[FewsOrange]

and here is a link to the gawker article.

http://gawker.com/5900452/i-may-give-up-writing-and-work-as-a-butler-interview-with-john-derbyshire

[Hodar]

I’m more at ease in a room full of Chinese people than I would be in a room full of black American rap artists. And my personal predilections aside, I think the big division in our society is always black-nonblack. The other stuff—Hispanics, Asians—is a bagatelle by comparison. This makes sense paleoanthropologically, too: Homo sap. first left Africa, then differentiated into other races.

That's one of the more interesting comments I have ever heard. There is also the very real aspect that a room full of Chinese people are not likely to rob and beat you for being different.

[Little Ray]

I’d say there is some issue with the spineless, back stabbing, pseudo-right, too.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Let those screaming "RACIST!" the loudest take a stroll through a black neighborhood and report back.. uh, better take a cell phone to do the report. There are periods of time when you are not likely to make it back.

That's fact. The race riots never happened?

There are times when stuff happens like the white guy coldcocked and stripped of everything -- I mean everything -- while onlookers cheered and laughed.

Yes, I know it's only a tiny number in the neighborhood doing it.. small comfort though, don't you think if those few are doing it to you?

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

[GeronL]

Steyn pointed out that NR didn’t fire Taki, the guy who published the offending article in a webzine. Double standards?

[athelass]

I am really confused here. I thought the article was satire. Am I wrong about that?

I've been reading/listening to Derb for years now. This is not the first time he's talked about "The Talk". I thought it was an exercise in pointing out the obvious double standard, which is being thrown in our faces quite violently right now by the New Black Panthers and the Congressional Black Caucus, that white people can't get away with saying the things black people say every day. Rich Lowry just proved the point.

The way I see it, what NRO did to Derb is the same thing NPR did to Juan Williams. It was wrong then and it's wrong now. If Lowry believes John Derbyshire is racist he should have stopped printing his stuff years ago. He's had plenty of opportunity. Why bow to the PC gods now?

I think NRO has gone establishment. They're trying to move center, away from conservatism. I'm going to reserve judgment until I hear what Mark Levin has to say.

[Larry381]

I've noticed that many liberals and not a few conservatives tend to tiptoe around the issue of black racism. Liberals, when they'll even admit that such a thing exists, generally might answer with "well of course there are some but you can't really blame them"

It's been my contention for quite a few years that there are considerably more black racists in this country than white racists and the politically correct retort that most of the black on white crime has little to do with black attitudes toward whites is pure wishful thinking.

What the real statistics concerning the underlying causes of black on white crime are no one knows but you can be sure that black racism is one of its major causes.

[SuziQ]

Bump for later reading.