THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

Shaka is black. Blacks are not whites.

Have you ever watched a black guy try to sell something?

He grins and says yes to anything you ask. If he claims something that is obviously untrue and you call him on it, he grins and goes right on.

You have all seen that, but you are being Dr. Watsons, and I mean Conan Doyle's Dr. Watson. As Sherlock Holmes said, "My dear Watson, you have SEEN, but you have not OBSERVED."

Shaka smiles and he is not the least disturbed when he is being silly.

I have worked with blacks from the South Carolina brick plant to African kraals to the Senior Executive Service in DC. My first multicultural experience was when I went from my almost solidly black environment in early youth to an all-white segregated school.

No, it isn't all a matter of IQ. What you need to OBSERVE is black mentality.

Shaka looks upon us as a sad race. Blacks in Africa on the edge of starvation will say, "You whites have EVERYTHING. Why don't you SMILE more?"

Unlike Mommy Professor, who looks upon black people as a theoretical construct, I have faced that question squatting in a kraal in Africa.

But there is a parallel. We Americans have always been puzzled by the earnestness of Germans. We have a huge admiration for Germans, but we cannot understand why they take things so SERIOUSLY.

But the fact is that we admire them because, by taking things so seriously, they accomplish miracles.

If you take what I just said and raise it to the third power, you will understand Shaka and blacks in general.

Shaka made a statement I cannot FIND. Shaka says he simply does not accept what we say and he is happy with the opinions he's got. He looks upon our obsession with what is true as a sad thing.

We find it incomprehensible that a human being could NOT be obsessed with what is true. But Orientals and blacks are satisfied with what satisfies THEM. Shaka is interested in being satisfied, not with what is true.

We are an earnest race. We almost want MORE. We don't have opinions to feel good. We want to find out what is TRUE,

This is why you want "German engineering." This is why blacks and Orientals want what whites produce.

I remember when East African Airlines first tried to put in black copilots.

Blacks walked off the plane.

Later African dictators made them STAY on those damned planes. Affirmative action in action.

We hated Germans, we laughed at Germans. But by God when it came to engineering, we wanted it to be KRAUT. We make fun of Germans, but, for all the hate and wars with them, Americans never deviate from the simple fact that we will settle for nothing less.

Shaka admits that he goes deaf when we express our obsession with what is true. He says mulatto countries are ideal.

But if you want to force him LIVE in a mulatto country, you'd better bring a combat battalion with you. This is the truth. It bothers Shaka not in the least.

Shaka is black

Tomorrow he will grin and tell us that hybrid vigor is everything.

He TOLD us that.

Most white people don't OBSERVE. They just don't GET it.