Drunk on diversity

Posted on November 18, 2011 by jewamongyou

It is difficult to count the many ways that “diversity” harms our society.  One does not need to use convoluted reasoning, or far-fetched theories, to support the case against “diversity”.  All one needs is common sense.  The Oregonian recently provided us with yet another example of ethnic/racial diversity’s costs:

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court is mulling over the argument that law enforcement officers are obligated to make sure that drunken driving suspects, even if they don’t speak English, understand the consequences of refusing to take a breath or blood test.
It led the state’s chief justice to wonder during a hearing Thursday whether a suspect could be so impaired the refusal couldn’t be used in court.
The appeal involves Jose L. Nunez Cabanilla, arrested in 2008 near Nyssa, south of Ontario in Eastern Oregon, the Salem Statesman Journal reported (http://stjr.nl/sNGRhv).
He refused to take a breath test, a fact the trial judge ruled could be used as evidence during the drunken driving trial.
Appealing the conviction, Deputy Public Defender Zachary Mazer argued that the warning given to the Spanish speaker was said in English, and Cabanilla didn’t understand it.
Unless the judge could find that the defendant understood the consequences, the refusal shouldn’t have been used in court, he said.

Somebody had the nerve to bring up the obvious:

At oral arguments, Chief Justice Paul De Muniz asked the difference between someone who didn’t understand the warning because it was in a different language and someone too intoxicated to understand it at all.
“So the drunker you are, then you can deny the state the evidence?” he asked.

The constitutionality of requiring drivers to submit to roadside sobriety tests aside, one can easily see how “diversity” might cost lives the moment Spanish speakers realize they will not be held accountable for putting the rest of us at risk.  What if the driver speaks only an obscure tribal language?  Must the police have expert linguists on hand at all times?  The demands of “diversity” ultimately make a mockery of our entire system of government and society.
Personally, I don’t care if Spanish speaking drivers understand the implications of their refusal to undergo a breath test.  All they need to understand is to learn English or go back to wherever they came from – preferably the latter.

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A new way to show your appreciation for good posts

Posted on November 17, 2011 by jewamongyou

Thanks to eugenicist for introducing me to a new, user-friendly, way to show your support to authors of posts that you enjoy.  It’s called tip the web, and it allows you to contribute as little as five cents to the authors of posts that you enjoy.  Unlike paypal, tip the web does not take a commission from each contribution.
I’ve been working a lot lately but, as soon as I’ve got more time, I plan to start using this great service.  I did already sign add this blog, so the rest of y’all can already tip me if you wish.

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Milwaukee's black infant mortality problem

Posted on November 15, 2011 by jewamongyou

The City of Milwaukee is concerned about babies dying:

The Journal Sentinel said Milwaukee had an “infant mortality crisis.” Milwaukee’s infant mortality rate in 2009 was 10.4 deaths for every 1,000 live births, according to the city’s health department. As noteworthy as this overall rate is the racial breakdown: For white babies, the rate was 5.4; for blacks, 14.1, the JS said.

The city has set a goal of reducing the infant mortality rate for blacks by 15 percent, and the overall rate by 10 percent by 2017, the JS said.

One wonders, if the white and black infant mortality rates were equal, would there be quite as much concern?
It would seem that race affects infant mortality more than socio-economic status.  One study came up with the following graph:

Of course, high infant mortality among American blacks is not confined to Milwaukee.  It is the norm all over America.  Some people, noting this, try to explain the racial disparity as a byproduct of racial discrimination.  Ziba Kashef writes:

According to Dr. Michael Lu, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecologyand public health at UCLA, researchers have found that even when they control for such varied factors as poverty, housing, employment, medical risk, abuse, social support and so on, 90 percent of the differences in birth weight between black and white moms remains unaccounted for. “Most studies have looked at black-white differences during pregnancy, for example, differences in prenatal careutilization or maternal behavior,” he says. “What we’re finding is that these differences really explain very little of the disparities in birth outcomes.”
Even genetics fail to provide answers. To test the hypothesis, Dr. James W. Collins, Jr., associate professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Medical School, compared birth outcomes of African American and Africa-born mothers in Illinois over a 15-year period. He assumed if there was something about African genes that caused poor birth outcomes, the statistics for African-born women might actually be worse. But Collins and his colleagues found that the babies of African-born women had birth weights similar to those of white American women and higher than those of black American women…
If the cause is not a shared gene, perhaps it’s a shared experience. For instance, the immune system begins to develop in utero and matures over time. During certain critical periods of development, Dr. Lu points out, the immune system can be adversely affected by certain experiences and exposures, such as repeated infections or undue stress. These exposures may pattern the immune system in a particular way that sets the stage for increased risk to poor health and poor birth outcomes. A mother with less than optimal immune response may give birth to a baby with less than optimal immune response and so on.
Chronic emotional stress results from many factors, including physically demanding jobs and a lack of control in the workplace, single parenthood, and financial worries–all problems experienced disproportionately by women of color. Discrimination is also a documented source of harmful stress. One study found that women who gave birth to very low birth weight babies were more likely to have experienced racial discrimination than women who had normal weight babies.

The above theory is now the pet theory within the establishment.  Yes, stress can cause health problems.  For example, in one experiment, middle-aged men were locked in a room for weeks at a time while voices were played over loudspeakers, over and over again, “Your heart is failing.  You’re going to DIE from a heart attack!  You’re going to DIE!”  Sure enough, those men died of heart attacks*.
Perhaps the media, schools, scientists and corporations should stop screaming at black women, “You’re victims of racism.  You’re suffering because of racism!  You’re all going to DIE because of racism!“.  I’d be stressed out too if they did that to me.
But back to the genetic factor.  I wonder if the “Africa-born mothers in Illinois” were from the same region in Africa where most American blacks hail from.  Not all Africans are the same; Africa is a very diverse continent.  Another thing to consider is that the white admixture in American blacks might be causing the problems.  Perhaps premature, and underweight, babies are a byproduct of hybridization.  In any case, it does not appear as if the genetic possibilities were thoroughly examined.
*Fictitious.

Posted in racial differences and how they manifest themselves/race science, shenanigans of the Left and of non-white activists | 16 Comments

Poverty around the world

Posted on November 14, 2011 by jewamongyou

Each of us has his burden to carry, his own bundle of woes to endure through his life.  One of the benefits of travel is that we are reminded that there are always those worse off, materially, than ourselves.  Following is a selection of images, focusing on poverty, that I have collected over the years.  I’ll start with a family in China, which faced their dire circumstances admirably:

They owned one book, The Sayings of Confucius, and little else.  They refused any donations.

The last Jews of Medzibuzh, Ukraine.  They were not born in Medzibuzh but had arrived after the war.  My paternal grandfather was born in Medzibuzh.  This couple expected donations from visitors and they were not nearly as poor as the Chinese family above, but their house would be considered a hovel by Western standards.  Actually there are still many Jews in Medzibuzh, but they are in the cemeteries:

My search for ancestors was futile since they didn’t use family names until very recently.  The tombstones only say “so-and-so the son/daughter of so-and-so” and the date of death.

This is inside a house in Luxor, Egypt.  Aside from this livestock area, the entire extended family lived in one room.  They had no privacy whatsoever.

Here are members of the family outside their home.  Basically, I wandered the streets, dressed in a galabiyah – but obviously a tourist because of my camera – and accepted invitations for tea.  Of course I gave them a donation.

Beggar kids in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

Could you imagine eking out a living selling bananas in Antananarivo?

That mattress is somebody’s home in Antananarivo.

Poverty is the norm in most of the world.  Affluence, such as most of us have in America, is the exception.  We would do well to serve as a model for the rest of the world, not a mecca.

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A "slum" is not a place, it is people

Posted on November 13, 2011 by jewamongyou

Many people were left scratching their heads after reading the latest news about Brazilian police “taking over Rio’s biggest slum“.  Since only a handful of arrests were made, and the vast majority of criminals simply dispersed, doesn’t this action simply spread the problem out to different areas?
Readers correctly pointed out that the goal was not so much to diminish crime as to facilitate the making of profits for the well connected:

It was the most ambitious operation yet in an effort to increase security before Rio hosts the final matches of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Officials are counting on those events to signal Brazil’s arrival as a global economic, political and cultural power.

Powerful interests are at work here, and I get the impression that the welfare of the inhabitants of Rocinha is not the primary consideration.  If it were, authorities would have taken over the slum long ago instead of waiting for the approach of the above-mentioned sporting events.
In the above article we see a common propaganda tactic:  The implication that nations, neighborhoods and slums are defined by space.  But it is not the space they occupy that gives them their identity, rather it is the people who inhabit that space.  Thus, the proclamation that “police have taken over a slum” means little for the long term.  The slum goes wherever slum-people go.  The only way to get rid of a slum is to get rid of the slum-people – or to somehow transform them.  The establishment left, whether in the U.S. or Brazil, loves to redistribute people and imagine that it has thereby solved problems.   In most cases, the problems end up getting even worse.  It is better to allow criminals to congregate in small areas so that most of their victims will be other criminals.  Spreading them out increases the body count among the innocent.
But many in the establishment left understand the arbitrariness of space.  This is why they advocate for open borders.  Of course, in doing so, they ignore the importance of things such as race, ethnic group and culture.  The establishment left will either ignore, or emphasize, location depending on whatever suits its purposes.

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What do the 99 percenters want?

Posted on November 11, 2011 by jewamongyou

Somebody sent me this essay by George Monbiot.  In a nutshell, he makes a case that the ultra-wealthy did not earn their wealth through hard work, enterprise or superior intelligence.  Instead, they got where they are due to a combination of luck and psychopathic traits.
I must admit I was impressed by the following argument:

Such results have been widely replicated. They show that traders and fund managers across Wall Street receive their massive remuneration for doing no better than would a chimpanzee flipping a coin. When Kahneman tried to point this out they blanked him. “The illusion of skill … is deeply ingrained in their culture.”(2)
So much for the financial sector and its super-educated analysts. As for other kinds of business, you tell me. Is your boss possessed of judgement, vision and management skills superior to those of anyone else in the firm, or did he or she get there through bluff, bullshit and bullying?

But I am deeply suspicious of what the 99 percenters, and Mr. Monbiot, are trying to do.  While it is true that, by most of our standards, the wealthiest people on Earth do not deserve their wealth, could it not also be said that the smartest people do not deserve  their great intellect, with which they were born?  Is it not also possible to claim that the most beautiful women do not deserve  their beauty?  That those born into loving, and intact, families, do not deserve  such good fortune?
At its core, the 99 percenters seem to be upset that life is not fair – and that somebody should make it more fair.  Who gets to decide whom, among the wealthy, deserve their wealth?  By whose criteria?  It is frightening to contemplate the answers to these questions – for images of the French, and Russian, revolutions come to mind.
I have little doubt that the 99 percenters would counter that I am missing the point.  That most of us are being reduced to slavery by the one percent.  I don’t see it that way.  While I admit to having a certain amount of envy toward those whose incomes are measured in billions of dollars, the vast majority of people I know (here in American, at least) have vastly more wealth and freedom than 99% of their ancestors.  Those protesters are part of the one percent and they don’t even know it!

Posted in libertarian thought | 23 Comments

Pro-white stand up comedy

Posted on November 10, 2011 by jewamongyou

Portland Realist brought this comedian to my attention a while back and I thought I’d share him with the rest of y’all:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2dOboLsh-4&w=420&h=315]

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Jewamongyou visits "Occupy Portland"

Posted on November 9, 2011 by jewamongyou

I visited the squalid tent city in downtown Portland yesterday hoping to gain some insight into the “Occupy Wall Street” movement here in Portland.  It’s cheaper than a trip to the zoo.  What I found seemed to be a concentration of down and out, homeless, drug-addicted wannabe hippies mixed with quite a few mentally ill people and some normal people.  I wanted to tell some of them that if they stayed away from drugs, they might be successful in the same corporate America they now hate and envy.  I brought my camera but, to my regret, I forgot to bring my sterilization gun.
While taking a video of some guy ranting, he stopped and shrieked at me to stop filming him, that he has freedom of speech and that I’d better not put his image up online.  I walked up and started to talk to him, but he retreated back to his tent.  I never considered that short clip worthy of posting anyway.  I saw a tall fellow with the largest brow-ridges I had ever seen.  As I approached him, I could hear him say, “I was talking to my P.O. (parole officer)…”.  I felt it appropriate to block out some of his face as it is not my intention to expose him to public ridicule.  He might very intelligent – but he’s still a curiosity, just from an anthropological point of view.  A throwback if there ever was one.
It is ironic that the Occupy Portland people put a lot of emphasis on diversity (as can be seen in some of the photos), yet they do not seem to notice that the cult of diversity is the biggest piece of propaganda being thrown at them by the same government-military-industrial-corporate complex they so despise.
Here are some photos:

The above photos have been reduced in size.  If anybody wants a large-format version, just let me know.

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Was Afro-centrism invented by leftist whites?

Posted on November 8, 2011 by jewamongyou

The establishment Left desires, more than life itself, that blacks excel in math and the sciences.  Each night, before a leftist goes to bed, he prays to the spirit of Martin Luther King that blacks finally reveal their “intellectual greatness”.  There have been so many programs, experiments and “original ideas” to improve the academic performance of blacks that most of us have lost count.
Is Afro-centrism, specifically the absurd belief that the ancient Egyptians were black, just one of these programs?  In an article called “Early African Calendars“, a part of the “Teaching Tolerance”  project of the SPLC, we can see that “tolerance” and truth do not necessarily go hand in hand:

Many math educators believe that learning about the multicultural history of mathematics can help a more diverse range of students achieve math success. Knowledge of their ancestors’ contributions, proponents say, could enhance students’ interest in algebra, for example, which was brought to Europe in books written by Islamic scholars from Central Asia, Arabia, Turkey, and North Africa. The following excerpt and activity, examines the origins of early North African number systems.
Objectives
Activities will help students:

  • understand the multicultural history of mathematics
  • compare the early Egyptian Lunar calendar with today’s Gregorian calendar

Essential Questions

  • How did ancient Egyptians contribute to modern day life?
  • What causes change? What remains the same?

Materials
Reading: Early African Calendars

If almost a third of American blacks believe AIDS is a white conspiracy to wipe out non-whites, and almost two thirds believe that drugs are deliberately imported into black areas by the government, then surely the more reasonable conspiracy that Afro-centric “theories” were planted by whites should be taken seriously.
If not for whites, practically nothing would be known, today, about ancient Egypt.  Their statues and monuments would still be buried in sand, their language unintelligible and their religion and history a mystery.  Thus it is clear that any black who gives credence to Afro-centric theories about Egypt is acting white.  He is a foolish “uncle Tom” who falls for the cheap tricks of white/Jewish organizations such as the SPLC.  A real black American will look for his roots in black Africa, not North Africa.

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Will black Africans mix with Aborigines in Australia?

Posted on November 7, 2011 by jewamongyou

Well folks, I think my writer’s block is starting to ease up a little.  An article on Amren peaked my curiosity.  Given the parallels, in criminality, between black Africans and Aborigines, to what extent will the two populations mix?  My guess is that, in general, they wouldn’t get along.  But this doesn’t mean they won’t mix and, when they do mix, it will usually be an African father with an Aboriginal mother.  I say this because the Aboriginal alcohol problem puts their men at a disadvantage.  Furthermore, black African men do not like their own women very much; given the opportunity, they’ll usually take a non black-African woman.
It will be interesting to see how the offspring of such unions fare. My guess is that, with a few exceptions, they won’t fare very well.*
I visited Australia once, taking the train from Sydney to Adelaide and then north to Darwin.  Here are a couple of photos from that trip:

Myself with a couple of Aborigines I was chatting with in Alice Springs.  Yes, it was hot!

Some Aboriginal women in Alice Springs.  Not seen are the booze bottles.

* A few months ago, I vowed to go through my old posts and soften the language a bit.  I also vowed to remove some extraneous posts, and those that dealt with passing circumstances. So this one has been edited.

Posted in crime and violence, miscegenation | 145 Comments