I think President Trump spoke for the majority of Americans in his comments yesterday about the murder of a young Ukrainian woman on a North Carolina transit system. His statement is very brief, but I hope all my readers will take a couple of minutes to listen to it.
An equally tragic situation is arising in terms of relations between racial and ethnic groups in this country. More and more people are unequivocally equating criminal violence with black crime and black violence. Eric S. Raymond pointed out yesterday:
The part of me that was once an idealistic anti-racist liberal marching for civil rights died its final death last night as I watched the video of Irina Zarutska on the Charlotte light rail, being fatally stabbed in the throat from behind by a black savage I refuse to name.
What has finally broken me is, incidents like that aren't even a surprise anymore. The frequency of brutal, senseless murders by "African-Americans", both individually and in predatory mobs, has risen exactly as rapidly as social and coercive controls on their behavior have weakened.
Meanwhile, for anybody who's wondering, American whites still have about the same crime rate as Switzerland. When enforcement of norms disintegrates, only intelligent people with low time preference still act civilized.
As I've watched us sliding down the civilizational failure gradient, the question I've been increasingly unable to dismiss is this: was the whole ugly apparatus of racial repression - segregation, sundown towns, lynchings - really just senseless hatred? Or was it a rational containment strategy evolved under pressure from living alongside a large, visually distinct population of low-IQ savages?
I think I know the answer now. And I hate knowing it. I preferred my innocence.
It doesn't do any good to protest that this particular savage was "mentally ill", whatever you think that means. The mobs that routinely form to beat up and kill whites unwary enough to wander onto their turf aren't psychotic, unless all Blacks are psychotic.
Yes, yes, I know. If you were to select a population of whites for the same distribution of IQ and time preference as American Blacks, and then coddle them, scholarship out their brightest kids for four generations, and tell them all of their failures are society's fault, you'd get the same level of pathology and violence in about the time it took you to say "dyscultural and dysgenic".
That doesn't matter. We're not dealing with that hypothetical. We're dealing with reality. The reality is that we have a predation problem that will only be solved when our actual population of low IQ savages is contained again. Creatures like Irina's murderer, cognitively unable to participate in civilization, must be subject to either segregation or repression so brutal that they live in fear of it.
I don't really want to live in the kind of society that can do either these things. But Irina Zarutska's murder is the seal on my realization that there are no longer soft options, only hard choices.
I'd prefer the one where armed citizens routinely shoot down creatures like that at the time of the attempted crime, or immediately after it. All the alternatives seem far worse.
I've devoted much of my life to fighting the evils of racism and bigotry. I bear the physical scars of that struggle on my body and in my mind. I've written about them on occasion in these pages, as regular readers will know. I absolutely hate reading such words from a balanced, sane commenter like Eric Raymond . . . but I know he's merely voicing the reactions of a great many Americans from other racial groups. They're beginning to blame all blacks for the actions and attitudes of criminal blacks. Given the number of cities that tolerate such offenders as the Charlotte murderer, it's almost impossible to advance a meaningful counter-argument. There are simply too many such criminals out there, and unless and until they're dealt with, permanently, in the eyes of other racial and ethnic groups they will continue to drag their own race down into the ordure in which they swim.
When trying to help the victims of racial and ethnic violence in Africa, I had to learn (the hard way) that the only way to protect innocent victims was to end the onslaught of their (and my) violent predatory enemies, any way I had to. I was a priest, and worked with many other priests. The only ones who were effective ministers of the Gospel were those who realized that when Christ commanded his followers to buy a sword if they didn't own one, he wasn't joking. We bought the modern equivalent of swords, and we used them to keep our flocks safe. It felt very weird (at first) to be wearing a gun beneath my vestments, or have one stashed close to hand in case of need, but it was necessary under the circumstances, and many of us did so. How many Americans are willing to contemplate their pastors and clergy doing likewise in today's society? Unless we can put an end to this senseless criminal violence, congregations all over the country may have to make that choice.
May God have mercy on the victims, and may the guilty be brought to justice and condign punishment: and may those who tolerate, support and encourage the guilty suffer the same consequences.
Peter
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It's really not that hard to avoid veering off into racial identitarianism if you actually want to. Look at the actual percentages of people of various races who commit crimes, then look at the various other confounding factors, and it's not hard to figure out what's actually going on. Like all identitarian politics, racism is, frankly, a manifestation of laziness.
(This is one reason, by the way, why I recommend reading Theodore Dalrymple--race and class are much less intertwined in the UK than they are here, and his observations regarding "chav" culture, which is mostly white, could be ripped from a discussion of ghetto culture here in the States.)
And the annoying thing is that avoiding this would have been super simple. The guy who killed Iryna Zarutska should have been institutionalized years ago, on the grounds that if you're not competent to stand trial you're not competent to be taking care of yourself out on the street. Further, the court system needed to be funded adequately so that cases could actually go to trial properly for the real charges, rather than plea bargained down because the court system is overworked as it is. Third, and most importantly, the people running things needed to get their heads out of their behinds and understand that their desire to keep people from being locked into criminality and to give them a second chance did not trump the need, for the sake of those who would be their victims and the criminals themselves, to actually prevent them from committing crimes.
Stupid and criminally incompetent elites got us here, and as per usual they're not the ones that are going to suffer the consequences.
I grew up in a military family and was exposed to many people and cultures. I work in the mental health field and work with a lot of blacks. Some of them are close friends. I've always realized that there are differences and to stay alert. I think the BLM riots of 2020 was a breaking point for a lot of us. This brutal stabbing and the look of fear on this young woman's face will be that breaking point for a lot more.
Agree completely, Peter. I know my Pastor, most of my church's Elders, plus a fair number of the congregation are armed. "Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me"
The problem is that all blacks are close to, or related to the criminal blacks. THey live in the same communities, they (generally) are decent people with bad relatives....who they protect.
And they not only look like them, they sound like them, and they listen to the same music as them and they dress like them...
And when cops try to arrest the (more) criminal members of their community, they rally behind the criminals....because Race Beats All in the American Black community.
So yeah, we are "backlashing" against them.
We can't tell which dog is gonna bite us. They all look and act the same.
Add me -- sadly - to the list of those like Eric Raymond. In the last year or so, we've all been coming to the realization that black criminality, excused by the black community at large, encouraged by scum and scammers like Al Sharpton, and enabled in places like Chicago - is a danger to everyone else. In the last couple of years, I have been to public events (fairs, street celebrations in small Texas communities) or to the coast for a holiday. I looked around at the crowd in those places, and realized that I felt perfectly safe with my family, because there was only a bare scattering of black people present. For someone raised in the post-civil rights era, and having served in the military alongside black people whom I liked and trusted - feeling like this now is absolutely horrifying.
Long time reader, I do not usually comment but these soul rending attacks on innocents has to stop. If government or law enforcement will not curtail this behavior then inevitably vigilantism will rise. Mr. Raymond's comments are concise his conclusions inescapeable.
You didn't mention that some (a lot) of the African violence is due to non-Christian attacks on defenseless Christians. Moslems are ever pressing to advance their "just cause" against Christians who are often prohibited from owning guns for defense by their governments.
Aren't you all glad that we don't have unappreciative Moslems in our midst, bringing their own customs to our shores. Then demanding that we adhere to their customs, while not adhering to ours. Are we stupid enough go along with that? England and France are currently demonstrating to us what unopposed acceptance of Moslem customs can do to formerly free countries.
I grew up in a military family, parents who came from largely white hometowns, people who believed at their core what MLK Jr was pronouncing. But I knew something they didn't - stops on the military carousel put me in school with La Raza types in New Mexico and the newly integrated schools in Alabama - the 60's for me were combat and stress. It wasn't until we went overseas and I attended an all white high school that I realized how tense the prior five years had been. You shouldn't hate people for their color, or social status, or whatever - but you better understand that diversity as strength is a liberal myth and differences in peoples can be deadly.
Aother possible factor:
Blacks in America make up 13% of the population, but they're not evenly distributed geographically. When I worked in Brooklyn NYC and went out at lunchtime I was a distinct minority, fully 80% of people on the street were black. So although the percentage of savages may be roughly the same between blacks and whites, for blacks they're concentrated in smaller areas and they have the ability to congregate and work together, i,e, from gangs.
Add to that the catch and release policies of many of the cities, so the criminals dobn't fear punishment, and you have a feedback loop for criminality.
Mark D
Well said.
I would venture to guess most readers and commenters live in North America.
The problems in Europe and Africa are their problems, the problem at hand here will be corrected one way or another before other problems which may or may not be related.
That includes cutting off foreign regimes that expect Uncle Sugar's largesse and the deaths of White American Soldier Peasants in their stead.
You are a liar and a fool. Every race in the world - except Whites - is highly aware of visual and cultural aspects of their race (both of which come from their genetics). God created us as biological beings in addition to gifting us with a soul. Like all biological mammals, we use visual and behavioral cues to help identify in-group and out-group, friend from stranger and foe. Identifying by race is normal and natural and healthy. Only Whites are attacked and criminalised for so doing - by those who envy and hate them and want them degraded, dead, and replaced.
No one denies there is a sub-strata of criminal and/or stupid Whites - and almost all Whites condemn White criminals . Thousands of years of history and state laws have served to keep them in check and, in many cases, prevent them from breeding and passing on their violent and stupid genes.
That never occurred with sub-Saharan blacks. No culling of those who couldn't or wouldn't plan ahead or control their impulses and base appetites. No wheel, no written language, no cultural and historical progress. All the cities and railroads and electric power lines and orange groves built by Whites and left to blacks have been destroyed through neglect and wanton destruction.
Poverty does not 'cause' criminality and blacks don't riot and loot because they are hungry - a majority of them are clinically obese. They steal tvs and bakketball shoes, not books. They destroy that which they are incapable of creating.
They are a distinct and separate sub-species as created by God. Easily identified by not merely skeletal remains and muscular differences, but even by visually physically different brains. You, on the other hand, are dishonest and have an active and maliciously anti-White agenda.
I don't know if the problem is race-related, mental illness, or mental problems brought about by prior or current drug usage.
There's one thing I do know: the black community has to get these trouble-makers out of their communities, learn to speak standard mid-western American English, and find Christ in their hearts.
General Mattis said it: Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.
That is a hell of a way to live. But it is the reality of living in America.
Ong Bing
It's pretty simple.
The Authorities can use the existing laws and take control.
Or, the Vigilantes will take control.
One way is relatively civilized, the other less so.
Although the Vigilantes will tell you that they are defending civilization.
The Authorities had better move quickly, or things will go from Bad to Bloodbath in just a few days....
Once the killing starts, the price paid in blood and anger to regain control will be too large to calculate.
This is how Blood Feuds start.
To me, it is not racism to stay away from blacks. Simple common sense.
You have a big jar full of M&Ms on your desk. I walk up and tell you that I replaced 13% of them with M&Ms filled with cyanide rather than chocolate.
Now go ahead, reach in there and grab a handful to eat.
No, you cannot tell which ones are poison, but go ahead and eat some.
Concealed carry seems to help politeness.
Daniel Penny shows how blue areas discourage self defense.
The disintegration of the black family due to Johnson’s great society programs has made the situation worse with the absence of black fathers. A success is the % Black vote for democrats.
The relentless propaganda blaming whites for black problems in schools and culture has made race relations worse.
A culture that devalues education hurts the economic value of black workers.
Cheaper immigrant labor without an attitude reduces black jobs.
The reduction in true Christian, not the race haters of reverend Wright, hurts the black community.
The book Peter wrote on his prison experience mentions the cultural issues, its eye opening, and extremely disturbing.
Dei, as seen in this case, had a negative impact.
I can speak to "low-IQ" myself. I've been a Mensa member since 1978, and my hobbies (the SCA and organized SF fandom) tend to appeal to people on the higher end of the IQ scale. In all my years in these activities, I've never seen or seen evidence of a black Mensan, and the number of blacks at the SCA's Pennsic War (the biggest gathering the organization has) or at a Worldcon (one of the biggest gatherings of SF/fantasy fans) is very, very small.
You have to ask yourself: Would we be this outraged if the victim were black? Or is some part of your outrage because the victim could be one of your own, young, blonde, and pretty?
I live in a city where a lot of the Vietnamese and Hmong settled after they fled their own country. Most have been incredibly hard-working, industrious, and a huge asset to our area and country. There's also a criminal class among them that's every bit as vicious and cold as this killer.
The point is, when we start looking at race as causation instead of correlation, we miss out on chances to attack the root causes of crime and sociopathy. One of your anonymous commenters noted the "Chav" subculture of Britain, where class, not race, is a predominant factor. It's easy to point at race (or religion, when persecuting Jews and Muslims) as a root cause of the .problem. We have ingrained biological biases against the Other. It's easy to point to Them. It's harder to look at our own institutions and beliefs and admit to the faults within. One of the things I admire most about you, Peter, is the stand you've taken against the entrenched abuse and coverups of the Roman Catholic Church, to the point where you left the priesthood. It's a level of courage most people can't muster.
We're going to have to. It's easier to mask our own fears and prejudices as "just the way it is", or worse, science-based "fact". That path leads to more suffering.
I would have written essentially the same words, even down to my experiences with blacks in the military, and I am upset by that, too. I am, however, responsible for my family's safety, as well as my own, and must live in the real world.
Pretty much the same here. When I went into The Corps in '63, it was driven into us that there was no color of importance except Green, and it was so; I worked with and for most "races" (which aren't), and we had zero problems. Now, however? I keep one hand near a weapon at all times. If I can leave an incident I will, but if I can't, or can't in time to get my family out of harm's way, too bad for the perp.
I have black friends at church. They are unhappy with blacks causing the majority of crimes also. To me there are good people and bad people. For whites, the bad people percentage is (SWAG) 10%. For blacks, the bad people percentage is (SWAG) 50%. SWAG is Scientific Wild Ass Guess. Do not turn your back on a bad person, Iryna Zarutska found that out the hard way.
I didn't use to be racist, but black behavior the last decade has made me become one. Surely, the majority of blacks are not thieving, murderous thugs, but the majority of blacks are the ones who support and protect the thugs. Just like the so-called "moderate" Muslims who won't engage in jihad, but supports and defends the ones who do. When the alleged majority of blacks who aren't thugs finally stands up to their community and says "enough, this is not the white people's fault that blacks are thugs" get back to me about not being racist. Biggest mistake the early settlers and founders made was bringing the black race to America.
Oh? If the majority of black kind is so good and decent, why is it that the nearly every last one of them openly glorifies and supports the animals that are supposedly only a small portion of them? I used to believe much like you seem to do, until the blacks themselves kept going out of their way to teach me how grotesquely ignorant and dangerous such views are.
I used to work with several recent African immigrants, none of whom wanted to be around, or even felt they had anything in common with, American blacks.
Then again, these immigrants all had jobs, so...
Looks like Mr. Raymond hasn't lost all his liberal racism. He capitalizes Black, but not white.
--Tennessee Budd
The comments here today are really saddening. The hate and fear. The guy who used the knife is ultimatly the one that did it.
However our judicial system held his hand and did everything but give him the knife he used. This should have never happened many times over.
Instead of being furious this was ALLOWED to happen you are hating everyone of similar color of skin. SAD. this reaction is exactly what the entrenched politicians want. It's how they control you. Don't fight them to fix a broken judicial system, instead blame every black skinned person in the country who has never done anything. The politician's have convinced the blacks your evil white nazis and you that blacks are evil sub humans and now we are distracted from all the things that are important. Like a fair and effective judicial system. Protecting our civil rights. Having politicians that get in trouble for unetical behavior.
Sigh. The last year or so i have spoken up, but i wonder what the point is. Humanity is mostly animals driven and controlled by fear and hatred. Easily controlled.
Oh well. Less than i think but more than it was worth saying. Feels very orwellian today.
Let's notice the liberals and conservatives who have worked for anti-civilization our whole life, and run the justice system like a wildlife conservation program. Most of these liberals are middle-class Christians. Without the liberals' tireless support, the predators' progression towards a life of crime would be disrupted the first time they were arrested for crime as a teenager.
Most humans today are evil. See how the world now makes sense? The policies liberals and conservatives vote for are not ignorant wishful thinking that goes wrong, they're just straightforward evil for the purposes of destruction. I'm not suggesting an extraterrestrial who rules a place of fire and torment is behind this, either. It's all just humans, living in group sizes which have exceeded Dunbar's number by a factor of millions.
Imagine starting grand juries to prosecute the liberals who keep violent predators out of prison again and again. Anyone who would oppose this civilization-repairing effort is a liberal. Most Americans oppose the good guys doing what they actually need to win and want them in prison, like Bernhard Goetz in 1984.
I'm just going to pick out the most obviously wrong bit of nonsense here. Anyone who has actually *read* Genesis knows that God made Adam and Eve, and let matters proceed from there. There are no "subspecies" of humans. Further, there is also the minor matter of Noah's immediate family being the only survivors of the Flood.
In other words, what you just said was obvious heresy, out of either ignorance or malice, to a degree that it is safe to assume that the rest of your comment comes from either ignorance or malice and is therefore discredited.
Careful, Mark. Some of the folks here really want to engage in racial identitarianism, and will not appreciate it if other, more relevant factors are brought in.
This comment makes no sense. If every black person were like this guy, this country would be a literal war zone.
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