21/6/01

A Thought on Racism

14/10/02

UK The deputy head of the Metropolitan Police has launched an attack on political correctness, saying that society cannot ignore the evidence that most muggers are black.

But will he stay in his job for having said so?

Hmm.

Not for long, I imagine.

And, while on this tricky subject, I do receive emails occasionally from my black fans complaining that I am far too quick to say that it is white, heterosexual males who are the most demonised in western societies whereas, in fact, they argue, black men are just as hard done by.

These are the three points that they generally make.

1. Black men are very keen to oppose the forces of feminism but they would get it in the neck both from their womenfolk and from their black 'racial' activist friends. Their womenfolk would jeer at them in much the same way that happens to white men who oppose feminism (e.g. you've got a small penis, you're a wimp) and the racial activists point out to them that feminists are their allies, and that by opposing feminism they would be playing into the hands of whitey. In other words, there are many more forces rallied against those black men who would like openly to oppose the feminists than there are against white men.

2. When it comes to the interplay between the genders, they argue, black men are far more at the mercy of their womenfolk than are white men. This is partly because their womenfolk are doubly supported in the scheme of things (they're women and they're black) and they are also very much more empowered than their men because of their relatively better education and/or because of their stronger grip on the family and its resources - perhaps through welfare payments. This makes black men even more redundant than white men when it comes to the family.

3. While it is true that the media and the institutions do take steps to give black men a better deal than white men, the truth is that in real life there is still a great deal of racism that they have to face which white men do not.

And all of these points seem perfectly valid.

And so I might as well respond to them!

1. Many black people are often causing far more racism than they are curing. They are too often overplaying the race card not only over big issues - like reparations for past slavery and affirmative action - but also in real life - like accusing people of racism simply to gain the upper hand in any dispute. Thus, it is often the activities and the societal influences of racial activists that, in fact, eventually end up playing into the hands of whitey!

2. Black men have been disempowered with regard to their families to a large extent precisely because the state, in an attempt to help black people, has often intervened financially - e.g. through welfare - to support the women and children. This has definitely made black men even more redundant in the eyes of their own families than are white men. 

3. My short piece A Thought on Racism (the piece above) explains why it is that white men are not nearly as racist as black men perceive them to be.

It is also worth pointing out that quite a few of these emails also suggest that political correctness is a good way of dividing black men from white men, which plays right into the feminists' hands.

And, in my view, there is only one solution, the destruction of both feminism and political correctness. In the case of political correctness of the racial kind, and the policies that it engenders, there was probably a time when it had value for black men, but I think that it now causes far more harm to them than good. After all, if my arguments in A Thought on Racism are valid - which they are! - then even a small increase in the racism of whites towards blacks would be multiplied manyfold by the differences in their relative population numbers.

In my humble opinion, the only way that one can successfully reduce racism is to make race a complete non-issue. Political correctness of the racial kind, however, just seems to end up highlighting it all the time.

While it is true that feminists and political correctoids are very much allies in their common quest to disempower white males, I cannot quite see why black males cannot ditch their support for feminists and start openly opposing them, thereby gaining more and more support from white males without the need for political correctness of the racial kind.

And the multiplier effect - as mentioned in my above piece - could cause even a small percentage drop in the racism of white men to have a very large positive impact on the situation for black men.

However, I could be showing my ignorance here, because I really know precious little about race issues.

Nevertheless, I can definitely say this with some certainty. Political correctness of the racial kind is causing far more harm than good when it comes to race relations at ground level.

This may not have been true 15 years ago, but it certainly seems to be so now.

Further, my black readers must remember that in much the same way that men are now being empowered against feminism because of the internet etc, the same is true for white men of the supremacist type. Both of these groups have been silenced for much of the past three decades. But they are now beginning to be heard. And so the effects of their activities could be rather large.

So, perhaps, it is time for black men to change the nature of their political alliances.

Perhaps they should see themselves more as men, rather than as black!

Talking of which, ...

How Feminism Hurts Black People I wonder, has the wife or daughter of a well-paid white man been boosted by affirmative action into a well-paid job - a job that might otherwise have gone to a poor but qualified black American.