Posted on 07/08/2016 1:55:23 PM PDT by dynachrome
There is much talk about “the talk.”
“Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons,” Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (NJ) Record tells us. Meanwhile, down in Atlanta: “Her sons were 12 and 8 when Marlyn Tillman realized it was time for her to have the talk,” Gracie Bonds Staples writes in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Leonard Greene talks about the talk in the New York Post. Someone bylined as KJ Dell’Antonia talks about the talk in The New York Times. Darryl Owens talks about the talk in the Orlando Sentinel.
Yes, talk about the talk is all over.
There is a talk that nonblack Americans have with their kids, too. My own kids, now 19 and 16, have had it in bits and pieces as subtopics have arisen. If I were to assemble it into a single talk, it would look something like the following.
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(1) Among your fellow citizens are forty million who identify as black, and whom I shall refer to as black. The cumbersome (and MLK-noncompliant) term “African-American” seems to be in decline, thank goodness. “Colored” and “Negro” are archaisms. What you must call “the ‘N’ word” is used freely among blacks but is taboo to nonblacks.
“There is a talk that nonblack Americans have with their kids, too.”
(2) American blacks are descended from West African populations, with some white and aboriginal-American admixture. The overall average of non-African admixture is 20-25 percent. The admixture distribution is nonlinear, though: “It seems that around 10 percent of the African American population is more than half European in ancestry.” (Same link.)
(3) Your own ancestry is mixed north-European and northeast-Asian, but blacks will take you to be white.
(4) The default principle in everyday personal encounters is, that as a fellow citizen, with the same rights and obligations as yourself, any individual black is entitled to the same courtesies you would extend to a nonblack citizen. That is basic good manners and good citizenship. In some unusual circumstances, however—e.g., paragraph (10h) below—this default principle should be overridden by considerations of personal safety.
(5) As with any population of such a size, there is great variation among blacks in every human trait (except, obviously, the trait of identifying oneself as black). They come fat, thin, tall, short, dumb, smart, introverted, extroverted, honest, crooked, athletic, sedentary, fastidious, sloppy, amiable, and obnoxious. There are black geniuses and black morons. There are black saints and black psychopaths. In a population of forty million, you will find almost any human type. Only at the far, far extremes of certain traits are there absences. There are, for example, no black Fields Medal winners. While this is civilizationally consequential, it will not likely ever be important to you personally. Most people live and die without ever meeting (or wishing to meet) a Fields Medal winner.
(6) As you go through life, however, you will experience an ever larger number of encounters with black Americans. Assuming your encounters are random—for example, not restricted only to black convicted murderers or to black investment bankers—the Law of Large Numbers will inevitably kick in. You will observe that the means—the averages—of many traits are very different for black and white Americans, as has been confirmed by methodical inquiries in the human sciences.
(7) Of most importance to your personal safety are the very different means for antisocial behavior, which you will see reflected in, for instance, school disciplinary measures, political corruption, and criminal convictions.
(8) These differences are magnified by the hostility many blacks feel toward whites. Thus, while black-on-black behavior is more antisocial in the average than is white-on-white behavior, average black-on-white behavior is a degree more antisocial yet.
(9) A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks—around half—will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.
(10) Thus, while always attentive to the particular qualities of individuals, on the many occasions where you have nothing to guide you but knowledge of those mean differences, use statistical common sense:
(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.
(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.
(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).
(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.
(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.
(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.
(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.
(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.
(10i) If accosted by a strange black in the street, smile and say something polite but keep moving.
(11) The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of blacks have IQs that low. Only one black in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average black. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They are reflected in countless everyday situations. “Life is an IQ test.”
(12) There is a magnifying effect here, too, caused by affirmative action. In a pure meritocracy there would be very low proportions of blacks in cognitively demanding jobs. Because of affirmative action, the proportions are higher. In government work, they are very high. Thus, in those encounters with strangers that involve cognitive engagement, ceteris paribus the black stranger will be less intelligent than the white. In such encounters, therefore—for example, at a government office—you will, on average, be dealt with more competently by a white than by a black. If that hostility-based magnifying effect (paragraph 8) is also in play, you will be dealt with more politely, too. “The DMV lady“ is a statistical truth, not a myth.
(13) In that pool of forty million, there are nonetheless many intelligent and well-socialized blacks. (I’ll use IWSB as an ad hoc abbreviation.) You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with IWSBs. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice.
(14) Be aware, however, that there is an issue of supply and demand here. Demand comes from organizations and businesses keen to display racial propriety by employing IWSBs, especially in positions at the interface with the general public—corporate sales reps, TV news presenters, press officers for government agencies, etc.—with corresponding depletion in less visible positions. There is also strong private demand from middle- and upper-class whites for personal bonds with IWSBs, for reasons given in the previous paragraph and also (next paragraph) as status markers.
(15) Unfortunately the demand is greater than the supply, so IWSBs are something of a luxury good, like antique furniture or corporate jets: boasted of by upper-class whites and wealthy organizations, coveted by the less prosperous. To be an IWSB in present-day US society is a height of felicity rarely before attained by any group of human beings in history. Try to curb your envy: it will be taken as prejudice (see paragraph 13).
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You don’t have to follow my version of the talk point for point; but if you are white or Asian and have kids, you owe it to them to give them some version of the talk. It will save them a lot of time and trouble spent figuring things out for themselves. It may save their lives.
So umm... is this it ? has the race war begun ?
Circa 1974 in my Business Pharmacy Class:
Our professor was giving us guidance about jobs in pharmacy. We were to graduate in the next year and were starting to be interviewed. About 10 percent of our class were black. They were not in our class because of their color but because they meet the same standards as everyone else. They were good people and became good pharmacists. They were my friends.
He said, “if you are black, do not accept the same salary they are offering white graduates.” He said to insist on 10 to 15% more. He was quite frank and said that is the economic reality. He also said it is not fair but that was reality. The blacks in the class were not offended. To them it was amusing and they gladly accepted the reality of more money. If I were black I would have also accepted the extra money.
That professor is retired today. If he gave the same lecture today, he would be fired. All he wanted is each and every student get the most money they could and addressed the reality in hiring.
In our pharmacy school, which was in the deep South, race meant absolutely nothing to the professors and relationships between the students. We all had the same objective which was to finish school as soon as possible and start making money. We were all professionals, students and professors alike. It was a good group.
Should read as Circa 1984.
(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.
(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.
A black teenager, about 20 years ago, told me he avoided going to places where that occurred. I can’t repeat the language he used.
bump for later
1. Muslims didn’t introduce slavery to any part of Afrca. It had always existed in Africa. 2. In Africa, Muslim slavery was incredibly brutal and was an economic enterprise.
What about those here who are not nonblack?
The lessons still apply. Actually, large crowds of young alcohol fueled yutes are to be avoided. However, it seems that large crowds of African yutes are more violent overall, IMHO.
“10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians. “
Not always true——see the most desirable Newton,MA,which has a black mayor.
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Oh my gosh, NEVER. I would NEVER give such a talk to my children.
That is a way to create deep racism from the cradle. Horrible. He should have been fired for that.
You can give your children common sense in public direction without resorting to racism or separating a race not your own into good and bad.
And the whole section on intelligence insults me to the core. Appalling. I know whites and blacks with lower intelligence who are beautiful people, including my own little son.
bkmk
I gave my daughter the talk but it wasn’t about race, I taught her to recognize and avoid thugs whether they be black, Hispanic, Aryan brotherhood or Asian gang members. Then in 2002, NYC councilman Charles Barron gave a speech saying he’d like to randomly slap white people just for his mental health.
I don’t imagine Councilman Barron looks like a thug so now I’ve got to explain to my six year old daughter that even a well dressed articulate, educated older black man in a suit might physically assault her at random for no other reason than that she is white. That was “the talk” I gave to my daughter.
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NR let h go over this?
What fools
From around 2000:
http://fredoneverything.net/BlackIQ.shtml
Also from around 2000:
http://fredoneverything.net/Underclass.shtml
Fred saw this coming a LONG time ago. Obama seems to be the catalyst. This will ramp up exponentially before Obama leaves office.
Also from around 2000:
http://www.fredoneverything.net/Blowup.shtml
Here he discusses where this could go. The last paragraph strikes either fear or confidence, depending on how you see this whole issue.
Fred’s good.
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