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

Vol. 11, No. 11 November 2000

The New Nationalist Music

American Renaissance

Adolescent rebellion or ra-cial commitment?

by Eric Owens

P opular music has had aheavy, leftist overlay sinceat least the 1950s. Pete

Seeger, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylanmade protest a central part of theirmessage, and performers who arenot as explicitly political continueto give popular music an unmis-takably lefty slant. Like Holly-wood, the recording industry hashad a deliberately corrosive effecton every sentiment and traditionhealthy nationalism requires. Thisis still true for most commerciallysuccessful performers but there isa growing musical subculture thatreflects something entirely differ-

ent: a resurgence of patriotism,national identity, and even racialconsciousness. The mainstream mediaand the music press have carefullyavoided publicizing this trend, but it isgrowing so quickly below ground thatit cannot help occasionally breaking thesurface.

What kind of music is this? Who arethe performers? Is this just adolescentrebellion or do white power bands re-flect real racial commitment? Mostpeople have heard about skinheads butvery few know about Apocalyptic Folk,

NR, or Black Metal music. I have beenpart of this movement myself–first as afan, later as an active performer–andbelieve I can report with some author-ity on a phenomenon nonparticipants arenot likely to understand.

The skinhead movement began inEngland in the late 1960s when youngpeople emerging from the Mod (shortfor Modern) youth culture followed thelead of rock groups such as The Who ,and wore Mod clothing draped in the

Union Jack. Skinheads took most of theMod style–Doctor Marten boots, shorthair cuts, patriotism, a penchant forscooters, loud music, and violence–andcarried it even further.

Throughout the late 1960s and early1970s the skinheads were, for the mostpart, non-ideological toughs, known forfootball hooliganism (rioting at soccergames) and Paki-bashing (beating upPakistani or Indian immigrants). Amongthe first skinhead bands were Slade and

Dexy’s Midnight Runners, the latter to

become known for their international hit“C’mon Eileen.”

By the mid- to late 1970s the skin-heads were beginning to become politi-cized, and were welcomed by the YoungNational Front, the official youth wingof the National Front, which started en-thusiastically promoting skinhead mu-

sic. By the 1980s the term skinhead wasfirmly associated with nationalist groupslike the National Front and the BritishNational Party. There is still some asso-ciation between skinheads and the Brit-

ish National Party, but the declineof the once-powerful NationalFront was due, at least in part, to afalling out with the musicians, whohad been some of the party’s bestyouth recruiters.

It was during this period of po-litical activism that a new skinhead-specific music movement took shape. This movement was calledOi! which was the Cockney wordfor “Hey!” and was a kind of whiteworking-class battle cry for musi-cally-oriented skinheads. It was bymeans of this music that skinheadpolitics went international. Thus,through the 1980s and 1990s, themovement was no longer associ-

ated specifically with England, butwith disaffected white youth world-wide. By the 1990s, Oi! had largelyfaded in favor of even more raciallycharged music styles such as RAC(Rock Against Communism/Capitalism)and Hate Core (the latter being mostlyan American phenomenon.) The mostpopular skinhead bands today areSkrewdriver , (England) Brutal Attack ,(England) and Bound for Glory (USA).

Another less well known but highlyinfluential development of the early1980s National Front-era of British-

turned-pan-European music is what iscalled Apocalyptic Folk. This move-ment draws less aggressive and oftenmore intellectual audiences, and grewup around a little-known London-basedpunk band called Crisis . Tony Wake-ford, who had left Crisis to form a Na-tional Front band called Above the Ru-ins , rejoined Crisis bandmate DouglasPearce in 1981. The group changed itsname to Death in June , began to dabble

A growing musical sub-culture that reflectspatriotism, nationalidentity, and even

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in openly Nazi imagery, and started amovement.

Death in June began recording songs

about the catastrophic effects of the Sec-ond World War on Europe and the de-cline of Western Civilization. Songs like“Death of the West” and “We DriveEast” lamented the devastating conflictbetween Russia and Germany that endedthe war, and the lack of honor, discipline,and high standards in modern Europeaninstitutions. It is highly reflective mu-sic, mixing modern and medieval folk with more modern electronic sounds.

Besides Death in June , the biggestbands in this genre are Sol Invictus(Latin for Unconquerable Sun, a name

for the Persian God Mithras revered byRoman soldiers), and Strength Through

Joy (Ireland). Death in June andStrength Through Joy recently drew acrowd of 600 at the historic El Rey The-ater in Los Angeles, to the dismay of the media and despite leftist threats.

A more recent form of music hassprung up around the French NationalFront . It is called NR music (short for

Nationale révolutionaire ). While itsroots are in the Italian right’s Alterna-tive Music from the 1970s, it has reallybegun anew in France with the help of National Front radio programs such as“Radio Courtoisie.” These bands avoidovertly racial themes, preferring to con-centrate on the French Nationaliststruggle. This music, also known as

Rock identitaire (Identity Rock) oftenhas a more pop-rock sound. Thesegroups often work French medievalsongs into their sets, a practice commonin National Romantic movements theworld over. The leading bands of this

type are Ile de France , Vae Victus , and In Memoriam .

Yet another genre that has surfacedmore recently is Black Metal. As its

name suggests, it evolved from HeavyMetal. This movement didn’t really takeoff until the 1990s, and has just begunto go global, but is now one of the fast-est growing underground music move-ments. From the beginning, Black Metalwas a backlash against mainstream mu-sic. It sneered at the mainstream musicindustry’s watered down, effeminaterock musicians, and its performers triedto put a violent manliness and aggres-sion back into rock music.

When Black Metal began in Norwayit was openly Satanic, but has matured

over the past several years. It is no longerso concerned with shock value, and hasdeveloped an ideology that has taken ahard turn to the right. Beginning withthe bands Burzum (its name is a made-up word from the writings of J.R.R.Tolkein and signifies eternal darkness)and Dark Throne , the movement hastraded in much of its alarming Satanismfor aggressive nationalism, racial con-sciousness, and a celebration of Norseculture.

Like the Apocalyptic Folk bands, itis now quite common for Black Metalbands to include traditional folk songson their albums. The cover art on theirCDs is of traditional statues, artifacts,and nature scenes from the native coun-tryside. Varg Vikarness, lead singer of

Burzum has been chided by the musicpress for his unabashed racial state-ments, and violent nationalistic rheto-ric.

Aside from ideology, an importantdevelopment in this music has been its

turn towards a medieval folk sound. Oneleading band, Ulver, known for fast,aggressive guitar and unearthly shriek-ing vocals, recently released a com-pletely acoustic CD with medieval cho-rus, flutes, and classical guitar, in anamazing show of virtuosity that rivalsany classical CD.

Storm , a group that broke away from Dark Throne , describes itself in its pre-mier CD as National Romantic Music.This CD celebrates the glory of Norwayand of Norse culture, including proudchants of “Hail Norway!” in its ownbrand of neo-traditional, folk-influ-enced, heavy-metal music. Half thesongs are Norwegian folk tunes, playedelectrically and aggressively. This hasbeen a very influential CD, with newbands such as Sweden’s Vintersorg imi-tating this medieval-operatic heavy-metal style. The leading racial Black

Metal bands are Graveland , Veles , andGontyna Kry .While MTV would lead us to believe

that young people want nothing but self-indulgence, tens of thousands of aggres-

sively patriotic and racially consciousCDs are sold every year on independentrecord labels–without any mainstreampublicity. Some of these sentiments haveoccasionally appeared above-ground.

Until just a few years ago, the En-glishman, known only by his perform-ing name “Morissey” and former frontman of The Smiths , was topping chartsall over the world. That was until the1992 release of possibly his best-pro-duced, most well thought out and musi-cally advanced CD to date, “Your Arse-nal.” On this CD Morissey voiced con-cern for the future of his country withsongs like “National Front Disco,” andthere are clearly nationalist sentimentsthroughout the album. The same Brit-ish press that used to fawn over him




quickly dubbed him a fascist and con-signed him to worldwide obscurity.

Some may remember the Swedishgroup Ace of Base whose CD “TheSign,” released in 1994, was the num-ber-one selling album in the world. Atthe height of its popularity, with mul-tiple hits to its credit, it came out that

founding member Ulf Eckberg had ahistory as a racial activist in Swe-den. While Madonna, and evennonentities like Cher continue tochurn out uninspiring CDs for de-cades and get endless air play, a ra-cially-conscious past guaranteesany musician, no matter how tal-ented, a one-CD career.

The rock group Ultima Thulefrom Sweden recently had a num-ber-one hit on the Swedish charts,by electrifying and performing anOi! version of the Swedish national

anthem, “Du Gamla Du Frig.” Thischart-topper got Swedish youthtapping their toes to their nationalanthem and brought the Swedishflag and the Thor’s Hammer pen-dant back into vogue until a smear-by-association campaign ended ashort-lived but highly successful musi-cal career. Critics discovered that UltimaThule used to be on a white power recordlabel from Germany called Rock-O-Rama, and had appeared on a whitepower compilation called “No Surren-der!” along with British National Front

bands such as Skrewdriver , Brutal At-tack , and Above the Ruins . On their ownalbums Ultima Thule had never men-tioned non-whites or used racial slurs.

The German group Böhse Onkelz (theEvil Uncles) hit number two on the Ger-man charts, and suddenly disappearedfrom view just like Morissey, Ace of

Base , and Ultima Thule after the discov-ery of similar past associations. In theUnited States as well, Time Warnerdropped the heavy metal band Morbid

Angel shortly after the lead singer ex-pressed certain views publicly.

A couple of fairly mainstream Ameri-can heavy metal bands have narrowlyescaped the media blacklist, largely be-cause they’ve not quite reached super-star status. Pantera , possibly one of thebiggest and longest-running heavy metalbands in America got into trouble whensinger Phil Anselmo sported a T-shirtemblazoned with the three-prongedsymbol of the South African AfrikanerResistance Movement during an MTVinterview. Mr. Anselmo also went on a

couple of racial tirades from stage whileon tour, but with a lot of back peddlinghe was able to save his career.

A group called Type O-Negative , hasbeen made to answer a lot of questionsabout some extremely racially provoca-tive songs they recorded previously un-der the name Carnivore . Unlike most

bands, Type O-Negative offered no

apologies and still enjoys as much suc-cess as its talents merit.

Finally, the old standby, Ted Nugent,hardly a representative of any NewRight youth movement, was recentlythreatened by the League of UnitedLatin American Citizens for declaring

that anyone in America who doesn’tspeak English should leave. Mr. Nugentalso made no apologies.

Not so lucky was the well-knownheavy metal performer Glen Danzig. Heexpressed racial views publicly in maga-zine interviews, and even went so far asto record a song called “White DevilRise!,” which he later declined to releaseon CD. He was dropped from Ameri-can Records shortly afterwards.

Thugs or Thinkers?

So what do we have here: a bunch of drunken thugs out to shock their parentsor a thriving underground of racially-conscious young people making and lis-tening to their own brand of exploratorymusic? Both, really. Something peoplemust understand about these movementsis that they are meant to shock. Theyare rebellions and draw rebellious youngpeople. Many of their followers willnever straighten out their lives no mat-ter what kind of music they like. They

were corrupted by MTV, bad parents,and a miserable public school systemlong before our music reached them. Wecan’t expect more from the averageskinhead than we can from the averagewhite American of any kind.

The importance of these movementsis that they offer ideas to many middle-

class whites who may simply be pass-ing through a period of teenage re-bellion–ideas to which they mightnot otherwise be exposed. I myself was brought into racial conscious-ness through the skinhead move-ment and through music in particu-lar. When today’s teenagers go onto college or a career many willhold on to the ideas they picked upduring their rebellious youth. Justas the corrupt ideology of the drug-filled hippie and communist move-ments of the 1960s did not fade

away, but instead moved quietlyinto positions of power, one can al-ready distinguish the rise of an in-tellectual and successful youth elitein the racial movement in America.These are not people who wouldhave joined the Klan in the 1960s

or 1970s, and I believe they will be ableto give far better racial leadership thanthey ever received.

There are also benefits for the moremediocre fans who will never amountto much. They learn to take pride in theirrace, not to miscegenate, not to take

drugs (though there is much drinking of alcohol), and not to practice abortion.Outsiders have no idea how militantlythe overwhelming majority of skinheadsfollow these rules. So, while these mu-sic cults may not be Ph.D. trainingcamps, they are the one organized meanstoday of fostering racial consciousnessin young whites. For the worst amongthem, it also offers a life without drugs,and for those who will be more success-ful it lays the groundwork for a racialworldview that will guide them throughlife. These young people have a fierceand troubled appearance, but ideologi-cally they are much better off than theaverage teenager.

However unpleasant much of thismusic may sound to the older genera-tions, it reaches the MTV generation ina way that books do not. It is all verywell for their racially conscious eldersto write carefully-footnoted researchpapers about immigration or IQ, but theyhave been doing this for years with fewresults.




Even its most hostile detractors must

recognize the powerful appeal of thisnew music. It has become widespreaddespite the fact that in Europe andCanada it is illegal to express certainracial ideas, and you can get fines and

jail sentences for possession of theseCDs. In Germany, France, and manyother European countries, white powerCDs are treated as contraband, just likedrugs. Customs officials confiscatepackages with addresses from knownwhite power distributors or directed tosuspected European distributors. Policeroutinely raid the homes of young

people they think are selling these CDs.People caught with what is judged to bea commercial quantity get fines up tothe equivalent of $10,000 for the firstoffense, and may be jailed at the court’sdiscretion. Young people will not takerisks of this kind to distribute books byPhilippe Rushton or Arthur Jensen.

The older generation complains aboutthe biased media but the skinheads andother youth cults have succeeded wheretheir elders have failed: They have cre-ated their own media. With glossy colormagazines like Resistance and slicklypackaged, well produced recordings,they have completely cut the main-stream music industry out of the picture.So, while we complain about the stateof our media, and continue to givemoney to Time Warner they give a largeamount of their entertainment budget toa pro-white industry owned by pro-white organizations.

The entertainment industry is profit-able. Because the mainstream media willnot touch white racial consciousness, it

means that this importantsource of funds stays en-tirely within our move-ment. For whatever it’sworth, the Anti-Defama-tion League’s estimate of the annual revenues of Re-sistance Records is one mil-

lion dollars. And Resis-tance is just one of manymagazines and record la-bels around the world.

Today’s huge media cor-porations promote black performers who encouragedrug-taking, violent abuseof women, murder, and ha-tred of whites while theyvilify any white who daressing about love of countryand culture, or respect for

veterans, the elderly, women, family,

children, hard work, and racial heritage.The media and the music industry havesucceeded in turning morality on itshead. Racially-conscious music couldhelp set things straight again.

Eric Owens is a Los Angeles-based Celtic folk musician and poet.

White Nationalist Lyrics

The following lines from some of

the bands mentioned in this ar-ticle contrast sharply with the

sentiments expressed by rap groups andwidely promoted by the entertainmentindustry (see AR May, 2000, and July,2000).

God save queen and country,So once again, we can run free,And raise our flag! Hang it high,And with it will fly our English pride!“Take a Better Look,” Brutal Attack

It’s a time when our old people can-not walk the streets alone.

They fought for this nation. Is this allthey get back?

They risked their lives for Britain, andnow Britain belongs to aliens.

It’s about time that the British wentand took their Britain back!

“Voice of Britain,” Skrewdriver

400 men surrounding a cabin,In the land of the free. Tell me how

can this happen,

Murdering women and children in thename of humanity.

Who are the true masters of hate,A separatist family or a police state?Tell me, who would you brand the

public enemy?”“Judgment Day,” Bound for Glory

He went looking for Europe. He took love in his handWith eyes of sunlight, like burning

sand.He went to the west. He rode to the

east.He heard of life and honour, and

looked in the eyes of the beast.He stood in a city, in the gold house

of whores.He said I’m looking for Europe. Then

you’re looking for war!He sat in the throne of Arthur, and

held Boadicea’s sword,

Kissed the flags of the great, beneaththe towers so tall.He stood on the hillside, where the

eagles still fly.He said I’m looking for Europe. Then

be ready to cry.We walked to the forest, to the lair of

the wolf.He said I’m looking for Europe. I’ll

tell you the truth.Some find it in a flag, some in the

beat of a drum,Some with a book, and some with a

gun,

Some in a kiss, and some on themarch,

But if you’re looking for Europe,you’d best look in your heart.

“Looking for Europe,” Sol Invictus

Here we go again,the same old lies again,the empty words again,the pigs can fly again.From Wall Street to your heart,neon Hollywood lights the dark.Hear the bleating of the sheep,at the jokes of a media creep.

“Media,” Sol Invictus

The gods looked down and theysighed.

The gods looked down and wonderedwhy

That like the flowers, we bloom anddie,

That however strong our arms, we letour hands be tied.

Why we build great walls, but for oursins,

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We open up the gates and let theassassins in.

The gods looked down and theysighed.

The gods looked down and theycried

For the ruins that once stood tall,For we slaves that once ruled all.

“The Gods Looked Down,” Sol Invictus

Dresden burning in the nightCoventry is still alight.Above the blood, the pain, and fire,There rose a sigh. We’re ruled by

liars!She took me from the village

square,Through fields the color of her hair,Where arrows crossed point to the

sky,

Where fathers, brothers, and loverslie.

She stopped and turned to look at me,But only sorrow, no hate I see.She said to me Please, and all you

others,No more wars amongst brothers!”“Fields,” Death in June

They’re making the last film, they sayit’s the best,

And we all helped make it. It’s calledthe Death of the West.

The kids from Fame will all be there,free Coca-Cola for you,

and all the monkeys from the zoo.Will there be extras, too?

A star is rising in our northern sky,And on it we’re crucified.

A chain of gold is wrapped aroundthis world.

We’re ruled by those who lie.”“Death of the West,” Death in June

We will never hide from our obliga-tion.

We will lay down our lives for our

race and nation.The red, white and the blue is flyingoverhead.

With true undying loyalty to victorywe are lead.

“Red, White and Blue,” Brutal Attack

Your honor stands unbroken.Your swords point the way,We’ll meet you once again, on heroes

day.“Heroes Day,” Sol Invictus

Birth Rates: Who is Winning the Race?Nations are made in thematernity ward.

by Anthony Brown

The demographics of the future de-pend on the birth rates of today.Who is having children in Amer-

ica? In March the government releasedcomplete statistics on the 3,941,553

births registered in 1998. We also havepreliminary figures for 1999, but theyindicate little change since 1998.

Since 1980, the government has rec-ognized four races: white, black, Ameri-can Indian, and Asian/ Pacific Islander.In 1989, the government began distin-

guishing ethnicity: Hispanic and non-Hispanic, both of which “can be of anyrace.” The vast majority of Hispanics areclassified as “white,” so reports oftenprovide data for “non-Hispanic whites,”which include North Africans, MiddleEasterners, and (in most states) peoplefrom the Indian subcontinent. In the sta-tistics that follow, “white” includes allthese people in addition to Europeansbut does not include Hispanics.

To summarize the 1998 birth statis-tics: 1) non-whites are out-breedingwhites by a considerable margin, and 2)as a nation, we have an increasinglycareless attitude towards childbearing,as shown by unprecedented levels of il-legitimacy and teenage births.

Family Values?

In 1998, 1,293,567 births–nearly onein three–were to unmarried women. Thegraph on the left shows blacks had thehighest illegitimacy rate, an astonishing69.3 percent. The government reportalso tells us that 90.1 of every 1,000 un-married Hispanic women–nearly one inten–had a child. This was the lowest ratereported since 1990, but was still morethan three times the white rate. Sevenpercent of unmarried black women hadchildren.

Twenty-two percent of the womenwho gave birth in 1998 had not finishedhigh school and only 23 percent were

college graduates. Forty-nine percent of the 700,000 Hispanic women who gavebirth in 1998 hadn’t finished highschool, compared to 13 percent forwhites. The median educational level forall mothers was 12.9 years. The graphbelow shows the percentage of college-educated mothers in each race.

Five percent of all American teenag-ers gave birth in 1998. The first graphon the next page shows the white teen-

age birthrate was lowest, at 3.52 percent.Nearly one in ten Hispanic girls aged15-19 had babies in 1998.

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As of 1998, the total fertility rate–thenumber of children the average Ameri-can woman will have during her life–was 2.06. Because more boys than girlsare born, and because some number of children do not survive to reproductive

age, the total fertility rate must reach 2.1for a population to sustain its numbers.The US rate has been below “replace-ment level” since 1971, when it was2.27. Our population grows despite thisbecause of immigration.

The large graph in the center of thepage shows total fertility rates for dif-ferent American groups. For whites, the1998 level was 1.84, well below replace-ment level. The Asian rate is onlyslightly higher. Interestingly, Hispanicsof different origins have widely vary-ing total fertility rates, with the Cuban

rate even lower than the white rate.Changes in fertility rates have dra-matic consequences. In 1998, 150,000fewer white American babies came intothe world than in 1989. From 1990 to

1997 the white birth rate (definedas the percentage of women whogave birth) declined 9 percent,continuing a trend that dates back to the mid-1950s. In 1955, whiteshad 113.7 births per 1,000 fe-males aged 15-44, slightly higherthan the present Mexican-Ameri-can birth rate. Today, the birth

rates of Amerinds, Asians/ Pa-cific Islanders, and whites are allbelow replacement level. How-ever, in 1998 as well as in yearspast, the rate has been well abovereplacement for Hispanics andblacks. The graph below showsbirthrates for America’s threemain racial groups.

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lar, are paralleling a European trend; aswomen enter the work force, they waitlonger to have children, and have fewerchildren. Because non-whites start hav-ing children at a younger age than

whites, they have shorter generations,which is an added factor in populationdifferentials.

The Health of Infants

Premature birth and low birthweight (LBW) suggest the like-lihood of medical problems in in-fants. In 1998, 17.6 percent of black babies completed fewerthan 37 weeks of gestation, com-pared with 11.4 percent of His-panics and 10.2 percent of

whites. These figures do not takeinto account the fact that blackshave a slighter shorter gestationperiod that whites.

In 1998, 7.6 percent of all ba-bies were born weighing less than5.5 pounds, which is considereda dangerously low weight. The graph be-low shows LBW by race. The median

birth weight for “white” babies, includ-ing Hispanics, is 7 lb, 8 oz; for black

babies, it is 7 lb, 1 oz.Babies are more likely to have LBW

when their mothers smoke, and thegraph above shows that this is over-whelmingly a white problem. Twelvepercent of the babies of mothers whosmoke have low birth weight, as op-

posed to only 7.2 percent of babieswhose mothers do not smoke. White ba-bies have the lowest LBW rates despitethe large number of smokers smoke. If white mothers stopped smoking, the ra-cial differences would be even greater.

Of roughly four million births in1998, 2,361,462 babies were to whites,593,127 to blacks, and 734,661 to His-panics. For now, whites are having morechildren than the black and Hispanicpopulations combined. However, the 70percent of the population that is whiteis producing only 60 percent of the next0

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According to May, 2000, census es-timates–generally thought to be accu-rate–the white population (includingArabs, Middle-Easterners, etc.) is now71.4 percent, followed by blacks at 12.2percent, Hispanics at 11.7 percent,Asians at 4.1 percent, and Amerinds at0.6 percent. The median ages of these

racial groups tells an important story.For whites the median age is 38.4 years;

for Asians 32.3 years, blacks 30.5 years,Amerinds 28.4 years, and 26.6 years forHispanics. Since the white populationis relatively old and producing relativelyfew babies, it is aging rapidly.

Because of immigration and birthratedifferentials, the U.S. Census Bureauprojects that with middle-level immigra-

tion whites will be a minority in thiscountry by the year 2060, not even a

century after President Johnson openedthe doors to non-white immigration. Atthat time, in 1965, the country was closeto 90 percent white. Although this pro-

jection distinguishes whites from His-panics, it still includes Arabs, Middle-Easterners, Indians, Pakistanis, SriLankans, and other non-Europeans.

Anthony Brown lives in Washington, DC.

The Clamor for ReparationsA black woman explainswhy the push is on now.

by Elizabeth Wright

Several bills on reparations for sla-

very have been floating around theHouse of Representatives for at

least a decade. I have been receiving theliterature of various advocates for repa-rations for years, and at one time itseemed the movement would die underits own lack of steam.

However, lately, black elites havedecided to speed up action on this legis-lation. Why? Because it has finallydawned on them that they won’t haveWhitey to kick around for much longer.They have begun to listen to PresidentClinton’s gushing predictions abouthow the coloreds will dominate in just afew years. If the figures are right, thismeans Hispanics will be holding mostkey positions. It means that easily-ma-nipulated whites, who make it so clearthey will capitulate to any black demand,must be squeezed now.

Would any group other than fearfulwhites even consider dumping millionsof dollars on blacks because of somepast grievance? Will Hispanics have thepatience to listen to sob stories aboutslavery and Jim Crow? Black elites arebeginning to wonder about the colorcomposition of Congress in future years,and they’ve got to get all the goodiesthey can while the compliant white manis still in charge.

Many white nationalists are keenlyaware of what is going on. Is it any won-der they are full of rage, as they watchthe country of their ancestors beingraped over and over again? Is it anywonder they grow furious as they watchcompliant whites, who simply want tokeep the peace with blacks, give away

the store? Whites who vigorously pro-test outrageous capitulations to blacksand to other “aggrieved” groups aredenigrated and called, if not “racists,”then “white separatists”–as if either of these were not constitutional options.The general population is reminded

again and again of how “hateful” suchwhites are. Nobody asks these dissidentwhites for their advice on social or po-litical issues, so why should they qui-etly accept extortion, shakedowns andcon games?

Now, you may ask why an Americanblack cares about this issue in this way.

Well, there are quite a few of us out herewho never wanted to be ruled by thecreatures who usurped leadership fromthe decent blacks–blacks who had nodesire for forced integration, but justwanted fair treatment under the Consti-tution. Such blacks had no intention of undermining constitutional law andnever dreamed of trampling on the reli-gious or social sensibilities of whiteAmericans. Nobody asked me or mykind of black if we wanted to be ruledby the NAACP. This is why I understandthe fury of the white nationalists; I sharetheir rage.

I have ceased to be stunned by thetransformation of whites that has hap-pened over so short a period of time–

just 30-odd years, actually. It is hard tobelieve that any of today’s whites areactually descended from those fierce,tough men who traveled thousands of

miles into the unknown, saw a land theywanted, and took it. Then they went onto form for themselves and their prog-eny an amazing system in which thepeople, not monarchs, would be incharge. It took the ability to be meanand even cruel when necessary, becausethey were men and they understood howthe real world works.

Because today’s Western white manhas forgotten the basic rules of how theworld works, he is coming swiftly to hisdemise. The coloreds are soon going toremind him about those rules, but evenif the white man awakens momentarily,it will be too late to reverse the down-ward spiral that, through his weakness,he has set in motion. It’s a sad scene toobserve.

The media and academia are escalat-ing the negrification of American cul-ture and the feminization of its men,while teaching new generations to caremore about strangers in foreign landsthan for their own. Where can this pos-sibly lead? Black elites now see poweron the horizon that they never dreamedpossible, and they’re going to go for itall. The real culture war is just gettingunder way, and so many whites do noteven realize it. What I’d give for such asheltered existence!

Miss Wright is the editor of Issuesand Views . Subscription information isavailable at http://www.issues-views.com. This text has been adapted, withthe author’s permission, from a privateexchange with a white person sympa-thetic to black demands for reparations.

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‘Teaching’ police about

hate crimes.reviewed by James P. Lubinskas

R ecently, a few mainstream con-servatives have begun to won-der if there is a double standard

for hate crimes. Paul Weyrich and Ri-chard Poe, writing respectively in theWashington Times and on Frontpagemag.com, have noted the obvious: Themedia ignore black-on-white hatecrimes but give massive coverage towhite-on-black hate crimes. As Jared

Taylor wrote in “The Color of Death”in the September issue, the press has itsown reasons for this, but there is evi-dence the police are being trained to thesame double standard.

Responding to Hate Crimes is a 20-minute training video produced by theBureau of Justice Assistance, an agencywithin the Department of Justice. Twobooklets come with the video: a policeofficer “pocket guide” to the video andan instructor’s guide. These materialsare the official DOJ word on investigat-ing hate crimes, and police agencies

around the country have received morethan 14,000 sets. What are police beingtaught?

The video is narrated by JosephCarter, Vice Chairman of the Interna-tional Association of Chiefs of PoliceCivil Rights Committee and Chief of Police for Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.Chief Carter is black, which seems tobe his main qualification as a specialistin hate crimes. He introduces 17 shortdramatizations of hate crimes, in whichthugs do such things as harass Third-World immigrants, taunt Asian shop-keepers, burn black churches, and de-face synagogues. All the miscreants arewhites (usually with shaved heads andgiving ‘white power’ salutes), with theexception of two blacks who taunt anAsian shopkeeper. None of the victimsis white. The video says homosexualsand even the handicapped can be hatecrime targets but never mentions whitevictims.

Aside from these scenes, the video isessentially a review of basic police

work. It reminds officers to secure thescene, ensure safety, identify evidence,

and arrest perpetrators if there is enoughevidence. Chief Carter mentions theneed to get interpreters for non-Englishspeaking victims–perhaps a signal forpolice to look more closely at crimes

against non-white immigrants–but neversuggests there might have to be inter-preters for non-English speaking perpe-trators. The video urges officers to help

victims contact community supportgroups. Presumably, they send Hispan-ics to MALDEF or La Raza, blacks tothe NAACP, and homosexuals to localactivist groups. Where do they sendwhite victims?

The instructor’s guide promotes thesame biases. It lists questions officersare likely to ask, and offers answers forinstructors. If a policeman says there areno hate crimes in his community, theinstructor is to reply that they can hap-pen anywhere:

“The country’s experience in recentyears underscores this point: JamesByrd, Jr., an African-American man,was dragged behind a truck and killedin Jasper, Texas, a small, rural town;Matthew Sheppard, a gay student, wasbeaten and left to die on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming, a large collegetown; Ricky Birdsong, an African-American man, was shot to death in sub-urban Chicago by a man who had firstshot at several Jewish men and boys andthen at a Chinese-American couple; and

Joseph Santos Ileto, a Filipino-Ameri-can mail carrier, was shot to death in Los

Angeles by a man who previously hadopened fire at a Jewish community cen-ter. What police departments have foundin communities like ours is that the lack of reported hate crimes often means thatcitizens are not reporting them or offic-ers are failing to identify bias indicators–not that hate crimes never occur.”

Needless to say, every perpetrator inthis list is white. Somehow ReginaldDenny and the people Colin Fergusonkilled on the Long Island Rail Roaddon’t make the hate crimes hit parade.At one point the guide does concede

there are anti-white hate crimes but saysthey are “far less common than hatecrimes targeting persons of color.”

If someone asks whether hate crimesare ever hoaxes the official answer is:

“Fabricated complaints occur butonly very rarely. Police have found thatvictims often are reluctant to report hatecrimes or even acknowledge that whatappears to others to be a hate crime is,in fact, motivated by bias. The fear andisolation felt by hate crime victims moreoften leads to underreporting than tofabrication.” As Laird Wilcox has shown

in his excellent monograph, Crying Wolf (available for $19.95, postpaid, fromEditorial Research Service, PO Box2047, Olathe, KS 66051), hoaxes are farfrom rare.

The instruction guide concludes withthree sample incidents to be used fordiscussion about how to identify andinvestigate a hate crime: a white driveshis car across the lawn of a black fam-ily, two teenagers beat a man they think is homosexual, and an immigrant store-keeper has the windows in his shop bro-ken. All perpetrators are understood tobe white.

Reinforcing Bias

This video suggests the police and themedia work to reinforce each other’sbiases. Police are trained to assume hatecrimes against whites are a minor prob-lem, and they often appear reluctant tolook for bias motivation when whites arevictims. The media in turn downplay the

Hate Crimes 101 Responding to Hate Crimes: A Police Officer’s Guide to Investigation and Prevention

Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2000, 20-min. videotape

Ethnicity10%

EroticOrientation

15.6%

Religion16%

Race58%

Multiple Bias0.2%

Disability0.3%

Varities of hate crimes reported in 1998.




few anti-white outrages the police re-port.

One result is that although hate crimelaws theoretically protect whites theyare rarely invoked against non-whites.In December, 1999, a black man forceda white woman into an alley at gunpoint,yelled racial slurs at her, punched her in

the face and raped her. Police said it wasnot a hate crime. Last April, two blackssaw a white man with a black woman ata bar in New Jersey, and told the womanshe should be with them instead. A sur-veillance camera caught them as theybeat the white man unconscious, but thiswas not a hate crime either. Also inApril, a black man slashed an eight-year-old white boy’s throat as he playedin a residential neighborhood in Alex-andria, Virginia. Not only have the po-

lice been reluctant to pursue the inci-dent as a hate crime, they deliberatelywithheld the fact that the black attackeryelled racial slurs as he killed the boy.

Despite this squeamishness aboutclassifying anti-white crime as “hate,”the FBI’s 1997 statistics reported 1,629black hate crime suspects as opposed to

5,344 “white” suspects (this number isartificially inflated by including His-panic perpetrators, whose numbers arenot known). Given that there are aboutsix times as many whites as blacks inthe United States, blacks are, on a percapita basis, twice as likely as whites tocommit officially-recognized hatecrimes.

The real number of anti-white hatecrimes is probably much higher. Everyyear blacks commit about 1.5 million

violent crimes against whites (includingHispanics), whereas whites (includingHispanics) commit only about 170,000such crimes against blacks. If anti-whiteviolence were scrutinized for bias ascarefully as anti-black violence, theFBI’s figures would surely change sub-stantially.

Needless to say, there is essentiallyno public scrutiny of the built-in biasesin the way hate crimes are identified andreported. Without such scrutiny, neitherthe police nor the media are likely tochange their ways.

“Responding to Hate Crimes” is free.Please call (800) 851-3420 to order acopy, and make sure to ask for the train-ing guides as well.

Letter From ZimbabweThe World shows no inter-est when victims are white.

This is a letter from a white farmer in Zimbabwe, Cathy Buckle. Ad ditional up-to-date information

about Zimbabwe is available at www.1freespace.com/beetee/index.html.

Dear family and friends,Sorry for my silence and no let-

ter last week. Aside from the factthat the telephone went down andthe phone company was out onstrike, we had reached the pointwhere insanity was drawing fright-eningly close so took ourselves off to Mana Pools for a few days to tryand get our thoughts together andput things into perspective. Wehave now very reluctantly made thefinal decision to leave our farm andwill spend the next few weeks (assum-ing we have that long) selling all the re-maining livestock, disposing of moun-tains of farm related bits and pieceswhich have accumulated to alarmingproportions and generally closing ouroperation down.

This has been an incredibly painfuldecision but perhaps for the best as thefuture of commercial agriculture in Zim-babwe seems to be drawing to a close.Sadly we are not alone in our decision;our immediate neighbor has already lefthis farm, another plans to leave within

the next few months and a third hasstarted winding down his operation aswell. It seems without doubt that thiswas the ultimate aim of the war veter-ans–simply wear us down, cripple ouroperations, drive us to the edge of bank-ruptcy until we gave up and now theyhave won.

Insane as it may sound, I am going toattempt to put our farm on the market.We have still not been listed for com-

pulsory acquisition, have still not re-ceived the dreaded Section 8 letter in-forming us of impending governmenttakeover. An estate agent has first toapply to the government for a Certifi-cate of No Interest [no liens or otherencumbrances] and it will be interest-ing to see what happens when they tryon our behalf.

Our squatters are now living perma-nently on the property, driving vehiclesacross the fields and felling the timber,stripping its bark and piling up great

heaps of prime gum poles. We are abso-lutely helpless and I find it hard to de-scribe the feelings that churn in my gutas I see trees that I planted with my ownhands, pruned over the years, weededand protected for all this time and nowhave to watch as they simply take them.

Last Saturday a great crowd of peoplegathered in our fields and waited for thearrival of the Zanu PF MP for Maron-dera East to arrive. The esteemed gentle-

man had apparently sent word thathe would himself be sharing outour farm on that day, but as the daywore on and he didn’t arrive,people became restless. Finally amessenger came to say that the MPwouldn’t be coming, he had rolledhis brand new government Pajerofive times a few kilometers fromhere and was dead. It obviouslytook the locals a couple of days towork out the implications before

they must have realized that this nowmeans a by-election–back to square onewith the intimidation, the rallies, thebeatings and finally the voting.

Three days after the death of our MP,the youngster who pulled a gun on mesome weeks ago moved onto our neigh-bor’s land, started felling the trees ontheir 300 acre plot and building himself a hut in their cattle paddock. Until nowlargely untouched by the W. V.’s, ourneighbors in their 70s have now to en-dure the rape of their land for the thirdtime. They lost everything in the Mau

Gasoline shortages getting worse.

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Mau in Kenya [the 1952 uprising againstBritish settlers], lost everything again inNyanga in the Zim war [guerrilla warfor black rule] in 1980 and now it startsall over again. We all begin to feel morethan a little like the Jews who werestripped of their human rights, propertyrights and then their lives in Nazi Ger-

many.We can only hope and pray that forus we can get off our land with our livesand can remain in the country of ourbirth and try and rebuild. Ethnic cleans-ing–such a strange term, how terrifying

to be the victims of it. So now, for thefirst time in 10 years I am going to at-

tempt to find a job–a scary prospect hav-ing been a boss for a decade. Evenscarier the thought of living in a littlebox in a town, but after this six monthsof hell, even a smallholding has lost it’s

appeal as perhaps those little pieces of land will be next on the list.

For Zimbabwe I weep. What is tobecome of her and her people when, bythis time next year it won’t only be die-sel and paraffin they are queuing for butbread, sugar, maize meal, meat, etc. etc.etc. There are now so many farmers

doing what we are doing. Agriculturehas become untenable, there is no endin sight, there is no one that seems ableto quell this utter insanity. How very,very sad that it has come to this and tothink of what it will be like in a fewmonths from now.

How very, very sad thatit has come to this andto think of what it willbe like in a few months

from now.

O Tempora, O Mores!Europe Speaks

Swiss voters have rejected a plan thatwould have limited the number of for-eigners in their country to 18 percent.The “no” vote got 63.7 percent, and wona majority in all 26 Swiss cantons. Thisis the sixth time the Swiss have voteddown referenda that would have re-stricted immigration. Foreigners arenow about 19.3 percent of the popula-

tion, a figure higher than in virtually anyother European country. The Swiss cabi-net and all mass media opposed the ini-tiative, which was supported by only oneof the four current government coalitionmembers, the Swiss People’s Party. Thegovernment launched a major propa-ganda campaign against the measure,under the slogan “Xenophobia is un-Swiss.”

Interestingly, those who opposed thelimits were not generally quoted as say-ing foreigners were good for Switzer-land. Instead, they said the initiativewould make Switzerland look “racist”or that it would encourage the allegedly

growing neo-Nazi movement. [AliceRatcliffe, Swiss Reject 18 Percent For-eigner Limit, Reuters, Sept. 24, 2000.Reuters, Swiss Papers Laud ‘No’ Voteto Limit on Foreigners, Sept. 25, 2000.Fiona Fleck, Swiss Voters Reject Cut inNumber of Foreign Residents, Tele-graph (London), Sept. 25, 2000.]

The Danes, on the other hand, havevoted 53 to 47 to keep their own cur-rency rather than adopt the Euro. Na-tionalist groups argued openly that thecloser Denmark gets to other Europeancountries the more immigrants it willget. The vote was a slap in the face toboth the government and to all majormedia organs, which argued that Danesshould give up the Krone. [T.R. Reid,Denmark Voters Reject Common EUCurrency, Washington Post, Sept. 29,2000, p. A1.]

In the meantime, the Vlaams Blok was poised for another electoral break-through in the October 8 municipal elec-tions in Belgium. Its power is limited toFlanders, but it is already the biggestparty in Antwerp, and has 22 of 130 seatsin the Flemish federal parliament. Theother parties have kept it out of power–

just as they kept the French NationalFront out of power–only by bizarre coa-litions specifically directed against it.The party was established only in 1978but has since made gains in every elec-tion. A recent Miss Belgium has justsigned up to help campaign.

The Vlaams Blok’s motto is EigenVolk Eerst , which means “Our PeopleFirst,” and it means it. The party wouldnot just end immigration but reverse it.It would boot out illegal aliens immedi-ately, and let legal aliens stay only if they

met strict conditions. They would haveto learn Flemish, know the country’slaws and history, and be approved byFlemish neighbors. Very few of the thou-sands of Turks and Moroccans who nowlive in Flanders could meet that test, andthe party makes no secret it wants themout.

One of the party’s leaders, 37-year-old Filip Dewinter, adds that any for-eigner who is unemployed for more thanfive months should have to leave. Henotes that immigration is nothing morethan “importing poverty,” and that im-migrants have “ethnically cleansed”many neighborhoods of Flemings be-cause of their crime and degeneracy. Mr.Dewinter makes a clear distinction be-tween Europeans and non-Europeansand would grant amnesty only to theformer. He accuses the current govern-ment of handing out citizenship “likeconfetti” so as to dilute the VlaamsBlok’s election results.

Within Belgium, the party wantsseparation from French-speaking Wal-lonia and eventual independence forFlanders, with Brussels as its capital.One of the first acts of an independentFlanders would be to expel thousandsof European Union bureaucrats, whowould be urged to set up their headquar-ters in Strasbourg, France. [MartinFletcher, Support is Growing in Belgiumfor Filip Dewinter and His Far RightVlaams Blok Party, Times (London),Sept. 14, 2000.]

The most dramatic European devel-opment, of course, has been the upris-ing in Serbia that ousted SlobodanMilosevic, the former Communist whohad ruled Yugoslavia since the late

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1980s. The great irony is that the newleader, Vojislav Kostunica, whom theUnited States and the rest of the Westare treating like the new Messiah, is anationalist who, at first blush, seemslittle different from Jörg Haider, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and Filip Dewinter whomwe are supposed to hate. In their enthu-

siasm, liberals are saying Mr. Kostunicais a “different kind of nationalist” whosesentiments do not threaten his neigh-bors–as if the National Front or theVlaams Blok threatened their neighbors.Whatever happens, it is a choice mo-ment to see Madeleine Albright gurglinghappily over the victory of a man shewould denounce as a threat to democ-racy if he had came to power in Franceor Germany. Economic sanctions are ex-pected to be lifted soon.

Diversity in LibyaLibya’s oil wealth has attracted a

large number of immigrants from black Africa, many of them illegal. They havenot won the love of Libyans who, in lateSeptember and early October, rose upand started beating and, in some cases,killing them.

Simmering resentment reportedlycame to a head when a business dis-agreement between Libyan and Nigeriandrug dealers in the Gregarish area turnedviolent. This prompted race riots in sev-eral Libyan cities, including the capital

Tripoli, in which any black appears tohave been fair game. Libyans attackedblacks from Ghana, Gambia, and Chadas well as Nigerians, and on Sept. 26 anarmed group attacked the embassy of Niger but were repelled by Libyan sol-diers. The government responded to thechaos by rounding up thousands of blacks and putting them in a camp nearTripoli. The camp, built on a huge gar-bage dump, is reported to be miserableand overcrowded.

The Nigerian government’s reactionhas been surprising. Presidential spokes-man Doyin Okupe said thousands of Nigerian criminals living in Libya hadbecome a burden to their host country,and conceded that some had killed Liby-ans. He explained that his country wouldbring them home: “Rather than allowthem to continue to soil the good nameof Nigeria and risk lives abroad, thegovernment decided that they bebrought back home to join hands withother compatriots and contribute theirown quota to the current effort at nation

building.” The first installment of 700prodigals arrived back in Nigeria onOctober 2nd and 3rd, looking dishev-eled after as much as two weeks of in-ternment in Libya.

Other black African countries areconcerned. On October 4th an eight-member team from Ghana flew to Libya

to investigate charges that several thou-sand Ghanaians had been attacked in theriots. Gambian officials were reportedto be considering bringing home the es-timated 1,000 Gambians now in Libya.[Federal Government to Repatriate Ni-gerians From Libya, This Day (Lagos,Nigeria), October 2, 2000. Repatriationof Nigerians in Libya Begins, PanafricanNews Agency, October 4, 2000. Gam-bians Injured In Libya, Daily Observer(Banjul, Gambia), October 4, 2000.]

Deservedly SoMcDonald’s Corporation and Coca-

Cola have sponsored production of apacket of materials called Little Known

Black History Facts , which they havemailed to 18,000 high schools all aroundthe country. In the cover letter they write,“our hope is that this program will be-come a catalyst to saluting AfricanAmerican history throughout the schoolyear.”

The packet consists of a slim pam-phlet of 16 little-known facts, along witha slightly fatter teachers’ guide. We

learn, for example, that: Peter Hill wasborn a slave but learned clock-makingfrom his master, and one of his clocks isin the Smithsonian. “Peg Leg” Bates losta leg in an accident but went on to be-come a popular tap dancer. HermanPetty was the first black to get aMcDonald’s franchise (in 1968, in Chi-cago). Romare Bearden was born in1912, became a collage artist and said,“art is the soul of the people.” The firstAmerican black to get a college degreewas Alexander Twilight, who graduatedfrom Middlebury College in 1823.Raymond Jones was a Harlem politicianwho supported Adam Clayton Powelland was known as “the Harlem fox.”The first “historically black college” wasfounded in Philadelphia in 1832 as theInstitute for Colored Youth and is nowcalled Cheyney State University. In hisday, Marshall Taylor was the fastest bi-cyclist in the world and was the firstblack to win a national title in any sport(1898). Susie King Taylor, the army’sfirst black nurse, treated colored troops

during the Civil War and wrote a book called My Life in Camp , etc. for a totalof 16 facts. This stuff is, indeed, littleknown, and likely to stay that way.

The materials come with a poster thatincludes artists’ conceptions of nurseTaylor and clock-maker Hill, and a large

picture of two fashionable, turn-of-the-century blacks doing the cakewalk, inwhich “dancers arched their necks andbacks, stuck out their chests and behindsat the same time, and pranced with highsteps like a drum major.” Althoughmany American high school studentscan’t find Australia on a map or knowwho Joseph Stalin was, the teachers’guide suggests such things as asking stu-dents to write and perform 10- to 15-minute skits about the subjects of theselittle-known facts and to participate in

panel discussions about them.

The Power of SentimentUntil recently Dan Ponder was a

Georgia state legislator from a rural,conservative part of the state. Nine of his great-great-grandfathers fought forthe Confederacy, and from Revolution-ary times all his ancestors have livedsouth of the Mason-Dixon line. OnMarch 16, 2000, he gave a speech in thestatehouse in support of hate crimes leg-islation. This is excerpted from hisspeech:

“There was one woman in my life thatmade a huge difference and her namewas Mary Ward. She began working formy family before I was born. She was ayoung black woman whose own grand-mother raised my mother. Mary, or May-Mar as I called her, came every morn-ing before I was awake to cook break-fast, so it would be on the table. Shecooked our lunch. She washed ourclothes. But she was much more than




that. . . . She was never, ever afraid todiscipline me or spank me. She expectedthe absolute best out of me, perhaps, andI am sure, even more than she did herown children. She would even travelwith my family when we would go toour house in Florida during the summer,

just as her own grandmother had done.

“One day, when I was about 12 or 13,I was leaving for school. As I was walk-ing out the door she turned to kiss megood-bye. And for some reason, I turnedmy head. She stopped me and she lookedinto my eyes with a look that absolutelyburns in my memory right now and shesaid, ‘You didn’t kiss me because I amblack.’ At that instant, I knew that shewas right. I denied it. I made some lameexcuse about it. But I was forced at thatage to confront a small dark part of

myself. I don’t even know where it camefrom. This lady, who was devoting herwhole life to me and my brother and sis-ter, who loved me unconditionally, whohad changed my diapers and fed me, andwho was truly my second mother, thatsomehow she wasn’t worthy of a good-bye kiss simply because of the color of her skin. Hate is all around us. It takesshape and form in ways that are some-how so small that we don’t even recog-nize them to begin with, until they some-how become acceptable to us.

“It is up to us, as parents and leadersin our communities, to take a stand andto say loudly and clearly that this is justnot acceptable. I have lived with theshame and memory of my betrayal of Mary Ward’s love for me. I pledged tomyself then, and I re-pledged to myself the day I buried her, that never, everagain would I look in the mirror andknow that I had kept silent, and let hateor prejudice or indifference negativelyimpact a person’s life, even if I didn’tknow them.”

This is why we must have hate crimelaws.

Mid-East in Mid-TownGun battles that erupted in early Oc-

tober between Israelis and Palestiniansover Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple

Mount have had echoes in increasinglydiverse New York City. On October 4,Mayor Rudolph Giuliani called a meet-ing of local Jewish and Arab leaders inan attempt to calm tension between thetwo groups after a series of attacks onJews that appeared to reflect tensionsoverseas. Some of the attackers wavedPalestinian flags, and police reported ahandful of other incidents they thoughtwere a reaction to mid-East violence.The mayor has stepped up police patrolsaround synagogues and Jewish schools.[Frankie Edozien, Rudy Urges Calm as

Conflict Hits Home, New York Post,Oct. 4, 2000.]

Putting it in Black andWhite

Many American states, particularly inthe South, included anti-miscegenationclauses in their constitutions. In 1967,in the case of Loving v. Virginia , the U.S.Supreme Court determined that misce-genation was a right under the Consti-tution, thereby overturning prohibitionsthen in force in 16 states. Since then,

some states have gone through the of-ten cumbersome process of amendingtheir constitutions but others have not.One of these is Alabama, where a Nov.7 ballot proposal was to give citizens anopportunity to vote on a change. The of-fending clause is in section 102 of theconstitution, written in 1901, which barsthe legislature from enacting any law “toauthorize or legalize any marriage be-tween any white person and a Negro ordescendant of a Negro.” According topolls, 64 percent of voters favor chang-ing the constitution, 19 percent opposedoing so, and 17 percent are undecidedor do not plan to vote. [Bob Johnson,Ala. May Allow Interracial Marriage,AP, Oct. 4, 2000.]

Homosexuals WelcomeAlbert Gore says homosexuals should

have the same “marital” immigrationrights as heterosexuals. In other words,a foreign homosexual who is party to a“civil union” with an American should

have the same rights as a heterosexualspouse. Current immigration law recog-nizes marriage as “a legal union betweenone man and one woman,” but PresidentGore would change all that. In July, Ver-mont became the first state to recognizehomosexual marriage, so if the Demo-cratic candidate had his way, any for-

eign homosexual who found a Ver-monter to “marry” could apply for per-manent residency. [Devlin Barrett, GoreComes Out for Gay Immigration Rights,New York Post, Sept. 27, 2000.]

‘Unfair Trade Practices’The “reparations” tax credit is back

again. Once more, a crook has con-vinced blacks there is a tax dodge forthe “descendants of slaves” that will netthem thousands. This time it is SusanSanchez of Biscayne Park, Florida, who

has been trolling black churches, per-suading a steady stream of customers theIRS will pay $40,000 in “slavery repa-rations” if they file an amendment totheir 1999 tax return. She was touting a100 percent “recovery rate” and requireda $100 money order (no personalchecks, please) to start the process. Al-though the state of Florida apparentlycannot send Miss Sanchez to jail for thiscaper, it can fine her up to $10,000 foreach violation of the state’s Deceptiveand Unfair Trade Practices Act. [LesleyClark, Tax-credit Scan is Alleged, Mi-

ami Herald, Sept. 27, 2000.]

Wicked WhitesCheryl M. Mewborn, 42, has been

suspended from her teaching duties atBryant Elementary School in CobbCounty, Georgia. Miss Mewborn, whois white, gave her mostly black studentsa little lecture about how they shouldn’tcall each other “nigger” and in so doingpronounced the forbidden syllables her-self. Black parents raised an outcry, andMiss Mewborn will be out of the class-room until school authorities completean investigation. [Mary MacDonald,Teacher Put on Leave While Racial SlurProbed, Atlanta Journal-Constitution,Sept. 16, 2000, p. E2.]

Sages are BaffledAntonia Novello is a Puerto Rican

who served as President George Bush’sSurgeon General. She is now healthcommissioner of the State of New York,




and has decided to change the name of the Office of Minority Health to Officeof Emerging Majorities. Sheldon Silver,speaker of the New York State Assem-bly, says he “just doesn’t understand”why Miss Novello would make a changelike that. [Frederick Dicker, PC Does itas Commish Renames Office, New York

Post, Sept. 19, 2000, p. 2.]

Iowa FolliesFrom 1980 to 1990 Iowa and West

Virginia were the only states in the unionwhose populations declined. In the de-cade just past, however, Iowa reversedthat trend and grew by 3.3 percent. Still,the population is aging, young peopleare leaving for other states, and unem-ployment is at only two percent. Demo-cratic governor Tom Vilsack says Iowaneeds more people and thinks immi-

grants are the solution. He wants thefederal government to declare his statean “immigration enterprise zone,” andfor it to be exempted from immigrationlimits. He hopes for 310,000 newcom-ers over the next ten years. A poll takenby the Des Moines Register found that58 percent of Iowans–96 percent of whom are white–oppose the idea, 34percent approve, and the rest aren’t sure.[William Claiborne, Iowa Looks Abroadfor Workers, Washington Post, Sept. 16,2000. A3.]

Celebrating the DeclineOn Sept. 20, the Hispanic Caucus

Institute, which is a group set up by theHispanic congressmen, held its 23rdannual gala. The crowd of 2,000 in-cluded William Clinton, Albert Gore,Janet Reno, and cabinet secretaries Wil-liam Richardson, Rodney Slater, AlexisHerman, and Norman Mineta. Mr. Goreaddressed the gathering, saying “Wemight not share a common past, but weall share a common future.” Mr. Clintonmused that he is likely to be the lastPresident who does not speak Spanish.[Roxanne Roberts and Janelle Erlich-man, Politics With a Latin Beat, Wash-ington Post, Sept. 21, 2000, p. C1.]

Eat or Be EatenAlthough American Indians have

been stoutly denying it for years, theevidence continues to mount that theirancestors were cannibals. Scientists insouth-west Colorado recently discov-

ered four systematically butchered hu-man bodies in “pit houses” occupiedaround 1150 by the Anasazi, forerun-ners of the present-day Zuni, Hopi andPueblo Indians. They also discoveredhuman myoglobin–a protein found onlyin skeletal and heart muscles–in the des-iccated feces of the people who prob-

ably did the butchering. The only wayto get myoglobin into your feces is toeat someone.

Partisans of the noble savage are notgiving up. Andrew Darling, an arche-ologist for the Gila River Indian Com-munity, says the site–which appears tobe an ordinary dwelling–was a placewhere witches were executed by cer-emonial dismemberment. He says thewitches may have eaten human flesh.[Guy Gugliotta, An All-ConsumingDebate, Colorado Springs Gazette, Sept.7, 2000.]

Free Prep for BlacksThe NAACP has long argued that the

reason blacks score about 200 pointslower than whites on the Scholastic As-sessment Test (SAT) is that the test isbiased against blacks. Their traditionalremedies have been to insist that the testbe junked or that unspecified (and im-possible) changes be made so blacks canscore as high as whites. The NAACP’snational council has now voted to ap-prove a new solution: State governments

should offer free SAT preparation toblacks. The group wants the rest of thestates to follow the example of Califor-nia, which in 1998 voted $10 million fortest prep for “urban and minority” stu-dents. [Tessie Borden, NAACP WantsState-Funded SAT Prep Tests For Mi-norities, AP, Sept. 22, 2000.]

Denny’s Gets ToughLast month we reported it has finally

dawned on the Denny’s restaurant chainthat ever since it forked over $46 mil-lion in a class action suit for allegedmistreatment of black customers, it hasbecome the favorite target for anyonewilling to shout “racism.” We reportedthat Denny’s used a video tape to provethat a black Miami couple had been welltreated and was not kept waiting for anhour as they had claimed. Now the com-pany has announced it is suing thecouple for malicious prosecution andwants not only its legal costs back butcompensation for damage to its reputa-

tion. This tough new approach has be-gun to work. Spokesman Karen Randallsays Denny’s has already recoveredmoney from several fake claimants andexpects that once the word gets out thesuits will stop. Why didn’t Denny’sthink of this $46 million ago? [Denny’sServes Lawsuit to Pair Who Claimed

Bias, NewsMax.com, Sept. 20, 2000.]

Felons and the VoteOn Election Day, 1.4 million black

men–about one in eight–will not be eli-gible to vote because they are convictedfelons. This despite the fact that only afew states strip felons of the franchisefor life. In these nine states, the number

of ineligible black men is much higherthan the national average of 13 percent:31 percent in Florida and Alabama, 29percent in Mississippi, and 25 percentin Virginia. Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada,New Mexico and Wyoming are the otherstates with lifetime bans. At the otherextreme are Massachusetts, Maine andVermont, which let even prisoners vote.This is the ideal for “civil liberties”

groups, which have brought a suitagainst Florida’s lifetime ban, claimingit has a “disproportionate impact” onblacks. It does, but so do laws againstmurder.

If current crime trends hold, some 29percent of black men–about seven timesthe white rate–can expect to do time forfelonies. If all states had lifetime votingbans, it would keep about a quarter of black men away from the polls. [GregToppo, Felony Convictions Keep 13%of Black Males From Voting, ChicagoTribune, Sept. 22, 2000.]

Eskimos and RapeFor the last 20 years Alaska has had

a higher rape rate than any other state.The current rate is 2.4 times the nationalaverage and Alaska also has a high rateof child sexual assault. These otherwiseperplexing statistics are explained by thefact that rape is particularly prevalentamong Eskimos, or “natives” as they arenow called. Eskimo women are only 3.5




percent of Anchorage’s 255,000 resi-dents but are 45 percent of the rape vic-tims. In the last 15 months five Anchor-age Eskimos have been both raped andmurdered. Rape is a crime that does notusually cross racial lines.

Eskimo women who come to the cit-ies from rural areas are particularly easy

targets. Many still have the country habitof flagging down rides from strangers,so cities have started campaigns againsthitchhiking. In Anchorage, volunteerstramp the streets giving advice on howto avoid rape and offering rides. Activ-ists have tried to get the Downtown BarAssociation to teach bartenders to spotpotential rapists. They say any man whobuys a woman drinks but is not himself drinking is a potential rapist. Some barshave posted signs in men’s lavatoriesthat say “If you think that waking upwith a hangover is bad, imagine waking

up as a rapist.” [Mary Pemberton, Po-lice, Alaska Natives Work Together toReduce Rapes, AP, Sept. 23, 2000.]

Repeat OffenderIn March, 1992, the raped and beaten

body of 18-year-old aspiring model CariAnn Parnes was found in an Orangegrove near Irvine, California. The man-hunt went nowhere until police checkedDNA taken from Miss Parnes’ corpseagainst a statewide database of con-victed felons. The sample matched that

of Leonardo Sanchez, an illegal alienfrom Mexico who was convicted of rapein 1989. He was on parole at the timeMiss Parnes was murdered. Mr. San-chez, now thought to be in Mexico, hasbeen deported from the United Stateseight times . [Chelsea Carter, WarrantIssued in ’92 Model Slaying, AP, Sept.29, 2000.]

Zimbabwe RotsAs president Robert Mugabe drives

his country onto the rocks, internationalbusinesses are clearing out. Airlines canpull out quickly, and Austrian Airlinesand Air Austral of the Indian Ocean Is-land of Reunion have stopped flying toZimbabwe. Quantas of Australia an-nounced its last flight would be Octo-ber 26. Cargolux, a freight forwarder,has also suspended operations, citinglack of business and deteriorating con-ditions. Gas and fuel shortages, electric-ity blackouts, and interest rates at 61percent have not helped. International

investment is at a standstill. Zimbabwestopped paying its foreign debts monthsago, and the World Bank has officiallydeclared it delinquent and no longer eli-gible for loans. [Zimbabwe Woes ForceAirliners, Forwarders to Quit, Reuters,Oct. 2, 2000.]

Light From the West?Everyone learns in school that the

Neolithic revolution–agriculture anddomestication of animals–originated inthe Near East and spread to the rest of the world. Surprising discoveries on theMediterranean coast of France may re-quire a reappraisal of this view.

As early as 1985, a people given thename of “Cardials” was confirmed bycarbon-14 dating to have lived around7,000 to 6,000 BC in an area about 35miles northeast of present-day Mars-

eilles. They lived in small stone housesarranged as if on a street, and sheepbones and domesticated grains confirmthey were shepherds and farmers. In1986 French archeologists discoveredthat “Cardials” settled Corsica around7,000 BC. They brought their sheep withthem in boats that could manage the 125-mile trip from the French coast.

Dates of this kind were beginning topush uncomfortably close to the earli-est evidence of the Neolithic revolution–about 8,000 BC–found in Jericho in theNear East, but the traditional view got a

boost from 1996-1998 excavations of aSyrian site at Jerf el-Ahmar that was C-14 dated to 9,000 BC. However, an Au-gust, 1999, discovery pushes the appear-ance in Europe of farming and herdingback to 10,000 BC. A site at Viols-le-Fort some 40 miles north of Narbonnerevealed the same Cardial-style houses,sheep bones and grains. If the dates areofficially confirmed, they may requirea revision of the accepted view of theorigins of civilization.

New discoveries are leading to rein-terpretations of older ones. Sites at PechMaho and Ensérune, also in the Nar-bonne area, were excavated between1954 and 1979 but were dated to about2000 BC because both places had alpha-betic writing. The script and the lan-guage were previously unknown, but theLight-from-the-East dogma was sostrong no writing was thought to havebeen possible in Europe before aboutthat time. The oldest writing was thoughtto date to about 3 or 4 thousand BC andthe closer to the Near East the older it

was permitted to be. In light of theCardial discoveries, archeologists havebegun to wonder whether the still-undeciphered script could date back asfar as 9,000 BC. [Michael Bradley, ACradle in the Wrong Place, NationalPost (Canada), July 5, 2000.]

Rudy Gets it RightThe US Attorney of Manhattan has

decided New York City police are guiltyof racial profiling when they stop andfrisk suspects on the street. They wantthe Justice Department to monitor thedepartment and make sure it behaves.A furious mayor Rudolph Giuliani hasbecome the first public official we knowof to dig in his heels and explain whythe police stop so many non-whites: theyare the ones committing the crimes. Hepoints out that only 85.2 percent of the

people stopped and frisked on the streets

are non-white, whereas they account for89.2 percent of the suspects. He sayspolice are doing exactly what theyshould, and that he will never accept anykind of federal oversight. [FrankieEdozien and Devlin Barrett, Rudy BlastsFed’s Profiling Claim, New York Post,Oct. 6, 2000.]

Columbus vs. the IndiansDenver used to have an annual Co-

lumbus Day parade until one in 1991was marred by anti-Columbus demon-strations and arrests. The 1992 paradewas canceled for fear of violence, justminutes before it was supposed to start,and the organizers stopped trying to getpermits. This year local Italians are fedup with intimidation, and want to march.Hispanics and Indians beefed so loudlythe Italians agreed to a March for Ital-ian Pride that would not mention Co-lumbus, and the protesters said theywould stay away. Now, backed by theAmerican Civil Liberties Union, the Ital-

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