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no prospect for healing the rift.home. But beggars for truth these days can'tthei r Christian evangel ical broadcasts, andThe chief cause of the fall i ng out was thebe choosy about the character of theira significant part of their income comesconviction of a black Maryland minister ontruthtellers. We are so stuffed with untruthfrom fundamentalist preachers carrying thecharges of sexually harassing two whitethat we must be content to snatch crumbsmessage of Christ to millions of listeners.women and three black women on the job.of veracity from whatever hands, dirty orWABS, "the single most popular religi In testimony before a church court of 13not, are willing to feed us.ous station in the Washington-Baltimore,Methodist ministers, the plaintiffs said Rev.In recent months, Vidal has written arti Maryland, area," is owned by Edwardcles for The Nation that have broughtJohn P. Carter talked about sex non-stop.Tornberg, a Jew, yet it airs three "Jews forThough only one of the women was physi shrieks of anti-Semitism from such asJesus" programs. Similar programs arecally harassed, three others said CarterMichael Novak, a onetime Democraticaired by Forus Communications (Samueldropped his support for their work afterRosen, principal owner), which has radioParty ghostwriti ng hack and author of somethey rebuffed his verbal advances.disgusting ethnic slurs against WASP wo stations in Chicago, Atlanta and Syracuse(NY).men (see The Rise of the Unmeltable Eth Following the conviction, by: a 12-0 votenics). Novak of late has metamorphizedwith the only black man on the jury of 13into a Catholic conservative, to the ener abstaining -- Rev. Carter's wife Deborahgetic applause of the very same people hewalked up to the bishop of the Marylandused to smear so thoroughly a few yearsAI Jolson (1886-1950), Jewish star of thechurch, Joseph Yeakel, and called him afirst "talking" motion picture and famousback. What particularly incensed Novak"racist.""You have ruined the reputation of afor the "mammy" songs he ground out inwas Vidal's article in The Nation (Mar. 22,black man," she sputtered. "This is notblackface, was an egotistical sex maniac,1986) attacking the "distinguished, braveand brilliant editor of Commentary," Nor over."according to a new documentary producedMaryland's black and white Methodistman Podhoretz, and Midge Decter, his in by Melvyn Bragg of London Weekend Tele congregations were merged in 1965, andtellectual and physical consort. Vidal hadvision. One New York theater managerthings have been tense ever since. Recent written -- and rightly so that Mr. and Mrs.would find a different showgirl to sleeply, 30 black clergymen gathered at HowardPodhoretz are Israeli fifth columnists andwith Jolson "each night before the curtainUniversity in Washington to hear the cam are inching us into war, perhaps even awent up." Faded showgirl Bonnie Green,pus minister, Rev. Lovell Parham, declare,nuclear war, with their overweening dedi now 68, recalls life with Jolson:liThe women clergy have become our en cation and support of Israel. Indeed, VidalWe would go to the races, and AIemy." (At Wesley Theological Seminary,was not afraid to say that Podhoretz's "firstwould bet on every horse in the race, sobetween 35 and 55% of incoming studentsloyalty will always be Israel."he could tell his friends he was on theeach fall are women. Six to 12% areVidal's proposal for a viable Middle East winner. He had to win at everything.ern policy is succinct and most heretical:blacks.)He used to drag me along with him toThe feminists charge that the church'sthe fights, although I detested boxing. He[TJhe time has come for the Unitedwhite male hierarchy is more fearful of be made me sit in the front row so he couldStates to stop all aid, not only to Israel,ing called "racist" than "sexist." Brendasee me get spattered in blood.but to Jordan, Egypt and the rest of theBratton Blom and Elaine de Coligny, theArab world. The Middle Easternerswhiteplaintiffs in the Carter case, say theywould then be obliged to make peace orbelieve they would not have had "a pray blow one another up or whatever. In anyer" of pursuing their charges without thecase, we wou Id be well out of it. After a II,Q: What do you call one white manparticipation of the three black women.the theological and territorial quarrels ofsurrounded by ten blacks?Israel and Islam are as remote to 200The blacks in the church allege that theA: Coach.million Americans as -- what else? -- thewhite male hierarchy is more responsive toQ: What do you call one white manWar of the Roses.charges of "sexism" than "racism."surrounded by a hundred blacks?Both sides, black and feminist, worry thatA: Warden.In an even more controversial piece inthey're being "used" as "pawns" in aQ: What do you call one white manThe Nation (Jan. 11, 1986), Vidal produced"white male conspiracy" to hang ontosurrounded by a thousand blacks?his own revisionist view of American his power. Both have been trained to lookA: Postmaster.tory. He proposed that the American em upon "the enemy" as the white male. AsNo, these jokes were not cracked at apire, which was 71 years old and had beenthe black-feminist bickering intensifies, theGrand Konklave of the Ku Klux Klan as aborn when the first shot was fired in WWI,white men, rather than choosing sides,burning cross lit up the night in a Georgiadied on Sept. 16, 1985. That was the date ithave wimpishly retreated into silence.pine forest. They flowed from the pure, lib became a debtor nation. That was the dayYet black bitterness seems to be deter eral,people-loving mouth of Rep. Patriciathe money power, which moved from Lon mining the outcome. "We can't trustSchroeder (D-CO). What she was trying todon to New York at the beginning of thethem," says Rev. Parham of white clergy do, she piously explained, was to make acentury, officially moved to Tokyo.women. And he sees no means of reestab poi nt about the need for the Postal ServiceVidal then throws in his foreign policylishing that trust.to put more blacks in positions of authority.shocker. The real threatto U.s. security andif theyDespite her noble intentionswell-being, he asserts, now comes fromwere noble -- Ms. Schroeder was taken toAsia, not Russia. Consequently, our onlytask by Negro columnist Dorothy Gilliamhope of fending off the brawn and brains ofin the Washington Post (Feb. 24, 1986) onthe slowly consolidating Asian masses is athe basis that such joking "further unravelsWhat's so unusual about Howard War military and economic alliance with thethe frayed fabric of racial harmony."shaw's Universal Broadcasting Company,USSR.Gilliam is well aware that one of the fewwhich has 14 radio stations in 13 majorways of keeping free speech alive in this eramarkets, or Scott Ginsburg'S Statewideof numbing censorship is the ethnic joke.Broadcasting with 4 radio stations in majorAs a professional censor, she would like tocities, or Howard Schwartz Associates' 9make cracks like Pat Schroeder's illegal.Blacks and feminists are at war within thestations?But would she do the same to the honkyAmerican Methodist Church. The mutualWhat is unusual is that these Jewish jokes?bitterness is great, and there appears to beowned radio networks are chiefly noted forCelebrity CornerLiberal WisecrackerChristers onJewish RadioClashing ClericsINSTAURATION -- JUNE 1986 -- PAGE 23

Jewish TerrorismThe streets of Boston are resounding tothe tramp, tramp, tramp of militant Jews. Inthe third week of March they picketed achurch where Rev. Jesse Jackson was en dorsing Mel King, a black candidate forCongress. In the final week of March, theJDL went after King himself, calling him "adanger to American Jews" and an apolo gist for communism." What awful thinghad King done? In a grievous lapse of politi cal savvy, he backed the establishment of aPalestinian state and said he would be wil ling to meet with Yasser Arafat. Earlierthesesame Soviet-bashing Jewish terrorists pick eted an exhibition game played in Bostonby a visiting Russian hockey team.Concurrently, in northern New Jersey,two churches in which "Jews for Jesus"groups had been holding services were de faced with the slogan, "This Time WeWriteNext Time We Bomb." Under neath were the initials "JDL.I! No arrestswere made, even though the FBI had justput out a press release boasting of howmany terrorists the G-men had arrested inthein 1985. No members of the JDLappeared on this list nor any suspects in themurders of Alex Odeh, the head of the LosAngeles branch of the American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, and TscherimSoobzokov, whom Jews (but not the federalgovernment) considered a war crimninal.As for the arsonists who torched the Insti tute for Historical Review headquarters inTorrance (CA) and firebombed severalArab-American offices throughout thecountry, they are still unarrested, unjailedand unprosecuted.1/u.s.Indian LoreOn August 17, 1862, in the town of Ac ton, Minnesota, four young Ogallala Siouxwarriors murdered a small group of settlersfor no apparent reason, precipitating whatwas later known as "The Great Sioux Up rising." President Lincoln estimated thatmore than 800 whites died during thoseterrifying six weeks. Thirty thousand fledtheir homes, some never to return. Whitesof all shapes and sizes -- men, women andchildren -- were shot or hacked to death,scalped, disemboweled and on occasioncannibalized.The white reaction to the massacre cul minated on December 26, 1862, with amass execution of two or three dozenSioux, following a "legal" proceeding thathad a distinct Nuremberg flavor. Thou sands of Indians and half-breeds wererounded up and 306 were sentenced todeath. Personally reviewing each case, Lin coln determined that many of the accusedPAGE 24 --INSTAURATION -- JUNE 1986were innocent and that, at most, only 38were directly involved. During the trial, thecourt acted with great prej udice and theevidence against the defendants was oftenthe rankest hearsay. The Germans at Nur emberg had a media-conscious Truman inthe White House. The Sioux were fortunateto have lived during the presidency of Ab raham Lincoln.American Indians, it should be added,were some of the bloodthirstiest, mosttreacherous and most deceitful people onearth. The Iroquois (Dan Rather'S remoteancestors) were perhaps the worst of thelot; their name literally meant "real ad ders." Cannibalism, a common practice,was a religious version of "you are whatyou eat." It paid to be a coward because thelily-livered never suffered this fate. Scalp ing was not, as Boasian anthropologistsfalsely claim, a practice introduced by thewhite man. It was an economical version ofcarting off an enemy's head as a war tro phy, as proof of "bravery." Back in thewigwams, the suspicious stay-at-homesneeded visual evidence like heads (scalps)or prisoners. Moreover, the term "blood thirsty" is not figurative. It was not unusualto observe Redskins lapping up fresh bloodpouring out of a butchered enemy, white orotherwise.Tree TalkLast year on the Sunday before Hallo ween, two black women and their childrenwere walking through the Six Flags Amuse ment Park in Maryland when they ran intoa"talking tree." They didn't like what theyheard. One pickaninny was called a"prime ape's son" and the other, a girl, wastold her photograph would appear on thecover of a "food stamp magazine." One ofthe two mothers was referred to as the"black ape in the pink sweater with speedbumpers on her chest."The two black ladies are now suing theamusement park for 2 million. The park'slawyer denied everything and said the Hal loween exhibit featured a tree that was bil led as "sarcastic." He stated that the twoblacks and their kids had been the onlyNegroes in a group passing by the tree atthe time and accordingly were obvious tar gets.Kosher TaxLast year a friend of Instauration wroteseveral large companies asking about the Kand circle U on the labels of their foodproducts. Borden, Lever Bros., Del Monte,Ralston Purina and General Foods all re plied in the same general, non-informativeand noncommittal way. All said or impliedthat the rabbis' charges for inspecting theirfood products were minimal and that thecost was not passed on to the customer.None would reveal what the cost was.None agreed to refund this "religious tax."One company, Ralston Purina, said that"showing a product with kosher approvalis necessary in certain parts of the UnitedStates." General Foods replied that it hadnot solicited the K imprimatur.So here we have 2.8% of the U.S. popu lation (Jewish figures) -- and only a part ofthat 2.8% kosher-keepers -- imposing itsdietary laws on the rest of the cou ntry andforcing the largest food companies to payfees to rabbis which they refuse to makepublic. What a fascinating subject for afull-scale media investigation, particularlyin regard to this open defiance of the Con stitutional mandate on church-state separa tion.Who Scared Whom?All too frequently we come across refer ences to the "Red scare" which sweptAmerica following the Bolshevik Revolu tion. All too frequently we have been led tobelieve that it was a sort of pre-McCarthywitch-hunt of innocent Communist sympa thizers.One minor literary event, however, con firms that the "scare" was either not soscary or that certain areas of American cul ture had already fallen victim to minoritybullying.Edgar Rice Burroughs was among themost popular writers of the period. As crea tor of Tarzan of the Apes, his tales weresnapped up for magazines and books al most as fast as he could rip them out of histypewriter.In 1918-19 he wrote a novel he calledUnder the Red Flag, a cautionary, patriotic,21 st-century tale about the Soviet Unionconquering the world. Yet this timely workby an immensely popular author was re jected by no fewer than 11 publishers dur i ng the prime "scare" years of 1919 and1921.Burroughs finally rewrote the book, turn ing the Communists into extraterrestrialaliens. This time he had no trouble at allselling it. In fact, the book is still in printunder its second title, The Moon Men.Jews Not a RaceJews like to have it both ways -- and theyoften get their way. Although by far therichest American population group, Jewshave nevertheless managed to muscle in onthe small business perks and low-interestloans offered by the federal government todisadvantaged minorities.But Jews have missed the boat in theirattempt to obtain the special protection oftwo 19th-century civil rights laws designedto give Negroes the same rights en joyed bywhites and to make it a crime to deny the

benefits of the law to anyone on account ofrace.When a Silver Spring (MD) synagoguewas spray-painted with swastikas in 1984,members of the congregation decided toraise the criminal ante against the eight par ties who were convicted of destroyingproperty. They charged the accused withviolating the two civil rights laws men tioned above. But this meant the plaintiffshad to prove thaUhe Jews, like the blacks,were members of a distinct race. Theydidn't prove this to the satisfaction of a u.s.District Court, which last year threw outthecase. Earlier this year an appeals court up held the dismissal.Since most Jews deny they are a race (atleast in public), it ill behooves them to go tocourt to instigate litigation based on theassumption they are. They can't have itboth ways. Or can they? There is always ahigher court to run to and there are alwaysother states where anti-Semitic incidentscan start the legal maneuvers all over again.Mail OrderDefraudersAlmost 300 full-time Postal Service in spectors are assigned the task of investigat ing mail order swindles. About 1,000 casesa year are prosecuted, some 98% success fully. Here is a resume of the largest suchscam operations (see Consumer Reports,Feb. 1986): Robertson Taylor Co. Miracle DietPills. Estimated 1984 sales, 16 million.Mitchell Friedland, president. Friedlandwas arrested in August 1985 and chargedwith 113 counts of criminal fraud. Avant Garde Media Inc. Publisher oferotic magazines offering phony sweep stakes prizes. Ralph Ginzburg, president,for whose pornographic magazine the lateSupreme Court justice William Douglasonce wrote an article, was charged by thePostal Service with false representation in1984 and ordered to pay civil penalties of 25,000. In 1985 a U.s. District Court or dered Ginzburg and his company to pay a 4,050 fine. Other fines and penalties willbe determined in a future hearing. Encore House Inc. Diet pills, binocu lars, other products. Estimated 1983 sales, 20 million. Norman Chanes, president,pleaded guilty to two counts of criminalmail fraud and was sentenced to 90 days injail. Direct Marketing Inc. Diet and sexpills, air conditioners. Marc Platt, presi dent, Ira Smolov, secretary. Both pleadedguilty to conspiring to commit mail fraudand were given suspended jail sentences. Direct Marketing Enterprises Inc. Jew elry, telephones, watches. Estimated 1984sales, 100 million plus. jerry Williams,chairman, Stephen Brown, president. InJanuary 1984, the company paid 10,000in civil forfeitures and fines.We have no comment on the above ex cept to suggest that the paternal grandfath ers of Stephen Brown and Jerry Williams,the men in charge of Direct Marketing En terprises Inc., probably had different sur names.Black Beatenat His Own GamePerhaps he discovered some culturalbias in Trivial Pursuit. Perhaps he justwanted to make a few bucks. Whatever hismotive, Dwayne Hall put together a blackversion of the popular board game and cal led it BlacFax. Accumulating, with somedifficulty, 3,000 questions about blacks inhistory, science, the arts and other cate gories, Hall introduced his product at the1985 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Asso ciation basketball tournament at Norfolk(VA), where eight black college teams werecompeting. He says he sold 5,000 of hisgames at 18.95 each.Last year a TV station in Norfolk focusedits cameras on a group of people, mostlyblacks, playing BlacFax. White anchormanjim Kincaid, who had covered the civilrights movement in the 60s, won handsdown. Among the losers was Dwayne Hall.CensoredDivestitureDid you read the following news item inyour local Daily Bugle? No, you didn't.Late last year delegates to the AFL-CiOconvention not only condemned EI AI Air lines for provoking and prolonging a 20 month-old strike by the Machinists Union;they brought up the charge of union bust ing and introduced a resolution that or dered all AFL-CiO affiliated unions to stopbuying Israel bonds. Here was a disinvest ment campaign that

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