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Amy Harmon, writing for The New York Times, on  In DNA Era, New Worries About Prejudice :

At the same time, genetic information is slipping out of the laboratory and into everyday life, carrying with it the inescapable message that people of different races have different DNA. Ancestry tests tell customers what percentage of their genes are from Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. The heart-disease drug BiDil is marketed exclusively to African-Americans, who seem genetically predisposed to respond to it. Jews are offered prenatal tests for genetic disorders rarely found in other ethnic groups.

Such developments are providing some of the first tangible benefits of the genetic revolution. Yet some social critics fear they may also be giving long-discredited racial prejudices a new potency. The notion that race is more than skin deep, they fear, could undermine principles of equal treatment and opportunity that have relied on the presumption that we are all fundamentally equal.

“We are living through an era of the ascendance of biology, and we have to be very careful,” said Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. “We will all be walking a fine line between using biology and allowing it to be abused.”

It's amazing that this article quotes Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  He is one of the foremost "one drop" advocates, proclaiming to the world that Anatole Broyard (among thousands of others) was a biological "black" who was merely "passing as white."  He has done more than anyone to promote a hypodescent ideology based on the idea that "black" genes are super-inferior and dominant.  Of course, Gates claims that he doesn't believe that, but would you find a Jew stupid enough to demand that the Aryan/non-Aryan racial classification system of the Nazis be retained and enforced?

Of course, the liberal advocacy of supposed white racial purity and "tainted black blood" has been going on a long time.  No doubt the white student who believes that her nine percent of "black" DNA makes her genetically destined to celebrate the phony Kwanzaa holiday (created by a criminal and spread by white corporate America, not African Americans) has watched racist films like "Pinky," "Imitation of Life" and "The Human Stain."

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I was interviewed on Tuesday by a National Enquirer reporter for the print version of their expose on Duane "Dog" Chapman's racist rant.

The reporter played two tapes for me that appeared to have been made on different occasions.

The short of it: Chapman ordered his son to break it off with his girlfriend for fear she would hear him or other family members uttering racial slurs in casual conversation. He dangles loss of the son’s job in the family business and his home as consequences for continuing the relationship.  Chapman claims his use of such slurs are not meant to be hurtful or racist and deployed the old “we just talk like that” defense.  Later he uses the same terminology to describe his son’s girlfriend.

I wanted to vomit afterward.

Kudos to A&E for moving quickly to suspend further production of the show pending their own internal investigation.  They have a business to run and an image to maintain and as a libertarian, I respect their property rights to do so.  A&E has a right to disassociate themselves with anyone who hurts their business or tarnishes their reputation.  Apparently, a bunch of conservatives who do not understand the concept of free speech feel differently.

Following the breaking of this story, I've been reading some of the forum and blog reactions to the Dirty Dog scandal.  Wow!  I'm shocked at all of the people who have confused "Freedom of Speech" with "Freedom from Criticism" and "Freedom from Consequences."  For those who still don't get it, I'll spell it out plainly and simply for those who are genuinely confused or simply pretending because they agree with the man's racist views:

The right to hold and express an opinion is not being suppressed when others criticize or disassociate. You can say what you want, but you cannot force others to subsidize said expression or provide you a forum in which to express your views.

Yes, Dog has a right to free expression and to be a racist ass-clown.

And A&E has a right to decide not to provide him access to their platform.

Those willfully confusing the two need to drop the emotion and hero-worship of the man and start grasping these simple, basic concepts.

You want to use filthy, racist language?  Fine.  Just stop your sobbing when the good people around you distance themselves or vomit uncontrollably.

Does that cover it foks?  Good.  Now cut it out and start acting like big boys and big girls.

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I wanted to comment on this as it will be mentioned over and over again by the Democratic National Committee (as it was 4 years ago and in elections prior).

In 1998, I contacted Bob Jones University regarding their anti-miscegenationist dating/marriage policy.  I received a letter from BJU, which I promptly posted online here:

http://multiracial.com/site/content/view/1023/49/

Then, being the agitator I am, I decided to test their policy and applied for admission - with no intention of attending.  Their online application actually asked for both the race of a student AND spouse.  I dutifully filled in such data, as the experiment would not work if I didn't.  I received the following response:

http://multiracial.com/site/content/view/1024/49/

After posting this online, it was picked up by NPR, LA Times, several wire services and was mentioned in a dozen or so books - and even in testimony by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/te011601sjl.htm).

As has been the case in the past, the rotten affair is renewed with each election cycle:

• http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/10/romney_doesnt_g.php

• http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/10/is_romney_reall.php

• http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/bob_jones_university_dean_warm.html

While I don't endorse the sabre-rattling, can't make a decent retraction of her prior support for big-ass wars Senator from New York, I won't be losing sleep if the Freshmen Senator from Illinois wins the nomination. 

I granted Vice President Gore's campaign permission to use the letters and my name in their PR during his campaign against Gov. Bush, and eventually the DNC started to do so as well - which is fine.  But, my permission to use said materials does not constitute an endorsement of certain people either.  It is merely factual - and this issue has no legs if idiots like Romney stop kissing the ring at BJU.  Further, as an agnostic heathen and long-time nonconformist, and in the interest of full disclosure - I had zero intention of attending BJU.  I did, however, intend to cause mischief and create awareness.

Mischief managed.

P.S. - I spelled it out in greater detail in 2004.  See:  http://jameslandrith.com/content/view/2257/79/ 

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-- Website Statement: The statement which Jones III removed and then reposted stated the following: "The diminution of evangelistic enterprise to cults which call themselves Christian, including Catholicism and Mormonism, is frightening."  (Associated Press, 3/16/00)

-- Interracial Dating Still Requires Parental Permission. Three days after announcing that the ban on interracial dating was dropped from school policy, BJU President Bob Jones III announced that students must tell their parents if they become involved in an interracial relationship. "We will carry out the will of your parents," Jones III said at the school's chapel service. "They will need to have a say in this." The new policy says that parents must send a letter to the dean of men or women approving the relationship before the school will allow it. Jones also said that most people disapprove of interracial dating and marriage. "I think that's evidenced by the fact that so few people are interracially married," Jones said to students. "When you date interracially or marry interracially, it cuts you off from people.  (Associated Press, 3/7/00)

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