Publication by Virginia Deane Abernethy

by Virginia Deane Abernethy 

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the first Presentation of the Jack London Prize. I wish particularly to thank John Gardiner and two anonymous underwriters of the Prize. I wish also to thank Bill Regnery, Louis Andrews, Sam Francis , and Kevin Lamb for their support, vision, and hard work in bringing the Jack London Prize and this award ceremony into being. And we are as well indebted to members of the Jack London Prize Committee.

The Jack London Prize is awarded to those authors whose work reflects the expansive, fearless spirit of Jack London, and is intended to promote the timeless values of Western civilization. The Prize honors those whose writings are intellectually intrepid and characterized by breadth of vision, scholarly rigor and lucid phraseology.

Presentation of the Jack London Prize, a first, comes at a time when European-American culture, and the bearers of this tradition, are under concerted and many-faceted attack. European-Americans are threatened by actual loss of territory – the inevitable end-point of continuing mass immigration. And well we know that maintenance of culture, language, and race become much more difficult without a territorial base.

Few who experience these events from the inside would deny that European-Americans, especially straight men, are consistently discriminated against in educational and employment venues, in the media, and by the criminal justice system. Whoever heard of a hate crime against a white man, for example? Is it ever a front-page story above the fold? No. And do we protest this asymmetry? Seldom.

From Idaho, Edgar Steele, intrepid advocate for justice, puts it thusly, "We have come to believe that merely resisting being oppressed and divided by the very racist policies of America's ruling class is, in itself, racism...In other words, unless we participate in our own racial genocide, we are racists."
--- Edgar J. Steele, Defensive Racism, chapter 11 (2004)--- Edgar J. Steele, chapter 11 (2004)

A doctrine that persuades us to accept our own defeat is multiculturalism The essence of multiculturalism is ethnic identity, ethnic separatism, and ethnic power. The new set of rules asserts privilege and power for ethnic groups, rather than individuals.

In the public schools and the popular culture, multiculturalism has replaced the honored motto of by-gone years: e pluribus unum -- out of many, one. 

I have had a personal epiphany regarding multiculturalism. In the midst of the campaign for passage of Protect Arizona Now’s Proposition 200, I stumbled on a counter-attack … a way to attack multiculturalism.

The media in Arizona – encouraged by the Federation for Immigration Reform [FAIR] – had a field day labeling me as a white supremacist, and I said "No, I am a European-American separatist." Through this, I discovered it is possible, actually, to threaten THEM.

As soon as ethnic identity, separatism, and power are asserted on behalf of European-Americans, the politically correct cabal begins to rethink allegiance to multiculturalism.

They think even harder if one asks, as Protect Arizona Now’s Kathy McKee has been asking quite innocently, how can you be against separatism? Do you want to empty all the Chinatowns, shut down little Havana, raze the barrios, disperse the population of Skokie, Illinois, and Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, sometimes called "little Odessa"? Do you want to squelch MALDEF, La Raza, LULAC, the Anti-Defamation League, Hillel, JINSA, ZOA, AIPAC, or the American Jewish Congress – because they are separatist? "If you are against separatism, aren’t you against all of those?"

These are good questions and good debating points.

If we plan to prosper, I would have you consider that our weapon’s edge is honed by recognizing, accepting, believing that the new game in town is multiculturalism. I think that we should try to play that game without guilt and with skill.

First, become self-consciously European-American in order to put our ethnic group on a level playing field with others that operate as groups. Claim legitimacy and the right of separatism – the legitimacy of separatism -- on grounds equivalent to those whose identity and privilege derive from Chinatown, little Havana, the barrios, and on and on.

The influence that can be exerted by European-Americans acting cohesively might quickly scotch the allure of multiculturalism. I put it to you that we would soon see the end of glorifying multiculturalism – -- and what a shame – right after we finally learned to play the game.

But this would not be a bad outcome for us because the collectivism of multiculturalism is not natural to us. The challenge will be to keep on working together to make the rules for the next round of competition.

I need hardly add that Rule One would be an indefinite moratorium on mass immigration.

I have faith that we will be well positioned to win – either in multiculturalism so long as it persists, or in whatever follows --- so long as we recognize that this is a game for power and even biological survival, that our opponents play for keeps, that some of them, indeed, despise us. We are a group with common interests who are best served by trust within the group and wariness outside it.

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