{"id":1417,"date":"2016-01-01T00:29:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T05:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2016-01-01T00:29:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T05:29:16","slug":"the-second-part-of-an-interview-with-world-net-dailys-ilana-mercer-on-my-the-american-offensive-dispatches-from-the-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2016\/01\/the-second-part-of-an-interview-with-world-net-dailys-ilana-mercer-on-my-the-american-offensive-dispatches-from-the-front.html","title":{"rendered":"The Second Part of An Interview with World Net Daily’s Ilana Mercer on my “The American Offensive: Dispatches from the Front”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republished here is the second installment of Ilana Mercer’s interview with me for World Net Daily. I address questions on some of the issues with which I deal in my recently published book, “The American Offensive: Dispatches from the Front.”\u00a0 It is available in paperback and in Kindle at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Ilana Mercer (IM):<\/strong> Barack Obama as a devotee of \u201cBlackism\u201d: Why do you think this president is incapable of empathizing with the untold number of white Americans dead by blacks and Muslims?<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: What I call \u201cBlackism\u201d is an ideology, <\/em>a recipe for achieving racial \u201cauthenticity.\u201d Like any ideology, it is the distillation, the cliff note, of a cultural tradition, the tradition of black Americans. Biological blackness is necessary for authentic \u201cblackness.\u201d It is not, though, sufficient.<\/p>\n

Blackism is designed for the Barack Obamas of the world, those who are at least partially black biologically but for whom black culture is a foreign language. The ideology is a simple method that, being a method, is comprised of a few principles that need only be affirmed in order to achieve \u201cracial authenticity.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of these principles is that ultimate reality is comprised of collectivities<\/em>, primarily racial <\/em>collectivities. Another principle is that non-whites are perpetually oppressed by whites.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t that Obama or any other Blackist would think to deny that whites (and others) can and have been harmed and killed by blacks and Muslims. It\u2019s only that they must see such violence as stemming from \u201croot causes\u201d\u2014\u201cracism,\u201d a \u201clegacy of slavery and Jim Crow,\u201d \u201cthe Crusades,\u201d \u201cimperialism,\u201d \u201cpoverty,\u201d etc.\u2014that, ultimately, whites <\/em>should have rectified.<\/p>\n

IM<\/strong>: Like me, you are still haunted by the \u201cKnoxville Horror\u201d? (Tell our readers what it is) Why?<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: This real life story is the stuff of nightmares. In 2007, in Tennessee, a young white couple in their early 20\u2019s, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, were carjacked, abducted, raped, tortured, and finally murdered by four black men and one black woman.<\/p>\n

Newsom was blindfolded, sodomized with an instrument, and shot execution-style. His body was then set on fire.<\/p>\n

According to The Knoxville News Sentinel, <\/em>\u201cChristian suffered horrific injuries to her vagina, anus, and mouth. She was not only raped, but savaged with \u2018an object\u2019\u2026She was beaten in the head. Some type of chemical was poured down her throat, and her body, including her bleeding and battered genital area, likely scrubbed by the same solution [.]\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was then \u2018hog-tied,\u2019 with curtains and strips of bedding, her face covered tightly with a small white trash bag and her body stashed inside five large trash bags before being placed inside a large trash can and covered with sheets.\u201d<\/p>\n

The medical examiner concluded that \u201cChristian died slowly, suffocating [.]\u201d<\/p>\n

Far from being the chronic victims of interracial crime, as the Racism-Industrial-Complex would have us think, blacks are much more likely to be the victimizers<\/em>: In roughly 90 percent <\/em>of all attacks involving blacks and whites, the former are the perpetrators.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, your average black-on-white attack doesn\u2019t involve the savagery of the \u201cKnoxville Horror.\u201d Yet the latter is the <\/em>textbook illustration of the reality of black-on-white racial violence, as well as the randomness and mercilessness that far too many such attacks do <\/em>involve.<\/p>\n

Beyond this, the \u201cKnoxville Horror\u201d is the textbook case of the media\u2019s complicity in the evil of black-on-white violence, for just as it routinely refuses to cover the latter, so the national media refused to cover the ghoulishness in Knoxville.<\/p>\n

IM<\/strong>: In \u201cThe American Offensive,\u201d you recount the forgotten white, race riots of the 1800s. You reach an unexpected conclusion about the founding American people, also a pathologically passive population. What is it? (p. 128)<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: Black crime in-general, and black racial mob violence specifically, are huge, persistent problems in contemporary American life. Only the most self-delusional and shameless of race propagandists would think to deny this (though even they<\/em> admit that black criminality is a problem, albeit, to hear them tell it, the result<\/em> of a larger problem: \u201cwhite racism\u201d). Colin Flaherty is one courageous writer who has meticulously, unapologetically, chronicled this phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Given current racial realities, then, it may surprise people to hear that most race riots in this country until well into the early decades of the 20th<\/sup> century involved white perpetrators and black victims. And they were brutal, making the black perpetrated riots of today look like temper tantrums.<\/p>\n

My point in noting this is not to engage in but another exercise of white guilt-mongering.<\/p>\n

Rather my point is to remind people that just because whites no longer engage in the type of racial mob violence for which blacks are known today doesn\u2019t mean that history couldn\u2019t repeat itself if circumstances were just right.<\/p>\n

Since enough violence has a way of eventually begetting more violence, this is something worth bearing in mind.<\/p>\n

\u00a0IM<\/strong>: Since you went to press, it has become even clearer that the Grand Old Party that lies about its commitment to liberty must die. What do you suppose Edmund Burke would\u2019ve said about the Republican Party? (p. 171)<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: I can\u2019t imagine that Burke, particularly the Edmund Burke who railed against the French Revolution, would\u2019ve recognized the Republican Party as a conservative <\/em>party, much less a party committed to preserving liberty.<\/p>\n

Burke was well aware of the tradition-specific particularities of social orders, and especially those of his own social order. He loathed the metaphysical abstractionism of his enemies among the French Revolutionaries and their apologists. Yet the Republicans\u2019 creed of choice, \u201cAmerican Exceptionalism,\u201d the creed <\/em>that America is the only society in all of time to be rooted in an abstract proposition, is of a piece with Burke\u2019s enemies\u2019 insistence that societies must be organized around \u201cthe rights of man.\u201d<\/p>\n

I think that Republicans (and their mouthpieces in the so-called \u201cconservative media\u201d) know that Burke would have no affinity for them. This would explain why they never invoke him.<\/p>\n

IM<\/strong>: You\u2019ve dismantled neoconservatism\u2014the creed that animates the foreign policy prescriptions of every single Republican presidential hopeful other than Rand Paul and Donald Trump. How does the Bashar-must-go; Putin-is-Lucifer lunacy comport with your analysis of neoconism?<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: Because of the neocons\u2019 radically ahistorical notion of America as an \u201cexceptional\u201d nation, the only in all time to have been founded upon a \u201cproposition\u201d or \u201cprinciple\u201d affirming self-evident, universal \u201crights\u201d\u2014which they in turn translate into \u201cDemocracy\u201d\u2014and because principles have no borders, so to speak, neoconservatives have no regard for the particularities and contingencies that define societies: All that counts is that the universal, \u201crights,\u201d be defended.<\/p>\n

Yet the only way for this to occur is for the United States government to have virtually unlimited power. That\u2019s right, for all of their talk of \u201climited government,\u201d neocons ache every bit as badly for a huge, activist government as do leftists of any other stripe.<\/p>\n

And this in turn implies that they must see enemies around the globe\u2014or at least where there is no \u201cDemocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

IM<\/strong>: \u00e0 l la Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat, author of \u201cThe Law,\u201d you teach: \u201cLaws do not tell citizens what to do \u2026 they tell citizens how they must avoid acting regardless of what they choose to do.\u201d How does this classically liberal concept of \u201cThe Law\u201d clarify why NOT ONE \u201cconservative\u201d is indeed a conservative in the mold of Russel Kirk or Burke?<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: Laws have no purpose in the sense that they aren\u2019t devices for achieving predetermined outcomes. Laws qualify, <\/em>they do not specify, <\/em>actions. In this crucial respect, they differ in kind <\/em>from commands, orders, and policies.<\/p>\n

The great apostles of liberty in the classical conservative and libertarian traditions have always understood this. Neocons and other leftists do not. The proof of this is in the neocons\u2019 obsession with policy, particularly foreign policy, and the incessant chatter about \u201cleadership\u201d in government that their foreign policy prescriptions entail. Leaders have followers, <\/em>those who the former compel, one way or the other, to do as they are told.<\/p>\n

In contrast, free men and women are self<\/em>-directed. This is what the law makes possible.<\/p>\n

Policies, commands, and orders preclude it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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