Equatorial Africa 2 – treatment of women

Posted on April 29, 2010 by jewamongyou

Regarding the treatment of women amongst sub-Saharan Africans Chaillu writes (pg. 333):

Polygamy exists everywhere.  A man’s great ambition is to have a great many wives.  These cultivate the ground for him, and it is, in fact, their duty to feed him.  He does not interfere with their labours on the soil.  They are responsible for his daily food.  The man buys his wife of her father for a sum agreed on, often when she is but a child.  She becomes his wife sometimes at the age of five, and sometimes still younger.  Often the young child is placed under care of the future husband’s chief wife, a privileged personage, who superintends her husband’s affairs, shares his secrets, rules his other wives, and to intrigue with whom is a special and greater offence than adultery with the others.  A man’s claims on his father-in-law for help in trade, or in a palaver, are rigidly respected, and this gives additional value to a great number of wives.  I have found that the wives rarely disagree among themselves.  Early marriage and hard treatment makes many of the women childless; and greegrees, which are believed to cure sterility, are in great demand all over the country.  Children, whether male or female, are thought a great blessing, not only to the father, but to his village, whose consequence is increased by every birth.  They know very little of the right care of children, and a great proportion of the infants die.
Men marry at every opportunity, and at all ages up to seventy or eighty.  As long as he can buy wives, this is his great ambition.  Obedience is the wife’s first duty, and it is enforced without mercy.  Such a whip as is figured below is an important instrument found in every house.  It is made of the hide of the hippopotamus or manatee, and is a barbarous weapon, as hard and heavy as iron.  This is laid on with no light hand, the worthy husband crying out, “Rascal, do you think I paid my slaves for you for nothing?”  The wives are more harshly treated than the slaves – a stroke of the whip often leaves a life-long mark; and I saw very few women in all my travels who had not some such marks on their persons.

Much has been said and written about the misogynist lyrics often found in rap.  Some even claim that rap has its origins in Africa and, therefore, that the misogyny might also have its origins in Africa.  If black American mistreatment of women is rooted in their African origins, then perhaps it is time for black Americans to strive to grow out of their African culture rather than reaffirming their connections to it.  Since we see similar abuse of the fairer sex among Africans almost everywhere they dwell, it is not unreasonable to suspect that more is at work here than mere culture.  If so, then it is not possible for blacks to, en masse, divorce themselves from these behaviors.  Either way, it is imperative that non-blacks (and enlightened black women) do whatever they must to protect themselves from this kind of behavior.

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Asians are beneficiaries of affirmative action

Posted on April 28, 2010 by jewamongyou

Following is the full text of the section of chapter eight of “The Affirmative Action Hoax” by Steven Farron that deals with Asians benefiting from affirmative action (reproduced with his permission).  He did mention that a new edition of this book is coming out soon.  I strongly recommend purchasing it and reading it if it is anything like the first edition.  Presumably, it’s even better:

Thus, Asians should logically be the main victims of affirmative action.  But, in fact, they are not.  In The Bell Curve, Herrnstein and Murray (1996: 451-3) list the average Verbal+Math SAT scores of Whites, Asians, and Blacks at twenty-six prestigious colleges.  In most of the colleges on their list, Asians have higher average Verbal+Math SAT scores than Whites.  But the differences between Whites and Asians are neither great nor universal.  More importantly, the combined Verbal+Math SAT score is misleading since Verbal-SAT is more important than Math.  In 2004, the average SAT Verbal and Math scores of Whites were 528 and 531; of Asians, 507 and 578.  On ACT’s, which have subtests on English, Mathematics, Reading Comprehension and Science Reasoning, the average White and Asian scores are nearly identical.
Lerner and Nagai (2002) provided the median Verbal and Math SAT scores of Whites and Asians at twenty-seven American colleges.  At twenty-four, the median White Verbal score was higher than the median Asian Verbal score.  At fourteen of these colleges, the gap was thirty points or more.  The Asian median Verbal score exceeded the White median at only three colleges, all by a small margin (ten, ten, and twenty-five points).  The median White Math score was higher at two of these twenty-seven colleges; at six, they were the same; at nineteen, the median Asian Math score was higher.  But at only six of these, was the gap thirty points or more.  Lerner and Nagai (2002) also provided the median White and Asian ACT scores at twenty-two colleges.  At fourteen, the median White score was higher.  At four of these colleges, it was higher by three or more points (on a thirty-six point scale).  At five colleges, the median White and Asian ACT scores were the same.  At only three was the median Asian ACT score higher, all by less than three points.
The most frequently used evidence of anti-Asian discrimination was from its supposed existence at Berkeley’s undergraduate division.  In fact, in the late 1980s, when this accusation was constantly being made, of the California high school graduates who were academically eligible for Berkeley (on the basis of high school grades and SAT scores), 67.7 percent where White and 19.9 percent were Asian.  But only 32.6 percent of the 1989 Berkeley freshman class was White and 21.2 percent were Asian.   (Of California high school graduates, 61.6 percent were White, and 8.6 percent were Asian (Sarich 1990-91; 73-4, 76).)
Discrimination in admission to professional schools is more serious than in admission to college.  Every high school graduate can find an American college that will accept him, but that is not true of professional schools.  In 1992, the average LSAT score of first-year Asians at American law schools was .32 of a standard deviation lower than the average LSAT score of White first-year students (Herrnstein and Murray 1996: 455-6).  In 1990-91, 1.55 more Asians were admitted to American law schools than would have been admitted on the basis of undergraduate grades and LSAT scores alone, and only .80 as many Whites (Wightman 1997: 16).  As a result, when that class graduated from law school, 80.75 percent of the Asians, but 91.93 percent of the Whites, passed the bar exam on the first try (Wightman 1998: 27).  Law schools have practiced that level of pro-Asian discrimination for decades.  Only 60 percent of the Asians admitted to American law schools in 1976 would have been admitted if they were White (Welch and Gruhl 1998: 58).  As with all affirmative action programs, the socioeconomic background of the recipients is not considered.  For instance, Ron Chen got into Rutgers Law School through its Minority Student Program even though both his parents had PhDs and he attended one of the most elite private schools in the United States (Exeter) and Dartmouth.  He told the Washington Post that he needed affirmative action to get into law school because “I goofed off in college” (Russakoff 1995).
Similarly, in 1994, 93.4 and 96.3 percent of White medical students passed Step I and II respectively, of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (which replaced Parts I and II of the NBME exam) on the first try.  Only 86.8 percent and 87.6 percent of Asians passed them on the first try (Case, et al. 1996: S91).
In Section A of Chapter 9, I provided statistics on the rate at which teachers pass teacher competence tests in various states.  In all, Whites’ pass rates are much higher than Asians’.  In the same section, I quote the average scores of Whites and Blacks at different educational levels on the prose literacy, document literacy, and quantitative literacy tests of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy.  I will now add that on all three tests, the average score of Whites is higher than that of Asian/Pacific Islanders at every educational level – high school graduates, graduates of two-year colleges, graduates of four-year colleges, and graduates of graduate and professional schools.  And most of the differences are substantial.
In all spheres of American life besides university admissions, Asians are the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action.  Many university faculties and corporations recruit Asians to increase their proportion of minorities.  For instance, in 1995, when New Hampshire’s population was 97.4 percent White, the University of New Hampshire announced that it intended to increase its minority undergraduate enrollment to 7.5 percent by 2005 and the proportion of its minority tenure-track professors to 7.5 percent by 2000.  Two-thirds of its minority professors are Asian.  In 1995, only 0.84 percent of New Hampshire’s population was Asian (Gorov 1995).  Similarly, heroic efforts by the University of Michigan raised the proportion of its faculty who are minorities to 14.1 percent in 1995, more than half of whom (7.3 percent) were Asian (4.9 percent were Black and 1.9 percent Hispanic).  Blacks comprised 13.9 percent of Michigan’s population, Hispanics 2.2 percent, and Asians 1.1 percent (Lynch 1997: 277-8, 312).
Asians are also by far the greatest beneficiaries of government set-aside contracts for minority business enterprises (MBEs).  In 1996, Asians were 12 percent of the minority population of the United States, but they received 28 percent of MBE contracts (Graham 2002: 164).  The Asian proportion of America’s minority population has increased rapidly since 1996.  Therefore, the proportion of minority set-aside contracts that Asians receive must now be considerably higher than 28 percent.
Consequently, 61 percent of Asians in California voted against the 1996 referendum banning the California government from practicing racial discrimination (Beinart 1998).
This is undoubtedly surprising to people who have not studied affirmative action carefully because they constantly hear and read about its adverse effect on Asians.  The reason is that opponents of affirmative action try any trick they can to avoid defending its real victims: Whites.

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Jewish belief in a physical god

Posted on April 28, 2010 by jewamongyou

We don’t know, for certain, how the ancient Jews perceived God. It could be some viewed Him as a physical entity and others as a spiritual one. We just don’t know for sure. To Maimonides it was clear that there is nothing physical about God and his proofs were all based on Aristotelian philosophy. To people of the Middle Ages such philosophy was held in the same esteem as science today.  Maimonides considered anybody who believed God to be physical, in any form, to be a heretic. To Sephardic (Spanish) Jews, steeped in philosophy, this posed little problem. However Aristotelian philosophy had not made significant inroads in other parts of Europe. In fact Maimonides even wrote “the rabbis of a certain land say that God is a body, but a body bigger and more glorious than ours”. I believe, with good reason, that the land he was referring to was France. Even though Rashi seemed to have agreed with Maimonides, the Tosaphists give indications that they did, in fact, consider God to be a body.  Many of you will say “how dare you accuse the holy Tosaphists of being heretics?!” To you I ask, Maimonides wrote that the rabbis of a certain land believed in a physical god – which land would you have that be? If it were the land of North Africa, for example, would it then be okay? In any case, though they were contemporary, we don’t find Maimonides mentioning the Tosaphists nor vise versa. There is one possible reference, by the Tosaphists, to Maimonides and it is not flattering. I say that they each considered the other to be heretics. Ugly but all indications are that it is true. The Tosaphists gave no credence to Aristotelian philosophy and considered it “Greek wisdom” and probably forbidden. To Maimonides, and his disciples, it was simply science/logic not to be denied.
In the 12th century, it would seem that some parts of the Arab world (including Spain) held the upper hand culturally.  Therefore it is no wonder that Maimonides, and his disciples, prevailed over the Northerners.  They prevailed to such an extent that the belief in the physicality of god was driven underground. It was not, however, extinguished. One cannot so easily stamp out religious beliefs. Believers in a physical god found refuge in the Kabbala – mainly in the Ashkenazic version.  We find, in the book “the Two Tablets of the Law (“Shlah“)” a description of the “Higher Man” with his 248 limbs and 365 sinews – corresponding to the positive and negative commandments.  He clearly states that God has no will, since a will implies change and God does not change.  Therefore prayer to Him is futile. His Will is given its own identity – as a sephira.
The author of the Shlah lived in the 16th century.  So we see that by that time, God’s body took on a more spiritual meaning.  The belief was toned down, disguised and hidden in the writings of the Kabbalists.   Any other society would have gradually forgotten such beliefs but not European Jews.  Most people had great reverence for their rabbis, past and present.  This is all well and good but this reverence often bordered on deification.  If you find somebody believing that a certain rabbi is above error, that is deification.
What was to be done with these embarrassing statements that seemed to be heretical? Ashkenazic rabbis decried that only those over age 40 could read the Kabbalistic writings (were they to outright say such writings were false they would lose all respect in the eyes of the masses). That already excluded the majority of people as many didn’t even live that long. Of course women were also excluded. It was hoped that anybody over 40 would be mature enough, and wise enough, to recognize falsehood and heresy when they saw it.
There actually were some outstanding Ashkenazic rabbis who truly rejected the Kabbala though they couldn’t reveal that outright. Instead they gave hints here and there to those who could understand. The famous Ya’akov Emden and the Noda’ beyuhuda were such individuals. A disciple of the former, Rav Eliezer Plekles, even came right out and debunked the Zohar in his responsa – that was recently published in Israel and caused much consternation in the Orthodox community.
Today it is totally unacceptable, in the Orthodox world, to declare God to be a physical entity.  Still the sentiment exists in the Kabbalistic writings and has a great influence on the Hassidic and Sephardic prayers and on the thoughts of worshippers among the Kabbalists.

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The Greyhound station gulag

Posted on April 27, 2010 by jewamongyou

One of the privileges of being race realists is that we are able to see the story within a story.  We notice not only what is said, but also what is not said.  We notice how things are said – and this gives us much deeper perspectives.
In his shocking post “The Greyhound Station Gulag“, William Grigg succeeds in arousing our anger at government “authorities” for their gross misconduct during the hurricane Katrina crisis.  In this case, the victim is Abdulrahman Zeitoun and we are told how this Syrian immigrant “rendered what aid he could to people trapped in their ruined homes”, how he was “part of a financially successful and well-regarded family”, that he is “Blessed with a strong work ethic and uncanny entrepreneurial instinct” and how he was “rendering aid to stranded neighbors”.  The subliminal message:  That immigrants are good people and, by extension, that immigration is a good thing.
As a visual to help us appreciate how corrupt government agents in New Orleans can be, Grigg treats us to a famous video clip depicting N.O. police officers in the act of looting a Wal-mart.  All the officers shown are black – but this is not pointed out. The subliminal message:  It is merely coincidence that those officers were black; they just as easily could have been white and their race is not worthy of mention.
Grigg goes on to recount how corrupt government goons victimized Zeitun:

Lima and Gonzalez were two of the six uniformed heroes who eagerly stormed into Zeitoun’s property on September 6, arresting the businessman and three friends on suspicion of looting (that is, stealing without official permission) and dealing drugs.

Though we are not privy to the ethnicities of the other arresting officers, it would appear that Lima and Gonzalez are both Hispanic.  Though apparent, this is not pointed out. The subliminal message:  Non-white ethnicity, among criminals,  is not important enough to point out.
We are told how Zeitun and other victims were held at a Greyhound station, which served as a miniature Guantanamo.  There they were subject to torture and humiliation.  Our compassion is aroused for these unfortunate men – and we are shown a photo:

All but one of the victims is black.  That one of them is white, and seems out of place, is obvious.  Directly under the photo, we are told:

After the first sleepless night, another prisoner was introduced into the mix, an oddly jovial guy called Jerry. Curiously, Jerry focused most of his attention on Zeitoun and Nasser, and seemed strangely eager to solicit negative opinions about the Bush administration, U.S. foreign policy, and the military.

One didn’t have to look for potting soil caked between his toes in order to recognize that Jerry was a plant.

There is no claim that the included photo actually depicts men who were held at the Greyhound station, nor is it stated that the odd white man is none other than “Jerry” – but this is the implication.  We are not told the ethnicity of the guards.   The subliminal message:  “People of color” are victims and whites are perpetrators.

Meanwhile, Zeitun’s family had not heard from him:

While Zeitoun was suffering in Louisiana, his wife and children in Texas were convinced he was dead. He had never been permitted to contact his wife following his arrest, and Kathy wasn’t able to find any trace of him. Before Katrina hit, the two of them would occasionally speak about the potentially dire consequences for an Arab-American who found himself in police custody.

For added emphasis, we are reminded that Zeitun is an “Arab-American” – even though this should be obvious by now.  The subliminal message:  Crimes against hyphenated (non-white) people are more egregious than crimes against whites.

Finally, we are told, Zeitun’s wife receives a phone call from a stranger.  The man tells her that her husband is in prison but safe:

Deprived of any source of hope except for prayer, Zeitoun had pleaded with God to send a messenger. Shortly thereafter a middle-aged black man visited his cell — a missionary who was distributing Bibles and praying with the inmates. At no small risk to himself — remember, we live in an era when defense attorneys who pass along notes from terrorist suspects can be sent to prison themselves — this man of God honored Zeitoun’s request to contact his wife and family.

It just so happens that this “man of God” was not just an ordinary man.  No, he was far more than ordinary.  We are told how courageous he is and how selfless he his.  Most importantly, we are told that he is black.  In this case, race is worthy of mention.  The subliminal message:  When a person of color does a good deed, it is important to mention his race.

The Greyhound station gulag story is noteworthy in that, taken at face value, every point that Grigg makes is a valid one.  There is not a single statement, in the entire post, that I would take issue with.  Government is indeed corrupt and out of control, torture is wrong, injustices were committed and this story needs to be told.  Nevertheless, this is an example of truth being used as a vehicle to further leftist orthodoxy on race.  It is akin to using a mixed-race couple to advertise a great product or using pigs to deliver the publishers clearing house sweepstakes to a Muslim.

Looking over his blog and profile, it would appear that William Grigg is an intelligent man and a good writer.  Still, I would not be surprised if he is unaware of his own subliminal messages. The guidelines of leftist journalism, which are based upon its racial orthodoxy, are so ingrained that people probably write that way out of habit – even if they are far from being leftists themselves.

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Our Asian pet

Posted on April 26, 2010 by jewamongyou

Our Asian pet is a hard worker indeed,
a diminutive  granny of the Buddhist creed.
Friendly to all and a really good cook,
her ethics are pure and she works by the book.
But for lifting and high places she’s not worth a dime,
these things are a challenge at four foot nine.
What for other employees is a ten minute task,
for her half an hour is considered fast.
But she’s charming and fills an important station,
for she’s female and most importantly Asian.
Her lack of  ability and muscle formation,
are made up for by race and gender consideration.

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J.T.F.

Posted on April 26, 2010 by jewamongyou

Any organization that helps white, or Jewish, identity serves a valuable function.  In this sense, even Bnai Brith is valuable – at least for me;  I would not be alive if not for Bnai Brith since my own parents met through this organization.  No doubt, many white couples have met, and had children, through various neo-Nazi groups as well and this helps our demographics.
Then there is J.T.F. (Jewish Task Force).  Among its ranks are many Jewish bigots for whom hating Arabs (Muslim Arabs) is as important to their identity as promoting Judaism.  Judaism teaches Jews to love their brethren but, for many at J.T.F., this only applies if the subject hates Arabs – a love based on hate.  What a concept!  If all Arabs would suddenly disappear, one wonders if J.T.F. would also disappear.  At least they promote Jewish consciousness.  Or do they?  Sometimes it is difficult to gauge the benefit of raising Jewish awareness versus the damage of driving away good Jews and giving ammunition to those who hate us.  “Useful idiots” might be a good way to describe many of them.  “Neocons”, with all its negative baggage, is another good description.  When a bomb goes off somewhere in the Muslim world, and kills dozens of women and children, people at J.T.F. consider it good news.  In their eyes, the more killed and maimed the better.  This is not the Judaism I know.  Their “Judaism” comes across as some sort of mutated evil brother, grotesquely deformed and mentally deranged.
The body of Jewish religious literature is vast enough that it can support a great diversity of outlooks and opinions.  All one needs to do is pick and choose, just as many Christian denominations pick and choose from the Bible, ignoring what is inconvenient for them.  I’m pretty sure all organized religions do this.  Good people pick and choose based on their healthy conscience.  Not-so-good people pick and choose based on their need to feel superior or their greed or lust.
When I lived in Israel, I happened to be at the funeral of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane (purely by chance).  At one point, people began to chant “Death to the Arabs”.  As everybody around me was chanting, I shouted at them to stop.  I told them this is wrong.  Several people near me actually stopped chanting and admitted I was right.  I had broken the spell of the mob mentality.  On another occasion, I had done the unthinkable by giving my seat, on a bus, to an elderly Arab.   Some of the Jews on that bus glared at me as if I’d some something wrong.  I just smiled inwardly because I’d proven to myself that even strong mores could not hold me back from doing the right thing even in public.  Why am I telling you all this?  Because at the time, I was just a yeshiva student.  I was not a racialist nor was I libertarian – and yet the things I had learned were enough to bring about this sort of attitude.  I knew it was likely that the old Arab I gave my seat to hated me for being a Jew – but that would be his problem, not mine.  If that were the case, then my kindness toward him might have been an assault on his mind.  It might have caused doubts and confusion, damaging his clear-cut world view where Jews = evil and Arabs = good.  In either case, I had nothing to lose; I was just as comfortable standing.  Most J.T.F. people would have chanted “death to the Arabs” along with the others.  They would have let the old Arab stand in the bus.  Would either action be something they could brag about years later?  I must end this with the disclaimer that not all J.T.F. people fit the mold I described above.  Enough do that I felt it was important to write what I did.  As for the rest, I am not referring to you.

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Protecting children. A moral dilemma

Posted on April 25, 2010 by jewamongyou

Government agencies that are charged with protecting children have earned a bad reputation.  If power corrupts, then power over the fate of children must be the most terrible kind of power.  When it comes to a government agency such as Child Protective Services, strong feelings seems to be the norm; a multitude of horror stories have sullied their reputation even among many leftists:

CPS continues to destroy families and children precisely because well-meaning “get tough” people give them a nod of approval, tax-money and their confidence. Then they turn away with a feeling of achievement and of relief at handing over a messy problem to “the authorities.” They don’t have to confront the nightmare bureaucracy they’ve facilitated. If the nightmare is glimpsed through newspaper accounts of abused children, dead children or kids who are lost in the system, then the messenger is criticized as alarmist or the account is dismissed as an aberration.

One of the characteristics of government is that it demands a monopoly on the use of force.  It also frequently eliminates any competition from services it chooses to provide, either through specific laws or by making competition unviable.  Competition leads to improved services while a monopoly leads to inferior services.  Therefore,  if ever there was a service where competition should be encouraged, it’s the protection of children.  To leave the welfare of our children in the hands of a government monopoly is criminal.
I recently became involved in a situation where a mother was found to be endangering her children through abuse and neglect.  My opinion was sought regarding what course of action to take.  To do nothing would clearly be wrong.  To seek counseling was not a viable option, since this had already been tried and had failed.  To immediately get CPS involved also seemed like a bad idea.  Our conclusion was that the best thing to do would be to get a private organization involved and let them find a solution. It would still be necessary to involve CPS because only their actions would have teeth.  We would then hope that CPS accepts the solution of the private organization.  It is indeed sad when we must seek the aid of government agencies, thus encouraging their reign of terror.

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Explorations and adventures…

Posted on April 24, 2010 by jewamongyou

… in Equatorial Africa.  I’ve come upon a travel book, published in 1861 by Paul B. Du Chaillu.  This delightfully illustrated volume describes his travels in the interior of Africa, its fauna and native peoples.  I believe there is much to glean from this old book just from a historical perspective – so let this be the beginning of a series based upon it.  Each post will include an interesting quote from the book (one that might enlighten us in some way) and an illustration.
This first excerpt introduces us to the author and to the natives of the West coast of Africa.  It also explains why we might treat tales of the horrors of the interior parts of Africa with a certain amount of skepticism (pg. 3):

When I returned now, after an absence of some years, my arrival was hailed with joy by my former acquaintances among the blacks, who thought that I had come back to trade.  The negroes of the West Coast are the most eager and the shrewdest traders I have ever met; and they were overjoyed at the prospect of dealing with, and perhaps cheating, an old friend like myself.  Their disappointment was great, therefore, when I was obliged to inform them that I had come with no goods to sell, but with the purpose to explore the country, of which I had heard so many wonderful stories from them, and to hunt wild birds and beasts.
At first they believed I was joking.  When they saw landed from the vessel which brought me no “trade”, but only an outfit of all things necessary for a hunter’s life in the African wilds, they began perforce to believe in my stated purpose.  Then their amazement and perplexity knew no bounds.
Some thought I was out of my senses, and pitied my father, whom they all knew, for being troubled with such a good-for-nothing son.
Some thought I had ulterior objects, and were alarmed lest I should secretly try to wrest the trade of the interior out of their hands.
Those Mpongwes, or Coast tribes, hold in their hands, as will be explained farther on, the trade with the back country of the Gaboon River; and the slightest suspicion that I was about to interfere with this profitable monopoly sufficed to create great terror in their trade-loving souls.  They surrounded me, each with his tale of the horrors and dangers of a voyage “up the country,” asserting that I should be eaten up by cannibals, drowned in rivers, devoured by tigers and crocodiles, crushed by elephants, upset by hippopatami, or waylaid and torn to pieces by the gorilla.
But when I convinced them that I had no designs upon their trade, and that my purposed travels and hunts would not affect their interests, all but a few stedfast old friends left me to my fate.

This is not to say there were no dangers or that the natives were all of the “noble” sort.  Though he heaps praise upon the native children within the mission where he stayed on the coast, the adults are “dull, lazy, and distrustful.  They adhere to their vile superstitions, and are with difficulty influenced…”  Of course, when he says “influenced”, what he probably means is “influenced to convert to Christianity”.

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The reinvention of white people

Posted on April 22, 2010 by jewamongyou

Have American whites lost their nationhood and then had it resurrected – by leftists?  It would not be the first time a nation unknowingly transformed from a natural, organic nation into one whose existence is somewhat artificial and, therefore, whose very nature has changed.  Rather like a science fiction tale of a human falling asleep as flesh and blood and waking up as an android.
No doubt some native American tribes, for whom membership used to require no paperwork and whose self-identity was as natural and flowing as the rivers around them now find themselves struggling to maintain a meaningful existence in a different world.  They must keep computer files for members and follow practices previously unheard of just to maintain some semblance of continuity for their nation.
At a time when the United States was over 90% white, one could still accurately say that, by and large, America was a nation founded by whites and composed of whites.  Back then, a white American’s nationality could be defined by his U.S. citizenship.  He could convincingly equate the two in most cases.  Of course this is not so anymore.  These days, “American” can mean anything and (as I’ve stated before) therefore it means nothing.
Thanks to leftist policies, which are specifically designed to marginalize and displace whites, America no longer exists as a nation.  It has been reduced to nothing more than  a specific territory ruled by an elite political class.  Former white “Americans” have either lost any true sense of nationhood (their former patriotism having become a hollow fantasy) or else they have embraced their white heritage as their nation.  The former have no nation.  The latter now belong to a new nation – created indirectly by leftists.
Proud white Americans, being members of a new nation, may  find themselves confused.  On the one hand, they feel deeply rooted in their historical past.  On the other hand, that past – though lived by their genetic forebears – was the past of different nations.  In the meantime, the rules have changed.  Things that used to be assumed must now be argued.  Things that used to be safe must now be defended.  Things that used to be sacred are now openly questioned.  Things that used to be profane are now considered sacred.  When faced with disruptions such as these, a people will typically take measures to preserve the culture they have inherited from their former nations.  Unfortunately, those measures sometimes prove themselves to be as disruptive as the challenges that provoked them.
These are dangerous times for white peoples wherever they are.  They are, of course, dangerous because of the widespread violence, hate propaganda and genocidal government policies directed against us – but they are also dangerous because of the ways we sometimes find ourselves reacting to such persecution.  Unable to maintain the innocence of yesteryear, some of us may slide into mentalities that are not helpful.  During his speech, at the most recent Amren conference, Sam Dickson urged caution lest we become like the caricatures our enemies use to portray us.  Let us take his advice to heart.  With one hand, let us defend our cultures, genetic legacies, language etc. but let the other hand steady us so that we remain normal, natural people.  We cannot control the events that brought about our status as new nations – but we can control the ways we adapt to it.  We can nurture our new nations in such a way that the artificiality of it takes on the qualities of a seamless transition still rooted in our past but well suited to forge ahead on our own terms.

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Obamacare sticking it to us

Posted on April 21, 2010 by jewamongyou

We got an email from our H.R. department today at work.  In part, it read:

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), making health reform certain and expanding coverage to all Americans over the next several years…
We anticipate that health care reform will have some impact on our health care offerings and their cost (emphasis mine), and we will keep you updated as we have more information.
Here are some changes in the law that will affect our plans; beginning with our next plan year that starts January 1, 2011:

  • An eligible employee’s children will be eligible for health care coverage until their 26th birthday, as long as they do not have access to other coverage through their employers. This provision applies even if your child is married, whether or not your child attends school full-time or lives with you, and applies even if your child is not your tax dependent.
  • The plan will remove caps on lifetime limits on most benefits, and some changes may be made to annual dollar maximums on certain benefits.
  • Pre-existing condition exclusions for children under age 19 will be eliminated; these exclusions will be eliminated completely beginning in 2014.

One of my coworkers, who is Hispanic and left-leaning politically, has a couple of children who are not beyond their teens.  I walked up to him and said, “soon I’ll be able to put all five of my children on my medical plan even though they are no longer minors and no longer live with me.  This will not cost me any more than the regular family plan.  Your coverage options, on the other hand, will not change – but your premiums will go up just the same.  Thanks for paying the health insurance for my kids!”  He remained silent and somewhat subdued.  In day to day life, this person is quite intelligent and a very likable fellow.  So I wonder about the thought process of such people.  Do they really believe that government can create goods and services ex nihilo?  Does their belief system include some sort of giant Easter Bunny or Santa Claus that magically produces bags of goodies out of thin air?  Does their naivete allow them to suppose that large corporations will simply absorb the cost of such measures without having to charge us more for them?
As for me, if I’m already forced to pay higher premiums, would it be morally wrong to include my grown kids within my health plan knowing that my coworkers are paying for it?  I’m not even sure I’ll have a choice in the matter except, maybe, to be a martyr and go to jail.
When I contemplate not just my own grown kids, but the millions upon millions of other kids who employers and insurance companies will be forced to accommodate, I find it hard to wrap my mind around the magnitude of the troubles that await us.  I do take small comfort in the fact that many of those fools who supported Obamacare will end up being bitten by it.  They will wake up one morning and wonder how a bill that is called the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” could, in fact, end up costing them so much more.
Hard times await us, and not just monetarily.  As has already been said countless times, health care rationing will soon be our lot.  Long waits, mountains of paperwork, inferior care and unnecessary death will be the rule.  This is what happens when the government forces health insurance upon millions of people who had, under normal circumstances, already decided they don’t need it.   Now most of those who had already known they need it, will suffer much more.

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