The National Review fired longtime contributor John Derbyshire after the conservative columnist posted a blog calling blacks genetically less intelligent and more violent than whites, and urging white and Asian parents to avoid them.
Here's the story. The murder of Trayvon Martin got folks talking about a Black Family's "talk" with their sons. People wrote about what they told young black men so that they could survive in certain situation, particularly when police/law enforcement officers are involved. An example of that advice can be heard in Trayvon's conversation with his girlfriend as he was being stalked by George Zimmerman. He said he would not run as his girlfriend advised, but would walk faster.
Recently, John Derbyshire wrote the post on Taki's Mag, an online magazine run by Taki Theodoracopulos, a co-founder of American Conservative magazine, outlining the white version of "The Talk", supposedly directed at young white boys. The Grio reports the following:
Derbyshire's version of "the talk" included offensive references to supposed studies claiming "The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of blacks have IQs that low. Only one black in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average black." His "advice" to white (and Asian) Americans included:
(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally. (10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.The post prompted widespread condemnation of Derbyshire, including from fellow conservatives.
(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).
(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.
In parting ways with Derbyshire, a British-American writer living in New York, who has in the past stated that he is a homophobe and a racist, National Review editor Rich Lowry wrote:
We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we'd never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation. It’s a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants. Just not in the pages of NR or NRO, or as someone associated with NR any longer.
Race continues to be the Elephant in the room that people try and tip around, but it always rears its ugly head.
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