Guest Post by Victor Davis Hanson
Recently an unarmed 29-year-old African American, Tyre Nichols, was brutally beaten to death by five Black Memphis police officers. They were charged with murder. All belonged to a special crime unit known as the Scorpions.
Both the victimizers and victim were Black. The Memphis police chief is Black. The assistant police chief is Black.
Nearly 60 percent of the police force is Black. The white population of Memphis is about 25%.
The now-disbanded Scorpion unit of mostly Black officers was created as a response to grassroots appeals to stop spiraling crime in mostly Black neighborhoods.
The death of Tyre Nichols could be attributed to many things: a basic lack of humanity on the part of the officers, poor police training, lax administrative supervision, and lowered hiring standards.
Instead, no sooner was the beating death announced than accusations of “systemic racism” surfaced.
Van Jones, the former Obama Administration green czar and recent recipient of Jeff Bezos’ $100 million “courage and civility award,” pronounced on CNN that the Black police oppressors were acting out white racism.
Some claimed that charging the five Black officers with murder was itself racist. Others alleged that creating the unit in the first place to reduce Black-on-black crime was racist.
Yet, when everything becomes racist, then nothing in particular can be racist.
About the same time, the city of San Francisco, along with the state of California, was exploring paying out huge cash reparations to its African-American residents for the ancestral sin of slavery.
That evil institution was abolished some 158 years ago through the Civil War that killed some 700,000 Americans.
Yet California was always a free state with no history of slavery.
No resident of America in six generations has been either a slave or slave owner.
Such multibillion-dollar payouts apparently are to be funded by a nearly bankrupt state facing a $25 billion budget shortfall.
How do we quantify either current eligibility or culpability in multiracial California where 27% of the residents were not born in the United States? Whites make up only 35% of the state’s population.
College campuses increasingly greenlight racially segregated resident housing.
These reactionaries seem eager to return to “separate but equal” apartheid, supposedly outlawed nearly 60 years ago by the 1964 Civil Right Act.
A recent National Association of Scholars study found that of some 173 schools surveyed, 42% provided racially segregated residences. Some 46% offered racially segregated orientation programs. An overwhelming 72% hosted racially segregated graduation ceremonies.
So-called “safe spaces” on campus exclude students on the basis of race, especially whites who are reduced to stereotyped members of a toxic collective.
Race-based admissions have transmogrified from proportional representation – the entering class should reflect roughly the racial make-up of the nation – to reparatory or compensatory admittance.
So, for example, Stanford University’s incoming class of 2026 lists white students at 22% of the enrolled, roughly one-third of their percentage of the nation’s general population.
Ironically, current racial engineering resurrects the old quota systems used in the past to discriminate against Jews.
“Whites” – to the extent we can determine any race in an intermarried, multiracial society – do not fit the now ossified definition of an exploitive majority.
They no longer even compose a majority in most major American cities and in some states.
They rank well behind many non-white ethnic groups in terms of per capita income and millions of working-class Americans certainly don’t fit the tired stereotype of “privileged.”
In racist fashion, white males are often smeared as exhibiting collective “white rage.”
Yet they commit suicide at double their demographics – and more than twice as frequently as Blacks and Latinos.
They were also killed in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq at twice their numbers in the general population.
In terms of hate-crime offenders, whites are demographically underrepresented. The most overrepresented victims of hate crimes are whites of Jewish background.
Whites commit violent crimes against those of different races at rates below their percentages in the general population.
In sum, class, not race, remains the best litmus test of being underprivileged in America. It is no longer synonymous with race.
No wonder the identity politics industry now strains to attach prefixes such as “systemic” or “implicit” to “racism,” or “micro” to “aggression,” purportedly to ferret out bias that otherwise is not apparent.
Pause to reflect that America is the only successful multiracial constitutional republic in history.
To survive in an increasingly dysfunctional and hostile world abroad, the unique idea of the United States requires concord.
But national cohesion is only possible through citizens subordinating their tribal interests to a common culture. Only then do they cease being automatons of warring tribes and collectives.
As the world becomes ever scarier, Americans must – as Benjamin Franklin once warned – hang together, or most certainly they will soon all hang separately.
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I’m all niggered out.
When is Al Sharpton going to ever be pulled from his car and beaten to death???
It just ain’t fair…
This story is already out of date. One of the five so called police officers is a member of a Chicago street gang and another, likely the ringleader is the ex of a woman the murder victim was dating. This asshole sent pictures of the beat down to the ex from the crime scene. This was an ambush and murder. I expect charges to be increased to 1st degree murder shortly.
Are your referring to the dark and violent condition known as Negro Fatigue?
Nigger
Fatigue.
I
got
it
bad.
As Stucky would say, “2nd” !!
Keep in mind what month it is. Twenty six more days to love them.
It’s a fake event anyways.
I thought the same. Staged. Like everything we see on the “news”.
Joggers gonna Jog.
It’ll get worse before it gets better.
Situational awareness can save your life, learn it and use it. Guns help, too
Old timers called it “instincts”, LOL.
Trust your gut…
Memphis has a unique problem with regard to white flight. White Memphis “residents” (ususlly an inexpensive condo) actually live in Hernando or Marshall Counties, MS. The schools are 90%+ white there in most districts. Why appear to “live” in TN? Answer: No state income tax.
I’d hazard the guess that when you eliminate the surburban areas that have been annexed recently and consider that a generous number of whites don’t actually reside in Memphis, it’s white population is more like 15% within the older city limits.
Lamont – Living close to Memphrica and getting to drive through it occasionally, I can concur with much of your statement. Mid-Town has a large white population, mostly yuppies and queers and most of the old money families live in gated communities in East Memphrica. There are probably more hispanics living in the city than whites.
Somehow, a white man was elected Memphrica city mayor last go round, but I suspect he will be the last caucasian elected to that position. 8 negroes and 5 white liberals serve on the city council
Marshall County MS schools are 90% majority black, while DeSoto County schools are probably 75% white. Even the blacks are leaving Memphrica for N. Mississippi
TN-
Thx for the correction. I’ve been in the Carolinas since 1976 but can remember when Kemmons founded Southaven, as well as when Madison, Ridgeland and Brandon, MS were redneck central.
I’ve lots of friends that went to State living in the Delta…no way I’d want to be living there when the SHTF. One from Indianola always rents the same house in Beaufort (SC) each February, will see if he’s back tomorrow.
Lamont – I have not lived in DeSoto County for 30 years and am amazed by how much it has grown in that time. My last house in MS was on the outskirts of Olive Branch and was a nice quite cul de sac. It now has a commercial center on the other side of my old neighbor and a hotel parking lot behind the property. So glad I am not there anymore.
Indianola is not a good place for a white person to be.
Niggers from St Louis are moving in with the racists in St Charles. “We all want to live around niggers “, said nobody ever. especially “liberals”
Liberals speak out of both sides of their ass. NIMBY is their rant if a kneegrow even drives through their jooish/white, gated communities. The people who put the kneegrows on the pedestal, the center of every story, every commercial, every print ad and revised history to put them in NEVER, EVER happened historical roles…… DO NOT and WOULD NOT live around kneegrows. Why in the world have we let them get away with this??
Martha’s Vineyard has less than (way less than, to be exact) 5% black population. I think they need some gubermint projects, don’t you? Git you some section 8 , M.V. !!
I noticed in my travels around the states and world, any place with white people is always safe to walk. Also, most Asian cities, day or night.
It is silly to expect people that had zero to do with building our Republic and modern society to be able to run it. The woke racist maniacs that believe math is racist because they don’t comprehend it will drive our society off a cliff. That this will happen is now baked into the cake and when the grid does go down, certain issues will be decided once and for all as a genocidal conflict erupts continental-wide. The conclusion of that will see a monoculture remain and the only question is – which one will win out.
That’s the point, they are placed in those positions to run it into the ground. Same from DC down to the local school boards.
The “cruelest cut” the liberals made was to give in to Black demands and let the Blacks take over management of the Public schools; that was a knife in Black’s backs that doomed their kids and their society. Right now the Republican Party’s PTB are beating the bushes and running every Black they can for office; I think it is causing us to lose seats we could have easily won with a good White candidate. Just about every time one of the Black Republicans wins, it is a tilt in the liberal direction for the Party. You tell me if Ronna McDaniel is smart or a commie cunt.
Don’t capitalize black or blacks. Please..
Ever read Big Mike’s Princeton thesis? Capital “B” and lower case “w”. Even the cocksukers at AP Style Guide demand it be that way.
Even more relevant than when written in 2014….
For almost 150 years the United States has been conducting an 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….
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, the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, the reflexive animosity…
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.
has anything ever been perfectly said
How about Job: “I will serve God even if He should seek to kill me”. This is poetic and not literal but beautifully said “I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice and open, I will enter and sup with him”. Provided there was adequate food, if all men had that Meek attitude, could TPTB cause strife?
Isaiah 32:5-8
5The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. 6For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. 8But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
King James Version (KJV)
If it’s by an EMP or strong CME, the EMP commission predicted a 90% die in the US within a year.
If it’s a cyber attack or the grid collapses because of a physical attack,probably a lot less.
But in the urban blue voting urban areas it would become a shit show of epic proportion.
Also I suppose it would matter what time of year.that it would occur. For example a mid Feb, EMP that took out the grid wouldn’t leave many Illan Omar newfracan Americans types left in Minnesota by Spring.
Got solar?
The Grid is their friend not ours.
RIP Flea
What happened to Flea?
Fleabaggs. Passed a while back.
@ Saxon
Time.
“What happened to Flea?”
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I like Victor Davis Hanson. He writes excellent history books. Unfortunately, the rest of his article contradicts the quoted statement. America is not a successful multiracial constitutional republic. Multiculturalism, and especially multiple races, sets a country up for failure due to internal conflict. We are now a failing nation due, in part, to multiple races and multiculturalism.
I am not a big fan of Hanson but in his defense I would note that it is you who errs. You are equating Hanson’s “multiracial” and your own “multiple races” with the term multiculturalism. There’s a world of difference in those definitions.
And the ramastam in the proculus.
I am using two terms: multiple races and multiculturalism. Both are bad. They are not the same thing, but they are related. Usually a different race will also have a different culture. Having multiple races in proximity results in multiculturalism. The error is in your understanding of what I’m saying.
A quick edit. Both are bad when found in one country.
You can’t have one without the other.
Wrong, Whites as a whole can discern multicultural and multiracial subtile differences in groups and individuals that Blacks as a group cannot; Blacks see a person as one of them to protect or not one of them to attack and make no minuscule further mental adjustment. Social endeavors by liberal Whites become one way highways: Whites give and Blacks take and in the end they will bite the hand that fed them . Leftist won’t agree but there are good and bad among all people.
if being white is basically accepted as unacceptably toxic perhaps it is time for rational white america to create its’ own ‘safe’ space, cede CA and most of the I95 to ‘them’, purge the stragglers from our cities, expelling them to the N.East and get back to the business of making america what it once was before all this nonsense took hold post 1960s. They mean to enslave us all if we don’t take back what is ours soon
“They mean to enslave us all if we don’t take back what is ours soon”
They have already done it. The Civil War (so called) didn’t free the slave.
It enslaved all men. Today you are either a welfare slave or a tax slave with your taxes supporting the welfare slaves.
So…everyone involved is Black. This is what happens when you hire under qualified affirmative action candidates…our governments are a perfect example of the problem, just wait till the Dems give all the illegals service sector jobs.
“under qualified”
nonsense, they’re highly qualified to be exactly what they are.
Again, I taught in a public school and most minority teachers weren’t qualified to park a bicycle straight. If their proper qualification was to be highly under qualified, then the public school system was highly exceeding system expectations and could hardly have been improved upon since finding actual morons with PhDs would have been even more difficult.
jews ain’t white
Zionist joos are, they are from eastern European lineage.
Yes, it’s Negro fatigue.
Also: pick your own fucking cotton next time, mmmkay?
BWAHAHAHAHA!
As the USA daily welcomes another massive wave of 85IQ third worlders.
85 is being quite generous, don’t you think?
Grading on a curve.
“another massive wave of 85IQ third worlders.”
Thought the Asians were bad, but THIS?
What’s a natural born Citizen gonna dew?
and mow your own lawn.
I wish I could find some around here willing to work.
Putting a diaper on a gorilla doesn’t civilize him anymore than putting a cop uniform on a black does.
Putting a diaper on a gorilla doesn’t civilize him anymore than putting a cop uniform on anyone
blackdoes.“systemic racism”
(nod) it is. laws, police, arrests, courts, justice, prisons, civilization, schools – it’s racist. all of it, front to back, beginning to end, every last bit of it. the only solution is to abolish all of it. “free at last, free at last.”
That sounds as jewish as MLK’s speech writer.
it is.
Doesn’t have to be except for the 1964 Civil Riots Act Law and SCOTUS rulings that required it to be Racist. PS: Jews are listed in the 1964 CRA as official Citizens with all their Rights; and White males are not on the list so we don’t have Civil Rights (according to that unConstitutional invalid law) so Jews are Jews and I guess as far as this ZOG gov’t is concerned, there is no such thing as “White Males”.
I don’t even see race anymore. All I see are niggers.
“All I see are niggers”
STILL watchin’ the ‘Humble, duly elected representatives’?
You forgot the mayor is black too.
I also see three things that lead to this kind of policing:
Hiring arrogant pricks to write more tickets and garner more money for the city that think they are above the law.
Qualified immunity that proves to them they are above the law.
Brotherhood, or unionhood, where the good cops will not or cannot report the bad cops.
The Mayor of Memphrica is white, probably the last one ever, but I said that 30 years ago, too.
Memphrica = Memphis + Africa
The longest bridge in the world goes over the Mississippi River from Arkansas to Africa.
Flying over the Atlantic Ocean the jet suddenly lost an engine. The pilot makes an announcement. “Folks, the airplane is too heavy. We need some of you Colored People to jump out and into the water.” And some did. A short while later the pilot announced, “Thank you but we’re still to heavy. We need some of you Negros to jump out and into the water.” And some did. A short while later the pilot announced, “Thank you but we’re still to heavy. We need some of you Blacks to jump out and into the water.” And some did. About that time little Jamal asked his mommy, “They asked Colored People, Negros, and Blacks to jump out the airplane. How come we didn’t jump?”. And momma said, “Honey, becuz today we iz niggers!”.
This has both Richard Pryor and Robin Williams.
Forty years ago. We are done for.
Why is tactical unit making traffic stops?
It is not tactical, but a gang interdiction unit. The unit would saturate high crime areas. I think they targeted the young man, maybe thinking he was a gang banger.
I also heard he was a cop wife banger and that makes a lot more sense.
I’d be willing to see the perps hang separately if that’s what it’s gonna take.
College campuses increasingly greenlight racially segregated resident housing.
What next… their own water fountain?
But this time, the sign will say No Whites Allowed.
“What next… their own water fountain?”
🤣🤣🤣
Seems being a nigger-faggot/pedophile or illegal alien is the only way to get ahead in merca.
I respectfully disagree with VDH’s supposition here.
‘America’ WAS a successful constitutional republic when we were governed by heterosexual white men. The more multiracial our republic has become (in positions of leadership and decision-making), the worse and more unsuccessful our nation has become. This can be demonstrated quite visibly by looking at all of our major cities. They are all run by non hetero white males, and they are all descending into third world status, if not already there…
“basic lack of humanity on the part of the officers…”