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What passes as science journalism is often unsci-entific propaganda.

by Thomas Jackson

t would be tempting tothink that science writ-ing, with its emphasis ondata and reproducibleresults, is relatively freefrom the woolly thinkingabout race so commonelsewhere. It is true thatthere are still a few ob-

jective publications thataccept papers from peo-

ple like Philippe Rushtonand Arthur Jensen, whose findings donot conform to racial orthodoxy. Theyare exceptions. The most influentialscience publications, such as Science and Nature are extremely cautiousabout violating current intellectualfashion, and “popular” publicationslike Natural History and Scientific

American are firmly in the hands of dogmatic egalitarians (see article,

page seven). Not surprisingly, the mid-level

trade journals read by science workersfollow the fashion. The Scientist , for example, is a well-regarded trade pub-lication that bills itself as “the newspa-

per for the life sciences professional.”It appears twice a month, and runs an-nouncements of research and teaching

positions as well as ads for “pre-

owned lab equipment,” “high qualityantibodies and proteins,” “hazardousgas detection instruments,” and other specialist gear.

One of its issues for Black HistoryMonth (formerly known as February)was devoted almost entirely to non-whites, with the four front-page arti-cles covering the following subjects:

why blacks are unwilling to serve asresearch subjects, how black churchescan help recruit black research sub-

jects, the dearth of non-whites in the biotech industry, and the means bywhich non-whites “demonstrate that

success in science can come despite barriers.”

The first two of these articles dealwith a real problem. In response towide-spread claims that science“ignores” minorities, the National In-stitutes of Health and other major grant-making bodies now require that

biological research include large num-

bers of non-white subjects. This is noteasy, because so many blacks refuseto take part.

As the first article points out, any-one who tries to recruit black subjects

runs into a wall of suspicion, andnearly everyone The Scientist inter-viewed seems to think this is becausescience is so “white.” America needsmore non-white scientists, if only toencourage blacks to act as researchsubjects.

However, the most frequently of-fered explanation for black mistrust is

the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.This was a nearly 40-year study,stopped only in 1972, in which U.S.government scientists charted the pro-gress of syphilis in 400 Alabama black men. The men were deliberately left

untreated so doctorscould study the fullcourse of the disease.

Although this is theonly recorded instance

of this kind of govern-ment malfeasance, itstands as the definitivesymbol of white medi-cal research for many

blacks and even a fewwhites. As Arthur

Caplan, the director of the Universityof Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethicsexplains—without elaboration— “there’s certainly been many, manyareas where minorities have been ex-

ploited, mistreated, abused, and used by the research community.”

As The Scientist reports, the other thing blacks frequently say is thatsince AIDS was probably invented bythe U.S. government to exterminatethem, medical research cannot betrusted. Various people interviewed inthe article have a breezy, ready-madeexplanation for this mortifyingly im-

plausible point of view: Blacks do nothave “equal access” to medicine. AsJames Bowman, a black professor of medicine at the University of Chicagoexplains, “As long as we have an ineq-uitable health care system, minoritiesmust be suspicious.” “If they’re not,they’re foolish,” he adds sympatheti-cally.

Kathleen Boozang, a Seton HallUniversity professor of unspecifiedrace, draws slightly different conclu-sions from “unequal access”: “If

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Anyone who tries torecruit black research

subjects runs into a wallof suspicion.

American Renaissance - 1 - June 1997

Vol. 8, No. 6 June 1997

Race and “The Scientist”

There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. – Thomas Jefferson



Sir – In the May issue you mention

an 11-year-old who led a mob thatlooted a murder scene before the bod-ies were cold, even stealing from thecorpse. Didn't Hillary tell us that "ittakes a child to raze a town"?

E. Travis Osborne, Athens, Ga.

Sir – In the May O Tempora,"Nature Trumps Nurture," you writeabout a boy reared as a girl, who per-sisted in thinking he was a boy. Acase does not make an axiom. Over alifetime around the night club and ca-sino circuits I have come across sev-eral hundred males who have con-verted to feminine attire, feeling itwas more comfortable, thrilling andlucrative to live and work as women.There are many more "boys" paradingaround our city streets as women thanmost people imagine. I'd guess that 90

percent of the ones under the age of adolescence would not be identified asanything but girls.

Rog Veran, Evansville, In.

Sir – I am serving a long sentencein a Pennsylvania prison. The statesystem, which has 35,000 inmates,recognizes Odinism as a legitimatereligion. At my prison we have puttogether a planning committee andintend to have our first weekly meet-ing by midsummer. We will be usingour meetings as a vehicle for our views while maintaining a facade of religion. I did something similar inanother prison eleven years ago, and itwas an effective way to reach other European-Americans.

Up to six people from outside the prison are allowed to attend the meet-ings. They do not have to be Odinists,

just people who support freedom of religion. The prison is in the South-west corner of Erie County, Pennsyl-vania, approximately five miles fromthe Ohio border. If you have any sub-scribers in the area who would like toattend our meetings, I invite them tocontact us through American Renais-

sance. Name Withheld

We are very grateful to readerswho send us news clippings. Wedo ask that you write the date oneverything you send us so we canmake proper citations. Thank you.

Sir – I greatly enjoyed Sam Dick-son's inspiring talk from the AR con-ference, but was especially struck byhis reference to the traitor, Ephialtesthe Malian. Some traitors, like our recent spate of turncoat intelligenceofficers, seem to be motivated by puregreed, but in many cases traitors havecomplex motivations and are not un-mitigated evil-doers. Some of our greatest heroes have been described as"traitors." George Washington was atraitor to the crown and Robert E. Leewas a traitor to the Union. ManyAmericans still think Alger Hiss had atouch of the hero and, of course, alltoo many people see heroism in theracial treachery of liberalism.

Betrayal usually involves deceiv-

ing oneself as much as one's former friends. In the case of race-traitors, itis the element of self-deceit and thesense of virtue this gives rise to thatwe must understand and cure if we areto put an end to the mass treacherythat threatens us.

Stanley Orr, Pontiac, Mich.

Sir – Thomas Jackson's May re-view of Integration or Separation can

be read as an explanation for why black societies fail. The author, RoyBrooks, is clearly an intelligent manwith an education, but his prescrip-tions for black success read like a

black magic incantation. The first bitof magic is that if blacks start runningschools for black children there will

be miraculous improvement. But whoalready runs the schools in Detroit,Washington, and North Philly – not tomention the ones in Uganda and Libe-ria? A Santeria sacrifice would be


Letters from Readers more fun and no less effective thanProf. Brooks' hocus pocus.

And what's this about how profes-sional blacks, now languishing ashouse slaves in the Fortune-500 ex-ecutive suite, will come high-fiving

back to the slums? Any who want to

open "wig shops in East St. Louis," asMr. Jackson puts it in his review, cando so already.

And then there is the astonishingadmission by Prof. Brooks that he,himself, will continue to serve as ahouse slave in a white universityrather than go back to the 'hood andsuccor the suffering brothers because"integration has worked well for meand my family"! No deanship at someflyblown Lumumba-Bumba Collegeof Afro-honorifics for him.

Prof. Brooks is really no differentfrom Mobutu and Bokassa and IdiAmin and all the other stuffed uni-forms who have run post-independ-ence Africa into the ground. Progresscan be conjured up out of Afro-pie-ties, the people can stew in their un-speakable but authentically African

juices, and the Great He-Elephant canhave his prostate cancer treated inFrance.

Stan Westfall, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Sir – As Sam Dickson suggests in"A Certain Trumpet," the belief inracial equality is essentially a religionand therefore immune to reason. Oneof the necessary rituals of the religionis to go to extraordinary lengths to

portray blacks in a favorable light. Idon't know how many American

judges are black women, but if televi-sion were an accurate portrayal itwould be close to 90 percent.

Name Withheld



Continued from page 1you’re asked to be a subject of re-search, but then aren’t going to reapthe benefits, why should you partici-

pate? It ultimately goes back to the

structure of the health care system andthe lack of access to it.” Thus we ar-rive at the doubtful but reportedlywidely-held view that non-whitesdon’t like to be research subjects be-cause there is not enough free medi-cine for poor people. If they thoughtthere was something in it for themthey might take part.

According to one black womanwho is a genetics counselor, blacksare afraid of science in general be-cause of books like The Bell Curve .“[It says] we’re inferior. You havescientists or even educators sayingthis,” thus tainting the entire scientificenterprise.

Some of these explanations for low black participation may have agrain of truth, but the main reason— never touched on by The Scientist —is

probably the nature of blacks them-selves. Whites do not ordinarily agreeto be part of a medical study only be-cause they think the research will

benefit them or their families. Theycare about the public good and take along-term view of how to contribute

to it.These are not traits particularly

characteristic of blacks. High crimerates are the classic sign of a short-term view and contempt for society at

large. But even among non-criminal populations, when people are matched by income blacks give much less tocharity than whites do. Likewise,

black neighborhoods are notorious for ignoring municipal recycling plans,and only with the greatest difficultycan blacks be made to participate in

blood drives.Blacks are much less likely to

make their organs available for trans- plant, despite government campaignsto explain to them that blacks oftencan accept organs only from other

blacks. At the same time, one of themost consistent racial differences in

polling data is the extent to which blacks believe that government cansolve all problems (a view that coex-ists with the fear that AIDS is an ex-termination tool). Society is there tohelp them and not the other wayaround. This is not the view of peoplewho volunteer their time in the nameof medical progress.

Finally, anti-scientific supersti-tions are likely to be more commonamong blacks than whites. The pagesof virtually any black newspaper arefilled with advertisements for psy-chics, faith healers, numerology

books, good-luck charms and other such mumbo jumbo. People who pa-tronize faith healers may not havemuch interest in medical research.

But given that—for whatever rea-son—blacks are such reluctant re-

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search subjects, scientists are lookingfor them everywhere. The latest hopeseems to be to persuade black churches to help find subjects, but TheScientist reports that this is by nomeans the happy ending. To the cha-grin of some scientists, many black

preachers expect to be paid if they areto round up subjects. One puts itsomewhat delicately but unmistaka-

bly: “If you want to change a church’sagenda to fit something on your ownagenda, you need to invest in the in-frastructure of the church.”

Even if the research is on diseaseslike prostate cancer or hypertension,to which blacks are particularly prone,churchgoers are no more willing thananyone else to play the white man’sgame. As one black breast cancer ac-tivist explains, “[the research institu-tions] usually send a very well-meaning white woman or white man

into the community to pitch the idea.The congregation is very polite, butthe people have no intention of com-

plying.” If whites do not have thesense to send black recruiters they areadvised, at the very least, to spend alot of time attending church servicesand community events so as to “builda comfort level.”

The pages of virtuallyany black newspaper are

filled with

advertisements forpsychics, faith healers,and good-luck charms.

Minority MoneyThe plan to increase the num-

ber of non-white in the sciences is

getting a big push from the gov-ernment. In President Clinton’s proposed FY 1998 budget for the National Institutes of Health, thesecond-largest expense item is"minority programs." Out of a to-tal of $13.1 billion, $1.38 billionor more than ten percent will bespent on the quixotic quest of turning blacks, Hispanics, andAmerican Indians into scientists.One typical NIH program offersfive-year grants to universities inthe range of $500,000 to $3 mil-

lion. They are to "support minorityscientists" by paying for salaries,lab space, technical support, andtravel.

What is the only NIH budgetitem larger than "minority pro-grams"? AIDS research, whichgets $1.5 billion. Breast cancer research, for example, is well be-hind at $396 million. ●



Overcoming Barriers

The article about how non-whitesmanage to overcome “barriers” and

become successes in science rather realistically points out that the biggest

barrier is usually poor schooling rather than outright “racism.” A different buttelling complaint comes from KennethOlden, the first black to run one of the

National Institutes of Health. He says blacks in general show little interest inscience or scientists, and “the commu-nity” seems not to care about hisglowing record at Harvard and the Na-tional Cancer Institute. “Does it bother me?” he asks. “It does a lot.” Indiffer-ence began at home; Dr. Olden’s fa-ther could never understand why hewanted to spend so much time study-ing science.

The successful non-whites inter-viewed for this article do not appear todwell on “racism” but The Scientist warns that “even in the academicworld prejudice sneaks out.” One

black academic complained that whenhe was hired for his first job, thechairman of the department actuallytold him it was because they needed aminority. Also, a Choctow Indianwoman who says her “native back-ground” is “a profound influence onmy holistic approach to cancer pa-tients” is nevertheless insulted that

people have asked her why she does-n’t wear moccasins or braids.

Today’s success stories complainabout how hard it was not have rolemodels but also complain about howmuch work it is for them to be rolemodels. “Fighting stereotypes,” is alsosaid to be exhausting business.

The article about the dearth of blacks in the biotech business extolsthe efforts of companies that are tryingto change things. Amgen Inc., for ex-ample, has given $1.5 million to Spell-man, the black women’s college, to setup a center for molecular biology. Itgrants scholarships to Spellman stu-dents and offers summer internships.The Scientist is silent about how many

black lady researchers Amgen hasmanaged to nurture.

David Jensen, who is a recruiter for the biotech industry, is perplexed tonote that employers who already haveminorities don’t want to give them up:“I think there are more minorities inacademia. I don’t know why, butwhen academia lands some sharp stu-

dents of minority descent they glomonto them and really foster their interestin the academic research area . . . .”

The Scientist managed to find somesmall companies that admit they makeno special effort to hire non-whites.

“We’re looking for the very best sci-entists for the job without regard totheir ethnic status,” says a CEO whomanages 24 employees. However, thedirector of a scientific head-huntingfirm says that affirmative action inevi-


T he New York Academy of Sci-ences publishes a popularly-orientedmagazine called The Sciences . For March/April it, too, published a"special issue on race," which pro-motes the usual bumf. The main ar-ticle recirculated the view that "mostanthropologists today acknowledgethat biological racesare a myth." The au-thor does not evenrecognize the legiti-macy of identifying

crime suspects byrace or of studyingdifferences in sus-ceptibility to disease.He concludes:

"[T]hose who continue to seerace in biology but mean no harm byit are nothing more than ‘kind rac-ists.’ By continuing to legitimizerace, they inadvertently aid the‘mean racists,’ who with to do harm.Far too many scientists, unfortu-nately, still belong to both catego-ries."

Another article wonders rather stupidly whether black classicistFrank Snowden is a traitor to hisrace because he does not believe theancient Egyptians were black. Sincethe article raises the question, it iscompelled to answer it: "If one hadto cluster their skulls with those of any other population, it would bewith Neolithic Europeans." Butwouldn’t such classifications be thework of those misguided "kind rac-ists?"

One article actually wonders whywhite and north-Asian societies have

been more successful than others.The reason this odious questionmust be raised is that "without someconvincing, detailed, agreed-uponexplanation for the broad pattern of history, most people will continue tosuspect that the racist biological ex-

planation is correct after all."Author Jared Diamond does not

quite supply the "convincing, de-tailed" explanation he says we need.Eurasia’s success, he writes, is dueto four accidents, none of which hasto do with intelligence or genetics:(1) There were more and better can-didates for plant and animal domes-tication in Eurasia. (2) Travel was

easier so progresscould spread morequickly. (3) The areawas not "isolated"from new ideas, as

were Africa and theAmericas. (4) Eura-sia was the biggestcontinent, with themost people, so it

naturally had the most inventors. Q.E.D.

The only jarring note in an other-wise smug view of race is a reviewof a book called Race in the Making .Author Lawrence Hirschfeld is re-

ported to have concluded that"children have a pervasive tendencyto think racially—that is, to see raceas natural and important in predict-ing what people will be like andhow they will behave." What’smore, Mr. Hirschfeld seems to think this is an inherent part of a child’sidentity: "Substantial aspects of chil-dren’s racial cognitions do not ap-

pear to be derived from adult cul-ture."

The author of the review acceptsthat people may well be born withan inherent people-sorting mecha-nism but argues—hilariously—thatit may be only in America that themechanism latches on to race. Per-haps in other, happier lands it fo-cuses on "sexual preference, or gen-der, or occupation" and ignores race.After all, race "has no basis in thereal biology of the species," and itwould be stupid of Nature to haveendowed people with a detectionmechanism for something that isn’teven there. ●

Twaddle for the Masses



tably comes with size: “They’ll havedeveloped to 80 employees and they’llrealize ‘Hey, we don’t have a verydiverse work force here,’ and they’llgo out and try to correct that.”

One of the big stories in the issue isabout “diversity training,” which is

pitched for two main reasons, onemoral the other economic. BernardScales, the black man in charge of “diversity” for Dupont, says “it’s theright thing to do, in terms of address-ing equity, fairness . . . and equal op-

portunity for all of our employees.And right behind that is that it’s criti-cal to our business success.”

Maurizio Velasquez, founder of Diversity Training Group, agrees:“The more diverse a company is, themore competitive it will be in a di-verse society.”

Robert Hayles, a black man whoruns his own diversity consulting busi-

ness, says the same thing: “[W]henthere is diversity of style, of function,of age, of race, of language or of cul-ture in a group contrasted to a groupthat is more homogeneous—givenequal management and goals in bothgroups—the diverse groups quantita-tively and qualitatively outperform thehomogeneous groups.” The Scientist did not seem to think it necessary tocite Mr. Hayles sources.

The biotech company Genentechhas been pushing diversity with greatenthusiasm. For example, it has an

association of black employees who put on programs to edify non-blacks.It has a Hispanic association and aFilipino association. The co-chairmanof the company’s homosexual associa-tion says that such groups are

“mushrooming” because of Genen-tech’s promotion of diversity. This issupposed to be great for business.

The same issue of The Scientist hastwo long editorials about racial mat-ters. One is a rambling, largely inco-herent piece by a black cancer special-ist at the University of Texas. Two of its less opaque sentences are: “Whenthe staff of a hospital deals with thehealth problems of minority patientswithout the training, insight, or sensi-tivity needed to approach these indi-viduals, efforts are doomed to failure.You might not see this as racism but Ido.”

In another editorial, Jordan Cohenmakes two points: “Finding solutionsto the most recalcitrant health prob-lems, even being able to conceptualizewhat the problems are, will require aresearch work force that is much morediverse racially, ethnically, and by

gender than we now have.”How to get that precious diversity?“[T]here is simply no way admissionscommittees for M.D. and Ph.D. pro-grams can select an adequately diverseclass of students today without takingrace and ethnicity—explicitly or im-

plicitly—into account.” In other words, to get the “diversity” the coun-try needs, standards for doctors andscientists must be selectively lowered,and better-qualified whites kept out.Ominously, Mr. Cohen is president of the Association of American Medical

Colleges.The last article in this special issue

is a somewhat sheepish account of the“science” going on in black universi-ties. After a bit of hemming and haw-ing, the article concedes that “research

output is less important than is re-search for its educational value.” Itgoes on to conclude that black col-leges “could fill an important niche intranslational research—that is, re-search that bridges discoveries fromthe laboratory to the community.”

This special issue is probably typi-cal of the kind of thing scientists readand think they have to believe. Evenin the laboratory and operating room,there are strong pressures to have theright line up of non-whites rather thanthe most capable people. The Scien-tist ’s cheerful acceptance of this viewis almost amusing in light of a claimthe paper makes in the masthead of every issue:

“The Scientist serves its readershipin many ways, but one of its most val-ued aspects is its commitment to open

Too white.

discussion of controversial topics.While readers praise us for this com-mitment, they should also recognizethat all articles . . . reflect the views of their authors and not the official viewsof the publication . . . .”

Now, perhaps, we understand. Theeditors actually know all about raceand IQ, but promote affirmative actiononly to be “controversial.” ●


The case of the caucasoidskeletons.

by Samuel Francis

Whenever you get into a debate,you can almost always tell your oppo-nent is hiding something when hestarts piling up new arguments for his

position in place of the old argumentsyou’ve already refuted. In the debateover IQ and race, this happens fre-quently.

First the argument was that IQ testswere culturally biased. But new IQ

tests showed that the more you controlfor cultural bias, the larger the IQ dif-ferences between the races. Then itwas claimed that intelligence reallycan’t be tested. But performance onIQ tests matched performance inschool, academic tests, and profes-sional success. Then they said“intelligence” doesn’t really exist any-way. But intelligence is a concept thathuman societies have always recog-

nized and would find it hard to aban-don. Finally, the most recent argument

has been that “race” doesn’t really ex-ist, that it’s only a “social construct.” Now even that defense of egalitarian-ism, an increasingly common one, isstarting to shrivel.

But the shriveling isn’t happeningwithout a good deal of last-ditch egali-tarian resistance. On April 17th, TheWashington Post reported in a front

page story that archaeologists havenow found remains of quite a few pre-

New Lies for Old



historic pilgrims to North Americawhose ske le tons a re—wel l— "Caucasoid" (see AR, January andApril, for reports on “Kennewick Man”). This is a problem for two rea-sons.

In the first place, as everyone whohas seen the Eisner version of “Pocahontas” knows, Caucasians wereinvaders who stole the country fromthe “First Americans”—namely the

North American Indians, who, as Post staff writer Boyce Rensberger put it,“all resembled today’s Asiatic peo-

ples, popularly called Mongol-oids.” (Popularly? When was the lasttime you heard someone in a bar refer-ring to Asians or Orientals as Mongol-oids?) If the “First Americans” or “Native Americans” were really Cau-casian, then maybe Mr. Eisner willhave to remake his movie and a lot of textbooks will have to be rewritten.

But more of that problem anon.First, how could scientists tell theskeletons were Caucasian rather thanMongoloid? Identification, says the

Post story, was “based on a scientifictechnique called craniofacial mor-

phometric analysis. It involves de-tailed study of the shape of the skull

and face, using a sophisticated methodcalled multivariate analysis. In somecases, more than 60 different dimen-sions of a skull are measured andcompared with comparable dimen-sions considered typical of specificracial groups.”

But if race doesn’t really exist, if it’s just a “social construct,” how canyou identify the race of a skeleton?Mr. Rensberger (or his editors atEgalitarian HQ) tried to handle thedifficulty manfully and sensitively.Here is their solution:

“Most anthropologists agree thatraces, as most people use the term, aresocially defined groupings with noscientific definition. No physical traitsare exclusively the property of onerace or another. Still, anthropologistsagree that certain combinations of measurements, chiefly of the face andskull, can be used to determinewhether individuals belong to one

population [!] or another. This is true primarily for groups [!!] that have been separated geographically for thousands of years.”

Now in the first place, the above paragraph has nothing to do with thenews content of the story. It is inserted

purely for ideological instruction, tolet readers know that the Post has notsigned up with the Bell Curve boyswho believe that race might really ex-ist after all. Back in the good old daysof the Soviet Union, Pravda probablyhad lots of paragraphs just like it. Butin the second place, whether Mr.Rensberger or his editors realize it or not, they have just told their readersthat race really does exist. It exists,not as a social construct or as “sociallydefined,” but as an objective fact of nature.

Class, for example, is a “socialconstruct.” You cannot tell someone’sclass by examining his skeleton. Nor can you tell his religion, nationality,regional origin, marital status, or fa-vorite football team. But you can iden-tify his race (and sex) because race isnot “socially defined” but, like sex, isdefined by nature.

As J. Philippe Rushton notes in hisRace, Evolution, and Behavior, “Theview that race is only a social con-struct is contradicted by biologicalevidence. Along with blood proteinand DNA data . . . forensic scientistsare able to classify skulls by race.” (p.235) As behavioral geneticist Glayde

Whitney wrote in AR (March, 1997),“it has already become obvious thatthere are substantial genetic differ-ences between the races. It is trivial toidentify unerringly the race of any in-dividual, including mixes of variousraces. This fact should forever dispelthe myth of racial equivalence. Fash-ionable nonsense to the effect that raceis a social rather than a biological phe-nomenon is clearly and demonstrablyfalse.” Race, in other words, is a ge-netic construct, a natural construct,and social definitions have nothing todo with it.

Favorite football team: unknown.

The discovery of the Caucasoidskeletons in North America lets a lotof skeletons out of the scientific and

journalistic closets, and some“scientists” whose job it is to guardthose closets don’t much like it. As the

Post was careful to point out later inthe same story, “Some anthropologistsreject the Caucasoid label for the pre-

historic skeletons.”Daniel Grayson of the Universityof Washington, for one, says that us-ing the word “Caucasoid” “raises ‘ared flag, suggesting that whites werehere earlier and Indians were herelater.’ “ Professor Grayson adds thatusing “the word,” as the Post refers tothe term Caucasoid, “implies that theancient peoples who reached the NewWorld were like today’s Europeans or American whites.”

Well, this is obviously getting outof hand, and it brings us to the second

problem raised by these ancient skele-tons. Somebody might say that theEuropeans who arrived after 1492weren’t such aggressive invaders after all, that they might even have hadsome right to come here since their ancestors were here at least as early as“First Americans.”

Hence, the Post is quick to pointout that “some other anthropolo-gists” (who remain unnamed) note,


Revolution From theMiddle

Samuel Francis' latest volume

of political commentary, Revolu-tion From the Middle has just been published. It is a collectionof his columns from Chroniclesmagazine, and spans the period1989 to 1996. The following pas-sage strikes what is perhaps the

book's central theme:"The political conflict of the

future is likely to be not on thehorizontal plane between left andright but along a vertical axis:

between a Middle American sub-stratum, wedded to the integrity

of a distinct national and culturalidentity, on the one hand, and, onthe other, an unassimilated under-class in alliance with an alienatedand increasingly cosmopolitanelite."

Revolution From the Middleis available in pocket-sized paper-

back for $6.95 from MiddleAmerican Press, Box 17088, Ra-leigh, NC 27619.



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Which publications guard— and which violate—thetaboos?

he scientific world divides publi-cations into two groups: journals andmagazines. Journals publish hard re-search data and aim to expand thefrontiers of knowledge. Anything elseis a mere magazine.

Probably the most prestigious andinfluential journals published in Eng-lish are Science , Nature , and Proceed-ings of the National Academy of Sci-ences . They do not claim that racedoes not exist or that intelligence isunaffected by genes, but they are ex-tremely cautious about accepting arti-cles that violate current intellectualfashion.

Science is mainly devoted to “big”science—astronomy, nuclear physicsand, increasingly, human genetics. Infact, advances in molecular genetics

published in Science were a strongimpetus for launching the Human Ge-nome Project (see AR, March, 1997).Science now covers the project regu-larly and devotes a yearly special issueto it.

The American Association for theAdvancement of Science, which pub-lishes the journal is strongly commit-ted to affirmative action, and Science has a clear distaste for racial differ-ences. Nevertheless, it deplores zeal-otry. Even before the term PC wasinvented, its long-term editor, Daniel

Koshland, was publishing editorialsdenouncing political persecution andself-censorship. More recently, it rannot-entirely-hostile comments on thewrath visited upon Christopher Brandand Glayde Whitney for having sug-gested that race may have somethingto do with intelligence and crimerates. It has published letters to theeditor from Philippe Rushton and evenone from your servant, the editor of AR. It is not inconceivable that it willsome day accept a feature article by

Arthur Jensen, Philippe Rushton, or Richard Lynn, but that would be a ma-

jor event. Proceedings of the National Acad-

emy of Science (PNAS) is another ex-tremely influential journal. The Na-tional Academy of Science (NAS) it-self is a government-sponsored body,

established in 1863, whose membersare elected by the existing members. Itglistens with prestige and is supposedto make recommendations to govern-ment, perform good works, etc.

Since at least 1934, Science had been publishing abstracts of all papers presented at NAS meetings, thus giv-ing them world-wide exposure. This

practice came to a sudden end in 1968,after NAS-member and Nobel-prize-

winning inventor of the transistor,William Shockley, began presenting

papers on race, IQ, and eugenics.PNAS itself made a similar publishingdecision. It used to accept all submis-sions from members, but changed its

policy in 1972 so as to be able to shutout William Shockley.

Perhaps in repentance for this high-handedness, PNAS has since pub-lished a number of important paperson the genetic distance between racesas well as DNA studies of how longago the races diverged from each

other. It occasionally publishes paperson behavioral genetics and in 1986even accepted a report by PhilippeRushton on the heritability of altruism.

Nature , published in England, isstrongly oriented toward biology. It isof distinguished lineage and at onetime regularly published Francis Gal-ton. It has drifted so far from thesefine beginnings that in 1992 its editor,John Maddox, wrote a full-page edito-rial explaining why he would not ac-cept Prof. Rushton’s work on race and

brain size. He explained that science

of this kind was so contrary to estab-lished opinion that it had to meethigher standards than other research.However, the raging letters contro-versy that followed this editorial wasexcellent publicity for Prof. Rushton’sfindings.

Scientific American is a meremagazine about science and does not

publish original research. However, it

“the ‘apparently Caucasoid’ skeletonsmay represent a physical type that wasnot ancestral to today’s Europeans. . . .In other words, the scientists say it is

possible that it is only a coincidencethat the ancient skeletons have fea-tures that resemble those of Europe-ans.” Well, that’s much better, be-cause, you see, even though race does-n’t really exist and is only a socialconstruct, the prehistoric Caucasoidswho came here were not of the samerace as the later Caucasoid invaders.

Obviously, the white people whocame to this continent 9,000 years agodidn’t establish any political or cul-tural claim to the continent for modernwhites, regardless of whether they

were “ancestral” to them. Neither doesthe presence of Mongoloid ancestorsof the modern Indians establish any

political or cultural claim for their modern descendants. The claims of each group are based on what their more immediate ancestors contributedto the making of what is today Ameri-can civilization and the American na-tion, and it ought to be fairly obviousthat the modern European races(excuse me, I meant “populationgroups”) had a bit more to do with thatthan the Kwakiutls and the Ojibwas.

But another obvious point is thatmodern racial egalitarians can’t bear to look at the evidence from compara-tive anatomy and molecular genetics

that now prances before their eyes,and they have to resort to the mostgrotesque ideological and linguisticcontortions to preserve the egalitarianmyth that race doesn’t exist. Newspa-

pers like the Post and some scientistslike (apparently) Professor Graysonare always happy to enlist themselvesin the preservation of such myths, tothe point that both science and jour-nalism are imperiled. If the trend con-tinues we might as well give the coun-try back to the Caucasoids.

Samuel Francis is a nationally syn-dicated columnist and the editor of The Samuel Francis Letter.


All the Data Fit to Print

The editor of ScientificAmerican noted withpride that Lenin hadliked the magazine.



T

has a large circulation, is highly re-garded, and is the oldest science-related magazine in America. Unfortu-nately, in the last 15 years or so, it hasfallen into the hands of the determinedopposition. Stephen Jay Gould, whocarries forward the work of FranzBoas, essentially sets the tone for arti-cles about race and human nature. Sci-entific American ’s current leaningswere on display during a radio inter-view with the editor to mark the 150thanniversary of the magazine’s begin-ning. He noted—with pride—thatVladimir Lenin had read and liked themagazine.

Another influential science maga-zine with an even larger circulation is

Natural History , published by theAmerican Museum of Natural History.The indefatigable Dr. Gould writes acolumn for every issue, and in perhaps30 percent of them he takes off after

racists, racialism, etc. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is in yet another category. It sometimes publishes ex-cellent medical articles and symposiaon public health issues, but is knownamong scientists for its biases. Themost obvious is that as the unionmagazine for doctors it is devoted to

making their professionas lucrative as possible.On social science ques-tions it is no less trendythan the New York Times ,

but can be read to equallygood purpose: it reportsuseful information thatundercuts—but somehownever changes—its edito-rial positions.

Which are the science journals most open toquestions of race and ge-netics? Personality and

Individual Differences , edited in Eng-land by Hans Eysenck, and Intelli-

gence , edited in the United States byDouglas Detterman, are clear-thinkingand widely read. Their articles are of-ten cited in other journals. The Man-kind Quarterly , published by Roger Pearson (his latest book will be re-viewed in the next issue) has for years

been sailing courageously against thewind and has aired a large number of ideas now central to a realistic under-standing of race, heredity, and social

behavior.Finally, Transaction Publishers—

which has brought out such important books as Prof. Rushton’s Race, Evolu-

tion, and Behavior , Mi-chael Levin’s Feminismand Freedom , and The IQControversy by Mark Synderman and StanleyRothman—publishes amagazine called Society .Although its field is thesocial sciences, where the

political constraints areeven tighter, Transactiondoes seem to try to followthe data rather than thefashion of the day.

Although the science press is not much less unscientificabout race than anyone else, it would

be a mistake to blame this on a specialand shadowy class of people known aseditors. People in the field report thatscience journalism largely reflects theconvictions and fears of scientiststhemselves. They are no differentfrom anyone else in their preferencethat someone else risk his career by

publishing “racist” or “sexist” find-ings. Science is a great ally, whichcontinues to establish the factual basisfor ancient wisdom that the current erawould deny, but its direction and theuses to which it is put change only associety changes. ●


Judges are undoing thedamage done by judges

he country is in a fearful guddleover affirmative action, with federal

judges over-ruling each other, bureau-crats reversing themselves, and sorelosers trying to think up new ways tokeep on discriminating against whites.We have entered the inevitable chaosof a time when what was once legal— and mandatory—is becoming illegal.

Under our current system of judi-

cial dictatorship judges make—andunmake—policy, and they have beenhard at work recently. Perhaps mostsignificant was the April 11th rulingof the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals up-holding the California voter initiative

banning state-sponsored affirmativeaction. A black district judge, TheltonHenderson, had ruled earlier that anyinitiative that forbade discrimination

in favor of women and non-whiteswas discrimination, but the three-

judge appeals panel brushed his sillyarguments aside. Private companies inCalifornia are still free to indulge inracial preferences, but the great, anti-white apparatus may well have suf-fered a fatal setback.

William Clinton, whose JusticeDepartment had argued against thevoter initiative, intends to circumventt h e n e w p r i n c i p l e o f n o n -discrimination: “We’ll have to regroupand find new ways to achieve thesame objective.”

The California university systemannounced an end to race- and sex-

preferences in admissions last year.Although the change will not take ef-fect until 1998, black and Hispanicapplications for 1997 are down 7.7and 5.8 percent respectively. Whitesand Asians, who now expect fairer treatment, have increased applications

by 10.4 percent and 10.8 percent.Black applications to California medi-cal schools have dropped by a quarter over the last two years while Hispanicapplications have dropped by a third.

California whites are beginning tofeel their oats. Several recently suedthe Peralta Community College Dis-trict in Alameda County, claiming thatit has been breaking the law since1995, when it adopted a 33 percenthiring quota for blacks. This year, for example, 75 percent of the manage-ment positions at the Laney campuswere filled by blacks, as were 40 per-cent of such positions at the Collegeof Alameda. Three of the district’sfour college presidents are black. Bla-tant discrimination of this kind isunlikely to survive.

There has been excitement inTexas, too. Last year, the federal ap-

peals court forbade any considerationof race in the academic admissions

More Blows to Affirmative Action




process. In a suit brought in 1992 byC h e r y l H o p w o o dagainst the law schoolof the University of Texas, it was found thatthe school routinelyaccepted blacks andHispanics with qualifi-cations that would auto-matically disqualify awhite. Miss Hopwood,who became a certified

public accountant after she was turned awayfrom the law school, isnow suing the schoolfor $2.8 million in dam-ages. Three other whites who were re-

jected under the oldsystem are also suingfor millions.

Meanwhile, a study

published in April’s New York University Law Review pre-dicts that if American law schoolsabandon racial preferences, they willturn as white as they were in the1960s. Linda Wightman writes that 26

percent of all black applicants are nowaccepted, but without affirmative ac-tion only 3 percent will be. Hispanicacceptances will drop from 32 percentto nine percent. These places will betaken mainly by whites who are todayrejected so that less-qualified non-whites can become lawyers.

Indeed, now that race preferenceshave been forbidden at the Texas lawschool, the number of non-whites has

plummeted. With 80 percent of thefall, 1997 class admitted, there wereonly six black students and 18 Mexi-cans. Last year, there were 65 blacksand 70 Mexicans.

Declines like this are like a red ragto a bull, and in March Texas wasthrown into temporary turmoil by adesperate charge from Norma Cantu,Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights. Miss Cantu, a former regional director of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educa-tional Fund, has made it her job to en-sure that uppity whites do not disturbthe new Herrenvolk. She wrote a letter to all Texas legislators explaining thatthe Hopwood ruling applied only tothe very narrow circumstances of thelaw school at that time , and that if af-firmative action did not continue atfull throttle, the Department of Educa-

tion would withholdeducation funding for the state of Texas—all$500 million of it. TheTexas Congressionaldelegation nearly burstinto flames, and the U.S. Solicitor Generalwrote a stiff letter toMiss Cantu explainingthat it was not her placeto tell Texas to disobeyits lord and master, thefederal judiciary.

Miss Cantu hassince subsided into si-lence, but the Texaslegislature has taken upher cause, trying tothink of ways to restoreminority admissionswithout consideringrace. One ingenious

plan, which has already

passed the lower house,would automatically admit to stateuniversities the top ten percent of every Texas high school class. Sincehigh schools are mostly segregated,the plan would essentially admit thetop ten percent of each race, withoutregard to qualifications—a kind of race norming. Non-whites whowanted to go to college would thenhave good reason to stay out of whitehigh schools.

One trick being considered to getnon-whites into law school would be

to grant favors to students who got better undergraduate grades than their SAT scores suggested they would.The state would give them the moneyfor a LSAT (Law School AdmissionsTest) prep course, which can cost asmuch as $800. The theory is that theSAT is biased against non-whites, butthe opposite is true. The SAT over pre-dicts college performance for blacksand Hispanics, who get worse gradesthan the SAT suggests they will. Nodoubt the state will drop this plan assoon as someone explains that itwould help whites rather than non-whites.

Texans have also revived the oldidea of affirmative action for poor

people, in the hope that it will havethe same effect as race preferences. Itwill not. Blacks from the wealthiestfamilies get lower SAT scores thanwhites from the poorest families, anda big push to get the poor into collegeis likely to help more Asians than any-

one else. Michael Olivas, a law pro-fessor at University of Texas, arguesthat if you want to select on the basisof race nothing can take its place: “Inthe end, race is the only proxy for race.”

Why the clamor for diversity andracial preferences, anyway? The Asso-ciation of American Universities took out a large ad in the April 24th NewYork Times to explain. With the presi-dent of Harvard, Neil Rudenstine,leading the pack, the ad denounced“narrow” definitions of merit, andclaimed that diversity is a “value thatis central to the very concept of educa-tion in our institutions.” Central to thevery concept? One wonders howwhite people even learned to read

back before diversity.Interestingly, there is strong evi-

dence that support for racial prefer-ences is mainly for public consump-tion even at universities. In a little-

reported nationwide Roper poll com-missioned by the National Associationof Scholars, 56 percent of universityfaculty members opposed race- andsex-preferences in admissions and 60

percent opposed them in faculty hir-ing. Sanity eventually trickles up tothe intellectual class.

Newt Gingrich, Speaker of theHouse of Representatives, is still atthe back of the bus. He thinks whitesshould emphasize that they are tryingto solve problems for non-whites;once non-whites are convinced of this

then perhaps anti-white discriminationcan be eliminated. The push cannotcome from Republicans since, as heexplains, “all too many conservativeswere passive during the segregationfight or candidly on the side of segre-gation.”

The Supreme Court, where racial preferences are likely to play out their final agony, gave another hint aboutits leanings when it refused on April28th to reinstate an affirmative action

program that had been invalidated byan appeals court. Since 1984, the cityof Flint, Michigan has kept separate

promotion lists for black and white police officers, carefully promotingone black to sergeant for every white.Eleven white officers sued, pointingout that if promotions were based onability rather than race, they wouldhave gotten the jobs. The 6th U.S. Cir-cuit Court of Appeals agreed, and or-dered the city to determine to whatextent the whites have been harmed.



AIDS and the Man

Helsinki, Finland is in an uproar over the trial of a 35-year-old black American, Steve Thomas, who wenton a sex spree after learning that hehas the AIDS virus. Mr. Thomas, who

is married to a Finnish woman withwhom he had two children, reportedlyhad sex with over 100 women in thelast several years. Dozens of themnow have the virus. Mr. Thomasworked as a doorman at bars andnightclubs, where women are said tohave found him appealingly exotic. Hefaces more than 100 counts of at-tempted murder. In 1990 a Helsinkicourt sentenced an Ugandan man to 111/2 years in prison for deliberatelyinfecting women with AIDS. (N.Y.Rapper Accused in HIV Murder-trial

in Finland, New York Daily News,April 18, 1997. Devlin Barrett, HIV+

New York Lover on Trial in Finland, New York Post, April 18, 1997, p. 3.)

A similar case has come to light inEast St. Louis, Illinois. Twenty-eight-year-old Darnell McGee learned in1992 that he had the AIDS virus and,

according to friends, was determinedto give it to as many women as possi-

ble. Like Mr. Thomas, he is said tohave seduced over 100 young womenof all races, ranging in age from 12 to22. Over 30 have tested positive andone has given birth to an AIDS-infected baby.

Mr. McGee gave rides to younggirls in his Cadillac, told them theywere beautiful, bought them hamburg-ers, and argued—sometimes evencried—for sex. In January, Mr.McGee was murdered in what mayhave been a revenge killing. The manwho dispatched him is still at large.(Kristina Sauerwein, Man’s DeadlyLegacy Triggers Frantic Race, St.Louis Post-Dispatch, April 11, 1997,

p. 1. Kristina Sauerwein, For McGee,Hunt Was Thrill, Experts Say, St.Louis Post-Dispatch, April 27, 1997,

p. 1.)

Great Black Hope

Julius Ceasar Watts is a black Re- publican Congressman from Okla-homa. He was first sent to Washington

in 1994 at age 39, and has been thedarling of his party ever since. Fivedays after he was elected to his firstterm, he was offered the plum job of rebutting one of President Clinton’sSaturday radio addresses. Last sum-mer, he was perhaps the only fresh-man Congressman to speak to the Re-

publican National Convention, and inFebruary he became the first black given the honor of responding to aState of the Union address.

House Speaker, Newt Gingrich,reports that it was Mr. Watts who, vir-tually single-handedly, persuaded theRepublicans not to start a major fightover affirmative action. Mr. Watts,who is riding high on affirmative ac-tion himself, reportedly thinks therewere more important conservative bat-tles to be fought.

Mr. Watts preaches family values but became an unwed father at age 18.An uncle reared the child. He also

preaches fiscal responsibility, but hisreal estate management company ab-stained from property taxes for twoyears, and was assessed $67,000 indelinquency payments. In 1994, Mr.Watts failed to report $14,320 of hiswife’s income to the IRS. Much is for-given a black “conservative.” (LynnSweet, GOP Hail Julius Ceasar Watts,Chicago Sun-Times, March 25, 1997,

p. 6.)

Great White Dope

In this, the 50th anniversary year of Jackie Robinson’s debut with theBrooklyn Dodgers, we have been wellreminded that this event was nearly asimportant as the First Coming. Now,William Clinton would have us be-lieve that he spent his youth throwing

Robinson in the faces of racist Arkan-sas hicks. In an interview with NBCRadio News, Mr. Clinton said that inhis youth, Robinson was “the ultimatetrump card” in arguments about race:“If you were arguing the integrationside of the argument, you could al-ways play the Jackie Robinson cardand watch the big, husky redneck shutup,” Mr. Clinton explained. (SonlyRoss, Clinton Addresses Racial Barri-ers, AP, April 15, 1997.)

Hitting BottomIn Chicago’s heavily black and

Hispanic schools, administrators havestopped supplying rest rooms withtoilet paper, soap, or paper towels. If they leave paper in the rest rooms, stu-dents clog the plumbing by flushingwhole rolls down toilets, and plaster the walls and ceilings with wads of wet paper. Many teachers establish


By refusing to intervene, the SupremeCourt upheld the Circuit Court.

Official racial discrimination, atleast in its most egregious forms, ap-

pears to be on the way out and“conservatives” are happy. Theyshouldn’t be. It just so happens thatthe sovereign judiciary is now rulingin ways that please them. After all, itwas judges who ordered the countryinto the brambles of affirmative ac-

tion, and it is judges who are orderingit out. There is no telling where wemight be marched off to next, sincethere is no telling what haruspicinereadings of the Constitution are yet tocome. As judges write new decisionsto countermand old ones do they haveany idea how much damage they havedone? Hundreds of thousands of whites have had opportunities legallydenied them, and non-whites now ex-

pect preferential treatment as a birth-right. There will be a great deal of yelling and perhaps not a little vio-lence before the curtain finally comesdown on legal, anti-white discrimina-tion. This decades-old nightmare isone of the most convincing demon-strations yet of the folly of rule by

judges. ●

O Tempora, O Mores!



official bathroom breaks, when theydispense just enough paper for a singleuse. Other schools supply paper in therest rooms but teachers always accom-

pany students to make sure they donot go wild. There is no soap in theserest rooms because students tear thesoap dispensers off the walls. Thereare no doors to the stalls because stu-dents destroy them.

Recently the principal of RevereSchool on the South Side relaxed itsno-paper policy, but only for its older students. They immediately revertedto waste and wildness, so the policywas reinstated. (Janita Poe, In SchoolBathrooms, Tissue is a Privilege, Chi-cago Tribune, Feb. 4, 1997, p. 1.)

The Great Have Fallen

The March 4 New York Times car-ried a 19-inch obituary of Robert Pas-

chal, complete with photograph. Notfamiliar with Mr. Paschal? He was the

black proprietor of Paschal’s, an At-lanta restaurant where Martin Luther King and his friends frequently met to

plan the civil rights movement. Thusis fame earned in these strange times.His restaurant was also famous for its,ahem, fried chicken. (Kevin Sack, R.H. Paschal, 88, Restaurateur Who

Nurtured Rights Leadership, NewYork Times, March 4, 1997, p. D23.)

Living the Dream

Joshua White was a 23-year-oldchild of hippies who grew up in down-town San Francisco. He was a perfectliberal, who became a child careworker for ghetto children, and had a

job as a teacher’s aide for learning-disabled pupils at Martin Luther KingMiddle School. In March, he was shotfor no apparent reason by a black manwho approached him with a gun, say-ing “You want to f*** with me?”

Joshua White’s parents were stal-

wart to the end. Despite their grief,they blamed society, not the unknownkiller. The father says, “The violenceand despair that is growing amongyoung people just reached right intoour home and took our son. The guywho killed my son might have grownup with more respect for other peopleif he’d had decent schools and pro-grams and playgrounds.” (LeslieGoldberg, ‘Love Met Hate’ at Murder

Scene, San Francisco Examiner, April12, 1997, p. A1.)

Blows for Our Side

Columnist Don Feder of the Boston Herald has written an Op-Ed piecethat could have come straight out of AR. Called “Americans: An Endan-

gered Species,” it concludes:

“Due in large part to our open- borders style of national suicide,America’s European population willshrink from 74 percent today to 53

percent in 2050.

“What kind of America will your children and grandchildren inherit— the multiculturalists’ delusion of Di-versity Disney World where a rainbowof smiling faces celebrates their differ-ences, or Rwanda with high-tech ma-chetes?

“I’d rather read about voodoo ritesthan have my next-door neighbors

practice them. I’ll willingly forgomore ethnic restaurants for telephoneoperators who speak my language. . . .

“In 1993, the Sierra Club publisheda c o f f e e - t a b l e b o o k c a l l e d‘Endangered Peoples,’ covering suchexotics as the Tuareg or North Africaand the Amazon’s Yanomami tribe.

“Neglected is a group on the brink of extinction that actually made a con-tribution to civilization—the Ameri-cans.” (Don Feder, Boston Herald,March 19, 1997, p. 25.)

This prompted the usual baying for Mr. Feder’s head, but he came out of his corner swinging with another arti-cle, called “Despite Liberals RaceDoes Matter”:

“If the alien inundation is as goodfor America as utopians insist, whythen the more the merrier. Why stop at1 million legal immigrants and an-other 500,000 illegals each year? Whynot immediately open our doors to 20million or 30 million? Why opt for slow suicide when we could go outwith a glorious bang?

“Why is it that of all peoples onearth only Americans are not entitled

to preserve their culture and nationalidentity? . . .

“At last we arrive at liberalism’sugliest secret—liberals hate America(our history and heritage, which theydeem irredeemably evil) and long for the day when our nation will sink intoa great multicultural ooze.

“Race and immigration are their tools for achieving those ends.” (DonFeder, Despite Liberals Race DoesMatter, Boston Herald, March 31,1997, p. 23.)

So far as we know, Mr. Feder isstill at his job.

Oh, to be Hispanic!

Bud Light has hit upon a new approach for ads on Spanish television.Lex and Ingo, two obvious “Anglos,”stumble upon a Spanish TV station.“Hey, it’s a Bud Light commercial in

Spanish. . . . Great music. . . . Beauti-ful women . . . .” they say in English,with Spanish subtitles. “Oh man, itmust be cool to be Hispanic. . . . Whycan’t we be Hispanic?” In the nextscene they are in a Hispanic bar tryingto fit in. The ads are reportedly a greatsuccess. (Leon Wynter, Two AngloMen Are a Hit on Hispanic TV, WallStreet Journal, April 2, 1997.)

Speaking in Tongues

Doctors who practice at JacobiHospital in the Bronx will have tolearn Spanish. They will get free les-sons but if they don’t speak the lan-guage well enough to communicatewith Hispanic patients by June 1999,the city-owned hospital will fire them.One administrator, who would notgive his name to the papers, said the

plan is unworkable. “We have[foreign] doctors here that barelyspeak English,” he explained; “whatare they going to learn, pidgin Span-ish?” (Tracey Miller, Spanish Classes

Prescribed for Jacobi Docs, New York Post, April 1, 1997, p. 20.)The state of New York recently

passed a law requiring all publicly-funded candidates for a city-wide of-fice to engage in public debates. Isa-

belle Pinzler, a “civil rights” function-ary for the U.S. Department of Justicehas forbidden implementation of thelaw on the astonishing grounds that itwould discriminate against voters who




do not speak English and could notunderstand the debates. (Babel by De-cree, New York Post, April 7, 1997, p.23.)

Odd Couples

On April first, a new law went intoeffect that makes it easier to deport

illegal aliens as well as legal alienswho commit crimes. Marriage to acompliant citizen has always been aquick route to legal residency, andapplications to the Miami, Floridamarriage license bureau leapt 30 per-cent as the deadline approached. Italso prompted an increase in odd cou-

ples. “We’ve had grandmothers walk in here with teenage boys,” says oneclerk.

Joe Hyde, a supervisor who con-ducts civil marriages, says that somecouples have to bring an interpreter

because they do not speak the samelanguage. “And after you marry them,you tell the groom ‘You may kiss the

bride,’ “ he says. “They look at eachother and say ‘No thanks.’ “ (JohnLantigua, As Law Changes, Odd Cou-

ples Bloom, Miami Herald, Feb. 27,1997, p. 1A.)

Worse Than We Thought

David Scott is a law student at theUniversity of Miami. He has been anoutspoken “conservative” who criti-

cized special treatment for non-whitestudents. One day, an anonymous in-former left confidential informationfrom the admissions office in his mail

box. It showed such gross racial pref-erences that, he says, “It seriouslymakes you question whether these

people belong in an advanced-degree program with credentials so low.” He planned to write an article for the stu-dent newspaper describing his find-ings but mentioning no names.

When word got out that Mr. Scott planned such an article, the univer-

sity’s assistant general counsel, LeydaBenitez-Herrmann, wrote him a letter saying that use of confidential infor-mation violated federal law and thathe would be punished if he published.Mr. Scott consulted a lawyer and de-cided to return the documents to theadmissions office and publish nothing.He was punished anyway . Non-whitestudents filed an honor code violationcomplaint against him and he was

found guilty of the astounding crimeof “interfering with the rights of stu-dents to pursue their education freefrom any real or perceived need to

justify their existence.” This wasfound to be “conduct which casts seri-ous doubt on his fitness to be an attor-ney,” and he was forced out of everylaw school organization of which hewas a member. Even worse, a letter describing this finding of guilt was putin his permanent file, to be sent to anystate bar he attempts to join. Thiscould conceivably keep him from be-coming a lawyer.

Mr. Scott did what he was told. He published nothing. He revealed no in-fo rmat ion abou t ind iv idua l s .“Essentially all I did was I made black students feel bad,” he says. And for that he risks being prevented from

practicing law. (Mary Geraghty, Stu-dents, The Chronicle of Higher Educa-tion, Feb. 28, 1997, p. A43.)

Start Learning it Now

Many younger Hispanics report-edly use a mix of English and Spanishcalled Spanglish. There is even amonthly magazine written inSpanglish called Latina , with head-lines like “When he says Me Voy [I’mleaving] . . . What Does He ReallyMean?” or “Mi Padre’s Infidelity. AreCuernos [horns] Genetic?”

A constant mix of English andSpanish appears to be more popular

among young Hispanic women thanmen. Nely Galan, a 32-year-old whoruns a television and film productioncompany, explains the charms (inEnglish) of her preferred dialect:

“I think Spanglish is the future. It’sa phenomenon of being from two cul-tures. It’s perfectly wonderful. I speak English perfectly. I speak Spanish per-fectly, and I choose to speak both si-m u l t a n e o u s l y. H o w c o o l i s

that?” (Lizette Alvarez, Spanish-English Hybrid is Spoken With NoApologies, New York Times, March25, 1997.)

Unfit to Print

On April 24th, the New York Times printed a large ad, signed by 62 col-

lege presidents, promoting affirmativeaction (see previous article, p. 9). Nextto it ran a favorable little story aboutwhat the leaders of America’s top col-leges were doing to maintain diversity.The headline was: “62 Top CollegesEndorse Bias In Admissions.” Thenext morning, the Times corrected this“editing error,” noting that “ ‘Bias,’ asa term for affirmative action, was nei-ther impartial nor accurate. It shouldnot have appeared.” (The New York Times Tells the Truth—Oops, TheWeekly Standard, May 5, 1997, p. 2.)

Beauty and the Beasts

Brigitte Bardot, the retired Frenchfilm star, has once more protestedagainst Arab immigration to France.Last year she criticized the Muslimritual of slitting the throats of sheepfor the Ramadan festival. Recently, inlight of a five-year Islamic insurgencyin Algeria in which a number of French nationals, including monks,have had their throats cut, she said:“They’ve slit the throats of women

and children, of our monks, our offi-cials, our tourists and our sheep.

They’ll slit our throats one day andwe’ll deserve it.” “A Muslim France,with a North African Marianne,” shesaid, referring to the female symbol of

France; “why not, at the point we areat?”Miss Bardot is to appear in Sep-

tember before the Paris Court of Ap- peals for last year’s alleged acts of “hatred and racial discrimination.” InJanuary, a lower court acquitted her of the charges, which could bring oneyear in prison and a fine of $55,000.(Jocelyn Noveck, Bardot AttacksSheep Ritual, AP, April 17, 1997.) ●


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