Globalization and Poverty Interview with Dr. Vandana Shiva
by Dr. Garry Null

GLOBALIZATION AND POVERTY:
Interview with Dr. Vandana Shiva By Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, Broadcast December 16, 2008
GARY NULL (GN): My guest today is one of the more remarkable individuals that you will ever hear speak on the subjects that we’re going to discuss: the relationship between globalization and poverty, the oil industry’s destruction of agriculture, plus other issues involving the disposition of land and power and the body politics in Africa and India. Dr. Vandana Shiva is one of India’s top nuclear physicists and an internationally renowned environmental and social activist. She has been credited as a principal founder of India’s ecological and eco-feminism movement.

In 1982 she founded The Research Foundation for Science and Technology and Ecology in New Delhi, which led to the creation of an organization, Navdanya, dedicated to the restoration of organic farming across India and the preservation of indigenous knowledge and culture. For several decades Vandana has fought for changes in the globalized practices of agriculture and food and has traveled the world speaking against the bio-piracy of indigenous plants and their medicinal properties by large agriculture and pharmaceutical corporations. She has received numerous international awards including the Alternative Nobel Prize, UNEP’s Global 500 Award, and the UN Earth Day International Award. Her most recent book is “Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in An Age of Climate Crisis.” There are so many pressing issues in the world today, and I would like to start with one that is not getting the mainstream media attention that it deserves, specifically the relationship between corporate globalization and increased poverty, including the policies of the World Bank, IMF, the WTO and their western government backers. From your point of view how has the US and its aggressive push for free market economics contributed to the increase in poverty and a widening of the gap between the haves and have nots throughout the world, especially in light of Barack Obama recently stating that he is very much for globalization and free market efforts.
VANDANA SHIVA (VS): I think India is a good test case to see how globalization increases real poverty even while measurements of growth make it look like the country is booming. India’s growth these last few years has been 9 percent and it is seen as one of the fastest growing economies. And yet in this decade of high growth under free market globalization India has the largest number of hungry people in the world. An agrarian society that has all the capacity to feed itself is today unable to feed its children partly because the land is being diverted for mining, for car companies and highways, and because agriculture itself is being diverted for luxury crops for the rich. One of the greatest tragedies of the new poverty that India is witnessing is the emergence of an epidemic of farm suicides. It’s one step beyond poverty to have to end your life because you’re so deeply indebted and the debt is completely related to corporate seed monopolies, such as Monsanto’s genetically engineered BT cotton. It’s a globalized agriculture controlled by a handful of agribusiness companies-the Cargill’s and ConAgra’s-and the WTO that wrote the rules of agriculture. The combination of seed and commodity controls has denied India its basic right to food, especially for the poor.
GN: There is also 9.1 percent growth in China and still 66 million hungry, unemployed people who are now beginning to protest. Do you believe that we will begin to see protests and riots in India such as what we have seen in Pakistan where the poor were not being subsidized and where there is no infrastructure to care for the poor?
VN: Actually protests are happening. Some protests come out in the language, voice and pain of the people themselves. They protest for land. They protest for food. They protest for water. They protest for forests, for the indigenous communities. But very often, just as our food is being genetically modified protests too are being genetically modified to appear as if they concern religion or are related to terrorism and extremism. And this mutation into a new form of response is partly a manipulation of those powers in control. They do not allow a farmer’s protest to be viewed as simply a farmers’ protest. This is what was happening in the state of Punjab two decades ago. Farmers’ protests were mutated into a protest about religion. Out of it came the invasion of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the military standoff, and finally the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who had ordered the army to deal with the issue of the Punjab and extremism. But today terrorism is made to look like it appears by itself. I can offer two examples of conflicts about land and livelihood which have been distorted to look like they’re conflicts initiated by people on the basis of caste, religion and ethnicity. We have had a major protest among the pastoral tribes in a region of Rajasthan, a desert area where livestock is the only economy because you can’t really farm extensively with very little water. All of those common lands which are pastoral have been handed over to industry to grow bio-fuel. The pastoralists are now without land as well as livelihood. When they protest they stop the entire transport system of India. Yet the protest is not written in the language of the land and people’s livelihood. It is written in the language of caste. Caste is a name for an occupation, just as pastoralists signify a pastoral occupation. Even the large Darfur conflicts in the Sudan, which are made to appear as if they are only about religious strife, is really about collapsing livelihoods with increasing desertification due to climate change. The settled agriculturalists and the pastoralists cannot meet their own needs. So they end up warring against each other. I think it is time for us to read the narrative of the new conflict and the new violence as distorted protests that were engineered to look like something else. And of course it suits the powerful and wealthy because they can keep free market globalization going and define war economies in every society as a means to contain terrorism.
GN: A lot of that has to do with policies on Wall Street and in Washington, which today are virtually one and the same. So if you have a peaceful protest of hungry farmers who cannot afford and do not want to use the genetically modified crops, such as cotton, and who are in such personal debt that they would rather commit suicide by the tens of thousands instead of seeing their families suffer anymore, then of course they would. But when you have people sitting on corporate boards and on Wall Street and in Washington who don’t give a damn about the Indian public-in fact they don’t even care about the average American because the average American is being thrown out on the street while these individuals are reaping humungous rewards by the very people who caused the problem. These are anti-civic individuals. How do you stop that mindset so that every truly progressive movement that deserves to be heard is not just stamped with the moniker of terrorist?
VN: I think the most important way to conduct resistance for a more just and peaceful society is to be absolutely committed to nonviolence. That was the bar of India’s freedom movement, and that is the bar of the civil rights movement in the United States-to challenge power and wealth strategically but also nonviolently. That is a very strong demand of our time. The second very important issue is to continue to defend the democratic right to dissent. After all what is democracy if not the right to dissent? A dictatorship doesn’t allow the right to dissent, and as I’ve written in book after book corporate globalization has become a dictatorship. It is drawing states into implementing that dictatorship, and as long as corporate globalization implements this dictatorship it will destroy democracy. It will treat every legitimate democratic action as equal to the worst form of terrorism. So we stand for democracy and democracy is our birthright and our duty.
GN: In our society, like your own, we have our own caste system. There are the have’s and have not’s. I’ve never in my lifetime seen the powerful bring in the poor and ask for their advice. So how in the world are we ever to change any thing constructively if the most powerful people in the land surround themselves with the elitists and refuse to acknowledge that the poor and those less up the ladder also may have something constructive to offer? Was it not Albert Camus who said, “We rarely confide in those who are better than we are?” What if the ‘better’ means people with more humanistic and practical views of how to solve problems, such as the advocates of the organic movement? What if all of India, Africa, and the United States were to start looking at long-term sustainability of small agriculture projects in every community using organic heirloom instead of genetically modified crops? Think of the consequences to the water, to the air, to the land, to erosion, to reforestation, to sustainability and compatibility. And yet we have no such movement except at the grassroots level. Not a single dollar in the United States goes for organic, and yet everything goes for the big and very immoral food companies.
VS: During the last 20 years I’ve worked with both a scientific realization as well as a political realization that one of the most radical revolutions of our time is adopting biodiversity, saving open-pollinated seeds and practicing organic farming. As you said it’s a solution to every problem we face. It’s a solution to climate change. Moving beyond oil returns more to the soil, and we find in an ecological and organic agriculture both the mitigation and the adaptation strategies for knowing how to deal with the mess that a fossil fuel civilization has created. Organic food is the best solution to the biggest health problem of our time. Two billion obese and ill with food-related diseases. One billion denied their rights to food. Hence three billion are denied the right to wholesome food that can be solved with a local ecologically robust food economy. Then there is the issue of water. Ten times more water is used in industrial chemical agriculture. Water is clearly a limiting factor and will become more of a crisis as climate change melts our glaciers, dries up our springs, and leaves more and more areas water scarce. It’s also a solution to the conflicts all around us. I recently returned from a long field trip in the very poor Indian state of Orissa. Culturally, in terms of peace and harmony between nature and people and between people and people, there are amazing examples. Every villager has the deepest humanity. Every villager has the deepest sense of self sufficiency and enough-ness. That is the future we have to strive for. And I think the biggest monopoly in our time is when agribusiness went into the oil economy. It is a new genetic engineering industry. They are not going to allow governments to move towards organic farming rapidly. They will try everything to force genetic engineering upon us. Two decades ago when I started the Navdanya movement in India, these companies had announced they would have all seeds patented and all crops genetically engineered by the turn of the century. They have so far only genetically engineered four crops on any significant scale: cotton, soy, rice and canola. They haven’t managed to patent everything under the sun, and we have built a movement that will not acknowledge patents. I call it the seed satyagraha just like Gandhi’s satyagraha when he told the British that nature gives salt for free. We need it for our survival. We will make our own salt. In the same way we get seeds from our ancestors and nature. We will continue to save them for future generations, and we will not obey patent laws. I believe if we keep saving our open-pollinated seeds, if we keep doing organic farming, and those in the cities commit themselves to eating only food that is genuinely free of patents, GMO’s, pesticides and toxins, and free of corporate control, we can succeed. Even if governments don’t change their policies we will have created another economy. And if you look at the growth of the movement, it has grown without policy protection in spite of adverse policies. When we combine the financial, climate and food crises, the manipulative corporate economies will not survive. The economies of care and compassion fight it by their recognition that we live on a very fragile earth and have a very high level of responsibility to protect it. If there’s going to be a future, it’s going to be found in people’s actions.
GN: I’ve always been an organic farmer, and I’ve been a major promoter of organic farming in the United States on a small scale. I’m a believer in moving back to the land, and then creating small sustainable communities. To grow one pound of organic potatoes takes 60 gallons of water. To grow one pound of meat, a 16 ounce steak, requires 12,000 gallons of water. If we’re running out of water, and we are, would you suggest that it would make sense to preserve our water by being conscious that you’re going to eat something that requires less? Now that meat has arachidonic acid. That arachidonic acid increases chemicals in the body called cytokines and tumor necrosis factors that result in inflammation. By eating organic and eating more naturally not only are avoiding these chemicals, besides many environmental toxins, but we are also saving water. Much food we buy at our corporate markets has traveled thousands of miles to reach our tables, and this leaves a large carbon footprint. So wouldn’t it be better to buy something local, support our local food crops and organic movements to lessen pollution? Isn’t it advantageous then to do everything we can to clean up the environment by going green? For those in India and other parts of the world who are principally vegetarian, and who care about life and the environment, do you imagine that at some point there needs to be a collective shift in consciousness that supersedes the power brokers and the policy makers, and says, “We tried it your way and look where we’re at. We’re now going to do it our way, and you’re welcome to join us, but we’re not going to listen to you anymore.”
VS: Just because the corporate media doesn’t cover it, doesn’t mean it’s not happening on a large scale. I think if you add together the people who want to eat and live consciously, who want to reduce the human ecological footprint on the planet, who want to do less harm to other human beings — because every economic system that does violence to the planet also violates the rights of fellow human beings — creates a powerful force in the world. I think as this information becomes more coherent and moves more quickly a conscious shift will take place. A year ago people would never have believed those of us who were saying all these measures of financial growth are fictitious. It’s just a bubble waiting to burst. Twenty years ago I started to organize rallies of half a million farmers in the street to declare that the agra-industrial system would kill our farmers. It was a death knell for our farmers and a recipe for hunger. People didn’t believe it. Today the farmers are committing suicide. Today the food prices have risen. Food sovereignty and local food systems are back on the agenda and that reveals the incoherence of the dominant corporate system. The governance of the truth we stand by, the truth of the earth, the truth of nature, the truth of justice is our greatest strength and that will only increase consciousness. From it we’ll only grow with every step along the way. The next five and ten years will be absolutely unpredictable times, but as long as we can hold our ground and hope, I believe the shift of consciousness will turn today’s dominators into the marginals who will be enlightened to come join our table of peaceful food and of abundant food.
GN: Well I absolutely agree with you. That was a very special insight. Now to two other areas that are not getting the attention, in my opinion, that they deserve in the United States. Every US administration, Democrat or Republican, has looked at profit as preferable to people. How has the mega corporations and western administrations given us a false utopian concept regarding human and economic development and environmental sustainability for raising people out of poverty? During the elections I didn’t see a single statement that was printed or a voice spoken about the hundred million poor in the United States, the 36 million who go to bed hungry each day, the 12 million children in the United States who don’t have enough to eat, let alone the 27 thousand children who die each year, and most of them from infections, from bad water or malnutrition. Not a word about these things, and yet they blather on as if somehow they’re in touch. I’m asking who are they in touch with? Since it’s always about profit and never about people.
VS: You know as the food crisis has intensified during the last year, food prices have doubled. But we’ve also seen the corporate profits driving the food system double. I think we now have a major contest between two futures. There’s the future that you and I are talking about and living in. It’s a future of providing food security to the last child on the basis of people working lovingly with the land. More farmers growing good food, growing organic food, and this will drive away hunger and food scarcity. I really find the United Nation’s millennium goals highly un-ambitious because seven or eight years ago they talked only about halving the number of people who go to bed hungry. Well, with ecological farming and biodiversity agriculture we are not only doubling and tripling but we could increase food production five-fold and nutritional production even higher because the foods grown organically have much higher levels of nutrition. That’s the way to address the problem of hunger. That’s the way to make sure society does not neglect people. Of course there is another agenda. And that agenda will attempt to use the crisis it has created to grab more of the food and agrarian economy. Look at what happened at the June Summit on climate and food. The biggest winner was fortune’s foremost Bill Gates and his foundation who wants to sell more chemical fertilizers to Africa, and then commercialize the food supply for Africa. The second winner was the genetic engineering lobby. Of course both of these plans are completely inappropriate. The prices of fertilizers are going high. Nitrogen fertilizers are a major cause of global warming because the nitrogen oxides emitted are 300 times more lethal in global warming than carbon dioxide. To push more chemical fertilizers during this period of climate change is doubly criminal because it will force African peasants into debt, and then it will force all of humanity into an ecological debt. The genetic engineering lobby offered a false solution. They said only they can solve the problem of addressing climate change. They can’t because genetic engineering can only deal with single gene manipulations. Climate resilience in crops is a multi-genetic trait. They cannot engineer climate resilience. They can steal salt resistant seeds from us. They can steal flood resistant seeds from us. They can steal sources of seeds from us. I’m in fact preparing for our next campaign against bio-piracy-when agricorporations patent our traditional knowledge, our indigenous seeds. And when corporations are patenting, and there are 500 pending patents on climate resilience traits in crops, all of this is based on bio-piracy. Of course the real solution that we are offering is building community seed banks, building the commons for people to share as disasters happen. For example, we took salt tolerant rice down to the tsunami areas and drought tolerant rice to the areas in central India where they were having a four-year drought linked again to a climate catastrophe. The corporations will continue to seek profits. So we have to build on community. We have to build on people’s rights. And this contest is not going to go away in a hurry. But the fact that it doesn’t go away in a hurry doesn’t mean we don’t build the power of people.
GN: I would like to discuss the relationship between how the loss of natural biodiversity increases population growth and thereby increases poverty. If you would address the large agro-industrial players that you mentioned earlier and the destruction of biodiversity with their genetically modified seeds. I might mention that Hillary and Bill Clinton were sponsors of the Stevens Financial Group out of Little Rock, Arkansas, who was a major player in developing these genetically modified seeds. Under NAFTA and the WTO, the Clinton administration and its supporters thought it was a great idea. Little did they ever consider or care about the consequences. So if you would take a look at what it means to be forced into using seeds because your own natural seeds are no longer available. This has been true around the world where the World Bank and IMF went into almost every developing country and said, “We’ll give you a loan, but you must now give us structural adjustments. No more growing sustainable crops. No more small crops. Now you’re going to plant cash crops: cotton, soybeans, rubber and crops that you can get out of the country and sell abroad. That was also the case in India. Also speak about the contradiction between the great Green Movement, which won one person the Nobel Prize. But they weren’t looking at what this green revolution actually meant in terms of the average person.
VS: Well you know the Green Revolution was far from green. It was introduced in India in 1965 and ‘66 when we had a drought. Because of the drought we needed to buy grain, and the US government said we could not have higher imports unless we changed our agriculture to the new seeds and the new chemicals. This package of new seeds that required chemicals is what is called the Green Revolution. The seeds had been evolved by Norman Borlaug who received the Nobel Peace Prize. The assumption was that commercializing and making agriculture more dependent on purchases would create a capitalist alternative to the spread of communism. And the reason the Green Revolution was called green was because it was contrary to red. It was not called green because it was ecological. The word green did not describe any ecological movement at that time. The Green Revolution was also pushed by the World Bank, which forced structural adjustments on India. It gave loans linked to structural adjustment to move seeds, pesticides and chemicals. The World Bank financed large dams that provided the intensive irrigation their seeds and chemicals required. Within the first few years 25 percent of the peasantry of Punjab had been wiped out. They were displaced from the land. Well within a decade, agriculture in Punjab had fallen into disarray, which is what then led to the extremist movement of the late ’70s and early ’80s. That was the basis of my book, “The Violence of the Green Revolution,” because I wanted to understand why the land, which was called the most prosperous, is today the angriest and why young Punjabis were taking to guns. What the Green Revolution basically did was push farmers into debt. It left the land desertified. It destroyed variety. Punjab used to grow 250 crop varieties. Today it grows monocultures of wheat and rice during two separate seasons and a monoculture of genetically engineered cotton. Punjab is one of the areas where we have large numbers of farm suicides. Twenty percent of the Punjab is now unfit for cultivation. Ten percent is water logged by putting too much water in intensive irrigation. Now this is precisely the package upon which the genetic engineering revolution has been built. The biotechnology industry calls it the second green revolution, and Bill Gates wants to take this package to Africa as the Alliance for the Green Revolution in Africa. Gate’s, the Rockefeller’s and their corporate affiliates would like to bulldoze over Africa a green revolution like they bulldozed it on India in 1965 through conditions and through destruction of our sovereignty and democratic decision making. But the true green revolution is the ecological agriculture revolution. That’s what we are trying to build.
GN: A final question I would like you to address is the difference between what evolutionary biologists, such as the late Francisco Varella and others, call autopoetic systems as opposed to allopoetic systems. Autopoetic systems are those that are self-organized and are self renewed and such systems rely on biodiversity and are self-sustained. If agriculture, human development and economics were to think autopoetically there would be a flourishing of well being and sustainability. On the other hand, allopoetic systems are externally driven. This is what the entire Green Revolution believed in. Therefore, this revolution seized upon external stimuli to develop artificial energy and external resources. However, this is a completely mechanistic model. There is nothing holistic about it. It’s totally against what we’re talking about and requires increasing energy input like dumping more and more fossil fuels into an industry that would not be required if it was autopoetic.
VN: In my view, ecology is about self organization. It’s the ability of an eco system to clean itself up. That’s self organization, an autopoetic system. It’s about seeds being able to reproduce themselves. That’s an autopoetic system. A genetically engineered seed is an allopoetic system. It needs an external control for its reproduction. A genuine seed is a seed that needs only itself, some soil and sunshine to give you a plant. A child growing into an adult in their full humanity is an autopoetic system. Slaves live under allopoetic conditions. Chemical agriculture and industrial agriculture are allopoetic. The free market globalized economy is an allopoetic system. It’s externally organized. Sovereign local economies are autopoetic systems. Gandhi called this an economy of place, the ability to be creative and to produce for yourself and to meet your own needs. Self-organization is also the highest form of democracy. Democracy is not just going and voting. Genuine democracy is the ability to self-organize to make real decisions about how we are to live: to be able to shape our food system and our education. That means taking power back. That power will not be handed over to us by those who have taken it away. It will have to be shaped by our everyday actions. We will have to reclaim that deep democracy and that’s our autopoetic system.
GN: I want to thank you very, very much for being with us today. You’ve given us a lot of great insights, and hopefully people will read your new book, “Soil Not Oil: Justice in An Age of Climate Crisis,” or go to your website: www.vandanashiva.org and see all of your activities.
Gary Null, Ph.D. is the nation’s longest talk show host on alternative health on NPR and Pacifica radio stations, and an award winning director of documentary films. www.progressiveradionetwork.com

Garry Null is a frequent contributor to Global Research.  Global Research Articles by Garry Null


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    Diversity: Greatest Strength or Greatest Threat? March 2, 2009 by guywhite “We didn’t have the wonderful diversity of people that you have here today,” said Hillary Clinton during her 1995 trip to the Chicago school she attended as a child. “I’m sad we didn’t have it because it would have been a great value, as I’m sure you will discover.” At the time when Hillary made this declaration, her own daughter was a High School student. Neither Mrs. Clinton, nor her husband (“America’s First Black President”) thought it advisable to send their child to a “diverse” school. President Bill Clinton may open a library near the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas – a school at the center of integration battles in the 1950s – but he won’t let his child anywhere near it. Are we to believe that Bill and Hillary refused to send their daughter to a diverse school because they hate Chelsea? Are we to believe that the rich always send their children to lily-white private or suburban schools because they want to make sure that space is open in “multicultural” schools for the poor who cannot afford either private schools or homes in wealthy suburbs with non-diverse schools? There’re practically no Whites who had a choice who’ve opted for “diversity”. After the U.S. Supreme Court imposed integration and forbade segregation, the rich and the middle class escaped to suburbs as soon as minorities began moving into their neighborhoods. It was the so-called “White Flight” that led to the creation of not only the suburbs, but also the building of most American highways built since the Brown v. Board of Ed decision. For Whites to live in the suburbs, they needed effective infrastructure to move from the suburbs to the major cities where they worked. The rich and the middle class used their political clout to lobby for highways that allowed them to escape “diversity”. Many of the highways and other public works projects were built in a way to protect urban White areas from “multiculturalism” by leaving minorities on the “other” side of the government project, thus slowing the flight of Whites (and the taxes they pay) from cities. Diversity is a failure not only in the United States, but throughout the world. Over the long term, the only result of diversity is war. Different African tribes are at each other’s throats in every country they are forced to share. Muslims fight each other, Sunnis against the Shia, Arabs against Kurds against Persians. We are told to believe that Mexicans, Muslims and Africans will integrate into Western societies. But what proof is there? Similar people may overlook their differences and integrate within a generation or two. But where do we see people of different races successfully integrate into one? To the extent diversity works anywhere, it is a result of the White Westerners’ belief in the God of Multiculturalism and Peace. During the first half of the 20th century, European and Western nations fought the two bloodiest wars of all time. This was not a result of White brutality, but rather a product of innovation that created airplanes, tanks, rockets, missiles, machine guns and other deadly weapons. Coming out of World War Two, the White Man was simply tired and could not go on fighting. The idea of embracing each other seemed like a way out of a permanent disaster with constant warfare. And so the West agreed to look beyond one’s tribal instincts and embrace one another. Of course, that is relatively easy for nations that are similar. The French embraced the Walloons. The Germans embraced the Dutch. The Norwegians embraced the Danes. The WASPs embraced the Irish. The Askhenazi (European) Jews embraced the Sephardic (Middle Eastern, Central Asian and Spanish) Jews. But it’s easy for people who are already similar to join hands and sing the kumbaya around the campfire. But what to do when Muslims who believe in covering up their women from head to toe arrive in Holland, a place famous for its libertine sexual mores? What to do when Africans arrive into Western countries and set fire in the middle of their hotel rooms when they want to cook food? Or when Mexicans demand that the City of Los Angeles spend money celebrating Cinco De Mayo rather than the Fourth of July? Most cultures would fight back. But Whites simply back down and go along with their own cultural destruction for the fear of being called racist. Italians can live in the same neighborhood with Jews, and Germans can live with the English. But outside of their own race, they all feel uncomfortable. No White person will admit that he is unhappy about de-segregation forced upon them, but all Whites – those who joined Civil Rights marches singing “We Shall Overcome” and those who stood in front of school doors to prevent integration – oppose de-segregation when it comes time to choose the neighborhoods where they lived and schools where they sent their children. Research by Harvard University’s liberal Professor Robert Putnam shows that the more diverse communities are, less its inhabitants trust anyone – from their next-door neighbor to the mayor. “The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it’s not just that we don’t trust people who are not like us. In diverse communities, we don’t trust people who do look like us…. They don’t trust the local mayor, they don’t trust the local paper, they don’t trust other people and they don’t trust institutions. The only thing there’s more of is protest marches and TV watching.” This is true not only for Whites, but for people around the world. Almost every conflict around the world has a racial/ethnic character, usually because “diverse” people are forced to live together. When Sudanese Arabs meet Sudanese Blacks, they do not discuss the benefits of diversity – they brutally slaughter each other. Hutus and Tutsis prefer murder to being enriched by multiculturalism. Israel repeatedly clashed with its Arab neighbors. Christian Armenians locked horns with Muslims, whether in Turkey or in Nagorno-Karabakh. In the nearby Georgia, terror and warfare is seen in the diverse regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The USSR, which for generations used force, shame and propaganda to create a New Soviet Man who did not care about nationalism, fell apart as everyone reverted back to their ethnic groups. Whites in Africa were largely kicked out of almost every country, from Algeria to Mozambique, and even the last white communities in Zimbabwe and South Africa will likely be gone within a generation. The most consistent and significant problem in the United States has come from racial diversity. When groups of kids clash in high schools or when gangs attack each other in jail, we do not see class warfare – we see diversity wars. It is not the rich fighting with the poor – it is usually Blacks engaging Hispanics (and sometimes other races, ethnicities or nationalities). South Californian Blacks do not consider illegal Mexican immigration “enriching” – they see it as a threat. Were it not for security guards and police, as well as metal detectors, schools in poor South Californian districts that feature large Hispanic and Black populations would’ve been filled with rivers of blood. The history of the rise of American suburbs is a history of a desperate White flight away from schools that were being filled with Black children. It is undeniable that suburbs would not be even a quarter of their current size but for school integration and busing of kids into schools outside their neighborhoods to forcibly mix races. White teachers ran from the schools that turned Black, and even government programs giving educators significant additional benefits (such as full tuition reimbursement in a Master’s degree program) cannot attract Whites into predominantly Black schools. But while the rich and the upper middle class built a virtual wall around themselves in their suburbs and neighborhoods, the poor couldn’t just abandon their homes because they didn’t have the money for a second house, and could not sell the home they lived because of the drop in property values caused by crime and decay brought on by the Blacks. Even those renting their apartments often found it impossible to move out of “inner cities.” Many couldn’t afford to buy cars needed to move from suburbs to their city jobs, or they couldn’t afford to spend 3-4 hours a day traveling because they had to be home to cook, clean, paint, fix the car and perform other duties for which the rich hire help. They also could not afford to “buy” protection from diversity by donating time and money to the campaigns of influential politicians who would then build shields in the form of government buildings, colleges and highways around their remaining neighborhoods to prevent minorities from moving in, as was done for the upper class Whites. The poor were stuck with “diversity”. Most of the poor were not educated, and could not articulate their arguments properly. Due to their lack of education, they could not explain that they want to live in their own culture, and do not want to face all the benefits of multiculturalism: “white bitches” raped in building stairways, guns brought to schools, drugs sold in parks, elevators treated as bathrooms, and vicious gangs beings the normal after-school activity for 13-year-olds. Instead of properly articulating their concerns about crime and shockingly different cultural norms of minorities, the uneducated poor yelled racial epithets. The so-called “rednecks” may not have read Henry David Thoreau and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, but they surely could understand when their daughter came home brutally beaten and raped by Tyrone and Darnell, as their girlfriends Laquisha and Uneeq pulled out the hair of the “white bitch”. The rich could afford to support diversity and integration in theory precisely because they could afford to avoid it by moving into different neighborhoods or the suburbs where their children could attend schools that were near-exclusively White. The poor opposed integration because there was no way for them to escape it other than by preventing minorities from moving into their neighborhood or attending their schools. For the poor, integration laws had a direct effect on their lives. To the wealthy, it was a politically popular theory support for which made them “nice” and “open-minded”. Racial self-flagellation became a way to improve one’s reputation. That the rich were usually educated and the poor weren’t also made the integrationists feel not only that they are good people, but that they are also smart for taking a politically-correct point of view. And so the rich felt morally and intellectually superior to the “rednecks”. They would never yell racial epithets in public. And they usually worked with a limited number of exceptionally-well educated minorities without a problem. In fact, a few exceptionally well-educated and high-income minority families may even live in their neighborhood. Of course, nobody in their neighborhood is named Tyrone or Laquisha, nobody has two children at the age of 15, nobody sells guns in schools and nobody urinates in elevators. The few Black people they see are exceptional and do not “Stay Black” or consider education and marriage a sign of “acting White”. You don’t live in a “diverse” neighborhood if none of your neighbors are named ‘Uneeq’ – and everyone spells the word as ‘Unique’ … Posted in Dialogue on Race | Tagged diversity, multiculturalism, race, race realism, racialism, racism | 8 Comments » The Gay Right March 2, 2009 by guywhite I find it very interesting that the anti-Moslem right in Europe has so many gay people. Pim Fortuyn was a flamboyant gay man. He was also an admirer of former Dutch Prime Minister Joop den Uyl, a socialist, and in general was not the right-winger the media made him out to be. Joerg Haider was also semi-openly gay. He didn’t discuss it, but not did he hide it. He frequented gay bars and since almost everyone knew who he was, it was certain that at least people would recognize him there. Those are just the two most prominent far-right gays. There are others, some openly and some I’ve heard rumors about, and whether those are smears or truth is not known to me. But at least some might be gay. I wonder how much of the anti-Islamic message is driven by “Moslems will stone me to death if they take over” fear. More practically, I wonder if gays could be potential allies for us. If not in the US, then at least in Europe. Austrian far-right parties have made gains at the cost of the governing Social Democrats in two regional polls. In Carinthia, the main winner was the Alliance for the Future of Austria of the late Joerg Haider, with 45.5%. The Social Democrats trailed with 28.6%. The centre-left Social Democrats also lost ground in Salzburg, but still came first with 39.5%. The far-right Freedom Party won 13% there. The far-right gained nearly 29% of the vote in September’s general election. However, neither the Alliance nor the Freedom Party were invited to join the reconstituted coalition government formed two months later by the Social Democrats and the conservative People’s Party. Sunday’s regional elections in Salzburg and Carinthia were the first to put to the test the popularity of the government, which has focused in recent months on dealing with the problems confronting Austria in the face of the global economic downturn. Correspondents say that in Carinthia the Alliance had led a campaign focused on the legacy of Haider, who was the state’s governor for 10 years. “We will look after your Carinthia,” the party’s posters said. Haider was killed in a high-speed car crash near Klagenfurt last October. His blood-alcohol level had been well above the legal limit. He became a potent force in the 1980s and 90s, championing what he called traditional family values and an end to immigration. Posted in Islam | Tagged gay, homosexual, Islam, moslem | No Comments » Are Whites Wealthier than Blacks because of slavery? March 2, 2009 by guywhite By the way on the issue of the wealth built on slavery going on to our generation: everyone conveniently forgets that the Emancipation Proclamation provided for UNCOMPENSATED emancipation, thus wiping out the wealth that a slave represented. A slave was worth roughly what a Mercedes-Benz is today in inflation- and buying power-adjusted dollars. When millions of Southern slaves were emancipated without compensation, that meant that slaveowners were ruined and the entire region economically devastated. That’s not even counting the scorched earth tactics: the farm burning, city flattening efforts of the Union Army that caused even more economic catastrophe. And the enormous fraction of Southern manhood that was killed or maimed. - Irish This is a good observation. I also pointed out before that white countries without any history of African slavery are just as wealthy as white countries that had black slaves. (The money made off of slaves would be long gone by now, destroyed by inflation and maintenance of families for 150 years.) Never mind that only a tiny percentage of whites are descendants of slave owners and most - Irish, Italians, Jews, Poles - didn’t even arrive here until after slavery was eliminated in the country or at least the state where they lived. But one more thing: compare the South to the North. The slave-owning South was poorer and remains poorer than the North. If white wealth is/was the product of slavery, wouldn’t you think that the South would be wealthy and the North would be poor? And states that never had any slavery, like Washington State and Alaska, would look like Haiti? Even if all whites in non-slave states magically benefited from slavery, wouldn’t you still think that those in the South would benefit more than those in the North? And those in the United States prior to 1861 would benefit more than those who showed up here after the last former slave was already dead? Why is it then that we do not see any correlation between slave ownership and wealth? The idea that whites do well today not because of their intelligence and culture, but due to the history of slavery does not survive the most basic logical reasoning. Posted in Slavery & Africa | Tagged legacy of slavery, race, race realism, racialism, racism, slavery | 1 Comment » Moslems Are A Priority For Scots March 2, 2009 by guywhite This is from Gates of Vienna: Scottish forces ordered to give priority to crimes against Muslims by Dean Herbert Police in Scotland have been ordered to give special priority to crimes where the victims are Muslim. In a move that last night sparked a fresh row over political correctness, a senior officer revealed that the race and religion of a victim has now become a crucial factor in how police respond to crime. Inspector Tom Galbraith, of Lothian and Borders Police’s diversity unit, told a conference on tackling terrorism that it was important to stop Scottish Muslims feeling “vulnerable” in case they were driven towards radicalism. Mr. Galbraith said the force encouraged officers to consider the religious or ethnic backgrounds of victims to assess their needs in dealing with hate crimes. He said that both an attack and a perceived lack of action by police could turn Islamic youths into future terrorists. Mr. Galbraith also revealed that police officers, Special Branch and BAA security staff were being given special lessons about Islamic culture after Muslims complained that being questioned when entering the country about whether they pray and attend mosques was offensive to their faith. Speaking at a national security conference in Edinburgh on Thursday, Mr. Galbraith said, “It is not about treating everybody the same. “If I have a young Asian man who has been subjected to a hate crime, I would rather put more resources into that than if it had happened to a white male because the white male is far less likely to end up becoming radicalised.” He later confirmed that his remarks were in line with Lothian and Borders Police policy, saying that cases of hate crime were assessed “by need”. He added: “You have to consider cases according to need. The idea of treating people all the same is a bit naive and we have to remember that there are vulnerable individuals who can be put on the path of radicalism.” Last night, the police were criticised for being too politically correct in dealing with hate crimes. - - - - - - - - - […] During the conference, Mr. Galbraith also said that police officers and airport security staff were being given lessons in Islamic culture to avoid offending arrivals. He said: “Sometimes they will be asked “Do you pray?” or “Do you visit mosques?” when they arrive in the country. “This kind of thing is derogatory to the Islamic faith. A lot of people then wonder what is wrong with going to mosques in this country. “It is about making an effort in learning about other cultures and faiths.” He later confirmed that training in Islamic culture was now on-going among officers. Posted in Islam | Tagged Islam, moslem, scotland | 2 Comments » Naked Assertions With No Proof March 2, 2009 by guywhite I promised to respond to Catherine because her arguments are typical of leftist college students. As do all liberal students, she has spectacularly high self-confidence. She wrote that “white people are too threatened by my arguments and intelligence” and was extremely proud that she could get her “point across in such an articulate and eloquent fashion.” I will give you a second to stop laughing. Ok, done laughing? The reality of course is radically different. She’s clearly incapable of analyzing ideas or creating coherent arguments of her own. Everything she wrote was regurgitation of her professors’ leftist propaganda. I’ve heard it many, many times before. There is no reason for me to allow her “contribution” to this blog because every time a liberal shows up here, they write the same thing. We already have the exact same arguments, probably a dozen times. Furthermore, she cannot comprehend the difference between a conclusion or a statement on one hand and a reason or proof on the other. She thinks she can just say things. And in response, she responds with “WTF!!! Okay, first of all, I’m a GRADUATE STUDENT, so I’m well aware what “peer-reviewed” scholastic journals are. Secondly, I don’t need any references, statistics, or citations.” Honestly, “wtf” would be the only proper response to a sentence like that. Her other “eloquent” writings included phrases like “horse shit”. When I don’t want to allow that on my blog, she thinks I am threatened by her intelligence. Now let me respond to her “eloquence” and “intelligence” directly. Okay, “Guy White”… I WILL prove that white privilege exists. Prove involves some kind of proof. Not naked assertions. I won’t go into word roots and other concepts you won’t understand, but how’s this: do you think it’s a coincidence that the word “proof” and the word “prove” sound similar? What I WON’T do is waste my time proving that Blacks have LONG been stereotyped in the media as criminals and thugs, because any idiot can already see that. This is the kind of intelligence that I feel so threatened by. It’s amazing how nobody can find a single example, they just choose to attack me. And I don’t care what “any idiot” can see. I’d like to know what intelligent people can see. What idiots like you see does not really concern or bother me. It’s really not rocket science. Show me the proof. I am now convinced that white people are delusional. Naked assertion, not proof. No wonder you people are consistently playing the victim role Assertion, not proof. I know how you are against peer reviewed scholarly publications and studies, but please cite a few examples at least. Also, I wonder how you would react is someone wrote that “you people are consistently playing the victim role” in reference to blacks. God help any white person who uses the term “you people” in reference to blacks. when it’s CLEAR that you are at an advantage in this country. Just an assertion, please give us some proof. So, for the sake of your hallucinogenic mentality Personal attack meant to intimidate me so that I will agree with you in hopes that you won’t call me psychotic anymore. I will list the reasons that prove that you are at an advantage in this country. Now watch her inability to grasp the difference between a list of reasons and a list of assertions. – When you walk into a store, you are not immediately followed by employees who think you will steal something. (Edit: And if you ARE followed, it is because you just LOOK suspicious… but you can be SURE that it has nothing to do with your race. Meanwhile, a Black person could be dressed very nicely and STILL be followed). Both statements are naked assertions supported by nothing. You don’t know if I am followed, you don’t know what I look like, and most importantly, you have no studies to back this up. And if blacks are followed more, it is for the same reason that teenagers and elderly women are followed more than adults: some people are just more likely to steal. – If you drive down the street in a nice, expensive car, you are not followed by police who assume that you probably stole the vehicle or acquired it through illegal means. In fact, this has been disproven. The whole “driving while black” theory is bogus. After the NJ racial profiling scandal a study was conducted and found that the whole idea is a lie. But again, you just made a naked assertion, and failed to back it up with either scientific studies or even anecdotal examples. – When you do well in school and excel above your classmates, you don’t have to worry about your instructor being shocked, saying, “Wow! You’re really smart!” as if that’s unusual for someone of your race. I never saw this done for blacks. I did have a black professor who told me in my freshman year Speech class that she was shocked that I gave a good speech when the whole semester to date I left an impression as someone who is a troublemaker (she used the word ‘playboy’ but that’s what she meant) who came to class only to cause trouble and crack jokes. – Since this society is still controlled by Whites Just a conclusion, not proof. you don’t have to worry about the insitution of racism. Again, just a conclusion, not proof. Whites have to deal with affirmative action, racist scholarships for minorities only, and the legal system discriminates in favor of blacks and against whites. There are no laws that favor whites, and many that discriminate against them. Every standardized test has a commission that makes sure that questions on which blacks fair poorly or whites fair well are dumped. For this reason, all the admissions tests such as SAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT and so on, over-predict black performance and under-predict white performance. See, what I just wrote about tests is called proof. What you wrote is just an assertion. Even if you are discriminated against because you are White, what effect can it really have on you other than getting your feelings hurt?? I could lose my job or not get it in the first place; I could not get admitted into college; I could get a longer prison sentence; I could get arrested for a minor crime like public drunkenness for which blacks are far less likely to get arrested. All of these are facts I’ve written about before - and I actually cited evidence for all these assertions. On the other hand, Blacks and other minorities can be passed over for jobs and have their resumes tossed out simply because they have an ethnic-sounding name. Again, this is just an assertion without proof. And a false one too. Blacks are so rarely discriminated against that you have to come up with all sorts of concepts like “unconscious discrimination” so that they could the law suit gravy grain. At most, you argue “disparate impact”, as if the lack of blacks in management and in other high IQ occupations has nothing to do with the lower average black IQ. (And affirmative action does not hurt you Naked assertion It only gives an equal chance, preventing discrimination Naked assertion. Maybe the Whites who think that unqualified Blacks get into schools and jobs over them are just too racist to believe that perhaps it’s just that the Black person was MORE QUALIFIED THAN YOU. If blacks were more qualified, then businesses would be tripping over themselves for their services without any affirmative action. Those businesses that did not hire blacks would lose in a marketplace competition. Instead, Washington Mutual - which would always win “diversity” prizes - went bankrupt. Consider this: if a black student with a 2.7 GPA and 950 SAT score (out of 1,600, not sure how the new thing works) gets accepted over a white student with a 3.7 GPA and 1,300 SAT score, is it not the case that a less qualified person was admitted? In what way is 950 more qualified than 1,300? Again, what you are doing is trying to intimidate people by calling them racist unless they disagree with your naked assertions backed by nothing. Stop and think about that for a minute. That, in and of itself, shows white privilege So if we recognize that affirmative action means accepting a student who got 950 ahead of someone who got 1,300, then we are racists and have white privilege? In what way does it prove white privilege? Again, this is just a naked assertion. White people will ALWAYS assume Isn’t saying “whites always” … ummm…. how do you say… racist? that if you get into a good school or a good job, it’s only because of affirmative action and you just COULDN’T have really been qualified… which goes back to my previous point). That’s because it is true. George Mason Law School tried to recruit blacks without giving them affirmative action. But nobody wanted to go there. You know why? Because if a black person deserved to go to GM Law, they also could get affirmative action to go to Harvard. So GM Law needed to give affirmative action to someone from a lesser law school or someone who couldn’t go to law school period in order to get any black students. I’ve written about this before. The fact is that ALL the blacks in ALL competitive and semi-competitive schools are there on affirmative action. If you actually deserved to go to whatever school you are going to now, you would’ve also had the option of getting affirmative action to a better school, so you’d have gone there. – You are recognized as an individual. Like when you called us “you people” and said that “all white people” do bad things to you. Again, naked assertion on your part. You can chew your food with your mouth open, join a gang, have bad credit, flunk out of school, or be a serial rapist without having it being attributed to your race! And yet, I can’t live my life without being told that I am responsible for slavery and that if I have any money, it must be because my grandparents were mobsters during the prohibition. That very few whites were either slave-owners or mobsters (nobody in my family) isn’t a concern for you. Just as long as any white person somewhere did something bad, you attribute it to whites. Your assertion - without any proof, of course - is just the opposite of reality. If a Black person or other minority did any one of those things, it would be blamed on our entire race. Naked assertion. The reality is the opposite. You can never say anything about blacks, even as individuals. Otherwise, you are - horrors! - a racist. When we step out into the world, we are essentially representative of our entire race. We are NOT seen as individuals by society. Again, just a naked assertion with no proof. I am getting tired typing “naked assertions with no proof”. – If you don’t make it in this world, you only have yourself to blame. I tend to agree, though affirmative action is responsible for at least some people. But whites are to blame for their own problems. Blacks are never to blame. They are just helpless victims. Right? A poor white person has a greater chance of making it than a rich black person A poor white person also has a higher IQ on average than a rich black person. IQ is a better predictor of success than anything else. If Shameika Johnson is going up for a job against Becky Sue Taylor… even if Shameika came from a good home and a rich neighborhood and Becky Sue came from the backwoods of Kentucky, Shameika will be discriminated against solely because of her name and race. In fact, it has been proven that the reason that Shameika might not get a call for interview after the employer sees her resume is that ghetto names signify low class, which in turn mean violence and low IQ. People with low class names always get discriminated against in all societies. Blacks with normal names don’t get discriminated against and whites with low class names do. People will make assumptions about her and may choose not to hire her. And about a white person with a low class name. And blacks in Africa do the same thing even when race doesn’t matter there. (If one believes racism no longer exists, they need only to turn on their television or read a newspaper!!) Naked assertion with no proof. Please cite a few examples at least. – If White privilege does not exist, then why is there such a disproportionate amount of minorities living in poverty in comparison to Whites?? Low IQ. This is a scientific fact acknowledged by the American Psychological Association. Do you think these people would CHOOSE to live in poverty? No, but they are just unlucky enough to have been born - and it’s proven that this is genetic - with low IQ. You may think that the effects of slavery are over, but they aren’t. Naked assertion with no proof. How come other people can get over their troubles from the 19th century, but never blacks? Many Whites gained wealth from the work of slaves that still exists within their families today None did. None. Literally. Zero. None. First, even among those whites who lived in pre-1861 America only a small percentage owned slaved. Today, most whites are descendants of post-1861 immigrants. Most importantly, the few whites who actually were slave owners didn’t make enough money to last them 150 years. Nor is the amount large by today’s standards considering inflation. Inflation alone would’ve killed whatever the person made had his descendants not made money on their own. Black slaves were the ones that did the work and they and their families never benefitted from it. White countries like Switzerland and Finland which had no slaves are just as wealthy as the US. Blacks who live without a white majority that sponsors them with welfare and affirmative action turn their habitat into… Africa! Filthy, disgusting, destroyed, poor Africa. There’s no doubt that whites would’ve been just as successful without blacks because, well, we are just as successful in all the countries, except those recently under Communism (and they are rapidly growing since the fall of Communism). Then, there was segregation which forced Blacks into unequal housing and schooling Nothing to do with you. Black-majority schools today receive far more funding on average than white-majority schools. Washington DC spends more than 300% more than Utah per student, yet blacks there still underperform Utah’s white students. What does that tell you about funding not making a difference, or at least not as much as IQ? As for housing, nobody forced blacks into the housing. They got free apartments in the projects, but were welcome to get a job and pay their own way. It’s amazing how whites are forced to pay for black housing, then blacks destroy it, and blame whites for making them live in bad neighborhoods. Again, I’d like to use your favorite word here: wtf! this has been a viscious cycle No, it’s just the low average IQ. If you are being unequally educated Right now you get more school funding, so what’s the problem now? then how do you acquire the skills to make it in this world and bring yourself out of poverty??? The way that European Jews have. As soon as legal discrimination was over, they didn’t complain about past persecution, but instead educated themselves. But then again, they don’t have low IQ. Money doesn’t just drop out of the sky for these people. And neither does it for anyone else. Your hateful assertion that it does for white people is, ummm… racist. – You can turn on the television and see people of your race WIDELY represented That’s because whites are a majority in this country. The Japanese are widely represented in Japan. Arabs are widely represented in Yemen. Blacks are widely represented in Nigeria. What’s the problem here? from preppy to goth to skater to jock and everything inbetween. Yes, and meanwhile all the blacks on TV look like graduate students if they are young and like lawyers/doctors/professors if they are middle aged. Also, “inbetween” is not a word. Minorities turn on the television and see stereotypes of people within their race. Naked assertion without any proof. Care to cite at least one example? As a result, society assumes that ALL Blacks or ALL Hispanics have the SAME opinions and act the SAME way Maybe it’s because 90% of Blacks vote the same way every election. In any event, what you wrote is a naked assertion with no proof. They fail to recognize that we are as diverse as Whites. Naked assertion with no proof about white failure to recognize that. Or about black diversity for that matter. If a Black person even SPEAKS, then supposedly that is the “Black voice of America.” Naked assertion with no proof. That is seen as the “Black opinion.” WTF? I see you once again use “wtf” as proof. Or is it a sign of your eloquence? (but you have the nerve to complain about our separate networks like BET. Hmmm wonder why we would have those???) I don’t wonder, I know. It’s because you are racist. – You can be pretty sure that an argument with a colleague of another race is more likely to jeopardize HIS/HER chances of advancement than yours. Just the opposite. Any day you can find an ongoing law suit against a corporation for some racism that wasn’t overt, but unconscious or institutional or whatever the racism flavor of the month is. There are hardly any whites who sue, and when it happens, racism is clearly on display. I’ve touched on it in several posts. I also posted information about whites being scared to talk about race and blacks constantly talking about it. This is because blacks are lauded for it, while whites get fired. How come we can’t discuss low black IQ and high black crime? Do you think whites don’t discuss it because we don’t know? Of course not! We know! Almost everyone around me, even apolitical people who’d never watch CNN or FoxNews, know full well about the low black IQ and the high black crime. Yet we can’t talk about it. Why? Because we’d be punished. But when you accuse whites of everything in the world - such as media portrayals of blacks being unfairly negative - you get away with it, even when you have no proof at all. – If you even acknowledge that racism exists, you are a HERO…. But if a Black or other minority brings up racism, they are “playing the race card”. That’s because a white person blames himself and tries to help another, while a black person tries to help himself and attack all others. This is where it would be helpful for me to once again use your favorite phrase: wtf! You can talk about how Whites have it soooo bad (LOL… WTF) There we go, again with the WTF! Whites don’t have it so bad because we have high IQ. But we are discriminated against through affirmative action and otherwise, as I stated above and in other posts. and how they are reversely discriminated against (again, LOL) “LOL” is not an argument. It’s an attempt to intimidate by laughing at a person to make him feel embarrassed and therefore unwilling to debate you. It won’t work here. with no one saying anything, as if that’s okay… but if a Black person talks about the discrimination they have faced, they are “playing the race card.” That’s because they are. When you get admitted to college ahead of someone who scored 300 points more than you on the SATs, the least you can do is shut up. – You never even have to worry about the POSSIBILITY of being discriminated against, to the point that it could severely affect the direction in which your life takes. Tell that to all those who didn’t get accepted because of affirmative action or didn’t get a scholarship because it was limited to minorities. Again, what you said is just a naked assertion with no proof. – You can go through life every day without being reminded of your race. Naked assertion without proof. In fact, whites are constantly reminded about their race in a negative way. I am pretty sure that EVERY Black person has, at some point, been the ONLY Black person somewhere, or one of a few When you will be blamed for all the troubles of every other race in the world, then talk. For now, just shut up. so we are constantly reminded that we are Black By your own race hustlers. And by college admissions counselors who want to admit you ahead of whites. – If you wanted to, you could arrange your life so that you would never have to deal with another person of color ever again Not if I am an employer or a university because I would get sued. and all of this could be done with you living a successful lifestyle in a nice, upscale neighborhood. You people need to decide what all white people are: are we all rich millionaires or are we all trailer park rednecks? – White women can walk into any store that sells makeup and find their shade of foundation in any texture, brand, or type that they like! Stores sell whatever customers buy. (BTW, why do most makeup brands carry like FIFTEEN shades of white and only 3-4 shades for darker skin tones???… when white people are all generally the same color, yet there is a HUGE diversity in the skin color of Black people…. HOW does that even make sense???) Again, stores sell whatever customers like. Blacks spend a lot more on their hair, so there are far, far more hair products for blacks than for whites. – If a movie starring all white characters comes out, everyone is going to go see it… White, black, doesn’t matter… because it’s considered mainstream. That’s because whites are a majority here. A Polish movie with only Poles is mainstream in Poland. A Japanese movie with only Japanese is mainstream in Japan. (Even Blacks who don’t particularly like whites watch “white” movies… because they are mainstream). So what? I know white people who like watching Indian movies, so? However, If a movie with all black characters comes out (even if they are A list actors), it is labeled “a black movie” and very few white people will go see it That’s because those movies are meant for blacks specifically. Look at “Barber Shop” or “House Party”. They are not stories of love or tragedy or whatever else that all people may experience. They are black stories. For blacks, with blacks. I mean… Dude, I could go on and on Is this your “eloquent” and “intelligent” argument? but, for the White people who insist that white privilege no longer exists… I have one question… ARE YOU SERIOUS??? I guess this is. Seriously… this is nothing more than intimidation by ridiculing those who disagree with you. It may work on people without any self-confidence, but it won’t pass here. White people have all of these privileges Naked assertion without any proof. Please cite an actual example. and yet STILL somehow manage to complain about the little that we DO get like Black history month, Black colleges, and BET. Very nice. Those are examples of black privilege. You see, when something exists, it’s very easy to give examples. (How selfish can you really be???) Another attempt at intimidation. Well I’ve already explained BET No you didn’t. You just wrote: “you have the nerve to complain about our separate networks like BET. Hmmm wonder why we would have those???” That’s not an explanation, that’s just an intimidation (”you have the nerve”). and as for Black history month, it is recognized because, in general, our history is not recognized at any other time throughout the year You have no history, just a list of black people who were fighting to promote black interest. That’s it. You go to school and learn about White inventors and White scientists and White politicians That’s because white investors and scientists exist. Blacks invented nothing - and I mean NOTHING - of major significance (like a computer or a car or an airplane). And those who invented anything were at least half-white. How often do you even hear mention of Black people, except during the slavery segment in history class???? Yes, I hear about black race hustlers, rappers and athletes all the time. When blacks succeed, they are talked about. So, just because you don’t have a particular period LABELED White history month does not mean that your history isn’t celebrated all day every day In fact, great white people can never be acknowledged as being white. If you say, “white guy invented X”, you will be declared a racist and will lose your job. Wake up! You sure are a selfish bunch. This is an attack, not proof. Your history is consistently celebrated throughout the YEAR, and that isn’t enough for you. Naked assertion with no proof. In fact, nobody can ever point out that someone who did something good is white. You still want to devote a month with a LABEL on it to celebrate your accomplishments even MORE. That’s because nobody good can be acknowledged as being part of the white community and white civilization. There is not a minority alive who isn’t aware of the accomplishments of white people And yet, the only thing you ever say about whites is that we owned slaves and persecuted you. Why do I never hear blacks say anything good about whites? We have these things shoved in our faces in our classrooms for our whole lives It’s called history. I am sorry that your African relatives never invented a legitimate study of history (as opposed to unscientific bullshit called “oral tradition”), but we whites have. And being in our society gives you the privilege to learn it. but there are white people who couldn’t even name a Black inventor or any Black person who has made a contribution to society (other than Obama… lol) There aren’t any. Computers, cars, printing press, phones, internet, airplanes, tanks, nuclear bombs, etc. were all invented by whites. Blacks have some inventions, but nothing on that level. We are taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America, for Heaven’s sake… which is completely FALSE… How do you discover land where people were already living?? You are an idiot. Nobody says that he invented America, he discovered it. Like I can discover a supermarket in my town. Doesn’t mean that it didn’t exist before me. Doesn’t mean that others weren’t aware of it. But I discovered it for myself and my family. Just as Columbus discovered it for himself and Europeans. Native Americans were there first… yet you hear nothing of their history except their depictions as savages… Yes, all the time. They are noble and whites are cruel. Do you remember the Pocahontas craze? But you have the nerve to complain that minorities have their own history months??? How incredibly egotistical! Another attempt at intimidation. And Black colleges existed because WHITE PEOPLE (your great people) wouldn’t allow Blacks to attend their schools And what happened after we allowed you into our schools? The reason that whites didn’t want blacks in their schools is that young black men are violent, as I’ve documented in several posts. Black men commit murder at least 20 times more than white men. Naturally, nobody wants to be near a high-crime population. so Black people decided to educate themSELVES! More like blacks decided to give themselves a diploma because what happens in black colleges can hardly be termed education. Black colleges are only slightly more rigorous than online diploma mills where you can buy a PhD for $300. And you didn’t even use your money for these black diploma mills: the government had to tax whites to sponsor these non-educational institutions. As a white person, You are more than welcome to attend a Black college if you choose to Why, thank you, but let’s remember that blacks had no college in Africa (black parts of Africa, I mean. The Arab parts had universities). These black colleges are paid for by the predominantly white taxpayers, but I thank you for letting me attend them. I understand that most white people are delusional See, and you said that I don’t have to worry about biased statements about white people. Even if you aren’t aware of EVERYTHING that we, as minorities, go through some things are just OBVIOUS. Like what? Some privileges and advantages that you have are OBVIOUS. Again, what is it? You can’t be THAT oblivious. Why was it so easy for you to give me examples of black privilege, yet you can’t do the same for white privilege? There isn’t a white person alive that could truly deny that they have MANY advantages over minorities in this country. And yet you can’t list any. However, some still will. That’s because you can’t even cite one example. Oh sure, they recognize that they have MANY MANY more privileges and advantages over the blacks and other minorities in America Ummm… like what? You keep repeating the same naked assertion over and over, but can you actually give me an example? but admitting this would mean that they could no longer play the “victim” role. I’d like to tell you the same thing, but I actually listed many examples of black privilege in this and other posts. Can you give me one? and Whites soooo love to play the victim. How so? Why is it that blacks sue so much more then? Again, just a naked assertion with no proof. They have a victim mentality without a real reason for it Naked assertion with no proof. They complain about Blacks complaining… and they say that we “play the race card” You already said that. Now give me some examples. but who’s REALLY playing the race card?? You are. Check law suits for discrimination. (They HATE to hear about other people complaining…. even when it’s warranted.. but they don’t mind complaining about stuff that’s not even reality). Naked assertion with no proof. When I can’t even read a news story online without the comments section underneath spewing racist comments So don’t read the comments. God forbid we are allowed to speak our mind. just because the story may have happened to be about a Black man or woman Again, look at all the negative things you’ve said about whites just in this one post. Imagine if a white person had said that. And you are typical of most blacks. who is playing the race card?? Again, you are repeating yourself. I already told you: you are! (Hint: White people think that ANY news story about ANY person of color warrants an attack on the person’s race… even if the story has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with race). Naked assertion without any proof. The reality, as I’ve already pointed out, is the direct opposite. When Whites accuse Blacks of getting into good schools and good jobs SOLELY because they are Black I already explained that all blacks in all competitive and semi-competitive schools are there due to affirmative action so this believe is warranted and justified. … not even recognizing the fact that PERHAPS the Black person was just more qualified then them…. Just because you repeat yourself, doesn’t make it anymore true now than it was earlier in your post. who’s REALLY playing the race card?? Dammit, you are! Sure, Blacks complain of racism and discrimination Exactly. You get affirmative action, free tutoring, racist frats/sororities and racist scholarships, and then you spend your college years complaining about racism to get even more. That’s playing the race card. because it HAPPENS to them Welfare and affirmative action is what happens to them. What you said is just a naked assertion with no proof. “Racism happens to blacks because I said it does!” is your whole argument. but white people sure hate to hear about it If we accept you on affirmative action and give you free tutoring and a scholarship, then the least you could do is not call us names like racists and rednecks. they love to dish it out In fact, they are scared to death of dishing out anything. You can shut up 90% of whites just by screaming racism totally out of the blue, even on a topic not related to race. but then they expect us to sweep it under a rug Sweep what exactly under the rug? Give me an example? but, as complainants, white people are TEN TIMES WORSE than Black people Is that figure based on a scientific study? Then how come blacks sue so much more than whites? because AT LEAST when Black people complain about discrimination, they actually have a REASON to Naked assertion without any proof. Care to give us some examples rather than repeating the same thing for the 10th time? When White people complain of so-called “reverse discrimination,” they are trying to play the victim with NO JUSTIFIABLE reason! So affirmative action and racist scholarships aren’t a reason? Why is that? Naked assertion without any proof. They have all the privilege in America Naked assertion without any proof. HOW IN THE WORLD could they be victims?? I already told you. It’s like a case of “Who has it worse??” The person who loses out due to affirmative action has it worse. You know that friend you have who, if you complain that you broke a nail, she will complain that she broke her NOSE?? Yeah… that’s white people. Instead of an unrealistic hypothetical, how about you give us a real life example? Why didn’t you do that here? Maybe because you don’t have one. They ALWAYS want to look like the victim You are just repeating yourself thinking that if you say it enough times, people will not notice that you give no reasons for your assertions. and they know that admitting their privilege will mean they cannot play the victim role anymore You already said that before. this is why they choose to deny racism against blacks Ok, and why is it that in this long post you still did not give me one real-life example? even when it’s right in their face. Like what? You’ve said this before and you keep repeating it, yet you don’t give us any examples. It’s like the elephant in the room that everyone tries to forget is there. Care to give me an example instead of an assertion? So, how’d I do??? You did well enough to get an A in most college courses. You just stated some leftist assertions, repeated them 12-13 times and finally shut up without giving any proof for what you’ve said. Unfortunately, this is what passes for education today, so long as you are a liberal. Being a liberal means you can just get away with saying whatever you want and never proving it. In real life, you just embarrassed yourself and by being unable to cite any examples, you’ve shown that there are none. You’ve rambled on and on, stated the same assertions repeatedly, but never once gave any proof. And that’s evidence that proof does not exist. Posted in Dialogue on Race | Tagged race, race realism, racialism, racism | 4 Comments » Joe McCarthy was right March 1, 2009 by guywhite This reads like a joke, but according to AfricanCrisis.org, it really is how it went. Notice what happened in the end to the person who pointed out the obvious. [This is a story from one of my American friends. I removed the names. Subsequent history has proven that Senator Joe McCarth was indeed correct in his assertions back then. He was in fact, a hero. Jan] My American friend wrote:- I have a friend who writes comic books and magazines (his name is jj) He tells this story of one of his publishers - very famous in the comic book community for being the classic leftist hippie with the scraggly long hair, ginham anle-length dress, extreme left wing views — but a damned good publisher. her name is xx, but she goes by “yy.” Anyway, one day she starts on this rant in the office on Joe McCarthy, and jj being the right-winger he is, is holding his tongue silen! tly. She goes on and on for a while, and when she finally stopped for air, jj asked her why she got so worked up about McCarthy. She said that McCarthy had persecuted her parents right out of the State Department when she was a little girl, and she never forgot it. xx said that they had been persecuted for their views, and that it was “un-American.” jj asked her what views they were persecuted for. xx said that they were communists. jj blinked hard, then started laughing. He said to her, “So, I guess McCarthy was right. There WERE communists in the State Department!” That was the last day jj worked for xx. Posted in News Commentary | Tagged communism, mccarthy, mccarthyism, unamerican | No Comments » DailyKos calls me a Poopie-Head March 1, 2009 by guywhite My article on the Diversity Depression was re-published on several other web sites. Someone else posted it on FreeRepublic. Here’s what mainstream conservatives think about it: “Great article.” “Great explanation of a somewhat complicated topic.” “Nail. Hit. Head.” “He’s right, but don’t expect anyone in the political world to have the courage to agree.” “very excellent discussion.” “All of these economic plans are simply reparations without calling it that.” “posting it on twitter… Bingo….We have a winner!” Note, however, the far-left DailyKos response. They didn’t put up the main part of the article explaining how the CRA caused the problem, but even in the part that they chose to criticize, they explained nothing. Bank marketing people are salesmen. Oh the horror! Everyone else tries to sell their services: news stands, lawyers, colleges. Every time I turn on the TV, I see a commercial for some medication or a hospital, but that doesn’t mean that I get unnecessary brain surgery. If blacks didn’t want to borrow money, they didn’t have to. But banks were forced by the CRA to lend as much as they possibly could to any black person who would stop by. The DailyKos argues that when the bank gave a $13,000 loan instead of a $6,000 loan it benefited. Not unless the loan was actually paid back! And the whole problem now is that loans were not paid back! Otherwise there would be no recession and nobody would care about banks’ mortgage practices. Whether the original bank kept the mortgage or sold it to someone else, so long as the money were paid back, there was no problem for anyone. The reason banks had to lend to unqualified minorities is the CRA-imposed reparations in the form of loans and mortgages. Banks were forced by race hustlers and politicians to lend ridiculous amounts to blacks and Hispanics. Now they are being blamed for it! But blacks never have any responsibility for anything. That was really the only thing resembling an argument that the DailyKos put up. The rest of the way, they just said that things are very complicated (but how so?) and I am a victim of anti-intellectualism. They must’ve figured, “why argue when we can just call him stupid”. It’s amazing how the liberals’ arguments did not progress from the time they were three years old calling others “poopie-heads”. Posted in Diversity Training & Affirmative Action | Tagged Affirmative Action, crisis, dailykos, depression, diversity, economy, loans, mortgage, race, race realism, racialism, racism, recession, reparations | 5 Comments » Threats Against Me February 28, 2009 by guywhite This is from Christopher Moebs (mebzart@hotmail.com, mebzart@aol.com and crmoebs@earthlink.net). He’s a creator of $3 a book “lefty comics”, obviously a very intellectually challenging job for a 55-year-old. Yet another balding hippie with long, feminine hair. I am so scared! I read your article on the Diversity recession, and I must say, I am amazed. Are you motivated by greed, or is it just pure racism? And, no, greed is not a “code word”, it is a universal absolute, an ancient and fundamental vice and a sin, if you prefer a religious spin. Of course, upon reading your article I see it would be to expect far too much for you to recognize the difference between truth and right wing racist blather. And for your information, I’m a highly educated white guy considered to be a scholar by those who know me, I’m not fooled by the nom de plume “White Guy”. Unfortunatley for you and your criminally traitorous cronies, even the slow witted are beginning to see through your lies. There are millions like me out there who are not only fed up with your racist garbage, but are determined that your kind wiil ultimately face justice (though true justice would be to crucify all corporate executives, bankers, crooked mortgage lenders and politicians along the road to Washington D.C. - Roman justice). The proof that you’re a liar (besides the article) is the fact that you hide behind an assumed name - people such as myself proudly proclaim who we are. I could go into specifics and rebut every misleading statement you make line by line, but you are not worth the effort, you slimy weasel. Crawl back into your hole before you are dealt the street justice you so deserve. Chris Moebs, a proud patriot Ok, Mr. Moebs. I agree. I deserve street justice. I travel quite a bit and I will probably be somewhere near you in Michigan at some point. (Did you realize that your address and phone are listed online in several places? Another person may not be as nice as I am in response to your threats.) So please just tell me when to stop by. I won’t attack you, I promise. Unlike you, I am not violent. I just want to see a liberal hippie try to assault me. Your greatest military hero, 2004 Democratic nominee Jean-Francois Karrie, threw a hand grenade during the War in Vietnam and hit … his own butt! When Arnold Schwarzenegger called him a girlie-man, it was an insult to women. I don’t know a single woman who throws that badly. As you try to hit me, you’ll probably miss and fall forward. Just like another liberal did when he tried sucker punching Ann Coulter. (Remember, it’s always wrong to hit a woman, unless she’s a conservative.) The only way a liberal will be able to harm someone is if he accidentally crashes his bicycle into them. And to answer your question why you can state your name and those who disagree with you can’t: our side is not made up of wanna-be stormtroopers who want to destroy anyone they disagree with. You see, Mr. Moebs, I can disagree with people without wanting to kill them or even destroy their career. But you can’t. As for being an intellectual among your friends, it’s not necessarily that hard because most people are surrounded by those of similar IQ to them. Even a person with an IQ of 75 is likely to be treated as an intellectual by at least some of his friends. When you establish yourself as an intellectual among other people’s friends, then we’ll talk. I am pretty certain that this weed-smoking genius (also from Taylor, Michigan; has the same name; also has red hair; also like leftist politics and art) is your relative. Reading the blog of the younger Chris Moebs, it is no wonder that you feel like an intellectual among your friends and relatives. It’s like being the greatest athlete in a nursing home for paraplegics. Posted in Dialogue on Race | Tagged crisis, depression, diversity, economy, mortgage, race, race realism, racialism, racism, recession | 3 Comments » Open and Honest Questions for Eric Holder & Michelle Obama February 28, 2009 by guywhite Not to beat this to death, but the Barack Obama administration keeps on harping on it, with new statements calling for an open and honest dialogue being issued by EPA administrator Lisa Jackson and First Baby Mama Michelle “I was never proud of America until it began voting for my husband” Obama. So here are some open and honest topics from someone who’s not a coward: 1. It is a fact that whites have more than blacks in every way possible: education, money, lack of criminal record. There are only two possible explanations for it: whites did something wrong or whites did something right. If you will talk about all the evils whites allegedly perpetuated on blacks, today and hundreds of years ago, can we list something the good things whites may have done and some errors common in the black community? 2. What proof is there that black people still suffer from slavery 150 years ago besides your claims? Do Russians still suffer from the legacy of serfdom? If so, why did Russia get rapidly wealthier after the fall of the Soviet Union and the people of Moscow are now wealthier than most Americans? If blacks still suffer from the legacy of segregation into the black ghetto, does that mean that Jews must still suffer from the legacy of the Jewish ghetto? If so, then why are Jews the wealthiest people in the United States and every other country? Why do they score the highest on academic and IQ tests? 3. Can we discuss the fact that according to surveys of crime victims (not a survey of arrest rates, but rather a survey of victims who usually desperately want the real criminal to be caught), blacks commit 7 times more crime per capita and 10 times more violent crime per capita than whites? Furthermore, blacks commit 20 times more murders per capita than whites? Can we discuss the fact that 32% of black men spend over a year in prison, plus at all those who did time in county jails, received probation or were never caught? Can we discuss the fact that black criminals commit more crime against whites than their fellow African-Americans, despite usually living in neighborhoods with few whites, meaning that they purposely target Caucasians. Can we discuss the fact that poverty does not cause crime, as evidenced by the fact that America’s crime rates were lowest during the Great Depression and highest during the booming 1960s and 1980s? When crime-prone people win the lottery or become professional athletes, they still commit crime, and when low-risk people suddenly become poor, they still don’t. A person does not go out and rape someone, or even rob someone, just because he loses a job. But a dysfunctional person is unlikely to have a job, while at the same time likely to commit a crime, whether the economy is good or bad. Can we discuss that the reason blacks serve more time is that they are more likely to have prior criminal records? That they are more likely to use a weapon? That they are more likely to injure a victim in commission of a crime? Can we discuss the fact that when we count for past criminal records and the level of the offense (for example, first degree battery with a gun in a dark alley vs. fourth degree battery with just fists in a bar), the criminal system discriminates against whites and not blacks? An 1996 analysis of 55,000 big-city felony cases found that black defendants were convicted at a lower rate than whites in 12 of the 14 federally designated felony categories. Several other major studies confirmed this. Rather than harping on the 2 categories where blacks come out behind (such as crack vs. cocaine), can we discuss the fact that in 12 out of 14 categories of crime, 86%, whites are discriminated against? Why is the 14% when blacks lose so much more worthy of constant talk than 86% of categories that persecute white defendants? Can we discuss that? 4. Can we discuss the radically different loan default rates between races? Blacks default almost 40% of the time on college loans, for example, while whites default only about 6% of the time. Can we discuss the fact that banks for forced to issue over $4.5 trillion ($4,500,000,000,000) to unqualified black borrowers which is what caused the present recession? 5. Can we discuss IQ differences? Do they exist? Does intelligence exist? Does the IQ measure real intelligence differences? Is IQ research science or pseudo-science? Who’s trying to prevent the real science about intelligence, the science that’s recognized by all the professionals in the field, from becoming known to regular people? What role does IQ play in educational and occupational achievement? How much of it is genetic and how much environmental? Does the fact that there may be some environmental causes of IQ differences mean that whites are to blame? Could it be that blacks cause those environmental factors, such as due to the fact that they are less likely to breast-feed their children, a known IQ factor? The American Psychological Association’s Board of Scientific Affairs set up a Task Force on intelligence research which concluded that IQ scores do have high predictive validity for individual differences in school achievement. They confirmed the predictive validity of IQ for adult occupational status, even when variables such as education and family background have been statistically controlled. They agree that individual differences in intelligence are substantially influenced by genetics and that both genes and environment, in complex interplay, are essential to the development of intellectual competence. They state there is little evidence to show that childhood diet influences intelligence except in cases of severe malnutrition. The task force agrees that large differences do exist between the average IQ scores of blacks and whites, and that these differences cannot be attributed to biases in test construction. Can we discuss this? Could this be the source of black failure? Could this be the reason blacks go to college less and fail out of school more? Could this be the reason for crime? For high loan default rates? 6. Can we discuss the fact that black-majority schools receive far more funding than white schools, but lag behind only because the students destroy everything from the books to the walls? The state that spends least on education per student is Utah, which is almost all white. The state that spends most is New York, with a large black population. Cities spend more than suburbs and rural areas, with black-majority cities such as Washington D.C. coming out at the top. Can we discuss why is it that black kids are more deserving of funding when everything merely gets destroyed? 7. And while we are discussing spending, can we discuss why is it that whites who are about 65% of the population pay over 90% of the taxes? Why do whites pay a higher percentage of their salary than blacks? At the same time that they pay a higher percentage of their salary in taxes, whites get far less from the government. Only 38% of welfare recipients, for example, are white. Even fewer residents in housing projects are white. Can we discuss the massive transfer of wealth from whites to blacks every year where each and every black man, woman and child receives on an average over $10,000 more in government spending than what they pay in taxes? 8. Can we discuss the fact that affirmative action costs our whole economy about 8% of its GDP due to the inefficiencies it creates where businesses and the government are forced to hire based on race rather than ability? Can we discuss the fact that affirmative action costs the average white family almost $25,000 and the average Asian family over $40,000, while the average black family benefits in the amount over $17,500? 9. Can we discuss why other colonies succeed upon independence, but Africa, Haiti and the Caribbean collapsed economically? When Hong Kong was under British rule, it was wealthier than its rules in the United Kingdom and actually wealthier almost all the world’s countries. Yet black countries cannot succeed no matter what economic or political system they try, and no matter how much aid is sent to them. Why are all black-run countries poor? If white countries keep Africa down, then show us how? Is it all those hundreds of billions of dollars in government and private aid that goes to Africa? Why is it that other countries can overcome international pressure, but Africa is always helpless? Why is it that despite a global boycott of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), it was wealthier under white rule than under black rule? Same question for South Africa. 10. If black people are portrayed poorly in the media, as you claim with no proof, please give us some examples? Can we discuss the fact that when Law & Order producers use real life stories, they nearly always change the race of criminals from black to white? All the alarm commercials feature white criminals. In all the movies I can think of where the criminal was portrayed as a purely unsympathetic figure, he was white. In rare cases when a black person is seen breaking the law, he’s usually fighting a bigger evil or defending his family, and the movie-watchers are supposed to sympathize with him. Whites are far more likely to commit crime in fictional media than real life, while blacks are far less likely. Is that media bias that you speak of? Bias against whom? If you have examples of blacks portrayed negatively (other than on the news with real life stories), can you please tell us what they are? Finally and most importantly, can we discuss how you never have any proof for anything you say? You just make naked assertions about “racism” and “legacies”, and then intimidate people by calling them names in hope of suppressing all two-way debates, thus turning people into cowards! Can we discuss that? No? Then, Mr. Holder, stop calling us cowards. You turned us into cowards by suppressing all debate. The only explanations that you want to allow are those that blame whites for black failure. If you don’t allow any statements about white success or black shortcomings, then the only other explanation that is available is to blame whitey. And isn’t that what you really want when you are calling for a dialogue on race? Posted in Dialogue on Race | Tagged barack obama, eric holder, lisa jackson, race, race realism, racialism, racism | 3 Comments » Quote of the Day February 28, 2009 by guywhite “You can’t reason someone out of something that they didn’t reason themselves into.” - Ben Franklin Not sure where I found this quote. I have been ridiculously busy the last few days and remember reading it during the brief work breaks, but not sure if it’s one of the posters on this blog or elsewhere who wrote it. Whoever it is, thank you, excellent quote and certainly does apply to all the liberals who try to argue here. I will write a lengthy response to Catherine. I deleted and marked as spam comments where she personally attacked others with words such as ‘moron’ and ‘idiot’. I am sure in her mind it proves that I am afraid of being proven wrong with her phenomenal arguments. (Not one of which was new - I heard all of them a million times in school. Like so many college kids, she’s incapable of thinking, just regurgitating her professors’ propaganda.) Ah yes, as soon as I read that she called Californian a moron and HardLogic an idiot, I immediately saw the light and began singing “We Shall Overcome”. Are you kidding me?! And when asked to prove her assertions with some evidence, she either outright stated that she refuses to do so or responded with “WTF, lol”. Calling someone a moron and ridiculing their question with “wtf, lol” may pass as proper academic discourse in most universities (so long as the attacker is a liberal and the person on the receiving end isn’t), but I have no reason to allow that on this blog. It does not add anything of value to our discussions. If anything, it will drive away the intellectuals who would not want to be involved in such mud. I haven’t had a chance to respond to her idiotism because I’ve been busy, but she follows the standard Nazi propaganda technique where if a lie is repeated enough times, people will eventually believe it, and therefore, one must repeat false conclusions as often as possible, even though it is impossible to back them up with any evidence. The point of the propaganda technique is to repeat something enough times, from enough different sources, that people will start to believe you. Anyway, I am falling asleep here, but I will write more on this later. She’s really very typical of indoctrinated college students. Almost everyone here has a college degree and a large number went to grad school, so I doubt anything she said came as any surprise to you. To those who didn’t go to college, as you can see, you didn’t miss much. I will use her garbage to pick apart the typical liberal college student screaming “Yes, We Can”, thinking she knows something, but who in reality is utterly incapable of analyzing and thinking on her own.
  • Culturalism is only a start, and race does Matter.

    I have read the book, culturalism is a great idea, but it is only a start. The book says race does not play a part, tell that to those who live in the many china towns and mini-mexicos across the United States. Culture is connected to ethnicity just as culture is connected to language, some on the left, even charge that to enforce assimilation is tantamount to ethnic genocide. It is only we whites who they say have no culture, we are clay to be molded in whatever image they choose for us.