I CAME across this 2008 homemade video by an anonymous young black woman and, though I don’t agree with her understanding of the 60s, I was charmed by her simple and direct honesty. She is responding to a call by the radical Kamau Kabon for the extermination of white people. She thinks anti-white racism is a great evil and is enraged by it. To the general idea that blacks are morally superior to whites, she says, “Hate does exist in every race, not just the white man. Angels never sung across the floor as we walked by.”

“I pity you,” she says to Kabon, whom she calles “Hitler with [dread]locks.” “Spreading all that hate. You need help. You need counseling.”

By the way, Youtube does have policies on hate speech, but has not removed the version linked above of the Kamau Kabon speech.

GREG JINKERSON writes:

In his novel Perelandra, C.S. Lewis provides a splendid retelling of the Eden story, transferring that mythos to the planet Venus. The hero Ransom has been sent there by angelic beings to perform an unknown task related to the fate of mankind. On Perelandra, the true name of Venus, Ransom encounters an inhabitant known to him simply as The Lady, who is evidently both superhumanly intelligent and entirely morally innocent, with no knowledge of either death or evil.

Their new friendship is threatened by the evil Weston, an English scientist who has followed Ransom to this unknown world, and who is on a contrary quest there of his own. (Ransom takes to referring to Weston mentally as the Un-man.) Among the usual stunning truths  in Lewis’ story is an implicit critique of feminism, an ideology that Lewis casts as being decidedly Satanic. Read More »

Penny Hess, chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee

JANE writes: 

As reported by the Philadelphia Independent Media: Read More »

ALEX writes from England:

The disproportionate number of criminals in the ‘black communities’ is something that the gutless and dishonest British media never discusses or even admits in principle. But if there are degrees of dishonesty about the menace of hostile blacks, the Daily Mail is the most dishonest newspaper in Britain. It suppresses the truth and suggests falsehoods about race relations – especially in London – on a routine basis. Read More »

MANY remarkable photos and videos of the aftermath of the riots in London can be found here. Residents of Tottenham began lighting cars on fire, tossing Molotov cocktails and looting stores after a policeman killed a black man who shot at them. This is the hero (below) for whom the black rioters were seeking justice. He is described simply by the New York Times as a “father of four.”

Police were seen running away from the rioters. The Daily Mail describes the aftermath:

One police officer, asked by an elderly resident why more had not been done to stop the rioters, replied: ‘The way we look at it, we’re damned if we do, we’re damned if don’t.’ Read More »

JEREMY writes:

I recently read several posts and commentary about sexual harmony in marriage on your website and I thought that my experiences might provide some insights.

My wife and I are in our late twenties and have been married for nearly five years. Read More »

I HAVE BEEN away for two days and without Internet access. I will be posting comments that I received during that time shortly.

LARRY B. writes:

Of all the conditions that Republicans put on their conservatism, I can’t think of one as maddening or outrageous as the caveat: “I am against abortion except in cases of rape or incest.” 

Since 1976 both parties have allowed federal funding of abortions in cases of rape or incest, and then the recent Hyde Amendment was also dropped by the Republicans, which would have curtailed such funding (not even ended it entirely).

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MARIA writes:

I feel there are parallels between the situation of your reader who no longer finds her husband desirable and my own. I am also in my late twenties and married five years.

My husband, two months after our second child was born, confessed to twice, on separate occasions while I was visiting relatives, arranging a rendezvous with someone else. (Once he kept his engagement, but left upon arrival; the second time he never went.) I forgave him immediately, but it took a long time for me to trust him again. I felt horrible doing it, especially since I had forgiven him, but I “checked” his email for months. I knew he knew and I’m thankful he was patient and understood that he needed to gain my trust again, and never said anything to me about it. Read More »

JEFF W. writes:

Your recent discussion on day care brought this quote to mind:

Pair marriage is monopolistic. It produces an exclusive family, and nourishes family pride and ambition…Pair marriage is also individualistic. It is the barrier against which all socialism breaks into dust. As the cost of a family increases, the connection between family and capital becomes more close and vital. Every socialist who can think is forced to go on to a war on marriage and the family, because he finds that in marriage and the family lie the strongholds of the ‘individualistic vices’ which he cannot overcome. He has to mask this battery, however, because he dare not openly put it forward.

From Folkways by William Graham Sumner (1906).

IS A WHITE PERSON who rejects multiculturalism and wants to preserve the culture of his ancestors a “white nationalist?” The label has an unsavory connotation. Writing at The American Thinker, Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance, explains why it’s hard to find the right word. He writes:

Whites who do not accept the current — and, I might add, very recent — orthodoxy on race have been called many things, but the reason there is no agreed-upon name for them is that they are expressing views that were so taken for granted by earlier generations of Americans that there was no need for a name. Read More »

HURRICANE BETSY writes:

Your recent commentary on feminine practical clothing got me going. I think that I recall you saying that you didn’t have enough aprons. I found this, and it seems that it would really do the job. Read More »

DIANA writes:

I do not think Amy Winehouse’s death is any kind of watershed. The monstrous machine will go on and on, until the entire economic system crashes. The possible rewards of show business look so glittering that there will always be legions of young dummies willing to sacrifice their youth for them. Read More »

IN FEBRUARY, a feminist blogger reviewed the PBS documentary Southern Belle. She was shaken to the core: Read More »

Bowl of Citrons, Giovanna Garzoni

THE GARDEN
by Andrew Marvell

How vainly men themselves amaze
To win the palm, the oak, or bays;
And their uncessant labors see
Crowned from some single herb or tree,
Whose short and narrow-vergèd shade
Does prudently their toils upbraid;
While all the flowers and trees do close
To weave the garlands of repose.

Fair Quiet, have I found thee here,
And Innocence, thy sister dear!
Mistaken long, I sought you then
In busy companies of men:
Your sacred plants, if here below,
Only among the plants will grow;
Society is all but rude,
To this delicious solitude. Read More »

BUCK O. writes: