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There is much talk about “the talk.”
“Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black
parents give their teenage sons,” Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (
NJ) Record tells us. Meanwhile, down in Atlanta: “Her sons were 12 and 8
when Marlyn Tillman realized it was time for her to have the talk,” Gracie
Bonds Staples writes in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Leonard Greene talks about the talk in the New York Post. Someone bylined as
KJ Dell’Antonia talks about the talk in The New York Times. Darryl Owens
talks about the talk in the Orlando Sentinel.
Yes, talk about the talk is all over.
There is a talk that nonblack Americans have with their kids, too. My own
kids, now 19 and 16, have had it in bits and pieces as subtopics have arisen
. If I were to assemble it into a single talk, it would look something like
the following.
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(1) Among your fellow citizens are forty million who identify as black, and
whom I shall refer to as black. The cumbersome (and MLK-noncompliant) term
“African-American” seems to be in decline, thank goodness. “Colored” and
“Negro” are archaisms. What you must call “the ‘N’ word” is used
freely among blacks but is taboo to nonblacks.
“There is a talk that nonblack Americans have with their kids, too.”
(2) American blacks are descended from West African populations, with some
white and aboriginal-American admixture. The overall average of non-African
admixture is 20-25 percent. The admixture distribution is nonlinear, though:
“It seems that around 10 percent of the African American population is
more than half European in ancestry.” (Same link.)
(3) Your own ancestry is mixed north-European and northeast-Asian, but
blacks will take you to be white.
(4) The default principle in everyday personal encounters is, that as a
fellow citizen, with the same rights and obligations as yourself, any
individual black is entitled to the same courtesies you would extend to a
nonblack citizen. That is basic good manners and good citizenship. In some
unusual circumstances, however—e.g., paragraph (10h) below—this default
principle should be overridden by considerations of personal safety.
(5) As with any population of such a size, there is great variation among
blacks in every human trait (except, obviously, the trait of identifying
oneself as black). They come fat, thin, tall, short, dumb, smart,
introverted, extroverted, honest, crooked, athletic, sedentary, fastidious,
sloppy, amiable, and obnoxious. There are black geniuses and black morons.
There are black saints and black psychopaths. In a population of forty
million, you will find almost any human type. Only at the far, far extremes
of certain traits are there absences. There are, for example, no black
Fields Medal winners. While this is civilizationally consequential, it will
not likely ever be important to you personally. Most people live and die
without ever meeting (or wishing to meet) a Fields Medal winner.
(6) As you go through life, however, you will experience an ever larger
number of encounters with black Americans. Assuming your encounters are
random—for example, not restricted only to black convicted murderers or to
black investment bankers—the Law of Large Numbers will inevitably kick in.
You will observe that the means—the averages—of many traits are very
different for black and white Americans, as has been confirmed by methodical
inquiries in the human sciences.
(7) Of most importance to your personal safety are the very different means
for antisocial behavior, which you will see reflected in, for instance,
school disciplinary measures, political corruption, and criminal convictions.
(8) These differences are magnified by the hostility many blacks feel toward
whites. Thus, while black-on-black behavior is more antisocial in the
average than is white-on-white behavior, average black-on-white behavior is
a degree more antisocial yet.
(9) A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is
ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience
or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks—around half—will go along
passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do
this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings
to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.
(10) Thus, while always attentive to the particular qualities of individuals
, on the many occasions where you have nothing to guide you but knowledge of
those mean differences, use statistical common sense:
(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.
(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.
(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.
(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly
swells, leave as quickly as possible.
(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.
(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character
much more carefully than you would a white.
(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on
the highway.
(10i) If accosted by a strange black in the street, smile and say something
polite but keep moving.
(11) 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. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability
that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They
are reflected in countless everyday situations. “Life is an IQ test.”
(12) There is a magnifying effect here, too, caused by affirmative action.
In a pure meritocracy there would be very low proportions of blacks in
cognitively demanding jobs. Because of affirmative action, the proportions
are higher. In government work, they are very high. Thus, in those
encounters with strangers that involve cognitive engagement, ceteris paribus
the black stranger will be less intelligent than the white. In such
encounters, therefore—for example, at a government office—you will, on
average, be dealt with more competently by a white than by a black. If that
hostility-based magnifying effect (paragraph 8) is also in play, you will be
dealt with more politely, too. “The DMV lady“ is a statistical truth, not
a myth.
(13) In that pool of forty million, there are nonetheless many intelligent
and well-socialized blacks. (I’ll use IWSB as an ad hoc abbreviation.) You
should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with IWSBs. In
addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet
against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice.
(14) Be aware, however, that there is an issue of supply and demand here.
Demand comes from organizations and businesses keen to display racial
propriety by employing IWSBs, especially in positions at the interface with
the general public—corporate sales reps, TV news presenters, press officers
for government agencies, etc.—with corresponding depletion in less visible
positions. There is also strong private demand from middle- and upper-class
whites for personal bonds with IWSBs, for reasons given in the previous
paragraph and also (next paragraph) as status markers.
(15) Unfortunately the demand is greater than the supply, so IWSBs are
something of a luxury good, like antique furniture or corporate jets:
boasted of by upper-class whites and wealthy organizations, coveted by the
less prosperous. To be an IWSB in present-day US society is a height of
felicity rarely before attained by any group of human beings in history. Try
to curb your envy: it will be taken as prejudice (see paragraph 13).
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
You don’t have to follow my version of the talk point for point; but if you
are white or Asian and have kids, you owe it to them to give them some
version of the talk. It will save them a lot of time and trouble spent
figuring things out for themselves. It may save their lives.
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