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Race: The Reality of Human Differences
$32.00
Prevailing social dogma, from which dissent is effectively prohibited, asserts that "race does not exist." "Racism," however, does (a neat trick), thereby justifying institutional accumulation of data on race and the systematic implementation across the legal and cultural spectrum of laws and policies discriminating against a single group.

It is manifestly obvious to everyone, including race deniers, that race does in fact exist. Race denial is driven by ethnic and ideological animus, not scientific empiricism. The leading academic architects of the dogma--Franz Boas, "Ashley Montagu" (Israel Ehrenberg), Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin, and Jared Diamond--as well as the creator of PBS television's race denial documentary, Race: The Power of an Illusion (all are discussed in the book), belong to an ethnic group exempt from official discrimination, and share a Left-wing ideological tilt that is sometimes extreme (Marxist).

In an ideologically Orwellian atmosphere there is always a need for the statement of simple truths. This the authors set out to do.

Both are associated with Skeptic magazine, journalist Frank Miele, the author of Intelligence, Race, and Genetics: Conversations with Arthur R. Jensen, as senior editor, and Vincent Sarich, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, as a member of the magazine's editorial board. Sarich's most notable career achievement is the co-development of the "molecular clock," a genetic technique for constructing phylogenetic trees and determining dates when species (or human races) diverged.

Do the authors succeed in their aim? This question must be answered on two levels: the societal, and the inner court of the mind.

On the first level they necessarily fail, as everyone must. "Race does not exist" is dogma maintained by laws and social sanctions. Societies that scorn freedom of thought do not permit proscribed positions to be rationally discussed in the public arena. Therefore, the authors' failure in the social realm is a foregone conclusion completely unrelated to evidence or arguments; it is purely a function of force. For this book to have an impact, a culture of intellectual freedom and honesty would have to exist.

What of the independent, rational (if there be such) mind, which power and group conformity don't yet control? There, the argument succeeds--though not without difficulty. The problem is that key elements of the authors' case rely heavily upon technical expertise in genetics, and are difficult for educated non-technical readers to evaluate. Nevertheless, there is sufficient common sense scattered throughout the book to insure that the authors ultimately succeed in making their case.

Miele and Sarich define races as fuzzy sets of "populations, or groups of populations, within a species, that are separated geographically from other such populations or groups of populations and distinguishable from them on the basis of heritable features."

Humans and chimpanzees are genetically 98.9% the same, and different human races 99.9% the same, race deniers assert. (Anthropologist Peter Frost calls this ploy the "small percentage fallacy.") And yet, say the authors, imagine "a random assortment of fifty humans and fifty chimpanzees. No one . . . would have any difficulty in reconstituting the original fifty-member sets by simple inspection . . ." Likewise, applied to 150 humans selected 1/3 each from Japan, Malawi, and Norway, "[a]gain, by simple inspection, we would achieve the same 100 percent sorting accuracy." Moreover, if the 100% rule is relaxed so the criterion is "nearer the 75 percent that has often sufficed for the recognition of races in other species, then obviously the number [of identifiable human races] would be very large." The great population geneticist Sewall Wright (died 1988), who asserted the reality of race throughout his life, likewise employed this technique.

A uniquely useful feature of the book is a table entitled "Three possible scenarios for race in the new millennium." For each scenario the authors objectively identify a list of accompanying advantages and disadvantages.

The first scenario they call "Meritocracy in the Global Marketplace"--globalization characterized by non-discrimination, including non-discrimination against whites. It embraces the physical extinction of European-derived populations worldwide, while de facto preserving non-whites. In other words, it represents current thinking, but with explicitly anti-white laws and policies removed. An international, racially intermarrying cosmopolitan elite will dominate. This is the authors' preferred option.

The reason why a globalist order, even with present anti-white laws removed, will lead to the extinction of whites (which, again, does not perturb the authors) is simple: the racial makeup of vast regions of the world, "including China, India, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East, which have not changed in recorded history," are also not going to change anytime soon. "This is not the case in the developed world, however, where birthrates have been plunging for the past two centuries to the point that they are currently below replacement level . . ." Barring some radical change in ideology and social policy, "the United States and Western Europe each year will see an increasing percentage of the population composed of . . . immigrants . . . from the underdeveloped countries of the Third World." The "ultimate evolutionary irony" is that Europeans, "having conquered and colonized the world," "brought about their own extinction."

The remaining scenarios, both disfavored by the authors, are intensified "Affirmative Action and Race Norming" (anti-white discrimination) or "Resegregation and the Emergence of Ethno-States."

A thought-provoking section near the end of the book discusses bioweapons designed to kill only members of specific races--which genetics has rendered feasible. South Africa and Israel have researched the development of such weapons. (White South Africa, of course, no longer exists.) This says much about the race deniers' position: for if Jews are not a race, then bioweapons targeting Arabs or Europeans would also kill Jews. But such evidently is not the case.

In sum, a worthwhile book containing useful information and insights.

Race Matters
$20.00
MLK was a republican because how could he have been anything else but one, without having been insane. He grew up in a segrated South that had had lost the civil war started by Democrats (the party of slavery by the way - check their platform) controlled by a Democrat party that voted against the 13th and 14th amendments, a party that created the jim crow laws, manned the KKK, voted against Eisenhowers civil rights in the 1950's (JFK and Gores daddy voted against it, check the federal register if you don't believe me) and then again voted in the majority against the civil rights act in the 1960's.

The question is not what I have done to you Mr. West but what the Democrats have done to you and why African AMericans refuse to recognize it, instead embracing their masters, defilers and historic arch enemies while demonizing those who bled for your freedom and your rights.

If you write a book on race and fail to ask the questions as to this cultural psychosis you have to question the motives of the author as well as his scholastic abilities. You do write well but it was indeed painful to read through the omissions.

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Race: A History Beyond Black and White
$18.99
The author, a well-known writer and editor whose audience is primarily teens, has written a history of race and racism from the ancient world down to the present. He confines this study to race and racism in the western world. Much territory is covered, describing and analyzing what racial prejudice is, how it begins, the socio-economic factors influencing it, and its terrible consequences throughout the centuries. Despite a wealth of informative data on such topics as race and slavery, so-called racial "differences," and doctrines such as survival of the fittest, the book contains several egregious errors of interpretation. For example, Aronson attributes the ancient Israelites' belief in one God to paving the way for thousands of years of prejudice, war, and intolerance in the West. In addition, basing his argument on the tendentious New Testament gospels, he proclaims that Jesus was the first to preach the doctrine of universal love for humankind. This, of course, is contrasted with what Aronson sees as narrow Jewish particularism. His interpretation of the belief in the chosen people as exclusivity is similarly skewed. With regard to Jews, instead of revealing truths about the pernicious effects of racism, Aronson helps to perpetuate it. Very disappointing.