The Kinist Review

The issue of self-segregation is back in the media. The Political Cesspool’s James Edwards appeared recently as a guest of the Paula Zahn Now! program on CNN alongside the Rev. Jesse Peterson in a moderated exchange of talking points (what passes for debate today) regarding the self-segregation of urban youth in public schools. First I would like to remark that we are isolated from the verdict of history and tradition on this point due to the efforts of the mass media, and the determination of public school systems and teacher’s unions to present only those opinions from history that conform to the foregone, so-called progressive conclusions with respect to race relations, and due further to their work in developing an atmosphere in which diversity of opinion on race relations is suppressed in favor of the progressive party line. Further, as was mentioned by Peterson during the program under discussion here, there is an almost unanimous impulse among whites (cultivated through massive institutional efforts) toward self-censorship when it comes to talk of race, while anecdotally we are all aware of a multitude of examples of racial comments from whites prefaced with the disclaimer of “now I’m not a racist or anything”. Well, in point of fact yes, you are, and so is every other being on the planet, conscious of race, conscious of ethnicity, and interested in the prosperity of the group to which he belongs biologically, and/or has emotionally assigned himself, and from which that sense of belonging been reciprocated.