A California Reader Asks About A Black Conservative Preacher

Re: James Fulford’s blog post Anti-White Racism—Another Ugly Root Of Immigration Enthusiasm [1]

From: An Anonymous California Reader [Email him [2]]

Thanks to James Fulford for his insightful and well documented articles on this and related topics at VDARE.com.

For some more documented support from a different angle, VDARE.com might have a look at a book by the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson [3]. This is a black guy whom whites suspicious of blacks can actually like and admire. I saw him speak a few months [4] ago at the Conservative Forum in [5] San Jose, CA. He's honest and sincere, traits I don't sense in most political blacks. He blames blacks for their own problems. And confesses he was bitter against whitey [6] himself till he wised up. Now he teaches blacks how to save themselves from themselves.

After the speech, I shook his hand and bought From Rage to Responsibility [7] (Paragon House publisher, 2000). In it, he describes the mentality of the black community seen from the inside and postulates that black rage comes from abandonment by their fathers.

I don't think that's the whole story, but it makes a lot of sense and is surely a big part of the pathology. Facing up to it turned his own life around, he writes.

Oddly, though he's actually on our side and is reasonably publicly prominent, I don't find Peterson mentioned in a search [8] at VDARE.com.

James Fulford [9] writes: I respect black conservatives, because I have some idea of how hard it is for them [10]. The $PLC’s [11] attacks on them are, if anything, worse [12] than the ones on us. Here at VDARE.com [13], we’re on the political fringe in some ways, but if you’re in the black community, normal attitudes to crime control [14], patriotism [15], and gun control [16] are on the fringe. Simply voting Republican is on the fringe in the black community—about half of Americans vote Republican, and about five percent of blacks do. However, I also have some skepticism about black conservatives. See BRC (“Black Run Conservatism”) vs. GAP—(“Generic American Party") [17] By James Kirkpatrick [18].

Let me put it this way—while I can respect black conservatives like Thomas Sowell,  [13] Elizabeth Wright [19], and any number of others (with the specific exception of Alan Keyes) [20] I don’t feel that I need Jesse Lee Peterson to bless my political opinions.

The belief that such a blessing is necessary led to the nomination of Keyes [21], for example, to run against Barack Obama for the Senate in Illinois. You know what that led to.