“Racism…,” Jameela began.
“If you’re talking about racial consciousness, a positive feeling of racial identity and racial pride, then, yes, ‘racism’…”
“…is against the democracy you Americans are always preaching.”
“Not at all! It’s how you interpret ‘ democracy. ‘ Most of our early American patriots were ‘racists.’ Many owned slaves and foresaw an America ruled by gentlemen landholders: White gentlemen. A number of them made statements about the nature of the American Indians and the Blacks that would get them arrested now. Their ‘democracy’ was not the same as that of today’s liberals! Even after slavery ended in 1865, racial laws stayed on the books for almost another century. Few complained: not the elected senators and representatives, not the judiciary, not the executive branch of government, not the general public. Racial laws were taken for granted, and many sober, thinking, decent people considered them reasonable. Immigration laws, for example, were based on a desire to maintain America’s European racial character. Between 1882 and 1913 there were fifteen Federal acts on the books that kept the Chinese… specifically, by name… out of the United States! The same was true for other Asians, Arabs, and East Indians. Between 1882 and 1942 thirty Congresses could have changed those statutes, but they did not. Frankly, our forefathers would have been horrified at the modern interpretations of our founding documents.”
“You’re saying that race hatred should exist?”
“I am not saying that. In a properly ordered world, where each ethnos has its own turf, it need not exist! But people should love their own ethnos group and take pride in its accomplishments! We can admire other ethnos groups, provided they keep their distance and don’t threaten us or try to dominate us!”
“But what you said about your early patriots…?”
“They were good and serious people who saw society in their own terms. Those terms change. Nothing is immutable, carved in stone for all time to come; no ethic is perfect; no form of government is the greatest and the truest and the absolute, final best; no interpretation of the Constitution… or of any book or scripture… is a hundred per cent ‘right! ‘ Words mean what a specific society, in a specific place and time, wants them to mean. Compare what Christians say about Jesus Christ today with what the Church said about him in the Middle Ages. Or take what your Shi’i jurists said about law, marriage, and women’s rights a hundred years ago and stack that up against what your scholars are saying now.”
“Relativism? Nobody’s right, and nobody’s wrong?”
“Not necessarily! What I’m arguing is that it’s pointless to criticize the ‘great minds’ of the past. It’s also wrong to whitewash them and pretend that they agree with our present biases. We should read, understand, and respect them, but we shouldn’t twist their words to fit our modem tastes in social engineering!”
“If some of your ‘founding fathers’ were racists, it can be blamed on the primitive state of science in the eighteenth century. In any case, they seem to have preferred democracy to other forms of government.”
“Their science may have been primitive, but their conclusions on racial matters were more often correct than those of the modem liberals, whose science has been twisted to support their mania for ‘equality. ‘ As for democracy, that means different things to different people. We want to see it defined as it ought to be defined: the right of the majority to choose our form of government, set our own social standards, and make our own laws… yes, even racial laws, if that’s what the majority wants. We want an end to undemocratic financial and social pressures, and non-majority manipulation of the media. Eventually we intend to separate the ethnos groups and provide a more racially homogeneous and culturally healthy environment for our people. Then if other groups like what we achieve, they can copy it”
“Separate the races? How? Slop immigration? Shoot people?”
“Ask the Israelis about immigration laws, expulsions, and shootings. Ask them about the ‘Chosen People’ and the ‘right of return.’ Would they let you become a citizen there… or me? Ask them about the Palestinians, the Black Hebrews, and the Ethiopian Falasha Jews, whom they deported en-masse twenty years ago! No Gentile can acquire Israeli citizenship.”
“Israel’s a religious state…”
“A religious state discriminates just as much as a racist state. Every state… every living thing… discriminates on some basis or other, even if it’s just not letting your kids play with tuberculosis patients.”
“Or letting cockroaches inhabit your kitchen. Wrench mumbled.
“The difference is that, unlike religion, we see a sound, scientific, and socially useful basis to ethnic genetics. Science has come full circle from the ‘bigoted’ racial theories of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the ‘all-races-are-identical-under-the- skin’ ideas of the twentieth century liberals, to our own modem understanding of racial realities. More and more of humanity’s physical and psychological makeup has been shown to be due to genetic factors. Our point of view is a logical extension of this understanding.”
Wrench tapped his plate with his butter knife. “Israel’s only one example. How about other countries? Ask the Japanese if a White American could get elected to the Diet? The Japanese still consider foreigners barbarians and reminisce about the glories of the ‘pure Yamato race.’ What about Ramanujan’s racial and religious exclusivity in your own country? How many Muslims will he let stay in India?”
Morgan nodded impatiently. “Racism is everywhere, explicit or implicit. Many societies consider it so normal they don’t even question it. Why should America be different… especially if we can show that an enlightened and scientifically sound ethnos policy has positive value? Others don’t have to agree with us. We’re only saying that we… the folks who built America and a good chunk of this modem world… are going to run our show as we see fit.”
“World opinion…”
“It counts, but it can’t be allowed to govern. What have we profited from world opinion over the last century? Instead of friends we’ve got spongers, enemies, or ‘allies’ who ignore us and do as they please.”
Jameela sniffed. “We could argue cultural and economic imperialism, I suppose.” She paused. “But doesn’t your Party of Humankind have broader international goals? Like the old Nazis? Don’t you want to dominate, to rule, to subjugate?”
“The ‘old Nazis’? That’s a whole different discussion, Miss Husaini! Let’s leave that for another time.” Morgan’s brown eyes glittered with an interest verging upon the lascivious. He obviously enjoyed clever, verbal, spunky women. “Oh, no, we won’t ‘rale’ or ‘subjugate.’ We don’t believe in mixing, and we don’t want to become entangled in other people ‘s affairs. We will compete… and we will defend our interests. If some other ethnos group can’t solve its problems, we may even choose to help. If the other party can repay us, we’ll work out a deal. No more being suckered by every country unable to ran itself properly. One of our first goals is a unified, consistent foreign policy. Once we have that, we expect that within a century there’ll be no other ethnos group on this planet able to challenge us. They’ll either have copied us or become extinct.”
“After the mess you’ve made of the world you still expect the rest of us to copy you…”