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Jeremy Carl
The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart
New York: Regnery, 2024

Instauration, an underground newsletter that ran from 1975 through 2000, used to have a section called “Stirrings,” where editor Wilmot Robertson featured examples of our people pushing back against anti-whiteness. These brief write-ups were often about local activist groups forming, or academics who questioned certain aspects of racial orthodoxy. Perhaps the most important stirring of our times is a series of books about anti-whiteness released over the past year by mainstream publishers. Have whites finally started to fight back?

The Unprotected Class by Jeremy Carl is the latest book to point out anti-whiteness. But unlike America’s Cultural Revolution by Christopher Rufo and When Race Trumps Merit by Heather MacDonald, Carl specifically targets anti-white racism, as the title suggests. The Unprotected Class reminds me of another book I read 32 years ago (more on that later) that opened my eyes to the existence of people who did not just detail the anti-white nature of all American institutions, but also wanted to push back against it.

Carl is well qualified to write this book. A graduate of both Yale and Harvard, he is now a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, where he studies racial issues. The author also worked for the Trump administration in the Department of the Interior.

Those of us already aware of anti-white animus will be familiar with the examples and statistics Carl provides. But they will no doubt be jarring to many normies and MAGA types who realize that bad things are happening to whites, but do not know the extent of anti-whiteness. To help them, Carl offers over 76 pages of endnotes that document the hatred and discrimination whites face on a daily basis from literally every United States institution.

In addition to an interest in plain justice, Carl offers this assessment of why he wrote The Unprotected Class:

What happens when those largely historically responsible for building American society and its institutions go from a dominant position to just one group among many, and a legally and culturally disfavored group at that? . . . If we do not correct the course we are on, I fear we are headed for the civil strife and racial violence that has characterized so many other multiracial countries over the centuries, including, in the past, our own.

Whites are now an “unprotected class,” meaning whites are in principle protected against racial discrimination by law, but in practice are actively hated and discriminated against by those enacting and enforcing these laws. Whites are targeted in culture as well. The author gives a depressing number of examples of what can only be called anti-white racism coming from the most elite institutions. He takes on issues such as affirmative action, enforced diversity, the history of civil rights enforcement, anti-white crime and violence, the Black Lives Matter scam, myths around redlining and home loans, and the ethnic cleansing of whites from many cities.

Now entrenched in all US institutions, Carl has separate chapters for anti-white animus in areas such as education, history, immigration, entertainment, the environmental movement, big business, health care, religion, and the military. The author packs a lot of information (with sources) into each chapter and, if anything, over-proves his case about the reality of anti-whiteness.

Those who imagine that we live in a colorblind society are sure to get a rude awakening on every page of The Unprotected Class. Some typical examples from each institution he profiles include:

Media

• New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones writes, “The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world.” Not only does she keep her job, her anti-white “1619 Project” has made its way into American school curriculum.

Law

• Of the 97 federal judges approved by President Biden in his first two years, only five were white men while 22 were black women. This includes Nancy Adudu, who came directly from a career at the far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center.

Crime

• When a white man shot up blacks at a supermarket in Buffalo, Joe Biden visited the site immediately and condemned white supremacy. Around the same time, a black man who had made Black Nationalist social media posts plowed into a white crowd that had gathered for a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Biden did not visit the white victims or condemn black supremacy.


• Whites are victims in 74% of the stranger homicides committed by blacks. Yet, whites only choose black or Hispanic victims in stranger homicides 10% of the time.


• In a depressingly typical case of ethnic cleansing that took place all across the US, whites in a working-class suburb outside of Dallas fell from 98% in 1960 to 12% in 1990. 46 elderly whites in the suburb were raped by blacks between June and September 1982 alone.

Housing

• While blacks still complain about redlining (banks declaring whole neighborhoods unworthy of loans), over 90% of the victims of this practice in the 1930s and ‘40s were white (they were “redlined” over the perceived inability to pay back loans). Meanwhile, real estate agents targeted white neighborhoods with “block busting,” where they would plant blacks in a white neighborhood with the goal of generating panic sales among whites at lower prices than what their houses were worth.


• President Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) act requires towns that the government thinks are too white to engage in the recruitment of non-whites through low-income housing.

Education

• The University of Michigan employs 163 diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) employees. Eliminating these bureaucrats could pay for 1,000 full scholarships for students.


• At the University of North Carolina, white students had to score 176 points higher than black students on their SATs to be admitted to the school.

Demographics

• In the 1960 Census, nearly half of US states were 95% white. 14 states were 98% white. Today the whitest state is Maine, at 90% white. Only 23% of children in California are white.

Big Business

• American corporations donated almost $100 billion to Black Lives Matter after the 2020 George Floyd riots. In 2021, 94% of new jobs among the top 100 US corporations went to non-whites.

Health Care

• Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston seeks to pilot the delivery of “preferential care based on race.” During the COVID epidemic, several states gave preferences to blacks and others for initially scarce vaccines.

Religion

• Brett McCracken, a senior editor at the Gospel Coalition, instructs white evangelical Christians to “listen to and defer to nonwhite & nonwestern Christian leaders.” An article in the Catholic magazine America claimed, “I believe that the cruel, brutal, immoral and monstrous havoc caused by white supremacist ideology needs to be presented with full intensity, without pulling punches.”

Military

• While it has the reputation of being a conservative institution, Carl notes that the military has a long history of anti-whiteness. This includes the hushing up of a 1969 beating death of a white soldier named Edward Bankston by 40 black Marines. Of course, the Confederate flag has long been banned on military bases, while BLM flags were proudly flown at the same bases. Military personnel must endure mandatory anti-white trainings such as “White Privilege: Unpacking The Invisible Knapsack.”

Even poetry is not immune to anti-white racism. In 2015, white poet Michael Derrick Hudson authored a poem that got rejected by 40 publishers. When he published it under the name Yi-Fen Chou, it was selected for that year’s issue of the Best American Poetry anthology.

Where does all this lead? The author writes:

For middle-class and working-class whites, and even for an increasing number of upper-class whites, this anti-white discrimination and racism is deadly . . . Anti-white racism interacts with lower incomes, unsafe neighborhoods, or an inability to send one’s kids to a good school (or all of the above) to create a toxic brew.

Solutions

Carl offers solutions to fight anti-whiteness in his concluding chapter. This includes things such as boycotts, civil disobedience, holding blacks and Leftists accountable for anti-white racism, using lawfare against anti-whites, reforming civil rights laws so that they protect whites, and ending affirmative action and DEI bureaucracies. He also hopes that Hispanics will come to identify themselves as white and that we can form an alliance with Asians around a commonality of interests. Notably, he calls for a “net zero” immigration policy of the kind long called for by Peter Brimelow and others. The author consistently weaves the demographic decline of whites (just 57% of the US population in the 2020 Census) into his analysis of the anti-whiteness of the nation they created.

Perhaps anticipating the response of existing white advocates, he writes:

Some passionate advocates may find these proposals insufficient. They may reasonably ask why white Americans should compromise at all on issues of white identity and culture when they have been the victims of full-scale discrimination and replacement for decades now.

Carl maintains that any strong embrace of white identity could entail violence, since America is already multiracial.

I noted at the beginning of this review that The Unprotected Class reminds me of a book I read back in 1992. Paved with Good Intentions is not a White Nationalist book, though its author, Jared Taylor, is now known as the preeminent white advocate in the United States. Paved made many of the same points that Carl makes without advocating for white identity. However, Jared Taylor did warn that “White Americans will eventually lose patience. . . . Only for so long will whites watch blacks use race as a weapon before they forge racial weapons of their own.”

Coming on the heels of several other books that acknowledge anti-whiteness and question America’s racial orthodoxy, The Unprotected Class may well be a sign that whites have lost patience and are finally ready to make racial weapons.

Unlike 30 years ago, there is now a dissident Right network of podcasts, social media accounts, publications, and media pundits that have helped promote Carl’s book. This was not available when Jared Taylor wrote Paved with Good Intentions. Back then, only underground newsletters such as American Renaissance and Instauration took on these issues. It is worth noting that Carl does not mention or even acknowledge Jared Taylor, Sam Francis, Greg Johnson, or anyone else who walked point on these issues and paid a high price for doing so.

Maybe that is the cost for having a mainstream publisher and endorsements from Tucker Carlson, Christopher Rufo, Victor David Hanson, Charlie Kirk, and other respectable conservatives.

Jeremy Carl has authored an excellent book that is reaching many new people. I would encourage all Counter-Currents readers to buy a copy and share it with family and friends. Still, a question I would like to ask the author is this: What if anti-whiteness persists despite your good efforts?

He may want to consider some words from Jared Taylor, who has been fighting anti-whiteness for 34 years. His essay, “What Is Our Goal?”, was published this week:

Let’s make it official. Let us part, amicably, and go our own way.

There’s no other solution. Whether I live to see it or not, there will be an ingathering of our people on this continent, and we will finally succeed in building a new home in North America for Europeans and their civilization.

White people deserve to live in a country that does not tell them they are dirt.

Is that too much to ask? No. It’s something every people, everywhere, deserves, but it’s not going to happen in the current United States of America.

I’ll say it again: White people must have a country that does not tell them they are dirt. That’s non-negotiable. Our children must live in a nation that honors our traditions and fulfills our destiny, a nation that produces great men like Washington and Lee. A nation that sets such men on a high tower to inspire men to be even greater.

Peter Bradley writes from northern Virginia.