vdare--2020-01-19--Time, Once Again, To Rethink Martin Luther King Day–The 2020 Edition

So if you read VDARE.com you knew 15 years ago what historian Garrow and the general public only recently discovered .
Now read on to find out why , even without that , MLK Day is a bad idea .
It is precisely this material that is sealed under court order until the year 2027 and to which the Senate was denied access prior to the vote on the King holiday .
[ The King Holiday and Its Meaning , February 26 , 2005 '' It was muck the FBI collected .
It was not the FBI 's most shining @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in wallowing in it again .
The point is that the muck is there .
It is there in the form of transcripts , recordings , photos and logs .
It is there in great quantity .
There are volumes of material labeled 'obscene . '
Future historians just will not be able to avoid it . ''
he had personally been involved in the FBI surveillance of King and knew from first-hand observation the truth about King 's sexual conduct—conduct that Mr. Brennan characterized as `` orgiastic and adulterous escapades , some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bestial in his sexual abuse of women . ''
He also stated that `` King frequently drank to excess and at times exhibited extreme emotional instability as when he once threatened to jump from his hotel room window . ''
In a study that he prepared , Mr. Brennan described King 's `` sexual activities and his excessive drinking '' that FBI surveillance discovered .
It was this kind of conduct , he wrote , that led FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to describe King as `` a tom cat with obsessive degenerate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to call King a `` hypocrite preacher . ''
Mr. Brennan also acknowledged : When the late Sam Francis was working for Senator John East , East 's office received a letter from retired FBI official , Charles D. Brennan , a former Assistant Director of the FBI who stated that FBI files on Martin Luther King held in the National Archives are sealed until 2027 .
They haven ’ t revealed all of them yet , but we know there ’ s more .
There has been confirmation of that since , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ biographer David Garrow , unable to find a US magazine willing to go there , published this in the UK ’ s Standpoint magazine : The troubling legacy of Martin Luther King | Newly-revealed FBI documents portray the great civil rights leader as a sexual libertine who ‘ laughed ’ as a forcible rape took place , May 30 , 2019 .
He was talking about suggestions in FBI files and biographical material that MLK ’ s notorious womanizing may not have been entirely consensual , but might involve the women being “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ FBI , who had King under surveillance , described as “ an unnatural act ” .
James Fulford writes : Peter Brimelow wrote the article below in 2015 , and proposes to keep posting every year at this time until we , so to speak , Overcome .
I want to update it with recent revelations about Dr. King ’ s conduct .
VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes : I ’ ve decided to keep on reposting my 2015 essay questioning the utility of Martin Luther King Day until we , so to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 2017 , 2018 2019 .
Note that , while Robert E. Lee Day is fixed , Martin Luther King Day is set to be celebrated on the third Monday in January , and so fluctuates ) .
Infuriating to all who care about America and its history , this last year proved that traditions and heroes can indeed be attacked and undone , from the peerless Robert E. Lee to George Washington .
But perhaps this is heartening to those of us who ’ ve had it with Martin Luther King Day—the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ statue may one day be cut down to size .
Unfortunately , 2017 also made seem more likely the possibility I allude to below : that by 2027 , when King ’ s FBI files are due to be released , criticism of him will be banned as “ Hate Speech.
” America took a real step toward totalitarianism in Charlottesville , VA , on August 12 , 2017 when a lawful assembly protesting the proposed vandalism of a Robert E. Lee statue was repressed and physically attacked by elected , uniformed , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an obviously pre-planned nationwide pogrom against Dissident Right individuals and outlets that were not remotely connected with the rally ( i.e .
VDARE.com ) .
Significantly , the publication of the Heaphy Report , which confirmed VDARE.com ’ s account of Leftist and police culpability , has made absolutely no difference to the MSM/ Ruling Class Narrative ... because they DON ’ T WANT TO KNOW Another ominous trend I note below is also in more evidence this year : radical Leftists asserting that MLK was one of them , as of course @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Luther King Jr were alive today , politicians would denounce him , by Stephen W. Thrasher , The Guardian , January 15 , 2018 ; Giving Up Patriotism and Integration Myths for MLK Day , by William C. Anderson , Truthout , 2018 .
Thus , typically , Anderson [ Tweet him ] writes The “ system ’ s purpose and reason for existence , ” of course , is that the American Republic was founded as , and remains in its essence , a white ethnostate .
The cussword “ white supremacy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very existence of white America and , what the Left is desperate to prevent above all , its dawning self-awareness—as exemplified by its decisive vote for Donald Trump .
Happy Robert E. Lee Day !
His January 19 birthday was once widely celebrated across the South ( it still is mentionable in Alabama ) but during the Second Reconstruction has been quietly suppressed to the point where even such a devoted son of the Confederacy as American Renaissance ’ s Jared Taylor was unaware , when I talked to him on Sunday night @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Lee ’ s state of Virginia , Lee-Jackson Day , was supposed to be celebrated last Friday .
( Not surprisingly—it seems to have been recently crudely scrubbed from Virginia ’ s webpage ) .
But there ’ s a silver lining , sort of , in this tale of attempted historical lobotomy : it shows that public holidays come—and they go .
Martin Luther King Day , rushed through Congress with Obamacare-style disregard of process in 1983 , has been by now weighed in the balance for almost thirty years .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ been found wanting .
It is time for it to go .
And in fact , I believe it will go , or at least be quietly suppressed like Robert E. Lee Day .
The reasons : It is obvious to everyone that there is a reason King ’ s FBI files were sealed for fifty years back in 1977 , and only the Main Stream Media ’ s typically relentless Politically Correct air cover prevented this flagrant maneuver from discrediting the Martin Luther King Day legislation in 1983 .
The problem that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ruling Class determination to repress it—and incidentally the unimpeachably reasonable nature of the MLK Day opponents ’ position—emerged at President Ronald Reagan ’ s famous October 19 , 1983 press conference : [ Sam Donaldson , ABC News ] .
Mr. President , Senator [ Jesse ] Helms has been saying on the Senate floor that Martin Luther King , Jr. , had Communist associations , was a Communist sympathizer .
Do you agree ?
The President .
We 'll know in about 35 years , wo n't we ?
No , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with regard to wanting the records opened up .
I think that he 's motivated by a feeling that if we 're going to have a national holiday named for any American , when it 's only been named for one American in all our history up until this time , that he feels we should know everything there is to know about an individual .
As I say , I do n't fault his sincerity in that , but I also recognize there is no way that these records can be opened @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the family and the government with regard to those records .
And we 're not going to turn away from that or set a precedent of breaking agreements of that kind .
Sir , what do we do then in 35 years if the records are opened and we find that Dr. King was a Communist sympathizer ?
Do we then try to undo the law ?
I mean , I 'm not quite certain where the logic is there .
The President .
The logic is there in that there is no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ word and open those records now .
I happen to — while I would have preferred a day of recognition for his accomplishments and what he meant in a stormy period in our history here , I would have preferred a day similar to , say , Lincoln 's birthday , which is not technically a national holiday , but is certainly a day reverenced by a great many people in our country and has been .
I would have preferred that , but since they seem bent on making it a national @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that day is important enough that I 'll sign that legislation when it reaches my desk .
At the time , there was much MSM hyperventilating because Reagan had not roundly rejected the idea that King had Communist connections .
[ Not A 35-Year Question , Editorial , New York Times , October 21 , 1983 ] But this was simply a demand , now familiar , for religious conformity to the burgeoning King Cult .
Reagan ’ s was the only rational position , especially given the ( widely-known but little-reported ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Congressional Record Note , also , the bizarre MSM claim ( which Reagan sidestepped ) that there would be no “ logic ” in revoking MLK Day if King turned out to be a Communist .
To put this in perspective , consider the protracted and merciless persecution , then just getting underway , of Arthur Rudolph , creator of the Saturn V moon rocket , because of the discovery of his alleged connection with forced labor projects in World War II Germany .
More recently , consider the continuing campaign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , not coincidentally , is being attacked for his votes against the King holiday : GOP House Majority Whip Steve Scalise tried to kill Louisiana resolution apologizing for slavery , by Scott Kaufman , Raw Story , January 15 , 2015 .
What Kaufman calls Scalise ’ s “ ties ” to David Duke ’ s relict organization in Louisiana were , on any reading , infinitesimal compared to King ’ s relationships with Communists and their causes .
And when Scalise gave his speech , the U.S. was not engaged in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , nor losing thousands of men in a desperate war against one of its allies .
The plain fact is that King was a Man of the Left and American radicals are quite right to complain that he has been stolen from them .
Thus , given that Leftist agitations are much more organized than the MSM cares to report , it might very well turn out that King ’ s decision to come out in opposition to the Vietnam War in April 1967 was ultimately at the behest of America ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adultery too .
But whatever embarrassments these files may contain—and chilling as it seems to those of us who were around at the time—only twelve years remain before they will be opened .
Of course , the way things are going , criticizing King may then be considered Hate Speech .
Just another day in the life of white America in the aftermath of the Civil Rights revolution —Flaherty has chronicled scores of similar stories .
But one entry in the comment thread , and the reaction to it , was really significant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Act , the sophisticated arguments of its opponents go undiscussed , but the simple reality that drove segregation seems to be winning it a new generation of supporters—albeit silent , for now .
From Selma to Birmingham to Detroit , the results of the Civil Rights revolution have been uniformly catastrophic .
The worst racial conflicts since the 1960s are being used to launch a new campaign of Leftist activism .
But , although there has been little overt opposition , the election returns make clear that American whites just aren ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continue to buy the Holiday ?
Many Americans unquestionably thought that , if they just made this one symbolic concession of accepting Martin Luther King Day , they would then be left alone .
( They probably think the same about homosexual “ marriage .
” ) But it hasn ’ t worked out that way .
Martin Luther King Day has simply become a staging area for the inculcation of more white guilt , above all in the classroom .
Thus when my son Alexander was eight , he came home from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us that he 'd been in some kind of play to dramatize an African American being turned away from a restaurant in the bad old days of the segregated South .
In honor of Martin Luther King Day .
Sort of like a Christmas Pageant .
( Remember Christmas Pageants ? )
The Connecticut Berkshires , where we lived , are a whitopia with absolutely no history of segregation whatsoever .
Alexander was deeply puzzled .
He was particularly impressed by the news that it was bad for policemen to use the word @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Connecticut was a hotbed of abolitionism .
Those Connecticut farm boys joined up in vast numbers , and died in vast numbers , fighting to free the slaves .
There was one famous regiment raised in Litchfield County : the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery , which despite its name was an infantry regiment and which was shot to pieces at Cold Harbor .
There ’ s still a substantial blue collar population of colonial Yankee stock in northwestern Connecticut .
The woman who cut my hair , the man who delivered my mail @ @ @ @ @ @ @ battle .
They were aware of it—but I have never heard any mention of it in the public schools .
I asked teachers about it , I asked the principals about it .
None of them had ever heard of it , although they certainly had children in their classes whose ancestors were involved .
Those children could have been taught , even accepting the conventional Civil War morality play , that their forebears had done a noble thing .
Instead , they were taught that they , whites , had oppressed blacks—even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so .
This goes to the issue of what we mean by a `` Proposition Nation '' .
Maybe kids are being taught some kind of a `` Proposition '' , a national creed , in the public schools .
But what is it ?
Writ large , the result of this sort of brainwashing can be seen in the ludicrous spectacle of the Republican Establishment stampeding away from Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema just because he reposted on his FaceBook page an article from Jared Taylor ’ s American Renaissance called Confessions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Michael Smith.
” It made no difference that Agema apparently picked up the AmRen story from the website of Black Republican and former Congressman Allen West , who wrote respectfully of it .
Nor does it make any difference that Confessions is basically a straight description of scenes ( admittedly dismaying ) in heavily black courtrooms—bearing an unmistakable resemblance to scenes in Tom Wolfe ’ s 1987 best-seller Bonfire of the Vanities .
VDARE.com has defended Agema before , when he was under attack for being insufficiently enthusiastic about Muslim immigration .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we hope he doesn ’ t resign now .
But the unfortunate reality is that debate about race has gone backward in the three decades that Martin Luther King Day has been celebrated—at least in part because of the emotionalism that it systematically exacerbates .
This emotionalism is not an accident .
Just as the hyping of the Ferguson fiasco and the Trayvon Martin scam bear all the signs of a concerted campaign to rally the Left ’ s core voters , so the intensifying King Cult , and the regular Two-Minute Hates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pat Buchanan , Frank Borzellieri , and James Watson , reflect the profound instability of American politics .
As the Democratic Party tips away from whites , it can now only hope to form ( to put it brutally ) Obama-style Minority Occupation Governments .
At all costs , the Left must keep the historic American nation from uniting before it is swamped by government-imposed non-traditional immigration—which it began to show alarming signs of doing ( no thanks to the GOP leadership ) in the 2010 and 2012 elections .
This comes naturally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that neither the Left 's black , Hispanic or Jewish components have any strong tradition of free speech .
The question is whether they can cow the historic American nation into accepting its subjugation .
Diversity is not strength : it is weakness .
The celebration of a deeply-flawed figure like Martin Luther King was a confession of weakness , and the attempt to turn him into a national role model has required unsustainable myth-making .
Perhaps in the future , Americans will be allowed to celebrate their own races ’ heroes separately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patron saints .
Right now , however , the cost of the King cult to white America is too high .
Peter Brimelow [ Email him ] is the editor of VDARE.com .
His best-selling book , Alien Nation : Common Sense About America ’ s Immigration Disaster , is now available in Kindle format .

So if you read VDARE.com you knew 15 years ago what historian Garrow and the general public only recently discovered. Now read on to find out why, even without that, MLK Day is a bad idea.
It is precisely this material that is sealed under court order until the year 2027 and to which the Senate was denied access prior to the vote on the King holiday. [ The King Holiday and Its Meaning, February 26, 2005
"It was muck the FBI collected. It was not the FBI's most shining hour. There would be no point in wallowing in it again. The point is that the muck is there. It is there in the form of transcripts, recordings, photos and logs. It is there in great quantity. There are volumes of material labeled 'obscene.' Future historians just will not be able to avoid it."
he had personally been involved in the FBI surveillance of King and knew from first-hand observation the truth about King's sexual conduct—conduct that Mr. Brennan characterized as "orgiastic and adulterous escapades, some of which indicated that King could be bestial in his sexual abuse of women." He also stated that "King frequently drank to excess and at times exhibited extreme emotional instability as when he once threatened to jump from his hotel room window." In a study that he prepared, Mr. Brennan described King's "sexual activities and his excessive drinking" that FBI surveillance discovered. It was this kind of conduct, he wrote, that led FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to describe King as "a tom cat with obsessive degenerate sexual urges" and President Lyndon Johnson to call King a "hypocrite preacher." Mr. Brennan also acknowledged:
When the late Sam Francis was working for Senator John East, East's office received a letter from retired FBI official, Charles D. Brennan, a former Assistant Director of the FBI who stated that
FBI files on Martin Luther King held in the National Archives are sealed until 2027 . They haven’t revealed all of them yet, but we know there’s more.
There has been confirmation of that since, in May of 2019, when King biographer David Garrow, unable to find a US magazine willing to go there, published this in the UK’s Standpoint magazine: The troubling legacy of Martin Luther King | Newly-revealed FBI documents portray the great civil rights leader as a sexual libertine who ‘laughed’ as a forcible rape took place, May 30, 2019.
He was talking about suggestions in FBI files and biographical material that MLK’s notorious womanizing may not have been entirely consensual, but might involve the women being “pressured and coerced” into what the FBI, who had King under surveillance, described as “an unnatural act.”
James Fulford writes: Peter Brimelow wrote the article below in 2015, and proposes to keep posting every year at this time until we, so to speak, Overcome. I want to update it with recent revelations about Dr. King’s conduct.
VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes: I’ve decided to keep on reposting my 2015 essay questioning the utility of Martin Luther King Day until we, so to speak, Overcome. (See 2016, 2017, 2018 2019. Note that, while Robert E. Lee Day is fixed, Martin Luther King Day is set to be celebrated on the third Monday in January, and so fluctuates.)
Infuriating to all who care about America and its history, this last year proved that traditions and heroes can indeed be attacked and undone, from the peerless Robert E. Lee to George Washington. But perhaps this is heartening to those of us who’ve had it with Martin Luther King Day—the wheel turns, and even that monstrous statue may one day be cut down to size.
Unfortunately, 2017 also made seem more likely the possibility I allude to below: that by 2027, when King’s FBI files are due to be released, criticism of him will be banned as “Hate Speech.” America took a real step toward totalitarianism in Charlottesville, VA, on August 12, 2017, when a lawful assembly protesting the proposed vandalism of a Robert E. Lee statue was repressed and physically attacked by elected, uniformed, civilian and paramilitary Democrats, followed by an obviously pre-planned nationwide pogrom against Dissident Right individuals and outlets that were not remotely connected with the rally (i.e. VDARE.com). Significantly, the publication of the Heaphy Report, which confirmed VDARE.com’s account of Leftist and police culpability, has made absolutely no difference to the MSM/ Ruling Class Narrative...because they DON’T WANT TO KNOW.
Another ominous trend I note below is also in more evidence this year: radical Leftists asserting that MLK was one of them, as of course he was: e.g., If Martin Luther King Jr were alive today, politicians would denounce him, by Stephen W. Thrasher, The Guardian, January 15, 2018; Giving Up Patriotism and Integration Myths for MLK Day, by William C. Anderson, Truthout, 2018. Thus, typically, Anderson [Tweet him] writes
The currents of white supremacy that are intrinsic to the US political system should lead us to question the system's purpose and reason for existence.
The “system’s purpose and reason for existence,” of course, is that the American Republic was founded as, and remains in its essence, a white ethnostate. The cussword “white supremacy” has simply come to mean the very existence of white America and, what the Left is desperate to prevent above all, its dawning self-awareness—as exemplified by its decisive vote for Donald Trump.
Happy Robert E. Lee Day! His January 19 birthday was once widely celebrated across the South (it still is mentionable in Alabama) but during the Second Reconstruction has been quietly suppressed to the point where even such a devoted son of the Confederacy as American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor was unaware, when I talked to him on Sunday night, that its local variant in his and Lee’s state of Virginia, Lee-Jackson Day, was supposed to be celebrated last Friday. (Not surprisingly—it seems to have been recently crudely scrubbed from Virginia’s webpage.)
But there’s a silver lining, sort of, in this tale of attempted historical lobotomy: It shows that public holidays come—and they go. Martin Luther King Day, rushed through Congress with Obamacare-style disregard of process in 1983, has been by now weighed in the balance for almost thirty years. It has inarguably (but unmentionably) been found wanting. It is time for it to go.
And in fact, I believe it will go, or at least be quietly suppressed like Robert E. Lee Day. The reasons:
MLK Day’s 2027 Problem
It is obvious to everyone that there is a reason King’s FBI files were sealed for fifty years back in 1977, and only the Main Stream Media’s typically relentless Politically Correct air cover prevented this flagrant maneuver from discrediting the Martin Luther King Day legislation in 1983.
The problem that these sealed files pose, the MSM/ Ruling Class determination to repress it—and incidentally the unimpeachably reasonable nature of the MLK Day opponents’ position—emerged at President Ronald Reagan’s famous October 19, 1983 press conference:
[Sam Donaldson, ABC News]. Mr. President, Senator [Jesse] Helms has been saying on the Senate floor that Martin Luther King, Jr., had Communist associations, was a Communist sympathizer. Do you agree? The President. We'll know in about 35 years, won't we? No, I don't fault Senator Helms' sincerity with regard to wanting the records opened up. I think that he's motivated by a feeling that if we're going to have a national holiday named for any American, when it's only been named for one American in all our history up until this time, that he feels we should know everything there is to know about an individual. As I say, I don't fault his sincerity in that, but I also recognize there is no way that these records can be opened, because an agreement was reached between the family and the government with regard to those records. And we're not going to turn away from that or set a precedent of breaking agreements of that kind. Sir, what do we do then in 35 years if the records are opened and we find that Dr. King was a Communist sympathizer? Do we then try to undo the law? I mean, I'm not quite certain where the logic is there. The President. The logic is there in that there is no way that this government should violate its word and open those records now. I happen to—while I would have preferred a day of recognition for his accomplishments and what he meant in a stormy period in our history here, I would have preferred a day similar to, say, Lincoln's birthday, which is not technically a national holiday, but is certainly a day reverenced by a great many people in our country and has been. I would have preferred that, but since they seem bent on making it a national holiday, I believe the symbolism of that day is important enough that I'll sign that legislation when it reaches my desk. The President's News Conference, Reagan Library, October 19, 1983
At the time, there was much MSM hyperventilating because Reagan had not roundly rejected the idea that King had Communist connections. [ Not A 35-Year Question , Editorial, New York Times, October 21, 1983] But this was simply a demand, now familiar, for religious conformity to the burgeoning King Cult . Reagan’s was the only rational position, especially given the (widely known but little reported) information that Senator Helms had already placed in the Congressional Record
Note, also, the bizarre MSM claim (which Reagan sidestepped) that there would be no “logic” in revoking MLK Day if King turned out to be a Communist. To put this in perspective, consider the protracted and merciless persecution, then just getting underway, of Arthur Rudolph, creator of the Saturn V moon rocket, because of the discovery of his alleged connection with forced labor projects in World War II Germany.
More recently, consider the continuing campaign against GOP Majority Whip Steve Scalise—who now, not coincidentally, is being attacked for his votes against the King holiday: GOP House Majority Whip Steve Scalise tried to kill Louisiana resolution apologizing for slavery, by Scott Kaufman, Raw Story, January 15, 2015. What Kaufman calls Scalise’s “ties” to David Duke’s relict organization in Louisiana were, on any reading, infinitesimal compared to King’s relationships with Communists and their causes. And when Scalise gave his speech, the U.S. was not engaged in a global struggle with a white supremacist power, nor losing thousands of men in a desperate war against one of its allies.
The plain fact is that King was a Man of the Left and American radicals are quite right to complain that he has been stolen from them. Thus, given that Leftist agitations are much more organized than the MSM cares to report, it might very well turn out that King’s decision to come out in opposition to the Vietnam War in April 1967 was ultimately at the behest of America’s foreign enemies.
A federal holiday for Benedict Arnold?
All this and serial adultery too.
But whatever embarrassments these files may contain—and chilling as it seems to those of us who were around at the time—only twelve years remain before they will be opened. Of course, the way things are going, criticizing King may then be considered Hate Speech.
“Integration” Just Isn’t working
This week near Dover, Delaware, a viral video appears to show another instance of black-on-white violence among high school students. Editor’s Note: YouTube has deleted the video originally embedded in this article. Should users navigate to the video’s URL, a message states: “This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube’s policy prohibiting content designed to harass, bully or threaten.” The shaky cell phone video shows a group of black teenage boys punching, knocking down, and kicking a white teenage boy, leaving him dazed and confused on the school bus floor. The victim of the attack had been riding home from Parkway Academy School near Dover when the assault reportedly began. The video shows him sitting alone, facing front, when the attack begins from the rear – and continues from the side and the front of the school bus. “I didn’t do nothing,” he protests. Video: Black Teens Assault White Student on School Bus, by Colin Flaherty, Breitbart, April 30, 2014.
I noticed that the School Bus driver failed to intervene or notify the police. It is shockingly evident that we need to create a segregated public school system where the victims of racial violence are separated from their abusers…
Just another day in the life of white America in the aftermath of the Civil Rights revolution —Flaherty has chronicled scores of similar stories. But one entry in the comment thread, and the reaction to it, was really significant:
Fifty years after the Civil Rights Act, the sophisticated arguments of its opponents go undiscussed, but the simple reality that drove segregation seems to be winning it a new generation of supporters—albeit silent, for now.
From Selma to Birmingham to Detroit, the results of the Civil Rights revolution have been uniformly catastrophic.
The worst racial conflicts since the 1960s are being used to launch a new campaign of Leftist activism. But, although there has been little overt opposition, the election returns make clear that American whites just aren’t buying it.
How long will they continue to buy the Holiday?
MLK Day can’t be contained
Many Americans unquestionably thought that, if they just made this one symbolic concession of accepting Martin Luther King Day, they would then be left alone. (They probably think the same about homosexual “ marriage .”) But it hasn’t worked out that way. Martin Luther King Day has simply become a staging area for the inculcation of more white guilt, above all in the classroom.
Thus when my son Alexander was eight, he came home from public school early in January and told us that he'd been in some kind of play to dramatize an African American being turned away from a restaurant in the bad old days of the segregated South. In honor of Martin Luther King Day. Sort of like a Christmas Pageant. (Remember Christmas Pageants?)
The Connecticut Berkshires, where we lived, are a whitopia with absolutely no history of segregation whatsoever. Alexander was deeply puzzled. He was particularly impressed by the news that it was bad for policemen to use the word “boy.”
But this area of Connecticut was a hotbed of abolitionism. Those Connecticut farm boys joined up in vast numbers, and died in vast numbers, fighting to free the slaves. There was one famous regiment raised in Litchfield County: the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, which despite its name was an infantry regiment and which was shot to pieces at Cold Harbor.
There’s still a substantial blue collar population of colonial Yankee stock in northwestern Connecticut. The woman who cut my hair, the man who delivered my mail, had relatives who died in that battle. They were aware of it—but I have never heard any mention of it in the public schools.
I asked teachers about it, I asked the principals about it. None of them had ever heard of it, although they certainly had children in their classes whose ancestors were involved.
Those children could have been taught, even accepting the conventional Civil War morality play, that their forebears had done a noble thing. Instead, they were taught that they, whites, had oppressed blacks—even though their forebears had specifically not done so.
This goes to the issue of what we mean by a "Proposition Nation." Maybe kids are being taught some kind of a "Proposition," a national creed, in the public schools. But what is it?
Writ large, the result of this sort of brainwashing can be seen in the ludicrous spectacle of the Republican Establishment stampeding away from Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema just because he reposted on his FaceBook page an article from Jared Taylor’s American Renaissance called Confessions of a Public Defender, by “Michael Smith.”
It made no difference that Agema apparently picked up the AmRen story from the website of Black Republican and former Congressman Allen West, who wrote respectfully of it. Nor does it make any difference that Confessions is basically a straight description of scenes (admittedly dismaying) in heavily black courtrooms—bearing an unmistakable resemblance to scenes in Tom Wolfe’s 1987 best-seller Bonfire of the Vanities.
VDARE.com has defended Agema before, when he was under attack for being insufficiently enthusiastic about Muslim immigration. He didn’t resign then, and we hope he doesn’t resign now.
But the unfortunate reality is that debate about race has gone backward in the three decades that Martin Luther King Day has been celebrated—at least in part because of the emotionalism that it systematically exacerbates.
This emotionalism is not an accident. Just as the hyping of the Ferguson fiasco and the Trayvon Martin scam bear all the signs of a concerted campaign to rally the Left’s core voters, so the intensifying King Cult, and the regular Two-Minute Hates against race deviationists like John Derbyshire, Pat Buchanan, Frank Borzellieri, and James Watson, reflect the profound instability of American politics. As the Democratic Party tips away from whites, it can now only hope to form (to put it brutally) Obama-style Minority Occupation Governments. At all costs, the Left must keep the historic American nation from uniting before it is swamped by government-imposed non-traditional immigration—which it began to show alarming signs of doing (no thanks to the GOP leadership) in the 2010 and 2012 elections.
This comes naturally, because the Politically Incorrect fact is that neither the Left's black, Hispanic or Jewish components have any strong tradition of free speech. The question is whether they can cow the historic American nation into accepting its subjugation.
Diversity is not strength: It is weakness. The celebration of a deeply flawed figure like Martin Luther King was a confession of weakness, and the attempt to turn him into a national role model has required unsustainable myth-making. Perhaps in the future, Americans will be allowed to celebrate their own races’ heroes separately, just as Italian villages have different patron saints. Right now, however, the cost of the King cult to white America is too high.
Peter Brimelow [Email him] is the editor of VDARE.com. His best-selling book, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster, is now available in Kindle format.


vdare--2020-01-19--Trump Administration Rolls Back Stupid Michelle Obama School Lunch Program, Media Hardest Hit

There 's no reason why school lunches should concern the Federal Government at all , but since there 's a @ @ @ @ @ an Agriculture Department , they do , to the tune of $ 11 billion taxpayer @ @ @ @ @ famously made it a personal project to make this worse .
Instapundit blogs on it @ @ @ @ @ fact that unelected First Lady Michelle was somehow responsible for this program is blowing the @ @ @ @

There's no reason why school lunches should concern the Federal Government at all, but since there's a national Department of Education and an Agriculture Department, they do, to the tune of $11 billion taxpayer dollars, and Michelle Obama famously made it a personal project to make this worse.
Instapundit blogs on it here:
Yes, the fact that unelected First Lady Michelle was somehow responsible for this program is blowing the media's minds:


vdare--2020-01-20--Patrick J. Buchanan: Is Mass Civil Disobedience Our Future?

On the holiday set aside in 2020 to honor Martin Luther King , the premier advocate of nonviolent Gandhian civil disobedience , thousands of gun owners gathered in Richmond to petition peacefully for their rights .
King had preached that there was a higher law that justified breaking existing laws that mandated racial segregation .
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus in Montgomery , when Freedom Riders integrated bus terminals , when black students sat at segregated lunch counters in North Carolina , they challenged state law in the name of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And Virginia gun owners believe their moral obligation to protect families , friends and themselves in a violent society justifies their right to keep and carry firearms , no matter what the Virginia legislature says .
Americans have a long history of breaching laws in the name of a higher law or God-given rights .
The patriots of Boston gathered an arsenal at Concord in defiance of the British .
To protest a tea tax imposed by parliament , they dressed as American Indians and threw shiploads of imported tea into Boston @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , to protest debt collections in 1786-87 , and the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania , to protest a tax , both had to be crushed with force .
Abolitionists supported the violation of fugitive slave laws , the enforcement of which Lincoln endorsed in his first inaugural as a national necessity to restore and preserve the Union .
A constitutional prohibition of the sale of beer , wine and liquor in the U.S. , following the enactment of the 18th Amendment , led to massive civil disobedience in the Roaring '20s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the 21st Amendment .
During Vietnam , burning draft cards was a regular feature of anti-war rallies .
Historians may describe the racial riots of the 1960s—Harlem , Watts , Newark , Detroit , and 100 U.S. cities including Washington , D.C. , after King 's assassination—as popular uprisings , but many required National Guard and federal troops to stop the looting , shooting and arson .
By the late 1960s , LBJ , who had passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 , could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violent demonstration .
This week , Washington hosts the 46th annual March for Life to commemorate the 60 million unborn killed in the abortion mills of America since Roe v. Wade in 1973 .
In conservative states , restrictions imposed on abortion facilities have put some out of business .
The legislators and governors who have done so believe the right to life trumps the Warren Court ruling in Roe v. Wade .
Perhaps the greatest manifestation of civil disobedience today is the illegal presence of between 12 million and 20 million immigrants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ breaking the law by being here after their visas expired .
Their collaborators are the business owners who hire them and the public officials who refuse to treat them as lawbreakers .
`` Sanctuary cities '' have been created where local and state authorities refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement .
Now , towns , cities and counties are creating `` Second Amendment sanctuaries , '' where laws restricting gun rights will not be enforced .
If state and local police , themselves gun owners , stand with those who defy the new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the new laws ?
The Virginia Senate has begun to move bills requiring background checks for gun purchasers including red flag laws to disarm individuals deemed at risk to themselves or others , and bills granting permission for locales to restrict the carrying of arms in government buildings and confining the purchases of handguns to one a month .
There are other restrictions the Democratic legislature in Richmond and governor are ready to move , including restricting the number of bullets in clips and magazines and halting sales of rifles like the AR-15 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ onset of an all-out assault on gun rights .
For a republic to endure , there has to be a common consent on the rule of law and what constitutes a good society .
But these seem to be at issue again in America .
Is abortion the killing of an innocent human being ?
Do Americans have a constitutional and human right to keep and carry firearms to protect themselves and their loved ones ?
Who is and who is not a rightful resident of our national home ?
Do illegal migrants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stay here ?
Or do their numbers imperil our national identity and existence as `` one nation and one people '' ?
Violent crime was greater in America in the early 1990s .
Urban riots were far more common in the 1960s .
And there is nothing today comparable to the bloodletting of the 1861-65 War Between the States .
Still , Americans seem to disagree with each other more and to dislike each other more than they have in the lifetime of most of us .
One wonders : How does it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ long ?
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will America Survive to 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “ The Greatest Comeback : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority .
His latest book , published May , 2018 , is “ Nixon ’ s White House Wars : The Battles That Made and Broke a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

On the holiday set aside in 2020 to honor Martin Luther King, the premier advocate of nonviolent Gandhian civil disobedience, thousands of gun owners gathered in Richmond to petition peacefully for their rights.
King had preached that there was a higher law that justified breaking existing laws that mandated racial segregation.
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus in Montgomery, when Freedom Riders integrated bus terminals, when black students sat at segregated lunch counters in North Carolina, they challenged state law in the name of what they said was a higher law.
And Virginia gun owners believe their moral obligation to protect families, friends and themselves in a violent society justifies their right to keep and carry firearms, no matter what the Virginia legislature says.
Americans have a long history of breaching laws in the name of a higher law or God-given rights.
The patriots of Boston gathered an arsenal at Concord in defiance of the British. To protest a tea tax imposed by parliament, they dressed as American Indians and threw shiploads of imported tea into Boston Harbor.
Shays' Rebellion in Massachusetts, to protest debt collections in 1786-87, and the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania, to protest a tax, both had to be crushed with force.
Abolitionists supported the violation of fugitive slave laws, the enforcement of which Lincoln endorsed in his first inaugural as a national necessity to restore and preserve the Union.
A constitutional prohibition of the sale of beer, wine and liquor in the U.S., following the enactment of the 18th Amendment, led to massive civil disobedience in the Roaring '20s, before it was repealed in 1933 by the 21st Amendment.
During Vietnam, burning draft cards was a regular feature of anti-war rallies.
Historians may describe the racial riots of the 1960s—Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit, and 100 U.S. cities including Washington, D.C., after King's assassination—as popular uprisings, but many required National Guard and federal troops to stop the looting, shooting and arson.
By the late 1960s, LBJ, who had passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, could not visit a college campus without a violent demonstration.
This week, Washington hosts the 46th annual March for Life to commemorate the 60 million unborn killed in the abortion mills of America since Roe v. Wade in 1973.
In conservative states, restrictions imposed on abortion facilities have put some out of business. The legislators and governors who have done so believe the right to life trumps the Warren Court ruling in Roe v. Wade.
Perhaps the greatest manifestation of civil disobedience today is the illegal presence of between 12 million and 20 million immigrants who broke into our country or are breaking the law by being here after their visas expired.
Their collaborators are the business owners who hire them and the public officials who refuse to treat them as lawbreakers.
"Sanctuary cities" have been created where local and state authorities refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
Now, towns, cities and counties are creating "Second Amendment sanctuaries," where laws restricting gun rights will not be enforced.
If state and local police, themselves gun owners, stand with those who defy the new state laws on guns, who enforces the new laws?
The Virginia Senate has begun to move bills requiring background checks for gun purchasers including red flag laws to disarm individuals deemed at risk to themselves or others, and bills granting permission for locales to restrict the carrying of arms in government buildings and confining the purchases of handguns to one a month.
There are other restrictions the Democratic legislature in Richmond and governor are ready to move, including restricting the number of bullets in clips and magazines and halting sales of rifles like the AR-15.
Gun owners see these as the onset of an all-out assault on gun rights.
For a republic to endure, there has to be a common consent on the rule of law and what constitutes a good society. But these seem to be at issue again in America.
Is abortion the killing of an innocent human being? Do Americans have a constitutional and human right to keep and carry firearms to protect themselves and their loved ones?
Who is and who is not a rightful resident of our national home?
Do illegal migrants have a right to come here and stay here? Or do their numbers imperil our national identity and existence as "one nation and one people"?
Violent crime was greater in America in the early 1990s. Urban riots were far more common in the 1960s. And there is nothing today comparable to the bloodletting of the 1861-65 War Between the States.
Still, Americans seem to disagree with each other more and to dislike each other more than they have in the lifetime of most of us.
One wonders: How does it all stay together? And for how long?
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-01-20--On Martin Luther King's Non-Conservatism: The Quota King

As Eugene Gant notes below , Martin Luther King is frequently claimed as either a conservative , or in some cases a member of the Republican Party .
Historically , black support for the Republican party was was common before the 1930s , because Republicans were the Party of Lincoln , just as the white Solid South support for Democrats was because the Democrats were the Party of not-Lincoln .
FDR 's presidency changed all that , although FDR did dedicate a monument to Robert E. Lee in Dallas in 1936 .
But King , private life aside , was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ late Joe Sobran said in 1998 that This is true .
In spite of the oft-repeated quote about wanting his children to be judged by the `` content of their character '' King was in favor of hard racial quotas for the benefit of his people .
( When I say oft-repeated , I mean that search of NationalReview.com shows 207 instances of `` content of their character '' and 91 instances of `` content of our character '' , the title of a Shelby Steele book . )
American Renaissance , on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The difference between the two ideas of King may come from the fact that Amren.com 's Ryan actually read King 's last book , Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community ?
from which the quotation above was taken .
Chapter 5 of that 1967 book has an ambitious program of pressure on local businesses ( backed by black economic boycotts and pulpit denunciations ) to do their hiring on a hard quota basis , put their money in black-owned banks , and stock products made by blacks .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ passage of Civil Rights Act of 1965 , which made such hiring technically illegal .

As Eugene Gant notes below, Martin Luther King is frequently claimed as either a conservative, or in some cases a member of the Republican Party.
Historically, black support for the Republican party was was common before the 1930s, because Republicans were the Party of Lincoln, just as the white Solid South support for Democrats was because the Democrats were the Party of not-Lincoln.
FDR's presidency changed all that, although FDR did dedicate a monument to Robert E. Lee in Dallas in 1936.
But King, private life aside, wasn't any kind of conservative.
The late Joe Sobran said in 1998 that
"To take just one example, I gnash my teeth when conservatives argue that ‘affirmative action’ violates ‘the spirit of Dr. King’—’color-blind justice,’ and all that. Nonsense. If King were alive today, he’d certain support state-imposed racial preferences. He was a Marxist, always moving leftward. Liberals are right to claim him as their own; conservatives who appeal to his ‘spirit’ only make fools of themselves."[Media and Mythology, By Joe Sobran, SOBRAN’S, November–December 1998]
This is true. In spite of the oft-repeated quote about wanting his children to be judged by the "content of their character" King was in favor of hard racial quotas for the benefit of his people. (When I say oft-repeated, I mean that search of NationalReview.com shows 207 instances of "content of their character" and 91 instances of "content of our character",the title of a Shelby Steele book.)
American Renaissance, on the other hand, knows better.
"King has been praised, even by conservatives, as the great advocate of color-blindness. They focus too narrowly on one sentence in his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, in which he said he wanted to live in a nation ‘where [my children] will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.’ The truth is that King wanted quotas for blacks. ‘[I]f a city has a 30 percent Negro population,’ King reasoned, ‘then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30 percent of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.’"(Emphasis added.) [The Unknown Martin Luther King, Jr., by Benjamin J. Ryan, American Renaissance, January 2009]
The difference between the two ideas of King may come from the fact that Amren.com's Ryan actually read King's last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? from which the quotation above was taken.
Chapter 5 of that 1967 book has an ambitious program of pressure on local businesses (backed by black economic boycotts and pulpit denunciations) to do their hiring on a hard quota basis, put their money in black-owned banks, and stock products made by blacks.
And of course, this was after the passage of Civil Rights Act of 1965, which made such hiring technically illegal.


vdare--2020-01-20--No, Martin Luther King Jr. Was NOT A Republican (Or A Conservative )

Apropos of VDARE ’ s annual appeal to end the national holiday for Martin Luther King , last week , Time magazine asked whether the Great Man was a Republican [ Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Republican or a Democrat ?
The Answer Is Complicated , by Olivia B. Waxman , January 17 , 2020 ] .
“ The answer is complicated , ” the headline says .
His niece Alveda King , an Evangelical supporter of President Donald Trump , has argued that her uncle was a Republican , like his father Martin Luther King , Sr. , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That idea has been repeated often , but videos that claim to show that Martin Luther King , Jr. is Republican have been proven not to do so .
King ’ s son Martin Luther King III said in 2008 that it ’ s “ disingenuous ” to insist he was when there is no evidence of him casting a Republican vote .
“ It is even more outrageous to suggest that he would support the Republican Party of today , ” the younger King added , “ which has spent so much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American votes in Florida and many other states.
” The idea that King would have been a registered Republican is not far-fetched , given the party ’ s history and its position in national politics in the 1950s , but scholars and those who knew him best say they can ’ t imagine that he would have supported Republican presidential candidates in the 1960s .
In fact , King himself said he voted for Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson for President in 1964 .
“ I know of no one who has verified MLK @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Clayborne Carson , editor of King ’ s autobiography and Professor of History and Founding Director of The Martin Luther King , Jr. , Research and Education Institute at Stanford University .
“ [ He ] may have been registered as a Republican and voted Democratic [ in national elections ] .
” Waxman explained that King likely voted Democrat because of black support for FDR and JFK , the latter of whom tried to get King out of jail in October 1960 .
King famously repaid JFK ’ s help then and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jacquelline Kennedy when she knelt by her dead husband ’ s coffin in 1963 : “ Look at her , ” King said .
“ Sucking him off one last time.
” The FBI also recorded King saying to the Reverend Ralph Abernathy , who had been rebuking his behavior “ Come on over here , you big black motherf***er , and let me suck your d**k. ” ( This was not a serious request , but a crude insult to Abernathy 's protests against King 's lifestyle . )
After Garrow published @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and laughed as a fellow minister raped a woman , Garrow concluded that “ a profoundly painful historical reckoning and reconsideration inescapably awaits.
” That includes the idiotic , even clownish insistence that King was some sort of conservative Republican .

Apropos of VDARE’s annual appeal to end the national holiday for Martin Luther King, last week, Time magazine asked whether the Great Man was a Republican [Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Republican or a Democrat? The Answer Is Complicated, by Olivia B. Waxman, January 17, 2020].
“The answer is complicated,” the headline says.
Not really.
From Olivia Waxman’s piece:
His niece Alveda King, an Evangelical supporter of President Donald Trump, has argued that her uncle was a Republican, like his father Martin Luther King, Sr., who was also a Baptist minister. That idea has been repeated often, but videos that claim to show that Martin Luther King, Jr. is Republican have been proven not to do so. King’s son Martin Luther King III said in 2008 that it’s “disingenuous” to insist he was when there is no evidence of him casting a Republican vote. “It is even more outrageous to suggest that he would support the Republican Party of today,” the younger King added, “which has spent so much time and effort trying to suppress African American votes in Florida and many other states.” The idea that King would have been a registered Republican is not far-fetched, given the party’s history and its position in national politics in the 1950s, but scholars and those who knew him best say they can’t imagine that he would have supported Republican presidential candidates in the 1960s. In fact, King himself said he voted for Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson for President in 1964. “I know of no one who has verified MLK’s party registration,” says Clayborne Carson, editor of King’s autobiography and Professor of History and Founding Director of The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. “[He] may have been registered as a Republican and voted Democratic [in national elections].”
Waxman explained that King likely voted Democrat because of black support for FDR and JFK, the latter of whom tried to get King out of jail in October 1960. King famously repaid JFK’s help then and afterward by telling a repulsive joke about Jacquelline Kennedy when she knelt by her dead husband’s coffin in 1963: “Look at her,” King said. “Sucking him off one last time.”
The FBI also recorded King saying to the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, who had been rebuking his behavior “Come on over here, you big black motherf***er, and let me suck your d**k.” (This was not a serious request, but a crude insult to Abernathy's protests against King's lifestyle.)
After Garrow published his story that King witnessed, encouraged, and laughed as a fellow minister raped a woman, Garrow concluded that “a profoundly painful historical reckoning and reconsideration inescapably awaits.”
That includes the idiotic, even clownish insistence that King was some sort of conservative Republican.


vdare--2020-01-20--John Derbyshire: “Disparate Impact”—Key Lie In Our Ruling Class Ideology

See , earlier , by James Fulford : Disparate Impact : Legal And Political Last week 's item about jaywalkers in New York City brought in some emails .
It referred to complaints that city cops issue jaywalking tickets disproportionately to Sun People , i.e .
blacks and Latinos .
Sun People are only 55 percent of New Yorkers , but they get 90 percent of tickets for jaywalking .
Obviously New York cops are practicing flagrant racial discrimination .
A listener with long experience working in the city 's courtrooms tells me that summonses are only issued to those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a foot pursuit .
So the statistics factor in the obedience of perps and the relative athleticism of perps and cops .
Not sure how that plays out .
Another listener notes that the hateful racism on display in the issuance of jaywalking tickets is also seen in summonses for fare evasion in the city subway system .
New York State 's Attorney General ( Letitia James , right ) a black female radical , wants police to stop enforcing the law on fare-beating .
Meanwhile there have been ructions in one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York City Schools Chancellor is another far-left radical , a Gringo-hating Latino supremacist named Richard Carranza .
( Right . )
Noticing that students being disciplined for misbehavior in city schools were disproportionately Sun People , Carranza [ Tweet him ] has ordered principals to stop traditional disciplinary procedures in favor of `` restorative justice . ''
“ Restorative justice '' is the name of a trendy , feminized approach to dealing with misbehavior , not just in schools but in any kind of institutionalized setting—courts and prisons , for example .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ misbehaving person being slapped with some penalty , they sit around in a group with their victim , witnesses to the misbehavior , authority figures , and psychologists , and everyone talks at length about their feelings ( wo wo wo feelings ) .
The usefulness of `` restorative justice '' has not stood up to rigorous research [ The promise of ‘ restorative justice ’ starts to falter under rigorous research , .
by Jill Barshay , Hechinger Report , May 6 , 2019 ] And by comparison with traditional punitive approaches @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time .
But Progressives love it anyway .
New York City public-school parents…not so much .
When Chancellor Carranza held a town hall meeting at a New York middle school on Thursday last , he was jeered off the stage by parents furious at the lack of discipline in their kids ' schools : The common thread to all these stories : `` Disparate Impact . ''
If Sun People are disproportionately being given tickets for jaywalking , or subway fare-beating , or Sun People schoolkids are being disproportionately punished for misbehavior , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ possible explanation can be malice on the part of Ice People—that 's whites and Asians—towards Sun People .
The malice might be conscious or unconscious ; but it is what causes the disproportion in punishments .
This is all in accord with the larger notion of Disparate Impact .
Wherever there is a disproportion of Sun People or other favored groups suffering negative outcomes in any situation—mortgage lending , for example—a wrong has been done , and action must be taken to right that wrong .
Disparate Impact Theory is a key principle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the authority of , for example , the U.S. Supreme Court [ U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Fair Housing Disparate Impact Principle , National Low Income Housing Coalition , June 29 , 2015 ] .
You might think that these disproportions could possibly be caused by Sun People actually jaywalking , turnstile-jumping , or acting up in class more than Ice People .
But if you do think that , you 'd be wise to keep quiet about it .
That 's crimethink .
And please note that it 's still crimethink even if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a race realist , I assume that Sun People do misbehave more than Ice People , and that the reasons are ultimately biological .
But you can disagree with me on that bit about reasons and still be a thought criminal , though .
If you think that Sun People truly do misbehave more , but for non-biological reasons , you 're still a thought criminal .
Heather Mac Donald , for example , who has written extensively and scathingly about Disparate Impact Theory is not a race realist .
She 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ high levels of misbehavior among Sun People down to `` family dysfunction and lack of socialization . ''
[ Back to Discipline |Disparate impact reflects disparate reality , by Heather Mac Donald , City Journal , December 19 , 2018 . ]
That does n't get her off the hook .
Heather is a thought criminal anyway : ask any Progressive .
[ Suspensions for College Students Who Thwarted Free Speech | Claremont McKenna punished multiple campus activists who shut down an event featuring a pro-police speaker—but were those punishments justified ?
, @ @ @ @ @ @ @ July 19 , 2017 ] Disparate Impact Theory is one of the stupidest and least defensible components of our ruling ideology .
In its application to mortgage lending , where lenders were forced to abandon rational credit standards so that Sun People applicants were not disproportionately rejected for home loans , it contributed mightily to the housing bust and the subsequent great recession of twelve years ago .
When some legal scholar is coming up for consideration as a Supreme Court justice , the phrase `` litmus test '' is usually heard at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the abortion issue .
Here would be my litmus test question for someone in that position : `` What part , if any , do you think the notion of Disparate Impact should play in our nation 's jurisprudence ? ''
FOOTNOTE : Looking up that quote from Heather Mac Donald , I got to reading some of her other pieces at the City Journal website .
She 's a very good writer ; and her pieces are terrifically well-researched .
Here ’ s an article Heather posted last September : False @ @ @ @ @ @ @ congressional hearing on policing veered sharply from the truth : here are the facts , September 26 , 2019 .
The House Judiciary Committee had held a hearing on the policing of black neighborhoods .
Heather has written a book with the title Are Cops Racist ?
So , reasonably enough , she was invited to address the Committee , one of the two witnesses called by the Republican minority on the Committee .
( Watch her testimony here or below , at 1:33 : 04 . )
It was the penultimate paragraph @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attention : : That , it seems to me , goes right to the heart of the utter uselessness of the Republican Party .
In what Heather calls `` the public battle of ideas , '' when hostilities get anywhere near the subject of race , Republicans throw down their weapons and scamper from the field as fast as they can scamper .
email him ] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets .
( This no longer includes National Review , whose editors had some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) He is the author of We Are Doomed : Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books .
He has had two books published by VDARE.com com : FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT ( also available in Kindle ) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II : ESSAYS 2013 .
For years he ’ s been podcasting at Radio Derb , now available at VDARE.com for no charge .
His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com .
Readers who wish to donate ( tax deductible ) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire 's writings at VDARE.com @ @ @ @ @

See, earlier, by James Fulford: Disparate Impact: Legal And Political
Last week's item about jaywalkers in New York City brought in some emails. It referred to complaints that city cops issue jaywalking tickets disproportionately to Sun People, i.e. blacks and Latinos. Sun People are only 55 percent of New Yorkers, but they get 90 percent of tickets for jaywalking. Obviously New York cops are practicing flagrant racial discrimination.
A listener with long experience working in the city's courtrooms tells me that summonses are only issued to those who run but can be caught in a foot pursuit. So the statistics factor in the obedience of perps and the relative athleticism of perps and cops. Not sure how that plays out.
Another listener notes that the hateful racism on display in the issuance of jaywalking tickets is also seen in summonses for fare evasion in the city subway system. New York State's Attorney General (Letitia James, right) a black female radical, wants police to stop enforcing the law on fare-beating.
Meanwhile there have been ructions in one of the city's school districts. The New York City Schools Chancellor is another far-left radical, a Gringo-hating Latino supremacist named Richard Carranza. (Right. )Noticing that students being disciplined for misbehavior in city schools were disproportionately Sun People, Carranza [Tweet him] has ordered principals to stop traditional disciplinary procedures in favor of "restorative justice."
“Restorative justice" is the name of a trendy, feminized approach to dealing with misbehavior, not just in schools but in any kind of institutionalized setting—courts and prisons, for example. The main idea: instead of the misbehaving person being slapped with some penalty, they sit around in a group with their victim, witnesses to the misbehavior, authority figures, and psychologists, and everyone talks at length about their feelings (wo wo wo feelings).
The usefulness of "restorative justice" has not stood up to rigorous research [The promise of ‘restorative justice’ starts to falter under rigorous research,. by Jill Barshay, Hechinger Report, May 6, 2019] And by comparison with traditional punitive approaches it wastes enormous amounts of everyone's time. But Progressives love it anyway.
New York City public-school parents…not so much. When Chancellor Carranza held a town hall meeting at a New York middle school on Thursday last, he was jeered off the stage by parents furious at the lack of discipline in their kids' schools:
After several unsuccessful attempts to quiet the crowd, Carranza rose and exited the stage as the hooting continued. Outraged parents jeer DOE head Richard Carranza off the stage at Queens town hall meeting, by Selim Algar, NY Post, January 17, 2020
The common thread to all these stories: "Disparate Impact." If Sun People are disproportionately being given tickets for jaywalking, or subway fare-beating, or Sun People schoolkids are being disproportionately punished for misbehavior, our ruling ideology insists that the only possible explanation can be malice on the part of Ice People—that's whites and Asians—towards Sun People.
The malice might be conscious or unconscious; but it is what causes the disproportion in punishments.
This is all in accord with the larger notion of Disparate Impact. Wherever there is a disproportion of Sun People or other favored groups suffering negative outcomes in any situation—mortgage lending, for example—a wrong has been done, and action must be taken to right that wrong.
Disparate Impact Theory is a key principle in our ruling ideology. It has the authority of, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court [U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Fair Housing Disparate Impact Principle, National Low Income Housing Coalition, June 29, 2015]. You might think that these disproportions could possibly be caused by Sun People actually jaywalking, turnstile-jumping, or acting up in class more than Ice People.
But if you do think that, you'd be wise to keep quiet about it. That's crimethink.
And please note that it's still crimethink even if you are a race denialist. Speaking as a race realist, I assume that Sun People do misbehave more than Ice People, and that the reasons are ultimately biological. But you can disagree with me on that bit about reasons and still be a thought criminal. If you think that Sun People truly do misbehave more, but for non-biological reasons, you're still a thought criminal.
Heather Mac Donald, for example, who has written extensively and scathingly about Disparate Impact Theory is not a race realist. She's a race denialist. She puts the high levels of misbehavior among Sun People down to "family dysfunction and lack of socialization." [Back to Discipline |Disparate impact reflects disparate reality, by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, December 19, 2018.]
That doesn't get her off the hook. Heather is a thought criminal anyway: ask any Progressive. [Suspensions for College Students Who Thwarted Free Speech | Claremont McKenna punished multiple campus activists who shut down an event featuring a pro-police speaker—but were those punishments justified?, by Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, July 19, 2017]
Disparate Impact Theory is one of the stupidest and least defensible components of our ruling ideology. In its application to mortgage lending, where lenders were forced to abandon rational credit standards so that Sun People applicants were not disproportionately rejected for home loans, it contributed mightily to the housing bust and the subsequent great recession of twelve years ago.
When some legal scholar is coming up for consideration as a Supreme Court justice, the phrase "litmus test" is usually heard at some point, most likely in relation to the abortion issue. Here would be my litmus test question for someone in that position: "What part, if any, do you think the notion of Disparate Impact should play in our nation's jurisprudence?"
FOOTNOTE: Looking up that quote from Heather Mac Donald, I got to reading some of her other pieces at the City Journal website. She's a very good writer; and her pieces are terrifically well-researched.
Here’s an article Heather posted last September: False Testimony | Sworn statements at a recent congressional hearing on policing veered sharply from the truth: here are the facts, September 26, 2019. The House Judiciary Committee had held a hearing on the policing of black neighborhoods. Heather has written a book with the title Are Cops Racist? So, reasonably enough, she was invited to address the Committee, one of the two witnesses called by the Republican minority on the Committee.(Watch her testimony here or below, at 1:33: 04.)
It was the penultimate paragraph of Heather's article that got my attention::
The Republicans on the committee failed to push back against this narrative of systemic police bias … The only way to dislodge the "endemic racism" argument is to challenge its factual basis directly. I was the only witness at the hearing with the ability to do so, but the Republicans asked me not one question. This is not a matter of personal ego but rather of the public battle of ideas.
That, it seems to me, goes right to the heart of the utter uselessness of the Republican Party. In what Heather calls "the public battle of ideas," when hostilities get anywhere near the subject of race, Republicans throw down their weapons and scamper from the field as fast as they can scamper.
What gutless cowards Republicans are!
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vdare--2020-01-20--VA Second Amendment Rally An Invigorating (And Implicitly White) Success

Ten years earlier by Peter Brimelow : The Tea Party , Tancredo , And The Implicit White Community It turns out I was wrong to warn people to stay away from today ’ s rally , but in the political climate dissidents have been forced to live under since before Donald Trump even took the Oath of Office on January 20 , 2017 , only accelerating with the state-inspired disaster in Charlottesville , one can ’ t be too careful .
The January 20 , 2020 Rally for the 2nd Amendment by Virginia patriots was a resounding—no , that ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ success .
It was a monumental day that only the bitterest of black-pillers incapable of understanding how the political winds are shifting will fail to celebrate .
Tens of thousands of patriots from across the Commonwealth of Virginia ( and for that matter , from across the nation ) came to Richmond , Virginia to remind Gov .
Ralph Northam and the Democrat-controlled General Assembly they have a duty to protect the 2nd Amendment rights of Virginians .
If they fail to , those overwhelmingly white males rallying in Richmond for gun rights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there to remind them of what the state motto is , and that the 2nd Amendment exists to protect more than just the right to hunt .
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with the fact the crowd was overwhelmingly white , for it is primarily white males who keep alive the spark of the nation the Founding Fathers , well , founded .
[ A Non-White Majority Will End Gun Rights , by Bradley Moore , American Renaissance , August 21 , 2019 ] This was an implicitly white march , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make when they posted sneering Tweets attacking the whiteness of the event and worked to smear American patriots as “ white supremacists.
” It was entirely peaceful and harmonious , shocking to liberals and journalists hoping for violence to forever discredit those advocates for the 2nd Amendment ( strangely , the National Rifle Association ( ( NRA ) ) had virtually no presence at all and barely participated in this amazing grassroots event ) , but instead friendships were formed by white Virginians gathering to defend their rights .
It ’ s safe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white people in Richmond since perhaps 1865 , and not one person was injured .
Ethan Somers , the chief operations of the Guns Down Movement , put out a sneering , dismissive Tweet of the march as , “ So ... so white # Richmond2ARally.
” Tess Owens , a reporter with Vice News , Tweeted , “ This thing is huge though .
Definitely upwards of 5k .
Feels like the women ’ s march except its white dudes and a LOT of guns .
Guns everywhere.
” There is nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people showing up in Richmond to march for their rights , nor anything boastful about a few non-whites marching with them to advocate for the 2nd Amendment .
Alex Jones , perhaps the most banned man in America , showed up in an armored car and his trademark bullhorn .
He was greeted like a conquering hero , a reminder of the powerful role he played in the wave capsizing Conservatism Inc. , from 2015 – 2017 , ushering in the age of Trump .
His former colleague , Paul Joseph Watson , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( again , almost overwhelmingly white ) attendees had no problem heaping scorn upon journalists : The spirit helping carry Donald Trump to the White House in November of 2016 was unmistakably propelled by white people across the nation understanding their nation was fading away , and this rally in Richmond carried the same energy : overwhelmingly white men , many brandishing AR-15 semi-automatic rifles , converging on Richmond to stand up to tyranny .
Many black-pilled individuals entirely sour on President Trump will be dismissive of this event , but this mindset @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all reject .
Trump ’ s entire presidency has , regrettably , existed under the shadow of Charlottesville .
With this massive success in Richmond , primarily white gun owners will return to their homes energized to get involved locally and hold their elected leaders accountable .
Networks have been formed of concerned citizens who will now share stories of leftists bent on using demographic change to continue and remake America by chipping away at the Bill of Rights .
Three cheers to all those who traveled to Richmond and stood up for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when those members of the Dissident Right can barely find a venue to hold a speech , this was a reminder of a cavalry existing in not just Virginia , but all across the nation ready to unite and defend our rights .

Ten years earlier by Peter Brimelow: The Tea Party, Tancredo, And The Implicit White Community
It turns out I was wrong to warn people to stay away from today’s rally, but in the political climate dissidents have been forced to live under since before Donald Trump even took the Oath of Office on January 20, 2017, only accelerating with the state-inspired disaster in Charlottesville, one can’t be too careful.
The January 20, 2020 Rally for the 2nd Amendment by Virginia patriots was a resounding—no, that’s not strong enough—it was an invigorating success. It was a monumental day that only the bitterest of black-pillers incapable of understanding how the political winds are shifting will fail to celebrate.
Tens of thousands of patriots from across the Commonwealth of Virginia (and for that matter, from across the nation) came to Richmond, Virginia to remind Gov. Ralph Northam and the Democrat-controlled General Assembly they have a duty to protect the 2nd Amendment rights of Virginians.
If they fail to, those overwhelmingly white males rallying in Richmond for gun rights (braving low 30-degree temperatures) were there to remind them of what the state motto is, and that the 2nd Amendment exists to protect more than just the right to hunt.
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with the fact the crowd was overwhelmingly white, for it is primarily white males who keep alive the spark of the nation the Founding Fathers, well, founded. [A Non-White Majority Will End Gun Rights, by Bradley Moore, American Renaissance, August 21, 2019]
This was an implicitly white march, a fact journalists were all too clear to make when they posted sneering Tweets attacking the whiteness of the event and worked to smear American patriots as “white supremacists.”
It was entirely peaceful and harmonious, shocking to liberals and journalists hoping for violence to forever discredit those advocates for the 2nd Amendment (strangely, the National Rifle Association (NRA)had virtually no presence at all and barely participated in this amazing grassroots event), but instead friendships were formed by white Virginians gathering to defend their rights.
It’s safe to say this was the most armed white people in Richmond since perhaps 1865, and not one person was injured.
Ethan Somers, the chief operations of the Guns Down Movement, put out a sneering, dismissive Tweet of the march as, “So... so white #Richmond2ARally.”
Tess Owens, a reporter with Vice News, Tweeted, “This thing is huge though. Definitely upwards of 5k. Feels like the women’s march except its white dudes and a LOT of guns. Guns everywhere.”
There is nothing shameful about tens of thousands of white people showing up in Richmond to march for their rights, nor anything boastful about a few non-whites marching with them to advocate for the 2nd Amendment.
Alex Jones, perhaps the most banned man in America, showed up in an armored car and his trademark bullhorn. He was greeted like a conquering hero, a reminder of the powerful role he played in the wave capsizing Conservatism Inc., from 2015 – 2017, ushering in the age of Trump.
His former colleague, Paul Joseph Watson, published a great piece noting how those (again, almost overwhelmingly white) attendees had no problem heaping scorn upon journalists:
An attendee of today’s pro-gun rally in Richmond, Virginia had a few choice words for MSNBC when he crashed their live broadcast to tell them they’re “lying pieces of shit.” An MSNBC reporter was doing a piece to camera about how President Trump was tweeting about the event when an old man appeared in the background to deliver a very clear message. “You’re all lying pieces of shit, fuck you!” the man exclaimed.
A man at the Richmond 2A rally interrupted the live feed of MSNBC and yelled "You pieces of s**t! F**k you!"
pic.twitter.com/EozyIyDHv4 — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 20, 2020
[“Lying Pieces of Shit!” Man at Virginia Gun Rally Interrupts Live MSNBC Broadcast: Attendees upset with media characterizing event as a white supremacist march, by Paul Joseph Watson, Summit News, January 20, 2020]
The spirit helping carry Donald Trump to the White House in November of 2016 was unmistakably propelled by white people across the nation understanding their nation was fading away, and this rally in Richmond carried the same energy: overwhelmingly white men, many brandishing AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, converging on Richmond to stand up to tyranny.
Many black-pilled individuals entirely sour on President Trump will be dismissive of this event, but this mindset is the type of defeatism we must all reject.
Trump’s entire presidency has, regrettably, existed under the shadow of Charlottesville.
With this massive success in Richmond, primarily white gun owners will return to their homes energized to get involved locally and hold their elected leaders accountable. Networks have been formed of concerned citizens who will now share stories of leftists bent on using demographic change to continue and remake America by chipping away at the Bill of Rights.
Three cheers to all those who traveled to Richmond and stood up for the 2nd Amendment. In an age when those members of the Dissident Right can barely find a venue to hold a speech, this was a reminder of a cavalry existing in not just Virginia, but all across the nation ready to unite and defend our rights.


vdare--2020-01-20--Guest-Worker Visas Don't Solve The Problem, They Cause It

Listeners to Friday 's Radio Derb heard me say this at 14m16s into the podcast : There 's a chicken-and-egg issue with the supply of tech workers .
If we bring in a great mass of foreigners to do software development , that zone of employment becomes foreignized .
That has two negative consequences : • As blogger Half Sigma observed in the classic text on this back in 2007 , foreignization on that scale reinforces the idea of IT work as a low-prestige occupation .
To quote Half Sigma : `` Americans see an industry full of brown people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ further lowers the industry 's prestige . ''
You may say that 's deplorable , and you may be right , but it 's how human nature works .
• As foreignization advances and early entrants rise to middle-management positions , they will preferentially hire their fellow-countrymen over Americans .
This effect is magnified by some large multiple when the foreignization is sourced mainly from just one or two countries , as it currently is .
Those two points mean that smart , ambitious young Americans do n't find a career in IT @ @ @ @ @ @ @ degree or the MBA — lines of work that have some prestige .
Foreignization is n't the solution to a shortage of willing American IT workers ; it 's the cause of it .

Listeners to Friday's Radio Derb heard me say this at 14m16s into the podcast:
There's a chicken-and-egg issue with the supply of tech workers. If we bring in a great mass of foreigners to do software development, that zone of employment becomes foreignized. That has two negative consequences:
As blogger Half Sigma observed in the classic text on this back in 2007, foreignization on that scale reinforces the idea of IT work as a low-prestige occupation. To quote Half Sigma: "Americans see an industry full of brown people speaking barely intelligible English, and this further lowers the industry's prestige." You may say that's deplorable, and you may be right, but it's how human nature works.
As foreignization advances and early entrants rise to middle-management positions, they will preferentially hire their fellow-countrymen over Americans. This effect is magnified by some large multiple when the foreignization is sourced mainly from just one or two countries, as it currently is.
Those two points mean that smart, ambitious young Americans don't find a career in IT appealing. They go for the law degree or the MBA — lines of work that have some prestige. Foreignization isn't the solution to a shortage of willing American IT workers; it's the cause of it.