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		<title>Jihad Crow in America</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Jim Crow with an Arab accent and no foreseeable expiration date.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bm.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243232" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bm-450x251.jpg" alt="bm" width="308" height="172" /></a>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Nadra Enzi (aka Cap Black), an anti-crime activist, <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21Index.html">Project 21</a> member and founder of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/AmericanBrothersAgainstCrime/">American Brothers Against Crime</a><em>. </em>He writes for <em>Change The Game</em> at <a href="http://www.ctghq.org/">ctghq.org.</a></p>
<p><strong> FP:</strong> Nadra Enzi, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>I would like to speak to you today about “Jihad Crow” in America, a phenomenon in this nation that involves Arab hatred of and discrimination against American blacks (and American black Muslims) in America.</p>
<p>But before we get to that I would like to talk to you about your background and some of the things you are doing today.</p>
<p>You were once a Muslim, correct? Let’s start with your story.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/nadra2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-243244 size-medium" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/nadra2-319x350.jpg" alt="nadra" width="319" height="350" /></a><strong>Nadra Enzi </strong></p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>I grew up in a United Methodist household, the child of school teachers. Unfortunately, the church in my hometown was still as divided as the public sphere. The black Church I saw was a passive participant in ongoing bias, so Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali spoke to me as representatives of vocal opposition to bias <em>and</em> crime within the black community.</p>
<p>By this time, crack was hitting the inner city and black Muslims were very visible in the war against drug dealers who were making various areas free firing zones during disputes &#8212; killing infants, little old ladies and many other innocent lives.</p>
<p>Again, the black Church, liberalized to become an apologist for thugs and little more than a Democrat GOTV (<em>Get Out the Vote</em>) platform, was still largely MIA or worse: making excuses for those I&#8217;d call, &#8220;chocolate Klansmen&#8221; years later. I launched my citizen on patrol and private security activities anxious to ally myself with uncompromised black opponents of inner city crime.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Who are you describing exactly as &#8220;chocolate Klansmen&#8221; and why?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi:</strong> Chocolate Klansmen are the post-crack predators and gangs who kill black (and other) victims with a brutality once considered the province of the classic, violent white supremacist Klan. It&#8217;s a way of shocking liberal enablers out of their defense of thugs who&#8217;ve destroyed everything that giants like Medgar Evers or Dr. King died to establish. They&#8217;re the center piece of my &#8220;remote control theory&#8221; argument, which states that the inner city is freely chosen, not directed by invisible white villains hiding behind a tree.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Were you ever a member of the Nation of Islam or some other black Muslim group?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi:</strong> I was never a Nation of Islam member. I was considered &#8220;too independent&#8221; in my thinking by the local minister. Translation: I didn&#8217;t think all whites were devils and I didn&#8217;t consider Farrakhan as black America&#8217;s divine leader.<strong><br />
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<p><strong>FP: </strong>Share with us some of your narrative about being a Muslim and how and why you finally left Islam.</p>
<p><strong>Enzi:</strong> For me, being a Muslim was separating myself from passive participants in hometown racism and a rejection of how liberal the black church and mainstream had become. I&#8217;ve always been an Old Testament type and saw (and still see) too much buck passing regarding personal responsibility and inner city crime, single motherhood households and the urban death culture which is now hip-hop.</p>
<p>I left Islam a while ago, because I found folks and movements who opposed the liberalized church as much as I do. Until we recognize that secular-socialism simply infiltrated the American Judeo-Christian continuum, we&#8217;ll continue see many traditional men, black and otherwise, opt out.</p>
<p>Also, as a lifelong anti-crime person, I didn&#8217;t endorse the silence of many American black Muslims on Islamic-themed inner city/prison gangs and terrorism.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Tell us about <em>Project 21</em> and <em>American Brothers Against Crime</em> and what these groups are about.</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>Project 21 is a group of American black spokespersons for the conservative national <em>Center for Public Policy Analysis</em>. It offers challenging alternative views on current events and policies from black voices outside the DNC and even Republican establishment echo chambers.<em> </em></p>
<p><em>American Brothers Against Crime</em> (ABC) is my collective of anti-crime and security enthusiasts who unapologetically reject the notion that <em>any</em> zip code, from the Hood to the Heartland, should be held hostage to violent criminals. We promote ending the Cold War between black men and police via &#8220;Brothers and Badges Together,&#8221; where we work to change anti-cop culture in the inner city by teaming black male civilians and police officers. ABC stands apart from typical, &#8220;pro-crime&#8221; groups that blame others for violent crime in the black community. Not all of the &#8220;brothers&#8221; are black, or even men.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>What do you think made you a black American who doesn’t instinctively jump to “hating whitey” or blaming racism, society etc. for problems in the black community? What influenced you in your youth/life to emerge as a person not vulnerable to progressive myths?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>As an Old Testament person, I believe in governing myself in accordance with the law, thus negating a need for others &#8212; law enforcement, corrections, prosecution, etc. &#8212; to govern me instead. Since I believe fully in my God-given moral and intellectual ability, I&#8217;m not going to sink to becoming a felon and then beg white leftists to &#8220;save&#8221; me with programs which only benefit them, not their black client base.  That&#8217;s acting like a slave, doing wrong and then crying about it. The black Left is beneath me, quite frankly. In 2014, I can&#8217;t embrace their doctrine of mediocrity on hand while ritually blaming others.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>So let’s get to “Jihad Crow.”</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>&#8220;Jihad Crow&#8221; is my term for Arab racism against black people here and abroad. Some Arabs don&#8217;t even consider American black Muslims to be Muslims and refuse to even return the traditional Muslim greeting of &#8220;Asalaam Alakum&#8221; (God&#8217;s peace be upon you). They open stores in the inner city and sell Islamically-prohibited goods like pork products, alcohol, lottery tickets and even use the stores as centers for illegal activity like EBT fraud; fencing stolen merchandise and drug dealing.</p>
<p>Black leftist activists ignore how these stores rarely hire black employees, despite complaints about the same directed toward businesses owned by other ethnicities. A YouTube commentator, David Carroll, has a campaign challenging black leftist men to protest how some Arab store owners prostitute neighborhood women in exchange for free food items. Jihad Crow is Jim Crow with an Arab accent and no foreseeable expiration date. Even Louis Farrakhan has commented on the racism in Mecca, the Muslim holy city.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Can you share a story of your own personal experience with Jihad Crow or a friend’s experience?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>I&#8217;ve seen Jihad Crow at work when Arab clerks take pains not to touch my hand when giving change, refuse to donate to worthy community causes while making 100% profit off of black patrons and politically always recruiting us to support their causes while always being MIA in return when solicited to support an issue important to us. A Muslim friend who&#8217;s an American black man tells me the Arabs at his mosque move away from him while kneeling in prayer and won&#8217;t give him a key to open the place of worship, something commonplace among Arab parishioners.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Leftists pretend they are against racism. If they are so much against it, where is their concern about and protests against Jihad Crow?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>They feel that darker skinned people can&#8217;t be bigoted. Plus, so long as conservatives are spun, by Left and even Right sometimes, as enemies of Muslims, terrorists and otherwise, expect the Left not to utter a mumbling word in opposition. Leftists also overlook how heads would roll like bowling balls if their jihadi buddies get their hands on gay rights and other activists considered anathema to extremist Islam.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> So then what would you say about the Left in this regard?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>The Left is the last frontier of white supremacy. They&#8217;ve taken traditional values out of the modern black male identity, demonized black, traditional marriage, use our felons as a cash cow and our vote as a foot stool. The only free black person is one who&#8217;s a sock puppet for their ideology.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> You called the Oklahoma beheader Alton Nolen, a “confused Muslim brother” in a recent column of yours. Kindly explain your perspective.</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>Most black Muslims, even apparently “orthodox” ones like Nolen, don&#8217;t run around beheading people. Confused Muslim brothers think they need to act like Arab (or even African) extremists or support the same. Prison inmates are a potential source of confused Muslim brothers, as their alienation from society and felon status make them prime candidates for targeting by extremists. For all his anti-Semitism and anti-white rhetoric, Farrakhan and his followers have yet to engage in or promote any criminal activity. Their apocalyptic vision, while provocative, has yet to cross the line into illegality or terrorism. While some would consider members of the Nation of Islam as confused, the confusion I reference literally costs people their heads or has stupid American blacks falling into terror plots orchestrated by the FBI. The confused category also includes any American black who would go abroad to fight for an Islamist group.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Your thoughts on the behavior of black men who are Muslims who try to imitate radical Muslim Arabs?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>&#8220;Confused Muslim brothers.&#8221; There&#8217;s a very real racial divide between many American black Muslims and Arabs. Black men taking on Arab extremism are as sick as those trying to join the KKK as reserve members.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Where are Black Muslims in America denouncing Nolen? Why the silence?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>Ambivalence and pride. Some despise his action while others feel they shouldn&#8217;t have to explain themselves to white people. But here is my position: the same way black activists demanded decent whites to oppose White Citizens Councils, the Klan and Jim Crow, the same way anti-Islamists have a justifiable right to expect not only black Muslims, but members of our leftist Christian majority, to oppose a confused Muslim brother like Nolen.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>What needs to be done to bring more light to the racism and injustice of Jihad Crow?</p>
<p><strong>Enzi: </strong>Conservative, and unbiased black observers across the political spectrum, need to hold Arab racists accountable the same way we focus on white ones. Sunshine is the best disinfectant, so interviews like this offer insight into a dimension of discrimination few discuss openly.</p>
<p><strong> FP:</strong> Nadra Enzi, thank you so much for joining Frontpage Interview.</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss Frontpage Editor <strong>Jamie Glazov</strong> discuss the Left&#8217;s Jihad-Denial and why &#8220;progressives&#8221; would never condemn a phenomenon such as Jihad Crow &#8212; and other forms of oppression inflicted by adversarial cultures and ideologies:</em></p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Jim Crow Education System</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 04:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How is banning school vouchers for poor black students a fulfillment of MLK's dream? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/students-thumb-640xauto-3812.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-202432" alt="students-thumb-640xauto-3812" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/students-thumb-640xauto-3812-450x325.jpg" width="270" height="195" /></a>In his <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-president-obamas-speech-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-march-on-washington/2013/08/28/0138e01e-0ffb-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story_2.html">speech</a> commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s march on Washington, President Obama hypocritically bemoaned the current state of education, saying that many Americans face a &#8220;fortress of substandard schools and diminished prospects.&#8221; He claimed that such schools were &#8220;underfunded&#8221; and that every child has a &#8220;right &#8230; to get an education that stirs the mind and captures the spirit and prepares them for the world that awaits them.&#8221; However, it is the Obama administration that has been instrumental in depriving poor, especially minority, children from the &#8220;right&#8221; to a quality education with its campaign to eradicate school vouchers. Just recently, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) <a href="http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2013/08/us_government_files_to_block_s.html">filed</a> suit in New Orleans federal court to prevent Louisiana from implementing a voucher program at public schools that remains under federal desegregation orders.</p>
<p>According to the DOJ, the 570 students who received the vouchers for the 2012-2013 school year &#8220;impeded the desegregation process,&#8221; and therefore vouchers for 2014-15 school year must be blocked. The great irony here is that <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/27/DOJ-sues-Louisiana-vouchers">90 percent</a> of the children who used the vouchers to get themselves a better education are black Americans. Yet the DOJ remains concerned that 10 percent of the 2012-2013 voucher recipients came from schools that remain under desegregation orders written a half-century ago. In their court <a href="http://media.nola.com/education_impact/other/US%20DOJ%20petition%20vouchers%20deseg.pdf">petition</a>, the DOJ insists that some of the voucher recipients were “in the racial minority at the public school they attended before receiving the voucher.&#8221; As the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> wryly notes, the DOJ &#8220;is claiming that the voucher program may be illegal because minority kids made their failing public schools <i>more white</i> by leaving those schools to go to better private schools.&#8221;</p>
<p>Despite that reality, the DOJ claims that &#8220;the loss of students through the voucher program reversed much of the progress made toward integration.&#8221; Yet the actual number of students involved in the two examples cited by the DOJ itself reveals the fatuousness of that assertion. At Celilia Primary School in St. Martin Parish District, all of <i>six </i>black children transferred to voucher schools. Prior to the transfer, 30.1 percent of the student body was black. The District itself is 46.5 percent black. Yet the DOJ further asserted that the voucher program increased the difference in the racial composition between the school and the District, &#8220;reinforcing the school&#8217;s racial identity as a white school in a predominantly black school district.&#8221; How the DOJ maintains that a District less than half black is &#8220;predominantly&#8221; black is impossible to fathom.</p>
<p>The DOJ&#8217;s logic is equally twisted with regard to Independence Elementary School in Tangipahoa Parish District, where a grand total of five white students transferred to voucher schools. The school&#8217;s enrollment is 61.5 percent black in a District that is 47.5 percent black. Thus the school&#8217;s racial identity was already predominantly black. Yet the DOJ insists the loss of those five students &#8220;increased its black student percentage away from the district percentage, again reinforcing the identity of the school as a black school.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Louisiana Scholarship Program that established the voucher system was <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2013/08/27/justice-dept-blocks-school-choice-in-louisiana/">passed</a> in 2012. It is a state-wide initiative guaranteeing a voucher to students from families with incomes below 250 percent of poverty who attend public schools graded C, D or F. In other words, it is designed to give poor families with children trapped in lousy schools a choice. In this particular case, that choice is for an overwhelmingly black American recipient base. Those would be very same black American children whose counterparts are trapped in some of the worst schools in the nation, most of which are in big cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Those are also cities where Democrats are running the show, and where their continuing alliance with education unions virtually ensures the miserable status quo will remain intact.</p>
<p>According to the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, which cited confirmation by sources in Louisiana, the same dynamic is in play in the Pelican State. &#8220;It&#8217;s about helping the teachers union repeal the voucher law by any legal means, and the segregation gambit is the last one available,&#8221; the paper states. &#8220;Justice gives this strategy away when it claims &#8216;jurisdiction over Louisiana&#8217; even for vouchers for students in districts without desegregation orders.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is not the Obama administration&#8217;s first effort to deny educational opportunities to minority children trapped in lousy schools. In his 2013 budget, Obama <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/13/presidents-budget-eliminates-funding-for-d-c-opportunity-scholarship-program/">zeroed out</a> funding for the highly successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program that served more than 1,600 minority students in the nation&#8217;s capital. The program, effectively killed in 2009 by the Democrat-controlled Congress, had been revived in 2011 when House Speaker John Boehner got it restored during heated budget negotiations with President Obama. It was subsequently zeroed out, despite the reality that students who used the vouchers to attend private schools had a 91 percent graduation rate, compared to the dismal 55 percent in Washington&#8217;s public school system. Even its cost was a bargain. Each voucher was worth $8000, far less than the $18,000 per child spent by D.C. Public Schools.</p>
<p>Money was the impetus behind multiple lawsuits attempting to thwart the use of vouchers in Louisiana, culminating in a 2012 <a href="http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2013/05/breaking_louisiana_supreme_cou.html">ruling</a> by the Louisiana Supreme Court declaring that Governor Bobby Jindal&#8217;s method of funding the program was unconstitutional. The Court decided that per-pupil allocation, called the minimum foundation program (MFP), must go to public schools. Jindal refused to be thwarted, coming up $40 million from other public resources to cover the tab for this school year&#8217;s nearly 8,000 recipients.</p>
<p>Thus, it is no surprise that Jindal is <a href="http://legalclips.nsba.org/?p=22934">incensed</a> by the DOJ&#8217;s latest effort. ”After generations of being denied a choice, parents finally can choose a school for their child, but now the federal government is stepping in to prevent parents from exercising this right. Shame on them,” he said. ”Parents should have the ability to decide where to send their child to school.”</p>
<p>Apparently not if it threatens a Democratic Party funding source. According to <a href="http://secrets.com/">OpenSecrets.com</a>, a <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php">website</a> that tracks campaign financing by special interest groups, between 1989 and 2012, the fourth largest campaign contributor in the nation has been the National Education Association (NEA), which has fattened the coffers of politicians by more than $53 million. Sixty-two percent of those contributions went to Democrats, compared to just 4 percent for Republicans. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) came in at number ten, contributing more than $37 million to elected officials, 88 percent of which went to Democrats &#8212; and <i>zero</i> percent went to Republicans.</p>
<p>Thus the inevitable reality emerges: anything that threatens union leverage, even if it mortgages the future of millions of students around the nation, must be fought tooth and nail. It must be fought even as the <i>Journal</i> notes that seven out of eight national studies reveal vouchers actually enhance racial integration.</p>
<p>Under the current lawsuit, the Louisiana would be barred from assigning students in 34 school systems to private schools unless a federal judge agreed to it.  Theoretically that could happen as early as next year. Yet Brian Blackwell, attorney for the Louisiana Association of Educators, indicated that the time, effort and evidence needed to persuade judges could take a lot longer.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the judge assigned to the case is problematic. In November 2012, Judge Ivan Lemelle <a href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/11/school_voucher_desegregation_r.html">ruled</a> that elements of Jindal&#8217;s educational reform package were unconstitutional, claiming they violated the desegregation agreement of Tangipahoa Parish, because the money that would have been spent on vouchers would have impeded their ability to pay for programs necessary to comply with federal desegregation orders. This puts the federal government in the position of being able to effectively kill any voucher system, simply by forcing the state to incur the costs necessary to achieve Washington&#8217;s vision of desegregation. Louisiana has appealed the ruling, which is currently pending.</p>
<p>State Education Superintendent John White notes the absurdity of the DOJ&#8217;s stance, contending that &#8220;it&#8217;s a little ridiculous&#8221; to argue that students&#8217; departure to voucher schools makes their home school systems less white, even as the rules that were initially conceived to combat racism are now being used to trap black children in failing schools. In other words, Eric Holder and the DOJ are essentially pursuing same kind of Jim Crow laws that were designed to achieve the same purpose, even as they falsely promoted the idea that schools in America would be &#8220;separate but equal.&#8221; For Holder and the DOJ, as long as some federal notion of desegregation can be pursued under the banner of racial equality, it is irrelevant that such equality amounts to the equality of misery and deprivation. The very same misery and deprivation desegregation was designed to alleviate for millions of black Americans.</p>
<p>As for the students themselves, they remain nothing more than pawns beholden to a Democrat-union alliance whose promises of educational &#8220;reform&#8221; ring as hollow today as when they first made them more than 50 years ago. There is no other alliance in the nation that could produce a half-century of consistent failure and remain as viable. Perhaps one day, black Americans will realize that an inferior education leading to government dependency is one of the primary ways Democrats, who promote such dependency, maintain their power base. Until then, black American families will continue to have their children trapped in the hellholes many public schools have become.</p>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton: Racial Demagogue</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keeping Obama's flames of ethnic hatred burning for 2016.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AP597033706753.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-201306 alignleft" alt="Hillary Clinton" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/AP597033706753-433x350.jpg" width="303" height="245" /></a>Hoping to keep Obama-generated racial animosity alive long enough to get her past the presidential finish line in 2016, Hillary Clinton has been bloviating about what racist election laws America supposedly has.</p>
<p>&#8220;In 2013, so far, more than 80 bills restricting voting rights have been introduced in 31 states,&#8221; Clinton told fawning admirers at a meeting of the American Bar Association. Such laws are part of a Jim Crow-like effort to &#8220;disproportionately impact African-Americans, Latino and young voters,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Hillary, of course, is a seasoned race-monger who knows when to pour it on thick.</p>
<p>This is the person who patronizingly <a href="http://youtu.be/DGDm4jkDbGQ"><i>stretched her syllables out</i></a> in a slow drawl when she last ran for the presidency. &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel noways tired,&#8221; she said, quoting a hymn by the late Rev. James Cleveland.</p>
<p>Race-baiting and racial pandering have always been part of Hillary&#8217;s oeuvre. She was close to ACORN just as her husband was when he was president and Arkansas governor. She spoke at ACORN conferences and played up her ties to the group.</p>
<p>Speaking at ACORN’s 2006 national convention, Mrs. Clinton looked back fondly on her memories of the group&#8217;s early days in Arkansas. It was a love fest. After noting that she founded a group called Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families that dealt with many of the same issues ACORN focused on, she hailed ACORN as a group of vision. “I thank you for being part of that great movement, that progressive tradition that has rolled across our country.”</p>
<p>Quoting Martin Luther King Jr., Clinton said, “Let’s move it forward, let’s be drum majors for justice.”</p>
<p>More recently, Mrs. Clinton falsely claimed that the Supreme Court was in on the supposedly racist plot because it had &#8220;struck at the heart&#8221; of the Voting Rights Act this summer in a ruling denounced by left-wingers and the misinformed.</p>
<p>In fact all the high court did was <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/a-victory-for-election-integrity/"><i>strike down</i></a> an obsolete formula in the Voting Rights Act that gave the race-baiting ballot box stuffers of the Left a distinct advantage in federal elections. The rest of the statute remains in effect and the Department of Justice still has the legal right to ask a court to order that state and local election operations be federally monitored.</p>
<p>To boil it down, the court opinion in <i>Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder</i>, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, was a pronouncement by the highest court in the land that America is not the racist swamp of leftist myth. The court acknowledged at long last that the anti-discrimination provisions of the Voting Rights Act, which gave the federal government a veto over changes in state election laws in places with a history of discrimination, may have been needed when the law was enacted 48 years ago, but no longer.</p>
<p>Congress approved the statute months after the nation witnessed Alabama state troopers attacking civil rights marchers in Selma in March 1965. Lawmakers reasoned it was needed because many state and local officials routinely discriminated against black Americans in the voting process, making it difficult for them to cast their ballots.</p>
<p>But the recent court ruling recognized that widespread voting discrimination is a distant memory. Today black Americans fully participate in the democratic process by voting, running for, and winning elective office at every level of government up to and including the highest office in the land.</p>
<p>This is bad news for the race industry which thrives on making mountains out of molehills. Leftist demagogues and community organizers across the fruited plain are now howling that a key tool they used to frustrate electoral integrity efforts has been taken away.</p>
<p>Outside of MSNBC hosts, Hillary is probably the most high profile of the complainers.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now not every obstacle is related to race but anyone who says that racial discrimination is no longer a problem in American elections must not be paying attention,&#8221; she declared.</p>
<p>Of course racial discrimination still exists somewhere out there, but it&#8217;s not much of a factor in modern American life.</p>
<p>As the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324139404579013144182779468.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion"><i>Wall Street Journal</i></a> opines, Mrs. Clinton &#8220;must have missed the May 2013 Census Bureau study on &#8216;The Diversifying Electorate—Voting Rates by Race and Hispanic Origin in 2012 (and Other Recent Elections).&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>That government report showed that minority voter turnout nationwide has been surging in recent years. Black Americans, for example, had a voter turnout rate of just 53 percent in 1996. But black turnout has gone up in each of the last four presidential elections.</p>
<p>&#8220;In 2012, black turnout as a share of all eligible voters exceeded the turnout of non-Hispanic white voters—66.2% to 64.1%. Nearly five million more African-Americans voted in 2012 (17.8 million) than voted in 2000 (12.9 million). In both 2008 and 2012, black voters even exceeded their share of the eligible black voting age population. In 2012, blacks made up 12.5% of the eligible electorate but 13.4% of those voting.&#8221;</p>
<p>The big jump in black turnout since the days when left-wingers depicted Bill Clinton as the nation&#8217;s &#8220;first black president&#8221; undermines Hillary&#8217;s claim that new race-based obstacles to voting are on the upswing.</p>
<p>She claims that North Carolina&#8217;s new electoral integrity law &#8220;reads like the greatest hits of voter suppression.&#8221; All the legislation does is require the presentation of voter ID, shave a week off early voting, end same-day registration, and prevent the arbitrary extension of voting hours.</p>
<p>&#8220;Voters without an ID can get one free at the Department of Motor Vehicles and they can also cast a provisional ballot pending confirmation that they are legally registered,&#8221; the newspaper notes. The paper&#8217;s editorial adds that even though Georgia, Indiana, and Tennessee have &#8220;some of the strictest voter ID laws of the more than 30 states that have such laws,&#8221; black turnout blew past that of non-Hispanic whites in 2012 in all three. states. &#8220;Where is the evidence that voter ID laws keep minorities from voting?&#8221;</p>
<p>Hillary seems convinced that feeding fears about make-believe government racism will get her back into the White House.</p>
<p>This Saul Alinsky disciple, whose senior college thesis was an ode to the master community organizer, is well aware that Democrats are going all-out to make her the nation&#8217;s first female president.</p>
<p>The primary purpose of the Benghazi cover-up was to help get Barack Obama reelected but the only slightly less important secondary purpose has always been to protect Mrs. Clinton as she runs for president.</p>
<p>Hillary may be even more thin-skinned than Obama. Look at her angry outburst during congressional hearings about the Benghazi attack in response to questions posed by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.).</p>
<p>Displaying her signature callous indifference, she made it clear she didn&#8217;t care why Americans died on Sept. 11, 2012. &#8220;With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans,&#8221; she shouted. &#8220;Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?&#8221;</p>
<p>And remember this is the woman who is credited with the phrase &#8220;vast right-wing conspiracy,&#8221; which she uttered on national television in order to distract from her husband&#8217;s storied &#8220;bimbo eruptions,&#8221; itself a term coined by Betsey Wright, a senior Bill Clinton campaign aide.</p>
<p>Hillary will do whatever it takes to become America&#8217;s 45th president.</p>
<p>If that entails trying to make Americans of different races hate each other, she&#8217;ll do it.</p>
<p>Brace yourselves for three and a half years of this, America.</p>
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		<title>Who Is &#8216;Racist&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Left and mainstream media cling to a Jim Crow mentality. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/xlarge.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-129733" title="xlarge" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/xlarge.gif" alt="" width="375" height="246" /></a>Whatever the ultimate outcome of the case against George Zimmerman for his shooting of Trayvon Martin, what has happened already is enough to turn the stomach of anyone who believes in either truth or justice.</p>
<p>An amazing proportion of the media has given us a painful demonstration of the thinking — and lack of thinking — that prevailed back in the days of the old Jim Crow South, where complexion counted more than facts in determining how people were treated.</p>
<p>One of the first things presented in the media was a transcript of a conversation between George Zimmerman and a police dispatcher. The last line in most of the transcripts shown on TV was that of the police dispatcher telling Zimmerman not to continue following Trayvon Martin.</p>
<p>That became the basis of many media criticisms of Zimmerman for continuing to follow him. Only later did I see a transcript of that conversation on the Sean Hannity program that included Zimmerman&#8217;s reply to the police dispatcher: &#8220;O.K.&#8221;</p>
<p>That reply removed the only basis for assuming that Zimmerman did in fact continue to follow Trayvon Martin. At this point, neither I nor the people who assumed that he continued to follow the teenager have any basis in fact for believing that he did or didn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Why was that reply edited out by so many in the media? Because too many people in the media see their role as filtering and slanting the news to fit their own vision of the world. The issue is not one of being &#8220;fair&#8221; to &#8220;both sides&#8221; but, more fundamentally, of being honest with their audience.</p>
<p>NBC News carried the editing even further, removing one of the police dispatcher&#8217;s questions, to which Zimmerman was responding, in order to feed the vision of Zimmerman as a racist.</p>
<p>In the same vein were the repeated references to Zimmerman as a &#8220;white Hispanic.&#8221; Zimmerman is half-white. So is Barack Obama. But does anyone refer to Obama as a &#8220;white African&#8221;?</p>
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		<title>An Ungodly Immigration Policy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Religious Left takes on the new Arizona law.]]></description>
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<p>The 1.1 million-member United Church of Christ (UCC) is trying to raise $50,000 for a media campaign, including a newspaper ad in the Phoenix newspaper <em>The Arizona Republic</em>, to blast that state’s new immigration enforcement law. Church prelates hope the ad will appear on May 29, when reputedly 500,000 will march in Phoenix against the law.</p>
<p>As America’s most left-wing Christian denomination, the fast declining UCC’s zeal for political activism perhaps compensates for its lack of evangelism. Having lost about half its members in recent decades, and several hundred congregations in recent years, the 1.1 million member denomination, at least as expressed by its elites, unapologetically plunges ahead with the latest causes du jour.</p>
<p>&#8220;God&#8217;s love knows no borders&#8221; the proposed ad will sermonize, as though that point were the issue. The UCC’s top bureaucrat for “Justice and Witness Ministries” is also prominently quoted in the ad draft, asserting:  “It is now legal for Arizona’s law enforcement to single people out because of the color of their skin, the language of their ancestors, their place of, or even the way they dress.”  She further snidely alleges:  “When racism raises its ugly head and our nation’s core justice values are at stake, fear cannot be an excuse to remain silent.”</p>
<p>When the Religious Left alleges racism, it’s usually because it has so few other arguments at its disposal.  In the mid-20th century, liberal Mainline Protestantism waged serious moral campaigns against authentic racism, and on behalf of other admirable causes.  Now an embarrassing shadow of once prestigious religious institutions, left-leaning Mainline Protestants have exhausted most of their Christian moral capital.  When they speak politically, they typically only spout bumper sticker slogans that slam their targets as racists, militarists, or exploitative profiteers.</p>
<p>“This law is nothing less than a modern day Jim Crow law of the 19th and 20th centuries,” virtually shrieked UCC President Geoffrey Black in the immediate aftermath of the Arizona law enforcement law’s passage.  He insisted:  “The immigrant rights struggle is a contemporary civil rights struggle!”  In typical fashion, he did not differentiate between illegal and legal immigrants, making his own sweeping ethnic assumption that all Hispanic immigrants, and their U.S. born descendants, essentially think alike.  That many legal immigrants themselves favor immigration law enforcement is a possibility not recognized by the Religious Left, which is too busy advocating its mainly WASP theoretical version of multiculturalism to ponder what immigrants themselves actually want.</p>
<p>Rev. Black claimed the new Arizona law will mandate “racial profiling of persons of color” that will assault the “rights of women, men and children, citizens and non-citizens alike.”   But what of the rights of women, men and children of all races in Arizona who expect a lawful society that regulates who can enter their state from outside the U.S. border?   Of course, the main victims of uncontrolled illegal immigration, who are legal immigrants, and the native born working class, do not typically constitute the constituency of the upper middle class, and almost all white, Anglo UCC or other Mainline Protestant denominations.  The UCC is among the most blue blooded of America’s old-line churches, having descended literally from the Pilgrim Fathers and the New England Puritans.</p>
<p>Like its 17th Puritan preacher ancestors, the UCC loves to inveigh against perceived evils.  But while the Puritans primarily were concerned about the sin in their own hearts, the theologically modernist UCC is mostly focused on lambasting perceived sin in other people’s hearts.  “We urge our brothers and sisters in the United Christ of Christ and our faith partners to resist hate, and insist that just immigration reform embodies our Christian understanding to love our neighbors,” Rev. Black implored.</p>
<p>“We call upon the President of the United States and members of Congress to enact comprehensive immigration legislation that protects the rights of all who reside in the United States.”  Do illegal immigrants have the same rights to residence and government services as citizens and legal immigrants, in the UCC/Religious Left perspective?  Apparently so.</p>
<p>Reportedly, the UCC has already raised most of what it needs for the Arizona Republic newspaper ad.  Now it wants some additional dollars for Spanish language ads.  Few UCC members are Spanish speaking, and Arizona’s Hispanics are overwhelmingly Roman Catholic and Evangelical, primarily Pentecostal.  No liberal-led mainline denomination has successfully appealed to large numbers of Hispanics.  And the UCC lost much of its Spanish speaking membership when its Puerto Rico Conference officially withdrew from the UCC in 2006 to protest the UCC’s support for same-sex marriage.</p>
<p>&#8220;Across the church, we have heard eagerness that the United Church of Christ respond publicly in Arizona with a message that resonates both pastorally and prophetically to this unjust new law,&#8221; Rev Black explained to his denominational news service.  &#8220;At the same time, we need to prepare a long-term response strategy that prepares us for the multiple legislative battles over immigration that will take place in the coming months and years.&#8221;  The UCC naturally is concerned about immigration law enforcement proposals in other states.  Rev. Black has encouraged “meaningful and respectful” debate on immigration even as he has called his labeled his opponents as racist and hateful.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the UCC’s Southwest Conference has urged, by an apparently narrow vote while meeting in Sedona, Arizona, a virtual economic boycott against Arizona to punish it for immigration law enforcement.  &#8220;We are profoundly disturbed by the passage of the harshest anti-immigrant legislation in the country by the Arizona Legislature,&#8221; this conference wrote in a public letter President Obama and other officials. &#8220;It is legislation such as this that codifies racial profiling and creates an atmosphere of suspicion, hatred, and scapegoating of immigrants and U.S citizens.&#8221;  The Southwest Conference represents about 50 congregations mostly in Arizona and New Mexico.  Its meeting “immediately went into a time of prayer for the soul of Arizona and all people who reside here” upon learning of Arizona’s “unjust and racist law,” against which it pledged “non-compliance.”</p>
<p>Posturing by Religious Left elites like the UCC’s prelates will not likely affect the enforcement of Arizona’s immigration law.  But the UCC’s vapid and histrionic rhetoric further expose the moral vacuity of the Religious Left’s emptying churches.</p>
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		<title>Bertha Lewis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Perazzo]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  In a recent speech to the Young Democratic Socialists, an arm of the Democratic Socialists of America, longtime ACORN luminary Bertha Lewis publicly embraced her socialist ideology, declaring: “First of all let me just say any group that says, ‘I’m young, I’m democratic, and I’m a socialist,’ is alright with me.” She also suggested that conservatives planned to reinstitute segregation and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>In a recent speech to the Young Democratic Socialists, an arm of the <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6428" target="_blank">Democratic Socialists of America</a>, longtime <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968">ACORN</a> luminary <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2459">Bertha Lewis </a>publicly <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/04/22/tea-party-is-a-bowel-movement-says-acorn-boss-bertha-lewis/#ixzz0lqHDHJ9c">embraced</a> her socialist ideology, declaring: “First of all let me just say any group that says, ‘I’m young, I’m democratic, and I’m a socialist,’ is alright with me.” She also <a href="http://centralillinois912project.com/?p=5089">suggested</a> that conservatives planned to reinstitute segregation and set up internment camps in the United States:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Right now we are living in a time which is going to dwarf the McCarthy era … It is going to dwarf the internments during World War II. We are right now in a time that is going to dwarf the era of Jim Crow and segregation.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Lewis especially condemned the <a href="http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhsxmzm7_19fcdzskg5">Tea Party Movement</a>, calling it a “bowel movement” filled with “racism.”</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2459">To view Bertha Lewis&#8217; full profile, click here</a></strong>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>[This article is reprinted from <a href="http://www.city-journal.org">City Journal</a>.]</strong></p>
<p>In December 2001, the Toyota Motor Corporation held a public meeting at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with racial activist Jesse Jackson. The purpose of the gathering was to discuss Toyota’s “Twenty-First Century Diversity Strategy,” a ten-year program worth some $7.8 billion in contracts for minority-owned businesses. At even a casual glance, the program seemed a capitulation to Jackson, who had threatened to call for a black boycott of the carmaker over some ads that he deemed racist. Toyota’s denials that it had given in to racial extortion rang unconvincing.</p>
<p>Also in attendance that day was another black minister named Jesse—the Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson. Peterson is the staunchly conservative head of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, or BOND, which is dedicated to “rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man”—educating males, mostly black males, about personal strength and responsibility. Peterson is also Jackson’s sworn nemesis and calls him, among other things, a “racist demagogue” and a “problem profiteer.” For two years prior to the Toyota meeting, he’d been holding rallies declaring Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a “National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson.” So when it came time for the Q&amp;A, Peterson asked Toyota’s reps if BOND could apply for its grants without joining Jackson’s Trade Bureau at an entry fee of up to $2,500.</p>
<p>“All hell broke loose in the room,” Peterson writes in his book <em>Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America</em>. “Several blacks got up and started screaming obscenities at me.” Jesse Jackson denounced “some parasites who want to pick up apples from trees they didn’t shake.” When Peterson tried to leave the meeting, he claims that Jesse’s son Jonathan confronted him and shoved him in the chest, while others surrounded him, shouting obscenities.</p>
<p>Peterson sued, claiming that Jesse Jackson threatened him and that Jonathan assaulted him. The jury split 6–6 on the assault charge, and it was settled out of court. A lengthy 6–6 split on the other charges ended when, according to the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, three jurors, still professing to believe Peterson, surrendered to the argument that he hadn’t proved his claims. Though Jesse Jackson had to admit under oath that his Trade Bureau played a role in distributing the Toyota grants—and though he acknowledged the “parasites” remark—he and his son walked away largely unscathed.</p>
<p>I couldn’t help but think of Jesse Jackson when I visited Peterson at BOND recently. I couldn’t help but think of Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, with its monumental marble headquarters in Chicago and branches in major cities around the country. BOND’s offices, by contrast, are in a shabby storefront sitting amid furniture stores, gas stations, and billboards in a flat and dispiriting stretch of L.A.’s Mid-City West section. Whereas Rainbow/PUSH reportedly receives double-digit millions in corporate grants and sponsorships, BOND gets by on about half a million dollars a year in mostly private donations (though some money comes in from Toyota since the 2001 brouhaha). Its Home for Boys, a gabled house in a pleasantly leafy residential neighborhood nearby, can hold eight residents at a time, with some sharing rooms. That, along with BOND’s After-School Character Building Program, which takes on ten to 12 kids for six to nine weeks, represents an effort no larger than, say, a church Sunday school: about 70 boys have graduated from both programs so far. BOND chapters begun in Flint and Lansing, Michigan, have had to close down for lack of funds.</p>
<p>But if BOND is austere, it nonetheless provides Peterson with a platform from which to speak his indomitable piece. The building includes a rudimentary chapel—a cross, a podium, maybe 30 office chairs—where he preaches to a small congregation every Sunday (the sermons are later posted on his website and YouTube). There’s also an admirably equipped studio from which he puts on a radio and Internet call-in show five mornings a week. As BOND’s president and CEO, he makes regular TV appearances with Fox News stalwarts Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity (who serves on BOND’s advisory board). He also writes a no-holds-barred column on the popular conservative Christian website WorldNetDaily, and he makes occasionally raucous speaking appearances, including a recent debate at Yale University in which he denounced affirmative action, to predictable hisses from the Yale Political Union.</p>
<p>Still, the contrast between Jesse Jackson’s wealth and fame and Jesse Lee Peterson’s relatively modest circumstances seems an object lesson in the fate of competing narratives and identities. The great social thinker Shelby Steele has written that to “be black” in America requires the wearing of a mask. Either you are a “challenger,” like Jackson, who essentially tells whites: “I judge you racist until you do something—such as giving me money—to prove otherwise.” Or you are a “bargainer,” like Barack Obama, who says, “I will not use racism against you, if you will not use race against me.”</p>
<p>But Jesse Lee Peterson will not “be black” in that sense at all. “The ‘Black Experience’ is a myth used to control people,” he has written. His approach to the problems facing America’s entrenched black underclass is profoundly personal. And his comparatively marginal place in the culture raises the possibility that, for a public black in America, to be a man only is to be a man alone.</p>
<p>Most black Americans are suffering not because of racism but the lack of moral character,” Peterson tells me. We are sitting in his office in BOND’s cramped second story. It’s a threadbare space: cheap desk, cheap chairs, some books on cheap shelves, some photos of friends and BOND graduates hanging on the off-white walls or propped against them. “About 50 years ago, the government came in under Lyndon B. Johnson, and it said to black people, ‘We’re gonna take care of you. You can’t make it because of racism. But you can’t have a father in the home, you can’t have a man in your home.’ ” He’s alluding to welfare systems that subsidized single mothers and thus discouraged marriage. “And many black people decided to go with that, and they took the fathers out, and the government became the daddy of the family. And the so-called civil rights leaders became the head of the people . . . and they have managed to brainwash, dumb down, and demoralize the people for their own personal gain.”</p>
<p>Like many outspoken conservatives, Peterson is only noticed by the mainstream media when he makes statements that are, I suspect, purposely calibrated to shock and annoy them: “Thank God for slavery” (because it brought blacks out of Africa to America) and “Barack Obama hates white people.” Like many black conservatives, he is subject to continual name-calling and racial slurs. One man even pulled a gun on him when he recognized him in a restaurant, Peterson says, and others have threatened violence against the radio stations that run his show. But in appearance and behavior, at least, he doesn’t fit the firebrand mold. He’s a slender man of average height with a relaxed, quiet aspect. A cleft palate, not repaired until he was in his teens, left him with a slight speech impediment, and he has developed a careful manner of speaking, not ferocious at all, not even in the pulpit. He is self-effacing and humorous and notes his own lapses in grammar and eloquence by telling me simply and without apology, “I didn’t get a great education.” He is scrupulously direct and thorough when answering questions, and his worldview is strikingly coherent and precise.</p>
<p>Like Steele—who provides both a blurb and a frontispiece quotation for Peterson’s autobiography, <em>From Rage to Responsibility</em>—Peterson decries the transformation of the civil rights movement from a principled appeal to the American creed to a politicized shakedown of guilt-ridden whites. He condemns the government subsidies of single motherhood that have helped set loose a plague of black illegitimacy and its attendant plagues of generational poverty and crime. (See “<a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_2_heralds.html">Heralds of a Brighter Black Future</a>,” Spring 2005.) And he bemoans the black culture of dependency on government support that even welfare workers privately call “welfare psychosis.”</p>
<p>But Peterson is no metropolitan academic. Despite his quiet demeanor and delivery, his message is charged with that old-time religion. Where Steele views the last 40 years of civil rights activism as a complex and poisonous blend of white guilt, black opportunism, and government incompetence and corruption, Peterson sees an intentional power grab by an anti-American Left, a self-interested attempt to destroy the nation by destroying manhood and marriage, part of the ongoing and eternal struggle between the forces of Good and Evil. “You cannot control a moral people,” he tells me. “You have to keep them immoral in order to control them.”</p>
<p>When Peterson starts talking, the words <em>I don’t agree with everything he says, but</em> . . . leap screaming into your mind. Even conservative commentator Dennis Prager, who serves on BOND’s advisory board and calls Peterson “one of the handful of great men anyone is privileged to meet in a lifetime,” makes a similar disclaimer in his foreword to the autobiography. It’s a gesture of mental self-defense, I think, against a preacher who seems very peacefully and yet relentlessly to say what has become, in the current American narratives of race and gender, virtually unsayable.</p>
<p>Take Peterson’s vision of restoring the lost black family, which is unflinchingly religious and traditional. “There is a spiritual order to life that was ordained by God,” he tells me. “And that order is God in Christ, Christ in man, man over woman, woman over children. And it’s not an ego trip, it’s just a spiritual order, that men are subject to Christ and women are subject to men.”</p>
<p>At this point on the interview tape, you can hear me start to stammer hilariously. <em>I don’t agree with everything he says, but</em>. . . . And yet, at the same time I’m stammering, several thoughts crowd in on me. First, Peterson’s traditionalism is only an echo of Paul’s advice to married couples in Ephesians, not to mention John Milton’s deathless description of Adam and Eve: “He for God only; she for God in him.” Second, his words are spoken in answer to a community where I’ve repeatedly heard black women describe black men as “weak” and black men describe black women as “mean.” Third (and I can’t wait to drop this comment at my wife’s next dinner party), the happiest middle-class white families I know are still fashioned on some version of Peterson’s principle—the husband as head of the household—as long as that leadership is understood, as Peterson understands it, to be subject to an overarching moral order of love, gentleness, and grace.</p>
<p>“What men don’t understand is that they represent God in the family, in the home, and . . . they’re supposed to love what’s right more than anything else,” Peterson tells me. “And when they love that, then God dwells in them and works through them to guide them in the right way so that they can guide their families.”</p>
<p>Peterson’s program for restoring this paradigm is fashioned from his personal experience—almost, in fact, a universalization of his autobiography. Born in 1949 in the sleepy little town of Comer Hill, Alabama, he grew up on the former plantation where his great-grandparents had labored as slaves. His father would not acknowledge him, and his mother had moved north to start a family with another man. Peterson was raised by his grandmother and frequently disciplined by his grandfather, who managed the old farm for its white owners. But despite the fact that his great-grandfather had been murdered by a white mob, and despite the Jim Crow world in which they lived, “Not once did I hear them blame white folks or say that it was because we were black,” he tells me. “They understood that it was wrong, but they understood that it was a <em>moral</em> issue, it was a <em>spiritual</em> issue. And so they taught us not to hate.”</p>
<p>It was not racism that troubled the young Peterson as much as what he calls a “hunger for father.” He writes in his autobiography: “I used to yearn, to literally ache in my gut, for him to come into my life and make himself known to me, and claim me as his son.” Peterson did come to know his father in his early teens and drew deep satisfaction from occasional visits to him in East Chicago, Indiana, where he had a family and owned a laundry business. At 16, Peterson moved in with his mother and stepfather in the nearby city of Gary and there came to learn of her deep resentment of the man who denied impregnating her. “Her anger at him kept her from loving me,” Peterson writes.</p>
<p>On graduating high school, Peterson moved to Los Angeles and was soon adrift in the sixties counterculture. After a series of odd jobs, he learned how to play the welfare system. Merely by claiming to be a drug addict, he was able to cadge $300 a month in government handouts, plus rent and food stamps. He stopped working altogether, turned to full-time drug use and sex, and “descended into a pit of irresponsibility and laziness. It nearly destroyed me.” Peterson and his friends in South Central L.A. would frequently gather around the radio to listen to Louis Farrakhan. The fiery Nation of Islam preacher “made me feel good to be black” and “caused me to hate the white people around me.” Through most of his thirties, Peterson writes, “I was a sullen, furious, and racist black man.”</p>
<p>It was another radio preacher who changed Peterson’s direction: Roy Masters, a British convert from Judaism, who advocated praying to God for self-knowledge and listening quietly for God’s response. Such prayers led Peterson to confront his anger, not against whites, but against his own parents, so that he came to understand himself outside the context of his skin color. He visited his mother and forgave her for her anger. She cried. He visited his father and forgave him for his neglect. The older man was grateful. For Peterson, the experience was liberating and set him on the path of ordination and a successful, directed life.</p>
<p>It is, in its general outlines, an archetypal black American life story—the same arc from poverty and prejudice to drift and personal degradation to revelation and reclamation that defines, say, <em>The Autobiography of Malcolm X</em> or <em>Manchild in the Promised Land</em>. What distinguishes Peterson’s story, what distinguishes Peterson, is the ferociously un-racial, nearly anti-racial terms in which he came to understand his salvation. Having nearly lost himself in the narrative of being an angry black man in a racist America, he now seeks to reclaim angry black men by having them reproduce his personal narrative of purely individual forgiveness, liberation, and faith. With emotional, educational, and career counseling of the young men who come to BOND, “we are putting the fathers back by showing them how to overcome anger,” he says. “They have to first forgive their fathers for not being there to guide them and to fill that emptiness that they feel within themselves. They have to forgive their mothers for being angry at the fathers and turning the children away from the fathers. . . . And then they have to stop resenting themselves. And when they can forgive, then you feel good within yourself and you can move on with life.”</p>
<p>It seems clear why such a program would have less mass appeal than Jesse Jackson’s I’m-black-you’re-racist-give-me-something-or-else approach. Identity politics is easy; forgiveness is hard. The kind of personal forgiveness that Peterson preaches is more difficult, too, than the straighten-up-and-do-right Christianity of many more popular white ministers, like Rick Warren and Joel Osteen, because it requires an inner revolution rather than outward restraint.</p>
<p>And for now, at least, the evidence of BOND’s effectiveness is purely anecdotal. Some of the graduates of the program are working for BOND—to all appearances, happily and effectively. There are a few testimonials on the website, and there are those smiling pictures of graduates and participants in Peterson’s office. “One or two didn’t make it,” he tells me. “But most do.”</p>
<p>Six young men, aged 16 to 30, are currently living in BOND’s nearby Home for Boys. The place looks exactly like what any parent would expect a well-tended home filled with males to look like. The bedrooms are a bit rough-and-tumble in the folded-clothes department but clean underneath. There are the requisite big-screen TV and X-Box in the front room, a pleasant kitchen and a usable washer-dryer toward the back, and a patio with a barbecue outside. Run by a live-in manager and his assistant, the Home is a place for young men to learn how to find work, save money, and pay bills. While most of the residents were at school or work when I visited, 30-year-old Mensah Watts was there doing the laundry on his day off from one of his two full-time jobs: maintenance worker at UCLA and clerk at a CVS drugstore. He hopes to become a writer and is working on a fantasy novel and a memoir in his rare off hours. He credits Peterson with his reclamation from anger and rebellion. For all that, however, there is no tracking system for BOND graduates and no statistics with which to gauge the program’s success.</p>
<p>Statistics for failed approaches, on the other hand, are plentiful. After 40 years of the racially based politics that Peterson condemns—40 years of activists crying bias, of billions of dollars in race-sensitive government programs—the black illegitimacy rate, with its high correlation to poverty levels, has more than tripled, to over 70 percent; the black homicide rate is more than seven times higher than the combined white and Hispanic rate; and blacks’ average SAT scores are 200 points below whites’. Whether we agree with everything the minister says or not, it’s worth wondering if Shelby Steele isn’t right when he says of Peterson’s life story that it “does what the entire field of American sociology fails to do. It makes the point that traditional values are <em>transformative</em> in themselves and, therefore, the best antidotes to social dysfunction.”</p>
<p><strong><em>Andrew Klavan is a </em>City Journal<em> contributing editor and the author of such best-selling novels as </em>Don’t Say a Word<em> and </em>Empire of Lies<em>. His new thriller for young adults, </em>The Long Way Home<em>, will be out in February.</em></strong></p>
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<p>The Religious Left understandably relishes its memories, real and imagined, of heroic support for the Civil Right movement during the early 1960’s.  It was maybe their last great and fully admirable moral cause that history still rightly salutes. So Religious Leftists frequently attempt to equate their political causes du jour with fighting Jim Crow 50 years ago.</p>
<p>Now, the chief of the United Church of Canada (UCC) is comparing the struggle against climate change with the Civil Rights protests of yesteryear.  UCC Moderator Mardi Tindal even dramatically penned a letter that she self-importantly likened to Martin Luther King’s historic missive from a Birmingham Jail.  Apparently she composed her letter through tears over the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Summit to agree to the massive shut-down of global capitalism for which the Religious Left has long prayed.</p>
<p>&#8220;The day after I returned home from the climate change  talks, I needed a place to go where I could safely cry tears of lament,&#8221; Tindal bewailed to Ecumenical News International (ENI).  &#8220;I needed somewhere where I would be supported as I wrestled with the bitter disappointment I felt with the result of the Copenhagen talks.&#8221;  Lest anyone still fail to understand her Civil Rights analogy, she read her letter from the pulpit of her home church congregation on January 17 to coincide with King’s birthday.</p>
<p>As ENI helpfully explained, her Ontario church is where she “she sought comfort immediately following her return” from the devastating disappointment of Copenhagen. Unlike King, Tindal has not been jailed, or faced growling police dogs, or tear gas, or death threats, for her ostensibly heroic struggle against carbon dioxide.  But she still identifies with King as a crusader for justice.  After all, Global Warming, like Civil Rights, is &#8220;one of the most urgent moral challenges in human history.&#8221;</p>
<p>“What if, instead of racial segregation, King had spoken about high greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere?” Tindal preeningly asked from the pulpit.  “Would his words hold? It seems clear to me that they would ring loud and true.”  The church lady’s rhetorical overreach is not untypical for her ultra-politically correct UCC.  Although still Canada’s largest Protestant denomination, over 40 years it has lost about half its membership thanks partly to such obtuse political posturing.  Naturally, emptying pews and Canada’s secularization did not inhibit the UCC Moderator from crusading in Copenhagen.</p>
<p>After all, the whole planet is at stake.  “Our moment of opportunity came and then went, and here we are now, the fate of civilization and of millions of the planet’s life forms hanging by the frayed thread of inaction,” a “heartbroken” Tindal intoned.  “We have no plan to reduce deadly emissions of carbon dioxide. Emissions that are a symptom of our broken relationship with the web of life. Emissions that are rising faster than at any time in human history.”</p>
<p>Terrifying!  Perhaps Tindal’s listening congregation reacted as New England Puritans did when Jonathan Edwards read his famous 18th century sermon “Sinners in  the Hands of an Angry God,” amid shrieks and howls and pleas for divine mercy.   Edward’s hell-fire revivalistic appeal helped ignite America’s first Great Awakening.  Surely the terrors of a warming planet are no less motivating than the threat of eternal damnation.   Edwards warned his unsaved listeners that they were hanging over the nether regions like a spider dangling from his slender web over a fire.   Even more powerfully, Tindal pleaded that not just individual sinners, but the whole planet is “hanging by the frayed thread of inaction” over Global Warming.    No wonder the church Moderator is weeping.</p>
<p>Edwards, in his famous sermon, admonished the impenitent that they could face divine judgment that very evening.  Similarly, Tindal told her church, after Copenhagen’s failure, “I too believe the time for waiting has run out.”  Thankfully, she, as did Edwards, believes there is still some time for repentance. But unlike Edwards, who pointed towards God, she urged self-help.  “I believe the answer…is that hope is in you. It is in me and in all of us who choose to reject despair and embrace hope. Together, we will replace the Copenhagen failure with success. It is up to us.”</p>
<p>It’s a heavy burden to believe that the whole planet’s salvation depends on self-initiated political action.  But Tindal cited King for inspiration.  “Watching the tens of thousands of citizens who gathered at the talks to exhort our world’s political leaders to act reminded me of the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., who said it would be ‘fatal…to overlook the urgency of the moment.’”  She liked King’s Birmingham Jail letter for describing an “inescapable network of mutuality.”</p>
<p>King was talking about struggles for voting rights and equality before the law.  But of course Tindal applied the sentiment to planet activism.  “Biologically, we live within an inescapable network of mutuality,” she explained. “As the carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere rise, the planet will fail to provide for us. Life as we know it will die. Millions of human lives are on the line, rich and poor, old emitters and new, vulnerable and strong. There is no inoculation against this except all of us changing our behavior all at once.”</p>
<p>In the wake of Copenhagen’s “fearful self-interest,” Tindal urged her Canadian parishioners to take immediate action towards planetary salvation.  So much is at stake!  She concluded with an almost imprecatory litany, fiercely declaring:  “When our actions threaten the lives of millions of people and other creatures, that is wrong; When our lack of action endangers communities in every region of the world, that is wrong; When our economic systems jeopardize the well-being of future generations, that is wrong; When the lifestyles of the wealthy undermine the survival of the poor, that is wrong; If we fail to act, we are helping to doom millions of our species to abject suffering and death. That is wrong.”</p>
<p>King’s Civil Rights movement focused on tangible goals to alleviate specific injustices against a suffering people.  In contrast, Tindal and other Religious Leftists apocalyptically warn of an impending cosmic calamity that continued enjoyment of modern conveniences ostensibly will ignite.  King’s achieved his concrete goals because he aimed towards moral and social uplift.  Religious and other leftists failed at Copenhagen, and will fail elsewhere, because they aim to impoverish humanity to evade an unproven threat against the ethereal goal of climate equanimity.</p>
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