[cartan]

What a contemptible little coward! Now Mark Steyn is the last good writer there. Reminds me of when they fired Ann Coulter shortly after 9/11.

[reaganaut1]

The FR thread on Derbyshire's Taki article is here .

[bray]

Now Lowry can get back to his A list Brie and Chablis parties. If an author fell in NR does it make a noise?

Happy Easter

[Mr Rogers]

There wasn’t much doubt in my mind that they were going to fire him. NRO can’t take the truth. Heck, the pansies there couldn’t find their own buttholes without both hands and a good map, and even then it would take some luck.

[Politics4US]

Aside from the article’s subject, I found the article to be written poorly. It was hard to understand.

[tumblindice]

Derbyshire and Steyn were the only reasons I renewed my NR subscription for as long as I did. Both non-Americans, note.

My experiences with my first three black secretaries accords with his article:
I couldn’t tell if they were lazy or stupid, and finally came to the conclusion that they were both lazy and stupid.
He wasn’t being politically correct and neither am I.
As he states, he was almost shot and I am not with that company any longer, so it’s just the naked truth.

[GeronL]

Sooner or later they will part ways with Mark Steyn because Steyn always writes truth too.

[GATOR NAVY]

I can’t get the webzine link to work. Anyone know the site name? I’ll take Derb over that pansy Lowry any day.

[Spartan79]

In Derbyshire's timely article, two suggestions he makes in his talk to his children:

(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.

(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.

http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/print#ixzz1rP0MdU9C

In an amazingly timely earlier post here on FB, you may watch a video of a white tourist in downtown Baltimore being assaulted, stripped, and robbed by a gang of Holder's people, as more of Holder's people stand by and laugh. The poor sap's father should have had the talk with him.

Brietbart video here: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/04/07/Crowd-Laughs-As-Man-Beaten-In-Balt

Earlier FB post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2869407/posts

[onyx]

Did You Know?

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Did You Know?

The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?

Now That You Do, Donate And Keep FR Running

[rogue yam]

NR has utterly disgraced itself here.

FUNR!

[AAABEST]

I could NEVER stand that metrosexual prick Lowry. I’m glad others are seeing him for what he is.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Derbyshire’s rules are really nothing but common sense. I was doing that 43 years ago when I lived in Little Rock, Arkansas, when the KKK was still a force. Now it is mandatory to follow those rules to keep safe.

I sent that web page to my brother-in-law who lives in the Memphis area. He has been following similar rules for his lifetime.

[mkjessup]

Hey, what's this crap? (from the article):

"Derbyshire doesn't do the really obvious racist stuff -- the stuff that goes up at FreeRepublic.com, for example -- like post photos Obama in stereotypical tribal garb with a bone through his nose. Instead, he talks about how his East African parentage means he might be suspect to some black voters, who are more likely to be of West African heritage."

WTH!?!?

It's not racism, it's SATIRE. The same principle we were told we had to accept and be tolerant of when (for example) George W. Bush was portrayed as a chimp, etc.

(Jim? thought you might want a ping to this)

[Mr Rogers]

http://johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/Culture/rowdy.html

http://johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/Culture/lovenotwar.html

http://johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/Culture/page.html

[WilliamofCarmichael]

this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation.

One of the "outlandish" things in the column was advice to avoid black neighborhoods. Now there are far too many times when that is life-saving advice based upon fifty years or so of experience.

Take Cincinnati.. please!

Whites driving home by their usual routes through Avondale were dragged from cars beaten some killed and some left with permanent damage. That was in the 1960s and happened multiple years.

I left Cincinnati in 1970 but I know that there have been similar events there -- and in other cities -- in the years since the 1960s.

I hope Mr. Lowry and the rest have the courage of their convictions to freely drive through all areas of their cities throughout the coming months. Fat chance.

Obama been laudin' that martial law and I bet he and his sons got plans to stir up all kinds of turmoil (Van Jones warned of it too). So good advice. Careful where you are from now on. That of course is racist.

Blacks should be careful about white neighborhoods. That of course in not racist. Go figure.

[Silver Sabre]

I don’t see what the big deal is. You’d probably get banned for posting his piece or something similar of FR.

[Auntie Mame]

the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. What a pompous ass. I've never read John Derbyshire in National Review, only at TakiMag. I didn't even KNOW he wrote for NR. Did I say what a pompous ass?

[omniscient]

The bell curve has now been added to the taboo subject list, along with the Obama eligibility issue. Steyn will be next to be banned with his politically incorrect observations on demographics.

Another sickening capitulation from main stream "conservatives." NR, Fox, Breitbart are all falling in line nicely with the Regime's directives.

First they came for the mathematicians ...

[Oatka]

It’s been my observation that minorities will agitate for “equal treatment”, but once they gain parity ot get on top, the whole metric changed. Instead of saying “Hot damn, now we can move ahead”, they say “It’s Payback Time” and expend their energies getting revenge or abusing their newly-won advantages.

My first experience in this was in 1970s Canada when we went up there to see the Olympics and toured the country as well. All throughout Western Canada the stop signs had two lines: “Stop” and “Arret”. As soon as we got to Quebec, the signs said “Arret”, then “Stop” and almost everything was in French and NOT bilingual. Their canned goods were bilingual and all the French labels were turned toward the customer.

Similar in the New South. I had worked in South Carolina in the ‘60s and saw a lot of demeaning discrimination that bothered this Yankee to the point I was glad to leave the place. In the ‘80s, on my first contracting job, I was sent to Macon, GA and braced myself for more of the same. I was stunned at the change - the white media and political structure fairly GROVELED at the blacks feet. I worked there five years and noticed, once it was pointed out to me, how whenever a black gained a supervisory position, no white person was EVER hired again and gradually the offices would become mono-color. There was a lot of “I’m on top now” attitude and the whites toadied up to them at every turn. Another sigh of relief on leaving, but for different reasons.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

From Derbyshire's article:

(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.

(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.

I won't be living my life according to any of these rules. I feel sorry for Derbyshire's kids if he's teaching them to live with such irrational fear that they refuse to help strangers in trouble because the strangers happen to be black.