{"id":63412,"date":"2015-02-14T19:57:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T03:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63412"},"modified":"2023-09-15T04:42:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T12:42:07","slug":"jared-taylor-what-i-like-about-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63412","title":{"rendered":"Jared Taylor: What I Like About Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jared writes (and his experiences mirror mine)<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Like some other writers for this website, I have a reputation for writing rude things about blacks. I have written rude things about whites, Hispanics, Asians, and Muslims, but being rude about blacks is one of our era\u2019s unforgivable sins. Of course, what I write about blacks is true, but as Mark Twain pointed out, nothing astonishes people more than to tell them the truth. Deep down, everyone knows the truth about blacks, but a vital requirement for respectability is to pretend you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The fact is, there are things to like about blacks\u2014and I like them. They mostly have to do with lack of inhibition, a kind of cheerful spontaneity you don\u2019t often find in whites. I have a half-Asian friend\u2014a connoisseur of stereotypes\u2014who thinks blacks and whites differ in that respect even more than they do in average IQ. As he puts it, whites act like Asians who have had a few drinks and blacks act like whites who have had a few drinks.<\/p>\n

You see this in the easy way blacks talk to strangers. Sometimes I wear a hat\u2014a black fedora in the winter or a panama in the summer\u2014and I can count on compliments from blacks: \u201cLove yo\u2019 hat.\u201d \u201cCool lid, man.\u201d Mostly it\u2019s from men but sometimes from women, too.<\/p>\n

Blacks also have a knack for turning a moment with a stranger into a friendly exchange. If you are waiting for a bus in the summer, someone will turn to you and say \u201cSho is hot,\u201d or \u201cWhen izzat damn bus gonna come?\u201d Educated blacks learn to be aloof, like whites, but lower-class blacks like to talk to whoever will listen, and there is charm in the way they share bits of their lives with you.<\/p>\n

For a few weeks not long ago I walked to a job in the Tenderloin, which is San Francisco\u2019s worst ghetto. Most whites never go there. The bum shelters empty early, so even at 8:30 in the morning the sidewalks were full of layabouts and panhandlers, most of them black. Some were clearly crazy\u2014they looked straight through me and talked to themselves\u2014but they never seemed dangerous. There was always banter among the regulars; some called each other by name, but there was a lot of \u201cHey, nigga,\u201d too.<\/p>\n

I wore a suit every day, and the federal courthouse was down the street, so after a few days, I was greeted with \u201cHeah come de judge.\u201d The panhandlers quickly learned I was a dry hole, but one tall, skinny black man refused to give up. \u201cAny spare change today?\u201d he would say, with a smile. And, of course, everyone liked my hat.<\/p>\n

I had one awkward moment. A middle-aged woman with shocking blonde hair walked up and opened her jacket, revealing great, pendulous breasts. She then wrapped her arms tightly around me, as a happy cackle went up and down the sidewalk. I was stuck. I didn\u2019t want to force her arms apart, and she wouldn\u2019t let go. I was saved by another black woman who came up and said, \u201cStop yo\u2019 playin,\u2019 nigga, or I\u2019ll beat yo\u2019 ass.\u201d I don\u2019t think it would have worked if I had said that.<\/p>\n

I realize that not everyone would have enjoyed that commute through the Tenderloin, but I did. Those \u201cniggas\u201d were poor and would always be poor. They were about as down and out as Americans get. But I admired the way they got every possible drop of amusement out of their lives. I was a bit of fun walking through their neighborhood, and they made the most of it\u2014and in a way that made it fun for me, too.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to imagine a bunch of whites in quite the same predicament, but I think they would have an angry sense of failure that those blacks did not. They would be surly; these people were cheerful. A long-forbidden stereotype is the happy-go-lucky Negro. Sorry, but that\u2019s what I found in the Tenderloin.<\/p>\n

Part of the spontaneity of blacks is the uninhibited way they pay compliments. Once I was walking back to my hotel room after a workout in the gym. My shirt was off and I was glistening. Two black chambermaids coming down the hall eyed me with interest. \u201cNice!\u201d one of them said softly. I smiled, and the other said, much louder, \u201cVery nice.\u201d No white chambermaid would have said that.<\/p>\n

I know women don\u2019t like too much of that sort of thing when it goes the other way, especially when it doesn\u2019t stop with \u201cBaby, you look so fiiiiiiiiiiine.\u201d I\u2019ve heard black men proposition complete strangers in broad daylight on the streets of Washington, and I suppose girls get tired of that. Even so, to an onlooker, there\u2019s something compelling about such guileless spontaneity.<\/p>\n

The way blacks speak English is entertaining. A black man once explained to me the difference between \u201cHe sick\u201d and \u201cHe be sick.\u201d \u201cHe sick\u201d is chronic\u2014someone who is bedridden or in a wheelchair\u2014while \u201cHe be sick\u201d is a temporary condition like the flu.<\/p>\n

I got a dose of creative black rhetoric one day when I fell off my bicycle in Manhattan. I had been going fast, and though I wasn\u2019t injured, I was in a mild state of shock. I sat on the curb to pull myself together, and a black bicycle messenger who had seen me go down stopped to see if I was alright. I told him I was fine, but that I was feeling queer, shaky. \u201cDass right,\u201d he said. \u201cYou go off yo\u2019 wheels; it fucks wi\u2019 yo\u2019 mind. It fucks wi\u2019 yo\u2019mind.\u201d I wouldn\u2019t have put it that way, but he got it exactly right.<\/p>\n

Jesse Jackson ran for president in 1984 and 1988 on a campaign of doggerel: \u201cFrom the outhouse to the white house.\u201d \u201cThey got dope in their veins, not hope in their brains.\u201d \u201cFrom disgrace to amazing grace.\u201d A white candidate with idiotic lines like that would be laughed out of politics; Mr. Jackson carried it off.<\/p>\n

COMMENTS:<\/p>\n

* ROBERT WEISSBERG: Jared speaks the truth. I, too, wear nice hats (including a real Panama during the summer) and blacks regularly give me compliments. Moreover, in my many years of teaching I always got along splendidly with individual blacks despite my well-known \u201ccontroversial\u201d views on race. We shared lots of jokes and laughs much to the chagrin of my uptight liberal colleagues. I was also a regular at a local black owned rib joint where much of the black clientele looked like the people whose pictures decorate the post office. My liberal colleagues where terrified to go there despite my assurances that it was totally safe. These were the same \u201cexperts\u201d who would insist that black crime resulted from white racism.<\/p>\n

* Jared Taylor\u2019s views on commenting are pretty reasonable and middle-of-the-road: He stands for freedom of expression but he would also like things to be civil and not hateful. A quote from an interview<\/a> with him in American Spectator: \u201cI wish our commenters were better behaved. I agree that they are sometimes mean-spirited, and I wish nothing ever appeared on the site that was mean-spirited. On the other hand, I don\u2019t like censorship, and deleting comments is a kind of censorship. This is a dilemma faced by all sites that permit commenting.\u201d <\/p>\n

As for Taylor\u2019s take on Jews, his views are a matter of both public record and evident from his actions. Again in his own words from two interviews<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cAR\u2018s position on Jews is well-known: Jews have always been full participants in the work of race realism and have taken prominent roles in almost all of our events.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cRacially conscious whites tend to be suspicious of Jews for two reasons. First, Jews have been prominent in the effort to demonize any sense of white identity. Second, Zionist Jews support an ethnostate for Jews \u2014 Israel \u2014 while they generally promote diversity for America and Europe. This is annoying, but understandable for historical reasons.\u201d (From the same American Spectator interview quoted above.)<\/p>\n

I would not facilely accuse AmRen (i.e. Taylor) of anti-Semitism, as few people in the movement have been more thoughtful and circumspect on the issue than Taylor. Why would he continue to publish Jews and feature them at AmRen conferences only to play games on the issue in the comments? Taylor most likely is simply following the policy articulated above: trying to allow freedom of expression but moderating in order to avoid tangential, unhelpful and inflammatory commenting. Sometimes this may result in deleting \u201canti-Semitic\u201d and sometimes philo-Semitic comments.<\/p>\n

* There\u2019s so much more more at work than IQ among racial groups. Blacks are very accomplished musically, both creating and performing, and in particular singing. I recently argued to some friends that, at this point, Asians, IQ notwithstanding, are so far behind blacks musically at this point that blacks could stop creating music now, we could wait a million years, and Asians still wouldn\u2019t be anywhere close. Asians excel at understanding, appreciating, and performing European music, but they have no creative bone. Not even the Japanese are musically creative, although, unlike Asians generally, they are creative in many other ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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