Thomas Stewart: The Decline of Old American Names

Thomas Stewart: Not too long ago I came across this shocking story on the Yahoo! home page. 

ELIZABETH, N.J. – A Salvadoran immigrant’s wad of payday cash proved irresistible for a group of teenagers charged in his videotaped beating death, as well as for the nurse who eventually managed to pocket it when the victim arrived at the hospital, authorities said.

The confrontation was not an instance of bias, Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow said Friday, but “a crime of opportunity.” But they chickened out, authorities said.

“If this man were a Caucasian, an African-American, or a Chinese person they would have done the same thing to him,” Romankow said.

Police were able to piece together the events, in part, from a cell phone video taken by one of the youths and circulated among friends. …

“Police say 18-year-old murder suspect Khayri Williams-Clark pulled Mazariego’s shirt over his face, while an unidentified 17-year-old juvenile and 19-year-old Nigel Dumas each punched him full-force in the jaw, Romankow said. Two other juveniles stood watch, authorities said.

The five teenagers ran away when they saw Mazariego slump, bloodied, onto the bench, according to Romankow. They forgot the victim’s cash and watch but returned a short while later to try to retrieve it. By the time they came back, Romankow said, the teens saw people coming to Mazariego’s aid and did not approach.”

Beating a man to death and sharing the video with friends? My first instinct was “that’s not the white race I know and believe in.” And sure enough, it’s not.

“Khayri Williams-Clark”? The kh- sound is a phoneme (distinct sound in linguistics) found in Semitic languages like Arabic and in a few Indo-European ones, though not English. But that last name is as “Old American” as you can get. To see what was going on here, I typed “Khayri” into MySpace and the results were as expected.

African American Vernacular English has been studied for its deviation from the standard form of the language in syntax, morphology and semantics, but much rarer for adding new phonemes to our mother tongue. About half of black American names seem to be made up out of thin air. Nevertheless, inventing new sounds or borrowing them from other languages is beyond what I would’ve expected from the African American community.

Of course, the third paragraph, where the prosecutor is already apologizing for the perpetrators and assuring us that although they may be murderers and sadists-oh no, they’re not racists!–should’ve been evidence enough that we’re not dealing with a white on minority crime here. The “forgetting” to rob the victim and coming back later to do so is another dead give away.

The nurse who stole from the victim afterwards is named Stephan Randolph, which means he’s probably of the same stock as the perpetrators. This got me thinking, every time in America someone in the news pops up named Robinson, Smith, Clark, Davis, Williams, Johnson or Randolph I automatically assume that the person is black. But these were apparently the names of the wealthiest slave-holding families of WASP descent. Where are their white descendants? They haven’t completely disappeared, as a Jackson or Johnson of clearly North European ancestry isn’t unheard of, but they are a minority among their namesakes.

The most common surname in the NBA is Williams, shared by twelve players. Of them, only one is white and he appears to be a blond tattooed freak who’s known for having drug problems. The league also claims three Wallaces, seven Johnsons, four Joneses, and three Youngs, all of whom are black. Obviously the NBA isn’t a representative sample of the population but from my experience I would bet the results would be around the same if one looked at the country as a whole, with a 7- or 8-1 or higher ratio of per capita old wealthy white names among American blacks compared to whites.

Perhaps it hasn’t been that the wealthiest WASPs were outbred by their former slaves but there were just fewer of them in the first place and they owned enough human chattels to create the illusion of a fall from grace of the most successful English, Welsh and Scottish surnames. Whatever the case may be, I still find it sad that the only times you’re likely to see a Lewis or Clark in the news these days is in a story like the one above. If this doesn’t indicate that the best white families haven’t replaced themselves, it does that they haven’t been able to maintain a society where the worst impulses of their ex-slaves are kept in line.

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27 Comments to "Thomas Stewart: The Decline of Old American Names"

  1. Sadie Vacantist's Gravatar Sadie Vacantist
    July 31, 2010 - 2:26 pm | Permalink

    “Euros lack cohesion and solidarity” – so true and it boils down to the lack of religion.

  2. me's Gravatar me
    July 31, 2010 - 2:29 pm | Permalink

    yeah. i have an anglo name like that.. and I live in a large east coast city, needless to say when my name is called, I get second looks -….they expect everyone white to have an ‘ethnic’ (irish, german, jewish, italian) surname.

  3. Tom's Gravatar Tom
    July 31, 2010 - 6:31 pm | Permalink

    Watch how quickly the $8.9 BILLION DOLLARS in unaccounted re-construction money set aside for Iraq goes down the memory hole.

    I can’t even find a direct link to the AP story about the theft.

  4. Randy's Gravatar Randy
    July 31, 2010 - 6:34 pm | Permalink

    Reintegration of church and state is fine just so long as that church isn’t Christian. We don’t need a role model who allowed himself to be crucified by the state. To hell with morality leading to a happy afterlife when what we need is honor that defends this life.

  5. Thomas Steward's Gravatar Thomas Steward
    July 31, 2010 - 7:34 pm | Permalink

    Sorry, this post makes little sense without the original link. Here’s the relevant part.

    http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=12899514

    “Police say 18-year-old murder suspect Khayri Williams-Clark pulled Mazariego’s shirt over his face, while an unidentified 17-year-old juvenile and 19-year-old Nigel Dumas each punched him full-force in the jaw, Romankow said. Two other juveniles stood watch, authorities said.

    The five teenagers ran away when they saw Mazariego slump, bloodied, onto the bench, according to Romankow. They forgot the victim’s cash and watch but returned a short while later to try to retrieve it. By the time they came back, Romankow said, the teens saw people coming to Mazariego’s aid and did not approach.”

    Feel free to delete when fixed, mod.

  6. admin's Gravatar admin
    August 1, 2010 - 5:19 am | Permalink

    It’s fixed.

  7. John Stonehouse's Gravatar John Stonehouse
    August 1, 2010 - 7:37 am | Permalink

    All the surnames mentioned are very typically British – and thee are many thousands of white Britons, of al social classes, bearing those names.

  8. Randy's Gravatar Randy
    August 1, 2010 - 8:42 am | Permalink

    Severus,

    The Catholics used to be militant, and they also used to be, by and large illiterate, in other words, they hadn’t read their New Testaments. The New Testament is not a fighting or honorable creed. It is about resignation in the face of oppression in the hopes of a world to come. The New Testament is not a guide for fighters. Look a the churches today. What a disgrace. Liberalism itself, our bitterest foe, is itself a secular manifestation of Christianity. The only true strength found in the Bible is found in the Old Testament, the Jewish part of the Bible.

  9. August 1, 2010 - 12:32 pm | Permalink

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    Graham Wellington gets an Apartment

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zChi0VZiaGI

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  10. Sadie Vacantist's Gravatar Sadie Vacantist
    August 1, 2010 - 1:49 pm | Permalink

    Severus – in theory the UK foes not have separation of Church and State and arguably we experience less racial tension than in the USA and France. The issue of Jewish influence within the UK remains a live one however as does the whole demographic question as we along with our ‘euro’ pals contracept and abort our tribes out of existence. Remember the UK already has it own potent ‘elites’ so the Jews have traditionally failed to totally displace them with their own people. In addition, the British upper middle-classes are much tougher than their American counterparts in so much as they leave home at 5 years of age (never to return) and play rugby from a young age also. It is a mistake to underestimate them and their capacity for visciousness. This was the single biggest mistake that Hitler made. He thought they were all nice guys like Chamberlain. Dear old Pat Buchanan is very good on this subject.

  11. August 1, 2010 - 2:04 pm | Permalink

    @Randy: “We don’t need a role model who allowed himself to be crucified by the state”

    What was that line from the latest Gibson movie? Something like “Either you’re the one hanging on the cross or the one pounding in the nails.”

    Perhaps Jesus was crucified so we wouldn’t have to be, especially at the hands of talmudic pharisees.

    There is no way anyone with an iota of reading comprehension or who is not self-deluded can walk away from a the New Testament with anything but contempt and worse for the Judeofascists and their ways.

  12. Alexander's Gravatar Alexander
    August 1, 2010 - 4:26 pm | Permalink

    Randy. With the current integration of church and synagogue you are probably quite wise loving your enemies and despising the institutions that represent you.

  13. Tom's Gravatar Tom
    August 1, 2010 - 6:24 pm | Permalink

    Four little darkies in York, PA murder a law student sitting on a bench.
    http://www.ydr.com/ci_15635772?source=most_emailed

    I don’t have a clue if the perp’s ancestors were previously owned by a Pennsylvania Dutchman? Maybe in Maryland?

  14. Tom's Gravatar Tom
    August 1, 2010 - 6:29 pm | Permalink

    “Graham Wellington”, sounds like an actor to me. LOL.

  15. Randy's Gravatar Randy
    August 1, 2010 - 8:30 pm | Permalink

    @Chris, “Perhaps Jesus was crucified so we wouldn’t have to be, especially at the hands of talmudic pharisees.”

    As things stand today, every White country is expected to assimilate massive racially foreign immigration, some of it, as is the case with Europe and the USA, with black Africans. White people face being blended out of existence, a general crucifixion you might call it. Christian churches have nothing to say in our defense, because they are too weak. They are weak because of doctrine. It is the nature of the religion. Turn the other cheek, feed the poor, welcome the stranger, all of that.

  16. Tony's Gravatar Tony
    August 1, 2010 - 9:39 pm | Permalink

    “I don’t have a clue if the perp’s ancestors were previously owned by a Pennsylvania Dutchman? Maybe in Maryland?”

    Judging by how white he is it’s more probable that he’s the product of more recent admixture.

  17. Tom's Gravatar Tom
    August 2, 2010 - 8:25 am | Permalink

    Right, Tony. Could be a little Obama. Of course the newspaer picture might have been lightened up to give more of a “high yellow” look.

  18. Andrej's Gravatar Andrej
    August 2, 2010 - 11:35 am | Permalink

    OT Surprisingly good article from Telegraph’s Damian Thompson: Jewish hostility to Christians: the prejudice no one ever writes about – http://tiny.cc/gzfeb

  19. Tom's Gravatar Tom
    August 2, 2010 - 12:11 pm | Permalink

    Suspect number #2 in the law school student murder looks to be a Puerto Rican or other Afro Latino:
    http://www.ydr.com/ci_15658705

  20. August 2, 2010 - 12:44 pm | Permalink

    @ Randy,

    The traditional Western Civilization interpretation of Christianity which worked so magnificently and, not coincidentally has been decried by Jews, leftists, left-liberals, neoliberals and neocons as “anti-Semitic” was very different than the modern liberal and capitalist interpretation of Christianity.

    In modern parlance, the ethos of the former might be boiled down to: Defend the faith against predators, parasites and subversive interlopers.

    Laying the epic failures of liberalism and capitalism on Christianity is not only historically inaccurate, but it also plays into the hands of the Judeofascist pharisees.

    Whites who are serious about defending themselves and Western Civilization against hostiles will make common cause with Christians instead of defaming and scapegoating them, which is exactly the kind of divide and conquer outcome that Zionists excel at engineering.

  21. Randy's Gravatar Randy
    August 2, 2010 - 5:04 pm | Permalink

    @Chris,

    “Whites who are serious about defending themselves and Western Civilization against hostiles will make common cause with Christians instead of defaming and scapegoating them, which is exactly the kind of divide and conquer outcome that Zionists excel at engineering.”

    I understand what you are saying, and I actually do defend Christianity when, for instance, Christian symbols are being attacked by Jews, and liberals generally, every Christmas season; but the situation is not as cut and dry as you present it. What are we to say to Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services when they aid and abet incoming hordes of Mexicans crossing our borders? It is not reasonable to expect that we hold our tongues while watching the Pope welcome Muslim hordes into Europe. There is a definite problem of Christian universalism combining with economic globalism and Jewish supremacy to push our kind out the door of history. Once we are out we won’t be coming back. This is no small thing. Any group aiding and abetting this genocidal process needs to be opposed, even if it is the Christian church. Remember massive foreign immigration, coupled with assimilation, equals blending our kind out of history.

  22. August 2, 2010 - 9:14 pm | Permalink

    along with the decline of western churches and their power is also the decline of whites in authority and in charge of their own destiny and wealth. . Dr Schwitzer (sp) who dedcated his career in Africa helping black Africans made the statement after years of working and living among them and he said, the relationship between blacks and whites must always be white superior and black inferior, if at anytime whites elevate blacks with equality of being and living at their mercy the whites will be murdered. Now, how can anyone refute what this man says. I recommend those of you out there not familiar with the works of Kipling to read his work called The Stranger in the yard. It is very revealing wisdom thats been around a long time wisdom how relations should be between the races by whites thats been there done that. It is to our ever lasting regret the gdamned pharisee liberal scum changed a good country into a cesspool of crime no jobs and the fraudelently elected appointed diktator govt ruling by executive decree coming after everyones wealth as the demon rat pig Pelosi said in public ,she said we are going to redistribute wealth in America.

  23. Sean Smith's Gravatar Sean Smith
    August 2, 2010 - 9:35 pm | Permalink

    I’m a white Smith and I could have written this article myself, so often have I pondered this question. Where are the white decenents of these slave-owning Williamses, Johnsons, Jacksons and, yes, Smiths?

  24. Alexander's Gravatar Alexander
    August 2, 2010 - 9:49 pm | Permalink

    What you say Randy is so true- Remember massive foreign immigration, coupled with assimilation, equals blending our kind out of history – but why use the word blending instead of the more Christian adulterate? If you are to defend or attack Christianity is it not wise to use Christian terminology? My Oxford Dictionary has adulterated as “stained in conduct or in birth by adultery, of things spurious, counterfeit” and a second meaning, “falsify by admixture of baser ingredients.” Anyone over the age of 50 has heard of a bar owner being fined for adulterating drinks with water so a lot of us are well aware that adultery is to water down a blood line and that Scripture is full of examples of kind after kind.
    Nehemiah 13:3. Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
    Numbers 11:4 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting and the Children of Israel wept again.
    While you can’t blame the children of a mixed marriage for being born I think it is fair to say that it is wrong for the church to encourage such marriages and that inter racial sex is not scriptural, as again God’s constant theme is kind after kind.
    Christians are being led astray because we are to lazy to study our Holy Book and prefer to have it explained to us by unbelievers.

  25. Tom's Gravatar Tom
    August 3, 2010 - 6:56 am | Permalink

    @ Smith

    They probably live down the street. :)

  26. Anonymous's Gravatar Anonymous
    August 7, 2010 - 1:03 pm | Permalink

    Sean Smith said:
    “I’m a white Smith and I could have written this article myself, so often have I pondered this question. Where are the white decenents of these slave-owning Williamses, Johnsons, Jacksons and, yes, Smiths?”

    According to Wikipedia, Smith is rather unusual among common Anglo names in that over 70% of Americans who are Smiths are white. The rest are mostly black. Not so, I’m afraid, for other common Anglo names like Jones, Brown and Davis, where the distribution between black and white is more even ( though whites are still more numerous.) That’s not the alarming stat, though.

    Garcia and Rodriguez are the 8th and 9th most common surnames in the U.S., ahead of Wilson, Taylor, Thompson, Jackson and Harris. In fact, hispanic surnames constitute nearly 20% of the most common last names in our country!

    Don’t let them tell you that illegal/legal immigration from Mexico and central America is just the continuation of a tradition of immigration from the late 19th/early 20th century…there isn’t an Italian, Polish, Danish, Czech, Greek, Portugese, Norwegian, Lithuanian or Russian name to be found on the list of Top 100 American surnames. Yes, many changed their last names upon arriving, but that just showed a willingness of many European immigrants to blend in with other European Americans.
    Not going to happen with hispanics.

    Oh, Smith is still the #1 name.

  27. Jim's Gravatar Jim
    August 7, 2010 - 1:30 pm | Permalink

    Sean Smith said:
    “I’m a white Smith and I could have written this article myself, so often have I pondered this question. Where are the white decenents of these slave-owning Williamses, Johnsons, Jacksons and, yes, Smiths?”

    According to Wikipedia, Smith is rather unusual among common Anglo names in that over 70% of Americans who are Smiths are white. The rest are mostly black. Not so, I’m afraid, for other common Anglo names like Jones, Brown and Davis, where the distribution between black and white is more even ( though whites are still more numerous.) That’s not the alarming stat, though.

    Garcia and Rodriguez are the 8th and 9th most common surnames in the U.S., ahead of Wilson, Taylor, Thompson, Jackson and Harris. In fact, hispanic surnames constitute nearly 20% of the most common last names in our country.

    Don’t let them tell you that illegal/legal immigration from Mexico and central America is just the continuation of a tradition of European immigration from the late 19th/early 20th century…there isn’t an Italian, Polish, Danish, Czech, Greek, Portugese, Norwegian, Lithuanian or Russian name to be found on the list of Top 100 American surnames. Yes, many of those people changed their last names upon arriving, but that just showed a willingness of European immigrants to acclimate to American culture. Not going to happen with hispanics.

    Oh, and Smith is still #1.

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