The National Review fires one of its own while Obama's silence gives sanctuary to the increasing harsh rhetoric from the Left.

Rich Lowery,  writing in an official capacity for the National Review,  has this to say about one of its writers:  


Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he’s a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer. I direct anyone who doubts his talents to his delightful first novel, “Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream,” or any one of his “Straggler” columns in the books section of NR. Derb is also maddening, outrageous, cranky, and provocative. His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation. It’s a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants. Just not in the pages of NR or NRO, or as someone associated with NR any longer.


There is no question but that Lowery's comments were needed,  that "Derb" should have been sent on his way.  The National Review had no choice but to demonstrates a certain and specific intolerance for such hate inspiring speech.  But, if it is wrong for the National Review or anyone in the Conservative Movement,  it is certainly wrong for the Left and its cadre of wingnuts, as well.    

What brought about the decision to end John Derbyshire's association with the National Review?   

In answer,  I give you paragraph 10,  in a recent article the man wrote for Taki's Magazine.   Slate (the Leftist Blog) titled the article  "John Derbyshire's Advice For White People."   Understand that the article did not appear in the National Review.  Derbyshire is/was only an occasional contributor.  Here is paragraph 10:

(10) Thus, while always attentive to the particular qualities of individuals, on the many occasions where you have nothing to guide you but knowledge of those mean differences, use statistical common sense:

(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.

(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.

(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).

(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.

(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.

(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.

(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.

(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.

(10i) If accosted by a strange black in the street, smile and say something polite but keep moving.

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Why this moron (Derbyshire) thought such commentary was either needed or prudent,  is beyond me.  But the failure that is this article,  is not only on Derbyshire.


I blame the current Administration, as well,  for allowing,  even fostering,  an increase in racial tensions. While we are all responsible for our own [rhetorical] actions,  Obama's silence gives sanctionary to increased racial rhetoric on both sides of the aisle.  While Derbyshire's comments serve as an indictment against all blacks, and is very very wrong for that reason,  certainly such speech has been "center stage" since the Trayvon Martin shooting,  six weeks ago,.  We have the New  Black Panthers posting a $10,000 bounty for George Zimmerman,  "Wanted dead or alive;"   Al Sharpton's call for violence if  "an arrest is not forth coming;"  Louis Farrakhan's call for violence in the streets if the matter is not resolved to his liking;  the very ignorant Spike Lee posting Zimmerman's home address in a deliberate effort to incite a public lynching;  Jesse Jackson stoking the fires of open rebellion among blacks with his charge that "blacks are under attack;"  and the on going silence from Obama as the President of the United States, allowing for this situation to worsen. 


We can only conclude that he prefers the tension to any peaceful solution.  Never forget,  Obama believes that "crisis" is always an avenue leading to social reform.