PBS – lying to our children

Posted on May 2, 2010 by jewamongyou

It is sad when we find a professor – a person the public is taught to look up to – using straw man arguments in order to bolster the beliefs of racial orthodoxy. The article in question is designed for children – who usually lack the ability to ask critical questions or to distinguish between education and deception.
Professor Audrey Smedley sets about misleading children in her interview with PBS called “Race – the power of an illusion”.  Here are some blatant deceptions from from interview:

Race is an ideology that says that all human populations are divided into exclusive and distinct groups; that all human populations are ranked, they are not equal. Inequality is absolutely essential to the idea of race. The other part is that the behavior of people is very much part of their biology.

In all my years associating with other race-realists, not once have I heard somebody claim that races must be exclusive or distinct.  In most cases, races blend into each other and there is a continuum.  As for rankings, It is unclear what she means.  Is she referring to their overall worth as Human Beings or is she referring to specific abilities?  As for overall worth an individual normally would value one of his own kind over a foreigner, just as one values his own children more than the children of strangers.  The question “which race is worth more” would be answered differently depending on who is being asked.  As for specific traits, why would one assume that various populations (evolving under different conditions) would miraculously end up having exactly the same average abilities?  Would it be logical to assume that an Inuit could, on average, run as fast as a Masai?  People are not usually offended when told they cannot run very fast – but they do get offended when told they are not very intelligent.  This is not a valid scientific argument that intelligence is somehow different; all this tells us is that people tend to get more emotional when it comes to intelligence.  So, from a purely objective standpoint, there is no reason to assume that average I.Q. will be the same all over the world.  Therefore, we may rank races based on average I.Q. or any other ability or trait.
Smedley writes “Inequality is absolutely essential to the idea of race.”  Yes, it is.  As a matter of fact, inequality is absolutely essential to the idea of evolution.  Is Smedley opposed to the idea of evolution?  There is only one place where equality is the norm: in the fantastical minds of leftist ideologues.  It is a rarity in the real world – equality under the law not withstanding.

And then the idea that all of this is inherited. People don’t only inherit their biological features, but they also inherit their moral and temperamental and intellectual features. And it stays with us right into the 21st century. Not only are all of these features inherited, but they are not transcendable. You can’t change. Racial populations, individual races, and individual people cannot change their race. So there’s no way in which you can transcend this identity. Once you are identified as a socially low-status race, you remain so forever.

One problem with leftists is that they tend to see most things in black and white.  There are few grey areas for them.  In the real world, people who are born with certain tendencies can overcome them.  Belonging to a particular race only means that you, as an individual, are more likely to have a certain set of traits, predispositions or proclivities to certain diseases.  It does not dictate that you will act upon those dispositions or that you will actually get those diseases.  You can still control your habits and behaviors.  Here, Smedley implies that blacks are of lower status than whites.  She seems to be oblivious to the fact that, during the last 40 years or so, whites have been relegated to the back of the bus so to speak.  Perhaps this is due to her own privileged position.

Race wasn’t invented because it is a set of beliefs and attitudes about human variation. It has nothing to do with the biological variation itself. You can have many societies with great diversity in physical features without the idea of race. Race represents attitudes and beliefs about human differences, not the differences themselves.

It is unclear what Smedley means by this but I’ll venture a guess.  She seems to be saying that “race” is an ideology that is divorced from the actual science of human biodiversity – and yet she admits that such diversity exists.  Would she feel better if we called them “populations” rather than “races”?  If “racists” shed their attitudes and beliefs, would it then be alright to study human biodiversity?  But what if those attitudes and beliefs are, themselves, the products of such study?  She refers to “diversity in physical features”, implying that there is no diversity in mental features.  Yet she presents no evidence of this.  In fact, there is much evidence to the contrary.

One of the things we have to recognize is that slavery existed virtually everywhere. It existed throughout the Mediterranean, for example. Slavery was thousands of years old by the time the colonists in America established slavery. There was no need to justify slavery because the Spanish had slaves; the Portuguese had slaves. In other words, slavery was part of the normal state of affairs of the colonizing nations. It was part of their world.

She conspicuously leaves out the fact that slavery was especially prevalent in black Africa – and that black Africans were major participants in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

In the 1820s and ’30s, a physician by the name of Samuel Morton, who lived in Philadelphia, began to collect skulls. And he collected skulls from populations around the world, and began to measure the internal capacities of these skulls. He devised a mechanism for using mustard seed and other materials to measure the internal capacity. He discovered that African skulls were smaller on average than European skulls, and that different populations had different average measurements in their skulls. This provided confirmation of the belief that Africans were less intelligent than other people.
It was assumed, both by the population at large and by scientists, that people with larger heads and larger brains presumably were more intelligent than people with smaller ones. We now know that this isn’t true. There are many people who have small skulls who are highly intelligent. But the fact is that there was a need to have scientific confirmation of the existence of races. And since races had to be different from one another, one of the ways of measuring these differences was essentially to say that the average skull size of races were different.

Yes, of course there are many people who have small skulls who are highly intelligent.  Nobody disputes this.  The crucial point that Smedley conveniently leaves out is that not all correlations are absolute.  There is a correlation between brain size (relative to body size) and I.Q. and there is a correlation between skull size and brain size.  It is hard to believe that somebody could be a professor and not be aware of this.  One can only conclude that Smedley is intentionally deceiving people.  She conveniently leaves out decades of documentation regarding the persistent scholastic achievement gap between blacks, whites and Asians.  The fact that the larger-skulled races consistently outperform the smaller-skulled races (on average of course) must be pure coincidence in her eyes.
She concludes with this exhortation:

If you give up racism, you’re not giving up privileges. What you’re doing is expanding privileges. You’re not giving up your rights. You’re not losing anything. What you would be doing is gaining something. White Americans don’t realize how much has been lost by their failure to integrate blacks into the community. A great deal of talent, a great deal of skills and wonderful creativeness has been lost, simply because we’ve not allowed black Americans to become part of this total society.

How anybody, in this day and age, could write such a statement boggles the imagination.  The most frightening aspect of all is this:

Site Information for pbs.org

  • Alexa Traffic Rank: 1,618
  • United States Flag Traffic Rank in US: 485
  • Sites Linking In: 50,406
  • 4 Stars

I hope to see the day when race-realist sites get that kind of ranking.  When the truth is valued over propaganda and when lying to millions of children is recognized as the serious crime that it is.

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I support Arizona

Posted on May 1, 2010 by jewamongyou

The State of Arizona is an arbitrary territory on a map that is ruled by thieving, lying politicians.  But recently it has come to symbolize something more.  It now symbolizes Americans taking a stand against the swarming hordes of criminals who threaten to overwhelm us.
Though these steps (enforcing immigration law and this one) are small ones in the scheme of things, they are still steps in the right direction.  Apparently, a majority of Americans support them and we should be vocal about our support.
This is a bumper sticker I just created.  It can be printed on special paper for bumper stickers and should be rotated 90 degrees first:

I plan on affixing it to my car tomorrow and the reactions (if any) might be interesting; I’ll keep y’all posted.

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When government stereotypes

Posted on April 30, 2010 by jewamongyou

Imagine, for a moment, that you a white physician.  A man, who you have never previously met, has made an appointment with you.   You see that his sir name is “Garcia”.   Being a bit old-fashioned, you greet the new patient in the waiting room and address him in Spanish.  Is it far fetched to envision this Mr. Garcia as being a fourth generation American whose only language is English?  Is it far fetched to envision this Mr. Garcia as being offended that you assume, based merely on his sir name, that he is more comfortable with Spanish than English?
Let us take this thought experiment a bit further by replacing Mr. Garcia with Mrs. Yokomuro and you have addressed her in Japanese.  The situation would be awkward indeed when she explained to you that even her grandmother was not fluent in Japanese and how dare you be so prejudiced!
But, apparently, it is perfectly alright for the central government to assume that Hispanics are native Spanish speakers.  As justification for asking about Hispanic ethnicity on the census, the government offers us this:

Is Person 1 of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin?

Asked since 1970. The data collected in this question are needed by federal agencies to monitor compliance with anti-discrimination provisions, such as under the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act. State and local governments may use the data to help plan and administer bilingual programs for people of Hispanic origin (emphasis mine).

They don’t even bother to say “Hispanics”, which might imply “Spanish speaker”.  Instead they use the term ” Hispanic origin”, which includes even those whose families have been in the U.S. for hundreds of years.
This is just one example, out of many, of government hypocrisy; preaching to us the evils of stereotyping while doing the exact same thing themselves.

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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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