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The Talk

Dr. Cheese

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Here's another link to the article, I don't believe the web magazine gets a lot of traffic. But the article is tragically racist and certainly inexcusable.

http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire#axzz1rJPlABLB

Here are a few quotes from the artical:

(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.
(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.
(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you person
(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods. ally.
(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.
(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a whites
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.

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.

There is no doubt in my mind that NRO did the right thing. You aren't a racist because you discovered the racists views of a friend when you had him over. But you are a racists if you invite him over again.
 
The Talk: Nonblack Version - Taki's Magazine

This is an essay by conservative writer John Derbyshire. It got him fired from the National Review. I thought it was interesting because although it is not PC by a longshot, I'm pretty sure that if the author didn't think that many people would identify with what he wrote, he would not have published it.

This is too outrageous to be taken seriously by any thinking individual.
 
Definitely said:
A few things.
1) What is this 'talk'?
2) The comments are brutal, I still don't get how people ever thought that way...
3) Yet another reason I love Canada...not to say we don't have people like that, but it's not as prevalent.

The Talk is a conversation that most African Americans have with their kids, especially boys about how to act to avoid conflict authority figures or racial confrontations when they get older.
 
No matter what is said, true or not, in today's society once a race is mentioned, the statement becomes "racist" .

I give you this gem from the OP's link:

(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.”