Dirty Little Secrets

Still on holiday, but wanted to take a moment to dispel a small myth.  From our day-to-day dealings as well as the media, many Euro-Americans are under the impression that the Afro community--affluent and ghetto alike--are all cut in the Jesse Jackson mold of endless mewling victimization and race-baiting.  Not true.

Of course we all know the few Afro rightists, the Sowells and Steeles and Williams, but their 'risky' remarks rarely diverge from 'ending the welfare state will fix what ails us.'  And even they are but lone surfers paddling furiously against the black victimization tide.

'I'd like to be a fly on the wall,' once said the White, 'while Blacks sit around the water cooler and talk amongst themselves.'  Happily, the arrival of the internet in almost every home means that today he can.  This amazing series of tubes has coughed up from its depths some dirty, hairball-covered secrets, and the anthropologically-inclined would do well to take a look.  Here then, a brief survey of some of the more surprising Afro honesty the internet has delivered us of late.

Summer Excursion Time

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Summer excursion is here, just in time for the solstice.  Enjoy the longest day of the year, and take advantage of the sunshine. But please have a thought for those whom the West has sacrificed these last several years on the altar of Multiculturalism.  The facts continue to pile up.

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 An Afro-on-Euro crime wave has been pummeling the West recently, particularly in the United States.  Writers have begun to compile lists of these attacks:

'Minority-on-White Crime': American Renaissance's excellent database of such incidents, all drawn from mainstream news sources, going back to 2004.


Violent Flash Mobs: A detailed list of all known incidents of violent black 'flash mobs' or 'wilding mobs' having hit the country since Obama's inauguration.
(list goes back to 2002, the phenomenon hits its stride in 2009)


Black Racism and Race Hatred: A new site with detailed archives of black-on-non-black crime.
Categories include street crime, workplace attacks, massacres, rape, and intimate partner homicide.


'Project Vanquish': Unamusement Park's new compilation, still in its infancy, of NAM-on-non-NAM crime.
Categories include Hate Crime Hoaxes, Minority Rape, Minority Violence Against Good Samaritans, Minority Violence at School and College, Minority Violence on Parade, The SPLC’s Anti-White Bias.


Violence Against Whites: Links to news articles on non-white violence against Whites in the U.S. and a variety of other Western countries. Tagline: 'Is multiculturalism worth dying for?'


The Big Lie on Parade:  Tagline: 'A daily roundup of the continuing and ever increasing intifada of black on white crime. Dispelling the Big Lie of the "Violent white racist America" one link at a time.'

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The other country in which a large NW Euro population lives side-by-side with a large African one, South Africa, has suffered an even more gruesome fate since the 1994 advent of black rule.

Farm murders victim names 1994-2011: Censor Bugbear gives the comprehensive list of victims of the anti-Euro slaughter waged these last twenty years in South Africa.  Perhaps the biggest untold news story in western media history.


Afrikaner Genocide Archives: Another good source on anti-Euro violence in South Africa.

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Other Euro countries are also struggling with racial violence directed at themselves by foreigners they have invited into their lands.  Near-universal faith in the multiculturalist religion has allowed the brutality to continue unchecked...for now.

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UK Enrichment News (UK): 'Keeping you informed about the benefits of multiculturalism.'  Benefits include rape, armed robbery, assault, murder, gang attacks, identity theft, NHS fraud, and honor killings.  And that's just this week's postings.


Violence against white French (France): 'Violence Against Whites' has a decent section on the daily indignities suffered by indigenous French at the hands of their current colonizers.

François de Souche (France): Comprehensive source on the above subject, written in French.


Cavatus's blog (Sweden): News on the slow devastation of the native Swedish population by its more violent immigrants.


Cultural Enrichment Archives (Europe): Gates of Vienna's excellent archive of Europe's 'cultural enrichment' at the hands of its latter-day colonizers.  Touches on Scandinavia, U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Eastern Europe...All translated into English by their generous volunteer team.  A real-time narrative of the slow fall of the West.  A must-read.



Thank you to all the thoughtful readers and commenters who grace these pages; your insights help open the eyes of those who can't yet see.  And happy holidays to anyone lucky enough to get a little early summer break.  We shall be back online shortly.

When America lays herself down to sleep

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The more able and the less able: they have always found a way to co-exist on planet earth.  Conquest and forced tribute was one way. Conquest and slavery was another.  Conquest and political domination was a third.

But such were the ways of the past.  Today, for the first time in recorded history, a world-wide consensus holds (more or less) that naked conquest is Not Alright.  Now that the inhabitants of every square inch of the globe have a fellow in a swivel chair at the U.N. claiming to speak in their name, colonialism is no longer the done thing.

But the More Able cannot help but dominate the Less Able.  The Cold War took foreign conquest underground, and what had once been done by plunking down a flag and a cross was now pulled off via spies, discreet assassinations, coups, death squad training, and the like.

Even that great chess match drew to a close, and we are today left with one bloated power whose military tentacles circle the globe. A power who patrols the world's seas from the South Pacific to the Gulf of Aden to the Caribbean.  Despite this pseudo-empire on which, like her 19th-century cousin's, the sun never sets, America does her best to paint a rosy face on world dominance.

But no empire lasts forever. The vultures have been circling for years squawking of the U.S.'s demise.  The question is not 'will she fall?'--what goes up must come down--but 'when?' and 'what comes after?' Who shall be the 21st century's 'more able?'

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International relations, like nature, abhors a vacuum.  Should the U.S. tumble from its perch, others will rush in to fill the void.  Those unaware of human biodiversity--almost all mainstream analysts today, including those at Stratfor--are missing a major bit from the toolkit, and their analysis suffers for it.  Only amateurs are left to ask the race-realist questions.  Two valid ones are, 'is Euro-America on the decline?' and, if so, 'who shall rush in to fill the geopolitical void?'

The conundrum of Afro governance

 
Detroit City Council meeting, 2012

You may have seen Walter Russell Mead fretting of late about the hash Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's cronies have made of the city pension fund. (h/t Heliogabalus)  Mead is wowed by both the scale of the graft--

...corrupt and incompetent trustees appointed by Democratic officials over many years in Detroit are responsible for almost half a billion dollars in investments gone wrong.

--and the indifference of the press:

I honestly don’t know why there is so little national outrage about this despicable crew and the terrible damage they have done. ...The 41 year old Kwame Kilpatrick may well be the worst and most destructive American of his generation; his two terms as Mayor of Detroit are among the most sordid and stomach churning episodes in the storied history of American municipal corruption.

The question of Afro governance has long intrigued Euro-Americans, especially in the South.  The latter feared the former's great numbers meant they would one day take control, a disaster because (1) they would trample Whites' rights and (2) they were unfit to govern.  The ten-year Reconstruction nightmare, they say, proved them right.  J.W. Garner:

In some instances the board [of supervisors] was composed entirely of illiterate negroes. Although their duties necessitated calculation and computation, there were instances in which no member could do the smallest operation of arithmetic, and their highest mark of erudition was the ability of the president to sign his name to a record, the contents of which he could not read. In Issaquena County, in 1874, every member of the board was alleged to be an illiterate negro.

... In Madison County, every member of the board was colored, and the maximum of learning among them was the ability of one to sign his name mechanically. There was not a justice of the peace in the county who could write his name.  [...] shortly before the meeting of the grand jury, they usually got some friendly white neighbor to write up their dockets for presentation at the proper time. (1)

J.W. Burgess, on the outrageous expenditures of the all-Negro South Carolina legislature:

It was the most soul-sickening spectacle that Americans had ever been called upon to behold. ... In place of government by the most intelligent and virtuous part of the people for the benefit of the governed, here was government by the most ignorant and vicious part of the population for the benefit, the vulgar, materialistic, brutal benefit of the governing set.  (2)

Men of the 19th century drew their conclusions about Afro governance from simple observation. They watched Haiti, they watched Liberia, they watched Afro-Americans conduct their own affairs.  Today the data-set is richer--50-plus African nations now independent for half a century, as well as a growing number of American cities led by wholly black government.  In surveying this landscape, two words come to our lips again and again--'corruption' and 'ineptitude.'  Why?

The temptation to blame outside forces, as we have seen, is strong.  The instinctive pity and revulsion we feel when faced with a group of people so seemingly inept can cause us shame, so we attempt to redirect blame.  'Other people made them this way,' we say. 'It is inconceivable that their problems could be rooted in their own make-up.'

At Those Who Can See, we argue that the evidence points strongly in the other direction.  We propose that in the aggregate, traits which lead to good governance are in acutely short supply in Sub-Saharan Africans.  Let us examine the evidence.

Corruption: The exception or the rule?

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IMF chief Christine Lagarde raised hackles this week when she suggested one way Greeks could get themselves out of the pickle they're in would be to cut back on their national sport of tax-evasion.  She also suggested her tears of pity would be better spent on Nigerien children, forced to walk two hours to school and sit three to a chair, than on profligate Greeks.

 Africans and Greeks: Pity sweepstakes?

The Niger comparison was interesting, as it suffers from some of the same problems as Greece, but at astronomically higher levels. Among them is the one which gives the IMF fits, that stubborn, impossible-to-remove kudzu, the sinister C-word: Corruption.

It has become gospel among international policy-makers that corruption is a big problem, but a fixable one. Bad laws = corruption. Good laws = no corruption.  They thus traipse around the planet giving PowerPoint presentations on how to open your very own Anti-Corruption Ministry, sure that they're leaving little Swedens on the Sahara and Englands on the Euphrates in their wake.

With just a bit of HBD knowledge, a policy-maker might ask: What if corruption were not a product of laws, but of men?  What if corruption came from men's beliefs, their character traits, their deepest biological instincts? What if it is our natural state?  What if it can't be fixed? What then?

Besides the 'bad-laws' fallacy, a second error made by policy-makers is the 'bad-leaders' fallacy.  The poor honest folks in Country X suffer terribly because their leaders are so corrupt. And yet coup/election after coup/election, as if by magic, one bad leader after another comes to power.  Unless these people are being airlifted in from a foreign land, one can presume they are made of the same stuff as their countrymen.

In addition, what the throw-the-bums-out crowd fails to realize is that in corrupt countries, everyone (or almost) is on the take.  The same character traits that drive government ministers to  accept suitcases full of cash are also likely to be found in small shopkeepers who say, 'Do you want a receipt for that? Are you sure? (wink wink)', as well as the customer who responds, 'No no, of course not! (wink wink)'

Lagarde's admonishment to 'Pay your taxes!' is merely spitting into the wind.  In a country where the average taxpayer can buy off the average tax inspector with a sufficiently fat envelope, what precisely is she hoping for? Who watches the watchers?  This has led some Eurocrats to cry, 'Send in foreign tax inspectors!', which would be amusing were it not so disturbing.  Is a country whose government officials are under the control of a foreign power not by definition a colony?

We are thus led to ask: Corruption, that headache of international policy-makers--is it a behavior, or a state of being?

Hunting the Yeti: Institutional Racism in the 21st Century

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Omar Thornton, the beer-filching delivery man who, upon hearing he was to be fired for his thieving ways, unloaded a Ruger SR9 into ten of his co-workers then himself, has a posthumous website (h/t Crimes of the Times).  Created by his mother. Why?

It's hard to swing a cat these days without hitting someone decrying Institutional Racism.  It has become the catch-all excuse for Afro under-performance in relation to other ethnic groups...

Top Chicago Cop Links U.S. Gun Laws to Institutional Racism

Failing the Test of Fairness: Institutional Racism and the SAT

DC Million Hoodies March Denounces Institutional Racism

...And so forth.

Like the elusive Yeti, it has to be out there--we've heard stories, terrifying stories, of it ambling hither and yon leaving carnage in its path. Its footprints are visible everywhere. And yet...when pressed, no one seems able to cough up hard proof of its existence. 

Just as great footprints in the snow are no proof of the Yeti, the fact that Blacks do not score as highly as Whites on firefighter exams is no proof of Institutional Racism.  But the charge is a serious one. It deserves a serious response. Our question is not, however, 'did institutional racism exist in decades past?'--it unquestionably did--but rather, 'does it exist today?'  We at Those Who Can See have taken our snowshoes and our rucksack and gone in search of this beast:  Down what trail lies the evidence that Institutional Racism continues to harm Afro-Americans in 2012?

Who's Afraid of Affirmative Action?

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Meritocracy is rare indeed, however far back in history we may look.  Member-of-my-family-ocracy, on the other hand, can be found almost everywhere.  Political dynasties are as old as time.  Ancien régime France let state posts be passed down from father to son, like a house.  In clannish Arab lands today, one's spot in college, the army, or the civil service is largely determined by the power of one's relatives.  David Pryce-Jones on Arab society:

To take the everyday matter of wanting to obtain a job, a young man approaches the head of his family or clan, his patron.  The head of the family is under obligation to do his very best to make sure that his kinsman is given what he asks for.  The honor of the whole family is at stake. [...]  In the event  of the job going to someone else, the patron becomes the object of shame, and his standing is under threat [...] Whether or not the young man deserved the job is no kind of consideration.  Civic spirit, the good of the community, or mere consideration of who could best perform the job in hand has no part in these proceedings.

Where meritocracy is allowed, the results can be impressive.  The Ottomans' Janissary corps is one example. The ancient Chinese civil service exam system is another.  In the modern West, outbred and commonweal-oriented as we are, nepotism rubs us the wrong way.  Shouldn't the best man get the job?

Enter racial quotas.

We may understand why they came to be, and loudly proclaim their time has gone. But the affirmative action coin has two sides.  What happens when a foreign group arrives among us and out-performs us?  Are we in our rights to establish quotas to keep them from forming an alien elite?  Indians in Uganda, Chinese in Malaysia, Ashkenazi Jews in the U.S., Europeans in South Africa--all have been excluded via quotas by a native population ill at ease with their success.  Is this fair?  When are quotas justified?

'In a Word We Suffer on Each Side'

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Afro-Americans have long committed violent crime at much higher rates than other ethnic groups.  With the election of our first black president in 2008, many predicted this would end, as seeing a face like their own in the Oval Office would lead young Afros to lay down their arms and pick up a schoolbook.

Was such a prediction reasonable?

We argue that it was not.

Culture, affirm conservatives, is what poisons the young Black mind. Welfare payments slacken it, lack of fathers stunts it, hip-hop perverts it.  Could we erase the Great Society and the sexual revolution, young Afro-Americans would revert back to the industrious strivers they once were.

The children represented by the Brown vs. Board of Education suit, Topeka Kansas, 1951: Vicky, Donald, Linda, James, Nancy, Katherine.

Progressives, on the other hand, admit some nefarious effects of black culture but attribute them to the lingering pain of 250 years of slavery and one hundred years of segregation.  Any day now, they insist, Afro-Americans will begin to behave just like everyone else.

The progressive view is relatively easy to dismiss, as black dysfunction has in fact increased as Jim Crow recedes further into the past.

And the conservative view? Seductive, but incorrect.  As it happens, Afro-Americans are not only well-known today for their violent exploits, but were so known far back in history.  Reading the police blotter from one hundred years ago can be a startlingly familiar experience. Then as now, Afros chose to act out aggressively in a variety of milieus.

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On public transport

Portland, April 2012:

A 57-year-old man who asked a group of teenagers to quiet down on a MAX train was assaulted on Friday... When officers arrived, they learned the man had asked a large group of around 15 to 20 black male teenagers to keep it down. That apparently didn't sit well with the teenagers and some of them allegedly attacked the man.

Baltimore, 1913: