The Color Of Crime And The New Orleans Nightmare: George W. Bush vs. Jared Taylor

Steve Sailer:

Of course, what we all saw on TV from New Orleans was less the "legacy of inequality" with "roots in generations of segregation and discrimination" than the full display, in the absence of the Police Power, of the modern black underclass tendencies toward violent criminality and feckless dependency.

Indeed, the great majority of the thugs who terrorized the flood victims and rescue workers were born long after LBJ's War on Poverty began in 1965. Most, probably after the last white mayor of New Orleans left office 27 years ago.

Yet, already our visual memories are being overwritten by the professional word-slingers because—as John Derbyshire recently pointed out in a column that got spiked by National Review for the tautological reason cited in its title—"You Can't Talk About That."

So, now, 41 years after LBJ's, we have GWB's War on Poverty. The first one turned out to be a moral disaster for African-Americans, helping their crime and illegitimacy rates shoot upwards. But, judging by the President's recent speeches, he is gearing up, like a French general in 1939, to refight the last War on Poverty.

Will the new one turn out any better? Only if America's policy elite freely discusses what actually are the problems of poor African Americans—the ones that cause too many of them to behave as we saw in New Orleans.

Do blacks believe levee was blown?

New Orleans' Reopening Draws Criticism

Emotions Run High at Katrina Jazz Concert

New Orleans' Hospital System Faces Crisis

The coming conservative collapse

The GOP's New New Deal

Will the GOP be Katrina’s Biggest Casualty?

Recycled liberal cliches at the United Nations?

Musical Tastes of Looters

Political correctness doomed NO Convention Center crowd to chaos

NRO: MIA, September 2005

Will Bush be Blamed for the Next Nagin Blunder?

New Orleans: The Follies of the Great Society