Dear Mr Tha Konfederation.

I would like to express my eternal gratitude for your timely and insightful contribution, which greatly assisted me in proving my point that black people in general are not real bright.

Now I know that FrankGol, Jigga, Rainier and Scout are all wincing and rolling their eyes with despair at your article, but personally, I liked it. Especially, the bit about President Bill Clinton being a drug pusher, and the implication that white people genetically engineered the AIDS virus to get rid of black people. Of course, the dreamy idealists will claim that your views are untypical of Africans, but I dunno about that.

Your opinion cross connects to a Time magazine article about AIDS in Africa in which it stated that all over Africa, billboards display the image of the French Canadian airline steward who was the first person diagnosed with AIDS, under the caption “This is the white man who brought AIDS to Africa.” The article also stated that one reason why AIDS was spreading so rapidly in Africa, was because African men refused to wear condoms. Time stated that African men believed that white people only wanted them to use condoms to stop the Black Africans from breeding. Real smart, huh?

It is interesting what GrahamY’s daughter will make of that perceptive African analysis.

Ladies and gentleman, forty years ago, Asian nations like Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Malaya were impoverished nations. But the forces which were responsible for these countries becoming prosperous powerhouses was due to two factors, the Asian work ethic and the fact that Asians in general are smart. I put to you the premise that Africa, despite squillions in aid from generous western donors will remain forever an economic basket case, is because the same will never be said of black people.

But we can rest assured that comical black Afican Presidents for Life and aboriginal activists in Australia on the public payroll will continue to find favour with their own people by telling them that nothing is ever their fault, blaming the white fella for anything and everything.

To Mr Scout

Your previous broadside at me was so full of factual errors that I could not leave your misconceptions unchallenged.

Behavioral scientists today have compelling evidence that crime is linked to genetics. Even the Australian Institute of Criminology’s own white paper (Trends and Issues, “Is There a Genetic Susceptibility to Criminal Acts”, October 2003) admits that this is so. One does not need to be a mensa from the local Audobon society to figure out the implications of that.

Confirmation that geneticists agree with behavioural scientists on that analysis came to me from a surprising source. I read a book by Peter R. Breggin, (The War Against Children) who vehemently denies that genetics and crime are linked. But the best thing about reading books by people that you disagree with, is that the author tends to be a bit indiscreet. This is because they presume that people who hold opposing views would not bother to read their book anyway.

Mr Breggin brags in his book how he and the US NAACP successfully lobbied the US Congress to withdraw federal funding from any scientist who dared to publish any article linking crime to genetics or ethnicity. They were so successful, that when the American scientists responsible for the historic Human Genome Mapping Project tried to set up a scientific conference entitled “Genetics and Crime”, they were so terrified of losing their government research sinecures, that the conference was hastily dropped. The conference was subsequently held in London, with the press and the public excluded.

Any reasonable person would draw two conclusions from this. First, is that there is obviously something which the scientists want to say, which is social and political dynamite. Second, they are being intimidated by pressure groups exerting political influence into keeping their collective mouths shut.

Ok Redneck, how about this for a proposition. You write a fully blown opinion piece for OLO on this topic (using the usual academic/scientific conventions) and I'll write one responding to it. It will of course mean outing yourself in public. C'mon, how about it mate?

And you'll have to out yourself too Rainier. I'm open to the suggestion, providing the contributions come up to standard, and seeing I've become a participant in this debate I would leave that decision to Susan Prior who is the editor.

Redneck,

"......Ladies and gentleman, forty years ago, Asian nations like Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Malaya were impoverished nations. But the forces which were responsible for these countries becoming prosperous powerhouses was due to two factors, the Asian work ethic and the fact that Asians in general are smart......". Why you continue shooting yourself in the foot i got no idea. Sometimes 'smart' people aren't all that smart after all, especially if ideologies used are based on hatred. OK in that sentence/paragrah you fail to explain why ASIA was poor in the first place. You continue linking poverty and riches to being smart, to high IQ levels. So does this mean ASIANS were genetically 'dumb' before they became rich, then somehow their genetic smartness changed and sky-rocketted and all of a sudden they became rich, huh? Mr. Redneck please explain this discrepancy in your own ideas to me in black and white - i mean in plain language.

As for criminology having direct link to genetics, the simple question I continue asking that I don't get right answers for is this: If its true that crime is genetically imbedded and can be genetically inheritated, then is it safe to say that ALL white Australians living today who have ancestral link to the early settlers ARE ALL CRIMINALS? If the answer is a categorically NO, then is this genetic inheritage of crime only susceptible to a black race? Please answer me right again. You see these are simple basic questions that we fail to ask ourselves when we allow ourselves to sink so low by thinking with our emotions instead of our heads!

peace,
Jigga man

Pearls of Wisdom

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."

- Samuel P. Huntington