Page 16 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • July 14, 2010 were denied passports. Nobody saw this stuff as bad until they saw Hitler do it to educated whites. Then they got the point. Before that, American racism was institutionalized. Many states had laws against marriages between people of different races. The Hollywood Production Code in 1930 banned movie plots that featured interracial romances and just about put Sessue Hayakawa out of business. Before that, Hayakawa had been a Hollywood moneymaker on the level of Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin playing a sort of menacing romantic Japanese villain who pursued white women. Hayakawa and his wife, Tsuru Aoki, adopted three white children. When Aoki died, Hayakawa became a Buddhist monk. Somebody slipped a non-singing version of “Madame Butterfly” with Cary Grant and Sylvia Sydney through Hollywood just as the Production Code was taking effect. Sydney gave the most convincing impersonation of a Japanese girl I’ve ever seen from a white actress, but since it was still an interracial love story, it was the last of its kind. “Birth of a Nation” (1916) was so racist that the leading black characters were played by whites in blackface. The remote extras really were of African ancestry. In “So Red the Rose” (1935), the blacks who wanted to be free were dangerous fools and villains and the Union soldiers who wanted to free them were thieves and cowards – “one step above gorillas,” as a modern reviewer noted. The heroine, Margaret, justified slavery, and the blacks in the movie agreed with her. In “Gone with the Wind” (1939) all bases were covered. The black characters in that film included a villain, the wise Mammy, and a comprehensive collection of good-hearted, lovable people. Check out the dialogue in any World War II movie: “These little monkeys are ichi-ban jozo (number one skillful). They can climb trees better than monkeys. They’ve got all the best trees marked on their maps.” “Okay, Mr. Monkey, you’re gonna get it now.” That wasn’t the Germans or the Italians they were talking about. The one black man in “Bataan” (1943), played by Kenneth Spencer, spends most of the film singing the blues. When the Japanese kill him, he is the only one who screams. Southern states banned “Bataan” because the unit in the film was integrated – an anachronism, since the whole Army and Marine Corps were segregated until 1948. Once the “color bar” went down in sports, white supremacists received a shock: Blacks were demonstrably better at many sports than whites were. White supremacy is a fear trip as whites in the lower quadrant of the IQ sector, who can’t relate to much beyond sports and sex, realize they aren’t really superior. If life is really a “struggle for existence” instead of all people helping one another, these guys are losing. If you want to get rid of white supremacy, get rid of Charles Darwin. His science was bogus and was dismissed by genuine scientists like Louis Pasteur and Rudolf Virchow. Darwin was the grandfather of modern racism, supported by Americans like Charles Davenport and Madison Grant, and Austrians like Adolf Hitler and Adolf Eichmann, along with a lot of Germans and a surprising number of Brits. Empirically, those whites who are drawn to white supremacy are generally anything but supreme. They are scared, resentful people, especially in this economy, but they are still morally and intellectually in the wrong. Darwin, their conscious or covert touchstone, is a racist has-been and prime instigator of the Holocaust. Nazi racial theory was bluntly known as neo-Darwinism. But some people just can’t understand why it’s fake, and other people are afraid to lose their jobs and be lumped together with Fredric March playing Matthew Harrison Brady (William Jennings Bryan) in “Inherit the Wind.” The facts of science – the absence of any plausible case of spontaneous generation or the gaps in the fossil column as in the Grand Canyon – just don’t matter to Darwin’s defenders. What is important is job security. People who reject Darwin are just as unpopular as those who publicly support white supremacy, but they’re not the same people. An interesting thing happened during our aestivation. According to a piece in another newspaper, some residents took umbrage with the fact that the Glen Rock Borough Council and the Community Relations Advisory Board of Glen Rock and Ridgewood had been remiss in tackling the issue of white supremacist leaflets stuck under windshield wipers by the National Socialist Movement, which is based in Birmingham, Alabama. The leaflets denounced illegal immigration and supported “Putting Our Family Our Nation and Our Race First.” (The leaflets display a swastika in front of a U.S. flag.) Missing from the article – an editorial disguised as a news story – was what the Glen Rock Council and the Community Relations Board’s response should have been. What is the appropriate response for an irresponsible hate pamphlet from a bunch of neo-Nazi nutcakes? Should that response have been the unconstitutional suppression of free speech, however moronic and odious, or perhaps a personal visit from the Black Dragon Society, the only drastically active anti-racist group I know of that had any viable claws or any serious political support. The Black Panthers have long since been rendered extinct. The Jewish Brigade just after World War II was pretty good, and caught up with a lot of Nazi death camp murderers the Nuremburg prosecution missed, but they have long since gone out of business. The world would be a better place if white racism all came labeled with the swastika so Americans would recognize a palpable evil and shun it as they would a cancer. It’s not that easy. Once a year, the Americans celebrate “Doctor Seuss” – Theodore Geisel – a commie stooge who fronted for Ralph Ingersoll and Lillian Hellman while Ingersoll and Hellman fronted for Stalin. Once a year, the federal governmental tells us to dote over the ugly illustrations of this Stalinist dupe – a man who, having insulted blacks, Indians, and Jews earlier in his career, drew racist cartoons advocating Japanese-American relocation when even J. Edgar Hoover said it was illegal. Seuss once made a documentary called “Decision for Death,” which justified the incendiary and nuclear attacks on Japan, the leading anti-racist power before 1945. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times said “Decision for Death” – killing the Japanese so their survivors could get their act together and adopt U.S.-style democracy, which still prevented black citizens from voting in most Southern states, bluntly banned interracial marriages, and condoned lynching – was the worst documentary he had ever seen. Why was Japan, whose hard-working immigrants were virtually banned from the United States, and whose leaders wanted to send troops to help the Ethiopians against Mussolini, so obtuse as not to see how much better we were? Bluntly, the United States before the late 1940s was an officially racist society. Opponents of 4,000 lynchings could not get an anti-lynching law through Congress. Public health programs in many states sterilized blacks and Indians to keep their populations down if not to eradicate them. Educated hard-working Jewish refugees from Hitler White supremacists v. the emerging reality Area Waldwick Band to perform throughout Bergen County The Waldwick Band’s summer season will continue July 13 at the Waldwick Oval Amphitheater located at the intersection of Hopper Avenue and West Prospect Street in Waldwick. The 8 p.m. concert will feature tenor Mitchell Shapiro. In the event of rain, the concert will be rescheduled for Aug. 3. There are seats along the walls of the amphitheater, but concert attendees can also use their chairs and blankets for seating. Plenty of parking is available across the street from the Waldwick Municipal Pool. There is no admission charge for this concert, which is sponsored by the borough’s department of recreation. Shapiro joined the Waldwick Band as a member of its saxophone section in 2002. With members of the Waldwick Band, he formed the Bergen Sax Quartet. He is also a talented tenor, having sung with choirs, barbershop quartets, and Renaissance a cappella octets. He has sung the roles of Nanki-Poo in “The Mikado,” George in “She Loves Me,” and Squire Belville in “Rosina.” For his vocal appearance with the Waldwick Band, he will perform selections from the current revival of “West Side Story.” Featured works at the concert conducted by Edmund A. Moderacki will include the Gomez’s “Overture to Il Guarany,” “The Hounds of Spring” by Alfred Reed, and “Three Dances” from Henry VIII by Edward German. Also on the program is an arrangement of the music of Count Basie by Sammy Nestico, entitled “A Tribute to the Count.” Marches by Sousa, Eric Coates, and Leonard B. Smith will also be performed. The next concert in the Waldwick series will be held on July 27 and will feature saxophonist Lew Archer. A rain makeup date has been scheduled for Aug. 4 in the event of a rain cancellation of any of the concerts in this series. A Sept. 3 concert will be performed in the parking lot of the Hudson City Savings Bank on East Prospect Street in Waldwick. The Band will also perform concerts in several area towns in Bergen County. On Tuesday, July 20, the band will participate in the Hillsdale Recreation Commission’s series of concerts at Beechwood Park on Hillsdale Avenue. This year marks the 50th Anniversary of concerts at the band shell located in the park. On Wednesday, Aug. 11 the Waldwick Band will perform as part of Ridgefield Park’s concert series at McGowan Park located on Bergen Turnpike. In the event of rain, the 7 p.m. performance will be held on the following evening. The band will present a concert prior to Closter’s Fireworks display on Labor Day evening, Sept. 6. Both the concert and the fireworks will take place at Memorial Field located on High Street in Closter. Concert time is 7 p.m. with fireworks following around 8:45 p.m. On Friday, Sept. 9 the band will perform in the amphitheater at River Vale’s municipal complex on River Vale Road at 7 p.m. Information about the Waldwick Band summer series of concerts and is available at www.waldwickband.org.