American Renaissance There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world. — Thomas Jefferson Vol. 20 No. 7 July 2009 A White Teacher Speaks Out What is it like to teach is nothing like the day-to-day experience white women were particularly inept at of teaching black children and that is trying. I sat in on one woman’s class as black students? what I will try to convey. she begged the children to pipe down. They just yelled louder so their voices by Christopher Jackson Noise would carry over hers. Many of my black students would recall a bad joke that explains, in Most whites simply do not know what repeat themselves over and over again— crude terms, the relationship be- black people are like in large numbers, just louder. It was as if they suffered I tween blacks and whites in America today: “What do you call a white man surrounded by 20 blacks?” “Coach.” “What do you call a white man sur- rounded by 1,000 blacks?” “Warden.” I might add another line to this joke: “What do you call a white man sur- rounded by 30 blacks?” “Teacher.” Until recently I taught at a predomi- nantly black high school in a southeast- ern state. I took the job because I wasn’t knowledgeable about race at the time, and black schools aren’t picky. The school offered me a job and suddenly I was in darkest Africa. Except, I wasn’t in Africa; I was in America. Blacks outnumbered whites about five to one at this school and there Not quite the way it really is. were hardly any Hispanics. Some of my classes were all-black, or nearly so, CPFVJGſTUVGPEQWPVGTECPDGCUJQEM from Tourette syndrome. They seemed because the gifted and advanced classes One of the most immediately striking to have no conception of waiting for siphoned off most of the white students things about my students was that they an appropriate time to say something. and I taught regular classes. There were were loud. They had little conception of They would get ideas in their heads and some black teachers but the majority ordinary white decorum. It was not un- simply had to shout them out. I might be were white. WUWCNHQTſXGDNCEMUVQDGUETGCOKPICV leading a discussion on government and Most of the blacks I taught were from suddenly be interrupted: “We gotta get the area. They did not tend to travel very Blacks are loud. It was more Democrats! Clinton, she good!” much, and I am sure there are regional The student may seem content with that differences in the ways in which blacks PQVWPWUWCNHQTſXGUVW- outburst but two minutes later, he would speak and act. However, I suspect my dents to be screaming at suddenly start yelling again: “Clinton experiences were generally typical, me at once. good!” certainly for Southern blacks. Anyone who is around young blacks The mainstream press gives a hint of me at once. Instead of calming down and will get a constant diet of rap music. what conditions are like in black schools, waiting for a lull in the din to make their Blacks often make up their own jingles, but only a hint. Expressions journalists point—something that occurs to even and it was not uncommon for 15 black use like “chaotic” or “poor learning the dimmest white students—blacks just boys to swagger into a classroom, environment” or “lack of discipline” do tried to yell over each other. bouncing their shoulders and jiving back not capture what really happens. There It did no good to try to quiet them, and Continued on page 3 American Renaissance - 1 - July 2009 many have demanded my attention at the same moment.” His first known affairs were with black women but he claimed that they had turned on him. In his 1927 autobiography he wrote that these bad experiences “led me to forswear col- ored women and to determine that my lot henceforth would be cast only with white women.” In fact, he never gave up black women. Your article mentioned Johnson’s marriage to Etta Duryea whom you de- scribed as a “New York socialite.” She was certainly that. She was glamorous, wealthy, dressed elegantly, played the piano, and sang. When Johnson met memory. I actually saw the movie “The her at the Vanderbilt Cup car race, she Letters from Readers Great White Hope,” starring James Earl was 28 years old and had been separated Sir — Thank you for publishing my ,QPGUYJGPKVſTUVECOGQWVCPF/T from her husband for two years. Many article on the British National Party in 5JGHſGNFKUTKIJVCDQWVVJGUCPKVK\KPI#U fashionable young New Yorkers were your previous issue. However, I wish +TGOGODGTVJGſNOFGRKEVUVJGDNCEM chasing her but she took up with John- to clarify my reference on page 6 to the DQZGTCUCJGTQKEſIWTGXKEVKOK\GFD[ son. She certainly would not have taken “enemy within.” I meant to explain that evil racists because he dared to chal- up with a lout. the difference this time is that we are lenge white supremacy in the ring and Although Johnson was as unfaith- not under assault from foreign attackers the bedroom. His white love interest was ful to Etta as to any other woman, he and that the enemy is within our own played by lefty actress Jane Alexander, YCUJKOUGNHſGTEGN[LGCNQWU*GYCU country, in the shape of our own politi- and although I held liberal views on convinced Etta was sleeping with her cal establishment. In the words of Leo race typical of college students at the French chauffeur and hired a private McKinstry, a journalist who is a former time (the early seventies), I recall their KPXGUVKICVQTVQſPFQWV1P%JTKUVOCU parliamentary aide to the deputy leader love scenes made me squirm uncomfort- Day, 1910, he got into an argument with of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman, ably. If I knew that the story was based her about it and beat her so badly she had őYGCTGNGFD[CDWPEJQHVTCKVQTUſNNGF on a real person, I had forgotten it. The to be hospitalized—and this was before with loathing for their nation.” ſEVKQPCNDQZGTRQTVTC[GFKPVJGſNOKU they were even married. Somehow, she Tim Rait, British National Party nothing at all like the real one described took him back, and they were wed less D[/T5JGHſGNF+COGODCTTCUUGFVQ than a month later. As you note in your admit I fell for the Hollywood propa- article, Etta shot herself not long after. Sir — After reading Tim Rait’s article ganda of the time. She suffered from depression, and it in the June issue (“A Breakthrough for Chuck Quinn, Eugene, Ore. took a stouter constitution than hers to the BNP?”), I began reading British be married to Jack Johnson. newspapers online to follow the cam- Johnson’s next openly acknowledged paign. The press coverage of the BNP Sir — I enjoyed—if that is the correct girlfriend was an 18-year-old white has been appalling: “fascism” this and word—your article about Jack Johnson. prostitute named Lucille Cameron. Her “racism” that. The tabloid papers, the As you correctly noted, women were a mother disapproved. “Jack Johnson has Mirror and the Daily Mail are the worst, constant preoccupation for him, but you hypnotic powers,” she said, “and he has but the mainstream papers such as the failed to note the very real attractions exercised them on my little girl. I would Guardian and Independent are almost he appeared to have for them, black rather see my daughter spend the rest of as bad. Unlike in the US, British news- and white. He was no low-g Negro her life in an insane asylum than see her papers don’t pretend to be ideologically pugilist. Not many whites could have the plaything of a nigger.” They married neutral, but their coverage of the BNP written this: UQQPCHVGTDWVUJGNCVGTſNGFHQTFKXQTEG bordered on the hysterical. I wonder if “There have been countless women EJCTIKPI,QJPUQPYKVJKPſFGNKV[ the press is actually doing the BNP a fa- in my life. They have participated in His next wife, Irene Pineau, divorced vor by portraying it as a party of lunatic my triumphs and suffered with me in her white husband in order to marry him. Nazis. It is so easy to discover that this my moments of disappointment. They He must still have been charming at age is wrong and biased that I would think have inspired me to attainment and they 46. She stuck with him to the end, and many voters would be driven to learn have balked me; they have caused me when a reporter asked him what she more about the party. joy and they have heaped misery upon loved about Johnson, she said “I loved Emma Hughes, Savannah, Ga. me; they have been faithful to the utmost him because of his courage.” and they have been faithless; they have Like it or not, Johnson must have praised and loved me and they have been a remarkable man. Sir — “Whitewashing Jack Johnson” hated and denounced me. Always, a Sarah Wentworth, Richmond, Va. in the June issue triggered a youthful woman has swayed me—sometimes American Renaissance - 2 - July 2009 are—but it is a matter of numbers and American Renaissance attitudes. Many black girls simply do not care that they are fat. There are plenty Jared Taylor, Editor of white anorexics, but I have never met Stephen Webster, Assistant Editor or heard of a black anorexic. Ronald N. Neff, Web Site Editor “Black women be big Mr. Jackson,” my students would explain. “Is it okay in the black community to American Renaissance is published monthly by the be a little overweight?” I ask.
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