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Subject: Getting Serious About White Deviance: An Open Letter to the
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Getting Serious About White Deviance: An Open Letter to the Pioneer Fund

By Tim Wise

To Whom It May Concern:

With great excitement, I recently discovered your organization's work
for the betterment of mankind, through the applied science of racial
research. As someone who has been investigating the disproportionately
pathological tendencies of persons of European descent--whites in the
popular vernacular--imagine my delight upon reading your Charter, which
notes:

"The Pioneer Fund is committed to the proposition that people of
different ethnic and cultural backgrounds are, on the basis of heredity,
inherently unequal and can never be expected to behave or perform
equally."

Gentlemen, I couldn't have said it better; and given our mutual interest
in racial differences, I feel certain you will be intrigued by my
funding proposal.

Just as your group has lavishly financed those whose work demonstrates
the intellectual deficiencies of blacks, so too is it critical to
examine the reasons for the disproportionate drug use, binge drinking,
and propensity for serial murder that are the hallmarks of the Caucasian
population.

Although it has long been known that roughly 90% of serial killers in
modern history have been white, only recently has evidence emerged to
illuminate the epidemic of substance abuse in the white community.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, whites are 11%
more likely to have used drugs than blacks and 25% more likely to have
done so than Hispanics. What's more, recent data from the Centers for
Disease Control and the National Household Drug Abuse Survey indicates:

--White high schoolers are 4.5 times more likely than blacks to have
used cocaine; 3.6 times more likely to have gotten high using inhalants,
like paint fumes or Liquid Paper; twice as likely as blacks to have used
heroin; and six times more likely to have used methamphetamine. In fact,
there are more white high school students who have used crystal meth
than black students who regularly smoke cigarettes;

--Whites are 43% more likely than blacks to drink alcohol and 27% more
likely to binge drink than blacks (consuming five or more drinks at a
time), with white youth more than twice as likely as black youth to
binge;

--Whites are 74% more likely than blacks to binge drink regularly (at
least five times monthly), and white youth are three times as likely to
do so;

--In fact, there are more whites who binge drink at least once a month
than there are blacks in the entire U.S. population! And finally:

--According to a private study, white college students consume three
times more alcoholic beverages weekly than black students, are 65% more
likely to drink to the point of being hungover, and 71% more likely to
drink 'till they puke.

What's more, these white behaviors put others at substantial risk:

--Whites are almost twice as likely as blacks to drive drunk, and 15%
more likely to do so than Hispanics;

--Whites between 12-17, are 34% more likely than black youth to have
sold drugs in the past year;

--The annual cost of white alcohol and drug abuse is approximately $200
billion in escalated health care and law enforcement expenditures, as
well as lost productivity;

--White males are 24% more likely than black males to have carried a
weapon in the last thirty days; and white males in high school are twice
as likely as their black counterparts to bring a weapon to school.

Could these overwhelmingly consistent examples of white pathology be
mere coincidence? Or might they indicate a genetic predisposition to
such harmful activities? Surely, the latter possibility is strong enough
to warrant a massive research effort to get to the bottom of these
phenomena.

Of course, the liberals will insist there are environmental explanations
for white drug and alcohol problems. One can imagine them trying to
blame two-earner white families for being too busy with their dot-com
startup or landscaping classes at Home Depot to give their children the
nurturing needed to resist drugs. But as the Department of Health and
Human Services data indicates, white kids are 27% more likely than
blacks to receive anti-drug information from parents, and 24% more
likely to receive similar information in school, yet they just can't
seem to put down their needles and pipes.

Though some will insist white alcoholism is
environmentally-conditioned--what with happy hour at TGI Friday's and
Chili's entrapping white businessmen and soccer moms to get plowed on
Micro-Brews and Flaming Margaritas--in the end, I feel confident that
scientific truth will prevail, and whites will be forced to take
personal responsibility for their behavior.

As for the methodology I will use to determine if there is a white
genetic predisposition to substance abuse, I have written to Phillipe
Rushton, of Ontario to ask for his assistance. Having generously
underwritten Rushton's work on black hypersexuality--which you'll recall
he demonstrated by going to a shopping mall and asking blacks, whites
and Asians how far they could ejaculate--you will no doubt appreciate my
desire to include him in this endeavor. I propose that Rushton return to
the mall and ask blacks, whites, and Asians how many bong hits they can
do without choking, and how many tabs of ecstasy they can take before
their eyeballs roll back in their head and they begin to drool.

And with help from the folks at the Genome Project, it should be easy to
find not only the substance abuse genes in Caucasian DNA, but also those
correlated with other high-risk, mostly white, and I dare say,
pathological behaviors, like bunjee-jumping, skydiving, and
body-piercing.

Best of all, this research could directly impact public policy.
Currently, in part because folks don't know about disproportionate white
substance abuse, law enforcement efforts are often foolishly targeted
against blacks.

For example, although blacks are 14% of drug users, they are 35% of
those arrested for possession, 55% of those convicted, and 75% of those
incarcerated for drugs. In cities like Baltimore, Columbus and
Minneapolis, blacks are anywhere from five to twenty times more likely
to be arrested for drugs, though whites are the more likely users.

Even worse, the drug arrest rate for black juveniles has recently
climbed by over 75%, while for whites it has fallen 34%, and black youth
are 48 times more likely to be incarcerated for a drug offense than
whites with the same record, even though evidence indicates whites will
more likely re-offend.

By exposing pathological white substance abuse, my research could lead
to a more efficient use of law enforcement dollars: instead of stopping
cars driven by blacks, we could set up roadblocks leading into the
suburbs, trailer parks, and gated communities where so many white
addicts reside.  Sure, some will complain they're being victimized for
"Driving While White," but like Dinesh D'Souza says, "rational
discrimination applies the logic of predictive evaluation to racial
groups," and "is not premised upon assumptions of biological
inferiority." In short, it's nothing personal.

Additionally, we could drug test all white college students receiving
federal financial aid, and raid their fraternities and sororities,
suspending all subsidies to those testing positive for narcotics, or
those under 21 who have been drinking. Unfair? Hardly: as D'Souza
continues:

"...rational discrimination...can be fully eradicated only by getting
rid of destructive conduct by the group that forms the basis for
statistically valid group distinctions. It is difficult to compel people
to admire groups, many of whose members do not act admirably."

Although Dinesh was talking about rational discrimination against blacks
by taxi drivers, it only seems fair to apply the principle consistently,
as I'm sure you'd agree.

Though this research might inadvertently cause prejudice and
discrimination against innocent whites, unfairly labeled deviant because
of their group's proclivities, the search for truth cannot be suppressed
in the name of political correctness: facts are facts, and we must go
where they lead, just as those intrepid scholars, Charles Murray and
Richard Herrnstein did in The Bell Curve, many of whose sources were
researchers funded by your courageous organization.

Yes, this is controversial. But my research would be in keeping with a
Pioneer tradition, begun in the '30's when your group's founders
imported copies of a Nazi propaganda film on race hygiene, for screening
by American schools and civic groups.

Just as this film, "Applied Eugenics in Present-Day Germany,"
demonstrated the folly of spending money to keep the Rhineland's genetic
defectives alive, so too could my research demonstrate the waste of
pouring money into drug education in mostly white schools: after all,
you just can't get through to some people.

It may be that nothing can wean whites from their insatiable appetites
for drugs and alcohol. If so, then just as your founder, Wickliffe
Draper, once said blacks were "genetically inferior," and "ought to be
repatriated to Africa," so too will you surely be brave enough to call
for a full-fledged "back to Europe" movement, so as to rid the U.S. of
millions of narcotized Caucasian parasites.

As one of your grantees, Richard Lynn says, it might even be necessary
to "phase out" inferior cultures: a prospect that might apply to whites
if they're unwilling or unable to clean themselves up. Such is the price
of progress.

So, I anxiously await your reply to my funding request. I have also
contacted the Free Press (which published The Bell Curve and D'Souza's
The End of Racism), since they seemed the natural choice to publish my
research, once it is ready to appear in book form. I have even proposed
a title: either The 'Saved By the Bell' Curve--named after a Saturday
morning television show, popular with white kids (probably because
they're stoned)--or the Bell-Bottom Curve: a satirical reference to the
style of pants made popular in the late '60's and early '70's by whites
(especially hippies and potheads).

I would appreciate any ideas you may have for the research or the title
of this guaranteed best seller. Please respond quickly: the future of
our country is at stake.

Sincerely,

Tim Wise



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