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"In a major brief filed in 1991, the National Association for the
Advancement of Coloured People explained....that certain conditions
must be met in order for school integration to produce harmony and
achievement. Instruction must be co-operative rather than competitive.
Parents must become involved in planning and monitoring desegregation.
Grouping by ability must stop. There must be "substantial" numbers of
nonwhite teachers and staff, and all must enthusiastically support
integration. Multi-ethnic textbooks must be used. ....One [judge]
decided in 1993 to keep the Yonkers, New York, school district under
court order until blacks and white get essentially the same test
scores...."
Thomas JACKSON, 1995, American Renaissance, xii.
(Reviewing D.Armor, Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law,
Oxford University Press.)
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"Of all vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of social and
moral influences in the human mind, the most vulgar is that of
attributing the diversities of human conduct and character to inherent
original natural differences."
J.S.MILL, 1848, Principles of Political Economy.
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"In his 1964 paper "On the non-existence of human races", Frank B.
Livingstone promulgated the new truth that "there are no races, there
are only clines"..... There are limits to the power of inverted
commas, however. "Races" may only exist as social constructs, but that
still doesn't mean "white" men can jump."
Marek KOHN, 1994, 'Racing uncertainties: Is there a biological basis
to race?" New Statesman & Society, 16 ix.
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NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The
secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe
that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
Juno drank a cup of nectar,
But the draught did not affect her.
Juno drank a cup of rye --
Then she bad herself good-bye.
J.G.
[The Devil's Dictionary A.B.]
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The History and Geography of Human Genes.
Review by Peter Brimelow of The History and Geography of Human
Genes
National Review, Sept 25, 1995 v47 n18 p98(1)
JUST as a hundred years ago the Victorians worried about reconciling
Darwin with God, today every honest mind must be perturbed by
what appears to be the mounting scientific evidence of racial
differences. This perturbation is all the greater because of the
dishonesty and personal viciousness that characterized much of
the reaction to The Bell Curve when it broke the taboo
on public discussion of the issue last year. Since much of the
evidence was already well known to scholars, the question now
must be whether science will inform politics or politics chill
science. This book, although by respected scholars, appears to
be evidence that politics is winning. It has been advertised as
an antidote to The Bell Curve because of a passage proclaiming
the 'scientific failure of the concept of human races' due to
the problem of overlap and gradation between groups. Of course
overlaps and gradations exist in all systems of classification,
but taxonomy remains fundamental to science. And the genetic evidence
in the balance of the book makes clear that human beings can indeed
be grouped roughly in accordance with traditional racial divisions.
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