American Renaissance There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world. — Thomas Jefferson Vol. 18 No. 10 October 2006 Black Racial Consciousness, Part II Hatred for whites is often “European” society, and is a complete South African blacks agree. Under rejection of half her parentage. Never- white rule, it was illegal for whites to part of black identity. theless, the assumption that culture fol- adopt black babies, but after the African Part I, in the previous issue, National Congress took described the extent to which power in 1994 it repealed the blacks identify with their race. ban. The AIDS epidemic and Part II begins with the wide- the social disruption that fol- spread assumption among lowed the end of apartheid blacks that race and culture have led to growing numbers cannot be separated. of abandoned black babies, with hundreds given up for by Jared Taylor adoption every month. Whites have adopted some ne of the essential of these babies but many rules of white racial blacks are horrified, and Oetiquette is to assume want to reinstitute the ban. that culture is independent of “These children, the next race, that anyone of any color generation, will be tainted for from anywhere in the world can ever because they will never be a full participant in any civi- know who they are,” said one lization. Many blacks would black social worker. disagree; they appear to believe The close tie between that culture is inseparable from black race and culture is evi- biology. Camille Hernandez- dent elsewhere. Over the Ramdawar’s mother is white years, communities of Ethio- and her father was a black from pian Jews have emigrated to Trinidad. Her parents separated, and her lows biology is at the root of the official Israel. Although most have never been white mother reared her. She recognized black view of cross-racial adoption. In to the United States or even seen an that her mother loved her, but when she 1972, the National Association of Black American black, they are passionate fans became an adult she found there was Social Workers (the one that holds ex- of rap music, hip-hop fashion, and something her mother could not give her: clusively black conferences) officially “gangsta” demeanor, and show no inter- “a culture that matched her color.” took the stance that adoption of blacks est in Israeli pop culture. “All the Ethio- Heather Green, a Canadian of black- pians try to imitate the (American) white parentage, explains her own em- blacks,” says 16-year-old Batya Tadela, brace of blackness: A 2004 poll found that also from Ethiopia. “If I do anything short of vigilantly only 41 percent of black The same link between race and cul- embracing my African identity—con- registered voters had “a ture is behind the growth in the United sciously, wholeheartedly and without il- lot” of confidence that States of two recent black movements: lusions about African realities—than I Kwanzaa and the Black Muslims. Both may be swept away, co-opted, consumed their votes would even be started from nothing and now have mil- and sucked into the European power counted in November. lions of supporters and members—es- structure, culture and mindset . Iden- sentially all black. Kwanzaa was in- tifying as an African woman, as a daugh- by whites was “genocide.” In 1994, it vented in 1966 by a black activist named ter of African people and African ances- withdrew the charge that it is genocide, Ron Karenga as a black holiday for the tors, I vow that I am not and will not but still opposes adoption by whites.The Christmas season. US Presidents now become part of any value system which association asserts “black children in deliver official Kwanzaa greetings, and seeks to crush other races through its white homes are cut off from the healthy the Postal Service issues Kwanzaa way of life.” development of themselves as black stamps. According to a 2004 survey by This is a particularly harsh view of people.” Continued on page 3 American Renaissance - 1 - October 2006 from a bad reputation, that as soon as one name becomes associated with their unhappy traits, they try to wipe the slate clean with a new one. Before long, though, everyone realizes that Negroes are just colored people with a different name, so they try a new one. There is more to it, however. Al- though the word “Negro” means black in Spanish and Portuguese, in the United States it had a vaguely ethnic ring that did not call attention to race. The shift to “black” was a reminder of biological distance, and the more recent appeals to Africa add geography to the sense of separateness. Just as names like Shani- qua and Latonya highlight how differ- thing was rubbing against my legs on the ent they are, “African-American” puts Letters from Readers way up the stairs (it was pitch black, no them on a completely different continent. Sir — I really enjoyed your recent lights, and I couldn’t see a thing). She Alice Lancaster, Tampa, Fla. articles, “Blacks and High Steel” (June said, “Them are rats.” I asked her why 2006) and “Dispatches from the Go- people didn’t get cats and she said, “Oh, Slow Zone” (Aug. 2006). Blacks have them rats are as big as them cats, and Sir — I wasn’t quite sure what to changed a lot since I worked with them cats are afraid of t hem rats.” make of Jared Taylor’s cover story about for two years in the late ’forties. At that I lasted in the job for two years, at a black racial consciousness. I detected time, I was a social worker with the Cook time when most social workers quit af- what appeared to be a tone of disap- County Department of Public Welfare in ter six months, due to the work and the proval in his description of the extent to Chicago. There were three or four large pressure. I found the job very interest- which blacks put their interests first. offices and each social worker worked ing and really liked working with blacks. However, isn’t that exactly what he has in the office closest to home. Since I Indeed, I left because I started feeling been recommending for years that whites lived near the black neighborhoods, I more black than white! When I looked do? Or is it simply his view that whites worked in the “black” office. My col- in the mirror I was surprised to see a would go about it more gracefully? One leagues were about 95 percent black, and white face, so I figured it was time to must not condemn in others what one the “support staff,” as John Ingram leave. wants for oneself. called it in his article, was 100 percent It seems as though a lot of the trouble Alan Whitcomb, Wheeling, W. Va. black. The black caseworkers were some with blacks (and other non-whites) has of the nicest people I had ever known. been caused by social engineering Most had master’s degrees in social schemes, such as the Civil Rights Act Sir — I enjoyed your review of Frank work, and at least two of the men were and affirmative action. Non-whites have Ellis’s book, Marxism, Multiculturalism working on Ph.Ds at the University of become very demanding, and seem to and Free Speech. I have read a number Chicago—one in mathematics, the other have chips on their shoulders. Since our of Prof. Ellis’s essays, and I think no one in human relations. The “office ladies” country will soon be majority non- draws the parallels between communism were also very nice and courteous. white—several states already are—it and anti-racism more convincingly than I spent three days in the office each sometimes seems whites are an endan- he does. It seems to me that both move- week, and two in the “field.” I had a gered species. All over the world, whites ments offer rewards that some people caseload of 99 families, all of whom I have no more than one or two children, find irresistable: the virtuous glow of visited at least once every three months, in part because they have to pay taxes to being on the side of justice (for the pro- and sometimes more often. These were support the offspring of the colored letariat or for colored peoples—take underclass families, many illiterate, but races. At the age of 83, I won’t be here your pick), which in turn provides cover always very respectful to me. My clients to see it, but I do wonder what our coun- for what would otherwise be a naked were all black, with the exception of one try will be like for us in 2050. grab for power. Both communists and white woman living with a black doctor. Bessie Dailey, Winston, Ore. anti-racists claim to be good guys, but She was an English “war bride” who had they treat their enemies viciously and married a black American soldier. She crave political power. told me she was sorry she married him, Sir — I would like to add one more When communism fell apart, anti-rac- because the blacks did not accept her and piece of evidence to Jared Taylor’s cata- ism was the new home for all the sick she felt very lonely. They had a lovely logue of the ways in which blacks con- people who no longer had an ideology two-year-old daughter.