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Much to the chagrin of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a federal judge has cleared the members of a Michigan militia who were accused by federal law enforcement agents of conspiracy to commit sedition. Since you didn’t hear much about this ruling from the national press corps, here is one online version of the report:

 [Peter Brimelow writes: As an intellectual episode, the repression of race realism over the last sixty or seventy years can only be compared to Copernicus and Galileo. But Copernicus and Galileo did not have the internet or the modern publishing technology that has allowed Professor Richard Lynn, now 81, to establish the Ulster Institute and ensure that this debate continues. We post tonight Lynn’s thoughts on the Ulster Institute’s latest publication: Race and Equality, by John Harvey].

[Previously by Richard Lynn: Race Differences, Immigration, And The Twilight of the European Peoples]

Throughout the social sciences, the early and middle decades of the twentieth century saw the repudiation of genetics as the determinant of individual and race differences in intelligence and achievement, and its replacement by “culture”. In anthropology, Franz Boas argued in his influential book The Mind of Primitive Man (1911) that there was no such thing as a superior culture. In psychology, John B. Watson asserted

“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select—doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors”.

This position became known as “the standard social science model”.

There were a few dissenters. Henry Garrett, head of psychology at Columbia and one-time president of the American Psychological Association, called it “the equalitarian dogma”. And Arthur Jensen, one of the leading researchers in the field of intelligence, argued that the black-white differences in intelligence in the United States do probably have some genetic basis. [PDF]

But the “standard social science model” has remained dominant. It even

This daily cartoon contributed to VDARE.com by Baloo. His site is HERE

VDARE.com often makes constructive criticisms of what Editor Peter Brimelow sometimes calls the herbivorous patriotic immigration reform movement inside the Beltway—namely the Center for Immigration Studies, Numbers USA, and Federation for American Immigration Reform. I tend to see each group as doing their own part to move the debate in the right direction. 

However, when the DREAM Act was being pushed during the lame duck 2010 Congress, I was concerned that many of our herbivore allies seemed to

Anyone trained in Western music, or familiar with its history, understands its profound superiority of development in all aspects of the art.  No other music in the world remotely compares with it. 

VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow has asked me to give an account of this phenomenon. So, on the presumed authority of three degrees in music, together with two in religion and literature respectively—and as an enrolled member of the Comanche Nation and therefore an impartial observer!—I offer the following basic narrative.

Human culture is traditionally divided geographically—as “eastern” and “western.”  This cultural divide is apparent in music, perhaps more than any other human endeavor. 

“East” here means culture east of Israel, and “west,” culture west of Israel.  There are obviously subdivisions of these global regions, both geographically and historically. 

We address here cultural, traditional music—not the popular music of the electronic, recording age since the 1950’s.  “Popular” music is wholly Western, with primitive rhythm obviously maintained even when performed by Chinese pop stars—in Chinese. 

Black Africa is not a factor, having no influence in the historical development

The MSM “narrative” of the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman tragedy shooting—White Man shoots Black Teenager!—was barely changed by the revelation that the shooter can technically be classified as “Hispanic”. (His mother is Peruvian).

Zimmerman is also a registered Democrat, for what that’s worth. And Zimmerman is sometimes a Jewish name, as in the case of his father’s namesake “Robert Zimmerman” a.k.a. Bob Dylan, but a post over on Tablet Mag (which describes itself as a “daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture.”) reassures the readers that “Zimmerman, Trayvon Martins Killer is not Jewish” [By Marc Tracy, March 21, 2012]. Apparently, George Zimmerman was raised Catholic, even serving as an altar boy.

The only effect of the revelation of Zimmerman’s ethnicity: the MSM switched to calling him a “white Hispanic”—a term, as Ellison Lodge pointed out last night, that a Google search shows was previously almost unknown.

The lynch mob continues to assemble—incited by none other than the President of the United States.

Which leads to the next question. Are Hispanics, especially the numerous self-appointed professional Hispanic  noise-makers, defending George Zimmerman? And if not, why not?

The National Council of La Raza did issue a statement by its CEO Janet Murguia, A Complete Investigation is Vital for Justice in Trayvon Martin Case

Well, I’m sure we could all agree on that. But the statement was hardly a ringing endorsement:

Later, Rush Limbaugh actually pointed out that La Raza wasn’t defending Zimmerman. La Raza spokeswoman Lisa Navarrete responded with "We really regret people trying to use this to divide blacks and Latinos. It's disturbing to us that Rush Limbaugh has this theory. The only time he apparently cares about what happens to a Latino is when they may have happened to kill a young African-American man."

La Raza says it’s Not ignoring Trayvon Martin Case, by Nick Valencia, CNN, March 28, 2012

The folks over at LULAC, League of Latin American Citizens don’t appear to be defending Zimmerman either. I checked out the LULAC website, League of Latin American Citizens, and didn’t find anything.

Nor is La Opinion, a leading Spanish-language Los Angeles newspaper. In fact its articles just seem to follow the Leftist party line. Its front page story on March 29, 2012 is Visten sudaderas por Trayvon, about California legislators dressing in hoodies (!) for a press conference.

The Mexican media, from what I’ve seen, don’t seem real interested in the story either. This March 24 article   didn’t even mention the Hispanic angle. [“De tener un hijo, sería como Trayvon” | Obama exige aclarar asesinato de joven afroestadounidense]

Of course, this is a big contrast to how the Mexican media goes on and on about issues related to illegal alien Mexicans in the U.S.

Florida is full of Cubans, but the Spanish-language media there has nothing particular to say.

It occurred to me, though, how about the Peruvian media? After all, George Zimmerman’s mother was Peruvian.

Sure enough, this connection was acknowledged in the Peruvian media. But I found no ringing defense of George Zimmerman there either. For example:

George Zimmerman, el hombre de raíces peruanas odiado en EE.UU. (George Zimmerman, the man of Peruvian roots hated in the U.S.) El Comercio, March 24, 2012

This was followed up with Peruano-estadounidense mató a joven negro en defensa propia (“Peruvian-American Kills Young Black Man in Self-Defense”) El Comercio, March 26, 2012

There was some discussion of Zimmerman

Noel Ignatiev is a pioneer in the growing field of “whiteness studies” that seeks to deconstruct and delegitimize whites.  He is the editor of the publication Race Traitor whose explicit goal is to “abolish the white race”, arguing that “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.”

Genocide? Ignatiev [Email him] insists he does not mean literally abolishing white people,

“It is not fair skin that makes people white; it is fair skin in a certain kind of society, one that attaches social importance to skin color. When we say we want to abolish the white race, we do not mean we want to exterminate people with fair skin. We mean that we want to do away with the social meaning of skin color, thereby abolishing the white race as a social category” [What We Believe, Race Traitor, The Journal of The New Abolitionism]

I hold no brief for Ignatiev or his views, but this is intellectually consistent. He believes that race is a social construct, so he is not calling for killing people, but the supposed construct.

Ignatiev’s best known scholarly work is his Harvard dissertation, published as How the Irish Became White, which claims that Irish were not originally considered to be “white” by their Anglo Saxon brethren in America, but became accepted as “white” by adopting racism against African Americans.

Of course, this is just Leftist wishful race-denial. The 1790 Naturalization Act restricted citizenship to “free white persons,” yet the Irish were eligible for citizenship from the beginning. Similarly, anti-miscegenation laws existed from Colonial days until well after Independence, but they did not prevent Anglo Saxons from marrying Irish, though they prevented Irish from marrying blacks or Native Americans.

In contrast to the Irish, there was a direct attempt by the Hispanics to be considered white. This was possible because Hispanic is a linguistic and ethnic, not a racial, category.

For example, the 1876 Texas constitution established segregated schools between blacks and whites. Hispanics’ status was muddled. Depending on the local school board, they would be grouped with blacks, whites, or by themselves.

But as more Mexicans immigrated to this country following the 1910-1920 Mexican Revolution and subsequent upheavals, they began lobbying to be grouped with whites. This effort intensified after community leaders founded LULAC, the “League of United Latin American Citizens” in 1929. And they eventually succeeded in having Mexicans grouped with whites.

With this in mind, let’s consider the ethnic identity of George Zimmerman. Zimmerman, for those who have not read the news for the past two weeks,