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La Course à l’Atome, Cause ou Conséquence de la Seconde Guerre mondiale?

September 2, 2023/in Translations: French/by Francis Goumain

On pense généralement que les guerres d’importance sont des accélérateurs de progrès techniques, la Seconde Guerre mondiale est justement très souvent citée à ce titre, mais qu’arrive-t-il si une percée technologique majeure que tout le monde sait, espère ou craint imminente se profile, une percée qui déboucherait sur une arme absolue capable de renverser complètement les équilibres géopolitiques en place?

Et si, pour le dire clairement, c’était la bombe atomique qui avait été à l’origine de la Seconde Guerre mondiale au lieu d’en être simplement à sa conclusion?

La lecture du livre de Rainer Karlsch La Bombe d’Hitler, dont la traduction française est parue en 2007 chez Calmann-Lévy permet de relever les points importants suivants.

I – Découverte des principes de l’énergie nucléaire

1931 – Découverte de l’eau lourde (D2O) par l’Américain Harold C. Urey. p.59

1932 – Première expérience de fusion nucléaire à Cambridge dirigée par Ernest Rutherford assisté de Paul  Harteck (Autrichien) et de Mark Oliphant (Australien). P.39

1938 – Peu avant Noël, Otto Hahn et Frtitz Strassmann, réalisent la première fission de l’atome d’uranium. Ils avaient voulu créer du radium en bombardant de l’uranium avec des neutrons, mais au lieu de détacher quelques particules d’uranium, ils en avaient scindé les atomes en deux parties. Otto Hahn était considéré comme le meilleur radiochimiste de l’époque, prix Nobel de chimie en 1944 pour sa découverte de la fission. p.38

1939 – 6 janvier, Hahn et Strassmann publièrent les résultats de leur série d’essais. Leurs découvertes sensationnelles se propagèrent dans la communauté mondiale des physiciens. L’élément le plus fascinant de cette réaction nucléaire d’un nouveau genre était la grande quantité d’énergie qu’elle libérait, 200 millions d’électronvolts – un chiffre gigantesque, c’est une partie de la masse du noyau qui partait en chaleur et en lumière. P.32.

1939 – 22 avril, Jean-Frédéric Joliot Curie confirme dans la revue Nature, la réaction en chaîne: plusieurs neutrons rapides sont émis lors de la fission du noyau de l’atome d’uranium par un neutron lent. p.32

II – Prise de conscience politico-militaire

1939 – Wilhelm Hanle tient une conférence sur «la création d’énergie à partir d’une machine à fission de l’uranium». Il expliqua que celle-ci devait être construite à partir d’une combinaison d’uranium et d’eau lourde ou de graphite [l’eau lourde ou le graphite doivent ralentir les neutrons rapides libérés par la fission du noyau d’uranium pour augmenter la probabilité qu’ils rencontrent à leur tour un noyau d’uranium pour une nouvelle fission]. Hanle et Georg Joos, son mentor, écrivirent une lettre au ministre de l’Éducation du Reich, Bernhard Rust, dans laquelle ils présentèrent les conséquences possibles de l’énergie atomique. L’idée d’un explosif nucléaire en faisait partie. p.33

1939 – 24 avril, deux jours seulement après la publication de Joliot-Curie, le professeur Paul Harteck, de l’université de Hambourg, et son assistant Wilhelm Groth signalaient au ministère de la Guerre que la mise au point d’explosifs nucléaires était possible: «Le premier pays qui fera usage de la fission du noyau, possédera sur les autres une supériorité irrattrapable». p.33

1939 – 2 août, USA,  Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard et Eugene Wigner écrivent à au président Roosevelt en soulignant le fait que les bombes à uranium auraient la possibilité de détruire des villes entières. p.69

1940 – Mars, en Grande-Bretagne, Otto Frisch et Rudolf Peierls rédigent à l’attention des autorités gouvernementales deux brefs mémorandums sur la construction d’une superbombe.p.69

1940 – URSS, Flerov et Petrzak, deux élèves d’Igor Kourtchatov, établissent qu’il existe dans la nature une fission spontanée de l’uranium. Curieux de voir comment ses collègues en Occident réagiraient à cette découverte, Georgi Flerov publia sur ce point un article dans la Physical Review. À son grand étonnement, il n’eut aucun écho. Ayant un bon sens du danger imminent, il sut interpréter correctement le silence de ses collègues: la recherche sur l’uranium était devenue une affaire militaire top secret. p.69

Il vaut également la peine de noter que Frédéric Joliot-Curie était communiste, membre du PCF dont on connaît les liens avec Moscou.

III – Un nouveau regard sur la logique des premières conquêtes territoriales du Reich

1938 – 12 mars, Anschluss, la communauté scientifique de Vienne arrive en renfort, ceci débouchera en 1942 sur la fondation de l’Institut du neutron sous la direction de Georg Stetter, c’était l’un des centres de physique nucléaire les mieux pourvus en personnel et en matériel de toute la zone d’influence allemande. p.42

1938 – 29 septembre, accords de Munich et annexion des Sudètes. Les mines de Joachimstahl, les plus anciennes et les plus importantes mines d’uranium européennes, passèrent ainsi sous contrôle allemand. Elles ne fournirent plus désormais que les producteurs allemands. p.59

1940 – 9 avril, invasion de la Norvège. Depuis 1934, l’eau lourde était produite par l’entreprise norvégienne Norsk Hydro; c’était un produit secondaire de la fabrication d’hydrogène par électrolyse. Pour obtenir un gramme d’eau lourde, il fallait utiliser 1000 kWh d’énergie. Un moyen aussi coûteux ne pouvait servir que de procédé secondaire, mais en Norvège, l’énergie hydraulique était bon marché. Aucun autre pays au monde ne disposait avant la guerre d’une installation comparable. p.60

1940 – 10 mai invasion de la Belgique.  L’union minière de Bruxelles, l’un des plus grands producteurs d’uranium au monde, fut intégrée dans le projet uranium allemand.p.59

1940 – 22 juin, armistice en France. Le cyclotron de Paris passe sous contrôle allemand, il reste à Paris, mais une semaine sur deux, ce sont les Allemands qui s’en servent, et une semaine sur deux les Français. Le cyclotron est un accélérateur de particules extrêmement important pour la recherche fondamentale en physique nucléaire. Aux États-unis il y en avait déjà une trentaine avant la guerre, mais aucun en Allemagne. Le cyclotron parisien était de loin  la source de neutrons la plus puissante dont disposait le Reich. p.62

Erich Schumann et Kurt Diebner, à la tête du projet atomique allemand, avaient visité l’installation et étudié les documents de recherche confisqués à l’armée et aux services secrets français. La guerre avait forcé les Français à interrompre leurs expériences dans le domaine des réacteurs, sans cela, ils auraient vraisemblablement été les premiers à construire un réacteur fonctionnant en autoallumage. Dans leur brevet, on trouvait l’idée d’utiliser l’uranium dans un réacteur en forme de sphère ou d’épi. Diebner la reprendrait deux bonnes années plus tard. p.63.

Kurt Diebner reprendra aussi l’idée de Joliot-Curie de l’uranium en dés plutôt qu’en plaques, c’est-à-dire, en sorte que l’uranium du réacteur soit entouré par l’eau lourde dans les trois dimensions. p.107

Bien sûr, l’Allemagne n’a pas conquis la France pour un cyclotron – ce n’est d’ailleurs pas l’Allemagne qui a attaqué la France, en revanche, si ce cyclotron avait été installé à Lyon ou à Marseille, cela aurait sans doute modifié le tracé de la ligne de démarcation.

IV – Les voies et réalisations de l’Allemagne vers la bombe

Trois voies s’offraient à l’Allemagne, la bombe à fission d’uranium, la bombe à fission de plutonium et la bombe à fusion (hydrogène). Il y avait aussi, dès 1940, le concept de bombe à réacteur – ou bombe sale, mais il n’était pas question pour l’armée de faire exploser un réacteur, on rejeta aussitôt cette idée. p.272.

La bombe à fission d’uranium était totalement hors de portée de l’Allemagne, l’enrichissement de l’uranium à un niveau militaire requiert des installations industrielles pharaoniques et une consommation d’énergie phénoménale, cette vidéo en donne une excellente idée.

La bombe à fission de plutonium, l’avantage, c’est que le plutonium est produit dans un réacteur qui utilise un uranium faiblement enrichi. Lors de la réaction en chaîne, l’uranium naturel 238U (non fissile) peut capter un neutron libéré par la fission d’un 235U. Le nouvel isotope d’uranium se désintègre en neptunium, le neptunium, à son tour, peut fixer un neutron et se désintégrer en plutonium. Le 17 juillet 1940, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker rédigeait un rapport qui s’arrêtait au neptunium. p.74.

En août 1941, Fritz Houtermans rédigeait un deuxième rapport qui allait jusqu’au plutonium.  p.78

De plus, Houtermans comprit le rôle des neutrons rapides pour une réaction en chaîne incontrôlée (pour une explosion atomique, donc).

En février 1945, à Gottow, Werner Heisenberg et son groupe parvenaient à quelques mètres du but, les instruments montraient une multiplication des neutrons qui atteignait presque le décuple, mais cela ne suffisait pas pour autoalimenter une réaction en chaîne, il aurait fallu que l’expérience se déroule dans une forme non pas cylindrique mais sphérique, ou bien que l’on utilise du matériau supplémentaire, or, celui-ci se trouvait à Stadtilm. p.150.

La bombe à fusion: c’est celle-là qui est allé jusqu’à l’essai, réussi, mais pas transformé militairement.

Début mars 1945, la SS organisait en Thuringe, sur le terrain d’Ohrdruf, la première explosion d’une arme nucléaire au monde, et c’était une bombe à fusion et non une bombe à fission. En utilisant le principe de la charge creuse, les Allemands avaient réussi à créer une bombe H tactique qui se passait d’allumage atomique. Une sphère contenant de l’hydrogène était placée dans un cylindre, à chaque extrémité du cylindre une charge explosive classique (chimique), les deux charges étaient activées simultanément, et, selon le principe de la charge creuse, l’énergie des explosions se dirigeait spontanément dans la direction de moindre résistance, vers la sphère d’hydrogène, l’onde de choc créant au centre une pression et une température suffisante pour la fusion. p. 253.

L’auteur a entrepris des mesures sur place pour retrouver les traces de l’explosion:

ayant pris connaissance de tous les indices et résultats des mesures – l’activité accrue du césium 137 et du cobalt 60, la présence de 238U et de 235U, des particules issues d’un processus de fusion à haute température -, les scientifiques que nous avons consultés ont conclu  à la présence à Ohrdruf de traces d’un événement nucléaire.  p. 270.

Il y a aussi le rapport du GRU, le service de renseignements de l’Armée rouge qui a dûment rapporté l’expérience à Staline: le GRU disposait bien sûr d’un agent double sur place. p. 261

En réalité, cet essai n’était sans doute pas le premier, on a aussi eu le témoignage, de Luigi Romersa, un journaliste du Corriere della Serra, émissaire de Mussolini auquel il a rapporté  une expérience qui se serait déroulé le 10 octobre 1944, à Peenmünde, l’île aux fusées de von Braun.  p. 209.

L’Allemagne était donc bel et bien sur la voie de l’arme miracle, une tête nucléaire ajustée sur une V2 aurait pu constituer cette Wunderwaffe. Wernher von Braun a nié y avoir pensé, mais c’était dans l’ordre des choses, lorsqu’on conçoit des fusées intercontinentales, ce n’est pas pour envoyer des grenades, du reste, dès 1946, von Braun présenta à ses hôtes Américains, à peine arrivé à Fort Bliss, le projet d’une fusée à très grande portée, équipée d’une tête nucléaire, la «Comet»  p. 349

V – Leçon tirée pour la coopération technique internationale

Sans la guerre, les diverses puissances du monde étaient toutes susceptibles de percer dans le domaine des armes nucléaires, même au Japon on parlait de ces armes miracles, le danger de rupture d’équilibre irréversible était sérieux, d’où peut-être l’escalade vers la guerre.

De nos jours, on a peut-être tiré la leçon, ce n’est sans doute pas pour rien que le projet ITER est international, à notre avis, ce n’est pas tellement pour des raisons de financement ou pour nécessité de compétences nombreuses et variées, mais parce qu’un projet comme ITER peut aussi déboucher sur une percée technologique qui viendrait remettre en cause les équilibres: avec une coopération internationale, on sait que cette percée sera partagée par tout le monde.

Francis Goumain

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Black people and begging

August 31, 2023/11 Comments/in Featured Articles/by Richard Knight

In 1843 an explorer named Sir William Harris wrote that all classes of Africans were most pertinacious beggars.[1] How true was this and how true is it of Black people today?

Sir William Harris’s statement was well corroborated in the 19th century. Reporting on his time in north-east Africa, a German missionary described Africans as wanting everything for nothing.[2] He was approached by fifteen or twenty Africans every day, “all begging, and often after a very cunning fashion”. In 1850 a Scotsman familiar with southern Africa wrote that Africans would ask for something claiming it was for a sick wife or daughter and, if given it, would ask for more: your hat, your neckcloth and then your coat.[3] The traveller Sir Richard Burton wrote that an African’s first question on meeting a White man was: “What will you give me?”[4]

Sir William Harris went on to say that whatever Africans saw, they demanded, be it guns, knives, beads or dollars. “The love of acquiring property stifles every sense of shame; and no compunction is felt in asking for the cloak from off the back.” According to the naturalist Samuel Baker, it was not beneath an African king to beg. One once demanded his highland costume, then his watch, his compass and his rifle.[5] Baker refused to hand them over, but to pacify the annoyed monarch, gave him a pound of gunpowder and some bullets. When the king asked what use these would be without a gun, Baker reminded him that he had already given him a gun.

Not all primitive people resembled Africans. Christopher Columbus described the Arawaks of the West Indies as noble and kind, which he would not have done had they been pertinacious beggars.[6] Nor perhaps are all Africans like the Bantus, who account for most of those we call Black today. Perhaps the Pygmies and Kalahari Bushmen do not beg.[7]

But Bantus still beg habitually today, as they sometimes admit. In 2022 the president of Ghana urged his peers to stop begging from the West.[8] In 2023 the Rwandan president asked a Rwandan audience: “Can somebody tell me why we have become beggars?”[9] In 2014 an African wrote an article entitled “Africa, the Begging Continent”,[10] which quoted an eminent African describing Africa as composed of beggar nations. That was in 1967, when Obafemi Awolowo said that the only way for Africa to become self-reliant was to shake off the begging habit and find some initiative, courage and drive. Paradoxically, though, he added that the continent must not cease to use every feasible tactic and manoeuvre to extract ever more alms from its benefactors.[11]

Africa begs on the basis that it is needy, which gains it countless billions of dollars, which disappear and so it begs again. It is an accepted cycle. Nor does it beg alone. The United Nations begs on its behalf through schemes such as Agenda 2030, which requires Western (“developed”) countries to pass a portion of their wealth to “developing” countries on a regular basis — less to relieve suffering, these days, than to reduce international inequality.[12] Yet almost as soon as a wealth transfer has taken place, the UN finds that it was insufficient. In 2019, just three years after Agenda 2030 came into effect, the UN Secretary General wrote that in some areas a “much deeper, faster and more ambitious response” was needed.[13] Another UN official also acted like a beggar-turned-tyrant, stating that in some places more rapid progress was required.[14] Poverty continued to be concentrated in the world’s poorest countries, he stated tautologically, suggesting that their problem was that richer countries were not more generous. Nor have the vast amounts of “development aid” received by Africa over the decades resulted in much development. According to the UN’s list of the world’s least developed countries, 35 of the 48 are in Africa.[15]

The African masses beg. Set foot on the continent and open palms will be stretched towards you, I am told. In East and West Africa alike, parents send their children out to beg.[16] And so it seems that begging is as much a way of life in Africa today as it always was.

Black people beg in the West as well, where they have found their perfect counterparts in White donors. A few years ago it was hard to know who was working harder, the leaders of Black Lives Matter to ask for money or White people to give it to them. The “reparations for slavery” movement is another begging operation, so successful that California is already intent on giving a great deal of money to each qualifying Black person in the state.[17]

Racial politics is largely a matter of begging. This is what is going on when Black people complain that not enough of them are admitted to Oxford or Cambridge universities or when they seek higher-paying jobs or exemption from being stopped by the police. The method is always the same: call your intended benefactors racists, or threaten to do so or imply that they are, until they give you what you want. The rationale is equally simple: “I am Black”. Nothing more is needed.

But often Black people have no need to beg. Whites are already there, seeing to their every wish before it is expressed. True, it was a Black woman who in 2021 described the efforts of Black children as “kind of wasted” if they did not get into the top one per cent of universities,[18] but this was thirty years after Whites first lamented the small numbers of Black students at Oxford and Cambridge. The universities duly lowered the bar for Black applicants, only to find that the favoured students could not keep up and were therefore prone to drop out or get poor degrees. This gave anti-racists another disparity to come down on: the universities were “failing their Black students”.[19] Pro-Black discrimination was now needed not just to get Black students in but also to retain them during their courses and improve their results at the end. In 2018 a headline stated: “Universities must give more top degrees to Black students, under new proposals by regulator”.[20]

Whites are there first when it comes to employment too. It is not Black people who say that an employer has too few Black staff these days but the employer, who announces an intention to take on specifically Black people in the name of “diversity”. In 2021 Lloyds Bank gave itself four years to increase Black representation in senior roles to at least three per cent, using the word “diversity” as its justification.[21] The following year His Majesty’s Treasury stated that it aimed to boost the number of its Black staff to six per cent of the total, almost twice the percentage of Black people in the population.[22] Little did Lloyds or H. M. Treasury care about the non-Blacks who would be passed over in favour of less competent Blacks. Little did they care about the damage these under-qualified people would do to their operations. As anti-racist organisations, what they cared about was anticipating the hopes of the favoured race so as to save it the trouble of begging.[23]

It is the same with crime. Young Black men do not bemoan the fact that the police stop and search them out of all proportion to their numbers as they used to; the police do it, obsessed as they are with reducing the amount of contact they have with Black criminals. One of the main points the police aim to get across to the public is that they, the police, are racist. In 2020, the National Police Chiefs’ Council intended to “address racial inequalities in policing”, meaning to reduce inequalities of outcome by increasing inequalities of treatment.[24] In 2023 a chief constable proposed to do something about the “disproportionality” whereby Black people appear in court at a higher rate than others,[25] presenting the fact as evidence of the police’s “institutional racism”. Presumably the necessary corrective action was to stop arresting Blacks. Do the police care about the effect their anti-racist initiatives will have on the crime figures? Of course not! Already in 2000 one of London’s most senior police officers was boasting that he had reduced the number of young Black men stopped and searched by almost forty per cent in the previous year,[26] during which the number of muggings rose by at least two thirds.[27]

If these institutions expect gratitude from those they favour, they will be disappointed, as the old explorers could have told them. In 1891 Herbert Ward noted the ingratitude of the natives of the Congo, as when the mother of a baby whose life he had saved called him a witch for doing it, although she did creep up to his tent in the night and leave an egg there, which unfortunately turned out to be bad.[28] Samuel Baker found Africans “utterly obtuse to all feelings of gratitude”, noting especially their failure to express any trace of the sentiment when freed upon the abolition of slavery.[29] Sir Richard Burton explained that the African sees a benefit as “the weakness of his benefactor and his own strength; consequently he will not recognize even the hand that feeds him”.[30]

We see this today in the view taken by many Black people of the state benefits they receive. Instead of expressing gratitude, they complain that the benefits are too small. A commenter on a YouTube video wrote of his astonishment at seeing an African single mother on television, “living on welfare in a lovely spacious council-provided home with her five children”, moaning about her money worries.[31] Other commenters had found that whatever Africans wanted, they seemed to feel entitled to, nor did they show any gratitude when they received it. In 2022 the historian Simon Webb posted a video entitled “The ingratitude of Africa for all that Britain did for them in the 19th and 20th centuries”.[32] We gave our colonies roads, railways, schools and hospitals, judicial systems and written language, he pointed out, and now they were demanding “reparations”. At least, some in Nigeria were. This ingratitude is seen in non-African Blacks as well. Back in the 1970s a British-born Black activist, outlining his plan for Black people to take charge of Britain’s race policy, which would be one of universal pro-Black discrimination, specifically warned the White people who would assist in the project to expect no gratitude.[33]

If the old explorers found that Black people showed no gratitude when they received a gift, they found that they would not make one, either, unless they expected to do well out of it. The Scottish adventurer Hugh Murray reported that when Africans made a gift, they considered it “a deadly offence not to receive at least double the value in return”.[34] A Portuguese explorer named Francisco Valdez wrote that Africans never gave anything without expecting back something worth three times as much.[35] When an African gave a chicken to Anna Scott, an American missionary, she found that she “had to make him a return present of four or five times the value of his fowl”.[36] The Black reluctance to make a free gift continues. Black people rarely do voluntary work or donate blood.[37]

Robbery and theft are like begging without the request. One doesn’t ask; one just takes. Robbery is notoriously popular with Black people, who according to various statements made in the last forty years comprise eighty per cent of London’s muggers, which means that a Black person is around fifty times as likely to carry out a mugging as anyone else.[38] An early case was recorded by the Scottish explorer Mungo Park more than 200 years ago. He was accosted by a group of Africans, one of whom had a knife while another had a gun.[39] The first cut a button off his waistcoat and put it in his pocket; the second threatened to shoot him if he touched his compass, which was lying on the ground. Others went away with his horse. But it seems that Africans were rarely so bold. What they specialised in was theft.

The German explorer Johann Barth, writing in 1857, found the thievish propensities of the people of Logon “very remarkable”.[40] In 1670 the Scottish cartographer John Ogilby wrote that the urge of Africans to steal whatever they could lay their hands on, especially from foreigners, was innate, noting that if they pulled off a particularly ingenious theft they would boast about it.[41] John Duncan, although he found, as he put it, an extraordinary amount of depravity of every kind in Africa, was convinced that the African’s predominant passion was theft.[42]

In 1864 William Reade put it bluntly: “The Africans are all of them thieves. They have no sense of honor in that respect.”[43] Thomas Hutchinson wrote in 1858: “Show me a Black man, and I will show you a thief”.[44] Mungo Park wrote in 1815 that the most prominent defect in the character of Africans was their insurmountable propensity to steal anything he possessed.[45] “We found the people thieves to a man.” According to Charles Andersson, a Swedish explorer, theft was a prevailing vice with the Bechuanas. From what he had seen of them, he was certain that from the king to the slave, none would hesitate to steal the shirt off his back if he thought he could get away with it.[46]

Black thieves are not unknown in modern times. In the 1960s an anti-apartheid priest urged White South Africans to love their servants as children of God even if they stole from them, seeming to take it for granted that they would. Every riot sees Black people looting with abandon. My own first contact with the idea that not every Black person was necessarily well behaved came in the 1980s when I left a shop in an English city having propped my bicycle up outside to see it being ridden down the hill by a young Black man. It had only been there about thirty seconds.

None of this is intended to spread ill feeling about Black people, who have many virtues. For example, they tend to be cheerful. It is merely intended to throw light on what they are like with regard to begging and related topics, which a surprisingly large number of White people seem to be unaware of.


[1] This note and others below refer to Hinton Rowan Helper (“HH”), compiler of The Negroes in Negroland, 1868, New York: G W Carleton. Helper’s notes give abbreviated references such as, here, to “Harris’s Adventures in Africa, page 299”. Where possible these have been expanded to give the author’s full name and the title and date of the book presumably referred to. In this case, on p. 84 HH quotes Sir William Cornwallis Harris, Major Harris’s Sports and Adventures in Africa, 1843, p. 299.

[2] On p.87 HH quotes “Krapf’s Africa”, p. 175. This could be John Ludwig Krapf: the Explorer-Missionary of Northeastern Africa by Paul E Kretzmann, 1909.

[3] On p. 84 HH quotes Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming, 1850, Five Years of a Hunter’s Life in the Far Interior of South Africa Vol. I, p. 128.

[4] On pp. 82-83 HH quotes “Burton’s Africa”, p. 496, which could be any of Sir Richard Burton’s books about Africa, most of which were published in the 1860s.

[5] On p. 34 HH quotes Samuel Baker, 1870, Great Basin of the Nile, p. 386: “True to his natural instincts, the king commenced begging, and being much struck with my Highland costume, he demanded it as a proof of friendship, saying, that if I refused I could not be his friend. My watch, compass, and double Fletcher rifle were asked for in their turn; all of which I refused to give him.”.

[6] See B:M2022, Feb. 12th 2021, “Taíno: Indigenous Caribbeans”, https://www.Blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/pre-colonial-history/taino-indigenous-caribbeans/.

[7] The Pygmies and Bushmen (the few who remain after almost being wiped out by Bantus) are together known as the Khoi-San today.

[8] africanews, Dec. 14th 2022, “Ghana’s president Akufo Addo urges Africa to stop ‘begging’”, https://www.africanews.com/2022/12/14/ghanas-president-akufo-addo-urges-africa-to-stop-begging/.

[9] Africa Web TV, April 3rd 2023, “Can We As Africans Stop Preparing Ourselves To Becoming Someone’s Breakfast? | President Paul Kagame”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRy69WPRJ-A.

[10] Premium Times, Feb. 6th 2014, “Africa, the Begging Continent, By Olúfémi Táíwò”, https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/154708-africa-begging-continent-olufemi-taiwo.html?tztc=1.

[11] Olúfémi Táíwò in Premium Times, ibid., quotes Obafemi Awolowo, 1981, Voice of Courage: Selected Speeches of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, vol. 1, Akure: Fagbamigbe, pp. 29-30.

[12] United Nations, 2015, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development , https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N15/291/89/pdf/N1529189.pdf. Goal 10 of 17 is to “reduce inequality within and among countries”.

[13] United Nations, 2019, António Guterres’s Foreword to “The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2019”, https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2019/#sdg-goals.

[14] United Nations, 2019, Liu Zhenmin’s Introduction to “The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2019”, https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2019/#sdg-goals.

[15] United Nations, 2014, “Country classification”, https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/wesp_current/2014wesp_country_classification.pdf.

[16] tearfund, June 16th 2023, “Prayers for International Day of the African Child”, https://www.tearfund.org/stories/2023/06/prayers-for-international-day-of-the-african-child.

[17] Los Angeles Times, June 29th 2023, “California’s slavery reparations plan: Eligibility, payments and other details”, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-29/la-me-california-slavery-reparations-plan.

[18] This was Afua Adom on Good Morning Britain, March 31st 2021, “Is It Time to Scrap the Term BAME? | Good Morning Britain”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1K9B1OmN28.

[19] Telegraph, Oct. 30th 2018, “Oxbridge failing disadvantaged students, critics claim”, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/04/05/oxbridge-failing-disadvantaged-students-critics-claim/.

[20] Telegraph, Sept. 7th 2018, “Universities must give more top degrees to Black students, under new proposals by regulator”, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/09/06 /universities-must-give-top-degrees-Black-students-new-proposals/.

[21] Lloyds Banking Group, no date given (June 2021), “Ethnicity”, https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/who-we-are/responsible-business/inclusion-and-diversity/ethnicity.html.

[22] Telegraph, Nov. 15th 2022, “Treasury aims to have six per cent of staff from Black backgrounds in race target”, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/11/15/treasury-aims-have-six-per-cent-staff-Black-backgrounds-race/.

[23] A fuller treatment of this subject would point out that it is our elites and those with power that lead the way in conferring special benefits on Blacks. The main donors to Black Lives Matter were corporations rather than individuals. It is California’s politicians rather than its population who are intent on paying “reparations”. It is big employers, including government departments, that pioneer the extension of racial preferences. A fuller treatment might also ask why these parties became possessed by anti-racism, where the ideology came from and what its end-game is. But these questions are outside the scope of the present article.

[24] BBC, July 30th 2020, “Ethnic minorities feel UK police are biased, report says”, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53843240.

[25] Avon and Somerset Police, June 16th 2023, “Chief Constable Sarah Crew on Institutional Racism”, https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/news/2023/06/chief-constable-sarah-crew-on-institutional-racism/.

[26] This was John Grieve, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. See Metropolitan Police, Feb. 22nd 2000, “Press Conference Held Re the Anniversary of the Lawrence Inquiry Report”, http://tap.ccta.gov.uk/[…]/b3cb2697adf8d9e1802…OpenDocument.

[27] Muggings in London went up by more than 75 per cent in the fifteen months to May 2000 according to calculations based on figures in the Telegraph, April 24th 1999, “Muggings soar as police tread softly”, and the Sunday Times, June 25th 2000, “Straw on rack as muggings soar”.

[28] Herbert Ward, 2019 (1891), Five Years with the Congo Cannibals, Ostara, p. 31.

[29] On p. 134 HH quotes Baker 1870, op cit, p. 53.

[30] On p. 82 HH quotes Burton’s Africa, op cit, p. 496.

[31] History Debunked, March 25th 2022, “The thing with Nigerians”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4elhOK34tk4.

[32] History Debunked, Dec. 21st 2022, “The ingratitude of Africa for all that Britain did for them in the 19th and 20th centuries”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYqtC_kR-Ns&t=1s.

[33] Whites should be prepared to do “any job however menial … without expecting gratitude”. Chris Mullard, 1973, Black Britain, London: George Allen and Unwin, p. 169.

[34] On p. 86 HH quotes Hugh Murray, 1853, The African Continent: A Narrative of Discovery and Adventure, p. 69.

[35] On p. 84 HH quotes Francisco Valdez, 1861, Six Years of a Traveller’s Life in Western Africa, Vol 2, p. 208.

[36] On p. 87 HH quotes Anna Scott, 1858, Day Dawn in Africa, p. 108.

[37] History Debunked, June 13th 2022, “The puzzling lack of Black blood donors”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiK4I_t-W04.

[38] In 1975 a march was held under the slogan “Stop The Muggers. 80% of muggers are Black. 85% of victims are White” (Paul Gilroy, 1987, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack, London: Routledge, p. 120). Twenty years later, Paul Condon as Metropolitan Police Commissioner stated in a letter to Black leaders that eighty per cent of London’s muggers were Black (Independent, Aug. 4th 1995, “Mugging: criminal or political offence?”, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/mugging-criminal-or-political-offence-1594666.html).

[39] On p. 88 HH quotes Mungo Park, 1799, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, p. 113.

[40] On p. 95 HH quotes Johann Heinrich Barth, 1857, Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. II, p. 444.

[41] On p. 96 HH quotes John Ogilby, 1670, A Description of the Whole World, Vol I, p. 452.

[42] On p. 96, HH quotes John Duncan, 1847, Travels in Western Africa, p. 141.

[43] On p. 95 HH quotes William Winwood Reade, 1864, Savage Africa, p. 447.

[44] On p. 94 HH quotes Thomas Hutchinson, 1858, Impressions of Western Africa, p. 280.

[45] On pp. 94-95, HH quotes Mungo Park, 1815, The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805, p. 193.

[46] On p. 95 HH quotes “Andersson’s Africa”, p. 372.

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Preach Equality, Practise Hierarchy: How Leftism Elevates Translunatics above Women and Trans-Westerners above Whites

August 27, 2023/7 Comments/in Featured Articles/by Tobias Langdon

The political parties that most loudly proclaim their love of Celtic languages and cultures are crystal-clear about their vision for a better future. They believe that those languages and cultures need to be marginalized much more and driven much faster into oblivion. They also believe that the people who speak the languages and practise the cultures need to be murdered, raped, and robbed much more often. And be impoverished, demonized, and stripped of political power much faster.

The iron law of leftism

Does that sound like a paradox? It does, but it isn’t. It’s just the iron law of leftism in action. The law states that leftists always most harm what they claim to be most concerned about. For example, leftists in America claim to be deeply concerned about Blacks and their welfare. Sure enough, Steve Sailer has proved that leftist policies have been responsible for the rise in the number of Blacks murdered and maimed by other Blacks. And also in Blacks killed by dangerous Black driving. Similarly, leftist parties like Plaid Cymru in Wales, Sinn Féin in Ireland, and the Scottish National Party (SNP) claim to be deeply concerned about preserving and reviving Celtic languages and cultures. At the same time, they want to open the borders of Celtic nations to unlimited non-White migration. This is absolutely guaranteed to harm Welsh, Irish Gaelic, and Scottish Gaelic. How much do Somalis and Pakistanis care about those languages? About as much as the Jews Robert Maxwell and Bernie Maddoff cared about ethical business practices. In other words: not at all.

Migration from the Third World is also guaranteed to increase rates of murder, rape, and robbery, and to transfer ever more money from White tax-payers to non-White tax-eaters. By supporting Third-World invasion, Plaid Cymru, Sinn Féin, and the SNP have become dedicated traitors to the nations they claim to love. Fortunately, some supporters of these parties are starting to realize that they’ve been betrayed. In Ireland, working-class protestors against Third-World invasion are drawn from “the same demographic as Sinn Féin’s reliable voter base.” And when those working-class protestors marched in the Dublin constituency of Sinn Féin’s leader Mary Lou McDonald, some of them carried placards bearing “a photo of McDonald with the word ‘Traitor’ written across it.”

The cult of transgenderism

That’s a very healthy development. McDonald is indeed a traitor to the working-class Whites of Ireland. Like all mainstream leftists, she preaches racial equality while practising racial hierarchy. Leftists place Blacks and other non-Whites far above ordinary Whites in the leftist hierarchy of racial privilege and patronage. But McDonald is a traitor in another very important sense. She’s a traitor to her own sex. Just like Plaid Cymru and the SNP, Sinn Féin are fanatical worshippers in the cult of transgenderism, which states that sexually perverted men become full and authentic women simply by proclaiming themselves to be so. Nothing more than words is needed: a verbal formula grants a man still in full possession of penis, testicles, and testosterone the right to invade all female spaces, from dressing-rooms and toilets to sporting contests and prisons.

The child-abducting male pedophile Andrew Miller is 100% female, according to leftists

Once again, leftists are preaching equality and practising hierarchy. They claim to believe in sexual equality, but place the rights of sexually perverted men far above those of real women who don’t want those male perverts in their private spaces. Take the male pedophile Andrew Miller, who abducted and sexually assaulted a pre-teen schoolgirl in Scotland earlier this year. In between sexual assaults, he recharged his libido by watching porn and fetish videos on TV. He rejected the girl’s repeated pleas for freedom and told her that she was now his “new family.”

But I’ve actually committed a hate-crime by deferring to reality and describing Miller with male pronouns, because he claims to be a woman called Amy George. In other words, he’s a “transwoman” and leftism insists that he must therefore be 100% female. He isn’t, of course: he was born male and remains male, whatever his perversions might lead him to pretend.

The most loathsome creatures on earth

But leftists call anyone who rejects trans-clowns like Andrew Miller a hate-filled bigot. Indeed, leftist supporters of translunacy often compare their opponents to the most loathsome creatures that crawl on the face of God’s fair earth: they say that “transphobes” are like racists. The leftist organization Stonewall, which supposedly campaigns for homosexual men and lesbian women, has a simple message for lesbians who don’t want to have sex with penis-packing male perverts who claim to be women. According to Stonewall, real lesbians who don’t want fake lesbians in their beds are “sexual racists.” Yes, transphobic lesbians really are as loathsome as that in leftist eyes.

Petulant poison-dwarf: the troubled transphile Nicola Sturgeon

The poison-dwarf Nicola Sturgeon, former leader of the SNP, has gone even further. She said that when you begin lifting the stones under which transphobes dwell, “you’ll also find they are deeply misogynist, often homophobic, possibly some of them racist as well.” To self-righteous leftists like Sturgeon, racism is the worst of all possible sins, which is why leftists are always trying to attach the label of “RACIST!” to anyone who disagrees with them on any topic. In this case, Sturgeon was talking about opponents of an SNP “gender bill” that was intended to give male perverts even bigger privileges at the expense of real women. But the bill blew up in her face when it was revealed that a double rapist called Adam Graham had proclaimed himself a woman and been sent to a female prison under the name of Isla Bryson. Sturgeon resigned as SNP leader after the scandal, although it soon became apparent that her resignation wasn’t prompted just by the failure of her campaign on behalf of translunatic rapists. No, the SNP is being investigated for serious financial wrongdoing and both Sturgeon and her husband have been arrested and questioned by the Scottish police. Charges against them may be imminent.

Inadvertently touching on truth

This is another example of the iron law of leftism in action. The SNP and all other mainstream leftist parties loudly proclaim their concern for morality, justice, and equality. Meanwhile, they doggedly pursue one all-important thing. Not morality or justice or equality, but power — the power to privilege and to punish. The privilege is for themselves and their favorites at the top of the leftist hierarchy; the punishment is for their enemies at the bottom of the leftist hierarchy. But even though Nicola Sturgeon is interested only in power, not in truth or reality, she inadvertently touched on the truth in her abusive comments about opponents of translunacy.

Mhairi Black

So did another poisonous fem-pol in the SNP, the self-righteous lesbian Mhairi Black, who has assailed opponents of translunacy with the worst terms in her vocabulary:

Gender-critical campaigners are comparable to white supremacists, the SNP’s deputy Westminster leader has claimed. Mhairi Black said that “bad actors” and “50-year-old Karens” were responsible for the debate over transgender rights and suggested those who vocally disagreed with her views on such issues could not be “decent” people.

In comments likely to deepen an already bitter divide in Scotland, she said those who made “intellectual” arguments against extending trans rights were akin to past generations who claimed non-white ethnic groups were inferior. … Speaking at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Ms Black said: “Once upon a time, you had intellectuals who made these big prolific statements about how race was a key factor.

“[They argued] ‘I think you’ll find statistics show that if you have more Bame [black, Asian and minority ethnic] people; crime goes up’ or whatever it is. We now rightly look back on that and go, ‘You were a racist. You might be an intellectual, but what you were saying was racist.’

“If you’re not educating yourself on things, then you can’t complain when people from a minority say, ‘You’re not treating us right’, and that’s exactly what’s happening with the trans community right now.” … Later in the talk, at The Stand Comedy Club, Ms Black was asked whether she believed that someone with a different philosophical view to her on gender issues could still be “a thoroughly decent person”.

She responded: “If you keep it to yourself, aye,” to applause from the audience. “To me, a decent person is someone who tries to make others comfortable and accept them, particularly when it’s a marginalised, oppressed group. “That’s just human progress. And to me being decent is being part of that progress, not hindering it.” (Gender critics akin to white supremacists, claims SNP’s Mhairi Black, The Daily Telegraph, 8th August 2023)

The self-proclaimed Scottish nationalist Mhairi Black bears a proudly Scottish name and has a passionate commitment to destroying Scotland. That’s why she’s a dedicated opponent of “racism” and staunch supporter of non-White migration into Scotland. Look again at her comments about those who use statistics to prove that non-Whites like Blacks are much more inclined to commit crime. She didn’t say that they’re factually wrong: she said that they’re “racist.” For Mhairi Black and other leftists, truth and logic don’t matter when it comes to race. Instead, we must close our eyes to reality, clear our minds of hate-facts, and repeat the sacred mantra: “There is only one race — the human race.” That isn’t true, of course, but truth doesn’t matter to leftists. What matters is power.

Transgenderism and trans-Westernism

Leftists know that censorship and silencing their enemies are vital steps towards the power they crave. Mhairi Black’s audience applauded when she said that opponents of translunacy should keep quiet about the truth: that biological sex is real and that men can never become women, no matter how loudly they claim to be. But the audience didn’t realize that, like Nicola Sturgeon, Mhairi Black was inadvertently touching on the truth in what she said about “transphobes.” There is indeed a strong parallel between opponents of translunacy and “racists” or “white supremacists.”

The parallel is that “racists” and “white supremacists” believe in biological reality just as opponents of translunacy do. Men cannot become real women and non-Whites cannot become real Westerners. Transgenderism is as false and harmful as what I call trans-Westernism, which is the belief that non-White people from corrupt, violent, and intellectually backward Third-World nations can become full and authentic citizens of Western nations. The ideologies of transgenderism and trans-Westernism are both based on the elevation of feelings over facts. How do we know that a bearded transwoman with a penis and no ability to menstruate or give birth is a full and authentic woman? Well, it’s because the transwoman feels that he is so. And he gets very upset when anyone disagrees with him, which is further proof, in leftist eyes, that he must be right. Feelings trump facts.

Bangladeshi, not British: the deluded trans-Westerner Rakib Ehsan

Similarly, how do we know, for example, that the goy-groveling Bangladeshi neo-con Rakib Ehsan is a full and authentic Briton? Again, it’s because he feels that he is so. After all, his Bangladeshi mother was the most patriotic person you could ever hope to meet. Rakib and his family love living in wealthy and uncorrupt Britain, despite their roots in poor and highly corrupt Bangladesh. That’s why Rakib is eager for lots more non-Whites like himself to migrate to Britain. They too will become true Britons and love living in wealthy and uncorrupt Britain, despite their roots in the poor and highly corrupt Third World.

Imagine that — non-Whites prefer living in countries built by Whites and will say whatever helps them stay there. But that doesn’t mean they belong in those countries. Even less does it mean that their presence is good for Whites. Rakib Ehsan’s subjective and self-serving feelings do not trump biological reality and turn him or any other non-White into a true Briton. Third-World people like him migrate to Britain and other Western nations for their own advantage, not to benefit the Whites who built and sustain those nations. Third-Worlders want to exploit the prosperity and good governance that they can’t create themselves in their own homelands. And once Third-World folk settle in the West, they set about re-creating Third-World pathologies, like the rape-gangs of Rotherham and the voting-fraud and corruption of ethnically enriched Tower Hamlets in London. These non-White settlers are trans-Westerners and their supposed new identity is as fake and infertile as the identity of trans-women. Men who claim to be women can never give birth to children and non-Whites who claim to be Western could never have created Western civilization. On the contrary, they’re capable only of aborting Western civilization.

But that’s precisely why equality-preaching leftists are so eager to import and privilege folk from the Third World. Non-Whites are very bad for the West and leftists hate the West and its achievements. That’s why they preach equality and practise hierarchy. Any group that is higher in the leftist hierarchy has the right to invade the territory of any group that is lower. Perverted men who claim to be women belong to the sacred category of transwomen and are higher in the leftist hierarchy than real women. That’s why leftists want those male perverts to invade all female spaces, just as they want Blacks and other non-Whites to invade all White spaces. Non-White migration must continue without limit and non-White actors must be able to take on any White role, from David Copperfield to Achilles to Doctor Who.

The abominations of Olivier

At the same time, Black roles are forbidden to lowly Whites. When the White Laurence Olivier, one of the world’s greatest actors, played the Black protagonist of Shakespeare’s Othello (c. 1603), his performance was acclaimed at the time as masterly. It’s now condemned as an abomination. But leftists applaud as Black women take on all White and male roles in Shakespeare. Once again, leftists are preaching equality and practising hierarchy, with Blacks at the top and Whites at the bottom.

Leftism is, after all, based on lies and interested only in power. That’s why it elevates sexually perverted men over sane and sensible women in the lying ideology of transgenderism. And why it elevates unproductive and unintelligent non-Whites over productive and intelligent Whites in the lying ideology of trans-Westernism. But the truth remains: men cannot become real women and non-Whites cannot become real Westerners. The consequences of ignoring truth and promoting lies are becoming clearer by the day throughout the West. That’s why more and more Whites are waking up to the Great Replacement and the lies of leftism. As Gregory Hood points out at AmRen, transphobe Matt Walsh once espoused race-blind civic nationalism and argued for it “with lazy, left-wing bilge.” Now he’s seen the blight and stopped the bilge:

BREAKING: New leaked audio of Matt Walsh arguing with his co-host about how you can’t “separate race and culture” and how Mexicans can never be Americans or “white”. He goes on to mock Indigenous genocide and boast about the superiority of white culture and society. pic.twitter.com/PjbFrBDziq

– The Serfs (@theserfstv) August 14, 2023

Walsh first saw the blight of transgenderism, then saw the blight of trans-Westernism. They’re both based on lies and fantasies. It’s just that trans-Westernism is much worse for the West. Matt Walsh is not unique. Once you’ve seen Clown World lying about men becoming women, it’s much easier to see that Clown World is lying about non-Whites blessing the West. And once you’ve seen the truth, your duty becomes clear: you have to fight in its defense.

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The British police’s anti-racism today

August 25, 2023/10 Comments/in Africans and African Americans, Featured Articles/by Richard Knight

Are young Black men victimised by society or is society victimised by young Black men? Specifically, do the police have it in for young Black men or do young Black men have it in for the police? For more than twenty years it has been the settled opinion of the British police that it is society and especially they, the police, who are at fault. This was illustrated by a press release produced by the Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset in June 2023.[1]

Before we come to the press release, consider the following points from Britain’s racial history. The first crime to be reported as a mugging occurred in 1972 when an elderly widower was stabbed to death near Waterloo Station by three young Black men as he walked home from the theatre.[2] They had tried to rob him; he had resisted.

It has been consistently stated over the decades that eighty per cent of London’s muggings are carried out by Black people, which makes a Black person about fifty times as likely to carry out a mugging as anybody else.[3] In 1973, 1,500 such crimes were reported in London;[4] by 1995 the number was 33,000. But reported muggings are a fraction of the total. It seems that in 1981 a certain Black twelve-year-old might have carried out a mugging every day.[5] If so and if London contained 500 boys like him, this would mean more than 175,000 muggings for the city in the year.

Not just that first one but many other muggings have been fatal. For example, in 1993 Constance Brown, 72, was knocked to the ground in South London by a young Black man who smashed her head against the pavement before running off with her handbag. Elizabeth Pinhom, 96, died in hospital in 1997 after being pulled down the front steps of her house when she opened the door to a young Black man, who went off with her bag.[6]

It was in 1970 that young Black men started attacking the police, according to an activist from Trinidad, who wrote that skirmishes and violent confrontations continued throughout the decade.[7] Young Black men first used knives against the police at the Notting Hill carnival in 1976.[8]

The activist, Darcus Howe, was a great admirer of the Brixton riots, where in 1981 young Black men threw petrol bombs at the police and set fire to buildings and vehicles. Howe described the riots as different “in range and depth from previous revolts waged by blacks against the police. This general uprising”, he continued, “stands head and shoulders above all that had gone before”.[9] In another riot, in Tottenham, North London in 1985, a policeman was hacked to death by young Black men with machetes.[10]

Black people had no legitimate grievance against the police on either occasion. The Brixton riots followed a crackdown on street crime. The Tottenham riot started after a woman died of a heart attack when the police came to see her about her son, who had given a false name when found in a car with a fake road licence.

During the 1990s the war on the police was conducted mainly through the media, who aired activists’ portrayal of them as, of course, “racist”. The activist-media alliance met with nothing but success, winning a decisive triumph in 1999 when a retired High-Court judge, Sir William Macpherson, described the police as institutionally racist, a conclusion he reached via a definition that allowed any institution to be described as institutionally racist. Although the police presumably saw the trick, they were prevailed upon to submit, after which they came effectively under the control of anti-racists and rapidly became anti-racist themselves. For example, in 2000 a Deputy Assistant Commissioner boasted that he had reduced the number of young Black men stopped and searched by almost forty per cent in the previous year,[11] during which muggings went up by two thirds.[12]

But it would be more accurate to say that the police became more anti-racist after 1999, for they had started on the road of anti-racism long before. In 1981, a report on the Brixton riots by Lord Scarman, a Law Lord, insistently called on the police to go easy on Black crime.[13] As a result, within ten years they were allowing open drug dealing on the street.[14] Scarman also called on the police to recruit more non-White officers, which led them to lower their admission standards for non-Whites, who enjoyed special treatment once they were in.[15] In 1996 they offered sub-standard young Black men a free ten-week course to help them pass the recruitment tests.[16] In 1998 they launched a scheme to “attract, develop and retain minority ethnic recruits, particularly at a senior level”.[17] As early as 1970, when a workman told the police that children were stealing from his lorry and throwing bricks through people’s windows, he was told that there was nothing they could do because the children were Black.[18]

Confirmed anti-racists by 1999, the police have been upending their traditional values ever since, a process of inversion seen also in every other British institution. This has been accomplished by means of political correctness, of which, if one sees it as a collection of ideologies, anti-racism is the leading one.

So there is nothing new or unusual about the self-hating press release we are about to look at. It is just the sort of thing one expects from the British police, who, after spending twenty years being attacked and accused by Black criminals and anti-racists, have spent twenty more trying to be their friends.

Entitled “Chief Constable Sarah Crew on Institutional Racism”, the document is typical of political correctness in being vague, evasive and inclined to presume what is far from obvious. It fails to define its terms and uses jargon not just to create an impression of expertise but also to defy comprehension. It treats Black people as members of a semi-royal class, not calling them Black people, an expression with only three syllables, but showing its extreme respect by calling them “those who are from Black heritage communities”.

According to Sarah Crew, she intends to make her force anti-racist. What does this mean? Pro-Black.

She mentions a report about disproportionality in her county’s criminal justice system. What is disproportionality? This refers to the fact that the criminal justice system deals with Black people out of all proportion to their numbers in the population, which, according to anti-racism, means that there is something wrong with it. According to anti-racism, the races are the same, therefore no system should deal with one at a higher rate than with another.

Sarah Crew describes a review of the Metropolitan Police as a “stark reminder for policing … that the need for real and profound change is essential if we’re to retain the public’s trust and confidence”. This combines illiteracy with presumption, vagueness and anti-racist code. Presumably it is change rather than the need for it that she deems essential, but why is it needed if the police have the public’s trust and confidence? She means “gain” rather than “retain”. Why does she describe the review as a reminder? Did the police know that real and profound change was needed? Nor does she say what this real and profound change must be. Had she wished to make herself clear, she might have said that the police must look the other way when Black people commit crimes, thereby reducing the disproportionality.

As for “the public’s trust and confidence”, this is a stock phrase that requires translation. “The public” doesn’t mean the public here but the Black public, whose trust and confidence the police are supposed to have forfeited by their “racism”. This is an anti-racist pretence, for the police didn’t have Black people’s trust or confidence to start with. The police adopt the pretence so as to appear to admit to their imaginary guilt. Nor does “trust and confidence” mean trust and confidence; it means approval. The police seek the approval of Black people, specifically criminals, who want them to keep away from their crimes. This the police will never be able to do entirely, for there are times, such as when a murder is committed, when they are expected to get involved. Thus they must perpetually try to please their masters, knowing that they will never quite succeed.

Sarah Crew reports that she has had “encouraging conversations … around institutional racism”. That’s nice, but what is institutional racism? You might think that it would be pervasive racial discrimination in an institution, but Sir William Macpherson defined it as in effect any lack of pro-Black discrimination. Sarah Crew, however, has no doubt that it exists at Avon and Somerset, going by four criteria given by Baroness Casey, which she lists. But Baroness Casey’s criteria are meaningless for she does not define racism, in terms of which she defines institutional racism. Is racism a sentiment, such as aversion to immigration, or an empirical belief, such as that Black people are prone to crime? Is it an act performed by an agent of an institution, such as treating people differently by race, or indeed failing to treat them differently by race? Baroness Casey gives no clue even as to which ballpark her concept might be in.

But “I must accept that the definition fits”, says Sarah Crew, referring to Baroness Casey’s definition of institutional racism. In what way does she think it fits? Even if we imagine that she knows what Baroness Casey means by racism and hence by institutional racism, what took her to her conclusion? For example, if she thinks that Baroness Casey’s third criterion fits, which is that “Racism and racial bias are reinforced within systems”, where does she see racism and racial bias being reinforced at Avon and Somerset? Could she give us some examples? Apparently not.

Baroness Casey’s fourth criterion is that a police force “under-protects and over-polices Black heritage people”. This was a popular slogan with anti-racists in the 1980s, but, again, what does it mean? What are the police failing to protect Black people from that they are protecting others from, and if over-policing Black people means paying too much attention to their crimes, how much attention should be paid to them?

“This”, writes Sarah Crew, “is about recognising the structural and institutional barriers that exist and which put people at a disadvantage”. What structural and institutional barriers? She doesn’t say.

She states that “Not being racist is no longer good enough” but doesn’t explain why not. Surely if all her officers refrained from being racist, whatever that might mean, there would be no racism in her force and all would be well. But she thinks that not doing something means standing by while others do it, who should be pounced on: “It is no longer okay to be a bystander and do nothing, to be part of a system that disadvantages one group of people over another”. What she means is that one must be not merely non-racist but anti-racist. One must identify an enemy class, putting oneself on the side of good, and have an ideology that requires non-Whites to be given special treatment.

What does she mean by one group being disadvantaged over another? It’s the disproportionality again. Black people commit crimes at a higher rate than others, therefore they get convicted at a higher rate, therefore they go to prison at a higher rate, therefore they are disadvantaged.

Why must Sarah Crew always speak of the “system” rather than the level at which things actually happen, the level of the individual? It’s because there is no “racism” at the level of the individual. It can only be found in the statistics, which can tell us about “the system”. Or, it is the system that must be transformed, therefore it is in the system that racism must be found.

Apparently she isn’t interested in criminals and their wrongdoing; she is interested in the police and their wrongdoing. This is what attracted her to the job, she says: “the fight against injustice and unfairness”. It’s about “a recognition that the system is unfair, and our job is to make it fair”. She doesn’t say how it is “unfair”, but we can guess. It’s the disproportionality.

She wants to apologise. “Accept it and say sorry” is her policy, and again: “What we can do is say … we’re sorry”. She doesn’t say what she wants to say sorry for or to whom. Presumably it’s to Black people, for the disproportionality again. She wants to apologise to all those who have been convicted of crimes that a better system would have overlooked to make itself more proportional.

She repeats her reference to the “trust and confidence of our communities”, seeming to think that it is because this is lacking that more Black people don’t report crimes committed against them. She has had enough of Black people as offenders; she wants Black victims. We read the heading: “Supporting Black heritage victims of crime”. She’s not bothered about protecting anyone else from crime.

She doesn’t want the police to transform themselves alone. She wants Black people to take part so that “communities [will be] involved in changing our systems”. It’s not enough for her that Black people, through their activists, largely control the police already. She wants them to have more control.

It’s the same with complaints made against the police. Presumably she gets plenty already, but she wants more, so she is “working on a programme … to support young people in understanding … what to do if they feel a police power is not being used legitimately”. This recalls the case of Sarah Everard, a young woman who was killed by an off-duty policeman in 2021. United behind the idea that all men are mortally dangerous, especially policemen, feminists were obliged when the police encouraged women to question the legitimacy of a policeman who might question them.[19] He might be a murderer like Wayne Couzens. The guilt-addicted police welcome anyone who might accuse or suspect them of wrongdoing.

She mentions a scheme that allows people to “avoid a criminal justice outcome for low-level or first-time offences”. The trouble is, she says, that disposing of a matter out of court requires an admission of guilt, “which research has shown can be a barrier to young men of Black heritage”. In other words, young Black men rarely admit they have offended, which leads to “harsher and disproportionate criminal justice outcomes”. So it is hard to see how the scheme is going to work unless the police avoid all contact with these offenders.

She mentions “cultural trauma”, a concept that is just catching on. When Edward Kemp, director of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, confessed to the academy’s “institutional racism” in 2020, he wrote: “We are profoundly sorry for the role we have played in the traumatic and oppressive experiences of our current and past Black students”.[20] The following year, Goldsmith’s, part of the University of London, proposed to narrow the “achievement gap” between Black students and others by allowing Black students extra time to finish their assignments. They would also be able to defer their exams if they had suffered “racial trauma”, it being up to them to say whether they had or not.[21] Neither Kemp nor Goldsmith’s said what racial trauma was, and nor does Sarah Crew, which is not surprising since the term’s only purpose is to give White people something new to accuse themselves of inflicting on Black people, who can use it as yet another excuse for their failures or offences. But Sarah Crew’s force is “committed to becoming a ‘Trauma Informed’ organisation”.

And so in nothing but repulsive English Sarah Crew bows and scrapes to Black people, conceals her meaning, assumes that we already accept what she wants us to accept, talks vaguely about “the system” but never about what is actually done, and uses meaningless slogans and undefined terms left and right. As she goes, she not only puts on a display of institutional self-abasement that would make a statue cringe, but presents herself as noble. Her aim in all this is to persuade us that the police and the rest of the criminal justice system mistreat Black people but might redeem themselves by turning a blind eye to their crimes.

It is to this level of sycophancy, dishonesty and desertion of principle that the police were reduced by anti-racism more than twenty years ago, when the last memory of their original job of preventing and detecting crime without regard to race began to fade. Since then, race has been all-important. “Was this crime committed by someone White? Then let’s get him! Someone Black? Ignore it!” This is the thinking that was pressed on the police throughout the 1980s and ‘90s by anti-racists, aided by the occasional Law Lord or retired High-Court judge, which in this century became the police’s second nature. It is second nature to Sarah Crew, it was second nature to whoever made her a Chief Constable, and it is presumably second nature to all our other Chief Constables. These are the sort of people who like to think, even as they bestow one favour after another on young Black men, that our society and especially they in the police have it in for young Black men.


[1] Avon and Somerset Police, June 16th 2023, “Chief Constable Sarah Crew on Institutional Racism”, https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/news/2023/06/chief-constable-sarah-crew-on-institutional-racism/.

[2] Stuart Hall et al., 1978, Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order, Basingstoke: Macmillan, p. 3.

[3] In 1975 a march was held under the slogan “Stop The Muggers. 80% of muggers are Black. 85% of victims are White” (Paul Gilroy, 1987, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack, London: Routledge, p. 120). Twenty years later, Paul Condon as Metropolitan Police Commissioner stated in a letter to prominent Black figures such as Diane Abbott MP that eighty per cent of London’s muggers were Black. He invited them to a meeting where their support would be requested for a planned drive against the crime. Several recipients, including Diane Abbott, declined to attend the meeting. One passed the letter to the media, who quoted activists condemning Condon for saying that Black people committed so much crime. The police were out to get them; the statement was a licence for racists, and so forth. What all this did, as intended, was encouraged the idea that mugging was not the problem; the problem was that someone had said that it was mostly the work of young Black men. See Independent, Aug. 4th 1995, “Mugging: criminal or political offence?”, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/mugging-criminal-or-political-offence-1594666.html.

[4] In 1973 the headline appeared: “Muggings reach four a day in London” (Hall et al 1978, op. cit., p. 8).

[5] In his memoir of his days at a comprehensive school in London in the 1980s, John-Paul Flintoff writes that a Black classmate came in one day and gave him an empty wallet to look after. The next day he did the same. Flintoff does not tell us whether the pattern continued. See John-Paul Flintoff, 1998, Comp: A Survivor’s Tale, London: Indigo Orion, pp. 103-04.

[6] J.F.Cronin, no date (possibly 2000), “The forgotten victims”, Right Now magazine.

[7] Darcus Howe, 1988, From Bobby to Babylon: Blacks and the British Police, London: Race Today, p. 52.

[8] Paul Gilroy 1987, op. cit., p. 96 quotes the Telegraph.

[9] Howe 1988 op. cit., p. 52.

[10] Metropolitan Police, no date, “MPS Historical Timeline: Broadwater Farm Riot 1985”, http://www.met.police.uk/history/broadwater_farm.htm.

[11] This was John Grieve. See Metropolitan Police, Feb. 22nd 2000, “Press Conference Held Re the Anniversary of the Lawrence Inquiry Report”, http://tap.ccta.gov.uk/[…]/b3cb2697adf8d9e1802…OpenDocument.

[12] Muggings went up nineteen per cent in March 1999 alone (Telegraph, April 24th 1999, “Muggings soar as police tread softly”). Towards the end of June 2000 they were reported to have risen 38 per cent in the previous twelve months (Sunday Times, June 25th 2000, “Straw on rack as muggings soar”). This means, on reasonable assumptions about figures month by month, that for every 100 muggings in London at the end of February 1999 there were 178 fifteen months later.

[13] Lord Scarman deemed that the police’s duty to maintain public tranquillity trumped their duty to enforce the law (Lord Scarman, 1982 [1981], The Scarman Report: The Brixton Disorders, 10-12 April 1981, Harmondsworth: Pelican-Penguin, Paragraphs 4.57-4.58). Therefore if an attempt to enforce the law might not be received in a tranquil manner, they should not make the attempt. Secondly he advocated policing with the active consent of the public, which in a place like Brixton the police would never have (Scarman, Paragraph 5.46). Thirdly, he said that the police must exercise discretion, quoting a senior policeman saying that to believe in enforcing the law without concessions to any section of the community was too simplistic. Some groups had different cultural backgrounds (Scarman, Paragraph 5.76).

[14] The anonymous author of “The street where I live” (Independent, Nov. 2nd 1993) thought that in the previous three years someone must have decided to turn his road into a no-go area for the police, where crack dealers could trade openly. Since a policeman had been killed nearby, the police had kept their heads down. Until the shooting the author had been blanking the dealers out, but then a bullet had been fired through the window of a betting shop over the road, which acted as a crack and dope market. Angry at drugs being sold outside his son’s bedroom, he had called the police and told them that the problem was getting worse. “Yes”, they said, “it will get worse. There’s a lot of money involved.” He never saw a police car arrive.

[15] Lord Scarman had required the police to acquire more Black officers, the aim being “that the composition of the police fully reflects that of the society the police serve” (Scarman 1982, op. cit., Paragraph 5.13). In 1989 a superintendent attributed discipline problems with West Indian officers to the fact that non-White recruits were below par. A White officer couldn’t see “why some other bugger shouldn’t have to [study every night] just because he happens to have a different colour skin”. See Roger Graef, 1989, Talking Blues: The Police in Their Own Words, London: Collins Harvill, pp. 134-38.

[16] Telegraph, Feb. 26th 1996.

[17] Metropolitan Police, March 15th 1999, A Police Service for All the People: Report of the MPS Ethnic Minority (Recruitment and Advancement) Working Group. http://www.met.police.uk/police/mps/mps/press/1099.htm.

[18] ThamesTv, Nov. 27th 2020, “1970s London | Poverty in the 70s | North Islington | Community Tension | This week | 1970”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYhYdsHh2p0.

[19] BBC, Oct. 1st 2021, “Sarah Everard: Challenge plain-clothes officers, Met Police says”, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58757375.

[20] Ikon London Magazine, June 30th 2020, email from the Director of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, https://www.ikonlondonmagazine.com/rada-goes-woke/.

[21] History Debunked, June 18th 2021, “How British universities plan to boost the achievement of Black students”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOb9CO8qLGI.

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We need immigration, not Trump, at the debate

August 24, 2023/10 Comments/in Featured Articles/by Ann Coulter

WE NEED IMMIGRATION, NOT TRUMP, AT THE DEBATE

Donald Trump, the least self-aware person in the country, at least seems to know that he’s a terrible debater. He has the vocabulary of a kindergartener, strings words together in combinations that aren’t recognizable as English and has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about most of the time. His sole objective when he begins a sentence is to get to the end of the sentence.

      So why did he crush all the debate insta-polls in 2016?

First of all, Jeb! needed a billion more exclamation points. But more important, Trump had something no other candidate had: He took the popular position on immigration.

You forget this now because — post Trump — nearly all Republicans pretend to take America’s side on immigration. Even Trump pretends to take America’s side! (Luckily, he didn’t keep any of his immigration promises, so he’s free to reissue them.)

Even Mr. Open Borders, Gov. Chris Christie, who gave in-state tuition to illegals and directed his Senate appointee, Jeff Chiesa, to vote for amnesty, now resignedly says of Trump’s nonexistent wall: “Look, at this point, I think we’ve started to build it; let’s finish it.”

Gee, thanks.

Until Trump’s 2016 campaign, the standard Republican mantra on immigration required these four points and no others:

1. Cite your immigrant relatives.

TED CRUZ: “I am the son of an Irish-Italian mom and a Cuban immigrant dad.” (And a feral badger.)

MARCO RUBIO: “My family’s immigrants. My neighbors are all immigrants. My in-laws are all immigrants.”

2. Claim you will “secure the border.”

SCOTT WALKER: “I believe we need to secure the border. I’ve been to the border!”

CHRIS CHRISTIE: “What we need to do is to secure our border.”

3. Say walls don’t work.

JEB BUSH: “To build a wall, and to deport people … it would destroy community life, it would tear families apart.”

RUBIO: “I also believe we need a fence. The problem is if El Chapo builds a tunnel under the fence …”

4. Propose a bunch of B.S. solutions that definitely won’t work.

CARLY FIORINA: “Look, we know what it takes to secure a border. We’ve heard a lot of great ideas here: money, manpower, technology …”

CHRISTIE: “We need to use electronics, we need to use drones, we need to use FBI, DEA and ATF …”

What would any of those accomplish, exactly? These politicians say a wall is cruel, but they’re going to direct troops to shoot illegals? Have the drones drop bombs them? Will we use “electronics” to amuse ourselves with videos of illegals as they pour across our border?

The media try to dismiss Gov. Ron DeSantis as another Scott Walker, but I distinctly recall breaking things during Walker’s presidential announcement because he didn’t say one word about immigration. (On the other hand, he did propose a slew of new military interventions!)

Jeb!’s presidential announcement also had nothing about immigration (unless you include a boring digression about his wife being Mexican). A year earlier, he’d said on Fox News that illegal immigrants had not committed a felony, but “an act of love.” (The roar of applause from The Wall Street Journal could be heard for miles.)

Rubio only glancingly mentioned immigration in his announcement, buried in a list of other needed reforms. His main point was that “Cuban exiles … former slaves and refugees … together built the freest and most prosperous nation ever!” (What British and Dutch settlers? Never heard of ’em.)

This was a striking omission inasmuch as Rubio had won his Senate race vowing never to support amnesty, then spent his first two years in office pushing amnesty, which won him a pat on the head from Fox magnate Rupert Murdoch. Fox News rewarded him at the first GOP debate in 2015 by not asking him a single question about immigration, despite this massive betrayal.

After the debate, Murdoch tweeted: “Bush [and] others did well, perhaps Rubio best of all,” while Trump spoke “nonsense” on immigration.

As you will recall, Jeb! dropped out after the second primary, having won only four more delegates than I did; Rubio lost his own state, and Trump went on to win more primary votes than any Republican in history. (Totally upsetting my worldview. If an Australian billionaire doesn’t have his finger on the pulse of the American voter, nothing makes sense anymore — up is down, cold is hot, liquid is solid, black is white …)

The crucial point is Trump wasn’t a dazzling debater — the man can barely talk. His ace in the hole was to take America’s side on immigration — something voters had been politely requesting for 50 years. He said he’d build a wall, end anchor babies, deport all illegals and on and on.

His immigration positions were steroids in a race where all his competitors had vowed to be steroid-free. And then, like every other politician who’s ever promised to “secure the border,” Trump betrayed us. Now, he’s just another lying politician.

I guess we’re about to find out which of the current candidates are smart enough to take the steroids this time.

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Amy Biehl, Forgiveness, And the Nature of ‘Hate’

August 23, 2023/12 Comments/in Featured Articles/by RockaBoatus

Amy Elizabeth Biehl (1967–1993)

In 1993, an idealistic American graduate student of Stanford University, Amy Biehl, was brutally murdered by four Black males in the township of Gugulethu, near Cape Town South Africa during her visit whose purpose was to end Apartheid. Amy, the only White occupant in a car with South African Blacks, was immediately targeted by a large Black mob shouting anti-White slurs. Amy was quickly pulled from the car, stabbed repeatedly, and stoned to death.

Amy’s four attackers were subsequently arrested and placed on trial. The defendants claimed that their actions were politically motivated. In his 1998 book, One Miracle Is Not Enough, Rex van Schalkwyk painted a less than sobering picture of the court proceedings when he wrote: “Supporters of the three men accused of murdering [her]… burst out laughing in the public gallery of the Supreme Court today when a witness told how the battered woman groaned in pain” (pp. 188–89). Each of the defendants, however, was convicted for their murderous crimes. They were later granted amnesty by the ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ in 1998 after having served only four years in prison.

Amy’s parents, Peter and Linda Biehl, fully supported the release of the murderers and were quite vocal about it too. Peter, in fact, shook their hands and stated: “The most important vehicle of reconciliation is open and honest dialogue. . . . We are here to reconcile a human life [that] was taken without an opportunity for dialogue. When we are finished with this process we must move forward with linked arms” (Wikipedia). Numerous articles were published praising Amy’s parents’ decision to forgive her daughter’s murderers appeared in both American and South African newspapers. One wonders how self-debased a father can get that he would shake the hands of those who stabbed and stoned to death his own daughter?!

A charity foundation was created in 1994, the ‘Amy Biehl Foundation Trust.’ Adding insult to injury, two of the men who had murdered Amy were hired to work for the foundation! Seventeen years after Amy’s death, a bronze plaque mounted on a stone was unveiled by the U.S. Ambassador, Donald Gips and Linda Biehl, at the Cape Town site where she was murdered.

None of this, of course, did a bit of any lasting good. Since Apartheid ended, South Africa has morphed into a cesspool of government corruption, staggering levels of violent crime, and a rabid anti-White ethos has gripped most of the nation. Racially naïve Whites like the Biehls will never attain the racial Utopia they want despite the best of intentions and endless funding they may receive because of the natural proclivities of Blacks and their dysfunctional cultures. Blacks cannot change who they fundamentally are, and neither can Whites. This is why every effort to make them like us and to erase our innate differences has failed repeatedly, wherever Blacks are found around the world.

Former U.S. Ambassador Donald Gips and Linda Biehl

Peter and Linda Biehl, no doubt, thought that in all of this they were doing their ‘Christian duty,’ that it was the ‘right thing’ to do. But was it? Did the men who murdered Amy express any remorse after what they had done? Seems to me that they tried to excuse their actions as merely political. Did the defendants take the initiative and seek forgiveness from the Biehls, or were the Biehls, like so many well-meaning but foolish Christians of our era, ready and eager to forgive them even though it was never asked for?

The Biehls may have thought that Jesus’s words to “love your enemies” and to “forgive others for their transgressions” were intended to exhaustively cover every conceivable occasion of malicious crime, treason, and murder. Yet is this really what he meant? What many Christians fail to understand is Jesus’s use of hyperbole in such sayings as above — that is, exaggeration for the sake of emphasis. It’s a way of overstating a point in order to drive home a lesson or an important concept that we want our listeners to comprehend. The same thing occurs when Jesus spoke of hating one’s parents. Hyperbole, then, is something that we all do when conversing with others. Many of Jesus’s sayings are framed in this manner, and it’s something many Christians miss.

Moreover, Jesus’s teachings were intended as general lessons about God, life, and how we should treat others. They were never intended to cover every possible situation in life with absolutely no exceptions or qualifications. They were never intended to be military strategy or even social policy for democratic societies. We must ask ourselves: Did Jesus really expect his followers to embrace with loving arms and to pronounce forgiveness upon an intruder who just ruthlessly murdered his or her family? Did Jesus expect the same mindset to be carried out onto the battlefield against national enemies in a time of war? What would the Biehls think of King David’s hateful expressions in Psalm 139:22: “Do I not hate those who hate you, O’ Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? I hate them with the utmost hatred; they have become my enemies”? Or how about the parable of the money usage in Luke 19:27 where Jesus says: “But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence”? Sounds a bit hateful, eh?

Hate, then, is not treated in the biblical record as something necessarily bad. It’s treated as a basic human emotion that can be used for good or for bad depending on the circumstances. And yet the failure to understand this most basic premise has caused Christians to engage in some very foolish and harmful things over the years. In this regard. Peter and Linda Biehl are no different and they continue to be the poster children for all that is wrong with a Christianity that has embraced multiculturalism.

In 1993, 12-year-old Polly Klaas was kidnapped at knifepoint from her home in Petaluma, California by long-time felon, Richard Allen Davis. He later strangled the little girl to death and left her in an open field. Davis never asked for forgiveness for his horrific crimes from the family and has remained defiant to this day. In fact, after the verdict was read at his trial in 1996 in which he was sentenced to death row, Davis stood up and gave the middle finger with both hands. Later, at his formal sentencing, he read a statement claiming that Polly had said to him right before she was killed, “Just don’t do me like my dad.”

Should our hearts bleed for a puke like Davis? Is Polly’s father required by Christian duty to ‘forgive’ Davis, even to the point of seeking his release from prison? Hardly. It’s one thing to personally forgive those who genuinely seek forgiveness for their offenses, and who see themselves as justly condemned for their actions, but it’s quite another to offer forgiveness to those who will gladly spit in your face. And why should forgiveness for the most heinous crimes committed against the innocent nullify justice? Forgiven or not, why should any society release those who have willfully taken the life of an innocent victim, especially when the possibility of a repeat crime is always present?

Richard Allen Davis

In this respect, the parents of Amy Biehl, have managed to make a mockery of their daughter’s tragic death, pervert justice, as well as dishonor their own Christian faith. Forgiveness, then, is just one of many areas where modern Christians have grossly misunderstood their own religion.

It staggers the mind when one considers how a very natural emotion such as hate has been so badly misunderstood and vilified. Jewish activist groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center have made it their mission in life to stamp out “hate” and “hate groups” throughout America. In their ‘Intelligence Report,’ the SPLC mentions “hate” no less than seven times when describing what they do. One soon discovers that the “hate” they seek to monitor and expose is almost exclusively directed at “hard right extremist groups.” Their goal is to “push white supremacy out of the mainstream.” Jews want Whites as docile and non-threatening as possible so that their goal to deracinate us and ultimately dilute our European bloodline is achieved uninterrupted.

Incidentally, I could find nothing on the SPLC website about the truly violent Antifa — a hate group if ever there was one — that was in any way negative. In fact, one article under their ‘Hate Watch’ category openly condemned designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist group, stating it was both “dangerous” and “threatens civil liberties” (June 6. 2020). It’s apparent, then, that “hate” only goes one direction when it comes to Jewish activist groups claiming to be eradicating it. All forms of White racial identity and interests are vehemently denounced, including organizations that are to the political and social right (e.g., anti-abortion groups).

This is all very typical of the age in which we live where the term “hate” is applied to everything people don’t like or find disagreeable. There is no middle ground. Yet confusion abounds regarding the term and nature of hate itself. The Oxford Dictionary defines “hate” as “to feel intense dislike for” or “to have a strong aversion for.” This definition shows clearly that there’s nothing irrational, bizarre, or uniquely evil about “hate” per se. It is treated as a common and normal human expression. Which one of us hasn’t at one time or another hated something or someone in their lives? And was it really hate as commonly understood or just an intense dislike? How many of us have hated someone and never took any steps to harm them? And what if hate is fully justified in some instances? Is it then still morally wrong?

Dr. Michael Hurd:

You cannot rationalize away the need for justice and proper judgment of others for their actions by saying, ‘Hate is mean, and you become the enemy if you engage in it.’ That’s beyond ridiculous. If what you’re really trying to say is, “Don’t let those who hate you destroy you,” then that’s certainly good advice. But you don’t keep hateful people from destroying you by pretending that you love them, or by giving them back anything other than what they deserve. (“In Defense of Hatred,” January 14, 2014)

It should be obvious by now that when one starts to think deeper about the term ‘hate’ and its application to White racialists who oppose their own racial and cultural displacement by foreign groups, that simply describing them as “haters” is horribly misplaced, especially when they have good reason to express their aversion and dislike for what is occurring to them.

Not so surprisingly, the people who shout the loudest about “haters” are often the most hateful. Leftists always scream about ‘love’ and ‘tolerance,’ and yet haven’t the slightest qualms about destroying property, disrupting meetings not their own and preventing others from attending, as well as physically attacking their political opponents. Antifa thugs wouldn’t think twice about swiftly applying a boot to the face of anyone who ideologically differs from them. Edward Dutton rightly refers to them as “spiteful mutants.”

The Left, then, is not really against “hate” as they claim. They’re quite satisfied in expressing their hateful rage against those who don’t see life as they do. Their actions really tell us that it’s okay for them to hate, but not for us.

Jews have weaponized the expression ‘hate’ just as they have done with the term’s ‘racism’ and ‘racist’. Anyone who espouses views contrary to liberal Jewish activists is described as a “hater” and “hateful.” They paint their opponents in this way because it conjures up images of people who are backward in their thinking, country bumkins of sorts, and deeply prejudicial. It implies such person are irrational, filled with rage, and even evil at heart. It is ad-hominem in nature because rational discourse is not permitted.

It’s also a way of shutting down discussion or debate. Jews know that to allow an open discussion on mass immigration and its social and economic impact on White Americans would not be beneficial to them — especially when the same arguments that Whites use to defend limiting immigration or setting in place a moratorium (and perhaps expelling illegals [at least]) for fear of becoming a despised minority in one’s own country could just as equally be applied to Jews in Israel. The very things Jews want in terms of preserving their national and ethnic identity, including a secure border free from invasion are exactly what a growing number of White Americans want. And all White Americans would want if they weren’t programmed by the mainstream media and educational system and intent on presenting themselves as virtuous do-gooders.

The concerns that racially conscious Whites express, then, are perfectly reasonable. There’s nothing “hateful” about it in the least. What racial or ethnic group, after all, wants to decrease its influence, standing, and national identity within what was their own nation? What racial group would want to be taken over by foreigners with foreign cultures and foreign values? Most people would view opposition to a foreign invasion as perfectly reasonable regardless of whether it happens legally or illegally. Jews know this too, and this is why it’s easier for them to simply label Whites who care about their race as “white supremacists” and “haters” than to engage them in reasoned discourse which could automatically backfire before a rational audience of White people.

I don’t even think that most Whites who oppose non-White immigration and who follow the advice of “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams to “get the hell away” from Blacks actually hate Black people — at least not in the way many people think. They simply want to be left alone. They don’t want to see their country become the squat house for every Third-World migrant. They don’t enjoy seeing their once grand cities become another version of Detroit or Chicago with their skyrocketing levels of Black crime. They don’t want their clean communities turning into Mexican barrios with all the filth and gang problems that Mexicans bring. This is not a matter of hating other racial groups per se, but in Whites wanting to preserve what they have created for themselves and for future generations. This is perfectly natural and normal, and every racial and ethnic group throughout the world wants the very same things for their own people – including Jews!

Informed Whites don’t deny that there are good and decent people within every racial and ethnic group. I have met Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and people from every place in the world who were honorable and decent persons. But I wouldn’t want any of them here flooding my country despite all that. Let them be good and decent in their own countries. I’m sure they would feel the same about me and my people so there’s nothing hateful about saying it.

Is there ever a time when hate is wrong? Yes, I think so. It’s not so much that feelings of hate by themselves are wrong, but how we handle or control them. I think it’s wrong, for instance, when it consumes you and prevents you from living a healthy and emotionally balanced life. It’s wrong when a root of bitterness sets in and overtakes you. It’s wrong when you are unable to focus on anything else. It’s wrong when it leads you to think and act irrationally. Hate, then, is an emotion we have been created or evolved with. The issue, then, is not so much shall we hate, but how shall we manage it in a way that does not lead to our self-destruction nor the ruin of our families and loved ones.

Finally, it’s common for well-meaning but naïve people to argue that we should only hate the actions of wicked people and never the people themselves. We are urged to hate only the evil that motivates them. We are told to hate the destructive results of their evil deeds, but never the person who chooses to commit them. But this is a ridiculous distinction when one considers that their evil deeds do not occur independently from the heart and mind of the person doing them. It’s both a conscious and willful choice on their part. Their deeds spring from who and what they are; their choices reflect what they think and feel.

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On the Nature of Racial Slurs

August 22, 2023/11 Comments/in Featured Articles/by Jason Cannon

Is it ever ok to use the so-called ‘N-word’ in a scholarly context? This year, a university tutor in Australia found out the hard way that the answer in our current political climate is probably no. Whilst teaching an undergraduate class on Ethnic Identity at Monash University, tutor Gary Lacey used the word ‘nigger’ numerous times whilst leading a classroom discussion on the history of the word.[1] Multiple students ended up complaining and Lacey was suspended, despite him using the opportunity to point out that he isn’t a racist and used it purely for the purposes of education, and that he has a Kenyan wife. An internal review later conducted by the overseeing department – the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation – found that the principle of academic freedom had been breached and later re-instated him, however such scenarios have occurred in universities across the West as of late[2] with varying consequences for the academic staff involved.

What gives a racially-based slur its power? And what gives the mere repetition of these words a license to target another person in such a way? The standard explanation of the nature of racial slurs one typically finds in academia focuses on the user, of the slur, namely that the power of a slur is derived from the racial prejudice or disrespect intended by them, which is then encoded into the word. The user is presumed to have a negative disposition towards a target and is using the slur to purposely denigrate or to assume a position of unwelcome superiority over others. Slurs are therefore used to generate a power-imbalance, and using the formula ‘Racism equals Prejudice plus Power’, a racist incident has thus occurred.

Yet the case of Gary Lacey and the countless others who have been subjected to similar controversies demonstrates this explanation to be lacking. The simple utterance of the word in a scholarly or educational context, absent from any malice or displays of prejudice, is apparently enough to suspend a university employee from their job. Being secretly recorded saying a racial slur in private for the sake of one’s own amusement, and then having the incriminating footage uploaded to social media, can easily result in employment termination. Reading aloud classic novels like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or singing along to a rap song loaded with racial epithets is an ethical minefield for Whites in the current climate. Even mis-heard or mis-interpreted words can result in similarly dire consequences, as others have found out when using expressions like ‘tar-baby’ or ‘niggardly.’ Linguistics scholars contort themselves into all sorts of absurd positions to explain the phenomenon, theorising concepts such as an “invisibility of contempt”, that one can somehow be blind to your own contemptuous regard towards others when using a slur in a neutral sense.[3] However, this essay offers a far more cogent mechanism to explain this state of affairs and why it is that there is such a disparity between slurs used against Whites and those used against all other races.

The fact that lack of offensive or prejudicial intent towards others seemingly has no impact on a resulting accusation of racial prejudice from the use of a slur, points to the truth that the power of a racial slur is created not by the user of the slur, but instead by the receiver. Whether the receiver is the direct subject (the word or phrase was used directly towards them) or the indirect subject (the word or phrase was spoken without specific direction to the subject, but the subject nevertheless overheard it), a racial slur has power because the receiver has taken offense and has given it power. I posit that process is initiated by three triggers:

  1. Internalised Inferiority: The receiver of the slur, whether direct or indirect, has an internalised sense of inferiority vis-à-vis the person using the slur, or a wider group the user is a member of;
  2. Guilt Complex: The slur is able to tap into a sense of guilt within the receiver, either regarding their own behaviour or the behaviour of a group they are a member of; and
  3. Self-doubt: The receiver of the slur is worried that the slur could be true, or actually secretly believes it to be true.

If it is able to draw from one or more of these triggers, the slur is given power by the receiver and the racial insult (whether intended or not) will be successfully delivered. Alternatively, if no triggers occur, the internal state of the receiver is unchanged and the slur is not successful. Utterance of even the nastiest, most vile string of racial insults imaginable will have no effect unless a trigger has occurred. The above three triggers may also apply to class, age, sexuality, religious and sex-based slurs, however it is beyond the scope of discussion contained in this essay, nor do I explore the closely related phenomenon of taking offence to racial slurs on behalf of others.

Internalised Inferiority

The existence of trigger #1 is easily demonstrated when looking at the large catalogue of racial slurs that exist in the English language and the enormous discrepancy in power and consequence that exists between slurs used against Whites versus those used against non-Whites. Plenty of derogatory terms used for White people exist, usually referencing light skin tone, but none of them will generally arouse more than a mild sense of amusement or a raised eyebrow when used against the intended victim. ‘Whitey’, ‘mayo’, ‘vanilla’, or ‘gweilo’ have close to no insulting power, nor will any negative consequences from Whites collectively occur when they are utilised by non-Whites. Words like ‘nigger’, ‘chink’, ‘coon’, ‘spic’ or ‘kike’ are of course to varying degrees taboo unless uttered by those the slur applies to, and are spoken only with the knowledge that serious reprisal in some form or another can occur when used within earshot of others.

This discrepancy between “the West and the Rest” results largely due to Whites not being able to internally visualise themselves in an inferior position racially when confronted with a racially-based slur. The achievements of White civilisation stand so far above all others, that the inferiority of White people implied by a racial slur against Whites is absurd on the face of it. None of this is to say that all Whites have an ingrained sense of “White Supremacy” (defined as the belief that Whites should rule over others), only that Whites collectively don’t ascribe any negative or historically inferior connotations to their existence and achievements as Whites and thus take no offense to words that do nothing more than identify them as White, no matter how much hatred or prejudice the user pours into it. Put simply, Whites don’t think it’s a negative thing to be a ‘honkey’. This means that the marker of the truly self-hating White – as opposed to the performative one going along with the ideological climate in order to blend in – is someone that genuinely takes offense at such slurs and is truly convinced of the inferiority of White society or of its negative impact.

Trigger #3 is most commonly found in slurs that attack someone’s character or their physical features. Calling a wealthy and powerful man who is confident of his own abilities a ‘loser’ is likely to have no effect and cause no real offense. Calling an unemployed, unmarried, down-on-his-luck man a loser is almost guaranteed to tap into his self-doubt and his internal fear that he *is* actually a loser. Examples when it comes to race include the slur ‘monkey’ when applied to sub-Saharan blacks or the Chinese term ‘gweilo’ (literally meaning ghost) applied to Whites. The simple biological fact that members of the sub-Saharan race do share more physical parallels with great apes than other races — to the extent that AI  programs have accidentally identified pictures of blacks as primates — is enough to tap into the thought process that there may be some truth to the comparison that sits behind the slur. Meanwhile, no White person is genuinely worried that they physically resemble a mythical creature such as a ghost, and thus the slur is given no power (unless it is combined with trigger #1.)

White Guilt and its Uses

This leads us to the question, when do racial slurs against Whites actually work? The answer is primarily when they are not slurs against Whites as a whole, and directed instead towards a specific socio-economic class (‘redneck’, ‘chav’, ‘bogan’) or to an ethnic sub-category.[4] ‘Nazi’ is a slur to Germans as it taps into both German war guilt and the reality that many Germans do have ancestors that were members of the NSDAP or supporters of the party. Though less potent than they once were, ‘dago’, ‘greaser’ or ‘wog’ are slurs to those with Southern European ancestry who share a lingering sense of being second class citizens in an Anglo-Saxon country, never quite living up to the cultural standards WASPs expected them to assimilate into. The term WASP itself would otherwise be the perfect candidate for a taboo slur – an ethnic descriptor that is phonetically identical to the name of an unpleasant insect. Yet it is not, for no WASPs themselves can reasonably believe that WASPs were historically persecuted or disadvantaged in the history of the West.

The sense of internalised inferiority towards the user of a racial slur (trigger #1) is malleable and can change or be negated based on the circumstances in which the slur was uttered. A racial slur thrown by a group of physically intimidating Blacks towards a single White passer-by can result in a successful insult, as the position of external inferiority from being physically outnumbered overrules the natural internal disposition towards the slur if it was said in a neutral environment. The same effect can occur to a hypothetical lone White audience member singled out and abused whilst attending a Nation of Islam conference or a meeting of Aboriginal elders. The concept of an “N-word pass”, meaning that a Black person has given permission to a non-Black person to use the word, implies that no internalised inferiority exists within the former towards the latter (at least at that present moment in time). The vexing question of why the slur ‘nigger’ is non-derogatory when uttered intra-racially is easily accounted for by trigger #1, as the user and receiver are in a position of equality, at least racially, though such a slur can be successfully delivered when used across class lines, for example if a wealthy Black man uses it against his ghetto dwelling compatriots.

Perhaps the only racially-based slurs that currently seem to have any power against Whites as a whole (as opposed to inter-ethnic or situational-dependent slurs described above) are ones relating to guilt over colonisation or abuses that occurred during the colonial period to indigenous peoples – triggers #2 and #3. The slew of anti-White propaganda on the history of colonisation that Western youth are currently subjected to throughout their schooling years appears to be bearing fruit, as racial slurs based around colonisation have become common amongst the vanguard of the anti-White left, suggesting that this weakness has specifically been identified.

To conclude with a warning, the instinct to attack the use of such would-be racial slurs against Whites as a double-standard, even when no offense is taken, should be avoided. By pointing out your opposition to it, thus your susceptibility to the slur, you only serve to alert people of its power. Had leading black abolitionists in America like Hosea Easton not publicly drawn attention to the insulting perception of the word nigger in the early 1800s[5], would it have simply died a natural death, just like so many other antiquated terms used to describe a disliked outgroup eventually did? For a more contemporary example with a newly minted slur, the rapid rise in popularity of the slur ‘Karen’ used against White women was fuelled by the mass denials and anger over the inappropriate application of the word, signalling to others its viability as a slur.[6] The day that Whites start to take these slurs seriously is the day that Whites collectively no longer believe in their pre-eminence in world history. Mock the use of words like ‘colonizer’ and ignore and joke about the silly labels like ‘gammon’ being flung around, for if you stop laughing, that means it’s already too late.


[1] Precel, N & Gamble, J 2023, ‘Monash Uni teaching associate investigated for repeatedly using N-word in class’, March 2nd, The Age, retrieved from: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/monash-uni-teaching-associate-investigated-for-repeatedly-using-n-word-in-class-20230302-p5covp.html

[2] A google web-search for ‘university professor suspended n-word’ results in a dozen such cases within the last 5 years alone.

[3] See Jeshion, R. 2018, ‘Chapter 4: Slurs, Dehumanization, and the Expression of Contempt’, in Sosa, D (ed.) Bad Words: Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs, Oxford University Press, p.77-107.

[4] Furthermore, compound slurs such as ‘White trash’ or ‘White devil’ are given power not by the reference to Whites, but by the inclusion of the additional insulting word.

[5] See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/nigger.htm

[6] The recent popularity of self-applying the words ‘goy’ and ‘goyim’ within the dissident right should also be approached carefully. Self-application of the words ‘nigger’ or ‘queer’ by their respective communities has so far failed to undercut the power of the words when used by the out-group.

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