Black Power
A Done Deal
Fred Reed
October 30, 2014
As I write after Ferguson-
It is curious that blacks, the least educated thirteen percent of the
population, the least productive, most criminal, and most dependent on
governmental charity, should dominate national politics. Yet they do.
Virtually everything revolves around what blacks want, demand, do, or can’t
do. Their power seems without limit.
Courses of instruction in the schools, academic rigor, codes of dress, rules
regarding unceasing obscenity, all must be set to suit them, as must be
examinations for promotion in fire departments, the military, and police
forces. Blacks must be admitted to universities for which they are not
remotely qualified, where departments of Black Studies must be established
to please them. Corporate work forces, federal departments, and elite
high-schools must be judged not on whether they perform their functions but
on whether they have the right number of blacks.
Do laws requiring identification to vote threaten to end multiple or illegal
voting? The laws must go. Do blacks not like Confederate flags? Adieu,
flags. Does Huckleberry Finn go down the Mississippi with the Nigger Jim, or
did Conrad write The Nigger of the Narcissus? These must be banned or
expurgated to please blacks who haven’t read them or, usually, heard of
them. Do we want to prevent people coming from regions infested with Ebola
from entering the United States? We cannot. It would offend blacks.
We must never, ever say or do anything that might upset them - as virtually
everything does. It is positively astonishing. One expects the rich and
smart to have disproportionate power. But America is dominated from the
slums. One might think that a single set of laws should and would apply to
all citizens, and that things should be done without regard to race, creed,
color, sex, or national origin, and that all should have the same rights and
responsibilities. It is, sadly, not so.
The dominance of the media by blacks is impressive. If a white shoots a
black to defend himself, it becomes national news for weeks, or months, and
riots follow. But when blacks engage in their unending racial attacks on
whites, the media demurely look the other way. The attackers are never
black. They are “teens.” Reporters who say otherwise are likely to be fired.
In effect, the thirteen percent censor the national press.
Much of their mastery has become so deeply ingrained as no longer to be
noticed. There is the DC Hesitation. In the bars and restaurants of
Washington, a man weary of an incompetent affirmative-action hire in his
office will, before commenting to a friend, lean forward, lower his voice,
and look furtively over both shoulders to see whether anyone might overhear:
The DC Hesitation. People don’t even know that they are doing this.
Defensive behavior by whites has become nearly universal. A sort of Masonic
recognition-ritual occurs among white people recently introduced in social
gatherings. Is the other person, for want of better terms, a liberal or a
realist? Dare one speak? One of them will say something mildly skeptical
about, say, Jesse Jackson. The other rolls his eyes in shared disgust. The
secret handshake. Or, if the listener is politically correct, the bait is
not taken. In either case, blacks dominate political conversation.
So extreme is the power to control speech and even thought, that politicians
have to avoid mentioning watermelons, or that neighborhoods of high crime
must delicately be called “sketchy” instead of “black,” though all
understand who lives there and what is meant. The avoidance of racial
reference is not an even-handed if despotic attempt to oppose racism since,
as we all know, blacks freely apply any derogatory wording they choose to
whites. In short, they rule. Which is amazing.
The dominance extends to children. When in junior high one of my daughters
brought home a science handout with common chemical terms badly misspelled
in a way which suggested a particular speech pattern. “Is your teacher
black?” I said without thinking. “Daaaaaaady!” she said in anguish, having
made the connection but knowing that she shouldn’t have. Blacks control what
you can say to your own children in your own home. And of course if I had
gone to the school and demanded that the teacher be fired, it would have
been evidence of my depravity and probable KKK membership.
The word “unbelievable” has lost all force. Things that ought to be
unbelievable, and once were, have become routine. Still, there it was: Don’t
expect a junior-high teacher to have the level of literacy I had in the
fourth grade. Instead, make it dangerous to notice their stupidity.
This is not new, and it hasn’t changed. In 1981, in a piece for Harper’s,
I wrote:
“The bald, statistically verifiable truth is that the teachers’ colleges,
probably on ideological grounds, have produced an incredible proportion of
incompetent black teachers. Evidence of this appears periodically, as, for
example, in the results of a competency test given to applicants for
teaching positions in Pinellas County, Florida, cited in Time, June 16,
1980. To pass this grueling examination, an applicant had to be able to read
at the tenth-grade level and do arithmetic at the eighth-grade level. Though
they all held B.A.’s, 25 percent of the whites and 79 percent of the blacks failed.
Similar statistics exist for other places.
Nothing has changed. Blacks now control the presidency and thus, most
importantly, the Attorney Generalship. In this the staggering political
power of blacks is most evident. Obama was elected because he was black: an
equally unqualified and negligible white politician would have had no
chance. He is now fiercely pushing the most profound transformation of
America ever attempted, by opening the floodgates to immigration from the
south. To effect this end he apparently will simply ignore Congress and the
Constitution. The people will not be consulted. Laws will be ignored.
It is hard to imagine why he does it except from racism, from a desire to
get even with whites by enrolling their country in the Third World. A
short-sighted policy, yes, since Hispanics do not like blacks and will soon
be more powerful-but that will come a bit later.
Note that self-inflicted problems of blacks consume inordinate amounts of
public and governmental attention, even though only blacks can solve them. I
might say, “should solve them,” since they never have and we all know they
seem to have no desire to do so. Yet we hear about them endlessly.
Are blacks in Chicago killing each other in large numbers? The solution
might be to stop doing it, might it not? While I do not wish these young
dead, I can do nothing to stop them, and it is not a problem I can solve.
Are black children growing up illiterate? This gives me no pleasure, and I
have various reasons both selfish and moral to wish it were not so. But
perhaps the solution is for their parents, or parent, to see that they do
their homework, or even to teach them. I cannot do this for them, and again
it isn’t my problem to resolve.
Why do I have to hear, endlessly, about the “achievement gap”? Whether of
genetic or cultural origin, it seems as immutable as Avogadro’s number, and
I can do nothing about it. I raise my children. They need to raise theirs.
They rule. It is astonishing.