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Entry: The Sad Sorority of Skin Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_sad_sorority_of_skin#31311 Post contents: I disagree with this idea that we should be evasive about reality in the interest of social peace or because certain facts might be abused. Suppressing IQ data won't fool anyone about what their eyes and experiences reinforce every day. People know about group trends; it's not news, especially to people whose honesty has not been suppressed by higher level education group-think. What science can't do, but real conservatives must, is remember that we have certain obligations to one another as countrymen, as Christians, and as beings made in the image of God. This is true for all of our countrymen of all races. We should not descend into a pagan attempt to eugenecize ourselves into supermen and throw away those deemed inferior or more burdensome. We should instead seek (or rather remember) to create conditions for the social flourishing of all the races based on reality. Because of our cultural and racial differences, this means different communities will need different levels of social control, order, educational systems, and the like. This local variation is perfectly healthy and, so long as done in a spirit of charity, need not be nasty and mean-spirited. White nationalism as opposed to historic American patriotism, however, is uncharitable, ahistorical, and unnecessary. It seeks to recreate America on the basis of a single unifying abstract principle, just as mass immigration seeks to recreate the historical America on the basis of a universalist principle. Blacks and whites got along better, spoke the same langauge, sang the same songs, and worshiped the same God back when a broad-minded American patriotism ruled the day. That patriotism did not demand "white power" so much as it did not allow "black power." It recognized instead the sovereignty of the law, and in cultural matters the rights of wealthy, self-respecting, educated whites who constituted a majority to set standards for the whole society. Black leaders followed their lead, setting up social clubs and institutions that overlapped with or worked in parallel with those of whites. Black and white leaders both demanded the same behavior of the lower classes of both races and pursued the same goals that formed a common culture. I do not believe it was wise or just to have imported millions of Africans as slaves. But the current degraded conditions of race relations are not all there is either. I also agree with John that we are countrymen, and it is a cruel and ideological view that would be indifferent to the effects of mass immigration and other policies on low IQ native-born Americans, both blacks and white. To me, understanding IQ can make us more charitable and more realistic with one another. While I do not believe in perpetual guilt-tripping and obeissance to ridiculous race-hustlers like Al Sharpton, my opposition to that does not prevent me from having ordinary Christian feelings of sympathy and fellow feeling with my black countrymen, folks who speak my language, fight our wars, etc. I do not have to forget that black criminals exist in higher percentages and that black culture has been degraded since the Sixties to remember also that it produced Booker T. Washington and Ella Fitzgerald and the many black servicemen who have fought our nations' wars out of patriotic love of country. We are in a degraded time, with unnecessary and avoidable friction fomented by race-hustlers. We should not tolerate them, but we need not suppress truths about differences of the races to do so. Indeed, truth in light of charity is the way forward. Sent at: 2008 12 02