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It is difficult for people to accept harsh realities after exposure to the truth, but at some point, one must embrace the facts of life. Early in life, I was taught by discerning adults that blacks have a different psychology from other races. Though such arguments were intriguing, I viewed them as sweeping generalizations. As a youngster, I thought it was strange for people to attribute the success of Chinese entrepreneurs in Jamaica to culture.
Adults often told me that blacks suffered from conspicuous consumption, and as result, many black entrepreneurs would expend resources on luxury goods rather than reinvest the profit. Now, I knew black small business owners who went to hotels frequently, but as a young and naïve person, I dismissed those examples as anecdotes. Thinking that cultural explanations were simplistic, I assumed that the failure of black Jamaicans relative to the Chinese and other minorities had to be rooted in structural causes.
Yet educated adults would inform me that the Chinese had longer time planning horizons, saved more, and lived below their means before buying larger properties. I remained stubborn, however; after all, all people are essentially the same. It was just too challenging to accept that not all groups were equally oriented to being productive.
I thought that blacks were more impulsive and less likely to save because they were poor. The problems afflicting blacks had to be structural, since I could not fathom the explanatory power of culture. But I would not remain naïve forever, because eventually, I started to read academic books and quantitative studies on a regular basis. Admittedly, the findings confirmed the sweeping generalizations of older colleagues.
I found several studies arguing that conspicuous consumption was not only popular in black communities, but was also an expression of cultural identity. The most recent research shows that despite constituting less than 14% of the American population, blacks are the second-largest consumer group. Moreover, studies revealed that in Africa, culture served as a barrier to entrepreneurship because kinship networks influence entrepreneurs to spend resources on family expenses rather than capital formation.
Some describe conspicuous consumption as a legacy of slavery by arguing that blacks spend to combat notions of inferiority. This is inaccurate, however, because the big-man culture was prevalent in pre-colonial Africa, and as such wealthy men were required to lavish their followers with gifts. Although not unique to Africans, interestingly the big-man culture has persisted in Africa and the black diaspora.
A possible explanation for this is that historically, Africans have been behind the institution and technology curve, so they have yet to feel the full force of modernization. Hence, they are more likely to uphold the vestiges of the pre-modern era. On the other hand, considering that large-scale studies indicate that cultural norms and beliefs are persistent across generations and are a consequence of long-term cultural and evolutionary selections, we should expect the behavior of blacks in the diaspora to be similar to Africans.
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Indeed, blacks in the diaspora are under greater modernization pressure than Africans, and modernization alters human psychology. However, the dilemma is that evolutionary selections impact culture, and culture leads to advancements in civilization. Before the Industrial Revolution, there was a revolution in European business practices and signs that Europeans were becoming increasingly rational and market-oriented.
Modernization is an outcome of cultural change, and blacks have never independently built a modern society, because their evolutionary patterns failed to conduce traits that could foster modernity. Barbados and Botswana are two fascinating examples of successful black countries, but they both appropriated British culture and institutions to a great degree.
So, although blacks in the West and rich Africans are exposed to modern thinking, due to their history it is harder for blacks in general to respond to the tests of modernity. The average black will always be ill-equipped to grapple with the tasks of an individualistic and post-industrial capitalist society. Unlike blacks, it’s easier for East Asians to compete in capitalist societies because of their long-term orientation culture and due to the difficulties imposed by cold winters, East Asians have been oriented to plan for the long term and save. Appreciating the impact of cultural and genetic evolution helps us to understand its adverse impact on black entrepreneurship and capital formation.
Considering this history, one can conclude that, on average, blacks are at a lower stage of psycho-social development, and this is manifested in anti-social expressions. Only this explains why black celebrities feel compelled to defend their gangster credibility. The incessant desire to project aggression is really a feature of pre-modern societies; hence, people at a lower stage of psycho-social development are more likely to value the violence represented by gansgterism’s honor culture.
Likewise, pre-modern people are also likely to exhibit a scarcity mindset rather than an affluent mindset. Thus, even when they are successful blacks will constantly complain and remind people that they are fighting in a struggle. Suffering is the hallmark of black authenticity, and those refusing to embrace victimhood are expelled as race traitors.
Blacks have shown their values to the world, so people should believe them instead of expecting them to endorse the norms of white bourgeois society. They are products of a different evolutionary pattern, and no evidence suggests that they prefer an alternative. White Nationalists lament the ills caused by blacks, conservatives think that blacks should uplift themselves, and progressives recommend eliminating structural barriers to black achievement. But these constituencies must stop complaining and accept that blacks will be blacks — because they can’t be anything else.
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I urge anyone with friends or family that are teetering on the edge of an awakening to dose them with this incredible white pill.
One thing that has always bewildered me was the importance of self image among blacks and how lopsided it can be. I see fellas and fine ladies in my neighborhood that dress in expensive designer clothes and $300 sneakers, wear gaudy jewelry and drive the biggest and flashiest SUV’s with custom chrome, paint and tint, 28” rims and a stereo system that belongs at a KISS concert, yet their houses look about one inspection away from being condemned. Overgrown lawns with weeds turning into trees, yards littered with trash and cigarette butts, an old Cutlass sitting on blocks in the driveway, broken glass on the sidewalk and an overflowing trash can that never gets taken off of the curb, broken windows and blinds, etc.
And contrarily I’ve known millionaire Jews that dress in clothing that looks like it was purchased at a thrift store and drive a 25 year old Ford Focus. Yet they own palatial mansions.
In my 35+ years of working I’ve known ONE black man that had a well thought out plausible plan for retirement. The majority of the remainder had no plan, the others usually had some hair brained scheme to scam the government.
This vision reminds me of something . . . Oh yes, the yard next door!!!
On a more serious note, it requires discipline and effort to keep a yard neat with a mown lawn and trimmed shrubs. It’s MUCH easier to purchase glittery things.
The solution: Separation. Geographical, political and social separation. There are gigantic obstacles to overcome if this is to be achieved. The entire bolshevik left and the establishment treasures blax as a voting bloc, and in general as a battering ram against white society. Normie whites would certainly shy away from the upheaval that a separation process would entail. Blacks themselves would oppose it. US blacks have been free, since 1865, to leave, so as to escape all of our “oppression” and “racism”. They have elected not to go back home to Africa, because they know they have it incomparably better with Anglo-Saxon America propelling the economic and societal ship than in an all-negro society. (Today, 26 countries have a per-capita GDP of less than $1,000 per year. 22 are in black Africa, plus Haiti.) Internationally they flee to white countries if they can. Domestically, countless historically all-white neighborhoods/communities have experienced blacks moving in. They prefer to be with us if they can, and the bolshevik ethos of the present-day (formerly) white world demands that we resign ourselves to them being with us. Somehow, we whites have got to break free of the blacks and the other nonwhite races.
“Somehow, we whites have got to break free of the blacks and the other nonwhite races.”
Separation is our path to survival.
Have you guys heard the rule that if the value of the cars parked outside exceeds the value of the house, then it is a black residence? Surely you’ve all heard that. It’s pat in the southeast.
On the other hand, black antics make things entertaining. We have someone to feel superior to. (This is important for guys on the low end of the bell curve such as myself.) The occasional bullet whizzing by gives a squirt of adrenaline to raise us out of our depression! This is that “best of all possible worlds” theodicy going on.
Check out Mr. Matthews’ YT channel. There’s an impressive array of interviews on there, including one with CC’s Spencer Quinn.
Writing about a “lower stage of psycho-social development” is okay around here, but it will get you into trouble in the outside world. Better just say that blacks have evolved “different” patterns of behavior. Not “higher” or “lower”, not “primitive” or “developed”, just “different.
Sub-Saharan Africans split from the rest of mankind perhaps 70,000 years ago and they mated with a more primitive hominid, possibly homo-Erectus. It’s all in the genetic record.
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/12/805237120/ghost-dna-in-west-africans-complicates-story-of-human-origins
“The Science” keeps insisting that race is only a social construct but genes matter.
“The Science” cringes at the idea that blacks and whites could represent separate species within the greater Homo genus but our physiology and natural behaviours may point in that direction.
The black African population currently sits at about 1 billion souls. By 2060 it is projected to grow to 2.7 billion. That’s an additional 1.7 billion black Africans in the next 37 years! Black Africans are already fleeing that continent in droves for whiter pastures in Europe and North America. If the additional 1.7 billion black Africans migrate to Europe and North America the white human species will not survive.
https://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/7-facts-about-population-in-sub-saharan-africa
Will the politicians take the impending extinction of the white species as seriously as they do other endangered animal species in the world?
Do we have a right to survive?
If the White European majority could be so easily behexed into dismissing via indifference the horrid prospect of their own annihilation at their doorstep, distracted by toys and trinkets while falling on swords for murderous brownblacks and their zogtopian overlordship, then I accept the kali yuga-as-eternal law and walk into the wilderness as a solitarian without looking back to a people that once was. I don’t suffer fools nor lethargic conquerees gladly.
It is amazing how a people can be so indifferent to their own demise.
Considering the eusocial nature of White European society wouldn’t our efforts be more useful aimed at trying to change the upper classes? The zogtopians understood that it was useless to try and convince the masses of anything without replacing the upper classes either by defection or attrition.
I think this is the crux of the matter. It also means that the crucible of modern Homo sapiens would have been further north (perhaps in the Levant or the Caucasus) than the ‘Out of Africa’ dogma would allow.
The way “science” uses the term “homo sapiens” might fit better as a genus so the question would be, which species of homo sapiens?
Sound article from Lipton Matthews.
Whites and blacks are clearly very different psychologically, at least modally (I obviously share greater psychological attributes with Mr. Matthews than with Joe Biden or any other white progressive, so we shouldn’t succumb to over-determinism). But African-Americans are sort of in-between Europeans and Africans. They have on average substantial admixtures of white DNA (I’ve read blacks have 25% or more European blood), plus they’re raised within our culture (sort of; at least indirectly).
OTOH, I often have found I can better relate to black immigrants, even very blue collar ones, than to black Americans – and this especially among “educated” (well-schooled) blacks. The latter group has been so utterly ideologically brainwashed into a stance of perpetual racial grievance and ingratitude that it is all but impossible really to converse with one (the sole exceptions are conservative college-educated blacks).
African-Americans are a hybrid so they would have characteristics of both groups although probably more so the sub-Saharan African group. They have a much lower average IQ and they go through puberty earlier than White Americans. Both are characteristics of sub-Saharan Africans. Incidentally, Homo-Erectus also went through puberty earlier than modern humans.
“The Science” has tried to establish that race is a social construct and maybe it is. At least the way the term was formerly used. People used to refer to the Scottish race or the French race or the English race. Those are what we now call nations and those ARE social constructs. However, a species is not a social construct. It is a genetic construct and a species has the god-given right to defend itself against extinction.
My experience with full-on sub-Saharan Africans was similar. I knew several in college and they did not seem to automatically consider me the enemy just because of my white skin. But almost to a man I would see that attitude change as they acclimated to our anti-white Marxist college environments. It took them awhile sometimes but eventually they would see the advantage our society offers their species if they just shit on ours.
Black leaders, in Haiti and Tanzania, were the only ones to resist the vaccine, which is proving to be an utter disaster in terms of stopping the pandemic and saving the world. Black Americans have also been suspicious of the vaccine. Very few Whites have had the wherewithal to resist it. This shows a sense of authentic resistance in the African-diaspora community.
I think the number of Whites, in the US, who took the vaxx was about 65%. Of that number, I’d say half did it because of the threat of losing their jobs. There’s still a substantial number of Whites willing to question authority.
“They are products of a different evolutionary pattern, and no evidence suggests that they prefer an alternative.”
Yes, and well put!
That pattern and those preferences are just generally too much to tolerate when sharing the same territory; apart, however, provided those boundaries are respected, no problem.
It’s funny–and I wonder if anyone else has experienced this–but having lived for a while now as an avowed White Nationalist, in day-to-day life I “feel” surprisingly little animosity toward other races.
Accepting that we are fundamentally different, and working toward separation, is liberating in unforeseen ways.
As a chinese myself, I find your article rather compelling, but the parts about chinese are naive. Your understanding regarding to the ordinary chinese, I’m afraid, is fairly shallow.
Can you elaborate? I’m genuinely curious.
Chinese will penny pinch on using things like air conditioning in the summer then splurge on something like expensive jewelry. They tend to be quite liberal with their money. Also, generally, a lot of planning is last minute. It’s amazing things get accomplished in China with how quickly things get changed and how often things are done to be “good enough” which translates to things like you hire someone to paint your apartment, spend time choosing the specific color, and the worker shows up doesn’t have the correct color, but insists to you that this other color is good enough.
Blacks will be blacks and j will be j.
Wokeness is ultimately accepting non-white people and not demanding they change their behavior patterns one bit. There are a few extraneous woke concepts like the trans movement, but mostly that stuff is window dressing. As for the Oscars, wokeness (tolerating the behavior of blacks) has destroyed the event. The Oscars will never recover and are permanently sullied. As is professional sports, education, and probably America itself.
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