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The Talk: Nonblack Version
Taki's Magazine ^ | April 5, 2012 | John Derbyshire

Posted on 04/07/2012 5:04:29 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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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.

(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.

(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.

(Excerpt) Read more at takimag.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bellcurve; blacks; derbyshire; johnderbyshire; race; racerealism; taki
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To: Albion Wilde
Something more blacks need to realize — it’s not always about skin color. It’s just the usual pecking order. One of the most wasteful emotions in life is self-pity.

Wise comment.

Unfortunately, accepting personal responsibility is a painful but absolutely necessary and non-negotiable first step in solving one's problems and developing real character. There seems to be a wholesale failure in the leadership of the black community to appreciate that fact.

In fact, said leaders usually denigrate those who do assume mature responsibility as traitors to their race.

And as a result...we have an entire segment of our population which has not, will not, indeed, cannot assimilate into our culture as mature citizens.

And now, the President of the United States is fanning the flames of revolution by this self-segregated population.

161 posted on 04/09/2012 6:13:53 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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B F L


162 posted on 04/09/2012 6:18:56 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: reaganaut1

I can’t get the link to work. Did you save a full copy?


163 posted on 04/09/2012 6:50:12 AM PDT by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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To: reaganaut1

Never mind, I found it.


164 posted on 04/09/2012 7:05:16 AM PDT by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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To: NRPM
Parting Ways By Rich Lowry April 7, 2012 6:34 P.M. Comments 0Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he’s a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer. I direct anyone who doubts his talents to his delightful first novel, “Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream,” or any one of his “Straggler” columns in the books section of NR. Derb is also maddening, outrageous, cranky, and provocative. His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation. It’s a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants. Just not in the pages of NR or NRO, or as someone associated with NR any longer.

It doesn't sound tongue in cheek to me.

165 posted on 04/09/2012 7:09:09 AM PDT by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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To: wildbill
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
― Jesse Jackson

166 posted on 04/09/2012 7:17:08 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (Defeating Obama: Is neither a Republican Goal, nor a Democratic Concern, it is America's Survival)
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To: reaganaut1

I just remembered something from way back in 1976. I was visiting Washington D.C. that summer, staying at the YCWA, and was given “the talk,” by a black D.C. cop. He used a map I had to point out where it was safe to go, and what areas to stay the hell out of.


167 posted on 04/09/2012 7:57:10 AM PDT by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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To: Excellence

Excellence,

I was referring to his first post with the link to the article. But I guess I did read it wrong, as this post makes clear.


168 posted on 04/09/2012 8:18:43 AM PDT by NRPM (We have to come to terms with the fact that governments have made promises they will not keep.)
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To: NRPM

It is quite possible that Lowry had not posted the statement that I copied and pasted, and that, at the time, yours was the most recent and, therefore, most accurate observation.


169 posted on 04/09/2012 10:00:34 AM PDT by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Unfortunately, accepting personal responsibility is a painful but absolutely necessary and non-negotiable first step in solving one's problems and developing real character. There seems to be a wholesale failure in the leadership of the black community to appreciate that fact.

It's not what MLK wanted. The autobiography of Booker T. Washington was one of the most inspiring books I read in my youth for guidance on how to overcome disadvantage and live a useful life, along with Ben Franklin's autobio. Such men today, like Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams, are ignored. It is tragic.

My life was saved by a black child when I was four years old or so and would have drowned, had he not pulled me out. My parents' curt dismissal of him was a moment of pure shame. I will not give up trying, but I am deeply, deeply saddened by the hostility and ingratitude of the "urban youth" and hip-hop culture.

170 posted on 04/09/2012 10:22:52 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
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To: Zhang Fei
John Derbyshire is about to hit 67, and is undergoing cancer treatment.

Interesting. Tell the truth while one still has time.

171 posted on 04/09/2012 10:36:22 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
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To: .30Carbine
National Review was right to let John go.

So this is Eric Holder's honest conversation about race?

"Black-on-white crime is grievous."

"You're fired."

Yeah, that'll have lots of takers.

Notice that Lowry didn't finger an offending quote or statistic that he thought was unfair or exemplified prejudice or race-hatred in Derbyshire's article. Where's the beef, Rich? What exactly was it that placed Derbyshire beyond the pale? Or was it taking up the subject in the first place?

172 posted on 04/09/2012 11:39:11 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Excellence
[You, quoting Rich Lowry]
His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways.

Ping to my last.

But what did Derbyshire say that was "nasty and indefensible"? Lowry broadly characterizes what Derbyshire wrote but doesn't specify.

173 posted on 04/09/2012 11:48:42 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus

It’s his call. I don’t think he has to be any more specific than his statement already is. Jim Robinson zots folks all the time - it’s his prerogative as the owner of the site. He owes no one an explanation. Lowry has the same power, as obviously demonstrated in this case.


174 posted on 04/09/2012 1:00:02 PM PDT by .30Carbine (God bless you with the spirit of wisdom and understanding)
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To: garbanzo
Ask any journalist who spent a substantial amount of time in a Soviet Bloc country.

...who isn't in jail or dead.

175 posted on 04/09/2012 1:20:25 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: lentulusgracchus

The whole piece is at post 80.
It is hard to choose just one sentence or paragraph that would have cause NR to pull the plug.
I would like to see Charles Murray’s take on the piece.


176 posted on 04/09/2012 2:47:31 PM PDT by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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To: reaganaut1
“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.

I had the talk with my blonde, blue eyed, white boys when they were 14...

177 posted on 04/09/2012 2:52:00 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Eldon Tyrell
I believe the question related to the point of the spear - not the office workers in Alabama. The closer you get to the point - the whiter it gets. Why don’t you do some homework and find out.

They don't have the break downs as far as "point of the spear". I'm guessing Fire and Maneuver is trigger pullers not rear area troops. I think that special ops etc would mirror the rest of the forces make-up.

178 posted on 04/09/2012 5:59:51 PM PDT by USAF80
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To: USAF80

Your “guess that special ops mirrors ...” is incorrect.

The breakdowns are available. A simple Google of “racial breakdown of special forces” yields a first link to a >100 page Rand report from 1999 detaling everything you would need to know to answer this question intelligently. Link follows:

http://mldc.whs.mil/download/documents/RAND%20Publications%20and%20Graphics/Publications/Barriers%20to%20Minority%20Participation%20in%20Special%20Op%20Forces.pdf

Blacks are 2-4% of officers and enlisted in SEALS, Special Forces, and Rangers. POINT of the spear - UNDER represented by factor of 3. I believe - numbers have increased to where they are more 6%-2% now. Under - by 2.5X.

Test results etc are part of the report.

There is no need to guess, or argue, over a fact that can be looked up.


179 posted on 04/10/2012 6:40:26 AM PDT by Eldon Tyrell
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To: Eldon Tyrell

That report was in 1999, it’s 2012 now. It really does not matter, special forces are just one component of the military services. It takes a whole lot of support to even put a special forces unit into action.

Almost all minorities are under represented in special forces.


180 posted on 04/10/2012 12:32:10 PM PDT by USAF80
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