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fastpat · 10-04-2006, 07:41 PM

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Two Wands—Race, “Racism” And Culture In America

Peter Brimelow writes: Richard D. Lamm, the former Democratic Governor of Colorado, now Co-Director of the University of Denver’s Institute for Public Policy Studies, is one of the most interesting figures in the immigration reform movement. His recent book, Two Wands, One Nation: An Essay on Race And Community in America, is an expanded version of a response that he wrote to an article in a UD school paper The Source by Jesus Trevino, who is something called “Associate Vice Provost of Multicultural Excellence” in UD’s Center for Multicultural Excellence.

Lamm describes Trevino’s article as

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“hysterical…finding white America guilty of ‘prejudice, racism, and systemic racial oppression’…He claims that whites as a group ‘perpetuate racism in conscious or unconscious ways’ and that examples of white racism at work can be found in high poverty rates among American Indians, the lack of minority professors at a university level, large percentages of minorities in janitorial and landscaping positions, and the high school drop-out rates of minorities. He urges more emphasis be place on ‘systematic racial oppression’ of minorities by whites: ‘This definition moves away from individual behavior and focuses on large-scale patterns of group discrimination.’”

(This definition also, of course, removes from the accuser any obligation to provide proof).

The University of Denver refused to publish Lamm’s response to Trevino on the extraordinary grounds that it was “too controversial”. And, all too significantly, Jesus Trevino denied Lamm permission to reprint the original article in Two Wands.

Lamm’s argument is staggeringly moderate by VDARE.COM standards. He focuses exclusively on the cultural disabilities of minorities and explicitly denies the unpleasant possibility that deeper factors may be at work. His experience is further evidence that American universities are becoming bastions of totalitarianism. If it was up to Jesus Trevino (we decline to use the “ñ” he is apparently attempting to impose on the English language) VDARE.COM would be closed and we would all be in the gulag. [send him mail] [Send UD Chancellor Robert Coombe email]

We post here Lamm’s original column.