Feed on
Posts
Comments

Tag Archive 'Race Relations'

More on Status Competition

A response to a commentator at Mangan’s Miscellany.
“So the relevant question is how society got to that point.”
The principle of non-discrimination, which shouldn’t be confused with tolerance, wasn’t broadly accepted by elite liberals in the 1920s. This had changed by 1945 when the United Nations was founded. In the 1920s, only the far left communist [...]

Read Full Post »

At View from the Right, Lawrence Auster disputes Steve Sailer’s theory that white racial suicide is driven primarily by status competition. Instead, Auster argues that humans do and seek things because they are motivated by what they believe to be true and good. Thus, white liberals practice non-discrimination not to acquire status points in the [...]

Read Full Post »

Political Equality

Following up on the previous post.
The United States was founded as a “white man’s country.” Outside of New England, Americans didn’t believe in the political equality of the negro. Here are the dates that individual states took legislative action to disenfranchise negroes:
Virginia (1723, 1762, 1830, 1850)
Georgia (1777)
South Carolina (1716, 1790, 1810)
Delaware (1792)
Kentucky (1799)
Maryland (1801, 1810)
Ohio [...]

Read Full Post »

By 1855, only five states in the Union had not restricted the voting rights of free negroes: Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. In other words, New England. This and many other entries have been added to the American Racial History Timeline.

Read Full Post »

James Madison’s war message which was used to justify the War of 1812 included the following paragraph about the “Native Americans”:
… except for one paragraph, “the warfare just renewed by the savages on one of our extensive frontiers - a warfare which is known to spare neither age nor sex and to be distinguished by [...]

Read Full Post »

At Firezone, a discussion of the origins of American anti-racism.

Read Full Post »

New Entries

Lots of new entries from the Early National Period have been posted to the American Racial History Timeline. The older version is online at Firezone.

Read Full Post »

How Times Have Changed

A strong background in American history is the most thorough antidote that I know of to much of the nonsense that prevails in the mainstream. This touches upon the Tanstaafl vs. Auster dispute below.  In the nineteenth century, the term “Native American” used to be synonymous with “Anglo-Americans,” or English-speaking, native born whites:
Starting in 1835 [...]

Read Full Post »

I have restarted the American Racial History Timeline. Feel free to add contributions.

Read Full Post »

Auster on Tanstaafl

At View From the Right, Larry Auster has a new tirade up against Tanstaafl:
Or, when I speak of “Europeans” and “blacks,” am I being pro-European and anti-black, but if I instead write “whites” and “Negroes,” I’ve suddenly switched to Negro supremacism? How ridiculous. Capitalization is governed by the nature of the word, not by a [...]

Read Full Post »

Older Posts »