{"id":1285,"date":"2011-03-04T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T15:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.temp.shooflysolutions.com\/alabama-gop-official-thinks-blacks-misbehave-more-than-whites-in-school-because-jared-taylor-said-so\/"},"modified":"2011-03-04T15:14:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T15:14:20","slug":"alabama-gop-official-thinks-blacks-misbehave-more-than-whites-in-school-because-jared-taylor-said-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/04\/alabama-gop-official-thinks-blacks-misbehave-more-than-whites-in-school-because-jared-taylor-said-so\/","title":{"rendered":"ALABAMA GOP OFFICIAL THINKS BLACKS MISBEHAVE MORE THAN WHITES IN SCHOOL BECAUSE JARED TAYLOR SAID SO!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HughHere’s another clown in the GOP trying to sneak white supremacist propaganda and associations past everyone. The problem with that is that the propaganda comes from Jared Taylor’s <\/a>New Century Foundation, and with everyone zeroing in on them over the past two months, that’s pretty much taking a leap of faith hoping no one notices what they really are. Hugh McInnish, a Republican Party leader out of Huntsville, Alabama,  took that leap and fell right in the fire. Of course, saying that \u201cblacks misbehave on average more frequently than whites do” in school. and that punishing them more is summed up with “life’s unfair” isn’t going to win you too many friends, but citing stats from the man who gave us American Renaissance<\/em>…well that just made you a crackpot.<\/p>\n

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ThinkProgress<\/h3>\n

The U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s Civil Rights Division has been evaluating the Huntsville, AL school system\u2019s racial integration, and earlier this month released a report that \u201cwasn\u2019t promising.\u201d The DOJ listed \u201cseveral outstanding desegregation issues that the school district must address,\u201d including \u201cthat predominantly black schools have too few advanced courses\u201d and \u201cthat black children at predominantly white schools are punished and suspended at alarming rates.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Hugh McInnish, a member of the Madison County Republican Executive Committee who also sits on the state Republican Executive Committee, set out to school the DOJ on the real reason racial disparities exist in Hunstville: \u201cLife is unfair.\u201d In a press conference at his gated community and a letter responding to the DOJ last week, McInnish offered a litany of bizarre \u201cproof\u201d that racial disparity isn\u2019t \u201cmanmade,\u201d claiming \u201cblacks misbehave on average more frequently than whites do,\u201d and that black students are unable to perform as well as white students. To McInnish, the only \u201cmanmade unfairness here\u201d is that the DOJ wants to \u201ccorrect a problem that is not of their making\u201d:<\/p>\n

McInnish went so far as to include in his letter a chart that purports to show the \u201cblack crime rate as (a) multiple of (the) white crime rate.\u201d The chart indicates that black people commit more than six times the violent crime of white people overall; it has them committing about eight times as many murders as white people and more than 14 times as many robberies.[…]<\/p>\n

McInnish also argued Tuesday that the gap between white and black students\u2019 participation in advanced courses is not because black students are not afforded the chance, as alleged in the Justice Department letter.<\/p>\n

Instead, he said, the gap exists because black students are not able to perform as well in advanced classes.<\/p>\n

If the DOJ actually decides to peruse his letter, it will find that most of McInnish\u2019s data is cribbed from the right-wing New Century Foundation (NCF), which, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is a \u201cself-styled think tank\u201d that propagates \u201cacademic racism.\u201d Dedicated \u201cto the ideal of the United States as a white European nation,\u201d NCF also publishes the American Renaissance \u2014 a magazine that \u201cpublishes frequent articles on the discredited field of eugenics\u201d which is \u201cselective breeding to improve human genetic stock.\u201d Incidentally, the foundation\u2019s \u201cmost important publication\u201d is The Color Of Crime (which, to NCF, is black.)<\/p>\n

If McInnish ever stepped out of his gated community, he might actually discover that there is absolutely no evidence that African American students \u201cact out more\u201d but rather that \u201csuspension and expulsion is evidence of a pervasive and systematic bias\u201d that\u2019s been present \u201cfor the past 25 years.\u201d But McInnish spends more time posting editorials on the white supremacist site VDare, and publishing the news aggregater Suppressed News which includes insightful comments like \u201cBlack on black racism is OK. White on black racism for the same reason is not. When are we going to wake up?\u201d<\/p>\n

McInnish won posts on the executive committees for both the county and state Republican parties in June but insists he \u201cWas not speaking out as a representative of either group.\u201d \u201cSome of them will be aghast at what I\u2019ve said,\u201d he mused.<\/p>\n

See McInnish\u2019s full letter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another clown in the GOP trying to sneak white supremacist propaganda and associations past…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-so-called-qalt-rightq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}