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A philosopher’s elegantand compelling dissectionof the race problem.

reviewed by Jared Taylor

ichael Levin’s long-awaited book on race has finally arrived, every

bit as powerful and insightful as hisadmirers had hoped it would be. Why

Race Matters does exactly what thetitle promises—it removes all illusionsabout the insignificance of race, andexplains what racial differences meanfor a multi-racial society. It is a thor-ough, overwhelmingly convincingtreatment of America’s most seriousand least understood problem. Likethe work of Arthur Jensen and Phil-ippe Rushton, it destroys the egalitar-ian myth, but Prof. Levin parts com- pany with other academics in his will-ingness to tell us what biology meansfor policy. Facts imply conclusions,and this book draws them.

Basic Data

As Prof. Levin points out, a book like Why Race Matters should nothave to be written. The only sensibleconclusion to be drawn from simpleobservation is that races differ: “To put the matter bluntly, the question isnot why anyone would believe the

races are unequal in intelligence, butwhy anyone would believe themequal.” For centuries, people as differ-ent as Arabs and Englishmen have judged Africans to be unintelligent,lascivious, jolly, and keen on rhythm.Today, in whatever corner of theglobe one looks, blacks behave in cer-tain consistent ways.

Nevertheless, every important ra-cial policy in this country is based onthe assumption that race differences inability are known not to exist. Current beliefs are a remarkable victory of

Michael Levin.

dogma over not only the evidence of our senses but the findings of science.

Prof. Levin begins by presentingthe data. This has been done many

times by others, and the basics neednot be repeated here. Prof. Levin capa- bly and thoroughly presents twin stud-ies, adoption studies, test data, andheritability estimates, all while dis-mantling the desperate attempts of egalitarians to dismiss them.

There is now not much informedopposition (though a great deal of un-informed opposition) to the conclusion

that IQ tests test intelligence, that in-telligence is at least partly hereditary,and that the races differ in average IQ.The last-ditch battle of the egalitariansis to try to save the idea that race dif-ferences are caused by environment— primarily by malevolent white people, past and present.

To counter this view, Prof. Levingives a thorough account of recentwork on the strictly biological corre-lates of intelligence. When smart people think, their brains emit differentelectrophysiological signals fromthose of the less smart. Prof. Levinnotes that advances in the study of brain waves could probably establishquite precise racial differences, butfear appears to have halted the re-search. Brain size also has a robustcorrelation with intelligence, and in-telligent people’s brains metabolize

glucose relatively slowly.Egalitarians claim that childhood

nutrition accounts for this sort of thing, but the differences remain when nutri-tion is held constant (when only those blacks and whites who get the same dietare compared). Moreover, black chil-dren mature more rapidly than whitechildren, are more athletic, and go on todominate professional sports—not whatone would expect from the malnour-ished. Likewise, diet does not explainmetabolic or brain size differences infraternal twins reared in the same familyon the same food. If the anti-biologycamp is not to be silenced completely itmust argue that people unconsciouslysingle out children with large heads for favorable treatment or give white chil-dren subtle training in how to retard glu-cose oxidation.

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“The question is not

why anyone would believe

the races are unequal in

intelligence, but why

anyone would believe

them equal.”

American Renaissance - 1 - October 1997

Vol. 8, No. 10 October 1997

There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

– Thomas Jefferson

Why Race MattersMichael Levin, Why Race Matters: Race Differences and What They Mean

Praeger Publishers, 1997, 415 pp., $65.00.



other regardless of race but not thoseoutside the church. Biblical universal-ism is limited to the church. WhenMr. Masters writes that "the New Tes-tament opens the doors to universal-ism" he would, to be consistent, haveto claim the U.S. Constitution "opensthe door to Miranda and affirmativeaction."

As Mr. Craig writes, Christianity

and Western civilization are insepara- ble. Alert students of Western civiliza-tion should learn to separate wheat(biblical Christianity) from chaff (liberal pseudo-Christianity).

John Taylor, Royal Oak, Mich.

Sir – In his letter in the September issue, Cullen Atwood expresses dis-may that anyone should think that Ad-olph Hitler was good for the whiterace. Mr. Atwood knows little aboutHitler and his times. He seems to

think multiculturalism had no agenda prior to Hitler, or would not haveflourished had it not been for Hitler and the Second World War. Maybe inhis next letter he can explain to us the benefits of America's having shapedour times, and how Western civiliza-tion has been "improved" since 1945.

Joseph Kubicek, Cicero, Il.

Sir – One of your July-August OTempora items notes that a Texas prison refuses to let in AR, which it

describes as an "unsuitable publica-tion." As an inmate employed in the prison library, I see first-hand whatthe prison authorities think suitable.The library subscribes to Ebony, Jet,

Black Beat, Black Enterprise, His- panic, and Native Peoples, but evenconsiders American Spectator unac-ceptable, despite prisoner requests.The books on the shelves reflect thesame thinking. We have Frances CressWelsing's The Isis Papers [reviewedin AR, Sept. 1997], Shahrazad Ali's

Are You Still a Slave?, Eldridge

Cleaver's Soul On Ice, and books byJames Baldwin. Paved With Good In-tentions, which was donated to thelibrary, has been rejected. Likewise,cultural study groups are offered toeveryone except whites and Asians.Whites are told that they learnedenough about their culture and historyin public schools.

Matthew Harrington, St. Cloud,Minn.

Sir – In the latest AR I found theCon article about Christianity muchmore convincing than the Pro article.Mr. Masters is right. Christianity is areligion for losers. What he didn't say

is also true: Judaism is a religion for winners. If your race is to survive, itmust demand an eye for an eye, notturn the other cheek.

My wife is a very pure symbol of all that is best and most suicidal aboutthe white race. Although she claims tonot like Christians, whom she calls"Bible thumpers," she has a stronglymoralistic, for-the-common-gooddo-the-recycling have-no-more-than-two-children pay-your-taxes re-distribute-the-wealth kind of mental-ity. She is burdened with (an excess?)

of conscience, she feels that to think in racial terms is evil (otherwise shemight not have married a non-white – me), and has incredibly strong mater-nal instincts. She also refuses to think logically, which is not so much acharacteristic of the white race as it isof people who have strong maternalinstincts.

Name Withheld, New York City

Sir – Thanks for printing the debate on Christianity and the race. Vic-

tor Craig made a tremendous effort, but he didn't salvage the Cross for thisracial loyalist. He should be morecareful about using phrases like "thefaith of our European ancestors" – surely Asatru/Odinism deserves thattag more than an Asiatic cult importedfrom the Levant?

The Era of Christianity that we areexiting was an era of stronger, bolder,more courageous men (and women)


Letters from Readers

than we. That strength is what madetheir "Christendom" so magnificent.For a strong man, a toxin taken insmall doses may even be a tonic, butwhen that man becomes weak andflabby, the toxin shows its true natureand overwhelms his system.

Steven Meisenbach, San Francisco

Sir – While I applaud both Mr.Craig's and Mr. Masters' pleas to purge America's liberal churches of multiculturalism, I think a return to"old-time religion" is a mere aspirinfor our symptoms and a cure morelethal than the disease. TraditionalChristianity is a history of Churchsuppression of freedoms, while its"white supremacy" was not racial loy-alty but part of a generalized subjuga-

tion of all. Moreover, supremacistversions of "old-time religion" toywith catastrophe since they ignore thefact that tens of millions of non-whites would revolt violentlyagainst any attempt to "take back thecountry" (from them). Reasonablecompromises of limited and peace-able separation of the races seem amore workable path to white preser-vation. Analysis of this position and areview of the two AR articles areavailable on the Web at: http://www2.netcom.com/~owensva/art9.htm1.

Jim Owens, Arlington, Va.

Sir – While Mr. Masters justlycriticizes misguided altruism and uni-versalism, he gives them unmeriteddignity by calling them Christian.Real Christianity has always limitedits altruism. Christ died for my sinsand my brother's. We are therefore bound by His example to love each



cent of blacks are born at or above thewhite average in intelligence.

Mental Acrobatics

The modern debate about IQ has been quietly raging ever since Arthur Jensen relaunched it in 1969. Sincemany of the data are now unassail-able, debate centers on how theyshould be interpreted. Much of Prof.Levin’s book is therefore devoted totaking the stuffing out of the some-times comical arguments of peoplelike Steven Jay Gould and AndrewHacker. As the book shows, egalitari-ans are always shifting their ground,ignoring data, and creating mysterieswhere none exists.

Examples of the latter are the cur-rently fashionable views that race is a purely social artifact that should be junked, and that intelligence is unde-fined and unknowable. Prof. Levinnotes that acrobatics of this kind are

pure tendentiousness. Those whowould discard the idea of race in any

discussion of IQ find it essential for affirmative action. As for the pose thatintelligence is unknowable:

“People who make a point in argu-m en t o f no t unde r s t and i ng‘intelligence’ invariably do under-stand it in all other contexts. Theyknow an ‘intelligent’ child is one wholearns quickly, and that, of the two, Nobel laureates tend to be more‘intelligent’ than manual laborers. . . .People pretend not to understand‘intelligence,’ I suspect, to avoid em- barrassment over race.”

There is also much ignorant shriek-ing about the “bias” of IQ tests de-signed by white men, but it is an odd bias that permits Asians to outscorewhites. As Prof. Levin explains, a realexample of bias would be a test of hand-eye coordination that involvedonly the right hand. Lefties could prove the bias of such a test by dem-onstrating their ability with their lefthands. “If the races are equally intelli-

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It is nevertheless theoretically pos-sible that the most hotly-defendedegalitarian position is correct: that the black-white IQ gap persists only be-

cause the two populations are rearedin different environments. Accordingto this view, blacks and whites should be thought of as identical twins rearedapart, but with the black twin’s envi-ronment so dismal it robbed him of 15IQ points.

Such a view might be plausible if intelligence is easily molded, but it isnot. Prof. Levin points out that sinceit is generally accepted that 70 percentof the variation in IQ is controlled bygenes and only 30 percent by environ-ment, “it is almost but not quite irra-

tional to believe that the interracial IQdifference of +1 SD [standard devia-tion, or 15 points] can be completelyexplained by differences in black andwhite environments.” Blacks andwhites would have to live in fantastic-ally different worlds (Prof. Levin cal-culates them as 1.85 SD apart) to ac-count for this IQ difference, yet thedifference has been unchanged by in-tegration, huge transfers of wealth,and the very considerable reduction inthe gap between black and white envi-ronments.

There have, of course, been manyattempts to raise black IQ by“enriching” the environment. As Prof.Levin explains, the most ambitioussuch efforts, including Head Start, thePerry Preschool Program, and theMilwaukee Project all failed to pro-duce lasting gains in IQ. Recent in-genious testing methods for youngchildren have shown that the one SDdifference between blacks and whites

is present by age three. It is hard toimagine white society managing todamage black children permanentlyduring the very years when most blacks have virtually no contact with

whites.The tenacity with which egalitari-ans hold to social rather than biologi-cal explanations for group differences probably bespeaks a fear that biologyis immutable in its power to deter-mine our lives. And yet, if blacks areso vulnerable to environment thatthey have been collectively beaten outof 15 points of IQ, environment must be just as ruthless and deterministic as biology. The difference is that so longas there is a chance that white peopleare to blame for black failure, there is

joy in denouncing and persecuting“racists.” All the fun goes out of thegame if nature, not bigots, is to blame. Thus, as Prof. Levin explains,so long as there is even the flimsiest, post facto environmental explanationfor differences, there will be zealotsto defend it.

In the end, however, unless thedata are somehow suppressed, Prof.Levin expects the Human GenomeProject to identify intelligence-relatedgenes and to show that they are notdistributed with the same frequency in

all races. He expects the distributionsto match the social science data,which is indirect but relentlessly con-sistent. He tips his hat to W.E.B. DuBois who, he says, will stand vindi-cated by science. When Du Boisspoke of “the talented tenth”—theminority of blacks on whom racial progress depends—he was very closeto the truth. Approximately 12 per-

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gent,” he writes, “it should be possibleto find a task intuitively requiring in-telligence that blacks perform as wellas whites.” No such task has ever beenfound.

This is what leads otherwise rea-sonable people to insist that musicaland athletic abilities are forms of intel-ligence in which blacks may surpasswhites. As Prof. Levin points out, it

tortures the language to claim thatBabe Ruth was a genius, but egalitari-ans must either take fantastic positionsor cease to be egalitarian.

Even scientists lose their bearingswhen it comes to race. It is now fash

Geniuses at work.

ionable to point out—correctly—thatthere is more genetic variation amongAfrican populations than in all other groups combined and then to sug-gest—stupidly or deceitfully—that

this means genetic racial differencesdo not matter. Prof. Levin patientlyexplains that there is vastly more ge-netic variation in dogs than in giraffes, but that does not prevent people fromnoticing that giraffes are taller thandogs. The egalitarian literature is fullof “science” of this kind, and one of this book’s great strengths is its relent-less pursuit and exposure of claimsthat may well be deliberately decep-tive.

Egalitarians may be best at deceiv-ing themselves, as Prof. Levin shows

in his neat analysis of the trendy viewthat blacks cannot be racists. When people say this, they are probablythinking of “racism” as the claim thatone’s race is superior to others. Insome dark recess of their minds, liber-als cannot imagine anyone really be-lieving that blacks are superior towhites, so blacks cannot be “racist.”Since this reasoning is taboo, they in-

stead claim that only members of “thedominant culture” or the group with“power” can be racist.

Morality

Prof. Levin is at his most originaland provocative when he sets asidewell-established data on intelligenceand takes up the even more controver-

sial question of morality. Other re-searchers have suggested that blacksdiffer from whites in ways other thanIQ, but have not followed this argu-ment very far.

For example, the widely used Min-nesota Multiphasic Personality Inven-tory (MMPI), which subdivides per-sonality into a number of categories,shows consistent differences in how blacks and whites evaluate them-selves. Blacks, for example, holdthemselves in higher regard thanwhites (or, in today’s jargon, have

“higher self-esteem”). They are con-sistently more likely to agree withstatements like:

I am an important person.I am entirely self-confident.If given the chance I could make a

good leader of people.I have often had to take orders

from someone who did not know asmuch as I did.

The common assumption that blacks are “taught to hate themselves”is wrong; blacks are quite pleased withthemselves. At the same time, they

consistently score higher than whiteson the MMPI scales for such things asHypomania, Psychopathy, Schizo- phrenia, and Masculinity, which are precisely the traits that distinguish in-carcerated criminals from the rest of us. They tend to agree, for example,with statements like:

Most people are honest chieflythrough fear of being caught.

Most people make friends becausefriends are likely to be useful to them.

Most people will use somewhatunfair means to gain profit or an ad-

vantage rather than lose it.It is not hard for me to ask helpfrom my friends even though I cannotreturn the favor.

Another finding is that blacks aremore impulsive or present-orientedthan whites. Given a choice between asmall candy bar today and a big onetomorrow, black children are morelikely than white children to want thesmall one today.

Finally, even within races, moralreasoning is closely associated withintelligence. Intelligence does notguarantee good behavior, but a certainlevel is necessary for self-knowledgeand the comprehension of moral dis-tinctions.

Prof. Levin does not flinch fromdrawing what may appear to be anunkind conclusion: Given the crime

rates, social irresponsibility, lack of foresight, impulsiveness, and generalself-centeredness of black behavior, blacks probably have a different inher-ent capacity and appreciation for mo-rality.

He proposes that this differencecan be explained by the environmentsin which blacks and whites (andAsians) evolved. In a warm climatewhere food can be gathered year-round, people do not need to develophabits of cooperation and planning inorder to get through the winter. In the

north, it took mutual trust and coop-eration for groups of men to bringdown large game, so reciprocal moral-ity evolved along with intelligence.

Climate and terrain could also haveinfluenced sexual behavior. Since Af-rican women could gather food for themselves and their children even if amate abandoned them, there was less pressure to insist that men supporttheir children. For the same reason,there was less evolutionary pressureon fathers to stick around. In thenorth, a man who abandoned his chil-

dren might well leave no descendantsto behave in like manner. And in fact,the family habits of Africans andtransplanted blacks are extremelyloose by white standards.

What we think of as moral behav-ior, including sexual morality, is nowknown to be heavily influenced bygenes. As Prof. Levin points out, thereis no biological reason to expect dif-ferent populations to have evolvedexactly the same distribution of moral-ity-influencing genes. Therefore it islikely that “the races have . . . evolveddivergent evaluations of cooperative-ness, aggression, rule-following, andconcern with the future.”

That blacks care less about othersand worry less about the future is sug-gested in virtually every area of be-havior. Crime is only the most obvi-ous example, nor is it the expressionof wretchedness and self-loathing thatexcuse-making whites pretend it to be.Prof. Levin notes that “the criminal




behavior of young black males justdoes not look like an expression of despair. In account after account,these individuals come across as fullof themselves and unrepentant.” Hemight have added that if blacks werereally reduced to hopelessness bywhite oppression, they would pre-sumably have high suicide rates,whereas in every age group blacks kill

themselves at only one half to onequarter the white rate.

The other prominent black devia-tion from white morality is reckless procreation, but other traits are just asstriking: unwillingness to do volunteer work, support charities, donate organs,volunteer as medical test subjects,keep quiet in theaters, recycle trash,save money, exercise, or keep housesin good repair. Black mothers aretwice as likely as white mothers tosmoke, drink, and take drugs during pregnancy, even when doctors tell

them not to. Blacks between ages 15and 24 are ten times as likely to havefatal gun accidents as whites of thesame age even when gun availabilityis controlled for. By white standards, black behavior is impulsive, shiftless,and inconsiderate.

People respond better to normstheir ancestors evolved than to normsimposed on them by strangers. Thismay explain why black children getinto trouble when held to standards of classroom decorum not “natural” toAfrican societies. It may also explaincurrent calls for “respecting the black learning style” or for Afrocentric cur-ricula, but it is hardly fair of blacks toinsist that the rules be changed to suitthem after pushing their way unbiddeninto white institutions.

The personality differences Prof.Levin emphasizes explain why stan-dardized tests “overpredict” black per-formance. Black students do not getgrades as good as their SAT scoressuggest they should, and even whenIQ is held constant blacks are morelikely than whites to be criminals.Why? It is likely that impulsiveness, alack of concern for the future, and alower regard for moral norms keeps blacks from performing at the levelsIQ alone would predict.

Prof. Levin nevertheless warnswhites against the mistake of thinkingany human standard is absolute.Blacks can find whites moralistic, re- pressed, and incomprehensible: “A

degree of helpfulness consideredobligatory by hunters is consideredfoolish by gatherers, whereas huntersmight regard gatherers as selfish. Eachmay think ‘something is wrong’with—and dislike—the other.” Hegoes on to say that for people whohave evolved under different circum-stances “a propensity to violate whitenorms need not be disordered or dys-functional.” Such differences are in-herently no more value-laden than thefact that owls live in trees and moleslive in holes. Blacks are simply differ-ent from whites and it may be foolishto expect them to behave like whites.

Of course, in a society built towhite standards, it is difficult to re-frain from ranking groups invidiously

according to intelligence and morality.Prof. Levin argues that whites maytherefore have valid reasons for want-ing to avoid blacks. In this sensewhites may well think whites (andAsians) “better” than blacks. Is thisshocking? “The ranking of individualsand groups goes uncontested in nonra-cial contexts,” he notes, and adds that“few egalitarians would have the ef-frontery to deny that the average min-ister has more qualities he admiresthan the average murderer.”

At the same time, low intelligenceand low self-control may mean blacksare simply less able to govern them-selves. In Prof. Levin’s view, “a per-son of limited mental ability, notgiven to worrying about the quality of his desires or the likely consequencesof following them, is relatively lessfree. So are people who follow an im- pulse as soon as it enters their heads.”

This suggests that “the white advan-tage in intelligence and self-restraintimplies that, on average, whites aremore autonomous and responsible for their actions than are blacks . . . .” andthat blacks may be “less capable of scrutinizing the self and its choices.”

Curiously, many liberals uninten-tionally speak of blacks in much thesame way. They describe deviance asthe understandable and even inevitable

consequence of “oppression,” thusimplicitly accepting black helpless-ness. The literature on race is filledwith the hunt for “root causes,” whichis another name for excuses. And yetif the environment excuses blacks whydoes it not excuse the whites who aresaid to oppress them? That liberalsnever speak sympathetically of the“root causes” of racism suggests theythink whites are more autonomous andresponsible than blacks.

Affirmative Action

Affirmative action is a somewhatless controversial subject but Prof.Levin tackles it with characteristicthoroughness and none of the mum- bled apologies common even among“conservatives.” He notes that justifi-cations for preference keep shifting:

“As the compensation argumenthas tottered—mainly with growingawareness that the beneficiaries of affirmative action have never beendiscriminated against, and that itswhite victims have never discrimi-nated—there has been a migration tonew grounds, few of which wereheard of in 1965.” Nonsense aboutrole models, self-esteem, fightingstereotypes, diversity, etc. is nowspouted by “people who have forgot-ten, or never knew, why they supported racial preferences in the first place.”

Prof. Levin explains that the onlyvalid excuse for preferences is compensation for past wrongs, but far from deserving compensation, Ameri-can blacks have benefited enormouslyfrom life in a white-dominated soci-ety. Since black limitations are over-whelmingly likely to be inherent,whites have no obligation to help themovercome them. If anything, whitesdeserve compensation for the continu-ing violence and larceny they suffer atthe hands of blacks.

Prof. Levin also points out the con-

tradictions in affirmative action think-ing when preferences are justified on probabalistic grounds: Even if it can-not be proven than any given black has suffered from white wickedness or that any given white has benefitedfrom it, the chances are high enoughto justify rewarding the one and pun-ishing the other. However, preferenceadvocates refuse to consider any


“People have forgotten,

or never knew, why they

supported racialpreferences in the first

place.”



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probabalistic procedures that mightinconvenience blacks. Blacks arevastly more violent than whites butliberals would gasp at the idea of mak-ing it more difficult for blacks thanwhites to own guns. Preventing vio-lence is a far more legitimate role of gove r nm en t t han p r om ot i ng“diversity,” so why is probabalisticreasoning unwarranted in crime con-trol?

Affirmative action also violates theliberals’ cherished notion that“separate is inherently unequal.” If separate employment or promotionstandards are valid for blacks, why notseparate schools—which would pre-sumably be designed to meet their special needs? Incoherence on ques-tions of this kind is mere cover for theconviction that the state may never allow race to be used against blacks but can require that it be used against

whites.Affirmative action is, of course, a policy that Prof. Levin would abolishtoday. While he is at it, he would le-galize all private forms of discrimina-tion. On libertarian grounds, peopleshould be free to choose their associ-ates or neighbors even for irrationalreasons, and on empirical grounds it is

often rational for whites to avoid blacks.

Prof. Levin would also abolishwelfare. He argues that a social safetynet may be a permissible luxury in asociety of whites who will not abuse it but is, for blacks, too great a tempta-tion to indolence. Likewise, the mini-mum wage is an unnecessary obstacleto blacks (and others) whose labor issimply not worth what governmentinsists it should be.

Although blacks may be less ablethan whites to control behavior it doesnot mean wrongdoing should go un- punished, but that different punish-ments may be appropriate for differentraces. For blacks it should perhaps beswifter and include corporal punish-ment, especially for men who treat a jail term as a badge of honor and a riteof passage. It might also be sensible totry some black juveniles as adults,

since blacks mature more rapidly thanwhites. Finally, since blacks have fre-quently shown themselves unable totranscend racial loyalty, they might beexcluded from juries in trials thatcould inflame racial passion.

Interestingly, Prof. Levin’s exhaus-tive study of racial differences leads to

policies strikingly similar to those of the pre-civil rights era AmericanSouth. It may be no coincidence thatthe latest scientific findings supportthe traditions of whites who lived, for generations, in the most intimate con-tact with blacks.

The only real objection to this ex-cellent book is what some readers willconsider its excessive thoroughness.As the author himself concedes, hesometimes appears to be “defendingthe obvious with complicated rejoin-ders.” He explains that “where race isconcerned, however, people seem capable of doubting what they elsewherefind self-evident, so argumentativeoverkill is difficult to avoid.”

The symbolic logic is confined tofootnotes, but some readers will stillfind the overkill heavy going, espe-cially when Prof. Levin veers into hisown field of philosophy. Nevertheless,

this is an invaluable volume, packedwith insight and information, and de-serves the close attention of anyonewith a serious interest in the Americanracial dilemma. ●

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Racial follies in the U.S.Army.

by SFC Steven M. Barry

ollowing the December 1995murder of two black Fayetteville, North Carolina drug dealers by skin-head thugs assigned to the 82nd Air- borne Division at Fort Bragg, the North Carolina chapter of the NAACPdemanded that it be allowed official“representation” on Fort Bragg, as ad-visors on equal opportunity and race“problems.” On 29 March 1996, Lieu-tenant General John Keane, com-manding general of Fort Bragg, appointed a staff judge advocate colonelas official liaison with the Fayettevilleand North Carolina chapters of the NAACP.

There is no other private, politicalorganization with whom the base hasofficial liaison. In fact, Army regula-

tions expressly prohibit such represen-

tations. So, in order for the NAACP tohave official liaison with Fort Bragg,general Keane would have needed anexception to policy; which could have

been granted only by Secretary of theArmy Togo West, who happens to be black.

When I heard about this I remarkedto several of my comrades that ap- pointment of an official liaison to the NAACP would make it the de factoequal opportunity Staatssicherheitsdi-enst (Stasi) on Fort Bragg. I predictedthat anybody who opposed minority

quotas or spoke out against so-called

equal opportunity on moral principlewould be branded a “racist,” or an“extremist,” and would be persecuted by the chain of command based on noevidence other than NAACP displeas-ure. My comrades thought I was over-reacting. Until recently.

On 29 July 1997 the FayettevilleObserver-Times (local fish wrap) pub-lished a letter I wrote to the editor contesting the view that blacks are“overrepresented” in prison. My objections were drawn from the Justice

Department’s Uniform Crime Reports (1994), which list average black crimerates at nine times those of whites. Inoted that blacks (like all criminals)commit crime on purpose, and that black “representation” in the prison population is nothing less than itshould be.

From the chain of command’s reac-tion, you’d have thought I had advo-cated sending blacks to Konzentra-

Equal Opportunity Commissars



tionlager . The local office of the NAACP immediately laid siege to theoffice of the commanding general of Special Operations Command, towhich I am assigned, demanding that I be punished, and that inquiries bemade forthwith into “racism” and“extremism” in the special forces. Si-multaneously, the NAACP barragedthe Special Operations Command’sEqual Opportunity (EO) Office withdemands that my next non-commissioned officer evaluation report contain an “X” in the “No” block of “Values/NCO Responsibilities” Number 7, which is “Supports EO/EEO.”

What does it mean for a non-commissioned officer to be officially branded as a non-supporter of “equalemployment opportunity”? It couldresult in my expulsion from the Spe-cial Forces, eliminate any chances of further promotion, be used as a pretextto make me undergo psychologicalevaluation, effectively end my mili-tary career, and result in a bar to re-enlistment. The NAACP Stasi knewexactly what it was doing.

On 31 July 1997—just two daysafter my letter was published—I wascalled to the First Sergeant’s officeand issued a counselling statement tothe effect that my letter to the editor violated Army policy prohibiting“stereotyping” minorities. I told myFirst Sergeant that I was so close toretirement that the only way I could be

hurt with this counselling statementwas if he rolled it up and poked me inthe eye with it. I signed it and wrote asmy “nonconcurr” statement: “I toldthe truth. I’m being punished for it.”

To his credit, my First Sergeant(who is black, but could “pass”) saidhe had no objections to what I wrote,that he knew it was based on fact, andthat because I was not criticizingArmy policy my letter was withinregulations governing soldiers ex- pressing their beliefs. Nonetheless, hewas compelled by the chain of com-

mand to “counsel” me for no other reason than to “appease the EO officeand the NAACP.”

After signing my counselling state-ment I called the EO office. I askedSergeant First Class Martin, EO repre-sentative, what the big deal was over my letter, and why the chain of com-mand was cringing and groveling atthe shrieking of the NAACP. I told

him my original letter referred to theJustice Department’s Uniform Crime

Reports, but that the “editor” had ex-cised that sentence from my publishedletter. (The swine who edits letters atthe Observer-Times is an expert at dis-cerning the key contextual sentence inan opposition letter, and removing it.)

There are rare moments when thosewho are engaged in the willful de-struction of America reveal their true“thought” processes. They do so whenthey believe they are in an unassail-able position of power. Thus did SFCMartin, EO commissar, respond to mystatement that everything in my letter to the editor was based on demonstra- ble facts: “I’m not concerned with thefacts—I’m only concerned with howthe NAACP feels about them.” SFCMartin, EO representative, is white.

On Friday, 01 August 1997, SFCKim Hudson, the (radical leftist black)EO representative from the Special

Forces Command, descended upon my

unit to administer an unscheduled EOClimate Survey. This is an exercisethat tests whether soldiers have swal-lowed the Army’s racial dogmas. Ap- parently, he and the rest of the EOcommissariat were concerned that Imight have poisoned the minds of mycomrades between the time of the lastEO group brainwash in March, andthe publication of my letter in July.

In the military, chain of commandis sacred. EO Climate Surveys are thecommander’s tool and may be admin-istered only at the commander’s re-

quest, if he thinks there may be an EO“problem” in his unit. SFC Hudson, atthe bidding of the NAACP, decidedon his own “authority” that I was asufficient threat to warrant bypassingthe chain of command to administer an EO Climate Survey.

When our commander, ColonelDavid McCracken, found out aboutSFC Hudson’s EO “initiative,” he jus-

tifiably took great exception. Accord-ing to one of his associates, COLMcCracken “. . . walked [rather thandrive] to Special Forces Command to blow off steam while he was trying tofigure out which EO rep to hang byhis balls.”

COL McCracken returned to our headquarters sullen and silent. Mindyou, he wasn’t sticking up for me. Hehas been fully “read in,” and is a vocalsupporter of minority parasitism andquotas. He was incensed at having been bypassed by the EO commissar-iat. A commander cannot tolerate un-authorized busybodies snoopingaround his unit, and COL McCrackenwas not just any old soldier with a beef. He is a line officer, unit com-mander, and big EO booster. That heshould be sent home cowed shouldgive readers an idea of how much power and influence the EO commis-sariat and their NAACP Stasi exercisein the Army. Chain of command is noobstacle to the commissariat. It wasn’tin the Soviet army either.

Promoting Minorities

Throughout my career, I havenever been shy about voicing objec-tions to the Army’s equal opportunity(EO) program. It is blatantly designedto promote blacks and other minoritiesin the Army to the detriment of whitesoldiers who merit promotion basedon their proven performance.

Twice a year we are compelled tofill out EO Climate Surveys. I alwaysmark “Strongly Disagree” to the state-ment: “I support the Army’s EqualOpportunity/Equal Employment Op- portunity program.” Because the restof the survey questions naturally as-sume that one does support EO/EEO, Istop at that point, leaving the other questions unanswered.

Don’t misunderstand. Merit ismerit, and soldiers (white or black)who merit promotion based on their proven performance deserve promo-

tion. However, that is not how theArmy’s promotion system works. TheArmy has minority promotion “goals.”It categorically denies these “goals”are quotas.

But in today’s politically correctArmy, which has become more a left-ist social experiment than a martialforce intended to defend America, it’sone thing to hold a principled belief


Anyone who doubts thechain of command’s

egalitarian fantasies orwho exposes the Army’s

equal opportunityprogram for the

anti-white fraud it is ispunished.



A sampling of recent sci-ence literature.

by Glayde Whitney

Move Beyond Hitler

James D. Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for his co-discovery of thestructure of DNA, has told the Ger-

man scientific community that thetime has come to “put Hitler behindus.” In the keynote speech to a con-gress on molecular medicine in Berlin,Dr. Watson criticized the Germans for their weak support of genome researchand attacked Germany’s restrictivelaws governing genetic research.

“Genetics per se can never be evil,”he said. “It is only when we use or misuse it that morality comes in”.[Koenig, R. (1997) “Watson urges‘Put Hitler behind us’ “, Science, Vol.276, (9 May 1997), p. 892]

The Germans seem to want to benefit from genomic research withoutadmitting that genes exist. In Germanythe National Socialists lost a war andegalitarian socialists have been in con-trol ever since. For the last 50 years,genetics, eugenics, and all aspects of racial science have been painted withthe tar brush of anti-Nazi hate propa-ganda.

Race Differences Are

Genetic TooOne of the last bastions of racial

egalitarianism among scientists is the“two realms” hypothesis. This theoryholds that although differences be-tween individuals of the same racemay be due to some mix of geneticand environmental factors, differencesin average performance between dif-

ferent races are entirely due to envi-ronment.

A common illustration of the tworealms hypothesis goes like this:Imagine two different flowerpots. Fillone pot with poor soil and for goodmeasure add a little plant poison. Fillthe second flower pot with rich soil.Call one pot

black urban (or rural) ghetto, callthe other potwhite suburbia.Into each pot sprinkle an identical mixof genetically variable flower seeds.

A diverse mixture of plants willgrow in each pot and will show a bellcurve distribution of individual char-acteristics, but the bell curve of thefirst pot will average substantially be-low the bell curve of the second pot.The two-realms hypothesis holds thatwithin each pot (the realm of individ-

ual differences) both genetic and envi-ronmental factors can contribute todiffering outcomes. However, be-tween the two pots (the realm of racedifferences) only environmental fac-tors contribute to differing outcomes.Furthermore, as long as the two potshave any environmental differences between them it can never be proven(and well-meaning, ethical scientistswill never theorize) that genetic fac-tors might contribute to average racedifferences.

Numerous scientists—perhaps

most noted are Arthur Jensen and J.Philippe Rushton—have suggestedthat real world data best fit the “one-realm hypothesis,” namely, that themixture of genetic and environmentalfactors that are proven to cause indi-vidual differences also most plausiblycause the average differences betweenthe races. To data and theory on theside of one realm we can now add a

newly developed, mathematically powerful approach from David Roweof the University of Arizona.

The new approach starts with alarge data set consisting of thousandsof relatives (full-sibs, half-sibs, etc.)from both races. It continues with

complex modelsfrom esoter icmathematics and

statistics, such asstructural equationmodeling and pathanalysis. Powerful

computer programs crunch the data,solving simultaneous equations andfinding numerical weights and vari-ables that produce models that best fitthe real world data. If the two-realmshypothesis is true, then identical or closely similar models will not fit bothindividual differences (within race)and average race differences. How-ever, if the one-realm theory is true,

the same mix of genetic and environ-mental factors that explain individualdifferences within race would alsoexplain the average race differences.Rowe and his student co-author Hobart H. Cleveland applied the approach to academic achievement testscores of blacks and whites.

Their paper has finally been pub-lished—after seven stringent peer re-views, rather than the two typicallyrequired for politically correct re-search findings.

The results were overwhelmingly

in the one-realm corner. As summa-rized by the authors, “the genetic andenvironmental influences involved in producing individual variation werethe same as those producing thegroup-mean differences. In this sam- ple, genes accounted for 66% to 74%of the observed group difference inverbal achievement and 36% of thedifference in mathematics achieve-


and quite another thing to state it pub-licly. Anyone who doubts the chain of command’s egalitarian fantasies or who exposes the Army’s equal oppor-tunity program for the anti-white fraudit is is punished lest he infect other white soldiers.

The Army’s EO program is held up by the Establishment as a “model for the nation.” I have dealt with theArmy’s EO commissariat for 24 years.If this is a model for the nation, civil-ians should be loading 75-round AK

drums in anticipation of the conse-quences. ●

Sergeant First Class Barry is assigned to 3d Special Forces Group(Airborne) at Fort Bragg.

Report From the Galtonian Front




ment.” [D. C. Rowe & H. H. Cleve-land (1996) “Academic achievementin blacks and whites: Are the develop-mental processes similar?” Intelli-gence, Vol. 23, pp. 205-228.]

A 2,200 Percent Difference

“Assault rates for males aged 15 to

24 years were 598 per 100,000 popu-lation for blacks vs 27 per 100,000 for whites,” reports a study of Californiahospitalizations for firearm injury. If we play the common epidemiologistgame of reporting results in terms of percent difference, this means Califor-nia blacks are 2,200 percent morelikely than whites to be hospitalizedfor injuries suffered in firearm as-saults.

The approximately seven- to ten-fold difference between black andwhite homicide rates has been widely

reported, but national statistics on fire-arm-related injuries are not collected.Since a lot of folks can’t shoot straightand because modern trauma medicineis so effective, it is “estimated that for each firearm fatality, 2 persons sustainnonfatal injuries that lead to hospitali-zation and 5 persons sustain injuriesthat require outpatient treatment.”

To get data on non-lethal gun inju-ries, the authors studied the 1991 Cali-fornia Hospital Discharge Abstract

Data Tapes, which list all dischargesfrom California hospitals. These in-cluded hospitalizations for all gunshotwounds, including assaults, accidents,attempted suicides, police shootings,and wounds of unknown causes. Theauthors found the usual sex and ageeffects for violence. For example, 90 percent of those discharged weremale, and 72 percent of the maleswere between 15 and 24 years of age.However, race trumped age in that the black rate for the oldest and least shot-at group (55 years and over) exceededthe rate for the most shot-at whitecategory (15 to 24 year-olds).

It should also be noted that thesedata cover only those who werewounded, not those who did thewounding. They therefore minimizerace differences in commission of vio-lence, since a much greater proportionof mixed-race incidents are black-on-

white rather than white-on-black.According to the study, 49 percentof those discharged were “other race,”mostly Hispanic, who made up an es-timated 35 percent of the state popula-tion. The 7 percent of the populationthat is black accounted for 32 percentof discharges, while the 57 percentwho are white (non-Hispanic) ac-counted for just 19 percent of dis-charges. An all-white Californiawould presumably see its firearms injury rate drop to a third while an all-

black California would see the rate goup 457 percent.

The authors used a variety of sources to estimate costs: “[T]he aver-age true cost per patient was $12,485and the ratio of charges to costs was3.8 (mean charge per patient,$48,612).” This 380 percent markup isusually passed on to the taxpayer. The present study is similar to others inindicating that the majority of patientswith bullet wounds are either on pub-lic programs or have no health insur-ance. The authors estimate that in1996 there were 72,000 firearm-related hospitalizations in the UnitedStates, which cost $993,024,000.

Needless to say, the correct infer-ence from this study is not that weneed to ban firearms. Other data indi-cate that the population group with thehighest firearm ownership (rural, edu-cated white males) is among the low-

est in firearm-related injuries. [Vassar,M. J., & K. W. Kizer (1996)“Hospitalizations for firearm-relatedinjuries: A population-based study of 9562 patients” The Journal of theAmerican Medical Association, Vol.275, No. 22 (June 12, 1996), pp. 1734-1739.]

Glayde Whitney is professor in psy-chology, psychobiology and neurosci-ence at Florida State University.

O Tempora, O Mores!

Doctoring the Primitives

Miami has a constant problem withquack doctors. People just hang out ashingle and start practicing. Someclaim to have been trained in Haiti or

Guatemala but many just claim to begifted. Miami is good for entrepreneu-rial medicine because many third-worlders don’t know the difference

between a doctor and a fraud. Re-cently, Elsa Palenzuela was arrestedfor doing dentistry in her house with-out a medical license or an instrumentsterilizer or radiation shielding for theX-ray machine or any means of dis- posing of infectious wastes. Shecooked instruments in a toaster oven before she hacked at patients, of whom she saw some 400 or 500 ayear. (Peggy Rogers, Police ShutDown Dental Practice Filled WithHazards, Miami Herald, July 23,1997, p. 1B.)

Doctoring the Books

Medicare fraud costs the country billions of dollars every year, with an

estimated 14 to 17 percent of Medi-care money going into the pockets of thieves. The heavily Hispanic southFlorida area, where approximately onefifth of the spending is fraudulent, hasthe highest concentration of bandits.The government hardly checks bills before paying up, so greedy medical people can make millions by over-charging, double charging, takingkickbacks, and billing for imaginaryservices and patients. One MiamiLakes agency collected $26 millionfor home visits it never made. Medicalagencies routinely charge the govern-ment as much as $10 or $12 for a one-dollar catheter. Medicare fraud is soeasy and profitable in south Floridathat organized crime is reported to be joining the fun. (Peggy Rogers, Medi-



care Fraud: 20% in S. Florida, MiamiHerald, June 28, 1997, p. 1B.)

. . . and the Earth is Flat

Decision No. B 4-0045/97 of theEuropean Parliament:

“The European Parliament takesthe view that the concept of race has

absolutely no scientific basis, neither genet ical ly nor anthropologi-cally.” (quoted in Nation und Europa(Coburg, Germany), June 1997, p. 38.)

Only a Matter of Time

In the 1978 Bakke case, the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that the Univer-sity of California at Davis had theright to consider race as one of its cri-teria for admission to medical school.Allen Bakke (and other whites) were

rejected so that less qualified blackscould become doctors. One of thesewas Patrick Chavis.

Dr. Chavis has since been laudedas one of the great success stories of racial preferences. Senator EdwardKennedy calls him “a perfect example” of a supposedly less qualifiednon-white going on to serve his peoplewith distinction. During the campaignin California over Proposition 209,which eliminated racial preferences,Dr. Chavis was repeatedly cited as oneof the wonders affirmative action has

wrought.In June, the Medical Board of Cali-

fornia suspended Dr. Chavis license,noting his “inability to perform someof the most basic duties required of a physician.” The board found himguilty of “gross negligence” in thecase of three patients, one of whomdied because of his incompetence. Hehas been sued at least 21 times for malpractice. He has failed to pay childsupport, and in March he declared bankruptcy in order to escape debtors.

Incompetence should be no sur-

prise. In most years, the blacks admit-ted to medical school have averageMedical College Aptitude Test scoreslower than the whites who are rejected. Eighty-eight percent of whitedoctors pass their medical board ex-ams but only 49 percent of blacks do.

What does Dr. Chavis say aboutthe medical board’s findings? “That’sracism, I don’t care what you say.

They wouldn’t do that to a whiteguy.” (Jeff Jacoby, A Case of MedicalSchool Affirmative Action that Back-fired, Boston Globe, Aug. 15, 1997.Scott Lindlaw, Doctor Was Once Af-firmative Action Success Story, NowIn Trouble, Associated Press, Sept. 2,1997.)

We’re All Americans Now

Mohammed Aidid was the Soma-lian gangster the U.S. lost three heli-copters and 18 men trying to catch in1993. Aidid’s men dragged one of theAmerican bodies through the streets of Mogadishu, where women and chil-dren beat and spat on it. Mr. Aididdied three years later in a gun battle,and his son, Hussein Aidid, wasnamed leader of the clan.

As it happens, the younger Aidid isa U.S. citizen. When Somalia fellapart, his war lord father sent him toAmerica, where he studied engineer-ing at Cal State Long Beach. He also joined the Marine Corps and foughtIraqis in Desert Storm. He has a So-mali wife whom he met in Californiaand who still lives there. The self- proclaimed president of the essentiallynon-existent country of Somalia is of the same nationality as George Wash-ington and Thomas Jefferson. (BobReiss, ‘I am a Product of the U.S.’Washington Post, Parade Magazine,

Aug. 31, 1997 p. 16.)

Celebrating Dispossession

The headline and sub-headline of the cover story of the travel section of the Sunday Washington Post for

August 17 was: “Forget the Alamo!Today’s San Antonio has little to dowith that symbol of doomed Angloimperialism. It’s a thriving capital of Hispanic culture, and a magnet for mutilcultural tourism.”

The sub-headline of a June 12 Chi-cago Tribune story about Pauline

Hanson’s One Nation Party reads: “Anew, anti-immigrant party appeals tosome Australians who still harbor no-tions of remaining a Caucasian soci-ety.”

Headline of a June 3, 1997 Chris-tian Science Monitor article aboutnon-whites moving into Utah:“Adding Spice in a State the MeltingPot Missed.”

Rev. Butt Naked

One of the more colorful figures inthe Liberian civil war was “GeneralButt Naked,” who used to lead hismen into combat dressed only in jack boots (see AR, Jan. 1997, p. 8). Hehas since resumed his birth name of Joshua Milton Blahyi and become anevangelical minister, roaming thestreets of Monrovia with a micro- phone, preaching peace and recon-

ciliation.The 25-year-old now explains thatwhen he was eleven he joined a sa-tanic society that required regular hu-man sacrifice and battlefield nudity toensure protection against the enemy.Mr. Blahyi explains how he got freshhuman blood to ward off bullets:

“Sometimes I would enter under the water where children were play-ing. I would dive under the water,grab one, carry him under and break his neck. Sometimes I’d cause accidents.Sometimes I’d just slaughter them.”

What accounts for Mr. Blahyi’schange of profession? He was on thefront lines, in his usual attire, whenGod appeared to him and told him hewas a slave of Satan and not the herohe took himself to be. (Tina Susman,Gen. Butt Naked Now Bares Only HisSoul, Washington Times, NationalWeekly Edition, Aug. 17, 1997, p. 22.)

Mixed Up Mississippians

Mission Mississippi is an organiza-tion of Christian businessmen that is

urging the people of Jackson, Missis-sippi to fight racism. As one of itsgood works, it has persuaded a number of restaurants in the area to offer discounted meals to mixed-race couples. Mission Mississippi also spon-sors rallies and picnics that encourageracial mixing. (Charlotte Graham,Black, White Couples Dining Together Offered Discount, Clarion-ledger (Jackson, Miss.) June 21, 1997, p. 13.)




A Forgiving Flock

Henry Lyons, head of the largest black church denomination, had a brush with scandal but the 8.5 million-member National Baptist Conventionseems to have forgiven him. Rev. Ly-ons’ troubles began in July. His wifetold police that while the reverend was

off in Nigeria she discovered the deedof a $700,000 house he had bought inBoca Ciega Bay, Florida. Listed onthe deed as co-owner was Bernice Ed-wards, a 40-year-old convicted em- bezzler whom Rev. Lyons had hired towork for the church. Mrs. Lyons vis-ited what she thought was a love nest,found some of her husband’s suits inthe closet, and tried to set the place onfire. She then drove her Mercedes intoa palm tree.

Later, Rev. Lyons denied having anaffair, and offered esoteric explana-

tions for co-owning a mansion withhis employee. Mrs. Lyons now denieseverything she told the police, andclaims that the fire started when shedropped a match. Curiously, the firestarted in several different places andMrs. Lyons did not call the fire depart-ment. It has also come to light thatRev. Lyons bought a $27,000 Lexusfor a lady who is a former church employee.

Rev. Lyons does not care for the publicity, nor for questions as to howhe can afford fancy homes and a col-lection of cars that includes three Mer-cedes and a Rolls-Royce. “What areyou trying to imply?” he asked report-ers. “That blacks in this country can’t be successful?” He has vowed to takehis story to the black press. “They un-derstand the truth,” explains an advi-sor.

At the end of August, the denomi-nation held a convention in Denver.The 200-member board of directorsvoted without dissent to drop “thewhole matter.” It found no misappro-

priation of funds, nor did it quiz the preacher about what he and Miss Ed-wards got up to in that $700,000house. The denomination seems tohave chalked the whole thing up toracism. As Rev. Lyons told God in anemotional prayer during the conven-tion, “Don’t let white America tell ushow to do Your will.” (Trials andTribulations, Newsweek, July 21,1997, p. 35. Black Baptist Group

Drops Probe of Embattled Leader,Washington Post, Sept. 2, 1997, p. A2.)

From the French magazine, Rivarol.

Chicago Schools

One quarter of Chicago’s public

school eighth graders were held back this year and will not be entering highschool. This is the second year the cityhas started using a standardized testthat must be passed in order to gradu-ate from junior high school. The pass-ing grade for eighth graders is thelevel of achievement that should bereached by someone who has com- pleted the sixth grade. Last year, thecity eased the pain for non-performingeighth graders by letting them take part in graduation ceremonies, butthey got an empty envelope rather

than a diploma. This year they weren’tallowed to take part in the ceremonyat all.

Pass rates by race have not beenreleased, but different figures at differ-ent schools tell the story. At ten inner-city schools more than two-thirds of the students failed to make the grade,and at Mount Vernon School 98 per-cent failed. By contrast, the test hasnot been much of a problem in thesuburbs. In Schaumberg Township,for example, every one of 1,688 eighthgraders passed the test. In Cicero, onlyeight of 1,000 students failed.

An objective evaluation can be ashock for black students who do notrealize how diluted their course work is. Sandra Jennings-Smith was aneighth-grader who got straight As in“honors” courses but still could notscore at the sixth-grade level.(Rosalind Rossi, 8th-graders HeldBack, Chicago Sun-Times, June 4,

1997, p. 1. John Carpenter, SuburbsMaking the Grade, Chicago Sun-Times, June 4, 1997, p. 2.)

Moving on to the ninth grade is notnecessarily a reward. The city has an-nounced that seven high schools— every one of them 95 percent or more black—are to be “reconstituted.” Onthe basis of test scores, attendance,

graduation rates, and other factors,every employee, from the janitor tothe principal, will be fired and mustreapply for his job. In effect, theschools are to be shut down in thehope that they will reopen under improved management. In fact, 80 per-cent of the current employees arelikely to get their jobs back. (RosalindRossi, Shakeup Planned at 7 Schools,Chicago Sun-Times, June 12, 1997, p.16.)

Meanwhile, a black 17-year-oldgirl who was attending the graduation

ceremony at Bremen Township HighSchool just south of Chicago ended upwith a criminal record rather than adiploma. Despite repeated requests for silence she kept yelling and whoopingas her friends graduated. She refusedto leave the auditorium and attacked police, who had to subdue her with pepper gas. They hauled her awayhandcuffed and screaming. “I was su- per mad,” she explained later. “Iwanted to graduate.” (Art Golab &Phillip O’Connor, Cops Arrest GirlWho Cheered at Graduation, Chicago

Sun-Times, June 5, 1997, p. 4.)

Dr. Cattell Attacked

Raymond Cattell, one of theworld’s great living psychologists, isthe author of many of the standard personality and intelligence tests inuse today. The American Psychologi-cal Association planned to honor himfor lifetime achievement but decidedto postpone the award because of alle-gations that Dr. Cattell is a “racist.”

Barry Mehler of Ferris State Uni-versity in Michigan, a hyperactive op- ponent of “racism,” led the charge,saying Dr. Cattell has “a lifetime com-mitment to fascist and eugenicscauses.” He added that “right-wingextremists” try to lend an air of scien-tific authority to their views by quot-ing Dr. Cattell. Perhaps he had AR inmind. We published an interview withDr. Cattell in the Oct. 1995 issue.




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The charge of fascism is, of course,absurd, but Dr. Cattell has been longinterested in eugenics. His 1978 book

Beyondism: A New Religion From Sci-ence, is a full exposition of his viewsand was reviewed in the Feb., March,and April 1991 issues of AR. TheAmerican Psychological Associationhas appointed a blue-ribbon panel of experts to review Dr. Cattell’s work

before making a final decision aboutthe award. (Philip Hilts, Award to Ac-cused Racist is Delayed, New York Times, Aug. 15, 1997, p. A24.)

Hoaxers Again

An interracial couple living inGeorgia, Freeman Berry and SandraBenson, have been arrested for insur-ance fraud in connection with a self-administered hate crime. In August,their home burned to the ground andthe couple complained of hate callsand spray-painted swastikas. Therewas wide, sympathetic coverage. MissBenson wept in the backyard of her burned-out house, telling reporters andinvestigators she was being punishedfor loving a black man. The FBI cameto solve the hate crime and discoveredthat the couple had burned down their own house. Expensive computer equipment they claimed had been de-stroyed in the fire was later found in arented storage locker. Nationwide In-surance rejected their $301,000 dam-age claim.

This is not the first time Miss Ben-son and Mr. Berry have played thisgame. They made off with $244,000from State Farm Insurance when their house in Goshen, N.Y. burned myste-riously. Miss Benson has also falselyclaimed she was injured in a car wreck, though she managed to bilk three different insurance companiesout of a total of $200,000 in the inci-dent. She also claimed she was blinded whena photocopier fell on her asshe was ap- plying for a job, but itturned out shewas “apply-ing” for a jobwith the com- pany that she and Mr. Berry run athome. She also has sued a doctor for “disabling” her by bungling an opera-

tion for breast reduction and fat re-moval. Mr. Berry has falsely claimedto have been injured falling down aflight of stairs. The two have been in-dicted on 23 counts of mail and insur-ance fraud. (Chelsea Carter, FBI

Probes Georgia Insurance Scam, As-sociated Press, Aug. 24, 1997.)

Our Fault, of Course

A liberal group reports that 50 per-cent of black men between the ages of 18 and 35 living in the District of Co-lumbia are either in jail, on parole, on probation, or have warrants out for their arrest. DC blacks are 36 timesmore likely to be in custody than DCwhites, whereas in the rest of thecountry blacks are only seven timesmore likely to be in jail. During the1980s, the district increased spendingon corrections at a rate almost seventimes faster than it did on higher edu-cation. In fiscal 1996, it spent $842million on criminal justice—$47 mil-lion more than on public education. Inthe nation as a whole, 80 percent of black men are reported to have spentat least one night behind bars, usually

before they turn 40. (Eric Lotke, Hob- bling a Generation, National Center onInstitutions and Alternatives, August,1997.)

The authors of the report bemoanthe misguided priorities of our racistsociety, but the figures they report willnot produce the socialist response theyare hoping for. Washington, DC, in-cluding its police force, is run by

blacks, not whites. Today, most whiteswho hear that 80 percent of black menhave been in jail by their 40th birthdaywill assume they deserved to be. Far from voting to raise taxes for midnight basketball and other silliness, they willquietly organize their lives so as tostay as far from blacks as possible.

The One-Slave Rule

The borough of Queens, NewYork, is named for Catherine of Bra-ganza, the 17th-century Portuguese princess who married Charles II of Britain. The Portuguese have decidedto commemorate this fact by payingfor most of the costs of a one-million-dollar, 35-foot bronze statue of thequeen, which is to be erected next year on the Queens side of the East River.Rev. Al Sharpton, candidate for mayor of New York, is now leading a bandof blacks who oppose the statue. Hesays Queen Catherine is “a racist symbol of slavery” because Britain andPortugal were involved in the slavetrade and because the queen’s familyreportedly owned slaves. (Merle Eng-lish, Group Protests Statue as Racist, Newsday (New York), Aug. 26,1997.)

Just Can’t Get Along

Rodney King, millionaire, is finallyin jail. He is serving a 90-day sentencefor trying to push his estranged wifeout of a moving car. In addition to hismost famous drunk-driving incident in1991, in which he was beaten but not

otherwise punished, he has also beencaught for soliciting prostitutes, tryingto run over a policeman with a car,and yet more drunk driving. This isthe first time since his nation-widenotoriety that he has actually gone to jail. Mr. King received $3.4 million indamages from the city of Los Angeleson account of the 1991 beating.(Rodney King in Jail for Spouse Abuse,Associated Press, Aug. 21, 1997.) ●


Christianity, Con-tinued . . .

he previous issue's debateabout Christianity continues onthe AR Web Page (http://www.amren.com). Edwin Clarke, au-thor of "The Roots of the White

Man" (AR Nov. & Dec. 1996),takes Victor Craig to task for claiming that Christianity andWestern Civilization are insepara- ble, and for recommending a re-turn to traditional forms of belief.Twentieth-century man, he argues,no longer has the prescientificmentality necessary for Biblicalfaith.

George McDaniel, editor of the AR Web Page, puts Christian-ity in historical context, showinghow, as it became European, it

adopted the forms and customs of preChristian paganism. In hisview, Christianity did not createthe West nor is it destroying theWest. It is a reflection of Westernman, and can be no more vigorousthan the people who practice it.

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