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Black members of the live studio audience on The Oprah Winfrey Show celebrating news of the O. J. verdict on October 3, 1995.
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I think it was the outcome of the O. J. Simpson trial in October 1995 which first introduced me to tribalism. As a young man I had seen it around me, especially among blacks — but also among Jews and Asians. I knew what it was, and I was fairly well-versed in its literature. For example, in high school I had read Richard Wright’s Native Son and Chaim Potok’s The Chosen. In college, they gave me W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk and Elie Wiesel’s Night. So when my black classmates talked loudly about their people and got defensive in the face of legitimate criticism, I didn’t bat an eye. When Jewish students didn’t interact much with gentiles, or when Jewish girls would suddenly lose interest in me once they learned of my gentile roots, I understood.
But tribalism for white people? That didn’t exist in my milieu as a young man. As a college student and beyond, I didn’t know anyone who spoke about it — except for the blacks. They prattled on about “white supremacy” and the like. But these were theoretical things they liked to complain about just to get attention. It wasn’t anything I took seriously, even in my Left-leaning liberal days. So, if white tribalism didn’t exist around me, how could I ever personally feel it?
I first felt it on the day an obviously guilty O. J. Simpson had escaped a guilty verdict in his murder trial. I vividly remember the news channels showing footage of black college students cheering as if it were a football game. This was their big victory? This was what they wanted to celebrate? It didn’t make sense. Yes, there had been the Rodney King verdict three years earlier — which even back then I knew had been correct, or at least reasonable. An inebriated King had just led the police in a high-speed chase and continued to resist arrest throughout his beating. The people he had been travelling with had complied with the police, and were thus spared any rough stuff. But even if Rodney King really had been a victim of excessive police abuse, and even if the narrative surrounding his victimization were true, hadn’t blacks gotten their payback already during the subsequent Los Angeles riots? According to Wikipedia, 63 people were killed in the mayhem, 2,383 were injured, and over $1 billion in property damage had been inflicted. Wasn’t that enough?
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When I saw so many blacks cheering O. J.’s acquittal, however, I realized that it had not been enough. They wanted a victory at the expense of whites once again, and it didn’t matter that in all likelihood an innocent white woman as well as an innocent Jewish –albeit white to them — man had been murdered by one of their own. At the time I had a dim understanding of what was happening. The volatile cocktail of tribalism and politics was brewing before my eyes, and I found it unsettling, to say the least. It was one thing when non-whites would crow about their accomplishments and demonstrate racial pride — which happened often during my college days. It was something else entirely when thousands of blacks across the country took my demoralization and the demoralization of people like me as a win.
See what I did there? “Of people like me.” I hadn’t thought in those terms so explicitly before. By this point, I had already red-pilled myself and renounced the counter-factual egalitarianism that had been pushed upon me in school. Race realism as I understood it was biologically and psychometrically sound. But that didn’t necessarily mean that whites had to be locked in the proverbial nation-prison with blacks, where political power was the very currency of survival. That didn’t mean that we, as dignified human beings, couldn’t separate average differences from individual differences and simply run a society based on merit. Whites had certainly shown such post-racial open-mindedness with Asians and Jews, who were surpassing them in many fields. So why couldn’t blacks do the same?
At the time of the O. J. verdict, I didn’t know the answer to this. But what I did know was that blacks couldn’t do the same. They could not overcome what I call their racial impetus. They could not help but wield the double-edged knife of racial pride and racial spite. Even in the face of grotesque levels of black-on-black violence, blacks as a whole still insisted on the nation-prison model of life in which they claw and scrape for every iota of power they could get — where there are no rules, and interracial mercy and kindness is seen as a weakness. O. J. was a hero not only because he had wasted two honkies, but because he got away with it. Win-win.
It was at that moment when I became a white man.
I knew that the same people who, oblivious to all sensitivity and decorum, cheered for a murderer’s freedom would cheer just as hard for the black thug who might murder me one day. They would want that person to walk free as well, justice be damned. I then imagine this attitude being extrapolated to my family members or my still unborn children. Exactly how betrayed and resentful would I feel watching these same black college students applauding the murderer of my daughter — if he was black? From there, the extrapolation continued. My cousins and distant relatives. My friends, neighbors, and colleagues. Soon, I started sympathizing with whites I wasn’t related to and didn’t know. In my mind, a line began to be drawn between insider and outsider, and potential friend and potential enemy — and that line kept getting longer and longer.
This is how love of one’s family expands into love of one’s ethny. Thanks to those euphoric blacks caught up in the travesty that was the O. J. Simpson verdict, I began to understand I had something in common with whites I didn’t know. And it wasn’t simply potential victimhood. It was also the realization that we as a group must hang together in this prison-nation that blacks have foisted upon us, or else face the vicissitudes of history once we get crowded out of power for being too fair-minded toward people who clearly wish us ill.
I would therefore like to thank O. J. Simpson, who died earlier this month, for this lesson, and preserve his memory for posterity. That he should rot in Hell should go without saying.
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I remember this trial when I was in highschool in Montréal, Québec.
We used to think that it was an all-American freak show ; with the footage from the helicopter following the murderer in his car, the TV in court, the famous glove he wasn’t able to put on his hand, the racist comment of a police officer that shocked the medias, the verdict, the eruption of joy from the Blacks in the USA, the face of the family of the murdered when the verdict was revealed, etc.
At the time, my history teacher asked our class who tought O. J. Simpson was guilty : almost everyone raised their hands.
But when he asked who tought he was innocent, the only kid who raised his hand was a Rwandese refugee who was well-educated, calm and polite.
I remember saying to myself that racial solidarity is one of the most strong feeling in decisive moments.
Blacks everywhere cheered the acquittal of O. J. Simpson in 1995, because they knew he was guilty and approved of what he did. They also cheered the release of the Central Park Rapists 2002 – they approve of the public gang-rape of a White woman by Negros. They think it’s funny. So do Jews.
In each case, the Negro defendants were guilty as charged, and everyone knew it. Jews orchestrated the release of these criminals, because they are anti-White.
Blacks are the second-most racially-prejudiced group in America today. Jews are the most. Whites are the least. That has got to change.
“Blacks are the second-most racially-prejudiced group in America today. Jews are the most. Whites are the least. That has got to change.”
I agree about the change part – we must segregate in perpetuity. This time we have to make segregation in perpetuity. That is if we care about our children. And yes, if we care about our children we have to segregate from libtards too. Our survival is in making Our Race Our Religion (OROR).
A billion dollars of property damage in the La riots? At least then the establishment sort of agreed the La riots were something bad, unlike the blm riots which they incited. How much more damage was caused in the blm riots? Imagine what these people cost us. We could have made all the California system schools free tuition for years for the cost of the riots.
Blacks are very racist here where I live. They always give the worst portions to whites and the best to blacks in cafeteria lines. Who knows what else. I note all kinds of unfair treatment. I think it’s because the media incites them against whites. I have almost 50% BIPOC ancestry(New Orleans “colored”), but I never feel inclined to behave that way.
Blacks would hate Whites even if they weren’t “taught” to hate us
They don’t hate us due to “past mistreatment” or anything current. They hate us because of our abilities
We can wait until we’re 27 years old and married before we make a baby — while they have 12 children to 4 mothers by then. We can start businesses and they can’t — because they have no concept of forward thinking or time management. We can get decent grades in school without any standards being lowered or any federal laws forcing schools to accept them into college when they can barely write their name in crayon. The list goes on and on
Theyve never built or maintained successful societies, and they never will. They’ve never invented anything and they never will, etc
You’re right, the situation would remain uncomfortable due to differences in ability, after all that is why there is a racial gap to begin with, but if the media focused on soothing blacks rather than enraging them it would be improved.
Keep in mind that those are the same arguments Jews make to explain white antisemitism; viz. jealousy of greater jewish cultural achievements and wealth. That sword can cut both ways.
Hey, what about the Traffic Light, or the Parking Meter, or Peanut Butter? And what about Purple Drank? They invented that, didn’t they?
C’mon man! Credit where it’s due.
When the verdict was announced I was watching it live in a room full of co-workers, many of whom were black. The acquittal itself did not surprise me – as the fiasco of the trial dragged on it had become obvious to me that O.J. was going to walk. But I was still sufficiently naive in those days to be shocked at the jubilant reaction from my co-workers. They roared their approval like sports fans whose team had just scored a major victory against their hated rivals.
It wasn’t my first red-pill experience, but it was definitely an important milestone along my road to race realism.
Good take Spencer, if only the verdict wasn’t lost on so many of our people. I always find myself asking them “ didn’t you learn anything from the OJ verdict?”
Also a good response to use on black people when they start complaining about the treatment of the likes of George Floyd, Ahmad Arbury, and any number of others is to look them straight in the eyes and in a bold but mocking tone say ” get behind that career criminal “!! I do it to my black co workers all the time. Leaves them speechless.
Kudos to Spencer for putting the LA riots into perspective as far as loss of life.
We were all educated in school about Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” when after the assassination of a young German diplomat in Paris, Ernst vom Rath by a wastrel Jew, Germans smashed Jewish shop windows in Berlin ─ alledgedly incited by Propaganda Minister and Berlin Gauleiter Paul Joseph Goebbels.
Although the jury is still out on that, David Irving believes that Goebbels was censured by Hitler for inciting the pogrom and also for his extramarital affair with a Czech actress.
The Reichskristallnacht (a mocking alteration of the term as though it were an official Third Reich policy) is usually marked as the beginning of the Holocaust.
Depending upon the accountancy used, the Night of Broken Glass was comparable to your typical Negro riot in the United States. Factor in the racial aspect of quiescent street crime, and wow. Lots of Whites on the receiving end of the cinder block like truck driver Reginald Denny.
Time for some old-fashioned Negro control.
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Ingrid Weckert’s book is no longer available on Amazon and seems to be heavily deprioritised by DDG. It’s short and worth considering in light of the aphorism: “The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you. “
https://archive.org/details/weckert-ingrid-bizarre-story-of-kristallnacht-1991
The photo that accompanies this article is astounding. The blacks are jumping with glee and the White women have their face in their hands in disbelief. Twenty-five years later whites were kissing the feet of strange black people because a criminal scum OD’d on fentanyl. Our people face a long and difficult struggle.
The photo that accompanies this article is great because it is a reality check; not that we needed one because the stark differences between us Europeans & Africans is beyond obvious. The 1995 reality check failed because we did nothing to correct our fatal course. In fact (as mentioned) years later we were kissing their feet…
I believe approximately 20% of us Europeans will survive the coming conflict because we have the Right Stuff, we understand racial loyalty is synonymous to our survival. We need to begin collectivizing with these 20 percenters & forming our own communities. For starters.
The 1995 reality check failed because we did nothing to correct our fatal course. In fact (as mentioned) years later we were kissing their feet…
Some demented Whites were even washing their feet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDPYomE_5ZM
63 people were killed in the mayhem, 2,383 were injured, and over $1 billion in property damage had been inflicted. Wasn’t that enough?
Thank you for writing this, Mr. Quinn.
Like you, I also had to read Night in high school, but fortunately was spared being subjected to Souls of Black Folk. However, we also read Inferno, which is really cool. In fact, as I’ve grown older, one important detail from Inferno has particularly resonated with me.
Namely, who did the great poet decide would be forever entombed in the ninth and lowest circle of hell? A freezing pit where the condemned would be endlessly gnawed upon and devoured by the jaws of Satan himself? Were they murderers? Pedophiles? Rapists? Thieves? No. As all C-C readers probably already know, the three who were so condemned were all traitors.
Blacks as a group can be incredibly unsavory, beastly, and vindictive, but at least they stick up for their own. This is why — as much as I dislike dull-witted, rioting blacks — I still reserve the bulk of my ire for those cowardly whites who tolerate, enable, and even revere them. Whites who sell out their own folk in the name of “social justice.”
Too many innocent people have died because of this treachery, born of both deluded ideology and shrill, puritanical self-righteousness. Even though I am an agnostic, and not at all given to supernatural beliefs, I still hope that there’s such a thing as hell… And I hope Satan’s hungry.
This is why — as much as I dislike dull-witted, rioting blacks — I still reserve the bulk of my ire for those cowardly whites who tolerate, enable, and even revere them.”
Excellent comment that I agree with entirely.
Beware white people, especially the women, because they will sell you out in a heartbeat if they think you are not as accepting and loving of negroids as they are.
Yea we need to be very wary of them but let’s not hate them. They are instinctively supportive of a moral community and have had their wires crossed to misidentify who belongs in that community. We’re probably not going to convert them until we have more control over the propaganda they imbibe, but they are in a sense casualties in the war for the White mind.
In original Mormonism they believed being black was “the mark of Cain”, as in God’s curse. Mormons are kooks, but this idea is starting to make sense to me. They are just too stupid as an entire race to come to any other conclusion.
In fact it is the Jews who are the seed of Cain and have inherited his curse. The Bible says Cain would be cursed to never be able to yield food from the earth. Certainly puts the Jews’ historical aversion to farming into perspective.
That makes even more sense.
I’m not a Mormon but I play one on TV. I thought it was that the Negroes were the seed of Ham, the third son of Noah, whose son Canaan’s lineage was cursed by Noah and by God with darkitude and possibly servitude.
In any case, I disagree that the LDS are any more kooky than any other Christian denomination. Joseph Smith didn’t invent the idea that Blacks of African descent were cursed somehow and should not be ordained to the priesthood. Protestants in America did this too. The difference is that the LDS have a lay priesthood of which every upright man is expected to participate ─ except Blacks of African descent until 1978.
All sects take some batshït stuff out of the Bible (read through the Wikipedia article on the Hamitic curse below). It is not clear if Christians, Jews, and Muslims believe that Ham had incest with his mother, sodomized his father and/or removed him from the gene pool, hence getting cursed (somehow).
As Johnny Carson would say, “that’s some weird, wild stuff.”
Curse of Ham
The Curse and Mark of Cain and the Curse of Ham are related and often conflated.
“Mormonism began during the height of Protestant acceptance of the curse of Cain doctrine in North America, as well as the even more popular curse of Ham doctrine. Like many North Americans,[24][25] Mormons of the 19th century commonly assumed that Black Africans had Cain’s “mark” of black skin,[26][27][ 42] and Ham’s curse to be servants of servants.[28]”
Curse and Mark of Cain
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I mean…let’s be honest…even the idea that the majority — I will grant “some” — of Asians and Jews are egalitarian is wrong-headed. They will pose as egalitarian right up until they sense they have the group advantage. It’s time for Whites to just disabuse themselves of that fantasy. We are not like them in that way. At all.
This was a thoughtful recollection of emotions then. I was living in Columbia, Mo. at the time took my mother to the hospital for an appointment, and she was with her therapist during the news. The therapist, a white woman, was very angry about the verdict, and, in a lowered but strong voice, expressed her anger to us. I was impressed with her outspokenness.
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