Controlling the Past
16th April 2012
Steve Sailer turns over a rock.
Last summer, I wrote about Bruce Norris’s play about real estate and race in Chicago, Clybourne Park. (Here’s an interview with Norris.) The NYT has an article about rehearsals for its opening on Broadway that unintentionally makes an important point about how Nice White People want middle class African-Americans to be driven to the edge of violence just by the thought of things that happened to blacks before they were born.
Basically, this racial anger among the black cast members didn’t really happen, but NYT subscribers want to believe it did.
Reminds me of the old Cheech & Chong routine about Blind Melon Chitlin.
There are two kinds of black people in America: a minority who have assimilated to mainstream American culture, and a majority who have developed, cultivated, and in many cases enthusiastically embraced a separate subculture that is degenerate, corrupt, and semi-criminal, the home of the ‘gangsta’ and the ‘nigga’. Progressive White People (‘PWPs’, pronounced ‘poops’) hate the former because it illuminates the lie of the PWP mythology that all black people are oppressed and Just Can’t Get a Break Because of White Racism. So they keep up an unending pressure on non-nigga black Americans to Get Down and Dirty and join their ‘bruthas’ on the barricades. That’s what John Derbyshire was trying to communicate, and why he was hung out to dry by the self-righteous cowards at National Review and elsewhere, as well as the rabid dingoes of the Left.
As Orwell, liked to say, who controls the past controls the future. My in-laws were nice white liberals who tried to make integration work, not fleeing the West Side of Chicago until their children had been mugged three times. By trying, they wound up losing half their net worth and my late father-in-law ended up with a 126 mile commute to his job in the orchestra at the Chicago Opera House. But that kind of history is unappreciated, to say the least. Nobody wants to hear about it, and especially nobody wants to hear any hard feelings about it.
Because, after all, Only Blacks Can Be Victims.