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Go read Derbyshire's piece. Then check out these articles, all linked and referenced in Derbyshire's first couple of paragraph:
Trayvon Martin tragedy brings focus to 'the talk' for black parents
Hoodie wearers say there's no reason to stereotype
Black parents live in fear after Trayvon Martin case
Trayvon Martin and ‘the Talk’ Black Parents Have With Their Teenage Sons
Darryl E. Owens: Revisiting 'The Talk' that black parents give to keep their children safe
Read them all and then tell me what Derbyshire's point is.
He should have known better -- in a dumbed down society, satire is no longer an acceptable medium.
You come from where I do and you know it from early on as did all I come from.
Sad thing, is it is exponentially worse now than the subtle differences I knew as a kid and white trash once very distinguishable has joined troupe.
unfortunately...no doubt the lower ebbs of white culture will display exactly the same IQ means and other fun stuff in another generation
maybe that is what folks want ...one big brown mess of dysfunctionality..hey...at least it got rid of racism...but you know what...it won't
I'm sure Derbyshire will be punished for daring to utter the truth.
I note that he has thoughtfully provided links illustrating his major points, which will make it doubly infuriating to the liberals and the PC Rino contingents.
Full article (If not allowed due to copyright, please pull):
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.
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
(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).
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
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.
raise that 5% to about 10 and IMO this is dead on and is quite similar to what I have already told my own two boys about race.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/04/why-john-derbyshire-hasnt-been-fired-yet/50803/
Why hasn’t John Derbyshire been fired yet.
FR gets a mention as being even more racist than him.
I learned many of these things while a liberal, and living in a city. After describing my personal experiences of being assaulted by inner city youth, without any judgements, or considerations of causation, I was called a racist and a skinhead by so-called liberal friends. I am not a liberal anymore.
And this clever commentary is what got John fired from NRO???
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The original article is here at Taki's magazine, if you can get it to load correctly. It's been a busy, busy site, and yes, it's because of this article..
I can’t get the link to work. Did you save a full copy?
Never mind, I found it.
I just remembered something from way back in 1976. I was visiting Washington D.C. that summer, staying at the YCWA, and was given “the talk,” by a black D.C. cop. He used a map I had to point out where it was safe to go, and what areas to stay the hell out of.
I had the talk with my blonde, blue eyed, white boys when they were 14...
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