Abstract: Genetic research and statistical data have
revealed pronounced racial and ethnic differences. It is counter-productive to
sweep such facts under the carpet. The racial concept is still relevant to the
understanding of the human condition. Since liberal-minded people tend to
repress their negative feelings toward other ethnicities and refuse to
acknowledge racial differences or problems, an unconscious multicultural
complex develops. The extent to which people react with indignation when
presented with sterile facts about race is proportionate to the strength of the
unconscious complex. There exists no other remedy than to bring facts to
light; facts which include considerable ethnic differences in IQ and upsetting
interracial crime statistics. This is a moral burden that must be carried by each and everyone.
It includes the worriment of the future prospect of Western culture, in
view of an ongoing mass immigration.
Keywords: ethnic IQ, crime
statistics, the Other, multicultural complex, unconscious racism, eugenics,
Arabic reversal, mass immigration.
Introduction
Recent research has shown that there
is a genetic signal of Neanderthals in all the non-African genomes. [1] As a consequence the traditional out-of-Africa theory, which was regarded as the foremost anti-race theory, has
become obsolete. The
introduction of Neanderthal genes could provide an explanation for the larger
brain of non-Africans. Neanderthals had a significantly larger brain than
Sapiens. (It could have been as much as 20% larger.) This question has already
arisen in earlier research (‘Could our big brains come from Neanderthals?’. [2])
Also outside the realm of genetics, notions of ethnic differences are
again topical. Today there exist racially targeted pharmaceuticals. In
biomedical studies, responses to medical therapies, such as drugs, are often
compared among populations divided according to traditional racial divisions.
Although it is inadvisable to focus one-eyedly on race, due to the import of
cultural and environmental factors and natural genetic disparity, ‘race-neutral’
studies have been found to fail ethnic minorities who respond differently to
medication.
It is becoming more and more apparent that we are, after
all, different. In the statistics that compare ethnicities we find different
degrees of aggressiveness and IQ. Such differences were earlier believed to originate solely
from environmental factors, such as poverty. Today, we are forced to acknowledge
that such quite pronounced differences might depend on race, after all. Below statistical figures show that the concept
of race is still pertinent. Life had been easier if race issues didn’t exist; but they
do, quite by themselves, and whether we like it or not.
Surreptitious racism
The race question mustn’t be swept under
the carpet. One ought to clear the air sometimes, and not lock every painful
problem into airtight compartments. If hypocrisy goes too far, people become
neurotic, bending over backwards just to avoid mentioning race. This sometimes
creates more interpersonal problems than it solves, says the author of the
following article: ‘Seeing Race And Seeming Racist?’ [3]
Moreover, it’s the constant, vague, just-below-the-surface acts of racism that
impair performance, day in and day out. This form of surreptitious racism
magnifies when people remain politically correct and refuse to talk openly about
painful questions (see ‘Racism’s Cognitive Toll: Subtle Discrimination Is More
Taxing On The Brain’ [4]). Accordingly, it’s
better to talk more openly about race.
The question of unconscious
racism is pertinent to this. At Uppsala university, Sweden, an experiment
was set up where people watched crime scenes on film. [5]
Women were much more prone to misjudge the scene and identify the immigrant as
perpetrator. The researcher said that this was due to the fact that women tend
to be much more liberal than men in matters of immigration. So they repressed
their negative feelings for immigrants, which caused them to point them out as
perpetrators, instead. This is the treacherous way in which the unconscious
works.
The conclusion is that a multiculturalist person is likely
to be unconsciously racist, due to repressed negative feeling,
whereas a person who thinks critically in terms of ethnicity and race is prone
to point out the correct perpetrator, in this experiment the white person.
Statistics on IQ
Some say that race isn’t significant, but
that poverty alone can explain the differences in criminal violence. But what if poverty depends on
race? The races do have different distributions of brain size and intelligence
quotient (IQ). Blacks have a lower average IQ and smaller average brain size
relative to bodily volume. The differences are significant and substantial.
Blacks in the U.S. (who have about 20% White admixture), the Caribbean, Britain,
and Canada, average IQs of about 85. The lowest average IQs, Philippe Rushton says, are
found for sub-Saharan Africans, from 70 to 75. [6]
According to Kanazawa, however, it is as low as 63 in Ethiopia, which is the
world’s lowest. (If correct, this is surprisingly low.)
Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist, has published research which concludes
that low IQ levels, rather than poverty and disease, is the reason why African
life expectancy is low and infant mortality high. His paper, published in the
British Journal of Health Psychology, compares IQ scores with indicators of ill
health in 126 countries and claims that nations at the top of the ill health
league also have the lowest intelligence ratings. [7] A
similar argument is provided by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen. In IQ and the Wealth of Nations (2002) they argue
that differences in national income per capita correlate with differences in the
average national IQ. [8]
Statistics on crime
The U.S. Department of Justice report,
Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2005, provides us with
daunting crime statistics. [9] From that year’s report
I calculate that Blacks are an estimated 50 times more likely to commit violent
crime against a White than vice versa, and 167 times more likely to commit
interracial robbery. (Especially the latter figure would vary much between the
years due to the scarcity of White on Black robbery). According to Table 42,
black men committed 37,461 sexual assaults/rapes of white women compared to
statistically zero (less than 10) White on Black. Keep in mind that the reported
rape figures are believed to represent less than half, probably only ca. 37-38%
of the real number.
• Total sexual assaults/rapes of white women:
111,490
• White offender and white victim:
44.5% or 49,613
• Black offender and white victim:
33.6% or 37,461
• Other (or unknown) offender and white victim:
21.9% or 24,416
• Total sexual assaults/rapes of black women:
36,620
• Black offender and black victim:
100% for 36,620
• White (or other) offender and black victim:
0% for 0
Although black men make up only 12.4% of the male population, in 2005
they committed 33.6% of the rapes of white women and 100% of the rapes of black
women. This amounts to 50% of total rapes, which means that black men are
hugely over-represented as rape assailants (see Table 42). As for interracial
rapes, the imbalance is even worse. It’s off the charts because there were a
chocking 37,461 rapes of white women by black men and less than 10 rapes of
black women by white men. It’s not possible to calculate the imbalance because
the disproportion is too big, and White on Black is statistically zero.
Assuming
that white men make up 75% of the male population, a black man is almost 9 times
more likely to commit a rape than a white man (regardless of race of victim, see
Table 40), and they account for virtually all the rapes of black women. This is
not only a problem in the states. More than 25% of South African men questioned
in a survey published by the Medical Research Council (MRC) in June 2009
admitted to raping someone; of those, nearly half said they had raped more than
one person. [10] Blacks also commit robbery at a very
high disproportion, including the vast majority of all robberies committed
against Blacks. The likelihood for a black person committing robbery is probably
even higher than that for rape, but figures are more uncertain due to the many
cases with unknown race of offender (see Table 40).
Economical status
can’t explain the extent of the racial imbalance in crime rates. The percentage
of Blacks living in poverty is higher than that of Whites. Still, there are more
Whites living below the poverty line than Blacks. According to the 2004 Census
data, the Black poverty rate was 24.7% while the White poverty rate was 8.6%. [11] From a poverty perspective, one would expect the per
capita crime rate for Blacks to be higher than that of Whites, but the total
number of crimes committed ought to be much lower than the White number.
Obviously, if one believes that poverty generates crime, such as rape, poverty
doesn’t even begin to explain it. In the U.S., there were approximately 10.0
million white males and 4.7 million black males living in poverty in 2005.
Although there were twice as many poor Whites than Blacks, it is not mirrored in
the crime statistics. Even if normalized for economical status, the
disproportion of interracial rapes remains colossally high. Interracial robbery
is equally disproportionate, and other violent crimes are also disproportionate
but to a lesser extent.
Discussion
What I am referring to in this article are facts
from research. Personally, I am not good at measuring
status, nor am I prone to judge
people according to any form of surreptitious status differential. This statistics is
hurtful to read. I expect people to carry a bit of moral pain together with
the victims, their parents and spouses, and not to dismiss the whole issue as
racist. In the present day, many people seem to abandon their heart
while preference is given to the ideological intellect, saturated with liberalist,
multiculturalist, and relativist ideology.
Both the FBI Uniform Crime
Report and the American Justice Department lay bare the same thing; the
incidence of Black on White violent crime is several times greater than White on
Black violent crime in all categories, especially rape and robbery. Such facts
mustn’t be swept under the carpet, because people will continue talking about it
secretly, which is worse in the long run. Many people will tend to ignore such
inconvenient facts as they are afraid of being branded as racists. This is cowardice. Rape victims become even more humiliated when their human value
is downgraded by not being properly acknowledged.
The enormously
disproportionate incidence of Black interracial crime is real and it should
become public knowledge. The mainstream press is deliberately hiding
this inconvenient information. Instead, they tend to sensationalize whatever White on Black
rape they can find, such as the Duke Lacrosse case [12] and
the Tawana Brawley case, [13] both of which turned out to be hoaxes. The
consequence of hypocrisy is that the psychic split is widening in the collective
mind; between a civilized politically correct consciousness and an instinctual
emotional unconscious. People tend to abandon their heart more and more, preferring to live
according to their ideologically programmed brain. To remedy this, the only way is to
accept painful reality.
The Other
It is reasonable to question whether interracial
crime statistics has any relevance as compared to an overall statistics. Our
rational everyday minds tells us that we should take lightly to such peripheral
things as interracial crime statistics. However, unconsciously, people don’t
take lightly to it. We remain instinctual creatures, and all kinds of fears obtain in
the unconscious. The darker side of ourselves is easily stirred.
I am
certain that the same figures would upset many people if they were reversed.
All the multiculturalists would condemn, in every public media, the cruelty and
oppression in the hands of white people. So it seems that we, in repressing the
racial issue, have created a collective psychological problem. If hypocrisy goes
too far, people become neurotic, bending over backwards just to avoid mentioning
race.
In South Africa white women can no longer travel alone by train. Formerly, black women could travel by train, although they had to sit
in certain places, which created an uproar. Yet, when white women cannot
travel at all, nobody even mentions it. In South Africa, by 2010, over 3200
white farmers had been murdered in politically motivated violence since
apartheid rule ended in 1994. [14] It seems as if there
is an enormous tolerance of racialist murders and apartheid as long as it is the
white race that suffers. Unconsciousness creates a hypocritical double-sided
personality. To remedy this, it is necessary to “clean the inside of the
cup” by remaining conscious of evil, including the evils of the black race.
What’s behind the intoleration of racial differences and the denial of painful
facts? As many a psychoanalyst has observed, many neurotic people today cannot
accept otherness. There can only be likeness and unity. If other people are going to be
accepted, they must march under the same banner, and their ideas must coincide
with one’s own. Otherwise the feeble ego is offended. The existence of the Other
is experienced as a potential threat; a questioning and a denial of the weak
ego. If that’s the case, the Other will soon be subjected to harassment and shut
out. In the worst historical examples, the scapegoats were imprisoned in
extermination camps. In accordance with the current sameness ideology, it is not possible to accept “the Negro” as Other,
because that would necessitate apartheid.
The outsider is to be
reintroduced into collective identification under the banner: “There is
only One people and One human fellowship. No other races or diverging
individuals exist, nor have they the right to exist. In that case they must be removed.”
The ideology of racial homogenization is a notorious and agonizing phenomenon that
keeps returning in history in many different forms. Today, the Other is
typically accused of having “undemocratic” and racialist views.
What to do about it?
It’s not always necessary to
take action. It is, in itself, wholesome to remain conscious of the shadowy side
of existence. In this way, personality helps carrying the load of suffering people.
Otherwise a hypocritical personality is created whose outside is clean and
politically correct, while the unconscious side is rotting up. Already Jesus
identified this problem (Matt. 23:25-28).
If we can’t ventilate
painful issues such as these, in what forum can we take issue with them? The
answer is that it ends up in the unconscious, forming an unconscious complex.
The extent to which people recoil in denial and political correct outrage when
presented with such sterile facts, accusing the messenger of racism, is
proportionate to the strength of the unconscious complex. The multicultural
complex is real, as demonstrated in the Uppsala research referenced above.
Unconscious complexes cause all forms of disturbances, from stomach upsets to
severe psychological symptoms, such as pointing out the wrong person in the
witness stand.
Lynn & Vanhanen have found that national income per
capita correlates with average national IQ. [8] This
means that a general lowering of IQ, as a consequence of immigration, will
impact the overall technological and economical qualification of a country in
the future. It will scale down the standard of culture, which will take on a
more naive expression. Today, the youth prefer rap music, whereas they hardly
listen to classical music anymore. Today’s average IQ in the U.S. is 98. In
Mexico it’s 87. Accordingly, a continued Mexican immigration will contribute to a lower
average IQ. As a result, a greater portion of the population will require
unqualified jobs. Meanwhile, government policy tries to increase the level of
education and create a more qualified labour market. The consequence is that
society will become more and more economically segregated, which is bound to increment crime rates.
It’s necessary to comprehend what’s under way in our times, for us to
take responsibility for future generations. Current developments are bound to generate
problems that in turn will cause sleep disturbance and other symptoms in the population.
Especially, psychotherapists should
keep conscious of problems in our time that generate unconscious
symptoms in patients. Accordingly, psychological authors are today
discussing notions of ethnic psychology.
Donald R. Atkinson focuses on counseling ethnic and racial
minorities and identifies characteristics unique to each group. Joseph
Henderson has advanced the notion of a “cultural unconscious”.
Michael V. Adams discusses unconscious racial and ethnic factors
(collective attitudes and behaviors that are really ethnic factors).
Literature
is growing because it is necessary to relate to reality, leaving behind
the puerile worldview building on airy-fairy ideology. It is a way of thinking that
people have typically adopted in their youth; an ideal world of all-encompassing
motherly reliance, a place where human nature is inherently good. But such ideas are
really predicated on the mother complex. I have elsewhere argued that culture
is very much determined by, and highly dependent on, the constitutional
collective character of its population. [15] I express
my concern that the ongoing mix of ethnic groups in the West forebodes a
cultural regression in the motherly, matriarchal, direction.
The Arabic reversal
A striking historical example of a
regress is what underwent in the Arab world. Arab civilization made great
advances in learning and culture up to a certain point in the Middle Ages. Suddenly
it ran out of steam and lost its vitality; an occurrence which allowed room for
the European expansion. Historians have been puzzled by this reversal. Recently,
genetic research has revealed that sub-Saharan Africans have contributed greatly
to the genome of today’s Arab population. [16]
The Arabs imported enormous numbers of African female slaves, a trade that
ended only in the late 19th century. Contrary to America, Arab countries
imported predominantly women slaves. Estimates by historians suggest the extent of
the Arab slave trade to between 11 to 25 million black Africans, and from
thousands to in excess of one million Europeans. [17]
The female slaves were exploited sexually (Arab men viewed the womb only as the
vessel that their seed grew in). Yet, unlike in America, there are no direct
descendants of the slaves in the Arab world. This is because Arabs, as a whole,
are descendants of African slaves. The African genome was swallowed up by the
Arab population.
The mixing of the two races that occurred rapidly
during medieval times could, I suggest, explains the mysterious cultural reversal
that took place in the Arab world. The Arabic population had at a point in time
inherited so much of sub-Saharan African traits that it affected the vitality of
a whole civilization. The genetic shift took place very rapidly. A thousand
years ago the Arabs had little or no African markers in their genome. In
medieval times the genome changed rapidly. Why should not such a rapid change
have affected culture? I theorize that it has clearly affected average IQ, which
is around 83 in today’s Arab countries. [8]
We balk at notions of racial purity, especially in light of the overblown
pseudo-scientific ideas of the thirties. Nevertheless, it might be necessary
to tackle this problem, while keeping it within the limits of the sane. We
must bring to light to what extent our advanced Western civilization depends on
our inherited genetic makeup, and whether African/Arabic
immigration, primarily, may generate a devitalization on lines of the
Arabic reversal. The 13th century Mongol invasion is part of the explanation for
the decline in economics and culture (libraries were burnt), but it cannot
explain the change in collective psychology. After all, Europe has also suffered
Mongol invasions. Arabic culture lost all vitality and the Arabs became a
backward people. It is a very surprising turn of events. Normally, a high
culture would keep up its resolve and be fixed on rebuilding itself. In a sense,
an invasion may strengthen a high culture since individuals tend to become more determined, doing
self-sacrifice for an ideal. The massive introduction of sub-Saharan African
genes would have played a greater role than the Mongol invasion. (I have since I
wrote this discovered that Donald I. Templer discusses these
problems in Mankind Quarterly, 2010. [18])
Unconscious racism
People do not only worry about the future well-being of their sons
and daughters. What is gnawing in their unconscious is an anxiety about the
ongoing undermining of culture; the future prospects of their country and
civilization. Such worriments cause nervous problems, sleeplessness, and stomach
upsets. It is a mad idea of our times that people should wholly lack a sense of
responsibility for, and feeling for, their own genetic kinship and
the cultural values of their country.
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to develop an understanding
of human nature and to keep conscious of the shadowy side of existence. The
unconscious always harbours that which is intolerable to present-day consciousness. It is the
responsibility of psychoanalysts and debaters to understand why white Americans
create “gated communities” to hold the black population at bay. After all, what
is the probability that hordes of Blacks should leave the Chicago ghetto
and invade the suburban communities? The gated community seems like an idea
fetched from the thirties, building on racial purity and the genetic superiority
of the propertied classes.
Instead of taking exaggerated measures resulting in severe
segregation, inflated prejudice, and collective paranoia, we must talk about
the collective complex that generates anxiety. It is a well-known psychological
insight that conscious realization serves to resolve complexes. It allows consciousness to carry the problem instead. One such problem is “race”. There
is no way around it. White people should realize the underlying reasons for
their unconscious negative feelings toward Blacks. This is better than enclosing
themselves in Aryan gated communities while maintaining their hypocritical
liberal-minded view that race doesn’t exist.
“Race” continues to exist regardless of the fact that intellectuals have declared the concept
obsolete. It exists in people’s unconscious. Americans often dream about Negroes, as C. G. Jung has pointed out. (People dream about gods and
angels, too, regardless of what Richard Dawkins says.) “Race”
is a very charged notion. Most animals have an instinctual fear of
strangers of the same species. They chase strangers away, and sometimes even kill them.
Humans have this unconscious archetypal fear of the stranger, too. That’s why we
have to deal with this topic, and remain conscious of the problem. We should not
denounce people who raise the issue, calling them “racists” and “bigots”.
Seeing the diverse ethnicities and races as they truly are means
that they are saved from something much worse. At heart, all people want to be
accepted as they are. Black people, as a group, are not adequate to the
demands of white civlization. Yet, they managed well in the African Bantu
culture, building an ecologically sustainable civilization. To both teacher and pupils of a black class, it would be a
great relief if they weren’t
expected to make the same results as a white class. A stone would fall from
their shoulders.
People in the modern world must learn to relate to
controversial facts instead of sweeping them under the carpet. Psychic repression is an
antiquated means of relating to reality that is out of place in the modern world. As a
consequence, the unconscious becomes chock-full of putrid content, generating
vulgar and neurotic compensations. In a complex world we should be able to put a
load on our conscious faculty and carry a bit of moral pain. Modern people,
generally speaking, should be capable of this due to a stronger ego
consciousness. We are better equipped to understand reality. It is high time to
challenge this attitude of moral indolence. We needn’t always repress every uncomfortable fact.
We would better deal with the problems consciously, which would avoid much
suffering, regardless of race. It leads to a better acceptance of
differences, and better understanding of racial nature in public consciousness.
When the trolls are pulled out into the daylight they explode. Complexes will turn
into conscious problems that can be dealt with, vexatious as they are,
whereas surreptitious racism and psychological oppression would soon abate. Let’s swallow
the bitter pill, and paranoia and unfounded elitism will lose much of their
momentum. A strengthening of consciousness means becoming vaccinated against
exaggerations.
Conclusion
It is becoming more and
more evident that we are experiencing an awakening of racial consciousness. These findings mustn’t
be allowed to metamorphose into vulgar forms of racialism and nationalism, as in earlier
history. Only by allowing room to such facts in public consciousness, there to be
interpreted correctly, can misinterpretations of vulgar nature be avoided. We
mustn’t allow racial insights to be the sole property of people belonging to fringe political groups, who are bound to distort
and exaggerate facts. This should be evident to people having acquired a
psychoanalytic consciousness, but is yet to be understood by the average
journalist or debater, who always thinks that repression of disagreeable facts
is the great panacea for every problem in human affairs.
© Mats Winther (July 2010)
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