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Why Have Asians Not Dominated?

Vol. 20 No. 10

There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.— Thomas Jefferson

October 2009

American Renaissance

High intelligence may notbe enough.

by Robert Henderson

It is now generally acceptedamong serious students of intelligence that Asians have

the highest average IQs of anyracial group. As Richard Lynnhas reported in his compre-hensive study, IQ and Global Inequality, East Asian countriessuch as China, Japan, SouthKorea, Taiwan, Hong Kongand Singapore, have averageIQs in the range of 105 to 108.This clearly exceeds the aver-ages Prof. Lynn has found forthe 29 European countries,which range from 92 to 102(for a review of IQ and Global

Inequality see “Survival of theFittest,” AR, June 2007). Thequestion therefore arises, whyhave Asians not dominated—economically, culturally, andpolitically?

Before addressing this ques-tion directly, it is necessary todebunk a number of Westernmyths about China in order cor-rectly to assess Asian achieve-ment. There is, of course, moreto Asia than China, but itspopulation represents the great major-

ity of East Asians, and throughout mosthistorical periods, it has been the centerof East Asian cultural achievement.

To the extent that Westerners thinkabout China’s place in history they seeit as having been a unied state witha single culture and language and acontinuous history that stretches backthousands of years. They also think of it as having always been culturally andtechnologically ahead of the West untilrelatively recently. Joseph Needham,

for example, propagates this myth inhis monumental Science and Civiliza-tion in China.

In fact, the history of China has beenas politically messy and fractured asthat of Europe. The country was not

even nominally unied until the third

century BC—under the short-lived Chindynasty (221-207 BC)—and has spentmore than half the time since then split

between competing dynasties or underforeign rule. Examples are the periodof warlords in the 5th and 6th centuries

AD, the Northern and Southern Sungdynasties from 960-1126, and rule byMongols (1279-1368) and Manchus(1644-1912). Even during times of supposed unication, the control theemperor could exercise was very lit-

tle compared to that possible in amodern, industrial state.

As for China’s presumed cul-

tural unity, there is not a singlelanguage understood throughoutChina. The division between Can-tonese and Mandarin is reasonablywell known in the West, but thereare other fault lines. The formerleader Deng Xiaoping spoke withsuch a heavy accent and dialectthat his daughter interpreted forhim when he spoke in public.There is not even a single, standardwritten language.

China is far from being a uni-ed racial/ethnic entity. It contains

within its borders approximately100 million people who are mem-bers of minority groups. It makesno more sense to speak of Chinaas a continuous state or singlecivilisation than it does to speakof Europe as a continuous state orsingle civilization.

Nor is there a special antiquityto Chinese achievements. In theuse of metals, the Chinese wereno earlier than the peoples of theMiddle East and Mediterranean,

and were certainly later when it came

to agriculture and writing.Even in antiquity, China was notalways more culturally advanced thanEurope. The Cretans and Mycenaeanshad sophisticated cultures that predatedclassical Greece, and the achievementsof the Greeks and Romans were im-mense. China cannot be said to havebeen ahead of these civilizations.

To take an example from a laterperiod, today there exist few Chinese

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Innate Asian personal-ity traits appear to work

against them.




Letters from ReadersSir — I enjoyed Mr. Quoc’s Septem-

ber cover story (“The Rise of Asian RaceConsciousness”). I have little rst-hand

experience with Asians, but since othernon-whites draw so many advantagesfrom racial solidarity, it would be re-markable if Asians did not develop a“pan-Asian” identity.

Whether they do or don’t, though,makes little difference to the real ques-tion: should they be here? They areclearly a capable, high-IQ race that cancontribute more than blacks or Hispan-ics, but why should I welcome largenumbers of immigrants who may bemore capable than my own children?Every time a smart Asian goes to Stan-

ford or Harvard, that is one more placeclosed to a white student. Eventually,as their numbers grow, and their senseof solidarity increases, Asians couldbecome a kind of ruling class.

I want America to be for Americans,and I make no apology for that.

John Conrad, Arlington, Tex.

Sir—It’s all very well for Mr. Quocto go on about the high incomes and lowcrime rates of Asians, but that doesn’tnecessarily make them good neighbors.

Here in Vancouver, which has so manyChinese that people sometimes call itHongcouver or Vankong, my neighbor-hood of small bungalows on modestlots has been transformed. Chineseknock down the older houses, clear thetrees, and build giant structures practi-cally to the property line. Some of theswimming and country clubs have beenmore or less taken over to the point thatlong-time members no longer feel theyare welcome.

Many Chinese make no secret of thefact that they have bought property ortaken citizenship for strictly practicalreasons: They want a bolt hole in casethings go sour in Hong Kong. Loyal

Canadians? In private I think they wouldlaugh at the idea.Paul Blanchard, Vancouver, Canada

Sir — Regarding Thomas Jackson’sreview of the book about the Cincinnatiriots (see “Anatomy of a Calamity” inthe September issue), black behaviorduring the riots was outrageous, of course, but the handcufng of policeby the mayor and governor was almostworse. The cops should have comedown hard on the rioters, for violence is

the only language they seem to under-stand. As Thomas Jefferson once said,“With every barbarous people . . . forceis the law.”

The press also has a lot to answerfor; as Mr. Jackson points out, “Timeand again, the press blamed policeand excused rioters.” The Bible takesa dim view of this sort of cravenness:“Acquitting the guilty and condemningthe innocent—the Lord detests themboth.”

Walter Sieruk, Harrisburg, Pa.

Sir — Hats off to Stephen Webster forhis thoughtful review of the Clint East-wood movie, Gran Torino. I agree thatthe implied nal message—that whitepeople should bow out gracefully—isa repulsive one, but I give credit to Mr.Eastwood for not making that messagetoo heavy-handed or even necessarilybelievable. The movie leaves no doubtthat the Hmong are an alien, disruptivepresence, and even if the Eastwood char-

acter eventually gets along with a fewof them, that is obviously a Hollywoodhappy ending grafted onto a mess thatcould have been avoided.

I think most viewers will be left shak-ing their heads and saying to themselves,“Whose crazy idea was it to let thoseHmong in here to begin with?”

Sarah Wentworth, Richmond, Va.

Sir — The question of what to callourselves (see August issue) is a goodone. Allow me to suggest a new term:“white dignitist.”

I am running for mayor of Minneapo-lis, Minnesota as a candidate of the NewDignity Party (www.NewDignityParty.org). We want dignity for white peopleas well as people of other races. Theinvented word dignitist suggests supportfor human dignity.

The concept of dignity can be surpris-ingly controversial. Seven years agowhen I ran for a different elective ofce,Minnesota’s largest newspaper refuseda paid ad for my campaign because itcontained the words “dignity for whitemales.” The Minneapolis Star Tribune said its legal department had advisedagainst accepting it.

Surely, however, most reasonablepeople would not begrudge any persondignity. Let’s ask for this for ourselvesand see what happens.

William McGaughey, Minneapolis,

Minn.

Sir — John Ingram’s “What We CallOurselves” could just as easily havebeen titled, “What We Are Labeled.”My dictionary denes “racist” as onewho believes “that race is the primarydeterminant of human traits and capaci-ties and that racial differences producean inherent superiority of a particularrace.”

When Europeans rst explored Africathey found no technology, no written

language, no schools, boats, or eventhe wheel. The disparity between blackculture and white culture was stark, butsurely no one would argue that “racism”was responsible for it. If there are racialdifferences in brain size, intelligence,and temperament, are they not a morelogical explanation?

James Harrold, Springdale, Ark.




buildings predating the Ming era (1368-1644). Before that time, most Chinese

buildings were made of wood. China hasnothing to compare with the great stone

buildings of the European and Mediter-ranean ancient world, the magnicentcastles, abbeys, cathedrals, and churchesof the European mediaeval period, andthe amazing architectural diversity of modern Europe. Construction of NotreDame began in Paris in 1163 and thecathedral was largely completed by1250. There is nothing from China of this period that demonstrates anythinglike the same level of both intricacy and

magnicence.It is true that before the modern pe-riod (say 1500 AD), the Chinese madea number of discoveries before Europebut the opposite is also true. The Chinesemade paper, mixed gunpowder, and hadthe compass rst, but Europe was rstwith the Archimedean screw.

Even when China invented some-thing earlier, Europeans sometimesproduced it later independently. Theclassic example is moveable type. China

and Korea had moveable type many cen-turies before Gutenberg, but there is noevidence Gutenberg was inuenced by

Asian examples. Movable type quicklybecame widespread in Europe but wasnever popular in China. This isprobably because written Eu-ropean languages are based onan alphabet with few characterswhile Chinese is written withthousands of ideograms, each of which requires its own block of type. In any case, since 1700 atthe latest, European technologyhas completely outpaced that of China.

There is far more to civiliza-

tion than technology, of course,but China falls well short of Europe in social science, philosophy,art, and political organization as well.Throughout their history the Chi-nese have been very inventivewhen it comes to practical solu-tions to particular problems butdid not develop theories frompractical solutions that offeredgeneral explanations of the world.In this sense, China never devel-oped anything that could be calledscience.

It is also noteworthy that al-though the Chinese producedmany important inventions, theyoften failed to develop them sub-stantially. When Europeans began tomake regular contact with China in theseventeenth century, their guns werefar superior to those of the Chinese,even though it was Chinese who hadinvented gunpowder many centuriespreviously. The Chinese record of inno-vation sometimes gives the impression

that an invention was made to amuse orto serve the interests of a powerful per-son rather than to establish an industryor change society.

Lord George Macartney, who headedthe rst ofcial British diplomatic mis-sion to China in 1793-4, noted thatthe Chinese seemed to have inventedthings and then “applied them solely tothe purpose wanted, and to never havethought of improving or extending themfurther.”

Adam Smith wrote about China inThe Wealth of Nations:

“China has been long one of therichest, that is, one of the most fertile,best cultivated, most industrious andmost populous countries in the world.It seems, however, to have long beenstationary. Marco Polo, who visitedit more than ve hundred years ago,describes its cultivation, industry and

populousness, almost in the same termsin which they are described by travellersin the present times.”

Perhaps this stationary quality re-ected a deep-seated arrogance amongChinese rulers, who viewed any kind of innovation with suspicion. Tradition-ally, the Chinese elites were contemptu-ous of other peoples, routinely treatingthem as subordinates. Lord Macartney’spresents to the Emperor in 1794 werecounted as tribute rather than gifts, andthe British envoy constantly noticedwhat we would now call a monstrous

superiority complex. When he offeredthe Chinese products of the early In-dustrial Revolution, the equivalent of which were unknown in China, they

often refused to show any interest inthem. This is not an attitude conduciveto progress.

Philosophy as we would understandit in the West, that is, analytical thoughtexamining the nature of reality with,in theory at least, an absence of ideo-

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logical baggage, is virtually absent fromChinese history. Traditional Chinesephilosophy never divorced itself entirelyfrom religion and was mainly concernedwith how society should be ordered. Itsprimary purpose was social control, and

it is more a series of maxims than anexercise in philosophical enquiry. Thelet-everything-be-challenged methodfound intermittently in Western philoso-phy from at least the sixth century BCappears foreign to the Chinese. Interest-ingly, the Chinese were great compilersof what we would call encyclopaedias.They delighted in recording what wasalready known or thought, but had littleinterest in investigating what was not

known or might be thought.Chinese art and fashion show asimilar resistance to change. Look atcontemporary depictions of Chinesefrom 1000 AD. They look hardly anydifferent from the Chinese of 1800.Chinese art shows a similar stabilityover the same period, being for the mostpart heavily constrained by convention.Where there is deviation from academicartistic discipline it is mainly found inperiods where foreign invaders gainedpower, most noticeably under the Mon-gol emperors who imported foreign

craftsmen and artists. Chinese fashionsand art are like those of ancient Egypt,which show a remarkable stabilityover several thousand years. This isthe opposite of the European culturalexperience.

Politically, the Chinese never reallymoved beyond the state of warlordismor of believing in an absolute ruler whowas a god or a man directly in touch withgods. There were attempts to introducemore rational and less absolute forms

of government, but these were shortlived. Confucianism tried to lay downmoral rules for rulers, but that was aboutthe limit of any real attempt to restrainemperors by anything short of violence.Ideas about constitutions restrictingwhat government may do, representativegovernment, or direct democracy neverarose in Chinese society. In the West,the ideal of individual political partici-pation dates back to the Greeks, and ispresent in Europe in the Middle Ages.It is completely absent in China.

The Mandarin system and appoint-ment by examination, which started asearly as the 7th century AD, are oftenproposed as evidence of superior Chi-nese political organization, but werethey really superior to that of the RomanEmpire, which predated it by centuries?Was Chinese bureaucracy more impres-sive than that of the Catholic Church at

the height of its power? It is possible todescribe the Mandarin system more asa way to control and categorize than asa system designed to meet a particularneed, such as political rule or the man-agement of assets.

In Chinese history it is also hard tond organizations that perform civicsocial functions but that are not part of

the formal political structure. Examplesin the West would be charities, clubs,the co-operative movement, and tradeunions. Chinese life has traditionallyrevolved around the family, while thegovernment provides all forms of largersocial organization.

Before the Maoist revolution, Chinanever attempted to go beyond a societyof a small elite with immense wealth thatleft the vast majority in abject penury.There is no Chinese tradition of doubt-

ing the justice or legitimacy of such asociety. When Europeans began to gainrst-hand experience of China from the17th century onwards, it was common toremark on the tremendous disparities of wealth. As Macartney noted, “[E]veryyear vast numbers [of Chinese] perishof hunger and cold. The summers are sowarm that the common sort go almostnaked, and the winter is so rigorous thatthe mortality is very great from the wantof clothing and shelter.”

There was nothing that resembledthe corporate charitable concern for thepoor found within the Catholic Church,let alone a formal legal obligation tothe needy, such as the English PoorLaw of 1601. And even after what wassupposed to be an egalitarian revolution,for many years the Communist party didnothing more than appropriate to itself the advantages of the Mandarinate but

under a different name.

What is Missing?

Why did China never make the jump from trial-and-error technologyto true science? Why did it show solittle interest in analytical philosophy?Why did it never develop a politicalsystem more sophisticated than that of the god-Emperor? Why was the idea of political participation, so widespread inEurope in both the ancient and the latemediaeval world, absent in China? Why

was there no civil society?Could it be that sufciently propi-tious circumstances never arose todrive Asians beyond a certain point,that Europe surged ahead by luckrather than any innate difference? Thisis improbable because China has beena sophisticated society for several thou-sand years.

The above critique of the myth of Chinese cultural superiority may carrywithin it suggestions of why Asianshave not achieved cultural supremacy.IQ may be a necessary but not sufcient

condition for that advance. First, how-ever, it is important to note that IQ is notof a piece. Although the average AsianIQ is higher than the white IQ overall,it is not higher in all respects. Asiansscore substantially higher than whites onnon-verbal tests but lower than whiteson verbal tests. They score particularlywell on spatial tests.

This IQ prole may be associatedwith the Asian adherence to an ideo-graphic form of writing. If one set a ge-

Member of the Uighur minority.

The peasants are still poor.




Party bosses became the new Mandarins.

Harry Potter for the Japanese.

nius and a dullard the task of developinga writing system, the genius would comeup with an alphabet and the dullard someform of pictorial representation. Thegenius would see that an alphabet was amore economical and powerful means of representation because it required onlya small number of symbols. The dullardwould merely keep adding to the numberof pictures. Of course the Chinese wentfar beyond crude pictograms, but byretaining a pictorial system they endedup with a form of writing that requiresseveral thousand characters.

In the 15th century, the Koreansinvented an alphabet called Hangul,but this was in imitation of alphabetsinvented by others. It may be that EastAsians failed to develop an alphabeton their own because of their leaningtowards the visual and the spatial.

The greater Asian aptitude on non-

verbal tests and lower ability on verbaltests can also be interpreted as meaningthat Asians are adapted to solving whatI would call bounded problems. Theseare problems that have clear boundaries,such as how to build a canal or how tocare for silkworms, rather than problemswithout boundaries, such as inquiringabout the nature of the good, the purposeof life, or what constitutes art.

At the same time, IQ is hardly theonly measure by which the races dif-fer, and both J. Philippe Rushton andRichard Lynn have written about racial

differences in personality. Althoughintelligence is the best studied andmost accurately measured mental trait,there are also reasonably well devel-oped measures of many other traits.Compared to whites, Asians are morecautious, less impulsive, less aggres-sive, less sociable, less psychopathic,and have lower self-regard (the samecan be said about whites compared toblacks). Though they have not beenstudied as extensively as intelligence,racial differences on these scales are soconsistent that it makes almost as much

sense to speak of a race or group’s “aver-age personality” as it does to speak of its average IQ.

Asians also have lower levels of testosterone compared to whites (whohave less testosterone than blacks),and testosterone is closely associatedwith aggressiveness, risk-taking, andcriminality.

These differences support the conclu-sion that the Asian personality is lessenquiring or adventurous than that of the

Caucasian, less verbal or sociable, andmore conformist and submissive. This isnot the type of personality that—despitean advantage in average IQ—pushes asociety towards the achievements that

characterize the West: developing anindustrial revolution from scratch, creat-ing modern science, giving birth to ana-lytical philosophy, and evolving manyvaried forms of political life that valuethe contribution of the individual.

When they are a minority in high-IQ,Western societies, Asians tend to ll

technical posts that favor higher IQs,or engage in business, much of whichis conducted within their own group.They make relatively little headwayin areas that require the highest levelof “people skills,” such as politics oradvocacy groups. They are excellentaccountants, computer technicians, andengineers—these are professions inwhich their natural abilities blossom—but they do not distinguish themselvesin professions that require verbal giftsand gregariousness: politician, come-dian, lawyer.

Asians also tend to show very lit-tle antisocial behavior. Their crimerates are low, and they rarely portraythemselves as victims of racism ordemand race-based privileges (thoughsee last month’s cover story, “AsianRace Consciousness”). This tendencyto follow the rules and not to call at-tention to themselves either as a groupor as individuals seems to t the Asianpersonality.

What has been the Asian record

since industrialization? Asians havehad the invaluable example of Europeanindustry, science, and general culturalheritage, and have made much better useof it than any other non-Western racialgroup. However, their record is patchy.Japan has been able to duplicate thetechnology of the West but has not beenable to surpass it. In the 1970s, manyAmericans feared Japan would dominateit economically and nancially, but justas it seemed to pull abreast of the West,it began to stagnate and has shown littlegrowth since the 1980s.

China has not been able to bridge theoceanic gulf in wealth and sophisticationbetween its coastal cities and the vastChinese interior. No Asian society hasachieved much success in fundamentalscientific discovery or technologicalinnovation that goes beyond the ad-aptation of what has been invented or

discovered elsewhere. Nor, despite thelarge populations of Asians living inadvanced European societies, can wend front-rank scientists in proportionto their numbers. In the social sciencestheir contributions are practically invis-ible. This lack of top-level achievementis particularly striking given that Asianshave higher incomes than whites, gofarther in school, and start more busi-nesses.

Asians have adopted Western cul-ture as well as Western technology.

The Japanese, in particular, are famousfor imitating both high and low whiteculture, from Beethoven to the Beatles.Asian Harry Potter fans are among themost frenzied in the world. The sites on




Korean parliamentary debate: not Robert’sRules of Order.

Prince Edward Island associated withthe children’s book series about Anne of Green Gables attract as many Japaneseas they do Americans or Canadians.Asians have enthusiastically copied thearchitecture of the West and have evenbeen willing to tear down many neexamples of indigenous architecture.

There is no equivalent of Asian massculture entering white societies. Themost that can be found are periodicoutbreaks of the use of oriental art andmotifs by European designers.

This willingness to imitate mightseem odd in view of the traditionallystatic nature of Asian societies. Perhapsit could be ascribed to the feelings of inferiority that arose when Asians faced

the power of the industrialized West. InChina’s case it might arise from a senseof humiliation because of European qua-

si-colonialism in the 19th century. ManyChinese would say they are modernizingonly now because they were held backby white control and manipulation, butthis does not t with the facts. Chinahad centuries during which it could havepulled ahead of the West, and Europeanmeddling effectively ended in 1949.

In any case, to copy culture as wellas technology shows a strange lack of ambition. Why not do something whiteshave never done?

One could argue that imitation comesmore naturally in conformist, less indi-

vidualistic societies. Or rather, it may be

natural to imitate certain aspects of lifebut not others. Asians do not show an ap-petite for imitating social structures. TheJapanese and South Koreans may haveformally adopted systems of electivegovernment from European examples,but traditional social relations remainstrong. Those countries accept practicesthat in the West would be consideredstraightforward bribery, and voters aregreatly inuenced by collective loyal-ties. As for China, the Communist elitehave managed to retain control whileallowing some economic freedom. Theyhave certainly avoided democratization,and the government continues openly tomanipulate the law.

Japan’s imitation of the West isespecially striking, given its earliersuspicions. After some 16th and 17thcentury experience with Europeanmerchants and priests, in the 1630s it

took the dramatic step of sealing thecountry off from all but the most limitedEuropean contact. This self-imposedisolation lasted more than two centuriesuntil Commodore Matthew Perry forcedtrade on the Japanese in 1853.

A new elite ideology then emergedthat saw imitation of certain aspectsof Western countries as the best wayto compete with them. This new ideol-ogy was accepted by the people withastonishing readiness despite the earlierpolicy of isolation. Why did this transi-tion take place so easily? Most probably

because of an average personality that isunusually susceptible to authority.One of the most striking examples of

both the remarkable ability and remark-able limitedness of Asians is the historyof the Chinese admiral Zheng He. From1405 to 1433 he commanded a series of seven extraordinary voyages throughoutSouth East Asia and to such places as In-dia, Ceylon, the Arabian peninsula, andeven East Africa. The admiral’s largestships were enormous, six-masted junksestimated to have been 100 yards ormore long, and he travelled with tens of

thousands of men and hundreds of ves-

sels. His ships were many times largerthan anything aoat in the West, and if the Chinese had devoted themselves tosea power, they would certainly have

dominated trade and could have discov-ered and colonized the Americas.

However, there was a change of em-peror, and the new regime had no inter-

est in exploration. Zheng He died on thelast voyage, and the emperor ordered theeet burned. That was the end of Chinaas a maritime power.

In the hands of the West, sea powerdramatically changed history. In thehands of the Chinese, it was a means tosatisfy a eeting curiosity about foreign-ers. China had unsurpassed technology,but did not have the spirit to turn thattechnology into world or even regionaldominance.

Despite their higher average IQ,Asians have failed to become the cul-

turally dominant race probably becauseinnate personality traits work againstthem. Compared to Europeans, theyare passive, unquestioning, and lack-ing in initiative. The next 50 years willprobably see a continuing rise in theeconomic and military power of China,but if history is any guide, this rise inpower will not be matched by innova-tion, and China’s cultural contributionswill remain insignicant.

Mr. Henderson is a history and poli-tics graduate whose career was divided between the public and private sectors.

He is now retired and lives in Britain.

Model of a Zheng He ship.

Asian Consciousness (Part II)

by Nguyen Ai Quoc

Part I described how Asians areincreasingly likely to establish a”pan-Asian” identity rather than

assimilate to the Anglo-American main-

stream the way previous generations of Asians did. Part II examines the vexed question of divided loyalty and nds that at least some Asians do not hesitate to put racial-national interests above thoseof their adopted homeland.

The Case of Wen Ho Lee

For many Asian Americans, espe-cially Chinese Americans, the Wen HoLee spying case pushed them decisivelyin the direction of racial consciousness.




Wen Ho Lee.

Mr. Lee is a Taiwan-born scientist whobecame a naturalized US citizen andworked at the Los Alamos NationalLaboratory. In 1999, he was accused of spying for China and was held for ninemonths in solitary connement duringan investigation.

The case never came to a conclusion,partly because the New York Times leaked his identity and the resultingcoverage derailed the investigation. Es-pionage charges were withdrawn as partof a plea bargain, in which Mr. Lee con-fessed to one felony count of improperlydownloading classied information tounsecured computers. He never gave aplausible explanation for why he needed

this information. It also came to lightthat Chinese authorities had asked himto spy for them, and he had violatedregulations by not reporting this.

The federal judge who handled thecase pointed out to Mr. Lee that hehad plead guilty to a serious crime buthe also apologized for prosecutorialmisconduct. Mr. Lee eventually won a judgment of $1.6 million from the USgovernment and ve different mediacompanies because his identity as asuspect had been leaked.

It is a murky case, and certainly ap-

pears to have been mishandled by thegovernment, but many Asian organiza-tions were convinced it was a case of pure racial proling. Asian Week wroteabout Mr. Lee’s “martyrdom,” andcharged that Asians had been “singledout and looked upon with suspicion.”Albert Wang, a California doctor whochampioned Mr. Lee, called his pros-ecution “the major Chinese-Americancivil rights case in the last 30 years.’’Karen Narasaki, executive director of

the National Asian Pacic American Le-gal Consortium called Mr. Lee’s case a“watershed.” “This community [Asians]bought into the notion that if you workhard, pay attention to your family, youwill be accepted,” she said. “This casesays it’s not true.”

Supporters created the Wen Ho LeeDefense Fund and raised $100,000 forhis legal bills. The Association for AsianAmerican Studies and a group calledAsian Pacic Americans in Higher Edu-cation called on all Asian Americans torefuse to work for federal nuclear labo-ratories. They arguedthat because Asiansand Asian Americansaccount for a quarter of all doctorates awardedin the US in scienceand technology, a boy-cott would seriously

hurt the labs.In 2004, four yearsafter the plea bargain,the Asian legislativecaucus in the Californiastate house announcedit would publicly honorMr. Lee with a “pro-les in courage” award.It backed down after afurious reaction fromwhat Mr. Lee’s sup-porters called “racist,right-wing zealots.”

Nearly 10 years aftercharges were initiallyfiled, Chinese-Amer-icans were still angryabout the Lee case,and fought President-electBarack Obama’s choiceof former New Mexico governor BillRichardson as commerce secretary. Mr.Richardson was energy secretary at thetime of the Lee accusations and had cab-inet-level responsibility for Los Alamos. Asian Week was convinced Mr. Rich-ardson had encouraged the prosecution

exclusively for racial reasons: “It was ade facto APA [Asian Pacic Islander]witch-hunt set off by Richardson’s greenlight: the xenophobic targeting of Leeas a spy. . . . Richardson found a way touse fear of Asians to whip up hysteriaagainst Asian Americans not seen sinceWorld War II.”

Mr. Richardson withdrew his nomi-nation because of an investigation intobusiness dealings as governor of NewMexico. Had he not done so, Asian

groups would have tried to stop hisappointment, even if it meant angeringHispanics, who strongly favored Mr.Richardson.

The case certainly raised sensitivequestions. Is it possible Mr. Lee couldhave been tempted to spy for China be-cause of a feeling of kinship? It is wellknown that, loyalties, whether national,ethnic, or racial are deeply emotional.

On some occasions, Chinese livingin North America have not been shyabout expressing their deepest loyalties.In 1999, the American women’s soccer

team met the Chineseteam in Los Angelesfor the finals of theWomen’s World Cup.Los Angeles has longhad large Chinese com-munities from Taiwan,Hong Kong, and the

mainland that felt littlelove for each other,but they set aside theirdifferences to root withone voice for the Chi-nese team. “There arepolitical differences,but because the team isChinese, that’s all wethink about,” explainedLouis Wong, a Chi-natown news vendorwho came from HongKong.

Two groups thatdid not ordinarily getalong—the Chineseconsulate and conser-vative Chinese busi-

ness organizations—joinedforces to buy seats in the

same section so thousands of Chinese-American fans could sit together andmake a tremendous din for the Beijingteam. The idea that Chinese might havecome together to root for their newhomeland would have been laughable.“I’m a US citizen, but I’m Chinese,” ex-

plained businessman Edward Chang.When China hosted the OlympicGames in 2008 the sentiment of Canadi-an-Chinese was much the same. AndreaChun, a Toronto lawyer and televisionhost, explained that “when it comes tothe games, most Chinese-Canadiansare rooting for China, to be honest,”adding, “They won’t admit it if youask them, but for sure they are.” RichChan, a personal trainer who had livedhis entire life in Canada was happy to

Chinese everywhere arecheering for them.




They want our technology.

admit it. “I’m going with China. Chinaall the way,” he said.

Athletic teams represent nations incontests that have decisive, win-or-loseoutcomes. International athletics there-fore feed many of the emotions arousedby war. In Los Angeles, Chinese-Amer-icans did their best to give the Beijingteam a home-eld advantage when itplayed the American team. Would it beso surprising if some of the thousandswho cheered the Chinese team expressedtheir loyalty in other ways? Is it wrongto wonder if they might?

China is hungry for American tech-nology, and devotes a major part of itshuge espionage effort to the UnitedStates. The Chinese method of spyingis different from that of the classic,Soviet technique of sending trainedprofessionals to burrow deep into enemy

infrastructure. Beijing gets intelligencefrom thousands of part-time and ama-teur spies: students, businessmen, andChinese citizens of target countries.According to the US government Intel-ligence Threat Handbook , 98 percent

of the Americans the Chinese approachfor information are Chinese-Americans:“Ethnic targeting to arouse feelings of obligation is the single most distinctivefeature of PRC intelligence opera-tions.”

According to a joint FBI/CIA report,“When approaching an individual of Chinese origin, the Chinese intelligenceservices attempt to secure his or hercooperation by playing on this sharedancestry.” David Szady, chief of FBI

counterintelligence operations explainedthat Chinese spies “don’t consider any-one to be American-Chinese. They’reall considered overseas Chinese.” Henoted that the politically correct pre-tense that American citizens never fallfor this appeal interferes with the FBI’scounterespionage work.

Actual arrests, which, according togovernment sources, “are just the tipof the iceberg of an already-large andincreasingly capable PRC [PeoplesRepublic of China] intelligence effort,”show that some Chinese-Americans are,indeed, susceptible to racial-nationalistappeals. In 2004, seven ofcers and em-ployees of two New Jersey companieswere arrested for transferring sensitiveinformation on radar, smart weapons,and electronic warfare to Chinesegovernment research institutes. The

presidents of Universal Technologiesand Manten Electronics were among theseven. Five were naturalized Chinese-Americans and the other two werepermanent-resident Chinese.

Likewise in 2004, Ting-Ih Hsu, a

naturalized US citizen and president of Azure Systems, pleaded guilty in Orlan-do, Florida, to exporting to China low-noise amplier chips used in Hellremissile systems. Also pleading guiltywas Hai Lin Nee, a Chinese citizen andan employee of Azure Systems.

In 2005, Chi Mak, a naturalizedChinese American who held a “secret”level security clearance, was arrested forstealing classied details of submarinepropulsion systems from his employer,

Power Paragon, of Anaheim, California.His wife and a number of other familymembers helped him copy the informa-tion and deliver it to China. Mr. Makwas convicted in 2007 and sentencedto 24 ½ years in prison in 2008. Also in2005, Zhao Xin Zhu was sentenced inBoston to two years in prison and threeyears of supervised release after plead-ing guilty to trying to send night visionequipment and satellite technology toChina. That same year, Jinghua andXiuwen Liang, both naturalized citizensliving in Thousand Oaks, California,were sentenced to 2 ½ years imprison-ment for exporting parts of F-14 ghtersand various missile systems to China.

Likewise in 2005, naturalized citizensNing Wen and his wife, Hailin Lin,were arrested in Wisconsin for smug-gling electronics for use in missiles andradar systems. In 2006, Mr. Wen was

sentenced to ve years in prison andordered to pay a $50,000 ne.In 2006, Xiangdong Sheldon Meng,

a naturalized US citizen living in Cu-pertino, California, was arrested forstealing night vision training softwarefrom a Silicon Valley defense contractorand trying to sell it to military buyersin Thailand, Malaysia, and China. Thatsame year Fei Ye, a naturalized UScitizen, and Ming Zhong, a permanentUS resident, pleaded guilty to stealingcivilian chip technology from SiliconValley rms for delivery to China.

In February 2007, China-born, natu-ralized citizen Hanjuan Jin of Schaum-burg, Illinois, was stopped at Chicago’sO’Hare airport with a one-way ticketto Peking, $30,000 in cash, and an es-timated $600 million worth of trade se-crets stolen from Motorola and anotherChicago-area electronics rm, Lemko.In March 2008, she was charged withstealing trade secrets to take to China.

In 2008, the president of a Virginia-based high-tech company, Quan-ShengShu, pleaded guilty to selling rockettechnology to China. A naturalized

citizen, he was ned $400,000 and re-ceived a sentence of four years and threemonths. Likewise in 2008, naturalizedcitizen Tai Shen Kuo pleaded guilty inAlexandria, Virginia to selling data onTaiwan’s air defenses to China.

In February 2009, Yaming Nina QiHanson of Maryland was caught tryingto take ight controls for miniature re-connaissance planes to China. She saidshe wanted to help China in its develop-ment efforts.




Learning to observe.

In July 2009, a federal judge foundDongfan “Greg” Chung guilty of de-livering space shuttle secrets to China.Since 1973, when he started work atRockwell International, he had storedmore than 300,000 pages of secret docu-ments in his home. “Mr. Chung has beenan agent of the People’s Republic of China for over 30 years,” Judge CormacCarney wrote, and noted that the natu-ralized US citizen “proudly proclaimed[China] as his “motherland’.”

Other Asian-Americans have beendisloyal. Robert Kim, a naturalizedcitizen from South Korea who workedas an intelligence analyst for the Navy,was arrested in 1996 for turning overclassied information to the South Ko-rean Embassy. In an interview in 2004after he was released from seven yearsin jail, he claimed to love America, his“adopted country,” but in an interview

published in a South Korean paper hesaid he considered himself Korean rstand foremost. Korean supporters calledhim a true patriot.

There is no ofcial count of the num-ber of Chinese-Americans who havebeen convicted of spying or helping theChinese arms industry but there must bescores of them. Only Wen Ho Lee everbecame a cause célèbre or promptedaccusations of racial profiling. Washe really the victim of an anti-Asianwitch hunt or was he a spy whose in-vestigation was bungled? Whatever his

supporters may say, racial and nationalties are strong, and American counter-espionage efforts must take them intoconsideration.

Clearly, only a small number of Asian-Americans are spies for China.However, there can be no doubt thatAsians are more likely to spy for China

than are non-Asians, and if they are go-ing to be spies they are far more likelyto spy for an Asian country than forRussia, for example. National bondsare strong.

This is not to place special blameon Asians. If Mexico were trying todevelop sophisticated weaponsand Mexican-Americans werein a position to help them, theywould probably be just as activeas Asians. Indeed, if roles werereversed, whites would prob-ably be just as likely to be dis-loyal citizens of Asian nations.Questions of loyalty are alwaysa problem in heterogeneousnations and security breacheswill always be more commonin such a nation than in one thatis homogeneous.

At the same time, the very

diversity of the United Statesand the openly parochial iden-tities of so many non-whiteshave encouraged Asian Americans toreverse course on the road to assimila-tion. They are a group that at one timemade great efforts to assimilate, but asblacks, Mexicans, and other Hispanicscultivate distinctive identities—and winpolitical power, cultural recognition,and “affirmative action” benefits bydoing so—why should Asians remainthe “model minority” that does not tryto thrust itself forward? It is no wonder

that younger Asians now reject a labeltheir elders worked to earn.The Japanese-American poet Amy

Uyematsu, who was born after thewar, criticized her parents’ and grand-parents’ generations for trying to gainacceptance by “denying their yellow-ness” and complained that they were

“white in every respect but color.”Bill Seki, a Los Angeles lawyer born

in the early 1960s, takes a similar view.He says his Japanese-American parentstried very hard to assimilate, to become“Americans rst,” but the result was that“people take Japanese Americans for

granted.” Mr. Seki does not want to betaken for granted. Instead, he says: “Onecomment you commonly get is, ‘You’re just like another white guy.’ No, that’scompletely wrong.”

Presumably Mr. Seki’s parents wouldhave considered it high praise to bethought no different—and treated nodifferently—from whites, but that viewis passé. Race or ethnicity now comes

before a larger American identity. Theone racial group in addition to whitesthat at one time seemed committed totranscending race is moving away fromthat commitment.

Nguyen Ai Quoc is the pen name of a history instructor at a southern Cali- fornia community college.

A Celebration of the BNP

A report on the Red, White,and Blue Festival.

by Ryan Lanier

After the conservative collapsein the US presidential electionand the inauguration of the rst

non-Western American president, theJune elections to the European Parlia-ment were a real sign of hope. Not only

did “conservatives” win in a landslide,but many countries sent strong slates of “extreme-right” deputies to parliamentas well. Geert Wilders’ Freedom Partystunned the establishment and took thelargest number of seats in Holland. InHungary, Jobbik (Movement for a BetterHungary) came in third, with its slogan,“Hungary belongs to the Hungarians.”Austria, Denmark, and Italy also sentdelegations of staunch nationalists tothe Euro-parliament, but it was the

victories of the British National Party’sNick Grifn and Andrew Brons thatmeant the most to me as an American(see “A Breakthrough for the BNP?” ARJune, 2009). In August, I decided to goto England to attend the BNP’s annualRed, White and Blue Festival.

I arrived in London a few days inadvance of the festival and did somesight-seeing. I knew there had been agreat deal of Third-World immigrationbut I was still surprised to nd places




You could throw wet spongesat Osama Bin Laden.

that in no way resembled an Englishcity. Edgware Road, where I stayed formy rst few days, felt more like Leba-non than Britain, with its Muslim faces,kebab shops, and hookah bars. Localsrefer to it as “Little Beirut.”

From time to time I asked LondonersI met what they thought of the BNP,although I also mentioned the UnitedKingdom Independence Party, so asnot to give the impression I was a BNPsupporter. Young London hipstersinvariably said the party was “racist”or “Nazi.” The reaction of one femalebartender was typical. I was with a fel-low American who was wearing a BNPshirt. The bartender noted his Americanaccent and asked if he knew what theBNP was. Jokingly, he replied “no,”and she snapped back that he shouldn’twear that shirt.

The elderly who lived through the

Second World War also accept themedia-manufactured idea that the BNPis “fascist.” With the atrocities of thewar still in their memories, they are un-able to see how misleading such labelsare. Two Londoners who had lived inthe city since the 1930s were exceptions.I would have pegged them as Laboursupporters, but to my surprise they toldme they always voted BNP. They calledparty chairman Nick Grifn a hero, andwhen I told them I had a signed pictureof him, one offered me money for it,saying it would be “worth hundreds of

pounds one day.”The real core of BNP supporters isreported to be middle-aged, working- ormiddle-class whites with families, andthere are few such people in London.Those rare Brits who expressed realenthusiasm for the BNP usually waiteduntil I pressed them or said I was a sup-porter. Many started with the classic,self-agellating “I’m not racist but . . ..” One man felt he had to tell me severaltimes how terrible the BNP was beforenally admitting he voted for it! Still,my impression is that compared to

Americans, the British are beginning tosee through some of the articiality of political correctness.

After several days in London, I ar-rived with a group of friends at the Red,White and Blue Festival. For 10 years,it has been held on a party member’sprivate farmland in a small town calledDenby in Derbyshire. Most people whoattend bring tents to sleep in and barbe-cue their own meals.

At the entrance, security checked

our car, collected a £20 admission fee,and gave us wristbands to wear whilewe were at the festival. All this wasnecessary because potentially violentleft-wing protestors were expected, andif they were going to spy they would atleast have to pay admission. These pre-cautions were justied. Over the week-end, several hundred “social-justice”crusaders, bused in from various partsof the country, blockedroads to Denby, tryingto prevent people fromattending the festival.They clashed with po-lice, who arrested severaldozen. They littered thecountryside with yersand even glued shut thecard slots of ATM ma-chines to prevent festivalattendees from with-

drawing money. BNPsupporters caused notrouble at all.

I had assumed thatbecause this was the 10th festival andbecause of the dramatic victories inthe Euro-elections there would be arecord-breaking crowd. However, in aclear attempt to harass the BNP, localpolice banned live music, the sale of alcohol, and parking for RVs. Atten-dance was therefore only an estimated1,500—down from the more than 2,000who have attended previous festivals—

but we still had a marvelous time.We pitched our tents, set up ourbarbecue, and raised the Union Jackand the ag of Wales. Nearly every tentew colors, and I was glad to see manyConfederate ags. In the next eld overthere were booths selling everythingfrom patriotic ags, BNP and Anglo-Saxon pride T-shirts, CDs of both Brit-ish folk music and BNP-inspired pop,and even the once-beloved childhoodtoy known as the Golliwog. Great WhiteRecords sold ofcial BNP music in abooth run by the nationalist pop singer,

Joey Smith. All the different regionalbranches of the BNP had booths, eachwith its local newsletter and speaking itsregional accent. It was heartening to seeparty supporters from every county inEngland—there was even a delegationfrom the overrun city of London. TheBNP festival is mainly a family event,so there was also entertainment for chil-dren, with slides and moon bounces.

At the party’s meeting tent, there wasa series of speakers, including party

chairman Nick Grifn, Richard Barn-brook (member of the London Council),Andrew Brons (deputy to the Euro-Parliament), the nationalist activist andlecturer Jonathan Bowden, and severalforeign politicians. Roberto Fiore of theForza Nuova Party and Marc Abramsonof the Swedish National Democrats of-fered a larger perspective on nationalismin Europe.

There was much to do when therewere no speakers at the podium. Onepopular activity was throwing wetsponges at people wearing Tony Blaire,George W. Bush, Barack Obama, orOsama Bin Laden masks. One eve-ning, Jonathan Bowden held a rivetingreading of the legend of Beowulf. On

another evening, a group reenacted anancient pagan ritual that explained thehistory and beliefs of early Britons whilespectators drank mead.

The most important political discus-sion was about the future membershipof the party. The left has attacked theBNP’s whites-only policy, arguing thatits elected officials cannot serve allconstituents equally. Mr. Grifn andMr. Barnbrook led a discussion aboutwhether the BNP could maintain itscurrent membership or whether it mustgo down the path of France’s National

Front and become multi-racial, evenwhile maintaining strict policies onmulticulturalism and immigration.

Although the entire weekend wasfascinating, the closing ceremony wascertainly the grandest spectacle. Alongwith Andrew Brons’s explanation of the BNP’s mutually hostile relationshipwith the European Union, the highlightwas Nick Grifn’s tremendous hour-and-a-half speech. He spoke of thegreat importance and difculty of the




Harry Patch at age 109.

BNP’s task, but inspired the audiencewith accounts of Britain’s past gloriesand victories over hardship. He calledfor help to save Britain, explaining howordinary people can take part in thatgreat task.

Mr. Griffin declared that whetherBritain is saved by a BNP electoralvictory, or whether it takes centuriesof hardship and even enslavement, in-digenous Brits must and will take backtheir lands. Mr. Grifn did not blameimmigrants but pointed the nger atthe self-serving, greedy British elite forpropagating liberalism and exacerbatingthe country’s woes.

Mr. Grifn used the term “indigenousBrits” to expose how liberals preachfreedom for “indigenous peoples” inplaces like Hawaii while welcomingthe displacement of whites in their owncountries. It was inspiring to see a na-

tionalist go on the offensives against ourworst enemies. At the end, Mr. Grifnled the audience in singing the great,patriotic hymn, Jerusalem, which in-vokes a feeling of deep unity with one’speople and a remembrance of Europe’sChristian heritage—though the party hasmembers of all faiths.

The Red White, and Blue would have

attracted more young people if it couldhave offered live music and alcohol,but it was still an inspiring opportunityto enjoy the company of like-mindedpeople and meet fellow nationalists. Ihope to be back in future years. Eventslike these benet the BNP tremendously

and are a ne model for other national-ists (see also “European Nationalism onthe March,” AR, July 2008).

Ryan Lanier is the pen name of anundergraduate at a university in Ten-nessee.

Remembering Harry Patch

The last survivor of ourFirst Peloponnesian War.

by Sam G. Dickson

It is appropriate for us to mark thedeath on July 25th of Harry Patch.Aged 111, Harry Patch was the last

surviving British soldier from our race’sFirst Peloponnesian War of the lastcentury, that is to say, the First WorldWar. These two fratricidal wars—likethe original ones among the Greeks of

Antiquity—may have accomplished thecomplete and possibly fatal wreck of ourrace and civilization.

Patch survived horric service in thetrenches of Flanders as a machine gun-ner and suffered severe wounds. Formost of his life he was reticent aboutthe war and his service in it, but afterhis 100th birthday Patch began speak-ing out against the war and the hatredsit engendered.

He said he was a reluctant soldier,

noting that when he rst cameface to face with a Germansoldier, he could not helpthinking of the command-ment, “Thou shalt not kill.” Hedeliberately shot the Germanin the shoulder, making himdrop his rie, but the Germankept running towards him. Hethen shot the man twice in theleg. “I had about ve secondsto make the decision,” he said.“I brought him down, but Ididn’t kill him.”

In July 2007, he was pres-ent at the 90th-anniversarycommemoration of the begin-ning of the Battle of Passchen-daele, in which he fought. Hecalled the war a “calculatedand condoned slaughter of humanbeings,” and said that “war isn’tworth one life.”

Patch’s funeral was held on August 6,2009, and was attended by thousands of mourners led by the Duchess of Corn-

wall. His cofn, draped in a Union Jack,was carried into the 13th century WellsCathedral 140 miles west of Londonby soldiers of The Ries, the successorto Patch’s unit, the Duke of Cornwall’s

Andrew Brons at the closing ceremony.




Light Infantry. Honorary pallbearersincluded two soldiers each from France,Belgium, and Germany, all in full dressuniform. A German diplomat wasone of the scripture readers at theAnglican service.

Patch would have heartily ap-proved of the inclusion of Germans.On the 90th anniversary of the endof the war last November, he at-tended the remembrance service inLondon at which his message was,“Remember the Germans.”

It is unfortunate that the ser-vice included the ballad “WhereHave All The Flowers Gone?”by the one-time Communist, Pete

Seeger. A much more appropriatepacist song would have been EricBogle’s 1976 “No Man’s Land,”also known as “The Green Fieldsof France.” Not only was it writtenby a Scot rather than an American,it is about the First World War andhas more thoughtful lyrics and abetter tune.

The lyrics are worth reproducingin full (see sidebar).

Given that Mr. Bogle’s balladmocks Wilsonian and British lib-eral fantasies about “War to End

War,” it is not surprising that “NoMan’s Land” is generally unfa-miliar to Americans and shunnedby American leftists. Such lyricsare blasphemies against the liberalestablishment’s Holy Trinity of Lincoln, Wilson, and Roosevelt,and American liberals are notori-ously intolerant of those who mocktheir gods.

Our Weaknesses

Our race has many strengths andmany weaknesses. One of those weak-nesses is its love of family quarrels and

ghts. White Europeans love to ghteach other. I suspect that it is a subli-mated, subconscious form of racism,

but whites seem to believe thatonly a victory over a kindredwhite nation is worthy of pride.All over Britain today there aremonuments commemorating vic-tories over other whites. Almostnowhere does one see a monu-ment to a victory over Sikhs,Hindus, Zulus, etc.

While I am not a pacist asPatch became, I have to confessthat I read history in vain to ndany significant war Americaor any other European nationhas fought since the Mexican-

American War of 1848 that didany good for our race. Ethno-masochists, however, such asTom Brokaw with his book, TheGreatest Generation, feel other-wise. For them, only wars againstwhites are good wars.

A similar example is the for-

mer President of the Republic of Ireland, Mary Robinson, who wasawarded America’s highest civil-ian honor, the Presidential Medalof Freedom, by Barack Obama inAugust of this year. In September1997, both Mary Robinson (inDublin) and Mexican PresidentErnesto Zedillo (in Mexico City)marked the 150th anniversary of the end of the Mexican-AmericanWar by honoring the San Patricio

No Man’s Land

Well how do you do, young Willie McBrideDo you mind if I sit here down by your grave

side?

A rest for awhile in the warm summer sun,I’ve been walking all day and I’m nearly done.And I see by your gravestone that you were only

19When you joined the great fallen in 1916.Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died

cleanOr, young Willie McBride, was it slow and ob-

scene?

Did they beat the drum slowly?Did they sound the pipes lowly?Did the ries re o’er ye as they lowered you

down?

Did the bugle sing ‘The Last Post’ in chorus?Did the pipes play ‘The Flowers o’ the Forest’?

Did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?In some faithful heart is your memory enshrinedAnd though you died back in 1916To that loyal heart are you always 19.Or are you just a stranger without even a nameForever enclosed behind some glass-paneIn an old photograph torn and tattered and

stainedAnd fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?

The sun shines bright on these green elds of

France,The warm summer wind makes the red poppies

dance.The trenches are vanished long under the ploughNo gas, no barbed wire, there’s no gunre now.But here in this graveyard it is still No Man’s

LandAnd the countless white crosses in mute witness

stand.To man’s blind indifference to his fellow manAnd a whole generation that was butchered and

damned.

And I can’t help but wonder now, Willie Mc-Bride

Do all those who lie here know why they died?Did you really believe them when you answered

the call?Did you really believe that this war would end

war?The suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame—The killing and the dying were all done in vain.For young Willie McBride, it’s all happened

againAnd again, and again, and again, and again.




Brigade (”Saint Patrick’s Brigade”), aunit formed by Irish-American desert-ers who fought for the Mexicans againsttheir former comrades.

President Robinson spoke of standingshoulder to shoulder in solidarity withMexicans against a common enemy: theAnglo-Saxons of Great Britain and theirAnglo relatives in the United States.Her remarks went almost completelyunnoticed by the American media at the

time, but many Americans would haveagreed with her: treason against fellowwhites was preferable to “aggression”against non-whites (please see “The WarWith Mexico,” AR, Sept. 1995, for anilluminating account of the conict).

The death of the last British soldierfrom the First World War is a time forreection and resolve. We must do ourutmost to ensure that our racial familyfeuds are healed. We must refute andput to rest lies intended to accentuate

and prolong such family feuds. We mustfoster a sense of our common heritageas European whites and remember asour forefathers did in medieval timesthat there is a shared, overarching raceand culture of all Europeans that bindsus to each other even as we remainseparate and proud members of differentwhite nations. There must never againbe a brothers’ war between our kindrednations.

O Tempora, O Mores!

365Black

McDonald’s, the fast food giant,recently launched a website called“365Black,” which it explains as fol-

lows:“At McDonald’s, we believe thatAfrican-American culture and achieve-ment should be celebrated 365 days

a year—not just during Black His-tory Month. That’s the idea behind365Black.com. It’s a place where youcan learn more about education, employ-ment, career advancement and entrepre-neurship opportunities, and meet realpeople whose lives have been touchedby McDonald’s.”

The message continues: “Like theunique African Baobab tree, whichnourishes its community with leaves andfruit, McDonald’s has branched out tothe African-American community nour-ishing it with valuable programs andopportunities.” [What is McDonald’s365Black? 365Black.com.]

So far, there is very little content atthe site, which appears mainly to bedesigned to encourage blacks to applyfor jobs at McDonald’s.

Overrepresented

According to a 2006 report from theUS Ofce of Personnel Management,blacks are heavily overrepresented in

the workforces of all but one of the17 federal executive departments. Thedepartments with the highest percent-ages of blacks are Housing and Urban

Development (37.5 percent), Edu-cation (36.9 percent), State (32.8),Veterans Affairs (24.5 percent),Treasury (24.1) and Labor (23.2).The only department in whichblacks are underrepresented is theDepartment of the Interior, wherethey make up just 5.9 percent of the workforce. (Interior appears tobe popular with American Indians,

who, at 12.1 percent of the work-force, are overrepresented by 1,000percent.)

Blacks are likewise overrepre-sented in all 23 federal independent

agencies—sometimes dramatically so.For example, 81.7 percent of the peoplewho work for the Court Services and Of-fender Supervision (CSOS) agency areblack. The agency’s “afrmative actiontarget”—the minimum percentage of itsworkforce expected to be black, basedon agency-specic occupations—is justnine percent, which means blacks are

overrepresented at CSOS by an aston-ishing 807.8 percent. The agencies withthe next-highest percentage of blackemployees are the Government PrintingOfce (56 percent), the Equal Employ-ment Opportunity Commission (43.1percent), the Pension Benefit Guar-anty Corporation (41.2 percent), and theSmithsonian Institution (39.9 percent).The independent federal agency withthe least black workforce is the NationalAeronautics and Space Administration

(NASA), at 11.8 percent. Based on thenumber of blacks said to be qualiedfor NASA work, they should be only7.9 percent of the agency, however, sothey are still overrepresented by nearly

50 percent. [Blacks in the Federal WorkForce, 2007 Edition: US Ofce of Per-sonnel Management Report, posted atAdversity.net, July 23, 2007.]

It is not surprising to learn that morethan 40 percent of the employees atEEOC are black, but who would havethought that nearly a third of the peopleat the State Department are black? Itmust because of their extensive knowl-edge of history, foreign policy, andexotic languages.

Joys of Diversity

New York City police are on thelookout for at least four men responsiblefor a series of assaults in the Bronxneighborhood of Tremont. On August30, the gang attacked and beat two Mex-ican men, as they shouted anti-Mexicanslurs. Early the next morning, the gangambushed and stabbed a 53-year-oldMexican man, and a day later they jumped another lone Mexican. Policesay these are hate crimes, but who’scommitting them? The suspects, like thevictims, are Hispanics—Dominicans,

who don’t like Mexicans on their turf.[John Lauinger, Series of Bias Crimesin Bronx, New York Daily News, Sept.2, 2009.]

History Too White

Like most state capitols, the state-house in Raleigh, North Carolina, is fullof statues, busts, and plaques honoringthe people who contributed to the state’shistory. There are 14 statues on the

McDonald’s is like the baobab tree.




“Segregated history in the 21st century.”

grounds, and as many in the building.Only one, the tribute to Vietnam Warsoldiers, includes non-whites: a blacksoldier and a Lumbee Indian. Thisdoesn’t sit well with diversity boosterssuch as Eddie Davis, former head of the North Carolina teacher’s union. Hecalls the all-white statues “segregatedhistory in the 21st century.” Mr. Davis,who is black, wants the state HistoricalCommission to put a “Hall of Inclusion”on the second oor of the Capitol, withplaques recognizing contributions bynon-whites.

Unfortunately for Mr. Davis, NorthCarolina imposed a moratorium on newstatues and monuments at the capitol inthe 1980s, in order to preserve the aes-thetics of the building and grounds. “Toconvert the state Capitol to a showcasefor one cause, however worthy, wouldopen it up as a showcase for other

causes,” says John Sanders, a formerprofessor at the University of NorthCarolina’s School of Government and

an expert on the capitol. “Its signicanceas a local historic landmark would becompromised.” Bill Ferris, also a UNChistory professor, thinks the HistoricalCommission should rewrite the rules.“We’re changing as a society, and downthe road there will be monuments to His-panic leaders,” he says. [Mark Johnson,A Call for Diversity at the Capitol, News& Observer (Raleigh), Aug. 31, 2009.]

She Prefers White Guys

The following published exchangetook place recently between a woman inSacramento and nationally-syndicatedadvice columnist Carolyn Hax:

The query: “Some friends of minehad been talking up this guy theythought would be perfect for me, so Inally went on a blind date with him. Itturns out he’s black, and while I am not

racist and have no problem with inter-racial dating in general, it’s not for me.I just prefer to date white guys.

“I told my friends why I wouldn’t beseeing him again, and they were, shock-ingly, horried. Did I miss somethinghere? I know interracial dating is moreprevalent now than it used to be, but Ididn’t realize it was so common thatyou get in trouble if you don’t wantto do it. . . . I’m hoping you’ll tell meI’m right, that no one should have todate anyone they don’t want to.”

The reply: “You’re right—no oneshould have to date anyone s/hedoesn’t want to. And your friendsare right, too—they shouldn’t haveto pretend they’re not horried bysomething they nd morally repug-nant. . . .

“More people date interracially be-cause more people realize that the only

alternative to being racist is to judgeeach person as a person. . . .“We’re having this conversation

because you didn’t nd his raceattractive. That’s what racismis.” [Carolyn Hax, Racist? ShePrefers Dating White Guys,Minneapolis Star Tribune,Aug. 30, 2009.]

Can’t Go Back

Atlanta became the firstmajor Southern city to elect

a black mayor back in 1973,when it chose Maynard Jack-son over white incumbent Sam

Massell, and no white has come closeto the mayor’s ofce ever since. Butthanks to recent demographic changes—more blacks moving to the suburbs forbetter schools and more whites andHispanics moving to the city to avoidlong commutes—that might change.Unpopular incumbent Shirley Franklincannot run for a third term, and has noobvious heir apparent, leaving the eldopen. The leading contenders among

blacks are city council president LisaBorders and state senator Kasim Reed,but the leader in the polls is city council-man Mary Norwood, who is white. Thisannoys some blacks.

In late August, the Black LeadershipForum circulated a memo urging blacksto unite behind Miss Borders, whom itbelieves has the best chance of winningsupport from white business leadersand defeating Miss Norwood. “For thelast 25 years Atlanta has represented

the breakthrough for black politicalempowerment in the South,” the memoreads. “In order to defeat a Norwood(white) mayoral candidacy we have toget out now and work in a manner to

defeat her without a runoff, and the keyis a signicant Black turnout.”All the leading candidates denounced

the memo. Miss Borders said raceshould not be a factor in the election. Mr.Reed called the memo “racially chargedand vitriolic.” Miss Norwood says hercandidacy is about issues, adding, “Racedoes not play a role.”

Aaron Turpeau, a black businessmanwho worked for former mayors Jacksonand Andrew Young, is a member of theBlack Leadership Forum and defendsthe memo. “You shouldn’t vote solely

on having a black candidate,” he says.“You have to deal with the credentialsand skill set rst. After that, it’s a feel-ing of pride that we’ve had for 35 yearsin this town.” [Valerie Bauerlein, RaceEnters Atlanta Mayoral Vote, WallStreet Journal, Aug. 28, 2009.]

Feeding Detroit

Detroit has no major national grocerychains, and efforts to start full-servicelocal stores have gone bust after a yearor two. A 2007 study found that 92

percent of food stores in Detroit arewhat are called fringe providers: liquorstores, gas stations, party stores, dollarstores, pharmacies, and conveniencestores. Only eight percent sell traditionalgroceries.

Michigan governor Jennifer Gra-nholm wants residents to get fresh fruitsand vegetables, so she spent $75,000of taxpayer money on a pilot programcalled MI (pronounced “my”) Neigh-borhood Food Movers. The idea is to

Mary Norwood, the white woman whomust be stopped.




deliver produce to open-air markets andsell it from the backs of trucks. If thereis enough demand, there will be urbangardens, more delivery services, andcooking classes. Public subsidies willhelp keep prices cheap, and the truckswill accept food stamps and honorthe Michigan welfare card. [KimberlyHayes Taylor, State Seeds Fresh FoodDelivery in Detroit, Detroit News, Aug.22, 2009.]

Left unanswered—because no oneever seems to raise it—is the questionof why there are no grocery stores inDetroit to begin with.

Fighting Internet Racism

John Ismael Henry of Soso, Missis-sippi, invented the vibrating toilet seat,which landed him a spot on the “TonightShow” with Jay Leno. Not all people

appreciate Mr. Henry’s contributionto science, and he has become the buttof jokes in Internet discussion groups.Because Mr. Henry is black, some of the jokes have been racial, and he isnow suing America Online (AOL) andGoogle, accusing them of perpetuatingInternet “racism,” by allowing postersto call him a “nigger.”

“Needless to say that my inventiongarnered a lot of attention,” he explains.“I was completely humiliated and hor-ried to discover that these two greatbastions of business prowess would

allow (these insulting) websites . . .

to thrive on their search engines.” Hesays he has suffered “enormous mentalharm, emotional suffering, and sleeplessnights.” He claims to believe in freedomof speech but says search engines should“show some responsibility to what’shappening.” In July, both AOL andGoogle led motions to dismiss, but a

judge has yet to rule.In case the lawsuit doesn’t work, Mr.

Henry is writing a book that will helpeliminate racism: Diversity and Rac-ism: The Challenge of Mankind . “AllAmericans have been affected by racismand its horrible practices,” he says, and“many need counseling to some degree.”[Eloria Newell James, Local InventorFiles Lawsuit Against ‘Racist’ AOL,Google, Leader-Call (Laurel, Miss.),Aug. 20, 2009.]

Shut Up and Sing

Aging pop star Madonna took a break

during a recent concert in Bucharest tolecture the audience about the al-legedly poor treatment of gypsiesin Eastern Europe. She said it madeher “sad” and that no one shouldsuffer discrimination. The audiencebooed her until she started singingagain. Madonna has included gypsymusicians and dancers as part of herEastern European tour. [MadonnaBooed in Bucharest for CriticizingDiscrimination Against Roma, orGypsies, AP, Aug. 27, 2009.]

Obama Baby BustGiddy leftist commentators, sur-

veying the raucous crowds gatheredin Chicago’s Grant Park to welcomeBarack Obama’s electoral victory lastNovember, predicted they would gohome and celebrate in a way that wouldproduce a surge in births nine monthslater—what they called the Obama babyboom. Forty weeks later, a survey of Chicago-area maternity wards reveals no

uptick. “Research evidence gives scantsupport for a one-day or one-month

fertility ‘spike’ due to the election,” saysDonald Bogue, a University of Chicagodemographer and sociologist. “Birthsare now predominantly planned and notvery responsive to good news.”

Although there was no baby boom,Mr. Obama will be leaving a perma-nent mark on some members of thenext generation. The Social SecurityAdministration says the name “Barack”has jumped more than 10,000 spots onthe list of most popular baby names—arecord—from No. 12,535 in 2007 toNo. 2,409 in 2008. It predicts the name

will do even better this year, breakinginto the top 1,000. [Obama Baby Boom:Predicted Surge in Births Goes Bust,Chicago Tribune, Aug. 11, 2009.]

Rape in Norway

During the past three years, Oslopolice have investigated 41 cases of aggravated sexual assault. All werecommitted by non-white immigrants toNorway, mostly Kurds and Africans.They say the rapes all have one thing incommon—the use of “gross violence”—

and are urging that more effort be putinto promoting “preventative measures”among immigrant men. [Immigrants be-hind Most Cases of Aggravated SexualAssault, Norway Post, Aug. 28, 2009.]Not letting them in would be effective.

Crying Wolf

Earlier this summer the British Na-tional Party (BNP) launched a campaignto keep a mosque out of Loughton, a

Joy in Grant Park led to no baby boom.



town just north of London. The usualcrowd accused the party of stirring upracial hatred, a charge given credencewhen a 36-year-old Muslim activist,Noor Ramjanally, claimed Muslim-haters kidnapped him.

Mr. Ramjanally told police twomen abducted him, stuffed him intothe trunk of a car, and drove himmore than 20 miles to a woodedarea of Essex. He said that whenthey said, “Let’s do it here,” hethought they were going to killhim. Instead, they warned him tokeep his Islamic group out of theirneighborhood, and dumped him inthe woods. While he didn’t accusethe men of being BNP members,he pointed the nger at the party,saying, “It is only the BNP whowant my Islamic group out of Loughton.” Mr. Ramjanally also

claimed someone had rebombedhis home several weeks earlier.His story became a cause cé-

lèbre among Muslims, and waswhooped up with much sympathyin the national press, but policewere skeptical. On September 3,they arrested him and chargedhim with “perverting the courseof justice” for making the wholething up. [Muslim CommunityLeader Arrested for ‘Making UpBNP Story,’ Daily Mail (London),Sept. 3, 2009.]

Will There Be More?

Brandon Huntley, a 31-year-oldwhite South African says blackshave attacked him on seven oc-casions, once stabbing him whilecalling him a “settler” and “whitedog.” Mr. Huntley went to Canada,and in April 2008, he led for asy-lum, claiming he faced persecutionfrom blacks. In late August, immi-gration judge William Davis ruledthat Mr. Huntley would indeed face

persecution from “African SouthAfricans,” and granted asylum.Astonishingly, the judge also foundthat South Africa’s racial prefer-ences policies and so-called blackeconomic empowerment werelegitimate grounds for claimingdiscrimination. “These legislatedpolicies, even though there is anexplanation for them, are discrimi-natory,” he wrote.

Ronnie Mamoepa, a spokes-

man for South Africa’s Home Affairsdepartment, says the government was“disgusted” by the ruling and calledMr. Huntley’s claims “preposterousand laughable.” The African National

Congress pronounced the ruling “racist”and “alarmist.” Ordinary South Africanswere split. A commenter on one newspa-per website wrote, “I will never set myfoot in Canada. It’s ofcially the most

racist country in the world,” andanother said, “What a load of BS.Are the Canadians truly this gull-ible?” Others predicted the rulingwould “open the ood gates” forwhites. Said one, “The racismhas increased tremendously andwhites are not wanted or toler-ated here.”

The Canadian government hasnot commented ofcially on theruling, noting that the Immigra-tion Review Board is an inde-pendent agency. However, thefederal government may appealthe decision to the Federal Courtof Canada. [Lauren Cohen, White

Flees ‘SA Oppression,’ Times(Johannesburg), Sept. 1, 2009.Geoffrey York, South African’sRefugee Case Causes BacklashAgainst ‘Racist’ Canada, Globeand Mail (Toronto), Sept. 2,2009.]

Oh, Baba

For nearly 700 years, Indianfamilies hoping for good healthfor their children have beengathering at the Baba Umer

Durga Muslim shrine in westernIndia, about 280 miles south of Bombay. They take toddlers ontothe rooftop of the mosque, shakethem, and then drop them overthe side into bed sheets held byparents and other believers. The50-foot fall is supposed to cleansechildren of ill health. In ruralIndia, where there are high ratesof infant mortality, such ritualsare common.

This year’s ceremony wascovered by television stations

that broadcast images of scream-ing infants being shaken anddropped. Local ofcials say therewere no reports of injuries, butIndian city-dwellers are outraged.They say the practice is “a reec-tion of the lack of access to healthservices, that forces people tobehave in this irrational manner.”[Indian Activists Blast Ritual of Dropping Babies Off MosqueRoof, AP, July 31, 2009.]

Mark Your Calendars!

AR Conference in February

The 2010 AR conference will be heldover the weekend of February 19-21 in Northern Virginia. We have

a top-ight group of speakers, includingBNP Chairman Nick Grifn, fresh froma win to the European Parliament, and oneof the top BNP activists, Arthur Kemp.Afrikaner activist Dan Roodt will speak on“The White Man’s Burden,” and CraigBodeker will discuss the fallout from his

pioneering lm, “A Conversation AboutRace.” Distinguished historian RaymondWolters of the University of Delaware will

describe the education “reforms” meantto close the racial gaps in learning, and alegal expert will explain how censorship

could come to America. Long-time activistSam Dickson will speak on the importanceof knowing who we are, and AR editorJared Taylor will speak on “Race in theAge of Obama.” A high-prole immigra-tion-control spokesman will discuss theprospects for saving our country. We arenalizing arrangements with other excel-lent speakers.

As always, this will be a wonderful op-portunity to meet old friends, make newones, and enjoy the extraordinary ambiancethat comes only from the concentratedbrains and energy of hundreds of men and

women who know the score. Be sure notto miss this unforgettable weekend of in-spiration and camaraderie. The conferencehotel will be a short shuttle ride from DullesAirport in Northern Virginia, and there willbe ample parking for those who drive.

Full registration information will be inthe next issue.

We look forward to seeing youin February!

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