The Gawker has published an interview with ex-National Review columnist John Derbyshire after that publication ended its relationship with him for a blatantly racist piece he published elsewhere. Derbyshire sees himself has a victim of both hypocrisy among conservatives and of the "hysterically deranged" left.
You can access the complete interview here.
In the interview, Derbyshire openly reflects on his racist views:
The mild and tolerant racism I've owned up to, and which seems to be very common, is not usually a problem in people's personal social lives. It's never been a problem in my life. I've always got on pretty well with persons of all races, excepting those individuals nobody can get along with—we've all met 'em. But then, of course, as an individual, one can "navigate" through life, making choices that avoid difficult quandaries, by just the kinds of strategies outlined in my article.
Looking at trends in education and residence in America, Derbyshire considers any institutional effort to end racism futile:
For a thoughtful person today to believe that these social-engineering nostrums will (for example) bring black crime rates to a level indistinguishable from white crime rates, involves a strenuous act of what Orwell called "doublethink"—massive self-deception. Does anyone, after all those decades, all those trillions of dollars, all those failed social-engineering experiments, does anyone really, honestly still believe in the nostrums? I don't.
Derbyshire then goes on to explain how blacks hold a special place in the hierarchy of races that makes integration impossible:
I'm more at ease in a room full of Chinese people than I would be in a room full of black American rap artists. And my personal predilections aside, I think the big division in our society is always black-nonblack. The other stuff—Hispanics, Asians—is a bagatelle by comparison. This makes sense paleoanthropologically, too: Homo sap. first left Africa, then differentiated into other races
Poor John Derbyshire. His work will henceforth only be published in overtly racist outlets instead of more subtle publications like the National Review. His fellow Brit and Dow Jones columnist Peter Brimelow is
welcoming Derbyshire with open arms to his white supremacist Webzine VDARE.