Paul Craig Roberts
March 6, 1999
Christine Todd Whitman, the "new look" Republican governor of New Jersey, fired the state police chief, a 37-year veteran, for telling the truth. Col. Carl Williams, drawing on the FBI Uniform Crime Report, told the Newark Star-Ledger that predominantly white motorcycle gangs control the methamphetamine market, and "heroin and stuff like that is more or less Jamaican."
The white motorcycle gangs didn't accuse the chief of being a racist for repeating information from the FBI report, but spokespersons for the black community made a big point of being "incensed." The courageous governor quickly fired the chief for being so insensitive as to tell the truth.
If Williams had told the newspaper that the drug trade was operated by the CIA in order to keep blacks down, he would have become a candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize instead of an unemployed cop.
In the U.S. today, a white male cannot utter some truths and expect to keep his job. Indeed, increasingly, white people have to lend their support to lies that serve minority interests in order to hold on to what they have. Even scientific truth has lost out to myths that serve minority interests. In 1966, two college students discovered "Kennewick Man," a 10,000-year-old skeleton in the Columbia riverbank in Washington state. The skeleton was an important scientific find, but, alas, did not fit the race theories of American Indians.
Apparently acting on orders from the Clinton administration and over the objections of Congress and scientists, the Army Corps of Engineers quickly buried the archeological site under 500 tons of rock to prevent further finds. Kennewick Man's bones were dispersed, and some were reburied. Kennewick Man was politically incorrect. His features are not in keeping with those associated with "native Americans," suggesting that there may have been other native Americans who lost out in violent struggles before the white man came. This prospect is inconvenient for theories of "white oppression" that have been concocted to serve Indian group interests. There was nothing for it but to destroy the evidence.
One doesn't have to be a scholar to see that racism on the part of minorities is in full swing. All you have to do is to read the newspapers. Margaret Young, a Charles County Maryland school board member, is in hot water for voting against Black History Month and Women's History Month. "Gender grouping and other forms of head-counting should not be what we model in our schools," she says, voicing her opposition to programs that separate "people based on genetic or chromosomal traits."
When the civil rights movement began, Young's position was the integrationist, non-racist position. But once privileges were handed out to minorities based on race and gender, group-vested interests arose, and separation became the non-racist position.
Bill Lann Lee, who is illegally occupying the position of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, is investigating schools for the "racist" practice of naming their football teams or school mascots after Indians. It is OK to be the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, but not the Stanford Indians. Some years ago, Stanford became the Cardinals after giving in to the charge that naming one of its proudest possessions, the football team, after Indians was a racist slur. If the university had called its team the Stanford Aryans, there might have been a racial connotation. But if "Indians" was a slur, why would a bunch of white people adopt a name that cast aspersion upon themselves? Clearly, what the Stanford Indians meant to Stanford was a proud team with fighting spirit.
If the Indians' civil-rights spokespersons have their way, all Indian names will be obliterated, and we can forget about them.
And if women's organizations have their way, male sports will be obliterate d as well. The National Organization of Women brought a suit that forced gender quotas on the wrestling team at California State University at Bakersfield, a feeder program for the Olympics. To keep gender proportionality in sports programs, the team has been ordered to cut back to 25 men and to add nine women.
Think about that for a moment. If the university had required women to participate in wrestling, NOW would have responded to women pinned on a mat under male bodies with a sexual harassment suit.
But logic or Olympic success is not the goal. The goal is to demonize white males, reduce their opportunities, and limit their success.