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Thanks for the agreement or comments. I do believe that it is impossible to read Derbyshire’s article without the context of what it was in reply to and I would ask any interested readers to go to the links he cited in his Taki article and read them and then it will be possible to understand his article as the counterpoise it crafted to be.

Denisa Superville
http://www.northjersey.com/community/Hoodie_wearers_say_theres_no_reason_to_stereotype.html

Gracie Bonds Staples in the Nation as posted on Star Telegraph
http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/23/3831921/black-parents-live-in-fear-after.html

Leonard Greene in the NY Post
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/having_the_talk_painful_rite_for_T89MVfwTd4BA8Nne3yNtrJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National

KJ Dell’Antonia in the NYT
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/trayvon-martin-and-the-talk-black-parents-have-with-their-teenage-sons/

Daryl E Owens in the Orlando Sentinel
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-03-23/news/os-darryl-owens-homepage-20120323_1_black-parents-survival-guide-wrong-word

All of these constitute a set of guidance legends that are as faoulty and self-serving as Polonius in Hamlet. They are platitudes and Derbyshire was writing one of his own from outside — just as flawed, just as true.

It was my understanding from following all these as they came forward was this articl that when we reduce real events to try to understand current overall culture and relationships between racial and ethnic groups — we will fail and we will impart platitudes and our own shortcuts — just like Polonius, just like the links above, and low and behold, just like I took Derbyshire to be doing in an unflinching pushy way.

In the first fifty posts there is a quote from the Pope that points out that these sort of bricks are useful if they are understood. I agree.