Posted on 07/08/2016 1:55:23 PM PDT by dynachrome
There is much talk about “the talk.”
“Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons,” Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (NJ) Record tells us. Meanwhile, down in Atlanta: “Her sons were 12 and 8 when Marlyn Tillman realized it was time for her to have the talk,” Gracie Bonds Staples writes in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Leonard Greene talks about the talk in the New York Post. Someone bylined as KJ Dell’Antonia talks about the talk in The New York Times. Darryl Owens talks about the talk in the Orlando Sentinel.
Yes, talk about the talk is all over.
There is a talk that nonblack Americans have with their kids, too. My own kids, now 19 and 16, have had it in bits and pieces as subtopics have arisen. If I were to assemble it into a single talk, it would look something like the following.
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(1) Among your fellow citizens are forty million who identify as black, and whom I shall refer to as black. The cumbersome (and MLK-noncompliant) term “African-American” seems to be in decline, thank goodness. “Colored” and “Negro” are archaisms. What you must call “the ‘N’ word” is used freely among blacks but is taboo to nonblacks.
“There is a talk that nonblack Americans have with their kids, too.”
(2) American blacks are descended from West African populations, with some white and aboriginal-American admixture. The overall average of non-African admixture is 20-25 percent. The admixture distribution is nonlinear, though: “It seems that around 10 percent of the African American population is more than half European in ancestry.” (Same link.)
(3) Your own ancestry is mixed north-European and northeast-Asian, but blacks will take you to be white.
(4) The default principle in everyday personal encounters is, that as a fellow citizen, with the same rights and obligations as yourself, any individual black is entitled to the same courtesies you would extend to a nonblack citizen. That is basic good manners and good citizenship. In some unusual circumstances, however—e.g., paragraph (10h) below—this default principle should be overridden by considerations of personal safety.
(5) As with any population of such a size, there is great variation among blacks in every human trait (except, obviously, the trait of identifying oneself as black). They come fat, thin, tall, short, dumb, smart, introverted, extroverted, honest, crooked, athletic, sedentary, fastidious, sloppy, amiable, and obnoxious. There are black geniuses and black morons. There are black saints and black psychopaths. In a population of forty million, you will find almost any human type. Only at the far, far extremes of certain traits are there absences. There are, for example, no black Fields Medal winners. While this is civilizationally consequential, it will not likely ever be important to you personally. Most people live and die without ever meeting (or wishing to meet) a Fields Medal winner.
(6) As you go through life, however, you will experience an ever larger number of encounters with black Americans. Assuming your encounters are random—for example, not restricted only to black convicted murderers or to black investment bankers—the Law of Large Numbers will inevitably kick in. You will observe that the means—the averages—of many traits are very different for black and white Americans, as has been confirmed by methodical inquiries in the human sciences.
(7) Of most importance to your personal safety are the very different means for antisocial behavior, which you will see reflected in, for instance, school disciplinary measures, political corruption, and criminal convictions.
(8) These differences are magnified by the hostility many blacks feel toward whites. Thus, while black-on-black behavior is more antisocial in the average than is white-on-white behavior, average black-on-white behavior is a degree more antisocial yet.
(9) A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks—around half—will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.
(10) Thus, while always attentive to the particular qualities of individuals, on the many occasions where you have nothing to guide you but knowledge of those mean differences, use statistical common sense:
(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.
(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.
(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).
(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.
(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.
(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.
(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.
(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.
(10i) If accosted by a strange black in the street, smile and say something polite but keep moving.
(11) The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of blacks have IQs that low. Only one black in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average black. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They are reflected in countless everyday situations. “Life is an IQ test.”
(12) There is a magnifying effect here, too, caused by affirmative action. In a pure meritocracy there would be very low proportions of blacks in cognitively demanding jobs. Because of affirmative action, the proportions are higher. In government work, they are very high. Thus, in those encounters with strangers that involve cognitive engagement, ceteris paribus the black stranger will be less intelligent than the white. In such encounters, therefore—for example, at a government office—you will, on average, be dealt with more competently by a white than by a black. If that hostility-based magnifying effect (paragraph 8) is also in play, you will be dealt with more politely, too. “The DMV lady“ is a statistical truth, not a myth.
(13) In that pool of forty million, there are nonetheless many intelligent and well-socialized blacks. (I’ll use IWSB as an ad hoc abbreviation.) You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with IWSBs. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice.
(14) Be aware, however, that there is an issue of supply and demand here. Demand comes from organizations and businesses keen to display racial propriety by employing IWSBs, especially in positions at the interface with the general public—corporate sales reps, TV news presenters, press officers for government agencies, etc.—with corresponding depletion in less visible positions. There is also strong private demand from middle- and upper-class whites for personal bonds with IWSBs, for reasons given in the previous paragraph and also (next paragraph) as status markers.
(15) Unfortunately the demand is greater than the supply, so IWSBs are something of a luxury good, like antique furniture or corporate jets: boasted of by upper-class whites and wealthy organizations, coveted by the less prosperous. To be an IWSB in present-day US society is a height of felicity rarely before attained by any group of human beings in history. Try to curb your envy: it will be taken as prejudice (see paragraph 13).
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You don’t have to follow my version of the talk point for point; but if you are white or Asian and have kids, you owe it to them to give them some version of the talk. It will save them a lot of time and trouble spent figuring things out for themselves. It may save their lives.
I remember that. I looked up "the talk" to see what was wrong with it.
It's uncomfortable, and totally non P.C., but rather accurate in my opinion.
My recollection is that he wrote it in response to another "the talk" written by a black man about how his children should deal with white people.
The author has condensed and stated my views more clearly than I have. That is the way it is.
No white without connections should be optimistic about any job (especially one with government) these days. The meritocracy is so over.
Chicago on the Brink: A retreat from proactive policing has unleashed mayhem in the city. - Heather MacDonald
http://www.city-journal.org/html/chicago-brink-14605.html
Excerpt (reformatted)
In 2014, blacks in Chicago made up:
79 percent of all known nonfatal shooting suspects,
85 percent of all known robbery suspects, and
77 percent of all known murder suspects, according to police department data.
Whites were
1 percent of known nonfatal shootings suspects in 2014,
2.5 percent of known robbery suspects, and
5 percent of known murder suspects, the latter number composed disproportionately of domestic homicides.
Whites are nearly absent, in other words, among violent street criminals—precisely whom proactive policing aims to deter.
Whites are actually over-stopped compared with their involvement in street crime.
Bump for later when a link is available...
Many whites who have put themselves among a large group of blacks will wish they had read this column.
I remember one night in New Orleans, when all the bars were closing early. I asked one bartender ‘why’ and he refused to tell me. Another bar, same story. Third bar, while they were closing up, one whispered it was because one of those “Greek” events had just ended and black youths were entering the area. He also whispered that if I was an undercover city agent, he’d be arrested and or fined for admitting that. We went back to our hotel. As New Yorkers, we were well aware of black youths and the problems they bring. I was a victim of two ‘wildings’ in Manhattan before the advent of Guiliani.
Where is Rahm Emmanual these days? Does he show up to work? Does he appear on tv? Is he hiding under his desk? He wanted that bloody job (literally!) in order to - in his freakin’ mind - use it as a stepping stone to the presidency.
How’s that working out, Rahm?
accurate, factual, and highly logical on race relations in America
therefore, dangerous to say....
therefore, dangerous to say....
I have been noticing that the Kulturkampf revolves around a war against reality.
We have to pretend that women are the equal of men, that men can become women, and that Hillary hasn't committed obvious felonies.
Telling the truth has become a revolutionary act.
bfl
Circa 1974 in my Business Pharmacy Class:
Our professor was giving us guidance about jobs in pharmacy. We were to graduate in the next year and were starting to be interviewed. About 10 percent of our class were black. They were not in our class because of their color but because they meet the same standards as everyone else. They were good people and became good pharmacists. They were my friends.
He said, “if you are black, do not accept the same salary they are offering white graduates.” He said to insist on 10 to 15% more. He was quite frank and said that is the economic reality. He also said it is not fair but that was reality. The blacks in the class were not offended. To them it was amusing and they gladly accepted the reality of more money. If I were black I would have also accepted the extra money.
That professor is retired today. If he gave the same lecture today, he would be fired. All he wanted is each and every student get the most money they could and addressed the reality in hiring.
In our pharmacy school, which was in the deep South, race meant absolutely nothing to the professors and relationships between the students. We all had the same objective which was to finish school as soon as possible and start making money. We were all professionals, students and professors alike. It was a good group.
Interesting - that's exactly what they say about izlam.
All good advice. I used to live in Sacramento and after that I really don’t care if I ever see an American black man in person ever again.
All Sh*tcago stats:
Odd name, but is very good with up to date and locations fo crime.
A little knowledge of the slave trade helps. West Africans were shamelessly victimized by East Africans (many Muslim). Slavery was introduced by Muslims as a humane alternative to simple genocide.
Europeans were sucked in to the sorry trade much later, starting with the Portuguese in the 15th century, more than 750 years after it was stated by the Muslims. Europeans did not collect slaves. After the demand was more or less satisfied in Muslim lands, slaves were offered to them. Initially, they were horrified and rejected the offers.
But work and labor demands, bargain prices and no shortage of rationalizations that they were literally saving the lives of slave brought acceptance.
It was often their own tribal leaders which sold them into slavery, starting with offers of buyouts of their most poorly adapted tribal members and moving up from there until there was little left of the tribe. If the chief and his family proved useful, they could continue a relatively luxurious life of capturing, collecting and wholesaling slaves. If not, then they possibly joined them.
The basic method of operation may have shifted territories, modernized methods and even treated their captured chattel more humanely as it evolved, but it still made many men rich, including Tippu Tib, one of the last slave empire builders who passed in 1905. The trade would continue to thrive until the end of World War I.
This is well put. Much of the guidance relating to being in groups or places that are or become predominantly black are almost instinctively known, but the Left actively suppresses any instinct for self preservation.
bkmk
Hey Newt...
Substitute hispanics for black in my neck of the woods for certain neighborhoods.
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