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

Vol. 14 No. 9 September 2003

Urban Law 101What I Didn’t Learn in Law School

American Renaissance

Adventures with black cli-ents.

by Donald Williamson

Igrew up in a suburb of a large north-ern city, and had no real contact with

blacks until I became a lawyer. Af-ter I got my law degree I naïvely lookedforward to a rewarding legal career.Little did I realize that 25 years later Iwould be a self-employed attorney do-ing domestic and civil litigation for aclientele that is overwhelmingly black.

I didn’t plan it that way. I just wantedto do a lot of work in the courtroom, andthe best offer I got out of law school waswith a small firm that specialized inbankruptcy. Most of its clients wereblack. Several years later, I set up anindependent practice and many of myformer clients came to me for domesticwork.

Most people do not realize this, butoutside the world of corporate or secu-rities law, in any big city the legal pro-fession is to a large degree fueled by thepathologies of blacks and other Third-World people. Of course, whites hirelawyers, but in any city, especially onewith a good-sized black population, mostof the people who need lawyers areblack. In this respect, lawyers are likepolice officers or social workers—theyrarely deal with ordinary white people.

To a large degree, I became raciallyconscious because of my black clients,who eventually destroyed all my precon-ceived notions about race. My awaken-ing did not come from one or even a fewincidents, but from the accumulation of thousands upon thousands of small in-teractions.

Day after day my clients continue toamaze me. There is no racial educationquite so thorough and convincing as

spending time with blacks, and my cli-ents are far from being the poorest andleast competent blacks. They are not in-digent criminals for whom I am a court-appointed lawyer. They are people who

can afford (or think they can afford) alawyer to get a divorce, contest a cus-tody judgment, beat a traffic ticket, etc.Some are government employees whomake $60 to $70 thousand a year, yeteven this group is vastly different fromwhites.

They Don’t Know

One of the most striking things aboutmy black clients is the things they do not know. Many blacks, for example, do notknow their own telephone numbers.

They may think they do but they don’t,and the problem has gotten worse withthe proliferation of cell phones. At leasta third of the numbers they leave withmy receptionist or on my answeringmachine are wrong numbers. Often, a

potential client will call several times,each time leaving a variation of the samephone number. I keep calling until theyget it right. At first I thought I was tak-ing down the numbers incorrectly, butnow I know better. With caller ID, it isclear when what the client says does notmatch the digital display.

Some callers don’t even leave a num-ber. About a quarter of the messagesblacks leave do not include either a nameor a number. Needless to say, many callsare not returned.

More than a handful of blacks whohave come to my office do not evenknow their own home address (theymove often). Many cannot tell me theirown spouse’s names. Now I know to tellclients ahead of time that they will needthis sort of information when they comein. Otherwise, if I ask for someone’saddress he may look hurt and say, “If I’d known you were going to ask me thatI would have come prepared.”

Many black men know their child-ren’s names but do not know how to spellthem. With the proliferation of unusualnames among blacks, I can only guessat how they are spelled. One client whotold me he couldn’t spell his children’snames said I would need an encyclope-dia to look them up. Many men haveadmitted to me they are not even surehow to pronounce their children’snames. Black woman, on the other hand,often become incensed if you mispro-nounce the very unusual names they havegiven their children.

The most unusual name I ever cameacross was Iisszzttadda. I have never meta person, white or black, who could pro-nounce it correctly. To my surprise thename is pronounced, “I seize the day.”Iisszzttadda had siblings named Ra-heem, Utopian, Desiorme, Sid-Timothy,Kizzma, and Larilaril. I have occasion-

My black clients eventu-ally destroyed all mypreconceived notions

about race.




Letters from ReadersSir — I read with interest Michael

Rienzi’s “Ethnic Genetic Interests” in theFebruary issue. The author emphasizes

the link between ethnic survival and adefensible territory: “In the long run,only [emphasis added] territory ensuressurvival . . . . The loss of territory, whe-ther by military defeat or displacementby aliens, brings ethnic diminishment ordestruction . . . .”

While this is logical and borne out bymost of history’s ethnic winners and los-ers, there is one group that has defiedpredictions of its demise, and survivedand at times flourished over centurieswithout a territory. That group is, of course, the Jewish people.

Although I am Jewish, and cannottherefore frame the debate with a whollydispassionate pen, I find it odd that eth-nic and population academics such as Dr.Frank Salter and writers like Mr. Rienzigloss over this discrepancy in what isotherwise a straightforward theorem.

I mention this not merely to pokeholes in other’s work, but rather to bringattention to a situation in which onegroup successfully sails against the gen-eral headwinds of population theory. Isthere some ingredient in the Jewish suc-cess story that can enable those of Euro-

pean descent to survive the very specificheadwinds that readers of AR are in-formed of on a monthly basis?

Daniel Popolov, Englewood, N. J.

Sir — I thought I would pass on somepraise and appreciation to MichaelRienzi for his critique in the June issueof “Race: The Power of an Illusion.” Iam especially pleased that the mitochon-drial DNA fraud was pointed out so

clearly. A superb analysis.Wade Mackey, Spring, Tex.

Sir — Mexican television has consis-

tently portrayed the conflict with Iraq asa fight between the white and brownraces. During the runup to the war, it ranimages of Saddam Hussein and his as-sociates behaving in a business-like andrespectful manner, while President Bush,Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, et. al., were shownwith screwed-up faces, yelling, scream-ing, and acting unreasonable. Mexicanshave told me Mr. Hussein challenged Mr.Bush to a fist fight or dual, but our presi-dent, the coward, backed down.

Name Withheld, Houston, Texas

Sir — We all react (to a greater orlesser degree depending on personality)to victory and defeat. Victory spurs uson, and defeat tends to make us reluc-tant for the next fight.

Southerners, who have suffered anunbroken string of defeats since 1954(actually since 1945 but the average mandoesn’t realize it) are, for the most part,a beaten people. A few Southerners canget excited about emotional issues likethe Confederate flag, but most realize

that they are politically beaten and willnever be able to outvote the more nu-merous Northerners.

As a result of a long-term string of defeats for whites everywhere, I sensethat our people are quite dejected—which is why I so much appreciated theMay issue. The cover story about howwhites woke up to race was differentfrom previous articles (I’ve been a sub-scriber for 10 years), and came as apleasant surprise. I got a psychological

boost from reading the words of whitepeople (some of whom are admitted left-ist) who are now seeing the light.

If former ACLU-types and civil rightsmarchers can finally wake up, then all isnot lost. Indeed, that happened to South-erners after the war. Having to actuallylive under Negro rule (assisted by the

Yankee guns) made Southerners so anti-black that we took the vote away fromthem at the first opportunity. And myguess is that the few English-speakingSouth Africans who have not fled SouthAfrica have, by now, changed theirminds and would not vote for majorityrule again.

In other words, even whites can learnfrom mistakes although they do so veryslowly. And, as those writers in ARpointed out, it certainly is difficult foropinions to change when the whole cul-tural apparatus keeps telling us the real-

ity we see is an illusion. Still, some fewhave learned, and it’s my guess there aremany thousands more just like them whoare silent for now.

Maybe speaking the truth and pub-lishing the truth over a long period of time can actually work. There just mightbe some hope for us after all, especiallywhen the truths we publish are coupledwith the slow realization by many that“American” culture is falling apart andthey have been lied to.

Thanks for the lift from AR.Lake High, Columbia, S.C.

There will be more such accounts ina forthcoming issue. —Editor

Sir — Being old enough, at age 68,to remember quite a bit about the Sec-ond World War, I particularly enjoyedyour January article on the Japanese re-location camps. I’ve written on the sub- ject a few times, citing the same majorpoints, but never had access to so muchdetail. I would add only one more argu-ment made at the time for relocation: If there had been a Japanese landing on the

West Coast, resident Japanese-Ameri-cans who were not loyal to the emperorwould have been mistreated by the Japa-nese invaders. Japan’s policy was thatall ethnic Japanese owed loyalty to thehomeland, and it was in the interests of those who considered themselves Ame-ricans to move them to safety.

Jerry Prater, Cross City, Fla.




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ally asked clients the reasons for suchunusual names, but the most commonanswer is “I don’t know. It just sounded

good.” This is the answer I got from amother who named her child Latrine.(See sidebar for actual names of blacksI have encountered in my practice.)

I once had a client in my office whodid not know his own name. He had beencalled by his nickname for so long hecouldn’t remember his given name. Thisis not as shocking as it sounds. Someblack names, like Phe-anjoy or Quith-reaun or JyesahJhnai, are so odd, itwould be no surprise if they were neverused and eventually forgotten.

Names are not the only things blacksdo not know. Once when I was fillingout a form for a female client I asked if she knew how old her husband was. Shetold me she didn’t know. I asked her the

next question on the form, which washer husband’s birth date. Amazingly, sheknew it—and was genuinely surprisedwhen I told her she could figure out herhusband’s age from his birth date.

When potential clients call for the firsttime, often the hardest part is to figureout why they are calling. Usually theybegin in the middle of the story. If youlet them, they will go on and on, and saynothing. Clients may call about papersthey got in the mail, but never have the

papers in front of them. They may callfor information, but never have a pen orpencil ready to take it down. I havelearned to ask direct questions: “What

is your name?” “What is the problem?”If a client cannot tell me in three min-utes or less what the problem is, I tellhim to come to my office and bring asmall retainer fee. That way at least Iwill have to listen to their ramblings onlyif they are prepared to pay.

Blacks with whom I have already spo-ken seem to think I should know instantlywho they are when they telephone. Af-ter I get on the line, a typical conversa-tion may go like this:

“Who am I speaking to?”“I am your client.”

“I have many clients, can you tell mewhich one?”

“I am your divorce client.”“Can you tell me your name?”“Rufus.”“Rufus, can you tell me your last

name?”The conversation may go on for some

time before I finally figure out who iscalling.

I do not take personal injury or prod-uct liability cases, but blacks are alwaysasking about bringing suits of this kind:“My vacuum cleaner broke. Can you

help me?”Most of my clients who are not black

either show up on time for appointmentsor call if they must reschedule. Amaz-ing as this may seem, only about fivepercent of my black clients show up ontime, and by that I mean within an hourof the appointed time. Only one in fiveshow up on the appointed day. A fewtrickle in a day or two later. Most justnever show up. Missing an appointmentnever embarrasses black people. They

call repeatedly for new appointments,making four, five or even six appoint-ments and then miss them all. I had oneclient who called more than 50 timesbefore he finally came to my office.Rarely do I ever get a call from a black client canceling an appointment.

When I first started out as a lawyer I

would call clients in advance to remindthem of their appointments. Theythanked me, but it made them no morelikely to show up. Also, I used to callclients and potential clients who missedappointments, and try to have them re-schedule. This did very little good. Themost common response was, “Why areyou calling me?” and it was never theirfault that they didn’t show up. They hadmany different excuses, but I neverheard, “I forgot,” or “I’m sorry I didn’tmake it.”

Since appointments mean so little to

my clients, I decide each day when I amavailable, and tell everyone to show upat the same time. On Saturday afternoons

Since appointments meanso little to my clients, Idecide each day when Iam available, and tell

everyone to show up atthe same time.

Some Names of Blacks Encountered in

My Practice

Aaja (pronounced Asia), Aca-cia, Ajeenah, Akai, Aqua-nita, Aryan White, Baleria,

Barbertha, Callie (pronouncedKelly), CaAndi, Chetiqua, Cloteal,Curly Top, Darhies, Dayphine,

Debrasharme, Derecio, Dertiteriesa,Dikueria & Dikuria (twins), Dildree,Dishon, Dovanna, Duanita, Dyia-mond, Dwendolyn, Effillyne, Eliza-beth Taylor, Endrissa, Equandolyn,Esaw, Everage, Floyce, Franshawn,Ghia, Godzilla Pimp, Ivier, Jarta-vious, JyesahJhnai, Keithen, Kent-nilla, Lafondra, La,poo (yes, con-tains comma), Latronia, Lemonjello& Orangejello (twins), L’Tonya, Ma-choda, Nau-Quia, Mayima, Minute,Miquel, Nethel, Omnipotence, On-dra (pronounced André), Ozro,

Padraic, Pecola, Phe-anjoy, PreciousUnique, Queen Esther, Quithreaun,Rincesetta, Sanja, Saranus, Shanieja,Sharicus, Shiquipa, SiJourna’i,Silquia, Sinetra, Summer Love,Termicka, Tequilla, Timphanie,Tryphenia, Tywana, Tzaddi &Tzavvi (twins), Ulheric, Undlia,Undrea (pronounced André), Wsam,Xiomara, XL, Yaw, Yuvodka Sha-rice, Wilida, Zaquan, Zufan, Zy-neene. ΩΩΩΩΩ




I can have as many as twenty appoint-ments for the same time. Usually it isnot a problem because few show up andeven fewer show up on time. Only oncein the last 20 years did everyone showup.

Many of my clients are unable to ex-plain even the most basic facts. Often

they must take the witness stand, and nomatter how many times we have goneover the testimony in advance, I can be

surprised by what they say. Some aresimply lying and get tangled up in theirlies, but most have such low IQs, theycannot describe even the simplest things.Often they seem to say the first thing thatpops into their heads. When they arequestioned further they cannot remem-ber what they said previously.

I once had a client whose wife was

suing him for child support. In discus-sions before trial he told me he had twochildren from a previous marriage. Thiswas favorable for him because it meanthe would probably owe his current wifeless money. At trial, his wife testified thatmy client had no children outside of theirmarriage. When I asked him on the standhow many children he had before hemarried his current wife, he said he hadnone. Later I asked him why he had an-swered that way, when he told me be-fore that he had two other children. “DidI say that?” he asked. I never found out

which version was true.Many of my clients have a hard time

following simple directions. Once I ap-peared in traffic court with a client. Inlieu of a conviction he was to see a traf-fic safety movie. The courtroom was onthe second floor of the courthouse, andthe traffic safety movie was shown onthe first floor. The client was to comeback to the courtroom with proof—which would be given him on the firstfloor—that he watched the movie. Both

the judge and I explained this to the cli-ent. At the designated hour my client didnot come back to the courtroom. Laterthat afternoon I got a call from the judge,who told me my client had completelymisunderstood the instructions. He wentto the nearest commercial movie house,saw a movie, and brought back his movie

ticket stub.Long ago I stopped asking my clientswhy they did something. It is not worththe effort. Most don’t know. The oneswho know usually cannot give a coher-ent answer. Even if they can give a co-herent answer, it usually changes everytime you ask.

For example, one of my black divorceclients tried to hide assets from hisspouse—this is not uncommon. Throughdiscovery it came to light that he hadsecretly bought a piece of property afterthe divorce had begun. He put his wife’s

name on the title, a very odd thing to do,since he was trying to hide the propertyfrom her. I made the mistake of askinghim why he did that. True to my previ-ous experiences, he could not give ananswer that made sense.

Clients sometimes tell me they knewthey were being cheated, but signed thepapers anyway. I have given up askingwhy they signed, because I know I willnot get an intelligible answer.

My clients make mistakes in writtenand spoken English that are often comi-cal. One client in a criminal case told

me he was telling the truth, and was will-ing to take a “polyester test” to prove it.Another told me he desperately wantedto see me, and needed an appointment“between Tuesday and Wednesday.”One who bounced a check told me theproblem was “insignificant funds” in hisaccount. I have had clients who have“profiteering” plans at work, want an“uncontestable” divorce (or a “detested”divorce, or an “untested” divorce), had“insects” (incest) in the family, need an“annoyment” (annulment), want a free“flirtation” (consultation), ask about my

“container” (retainer), want to “consul-tate” about a divorce, or had to meet with“media people” (mediation counselors).One man told me, “I own a car but it isnot mine,” and one who was accused of indecent exposure insisted, “I didn’t takemy stuff out of my pants.”

It took me some time to understandcertain kinds of black slang. Within thefirst month of my independent practicea man called to ask if I could “put a suit-case on a cat.” After much inquiry I re-

alized he wanted to know if I could filea law suit against someone. Within theweek I got another call asking if I “didluggage.” Since I now knew about suit-cases, I said yes, I do luggage.

I pride myself on doing good work for my clients, but I cannot remembereven once being thanked or compli-

mented by a black client. They do notobserve even the most common courte-sies. Also, with rare exceptions, blackswill never admit they made a mistake.When things go wrong, as they inevita-bly do, it is always someone else’s fault.The most common excuse blacks giveis, “They are putting me through thechanges.” I have yet to figure out exactlywhat that means.

Most people tell lies because theythink a lie will help them. I have cometo the conclusion that most of my cli-ents cannot distinguish between a plau-

sible lie and a wild fairy tale. They areconvinced people will believe anythingthey say. Clients often tell me some fan-tastic story I cannot possibly defend incourt. If I tell them what they are sayingis unbelievable the usual reaction is an-ger and screaming. Typically, they willadd, “I’m paying you. You have to be-lieve what I say.”

Sometimes, despite my warnings, cli-ents will get on the stand and tell obvi-ous, outright lies. The judge may inter-rupt the testimony and tell me to go out-side with my client to “get your story

straight.” They are not going to sit incourt and listen to fairy tales. I take myclient outside and tell him he has got totell the truth, or at least say somethingbelievable. My client then starts scream-

ing. “Why are you talking to me thisway? You’re supposed to be on my side.”

I once had a client testify about hisassets in a divorce case, in which thecourt was to determine whether heshould pay his estranged wife temporarysupport. My client was a store-frontpreacher, and testified that he lived inthe marital residence with his wife,though in separate quarters. His wife tes-tified that he was out living with his “ho.”My client went on and on about how thiswas impossible because he was a Manof God. I thought he was lying. The

Cats on a suitcase.

One client was willingto take a “polyester test”

to prove he wastelling the truth.




judge ruled that if my client was livingwith his wife he should share householdexpenses, which he was not currentlypaying. At this point, my client realizedthere was a cost to pretending to be aMan of God living with his lawful wife,and changed his tune. “Judge why areyou believing me?” he said. “Believe my

wife. I am nothing but an old lyingnigger.” No one in the courtroom couldstop laughing.

Outside Kids

“Outside kid” cases are one of myspecialties. For those not in the know,blacks call any child born out of wed-lock an outside kid. Black men are goodat making children but not at supportingthem, and this can be a terrible burdenunder laws written with white people inmind.

In my state, the parent who does nothave custody—almost always the fa-ther—pays a percentage of net incometo the parent with custody—almost al-ways the mother. The mother gets 20percent of the father’s net income for thefirst child, 25 percent for two children,and up to 50 percent for five or morechildren. What if a man has children byseveral women? Each mother gets 20percent for the first child, so a manwith five children by five differentwomen is supposed to be paying 100 percent of his income in child sup-

port. I once had a client who had 12different children by 10 differentwomen. Theoretically, he owed 250 percent of his income. These lawssimply don’t make sense for blacks.Judges have to decide each case asbest they can.

Not surprisingly, the average black client will not pay child support unlessit is deducted from his paycheck. Manyrefuse to work, or leave a job to avoidpaying. Job turnover is very high amongblacks, and the court system has a hardtime keeping up with them. Some blacks

quit on purpose, and move to another job so as to keep one step ahead of thecollections.

Whenever I ask a potential clientwhether he has paid court-ordered childsupport he will almost invariably answerwith one or more of the following: “Ialways helps my kids.” “I gives themother money whenever she asks.” “Iam always there for my kids.” “I buysmy kids whatever they needs.” It almostalways turns out they have paid no sup-

port, haven’t seen their children in years,and at best may have paid for some bas-ketball shoes.

Children do not always seem to havethe same importance for blacks that theydo for whites. I was in bankruptcy courtonce waiting for my client’s case to be

called. A black debtor—not my client—was before the judge trying to convince

him to approve his bankruptcy repay-ment plan. The judge told him he couldnot afford both his Cadillac and his chil-dren, and had to give up one or the other.The debtor immediately said he couldnot give up his car, and therefore the judge would have to take his kids. The judge threw up his hands and walked off the bench. On another occasion, thesame bankruptcy judge told a black

debtor he could not afford both hisCadillac and his house. The debtor re-plied, “You can live in your car but youcan’t drive your house. Take my house.”This was many years ago and tastes incars may have changed, but I learnedhow important Cadillacs were to blacks.

In one respect my job is very differ-ent from that of a policeman or socialworker: I have to make sure I am paid. Itry to get paid in full before I agree torepresent a client. If I am not paid in fullbefore the case is over I know I willnever get any more money. Clients havea hard time understanding they are pay-ing for an attorney’s time. Invariably, if a client drops a case before it is over heasks for a full refund. Their reasoninggoes something like this: “I paid for a

divorce and I didn’t get one, so I shouldget all my money back.”

Once I sued a client who didn’t payme. I finally garnished his wages and waspaid in full. About six months later hecalled to ask me to take his next case. Itold him I didn’t want a client thatdoesn’t pay his bills. He became indig-

nant. He said I got all my money, so whatdid I have to complain about.To hear my clients tell it, banks are

constantly “messing” with their check-ing accounts. At least that is what theytell me when their checks bounce. Mostof my clients do not have checking ac-counts, and pay cash. The ones who dohave accounts have no idea how muchmoney is in them. Many clients havewritten me checks on accounts that wereclosed.

Black clients yell and scream at meevery day; I have learned that this is

normal. They are like young childrenwho don’t get their way. I usually ignorethese outbursts, though screaming back at them is usually more effective. I havebeen threatened with physical violenceonly twice, and once I had to call thepolice to escort a client out of my of-fice.

My experience is hardly unique. Mostof the lawyers I know have practices

similar to mine. Most lawyerstherefore are racial realists even if they do not admit it openly. Theiractions and comments are no dif-

ferent from mine. People who havedaily contact with minorities, whoknow first-hand that there are ra-cial differences, are likely to be thebest prospects for any movementthat promotes racial consciousness.

They don’t like dealing with blacks, butthat is simply part of the business. If theycan’t take it anymore they get into someother line of work.

One lawyer I know moved to thecountry so he would have white clients.He had lived in the big city all his live,but was willing to pull up all his roots to

get a different clientele.Recently the supreme court in my

state ruled that a lawyer can be disci-plined for communications that raciallydenigrate litigants. For that reason I can-not write this article under my own name,much as I would like to. I must hide be-hind a pseudonym for fear of falling vic-tim to our politically-correct supremecourt.

Donald Williamson practices law inthe Midwest.

Seventy percent are “outside kids.”

More important than house or kids?

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The importance of the Eu-

ropean New Right.

by James Kalb

T he Scorpion is the leading publi-cation in English about the think-ers and themes of the European

New Right (ENR). It is edited byMichael Walker, an Englishman livingin Germany, who is well-connected inNationalist circles in Europe. American Renaissance readers know him from histalk on “European Nationalist Move-

ments” at the 1998 AR conference.The ENR is the most important intel-

lectual movement in Europe to opposethe postwar liberal-to-socialist consen-sus. It insists on discussing issues the“mainstream” does not want to hearabout—like the importance of humandifferences—and raises them in waysthat make them hard to ignore. As Tho-mas Jackson points out in his review of Tomislav Sunic’s Against Democracyand Equality (AR, December 1992), ithas “played a central role in dislodgingMarxism as the unacknowledged reli-

gion of European intellectuals.”Nonetheless, it remains all but un-

known this side of the Atlantic. Sincethe Founding Era, Americans have hadlittle interest in European politicalthought, and this lack of interest has hadsome justification. America has mostlyhad a free and stable government thathas brought its people peace and pros-perity. Europeans mostly have not. Themain political invention we have im-ported from them recently has been thewelfare state. Why look to them for in-spiration?

Times change. European politics arestill no model to follow, but we are nolonger free from its vices. On both sidesof the Atlantic the state has become theenemy of people and culture. All West-ern governments now make it fundamen-tal policy to abolish human distinctive-ness and thus the qualities that definetheir own peoples, in the name of effi-ciency, equality, and lifestyle freedoms.To that end, pervasive bureaucratic con-trols have been established, obvious

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Radical political dysfunction requires

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ful, because Europeans have been forcedby events to think through modern po-litical pathologies. Until recent decades,we have been spared that need.

The other English-speaking peoplesare in the same position as we. Long-term stability and an insular location may

be good for a country, but they do notprovoke thought. European political

thinking that tries to offer a fundamen-tal alternative to the current destructiveleft-liberal order is almost unavailablein English. The result has weakenedright-wing political thought throughoutthe English-speaking world.

For over 20 years The Scorpion hasworked to change this. Its goal is to makesense of the modern world, and find newways to defend and advance such tradi-tional concerns as people, culture andnation. It recognizes that the West hasturned against itself, and that its leadingtendencies are destroying the things that

have made it what it is. The publicationtherefore believes that its ultimate goalmust be to help lay the groundwork fora new European civilization based ondifferent principles.

That goal is hugely ambitious. Eachissue of The Scorpion deals with a greatpolitical or cultural theme: race, sex,education, ecology, nihilism, the natureof the nation or the state. It includes along essay giving the editor’s thoughts,and also pieces, often by ENR thinkers,that offer a variety of other perspectives.

The style of the magazine is intelli-

gent, well-read, and sometimes quitedemanding. Authors treat basic issues atthe level they demand, so the magazineis not intended for the mass market.Nonetheless, the attitude of the writersis far from academic. The survival of European man is at stake, and even whendiscussing high theory—or “culture andmetapolitics,” as the magazine’s self-description puts it—the concern is withwhat to do about the very difficult situa-tion in which Europe finds itself.

Many of the articles are excellent.Those by Alain de Benoist in particular

are often very helpful introductions toways of thought unknown in America,while the editor’s essays add a touch of English commonsense, practicality andfairmindedness to grand continentaltheorizing (I should disclose that I am acontributor).

In addition to the themes to which is-sues are devoted, the magazine has pub-lished several series of articles explor-ing topics such as the stateless nationsand regional cultures of Europe, and the

Europeans have beenforced by events to thinkthrough modern political

pathologies. Until recentdecades, we have been

spared that need.

Alain de Benoist




German “conservative revolution,” amovement after the First World War thatinspired the ENR and included such menas Oswald Spengler and Carl Schmitt.Other continuing interests include thesignificance of science—especially ge-netics—and the search for a new reli-gious outlook. There is an extensive

book review section and a reader’s fo-rum, and the magazine also publishesmanifestos of non-mainstream politicalmovements, provocative clippings fromthe European press, and the occasionalreviews of European restaurants.

The Scorpion handles its topics withgreat freedom. Even though informallyassociated with the ENR, it toes no linesand feels free to publish anyone, debatewith anyone, and differ with anyone.Above all, it emphasizes its indepen-dence. It rejects party lines, pursues ar-guments as best it can, and presents

thinkers who place the Western politi-cal world in new perspectives—often,for Americans, radically new perspec-tives.

As an example, The Scorpion has fea-tured the thought of the Italian writerJulius Evola and of the writers of theGerman Conservative Revolution.Those thinkers analyze government (or

rather the state) in ways that for Ameri-cans are wholly unexpected. In this coun-try we have a simple and utilitarian un-derstanding of government, as the ad-ministrator of the will of the people or aregulatory body promoting prosperityand order. European thinkers like Evola

and the Conservative Revolutionariesoffer other theories. Government might,for example, be viewed as a sort of higher will that gives direction to sociallife, or as the expression of the innatecharacter of a people. Even if in the endwe prefer the more down-to-earthAmerican view, additional perspectives

are needed to sort through something asmultifaceted as politics. After all, cansomething men are willing to die for, likecountry and flag, really be explained byutility and practicality?

More generally, The Scorpion and theENR are useful because of the breadthof their interests. The European com-plaint is that Americans, especially con-servatives, are concerned with machin-ery, money, moralism, and not much else.The complaint is exaggerated but notinvented. It is a serious mistake to aban-don to the Left whatever goes beyond

the immediately practical. Politics de-pends on its setting—not just econom-ics and ethnicity, but also architecture,the arts, literature, philosophy, and thenatural environment. The long-termprospects of the Right are poor unless itcan seriously dispute the Left’s owner-ship of these things. The Scorpion there-fore takes on not only the political andthe “metapolitical,” but the seeminglynonpolitical: thinkers like Nietzsche andHeidegger, cultural movements like ro-manticism and nihilism, issues like ecol-ogy and the built environment. It mat-

ters to a nation what music it listens to,how its people dress, what its publicbuildings look like, and what its academ-ics study. There are no quick fixes forthese problems, but we should be awareof them, and the Europeans have thoughtabout them much more thoroughly thanwe have.

The magazine has its limitations.Much of the theorizing is at a consider-able distance from concrete politics. Itrarely deals with issues of immediatepractical concern to Americans, al-though it sometimes publishes articles

about America, and has had a specialissue on this country. It is put togetherfor people who want to think about ba-sic issues, and so will be unsatisfying foranyone who wants ready-made posi-tions. And most of us will disagree withsome things in it. Writers close to theENR often use America as a whippingboy for the problems of Europe, and theirdiscussions of economics and ecologysometimes ignore the need to put limitson the jurisdiction and activity of gov-

ernment. There are differences betweenEuropean and American political dis-course, and we must translate concepts,make allowances, and sometimes dis-agree.

The ENR seems to me wrong, for ex-ample, to blame Christianity for the uni-versalism and egalitarianism that it cor-

rectly believes are destroying the West.

In fact, Europeans have been looking forequal and rational universal principlessince the pre-Socratics, and composingutopias since Plato. The wars of the lastcentury, and the expanding role of theEuropean Union suggest that getting ridof Christianity only makes European

secular utopianism more destructive.However that may be, what’s needed

today is not support for the views wealready have or a ready-made programfor cultural reconstruction. What isneeded is a source of new perspectives,and a forum in which important and of-ten speculative ideas can be discussedfreely and openly, without regard towhether our rulers find them acceptable.For this, The Scorpion is an irreplace-able resource. There is nothing else likeit in English.

There was a revealing debate some

years back in The Scorpion readers’ fo-rum between the editor and several read-ers who questioned the wisdom of pub-lishing a couple of letters from nationalsocialists. Might not such actionsthreaten the magazine’s respectabilityand ability to be taken seriously? Mr.Walker rejected the criticisms vigorouslyand at length—as indeed he had vigor-ously taken issue with the national so-cialists—and summarized the credo thatmotivates his magazine:

Julius Evola

Oswald Spengler




O Tempora, O Mores!

“Unlike [one of the readers], I amhappy to say that I am neither “viscer-ally anti-nazi” nor “viscerally anti-lib-eral.” I am viscerally anti-stupidity, andI am viscerally anti-totalitarian, I am vis-cerally anti-crudity and viscerally anti-ugliness . . . . These are the things weshould be fighting, not liberals or nazis

but these things when they appear inwhat they do and say, for in debate a manshould not be held to account either [for]what others say he is or even for whathe says he is; he should be held to ac-count for that he means and what hedoes.”

In a world of spin, hype, code wordsand politically-correct censorship, TheScorpion thus stands for discussionamong human beings. It stands for eth-nic and cultural particularity in a world

that celebrates “diversity” so as to abol-ish it in favor of the uniformity of eco-nomics and bureaucracy. It promotes theintellectual and cultural work needed forconstructive political action to becomepossible. It should be heard.

Independence, adventurousness, andlack of concern for respectability come

at a price. The publication is at timessomething of a one-man show, and isperpetually underfunded. It comes outonly once a year, and subscriptions areexpensive—though issues run to 50pages or so. There is a reasonable selec-tion of articles at its website (not func-tioning at press time, but perhaps work-ing now). The magazine has also put outa CD with the 19 issues published from1981 through 1998. The CD is wellworth acquiring, since very few of the

topics the magazine was discussing in1981 have dated. The “fast pace of mod-ern life,” it seems, is only a distractionfrom the intellectual paralysis The Scor- pion has always fought.

James Kalb is a lawyer and indepen-dent scholar who lives in New York.

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Our Debt to Liberia?

The Congressional Black Caucus,which voted almost unanimouslyagainst the war in Iraq, is clamoringfor George Bush to send troops topacify Liberia. Members like SheilaJackson Lee hint broadly that the onlyreason Americans aren’t there alreadyis that Mr. Bush just doesn’t careabout black people. Rev. Jesse Jack-

son is quite sure “racism” is the prob-lem, and wants American soldiers onthe ground as soon as possible.

Mr. Jackson’s role in promoting thecurrent Liberian warlord, Charles Tay-lor, is not well known. In October 1997President Clinton appointed Mr. Jack-son Special Envoy for Democracy andHuman Rights in Africa, and he first flewto Monrovia to meet Mr. Taylor in Feb-ruary 1998. Mr. Taylor had just beenelected president after he sent his noto-rious “Small Boys Units” out to threatento shoot anyone who voted the wrongway. Rather than lecture Mr. Taylor onhuman rights, Mr. Jackson became goodbuddies with the dictator. According toan American embassy report, “Rev.Jackson met several times privately withPresident Taylor and appeared to estab-lish a strong personal bond with him.”Charles Taylor was like a Chicago gangleader, said the reverend, who could be“redeemed” with the right kind of per-sonal stroking.

Two months later Mr. Jackson invitedthe warlord to Chicago for a “reconcili-ation conference” that was meant toshowcase Mr. Taylor as a modern demo-cratic leader. “It’s morning time inLiberia,” intoned Mr. Jackson, and urgedMr. Taylor’s opponents in Liberia to stoppublicizing government atrocities on theInternet. “The international communityfrequents the Internet and takes note of whatever information is disseminated onthe information superhighway,” he said,“so, please stay off the Net.” The as-sumption among Liberians was that onlya paid promoter would be booming Mr.Taylor so vigorously, but Mr. Jacksondenies he ever got money from Monro-via.

In November 1998, Mr. Jackson onceagain visited Mr. Taylor in Liberia, andinstead of scolding him for his deterio-rating record treated him like a states-man. He then went on to meddle in Si-

erra Leone’s civil war, even going sofar as to call rebel leader FodaySankoh another Nelson Mandela—de-spite the fact that Mr. Sankoh’s menliked to cut people’s arms off to showwho was boss. Even William Clintonhad enough, and in June 2000 finallyfired his Special Envoy for Democracyand Human Rights in Africa.

Kenneth Timmerman, author of abook-length exposé of Mr. Jackson

called Shakedown, thinks that withoutthe reverend’s energetic boosting,

Charles Taylor would have been diplo-matically isolated and perhaps pushed

out of power long ago. He also notes Mr.Taylor had a habit of splashing out dia-monds smuggled from Sierra Leone




whenever he needed something, andwonders if a few didn’t end up in Rev.Jackson’s pockets. [Kenneth R. Timmer-man, Jesse, Liberia and Blood Dia-monds, Insight Magazine, July 25,2003.]

Now, Rev. Jackson, CondoleezzaRice, Colin Powell, and the blacks in

Congress are braying for the US to saveAfricans from themselves. They pointout that the French sorted out the messin Ivory Coast, the British did the samein Sierra Leone, so now it’s our turn. Atleast they seem to recognize that Africais a hopeless place that cannot pull it-self out of barbarism unless white menshow up with guns.

DC Sniper Hates Whites

John Lee Malvo, the youngster whospent last fall shooting up the DC area

with his pal John Allen Muhammad, isreported to have blabbed to prisonguards shortly after he was locked up lastOctober. Wayne Davis and JosephStracke, guards at the “Supermax”prison in Baltimore, Maryland, cameforward recently to relay comments fromMr. Malvo that suggest a racial motivefor the sniper attacks. Mr. Malvo ex-plained to the men—who are presum-ably black—that he hated white people,though “the shooting was mainly formoney.” He told Mr. Stracke there were“a lot of ghettos in America,” and the

two “were trying to clean it up.” Mr.Davis says Mr. Malvo told him many of the shootings were in MontgomeryCounty, Maryland, because “that’s wherethe rich people are.” Mr. Davis also re-ports that one of the reasons for theshootings was that Mr. Malvo thoughtwhite people were trying to hurt LouisFarrakhan of the Nation of Islam. [TomJackman, Guards Say Malvo DescribedNear Hits, Washington Post, July 25,2003, p. A1.]

These remarks were reported withoutcomment, deep in a story about Mr.

Malvo in the Washington Post . It doesnot seem likely that Mr. Malvo and Mr.Muhammad will be charged with hatecrimes.

Big, Bloody Easy

The population of New Orleans is justshort of half a million, which means it isnot quite a “big city” for purposes of crime statistics. With another 14,000people it would officially be the murder

capital of the country, but is now just afootnote. With a murder rate of 54.5 per100,000—up over 30 percent in oneyear—it is ahead of its nearest competi-tor, Washington, DC. With more thantwo million people in jail, violent crimeis generally down in the United Statessince the peak of the mid-1990s, and

there is only speculation as to why NewOrleans is in the middle of a crime wave.Recently, two big public housing pro- jects were shut down, and the redistrib-uted miscreants got into turf wars.

Because so many hardened felons arebehind bars, the new criminals in the BigEasy tend to be young—and female. Ina July 6 fracas, two 14-year-old girls jumped a 16-year-old and stabbed herto death with a steak knife. The victimhad been shot in the leg the year before,and could not run. Her cousin, who waswith her when she died, says the killers

knew her. “They was jealous,” she ex-plains, adding that her cousin was “thecute type. Boys liked her.” The stabbingcame just one week after two other teen-age girls went to prison for killing a 16-year-old girl, also with a steak knife. Anumber of black ministers have askedfor National Guard patrols in the mostviolent neighborhoods. [Jeffrey Gettle-man, New Orleans Struggles With a Ho-micide Rate That Belies Its Size, NewYork Times, July 11, 2003.]

Promoting Dispossession

Sixty-eight percent of Americans owntheir own homes but only 48 percent of Hispanics do, and National Council of La Raza wants more Hispanic home-owners. On July 11, at the national LaRaza conference in Austin, Texas, thebanking company Washington Mutualannounced it would contribute $1 mil-lion to La Raza’s “Empowering anAmerican Community Campaign,” thegoal of which is to help 7,000 Hispanicsbuy houses next year through a “home-buyer education program” conducted in

Spanish and English.Washington Mutual’s $1 million

means La Raza is just $5 million shortof its goal of $30 million for its cam-paign, which will do more than teachHispanics about down payments and in-terest rates. It will buy La Raza a newheadquarters building, pay for continu-ing “advocacy and education efforts,”and fund the first ever Hispanic civilrights museum.

Washington Mutual likes to parade its

“diversity.” More than 16 percent of employees are Hispanic, and in 2003 Hispanic Magazine named it for the sec-ond year in a row to its “Corporate 100:Best Places to Work for Latinos.” His- panic Business ranked it second in thecountry among the “corporate elite,” forthe number of Hispanic executives and

managers. [Washington Mutual and theNational Council of La Raza Team Upto Increase Homeownership Educationand Opportunities for Latinos, BusinessWire, July 11, 2003.]

Fake Miracle

The Houston, Texas, school districthas been the crowning achievement in“the Texas miracle,” according to whichthe state has made impressive progresswith “at risk” students. It was largely onthe strength of Houston’s glowing record

that Rod Paige, school superintendentfrom 1994 to 2001, followed GeorgeBush to Washington to become Secre-tary of Education. Last year, the Los An-geles-based Broad Foundation gaveHouston a $1 million prize as best ur-

ban district in America, and “the Texasmiracle” was the inspiration for Presi-dent Bush’s “No Child Left Behind”education policy.

It now appears that much of the“miracle” was a fraud. Texas schools are judged on standardized test scores, aswell as attendance and dropout rates. Atleast some schools systematically forcedtheir worst-performing students to dropout, and then reported they had trans-ferred. A recent state audit of 16 Hous-

Rod Paige: fake miracles.




Make him pay taxes.

ton middle and junior high schools foundthat their record-keeping was so fraudu-lent it recommended 14 of the 16 bedowngraded all the way from top to bot-tom rank.

Many schools have “bouncers,” whotrack down truants and trouble-makers,force them out, and claim they trans-

ferred. A school may, for example, es-tablish a rule that a student cannot re-turn to classes after two absences, andenforce it only against undesirables.Another trick is to keep obvious losersfrom taking an important 10th grademath exam by holding them back in the9th grade. Holding students back oftenencourages them to “transfer” and dis-appear.

Sharpestown High School seems tohave been particularly zealous aboutpurging its worst students. “We go from1,000 freshman to less than 300 seniors

with no dropouts,” says Robert Kimball,an assistant principal. “Amazing!” Jo-seph Rodriguez, a former employee of the district’s office of research and ac-countability, calls it “Enron accounting.”

When bad apples are culled, perfor-mance improves. In a third of Houston’s30 high schools, scores on standardizedtests rose as enrollment dropped. Aus-tin High School, for example, shed morethan 500 students between 1997 and2000, and saw pass rates for the remain-ing 2,200 students rise from 65 percentto 99 percent. [Diana Schemo, Questions

on Data Cloud Luster of HoustonSchools, New York Times, July 11,2003.]

Texans are in sack cloth and ashesover this, but Houston actually had agood policy. A sizable percentage of “in-ner city” students get nothing out of school, and only make it hard to teachthe rest. It is just as well “the Texasmiracle” has been exposed as baloney,but Houston’s methods do demonstratethe advantages of weeding out incor-rigibles. The state should formalize theprocess.

DC: No More Excuses

The National Assessment of Educa-tional Progress (NEAP) test is consid-ered to be the most comprehensive andconsistent national evaluation of studentperformance. Until now, it has releasedaverage scores by state, with the Districtof Columbia as a separate category. DCwas always dead last by a substantialmargin, but school administrators

claimed this was an unfair comparisonbecause the states have high-achievingsuburbs and the district does not. Com-pare us with other big, non-white cities,they said, and we will stack up just fine.

This year, NEAP calculated scores forAtlanta, Houston, Chicago, Los Ange-les, and New York, as well as the dis-

trict, and DC is still dead last. “Charterschools,” which the district set up someyears ago, and were to pull students outof the doldrums, had lower averagescores than other public schools.

William Caritj, assistant superinten-dent for assessment and educational ac-countability, isn’t worried. He says thedistrict is generally in the same leagueas the other cities and in many cases isdown by only a few percentage points.“DC is not doing a lot worse than thesedistricts,” he says. “The perception thatwe’re somehow a lot lower

than other cities is wrong.”The city does have a dis-

advantage. It has practi-cally no white students: just four percent in thefourth grade and three per-cent in the eighth grade.Glad for any glimmer of good news, educrats pointout that this handful of whites did better than thenational average forwhites—but this means theracial achievement gap is per-

haps the greatest in the country. [JustinBlum, D.C. Tests Poorly in Reading,Writing, Washington Post, July 23,2003.]

Whites Don’t Get It

Blacks in Oberlin, Ohio, are in a tizzyat the thought that a white person mightteach black history at Oberlin HighSchool. The usual teacher—suitablyblack—has a scheduling conflict. A.G.Miller, who teaches African religioushistory at Oberlin College, says the re-

placement sends the wrong message toblacks: “that we are not concerned aboutthe importance of your historical back-ground . . . that that is less important thana schedule conflict.” Michael Williams,interim director of Cleveland StateUniversity’s black studies program, saysa black person is a better choice becausehe “has the advantage of the culture” and“can understand the nuances of the cul-ture.”

Phyllis Yarber Hogan of the Oberlin

Black Alliance for Progress says whites just can’t teach blacks about slavery:“When you talk about slavery, studentsneed to understand it is not our fault. Ourancestors did nothing wrong to be en-slaved. How do you work through thatwhen the person teaching it is the sametype of person who did the enslaving?”

Parents at the high school have enteredan official complaint with the schoolboard. [Parents: White Teacher ShouldNot Teach Black History, NewsNet5.com (Cleveland television station), July28, 2003.]

Scalp ‘um White Man

As everyone now knows, Californiais struggling to cover a $38 billion bud-get deficit. As it happens, there is a wholeclass of Californians who do not pay

taxes on business profits, and who areexempt from vehicle taxes: Indians.Fifty-three California tribes run casinos,and the profits are tax-free. GovernorGray Davis, desperate for money, pro-posed a bill to freeze expansion of In-dian-owned casinos unless the tribes pay$1.5 billion, but later reduced the pro-posal to $680 million. The Indians arefighting back—successfully. They pre-fer to spend smaller amounts to influ-ence state legislation. During the last fiveyears, Indians have spent $120 millionon lobbying and state politics. [Many

Indians Exempt From State Taxes, Fees,Los Angeles Times, July 25, 2003.]

Gangstas to Pimps

Ten yeas ago, black rappers tried tolook like—and sometimes be—gang-stas. Now it is pimps. Typical, and insome respects leading the transforma-tion, is Snoop Dogg, who first appearedin Crip-style baggy jeans and sneakers,but now prefers the full pimp regalia:




pink pinstripe suits, two-tone shoes,wide-brimmed hat, and curly hair downto his shoulders. Mr. Dogg explains therationale for his new look:

“I wanted to look good and feel goodabout myself. Those are qualities thatyou get from a pimp that everybody’snot really understanding. [People] just

think it’s take money from a girl and slapher and send her to the corner, but nah,it’s other things about this pimpin’ thatyou really don’t even know.

“It’s cool to look good, it’s cool tohave girls on your arm, and get moneyfrom them, and that’s a good feeling, youdig? There ain’t nothing wrong with it.

“We’re teaching people how to hustleand how to look good. I’d rather be apimp than a gang-banger, because I grewup being a gang-banger, and I tell you,you live longer being a pimp.”

Mr. Dogg has even taken a former-pimp-turned-preacher as his “spiritualadvisor,” none other than the self-pro-claimed king of pimps, Archbishop DonMagic Juan. The archbishop is now anofficial part of the Dogg entourage, andsometimes goes on the road with the star.The archbishop explains his philosophy:“[It’s] the jewelry, the style of dressing,

the cars, the houses—to be able to feellike you’re doing it your way, nobodytell you what to do. You can move andgroove like you want to.”

“I stayed pimped out for 30 years,”he adds. “I always believed in it. Nowthat I say I don’t want to pimp no more,everybody wants to be a pimp!”

Indeed, Mr. Dogg and rapper 50 Centco-star in a new video called “P.I.M.P.,”Lil’ Jon struts about in a pimp costumewith a jewel-encrusted chalice that is the

symbol of pimpdom, and one of Jay-Z’smost popular songs is “Big Pimpin’.”Even in the ’90s, The Notorious B.I.G.was rapping: “Pimpin’ ain’t easy but itsure is fun.”

Real and former black pimps havebecome celebrities, thanks to documen-taries like HBO’s “Pimps up, Hos

Down,” and a film by the Hughes broth-ers, “American Pimp.” [Nekesa MumbiMoody, Pimps: The New ‘Gangstas’ of Rap, MiamiHerald.com, Jul. 23, 2003.]Work is under way on a cartoon moviecalled “Lil’ Pimp,” about a nine-year-old boy who hustles hos around theneighborhood. Sony originally plannedto release it in theatres but got cold feet,and it will go direct to video, cable, oreven the Internet. Here is a description:

“He’s a cute little whiteboy, he’s gotfreckles, and he’s a pimp—Lil’ Pimp,to be exact! Share the laughs, the magic

and the seductive, brutal honesty eachweek as Mom, Dad, Lil’ Pimp and hispimpin’ pals Fruitjuice and Nagc-hampa—plus superfine ‘hos Yam Bas-ket and Honeysack—fill your heart withwarmth and your computer screen withmemories.”

Eskimos, Too

On July 8, a 17-year-old white girlwaiting for a bus in Fairview, Alaska,fell into conversation with three Eski-mos. The Eskimos persuaded her walk

with them, and she agreed, thinking shecould catch the bus at one of the manystops along the way. When the four gotto a field, one man pushed her to theground, and two raped her while the thirdstood watch. She struggled to free her-self, and was punched repeatedly in theface. One Eskimo told her she was stu-pid to have got herself into such a situa-tion, and another threatened to kill herif she made any noise. A police officerdrove by during the assault and was spot-ted by the lookout. The girl managed tobreak free, and ran, crying, to the officer,

who arrested one of the men. Police areconsidering the rape a hate crime be-cause of certain remarks made to the girl,which they refuse to repeat. [TatabolineBrant, Fairview Rape May be HateCrime, Anchorage Daily News, July 12,2003.]

The Moor Returns

For 800 years, Muslims ruled south-ern Spain from the Moorish capital of

Granada, until King Ferdinand andQueen Isabella finally expelled them in1492. For the first time in 500 years,Spain has a new mosque, which wasopened to worship in Granada in July.Dignitaries from Arab and Muslim coun-tries gathered for the occasion as Sheik Sultan bin Mohammed al-Qassimi of the

United Arab Emirates—which paid forhalf of the construction cost—inaugu-rated the building, and a muezzinclimbed the minaret of the Great Mosqueof Granada to call the faithful to prayer.[Daniel Woolls, After 511 Years, a NewMosque in Spain, Chicago Sun-Times,July 11, 2003.]

Bantus Arrive in Phoenix

On May 22, Arizona got its first batchof Somali Bantus—a couple with sixchildren, along with the man’s mother.

They are expected to be followed by 800more, who will be coming as part of the12,000 the United States agreed to ac-cept as refugees (see AR, May 2003).

In the 18th century, the Somali Bantuswere taken from what is now Tanzaniaand Mozambique by Arabs, and workedas slaves for the Somalis. They areamong the most primitive people onearth, and have spent the last severalyears in a refugee camp in Kenya afterfleeing clan battles in Somalia.

When Hassan Muse, 42, arrived withhis family at the apartment a church

group had furnished for them in north-west Phoenix, he asked when the nextgroup of refugees was moving in; hecould not believe three bedrooms andtwo bathrooms were for his family only.In camp, they lived in a one-room mudhut with no electricity or running water.

The apartment has beds, but for thefirst few nights, the Muse family slepthuddled together on the living roomfloor, the way they did in camp. Aftertwo weeks, the 14-year-old daughter,who does most of the cooking, still hadnot mastered a can opener, and sat on

the floor, a can between her feet, stab-bing at it with a knife. Riding in auto-mobiles makes some of the Muses carsick, but one new toy they have all mas-tered is the television remote control.

Theoretically, Mr. Muse is supposedto go to work after several months of charity, but he speaks no English, can-not read or write in any language, hasnever driven a car, is blind in one eye,and is missing a finger. He and his fam-ily suffer from malaria, which they

Spiritual advisor.




brought with them, and his nine-year-oldson spent five days in the hospital be-cause of an attack.

Of all the things Grandma Muse hasseen in her new country, the pet foodaisle in the supermarket has impressedher most. She says American pets eatbetter than she did in Kenya. [Pat Shan-

nahan, A Family’s Culture Shock, Ari-zona Republic (Phoenix), July 20, 2003.]Sioux Falls, South Dakota is getting

a dose of Somalis, too, with perhaps 150expected over the next two years. Theywill be settled by Lutheran Social Ser-vices, which has already established alarge number of refugees in Sioux Falls.Thanks to their efforts, MinnehahaCounty had the fastest-growing percent-age of foreign-born residents of anymetropolitan area in the nation; theirnumbers doubled during the 1990s. [Ad-ditional Somali Refugees Could be

Headed to Sioux Falls, AP, July 27,2003.]

More Hmong, Too

The Laotian Hmong are anotherprimitive group that finds the UnitedStates more congenial than the homecountry. After the 1975 Communist take-over in Laos, some 130,000 Hmongmanaged to get to America, leavingabout 400,000 behind. Thai officialsannounced in July that we could be get-ting more, since the US says it will take

another 8,000 who have been languish-ing in Thailand ever since 1975.

US-based Hmong say some of theircompatriots back in Laos have started alow-level insurgency against the Com-munist government, and have asked theUS to airlift them to America. The Lao-tian government denies there is any in-surgency, but a Belgian journalist whowas just kicked out of the country sayshe found some anti-Communist Hmong:“There were about 600, mostly womenand children. Maybe 40 guys with guns,but no ammunition,” says Thierry Falise.

He adds that the Hmong were starving,and hoping to be rescued by Americans.[U.S. to Accept 8,000 Hmong, Reuters,July 22, 2003.]

Saving the Hmong could be our nextproject after we save Liberia.

Why Not Koreans?

Famine and political instability maysoon produce a flood of several hundredthousand North Korean refugees. Many

of them will no doubt be eager to cometo America. The US government con-siders North Koreans to be citizens of South Korea, so they are not eligible forrefugee status in the US, but that maysoon change. “There is an exodus of massive proportions taking place out of North Korea,” declares Senator Sam

Brownback (R-KS). “South Korea reallycannot be expected to take all of [them].”Sen. Brownback—along with Sen.

Edward Kennedy (D-MA)—recentlysponsored a resolution making NorthKoreans eligible for asylum in the US.The Senate has already approved themeasure, and the House of Representa-tives is expected to pass it, too. Sen.Brownback was also instrumental inbringing in the 12,000 Somali Banturefugees. He and Sen. Kennedy areworking with a coalition of human rightsgroups, refugee advocates, conservative

think tanks, and the Christian Coalitionto persuade the Bush Administration tolet the North Koreans in.

Chuck Downs, a consultant and hu-man rights advocate specializing inNorth Korea, thinks policy will certainlychange. “There is a core group of StateDepartment and Defense Departmentofficials who are very eager to see theadministration be responsive to this,” hesays, “and I think they have the supportof the president.”

“We will see the United States adoptvery generous provisions for North Ko-

rean refugees, including relocating themfrom China and South Korea into pro-cessing camps in the region and into lo-calities in the US,” he adds. Mr. Downswants as many North Koreans as pos-sible. If the administration can be per-suaded to bring in 9,000, he says thatwould mean “a tremendous loosening of the floodgates.” With as many as300,000 waiting in the wings, it couldbe a deluge. [Marian Wilkinson, US Pre-pares to Open Door to Flood of NorthKorean Refugees, Sydney (Australia)Morning Herald, July 30, 2003.]

‘Fair And Lovely’

Indian women, like all Third-Worldwomen, want to lighten their skin. Mem-bers of the highest castes have lighterskin tones, and fair-skinned womendominate billboards, magazine advertis-ing, fashion and movies. The Sundaynewspaper personals are full of marriageads seeking fair-skinned brides, and thesale of skin lighteners brings in more

than $100 million per year.A recent television ad for a product

called Fair And Lovely has set the coun-try off on one of its periodic rumpusesabout the desire for white skin. Knownas “the air hostess ad,” it starts with a

man lamenting that he has no son, andthat his daughter does not make enoughmoney to support him. She tries Fair andLovely, turns lighter, and gets a job as astewardess. The father is happy.

Brinda Karat, general secretary of theAll India Democratic Women’s Associa-tion, calls the ad “racist.” “Of course,there is a cultural base in India for thiskind of market,” she concedes. “[FairAnd Lovely is] taking advantage of thatand exploiting that very backward un-derstanding.” She is pleased to note that

the air hostess ad is off the air.Hindustan Lever, which makes Fair

And Lovely, says the spot is no longertelevised only because it ran its course,and notes that others that make the samepoint are still on the air. They may notbe for long. Rita Vorimer of the rulingBJP party, wants to ban ads of this kind.“They are polluting the minds of theyounger generation,” she says. “Some-thing must be done by the government,and the government has a responsibilityto stop all this nonsense.” [India Debates‘Racist’ Skin Cream Ads, BBCNews

.com, July 24, 2003.]

Singapore Segregation

A six-month study of Singapore pri-mary schools has uncovered the obvi-ous: children prefer friends of their ownrace. Chinese, Malay, and Indian stu-dents mix in the classroom, but segre-gate themselves by race during recessand at lunch. To some degree, this re-flects the fact that the three groups speak

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different languages at home. However,researchers found that the tendency toself-segregation grows stronger as chil-dren grow older, although they have allbecome more fluent in English. By sixthgrade, 80 percent of Chinese and 70 per-cent of Malay and Indian students spendtheir free time only with people of the

same race. The study found that extra-curricular activities like sports and scout-ing can foster interracial friendships.[Sandra Davie, Pupils Aren’t Mixing,Study Finds, Straits Times (Singapore),July 27, 2003.]

Why Not Proportional Re-presentation?

Vista is a town of 90,000 residents inSan Diego County, California. It electsa mayor and four at-large city council-men, but although 40 percent of its popu-

lation is Hispanic, it has never elected aHispanic. Hispanics have tried to run forcity council. Last fall, Elvin Vega, whoworks for a tow truck company but hasno political experience, planted signs inHispanic neighborhoods, but finishedfourth in a field of six. Frank Lopez hastried to run for city council twice butnever made it. Neither man says there isanything wrong with the election sys-tem—they just didn’t get elected.

Many people point out that even whenthere are a lot of Hispanics, many maybe illegal, others are too young to vote,

and many don’t care. This not goodenough for the US Justice Department,which is investigating Vista for possibleviolations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Department spokesman JorgeMartinez says whites need not be tryingto keep Hispanics out, but if they tendto vote for whites, and the at-large sys-tem works to the disadvantage of His-panics, the feds can order the town todraw up districts, some with Hispanic-majorities, to ensure Hispanics areelected.

Not even the Hispanic activists in

town are keen on the idea. CatherineManis, who leads an advocacy group forHispanics, says she never heard a com-plaint about the system until the JusticeDepartment came snooping around. Shesays if Hispanics can’t win elections it’sbecause they run poor campaigns. Mr.Vega, the failed candidate who plans torun again next year, is surprised by thefederal involvement, too. “I don’t likethat idea because I want to represent thewhole city,” he says. “I don’t want to just

represent one area. I want to representall races, all religions—it doesn’t mat-ter.”

The Justice Department is undaunted.If it finds that an at-large system worksto the disadvantage of Hispanics, it couldorder dozens of California towns to rejigtheir voting systems. [Beth Silver, Vista

is Examined for Bias, Los AngelesTimes, July 28, 2003.]

Bullets on the Border

Like most law enforcement agencies,the US Border Patrol uses hollow-pointbullets. Hollow-points, also known ascontrolled expansion rounds, are de-signed so the tip of the bullet expandsas it enters the body, causing massivetrauma to the target and delivering enor-mous stopping power. Police prefer hol-low-points because criminals are less

likely to be a threat once they are shot.Hollow-points are safer for the publicthan the full-metal jacketed bullets usedmainly by the military because they areless likely to pass through the target, ora door or wall, and hit bystanders. TheDepartment of Homeland Security,

which oversees the Border Patrol, isseeking bids on a contract to supply 225million rounds of .40 caliber hollow-points—a five-year supply—to its en-forcement agencies. The Border Patrolhas used hollow-point ammunition sincethe 1970s.

That troubles the Washington DC-based Catholic Legal Immigration Net-

work, Inc. (CLINIC), which supports“low-income” immigrants. “We don’tthink that [hollow-points] are necessary;they cause massive injuries,” saysDonald Kerwin, executive director.CLINIC has started a lobbying campaignto pressue Homeland Security SecretaryThomas Ridge to switch to the militaryround.

Congressman Joseph Baca (D-CA) iscirculating a letter to colleagues hopingto drum up support for the change. He

says if the effort fails, he may sue. An-other supporter is Congressman RaúlGrijalva (D-AZ), who says “It’s fulldeadly force with the hollow-point, theyexplode inside of you, that’s the point.”Mr. Grijalva’s fellow Arizona congress-man, Republican Jim Kolbe, thinks lawenforcement agencies should be left to

choose their own ammunition. [LukeTurf, Effort Mounted to Strip BorderPatrol of Hollow-Point Bullets, TucsonCitizen, June 17, 2003.]

Quotas in Brazil

Brazil is home to more blacks thanany country outside Africa. While manyof the country’s 180 million people arehybrids, and the country prides itself on“racial democracy,” the reality is that theupper classes are white. The governmentrecently enacted American-style affirma-

tive action to make universities lesswhite, doubling and in some cases tri-pling the number of black and mixed-race students (see AR, June 2003).

“Last semester,” says law professorGeraldo Monteiro of the State Univer-sity of Rio de Janeiro, “there weren’tenough blacks in the law school to evenmention. I’m generalizing only a littlewhen I say that all of my students wereblond, white and rich. A lot of those kidsare in court now, learning the law in adifferent way: by suing the university.”

White students denied admission un-

der the quota system have filed morethan 300 lawsuits against the State Uni-versity. One of them is 19-year-oldGabriella Fracescutti, who wanted tostudy medicine. She scored better on thenational college entrance exam than half of the students admitted, but was rejectedbecause she is neither black nor poor. “I just don’t understand how you can jus-tify someone with a lower grade gettinginto the school, and turning me down.Why, because I have blond hair?” sheasks. “I have friends who are whiter thanme and didn’t study and didn’t do well

on the test, but they wrote down theywere black on the their applications andthey got in.”

Supporters of affirmative action likeits psychological effect. “The biggestadvantage of this quota system,” saysPaulo Fabio Salgueiro, admissions di-rector of the State University, “is that ithas broken this myth of a non-racial so-ciety. . . . [T]he debate over quotas hasforced everyone to confront the fact thatracism, discrimination and social exclu-




sion are alive and well here.” [Jon Jeter,College Affirmative Action Debate StirsMany-Hued Brazil, Washington PostNews Service, July 6, 2003.]

Bone-Chilling

Workers in Chicago-area bum shel-

ters called police when large numbersof badly injured bums started showingup. Police discovered the injuries werepart of an insurance scam in which conartists scoured skid row,offering insurance settle-ment money to derelictswho agreed to have theirbones broken in simu-lated auto accidents. “Onthe appointed day,” saysDetective Ken Bigg,“they would take them toa garage and put their arm

on a stone block. Andthey would smash the arm [with an axhandle].” The preferred injury, accord-ing to Mr. Biggs, was compound frac-ture with the bone protruding from theflesh, since the gang thought gruesomeinjuries would win bigger settlements.The scammers were afraid the insurancecompanies would be suspicious if theonly injuries were to arms, so they alter-nated between breaking arms and legs.

The gang took the battered men topre-arranged accidents, complete withsmashed cars, and dialed 911. Members

posed as relatives, saying they were des-perate for money and wanted to settlequickly. Insurance settlements rangedfrom $10,000 to $100,000, but the bumsgot $1,500 at most, and often nothing atall. In June, Chicago police arrested sixpeople—all black—on charges of insur-ance fraud. Michael Garner, known asthe bonecrusher, was the one who swungthe ax handle. [Bryan Smith, Six Ac-cused in Bone-Breaking InsuranceScam, Chicago Sun-Times, June 8, 2003,p. 15A.]

Life in America

Honorio Martinez, an illegal immi-grant, was driving without a license ona rural road in West Palm Beach, Fla.,when he hit and killed a three-year-oldblack boy. More than a dozen men, whoare friends of the boy’s father, managedto stop the car, pulled Mr. Martinez out,and beat him. Mr. Martinez staggeredback to look at the three-year-old, andthen said he was leaving because he did

not have a license. The crowd pouncedon him again, held him until sheriff’sdeputies arrived, and then scattered. Noone has been charged in the beating.[Motorist Beaten by Crowd After Boy’sDeath on West Palm Beach Street, AP,July 13, 2003.]

It Must Be LoveKenyans appear to have strong views

on the inadvisability of older womenmarrying younger men. WambuiOtieno is a 67-year-old woman wellknown in Kenya as a fighter in theMau Mau rebellion but also as thecountry’s most prominent feminist.She has just married her handyman,25-year-old Peter Mbugua, in a matchthat has set the country on its ear. Asone young Kenyan explained to agroup of cheering men, “In Africa we

all know that women are as old as theylook. Men are as old as they feel. She’sdisgusting.” Rumor has it the groommarried Miss Otieno for her money, andhis 53-year-old mother was shown innews photographs wailing with grief anddisbelief. She died three days after thewedding, “of shock and sadness,” asKenya’s leading daily, the Nation, ex-plained. Many Kenyans believe herdeath is a sure sign the marriage iscursed.

Miss Otieno’s first husband died 16years ago, and says she was lonely. Wid-

owers in Kenya often marry youngwomen, but widows are shunned; theydo not even inherit their husband’s prop-erty, which goes to his family. MissOtieno had no fewer than 15 childrenby her first husband, and has been feud-ing with all of them. They oppose hersecond marriage to what they call a“boy,” saying she did it only to make surethey won’t inherit her property. [EmilyWax, May-December Love With a TwistThrows Africa for a Loop, WashingtonPost, July 25, 2003, p. A18.]

Bullied by Somalis

As many as 200 young Somalis at-tend Sanford Middle School in Minne-apolis, and there are many more at otherschools in the district. Sanford also hasa large number of American Indian stu-dents, and the two groups do not getalong. Last May, parents of Indian stu-dents held a rally outside the school toprotest ill treatment of their children bySomalis.

Jocelyn Burris says Somali studentsbullied her son Todd all year. At onepoint a group of them pushed him downthe stairs, saying, “You’re native Indian,we’re going to kill you.” Carmalita Ot-ter Robe says Somali thugs yelling ra-cial insults cornered her son RussellCrow Ghost, and one of them hit him in

the eye with a padlock. Other parents saybullying and racial taunts are common-place, and fault the school.

School officials say they are aware of the racial tensions, but insist there is nowidespread problem—just isolated in-cidents between small groups of stu-dents. Still, they say they will take stepsthis fall to improve cultural awarenessand sensitivity. [James Walsh, RacialBullying Alleged at Middle School, StarTribune (Minneapolis), May 14, 2003,p. B3.]

The Gang’s All HereThe fastest-growing criminal gang in

New York is neither the Crips nor theBloods, but the El Salvadoran MS-13.Police say the MS-13s are ultra-violentthugs who kill, steal, rape, and deal drugswithout fear of either other gangs or thepolice. The gang got its start during thecivil wars in El Salvador in the 1980s,and moved to Los Angeles, where it ranprotection rackets, stole cars and solddrugs. Members were arrested and de-ported, but many made it back to the US,

and now the gang is in California, Texas,Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts,Iowa, and Nebraska.

They began moving to New York dur-ing the 1990s, and recruit heavily amongHispanics (not just Salvadorans), offer-ing them money, beer and marijuana. If a prospect refuses to join, recruiters maystab him or beat him to death with base-ball bats. Initiation rites include beingpunched and kicked for 13 seconds, anda new recruit may be forced to shoot amember of the rival Salvadoran gang,SWP-18.

Members of MS-13 wear the number13 on their clothing, and have it tattooedon their lips, tongues and foreheads.They wear blue and white—the colorsof the Salvadoran flag—and identifyeach other with hand signals, extendingthe little and index fingers to form devil’shorns. Meetings are held on the 13th of every month, and dues are $13.00.

Police say that while MS-13 usuallypreys on other Salvadorans, it attacksbystanders and other gang members.

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“We get Bloods and Crips who tell us,‘Why don’t you do something aboutthose MS-13 guys—they’re crazy!’”says Long Island anti-gang taskforcemember Jason Robles. “The reason thatthey’re such a threat is that they’re vio-lent for no reason. They’ll fight overanything.”

One member recently bit the face of a Blood in a prison holding cell, despitebeing outnumbered 10-1, just to showhow crazy he was. Last October, threemembers of the gang killed a patron out-side a nightclub on Long Island becausethey were kicked out of the club. MS-13 is not afraid of the police, either. Lastyear they formed a hit squad to kill arandom Fairfax County, Va., police of-ficer, just to raise their status (though thekilling didn’t take place). MS-13 mem-bers took down the license plate num-bers of members of the anti-gang task

force on Long Island and followed someto their homes. Police estimate there areperhaps 2,000 members in New York,and as many as 10,000 nationwide.[Marcus Baram and Brad Hamilton,Toughest of Toughs: Bloodthirsty LatinGang Invades New York, New York Post, June 1, 2003, p. 9.]

Detroit Fumbles

Blacks have been complaining foryears that there are too few black headcoaches in the NFL (there are three).

Tired of being threatened with litigation,the NFL owners adopted a policy lastDecember that requires all teams to in-terview at least one non-white candidatefor any future head coach opening, un-less the position is filled internally.

In January, Detroit Lions owner MattMillen fired head coach Marty Morn-hinweg, replacing him with former SanFrancisco 49ers coach Steve Mariucci.Mr. Mariucci, who is white, was the onlycandidate interviewed. Mr. Millen says

he tried to interview five non-whites forthe job, but all turned him down after itwas widely reported that Mr. Mariuccihad the inside track.

On July 25, the NFL fined Mr. Millen$200,000 for failing to honor the Decem-ber agreement. While NFL Commis-sioner Paul Tagliabue acknowledged

that Mr. Millen had at least tried to in-terview non-whites for the job, he faultedhim for not taking “sufficient steps tosatisfy” the December agreement. Pre-sumably, he didn’t try hard enough. Mr.Tagliabue added that any team failingto take “sufficient steps” in the futurecould face a fine of $500,000 or morefor “conduct detrimental” to the NFL.The Lions are considering an appeal.[Mike Householder, NFL Fines Lions$200K Over Coach Search, AP, July 25,2003. Lions Execs Slam NFL for Hir-ing Fine, AP, July 27, 2003.]

Black HebrewsBack in 1967, Ben Carter, then a Chi-

cago bus driver, says he was visited bythe angel Gabriel who told him he wasGod’s representative on earth. Mr.Carter, who is black, came to believe thatAmerican blacks are one of the 10 lost

tribes of Israel. He quit his job, changedhis name to Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, col-lected followers, and led 350 of them toLiberia. Two years later, he led those thatwere left—now calling themselves Af-rican Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem—to Israel, where they settled in the deserttown of Dimona. The Black Hebrews,now 2,500 strong, wear fancy black-striped self-made robes, practice po-lygamy, shun birth control, and foregomeat, dairy products, eggs and sugar.They sell crafts, make clothes, and op-erating “vegan” restaurants. They also

run a factory that produces tofu icecream. In 1999 two Black Hebrew sing-ers represented Israel in the annualEurovision song festival.

Most Black Hebrews arrived in Israelon tourist visas and illegally overstayed.They have petitioned succeeding Israeligovernments for citizenship under theLaw of Return, which grants Israeli citi-zenship to nearly all Jews. Israel’s chief rabbinate has ruled that the Black He-brews are not really Jews, and the gov-

ernment refused to grant citizenship, butdid give the Black Hebrews temporaryresidency in 1992—on condition that nomore would come. Over the years, theBlack Hebrews have attracted a numberof high-profile supporters, such as JesseJackson and singer Whitney Houston,who have lobbied the Israeli government

on their behalf.In July, Interior Minister AvrahamPoraz, following the recommendation of an interior ministry committee, awardedthe Black Hebrews permanent residency.Black Hebrews now will be able to servein the Israeli army and establish theirown residential communities, and mayeventually become citizens. “We’reready to take on responsibilities andobligations as permanent members of thecommunity,” says Chicago native AdivBen-Yehuda, a former college basketballplayer with two wives and 12 children,

who has lived in Israel for 30 years. [Pe-ter Enav, Israel Recognizes ‘Black He-brew’ Community, AP, July 28, 2003.Jill Lawless, Israel OKs Status of ‘Black Hebrews’, AP, July 29, 2003.]

Another Shakedown

Several years ago, blacks got a lot of money from Denny’s restaurants withsuits claiming they were treated badlybecause they were black. The chain wenton to “diversity” programs, and high-profile blacks. Now it looks like the

Cracker Barrel restaurant chain is aboutto get the same treatment.

On July 30, 23 blacks in Little Rock,Arkansas, sued the chain. They saywhites who came in later were seatedfirst, and that when they were finallyseated they were stuck in the back of thesmoking section. They say they got slowservice, and that when they complainedto management, they were told there wasa Burger King down the street.

A spokesman for Cracker Barrel saysthe suit is an attempt to discredit the com-pany. She says a judge has dismissed a

similar lawsuit filed in Georgia. [DavidHammer, Bias Lawsuit Filed AgainstCracker Barrel, AP, July 30, 2003.]

‘Entirely Anti-Hispanic’

The Mexican government has beenpressuring American government agen-cies, police departments, banks, andother businesses to accept ID cards is-sued to its citizens in the US by Mexi-can consulates. Many banks eager to

Erratum: In the previous issue, wereported that 16 of the 19 Sept. 11hijackers were Saudis. The correctnumber is 15.



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profit from the immigrant cash economyand police departments afraid of beingcalled racist have agreed. The FBI be-lieves the cards, known as matriculaconsular , pose a security threat becausethey are easily forged, as are the docu-ments, such as birth certificates, on thebasis of which they are issued. The FBI

worries the matricula could be attrac-tive to terrorists, since the only peoplewho need them are illegal aliens. Legalimmigrants have visas and green cardsissued by the US government.

On July 16, the House of Represen-tatives voted 382-42 to require Mexicoand any other government issuing con-sular identity cards to guarantee that therecipient really is a citizen of that coun-try, and to turn over the names and ad-dresses of each recipient. It would bebetter to forbid the issuance of the cards,but the Republicans were not up to that.

Still, Democrats are denouncing theamendment as “entirely anti-Hispanic.”“While the Republicans claim that theirfocus is broad in nature, this amendmentexposes their true colors and sets a dan-gerous precedent,” says Robert Menen-dez (D-NJ), chairman of the HouseDemocratic Caucus and highest-rankingHispanic in Congress. “It is the brain-child of certain Republicans,” he added,“who obsess over their fear and hatredof the immigrant community late at nighton the House floor.” [Stephen Dinan,Democrats Assail Bill Restricting ID

Cards, Washington Times NationalWeekly Edition, July 21-27, 2003, p. 7.]

Barring Crime

Johannesburg, South Africa is one of the most dangerous cities in the world.In 2000, it had 15,000 residential bur-glaries and nearly 2,000 murders or at-tempted murders. The black governmentcannot control lawlessness, so the city’smore affluent—mostly white—residentshave closed off access to their neighbor-hoods with bars, gates and manned bar-

ricades on public streets. The first bar-ricades went up within days of the 1994election that brought black rule, andthere are now estimated to be 500.

There have been complaints that theblockades are “racist,” restrict traffic,and inconvenience domestic workerswho must show ID. The city council hasannounced that residents must now sub-mit access control applications to jus-tify barricades. Unless they get councilapproval, which is expensive, time-con-

suming and unlikely, residents must dis-mantle the barricades or pay the city totear them down. Jo’burgers are lookingfor other ways to protect their homes.[Toby Reynolds, Anti-Crime Barriers inJohannesburg Raise Hackles, Reuters,July 16, 2003.]

Wretched RepublicansWard Connerly, the black business-

man who has steered anti-affirmativeaction ballot initiatives to success inCalifornia and Washington, has hissights on Michigan for 2004. Who op-poses him? Blacks, of course, but alsothe Michigan Republican party. BestyDeVos, state party chairman, has beenfull of mealy-mouthed nonsense: “Thepotential for a racially divisive cam-paign, complete with the typical kindsof irresponsible rhetoric that often comes

from both sides, is my chief concern.”A measure to stop discrimination againstwhites might prompt “irresponsiblerhetoric.”

There has been similar mush from theparty’s executive director, Greg Mc-Neilly: “What we need now, and whatwould be best for our state, is to commitourselves to reducing racial tensions andfocus on policy objectives that unite usas Americans.” A majority of Michigan-ders oppose racial preferences. Why doRepublicans pretend they want to “uniteus as Americans” by throwing whites to

the dogs?“What nobody wants to acknowledge

is that this opposition is concerned that[the initiative] will negatively impactPresident Bush’s re-election,” says LeonDrolet, a Republican state representativewho supports the initiative. Michigan islikely to be an important battlegroundin 2004, and the party is still smartingbecause it couldn’t deliver the state toGeorge Bush in 2000. Party hacks seemto think having a “controversial” initia-tive on the ballot in November will bringout Democratic voters who could tip the

balance against Mr. Bush.Mr. Drolet is not the only Republican

office-holder who is crossing the partyline. “The primary job of the MichiganRepublican Party is to get Michigan can-didates elected,” says representativeJack Brandenburg. “We have a nationalparty to take care of the president.” He,too, is backing the initiative. [SteveMiller, Michigan GOP Leaders OpposeRace Initiative for Bush’s Sake, Wash-ington Times, July 30, 2003.] ΩΩΩΩΩ

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