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The Arab Solution
 Nothing
against Jackie Robinson, a great and brave
ballplayer, and the anniversary of his arrival is giving all us white folks a
delicious opportunity to feel virtuously bad about ourselves; but maybe
it’s time for a little historical perspective.
 The
Imus uproar — all over a single dumb, insulting wisecrack — points up a
cultural fact of our times.
This is a
country where Al Sharpton is “the Reverend” Al Sharpton, a
Christian clergyman to whom contrition and forgiveness are equally alien, and
a “civil rights leader,” forsooth; while Huckleberry
Finn is banned in schools. What else do you need to know about
America today?
Let’s go
back a few centuries. More than a millennium, if you have a minute.
This country
has a race problem and the Arab world doesn’t. Why? The Arabs,
mostly Muslims, had African slaves too. Yet many American blacks convert
to Islam, because Christianity is allegedly a white man’s religion.
The Koran
doesn’t forbid slavery. It says that Muslims can’t be slaves,
but permits infidels to be enslaved. And for quite a while the Arabs who
owned slaves made eunuchs of them. Eunuchs have low birth rates.
Long-term
result: Today there are no Jackie Robinsons or Al Sharptons in the Arab
world. At least we don’t hear about them.
The white men
who brought Africans to America as slaves wanted them to breed. They were
also Christians, and though their Bible didn’t forbid slavery, they were
a bit squeamish about castration. Both sides in our Civil War agreed about
that. Otherwise, Huck Finn would have alluded to it.
Pretty simple,
when you pause to think about it. If your ancestors were eunuchs, you may
have real grounds for complaint; on the other hand, you probably don’t
exist.
![[Breaker quote for The Arab Solution: Al Sharpton, "civil rights leader"]](2007breakers/070416.gif) Long-term
result: Today a large black population does exist in North America (and parts of
Latin America), with racial problems the Arab world doesn’t have to
deal with. Abe Lincoln foresaw this, and wanted to send free blacks out of
the United States, a plain fact our historians are still evading and lying about.
I wonder if
Sharpton, who is less apologetic about his slanders than, say, Mike Nifong,
would give Lincoln second thoughts about the Emancipation Proclamation. Oh,
never mind. We have to be tolerant. Of everything, except of course Don
Imus. Directing an apology to Sharpton was the most racist thing Imus did.
In a sense, the
Arabs long ago “solved” their race problem, once and for all
time, with the knife. But the Sharptons who accuse the white man of so
many things never accuse the Arabs of genocide, let alone demand
reparations from them.
Those who
freak out when Imus says “hos” should read The Arabian
Nights. And I don’t mean the versions edited for kiddies. I
mean the thigh-slappers about rich Arabs being cuckolded by black African
slaves. I like a good laugh as much as the next man, but there are limits. No
wonder slaves in Arabia were prudently mutilated.
Which is not to
excuse American-style slavery, or the cruel humiliations that followed it. But
there were worse things, and it behooves us, especially the liberals among us
who enjoy harping on slavery, Jim Crow, and the fans whose taunts made
Jackie Robinson’s life distressful, to think about some of them. Most
of history’s saddest victims died unpitied, with no descendants, no
memorials, and no liberal mourners.
How on earth
did the Christian West get from St. Augustine to Sharpton, from Dante and
Petrarch to rap musique? To liken Sharpton to Jesse Jackson is an insult to
Jackson; to call him a walking racial stereotype is an insult to the
stereotype. Could anyone do more to engender contempt for blacks than he
does? He makes the Ku Klux Klan superfluous.
Well, the
armies of moral indignation have had their say. They got Imus’s scalp,
and welcome to it. But it will be a Pyrrhic victory. They have defined the
rules of public discourse, and from now on, millions who would never defend
Imus will insist that these rules be enforced in ways they may not like.
We’ve
already heard far too much about double standards this past week. But the
rule Imus broke was the Great Minority Rule: “We can say it —
you can’t.” That rule has now been exposed. And maybe even
repealed.
Joseph Sobran |
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