Is the Problem White People or Black People?

Our rulers are deliberately blind.

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Everyone has his list of crazy things the elite media want us to believe: It’s normal to be homosexual or to want to change your sex, the Covid shutdown was a public-health necessity, there’s no such thing as Jewish power, the Great Replacement is a myth, diversity is a strength, race doesn’t exist but racism does, men and women are interchangeable, genetics and breeding apply to every living thing on earth — except people. Add or subtract from that list as you wish.

You can hardly find a news story that doesn’t promote some form of foolishness. I read a recent article in The New Yorker called “What We Miss When We Talk About the Racial Wealth Gap.”

Yes, it’s about how we’ve made life awful for black people, and it’s by yet another pompous non-white telling us how to run our country. But it made some good points.

First, Idrees Kahloon notes that although in 1920, whites had 10 times the per capita wealth of blacks, the gap steadily narrowed.

By 1950, it was down to seven to one, and by the mid-sixties — the high holy years of the civil rights era — the gap was six to one.

But since then, no change. Sixty years later, the wealth gap is still six to one.

Oh, dear. What can the matter be? Mr. Kahloon doesn’t believe in “systemic racism.” Things were getting better for blacks all during Jim Crow and segregation, but progress stopped after race preferences, mandatory adulation of black people, role models, national holidays that whoop up black people, and DEI.

Mr. Kahloon even pokes holes in today’s favorite whites-are-responsible theory: redlining.

That’s the idea that wicked white bankers refused to lend money in black neighborhoods, so blacks couldn’t buy houses and build up wealth. But Mr. Kahloon notes that those maps didn’t exist before 1933, were not by any means universally followed, and that redlining was outlawed 35 years later.

And that during the period of redlining, the black/white wealth gap continued to narrow.

What’s more, Mr. Kahloon notes that the reason for bank redlining was a calculation as to whether a bank would get its money back, and based on that reasoning, the vast majority of the people living in redlined areas were white ethnics, not black people.

Irish and Italians had a hard time getting mortgages, too, but somehow they got ahead.

Mr. Kahloon also notes that in 2007, black and Hispanic families had the same median level of wealth. Fifteen years later, Hispanics had twice the wealth while blacks were up just 50 percent. Oh, dear. Hispanics get ahead but blacks don’t.

Mr. Kahloon flirts with heresy when he says reparations wouldn’t work. He cites a paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on “The Dynamics of the Racial Wealth Gap,” which says, “One-time wealth transfers have only transitory effects.”

Put crudely, give blacks a wad of money and they’ll fritter it away and be back where they started.

So, after all this sensible stuff, what does Mr. Kahloon say we should do? He points out that most people don’t get ahead because they inherit money — which is what reparations would be like. People get ahead because they make money — they have jobs. Therefore, the solution is for the US government to help black people make money by guaranteeing them jobs.

How stupid can you get? A government-guaranteed job is like welfare. People who get ahead by making money are responsible and hard-working.

They think about the future, they save for it, they invest, they look after their children. They are the very opposite of welfare bums, and Mr. Kahloon’s plan would turn even more blacks into welfare bums.

So, after several thousand words, Mr. Kahloon is back to handouts for blacks, but just not one big, lump sum. And in his words, “It is the only path left.” Even lefties must be rolling their eyes at that.

Not in his most fevered dreams would this genius Idrees Kahloon have us consider the possibility that as discrimination receded, blacks rose as far as their abilities allowed.

By the 1960s, the economy was open to blacks — more than open — and if many stayed poor, it was because they were feckless or stupid or both. Mr. Kahloon never seems to have heard of the letters “IQ,” much less racial differences in time preferences or deferred gratification.

And so, we’re back to gigantic media blind spots. Don’t breathe a word about the 15-point difference in average black/white IQs that has persisted for more than 100 years. Just keep pretending that black people are actually Koreans with dark skin.

The absurdity of that article got me thinking. I asked ChatGPT and Grok to hunt through the prestige press and see if, in the last 10 years, the top publications have ever talked about race and IQ. I had AI scour the New York Times, The Atlantic, Harpers, The New York Review of Books, and the Washington Post. Maybe the bots missed something, but I told them to hunt hard.

The Washington Post is full of articles like: “Wage gap between black and white workers is worsening, Fed says.”

“College isn’t the solution for the racial wealth gap. It’s part of the problem.”

You see, student debt is structured to hit blacks harder so they can’t build wealth by going to college as whites do. But race differences in IQ? Never heard of that.

Ditto for Harpers and the New York Times — never heard of it.

The Wall Street Journal? One article by black scholar Jason Riley, called “An Intelligent Discussion About Race and IQ Is Possible,” sounds promising.

Mr. Riley pooh-poohs the idea of any genetic contribution to the 15-point difference, but he’s heard of it, and he says dissidents should be refuted, not smeared. Has the Journal actually had an “intelligent discussion about race and IQ”? No. It may be possible, but not in their paper.

In the New York Review of Books, you have to go back to 1999 to find an article called “The Twisted Path to the Top,” which is a review of a book about what an awful thing the SAT is.

It talks about race, and says IQ testing is another obstacle for blacks, just like the SAT. Since then, for the last 26 years, never heard of race and IQ.

Only The Atlantic seems to have noticed that bad white people are resurrecting what it calls “pseudo-science.” In 2023, we got “The Young Conservatives Trying to Make Eugenics Respectable Again.”

And just last year, we learned that “The Far Right is Becoming Obsessed With Race and IQ.”

This is wicked and bigoted, of course, but at least The Atlantic warns you it’s happening. The rest? Just don’t talk about that 15-point gap and it might go away.

Why are our rulers so deliberately, desperately blind? If a space alien spent a week on our planet just poking around, what would he think? That dark, mysterious forces push East Asians to the top of the heap — wherever they live — and push down black Africans wherever they live?

No chance.

Why are white people such morons? Why do they fall for the idea that it’s their fault when other people fail? Why do they refuse to see what happens when they let their nations fill up with Third-Worlders? This is France, by the way.

This blinkered view has hideous consequences, not just in America but all around the world.

Next week, I’ll talk about what makes white people so easy to con, but I’d like to hear your comments. I can hear it now: A giant chorus of “It’s the Jews, you dope.” You’ve got to give me more than that. Jews or not, what makes white people fall for this baloney?