[B]efore we can have justice, we must first have truth....

—John Howard Griffin,
paraphrasing P. D. East,
in Black Like Me

* * *

he kept going AWOL. Sandy Troy, Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1995), p. 17.

It was his pineapple. Ibid., p. 24: “Hunter had also just gotten out of the Army, and they both ended up living in their broken-down cars in an empty lot in East Palo Alto. Garcia reminisced, ‘Hunter had these big tins of crushed pineapple that he’d gotten from the Army, like five or six big tins, and I had this glove compartment full of plastic spoons, and we had this little cooperative scene, eating this crushed pineapple day after day and sleeping in the cars.’”

stuffing his face with junk food. Chris Willman, “Last Rites of the Dead: A Tie-Dyed Nation Mourns the Loss of Jerry Garcia,” on EW.com, 1994 (link): “Particularly in the years since his near-fatal diabetic coma of 1986, Garcia had yo-yoed between health-and-nutrition kicks and milkshake-and-cheeseburger binges.”

arteries were like pinholes. Office of the Coroner, County of Marin, “Coroner’s Report in the Matter of the Death of Jerome John Garcia” (San Rafael, CA, 1995), p. 1: “[T]he right coronary artery shows focal areas of approximately 30% occlusion by eccentric atherosclerotic plaques. The anterior descending coronary artery in its mid portion shows an area with hemorrhage into an eccentric plaque with over 85-90% occlusion of the lumen, and distal to this are areas of over 85% occlusion by atheromatous material.”

apologize just for being a man. Cf. Christina Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000). Cf. also Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994). See also Robert Sheaffer, “Combatting Feminist Ms-Information: Refuting the Most Common Feminist Lies and Pseudo-Scholarship” (link), for a valuable list of similar resources, both online and offline.

cults waiting to happen. See Geoffrey D. Falk, Stripping the Gurus: Sex, Violence, Abuse and Enlightenment (Toronto: Million Monkeys Press, 2007 [2005]) (link).

joy of accomplishment.” Richard Stallman, “Why Software Should Be Free” (link).

“democracy under a dictatorship.” John Carroll, “Stallman Leads the GPL off a Cliff,” 2006 (link).

squatted on the MIT campus. Reuven M. Lerner, “Stallman wins $240,000 in MacArthur award,” in The Tech, July 18, 1990 (link).

“technical skills shortage.” Norman Matloff, “Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage: Testimony to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration,” 2002 (1998) (link): “It’s hard to open the business section of any newspaper these days without running across an article bemoaning the ‘skilled-labor shortage’ that is supposedly threatening the heart of American business.”

Comp Sci graduates. Ibid. (link): “[M]y own surveys of graduating seniors at UC Davis reveal that fewer than half of the graduating seniors in computer science get jobs in programming, and are instead shunted into semitechnical (albeit well-paid) jobs like customer support. Informal comments by colleagues at other universities have confirmed that this is the case nationally.”

new, cutting-edge technologies. Ibid. (link): “[A]ny competent programmer can pick up a new software skill on his/her own, on the job, without formal instruction.”

starting at $30-$35K. Ibid. (link): “[I]n spite of wild newspaper stories in 1998 about new computer science or engineering Bachelor’s graduates getting salaries approaching six figures, the going rate was in the mid-$40,000 range, even in high-cost-of-living regions.”

but not for braces. Cf. Bill Cosby, in Felicia R. Lee, “Cosby Defends His Remarks About Poor Blacks’ Values,” in New York Times, May 22, 2004 (link): “These people are not parenting. They are buying things for their kids—$500 sneakers for what? And won’t spend $200 for ‘Hooked on Phonics.’”

copper-colored feet. Revelation 1:15: “And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace.” See also Theprophetess, “Black Jesus of the Bible,” 2004 (link).

Malcolm X. Kelly Brown Douglas, The Black Christ. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994), p. 1: “In a 1963 interview, Malcolm X stridently proclaimed, Christ wasn’t white. Some thirty years later, especially with the emergence of the Afrocentric movement in the black community, many black scholars and church leaders are vociferously repeating Malcolm’s proclamation.” See also Alex Haley, “The Playboy Interview: Malcolm X,” in Playboy magazine, May 1963 (link).

Nigger Jesus. Cf. William Mosley, What Color Was Jesus? A Mad Economist Takes a Stroll (Chicago Heights, IL: African American Images, 1997), p. 7: “Ontologically speaking, then, Jesus is Black, for ‘Black’ blood ran in His human veins.” See also John G. Jackson, “Was Jesus Christ a Negro? A Rationalistic Review,” 1933 (link).

some 54-IQ criminal. Cf. La Griffe du Lion, “Analysis of Hate Crime,” Volume 2, Number 5, May 2000 (link): “Blacks, representing thirteen percent of the [U.S.] nation [in 1994], committed more than 90 percent of the violent interracial crime. Fifty-seven percent of the violent crime committed by blacks had white victims. Less than 3 percent of violence committed by whites had black victims. In 1994, a black was 64 times more likely to attack a white than vice versa.”

I do too. So did shock-jock Howard Stern: “I grew up the only white man in a black neighborhood.... By the time I hit seventh grade there were only a handful of white kids left in my school. That’s when the beatings began to get regular.... Half of the kids in my school were in a gang called the Five Percenters. [They] hated the white man with a vengeance. These guys would choke me and say, ‘You’ll never live to see your fifteenth birthday’—nice stuff like that.” See Howard Stern, Private Parts (New York: Pocket Books, 1996 [1993]), p. 63-5.

peacenik and privacy advocate.” Stewart Brand, “We Owe It All to the Hippies,” in Time magazine, Volume 145, No. 12, Spring 1995 (link).

dial Vatican City. Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It (W. W. Norton & Company, 2006), p. 115.

I looked like Jesus Christ.” Ibid., p. 81.

hanging around with them. Ibid., p. 83.

part by psychedelics.” Ram Dass, in Roger Walsh and Charles S. Grob, ed., Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of Psychedelics (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005), p. 220.

talking paperclip’ came from. Cf. John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (New York: The Penguin Group, 2005), p. 250: “Today [Dan Ingalls’ method of moving blocks of information in computer memory] remains at the heart of both the Macintosh and Windows computing worlds. In the early 1970s, however, it was a radically new idea. Called BitBlt, it enabled graphical menu systems to ‘pop-up’ instantly on an Alto screen in response to a mouse click. As much as any single software innovation, BitBlt made the modern graphical computer interface possible.... Ingalls had dabbled in psychedelics and smoked pot to put himself in a more creative, introspective mood.... Years later ... when people would ask about the inventive ideas in Smalltalk [computer language], Ingalls would joke, ‘Well, where do you think these ideas came from?!’”

studied acid. Walsh and Grob, op. cit., p. 25: “James Fadiman graduated from Harvard and Stanford universities where he met and worked with Richard Alpert, who later became known as Ram Dass. It was Alpert who introduced Fadiman to psychedelics....”

affected by psychedelics.” James Fadiman, in Ibid., p. 33, 37.

most important things.” Markoff, op. cit., p. xix. Markoff’s book unfortunately “almost totally overlooks the MIT techno-Deadhead community of leftist hackers”—Edward Hasbrouck, “Life Outside the Mainframe,” in Peacework Magazine, August, 2005 (link).

recovery from alcohol addiction.” Charles S. Grob and Gary Bravo, in Walsh and Grob, op. cit., p. 9-10.

Bruce Hornsby. David Shenk and Steve Silberman, Skeleton Key, A Dictionary for Deadheads (New York: Main Street Books, 1994). See also “The Octane Kids!” (link).

Nancy Pelosi. CBS News Staff, “The Skinny: Follow The Money? Nah,” in CBS News, January 4, 2007 (link).

Al Franken. Ann Coulter, in Taylor Hill, “‘Deadheads Are What Liberals Claim to Be But Aren’t’: An Interview with Ann Coulter,” 2006 (link).

John Kerry. Brian Doherty, “John Perry Barlow 2.0: The Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace reinvents his body—and his politics,” in Reason magazine, August/September 2004 (link): “Kerry’s a Deadhead.”

Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson, “SUVs, Canadians and the Grateful Dead,” October 14, 2005 (link).

Jerry Greenfield. “Company News; Ben & Jerry’s,” in New York Times, July 30, 1987 (link).

Board of Directors of the WELL. Richard Holeton, Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997) (link), Chapter 4.

Acid Test-organizer. John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (New York: The Penguin Group, 2005), p. 153 (link): “Brand was also close to Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and in 1966 he had helped organize the last of the Acid Tests, which served to launch the Grateful Dead.”

security ninnies. Cf. Christie Blatchford, “The truth in a nutshell, or what I won’t read on vacation,” in Globe and Mail, June 27, 2008 (link): “When we boarded a little later, I asked for the ninny’s name. He refused and hissed, ‘If you make a scene, I’ll call the pilot and you won’t be flying tonight.’”

prejudices of their own.” James Fulford, “Return of the Nativist?” on VDare.com, 2001 (link).

typical of Far-Eastern cultures. See Dave Barry, Dave Barry Does Japan (New York: Ballantine Books, 1993), p. 146: “Cheering is very much a designated group activity at Japanese sporting events.... [Y]ou virtually never hear a lone voice yell or heckle. Such a display of individualism would be highly embarrassing in Japan.... [T]he cheering is done by specific groups standing in specific areas and performing precise, unvarying cheer routines, which are repeated over and over and over.” See also Karel van Wolferen, The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation (New York: Vintage, 1990 [1989]), p. 23: “I believe that the Japanese are individuals, all 120 million of them. Not all may want to assert their individuality; most, having been so conditioned, do not. But I have met quite a few who want to be taken for distinct persons, rather than as indistinct members of a group. These independent thinkers are disturbed [by the conformist society around them]. In many cases they have withdrawn into the private world of their own mind.”

make more money. Jet Staff, “Job Study Shows That Pretty People Make More Money; Ugly Men Make the Least,” in Jet, April 11, 1994 (link).

experiences, immensely varied. Cf. John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me (New York: Signet, 1996 [1960]), p. 87: “All showed morbid curiosity about the sexual life of the Negro, and all had, at base, the same stereotyped image of the Negro as an inexhaustible sex-machine with oversized genitals and a vast store of experiences, immensely varied.”

“parental uncertainty.” Jared Diamond, “Ethnic differences: Variation in Human Testis Size,” in Nature, 320(6062):488-489: “In [man and apes] large testis size correlates with, and was probably selected [via natural selection in evolution] by, two factors: high copulatory frequency; and high probability that a female will mate with several males during one ovulatory cycle.” See also David M. Buss, Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind (Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1999), p. 166: “Large testes typically evolve as a consequence of intense sperm competition—when the sperm from two or more males occupy the reproductive tract of one female at the same time because she has copulated with two or more males.... Sperm competition exerts a selection pressure on males to produce large ejaculates containing numerous sperm. In the race to the valuable egg, the large, sperm-laden ejaculate has an advantage in displacing the ejaculate of other men inside the woman’s reproductive tract.... [H]uman male testes account for ... 60 percent more [weight] than that of orangutans and more than four times that of gorillas, corrected for body size.... This size of testes would have been unlikely to have evolved unless there was sperm competition. And it suggests that both sexes pursued short-term mating some of the time.”

male sex partners per birth. Buss, loc. cit. See also Nicholas Wade, Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (New York: Penguin Books, 2006), p. 158, 168: “The uniquely human blend of sociality ... evolved [in Homo sapiens] over many years. The most fundamental [element], a major shift from the ape brand of sociality, was the human nuclear family, which gave all males a chance at procreating along with incentives to cooperate with others in foraging and defense.... Much of human nature consists of the behaviors necessary to support the male-female bond and a man’s willingness to protect his family in return for a woman’s willingness to bear only his children.”

for many generations. Cf. Steve Sailer, “Tom Sowell’s ‘Black Redneck’ Theory—Ingenious, But Insufficient,” on VDare.com, May 15, 2005 (link): “[I]n systems of tropical agriculture where land was traditionally cheap and most of the work is weeding, which women can do as well as men—as opposed to manhandling draft animals for plowing—you sometimes see handsome men with 50 or more wives.... [M]any of the children born to the Big Man’s wives might not be his genetic offspring. But their mothers can support them—which means that some cuckoo’s eggs [i.e., those fertilized by a different father] aren’t that big of a loss to him.”

big-dicked, freaked-out brotha.” Dan Savage, “Dan Loves Paul,” in Savage Love, July 11, 2002 (link).

never die easily, do they. Cf. J. Philippe Rushton, Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective, 2nd spec. ab. ed. (Port Huron, MI: Charles Darwin Research Institute, 2000) (link), p. 18-9: “In one study of college students, testosterone levels were 10 to 20% higher in blacks than in whites.... The average frequency of intercourse per week for married couples in their twenties is 2.5 for the Japanese and Chinese in Asia. It is 4 for American whites. For American blacks it is 5.... Around the world, public health agencies now give out free condoms to help slow the spread of AIDS and help save lives. Condom size can affect whether one is used, so these agencies take note of penis size when they give out condoms. The World Health Organization Guidelines specify a 49-mm-width condom for Asia, a 52-mm-width for North America and Europe, and a 53-mm-width for Africa.”

Ashley. CNN.com Staff, “Operation PUSH documents financial ties with Jackson lover,” on CNN.com, February 1, 2001 (link).

Socrates himself was black. Mary Lefkowitz, Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History (New York: Basic Books, 1997 [1996]), p. xi, xii, 9, 26.

academic political correctness.” John Zmirak, “Learning To Love The West,” on VDare.com, November 6, 2004 (link).

“friend and ally.” NOI.org Staff, “Farrakhan and the Jewish Rift; An Historic Reference,” on NOI.org, 2007 (link).

“potential humans.” Louis Farrakhan, quoted in Derek Brown, “Quotes from Louis Farrakhan,” in The Guardian, July 31, 2001 (link).

Farrakhan in 1997. “Farrakhan Meets The Press,” from NBC television’s Meet the Press, April 13, 1997; transcribed in The Final Call (link).

you ask for black coffee.” Louis Farrakhan, quoted in Alex Haley, “The Playboy Interview: Malcolm X,” in Playboy magazine, May 1963 (link).

“bloodsuckers.” Louis Farrakhan, quoted in Charles Bierbauer, “Million Man March: Its Goal More Widely Accepted Than Its Leader,” on CNN, October 17, 1995 (link).

Bill Cosby. See Marc Sheppard, “Come on Cosby: It’s Time to Come Clean about AIDS,” in American Thinker, November 1, 2007 (link).

father-knows-best sitcoms. Cf. Karen Ritchie, Marketing to Generation X (New York: Free Press, 2002 [1995]), p. 59: “Julianne Malveaux points out that, because of the civil rights movement, Boomers of African-American descent bonded more closely with their own parents. ‘...there is not as sharp a generational divide between black boomers and our brothers and sisters from the so-called silent generation.’ As a result, black Boomers continue to share power, more or less comfortably, with older black leaders. Black Boomers rebelled less against their own parents and family traditions (as white Boomers did) and more against the repressive [white majority] system.” If the rest of the world is against you, you need your parents on your side. Conversely, if while growing up the world is your oyster, you can afford to dis Mum and Dad (as opposed to “whitey” in general) for all of their faults and misuses of power. Either way, you need to find something to rebel against, as a rite of passage from youth into adulthood. As a generalization, then, white Baby Boomers rebelled against the idea that “father knows best,” while blacks embraced it, and rebelled instead against whitey.

younger than his wife.” Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (New York: Twelve Books, 2007), p. 176. See also Samuel Francis, “The King Holiday and Its Meaning: The origins of our national celebration of multiracialism and political correctness,” in American Renaissance, February 1998 (link): “In the course of the Senate debate on the King holiday, the East office received a letter from a retired FBI official, Charles D. Brennan. Mr. Brennan, who had served as Assistant Director of the FBI, stated that he had personally been involved in the FBI surveillance of King and knew from first-hand observation the truth about King’s sexual conduct—conduct that Mr. Brennan characterized as ‘orgiastic and adulterous escapades, some of which indicated that King could be bestial in his sexual abuse of women.’ He also stated that ‘King frequently drank to excess and at times exhibited extreme emotional instability as when he once threatened to jump from his hotel room window.’”

“Hymietown.” Larry J. Sabato, “Jesse Jackson’s ‘Hymietown’ Remark—1984,” in Washington Post, 1998 (link).

“persecuted minorities” in the music business. Cf. John McWhorter, “The Demise of Affirmative Action at UC Berkeley: Dissecting the Stalemate,” (link): “Affirmative action had come to operate in an environment in which its initial goal had come such a long way towards realization that a policy once intended to bring blacks to the socioeconomic level of whites was now being applied to blacks who had long done so.” Cf. also Peter Brimelow, “‘Immigration Is The Viagra Of The State’—A Libertarian Case Against Immigration,” on VDare.com, June 4, 2008 (link): “The original rationale for quotas was that they compensated American blacks for the lingering effects of slavery and segregation. But all immigrants who belong to the so-called ‘protected classes’—basically non-whites—are eligible for affirmative action preferences, even though they by definition were not in the country to suffer any wrongs.” Cf. also James Fulford, “Libertarians and Immigration,” on VDare.com, June 6, 2001 (link): “Giving affirmative action preferences to the American descendants of freed slaves might have some historic validity, but the Beninese immigrant from Africa is the descendant of slave merchants, and the Sudanese immigrant may be a slave owner himself.” Cf. also Steve Sailer, “Obama Hands McCain The Quota Issue. Will He Use It?” on VDare.com, July 27, 2008 (link).

“half-Canadian.” “The MAPL System,” 2001 (link): “To qualify as ‘Canadian content’ a musical selection must generally fulfill at least two of the following conditions: M (music) — the music is composed entirely by a Canadian. A (artist) — the music is, or the lyrics are, performed principally by a Canadian. P (production) — the musical selection consists of a live performance that is (i) recorded wholly in Canada, or (ii) performed wholly in Canada and broadcast live in Canada. L (lyrics) — the lyrics are written entirely by a Canadian.”

“one drop.” Cf. Steve Sailer, “Census follies,” on VDare.com, April 4, 2000 (link).

get any work done. Cf. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 28: “Never, never marry, my dear fellow! That’s my advice: never marry till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of.... Marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is good and noble in you will be lost. It will all be wasted on trifles.... [T]ie yourself up with a woman, and like a chained convict you lose all freedom!” Cf. also Christopher Orlet, “Bachelorhood And Its Discontents,” in New English Review, July 2008 (link): “Some years ago a noted Japanese researcher analyzed the biographical data of some 280 famous mathematicians, physicists, chemists, and biologists and discovered that all peaked professionally in their twenties, at which point their careers spiraled downward. Married scientists suffered the worst decline in productivity. However, those who never married remained highly productive well into their fifties. ‘Scientists tend to ‘desist’ from scientific research upon marriage,’ the researcher told an interviewer.... One theory suggests married men lack an evolutionary reason to continue working hard (i.e., to attract females). Though it [is] likely they similarly lack the prerequisite time and solitude.”

may have delayed publishing. BBC Staff, “Darwin ‘was committed to publish,’” in BBC News, March 28, 2007 (link).

meeting in the afterlife. Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994), p. 269-71.

agnostic. Charles Darwin with Nora Barlow, ed., The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809–1882 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993), p. 94.

“terrible loss of time.” Ibid., p. 233.

The freedom of expression.” In The Grateful Dead: The End of the Road—The Final Tour ’95 (Venice, CA: Slow Loris Films, 2005 [2000]), 11:00 – 12:11 (link).

kept as forced labor. David Berreby, Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005), p. 152, 222, 224.

Hispanic culture. Cf. Murray Weiss, “Booby-Prize Bid: Foxwoods Casino Sued Over ‘Busty’ Barbs,” in New York Post, July 22, 2008 (link).

resentment that ‘outsiders’ had been.” Muzafer Sherif, O. J. Harvey, et. al., Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation: The Robbers Cave Experiment (Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma, 1961 [1954]) (link), p. 78.

Fourth of July.” David Berreby, Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005), p. 173.

out-group were crystallized. Sherif, op. cit., p. 208.

two sides of the Cold War.” Berreby, op. cit., p. 200, 209.

goodwill contact. Sherif, op. cit., p. 209: “[C]ontact situations did not prove effective in reducing friction. Instead contact situations not conducive to interdependence were used by our groups for overt acts of hostility and further exchanges of unflattering invectives.”

achieve a common goal. Sherif actually observed different endings in two similar experiments, performed earlier: “In the first, the boys ganged up on a common enemy and in the second they ganged up on the experimenters themselves.” Those earlier results corresponded to the two groups uniting against a common enemy—i.e., against another group of boys who just happened to be in the area—and, in the second case, to them turning on the group (of experimenters) in power over them. See PsyBlog, “War, Peace and the Role of Power in Sherif’s Robbers Cave Experiment” (link).

into a larger room.” Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1995 [1983]), p. 197.

shared work comes to the fore.” Berreby, op. cit., p. 191. See also Elliot Aronson, Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion After Columbine (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2001).

on the sports field. Cf. Steve Sailer, “How to Instill a Love of America,” on VDare.com, 2000 (link): “You can get people to bond across racial and class lines, but seldom by preaching at them. For example, UC Berkeley students are constantly exhorted about equality and interracial solidarity. But the only place on campus where black and white students can be seen making sacrifices for each other is on the football field. Black and white college football players are far more likely to eat lunch together or listen to each other’s music than are their more articulate and politically correct fellow students simply because they have to play together as a team in order to win.”

you are all traded.” Quoted in Steve Sailer, “How Jackie Robinson Desegregated America,” in National Review, April 8, 1996 (link). Italics added.

“Muslim-Canadian.” Christie Blatchford, “We’re so polite that we can’t see a danger hiding in plain sight,” in Globe and Mail, June 21, 2008 (link).

cultural dis-integration. Cf. Steve Sailer, “Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Oh, Wait, Make That ‘Weakness,’” on VDare.com, July 1, 2007 (link).

black Muslim “youths.” See Donald A. Collins, “Camp Of The Saints Comes True In France. Let’s Stop It Happening Here,” on VDare.com, November 8, 2005 (link). See also Steve Sailer, “The Sailer [Immigrant Buyout] Scheme: Well—Why Not?” on VDare.com, November 27, 2005 (link).

in the fall of 2005. Marina Jiménez, “How Canadian are you?” in Globe and Mail, January 12, 2007 (link).

taking easy refuge. George J. Borjas, Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), p. 33: “[I]mmigrants who live in an area where they can find many compatriots who share their culture and language are much less likely to learn English.”

poor workers to rich employers. Ibid., p. 109-10. See also Borjas, op. cit., p. 90-2, 184-5. See also Martin Collacott, “Time to debunk immigration myths: Greater thought should be given to how many people Canada can absorb,” in National Post, January 15, 2000 (link): “Exhaustive studies in the three major receiving countries, the U.S., Canada and Australia, have found that immigration does contribute to the aggregate growth of the economy but that, apart from the transfer of billions of dollars from workers to employers ... it has very little impact on the incomes of current residents.”

killing America. Steve Sailer, “What Feminist Celebrity Eugenics Teaches Us about Immigration Policy,” on VDare.com, 2000 (link): “The 1965 Immigration Act ‘family reunification’ policy gives priority not to immigrants who would most benefit the American public as a whole, but to recent immigrants’ siblings, parents, and adult children. Plus those relatives’ spouses and kids. This is flooding the country with mediocrities admitted only because they are previous immigrants’ brothers-in-law.... Of the 660,000 foreigners the U.S. accepted as permanent residents in 1998 ... only about 14,000 came in exclusively because they were skilled or educated.”

1% of the country’s population. James Bissett, “Immigration must be an election issue” (Ottawa, ON: Canadian Centre for Policy Studies, 2008) (link).

whopping 23% over 25 years. “Annual Immigration by Category, Citizenship and Immigration Canada” (Ottawa, ON: Citizenship and Immigration Canada) (link).

43% of new immigrants. Daniel Stoffman, “When immigration goes awry,” in Toronto Star, July 14, 2006 (link).

housing prices sharply up, and wages down. Ibid., p. 184: “Because almost half the immigrants come to Toronto, wage compression is felt most keenly in that city. Rapid population growth, fuelled by immigration, has driven up the price of housing.” See also George J. Borjas, Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), p. 96: “[T]here is no immigration surplus if the native wage is not reduced by immigration. In other words, if some workers are not harmed by immigration, many of the benefits that are typically attributed to immigration—higher profits for firms, lower prices for consumers—cease to exist.”

work menial jobs for less. Ibid., p. 117. See also Borjas, op. cit., p. 79: “[I]mmigrants take jobs that natives do not want at the going wage.... This does not say, however, that natives would refuse to work in those jobs if the immigrants had never arrived and employers were forced to raise wages to fill the positions.”

slaughterhouse and construction jobs. See James Fulford, “USA Today—Gone Tomorrow?” on VDare.com, July 25, 2001 (link): “Meatpacking plants employing native-born workers have closed all over the country, and new ones opened employing immigrant labor.” See also Joe Guzzardi, “View From Lodi, CA: Rolling Stone vs. American Workers,” on VDare.com, March 17, 2002 (link): “By working for $11 an hour, a third of the going union rate, and through their willingness to endure conditions no American would tolerate, [Hispanic construction crews] have shut American construction workers out of jobs....”

become more productive. Cf. Fulford, op. cit.: “China’s average standard of living is much lower than the U.S.’s in part because they have all this cheap labor, and thus don’t feel the pressure to mechanize industry.” See also Sam Francis, “Economic Man Turning Against Mass Immigration,” April 1, 2004 (link): “[T]he cheap labor that mass immigration provides has helped keep American farm technology in the Dark Ages and caused American agriculture to wither in the face of global competition....”

wealthiest city in the world. Stoffman, op. cit., p. 184. See also Martin Collacott, “Time to debunk immigration myths: Greater thought should be given to how many people Canada can absorb,” in National Post, January 15, 2000 (link).

“black-focused alternative school.” Kristin Rushowy, “More black-focused schools?” in Toronto Star, January 31, 2008 (link). Cf. Michelle Malkin, “Liberal Bigotry And The New School Segregation,” on VDare.com, July 29, 2003 (link).

a new passport. Cf. Kevin Michael Grace, “Breakthrough In Canada!” on VDare.com, November 26, 2002 (link): “[D]estroying or falsifying your documents is the best and fastest way to become a new Canadian.”

“Sundown.” Robert Everett-Green, “Gordon Lightfoot: The way he felt,” in Globe and Mail, June 26, 1999 (link).

injected John Belushi. Associated Press, “Cathy Smith Ends Prison Term for Belushi Death,” in Daily News of Los Angeles, March 17, 1988. See also Jean Sonmor, “Canada’s most famous folk singer still an intense artist,” in Toronto Sun, November 10, 1996 (link).

seven years of immersion. Cf. George J. Borjas, Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), p. 33: “In 1990, for example, 37 percent of the immigrants who had been living in the United States for at least ten years did not speak English ‘very well.’”

“best and the brightest.” Norman Matloff, “Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage: Testimony to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration,” 2002 (1998) (link): “Quite contrary to industry’s claim that the H-1Bs are ‘the best and the brightest,’ in an article in the September 1999 issue of the American Society for Engineering Education’s magazine Prism, an engineering professor in China warns his nation that the engineers being produced by Chinese universities are not good enough for China to compete in the global high-tech market. The U.S. industry also claims that the imported professionals are better trained than the Americans. Yet again to the contrary, Professor Chen Lixun complains in the article about China’s ‘obsolete teaching content and materials.’ Professor Chen says the educational system in China produces students who cannot think independently or creatively, and cannot solve practical problems. He writes that the system ‘results in the phenomenon of high scores and low ability.’” See also Steve Sailer, “Brookings Does Diversity, Sort Of,” on VDare.com, January 23, 2002 (link): “Our immigration system isn’t set up to bring in the best and brightest even from nerd-fertile regions like southern India. In 1998, only 11.7% of legal immigrants were admitted for ‘employment-based’ reasons. [And that includes the workers’ spouses and children!] In contrast, 72.0% got in because they were related to somebody, typically a recent immigrant.”

hire more of the latter. Cf. Matloff, op. cit. (link): “A manager who is, say, from India and came to the U.S. as a student will often hire others in his own image.... [I]mmigrant entrepreneurs tend to hire from their own immigrant ethnic groups; those jobs are largely not open to natives.... It is very common to see a company department, or even an entire firm, in which the technical staff is all Indian or all Chinese.”

lack the gene to understand. Contrast Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft, quoted in Stephen R. Covey, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness (New York: Free Press, 2005 [2004]), p. 14: “The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10X or 100X or even 1000X but by 10,000X.” Contrast also Joel Spolsky, “Hitting the High Notes,” July 25, 2005 (link): “The real trouble with using a lot of mediocre programmers instead of a couple of good ones is that no matter how long they work, they never produce something as good as what the great programmers can produce.... Five Antonio Salieris won’t produce Mozart’s Requiem. Ever. Not if they work for 100 years.... The mediocre talent just never hits the high notes that the top talent hits all the time.”

torture them before death.” Nicholas Wade, Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (New York: Penguin Books, 2006), p. 151.

woolly mammoths, horses, and camels. Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (New York: Harper Perennial, 1992), p. 339: “When Indian hunters arrived, they found the Americas teeming with big mammals that are now extinct: elephantlike mammoths and mastodonts [sic], ground sloths weighing up to three tons, armadillolike glyptodonts weighing up to one ton, bear-sized beavers, and sabertooth cats, plus American lions, cheetahs, camels, horses, and many others.”

or just machismo. Ibid., p. 340, 347: “According to the interpretation that seems most plausible to me, the outcome was a [hunting] “blitzkrieg” in which the beasts were quickly exterminated—possibly within a mere ten years at any given site.... Clovis mammoth kills prove to have been only partly butchered, suggesting very wasteful and selective utilization of meat by people living amidst an abundance of game. Some hunting probably wasn’t for meat at all but for ivory, hides, or just machismo.... We are all too familiar with the blitzkriegs by which modern European hunters nearly exterminated bison, whales, seals, and many other large animals. Recent archaeological discoveries on many oceanic islands have shown that such blitzkriegs were an outcome whenever hunters reached a land with animals naïve to humans.”

become your wasted life.” Roger Sandall, “In Bluebeard’s Castles: Life and death on the reservation,” 2006 (link). See also Roger Sandall, “What Native Peoples Deserve,” 2005 (link).

one low skill immigrant family.” Mark Krikorian, The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal (New York: Penguin, 2008), p. 179-80. See also Steve Sailer, “Americans First: What’s best for the citizens we already have?” in The American Conservative, February 13, 2006 (link). See also Paul Nachman, “A Patriotic Immigration Reformer’s Thoughts On The New Case Against Immigration,” on VDare.com, July 29, 2008 (link).

average white IQ to complete. La Griffe du Lion, “Educating a Black Elite,” 2000 (link): “Degrees are being granted to students possessing IQs from 98 to 103, as upper bounds.”

free movement throughout the world. Cf. Norman Matloff “Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage: Testimony to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration,” 2002 (1998) (link): “[I]n the case of foreign nationals of extraordinary talent, our immigration law should indeed facilitate the ability of employers to hire such workers.”

fifty to eighty percent of the work. This is basically the “80/20 rule,” which has been verified across a wide range of disciplines, including software development. The corollary is that there’s around a 20:1 ratio in productivity between the best and the worst workers, and that the bottom 20% do only around 4% of the total work in the field—they are the incompetents who could and should be fired, and you wouldn’t even notice they were gone. See Steve McConnell, Code Complete (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 2004), p. 681: “Talent and effort among individual programmers vary tremendously, as they do in all fields. One study found that in a variety of professions—writing, football, invention, police work and aircraft piloting—the top 20 percent of the people produced about 50 percent of the output.... The results of the study are based on an analysis of productivity data, such as touchdowns, patents, solved cases, and so on. Since some people make no tangible contribution whatsoever and weren’t considered in the study (quarterbacks who make no touchdowns, inventors who own no patents, detectives who don’t close cases, and so on), the data probably understates the actual variation in productivity.” See also Matloff, op. cit. (link): “Studies show a dramatic 10-to-1 variation in programmer productivity, by virtually any criterion—time to finish a product, number of errors, and so on. (See for example, in Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, Dorset House Publishing Co., 1987, p. 44ff.) In other words, the best programmers work 10 times faster, produce 10 times fewer errors, and so on, than the worst ones.... Some studies have shown an even more dramatic range. Time to complete the writing of a program varied in a range of 20-to-1 in one recent study. (P. Lutz, ‘Comparing Java vs. C/C++ Efficiency Differences to Interpersonal Differences,’ Communications of the ACM, 42 (10), 1999, cited in Building a Workforce for the Information Economy, National Research Council, 2000.).... In other words, raw analytical talent, not paper credentials, is what really counts.”

sweet white raisins. Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (New York: Twelve Books, 2007), p. 137: “Luxenburg[’s] most celebrated example concerns the rewards of a ‘martyr’ in paradise: when retranslated and redacted the heavenly offering consists of sweet white raisins rather than virgins.”

“white wedding” suits. Robert Spencer, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (Washington, DC: Regency Publishing, Inc., 2005), p. 106: “September 11 hijacker Muhammad Atta packed a ‘paradise wedding suit’ into his luggage on that fateful day, although he was unable to change into it because the airline required him to check all but one carry-on item. A letter found in Atta’s bags spoke of ‘marriage’ with the ‘women of paradise ... dressed in their most beautiful clothing.’”

in Kandahar. Tim Hortons, “Tim Hortons brings a taste of home to troops in Kandahar,” 2006 (link).

withering horror of this. Cf. John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me (New York: Signet, 1996 [1960]), p. 54.

Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (New York: Harmony Books, 1979), p. 28: “[A]ny man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”

between intelligence and income. La Griffe du Lion, “2048,” Volume 2, Number 4, April 2000 (link): “IQ is the biggest single correlate of income.”

“Jefferson effect.” Cf. La Griffe du Lion, “The Effect of Urban Flight on IQ Distribution,” 2002 (link): “[E]scape from the inner city is a highly selective enterprise. It is an option open mostly to the right half of the bell curve [i.e., to people with above-average IQs]. Consequently, urban flight creates a cognitive discontinuity where the city meets the suburbs. Left behind in the city is a human residue wanting in human capital. Unemployment, welfare dependency, drug addiction, coarseness and incivility are its hall-marks, low IQ its nub.” (Italics added.) Cf. also Barack Obama, quoted in Hank De Zutter, “What Makes Obama Run?” in Chicago Reader, December 8, 1995 (link): “[G]et a job, get rich, and get out. Instead of investing in our neighborhoods, that’s what has always happened.” See also Bruce G. Charlton, “Social class differences in IQ: implications for the government’s ‘fair access’ political agenda,” in Times Higher Education, May 23, 2008 (link): “[H]igher social classes have a significantly higher average IQ than lower social [i.e., socio-economic] classes.... In general, the more precise the definition of social class, the larger will be the measured social class differences in IQ and other biological variables.”

broaden “intelligence.” See Dan Schneider, “The Dan Schneider Interview 4: Steven Pinker,” 2007 (link). See also Linda S. Gottfredson, “The General Intelligence Factor,” in Scientific American Presents, Winter 1998 (link).

Friday-afternoon pillorying. Cf. Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (New York: Twelve Books, 2007), p. 219: “In an era where there was little enough by way of public entertainment, a good public burning or disembowelment or breaking on the wheel was often as much recreation as the saintly dared to allow.”

lowering it in the country. Steve Sailer, “Flynn Flips: IQ Tests Do Matter,” on VDare.com, September 3, 2007 (link): “[T]he urban-rural IQ gap has narrowed from six points to merely two in recent decades as the countryside has come to enjoy most of the stimulations of the city.” Of course, a narrowing of that gap could equally come from a downturn in, or increased mechanization of, the rural economy, driving the displaced, low-IQ manual laborers into the city some years after their smarter cousins had made the same trip. Cf. Fred Siegel, The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America’s Big Cities (New York: The Free Press, 1997), p. 47: “In the years between 1945 and 1960, the mechanization of Southern agriculture marginalized unskilled farm labor. Sometimes lured by the promise of a better future and sometimes driven off the land, a vast number of at time cruelly displaced black and white sharecroppers migrated to the Northern cities.” New immigrants also flock disproportionately to our cities, so if those same immigrants have low IQs, that too will narrow the gap between the city and the country averages.

Steven Pinker on down. See Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (New York: Penguin, 2003 [2002]). See also Steve Sailer, “Pinker’s Progress,” on VDare.com, November 24, 2002 (link).

genetic component to intelligence. Cf. David Brooks, quoted by Alex B., “The Progression of IQ—a response to David Brooks,” September 14, 2007 (link): “A meta-analysis by Bernie Devlin of the University of Pittsburgh found that genes account for about 48 percent of the differences in IQ scores.”

IQs of identical twins raised apart. See Steve Sailer, “Pioneer Fundophobia,” on VDare.com, December 12, 2001 (link): “The Minnesota Twins study ... found that, on quantitative tests of IQ and personality, identical twins reared apart were systematically much more similar than fraternal twins raised apart. Remarkably, separated identical twins were more similar than fraternal twins raised in the same home.” See also Steve Sailer, “Why Do We Keep Writing About Intelligence? An IQ FAQ,” on VDare.com, December 3, 2007 (link).

“Sea-Fever.” John Masefield, “Sea-Fever” (link).

believe in God. Steven Pinker, “The Evolutionary Psychology of Religion” (link).

Daniel Dennett. Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (New York: Penguin, 2007), p. 291.

viewed as being white. David Berreby, Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005), p. 90: “[C]ategories can be redefined, as ‘white person’ has been in the United States to include the once-rejected children of Irish and Italian immigrants....”

Tommy Harper. Ibid., p. 125, 147-53, 170-1.

gratitude. Cf. John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me (New York: Signet, 1996 [1960]), p. 120.

broke something in me. Cf. Griffin, Black Like Me, p. 130: “It was a little thing, but piled on all the other little things it broke something in me. Suddenly I had had enough. Suddenly I could stomach no more of this degradation—not of myself but of all men who were black like me.”

thought of any more hairism. Cf. Griffin, Black Like Me, p. 120: “I remained in my room more and more each day. The situation in Montgomery was so strange I decided to try passing back into white society. I went out only at night for food. My heart sickened at the thought of any more hate.”

N-people. Cf. The Mayor of Mitchieville, “Guy Earle, activist,” July 19, 2008 (link).

way to control lice. Steven Dutch, “Military Technology—Selected Themes,” 2001 (1998) (link).

wiped from this world. Cf. Griffin, op. cit., p. 15: “All traces of the John Griffin I had been were wiped from existence.... I looked into the mirror and saw reflected nothing of the white John Griffin’s past. No, the reflections led back to Africa, back to the shanty and the ghetto, back to the fruitless struggles against the mark of blackness.”

some really good weed.” Cf. Griffin, Black Like Me, p. 121: “I ordered food and was served, and it was a miracle. I went to the rest room and was not molested. No one paid me the slightest attention. No one said, ‘What’re you doing in here, nigger?’”

right hands mutilated. Griffin, Black Like Me, p. 138.

kinship-based African culture. Cf. Roger Sandall, “Dereliction Express: Care and maintenance in Africa and beyond,” August 2006 (link).

for the same library doors: Cf. Griffin, op. cit., p. 163.

one of those stereotypes. See Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (New York: Penguin, 2003 [2002]), p. 204: “With some important exceptions, stereotypes are in fact not inaccurate when assessed against objective benchmarks such as census figures or the reports of the stereotyped people themselves. People who believe that African Americans are more likely to be on welfare than whites, that Jews have higher average income than WASPs, that business students are more conservative than students in the arts, that women are more likely than men to want to lose weight, and that men are more likely than women to swat a fly with their bare hands, are not being irrational or bigoted. Those beliefs are correct. People’s stereotypes are generally consistent with the statistics, and in many cases their bias is to underestimate the real differences between sexes or ethnic groups.... Stereotypes can be downright inaccurate when a person has few or no firsthand encounters with the stereotyped group, or belongs to a group that is overtly hostile to the one being judged.” See also Steven Dutch, “Dutch’s Laws of Just About Everything,” 2003 (2001) (link): “All stereotypes have at least some basis in fact.... All stereotypes have a basis in fact? Maybe not, but if I said ‘almost all’ or ‘most,’ people would have wiggle room to rationalize that their particular problem stereotype was entirely due to somebody else’s prejudice.”

Wilber’s fatally flawed. See Geoffrey D. Falk, “Norman Einstein”: The Dis-Integration of Ken Wilber (link).

walking these streets. Cf. John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me (New York: Signet, 1996 [1960]), p. 123: “Their looks said: ‘You white bastard, you ofay sonofabitch, what are you doing walking these streets?’ just as the whites’ looks had said a few days before: ‘You black bastard, you nigger sonofabitch, what are you doing walking these streets?’”

competent whites. Cf. La Griffe du Lion, “Smart Fraction Theory II: Why Asians Lag,” Volume 6, Number 2, May 2004 (link): “[B]lack Africa is utterly hopeless with less than two percent qualifying for smart-fraction jobs [i.e., bookkeepers, credit clerks, lab techs, salesmen, secretaries, and higher-IQ work]. The demise of colonialism sealed its economic doom.” (Italics added.)

experience in commercial farming.” Basildon Peta, “Harare may force banks to fund black farmers,” in IOL, January 10, 2006 (link).

cause a famine. Cf. Steve Sailer, “Darfur v. Zimbabwe: Is U.S. Foreign Policy Just An Elite Plaything?” on VDare.com, May 18, 2008 (link). Cf. also Sam Francis, “Why Not Admit Some Real Refugees?” on VDare.com, July 1, 2002 (link). See also Sam Francis, “Neoconservative Applauds White Despoliation In South Africa,” on VDare.com, April 8, 2004 (link).

essay by Julian Baggini. Julian Baggini, “Spongers,” in New Humanist, Volume 123, Issue 2, March/April 2008 (link).

bringing in workfare. See Maeve Quaid, Workfare: Why Good Social Policy Ideas Go Bad (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), p. 172: “The history of workfare in Ontario is the story of trade unions and special interest groups that were resolved to never permit the proposed ‘community service’ aspect of workfare to be implemented, regardless of how well or badly workfare was designed (and it could have been better designed). Thanks to government bureaucrats who never bought into the idea of workfare in the first place, the ‘work placement’ (as opposed to job search or training) dimension of workfare never really materialized. The social-worker culture in Ontario, supported heavily by activists and lobby groups, favor classroom training over work experience.”

not pulling their weight.” See Nicholas Wade, Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (New York: Penguin Books, 2006), p. 160, 163: “A tit-for-tat behavioral strategy [could] evolve, providing that a mechanism to detect and punish freeloaders evolves in parallel.... Freeloaders seize the benefits of social living without contributing to the costs. They are immensely threatening to a social group because they diminish the benefits of sociality for others and, if their behavior goes unpunished, they may bring about the society’s dissolution.”

“booby prize.” Cf. Frederick R. Lynch, Invisible Victims: White Males and the Crisis of Affirmative Action (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989), p. 171: “Black novelist Toni Morrison was ultimately convinced she had won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize on merit. Yet Morrison admitted that lobbying for the Pulitzer on her behalf by forty-eight prominent black writers was a source of stress. ‘It was too upsetting to have my work considered as an affirmative action award.’”

“vaginal affirmative action.” Cf. John Tierney, “A New Frontier for Title IX: Science,” in New York Times, July 15, 2008 (link): “The members of Congress and women’s groups who have pushed for science to be ‘Title Nined’ say there is evidence that women face discrimination in certain sciences, but the quality of that evidence is disputed. Critics say there is far better research showing that on average, women’s interest in some fields isn’t the same as men’s.” Cf. also Nicholas Stix, “Is Science Sexist?” July 22, 2008 (link). Cf. also Wendy McElroy, “Dumbing Down Education,” January 22, 2000 (link).

being smarter and working harder. Cf. Scott Adams, “Hard Work” (link).

Eddie Van Halen. Interviewed by Billy Corgan, “Corgan and Van Halen: Billy Interviews Eddie,” in Guitar World, April 1996 (link).

mounts of the devils.” Quoted by Ibn Warraq, Why I Am Not a Muslim (New York: Prometheus, 1995), p. 342-3. Cf. Mark Steyn, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2008 [2006]), p. 121: “‘[Homosexuality is] against Islam,’ said another [French Muslim]. ‘Muslim fags don’t exist.’” Au contraire!

85-IQ fairies. See J. Philippe Rushton, “Indians Aren’t That Intelligent (On Average),” on VDare.com, September 26, 2007 (link): “In this article, I summarize the evidence for an average IQ of 85 in the group designated South Asian/North African. The people of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, the Gulf States, the Near East, Turkey and North Africa have an IQ just below the world average of 90.” (Italics added.)

“Bismillah.” BBC Staff, “Queen album brings rock to Iran,” on BBC News, August 24, 2004 (link).

flush-worthy. Cf. Ayesha Ahmed, “Poisoning the Infidels with Feces in UK and US,” on Islam Watch, February 14, 2008 (link).

turn to manic, homicidal violence. Cf. Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (New York: Twelve Books, 2007), p. 227: “Having met some of the products of this [Islamic] ‘education’ system, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, I can only reiterate that their problem is not so much that they desire virgins as that they are virgins: their emotional and psychic growth irremediably stunted in the name of god....”

virgins in the Garden of Eden.” Robert Spencer, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (Washington, DC: Regency Publishing, Inc., 2005), p. 104.

shocked us personally.” Robert Hunter, A Box of Rain: Lyrics: 1965–1993 (New York: Penguin Books, 1993), p. 20.

outpost of the West.” Steve Sailer, “Latin American Immigration Unlikely to Spark a New Renaissance,” on VDare.com, 2004 (link).

have completed high school. Cf. George J. Borjas, Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), p. 59: “Less than 1 percent of Mexico’s adult male population has completed a secondary [i.e., high-school] education.”

homophobic rednecks. Cf. Joe Guzzardi, “Will Hispanic Honor Killings, Homophobia Be Our New ‘Community Standard’?” on VDare.com, September 24, 2005 (link): “[F]or a Hispanic to actually have homosexual sex with a gay man, even when blatantly deceived, can only be redeemed by murder.... According to a March 2002 U.S. Department of State report, violence against homosexuals remains common in Mexico.”

they’re “macho” nonetheless. See Athena Kerry, “Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Ethnic Come-ons,” on VDare.com, February 8, 2006 (link): “Mexican men are widely despised among young (white) women for whistling out car windows, yelling crude and offensive remarks, or simply leering obnoxiously at anything that walks past with a hint of estrogen.” See also Brenda Walker, “Top Ten Reasons Why the US Should Not Marry Mexico,” on VDare.com, January 17, 2007 (link): “In some Mexican states, men may freely kidnap women for sex, a custom known as ‘rapto,’ which is regarded as a harmless amusement by men despite the unsuccessful attempts of women’s groups to criminalize it.” See also Brenda Walker, “Mothers Against Drunk Driving: Successful Reformers—Or Hypocrites from Hell?” on VDare.com, June 19, 2008 (link).

legislated back to work. Rob Ferguson, Paola Loriggio and Francine Kopun, “TTC moving again,” in Toronto Star, April 27, 2008 (link).

handled the air traffic controllers. Stacy Hirsch, “Reagan presidency pivotal for unions,” in The Baltimore Sun, June 8, 2004. (link).

“Request Stop” program. Toronto Transit Commission, “Your Safety Partner” (link).

homoerotic tizzy. Cf. Bruce Bawer, “The Times, It Ain’t a-Changin’,” in Pajamas Media, June 25, 2008 (link): “[New York Times Magazine contributing writer Noah] Feldman insisted that ‘a hallmark of liberal, secular societies is supposed to be respect for different cultures, including traditional, religious cultures—even intolerant ones’.... [T]ell this to gay people in Amsterdam, where ten years ago they felt safer than anyplace else on earth and where Muslim youths now beat them up in broad daylight in the middle of town.”

totalitarian, brainwashing. Cf. Alan Charles Kors, “Thought Reform 101: The Orwellian implications of today’s college orientation,” March 2000 (link): “The [PC] people devoted to remolding the inner lives of undergraduates ... share views that place us directly on the path of thought reform.” See also Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate, The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses (New York: HarperPerennial, 1999 [1998]). See also Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge, Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women’s Studies (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003), p. 22, 38, 59, 81: “[Margaret:] I really hate some of the thought-police stuff that’s going on now in universities, and it was going on earlier in Women’s studies than elsewhere.... I think there was silencing of people, there was exclusion, and certainly there was shunning.... [Silvia:] My experience has been that feminism has been just as conformist and stifling of creative thought as the most right-wing religious groups.... Questioning the authority of feminism or the heavyweights within the movement is akin to heresy, and is basically treated as such.... [Patai and Koertge:] Women’s Studies teachers [engage in] standard proselytizing tactics such as providing comfort and support for neophytes, denouncing the enemy, rejecting opinions that contradict or complicate the party line, and engaging in rituals of confession and celebration to keep the faithful pure and committed.” And finally, from p. 191, 196: “‘[M]ortification’ practices such as mutual criticism, surveillance, denunciation of deviants, confession, and so on [as practiced in Women’s Studies] ... serve to strip away much of a person’s previous identity. They transmit the message ... ‘that the self is adequate, whole, and fulfilled only when it lives up to the model offered by the community’.... Women’s Studies programs, in their bunker mentality and tendency to cut themselves off from the rest of the university in the name of feminist commitment, do function in some respects like cults and communes.” See also Tammy Bruce, The New Thought Police: Inside the Left’s Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds (Rocklin, CA: Prima Lifestyles, 2001).

have clearly worked so well? Cf. Myron Magnet, The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties’ Legacy to the Underclass (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993), p. 197: “[W]hen you are done discriminating, it is hard to reassert the principle of nondiscrimination. That’s if you ever are done, of course: no affirmative action program in the world has ever been declared successful and ended as no longer necessary.”

belong to the ‘oppressive’ majority.” Melanie Phillips, Londonistan (New York: Encounter Books, 2006). Extract here.

Mary Lefkowitz. See Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 132: “As a veteran equity feminist, Lefkowitz fought long and hard against the old boy network that once discriminated against women scholars. She believes it is being replaced by a new network, an old girl network of feminist preferment. ‘Just like many revolutions,’ she points out, ‘It becomes as bad as what it replaced.’”

Steven Pinker. See Steven Pinker and Elizabeth S. Spelke, “Pinker Vs. Spelke: A Debate” (link).

blackness as negative.” Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1995 [1983]), p. 170.

magister. James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo’s Telescope Changed The Truth and Other Events in History That Dramatically Altered Our Understanding of the World (Boston, MA: Back Bay Books, 1995 [1985]), p. 48.

isolation of their own home.” Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1993 [1992]), p. 259-61.

making societal changes.” Steinem, op. cit., p. 260.

“few good men.” Ibid., p. 340.

lives as men can.” Susan Moller Okin, “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?” in Boston Review, October/November 1997 (link).

members of the out-group. Muzafer Sherif, O. J. Harvey, et. al., Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation: The Robbers Cave Experiment (Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma, 1961 [1954]) (link), p. 208.

“professional victims.” Cf. Robert Carroll, quoted at Geoffrey D. Falk, “PVs,” January 12, 2008 (link).

Dead and Living White European Men. For a data-filled, statistical evaluation of the contributions of Dead White Men to the rise of civilization, see Charles Murray, Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (New York: HarperPerennial, 2003). See also Steve Sailer, “Q&A with Charles Murray on Human Accomplishment,” UPI, October 16, 2003 (link). See also Steve Sailer, “Culture’s Bell Curve,” in The American Conservative, November 17, 2003 (link): “Dead white European males dominate his inventories, despite Murray reserving eight of his 21 categories (including Arabic literature, Indian philosophy, and Chinese visual art) for non-Western arts.... In the sciences, 97 percent of the significant figures and events turned out to be Western.” See also Peter Watson, “Lost in the swamp of modernity,” in New Statesman, October 29, 2001 (link): “In the 20th century, in the modern world, there were no non-Western ideas of note.”

number of times during the swim.” Sherif, et. al., op. cit., p. 154.

dragging their economy down. See James Bissett, “Immigration must be an election issue” (Ottawa, ON: Canadian Centre for Policy Studies, 2008) (link): “51% of those immigrants who have landed [in Canada] since the early 1990s are living below the poverty line.” See also Martin Collacott, “Time to debunk immigration myths: Greater thought should be given to how many people Canada can absorb,” in National Post, January 15, 2000 (link). Contrary to the optimistic analysis of George Borjas in Heaven’s Door (p. 58-60), Canada too has “followed the trend in accepting a greater proportion of unskilled migrants. By 1995, recent immigrants were earning 40% less than other Canadians and we were experiencing many of the problems he has identified in the U.S. While we continue to receive many immigrants with impressive qualifications, the larger numbers and declining skill levels of the lesser qualified have caused an overall decline in immigrants’ ability to contribute to the economy.” Borjas based his calculations on old data, from 1980, well prior to our mid-’80s immigration reforms (i.e., increases), resulting in an unfounded optimism on his part. See also Kevin Michael Grace, “Breakthrough In Canada!” on VDare.com, November 26, 2002 (link), quoting Daniel Stoffman: “[Borjas] was disappointed when I informed him … that the skilled portion of Canada’s immigration intake was down to 23%. ‘Why did it shrink way down?’ he asked from his Harvard office. ‘Why did the Canadians allow this to occur?’ Because the Canadian program had been taken over by its clientele, I said, who insisted that the family class be expanded.”

a mere 95. Steve Sailer, “America and the Left Half of the Bell Curve,” on VDare.com, 2000 (link): “According to two separate methodologies employed by Herrnstein and Murray, the average IQ of recent immigrants and their children is somewhere around a mediocre 95.”

110 IQ. La Griffe du Lion, “Educating a Black Elite,” 2000 (link): “An IQ of 110 is frequently cited as a minimum requirement for a bona fide bachelor’s degree.... 120 is low for an Ivy Leaguer....” See also Bruce G. Charlton, “Social class differences in IQ: implications for the government’s ‘fair access’ political agenda,” in Times Higher Education, May 23, 2008 (link): “The ‘ex-poly’ university has a threshold minimum IQ of 100 for admissions (i.e. the top half of the age cohort of 18 year olds in the population—given that about half the UK population now attend a higher education institution), the ‘Redbrick’ university has a minimum IQ of 115 (i.e. the top 16 percent of the age cohort); while ‘Oxbridge’ is assumed to have a minimum IQ of about 130 (i.e. the top 2 percent of the age cohort).”

love-hate. Cf. Sam Francis, “Mass Immigration Creates Terrorist Haven in Europe,” on VDare.com, 2001 (link): “In Holland ... Muslim immigrants have invented what reporter Adriana Stuijt calls ‘a new form of terrorism against the civilian population at large.’ ‘“Muslim cultural organizations” have turned the streets of Antwerp and Rotterdam into main battle grounds for Muslim-fundamentalist male criminal youth gangs who deliberately attack, rob and invade ethno-European cultural events and throngs of shoppers in the large shopping districts’.... In Belgium last summer, gangs of Algerian and Moroccan youths attacked Flemish citizens holding an annual fair.”

Leftards or something. Cf. Steve Sailer, “What’s Wrong With the Democrats? The identity-politics party doesn’t know how to appeal to middle Americans,” in The American Conservative, July 31, 2006 (link): “While Democrats esteem themselves as more socially prestigious than Republicans, their electoral prospects are undermined by the faint whiff of failure that many Democratic voters exude, the impression that they resent their country and compatriots because they haven’t quite fulfilled their own potential.”

bring to the table. See George J. Borjas, Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), p. 102: “[T]he historical experience of a century ago probably has little relevance for the contemporary experience. The United States has changed radically, and what was beneficial then need not be beneficial now.”

to have a female pastor. “Mankes-Zernike, Anna (1887–1972),” in Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (link).

slavery in America. “A Minute Against Slavery, Addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting, 1688” (link). See also Joseph Walton, ed., Incidents Illustrating the Doctrines and History of the Society of Friends (Philadelphia, PA: Friends’ Book Store, 1897). See also J. S. Hartzler and Daniel Kauffman, eds., Mennonite Church History (Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Book and Tract Society, 1905).

their birth as well.” Roger Sandall, “When I Hear the Word ‘Culture’: From Arnold to Anthropology,” 1980 (link).

Steve Sailer. Steve Sailer, “A Buyout Option For Europe’s Muslims?” on VDare.com, 2005 (link): “A push-pull policy could be very effective in getting Muslims to go away. European countries should combine the push of a crackdown on welfare and crime with the pull of a buy-out offer. Returning to the old country with a sizable nest egg would be alluring to many who haven’t assimilated into the European middle class.” See also Steve Sailer, “The One Word Grand Strategy for Westerners and Muslims: ‘Disconnect,’” on VDare.com, August 13, 2006 (link).

Sharia law than British law. Daily Mail Staff, “No tolerance for no-go areas,” in The Daily Mail, January 8, 2008 (link).

flirted with incorporating elements. Michael Nazir-Ali, “Extremism flourished as UK lost Christianity,” in The Telegraph, January 11, 2008 (link): “There is pressure already to relate aspects of the Sharia to civil law in Britain.” See also Laura Trevelyan, “Will Canada introduce Sharia law?” in BBC News, August 26, 2004 (link).

to live as infidels.” Brenda Walker, “Time To Dump The Diversity Visa,” on VDare.com, June 1, 2004 (link).

customers themselves do it.” Katherine Kersten, “Shariah in Minnesota? Radical Muslim activists go fishing in troubled waters,” in The Wall Street Journal, March 25, 2007 (link).

from a Muslim employee. Mark Steyn, “Making a pig’s ear of defending democracy,” in The Telegraph, October 4, 2005 (link).

Qatar. Camper, “Disney’s Piglet banned in Middle East!” January 28, 2007 (link).

matter could offend Muslims.” Sean Coughlan, “Three Little Pigs ‘too offensive,’” in BBC News, January 23, 2008 (link).

human-rights commissions. See Mark Steyn, “Please send more complaints,” in Maclean’s, April 23, 2008 (link). See also Mark Steyn, “But we were getting along so well!” in Maclean’s, June 4, 2008 (link). See also Kathy Shaidle, “The Kafkaesque Show Trial of Mark Steyn,” in Pajamas Media, June 11, 2008 (link). See also Kathy Shaidle, “First They Came For… Canadian ‘Hate Speech’ Totalitarianism Is Not New,” on VDare.com, May 6, 2008 (link). See also Kathy Shaidle, “Free Speech vs. Muslim Sensibilities,” in FrontPage Magazine, February 26, 2008 (link).

wouldn’t wear a bikini.” Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson, “Dr Bari: Government stoking Muslim tension,” in Daily Telegraph, November 10, 2006 (link).

And then commit adultery.” Ibn Warraq, in Norman Geras, “A lively debate about values,” October 11, 2007 (link). See also Ophelia Benson, “Can we talk?” October 11, 2007 (link).

Treasurer Peter Costello says.” SMH Staff, “If you want sharia law, move: Costello,” in The Sydney Morning Herald, February 23, 2006 (link).

recognizing it for tax purposes.” Robert Spencer, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (Washington, DC: Regency Publishing, Inc., 2005), p. 73.

according to The Times.” Evening Standard Staff, “Bishop of Rochester under police protection after receiving ‘death threats’ for saying Britain has no-go areas for non-Muslims,” in Evening Standard, February 3, 2008 (link).

mirrored outside London.” Shiraz Maher, “Muslim Britain is becoming one big no-go area,” in The Sunday Times, January 13, 2008 (link).

situation of ‘voluntary apartheid.’” BBC Staff, “Bishop warns of ‘Islamic areas,’” in BBC News, January 6 (link).

county courts or High Court.” Abul Taher, “Revealed: UK’s first official sharia courts,” in Times Online, September 14, 2008 (link).

it belongs to God.” In James Brandon, “A defiant Islam rises among young Britons,” in The Christian Science Monitor, July 11, 2005 (link).

world belongs to Allah.” Mark Steyn, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2008 [2006]), p. 90.

wounding another 700 or so.” Investors.com Staff, “What Muslims Really Think,” in Investors.com (link). See also Brenda Walker, “Muslim Fifth Column Polled,” on VDare.com Blog, May 23, 2007 (link). Mark Steyn gives lower numbers, in op. cit., p. 76: “On the first anniversary of the July 7, 2005, Tube bombings, the Times of London commissioned a poll of British Muslims. Among the findings: ... 7 percent agree that suicide attacks on civilians in the United Kingdom can be justified in some circumstances, rising to 16 percent for a military target.” See also Phillips, op. cit., p. 83: “Following the London bombings, a poll found that ... one in ten [British Muslims] supported the attacks on July 7, and 5 percent said that more attacks in the UK would be justified, with 4 percent supporting the use of violence for political ends.”

“religion of peace.” Spencer, op. cit, p. 41-2: “Sayyid Qutb, one of the twentieth century’s foremost advocates of violent jihad, taught (without a trace of irony) that Islam is a religion of peace. However, he had a very specific kind of peace in mind: ‘When Islam strives for peace, its objective is not that superficial peace which requires that only that part of the earth where the followers of Islam are residing remain secure. The peace which Islam desires is that the religion (i.e. the law of the society) be purified for God, that the obedience of all people be for God alone, and that some people [i.e., us beer-drinking and pork-eating infidels] should not be lords over others. After the period of the Prophet—peace be on him—only the final stages of the movement of Jihaad [sic] are to be followed; the initial or middle stages are not applicable.’ In other words, Islam is a religion of peace that will come when everyone is Muslim or at least subject to the Islamic state. And to establish that peace, Muslims must wage war.”

this was the core of Islam.” Barry Gewen, “Muslim Rebel Sisters: At Odds With Islam and Each Other,” in The New York Times, April 27, 2008 (link).

disemboweling a few sheep. Cf. “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.” The famous phrase was coined by the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Walter Duranty, in defending the crimes of Joseph Stalin. See Bruce Bawer, “The Times, It Ain’t a-Changin’,” in Pajamas Media, June 25, 2008 (link).

end of the [twenty-first] century.” Robert Spencer, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (Washington, DC: Regency Publishing, Inc., 2005), p. 221-2.

Western democracy are right.” Ibid., p. 189.

accepted religion on earth.” Ibid., p. 190: “Ahmad has since then claimed that he was misquoted, but the reporter who heard him stands by her story.”

scream “Islamophobia.” Cf. Mark Steyn, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2008 [2006]), p. 85: “‘Islamophobia’ is not phony or even psychological but very literal—if you’re a Dutch member of parliament or British novelist or Danish cartoonist in hiding under threat of death or a French schoolgirl in certain suburbs getting jeered at as an infidel whore, your Islamophobia is highly justified.”

years of Islamic persecution. Spencer, op. cit., p. 129-45. See also Roger Sandall, “Religion and Violence,” February 2008 (link).

defend our freedom and civilization.” Abul Kasem, interviewed by Jamie Glazov, “Non-Muslims: Worse than Animals,” in FrontPage Magazine (link).

I sincerely mean that. Cf. Ken Wilber, “On the Nature of Shadow Projections in Forums. Follow-Up #2,” June 13, 2006 (link).

anyone who isn’t a Wari.” Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999 [1997]), p. 51.

!Kung San. Loc. cit.

homicide rate. Adam Kuper, The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994), p. 142.

veins to bleed them.” Richard Rhodes, Deadly Feasts: The “Prion” Controversy and the Public’s Health (New York: Touchstone, 1998 [1997]), p. 78. Quoted in Sam Harris, The End of Faith (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2004), p. 89.

virginity cult. Pinker, op. cit., p. 368: “Derek Freeman and other anthropologists found that Samoan society in fact had widespread adolescent resentment and delinquency, a cult of virginity, frequent rape, reprisals by the rape victim’s family, frigidity, harsh punishment of children, sexual jealousy, and strong religious feeling.”

prevent them running away.” H. Ling Roth, in Roger Sandall, “Out of Africa: Always the Same Thing,” 2004 (link).

and other emotional outlets.’” Roger Sandall, “What Native Peoples Deserve,” 2005 (link).

staircase of a temple.” Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Viking, 2004), p. 172.

slaughtered, scalped, and mutilated.” Roger Sandall, “10,000 Years of Nostalgia,” 2005 (link).

smattering of urban sanitation. See Cezar Tigno, “Country Water Action: India Toilet Technology for Human Dignity,” in Asian Development Bank (link): “In the late 19th century, India’s British colonizers attempted to build the first modern sewerage system in the country. But after 138 years of colonial rule, only about 232 out of 5,161 towns or cities had partially functioning sewers.... About 70 percent of India’s entire population still lacks improved sanitation facilities [i.e., flush toilets].” Things are thankfully changing for the country’s “untouchables,” however: “Sushila can now hold her head high and look at people in the eye. She no longer carries a bucket of human feces on her head.” It’ll do wonders for a girl’s self-esteem; somebody tell Gloria Steinem....

Michael Vick. United States of America v. Michael Vick, “Summary of the Facts,” 2007 (link): “32. In or about April 2007, PEACE, PHILLIPS, VICK, and two others ‘rolled’ or ‘tested’ additional ‘Bad News Kennels’ dogs by putting the dogs through fighting sessions at 1915 Moonlight Road to determine which animals were good fighters. PEACE, PHILLIPS, and VICK agreed to the killing of approximately 6-8 dogs that did not perform well in ‘testing’ sessions at 1915 Moonlight Road and all of those dogs were killed by various methods, including hanging and drowning. VICK agrees and stipulates that these dogs all died as a result of the collective efforts of PEACE, PHILLIPS, and VICK.”

black Muslim.” See Paul Sheehan, “Tolerant, multicultural Sydney can face this difficult truth,” in The Sydney Morning Herald, August 29, 2001 (link).

white girls in Australia. James Fulford, “Racial Gang-Rape: The Sequel,” on VDare.com, 2002 (link). See also Sam Francis, “Racial Gangrape: Another Diversity Disaster,” on VDare.com, 2001 (link).

Dine, Inuit, Huron, Chippewa, Papago, Zhu/Twasi, Yanomamö. Bernard Ortiz De Montellano, “Evolution and Multiculturalism,” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Science, February 20, 1994 (link).

Cherokee. James Fulford, “How To Write About Immigration, Abortion Etc. (If You’re Differently Brained),” on VDare.com, April 10, 2001 (link).

!Kung San call themselves. Nicholas Wade, Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (New York: Penguin Books, 2006), p. 60: “[A]nthropologists have recently started to refer to the !Kung San by their name for themselves, the Ju|’hoansi, which means ‘the Real People.’ The Real People’s name for both Europeans and non-San Africans is !ohm, a category that includes predators and other inedible beasts.”

was annihilation.” Ibid., p. 149, 153.

Strait of Gibraltar. Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (New York: Twelve Books, 2007), p. 181.

Columbus. In Alex Haley, “The Playboy Interview: Malcolm X,” in Playboy magazine, May 1963 (link): “Columbus, the discoverer of America, was a half-black man.”

Indian-on-Indian bloodbath. Note, however, that while Native Americans were massacring each other 150 years before Columbus, some Afrocentric “scholars” believe that America was actually discovered before 1492 ... by black explorers. If so, cultural diffusion from those earlier contacts would of course be one possible origin for the hitherto-peaceful Indians’ increasingly savage behaviors toward one another. They had to learn it from someone, eh? See Gabriel Haslip-Viera, Bernard Ortiz de Montellano and Warren Barbour, “Robbing Native American Cultures: Van Sertima’s Afrocentricity and the Olmecs,” in Current Anthropology, Volume 38, Number 3, June 1997 (link), p. 419-41: “According to Van Sertima’s hypothesis, the Nubian rulers of ancient Egypt (25th dynasty, 712-664 B.C.) organized an expedition with the help of the Phoenicians to obtain various commodities, including iron, from sources on the Atlantic coast of North Africa, Europe, and the British Isles during the late 8th or early 7th century B.C. This expedition allegedly sailed from the Nile Delta or the Levant across the Mediterranean, through the Pillars of Hercules, and down the Atlantic coast of North Africa, where it was caught in some current or storm that sent it across the Atlantic to the Americas. Following the prevailing wind and ocean currents, the expedition allegedly sailed or drifted westward from some unspecified location in the eastern Caribbean or the Bahamas to the Gulf Coast of Mexico, where it came into contact with the receptive but inferior Olmecs.... The Nubians subsequently provided the impetus for the building of pyramids and ceremonial centers and introduced a number of technological innovations and practices (mummification, cire-perdue metallurgy, the symbolic use of purple murex dye, weaving, etc.) which presumably influenced Mesoamerican religion, mythology, customs, and even the calendar.”

recipe for human stew.” Wade, op. cit., p. 155.

a villager said. Roger Sandall, “See Here, Ms Truss,” 2005 (link).

might have put it. See Dennis Lee, “Alligator Pie,” in “Dennis Lee, Poems” (link).

eligible to immigrate. See George J. Borjas, Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), p. 101: “A simulation of the U.S. economy suggests that the per capita income of natives would rise substantially if the country switched from the current immigration policy, which admits a mix of skilled and unskilled workers, to one that admitted only skilled workers....” (Italics added.)

Falun Gong members. Stoffman, op. cit., p. 168. For why Falun Gong members would more likely be found persecuting others—as an alleged “homophobic mind control cult” (link)—than being persecuted themselves, see Rick Ross, “Falun Gong” (link).

Diversity is a great thing. Of course, in practice it’s actually a little more complex than that. Cf. John Lloyd, “Study paints bleak picture of ethnic diversity,” in The Financial Times, October 10, 2006 (link): “The core message of [Robert Putnam’s] research was that, ‘in the presence of diversity, we hunker down,’ he said. ‘We act like turtles. The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it’s not just that we don’t trust people who are not like us. In diverse communities, we don’t trust people who do look like us’.... When the data were adjusted for class, income and other factors, they showed that the more people of different races lived in the same community, the greater the loss of trust.” Cf. also John H. McWhorter, “The Campus Diversity Fraud,” in City Journal, Winter 2002 (link): “In truth, ‘diverse’ college campuses are among the most racially balkanized places in America. Separate black fraternities and sororities thrive. They first emerged in the early twentieth century, when white fraternities and sororities didn’t welcome black applicants. Today, black Greek organizations are thoroughly unenthusiastic toward whites.... In addition, black students typically cluster in their own section of the dining hall, throw their own parties, have their own theme houses, and leave college with a separatist ideology that they often didn’t hold when they first arrived.”

have promoted for years.” Mark Steyn, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2008 [2006]), p. 89-90.

exactly the right way to go. Cf. Paul Craig Roberts, “Affirmative Action + Non-Traditional Immigration = Doomsday Machine Aimed At American Majority...,” on VDare.com, April 3, 2001 (link): “With the assimilation of whites blocked by deconstruction in the classroom and immigration creating a majority of ‘preferred minorities’ with privileged legal standing, academic standards will not be the only white construction to bite the dust. America’s destiny lies in Third World culture.”

fewer prejudices. See Victoria L. Guthrie, Patricia M. King and Carolyn J. Palmer, “Higher Education and Reducing Prejudice: Research on Cognitive Capabilities Underlying Tolerance,” in Diversity Digest, Spring/Summer 2000 (link): “[I]ntellectual development is significantly related to levels of prejudice toward African Americans, levels of prejudice toward homosexuals, and tolerance ... higher levels of prejudice are more likely to be found in individuals who evidence lower levels of intellectual development”

life and in elections. Herman T. Epstein, “The Fourth R: Or Why Johnny Can’t Reason” (link). Consider also Steven Dutch, “Dutch’s Laws of Just About Everything,” 2003 (2001) (link): “The best idea I ever heard was that voters should have to recite the Bill of Rights verbatim before being allowed to vote. Failing that, we could attach a ten-question multiple choice exam to each ballot. Votes would be weighted by percent correct. With electronic voting, we could scramble the questions to prevent cheating. Certainly if you’re too dumb or slack to follow an arrow from the candidate’s name to the correct punch hole, or make sure the ballot is correctly done, you have no right to complain about the outcome.”

a penis or a vagina. Patricia Holt, “Making Ms.Story: The Biography of Gloria Steinem, A Woman Of Controversy and Contradictions,” in San Francisco Chronicle, September 24, 1995 (link).

we can’t deserve our rights. John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me (New York: Signet, 1996 [1960]), p. 44.

“hip enough.” Cf. John McWhorter, “The Demise of Affirmative Action at UC Berkeley: Dissecting the Stalemate,” (link): “This discrepancy [in the continuing low average scores of middle-class African-American students on standardized tests such as the SAT] today stems less from deprivation than from a cultural tendency which expresses itself in black culture regardless of class, namely the well-documented one of black children to associate doing well in school with selling out to ‘whiteness.’ The few hopelessly nerdy black kids such as myself plow on in the face of this, but often at the expense of general social acceptance, and the majority of African-American children inevitably fall into line to some extent with this evaluation of scholarly achievement with ‘the other,’ even in comfortable middle-class circumstances.”

they are somehow shameful. Cf. Griffin, Black Like Me, p. 184: “[I]n order to succeed, [the black man] had to become an imitation white man—dress white, talk white, think white, express the values of middle-class white culture (at least when he was in the presence of white men). Implied in all this was the hiding, the denial, of his selfhood, his negritude, his culture, as though they were somehow shameful.”

pride of heritage. Cf. Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1993 [1992]), p. 44: “When ‘Negroes’ became ‘blacks’ and then ‘African Americans’ in the United States, it was part of a long journey from the humiliation of slavery to a pride of heritage.” Cf. also the renaming of dinosaurs from “brontosaurus” to “brachiosaurus” in Steve Sailer, “Jurassic Park III,” UPI, July 18 (link).

epithet in the back door.” John H. McWhorter, “Losing The Race: Self-Sabotage In Black America,” 2001 (link): “In January 1999, David Howard, the white ombudsman to the newly elected mayor of Washington, DC, Anthony Williams, casually said in a budget meeting with two coworkers ‘I will have to be niggardly with this fund because it’s not going to be a lot of money.’”

“bitch” and “ho.” Randall Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (New York: Vintage Books, 2003 [2002]), p. 36: “[Blacks] have added a positive meaning to nigger, just as women, gays, lesbians, poor whites, and children born out of wedlock have defiantly appropriated and revalued such words as bitch, cunt, queer, dyke, redneck, cracker, and bastard.

more than seven times. La Griffe du Lion, “Politics, Imprisonment and Race,” Volume 8, Number 1, April 2006 (link): “According to the last decennial census a black man was 7.4 times more likely than his white counterpart to be found behind bars.”

“up in smoke.” Cf. Jonathan Kay, “Six reasons why Stephen Harper’s government shouldn’t deliver an apology,” in National Post, June 11, 2008 (link): “[T]he five-figure per person payouts from the federal government to make amends for the [First Nations] residential schools program has caused a deadly upsurge in binge drinking in many northern communities—an outcome any idiot would have foreseen.”

locally whenever possible. Buying locally keeps the money in the community/country, and saves on transportation/fuel, which lessens our dependence on foreign oil. Or did you think it was just a “leftist moonbat” thing? You know what else would decrease the demand for oil? Fewer immigrants. See Steve Smith, “A California Reader Says Immigration Will Makes It Impossible To Drill Our Way Out Of The Oil Crisis,” on VDare.com, August 31, 2008 (link).

people of the Orkney Islands. See Roger Sandall, “An Australian Dilemma: Reconciling the Irreconcilable,” in Upholding the Australian Constitution (The Samuel Griffith Society, 1997) (link).

Minnesota Vikings football team. AP Staff, “Jury: Williams guilty on one count in Vikings boat party case,” Associated Press, 2005 (link). See also Seattle Times Staff, “NFL wire notes: Koren Robinson named in sex scandal,” in The Seattle Times, October 16, 2005 (link). See also CBS Worldwide Inc., “911 Call Released In Vikings Boat Party Case,” on wcco.com, October 13, 2005 (link).

treated Italian immigrants with scorn. Paul Gottfried, “Attack Of The Pod Person I: Amnesty To Remake GOP,” on VDare.com, 2004 (link).

benefiting from that injustice. Cf. Father Michael Pfleger, quoted in Bernard Chapin, “Why I Feel Absolutely No White Guilt,” in Pajamas Media, July 11, 2008 (link): “[We must be] honest enough to address the one who says, ‘Well, don’t hold me responsible for what my ancestors did.’ But you have enjoyed the benefits of what your ancestors did and unless you are ready to give up the benefits ... throw away all the money you put into the company you walked into because your daddy and your granddaddy and your great-granddaddy, unless you’re willing to give up the benefits then you must be responsible for what was done in your generation cause you are the beneficiary of this insurance policy!”

by its nature, violent.” Quoted in Barbara Mikkelson, “Rape Seeded,” on Snopes.com (link).

embellished with meaningful looks.” Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone: Writings 1976–1987 (New York: Dutton, 1988), p. 14.

dismissal of sociobiology. See Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1993 [1992]), p. 145; also see Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1995 [1983]), p. 246. For the details contra, see Geoffrey D. Falk, “PVs,” January 12, 2008 (link) and Geoffrey D. Falk, “Zaftig Snuff Tigers,” February 4, 2008 (link).

part of a minority group. Cf. Bernard Ortiz De Montellano, “Multiculturalism, Cult Archaeology, and Pseudoscience,” in Francis B. Harrold and Raymond E. Eve, ed., Cult Archaeology and Creationism: Understanding Pseudoscientific Beliefs about the Past (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1995), p. 134-51 (link): “[C]hildren acquire self-esteem by accomplishing increasingly complex tasks, by learning, and by being able to use what they have learned.... [O]ne of the most important characteristics of successful people is accurate perception. A curriculum that consists primarily of assertions of black superiority with little development of critical thinking, of high expectations for performance in an effort to develop self-esteem, will ultimately be self-defeating. Stevenson, Chen, and Uttal ... compared black, Hispanic, and white children in Chicago and found that the self-evaluation of African American children exceeded their actual achievement scores. Stevenson’s group felt that this was due to blacks not getting, or not incorporating, reliable and accurate feedback on their performance. ‘Teachers praise the children for modestly good performance instead of pushing them to do better’.... Stevenson points out that praising work that is substandard, often on the pretext of protecting the self-esteem of the child, does not do the child any favor, because one of the most important sources of children’s self-esteem is realizing that they have mastered a challenging task....”

“Fire on the Mountain,” circa 1973. “Mickey Hart and The Marin County Collective, 1972–1973” (link).

studio recording from 1974. Davis Gans, “Grateful Dead Hour no. 500,” April 20, 1998 (link).

“When the Levee Breaks.” Andy Fyfe, When the Levee Breaks: The Making of Led Zeppelin IV (Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 2003), p. 131.

white boy in hip-hop.” Corey Moss, “What’s Up with That Guy in the ‘99 Problems’ Video?” April 5, 2003 (link).

“Rapper’s Delight.” Rolling Stone Staff, “Rappers Delight: The Sugarhill Gang” (link).

giving it back to us.” Quoted in John H. McWhorter, “How Hip-Hop Holds Blacks Back,” in City Journal, Summer 2003 (link).

melanin. Bernard Ortiz De Montellano, “Multicultural Pseudoscience: Spreading Scientific Illiteracy Among Minorities,” in Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 16, No. 1, Fall 1991 (link).

Cleopatra. Mary Lefkowitz, Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History (New York: Basic Books, 1997 [1996]), p. xii, 9, 14.

Josephine. Ibid., p. 133.

Beethoven, Haydn, Solomon, Hannibal. Malcolm X, in Alex Haley, “The Playboy Interview: Malcolm X,” in Playboy magazine, May 1963 (link): “Hannibal, the most successful general that ever lived, was a black man. So was Beethoven; Beethoven’s father was one of the blackamoors that hired themselves out in Europe as professional soldiers. Haydn, Beethoven’s teacher, was of African descent. And Solomon.” See also Peter Brimelow, “Invisible Men,” on VDare.com, 1993 (link): “[Jared Taylor, in Paved With Good Intentions] tracks several years of self-feeding press references to the heinous scandal of a white Stanford student hanging a caricatured blackface Beethoven on the door of a black student (who, as it happens, had insisted Beethoven was black).”

Odysseus. Michael Elby, “Ancient Greco-Roman descriptions of Egyptians,” 2000 (link): “In describing the skin tone of Odysseus, Homer used the word melanchroiês—a form of the same word that other Greeks sometimes chose to describe Egyptians, and one that is the source of much Afrocentric misunderstanding. If taken literally, the word would mean ‘black-skinned’; however, it is clear from the context that Homer means ‘of swarthy complexion’ rather than racially ‘black,’ and intends to describe Odysseus regaining his youthful color.”

Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln. Lefkowitz, op. cit., p. 200, footnote #29.

more victimized today. See Bob Allen, quoted in Frederick R. Lynch, Invisible Victims: White Males and the Crisis of Affirmative Action (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989), p. 181: “We have institutionalized a counter-white-male bias. We’ve created a new group who are being discriminated against.... You’ve got no access to legal recourse or power. We have institutionalized discrimination against one group. When does it end?”

“the new black.” Cf. Steve Sailer, “Is Brown the New Black? Assimilating Latinos into the Politics of Victimhood,” in The American Conservative, March 10, 2008 (link).

“backlash.” Cf. Christina Hoff Sommers’ debunking of Susan “Backlash” Faludi’s dismal, flailing and failed attempts at rational thought and competent scholarship, in The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 147-9. Cf. also Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 227-55.

pleasing shade of light brown. For a less happy ending, see Steve Sailer, “Mapping Human History,” on VDare.com, 2002 (link): “Th[e] notion that the entire world will soon consist of one beige race is both highly popular and highly dubious. I see little statistical evidence to suggest that there will be significantly greater racial admixture in either Asia or Africa anytime in the 21st century … and that’s where most humans will live.... Most of the growth in racial mixing will be restricted to regions where intermarriage has been a long tradition (primarily Latin America and some remote islands) or are immigrant magnets (presumably North America, Australia, and Western Europe).”

Vanessa Hudgens. Ruben V. Nepales, “Vanessa Hudgens: ‘I love being a Filipina,’” in Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 9, 2007 (link). See also Lynn Barker, “Interview: Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne Hudgens: High School Musical,” in TeenHollywood, May 17, 2006 (link).

Heather Locklear. Mario de Valdes y Cocom, “The Blurred Racial Lines of Famous Families: Locklear,” 2008 (link).

Vanessa Marcil. E! Online Staff, “Vanessa Marcil: Profile,” in E! Online (link).

Megan Fox. Sirius Radio Staff, “Megan Fox on family background and celebrity inspired tattoo from Maxim Radio,” on Sirius Radio (link).

Tiger Woods. Steve Sailer, “Is Love Colorblind?” in The National Review, July 14, 1997 (link).

too stupid to use a condom. See Edwin S. Rubenstein, “National Data: Penicillin is No Match for Immigration,” on VDare.com, November 14, 2007 (link): “In 2005 ... approximately 68 percent of gonorrhea cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control occurred among non-Hispanic blacks. The infection rate for blacks ... was 18 times that of non-Hispanic whites and 4 times that of Hispanics.... Syphilis, a rarer though more virulent STD, infects blacks at ... over five times the non-Hispanic white rate ... and about three times the Hispanics rate.... Similarly, blacks and Hispanics—each with about 13 percent of the U.S. population—accounted for 49 percent and 18 respectively percent of new HIV/AIDS diagnoses, respectively, in 2005.”

we marry them. David Berreby, Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005), p. 221: “A saying in one African tribe supposedly held, ‘They are our enemies. We marry them.’”

Anglo-Saxons. Steve Sailer, “It’s All Relative: Putting Race in Its Proper Perspective,” on VDare.com, 2002 (link): “[I]ntermarriage is what turned the Angles and the Saxons into the Anglo-Saxons. And one way to raise the intermarriage rate is to cut back on immigration. Here in California, native-born Americans are something like three times more likely to intermarry than immigrants.” (Italics added.)

Mexifornians. Cf. Victor Davis Hanson, “Mexifornia, Five Years Later,” in City Journal, Winter 2007 (link).

rednecks. Cf. Steven Dutch, “The Consumer Society,” 1998 (link): “[A] ‘redneck’ was somebody who had to work outdoors, becoming chronically sunburned in the process. (The term was once highly pejorative, but with entertainers like Jeff Foxworthy using the term, it has lost much of its force.)”