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The School Experience
While working on and thinking about this piece over the last few years, I spoke with several white middle-school and high-school students and conducted informal interviews about their experiences. The differences between the students at the diverse schools and the students at the predominantly white schools could not have been further. The student from friendly, safe, mostly white schools talked about how particular academic subjects were difficult, or how certain teachers were personally vexing. They shared stories of typical high-school life: pranks that perhaps went a bit too far, leading to hilarious situations that ultimately ended in brief suspensions; and soap opera-esque drama involving love triangles. No student from the homogeneous white schools made any mention of race. They did not seem to think about it one way or the other. What they described was more akin to one of those coming-of-age comedy films than anything else.
The stories I heard from the two students who attended diverse schools were troubling. When I asked the male about it, he brought up race issues without any prompting. He told me he has no real friends, he cannot relate to his classmates, and they naturally keep to their own groups. Somalis, Ethiopians, Mexicans, Guatemalans, and American blacks were the major ethnic groups in his school. They spoke in their native languages among themselves and were hostile to outsiders, which is ironic considering their status as alien interlopers to begin with, being the ultimate outsiders. My student friend did not mention academics much; they seemed to be merely a backdrop to trying to survive another week in a prison-like environment.
He told me that only a week before our chat, a student had been thrown over a second-floor railing during a fight that then became a gang fight. He had a dozen videos of fights from his lunch hour on his phone. This particular fight started as many of them do, namely as an extension of African tribal conflicts or the simple inability of radically different groups to coexist in proximity. Students commonly record the brawls and upload them to social media, which is also part of their culture. If there is a conflict in Somalia, for example, the same factions that are attending a school in the US carry on the conflict there. Once when border scuffles had taken place between Ethiopian and Somali fighters in Africa, Ethiopians and Somalis brawled in the cafeteria the next day at his high school.[1] “I couldn’t distinguish between being in Somalia and being in St. Paul,” a Sheriff’s office worker noted of the relationship between the population and criminal activity in Minneapolis.[2]
A police trainer in Columbus, Ohio tasked with educating officers on gang activity observed that “African gangs in the United States are nothing new. But they are becoming a more prevalent concern for law enforcement in cities that have significant African immigrant populations.”[3]
The daily horror experienced by the white female high school student I spoke to was the worst by far. Her days are filled with constant sexual harassment by her black male “peers.” She is cat-called, groped, and asked to meet with the urban youths outside of school all day. When she declines their advances, she is immediately called a racist by the black males, the women, and even her so-called friends. She has no real friends or opportunities to make new girlfriends or to meet a young white man. Left behind by white flight, stuck in a diverse high school, pretty, and blonde: few things could be more unfortunate than such a combination.
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Both of the students from the diverse schools noted that everything they do is perceived as “racist.” If a black or brown student asks them for money, school supplies, exam answers, a date, or sexual favors, if they decline they are immediately called “racist.”
Another interview I conducted was about the bussing programs to integrate schools in the 1970s. I spoke to a woman and her friend who had experienced it firsthand in Columbus, Ohio. One of them told me about being forced to leave the school that had been close to her home, as well as all her friends and teachers, and to ride a bus to another school on the other side of town where the majority of students were black. The other woman was allowed to remain in the same school, but had many of her friends were reassigned and replaced with busloads of blacks from the other side of town. Nothing went well for either. The girl who underwent bussing faced constant harassment and physical bullying, while the one who remained in the same school experienced new tensions as the blacks acted out in class, started fights with the boys, and made constant sexual advances on the girls.
Few schemes did more to harm white children than the 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed.
Conclusion
While the likes of the San Francisco Chronicle are content to claim that “minority youth will keep America great, white anxiety will not,”[4] when looking at the test scores in reading and math among minority youth and observing their general behavior, I am not as optimistic as they are.
White children are being forced into schools where they are more likely to be attacked or bullied than they are to make friends. They are taught to hate themselves and their heritage while proselytizing about “white privilege.” If there is any upside to this, it is that millions of children and their families are seeing the standard liberal shibboleths about equality, racial harmony, and alleged racial similarities being shattered in front of them daily. Whether or not this has any effect on changing their views or behaviors remains to be seen.
The effects have already been horrendous, and are far from over. The suicide rate for white children is rising rapidly, and painkiller and antidepressant overdoses have increased in the past 20 years.[5] Diverse schools exacerbate young white suicides. The Farris study “Race Social Networks, and School Bullying” (2006) found that for every 1% increase in the non-white population at a school, the likelihood of suicide also increases by one percent (p. 93). Being bullied harshly likewise increases suicide rates, which we know from the studies happens more often to white children in diverse schools.
Young people go out less, have fewer friends, and go on fewer dates; their depression rates have never been higher. The trends and forecasts are dismal, to say the list.
I know with certainty that the world I grew up in as a child in the 1990s is gone. It was perhaps the last decade in which the majority of white children in the US were able to experience Old America. But it does not have to be this way.
These are difficult times with constant challenges. It is becoming more difficult — not to mention more expensive — by the day to avoid this plague of locusts. Keenly understanding what we and our nation’s children are facing is critical to putting an end to this state of affairs.
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Notes
[1] “Over 100 Killed in clashes in Ethiopia’s Afar, Somali regions,” Al Jazeera, April 7, 2021; Laura Yuen. “Young men escape bloodshed in Somalia, but find violence in Minnesota,” MPR News, January 25, 2010; “Rise of Somali Gangs Plagues Minneapolis,” CBS News, July 20, 2009; and Adam Baidawi, “Australia’s Prime Minister Warns of ‘Gang Violence’ by African Migrants,” The New York Times, January 4, 2018.
[2] Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura, “In Minneapolis, Somali-Americans Find Unwelcome Echoes of Strife at Home,” The New York Times, June 7, 2020.
[3] Tony Avendorph,. “African Immigrant Gangs,” Police Magazine, April 4, 2012.
[4] William Frey, “Minority youth will keep America great; white anxiety will not,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 31, 2018.
[5] Dennis Campbell, “Sharp rise in young people overdosing on painkillers and antidepressants,” The Guardian. September 10, 2018.
17 comments
After reading this, I feel very fortunate to have went to an all white Jr./Sr. High school. I did go to school with ******* from grades 3-5. And of course got picked on by them. Thankfully my parents moved me to a rural area of my home state, which was also all white. I feel so bad for children that don’t have this experience.
Great series. Thank you for giving voice to terrorized white children.
Thank you for reading!
I was in a mixed-race family from age 11 to 17, from 1957-1962, when my mother re-married, this time to a German man who had been previously married to a Mexican woman, who had 3 children, ages 13 to 17, and which my mother graciously adopted to ‘make a family’. The girl, who was 2 years older than me, was nice to begin with, but it was soon obvious her friends would bully me. The two older brothers, 15 and 17, ignored me completely. I was actually still a child, and my main interest were dogs and horses, not teenagers, so I was out in left field. I did make some friends in school because the Mexican invasion was still in its infancy, so I was able to make white friends.
The most amazing thing happened when I was in the 11th grade, and we had to take the “Iowa Tests” which were a measurement of what academic progress you had made thus far in high school. Actually, it was a cloaked IQ Test. I scored 98 in arts, history and literature, about 92 in science and other subjects, and 52 in math — algebra and geometry, which dropped my overall score to 92. That evening when we had received our scores, my step-sister met me at the door with 2 of her friends, and asked what I had scored. I told her, and smiled and asked her what she got. She said, “Don’t tell mom and dad, I’ll get in trouble, I got 48” (!), so I promised in front of her friends, that I wouldn’t tell our parents. This is the reality of living with a mixed-race family. I never told my parents, and never did tell my mother that I scored high. And they never asked, because they probably had never hear of the Iowa Tests.
Advice — DO NOT marry out of your race! Your kids will thank you.
Interesting. Did your step-siblings acknowledge their German side or were they indifferent?
Financial misfortune led to my leaving private school for public in 9th grade. I expected to attend the school that was so close to our house that we could hear the bells ring and the PA system. Instead I rode the bus for about an hour to Willie Horton High. Long story short, in mere months I was a young man changed for the worse. To my credit, I suppose, I did not join the Whig party but fell in with the “metal heads.” Looking back, I think the skull imagery and devil themes afforded someforbearance from the jive turkey crowd, but times have changed since the early 90’s when blacks by and large were still superstitious about “tha Devvah.” Plus we considered ourselves tough and were something of a gang. It was understood that we didn’t like blacks and would fight.
Enough about that. At that school, I personally witnessed a murder. Not on school grounds, but about 10 yards on the other side of the prison- type fence that surrounded it. I was behind the gym cutting class and smoking marijuana, enjoying the spectacle of what I thought was a fistfight about to happen when I heard a pop and suddenly all the participants speed-tiptoed away (except the one laying motionless on the sidewalk) looking around suspiciously, paying me no mind although I was right there on the other side of a chain link fence. Also that year (I dropped out after 10th grade, eventually getting a college degree to no advantage) a student shot another and killed him in the cafeteria (I did not witness), and some poor motorist stumbled into the office and died after being carjacked and shot (or perhaps had been trying to buy crack at the corner, no other reason for a white person to be there). I did not see that either, but gawked at the blood trail.
I lost all my friends that had been close since kindergarten, they turning against me bitterly because I had gone “racist.” They attended the private high school and worshipped the 4/2000 black students there, voting them every superlative, every year (one of those 4 is a judge today, so “most likely to succeed” was borne out).
I could tell more stories. Hundreds more
It’s amazing how many stories are out there just like yours, and yet there is almost nothing on the topic. Left Behind at Rosedale, Grays Ferry from ’86 to Section 8, and a handful of other works on the topic are about all that is out there. Nothing recent other than this series.
I went to a very white school, also only a handful of blacks, but they too were always winning Homecoming / Prom king, basically worshipped. And they were awful. Was unreal to see.
Thank you for reading and sharing.
Thanks for this series of articles. I went to public schools that were about 35% black in the 70s courtesy of busing (5th grade to 9th grade). The only positive thing I have to say for it is that it instilled a lifelong sense of racial consciousness in me and made me skeptical of anything that establishment liberals had to say. Racial integration did not instill positive feelings in me towards Blacks; by forcing me to spend time with them, it had just the opposite effect. Most of the racially conscious Whites I have known also had similar experiences.
@jrphillips – I wanted to reply to your comment, as your story somewhat chimes with mine. I started kindergarten in a completely White, rural school in the year 1969. The atmosphere was safe and protected. It was known (somehow, in that ineffable way children know) that my family was one of the few “poor” in the area; but it only resulted in teachers and other students treating me more kindly than they might have. (I was an autistic, silent child.)
The year that I entered the 4th grade, my parents moved us to a nearby medium-sized automobile manufacturing factory town that had a large underclass of Blacks. The difference was night and day. The Blacks were loud, obnoxious, physically aggressive and made it very clear that they despised White people. The few Black students who achieved any modicum of scholarly proficiency were ridiculed and harassed by the Blacks for “acting White”. The junior high school that I attended was slightly less Black; but the one high school in town made up for it, by being a racial hothouse of angry, aggressive Blacks. They would line either side of the hallway in between class periods, looking for — and frequently starting — fights with White males of any physical prowess, as if to prove they could dominate the best of the Whites. Back then, they seemed not to pick on girls, so much; and it was mostly the Black males who were the problem. One interesting footnote to this era: mixed-race students were considered the lowest of the low by the Blacks. In current times, it seems they are the most revered of the non-Whites.
Like jrphillips, this experience made me a lifelong race-realist, commencing in the 4th grade of elementary school, and I have lived my life with absolutely zero illusions about what Black people are really like.
I just finished reading this series and just wanted to say thank you so much for your hard work on this Richard and the great writing.
“Another study, “The Roles of Ethnicity and School Context in Predicting Children’s Victimization by Peers” by Laura Hanish and Nancy Guerra, found similar results: “Attending ethnically integrated schools was associated with a significantly higher risk of victimization for white children and a slightly lower risk of victimization for African-American children.” When white children switch from a mostly white school to a diverse one, they are harassed more. When black kids go from a mostly black school to one with more whites, they are harassed less. An evident and apparent pattern is therefore present.”
I found that very interesting Richard. I went to a predominantly white high school back in the 70s. It was a beautiful time to be in high school. I had spent the first 8 years of my life in Brooklyn when we moved out of the city to upstate New York. It was Mayberry, if you remember the old Andy Griffith show.
I was heavily into the arts and fresh out of high school, still 17 years of age, I made the horrible mistake of attending a predominantly Jewish college. What did I know at the time? Well, they saw me coming that’s for sure. It was a “prestigious” school. Little did I know, this would be to this day, the worst decision I ever made.
The hatred against me, this country, white people, and our history and culture on that campus were what you see today being played out nationally . Remember, Reagan was President for the whole four years that I was at this school. And at that time, at that age, being so naive, I just didn’t understand it at all.
It would be years later, that of course, once I learned about the Jews, and who they really are, that it would all make sense.
I stuck it out for the four years, because if I left, what would I tell my family, my friends, my Dad!? What would it do to my future? I know now that it would have been the best thing in the world if I would have ran out of there as fast as I could. But I lived my life for everyone except myself back then.
I fought for my life there. I was repeatedly sexually harassed by the gay Jew professors and students. When I would defend myself, I was labeled a “homophobe.” I was spit on because I mentioned that I voted for Reagan. Blackmailed by the Jewish professors into changing their professor reviews (they were allowed to expel you from the college at anytime) and it goes on and on. I can attest that everything you have learned about the Jews, when your red-pilled, is true. They are a hysterical, perverted, ugly race. They seethingly despise our truth, beauty, and goodness. Having lived in New York most of my life, looking back that I’m older now, I can attest to that. That crazy college was only the beginning. I see that now.
So, I thought it was interesting that most of your piece was about blacks mixing with white children. But in my case, it ‘was’ a different race, it ‘was’ a racial problem, but I didn’t know it at the time. I thought Judaism was just a religion. But now I know that it is a race, and a very hostile race towards the white race and especially our children. We all know about the blood libels and even today, look at what they’re doing to our children in regards the whole trans lie.
When a new black kid from some African country would come to the school, the Jews would go crazy, forcing the white kids to greet and meet with him, or her. They would constantly preach how superior the blacks and their history, were to white people and our history, and how evil we were for what we had done to them.
I’m working on a book about the whole thing. I’m at least trying to turn a negative into a positive, not easy given the subject matter. You and many of the other writers here at C-C and the other dissident sites are great inspirations to me.
We must keep calm and carry on as the English, (white English) say.
At the end of this comment, you apparently hit “enter” 377 times, creating a blank space many times longer than your post. Don’t do that!
Hi Greg. My deepest apologies. I in no way intended to do that. It must have been a glitch on my iPad.
I am sure it is a glitch, and I will ask our webmaster about iPads.
Thanks Greg.
I’m a regular contributor over at TOO and Kevin’s never said anything.
Strange that something like that would happen.
Bobby, your experience is very similar to some I’ve had. A very different race they are indeed.
Although the studies I found dealt with blacks and hispanics, I’m sure the same trend is true, maybe even more extreme with Jews. But in a different way where it’s not so obvious they are “other” from us, making them more dangerous. They were a small minority of students and teachers in my school growing up, but very prominent in everything I disliked, of course, few realized they were anything other than “liberal whites.”
Exactly Richard. Yes. They are masters at using crypsis.
Thanks for replying.
Very important to cover this. It is surprising how leftist and progressive the Supreme Court was in the 1950s-1970s period. While overturning Brown vs. Board of education may be asking too much, maybe some of the later decisions may be overturned, just as Roe v. Wade was overturned by a Court with more sympathy for states’ rights.
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