Tonight we post Jared Taylor’s introduction to the new Sam Francis anthology, Essential Writings On Race. (It’s not on Amazon and can only be bought here). I gave the book this blurb:

The poet Robert Burns coined the expression “gentleman and scholar:” Sam Francis was also a journalist. Nothing engaged his analytical and expository talents more than the science and politics of race. No subject was more vital in his lifetime, nor more taboo. This book is a well-organized and illuminatingly-annotated selection of Francis’s thinking on race. It is valuable today; it may well prove seminal in the future.

Jesse Walker, managing editor of Reason Magazine, [Send him mail] quotes from Dr. King’s sermon, (actually more or less a political speech, of course, as King admits himself in the prologue) delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967, also here. King said, speaking while American soldiers were overseas fighting the Viet Cong, that

My third reason…grows out of my experience in the ghettos of the North over the last three years–especially the last three summers. As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action; for they ask and write me, “So what about Vietnam?” They ask if our nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without first having spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence I cannot be silent.

Been a lot of applauding over the last few years. They applauded our total movement; they’ve applauded me. America and most of its newspapers applauded me in Montgomery. And I stood before thousands of Negroes getting ready to riot when my home was bombed and said, “We can’t do it this way.” They applauded us in the sit-in movement–we nonviolently decided to sit in at lunch counters. The applauded us on the Freedom Rides when we accepted blows without retaliation. They praised us in Albany and Birmingham and Selma, Alabama. Oh, the press was so noble in its applause, and so noble in its praise when I was saying, “Be nonviolent toward Bull Connor”; when I was saying, “Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark.” There’s something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that will praise you when you say, “Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,” but will curse and damn you when you say, “Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children.”

To which Walker adds

King had more than one worthy dream.

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Well, perhaps. But the dream here is of a Communist victory and American defeat in Viet Nam. The question wasn’t whether the US would be “nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children” but whether it would continue to protect the men, women, and children of the late Republic Of Vietnam, from the Communist guerrillas and invading armies of Communist North Vietnam, none of whom were practitioners of Gandhian non-violence.

This is what led King to be known as pro-Communist, and is part of the reason so many people objected to the creation of a National Holiday in his name. [See The King Holiday and Its Meaning, by the late Sam Francis, for the history of this.] One of the things that shocked James Kirchick of the New Republic was the fact that a Ron Paul letter described Dr. King as”“a comsymp, if not an actual party member…” Perhaps Kirchick, who just graduated from Yale, and is practically an infant, simply didn’t know that this was in fact the case.

In the thousands of words of praise for Dr. King that are spoken in American schools, the words “pro-Communist” won’t appear, but that’s what King’s dream was for Viet Nam.–and to a certain extent, for America, too.

Allan Wall is scheduled for an interview with Chuck Wilder (hosting the George Putnam show) at 12:20 p.m., Pacific Time, on Tuesday, January 22nd. You can listen live here, here or here.

The controversy about the New York Times’s series on murders committed by veterans, [Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles, January 13, 2008] has concentrated on the New York Times’s hatred of American soldiers, and the fact that any group of a million young men will have a number murders committed in it. You could make the same attack on any, er, unpopular group.

So the Times has rightly been condemned for statistical illiteracy, and not for the first time, either. But there’s a larger question, pointed up by the apparent killing by the Mexican-born Cpl. Cesar Laurean, USMC, a naturalized citizen, of an American-born woman, Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach, and her unborn child.

You’re allowed to say FBI’s Hi-Tech Manhunt for Fugitive Marine or Marine may have used slain comrade’s ATM card in a headline–you are not allowed to say Mexican may have used slain comrade’s ATM card or FBI’s Hi-Tech Manhunt for Fugitive Mexican in a headline–the public doesn’t have the right to know