Guest Post by The Zman
Steve Sailer likes to draw comparisons between this age and what happened when the 1960’s counter-culture turned toxic in the the 1970’s. The Civil Rights Movement had curdled into militant black power and the hippy movement had soured into roving gangs of militants like the Weather Underground. It’s not a bad comparison, because then as now, the cause of the turmoil was an incoherent radicalism. What did the Black Panthers want, other than access to white women? What was the point of the BLM violence?
A key difference between then and now is the issue of race. In the 1960’s, America was 85% white and whites just assumed blacks were a poor fit for modern society. Today, America is 60% white and everyone has spent their lives indoctrinated in a cult that worships blacks. Fifty years ago when blacks turned violent, everyone sort of expected it, so no one was really surprised. Today, black violence is a mystery to the beautiful people and they insist everyone else pretend that it is a mystery or caused by whites.
That’s what makes the Ferguson Effect an interesting topic, even after the consequences are slowly starting to fade. Prior to the Black Lives Matter stuff and the liberal tub thumping over events like Travon Martin, crime in general, and black crime in particular, had faded from the public’s consciousness. Then all of a sudden the blacks were angry and murder rates in certain cities began to shoot up again. In 2011 Baltimore had 211 murders. In 2015, the year of Freddy Gray, the city recorded 342 homicides.
White liberals, broadly speaking, have argued the Ferguson Effect is the result of black rage in response to police brutality and racism. The reason blacks in Baltimore, for example, started murdering one another at a record clip, was over anger at the police department’s rough justice in the ghetto. It’s an argument that assumes blacks have no agency of their own and are simply controlled by the behavior of whites. This is a gratuitous assertion by people with an anti-white agenda, but it is the prevailing opinion.
Blacks, on the other hand, have never accepted this line of argument. Instead, they prefer to dismiss the whole thing as an baffling anomaly. The prevailing argument from black activists is that there is no such this as the Ferguson Effect. This piece in City Lab, the urban subsidiary of The Atlantic, is a good example. It has become an article of faith among blacks that the Ferguson Effect is just another effort to explain away the real causes of black crime. Namely, to hide the institutional racism in modern America.
There is, of course, something to it. Blacks seem to get that the underlying assumption of the Ferguson Effect is that left to their own devices, black society would quickly devolve into something pre-modern and violent. Without the constraints of white society, blacks are simply unable to achieve anything above the neolithic. If whites come to accept this again, then all of the concessions and benefits that came out of the Civil Rights Movement no longer make any sense. The whole project unravels in the face of biological reality.
Reality is that thing that does not go away when you stop believing in it. Race relations in America, with regards to blacks, have always been about a series of gates. Blacks who can behave themselves pass through the gate from the ghetto to the suburbs. Blacks with something on the ball can enter into the managerial class, assuming they are willing to accept their symbolic role in the system. The violent and stupid, in contrast, cannot pass through those gates, so they are penned up in urban reservations guarded by the police.
Whites in America, have come to terms with this by never thinking about it. Liberal whites invest their time in fantasies like structural racism and white privilege, while normal whites just ignore it. Blacks, on the other hand, are keenly aware of this reality. For those able to pass through those gates, there is a need to obscure this reality, but also a deep resentment for it. You’ll note that black anger at white America comes from those able to pass through the gates, because they know the underlying assumptions are true.
This is why middle-class black anger at white America is visceral and incoherent. You see it at the end of that posted article, when the writer celebrates pointless protest. “If the word “Ferguson” was permanently and exclusively attached back to its original meaning, we might find evidence of an “effect” when it comes to a number of recent, inspiring events: the bringing down of Confederate monuments, the ousting of Chicago’s police chief, or the recent Chicago protests that forced Donald Trump to cancel a rally.”
The truth is, black crime rates went up in areas where Black Lives Matter was active, because the white cops were simply unwilling to do the job that was necessary to control the ghettos. Many simply moved to other jobs, while the supply of new recruits dried up, leaving these police departments woefully undermanned. On the other hand, the blacks who have made it through the gates are reminded of the reality of their situation. They know that in order to avoid this, they must accept this. That’s the source of their anger.
For almost 150 years the United States has been conducting an interesting experiment. The subjects of the experiment: black people and working-class whites.
The hypothesis to be tested: Can a people taken from the jungles of Africa and forced into slavery be fully integrated as citizens in a majority white population?
The whites were descendants of Europeans who had created a majestic civilization. The former slaves had been tribal peoples with no written language and virtually no intellectual achievements. Acting on a policy that was not fair to either group, the government released newly freed black people into a white society that saw them as inferiors. America has struggled with racial discord ever since.
Decade after decade the problems persisted but the experimenters never gave up. They insisted that if they could find the right formula the experiment would work, and concocted program after program to get the result they wanted. They created the Freedman’s Bureau, passed civil rights laws, tried to build the Great Society, declared War on Poverty, ordered race preferences, built housing projects, and tried midnight basketball.
Their new laws intruded into people’s lives in ways that would have been otherwise unthinkable. They called in National Guard troops to enforce school integration. They outlawed freedom of association. Over the protests of parents, they put white children on buses and sent them to black schools and vice versa. They tried with money, special programs, relaxed standards, and endless handwringing to close the “achievement gap.” To keep white backlash in check they began punishing public and even private statements on race. They hung up Orwellian public banners that commanded whites to “Celebrate Diversity!” and “Say No to Racism.” Nothing was off limits if it might salvage the experiment.
Some thought that what W.E.B. Du Bois called the Talented Tenth would lead the way for black people. A group of elite, educated blacks would knock down doors of opportunity and show the world what blacks were capable of. There is a Talented Tenth. They are the black Americans who have become entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors and scientists. But ten percent is not enough. For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability. That is what is missing.
Through the years, too many black people continue to show an inability to function and prosper in a culture unsuited to them. Detroit is bankrupt, the south side of Chicago is a war zone, and the vast majority of black cities all over America are beset by degeneracy and violence. And blacks never take responsibility for their failures. Instead, they lash out in anger and resentment.
Across the generations and across the country, as we have seen in Detroit, Watts, Newark, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and now Ferguson, rioting and looting are just one racial incident away. The white elite would tell us that this doesn’t mean the experiment has failed. We just have to try harder. We need more money, more time, more understanding, more programs, and more opportunities.
But nothing changes no matter how much money is spent, no matter how many laws are passed, no matter how many black geniuses are portrayed on TV, and no matter who is president. Some argue it’s a problem of “culture,” as if culture creates people’s behavior instead of the other way around. Others blame “white privilege.”
But since 1965, when the elites opened America’s doors to the Third World, immigrants from Asia and India-people who are not white, not rich, and not connected have quietly succeeded. While the children of these people are winning spelling bees and getting top scores on the SAT, black “youths” are committing half the country’s violent crime-crime, which includes viciously punching random white people on the street for the thrill of it that has nothing to do with poverty.
The experiment has failed. Not because of culture, or white privilege, or racism. The fundamental problem is that white people and black people are different. They differ intellectually and temperamentally. These differences result in permanent social incompatibility.
Our rulers don’t seem to understand just how tired their white subjects are with this experiment. They don’t understand that white people aren’t out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them. They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, and the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, and the reflexive animosity.
The elites explain everything with “racism,” and refuse to believe that white frustration could soon reach the boiling point.,.,
Could you please credit the author of this piece? I’ve read this before…..
This was emailed to me by someone else without attribution… It was so right for the gist of this article…I apologize for not being able to attribute this to the right person, but will do so. If the original author sees this….
The author is most likely afraid he would be murdered in his sleep.
“The fundamental problem is that white people and black people are different. They differ intellectually and temperamentally. These differences result in permanent social incompatibility. Our rulers don’t seem to understand just how tired their white subjects are with this experiment.” Wow. Artfully stated, Anarchyst. The author is Anthony Bryan at American Renaissance.
I agree completely.
This comment could be it’s own post on this website.
“Project Head Start? No Child Left Behind? Sounds like somebody’s losin’ fuckin’ ground here.”
………..George Carlin
The negro is basically unique. Other races and nationalities have been out of favor and even had official ‘demonization’ campaigns run against them. Germans became ‘Huns’ and baby killers in WW1 and the WW2 propaganda against the Japanese was even more over the top. Of course, once peace returned, yesterday’s villain took on a more human form and even got a grudging admiration for their courage and accomplishments.
Of course they had accomplishments no one could deny. They made things and they made them well.
The negro, OTOH, has never been the target of an official campaign of racial animosity by the media and government. To the contrary, well meaning whites have from the introduction of the negro to this country sought to convince average white people to not believe their lying eyes and instead believe the best about black people. This even worked, to some extent, when most of the negroes were in the South and the majority of whites had little or no direct contact with them. Lincoln even slaughtered a generation of young Northern white men to secure the negroes emancipation. It even worked after the Civil War when Southern whites regained control and enforced strict limits on negro misbehavior.
This goodwill towards the negro was exploited by Martin Luther King by presenting a false face of black people to the dominant Northern white population where the negro was depicted as a church going docile population unfairly victimized by Southern redneck hicks ( never mind that redneck hicks no more ran the South than poor whites ran Northern states). It was the White Citizens Councils that imposed segregation not the Ku Klux Klan and they did it because they knew what would happen if blacks were allowed to go ‘feral’.
Blacks were not interested in equal rights. The ‘content of their character’ was well known between black people. Their poverty was not the result of white racism but negro incompetence. It is simply not possible for one race to completely shut out the talent of another if such talent exists. The reason is money. Blacks were able to make it in those few areas where they did have ability even if legal barriers existed because talent can be converted into money and no one leaves money on the table. Thus negro singers and athletes achieved fame and fortune long before any Civil Rights laws were passed. Unfortunately, singing and running are all that exists in the world of the negro and even these talents only have value in a civilization that can afford to pay for them.
It is worth noting that when America’s 4 million slaves were freed the steam engine was the pinnacle of our civilization. Almost everything else we have today had not yet been invented. The negro had an equal chance to pioneer electric power, internal combustion motors even fast food hamburgers as anyone else because no one had yet done it. OK only a very few people can ever build Microsoft or Apple sized empires but when no one who is black has ever founded and successfully operated a more modest sized company something is missing in the ‘content of the black character’ and that missing something is what the problem is.
what a sack of wet dripping horseshit.
Strong counter argument. Thanks for the brilliance of your refutation.
When ever the black race issue pops up in the American experience the excuse makers kick into high gear . The blame game against the white establishment is always the reason why some half wit black individual resorts to criminal activity .
Never a word about the IQ factor that was known when the LBJ Great society was thrust upon white america . Now 13.3% of the population of America get a pass for being ignorant or stupid and trillions of dollars pissed away to force feed equality upon a group defined by race where only about 20% have the intellectual ability (IQ) to successfully navigate modern society . With racial barriers forced out by law the thought was this 20% would make it to middle and upper financial status and would lead by example for the other 80% . This did not happen when the intellectual blacks succeeded many hauled ass and got away from those dim wit darkies that are left behind . Left behind because their mental capacity does not allow them to function in modern society . Hiring quotas and extra points on advancement tests gave the country a core of government employees where 30% are black and a huge portion of them are involved in make Work none sense and all will demand that 20 to 30 year retirement that now stands $7 trillon dollars short .
You think the blacks were angry in the 60’s and Ferguson , wait till their government check vaporizes either from their government job or welfare . When the EBT system was funded 48 to 72 hours late due to a federal bank holiday combined with a computer glitch a riot insued in Wal marts and other grocery stores even though every card was given a $50 dollar bump by calling the emergency 800 number on your OBAMA PHONE .
That’s just one example however there are many more .
Gun violence is really less than 0.01% per 100,000 of America’s population when black perpetrators of gun violence are removed from the equation .
It’s all white societies fault , sure right as Mrs Jefferson said when she was moving on up “Nigger Please”
Good post, only change I would make is government check or welfare, both the same thing. I’ve been saying this for the last year and we all need to make it a habit of stating for what it is.
You speak of the riot in Walmart due to the EBT Cards being funded, it was not only the blacks upset, but also the corporations. The American taxpayer funds both. Just as the US Military needs enemies for the money given them, so does walmart need the welfare state. Which of the two are the biggest socialist welfare benefactors. Which of the two have achieved ANY improvement of the money draining conditions they “fight” against. One thing is sure, every dollar drained from the average taxpaying man is taken against his will and squandered. The old “fighting them over there so you don’t fight them here” is the most stupid propaganda ever shoved down ones throat. That applies to mollifying the blacks as well as the muslims.
“Walmart Could Lose $12.7 Billion in Sales Over Next Decade if Food Stamps Are Slashed”
http://fortune.com/2017/06/30/walmart-food-stamp/
“In fiscal year 2015, military spending is projected to account for 54 percent of all federal discretionary spending, a total of $598.5 billion.”
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/
You are correct G Wal marts profit is supported 40% from EBT cards . Corporate America has become crony capitalist welfare recipients direct and indirect while reducing pay and benefits below 1980 levels
This article was about the black race problem and the facts regarding the shear numbers for such a small minority
I remember when old man sam walron was alive. His heirs to walmart were so inept they depended on the welfare state to grow the corp. it used to be an american made company. The heirs, in all their inferiority had to “prove”themselves and sold out to the govt and welfare system to juice profits, unlike their father whombuilt a great company from scratch.
“An estimated 23,000 U.S. military families are among those who receive SNAP benefits”
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/17/586759930/military-families-and-snap-benefits
And the big question is WHY?
Boat Guy: “half wit black individual resorts to criminal activity ”
I must take issue with your observation. As you know, we share a common ancestor who was white, quite intelligent, and excelled in the field of crime.
He never burned a family out or did a drive by to score gang street credit
“Reality is that thing that does not go away when you stop believing in it.”
That’s a T-shirt.
Philip K. Dick quote.
Africans cannot be civilized.
324,000 U.S. Blacks Killed by Blacks In Only 35 Years
Their frustration is rooted in their desire to be white and their realization that that cannot happen. Even if they bleach their hair even if they have more money than Gates no matter what they do they still niggas.