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William Clinton’s initiativeon race and the AR response.

by Jared Taylor

arly in 1997, safely back in theWhite House for a second term, Wil-liam Clinton is said to have turned hisattention to the matter of “legacy.” Hewracked the Presidential brains for anundertaking so grand that it might lift

his administration out of scandal andmediocrity, and enshrine his nameamong the truly great. Thus was born,to give it its full name, “One Americain the 21st Century: The President’sInitiative on Race.” William Clintonwould solve the American race prob-lem—or at least win renown trying.

The President then appointed hismuch-ballyhooed Advisory Panel, andwe are now mid-way through a year-long campaign of uplift and regenera-tion that is to culminate in one of themost useless things imaginable—agovernment report. Of courses, the“initiative” will not enshrine the Presi-dent among the great, if only becauselegacies are not made by design. Mendo not win renown because they picked a plan out of the air in the hopeit would make them famous. Men likeWashington or Lee have enduringlegacies because they acted on deeplyfelt convictions and fought for causesfor which they willingly risked their lives. It is impossible to imagine themin middle age, drumming their fingers

on the window sill, trying to think of ways to fluff up their resumés. Unfor-tunately for William Clinton, not evenhighly-paid consultants can conjure upheroism in a man with no apparentconvictions.

Aside from the spectacle of our President maneuvering for a place inhistory, as a practical matter One

America in the 21st Century will ac-complish nothing. The race-unconscious America Mr. Clintonclaims to have in mind for us cannot be built. If his goal were once again torecognize race as an important factor in American life there would be room

for much progress, but Americans willnot suddenly turn their backs on his-tory, biology, and human nature just to please William Clinton.

Another reason the PresidentialInitiative will accomplish nothing isthat it is so transparently dishonest.

According to official White Housestatements, the President has called for candid dialogue, and has instructed hisadvisory panel to “listen to Americans

from all different races and back-grounds, so that we can better under-stand the causes of racial tension.” Butthe last thing the President and hishandlers want is candid dialogue.Their idea of dialogue is shoving their spavined, clapped out ideas aboutwhite wickedness down our throats.Ten minutes of dialogue with Philippe

Rushton or Michael Levin or SamuelFrancis would leave them tongue-tiedand goggling.

Even liberals understand the dis-honesty of this “dialogue.” In Novem- ber, when the President’s advisory panel announced it was not open tocriticism of affirmative action, who but the American Jewish Congressshould point out that the dialogue wasnow a soliloquy. “If the presidential

panel wants to talk only to itself,fine,” said executive director PhilBaum; “But then don’t pretend that itis a ‘dialogue’ and don’t try to pass off its findings as a serious review of the possibilities.” The American JewishCongress, which has strongly supported racial preferences, can usually be counted on to be wrong, but thistime Mr. Baum got it exactly right.

We have six more months of “initiative” to look forward to, but the“town meetings” on race that are supposed to take the pulse of the people

are being choreographed to have aboutas much disagreement and suspense asa session of the Soviet Politbureau.One meeting has been planned for Fairfax, Virginia, just down the roadfrom AR’s offices. We have tele- phoned and e-mailed for press creden-tials or even just a place in the audi-ence, but have received no definitereply. Other citizens with somethingto say about race are beginning towonder whether the “town meeting”may be closed to the public. Perhaps ahand-picked audience of Civil RightsCommission bureaucrats in jacketsand ties will be presented to the televi-sion cameras as a cross section of the people, but more and more Americansare recognizing the “initiative” as themeaningless PR wheeze it so obvi-ously is.

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Americans will not turn

their backs on human

nature just to please

William Clinton.

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“Legacy” in the Making

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

– Thomas Jefferson



help and it would be oppression tosuggest that we could."

When it comes to jobs, non-whites become equal to whites. "Our peopleare as good as anyone, and shouldhave their proportionate share of ex-ecutive jobs, government power, andcultural influence. It's the Americanway."

Where policy-making is concerned,non-whites are superior to whites."We will help make laws for the coun-try and our minority status gives usspecial insight that lets us lead theway in shaping society. Also, wealone can make policies that affect us because whites cannot understand us."

It's quite a trick to be inferior,equal, and superior all at the sametime.

Victor Gerhard, Conklin, N.Y.

Sir – I enjoyed your review of The Demographic Struggle for Power andwas particularly struck by Prof. Book-man's blunt statement that "when raceis the distinguishing feature assimila-tion efforts become irrelevant." Inother words, she knows very well thatChinese would never pretend thatwhites could be made into Chinamen,nor will Robert Mugabe ever think of white Zimbabweans as anything butaliens. And yet in America we are pre-sumably supposed to believe that people of every race and stage of devel-

opment can be handily remade intothe political heirs of Thomas Jeffer-son, and that our country will"reinvent" itself as what Ben Watten- burg is pleased to call a "universalnation."

I am reminded of your excellentreview of Walker Connor's Ethnona-tionalism [March, 1997] which, likeThe Demographic Struggle for Power,is wise to the ways of the world yetsilent about the United States.

Do these people really believe in"American exceptionalism" or do they

simply refrain from drawing logicalconclusions that might make their pro-fessional lives difficult. I suspect thatfor people as observant as Prof. Book-man and Prof. Connor it can only bethe latter. People seek respectabilitymore avidly than truth.

Elizabeth Archibald, Newport News, Va.

Sir – I greatly enjoyed Mr.MacDaniel's account of the life andinfluence of Madison Grant. I would be curious to know, though, howmany racialists still think the sub-ra-

cial distinctions between Nordic, Al- pine, and Mediterranean are impor-tant. It is commonly said that Span-iards and, especially, the Portuguese permitted an unfortunate amount of miscegenation with African slaves, but most of Europe is surely of a ra-cial and cultural piece. The peoplewho gave us Michaelangelo,Dostoyevsky, and Copernicus are asmuch our people as those who gave us Newton and Goethe. We need unity inour struggle, not division.

Conrad Greene, Florence, Ala.

Sir – Your December cover storynotes that after Hitler invaded Poland"eugenics would be equated with con-centration camps, Nazi doctors, Holo-caust, and war crimes." Should it be?

From 1941 to 1945 we Americansfought a bitter war against Germany. Now we must come to grips with thefact that just because our adversariessaid something does not necessarilymake it false. National Socialism wasnot, moreover, an isolated phenome-non, but reflected many ideas thatwere widely accepted during the1920s and 1930s. Besides Americaninfluence on German eugenicists, weeven influenced attitudes towardJews, most notably through the four volumes of The International Jew,which were published with the help of Henry Ford. They were quickly trans-lated into German and may have in-


Letters from Readers spired parts of the large corpus of work that was published in Germanyon the Jewish question.

It makes no sense to link war andscience. If Hitler's invasion of Polandhelped bring about the decline of eugenics did the Soviet invasion of

Poland (and of Finland, Latvia,Lithuania, Estonia and Romania) dis-credit Lysenkoism? Only NationalSocialism is ever brought into whatshould be a "scientific" argument.

Readers who are curious to learnabout genetic thought in National So-cialist Germany should consult Leit-

faden der Rassenhygiene, published by Otmar von Verschuer in 1944.

Charles Weber, Tulsa, Okla.

Sir – I watched the multi-racial

Cinderella mishmash that you men-tioned in the December "O Tempora"section. Blacks slip freely into theroles of any white person and we arenot to notice. We are all from thesame family tree and there are no dif-ferences. The next morning's radionews reported that Cinderella had themost viewers in its time slot – 60 mil-lion Americans watched it. This is thesewage that multiculturalism poursinto the heads of white youngsters.

Name Withheld, St. Louis, Mo.

Sir – I have noticed that minority"leaders" have taken to artful dancingwhen they describe the people of their race.

When welfare is being handed out,they portray themselves as inferior."Pity us poor blacks and Hispanics; if we don't get help, what will we do?We can't survive without government



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Perhaps we were naive, but whilethe initiative was still only a rumor agroup of friends of AR thought theinvitation to dialogue might possibly

permit a little carefully-worded dis-sent. Well in advance of June 14,1997, when William Clinton an-nounced his program, we prepared anopen letter to the President that wehad hoped to publish in a major news- paper as an immediate response to theannouncement. To our disappoint-ment, it was turned down by the NewYork Times, New York Post, Washing-ton Post, Washington Times, ChicagoTribune, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal. Chronicles magazinealso refused to publish the letter.

We have decided to print the letter,not so much because its message willstartle or inspire readers of AR, but because the fact that it cannot be pub-lished is a commentary on the limits

of expression. We worded this letter as moderately as possible. We securedthe signatures of a score of respectedacademics and writers. We released itat the very moment the President’sinitiative was front-page news. Andyet it was still unpublishable.

Some of the signatories would pre-fer not to have their names publishedin AR, so we have left them off. Oth-erwise, this is the full text that was

rejected by some of America’s mosthighly-regarded publications.

“Real Dialogue on Race”

Dear President Clinton:As men and women who have

thought and written about Americanrace relations, we welcome your ini-tiative on one of the nation’s mostenduring social problems. We ap- plaud your call for frank discussion,for we believe this is the very thingthe country needs.

In this spirit we urge you to chal-lenge some of the thinking about racethat has prevailed for the last 50years. We believe certain assumptionslimit debate and hinder progress, and

that policy on so important a questionas race relations must not be based onrestricted thinking. If your initiativeon race is to leave a real legacy, we believe it must be prepared to reex-amine the following assumptions:

(1) All races, on average, shareexactly the same set of abilities. Thereis simply no evidence for this view— only attempts to explain away persis-tent differences in achievement. To besure, there is a great deal of racialoverlap in all areas of ability, butthere is no reason to expect all racesto be equally represented at the samelevel in all fields.

Virtually every possible attempthas been made to discredit intelli-gence testing, but it remains the single best predictor of performance on tasksthat are generally recognized as re-quiring high intelligence. Today, vir-tually no one with a professionalknowledge of mental testing believes

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that all races have the same averageintelligence. Even under the most rig-orously fair and neutral testing condi-tions, whites score higher than blacks.Jews and certain Asian groups scorehigher than Gentile whites.

There is still some question as tocauses, but every serious investigationsuggests that heredity influences thesedifferences. Even the famous Minne-sota study carried out by Sandra Scarr and her colleagues with black childrenadopted by white parents—which wasdesigned to investigate whether racialdifferences in intelligence scorescould be altered as a result of rearingenvironment—produced compellingevidence that environment narrowsthe racial gap only slightly, if at all.Some of us have written carefully re-searched articles and books that ex- plore these issues in great detail.

(2) Justice requires equality of results. This assumption follows natu-rally from the first. Today, whenever minorities do not achieve at the samelevel as whites, the difference is in-variably attributed to “white racism,” past or present. Our society has notonly launched a massive campaign toroot out this “white racism,” but hasestablished a system of quotas andracial preferences designed to boostminorities into the positions they arethought to deserve.

But what if we are right about ra-cial differences in ability, Mr. Presi-

dent? If, as we believe, differences inachievement are partly the result of innate differences in ability, the last40 years of social engineering are based on mistaken assumptions.Equality of results cannot be achievedwithout penalizing whites and, in-creasingly, Asians as well. The recent ballot initiative in California reflectsdeep popular discontent with“affirmative action.” It cannot be“mended” as you have proposed, andif you continue to support it you willonly alienate the increasing number of

Americans who think it is unjust anddivisive.(3) Americans want racial integra-

tion. We are not really sure this istrue, Mr. President. Large-scale inte-gration generally takes place onlywhen required by law. It is now wellestablished that after reaching a verymodest peak in the 1980s, integrationhas gone into reverse. Americans of all races are now drifting back to-

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wards self-segregation. Nor is this simply a matter of

“white flight.” Large numbers of blacks now reject integration as an endin itself, and resist the influx of His- panic and Asian immigrants into their schools and neighborhoods. Whether we like it or not, it seems that most people prefer to work, live, and studywith people like themselves.

(4) Racial diversity is a strength.This is yet to be demonstrated, Mr.President. Indeed, diversity of lan-

guage, ethnicity, religion, and cultureis at the heart of every major conflicton the planet, from Burundi to theMiddle East to what was once Yugo-slavia. Your initiative itself is neces-sary only because of diversity, be-cause people of different races livetogether in America. Your initiative isnot a celebration of strength, but anadmission of weakness.

We are writing to you, Mr. Presi-dent, because we want your initiativeto succeed. We want it to bring real

improvement. But for this to happen,society must not cordon off certain basic issues and treat them as taboo.We must face the facts of race rela-tions as they are, not as we would likethem to be. Unless your initiative doesmore than recirculate bromides about“racism,” “sensitivity,” and “reachingout,” we fear it will only create expec-tations it cannot fulfill. Progress re-quires more than good intentions, Mr.President; it requires a strong commit-ment to open pursuit of the truth. ●


An Englishman disclaimsdivinity.

by Roy Kerridge

hat do foreigners think of theEnglish? Apart from those who actu-ally know the English, a surprisingnumber of people think that all Eng-lishmen are lords in stately homes.Even some Americans who are a“kind of” English, think this.

Nowhere is this belief stronger than in English-speaking Africa. In the mostremote “bush village,” acces-sible only by a dusty footpath,African adults and childrencan be found puzzling over exam papers sent from Eng-land. If they can only passthem, they believe, then thesecrets of English riches can be theirs. I have never been toAfrica, unless you count the CanaryIslands, but the travels of other familymembers have supplied me with anenormous number of African pen-friends, all asking for presents andmoney.

Such requests are not made with

intentional rudeness, for to the writer,an Englishman is not only a lord of boundless wealth, but a Human Godwho delights in granting wishes and prayers, no matter how extravagant.Stories in Boys’ Own magazines of “natives” worshipping white men asgods come to mind.

Here is an extract from a letter from Zimbabwe:

“Honoured Sir, I am not familiar with your house One Brickfield Ter-race, although I have pictures of Blen-heim and Chatsworth upon my walls.

Please send a picture of your mansion,also a stereophonic hi-fi apparatus anda ticket to London so I can discuss myeducation . . . .”

A photo of my house did nothing todispel this poor village school-teacher’s delusions. Unfamiliar withterraced [row] houses, he wrote back

asking why my long mansionhad so many doors.

Most of my letters, how-ever, come from Ghana, par-ticularly from the village of Suhum. I began with only one

penfriend in Ghana, a boy of ten, but new ones followed atthe rate of three a week. WhenI asked one correspondenthow he had heard of me, hereplied that he had bought myaddress from a man in the

market. Here are two samples, bothfrom schoolboys (spelling corrected).

“Dear Roy, blessed be your holyname. Please, I am a boy of twelveyears—may I be your pen friend? Iknow you will want me because your heart goes out to me. Please, I needmoney so I can continue my studies,also a Scientific Calculator and some pens so I can do maths and science.”

“Dear Roy Sir or Madam, it givesme inconceivable pleasure to ask you,as my new pen friend, for a calculator, books about maths and science andmany hundreds of pounds sterling so Ican continue my studies. I am a boyaged 21 years in Junior School and I

wish to go to Senior SecondarySchool, then to University. Please, my parents paid for my schooling all mylife, but when I was nineteen my fa-

ther ran away to Liberia and when Iwas twenty my mother went to SierraLeone and has not returned. Please,only my uncle is here and he will noteven buy me a new school uniform soI am in despair . . . .”

“Education,” worst of all Europeanintroductions to Africa, makes slavesof parents who have to work all thehours God sends to keep children atschool. What begins as a supposed“sound investment” becomes a mill-stone by the time the schoolboy isthirty and still showing no signs of

passing an exam. Nagged unbearably by the ungrateful pupil, the parentstake to flight, leaving no address. Theabove “missing parent” letter is typi-cal. Nearly all African schools are fee- paying, and if you can afford it, youcan stay at your desk failing exam af-ter exam until you are a grandfather.The twenty-one-year-old schoolboylater wrote me a passionate letter de-nouncing an eight year old boy in hisclass who had stolen my address.

“Sir, he is bad, a thief, so be sureand burn his letter.”

However, I kept the wonkily-written letter when it came, adorned by rows of ‘X’s and hearts, along withyet another request for a scientific cla-culator, whatever that may be.

Examinations intended for Englishchildren, with built-in assumptions of the examinee’s familiarity with Eng-lish life and language from birth, arealmost impossible for African children

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Waging total war withlimited means.

reviewed by Thomas Jackson

art of the anti-white mentality now prevailing in academic circles is theview that war and its attendant horrorsare recent, largely European inven-tions. Before contact with the West,we are told, primitive man lived inharmony with nature and at peace withhis neighbors. Even prehistoric Euro- peans were happy and peace-lovinguntil their own civilization corruptedthem.

Lawrence Keeley, who teaches an-thropology at the University of Illi-

nois, makes it overwhelmingly clear that this is nonsense. Most primitiveand prehistoric societies probablymade war so often that their peoplewere far more likely to die in combatthan the citizens of even the most war-like 19th or 20th century Europeannations. They also made war of themost cruel and brutal kind. Althoughwords like “primitive” and “savage”

have gone out of academic fashion,War Before Civilization could reha- bilitate them single-handedly.

Where did the idea of peace-loving

tribalists come from? Prof. Keeleygives due credit to Rousseau and hisimagined ancestor, the noble savage,

but argues that the worst damage has been done since the Second WorldWar. Earlier European wars had been

fought either by professional soldiersor, like the First World War, in narrow bands of territory. The horrors of the1940s were so widespread and so har-

rowing that they left Europeans with adeep suspicion of their own civiliza-tion. This suspicion was part of the

loss of will that brought down theEuropean empires,

and the rush to decolonize onlyencouraged sentimental foolishnessabout wise, long-suffering natives.The myth of the noble primitive isnow a central part of the multiculturalassault on the West.

Prof. Keeley points out that Ameri-cans started their romance with the

savage earlier than Europeans but the process has been the same: “[I]n theUnited States during the nineteenthcentury, the nobility of ‘savages’ wasdirectly proportional to one’s geo-graphic distance from them.” As East-erners began to mourn the passing of the stalwart red man, “most Western-ers still in direct contact with ‘wild’Indians . . . regarded them as danger-

to pass. However, the self-imposedAfrican Road to Madness is not myconcern here. At the moment, I amstill trying to wriggle out of my re-sponsibilities as lord and Human God.

Until they come to England andgrow sadly familiar with English life,most English-speaking Africans sin-cerely believe that every white man personally owns all the riches of thewhite world and probably delights ingiving them away. How can a god be poor? If, however, he refuses to grant prayers, that is his privilege.

For “white man,” you may alsoread “white woman.” For this reason, Imust caution English readers againstmarriages with Africans unless theyare quite sure that their non-aristocratic non-divine status is prop-erly understood. Rage and cries of “You cheated me!” show that a goddethroned must beware the wrath of

the former believer.My experiences as a penfriendhave helped me better to understand

Nelson Mandela. To many white people, Nelson Mandela is a Human God.

“Look at the way he’s forgiven thewhite South Africans!” people say.

But I say: “What has he got to for-give? His hunch, in latching on to‘god-like’ white people, seemed atfirst to be a mistake. He listened to theCommunist rantings of Lithuanian JoeSlovo, and ended up in prison. When

he came out, however, and found him-self in a post-Communist world, hewas at once acclaimed and adored bywhite people everywhere! He wasgiven the keys of the country, and be-came the President. Now he floatsaround in ecstasy, his arm around

white starlets, actors, actresses andfatuously grinning pop singers. Wasever a man so vindicated by his faith

in white people! Why ever should heforgive them? They have made himwhat he is, and his happy smiles showhis gratitude. For once the HumanGods have lived up to their promiseand given him everything.”

Mandela’s grateful personality hashelped make “Black South Africa” amore agreeable place than most people could have imagined to be possible. He seems a kindly if chuckle-headed old man.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I mustreply to eight or nine Ghanaian pen-friends who mistake me for a god. Incase you want to join their number, Imust warn you that One, BrickfieldTerrace is not my real address. ●

This article is reprinted with per-mission from the Autumn, 1997 issueof the British magazine Salisbury Re-view. Information for American sub-

scribers is available from FSI, Box4431, Wilmington, Delaware 19807-0431.


Ignoble SavagesLawrence Keeley, War Before Civilization, Oxford University Press, 1996, 245 pp., $25.00

Was ever a man sovindicated by his faith in

white people!



ous vermin, turbulent brigands, or use-less beggars to be expelled or extermi-nated at any opportunity.”

Now that tribalism has been pushedso far into the jungle that whites al-most never encounter it, they can allget sentimental over a bogus, idyllic past. As Prof. Keeley notes, “the privi-leged few who . . . are most cushionedfrom physical discomfort and incon-venience by industrial technology arethe most nostalgic about the primitiveworld.”

This has lead to silliness and evenfalsification. For example, there areremains of Early Neolithic (c. 4,000BC) ditch and palisade enclosures thatcan only have been fortifications.Some have clearly been battle groundsand are littered with human bones, butProf. Keeley quotes from a standardexplanation for such finds: “[P]erhapsthese camps were places where the

dead were exposed for months beforetheir bones were deposited in nearbycommunal burials.”

Likewise, it is typical to explainthat early men were buried withspears, swords, shields and battle axes because these were status symbols or were used as money. In Prof. Keeley’swords, those who insist on pacifyingthe past “ignore the bellicosely obvi-ous for the peaceably arcane.”

Lefties also discount bona fidefield observations of primitives on thewar path. No matter how untouched a

society may have been before whitesdiscovered it, any mayhem explorersobserved is said to be “the product of disequilibrium induced by Westerncontact.” Thus, it is impossible tostudy pristine savage nature becausethe very presence of white men is acontaminant that sets the peaceful primitives to murdering each other.Many anthropologists and archaeolo-gists appear to believe that war is “a peculiar psychosis of western civiliza-tion.”

Interestingly, Prof. Keeley reports

that some of the initial anthropological justification for this view came fromthe work of an earlier generation of scholars who had little respect for sav-age peoples. Anthropologists HarryTurney-High (1899-1982) and QuincyWright (1890-1970) were both veryinfluential in promoting the view thatalthough stone-age people did makewar of sorts, it was mostly stylized

ritual and not very dangerous. Thesemen thought that primitive war wasdefective and trivial because primitivesociety was defective and trivial. Sav-ages could not mobilize large numbersof men and keep them in the field, hadno idea of tactics, and were not trainedto “stand and die.” Their warfare waschildish.

Prof. Keeley’s careful researchshows this was far from the case. It isin fact true that when primitives en-gage in pitched battles, they usuallystop fighting after a relatively smallnumber of casualties. This lends cre-dence to the view that primitive war ismore for show than for killing, but pitched battles are only a small part of warfare. After sifting through moun-tains of field studies, Prof. Keeley reports not only that such battles are fre-quent but that casualties are greatlymultiplied by raids, ambushes, and

massacres.For example, ethnographers foundthat the Dugum Dani tribe of NewGuinea once engaged in seven full battles and nine raids in just 5 1/2months. Likewise, one Yanomamovillage in South America was raided25 times in 15 months. Surprise attack is the favorite tactic of primitives, andProf. Keeley estimates that a typicalraid might kill 5 to 15 percent of theinhabitants of a village. Sometimes far larger numbers might be trapped andkilled, and “massacres once a genera-

tion were not an unusual experience inmany nonstate groups.”

Archaeological evidence confirmsthat this is an old practice. In CowCreek, South Dakota, a mass gravethat dates from the 14th century ADcontains the skeletons of 500 men,women and children who were slaugh-tered, scalped and mutilated. All thehouses in the village were burned, andfrom their number archaeologists esti-mate that the total population wasabout 800. This village was wiped outand never reoccupied—150 years be-

fore Columbus arrived.There are burial sites in Gebel Sa-

haba in Egyptian Nubia that also showunmistakable signs of frequent violentdeath. A large number of the skeletons buried 12,000 to 14,000 years agoshow smashed heads, mutilation, andthe hacked left forearms common in battle casualties.

Early anthropologists like Turney-

High and Wright assumed that be-cause primitive societies did not havethe power to draft soldiers they couldnot mobilize many men. Prof. Keeleysays they were wrong. Although theGermans mobilized just over 30 per-cent of all men during the SecondWorld War, Tahitians, Zulus, andsome New Guinean tribes commonlymobilized 40 percent or more of their men. Moreover, in primitive war,there are essentially no support troops.Unlike the American army in Viet-nam, which had a “tooth to tail” ratioof only 1:14, virtually every savagecarries a weapon.

High mobilization rates and fre-quent battles mean very high cumula-tive casualty rates. Prof. Keeley calcu-lates that every year during the 20thcentury, Germany and Russia lost an

average 0.15 percent of their popula-

tions to combat. No other moderncountries come close. For primitivesocieties, however—the ChippewaIndians, Fiji islanders, the Dinka of West Africa, and certain New Guineantribes—annual battle deaths could ex-ceed one percent, or seven times themost lethal “civilized” rate. Prof.Keeley notes that as a result it was notuncommon for tribes and sub-tribes to be driven to extinction by warfare.

One important difference betweensavage and civilized war is that tribesdo not have the economic base to sus-

tain prolonged combat. They run outof supplies and have to stop. In NewGuinea, battles have lasted for severaldays or even weeks, but only becausethe combatants live so close to thefront they can come home to sleep atnight. During the most sustained NewGuinean warfare, truces might becalled for soldiers to tend crops. Oth-erwise both sides might starve.




A sampling of recent sci-

ence literature.

by Glayde Whitney

The Fourth Inquisition

A soon-to-be-published paper maintains that we are in the throes of afourth inquisition: “The fourth inquisi-tion was established in the mid-

twentieth century to suppress heresy.

As with the first and third inquisitions,a main problem has been that the ideo-logues did not integrate new knowl-edge with their already establishedobjectives and dogmas. Instead theyviewed new discoveries as a directthreat to all that was good and impor-tant in society. As with the earlier in-quisitions, the fourth attempts to suppress and censor new knowledge that

is perceived to be threatening to old

dogmas.”Much has been discovered since

the radical egalitarianism characteris-tic of modern liberalism became aquasi-theological dogma. Just as thefirst inquisition arose because existingdogma denied the knowledge of Aris-totle and the third inquisition rejectedthe discoveries of Copernicus andGalileo, so the current inquisition ex-

Fighting close to home is a greatadvantage for the wounded. A NewGuinean warrior who caught an arrowmight be home and in the bosom of his family within an hour or two. Untilthe 20th century, “civilized” soldiersoften lay wounded for many hours andwere then treated in unsanitary, imper-sonal field hospitals that may havedone more harm than good.

Otherwise, though, Prof. Keeleyleaves no doubt that warfare amongthe savages was cruel business. Sur-render was never an option, since cap-tives were always killed on the spot or tortured. The Iroquois, for example,

liked to let women and children tor-ture captives to death over a period of several days. Then they would eat parts of the body—often the heart.

Mutilation and trophy-taking werecommon, and some tribes left a dis-tinctive “signature” on enemy corpses.Some New Guineans, for example,sliced off enemy genitals and stuffedthem into the body’s mouth. After the battle of Little Bighorn, Indian women

used marrow-cracking mallets tosmash the faces of dead cavalrymeninto mush. “In Tahiti,” notes Prof.Keeley, “a victorious warrior, giventhe opportunity, would pound his van-quished foe’s corpse flat with hisheavy war club, cut a slit through thewell-crushed victim, and don him as a

trophy poncho.”Revisionists have sometimes made

the improbable claim that Europeancolonists taught the Indians to scalpenemies, but Prof. Keeley says that both ethnographic and archaeologicalevidence for indigenous scalping isoverwhelming. Scalping had a double purpose: Primitives often thought thatmutilating an enemy would inconven-ience him in the after-life, and battletrophies were proof of work welldone.

Captive women were sometimestaken home as wives. In some socie-ties women also had an economicvalue because they provided most of the farm labor. The Maoris of NewZealand, however, were not so chival-rous. During battle they disabledwomen so they could later rape, kill,and eat them at leisure.

Prof. Keeley notes that although it

is fashionable to claim that cannibal-ism is the stuff of hysterical mission-ary tales, it was unquestionably prac-ticed by Maoris, some American Indi-ans, Australian Aborigines, Aztecs,and some Africans. There is also clear archaeological evidence for prehis-toric cannibalism.

Primitive warfare was extremelydestructive to property as well aslives. Victors commonly burned or sacked anything they could not carryaway, instinctively adopting the tac-tics of Sherman’s march to the sea and

the civilian bombings of the SecondWorld War. As Prof. Keeley puts it,“primitive warfare is simply total war conducted with very limited means.”

Savages had unsurprising reasonsfor making war: fights over land,quarries, fishing streams, and huntinggrounds. Homicide or adultery could

start a war, and many conflicts were“disaster-driven:” During a hard win-ter one hungry village might ambushanother, kill its occupants, and live ontheir stores.

Prof. Keeley also writes that tradeand intermarriage have not usually bound peoples together. Businessdeals gone bad, mistreated brides, andwelched dowries are all frequentcauses for war. One problem for tribal peoples is their lack of central politicalauthority. A few hotheads can go onan unauthorized raid that plunges theentire group into war to the knife.

Nevertheless, Prof. Keeley has un-earthed a few human groups that appear not to have made war. Invariablythese are small bands of nomads wholive in very difficult country, far fromothers. They have very few posses-sions, and move away rather thanfight. Prof. Keeley reports that in

North America the Great Basin Sho-shone and the Paiute “never attackedothers and were themselves attackedonly very rarely; most just fled rather than trying to defend themselves.”

But even these “peaceable” socie-ties were by no means idyllic. “Armedconflict between social units does notnecessarily disappear at the lowestlevels of social integration,” writesProf. Keeley; “often it is just termino-logically disguised as feuding or homicide.” When people do not havestrangers to kill, they have to make do

with killing each other.As War Before Civilization makes

clear, Rousseau was a dreamer. His20th century descendants who think modern whites invented war are justas deluded. ●


The Galton Report

Mutilation andtrophy-taking were

common, and some tribesleft a distinctive

“signature” on enemycorpses.



ists in large part to deny the discover-ies of Darwin, Galton, and Mendel.(The second, or Spanish Inquisition,was a social and religious conflict.)

In open antagonism to much of twentieth century science, a powerfulstrain of modern liberalism worshipsradical egalitarianism. “In 1948 Stalinactually outlawed genetics as being awestern bourgeois construction thatwas incompatible with the truths of Marxist-Leninism,” the paper pointsout. It was “like outlawing the helio-centric nature of the solar system.”

Modern liberalism is attempting toenforce this anti-genetic ignorance— then known as Lysenkoism— throughout Western civilization. Thedamage it did to the science and econ-omy of the Soviet Union is wellknown as an example of the folly of attempting to repeal truth in the ser-vice of ideology. The spirit of

Lysenkoism is alive and well in theform of modern liberalism’s enforce-ment of radical egalitarianism: “Thereand here the guiding theory is identi-cal; it is socialist utopia based onegalitarianism . . . .”

[Whitney, G. (1997) “Raymond B.Cattell and the fourth inquisition” TheMankind Quarterly, in press.]

Down the Memory Hole

The prestigious MacEachran Lec-ture Series sponsored by the Univer-

sity of Alberta in Canada is named inhonor of the late Professor JohnMacEachran, founder of the Depart-ments of Philosophy and Psychology.Recently a faculty member in psychol-ogy, Douglas Wahlsten, recommendedthat MacEachran’s name be strippedfrom the lecture series and from aroom named in his honor. The facultycouncil voted unanimously to do so.

MacEachran’s crime? According tonewspaper reports he was “responsiblefor signing thousands of sterilizationorders for residents of a home for thementally retarded,” a practice that was provided for under the Sexual Sterili-zation Act of 1928. Professor MacEachran, who died in 1971, wasalso a member of Alberta’s EugenicsBoard from 1928 to 1964. [Laghi, B.(1997) “Late professor’s eugenics rolecosts him honours,” The Globe and Mail , Oct. 16, p. A1.] Another victoryfor the Fourth Inquisition.

Rewarding Lysenkoism

Raymond B. Cattell, the eminent psychologist whose achievementswere recently belittled because of his“racism” (AR, Oct. 1997), has de-scribed some of the workings of theInquisition:

“The danger is not only that politi-cians and private institutions with axesto grind will find tame or corruptiblesocial scientists to support their posi-tions. The greater danger which recentexperiences both here and abroad, e.g., Lysenkoism in Russia, have re-vealed is that partisans primarily po-litical in interest and intention either accidentally or deliberately infiltratethe ranks of science.” [Cattell, A NewMorality From Science: Beyondism,1972, p. 38.]

One very effective infiltrator has

been the gifted writer and darling of the left, Harvard professor StephenJay Gould. Through a lifetime of arti-cles and books Prof. Gould has obfus-cated and misrepresented Darwinianevolution and modern behavior genet-ics while supporting radical egalitari-anism.

Scientists have been unmaskingProf. Gould’s fictions for a long time.To mention just two examples, the lateProf. Bernard D. Davis of HarvardMedical School wrote a paper aboutP r o f . Gou l d en t i t l ed “Neo-

L y s e n k o i s m , I Q , a n d t h ePress” [Davis, 1983, The Public Inter-est , v.73, 41-59.]. More recently Phil-ippe Rushton published a devastatingassault on Prof. Gould’s credibility(See AR, Dec. 1997).

And what of the inquisitor himself?In October 1997, Prof. Gould was can-didate for President of the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the in-fluential Science magazine.

Your Tax DollarsThere is a new book available for

reading on the Internet called Your Genes, Your Choices. It was writtenfor an AAAS project called Science +Literacy for Health funded by, of allthings, the U.S. Department of En-ergy. As the introduction explains,“AAAS has been a leader in identify-

ing and meeting the needs of under-represented groups in science,” and“this book has been written to intro-duce you to important ideas, but alsoto convince you that you can under-stand the basic concepts of scienceand that it is important to do so.”

Some chapter titles:“Donita Should Cooperate with the

Police (or should she?)”“Dr. Lu’s Patients Have the Right

to Be Tall (or do they?)”Are you feeling “underrepresented”

in science? The book is available athttp://www.nextwave.org/ehr/ books/index.html

Truth Under Oath

Less than a decade ago, when newmethods of DNA analysis were just beginning to be used in criminal prosecutions, egalitarians were howl-

ing in protest. It is increasingly obvi-ous why.

Anyone who interprets DNA evi-dence must know the frequency of theoccurance of different genetic patternsin the population. The rates for differ-ent races are, well, different. For thescience to be effective these differ-ences cannot be ignored. Watch for the forthcoming book, Interpreting

DNA Evidence: Statistical Genetics for Forensic Scientists, by Ian Evettand Bruce Weir. Unless depublished, blocked, or canceled, as has been

known to happen under the FourthInquisition, it is to be brought out bySinauer Associates.

New Gold Rush

The techniques of molecular genet-ics have reached the point where tre-mendous profits are a certainty for theswift and the lucky. Commercial ven-tures are hurrying to get ahead by ex- ploiting the opportunities provided bygenetic diversity around the world. In

previous “Galton Reports” I have sug-gested that the application of geneticsto forensics, as in DNA fingerprinting,will finally explode the egalitarianmyth. The profit motive may turn thetrick even sooner, since commercialsuccess benefits from honest research.

The rush is on to concentrate on populations that differ greatly fromother peoples. As just one example,





Sequana Therapeutics is collaboratingwith geneticists in research that seeksto find cures for asthma, and two iso-lated populations are of special inter-est. A small band of Jewish tradersestablished a community in southernIndia over 2,000 years ago. About onequarter of their still “tightly knit” de-scendants suffer from asthma. A highincidence of asthma is also found inthe isolated population of the SouthAtlantic island of Tristan da Cunha.Because they differ genetically fromother populations, these human iso-lates are potentially pure gold to mod-ern health research. [Marshall, E.(1997), “Gene Prospecting in RemotePopulations”, Science, v.278, (24 Oc-tober), p. 565]

Studies of this kind are based onthe profoundly important fact thatgenes influence group characteristics.In principle, it is only a small step

from investigating the genetic causesof group differences in disease rates tosimilar investigations of group differ-ences in crime rates or intelligence.

The Benefits of Disaster

Iceland also offers good prospectsfor gene research. Because of isolationand genetic “bottlenecks,” the peopleof Iceland form a more homogeneousgene pool than many populations.Ever since the island was settled byVikings a thousand years ago, it has

been relatively isolated. Also, in the1400s an epidemic of bubonic plaguecut the population from 70,000 to25,000. Another “bottleneck” was thewidespread famine that followed aneruption of the volcano Hekla in the1700s.

The result is that today’s 270,000Icelanders are all descended from anunusually small number of ancestors.The simplicity and relative uniformityof their gene pool should make it eas-ier to identify specific disease genes.An Icelandic company called deCodeGenetics is preparing to mine theDNA of Icelanders for the benefit of Icelanders. Any drugs or diagnostictests developed from studies of Ice-landic DNA will be distributed, free of charge in Iceland but will be soldcommercially in other countries.[Marshall, E. (1997) “Tapping Ice-land’s DNA,” Science, v.278 (24 Oc-tober), p. 566]

P.C.B.G.

A new edition is available of whathas long been the best college textbook on behavior genetics. The newversion is embarrassingly dumbeddown from a specialist point of view, but this makes it accessible to the gen-

eral reader. It is very clearly written,and the quantitative theory and mathe-matical statistics that formed the coreof earlier editions are now relegated toappendices at the end of the book.Technical jargon is reduced to a mini-mum and the book has a good glos-sary and bibliography.

Still, the new edition has a few PCquirks. For example, the term “race” been removed from the subject index.Also, the book tends to low-ballheritability estimates for most traits.Heritability of intelligence is said to

be about .5, leaving fully half of thevariance to environment. In contrast,Richard Lynn (in his book Dysgenics)estimates the heritability of intelli-gence at about .82. Interestingly, evenin their own work with adult subjects,the textbook authors find a heritabilityof over .7.

The book suggests that an under-standing of the importance of geneticsis one of the most dramatic changes of the last few decades. However, it com- plains that in 1969 “Arthur Jensen al-most brought the field to a halt, be-

cause (he) suggested that ethnic differ-ences in IQ might involve genetic dif-ferences. Twenty-five years later, thisissue was resurrected in a book calledThe Bell Curve“ (p. 137). We learnthat the outrage directed at Jensen’smonograph “was appropriate in itsemphasis on his misleading inferencesabout both the possible benefits of in-tervention and the causes of group dif-ferences in IQ” (p. 137).

Just as most astronomers did notrally to Galileo’s support, most behav-ioral geneticists would rather Prof.Jensen had not stirred up trouble byrevealing unacceptable truths. Thestrong inference is that we must notrile our liberal masters because fund-ing for the entire field of behavior ge-netics hangs in the balance. The book is not without politically correct short-comings, but overall it is a recom-mended read. [Plomin, R., J. C. De-Fries, G. E. McClearn, & M. Rutter

(1997), Behavioral Genetics, 3rd. Edi-tion, New York: W.H. Freeman &Co.]

Genes for Good Soldiers

A news release from the kind folksat the “GenEthics Center” of Hagers-town, Maryland, expresses alarm that

the British Army is doing genetic re-search: “a thinly disguised attempt toidentify genetically superior individu-als for military purposes.”

Apparently thousands of army re-cruits will be used in experiments todiscover genes responsible for physi-cal excellence. It is often difficult toidentify the effects of genes because people with different genes also havedifferent environments. For example,outstanding boxers may be geneticallydifferent from other people, but theyalso train extensively. It is impossible

to disentangle the effects of genesfrom the benefits of training.

Army recruits provide an advan-tage for study “because they live auniquely homogeneous lifestyle, eat-ing, sleeping, and exercising at exactlythe same times in the same way. Likethe normal population, however, theyshow a wide range of physical typesand standards of fitness.”

“High levels of motivation, trainingand environment play only a part,” aspokesman says.

“The performance of athletic peo-

ple is 90% to do with their geneticmake-up. It’s these genetic markers of trainability that we’re looking for.”

The GenEthics folks are, of course,calling for an international ban on alluse of genetic technology for military purposes. [“British Army Seeks ‘SASGENE’ - The First Step Toward Mili-tary Eugenics,” Press Release, Octo- ber 26, 1997, The GenEthics Center,Hagerstown, MD.] ●

Contributing Editor Glayde Whit-ney is professor in psychology, psy-chobiology and neuroscience at Flor-ida State University.



Prop 187 Overturned

A federal judge has ruled that the1994 California ballot initiative bar-ring government handouts for illegalaliens is unconstitutional. “Californiais powerless to enact its own legisla-tive scheme to regulate immigration,”wrote Judge Mariana Pfaelzer, andtherefore “it is likewise powerless toenact its own legislative scheme toregulate alien access to public bene-fits.” Illegal immigrants can thereforeattend public schools and collect wel-fare. Gov. Pete Wilson, who cam- paigned for the initiative and thinksJudge Pfaelzer’s legal reasoning is allwrong, will immediately take the case

to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Ap- peals.As soon as Proposition 187 was

passed, Judge Pfaelzer ordered its im- plementation suspended while shescrutinized it for three years. She is awell-known liberal and was expectedto rule against the proposition, butdawdled over it for so long that Gov-ernor Wilson took the unusual step of filing papers with the U.S. Court of Appeals demanding that she make adecision. (Patrick McDonnell, Prop.187 Found Unconstitutional by Fed-

eral Judge, Los Angeles Times, Nov.15, 1997.)

It is worth reviewing the racial breakdown of support for Prop. 187when it was passed in 1994:

Support Oppose

White 63% 37%Black 47% 53%Hispanic 23% 77%Asian 47% 53%

Whites were the only racial group

that supported withholding govern-ment benefits from illegals. Amongwhites, Jews were the only group thatvoted against Prop. 187. Only a small percentage of Hispanics living in Cali-fornia are U.S. citizens and they arethe most “Americanized.” Of thisnumber, 77 percent were in favor of handouts to illegals. (A Look at theElectorate, Los Angeles Times, Nov.

11, 1994.) It is a safe bet that as His- panics become the dominant group insouthern California they will continueto vote in ways that flout the desires of whites, just as they have done in

Houston (see below).

Houston Votes Preferences

An anti-affirmative action voter initiative similar to Proposition 209 inCaifornia has failed to pass in Hous-ton, Texas. In a city that is only 38 percent white (and 33 percent His- panic, 26 percent black, and six per-cent Asian) 55 percent voted to keepthe city’s racial preference programs.

Outgoing white mayor Robert

Lanier influenced the decision by pressuring the City Council to rewordthe initiative. What probably wouldhave won as a measure against“discrimination” was turned into avote on “affirmative action for womenand minorities.” Mr. Lanier also ap- peared in television ads saying that itwas wrong for “guys wholook like me” to get all thecity’s business.

Liberals are delightedthat the nation’s second major referendum on race pref-

erences failed to abolishthem. Rice University soci-ologist Stephen Klinebergsays, “I think this showsthat Houston has tran-scended its redneck Southern past andis recognizing its destiny as a multi-ethnic, international city in a globaleconomy.” In other words, oncewhites become a minority, they cannotexpect to end official discrimination.(Jesse Katz, Houston Thinks Globallyin OK of Affirmative Action, Los An-geles Times, Nov. 6, 1997, p. A14.)

What the voters of Houston couldnot do, a federal judge has partiallyaccomplished. A week after the vote,U.S. District Judge Lynn N. Hughesstruck down the Houston transit au-thority’s affirmative action program,which required that 21 percent of county construction contracts be givento women and non-whites. “The Con-stitution disallows collective guilt,” he

noted in his ruling. (AP, Affirmativeaction halted for Houston transit au-thority,November 14, 1997.)

Preferences Dodge a Bullet

In a spectacular admission of theweakness of their position, black “civil rights groups” have raisedmoney to pay off a white affirmativeaction victim rather than see her casego before the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 1989, the school board of Pis-cataway, New Jersey, had to lay off one of two teachers. In the name of diversity, the board fired Sharon Tax-man, who is white, and kept DebraWilliams, who is black. The case is of

particular interest because it is as be-nign a case of racial preference as oneis likely to find. Unlike most affirma-tive action, which favors clearly less-qualified non-whites at the expense of whites, the school system had deter-mined, according to its own bureau-cratic formulae, that the two teachers

were equally quali-fied and of equalseniority. If the twohad been of the samerace, someone wouldhave flipped a coin.

This was the fairest(and rarest) kind of affirmative action.

By raising 70 per-cent of the $433,000

Sharon Taxman and her lawyers re-ceived, the Black Leadership Forum“satisfied” the plaintiff and ended thecase, thus keeping it off the SupremeCourt docket. Why did they do it? Be-cause losing the case would have im-mediately destroyed the basis for vir-tually every racial preference programin the country. Though they do not

like to, “civil rights” leaders can af-ford to lose a few egregious cases inwhich obviously incompetent blacksget the nod over whites. This, though,was the “perfect” affirmative actioncase; if Debra Williams cannot getracial preferences only a very smallnumber of blacks who can show ac-tual past discrimination can ever hopeto get preferential treatment.


O Tempora, O Mores!




Before Mrs. Taxman’s payoff,even the Clinton Administration urgedthe Supreme Court not to take the casefor fear of the precedent it might set.The court ignored the President. JesseJackson, who helped raise the payoff money, said the case had to be dis- posed of because it was “riddled with problems,” and “would have been dis-

tortion of the issue.” (Amy Westfeldt,Black Group Pays to Settle Case, AP, Nov. 21, 1997.)

Washington, Farewell

There are an estimated 450 schoolsin the United States named after George Washington. In November there were one fewer after a New Or-leans school board stripped the firstPresident’s name from an elementaryschool and renamed it after CharlesRichard Drew,

a black surgeonknown for hiswork in bloodt r a n s f u s i o n .This was onlythe latest namechange for NewOrleans which,in 1992, de-cided it wouldno longer permit schools to bear thenames of slave-owners or Confederateofficers. Thus have schools named for P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee been given the names of black supreme court justice Thurgood Mar-shall and black astronaut RonaldMcNair.

Ninety-one percent of the studentsin the district are black, and the school board is controlled by a five-to-two black majority. At what used to beGeorge Washington Elementary, 98 percent of the 702 students are black,and the proposed name change metvirtually no opposition from faculty, parents, or the community. After all,

as Carl Galmon, a long-time New Or-leans “civil rights leader” put it, “Whyshould African- Americans want their kids to pay respect or pay homage tosomeone who enslaved their ances-tors?” He went on to note that “to Af-rican-Americans, George Washingtonhas about as much meaning as DavidDuke.” (Kevin Sack, Blacks StripSlaveholders’ Names Off Schools,

New York Times, Nov. 12, 1997, p.B1.)

Quis Custodiet . . . ?

It is the job of the New York CityCommission on Human Rights to en-sure that the protected classes stay protected. Alas, it has been charged by

the Federal Equal Employment Op- portunity Commission with commit-ting a simultaneous act of racism andsexism. In 1995, when one of thecommission’s five supervisory jobs became available, four people applied:a black woman, a white woman, awoman of undisclosed race, and awhite man. The white man got the job, but two of the women are now com- plaining to the EEOC that he had lessseniority and litigation experiencethan they. And, indeed, New York City official Robert Hammel, who wasin a position to influence the commis-sion’s hiring, is reported to have notedthat the four other supervisors were allwomen and that it was important tomaintain “diversity” on the staff.

The feds think not. They find“probable cause” that the city com-mission that is supposed to snuff outrights violations has violated thewomen’s rights. “Diversity” shouldnever increase the number of whitemen; only decrease them. (Robert D.McFadden, Rights Panel is Accused in

Bias Case, New York Times, Sept. 21,1997, p. B3.)

Multicultural Muscle

The fruits of diversity are startingto appear in U.S. foreign policy. Ac-cording to Tufts University professor Tony Smith, ethnic group influence of foreign policy is at “a historic high-

water mark.” There are now 15 con-gressional caucuses devoted to ethnic politicking (there were 6 in 1987) in-cluding, besides the usual racialcliques, the “Caucus on Armenian Is-sues,” and a “Portuguese-AmericanCaucus.”

Recent successes of ethnic lobby-ing include the U.S. invasion of Haiti

( b l acks ) , NAFTA ( M ex i can -Americans and the Mexican govern-ment), and the Helms-Burton Act,which banned business with Cuba(Cuban-Americans). Our new multi-cultural foreign policy has led to sometragi-comedies, such as Pakistani-Americans deciding a Senate race inSouth Dakota. Pakis were big donorsto Democrat Tim Johnson in 1996 be-cause his opponent and now ex-senator Larry Pressler supported India.

What do diplomats think aboutthis? Former Secretary of State Law-

rence Eagleburger says, “It used toirritate the hell out of us . . . but it didremind us that this is a democracy andthat you must be able to explain your policy to the American people.” As-suming you can figure out who theyare. (Paul Glastris, Multicultural For-eign Policy in Washington, U.S. Newsand World Report, July 21, 1997, p.32)

Hypocrisy in High Places

The Washington, DC, publicschools consume $7,300 per studentevery year—thousands of dollarsabove the national average—but aregenerally recognized as the worst inthe country. Congress has dreamed upa plan to give some district studentsvouchers of $3,200 each so they canattend private schools in the area, and perhaps get a better education.

Some of Congress’ most notoriousliberals are leading the fight againstthe plan, which would bring riffraff into the private schools favored by

these same notorious liberals. Twentymembers of Congress who haveschool-aged children live in the dis-trict, and not one patronizes publicschools. Almost all of them opposethe voucher plan. Even the district’snon-voting, black representative Elea-nor Norton sends her children to pri-vate school. Opposition to vouchers isled by Edward Kennedy and black

Father of whose country?

Help Fight Immigration

California activists will reporton their efforts on January 17th inCullman, Alabama at the CullmanCivic Center on West Main Street.Speakers will include Barbara Coe,Glen Spencer, Rick Oltman, StanHess, and James Wainscoat.

The meeting will be from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free.For information call James Floyd at(205) 739-1412.



Senator Carol Mosley Braun, neither of whom has ever sent a child to pub-lic school. William Clinton, whosedaughter attended a tony Quaker pri-vate school, also opposes the plan.(Niles Lathem, D.C. School War is noClass Act, New York Post, Oct. 5,1997, p. 25.)

Kill the MessengerIn 1992 the federal government

launched a $500 million programcalled Healthy Start, the most ambi-tious effort ever undertaken to reducethe infant mortality rates of black chil-dren. The program was designed tolather poor blacks with pre-natal andother medical care in the expectationthat this would reduce the death rate.The government has now collecteddata on the effect of the program dur-ing 1994 and hired a Princeton, New

Jersey, company called MathematicaPolicy Research to evaluate its suc-cess.

In November, the governmentabruptly canceled announcement of the results, claiming that that datawere incomplete. The Philadelphia

Inquirer reports that the real reason isthat Mathematica discovered that the$500 million program had virtually noeffect on infant mortality or low birthweight. (Reuters, Report Said With-held on U.S. Infant Mortality Rates, Nov. 12, 1997.)

This is yet more evidence that racedifferences in health may have little todo with medical care. The cover storyin the May, 1996 AR points out thatMexican-Americans get far worse pre-natal and other treatment than blacks,yet their infant mortality rates arelower than those of whites. Racerather than government interventionappears to account for the differences.

High-Priced Pain

A black judge has upheld a$640,000 award to a mixed-race couple who claimed they were denied asub-rental at a fashionable New York cooperative because of race. The co-op board of Beekman Hill HouseApartments said that it had turned thecouple down—a black lawyer and hiswhite wife, also a lawyer—becausethey seemed “confrontational and liti-gious.” A jury rejected this reasoning,

solely because one co-op board member had written the words “black man”on his notes to the application.

Judge Carter, who was an NAACPlawyer for 20 years before taking thefederal bench, upheld a jury award of

$230,000 in compensatory damagesand $410,000 in punitive damages. Henoted that the mixed-race couple wasable to find other housing easily, butthat they suffered “recurrent pain”whenever they were in the BeekmanHill area. This is thought to be thelargest discrimination award ever made against a New York City coop-

erative board. (Bill Alden, $640,000Housing Bias Award Upheld, The New York Law Journal, Nov. 7,1997.)

Out of the Mouths of Babes

A poll by Music Television (MTV)has learned that an increasing number of young people believe in racial sepa-ration. Sixty-eight percent agree withthe statement that it is “OK if the racesare basically separate from one an-other in our country, as long as every-

one has equal opportunities.” In 1991only 41 percent agreed with this view.A different poll conducted by Time-CNN has discovered that nine out of ten black teen- agers report that“racism” is “a small problem” or “nota problem at all” in their lives.(Business Wire, MTV Poll Reveals,Dec. 3, 1997. AP, Poll: Racism Does-n’t Affect Teens, Nov. 16, 1997.)

Denmark Awakes

A brand-new, anti-immigrant po-litical party in Denmark picked up anencouraging 6.8 percent of the vote inlocal elections in November. “Peopleare tired and a little bit angry aboutwhat is happening in Denmark,” saysPia Kjaersgaard, the 50-year-oldleader of the Danish People’s Party.“We have a refugee problem and wehave to listen to what the peoplewant.” She has also observed that “too

many Muslims in a Christian countrycan be a problem for many things, likereligion, traditions and culture.”

The People’s Party is already cam- paigning for next year’s general elec-tions, but is not the only party to makeimmigration an issue. Tom Behnke,leader of the Progress Party recom-mends that Somali asylum-seekers berepatriated “by parachute.”

Danish interest in immigrants has been increased by reports in Extra Bladet , a leading tabloid that exposesforeign criminals and those whoscrounge off the country’s generouswelfare system. Fortunately, Denmark is taking the problem in hand at anearly stage. Only 4.5 percent of the 5.2million population are foreign nation-als, and only 3.3 percent are non-white. (Peter Conradi, Housewife StirsDanish Melting Pot, Sunday Times(London), Nov. 23, 1997, p. 1.)

Illegal Freeloaders

According to the current bizarreinterpretation of the 14th Amendment,children born to illegal aliens auto-matically become U.S. citizens. Manysuch children promptly go on welfare,and it is a delicate matter to expel the parents of an indigent infant citizen.

A recent Government AccountingOffice (GAO) report finds that in 1995we gave well over $1 billion in federalhandouts to citizen-children of il-

legals. About $700 million of thiswent as Aid to Families with Depend-ent Children (AFDC), or about three percent of the AFDC budget for theyear. That is up from two percent in1992. Citizen-children of illegals alsotake about two percent of the totalfood stamp budget, or $430 millionworth. In California, ten percent of both AFDC and food stamps are givento children of illegals. Householdsheaded by illegals also get rent subsi-dies through the department of Hous-ing and Urban Development, as wellas Supplemental Security Income(SSI) for children who are defective.As of December 1996, at least 3,450citizen children of illegals were get-ting SSI at an annual cost of about$17.6 million. Almost all AFDC re-cipients also get Medicaid, whichcosts about $1,000 per child. (AP,Kids of Illegal Immigrants get $1 Bil-lion in Welfare Aid, Nov. 22, 1997.) ●


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