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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_231548" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 222px"><a href="http://www.observer.com/2012/04/john-derbyshires-advice-on-how-to-talk-to-your-children-about-black-people/johnderbyshire1/" rel="attachment wp-att-231548"><img class=" wp-image-231548" title="JohnDerbyshire1" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/johnderbyshire1.jpg?w=225&h=300" alt="" width="212" height="282" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">John Derbyshire, expert on the Blacks (Wikipedia)</p></div></p>
<p>We're still a little confused about the spirit in which to take articles written in <a href="http://takimag.com/"><em>Taki’s Magazine</em></a>, socialite/journalist <strong>Taki Theodoracopulos</strong> "politics and culture" website. With long, often  provocative essays by everyone from <strong>Pat Buchanan</strong> to <strong>Jim Goad</strong> to <strong>Gavin McInnes</strong>, we're not sure how seriously the 'zine takes itself.<br />
For instance, how tongue-in-cheek is this <strong>John Derbyshire</strong> essay, <a href="http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire#axzz1rBeqdcIl">The Talk: Nonblack Version</a>, in which the<em> National Review</em> journalist lays down several points on how he plans on discussing race with his children. It's...well...<em>bold</em>, we guess you can say.</p>
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<p>Mr. Derbyshire's two children--who are 19 and 16, and probably don't need a talk from their dad about how to discuss Black people in public-- will be receiving such pearls of wisdom as:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>(1)</strong> Among your fellow citizens are forty million who identify as black, and whom I shall refer to as black. The cumbersome (and <a href="http://tinyurl.com/7tyk386">MLK-noncompliant</a>) term “African-American” seems to be in decline, thank goodness. “<a href="http://www.naacp.org/">Colored</a>” and “<a href="http://www.uncf.org/">Negro</a>” are archaisms. What you must call “the ‘N’ word” is used freely among blacks but is taboo to nonblacks.</p></blockquote>
<div>and:</div>
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<blockquote><p><strong>(10a)</strong> Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.</p>
<p><strong>(10b)</strong><a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=679_1332640868">Stay out</a> of heavily black neighborhoods.</p>
<p><strong>(10c)</strong> 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 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/20/nyregion/gunman-fires-into-a-crowd-at-jersey-park.html">the closest I have ever gotten</a> to death by gunshot).</p>
<p><strong>(10d)</strong> Do not attend <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/17/indianapolis-shooting-ind_n_650230.html">events likely to draw a lot of blacks</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>It's fun to try to imagine what circumstances led Mr. Derbyshire to come up with 10c. A bad experience at Six Flags? Isn't attending amusement parks in general a little beneath Mr. Derbyshire's station? How Taki...er...tacky!</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_231548" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 222px"><a href="http://www.observer.com/2012/04/john-derbyshires-advice-on-how-to-talk-to-your-children-about-black-people/johnderbyshire1/" rel="attachment wp-att-231548"><img class=" wp-image-231548" title="JohnDerbyshire1" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/johnderbyshire1.jpg?w=225&h=300" alt="" width="212" height="282" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">John Derbyshire, expert on the Blacks (Wikipedia)</p></div></p>
<p>We're still a little confused about the spirit in which to take articles written in <a href="http://takimag.com/"><em>Taki’s Magazine</em></a>, socialite/journalist <strong>Taki Theodoracopulos</strong> "politics and culture" website. With long, often  provocative essays by everyone from <strong>Pat Buchanan</strong> to <strong>Jim Goad</strong> to <strong>Gavin McInnes</strong>, we're not sure how seriously the 'zine takes itself.<br />
For instance, how tongue-in-cheek is this <strong>John Derbyshire</strong> essay, <a href="http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire#axzz1rBeqdcIl">The Talk: Nonblack Version</a>, in which the<em> National Review</em> journalist lays down several points on how he plans on discussing race with his children. It's...well...<em>bold</em>, we guess you can say.</p>
<p><!--more--></p>
<p>Mr. Derbyshire's two children--who are 19 and 16, and probably don't need a talk from their dad about how to discuss Black people in public-- will be receiving such pearls of wisdom as:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>(1)</strong> Among your fellow citizens are forty million who identify as black, and whom I shall refer to as black. The cumbersome (and <a href="http://tinyurl.com/7tyk386">MLK-noncompliant</a>) term “African-American” seems to be in decline, thank goodness. “<a href="http://www.naacp.org/">Colored</a>” and “<a href="http://www.uncf.org/">Negro</a>” are archaisms. What you must call “the ‘N’ word” is used freely among blacks but is taboo to nonblacks.</p></blockquote>
<div>and:</div>
<div>
<blockquote><p><strong>(10a)</strong> Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.</p>
<p><strong>(10b)</strong><a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=679_1332640868">Stay out</a> of heavily black neighborhoods.</p>
<p><strong>(10c)</strong> 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 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/20/nyregion/gunman-fires-into-a-crowd-at-jersey-park.html">the closest I have ever gotten</a> to death by gunshot).</p>
<p><strong>(10d)</strong> Do not attend <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/17/indianapolis-shooting-ind_n_650230.html">events likely to draw a lot of blacks</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>It's fun to try to imagine what circumstances led Mr. Derbyshire to come up with 10c. A bad experience at Six Flags? Isn't attending amusement parks in general a little beneath Mr. Derbyshire's station? How Taki...er...tacky!</p>
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