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A great nation does not require the absence of unjust men… only their irrelevance.

Love it! Brilliant essay.

Re: Promoting identity politics

Last year I attended a meeting between parents and school officials in a town in Massachusetts. They were there to discuss a new curriculum for elementary grades K-6 that introduced concepts of homosexuality and gay marriage, etc. The rather detailed curriculum was barely discussed. The conversation mostly involved parents speaking on behalf of their own various ethnic/racial/sexual/disability interest groups and the special treatment they wished to have afforded to them.
Finally [paraphrased] I said to the superintendent: “I taught middle school in a city neighborhood comprised of one-half first generation immigrants and the rest of second and third generation immigrant families. My goal was to emphasize their membership in ‘Club America’ so as to unify them as a group and encourage their new American identity and values. Your discussion today revolves around pride, empathy and identity of various groups within a classroom. But children in a class need to feel they are all part of a group that has an identity of which to be proud. They need a shared commonality. Does your elementary curriculum address development of American citizenship as a classroom value to give a sense of shared pride and identity to the students as members of ‘Club America’ as opposed to emphasizing their differences?”
His first answer: “Isn’t it great that we have so many people with so many different views here..,” and he tried to take a different question.
I persisted and repeated my curriculum question.
This was his answer, almost verbatim: “Well, Sir, you say you taught social studies in a public school. Then surely you must know how difficult it is to get social studies teachers to agree on anything.”
I then asked, “So there is no cohesive elementary school curriculum to foster a sense of shared Americanism among the students?”
Answer: “No.”
Here’s the kicker: The meeting was to discuss a ‘cohesive’ and detailed gay curriculum for the public schools of a town in Massachusetts of which you may have heard. The town is named ‘Lexington.’ It’s next to a town named ‘Concord.’
Apparently someone fired a gunshot there in April of 1775 that some say was ‘heard ’round the world.’ That alone is an acoustically historic event that I would think merits mention by social studies teachers to all local students. I’m told the shot was fired on the ‘green’ there and that something big happened after that. I know for sure that it resulted in the names of two football teams: the New England Patriots and the Concord High School Minutemen.
Unfortunately, the social studies teachers in Lexington cannot agree on behalf of their elementary school students whether or not that ‘shot’ – and the events it triggered to this day – might give rise to a cohesive set of lesson plans designed to give children a sense of common pride and national heritage.
The meeting was held in a Lexington elementary school three days before Memorial Day weekend. As I left the auditorium I scanned the various classroom projects plastered on the hallway walls in vain for themes related to the upcoming patriotic holiday.
On the ‘bright’ side, perhaps someday a fourth grade class there will do murals dedicated to the brawl between cops and gays at the Stonewall Bar in New York. Perhaps the students can engage in a re-enactment of those events. The girls can play the cops, I suppose.
Apparently all of Lexington’s curriculum folks can agree on the essentials of gay marriage and homosexuality necessary to a child’s learning as he progresses from ‘K’ through ’6.’ But the history of America and the pride and identity of citizenship in our great nation is something on which no Lexington social studies educators can agree.
Yup – capitalism is a cure for identity politics and racism – but I think – maybe I’m way out on this – really extreme – but maybe the schools could pitch in and emphasize our American commonality as well. I’ve always loved Churchill’s unifying characterization of our great “American Race.”
Maybe the Lexington teachers could start with a basic vote: America: good country or bad country – pick one and let’s see what approach we can take.
Jim Anderson

A common progressive charge is that being “colorblind” is only an excuse for ignoring institutionalized racism. The “melting pot” as they say, is implicitly white in its perspective.

One of our blind spots is refusing to see what Genetics are trying to teach us. The I.Q. disparity between black and White will mean that an advanced, capitalist, Classically Liberal culture will be White and or Asian, leading to black hatred and jealousy always. Freedom, Simplifying of business, the simplifying Government Regulations, will assist all in gaining higher levels of achievement but I don’t believe we can expect inner city blacks that refuse to finish high school or even learn to read, form alliances no higher than a gang and kill for lack a “respect” to find any advancement in a White, European centered culture.

GunRunner on August 21, 2009 at 9:36 PM

I think you’re hugely overestimating the role of IQ. While there are differences between the races, they can only be accurately measured en masse. It should be emphasized again and again that racial differences pale in comparison to individual differences.

Our culture does not reward IQ directly. It rewards competence, achievement, and stability. The biggest problem that blacks have had recently in achievement have been poor education, high crime, and a high illegitimacy rate.

Ironically, these problems are primarily caused by the very policies of the Democrats that blacks keep voting for.

That mindset sounds like a recipe for endless racial warfare to me, and it’s based on the deeply racist assumption that white people are born with some kind of oppressor gene that pre-disposes them to dominate rather than assimilate.
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Doctor Zero on August 21, 2009 at 1:06 PM

That is exactly what many believe. I remember a young black man when I was in Army Basic telling me that white people were really horrible, because we were in Africa enslaving black people, and we should be glad that black people were so forgiving.

Which was not entirely untrue, but I had to point out that that whole system started with Arabs selling slaves and African natives selling slaves they had captured from other tribes.

So yes, many really do believe that white people are inherently evil and abusive.

I’m sure this is in part because professional race-baiters have encouraged that belief.

Black Invention Myth here

As I stated, exaggerating the achomplishments of Africans in the U.S.

- By the State to execute suppression of and continued subordination of select ethnic groups/tribes/etc

- By the group/tribe/etc to receive and maintain enduring “Special Status” and favor with the State

In capitalism an individual (of an ethnic group or not) is judged by their personal industry…

Will people finally realize that the people who are promising them utopia want nothing more than someone to rule and enticing them into a new slavery?

njcommuter on August 22, 2009 at 1:17 AM

I think this question bears repeating, in any forum you can insert it and with any phraseology you can muster, to make people think about their own accountability and the ways their accountability can shrink government. Of course, we’ll have to fight the bureaucrats and lifetime lawmakers to make their fiefdoms smaller but righteous outcry, such as we have seen in the past month over heath care, should go a long way to having them hear us.

Along with shrinking government, we should also be concentrating on shrinking the influence of media monoliths and biased “news” organizations – they are only propaganda outlets and advertising delivery systems at this point.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e55_1250787987

moonbat monitor on August 22, 2009 at 8:43 AM

OT I know, but I saw that clip and it made me mad too. Not the most shocking thing I’ve seen on LiveLeak though. Man I have to stay away from that site. First it was the video of the 5 people burning alive in the car wreak in Russia (still lie awake thinking about it sometimes) and then last night I saw a video of a Vietnamese cop who’d been run over by a truck, been split cleanly in two and was calmly talking to people in the street and moving his arms around. Some great videos on that site but woe be tide you unsuspectingly click on one of the nasties!

The Left believes debates are won when the other side is silenced, not when those listening to the debate are persuaded.

BINGO!

(They also didn’t care that Elijah McCoy was black; they trusted his lubrication equipment better than anyone else’s because it had a proven record of outperforming them.)

The market doesn’t care about black and white; it’s too busy paying attention to green.

24 years ago a mentally ill man was baited into a fight against a marine black belt, and from what I’ve read, died of his injuries. For some reason, the instructor posted it on youtube recently. It is extremely disturbing and not for the squeamish. And I don’t disturb easily. The instructor, bobby joe blythe, lives in the Hanford, CA area, and the man that attacked him, Willie Dennis, no one has found information on. Please, watch this video and if you’re in the area and feel it warrats some sort of investigation, please contact the appropriate authorities. Again, sorry for being off topic, but this video bothered me so much that I felt compelled to take action. I’m not what most would consider a sympathetic guy or a softie, but beating mentally ill people to death really hits a nerve with me.

Here’s the link. NSFW.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e55_1250787987

Good Article

What the Democrat party and liberalism have done to minority groups, particularly blacks, is noting short of criminal. I am going to pass this article around. This is the truth.

Absolutely brilliant.

Collectivism breeds tribalism, since it posits a fixed quantity of resources, possessed by all, and so pits all against all in securing a share. The fractious, centrifugal forces in a collecivist society are daunting.

By contrast, an open,individualist, free-market society treats wealth as something which can be created, not simply harvested. The money I make is not stolen from someone else, since I require free individuals to choose to do business with me or else I will founder.

Conservatives, by contrast, get their ideas for what government should and should not do from the book of Leviticus……Conservatives…….don’t trust capitalism as far as they can throw it, and will destroy it as soon as they are given the chance.

hicsuget on August 22, 2009 at 12:23 AM

???

Good God, what a bunch of uneducated biased malarkey. You sir, wouldn’t know Conservatism if it came up and bit you on your pompous ass.

Will the current Obamanic overreach tear the Democrats’ ownership of the ‘black demographic’ apart? Will people finally realize that the people who are promising them utopia want nothing more than someone to rule and enticing them into a new slavery?

Blacks were not prone to any of the above prior to the Great Society.

Meremortal on August 21, 2009 at 10:25 PM

Not true, low black intellectual achievement was known by the mid 1800′s and confirmed by the United Nations prior to the “Great Society” (See The Bell Curve, United nations early I.Q. tests) but there were in place sociological barriers erected the church, by society and by the black family holding back social behavior.

None of those barriers exist anymore and short of re-instituting slaverly, which is how they were originally imposed, I don’t see a way to bring them back. As all religious belief fades, the black church is morphing into a White hating, separatist social club based on the teachings of Dr. Cone or Nation of Islam, reflected by “Reverend Wright”. The 95% vote by blacks for Obama must show that there is some lockstep thinking there that will probably never be shifted. White Society seems unable to impose even the importance of monogamy on the black culture as the 70% illegitimacy rate matches Nigeria. In fact even the concept of “illegitimate” births is a European/Asian concept because of the importance of tracing linage for the transfer of property or Heraldic title.

These results are after years of trying making a special effort to protect the feelings of black children, even to the point of exaggerating the contributions of blacks in the history of the U.S.A. and lowering the standards of the schools.

You also avoided the observation about I.Q. and capitalism. Stated as a question: How are any people whose culture is dominated by art and culture that glorifies high impulse crime (home invasion, juvenile violence, instant sexual gratification, drugs, robbery, murder), whose genetic intellectual gifts are such that 80% of the particular population are less intelligent that the average for the greater population, who are dominated by a political party that plays to their fears and inculcates paranoia and thug behavior and rewards tribal voting, supposed to reap any rewards from egalitarianist Capitalism?

Not even close. Libertarians believe government is a necessary evil at best, or an unnecessary evil at worst. Classical Liberals such as myself believe that proper government is a necessary good. (In what sense can something that is necessary be called evil, anyhow?) Classical Liberals have a clear conception, one based upon economic science, of what government should and should not do. Libertarianism is a hodge-podge of mutually-contradictory ideologies founded upon godknowswhat.

As I mentioned previously, Classical Liberals’ notion of what government should be is founded on economic science. Conservatives, by contrast, get their ideas for what government should and should not do from the book of Leviticus. Classical Liberals embrace capitalism as the best means to cure society of those ills that can be cured. Conservatives, meanwhile, don’t trust capitalism as far as they can throw it, and will destroy it as soon as they are given the chance (see, for instance, any McCain or Huckabee campaign speech, or the records of George W Bush and Sarah Palin).

hicsuget on August 22, 2009 at 12:23 AM

Personally, I’d like to bring the S.S. Conservatism around to starboard, and sail for a good long while, with classical liberals and libertarians sharing hearty mugs of godknowswhat. Eventually we’d have to settle which camp takes the wheel – and that would be a far more stimulating debate than explaining to liberals why tripling a trillion-dollar deficit, and giving the State power to decide who gets how much health care, is a bad idea.

Meanwhile, I hope we can all agree that we need to set a course away from the whirlpool we’ve been circling. I’m really looking forward to the day when my biggest arguments are with libertarians. Their web sites are certainly much less depressing than lefty web sites.

Let’s not forget also about the 17,000 word pamphlet George Reisman published under the title Capitalism: The Cure for Racism.

It seems that was just an excerpt, and not the full article. My apologies. More is available in Ch. 6, Sec. 4 of his textbook, Capitalism.

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Legendary economist Thomas Sowell has written extensively about the pressures free markets bring to bear against discrimination, even in the absence of legal penalties for such behavior.

Let’s not forget also about the 17,000 word pamphlet George Reisman published under the title Capitalism: The Cure for Racism.

Classical Liberal? Isn’t that more less a Libertarian or Conservative of today?

El Guapo on August 21, 2009 at 9:27 PM

Not even close. Libertarians believe government is a necessary evil at best, or an unnecessary evil at worst. Classical Liberals such as myself believe that proper government is a necessary good. (In what sense can something that is necessary be called evil, anyhow?) Classical Liberals have a clear conception, one based upon economic science, of what government should and should not do. Libertarianism is a hodge-podge of mutually-contradictory ideologies founded upon godknowswhat.

As I mentioned previously, Classical Liberals’ notion of what government should be is founded on economic science. Conservatives, by contrast, get their ideas for what government should and should not do from the book of Leviticus. Classical Liberals embrace capitalism as the best means to cure society of those ills that can be cured. Conservatives, meanwhile, don’t trust capitalism as far as they can throw it, and will destroy it as soon as they are given the chance (see, for instance, any McCain or Huckabee campaign speech, or the records of George W Bush and Sarah Palin).

From the end of 1982 to 1989, black unemployment dropped 9 percentage points (from 20.4 percent to 11.4 percent), Hispanic unemployment dropped 7.3 percentage points (from 15.3 percent to 8.0 percent), while white unemployment dropped by only 4.0 percentage points. . . . A black entrepreneurial class flourished. According to the Census Bureau, the number of black-owned businesses increased from 308,000 in 1982 to 424,000 in 1987, a 38 percent rise. At the same time, the total number of firms in the U.S. rose by only 14 percent. Receipts by black-owned firms more than doubled, from $9.6 billion to $19.8 billion. . . . From 1980 to 1990, the median income of black households grew 31 percent above inflation, compared to 19 percent growth for white households.

http://www.nationalreview.com/reagan/rubensteinc200406101426.asp

Collectivist systems reward tribal groups for maintaining their solidarity, and working as a bloc to exert pressure on the State, in exchange for rewards

Truer words were never spoken. A great article.

Give my regards to Mrs Zero and all the little digits at home.

YES I CAN

Dr. Zero – have you considered putting together a book of your collected esays?

I for one would buy a number of copies for distribution to family and friends.

txdoc on August 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM

What he said!

I hope we never know, at least for the next three years.

You sound like Theodore Dalrymple, whom I love.

Who are you, Doctor?

Mommypundit on August 21, 2009 at 9:01 PM

I hear he carries several verbal whips
He’s the Sultan of Green with facts and reason at his fingertips
They say his rhetoric is nearly ten feet tall …
And yet quite to the point… … all in all
I’m told he swaggers when he walks
And often causes earthquakes when he talks
He sure doth write well
Who is Doctor Zero, do tell?

Yes I can -El Guapo 2009.