has already Prof. Humphreys called attention to low- was immigration. He popularized the been put into effect: the establishment ered standards at Harvard Medical metaphor of the lifeboat: When the boat of sperm banks for gifted donors. Some School, which began to let failing stu- is full, no one else should be allowed on of his other ideas were very imaginative. dents take more repeat examinations, board. Letting on more is a perverse He proposed that people with below- and stopped publishing students’ scores variant of compassion that will sink the average IQs be paid to be sterilized. For after it started letting in underqualified boat. every point below 100, they would re- minorities. Prof. Hardin also wrote that Western ceive $1,000, so someone with an IQ of University of Delaware psychologist societies practice a strange reversal of 90 would get $10,000, and one with 70 Linda S. Gottfredson, an expert on apti- ethnocentrism that he called “ethno- would get $30,000. He also proposed

American Renaissance - 9 - July 2003 that girls be fitted at puberty with con- fused to accept Pioneer grants made to Besides being harassed by their uni- traceptives that could be removed only their scholars because of negative pub- versities, many scholars have been pick- by a doctor. Every woman would have a licity about the fund. In only one case, eted, hectored, and physically attacked license for 2.2 children and would have that of Hans J. Eysenck of University of by radical groups. Students invaded and to buy the licenses of other women if London, was this refusal allowed to vandalized Seymour Itzkoff’s office and they wanted more. Dr. Shockley pre- stand. In the two other cases, those of attacked his home. Radicals have dem- dicted that poor women would sell their Linda S. Gottfredson and Seymour onstrated noisily at Profs. Lynn’s, licenses to rich women, which would Itzkoff, the refusals were overturned by Jensen’s, and Eysenck’s classes. skew fertility toward superior people. the courts. Universities have also tried A more insidious and effective Another eugenicist Pioneer grantee is unsuccessfully to revoke tenure and dis- method of silencing scholars is to refuse Seymour Itzkoff, psychology professor miss Prof. Rushton and Prof. Levin. to publish their work. Audrey M. at Smith College. Prof. Itzkoff believes Universities have tried to repress Pio- Shuey’s carefully researched The Test- the quality of the population is declin- neer-funded research with threats and ing of Negro Intelligence could find no ing because welfare raises the fertility red tape. Courts have eventually en- publisher until Draper financed the book of the poor, feminism encourages intel- forced most university obligations, but in 1958. Eight publishers turned down ligent women to have careers rather than litigation ties up scholars’ time and is a Prof. Jensen’s authoritative The g Fac- children, and because of Third-World huge worry. Prof. Levin’s and Prof. tor before it was finally published in immigration. He suggests that high-pay- Rushton’s ordeals are well summarized 1998, and Prof. Jensen has found that ing jobs be given preferentially to mar- in Samuel Francis’s essay in The Real politically incorrect articles have to pass ried men with families, that the tax code American Dilemma, but Linda Gott- an unreasonably stiff review process. be amended to reward higher-earning fredson’s case is just as interesting, and Many prominent journals search out re- people who have children and punish reveals much about the current univer- viewers who can find, or invent, some those who do not, that strong measures sity mentality. Trouble began in 1989 flaw in the methodology of any article be taken to discourage illegitimate when a linguistics professor at Univer- that may be politically insensitive. Small births, and that illegal immigrants be presses are often the only ones that pub- repatriated. lish “insensitive” books, and may have Although Pioneer grantees have been to charge exorbitant prices. The Science called many names, they have diagnosed of Human Diversity, which costs $54.50 the nature and causes of American so- in paperback, is an unfortunate example. cial problems more accurately than con- Prof. Lynn is very optimistic about the ventional thinkers. Just as Profs. van den future of the fund. He believes the pub- Haag, Gregor, Scott, and Humphreys lic is becoming more open to IQ research predicted, the attempt to integrate and the evolutionary-genetic approach America’s schools and neighborhoods to human behavior because of the largely has been a failure. Demographers tell us positive publicity behavioral and medi- American neighborhoods are almost as cal genetics have received in the press. segregated today as they were before the Citing a positive 1994 New York Times Civil Rights Act of 1964. Just this year, review of The Bell Curve and of books Harvard University scholars announced by Prof. Rushton and Prof. Itzkoff, he that schools are still highly segregated says the tide has started to turn, and he and are becoming more so. Forced bus- looks forward with excitement to the ing has encountered fierce resistance and Linda Gottfredson next 60 years of Pioneer-funded re- has been, for the most part, abandoned. sity of Delaware wrote a letter to the search. Another reason to be optimistic Similarly, affirmative action programs in dean complaining that the fund that was about the future of Pioneer is that Prof. education are under attack for precisely aiding Prof. Gottfredson sponsored rac- Rushton is its new president. the reasons Pioneer grantees have speci- ist research. In 1990, Prof. Gottfredson I hope Prof. Lynn is right. Widespread fied. The notorious under-performance got menacing calls from university offi- hostility has not so far stopped Pioneer of today’s students and the rise in prison cials calling her a “lightning rod,” and scholars from stating their ideas, but it populations suggest that Pioneer grant- advising her to get a lawyer. The uni- may well have discouraged younger ees have been correct about the declin- versity then refused to administer the scholars from pursuing these topics. All ing quality of the population. The ever- Pioneer grant, claiming that the fund’s of the currently living Pioneer grantees increasing percentage of immigrant mi- aims and the research it sponsored were are over 50 years old. One wonders how norities in America and Europe confirms “clearly and unambiguously in conflict many young scholars are willing to take Prof. Hardin’s prediction of white geno- with the University’s commitment to ra- the risks the pioneers have taken. Prof. cide. cial and cultural diversity.” Administra- Jensen has noted that adopting the he- tors told Prof. Gottfredson that if she reditarian position limits a Ph.D.’s job Fierce Resistance found some independent way of receiv- opportunities and can jeopardize promo- ing Pioneer money, she could not use tions, honors, and grants. Even stating Prof. Lynn points out that much Pio- university facilities, and it would not well-established findings about the na- neer research has been pursued in the count towards her research requirements. ture of the races can be prosecuted as teeth of fierce resistance from academ- It took two years of litigation to over- hate speech on some university cam- ics. In the 1990s, three universities re- turn the university’s strictures. puses. The non-whites pouring into

American Renaissance - 10 - July 2003 white countries have never been known may cease to be one in which the Pio- Dr. Jobling lives in Buffalo, New York. for their commitment to free speech. neer Fund and its grantees can continue He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Lit- Unless this tide is stopped, our country to operate freely. Ω erature.

1998, the US Third Circuit Court of Censored in Texas Appeals overturned a Pennsylvania Race-conscious inmate tenced to the additional year, Mr. Sorens court’s ruling and ordered that convicted says Warden Gary G. More of his unit cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal be allowed punished for writing. told him he was being punished “for all to receive payment for articles and ra- those newspaper articles you wrote.” dio programs. Still, a TDCJ lawyer be- by Stephen Webster Mr. Sorens has written for pay almost lieves he can convince a court there is a as long as he has been in prison, and no clear “penological rationalization” for illiam Bryan Sorens has been one objected. Other Texas inmates are punishing Mr. Sorens. In the meantime, in a Texas prison for 19 years, paid for articles and even books, and Mr. Sorens has been silenced; who Wserving a 60-year sentence for knows how many more years of prison rape. He has used his time constructively, he would get if he continued to write? earning two Master’s degrees, and writ- You can help Mr. Sorens by writing ing articles about prison life and other to these three Texas state representatives topics for publication, for which he is (or you can send them e-mail by search- usually paid. His work has appeared in ing for them at http://www.capitol. Christian and racialist publications, state.tx.us/capitol.htm): newspapers like the San Antonio Ex- press-News, and even Playboy. He has Rep. Terri Hodge been in discussion with American Re- Box 2910 naissance about several articles. Austin, TX 78769-2910 Mr. Sorens supports harsh punish- Rep. Ray Allen ment for criminals—he says it has Box 2910 worked for him—and he was scheduled Austin, TX 78769-2910 to be considered for release in Decem- Sen. John Whitmore ber 2005. However, on March 18, prison Box 12068 authorities gave Mr. Sorens another year Austin, TX 78711-2068 as punishment. His crime? Receiving have not been punished. Jorge Antonio You can also write or call: pay for writing. According to Texas Renaud, an armed robber, writes regu- Dede Keith Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) larly for Texas newspapers and had a Admin. & Constituent Services regulations, inmates may not establish book—Behind the Walls—published last Office of the Governor or operate businesses, and Mr. Sorens, year by the University of North Texas Box 12404 they say, was in the business of selling Press. “I have never been threatened with Austin, TX 78711-2404 articles. disciplinary action for my writing,” says (512) 463-1800 Mr. Sorens says he is being singled Mr. Renaud. “It’s not as if they don’t If you write, please include the words: out because for the last two years, he has know I’m getting paid,” he adds, point- “Information of Public Interest Com- criticized the TDCJ for lax security and ing out that his checks are deposited in plaint, Texas Government Code Sec. for coddling Islamic prisoners. He also the Inmate Trust Fund, which prisoners 493.016, E.D. 02.03.” Also, it is useful writes with a clear understanding of ra- use to buy things at the commissary. to explain how Mr. Sorens’s punishment cial matters the TDCJ prefers to ignore. Mr. Sorens may sue the TDCJ, and harms the public, i.e., by denying people During the hearing at which he was sen- appears to have case law on his side. In the right to read his articles. Ω O Tempora, O Mores!

Reality of Race formed in August 2002 collected more the killer struck again, murdering his than 600 DNA samples from potential fifth victim and fourth white. That same For some time, Baton Rouge was ter- suspects—all white. week, in early March, Mr. Frudakis told rorized by a rapist-serial killer. Police In February 2003, Tony Frudakis, police the killer they were looking for had DNA evidence to link the murders CEO of DNAPrint Genomics (see “Race was black—85 percent African and 15 but did not know how to use DNA to Denial: The Power of a Delusion,” in percent American Indian. The task force determine the killer’s race. On the basis last month’s issue) contacted the task began collecting DNA from black sus- of a purported eyewitness description force, explaining that his company had pects. and a behavioral profile from the FBI, a new DNA test that could determine the Detectives already had DNA from a they were looking for a white man. A killer’s race with 99 percent accuracy. different murder investigation for Der- Multi-Agency Homicide Task Force While his lab was analyzing the sample rick Lee, a 34-year-old black man, and

American Renaissance - 11 - July 2003 on May 25, a police technician matched “Vexed by an editorial in The New from a common ancestor five or six mil- it to the samples recovered from the five England Journal [of Medicine (NEJM)] lion years ago. The authors point out that victims. The next day, police issued a that declared that race was ‘biologically many species that diverged longer ago warrant for his arrest, and captured him meaningless,’ Dr. Risch argued in the than that are included in the same ge- electronic journal Genome Biology that nus, and they say it makes no biological self-identified race was useful in under- sense to give humans special treatment standing ethnic differences in disease with a genus all their own. DNA analy- and in the response to drugs.” sis gives varying figures for the extent The news peg for Mr. Wade’s article of genetic similarity between chimps and was the appearance in the NEJM of two humans depending on which part of the articles that reopen the debate on race genome is studied, but the authors have two years after a staff-written editorial found that for long stretches of impor- dismissed its scientific validity. The de- tant, functional DNA there is 99.4 per- bate is accompanied by a new editorial cent similarity. They propose that chim- taking the view that it is “unwise to aban- panzees, now called Pan troglodytes, be don the practice of recording race when renamed Homo troglodytes and be wel- we have barely begun to understand the comed into the family. [John Pickrell, architecture of the human genome.” Chimps Belong on Human Branch of Mr. Wade goes on to point out that Family Tree, Study Says, National Geo- although the same genes are usually im- graphic News, May 20, 2003.] plicated in the same diseases worldwide, Hard to find him when you are looking there are still important racial differ- for a white man. ences: “Inheriting two APOE4 genes, a day later in Atlanta. [Rachael Bell, one from each parent, raises the risk of The Mystery of the Baton Rouge Se- Alzheimer’s 33 times in Japanese popu- rial Killer, CrimeLibrary.com. Josh lations, 15 times in Caucasians and only Noel, Florida Lab Pointed to Race, The 6 times in Africans. This suggests that Advocate (Baton Rouge), June 4, some unknown factor modifies the ef- 2003.] fect of the APOE4 gene in different races It would be hard to think of a more . . . .” [Nicholas Wade, 2 Scholarly Ar- dramatic demonstration that race is a ticles Diverge on Role of Race in Medi- biological fact and not a “social con- cine, New York Times, March 20, 2003.] struct.” The notion that race is not based in Long lost cousin clinging to our branch of biology has made significant inroads in the evolutionary tree? Race Cannot be Wished popular thinking but appears to be in If there is so little genetic difference serious retreat among specialists. between us and chimps we belong in the Away same family, it is clear that very small The New York Times has recently been His Keeper’s Brother genetic differences can produce very sig- quite bold in upholding the common nificant physical differences. sense view that race is not a mere socio- A new study by biologists at Wayne logical artifact but a biological reality. State University in Detroit has concluded Congo Cannibalism In a recent article, Nicholas Wade writes: that humans and chimpanzees are so “A view widespread among many closely related genetically that chimps There have been many atrocities in social scientists, endorsed in official should be included in the Homo genus, the civil war that has raged in the Demo- statements by the American Sociologi- along with humans. A genus is the first- cratic Republic of Congo for the past cal Association and the American An- level grouping of closely-related species. four years. In May, fighting between ri- thropological Association, is that race is The genus Canis, for example, includes val tribal militias in the eastern province not a valid biological concept. But bi- dogs, foxes, wolves, coyotes, jackals, of Ituri killed more than 300 people. ologists, particularly the population ge- etc., and Equidae includes nine species According to church leaders in the area, neticists who study genetic variation, of horses, donkeys and zebras. We are one group of combatants, the Lendu have found that there is a structure in currently the only member of genus tribesmen, cut open the people they the human population. The structure is Homo, although we have a number of killed and ate the hearts, lungs, and liv- a family tree showing separate branches extinct relatives such as Homo erectus ers. “The sight of a corpse with a miss- for Africans, Caucasians (Europe, the and Homo neanderthalensis. ing liver or heart is horrific, especially Middle East and the Indian subconti- The authors of the Wayne State Study, when you know those parts were eaten, nent), East Asians, Pacific Islanders and which has just appeared in Proceedings and that the same thing could happen to American Indians. of the National Academy of Sciences, you,” says Acquitto Kisembo, of the “Biologists, too, have often been re- argue that although traditional zoologists town of Bunia, where much of the fight- luctant to use the term ‘race.’ But this decided chimps were more closely re- ing took place. Father Joseph Deneckere, taboo was broken last year by Dr. Neil lated to gorillas than to humans, DNA a Belgian priest who has lived in the Risch, a leading population geneticist at studies show otherwise: We are the Congo since 1970, says tribesmen also Stanford University. chimps’ closest relative, having diverged cut off the genitals and fingers of en-

American Renaissance - 12 - July 2003 emies, and tie them to their weapons as Grabs White-owned Farm, Electronic they start talking about security. Vlaams charms. Telegraph, April 19, 2003.] Blok talks about assimilation they speak Fighters have also been eating pyg- about assimilation. That’s the power of mies, 600,000 of whom live in the Blok Party the Vlaams Blok,” he says. “It is impos- jungles of the Congo. Soldiers of both ing itself on the governing parties with- the government and various rebel fac- Despite the efforts of the Belgian po- out being in government.” tions think pygmies are sub-human, and litical establishment to ban it (see April Mr. Abou Jahjah, 31, who gained Bel- believe their flesh confers magical pow- issue), the Flemish nationalist Vlaams gian citizenship through a brief marriage ers when eaten. According to UN hu- Blok party scored big gains in Belgium’s to a Belgian, doesn’t want Muslims to man rights officials, Congolese have national elections on May 18, receiving assimilate. He demands separate schools cooked and eaten more than a dozen 19.5 percent of the vote—its highest to- for Muslim children, and wants Arabic pygmies this year. Sinafari Makelo, a tal ever—a significant increase over the to be an official language in Belgium. representative of the Mbuti pygmy tribe, 15 percent it won in 1999. The Blok fa- Instead of trying to force Muslims to wants the UN to try the cannibals be- vors independence for the northern adopt to Belgian culture, Mr. Abou fore an international court. “In living Flanders region of Belgium, and cam- Jahjah thinks the prime minister should memory, we have seen cruelty, massa- paigned on a platform calling for clos- learn Arabic. [Raf Casert, Belgium’s cres, and genocide, but we have never ing the border to further non-European Arab Nationalist Touches Nerve, AP, seen human beings hunted down as May 16, 2003.] though they were game animals,” he One of the stars of the Vlaams Blok told the UN’s Indigenous People’s Fo- is Anke Van dermeersch, a lawyer and rum. [Michael Dynes, Pygmies Beg former Miss Belgium. She has no use UN for Aid to Save Them from Congo for “Belgians” like Mr. Abou Jahjah. Cannibals, Times (London), May 23, On the campaign trail on her way to a 2003.] seat in the Belgian Senate, Miss Van dermeersch told the BBC, “We still A Warning to Us All are very much against the multicul- tural society. We need people who C.G. Tracey was one of the first emigrate here to adapt. If they don’t white farmers to welcome black rule in Muslims in Belgium: send them home. adapt to our systems, to our laws, to our the former Rhodesia. He had a farm in immigration and deporting foreign values, they should go back where they what is called the Enterprise farming criminals and illegal aliens. Its motto is came from.” [Stephen Castle, Belgian district, which includes some of the best “Our People First.” Coalition Wins Polls as Far-Right Gains land in Zimbabwe, and is only about 20 Although the Blok is the largest party Ground, Independent (London), May 19, miles east of the capital, Harare. He was in the city of Antwerp, it does not have 2003. Shirin Wheeler, Belgian Far Right active in the handover of power to the a majority, and other parties have banded Poll Boosts Fears, BBC Online, May 20, Mugabe government, organizing some together to form a majority and keep it 2003.] of the important conferences that made out of city government. Even the “con- it possible. In the early days of black rule servative” Christian Democrats refuse to Fade to Brown (Con’t.) he served on a number of agricultural work with the Blok, though their leader committees and was held in high regard. Stefan De Clerck admits that this “cor- In 1990, whites were the majority This spring, the number two man on don sanitaire” has not checked the Blok’s population in 70 of the nation’s 100 larg- the Zimbabwe supreme court, Padding- increasing popularity. “They’re still est cities, making up more than 52 per- ton Garwe, decided he liked Mr. Tra- growing and that’s a problem,” he says. cent of their total populations. By 2000, cey’s farm and sent in some thugs to kick Mr. De Clerck should rethink his whites were a majority in only 52 of the him out. Mr. Tracey, now in his 80s, is position. The Christian Democrats won largest cities, and were just 44 percent said to be “heartbroken and confused” 21.5 percent of the national vote in May. of their total populations. It is mainly by his eviction from the farm that has The combined vote totals of the Chris- Hispanics who are reducing whites to been his life’s work. No doubt he thought tian Democrats and the Vlaams Blok urban minorities. During the 1990s, His- his cooperation with blacks would save leave them within striking distance of the panics living in the 100 largest cities in- his neck, but as a former neighbor who left-of-center Liberal-Socialist ruling creased by 3.8 million, or 43 percent. In has moved to South Africa explains, coalition—41 percent vs. 44.5 percent. the 20 fastest-growing cities, the num- “Now he is just another white man and If the Blok continues to gain votes while ber of Hispanics increased by 72 per- they want him to go.” the Christian Democrats maintain theirs, cent while the number of whites in- Before Mr. Mugabe ordered the land a Blok-Christian Democrat coalition creased by just five percent. grab three years ago (see cover story), would have a good chance of governing Hispanics are not heading only for there were 66 white farmers in the En- Belgium after the next election. Sun Belt cities like Las Vegas. Chicago terprise area. Now there are fewer than According to Dyab Abou Jahjah, a gained more than 200,000 Hispanics a dozen. The rest have not been distrib- failed parliamentary candidate and during the 1990s, reversing a decades- uted to “war veterans.” Instead, they are spokesman for the Belgian Muslim “Re- long population decline that saw the city in the hands of cabinet ministers, gener- sist” movement, the Vlaams Blok is al- drop from second- to third-largest in the als, and other Zanu-PF bigwigs. [Peta ready influencing the government. US. Without an influx of Hispanics, Thornycroft, Zimbabwe Judge Secretly “Vlaams Blok talks about security, so Boston, Dallas and Los Angeles all

American Renaissance - 13 - July 2003 would have lost population during the eas south and west of downtown LA it member, says there was no outside pres- ’90s. is called “South Central creep.” South sure. He claims the board is simply try- So far, Hispanics have yet to turn their Central was the scene of the 1965 and ing to be more inclusive—presumably numbers into political power. While 1992 riots, crack-inspired gang warfare by excluding a Confederate. King Salim whites are now a minority in California, of the 1980s and ’90s, and has been the they were still nearly 75 percent of the setting for several Hollywood films voters in last fall’s statewide elections. about life in “da ‘hood.” But as their numbers in California con- On April 9, the LA City Council voted tinue to decrease (only 36 percent of the 14-0 to rename South Central “South state’s public schoolchildren are white), Los Angeles.” Councilwoman Jan Perry, their political power will fade. [Whites who sponsored the motion, says the a Minority in US Cities, BBC Online, name change will make residents feel April 30, 2003.] better about their neighborhood and themselves. It’s “about empowering a Not for long. Tolerance, Leftist Style community to lift itself up and about how Khalfani, director of the Virginia chap- we can help communities regain a sense ter of the NAACP, cheers the council’s As we reported last month, the Brit- of dignity and pride over their history decision. He says a name-change will ish National Party (BNP) enjoyed its and culture,” she says. Although he encourage more non-whites to join the greatest electoral success to date in voted for the name change, Councilman Scouts. [Patrick Badgley, Richmond Britain’s May 1st local elections. In Nate Holden says it won’t solve prob- Boy Scouts Drop General Lee’s Name, Burnley, scene of anti-white rioting in lems and won’t improve a bad reputa- Washington Times (National Weekly 2001, the BNP added five seats to the tion. [Gail Schiller, City Council Vote Edition), May 19-25, 2003, p. 17.] three it already held, making it the sec- to Erase Notorious South Central Name, ond-largest party on the town council— AP, April 10, 2003. Calvin Sims, South (African) America Online much to the dismay of the Bishop of Central Los Angeles, Associated with Burnley, John Goddard, who said, “It is Violence and Poverty, Will be South Los This year, for the first time, America now seen as not impossible to vote for Angeles, New York Times, April 10, Online (AOL) had a net loss of subscrib- such a party. We have crossed a line, a 2003.] ers. Of AOL’s 27 million US members, line which is against everything that is approximately 14 percent (4 million) are best in our culture.” Family Affair black. Since AOL expects the number On May 15, as the BNP councilors of black Internet users to increase 8.4 entered the hall for their first meeting, On May 3, Nicole Bilbo, a twenty- percent from 2003-2007—double the Anti-Nazi League protestors broke past year-old white woman, broke up with her rate for whites—it wants to reverse its police barricades and threw eggs and black boyfriend of two years, Kevin slide by designing content aimed at flour at them. During a brief skirmish Townsend. She gave him the bad news blacks. AOL Black Focus offers news, with mounted policemen, at least seven in Martin Luther King Park in San beauty and style tips, hearthrob chat- people—most of them ANL protest- Angelo, Texas, and he did not take it rooms, and entertainment from a “black ors—were injured. Inside the council well. He told three girl cousins who were perspective.” AOL members can access chamber, the Labour members, led by nearby—Catrina Miller, 30, Nina Miller, Black Focus by typing in AOL keyword Stuart Caddy, refused to shake hands 21, and Joann Miller, 18—to beat up “black focus.” with their BNP counterparts, whom Mr. Miss Bilbo. With a shout of, “We’re Unfortunately for AOL, there are al- Caddy regards as fascists and racists, going to whoop this white bitch,” the ready several Internet services geared “whatever they say.” For their part, the Miller sisters pounded Miss Bilbo with toward blacks, for example BET.com BNP councilors, led by Len Starr, a their shoes, and Joann Miller broke a and BlackPlanet.com. Scott Mills, chief former sergeant in the British army, beer bottle and cut her with the jagged operating officer of BET.com thinks calmly went to work on council business. edge. On May 9, police arrested the sis- AOL cannot offer “black content” to [Nigel Bunyan, Violence as BNP Group ters on aggravated assault and hate crime rivel BET. [Paul Davidson, AOL to Takes Seats on Council, Telegraph (Lon- charges. At last report, Mr. Townsend Launch Area for African-Americans, don), May 16, 2003.] had not been charged. [Erin Quinn, Ar- USA Today, May 28, 2003.] rests Made in Hate Crime Assault, San Wallpapering the Privy Angelo (Texas) Standard Times, May Rewarding Illegals 11, 2003.] South Central Los Angeles has a repu- California, New York, Texas and Utah tation as a violent, poverty-stricken, Scout’s Dishonor all let children of illegal immigrants pay gang- and drug-infested, crime-ridden in-state tuition at public colleges and horror. Its 16 square miles, which take Since 1942, the Richmond-area Boy universities. On July 1, Washington will their name from Central Avenue, were Scout council has called itself the Rob- join the club, with Oregon likely to fol- for decades LA’s main black neighbor- ert E. Lee Council, but in May, the ex- low soon. Washington’s new law applies hood but, like most of the city, it is now ecutive board voted “overwhelmingly” to children of illegals who have lived in increasingly Hispanic. Still, “South Cen- to change the name, effective June 2004. the state for at least three years and re- tral” is code in California for “black,” It is now soliciting suggestions for a new quires them to say they will take steps and when blacks move into adjacent ar- name. Robert Tuggle, an executive board toward citizenship. The new law will

American Renaissance - 14 - July 2003 save them a lot of money. Non-residents TV Cranks Up Diversity Volume, AP, three of her victims were white] . . . what pay $15,267 a year to attend the Uni- May 21, 2003.] is it, because you’re taking another black versity of Washington; residents pay person off the street? That’s prejudice. $4,566. What Race are Hispanics? Straight prejudice.” Miss Perry will be The state Senate amended the origi- eligible for parole in 2020. [Greg nal bill to apply only to the children of Three point four million Puerto Livadas, Reckless Driver Gets 20 Years, non-resident aliens here legally, but Ricans live in the United States, and 3.8 Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester), Washington Gov. Gary Locke vetoed the million live on the island. Nearly 81 per- March 18, 2003.] amendment. Now illegal immigrants cent of the ones on the island tell the enjoy benefits not granted to full, legal census bureau they are “white,” while Bad Bouncers US citizens who live in other states. only 46 percent of the ones in the United Jorge Padrazo, Mexico’s Consul Gen- States say they are white. The 81 per- The authorities in Madrid, Spain, es- eral in Seattle, says the Mexican gov- cent figure would make Puerto Rico timate that on a typical Saturday night, ernment, which lobbies states to adopt “whiter” than the United States, where as many as 700,000 people are carous- similar laws, is “very encouraged and only about 73 percent of the overall ing in the city’s 1,000 bars and night- happy with this piece of legislation.” [Il- population describes itself as white. clubs. The 2,000 bouncers who control legal Workers’ Children Get Tuition There are other examples of the bleach- access and keep the peace sometimes Break, AP, May 8, 2003.] ing effect of geography. In Texas, 61 must use force. Last year two people percent of the Hispanics from Mexico died in fights between bouncers and pa- DiversiTV say they are white, whereas in Califor- trons. The National Association of nia only 40 percent do. In Florida, 92 Nightclubs and Concert Halls is now For years, non-white agitators have percent of Cubans say they are white, offering bouncers voluntary classes in been complaining that network televi- whereas in California only 68 percent customer service, anger management— sion is too white, and groups like the do. [Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, For Mil- and civil rights. SOS Racism, a Spanish NAACP have threatened boycotts if the lions of Latinos, Race Is a Flexible Con- human rights group, says many doormen networks did not add more non-white cept, Los Angeles, Times, March 11, are under orders to keep blacks, North faces. Judging from the line-up of new 2003.] Africans, Gypsies and Latin Americans shows appearing on the TV schedule this out of trendy nightspots. The classes will fall, the networks appear to have gotten Racism Unmasked include lessons on the Spanish Consti- the message. tution, and teach bouncers they cannot Last August, a black woman named keep people out for ethnic reasons. Laguana Perry leaving the drug treat- [Daniel Woolls, Classes Aim to Take the ment clinic at Strong Memorial Hospi- Bully Out of Spain’s Club Bouncers, AP, tal in Rochester, New York, got into an March 23, 2003.] argument with a white security officer, Mary Russello. She drove up onto the Slaves Sued for Freedom sidewalk in an attempt to run Miss Russello over, and knocked over a street Historians in St. Louis, Missouri, sign that struck the security guard in the have recently uncovered records of hun- head, injuring her severely. Miss Perry dreds of suits brought by black slaves then tried to hit Miss Russello again, and seeking freedom. The hand-written smashed into five people—injuring two documents, which date form 1806 to seriously—who were trying to help Miss 1865, were locked away in a court house Russello. She then fled the scene. When for more than a century and were re- police caught up with her, Miss Perry at cently exhumed with the help of a fed- first said her foot slipped off the brake, eral grant. Slaves in Missouri had three No fewer than 18 new programs fea- but then admitted she tried to hit Miss grounds to sue for freedom: that they turing non-white stars will debut this fall, Russello, who deserved what she got. were free blacks who had been kid- including eight new sitcoms. Among the Miss Perry was facing up to 25 years napped, that they had been freed by their new shows are an NBC comedy featur- in prison and copped a plea, but the plea masters but were still in bondage, or that ing black actress Whoopi Goldberg, and saved her only five years: On March 17, they had spent time in a free state and two comedies on Fox with Hispanic ac- Monroe County Court Judge Patricia should therefore be considered free. The tors in lead roles. The WB network will Marks sentenced her to 20 years. “I third argument, “once free always free” launch “Like Family,” about a troubled didn’t kill anybody,” Miss Perry com- was the most common. poor white teenager sent to live with a plained. “It was an accident.” Like a number of other slave states, affluent black suburban family. “You were intent on causing some Missouri had well-established proce- The UPN network, which currently harm,” replied the judge. “And didn’t dures for protecting the legal rights of airs a block of black-oriented comedies care.” slaves. It set aside taxpayer money to on Monday nights, will adopt a “fade to “That’s [expletive],” said Miss Perry, hire lawyers for slaves. Top lawyers white” strategy on Tuesdays, running who added: “I feel this is all about preju- sometimes traveled hundreds of miles at shows that feature more white actors as dice because of the color of my skin and state expense to get witness statements, the evening wears on. [David Bauder, because of who those people are [at least and some cases included hundreds of

American Renaissance - 15 - July 2003 pages of testimony and legal briefs. school, waving signs and chanting “No students go independent and try some- Slave-owning defendants were required FCAT.” Their big beef is that they had thing new. They just better not try the to put up a substantial bond—as much to take the test in English. “We are a same thing themselves. One of the rea- as $2,000—which they would forfeit if Hispanic-based society,” says Gerrter sons whites do not attend Los Angeles they did not show up in court or sold Martin, who failed public schools and why campuses with their slaves before trial. In order to twice. “My dreams are whites want to leave is that the district protect slaves from retaliation, [over],” says Jessica is full of awful schools. This spring has judges sometimes took custody of Duran. “I want to be a seen the usual spree of race riots, with plaintiffs and housed them in jails. doctor and because of as many as 300 students battling it out They were rented out as day labor- that I can’t do it.” State in one day at Alain Leroy Locke High ers, and could collect their wages if Rep. Ralph Arza, who School, and Washington Preparatory they won their freedom. Trials were is also a Miami High High School is working its way through heard before all-white juries but of teacher, says he will in- a succession of principals who cannot the 283 “freedom cases” for which troduce legislation to maintain standards. records have been found, many were offer the FCAT in other languages. On April 11, blacks and Hispanics at victories for the plaintiffs. Some slaves This year’s Florida seniors have had Locke High School swung pipes and bats won substantial damages from their at least five chances to pass the test, once at each other after a lunchtime fight former masters. as sophomores, and twice each as jun- erupted into a riot that went on for an Until this find of documents, it was iors and seniors. If they want to, they hour before police restored calm. Police generally thought the Dred Scott case can retake the text every year for the rest arrested six students on charges ranging was an anomaly. Scott claimed that be- of their lives until they pass. [HS Gradu- from weapons possession to assault on cause he had lived for years in free, ation Crisis in Florida, CBS.com, May a peace officer, but school administra- northern states with his army surgeon 20, 2003. Students: English-Only Test tors were relieved to find that no one was master, he should be free even if he Unfair, WorldNetDaily.com, May 9, killed or had to be hospitalized. moved back to a slave state. Scott 2003.] In just the previous week, on March brought the case in 1846 and won in cir- 28, a similar riot broke out at Washing- cuit court. His master appealed, and the Whites Clearing Out ton Prep, and the school district an- US Supreme Court finally ruled in 1857 nounced it was firing the principal, against the “once free always free” doc- The Los Angeles Unified School Dis- James Noble. Mr. Noble, who replaced trine. This undercut most freedom suits, trict has a system of “charter schools,” Margueritte LaMotte because she could though a few Missouri slaves continued under which a school can petition the do nothing to raise the school’s rock-bot- to sue on other grounds. [Stephanie district for the right to set its own cur- tom test scores, had lasted less than a Simon, Cries For Freedom Still Ring, riculum and run its own finances. The year. [Solomon Moore and Jose Carde- Los Angeles Times, March 18, 2003.] system was set up mainly as a last resort nas, Melee Erupts at High School, Los to try to save the worst schools that are Angeles Times, April 12, 2003.] Standards are ‘Racist’ overwhelmingly black or Hispanic. Now, the whole district is more than 20 Acres and a Mercedes Like many states, Florida has adopted 90 percent non-white, and many of the a standardized high school graduation few schools with more than a token num- Every tax season, a certain number test, the Florida Comprehensive Assess- ber of whites have decided to play the of blacks claim some kind of imaginary ment Test or FCAT. Students started tak- charter game and go their own way, too. tax exemption as reparations for slavery, ing the test in 1998, but this is the first Granada Hills (43 percent white), Pali- and 2003 was no exception. This year, year they will be denied diplomas if they sades (43.7 percent white), and El Robert Foster of Richmond, Virginia flunk. Nearly 13,000 or nine percent of Camino Real (50.6 percent white) high helped people file for bogus refunds of seniors have, in fact, flunked and will schools all want to kick over the traces, between $8,000 and $500,000 each. not graduate. Some school boards have but LA Superintendent Roy Romer is The amazing thing is that these scams decided to let them walk around in a cap having none of it. At a recent public sometimes work. In 2000, Mr. Foster ar- and gown on graduation day, but they meeting to consider charter petitions, ranged a $504,490 refund for his daugh- won’t get diplomas. Mr. Romer explained why he didn’t want ter Crystal, which the government actu- Needless to say, blacks and immi- them to break away: “Let me tell you, ally paid. She claimed she had overpaid grants are the ones most likely to fail, they represent a large proportion of $500,000 in capital gains taxes on a non- and the word is out that the “racist” test white students in the district.” He added existent “Black Capital Investments” must be abolished or at least ignored. that they are also “the upper economic fund at the US Treasury. The IRS has Blacks are threatening to boycott groups of the district.” He could have recovered $266,000 and a Mercedes Florida’s theme parks, stop drinking pointed out that the schools that still have Benz. Florida orange juice, and stop playing whites are the only ones with good aca- Mr. Foster, who has been happily the lottery, if they don’t get their way. demic programs. [Helen Gao, Romer helping people file false returns ever At Miami Senior High, nearly 90 per- Warns Charter Highs Will Harm District, since, says his dispute is not with the IRS cent of the student body are not native Los Angeles Daily News, April 22, but with “racist white rule.” [Indictment: speakers of English, and 100 out of 500 2003.] Father, Daughter Claimed Slavery Repa- seniors failed the test. On May 8, 200 It is fine for whites to stick around rations, Richmond Times-Dispatch, students demonstrated outside the and help pay the bill when non-white April 20, 2003.] Ω

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