Andrew Bernstein on Racism

But when he tears up his knee and you see what he's really made out of, when he's got to come back from a devastating knee injury, and he helps the team trainer who was lame to also work out and become a physical specimen, I wasn't going to rewrite that book in the next few years because I think the two main characters, swoop and Diggs, the lame trainer of the basketball team, I think there's a lot of potential there. But that was my first book. I wasn't ready. I don't think I was ready.

The story doesn't equal the two main characters, I think. And now I think I'm ready to really write that story. So thanks for bringing that up, guys.

A few years ago, I published a book titled heroes, legends, champions, why heroism matters. It a book on there's a lot written about heroes, but very few attempts to actually offer a rational definition of what heroes are. And one of the things I wanted to accomplish in that book is to show how we form the concept of heroes and what the reality basis for that concept is. So it's a theoretical book on heroes. And of course, fiction has always been my first love.

So I published collection of short stories, the Brooklyn Stories, which I got pat myself on the back. Guys, I think there's some real. If anybody likes short stories, I think there's some really good stories in that collection. And of course, my latest novel was just published at the end of August this year. Reckoning about race war comes to America.

A rational person who rejects racism, embraces colorblind individualism, realizes that the most important thing about a human being is that we make moral choices, that our moral choices define us. But to a racist, it's the ethnic group that you're born into. Like the Nazis used to say, it's Inzi blood. The Aryans are morally superior because of what's hardwired into their biology. And Jews are morally inferior for the same reason.

So racism is believing that the race one is born into, or the ethnic group or tribe that one is born into, determines one's character and one's intellectual ability, whereas the antidote to that, of course, is colorblind individualism. And the recognition that individuals make moral choices, that's what's important about them. What race they are, is trivial. So that's, I think, is the real conflict.

And according to several sources, the Klan, the KKK, a real violent terrorist, white supremacist organization, the membership of the Klan was three, four, 5 million. I mean, out of 95 million white Americans, that's a lot of white supremacist murderers. That's really scary. And they did a lot of damage. One example was the Tulsa race riot.

I think it was 1921 when these guys, these white supremacists, some of them clam members, burned down on a black neighborhood in Tulsa, the Greenwood section, which was a bustling, prosperous black neighborhood with businessmen, professionals, like bankers and doctors and writers and stuff. It was just horrible. There's a lot of incidents like that. Now. Today, 100 years later, the white population in the United States is roughly 234,000,000. According to the.

If we include white Latinos, which we should, because they're white, okay. But according to the Antidefamation League, the Klan's membership today is like three, four, 5000, about three, four, 5 million. And I think the Southern Poverty Law center estimates the clan at around 5000. And this is like Martin said, this is 5000 too many.

And shortly after that, Robert Bowers was a self proclaimed white supremacist, went to a synagogue in the Pittsburgh area and shot, I forget, murdered, like ten, 1112 innocent people. And there's others. These guys are still around. But as an organized movement, I think the trend line is in the right direction. The New York Times mentioned this about ten years ago. They had. 1012 years ago, they had an article on Nazi, this national socialist organization in the United States.

I forget the name of it. I have it in the book. They said it's the largest white supremacist organization in the country. Let's see if I can find it because I have the booklet and I have the booklet in front of me. So New York Times says it's the largest. Where is it? The National Socialist movement. Founded in 1974, it claims to be the most widespread activist nazi group in the United States. Get this.

In 2011, the New York Times acknowledged it as the most popular white supremacist organization but claimed it had merely 400 members.

They hate Jews and blacks, and their criminal activities include drug trafficking, extortion, and murder for hire. 15,000 to 20,000. Whoa. That's a large number for sure. But out of 200, let's put this way, they're still around. They're violent, they're dangerous. These are sick people. But they're a tiny out of 234,000,000 white Americans, they are a tiny, marginalized, and generally despised group amongst white Americans.

So the trendline is clearly in the right direction regarding white supremacists in America.

By the right, in this case, I mean the supporters of individualism and capitalism, the belief that individuals have inalienable rights and the state exists to protect those rights. So the left in the United States has generally been thought of as the marxist left, the class war socialists. And they, of course, have, as you pointed out, they have tremendous power in the culture.

They control the school system, the teachers colleges, the humanities divisions of our universities, the Democratic Party, Hollywood, most of the media and so forth. They have tremendous power. I want to discuss the alt right, the so called alt right, because they're really leftists. Yes, but we'll get to that, because the Marxists say the marxist left here, as distinguished from the nazi left, which we'll come back to these guys have tremendous cultural power.

And Joe Biden likes to holler about white supremacists. And they're the gravest, they're the worst terror threat, and they're the worst danger to black Americans. And so, you know, non white Americans and so forth. But the crime data are very clear on this. For decades now, for almost 50 years, by far, the gravest threat to black lives are black criminals. The thugs, the gang bangers, the drug deals, the little gun busters, as they're known in the projects year after year.

I mean, Thomas Soul writes about this. The late, great Walter Williams wrote about it. Larry Elder discusses it. Nobody on the left discusses this. The crime tsunami. The year after year after year after year, almost 50 years now, five, six, 7000 black Americans are murdered. Tulip Starks wrote a very courageous book on this. Black lives matter. L-I-E-S. Black lives matter. That's right.

Yeah. He points out black Americans are 13% of the american population, something like 47% of the homicide victims, and a staggering 52% of the homicide perpetrators. That's four times the representation in the population. It's just staggering. When did the black crime rate in many black urban neighborhoods rise to these astonishing levels? And more important, what caused it? And of course, leftist policies are what caused it.

One, the welfare state of families with dependent children that mothers get money from husband government, as one white leftist professor put it, from husband government for every child she has, as long as she's not married. And Thomas soul points out, the law of unpredicted consequences takes over and says he put. Thomas soul is great, isn't he? He's a brilliant.

You see a lot of single parent homes, mothers. There's a lot of good, loving single moms in the world, including amongst black Americans. But the one thing she cannot do is she cannot role model for her son what it means to be a man. He needs his father to do that. And there's too many kids, especially black kids in the hood, who are growing up with no man in their lives.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, before he was senator in 1965, when the black illegitimacy rate was 25%, warned about this, that you're asking for lots of trouble when you have kids. It's harmful for the girls to grow up without a dad, but it's devastating for the boys. Again, there's nobody to role model for him what it means to be a man. And you see the statistics are very clear on this. How many more boys from single parent homes that have a mother but no father in their

lives? How many much higher percentage would join drug gangs and engage in criminal violence without any fatherly supervision, which is a direct result of the welfare state. I mean, the black illegitimacy rate prior to the welfare state was, I don't remember the exact numbers Walter Williams cited. It was like eleven or 12% back in the 1930s or 1940s. Christianity tends to be very strong amongst the black american community. So it's a shock to see this illegitimacy rate amongst black Americans.

But that's a direct result of the welfare state. Thomas saw and Walter Williams point this out, that the welfare state destroyed the black family which had survived slavery, racism, Jim Crow oppression and so on and so forth. That's one part of this. But then there's the school system. The schools are just terrible. Even in most of the good neighborhoods, never mind the high crime neighborhoods, the school system is terrible for the most part. They rejected phonics.

And you see in a number of the black urban neighborhoods the test scores are just jaw dropping. You have a high school graduates what was like 3% were at grade level proficiency in reading and zero or 1% in math. I don't remember the exact numbers but it's that low. So you know, the schools are terrible. And of course the leftist politicians and the leftist teachers union oppose school choice. They don't want and tax credits for sending your kids to private schools.

So many families in black urban neighborhoods are locked into these terrible schools. So there's a second factor. A lot of these kids come out of high school and they're illiterate or semi illiterate. And then there's the minimum wage laws that price low skilled workers out of the job market. Let's say some young kid who doesn't have any skills yet, 16 1718. Let's say his labor is worth, I don't know, $8 an hour, let's say to McDonald's or some employer like that.

But the state requires that he be paid $10 an hour, $12 an hour. Well the employer is going to lose $2 an hour or $4 an hour for every hour the kid works and they're not going to hire the kid.

And so you're going to get this constellation of leftist policies that result in thousands of teenage boys who are fatherless, come out of broken homes, are semi illiterate, there's no employment prospects and a lot of them when you join gang one way of dealing with the crime problem is to legalize drugs because that'll make the drug gangs less lucrative and less attractive.

But that's only part of the problem because I think a lot of these kids, and you could read the true crime literature on this. I have a lot of it. A lot of these kids join gangs not just for the money but they get family out of this. They could join the gang when they're eleven or twelve. The leaders of the gang might be 16, 1718 they're older, they're like big brothers. There's like a family structure here that a lot of them don't have at home.

So that problem will remain even if and when we legalize drugs. So 90%, year after year after year after year 90% of black homicide victims are killed by black criminals. And that's why not by white supremacists, bad as they are. That's why I said leftist supremacy, not white supremacy is the gravest threat to black lives.

There's fewer dads in the kids lives and more of these kids, especially the boys, have trouble in school, have caused trouble in school. They don't do well in school. They join gangs, they're on drugs or they're part of drug gangs. You see more criminal violence and more of these kids going to prison and so on. And let me just one last example, because Thomas Sowell recommended a book, life at the bottom by a british psychiatrist named Theodore Dalrimple.

But in the United States, the leftist policies I think are by far the greatest threat to the lives of black Americans. The numbers show this very right. All right. By the way, the leftists don't talk about, know white supremacists. Joe Biden talks about white. No no, Mr. POTUS, let's face reality and black lives Matter. You have an organization that calls themselves black lives Matter.

They don't hear a peep out of them about the gang bangers and the little gunbusters killing all these black teenagers every day. Only black lives, they care about it always that are killed by white men, even if it's in self defense.

She is as good natured a human being as you will ever find. She is just a sweetheart of a person. But you know what? She can't live in the white man's land. She's not white.

An honest, non white person can't live in the white man's land according to them, to kick him out. Some kid who's biracial and is a good person. No, can't have him or her. Some white man or woman wants to marry a non white man or woman and live in the white man's land. No, you can't do it. So there's no individual rights here. This is a racist dictatorship. And the so called alt right is really the national Socialist left and national socialism.

The one only thing about national socialism has a value is that it's named properly. The Nazis were socialists, meaning your life does not belong to you. Your life has been socialized. Your life belongs to the state as fully as under communism. And they're nationalists. That is, they see the war in the world between nations or races, in contrast to the communists, who see the conflict between international economic classes, the international owning class versus the international working class.

So national socialism is properly named. It's a fully socialist phenomenon. It's the left. And I always tell my students, if we have to, we could just drop the left right spatial metaphors and just speak literally and talk about collectivist socialists versus individualists, capitalists. And the national socialists are as mean, if we're going to drop that terminology, they're as socialist and collectivist as the communists. So Richard Spencer and the so called alt right, I just think of them.

There's the Marxist left and there's the Nazi left. Now, right now the Marxist left. Can I read something from the.

There was that New York City psychiatrist, like last year or the year before, speaking to an audience at Yale University, who said that she fantasizes about shooting white people in the know. And you get a lot of this. These are just a few examples. And there's not nearly enough pushback.

This includes the insanity of reparations for slavery that was abolished more than 150 years ago. But this massive grift, reprehensible though it is, is innocent relative to the deeper purpose. For the marxist left realizes that some whites will be enraged, not guilt ridden, by the relentless stream of hate filled rhetoric. Perhaps such whites will be more likely to seek protection by joining one of the wretched white supremacist gangs.

Will they protest, demonstrate, engage in more street violence against their enemies, like in Charlotesville, Virginia, in 2017? The Marxist left hopes so, for it does not care about black lives, women's rights, gays, transgenders, or anything of the like. If it did, it would embrace the related principles of colorblind individualism and inalienable individual rights, for these are the only protections that any of us have, especially members of groups historically persecuted. But it does not.

Marxists think in terms of economic classes, groups, not individuals, and they anathematize individualism. They revile colorblindness in logic, the only panacea for racism of any iteration. As a microaggression, Marxists care about one thing and only one thing. Power. Exactly. For the Marxist left, the question is, how do you topple a freer society and establish a totalitarian state? How did Mussolini and his black shirted thugs do it in Italy.

How did Hitler and his brown shirted goons do it in Germany? You need a collectivist socialist ideology fully in place, as the marxist left currently has in the universities, the schools, and the intellectual culture.

And then you need massive street violence, endless riots, burning and looting to disrupt daily life, relentless, uncontrollable lawlessness to make civilized existence impossible, to convince people that freedom and capitalism have failed and that we need to move politically toward authoritarianism. Why the relentless hatred spewed at whites? Because the Marxist left covertly but deliberately seeks to revitalize the marginalized white supremacist movement in America.

And what's that? Marching, clamoring, waving swastikas and confederate flags. The National Socialist left will overtly push us toward creation of a white ethnostate, while the Marxist left, fighting the rich white oppressor, meets them head on in bloody race class war, the KKK and the american Nazi party versus Antifa. And black lives matter in the gutters, replicating in America the nazi communist street battles of the 1920s and 30s in the Weimar Republic.

But the Marxist left, knowing that it controls the schools and the intellectual culture and aware that it possesses vast superiority of numbers, can be sanguine regarding the outcome. And it can use the resurgent Nazis as a boogeyman to frighten the nation into communism.

So they know it's dishonest to pick on the white man, that he's the evil creature in human history. Like I tell my students when it comes up, the simple answer is about white Europeans or Americans. One, no worse than anybody else. Two, much better in many cases. And three, western civilization is enormously life giving. This came up in my logic class. To blame the white man for all the world zeals is a vast example of the half truth fallacy, or a one 10th of a truth fallacy.

So the marxist left knows this. There's some purpose they have here. One is the grift to get money from the white middle class. Yeah, shake down exactly. But that's almost innocent compared to, I think, to the underlying motive to try and revitalize the Nazi left and replicate in America what we saw in Germany in 1930.

This is based loosely on such racial conflict back to the 1980s and early ninety s and the Mossad, somebody that context the israeli consulate, that one of the rabbis who claims to be defending Jews against blacks. But he's also in some degree he does also very violent. Based on the real life Rabbi Maya Kahani, who formed the Jewish Defense League, who's a really violent guy. And they informed the Masad.

The Masad sends its top real tough guy, Mick Davidson, who's from Brooklyn originally, but now he's an israeli commando Maasad field agent. He's a James Bond kind of character to try to track down this nazi war criminal in the midst of all this racial violence in Brooklyn. So that's part of the story. Rabbi Jacob Paris, 90 something years old, is a Holocaust survivor and a man of peace, trying to bring peace.

His daughter Giselle Paris is a Krav Maga expert who has covertly killed a couple of these black nationalists who murdered her son. And she's filled, she's got this terrible secret. And the sparks fly between Davidson and Giselle Paris. So there is a love story. There is a love story in the midst of race. The real, just real quick, the real heavy in the story is the black nationalist leader Miri Bantu Biko, who I love because he's like, he's a Francisco.

For those who know Atlas, Atlas Shrugg, he's a Francisco danconia of evil. He's better than everybody at everything. He's tall and lean and handsome. He's more brilliant than anybody else. He's physically more able as a boxer or in any physical activity. He's a giant, but he's a giant of evil.

He's a Nazi. He's reversed favored and disfavored races as a black nationalist, but he holds the essential principle of national socialism, and that is that race war, not class war, but race war, is the impelling force of human history. And consequently, it's only by racial violence that the black man can gain justice, and not just in african nations to overthrow the colonialist, but to gain power in the white man's homeland, in North America or in Europe. He wants a black revolution.

And then the colorblind black leaders and jewish leaders are fighting this. In the midst of all this, McDavidson's hunting one of these rabbis who's suspected to be the nazi war criminal, and he and Giselle Paris have this love hate relationship. So there's a lot going on in reckoning. And I'll say this, if anybody, here's the positive, Blair. If anybody can know violence, because this is about race, this is a hell of a story with a very powerful right, then.