Square Peg in a Round Hole
By • 1/3/07 |
A poor fit. |
Last week’s column dealt with the difference in intelligence between blacks and whites and showed that scientific research established beyond any reasonable doubt that this difference was innate. This alone proves that our egalitarian culture is radically wrong about the nature of the races. However, once we have recognized the innate racial difference in intelligence, we have only begun to scratch the surface. Blacks and whites differ not only in intelligence, but across a whole suite of personality attributes. The fact that these differences are found the world over is strong evidence that they stem from the differing genetic makeup of the races rather than from any accident of history or culture.
First, the races differ in sexual behavior: blacks are more sexually promiscuous than whites and are less inclined to form long-term sexual partnerships. The sexual mores prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa differ radically from Western norms. African sexuality is characterized by the early onset of sexual activity, loose emotional ties between sexual partners, and matings with many different partners. For example, among the Herero tribe of southwest Africa, men typically sire many children by different women before they marry at the late age of 35 to 40. The tribe considers this behavior normal and does not stigmatize the children of out-of-wedlock unions1. In 1987, 64 percent of African adolescents reported being sexually experienced vs. only 40 percent of European adolescents2. Africans also have sex with greater frequency than whites.3
The same difference is evident in the US. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), in 2005 sixty-seven percent of black high school students reported having had sex, whereas only 43 percent of white high school students did. Twenty-eight percent of black high-schoolers said they had had four or more sexual partners in their lifetimes, compared to only 11 percent of white high-schoolers4. Also, in 2002, black men aged 15-44 reported having had 8.3 sexual partners in their lifetimes on average, whereas white men reported 5.3.5
These differences in sexual promiscuity create enormous differences in susceptibility to sexual diseases. In 2005, over six percent of Africans aged 15-44 were HIV positive, compared to 0.5 percent of North Americans and Europeans, making the HIV incidence rate in Africa a full 12 times higher than in the West6. Blacks in the US show the same pattern. According to the CDC, US blacks are 10 times more likely than whites to have AIDS. There are similar differences in other sexually-transmitted diseases. In 2005, 9.8 out of every 100,000 American blacks had syphilis vs. 1.8 whites, making the black syphilis rate more than five times higher. American statistics on parenting also reveal blacks’ lack of inclination to form long-term sexual bonds. The CDC reports that a no less than 70 percent of all black births were to unmarried women in 2005, which is about three times higher than the percentage of births to unmarried women among whites. Black children are three times more likely to live with a single mother than white children7.
A second domain in which there are substantial differences between whites and blacks is the ability to defer present gratification for greater future rewards. It is essential to success in modern societies that we be willing to accept privations and hardships in the present for the sake of greater good down the road. Buying a house in the future often requires that you save and invest your money rather than spending it immediately. Getting a good job in the future often requires that you endure difficult and costly training in the present. Scientific studies and statistics on behavior show blacks have a lower ability to defer gratification than whites. Blacks’ inability to focus on the long-term makes them more prone than whites to socially irresponsible behaviors such as crime, unemployment, and drug addiction.
The psychologist Walter Mischel showed this racial difference clearly in a 1961 study. He offered black and white children the choice between a small candy bar immediately or a larger candy bar a week hence. The black children were so much more likely than whites to ask for the smaller candy bar that Mischel deemed significance tests superfluous. He concluded, in the blunt language that his day still allowed, “Negroes are impulsive, indulge themselves, settle for next to nothing if they can get it right away, do not work or wait for bigger things in the future.”8
A particularly good example of the consequences of blacks’ inability to defer gratification is their higher crime rates. Criminals are the best examples of people who favor present gratification at the expense of long-term rewards: a mugger is willing to sacrifice his whole future for the chance of stealing someone’s wallet. In “The Color of Crime,” New Century Foundation, which publishes American Renaissance, has shown blacks in America are seven times more likely than whites to be in prison. Nor is this an artifact of racial discrimination by the legal system: the report also proves that the available evidence leaves no doubt that police are equally likely to arrest white criminals as black criminals and judges equally likely to convict them. Blacks are more likely to commit every category of crime than whites, but the gap is particularly wide in the categories of robbery, which blacks are 15 times more likely to commit than whites, and drug offenses, which blacks are 12 times more likely to commit9.
“The Color of Crime” also demonstrates that this difference in criminality is not caused by black social disadvantage. Examining violent crime rates by state, the report finds the percentage of the state’s population that is black or Hispanic is a far better predictor of crime levels than poverty, unemployment, or high-school dropout rates. Furthermore, even when you control for these factors, the relationship between percentage black and Hispanic and crime rates is still almost as strong as before. This indicates that even if whites were just as socially disadvantaged as blacks, the racial difference in criminality would still be almost as great as it currently is10. The racial difference in crime rates plainly stems from different natures.
This difference in criminality prevails internationally as well. Using data from international surveys of crime, J. Phillippe Rushton found that violent crime was twice as common in Africa and the Caribbean as in predominantly white countries11.
Many other differences between white and black behavior are consequences of the difference in ability to defer gratification. Blacks are twice as likely to be unemployed as whites, indicating they prefer the present pleasure of sleeping in and “hanging out” to the long-term rewards afforded by holding a steady job. Blacks also spend three times as much of their income on movies as whites, who are more prone to save their money for major purchases in the future12.
The past two columns have shown that blacks and whites differ in fundamental ways across a wide array of traits. These differences make it difficult for blacks to conform to the norms of Western societies. No matter how much taxpayer money is devoted to improving black education, employment, and so forth, blacks continue to lag. Year after year, they do worse in school than whites, commit crime at higher rates, and are more likely to be unemployed and impoverished. Trying to get blacks to integrate into white societies is like trying to stick a square peg into a round hole.
So pervasive and profound are the differences between the white and black minds that we must conclude that evolution designed them to create radically different types of society. Next week, we will examine how the environments in which whites and blacks evolved gave rise to racial differences in personality and abilities.
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- J. Philippe Rushton. Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective, 3rd ed. (Port Huron, MI: Charles Darwin Research Institute), 156. ↑
- Ibid., p. 172. ↑
- Ibid., p. 172. ↑
- Center for Disease Control, “Trends in HIV-Related Risk Behaviors Among High School Students, United States, 1991-2005,” CDC website, 11 August 2006 (accessed 2 January 2007). Link ↑
- William D. Mosher and others, “Sexual Behavior and Selected Health Measures: Men and Women 15–44 Years of Age, United States, 2002,” CDC website, 15 September 2005, p. 28 (accessed 2 January 2007). Link ↑
- UNAIDS. 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic (Geneva: UNAIDS, 2006), 13. Link ↑
- US Census Bureau, “Children’s Living Arrangements and Characteristics: March 2002,” US Census Bureau website, June 2003, p. 5. Link ↑
- Walter Mischel, “Preference for Delayed Reinforcement and Social Responsibility,” Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 62, no. 1 (1961), p. 6. Quoted in Michael Levin. Why Race Matters (Oakton, Va.: New Century Books, 2005), 77. ↑
- New Century Foundation. The Color of Crime 2nd ed. (Oakton, Va., New Century Foundation, 2005), pp. 7-11. Link ↑
- Ibid., pp. 11-12. ↑
- Rushton, pp. 158-60. ↑
- Levin, p. 77. ↑
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The fundamental incompatibility of most non-White races (such as Blacks) with our Western way of life is the great truth on which all race realism rests.
It would seem that the primary enemy of this truth is the opposing theory—namely, that race is irrelevant (or doesn’t even exist), and that environment is the sole determinant of the undeniably huge cultural differences between races.
This theory, though indeed false and destructive, is only a symptom, not the disease.
If it were the true cause of the multicultural, anti-White, and pro-“diversity” policies espoused by our elites, our battle could be won relatively easily through relentless exposure of the truth. History has shown that attempts by the powerful—from the medieval Catholic Church to the 20th-century Soviet Union—to suppress the truth inevitably fail.
There are plenty of books, articles, and Web sites that have eloquently and convincingly pointed out the truth of innate racial differences. Significantly, they are never directly refuted. Instead, our opponents content themselves with accusations of “racism” against the authors, and these are enough, at least for now, to discredit the truth.
The real root of the problem is a moral one. We have been led to believe that the vision of mankind as one, big, happy family living in harmony and equality—picture in your mind the Disneyland version of a group of children of all races, wearing their colorful native costumes, singing “It’s a Small World” together—is the greatest moral good. Anything that brings this vision one step closer to reality is considered good. Anything that impedes its realization is considered evil. Objective truth and untruth are irrelevant. Indeed, a whole pseudo-science of “junk anthropology”—the Boas school—has arisen to support this vision. This pseudo-science now dominates our universities.
Progress toward race realism can only be made by challenging the legitimacy of the vision. This, in turn, can only be achieved by creating an alternative vision that is morally and emotionally attractive to large numbers of Whites. Until this happens, proponents of the truth, like yourself, may not be refuted (they can’t be), but they will be demonized and marginalized.
By on 1/3/07 at 11:53 pm
Race realism is only half of the big change in public understanding that needs to happen. After all, Steve Sailer and John Derbyshire are race realists, but have offered no public evidence of any greater attachment to or interest in the interests of whites as a race than toward other races.
Along with being race realists, we must also be pro-white: supporting the survival and well-being of whites as a race (not merely confined to the well-being of our component ethnic groups, or to all “citizens” of whatever state we live under, or to all humanity), including when those directly conflict with the well-being of other races.
And yes, one can be pro-white without being a race realist; simply hoping that whites survive or do well as a matter or personal preference while rejecting the notion that race differences are real and matter on an objective basis.
By on 1/4/07 at 1:05 am
Despite the fact that the spending habits of blacks vs whites have been studied for over four decades now, the empirical evedence reveals that blacks have a propensity to chose instant gratification over delayed gratification even if it is made abundantly clear that to delay gratification would benefit them in great measure.
In spite of all this knowledge, the social engineers STILL have the unmitigated gull to conveniently ignore all of it and assert that blacks are clearly racially discriminated against economically as evidenced by the net worth of blacks vs whites. Amazing!
But what is more amazing is that this deceit is propagated through the MSM and is acually accepted as the unvarnished truth by the ignorant masses.
By on 1/5/07 at 12:39 pm
if one can be pro-white in one time, then why not be pro-humanity in a latter time? one started as pro-family, to pro-clan, to pro-village, to pro-city, to pro-nation, to pro-europe? isn’t the next element in the logical historical sequence, pro-humanity in its entirety? what is wrong with being pro-humanity? isn’t it a higher calling for a more rational time? we have passed the pro-race phase already. we are in the pro-humanity phase of our consciousness. just as many nationalists denounced early pioneers of the european union, many racists are now denouncing the human union that is taking place along side globalization. the irony is that the beneficiaries of the pro-race in AMERICA( the non-anglo-saxons) are fighting the human phase just as anglo-saxon supremacists were fighting the pro-white phase that had integrated the polish, the slavic, and others earlier.
By on 12/21/07 at 4:53 pm
The problem with being pro-“humanity” is no one else is pro-“humanity.” Everywhere else in the world we look, its tribe first, or clan first, or ethnicity first. The only place we don’t see this is in White countries. Well, we do see it in white countries but only among non-whites. So if whites don’t look out for the interests of their people, while everyone else is for theirs, the result will be displacement.
For example, look to the blacks in America. They always look out for their people. If a black man kills a white person, the blacks will always have his back. We don’t see this with white people. White people always want “justice” while the other races always want power. I’m not suggesting becoming like the blacks, but this is a perfect example of what I mean.
Look at the hispanic politicians. They overwhelmingly vote for, and support illegal immigrants. They realize that more mestizos will equal more power. They’re so successful at organizing, that the Republicans actually go and pander to La Raza. These same Republican politicians would be the first people to screech if whites organized by race.
If whites don’t organize, they’ll be displaced. We’re already seeing this today. But its important to remember that its not the blacks, or hispanics, or Muslims fault. They’re just doing what comes natural. Its OUR fault, and OUR weakness that we must overcome. This is the most important thing to remember.
By on 12/22/07 at 4:07 pm
= H0, If whites don’t organize, they’ll be displaced.
I’m been thinking this issue over and arrived at the following question. Before the 1960s and the beginning of massive brainwashing/indocrination what was the attitude of whites? Was it ethnicity first or a clear grasp of reality and facts or something else?
By on 12/24/07 at 9:17 am
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By cjd on 1/3/07 at 10:40 pm