Race-realism is an acknowledgment of reality; it’s not the exclusive property of any particular race or ethnic group. Most of y’all are already aware that there are Asian race-realists. Some of y’all may be familiar with jayman. He’s an accomplished HBD blogger, and partly black himself. But there are also some full-fledged blacks who have accepted race-realism, and who are pro-white.
One such person is a lady who had commented on this blog. She goes by Jane Doe, and has agreed to an online interview. I have chatted with her face-to-face (edited/added 10/23/14), so I know she is what she says she is. Here’s the text of that interview, and I hope there will be further discussion in comments:
1) Can you describe your journey to race-realism?
I have been interested in the subject of intelligence since high school. When I discovered the subject I learned that there is a one standard deviation difference in the average IQ scores of blacks and whites, with whites being higher. I was curious about whether this difference was mainly environmental or genetic. As a black woman of Nigerian ancestry I was eager to believe that the difference was entirely environmental. My bias led me to read all the negative reviews of The Bell Curve by Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein and all the positive reviews of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond and The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen J. Gould. (I didn’t know at the time that only one chapter of The Bell Curve covered race.)
When I got to college I took an introduction to philosophy course which required me to read a book by Michael Levin. This book had nothing to do with race, but it introduced me to the author. I later discovered that he wrote many controversial books about feminism and racial differences in intelligence. Since I had already read another book by the author and liked it, I decided to check out Why Race Matters. It didn’t take long for me to become convinced that the intelligence disparity may well be genetic. In the beginning of his book Levin asked his audience why anyone would think that blacks are equally as smart as whites. Blacks have never behaved as though they are. That introduction was all I needed to read, although I did go on to devour the rest of the book.
2) When you reached your HBD conclusions, who were the first people
(both online and in real life) you shared them with? What were their
reactions?
Although I have never admitted to anybody face to face that I am a race realist, I regularly comment on American Renaissance articles and also on a blog called Occidental Dissent. Every once in a while a white person will respond to my comments. They typically express their surprise that a black person could become a race realist and tell me that while they have no problems with decent blacks, they don’t want to live among blacks in general. I have rarely encountered hostility, although one person from Romania asked me to sterilize myself.
I’ve also posted articles from AR and OD on my facebook. I generally get pretty angry responses from both blacks and whites alike. I have gotten into debates about the book Why Race Matters with a cousin and my postings have garnered accusations of self-hatred from former friends.
3) Have you met any other race realists face to face? Do you desire
friendships with them? Have you attended any race-realist/ pro-white
conferences?
I have never met a self-professed race realist in person. As much as I love my egalitarian friends I would love to find friends that accept HBD. I’ve never attended any race realist/ pro-white conferences either and I’m actually unsure about whether it would be moral to attend any of these types of events. The very least I can do as a black is let whites associate with each other once a year without black intrusion.
4) As a black race-realist, how would you use this knowledge for the
betterment of your own race? What do you think the prospects are that
other blacks, in significant numbers, will listen?
Years ago, AR posted an article about an organization founded in California that pays addicts to be sterilized. It is currently called Project Prevention. I would love to get involved in that organization someday even though the sterilization is only temporary. Given that it was a white woman who founded the organization I think chances are remote that blacks will join.
I’ve also heard of organizations that pay black girls not to get pregnant in high school. I hope that blacks will not scream “eugenics” and protest against those organizations when I get involved, but I’m not optimistic.
5) Do you believe there’s a more receptive audience among African
blacks than among American blacks?
No. I find that African blacks blame whites for all their problems just as American blacks do. I only have anecdotal evidence to back up my assertion, but I’m convinced that most African blacks think that colonization is responsible for most of Africa’s woes. I’ve asked many of my relatives why we don’t just beg the Europeans to re-colonize us and I’ve gotten scoffs from most of them, although one aunt did say that nobody wants to admit that we were better off being ruled by Europeans.
6) Does it bother you that, when you visit sites like Amren.com, or
even my own site, there’s so much anti-black diatribe? Do you find
yourself in inner conflict when you sympathize with the cause of
people, so many of whom hate you because of your race? Of course, as a
Jew, I’m in a similar situation.
It used to bother me a bit, but I’ve since become more tolerant. In an ideal world, white race realists would understand the facts of HBD without having any animosity towards blacks at all, but our world is imperfect. Many AR readers have witnessed black pathology and the unluckiest have been victims of our violence. I can’t expect them not to go off on rants every once in a while.
As a young black woman who has yet to be in a romantic relationship, it used to severely hurt my feelings that AR readers find black women so unattractive. (I remember one reader saying that he finds the creatures from the movie Avatar more attractive than black women!) But now I’m happy about that. The fewer white men that find black women attractive, the less miscegenation there will be.
I used to experience severe cognitive dissonance on a regular basis. On one hand, I want the world to accept HBD before the West becomes a third world cesspool. On the other hand, I want my family to be safe and happy. I found a solution to not feeling guilty about my activism, though. Mestizos and Arabs will mistreat blacks far more than whites would if they ever come to power, therefore, it is in the interests of every black person to prevent Mestizos from taking over the U.S. and Arabs from taking over Western Europe.
7) I’ve written some negative things about blacks myself. Does it
sting, inside, when I write such things, or do you take them in
context and understand that I mean them only as generalizations, and
sometimes as a means of venting?
It doesn’t sting at all. I’m glad you’re racially aware and I hope you never stop fighting for your race. Although to be honest, I’ve often wished you would be less blunt about how Ethiopian women are beautiful and black women are unattractive!
8) What can we do to make more intelligent blacks aware of HBD? Do you
have hope that race-realists of all races can work together for our
mutual benefit, and to ensure respectful boundaries and autonomy
between us?
I’ve often considered trying to get blacks interested in eugenics by merely lying to them. We could tell them that most scientists believe the IQ gap to be entirely environmental, but since we haven’t yet found a way to permanently raise the IQs of the lower income population we should try to prevent them from out-breeding the higher income population. And also since we haven’t found a way make Head Start successful we shouldn’t let mestizos, Africans, and West Indians emigrate here.
I wish I could say that I have hope that all the races could live in harmony side by side, but I don’t. I believe that blacks will always demand more.
9) Can you share some stories about your interactions with whites,
where you spoke the truth and they weren’t sure how to react, or they
pitied you as a “self-hating black?”
I told a white friend of mine who majored in anthropology that blacks on average score one standard deviation lower than whites on IQ tests. She scoffed and said she wanted to see the sample size on that. I had a long debate with an acquaintance who majored in anthropology about whether race is biological. I told him that scientists can tell a person’s race from their bones, their DNA, and other biological characteristics. He disagreed and de-friended me on facebook. He wouldn’t read AR’s book review of The g Factor by Arthur Jensen or anything else I sent him. My black friends just pity me because they think that I feel bad about myself because I’m black.
10) If you had 5 minutes to address the entire American Jewish
community, what would you tell us?
The American Jewish community should emulate the Israelis. Sterilize blacks, secure the American border, and declare the U.S. a homeland for whites.
11) If you had 5 minutes to address the entire American white
community, what would you tell us?
