How do you pronounce "Qaddafi"?

Posted on June 10, 2011 by jewamongyou

This post is an urgent one.  I cannot set it on the back burner for long.  Right now, people are talking about Qaddafi and his name is frequently in the news.  But this will change once he is killed.  So I do hope he stays alive long enough for me to publish this post.  After that he can die and I don’t care.
Many have agonized over how to spell the S.O.B.’s name.  Cecil, of the straight dope, writes:

Lord knows I hate to be critical, but the proliferation of spellings for the name of Libya’s head dude has been one of the continuing scandals of American journalism. I mean, come on, we’re trying to plumb this guy’s psychic depths and we can’t even get his name straight? Sometimes I shudder for the future of my country.
I count at least 12 different ways to spell the colonel’s handle, including Qaddhafi (New York Review of Books), Qaddafi (New Republic), Gaddafi(Time), Kaddafi (Newsweek), Khadafy (Maclean’s), Qadhafi (U.S. News & World Report), Qadaffi (Business Week), and Gadaffi (World Press Review).Libya’s UN mission, in an effort to spread further confusion, spells the name Qathafi, and I know I’ve seen Gadaafi somewhere. To make matters worse, the Library of Congress and the Middle East Studies Association, to whom one would ordinarily look for guidance, have a fondness for Qadhdhafi, which is an abomination unto God. I think you now begin to grasp the dimensions of the problem…

He goes on to say the the colonel himself spelled it, in English, as Gadhafi.  But what about pronunciation?  The initial letter of his name, called Qaf, is often colloquially pronounced like the English hard g, hence the colonel’s spelling.  But the original classical/formal Arabic pronunciation is a sound the sounds somewhere between a hard g and a k but a bit more emphatic – in other words, you let the air out all at once.  With the hard g, there is a nasal element because, as you take your time allowing the air to flow out your mouth, some of it goes toward your nose (This is my take on it anyway).  With the k, all of the air goes out the mouth, so the nasal element is absent.  With the Qaf, the contact between both sides of the throat is a bit deeper and the separation more abrupt.  That’s about as well as I can describe it.  Here is a YouTube video that illustrates it quite well; you can skip to position 1:50.  Note:  There are regional variations (even within what is considered the Classical pronunciation) of this letter; some say it more sharply while others say it more bluntly
The next letter, Arabic having no consonant letters (we’ll get to the vowels later), is dh or dhal.  It is pronounced like the th in “there“.  However, in this particular case, this letter is doubled as if you were saying “loath_there” in quick succession.
There is no confusion about the final “fi” (fee).
The vowel after the initial Qaf is somewhat in between the a of American English “cat” and the British version of it.  It is said quickly here and you should not linger on this vowel – but let it lead to the following double dh immediately.
The last vowel, the one between the double dh and “fi“, is elongated.  You open your mouth more and let it live out its entire life before fading into the final “fi“.
In conclusion, the “ungodly” Qadhdhafi is, indeed, the best phonetic rendition of this name – if we are going by Classical/Formal Arabic.  And there you have it.  A nice tidbit of useless information from jewamongyou.  Useless, that is, unless you wish to impress people at parties with your worldly knowledge.  If they end up shunning you as an eccentric, you can blame it on me.
 

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Black women: "My dark skin is not beautiful – and it's WHITEY'S fault"

Posted on June 9, 2011 by jewamongyou

Thanks to humanstupidity for sending me the link to this video:
Here is my comment:

Is there any evidence it all started with slavery? All over the world light skin is preferred over dark skin, whether there is a history of slavery or not. It’s that way in Africa and India too, and in the Arab world. Not only that, but this has been the case at least since Biblical times. So no, it is not “the white man’s fault”.
Also, why the emphasis on females? Isn’t it true that black women, even the lighter ones, have a preference for dark-skinned men?
If this is a problem, why not go after the media – that insists on portraying black men with white women so frequently? We should insist that they show white men with black women more often – but I don’t see this happening any time soon.

It should also be noted, though it is not nice to say it, that most of the women in that video would be ugly regardless of their skin color.  The more I think about it, the more the movie looks like a (pardon the expression) bitch session for ugly women.  I also wonder if they have figured out that choosing dark-skinned men for their “baby-daddies” causes their daughters to be dark-skinned.  Perhaps genetics is not their forte’.
What is the link between dark skin and ugliness?  In my view, a woman can be both very dark and very beautiful; I don’t see a contradiction.  But most of the world disagrees with me.  Most of the world has disagreed with me for a very long time.  Therefore handsome, high-status, males would generally marry light-skinned women.  We certainly see that trend today, whether it’s sports stars or royalty.  There is also the rough correlation between higher I.Q.’s and lighter skin color.  Higher I.Q.’s mean a better shot at higher social status.  Higher status means more options in women.  More options means the higher I.Q. men will pick lighter skinned women.  The cycle reinforces itself.  Over generations, the result would be that good-looking people would tend to be lighter-skinned and have higher I.Q.’s.
Ironically, the above dynamic might work more efficiently in a mixed-up, multiracial, world.  Such a society would end up being highly polarized based on I.Q. as described in The Bell Curve.  Except that light skin and good looks would also be concentrated at the right of the curve.  Those women in the video are essentially complaining that they were born too far on the left of the bell curve when it comes to looks.  Their descendants are likely to be on the left of the bell curve when it comes to I.Q. as well.

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Mivtzoyim update

Posted on June 8, 2011 by jewamongyou

In the end, I did not end up handing the leaflets to passersby.  If I could get somebody to accompany me, even if he doesn’t actually participate, then I might do so.   Instead I affixed them to utility poles that others had clearly been using for that purpose.  I don’t know if, technically, it is legal to do so but if it is a violation of some sort, then a lot of people are ignoring it.

In addition to the leaflets, I’ve put a large sign on the back of my car that reads “QUESTION DIVERSITY”.  I was inspired Countenance (see comment below).  I have it set up so that I can remove the sign on work days.  Hopefully, it will get some people thinking.

Ultimately, I’d like to have a collection of leaflets, each one highlighting a different “taboo” subject.  One could be about black/white rape statistics.  Others could have more libertarian messages.  I would set up a chair and small table and allow people to take them as they pass by.  The theme would be “taboo subjects are good for your mind” or something of that nature.

I’d like to point out that these activities, and this blog itself, were largely motivated by the interference, and sabotaging, of the last two American Renaissance conferences.  If the leftist power structure will not allow us to assemble peacefully and in private, then we must take our case to the streets.  It is the only logical course of action for us.

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Wells Fargo goes 365black

Posted on June 7, 2011 by jewamongyou

I was visiting my local Wells Fargo branch and, as I was standing in line, I noticed the ubiquitous bald black man sitting behind his desk.  Every bank in America is required to have a bald black man among its staff.  Preferably, the bald black man should not be a mere teller; a teller is too humble.  The bald black man should be an actual banker – complete with his own filing cabinet and business cards.  The bald black man must be within the ages of 20 and 50 and he absolutely cannot have any hair on his head.  Each morning, as he arrives at work, his head is inspected for signs of hair.  If hair is found, there is another bald black man waiting to take his place behind the desk.  Furthermore, the bald black man cannot be a “light-skinned black” and I’m pretty sure there are minimum height requirements as well.
But this post is not really about bald black men in banks.  After all, it is not only banks that have the bald-black-man rule.  Where I work, we also have a bald black man engineer and, as far as most of us can tell, he does practically nothing; he gets paid to sit at his desk and be a bald black man.  What this post is about is what I noticed as I was leaving the bank:

Apparently Wells Fargo is not interested in marketing their mortgages to whites – or even Hispanics or Asians.  These were the only depictions of people in the entire entrance area.  Isn’t there some sort of law that says there must be at least one white face in every group?  Can’t we have some inclusiveness?

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Getting in the spirit of "mivtsoyim"

Posted on June 6, 2011 by jewamongyou

There was a time, very long ago, when I was involved (by default) with the “Chabad” (AKA “Lubavitcher”) sect of Hassidic Judaism.  I was very young and seeking my roots.  Chabad was the only form of Judaism around, so I connected with them.  I never internalized their philosophies or their habits and, as soon as I could, I rejected their movement as unsuitable for me and more worthy of the name “cult” than “sect”.
But Lubavitch does have some positive points and one of them is their very aggressive outreach program.  They use the term “mivtzoyim*” to describe the obligatory practice of two or more men hitting the streets, or businesses, in order to bring estranged Jews back into the fold.  Activities include handing out brochures, talking to people, inviting people to services or classes and facilitating the fulfillment of various commandments.  In those days, though I was very shy, I also participated in these activities.
Now I find myself with a stack of Unamused’s leaflets and many thousands of brainwashed whites who need to be exposed to reality.  I have no illusions; out of hundreds of people, perhaps one will actually read the leaflet.  But this scenario was dealt with, by the Lubavitchers, with an analogy:  If a person is deathly ill and cannot even swallow on his own, we pour medicine into his mouth in the hope that a few drops will make it in and cure him.  Later in life I heard a similar analogy regarding sales:  “It’s like throwing shit against the wall.  Some of it’s going to stick.”  I’m fairly certain I didn’t hear that last one from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, even though I saw him many times.
I am still shy and it goes against my nature to go out in public to do something unpopular but I am distributing them regardless.  It looks like handing them out in person to passersby is the most practical way to do this.
Here is the PDF of the leaflet I am using:
flyer2_jewamongyou
 
*From the Hebrew word mibhsa‘, which means “campaign”.

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More murky reasoning from the Portland Mercury

Posted on June 5, 2011 by jewamongyou

I recently posted about the Portland government’s efforts to find discrimination against blacks and Hispanics.  Now housing commissioner Nick Fish has released the names of some of the “suspects”.  It should be no surprise that the MSM is not bothered by the fact that such witch-hunts inevitably lead to anti-white discrimination.  For the benefit of those less informed, I’ll explain it:  If you are unkind to a white person, you won’t get his business.  If you are unkind to a “person of color”, you might get busted for “discrimination” and have your life ruined.  These are the two types of citizens in today’s America, white and “people of color” and you’d better treat the latter with great deference.  It does not take a university degree to figure out that this policy will lead to worse treatment toward whites overall.
In a recent issue, The Portland Mercury berated the hopelessly anti-white media, including itself,  for taking too long to report the details of this investigation:

The paper patted itself on the back by noting Fish’s letter “came four days after an article in the Oregonian detailed how the city had no concrete plans to enforce the law against the landlords and hadn’t even notified them they’d been tested.” A column by Anna Griffin complained that Fish had “screwed up” by also asking a committee, already exploring housing discrimination in Portland as part of the renewal process for federal housing grants, to review the findings.
Advocates and other housing insiders, interestingly, all noticed what the paper didn’t mention in its cries for action: That it had been asleep at the wheel—along with every other news outlet in town, including the Mercury. The Oregonian‘s first story on the audit didn’t hit print until nearly three weeks after Fish’s office announced the results, way back on April 20.

It seems that being anti-white is not good enough; the newspapers must be quicker and more vicious in their condemnation of whites.  Perhaps daily calls for internment camps and mass shootings of whites would make the Mercury happy.
I found it interesting that, according to the Mercury, a majority of housing discrimination cases do not even relate to race at all:

Of all the statewide complaints, more than half (164) involve someone with a disability. That’s almost twice the combined total of cases involving race (48) and ethnicity (37).

This being the case, why is all the focus on racial discrimination?  A search of the Oregonian’s website yields practically no stories about housing discrimination based on disability; all of the stories revolve around blacks and Hispanics.  The Mercury also seems to lack any stories about disability discrimination in housing.  The answer, of course, is that race overrides all other priorities among leftists.  More specifically, the promotion of blacks.  The editors of the Mercury, being typical leftists, reveal this priority both explicitly and subliminally.  Here is a screenshot of the page I quoted above:

It is no coincidence that all the “real guys” are black and that the woman is white.  In the mind of liberals, blacks are still slaves and white women are still the daughters of slave owners.  They believe that by showing them together, thus encouraging the mating of the two, they are courageous revolutionaries who seek to overthrow an oppressive status-quo.
But we come full circle here, for the ultimate goal in the establishment, and enforcement of, housing discrimination laws is to ensure that white women will breed with black men.  This is why so little attention is paid to disability discrimination.  If able-bodied whites mate with disabled whites, the offspring are still white – and nothing is accomplished.  We can now also understand why the MSM is not bothered by the ramifications of the caste system they promote; they actively seek second-class status for whites.  Since, according to the Left, whites are racist and evil, and have been so since time immemorial, it believes there is only one solution – The Final Solution.

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A milestone for this blog

Posted on June 4, 2011 by jewamongyou

Everybody enjoys the approval of those they admire.  So it is a great pleasure for me to report that Steve Sailer has added this blog to his links.
I have often found, after I had published a post, that Steve Sailer had written more or less the same thing and had beaten me to it.  Of course, had I known about it in advance, I would have cited him and, in a perfect world, I would have already read all his works (and the works of other great writers) before publishing anything of my own.  On the other hand, there is something to be said for reaching the same conclusions independently.  This is one of the traits that distinguish us from the leftists – who follow the dictates of the thought police uncritically.
In any event, thank you Steve!

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Who is a "Cherokee"?

Posted on June 3, 2011 by jewamongyou

According to “Cherokee Nation Facts“, in order to be considered a member of the Cherokee tribe, all one needs is a single Indian ancestor who was listed as such in the 1906 census:

FACT: The Cherokee Nation requires no blood quantum.  To be considered a Cherokee citizen, you need one Indian ancestor listed on the 1906 federal census of our people, known as the Dawes Rolls.  With that one Indian ancestor, a person is part of our Cherokee family regardless of what other heritage he or she might have.

It is an interesting concept, this Cherokee variant of the “one-drop” rule.  They explain their rational as follows:

The United States government, through its courts, has held time and again that Indian tribes have the right to determine their own citizenship. Today, Cherokee Nation’s citizenry is bound together by having in common at least one documented Indian ancestor, regardless of what other heritage they may have. Cherokee Nation citizenship is based upon family ties, not color.

The Cherokee people have spoken three times on this issue in public, democratic elections, each time voting to identify and define ourselves as an Indian tribe composed of Indian people. U.S. courts have consistently agreed and supported this concept of self-determination. Tribes determine tribal citizenship, not Congress and not treaties.

While it is hard to argue that the tribe, and only the tribe, has the right to define itself, one could certainly question the wisdom of this decision.  According to this criterion, given enough time, practically every human on Earth could be “Cherokee”.  Also, while I do not know any Cherokee personally, I strongly suspect that many of them object to the above definition.  But, given the power structure of “federally recognized tribes” those Cherokee lack a voice in the matter.

When we say “the tribe… has the right to define itself”, we need to clarify who is considered “the tribe”.  In the case of the Jewish tribe, for example, I do not think it would be fair for artificial Jews (I.E. converts) to have a voice in who is considered fully Jewish.  I realize that this position is considered archaic and few of my fellow Jews would agree with me – but the ultimate authority, on membership to a tribe, must rest with those who are unquestionably, and the most pure, members of that tribe.  Otherwise, “definition creep” will set in and the criteria for who is a member will inevitably become more and more lenient as ever more marginal “members” gain numbers and clout within the group.  This is what’s happening with immigration into Western countries; the immigrants are increasingly running the show.

I am certain that some Cherokee are racially conscious and object to the watering down of their people.  There was a dispute, a while back, concerning the “freedmen“:

Cherokee Chief Calls for Removal of the Cherokee
Freedmen from Tribal Membership Status
On Monday, March 13, 2006 at the regular tribal council meeting, Principal Chief Chad Smith of the Cherokee nation of Oklahoma called for the tribal council to propose and approve a constitutional amendment which would be placed on the ballot at the next Cherokee general election to allow the Cherokee voters to strip the Cherokee Freedmen from their status as tribal citizens. The Cherokee Freedmen are descendants of freed slaves and free mixed African Cherokee peoples who received Cherokee citizenship in 1866 based on a treaty with the US government and based on amendments to the 1839 Constitution.

Though some Cherokee wish to ensure that their people survive, “Cherokee Nation Facts” attempts to present a monolithic facade to the general public.  Regarding “freedmen”, they write:

MYTH: The Cherokee Nation is expelling all the descendants of their former slaves.

FACT: There are more than 1,500 descendants of former slaves who are Cherokee citizens today because they can find an Indian ancestor listed on the Dawes Rolls.  The Cherokee Nation is offering free genealogical expertise to assist any descendant of Freedmen who wants to research whether they can find such an Indian ancestor and thus become a permanent citizen.  That said, slavery was a grave injustice and a painful chapter in our nation’s history, when 2% of Cherokees owned slaves.  It should be noted, however, that the Cherokee Nation voluntarily freed these slaves in 1863.

Just as the  Jewish people cannot survive, in any meaningful way, if we interbreed freely with blacks (with any non-Jews, but especially blacks), so too will interbreeding with blacks accelerate the demise of the Cherokee people.  Black identity, being constantly bolstered by the powers that be, is too strong.  Black features are too dominant and black culture is promoted too much to coexist with a people few in number without erasing the smaller tribe.

Here is the image of the Cherokee nation that “Cherokee Nation Facts” wishes to project to the world:

We can see that, contrary to the claims of some people, it is not only whites who are victims of “multiculturalism”.  While it is undeniable that Native Americans have more than their share of issues, it would be beneficial to all parties if conscientious Native Americans joined forces with conscientious whites in the common cause of pan-nationalism.

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Time to build a better America

Posted on June 2, 2011 by jewamongyou

The Columbian published an editorial last Sunday (May 29th) titled “Time to build a better America”.  Predicting doom and gloom if America does not upgrade its crumbling infrastructure, Ann McFeatters argues that our nation will lose its edge in the future.  She writes:

America’s crumbling, outmoded infrastructure has become one of those political discussions that make eyes glaze over and knuckles turn white with boredom.  But it will prove as vital as America’s dependence on foreign oil in its potential to doom our economic superiority.

The results are everywhere.  Spring rains after winter’s storms create enormous potholes.  Devastating floods and droughts are catastrophic.  Traffic jams reduce productivity by millions of hours…

At first blush, it is difficult to argue with her.  Obviously, if we are going to have an infrastructure at all, it needs to be maintained and upgraded periodically.  She rightly points out that the United States has spent money on war, defense and entitlements that is should have spent on its basic needs.  But, instead of urging for cuts in bloated, unconstitutional, spending, she argues that what we need is – more spending…

If we do not act, which looks likely because of the determination in Washington to cut spending – Congress consistently refuses to pas a surface transportation planning act, this is what will happen:

Americans will spend an ever-greater portion of their incomes on services such as tap water, some of which will be undrinkable.  There will be new tolls on highway driving…

Some cash-strapped cities will simply stop providing basic services, letting private companies take them over.  Road maintenance in rural areas will become problematic…

The doomsday scenario she describes sounds a lot like a third-world nation in the making.  But perhaps the most important contributor to the problem is mentioned in the last paragraph.  Well… she doesn’t actually come out and say it, but she does conclude by admitting this:

In 30 years, there will be almost 100 million more people living in the United States, but the infrastructure will not support 400 million Americans.

Gosh, where do all those people come from?  It could be that she actually spelled it out in her original draft – but the Columbian’s editors PC’ed it down in order to avoid offending anybody.  The problem is immigration.  If not for post-1965 immigrants and their children, it is very likely that the measures she calls for would be very affordable.

But there is another elephant in the room and this one she could never write about – because she is almost certainly ignorant about it:  In a series of detailed articles, Hunter Wallace has spelled out, in Occidental Dissent, the tremendous costs of both welfare (including EBT) and crime.  Both represent enormous transfers of wealth from (mostly) white taxpayers to the parasitic black and Hispanic underclass.  Wallace points out that, were these expenses to be eliminated, the savings would be more than enough to send astronauts to Mars.  Repairing and updating our infrastructure would be a minor expense compared to the costs of black/Hispanic welfare and crime.  I would venture to say that “Affirmative Action” and “ESL” programs each cost as much, or more, than such updates would cost.  Obviously, Wallace is much better at numbers than I am so I’ll leave the crunching to him.

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Great video from YouTube

Posted on June 1, 2011 by jewamongyou

I was going to post something that required effort to write – but then I accidentally clicked on Amren and found this YouTube video (and I’m tired from a long day at work):

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tLc16_xXlM&w=560&h=349]

It speaks for itself really.

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