ABOUT DAMN TIME! NAT'L REVIEW FINALLY FIRES JOHN DERBYSHIRE FOR ONE OF HIS RACIST RANTS

Seriously, we could give props to National Review for finally canning this clown, but he has been there for so long writing this kind of trash and even saying in interviews that he was a racist, that we are still trying to figure out why National Review kept him around for all these years in the first damned place!

One People’s Project

While National Review columnist John Derbyshire is known for his racist diatribes and activism, it is very seldom that scrutiny would follow him. In the climate created in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting however, Derbyshire’s latest column has prompted the National Review to fire him because of a column in a racist webzine that prompted calls of outrage.

A regular contributor to the webzine Taki’s Mag, Derbyshire wrote an op-ed piece where he discussed the Trayvon Martin shooting, and spoke of what has been referred to as “The Talk” – where African American parents warn their children about how white society may treat them. In his column titled “The Talk: Nonblack Version”, Derbyshire described a number of things that white parents should tell their children, among them:

• Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.
• Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.
• If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).
• Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.
• If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.

 It was not long before the progressive website Think Progress took issue with Derbyshire’s words and called for his dismissal. Soon other websites such as the Huffington Post also followed suit, then some of Derbyshire’s colleagues at National Review, such as writer Jonah Goldberg who tweeted that Derbyshire’s column was “fundamentally indefensible and offensive”. In a statement, Rich Lowry said the column was too much for the publication to continue its relationship with Derbyshire. “We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer,” Lowry wrote. “Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways.”

Derbyshire, who has referred to himself as a racist and a homophobe in a 2003 interview, has a long history of racist columns and activism. In 2006 Derbyshire and American Renaissance publisher Jared Taylor participated in the “Race and Conservatism” panel organized by the Robert A. Taft Club at George Mason University by one of its founders Marcus Epstein. Epstein, who is a close associate of Youth for Western Civilization, would later go on to drunkenly attack a Black woman while calling her the N-word in Washington DC, costing him enrollment at the University of Virginia Law School. In 2010, this forum saw controversy when it was learned that conservative propagandist James O’Keefe had participated in it as well. Coincidentally, in 2011, Providence (RI) College members of Youth for Western Civilization sponsored a series of speakers where O’Keefe spoke at on campus with Derbyshire following a few weeks later. In 2010 Derbyshire also saw controversy when he suggested to Black law students at the University of Pennsylvania that they were genetically inferior, saying, “