Caste Aspersions
Taki´s Magazine,
by
Steve Sailer
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
10/1/2020 1:02:03 PM
You might think that Isabel Wilkerson’s best-selling book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents might be timely because Kamala Harris is descended both from a high-caste Brahmin mother and a Jamaican father from that island’s “middle-class brown” caste.Harris’ father, a retired Stanford economics professor, appears to be a product of the careful breeding regimen that author Malcolm Gladwell describes in his writings about how his Jamaican mother’s ancestors kept themselves distinct from the black masses. (Snip)
Americans, with our traditional one-drop rule for lumping people into either black or white, don’t understand Caribbean and Latin American gradients, which go back to Spanish times.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/1/2020 1:06:00 PM (No. 558615)
I like Steve Sailer’s writing and especially liked this part:
Harris’ mother was a Tamil Brahmin.
We often think of caste as a pointless division of people into arbitrary groups with no regard to merit. And yet…the Tamil Brahmins are quite high-achieving for a relatively small group of about 2 million in India and 50,000 in the U.S., producing the legendary math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, two Nobel laureates, and the CEOs of Google and Pepsi. Nature? Nurture? Both?
Indeed, Kamala, with her degrees from black Howard U. and plebeian Hastings law school, is likely the least intelligent member of her family, trailing her lawyer sister (Berkeley and Stanford Law), cancer-researcher mother, and economist father. In contrast to her meritocrat family members, Kamala launched her San Francisco political career the old-fashioned way: by having sex with Mayor Willie Brown, who in return gave her a BMW and two taxpayer-funded sinecures.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/1/2020 1:08:40 PM (No. 558616)
PS. This is an expanded book review. Sailer doesn’t think much of Wilkerson or her book, and tells us about it in his usual entertaining fashion, while weaving in quite a lot of information about caste.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Penney 10/1/2020 1:31:39 PM (No. 558637)
Thankfully America's Founders had the Wisdom to look at each person individually, not as a group nor caste member, and held each individual responsible and accountable for his & her own choices, character and actions. America is unique in that acknowledgement secured in our U.S. Constitution. The U.S.A. is one nation, under God, withe Liberty & justice for all. We dare not loose sight of that basic principle!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bad-hair 10/1/2020 1:31:54 PM (No. 558639)
Oh good grief.
Let's get down to the finer details of racism shall we Taki.
Tell my buddy Godfrey in Antigua that we can't hang out in the rum shop anymore because he's not black enough.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rather Read 10/1/2020 1:48:14 PM (No. 558654)
Years ago, just for my own enjoyment I read a lot of novels published by black authors during the Harlem Renaissance. Many of them were very interesting and I enjoyed them. I couldn't help but notice that a lot of them were about skin color. The Blacker the Berry was about a dark young woman who feels looked down on by her lighter skinned friends. Another is Passing, where a young woman who is very light skinned passes for white. However her white husband is a racist and she has cut herself off from her family and friends in fear he might find out. Then my favorite, Black No More where a scientist invents a machine that turns black people white and the effects it has on society.
Colorism and caste are VERY alive in the black community. Some of the activists blame whites for it (of course) but all the whites I know who have black friends don't care what color they are.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 10/1/2020 1:56:46 PM (No. 558665)
Interesting article. People are so totally wrapped up with hating by race. I am not much of a fan of interracial marriage, mostly because I think that it gives the kids a disadvantage in life as a starting point. I have an old friend and shooting buddy, a federal prosecutor who married outside his race. His kids are wonderful, raised well and accomplished young people.
And don't miss the pic of Bloomberg and the two Tutsis. Even I am taller than Bloomberg, and that is saying something.
If you don't read the article, here's the link to the photo of the legend in his own mind.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bloombergphilanthropies/17206833220/
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/1/2020 2:05:08 PM (No. 558673)
My own belief? That almost any black person would rather be white, and that is the source of their problem….so they attack what they can never have.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 10/1/2020 3:14:40 PM (No. 558746)
It has been reality that dark blacks are looked down upon by lighter skin or 'high-toned' members of their community. Much less appreciated is the same bias within the Hispanic population. I seriously doubt Kamala has ever experienced any personal animus against her on the basis of her 'barely brown' coloration. Would sleeping with Willie Brown count?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 10/1/2020 6:04:57 PM (No. 558914)
Most thinking people know that race isn't just a social construct. The more we discover genetically, the more differences we find. There are obviously physical differences between race....especially propensities for certain diseases. My wife's side of the family is at great risk from colon cancer and others carry the gene for Huntingdon's disease. What these differences mean as far as intelligence goes we don't really know. We do know that generally speaking bright parents tend to have bright children but whether that's nurture or nature we aren't sure. I suspect more nature but I also know a highly intelligent couple who had a remarkably dumb son. What I do know is that delving into genetics may end up disclosing some things that the left and the race industry doesn't want to be disclosed. Publish anything that even hints that a certain race might be slightly less intelligent than others and you will get fired in a nano-second.
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