Steve Sailer’s recent speech at VDare had me thinking; we all know that black on black homicide is up. The BLM movement, or, Ferguson effect has backfired. Instead of saving more black lives, more black people have died since the rise of BLM. Surely, not just Asians and Hispanics are waking up to the crime problem, black people must also have taken note of the increase in homicides. Cops are scared to do their jobs. Part of the reason other crime appears to be down may just be because fewer people are calling 911 to report robberies they know the police will do nothing about. So, why aren’t black people up in arms the same way Asians and others are about crime?
Growing up in France, I can remember badmouthing the United States to some of my French classmates. However, when one of them started badmouthing the United States too, I got mad at him. Many years later, when I was home from college, I can remember badmouthing my mother in front of a few friends. One of the young women started bad mouthing my mother too. Immediately, I got irate with her. She asked the legitimate question of what was the difference between what I was saying and what she was saying. At the time, I couldn’t put my finger on it, but that didn’t make me any less angry.
Years later, I told this to a friend who was Spanish-American (grew up in the U.S. to Spanish parents). Just about every summer growing up, he would go back to Spain. He said he could remember doing something along the same lines there where he badmouthed the United States and a senorita agreed and she started talking about how bad the U.S. was. My Spanish-American friend got mad at her too.
My end conclusion was that it was alright for me to talk ill of my country or my mother because deep down everyone knows that I love them both. Neither are perfect (although Mom comes close), but deep down, they are mine and I love them.
In graduate school, we had a psychiatrist come to give our class a lecture on, among other things, victimology. If you have a loved one who dies in their sleep. That’s traumatic enough. However, if the same person were to die in an automobile accident, then the trauma of the surviving loved ones is higher. The highest trauma is when a loved one commits suicide or is murdered. The idea that someone wanted your loved one gone so badly that they were willing to murder them is extremely disturbing to the families of the victims. (Suicide is also traumatic but a bit different).
However, in the black community, that idea seems to be butting up against black nationalism. Being black in the United States is a bit like being from a country within a country. Black people can speak up about the black on black homicide rate, however, if a white or Asian were to do so, then suddenly they are crossing that invisible line of “I can talk bad about my Mama, but if you do, them’s fightin’ words”.
Jesse Jackson famously said “There is nothing more painful to me . . . than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
I believe he was talking to an all black audience when he said that. When the wider public (meaning white people) found out about it, Jesse probably thought to himself “Oh @#$, they weren’t supposed to hear that.”
Between, black nationalism or being traumatized by being a homicide victim, the black nationalism side appears to be winning out. I don’t think this will surprise those of us who grew up in part in foreign cultures, but it will surprise people like OJ prosecutor Marcia Clark. Clark thought that because statistics showed that domestic violence cases were higher in the black community that therefore black women would be more sympathetic to Nicole Brown Simpson. She could not have been more wrong.
Likewise, down in the Rio Grande Valley, the former Mayor of Edinburg, Texas was acquitted of participating in “an organized voting scheme.” According to my friends down there, Richard Molina was guilty as could be of voter fraud. He registered voters to an apartment complex he owned. I heard that as many as 20 people used the same apartment as an address so they could vote for him. However, regardless of how guilty he may or may not have been, that feeling of solidarity with ones race came out in 88% Hispanic Edinburg, Texas. Molina’s attorneys didn’t even bother to argue that there was no voter fraud, but simply that the mayor relied on the advice of others when he instructed voters to change their addresses in order to vote for him in Edinburg.
Steve Bannon on Bannon’s War Room kept going on about how Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley were starting to vote Republican. Well, if you look at a map of the midterm elections in 2022, you would see that the heavily Hispanic areas still voted overwhelmingly Democratic. The Hispanics may be upset about their towns being over run by illegal aliens, but at the same time, they refused to stop voting for Hispanic Democrats. After all, those are their people and they vote in solidarity with them.
Above, the blue areas are the big cities and the blue areas along the border are overwhelmingly Hispanic.
I understand from where they are coming. They have group solidarity. Back on June 7th, Jared Taylor of American Renaissance interviewed Joost Strydom of the Orania Movement in South Africa. For those who may not know, Orania is an all white settlement made up exclusively of white Afrikaners. Joost was explaining to Jared Taylor was that their worst visitors are liberal whites, mainly journalists from Europe coming to criticize them. Joost, “I would rather entertain a black journalist from black African country than a white European journalist.” He goes on, “A black journalist from Africa may not agree with us. However, they understand tribalism in their own countries…and they have some understanding of Orania because of that.” (Starting around minute 1:12:25 of the interview titled “Orania Movement”).
Many whites may not have a sense of identity based on being white, but just about everyone else does. I foresee more and more whites growing a sense of identity if for no other reason than to counter all the other ethnic groups that have a sense of group identity.
20 year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol. Author of "East into the Sunset: Memories of patrolling in the Rio Grande Valley at the turn of the century".
Master's Degree in Justice, Law and Society from American University.
Grew up partly in Europe.
