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New book by Geoff!
Hip Like Me: Years in the Life of a "Person of Hair"
Steve Sailer's much-anticipated book on Barack Obama is finally available!
In related news, I was downtown a couple of days ago mailing stuff, and as I was coming out of a drugstore, I got approached by a black guy on the sidewalk, who pushed a "Black History" pamphlet into my hand ... and then solicited a donation.
I've seen these guys in Toronto for ages, and always suspected they were peddling some black nationalist agenda, but had never coughed up the money before. This time I did: $2 for a 16-page, photocopied, letter-sized tract, with a very poor-quality photo of Barack Obama centered on the cover, surrounded by nine other jigaboos ... I mean, black men (including Farrakhan, Elijah Muhammad, MLK Jr., and probably Winnie and Nelson Mandela), plus Che Guevara and maybe Fidel Castro.
Inside ... page 4 has a 19-item "Word Find," on the topic of "Disaster Supplies (Prepare Yourself)." Candles, Canned Food, etc. Item #19 is "FAITH"—which, oddly, you're supposed to try to find in a sequence of letters that spell out (I am not making this up) "INSECTREPELLENTWITA." Below that, on the same page, is a "Fill in the blanks" section: Sudan (answer: Darfur Region); Civil Rights Activist (Al Sharpton); Reverend (Jeremiah Wright); White Mother, Black Father (Barack Obama); and Millions More Movement (The. [sic] Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan).
Page 5 has lists of inventions, grouped by the inventor's race: Black, Asian, Hispanic, Caucasian, and Native. (Ran out of space to list Jewish ones, I guess?) There's 30 "Black Inventions," from Traffic Lights (these people capitalize like Da Free John), Cellular Phones and Ice Cream, to the Alphabet, Chess and the Golf Tee (invented by Tiger Woods?), to the Typewriter and Piano.
Of course, the piano was actually invented by an Italian, chess by East Indians, and golf tees by (surprise!) the Scots, few of whom are really "black" per se. But, you know, in spirit....
(Other falsely claimed "black inventions" mentioned in the "Black History" pamphlet include traffic lights [invented by a not-particularly-dark-skinned Mormon], the clothes dryer, the shoe, the remote control, the printing press [Johann Gutenegro], the helicopter, the gas mask, the fire extinguisher, and the elevator [Archimedes, fer Chrissake!]. Probably the mop and toilet, too, though "blacks" have some claim, via Egypt and Persia, on the latter. But this is what happens when people have accomplished so little in their history, and possess such a low average IQ as to be widely unable to compete on anything resembling a level playing field today: They go stealing other people's work, presenting it as their own, and overall just bullshitting through life. Truly, I've begun to wonder whether Ken Wilber might be part black.)
Asians, by contrast, are credited with a mere ten inventions, including calculators, the VCR, and noodles.
Hispanics, again a mere ten, including the Windmill (for Don Quixote to tilt at; also turned out to be remarkably useful in Holland) to Magnetic Brakes (helpful when driving carelessly!) to Birth Control Pills. (Well, they do reproduce like rabbits, even with 'em!)
Caucasians, again a round ten: 1) Military Tank 2) Rifle 3) Bullet 4) Rocket 5) Nuclear Reactor ... 9) Barbed Wire fence 10) The game of Basketball
I know, you were thinking blacks must have invented basketball, 'cause "white men can't jump." Au contraire. Aside from that, who but whitey would think of inventing such a battery of weapons of destruction? Why, the very race reeks of violence....
Natives, alas, invented only five things: the Totem Pole, Toboggan, Snow Shoes, Kayak, and The game of Lacrosse.
A most peace-loving race, as you can see from the impossibility of robbing a liquor store using only a Toboggan or a pair of Snow Shoes as a weapon.
Page 6 has the story of Willie Lynch, who (according to the current propaganda I'm absorbing like a sponge) was responsible for the whole eponymous "lynching" thing.
Just like, centuries later, the citizens of Canada would get "Trudeaued" up the ass.
Page 7: A bio of Barack Obama, who "has written (3) books" ... though technically Bill Ayers wrote/rewrote at least one of one of them. As they say: "OBAMA REPRESENTS CHANGE IT IS TIME TO CHANGE."
The left-third column of page 8 is devoted to a short bio of Che Guevara, which surprisingly notes that during his time "some 150-550 people were executed by his judicial orders" at La cabana fortress prison.
No doubt all of them were guilty, as charged, of traitorously impeding the success of the Revolution.
The rest of the page is a biography of the Belgian Congo's Patrice Lumumba, one-time "traveling beer salesman."
Page 9: Harold Cardinal and Chief Pontiac bios. Injuns, both of 'em, in a transparent attempt to curry pemmican favor from a Native people who have only ever invented five things, none of which can be used to hold up a damned liquor store.
Cardinal "authored 2 critical statement [sic] on Indian policy in Canada," while "Pontiac's plan foiled [sic] and he laid siege to the fort [Detroit] by surprise and soon was joined by 900 worrier's [sic] from a half dozen tribes."
Well, if there's one thing that won't help you win a war, it's battalions full of namby-pamby "worrier's."
Red Cloud, too, was apparently a "Lakota worrier." No wonder they lost all their land.
Page 10: Three featurettes of black men, each tagged with "Where is the justice?" John White, Sean Bell, and Mumia Abu-Jamal
The next page has BIRTHDAYS (all sic): "May 11- The Honorable Louis Farrakhan ,May 19 Malcolm x ,Jun 7 Allen Iverson ,Jun 15 Josiah Henson ,Jul 2 Thurgood Marshall ,Aug 15 Maxine Waters ,Aug 17 Marcus Garvey ,Aug 29 Michael Jackson."
With Farrakhan, you know you're in the company of racists; with Garvey, doubly so; and with Michael Jackson ... lock up your prepubescent boys!
Page 12 finally gets into the hard-core Afrocentrism I've been expecting to find. There's a long list of "facts":
Everything non-trivial there is wrong, of course. Read Mary Lefkowitz's Not Out of Africa if you need to have that confirmed for you.
Page 13, though, is what we've really been waiting for: "THE 'N'-WORD." In toto, and sic:
The word "Nigger" can be traced back in history to the Latin word Niger, meaning black. The word became a noun, Negro (A black person) in English and the Color black in Portuguese and Spanish. In the early 1800's despite it's origin it was established as a degenerative word. It remains a symbol of white racism in the 21st century regardless of who is using it. All ethnic and racial groups over time have been victimized by racial slurs; but, blacks have endured more than any other group in America. We were called names such as coon, tom, picinny, buck, sambo, savage, buckwheat, mammy and jigaboo. These names have been painted into literature, cinema, caricatures, whether spoken, written, put in the media, material objects to create a network to spread anti-black prejudice. The word "nigger" historically limited, made fun of, ridiculed, and defined all blacks. The "N" word strengthened the stereotype of the worthless nobody, dirty, lazy, stupid whether used as a verb, noun or adjective it was a term of exclusion, a verbal reason for discrimination. Check out these terms associated with the "N" word. Niggerish: Acting in a lazy and irresponsible manner. Nigger luck: Derogatory term for good luck .Nigger heaven: Designed places usually the balcony where blacks were forced to sit for example, Movie theatre or church. Nigger rich: Deep in dept but flamboyant . Nigger steak: Cheap meat. Nigger stick: A police officers baton .Nigger tip: Leaving a small tip or no tip at restaurant .Nigger work: Demeaning, meaning work. When whites mix with blacks- Nigger worshipper. The ultimate American insult is the word "Nigger". It is also used to offend other ethnic groups as well such as some Jews [!] are called white-niggers; Arabs sand niggers; Japanese yellow niggers. We also use this term in ways such as " A nigger can't even get a break", "Sistas want niggers to work all day", "He's a lazy good for nothing nigger", ""This car is such a nigger", I'm sick and tired of these niggers bothering me!, Me and my niggers are tight", and the biggest one of all the universal greetings of young black men "zup niggah". These ugly words originated from the past so we as black people should not be prisoners of the past. When our ancestors came to America by force before having our names and language changed we knew each other as Brother and Sister not the "N"-word. Let us all strive to call each other brother and sister from now on. Much More on the "N"-word next issue.
Holy fuck—did I just commit a "hate crime" by reprinting this from "Black History" magazine? Oh, well, I guess that's just my "nigger luck"....
Page 14 lays out ten "Issues of the Millions More Movement":
1. Unity We call for unity amongst all African people and people of African descent worldwide. We call for unity with our Brown, Red, Caribbean, Central and South America, Asia and all over the world. "The Power of One" is the synthesis of men, women, youth and elders working in unity for our total liberation.
Notice any race missing from that "Power of One"? Yes, the race that they all need "liberation" from! Whitey!!
6. Reparations We demand full and complete reparations for the descendents of slaves . [sic] We demand that America take the appropriate steps to help in the repair of the damage done from 300 years of slavery, 100 years of segregation, and 50 years of the misuse and abuse of governmental powers to destroy Black organizations and leaders.
7. Prison Industrial Complex We demand freedom for all political prisoners held in the U. S [sic] prisons and detention facilities, both foreign and domestic. We demand an end to police brutality, mob attacks, racial profiling, the herding of our young men and women into prisons and the biological and chemical warfare perpetrated against our people."
I'm guessing they're referring there to AIDS as a white and Jewish genocidal plot to get rid of blacks. Typical ghetto paranoia and idiocy (even if only 20% of blacks lives in ghettos today).
9. Artistic/Cultural Development We advocate for cultural development, and for the knowledge of our original culture to be used as a model for future advancement.
Yeah, that'll work. Big Man with fifty wives, cannibalism and crucifixion. Good one.
Page 15 is an open letter to George W. Bush in 2002, on behalf of Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, written by Louis Farrakhan himself. In it, the racist warns the Shrub not to pursue Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
$2 well spent.
So, that's what leaving the apartment to go downtown got me. But I just had to get out: I could hear the Underground Railroad calling me.
You know: The subway.
Barack Obama's Close Encounter with the Weather Underground.
The New York Post shows a glimmer of integrity and fairness:
[T]he Obama campaign is running a system that complicates the discovery of "something wrong." It has chosen to operate an online contribution system that facilitates illegal falsely sourced contributions, illegal foreign contributions and the evasion of contribution limits.
And, a former editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine weighs in on something I can't disagree with: Sarah Palin's a Brainiac.
Also, Steve Sailer on how he'll be voting on Tuesday:
Just as Social Security can't afford too many retirees per worker, America won't be able to afford its affirmative-action system when the racial ratio of minority beneficiaries per white benefactor reaches excessive levels. As America becomes majority minority (by 2042, by latest Census projection), the cost of affirmative action will become crippling.
And on Obama's planned "redistribution of wealth":
[A] close reading of Dreams from My Father shows that achieving political power to bring about redistribution of wealth from whites to blacks was the main goal of Obama's life up at least through the book's writing in 1995.
This interview extends that up through 2001, the year after his soul-crushing defeat in the 2000 Democrat primary for House, where he was rejected by black voters for not being black enough....
[H]e understands that to take money from whites and give it to blacks, which is what he cares about, his dreams from his father, he'll need to assemble broad "coalitions of power." He can't just hand out money on a blacks-only basis. He's got to cut all sorts of people in on the deal.
The problem with that is that his goal then becomes vastly more expensive. The U.S. can more or less afford to subsidize the descendants of slaves as a form of reparations [idiotic as that idea may itself be]. What we can't afford to do is cut everybody else in on the deal in order to make it politically palatable.
And Taxing the "rich" / hurting the poor / enriching the government: YES WE CAN!. And Obama in 1995: Rev. Wright is 'The Best of What the Black Church Has to Offer'. Another 'Redistribution' Statement from Obama Surfaces. Obama's Redistributionist Obsession. And "An interview with Weathermen insider/FBI informant Larry Grathwohl". And Thomas Sowell on Obama and "The Left":
Barack Obama can match Bill Clinton in slickness at parsing words to evade accusations.
That is one way to get to the White House. But slickness with words is not going to help a president deal with either domestic economic crises or the looming dangers of a nuclear Iran....
Some people who see the fraud in what Obama is saying are amazed that others do not. But Obama knows what con men have long known, that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe. He does that very well.
Speaking of a nuclear Iran:
[A]ccording to a senior Israeli government source, the reports reaching Israel indicate that [French prez] Sarkozy views the Democratic candidate's stance on Iran as "utterly immature" and comprised of "formulations empty of all content."
It's all part of Obama's Assault on Our Unum.
For Obama and his allies, capitalist democracy is an abject failure, habituated to racism, relentless in its materialism. It is an ironic critique: The senator and his fellow travelers are driven by nothing if not a crass materialism: They see themselves entitled to society's benefits without the burden of its toils. They are, moreover, such prisoners of their own racism—have you ever heard anyone else describe his own grandmother as "a typical white person"?—that race has become their unified field theory for all of life's disparities. It is a stubborn theory, heedless of the fact that, in our free society, members of all races, ethnicities, and economic classes move up and down the ladder of opportunity by the yardstick of merit.
Obama will tolerate no such yardstick.
But don't let that, or The Wall Street Journal's case against Obama, or the Final summing up of the meaning of Obama's speech change how you vote next Tuesday!
[T]he absurdity of what Obama is saying here is even more primary than that. He's telling blacks that to get over their own anger, they must continue to demand that whites give them everything they want. Blacks must insist on full equality of results in every aspect of American life.
And Iowahawk, on Balls and Urns. And Mr Bojangles, dance. And post-racial racialism. And Former ACORN staffer testifies, implicating Team Obama. And Ali Abunimah is Likely Source of Secreted Obama/Khalidi/Ayres Tape. And Another Disturbing Unreported Barack Obama Association: a Terrorist Fundraiser. And Illegal 'Joe the Plumber' Searches - Update. And Jules Crittenden on the Embarrassment the MSM should be feeling for their hopelessly biased coverage of the U.S. election. And She's No Palin: Michelle Obama Now Lying About Gazillion Dollar Custom-Made Designer Wardrobe; Claims She Shops @ J. Crew, Online.
You can put lipstick on Michelle Obama, but she's still Michelle Obama. <shudder>
And doesn't this book look interesting....
And America's Retailers to Staff: If Obama & Dem Congress Win, We're Screwed. And Hope, Change and Mace. And Tedious "not all Muslims are terrorists" trope has "limited value".
And if you've ever wondered just how much of an idiot and hypocrite U2's Bono is: Meet the New York Times' New Political Columnist.
Oh, and Obama's the "Black Jesus." Can I get an "Amen," brother?
And Goldberg: What is the L.A. Times Hiding?. And Obama's 'Civilian National Security Force'. And Obama Ridicules 'Socialist' Charge, But He Admitted Seeking Out Marxist Professors and Socialist Conferences.
And, You Might Be A Liberal. And, Hooters Announces Economic Stimulus Package!!!
Proof, yes Proof is the bottom line for everyone —Paul Simon, "Proof"
—Paul Simon, "Proof"
I had received the first proof copy of my new book back in September, but then made enough small changes to it that I had to submit a revision and order a new proof of that. But it's finally done now!
Hip Like Me: Years in the Life of a "Person of Hair." It's what I traded my entire summer (since the beginning of May) for.
The paperback is already in stock at amazon.com, and the eBook available online, though the official (bookstore) publication date isn't until February 1, 2009:
Paperback (amazon.com)
eBook
Sample chapters
The stuff toward the end of the book about me getting into my recording studio was actually backdated "for dramatic effect." (I'm in no way satisfied with the files I've got up on MySpace now, but to do that properly, I need to spend a week ... or a month ... on each song—doing full instrumentation, and layers upon layers of Beach Boys-like harmony vocals—rather than just half an afternoon.) Same for the unpacking of my bankers boxes. And the "fortune cookie" dessert actually happened on a different night than the conversation-about-the-first-Jewish-programmer-at-"HAL" evening in the same café. Also, some names (and names of places) have been changed. Aside from that, however, all of the conflict happened exactly as it's presented, with no more provocation from me than has been documented in the book.
Back in February, before I was even certain I'd ever write this book, I happened to see a BBC interview with a sniveling black, effete British playright, where the only way I got through the half-hour of listing to him drivel on about how much he and his people had suffered, and what the rest of the world supposedly owes them for the fact that his mother used to try and reshape his flat nose into a "white" one, etc., was by asking myself, "How can I use this?" So if you're wondering where the "reparations" stuff in the Epilogue came from....
Needless to say, this time I've really gone too far, I'm an awful person, blah-blah-blah, and it's entirely possible that the Thought Police (and CHRC) will look very unkindly on all this.
Well, fuck 'em. As Ann Coulter put it, speaking in a real country where you (mostly) aren't at risk (yet) of being sent to "human rights jail" just for hurting people's feelings or using verboten words:
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.... I think our motto should be, post-9/11: raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.... I find it tedious to detail the savagery of the enemy ... I want to kill them.
You can't say things like that in Canada ... unless you're a Judeophobic Muslim, in which case you've got "minority immunity." Otherwise, you'll get yourself h'arrested ... or worse. Like the boys from Python said:
"Your death will stand as a landmark in the continuing struggle to liberate the parent land from the hands of the Roman Imperialist aggressors, excluding those concerned with drainage, medicine, roads, housing, education, viniculture, and any other Romans contributing to the welfare of Jews of both sexes and hermaphrodites. Signed on behalf of the P.F.J., etcetera." And I'd just like to add, on a personal note, my own admiration for what you are doing for us, Brian, at what must be, after all, for you, a very difficult time.
Also, since at some point someone is going to accuse me of "whining" or oversensitivity, etc., in my descriptions (in HLM) of the very real prejudice I've encountered for looking like a hippie (and, later, like a white, imperialist oppressor), the appropriate response is: Would you feel the same way if a similar book had been written by a black or a woman? Or if the derogatory word called out from streetcorners was "nigger" or "cunt" or "lesbo" rather than "hippie"? Didn't think so. But of course, the dumbfucks in the "P.F.J." don't even think that far.
