John Derbyshire's "The Talk"

National Review has just fired John Derbyshire for writing the piece below.  Editor Rich Lowry had this to say:

Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he’s a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer. I direct anyone who doubts his talents to his delightful first novel, “Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream,” or any one of his “Straggler” columns in the books section of NR. Derb is also maddening, outrageous, cranky, and provocative. His latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect to the nasty and indefensible. We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation. It’s a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants. Just not in the pages of NR or NRO, or as someone associated with NR any longer.


You can reach Rich Lowry at: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.


As a public service, I'm reproducing this here.  Takimag.com has been unavailable, on and off, all morning, and this is Derbyshire's notorious post that is causing the furore described HERE.  I searched the net to see if Derbyshire had it up somewhere else without success, so I'm taking the liberty of putting it here temporarily. I'll take this post down when Takimag is stable again. — Ex-Army


Update:  The original is available now at 
http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire#axzz1raS84XRC
so I'm removing this for now.  I'll keep it in an archive, though, in case it disappears again.  Do let me know if you can't get to it.

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Go HERE for a discussion of the firing by Colin Liddell.


And go HERE for Jared Taylor's commentary plus a list of conservative writers who have been fired for telling the truth over the past few years.