Culturism

Frances Kellor, Citizenship, and Me

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:50:00 +0000

I just finished writing my newest book, Founding Mother: Frances Kellor and the Quest for Progressive Democracy. And the end of this book has occasioned some personal philosophical reflecting. You see, Frances Kellor argued that citizenship required political participation. Personally, she dedicated her life to designing and implementing social reform. And, I have lived by these precepts too. But my friends just want to have fun. Is that okay?

In some ways circumstances call me to action. If your neighbor’s house were on fire, would you not feel compelled to act? Well, I believe the nation is going up in flames. Therefore, I am compelled to act. Kellor’s impoverished upbringing likely led to her making her first two books about defending exploited women. My sense of emergency and her despair over injustice provide legitimate motives to social action.

Kellor implicitly denigrated domestic life. She did not overtly say that women should leave their homes. But she did descry domestic values that focused more on rumors of fidelity than those of tainted milk and immigrant exploitation. She sought to shake women out of their private worlds via engaging them in basketball. Women particularly needed to switch from the private to a public orientations to reach their potential and help America reach its.

Kellor’s private life is partially obscured. She lived with her girlfriend Mary Dreier for 47 years. And they took vacations together. But her private letters rarely mention activism and her activism only implicitly addressed her lesbian romance. Kellor founded the National Urban League and international arbitration, ran the Americanization program, two Presidential campaigns and more. She had no children as she dedicated her life to public service. And for that she deserves our respect.

But people in my life watch T.V. and never mention politics. And, without engagement I personally feel useless and unimportant. Perhaps my constant striving for a cause has a touch of insecurity attached to it; I want to matter. Writing Founding Mother, and so sharing Frances Kellor, gave me a sense of doing something important for the public. With its completion questions about public life and identity come to the fore.

At what point do we, Kellor and I, let people rest and live as private citizens? Television is passive. But do I consider all who watch it worthless? How much public activism must one mix with their meaningless private consumerism and family raising to be considered a good citizen?

John Kenneth Press, Ph.D. is the author of Founding Mother: Frances Kellor and the Quest for Participatory Democracy. www.franceskellor.com has more information.

Open Letter to Pastorius and the Infidel Blogger's Alliance

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:17:00 +0000

Infidel Blogger's Alliance, your globalist, open border, neo-con, and yes – multicultural – ways have failed! As a contributor, I therefore beg you to change the Infidel Blogger’s Alliance Declaration of Principles. On the upper right of the permanent IBA page we see the following words:

THE PARALLEL GOVERNMENT  OF THE ENTIRE WORLD

All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same inalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.

By postulating universal values, you ignore the importance of cultural diversity. You claim that every person in the world holds the same values and only bad governments holds them back. You sound like a multiculturalist as you tell us that all cultures believe in the same values deep down. If that were true, every Muslim who immigrated to the West would embrace the love of liberty everyone, apparently, wants.

How are those open borders based on universality workin’ out for ya?

Your globalist values back our “everyone is an American deep down” foreign policy. With this ideal we have sunk blood and treasure in Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan. “Regime change” for democracy in the Muslim world proves the importance of cultural diversity. Thirty years of imposed tolerance in Egypt and it is primed for fundamentalism.

How is that “breaking skulls” to make Muslim nations leftist workin’ out for ya?

Expensive regime change is bankrupting our nation. And when the West goes broke, “human rights” and the universals you believe in will die. China nor the Organization of Islam Conference will protect them. Why are we quoting the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights anyway? To protect “human rights” we have to protect the West with border laws based on our selfish needs.

How is that membership in the U.N. workin’ out for ya?

Rather than universals, the West must embrace its cultural uniqueness. The easiest way to defeat multicultural globalists is to spread ideas that convey the opposite: “Culturism” and “Culturist.” So here is our new Masthead. Vote or contribute now!!

PROTECT THE WEST!

The West has a special vision and a right to protect it. We are not an Islamic nation; we are not a world nation; ours is a Judeo-Christian-Enlightenment nation. Embracing culturism, every non-Western nation from China to Mexico to Saudi Arabia acknowledges their traditional majority culture and designs their border laws accordingly. We too have a right to be culturist.

Sex, Horror, and Enlightenment

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:56:00 +0000

E. Michael Jones, of Culture Wars magazine, writes fascinating conspiracy histories. They show how sexual liberation has been used to undermine our population’s self-control and make them more pliable subjects. The tawdry details in his escapades through the sexual madness of Kinsey and the Marquis d’ Sade always entertain.

In Monsters from the ID he locates the origins of Horror films and porno in the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment, in getting rid of God, leaves only pleasure and pain to guide our morals. In this vacuum, figures like Sade see nothing wrong with cruelty. When people leave the natural family structure, and pleasure guides men, porn arrives.

Mary Shelly’s was ensnared by Percy Shelly and Lord Byron’s incest laden escapades. Her mother, the author of the Vindication of the Rights of Women, had also been abandoned with child in the midst of the French Revolution. It was within the motif of crossing the boundaries that Shelly wrote Frankenstein.

Frankenstein’s picks up where God is abandoned; he gives life. Science in the absence of man creates a monster. This monster represents the nightmares that happen when we take God out of the pictures. He is a child of lightening, science, and madmen; a product of Enlightenment ethics.

Last night I saw Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Met. Though Mr. Jones does not reference the opera, it perfectly illustrates his point. Don Giovanni loves 1000s of women. He relentlessly lies to get them, mocks love and even kills. His deceits, as Sade’s, are boundless. To restore order, a ghost of a victim needs to reappear and take him to hell.

Jones’ claim that porn comes out of a pure pleasure / pain moral landscape, was always a bit elusive. And, as my deeming him a “conspiracy historian” implies, I have not entirely bought his argument. But Don Giovanni is a horror opera. The Ghost in a form of a statue that kills the lead, is as frightening as Freddie Kruger. As such, the opera provided powerful evidence for and illustration of Jones’ thesis.

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An Open Letter to Mr. Lawrence Auster

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:59:00 +0000

Mr. Lawrence Auster publishes the blog View From the Right. Recently, he stated his basic credo in an article entitled “Why the Truth About Black Dysfunction is So Important.” As he has many followers, I think it important that I challenge his racist position with a culturist one. While I applaud his dedication, his racist suppositions set back our shared desire to defeat multiculturalism.

Mr. Auster's writing focuses on the out of proportion level of violent crimes committed by Black people. And, he documents the double standard in reporting such crimes well. He argues that the Western belief in racial equality, leads us to conclude that all differences in attainment and violence must reflect white racism. This guilt over inequality leads us to “denial of the truth of Black anti-White violence, denial of the tyrannical murderous reality of Islam, and unquestioning acceptance of the mass Third-World immigration” destroying our nation.

As a culturist I agree with many of his premises and goals. Blaming all inequality on the West has caused our guilt and embrace of multiculturalism. Multiculturalism does cause us to ignore the perils of Islamic immigration and take the blame for the educational and economic achievement gaps between Whites and Asians and other minorities. But Auster’s racist premise destroys his usefulness.

By replacing his racist view with a culturist view – by swapping out genetic determinism for a cultural explanation – he can actually help right out nation. His view offends nearly everyone who reads them and exasperates social divides.

Mr. Auster wonders why people chaffe at his “endlessly repeated stories” of “black criminality and failure.” It is because the vast majority of Black people are wonderful law abiding and productive citizens. I am certainly not alone in having many Black colleagues with fabulous work ethics whom I respect and Black friends who I love. As such, his constant smear can only infuriate and alienate the majority of us who have such relationships.

The dysfunction in Black culture, that which leads to crime, is cultural. It only occurs in certain pockets of the population. The Black population was not as violent in the 1950s or before that. In fact, the Black marriage rate was higher than the current rate for Whites in the 1950s. Crime and divorce are not genetic. These changes since the 1950s were not caused by genetic mutations.

As people cannot change their genetic make-up, Mr. Auster's racial lens cannot effect any good policy outcomes. On the other hand, a culturist lens can allow us to have necessary discussions about the cultural roots of social maladies. The problem now is that our society calls all judgmental distinctions between ethnic groups "racist." Therefore, as Mr. Auster is, all who discuss such disparities are immediately and completely marginalized.

From a cultural vantage point, we can discuss the dangers of Islam. With this vantage point we can work to strengthen both Black and White cultures (the falling off of White culture is missed nearly all of Auster's analyses). And, the overt cultural reference of the word culturist, can help distinguish this hopeful and helpful analysis from the futile and divisive racist one. Furthermore, the ubiquity of the word multiculturalism can help its opposite, culturism, spread quickly. I am culturist, not racist. And, while I appreciate his goal of defeating multiculturalism, Mr. Auster's racist analysis undermines our progress.

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Ken Burns' Prohibition Doc and Culturist Corruption

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:15:00 +0000

This Ken Burn's documentary ad has appeared all over NYC. The tag line "How did a nation founded on rights ever go so wrong?" has deep problems. Here are some questions / debates it invites.

"A nation founded on rights?" When does Mr. Burns date the founding of our nation? Many people confuse the founding of our government with the founding of the nation. Okay, technically we were colonies beforehand. But, our national character started well before.

I like to date the founding of our nation with either 1607 or 1620. The Puritans, who landed in 1620, did not set up a system based on rights. They came here to found a nation purer than any before. If you were a drunk, the community would lessen your status. And, they could even take you children away or publicly punish you.

Jamestown started in 1607. They had a bit of individualism going. But they quickly discovered, as the Puritans already knew, that individuals are dependent on the community. If people did not stand guard or work, they would be killed by starvation and hostile indians. Our nation, was not 'founded on rights.

Well what if you take the 1776 date? Still, 'rights' did not trump all. Many colonies had official religions. And, the Founding Fathers did not set up a system of anarchy wherein no one had any limits and everyone had a protected right to be anti-social. We, again, impact each other. A democracy or republic is not a system of government if it means the community can never define itself or regulate accordingly.

Prohibition had good attributes. Perhaps a bit of a spike of crime and corruption, now apparently to be sensationalized by Burns, happened. But drunkenness went down. Hospital visits due to alcohol, such as poisoning and drunk driving, went down. Wife battering went down. Men spending all their family's proceeds went down. I am certain deaths from drunk driving went down.

Ken Burn's ad shows that he is a terrible historian. The ad already announces that he will only engage Prohibition as a nightmare. Real historians debate. But with 'rights' based thought, all impositions become evil. Responsibility is restraint. Everyone has a right and the people can make no rules.

If Burns studied history, he'd note that a law such as Prohibition could only happen in a Puritan-based culture. That would lead him to see that our nation was not simply founded in 1776. He might read their writing wherein they say that license without responsibility doesn't lead to liberty; it leads to national suicide. But like most modern historians he probably considers the Puritans "so wrong" too for having violated rights.

We need to reclaim our sense of public good when creating values. We need to recognize the truths the Puritans told us and not just justify our anti-social mores with 'rights talk.' We cannot simply subsidize irresponsible behavior due to rights. We need to proudly reinsert our cultural heritage into our legal system. One must inform the other.

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Our Debt is Only a Symptom of Cultural Problems

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:51:00 +0000

If we do not address culture, the Debt Ceiling debates are meaningless. Debt is a symptom of our cultural meltdown. Perhaps that is an overstatement. But, if we wish to become solvent again, emphasizing cultural solutions will get us farther than emphasizing economic fixes. Without such culturist discussions we will never pay down the debt and are essentially doomed.

Economic forces have an impact. When the Feds helped foment the Great Depression, people lost tremendous amounts of wealth quickly.[i] This collapse did not happen because of attitudinal change on the part of America’s population. And one could argue that economic explanations have new relevance as our nation careens into a black hole of debt. Yet in truth, economic analyses ballooned our debt and culturist analysis provide the only way of permanently reducing our debt.

We need a culturist analysis to attack inner-city poverty. But the fear of being called racist has long kept sociologists from discussing this perspective. Thus government money and social programs enable, rather than expose the economically unsustainable nature of single parent, low education, drug using, prison-esteeming culture. The truth is, the long ascendancy of economic explanations and fear of looking at culture have not helped alleviate African – American poverty. And no way forward exists but having difficult discussions about cultural contributors to poverty.

For full economic recovery, the long dominance of the economic explanation in our schools must end. Multicultural education refuses to make any judgment on cultures. Bereft of cultural content, schools’ exclusive focus on economics leads them to call for ‘social justice.’ The idea that all inequality must reflect unfairness leads to constant talk of ‘oppression’ in education theory.[ii] That this economic multicultural perspective promotes anti-social behavior can be seen in the 2011 National Association for Multicultural Education’s choice to have revolutionary terrorist William Ayers as their 2011 keynote speaker.[iii]

Teaching ghettoized African-American children that they are oppressed and should rebel and that personal responsibility cannot alleviate their class situation, maintains poverty. That replacing this economic model’s hegemony will improve our economy can be seen in the high number of Asian students excelling in America and the economic productivity of their home countries.[iv] Thus a culturist approach will allow us to make every ethnic group feel more responsible for their educational and economic success. Whereas multiculturalism does not consider the potential negative impacts of culture, culturism can show communities – and our country – the way out of poverty.

In making the rational connection between culture and outcomes, by admitting that culture is important and reaffirming that this is not a racial argument, we may also be able to sanely speak about the borders again. Latinos have grossly higher teen pregnancy rates and lower educational achievement than average Americans. Muslim immigrants pose a much higher risk of terrorism than Japanese immigrants. But our fear of discussing culture for fear of being called racist kills such discussions in their cradle.

Immigration restrictions made on a culturist basis will give all Americans, of every cultural background, a sense of the connection between cultural rectitude and prosperity that has long defined our public character. Thus, people refusing entitlements out of shame could once again become a proud moment for Americans. Structural economic interpretations argue against such sentiments. Adjusting our attitudes towards responsibility, pride, work and entitlements, is the only way politicians can again take us towards fiscal sanity.

Finally, a culturist analysis can even speak to corporate responsibility to our nation. Businessmen who undermine our borders and send jobs overseas are putting an economic perspective over a cultural perspective. We have to remind them that they have a responsibility to the nation that raised them. Furthermore, when all is said and done, international cultural diversity means our American business leaders will not feel comfortable raising their children, living, and retiring in other nations. This cultural analysis might help them identify with our nation again.

I do not argue that economic theory is useless. We need to understand how the Fed's quantitative easing will cause inflation and thus steals from all of us. And this article has cursorily addressed the horror of jobs going overseas. And we, of course, need to reduce our government spending. But long-term recovery requires growth. Cutting spending will require weening from government. Neither of those can happen if we do not renew our committments to individual responsibility in the name of sustaining our nation.

Brave academic sociologists such as Orlando Patterson of Harvard have reintroduced culture as an explanation for explaining African-American poverty.[v] Schools of education need to follow suit. And our politicians need to stop calling everyone who discusses culture racist. We can do our part by demanding that culturist explanations for our current problems get aired by using the words culturism and culturist whenever multiculturalists call our nation racist.

[i] Brian Domitrovic, Economic Crisis, Then and Now, Lecture at the Hyatt Regency, Indianapolis, IN, 10/10/09 http://www.isi.org/lectures/lectures.aspx?SBy=lecture&SFor=ec90805d-7af8-4adb-a889-2b7f1b60ba79

[ii] Pedagogy & Theater of the Oppressed Conference, http://www.ptoweb.org/

[iii] The National Association for Multicultural Education: Advancing and Advocating for Social Justice and Equality, http://nameorg.org/ 2011 conference

[iv] Educational Attainment in the United States / Race. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States#cite_note US_Census_Bureau_report_on_educational_attainment_in_the_United_States.2C_2003-0

[v] Orlando Patterson, “A Poverty of the Mind,” New York Times, Op-Ed Section, 03/26/10,

Amy Winehouse Culturist Re-Post

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:38:00 +0000

This is a repost of an article published here in November of 2009. RIP AMY

Today I heard Amy Winehouse heard for the first time. That is, I have seen her many times, but I never saw a performance that grabbed me more than it just illustrated her tragic wastiness. But her version of Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard it Through the Grapevine,” with Paul Weller of the Jam, was a stunning virtuoso performance. She missed nothing, but remained both vicious and wild, yet controlled to the point of perfection in pitch, with clever metered vocal fills. And even the fade-outs from her competent co-vocalist happened at the prescribed time. But her final intonation of the chorus, when she went quiet, it was like hearing the subtle twang of Mae West in her prime.

With reason, many could conclude that Winehouse is deleterious to the success of western civilization. She is a role model of potentially disastrous impact. She makes drugs and the refusal to go to rehab sexy. And culturists know that youth follow those with status. That is why we need values leadership from positive and popular role models. I would much rather those who took care of their families and diligently pursued their studies in the name of western civilization getting glamorized. I would much rather see the artistic elite banish junkies for shame's sake. But that would cost us the Rolling Stones, Billie Holiday, and many other artists. It would make the West much more like communist China. And that, I would not like to see.

Winehouse brings a very interesting cultural mishmash to the table. She is definitely Jewish, her music is clearly derivative of African – American soul tradition ala Motown, she has the biker chic that tattoos bring, and – most of all – she embodies that ennobling yet defiling self-destruction, Ziggy Stardust-style tragedy of the burn out and crash of the chosen one, the rising star style. While she presents no role model, she represents a vamp, a type, a trope, that we can all share joy in. In her way, if teachers want to use her for edification, she even ties us back to the 19th century romantic tragedy of the romantic Goethe's Lotte who died for love. She is a sacrificial lamb to our deep cultural longing for bonding through her familiar formulaic romantic cultural mish mash.

Unlike the more electronic pop idols, Winehouse reminds us of the jewels of western culture and the romance of the individual self. And, perhaps, in a multicultural world where the divided West refuses to see it has a culture to protect and offending Islam may soon become a crime, her drunken iconic presence is a culturist good

BUY CULTURIST JOHN'S NEWEST BOOK !

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:46:00 +0000

In dramatic fiction Prison Wars illustrates the death of society when it contradicts culturist principles. Watch as charismatic pop spiritualists become social terrorists. Thrill as men’s desires drive society off the cliff. Scream as media and government actively take place in our corruption and end.

Fortune Magazine assigned Martin Sanger to profile entrepreneurs. But Quentin Longus wasn’t like the other’s he had met. Quentin’s transformative calm taught Martin to relax. And this calm allowed him to agree to Quentin’s offer to cover Prison Wars.

Prison Wars games pitted teams of prisoners against each other in battles to the death. And the ratings reduced every other show to irrelevance. The State said nothing as the television proceeds for Prison Wars helped pay off its debts.

Freddie Jackson became the games’ first criminal star. His winnings allowed him to spend his life sentence in a private mansion with private guards where he’d broadcast shows and film porn. His contributions to the movement revolutionized consumerism.

The mad philosopher Les Christiansen also emerged from Prison Wars. As Quentin’s philosophy coach he took the ethics of Prison Wars and turned them into popular movements for democratic reform. His wicked plots consciously pushed society to the brink and over.

Attracted by fame, power, and raw lust, Martin Sanger took the job of cultural leader and official publicist for Prison Wars. Along the way he came to peace with many aspects of his masculine power. And ultimately Sanger wrote Prison Wars in order that future societies might not follow ours into apocalyptic destruction.

In the year 2023 John Kenneth Press’ investigations led him to a copy of Martin Sanger’s manuscript. As a culturist and the author of the book culturism, as a proud American, and one who mourned the destruction of Western civilization, he thought it his duty to publish Martin Sanger’s manuscript.

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The Veil Ban and the Academic Study of Nationalism

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:18:00 +0000

Culturism, the opposite of multiculturalism, holds that traditional majority cultures have a right to define, defend, and promote themselves domestically. This article will explore culturist theory’s relationship to several academic positions on nationalism. And it will ultimately use the example of the French ban on veils to do so.

This week France began enforcing a ban on face concealing veils. Violators must pay a fine and take a citizenship course. The easy point to make is that, despite one woman’s claim that these laws were “racist,” they have nothing to do with race. These laws address culture, they are culturist. And while racism is ridiculous, if cultural diversity is real, culturism is rational.

Liah Greenfield and others have created a paradigm wherein nationalism starts in England as Civic Nationalism, which incorporates individual rights. By the time nationalism spreads to Germany, we have Collective Nationalism, which tends to be authoritarian. And in between the two we have France’s mix of both types. And since the West exported nationalism, and many nations are built upon resentment of other nations, many are anti-Western.

Greenfield’s approach denies the impact of thought in culture. China’s Confucian background goes further in explaining its willingness to adopt deference for leaders than it’s being supposedly created after England. The humanistic thought of Shakespeare and the Scottish Enlightenment, as well as Jefferson’s writing, display cultural paradigms that manifest in Civic Nationalism. The Civic Nationalism is not due to England being first. It results from cultural thoughts. Rather than reflecting an absence of cultural influence, Civic Nationalism is the product of a culture.

The term ‘nationalism’ should be supplemented by the term ‘culturism.’ Benedict Anderson and Anthony Smith debate whether nations are largely new or grow from earlier cultural precedents. Most scholars side with Anderson concerning newness. Whereas nations, defined as direct overlaps between state governments and cultures, may be newish, such debates rob us of the ability to include the histories of civilizations.

Christendom has been under siege by Islam for over one thousand years. The common argument that nationalism proper began in England in the 1600s, leaves out the fact that the Muslims took over Spain from 711 to 1492. They overran the Byzantine Empire and nearly took Vienna. Whereas the birth of nations may be recent, the clash of civilizations is not. Tribalism relied upon cultural unity. Cultural cohesion did not begin with nations.

Nationalism as a tool of analysis and common ideology, leaving out transnational concepts, is especially dangerous. France and England are different nations, but both represent the West. Again their being close to Western Civic Nationalism, shows this. Just as the term ‘umma’ unites Muslim nations, the term ‘culturism’ can include Western culturism and thereby provide a useful analytical category. For reasons this article will spell out later, we must be able to discuss categories beyond national ones.

Culturism, in taking culture seriously, also allows discussions of culture that the value neutral term ‘nation’ does not. The assumption that Civic Nationalism exists free of cultural content facilitates multiculturalism. In the multicultural model, citizens – regardless of culture – unite in agreements about liberal rules of democratic participation. This view denies the importance of cultural diversity and strips it of any significant meaning. It assumes that no cultures could or do disagree with liberal civic premises.

Craig Calhoun has argued people contain subjective multiplicities. This, for him, lessens the relevance of national culture, because, for the most part, underneath, we have many similarities. But this argument assumes a space away from culture. It assumes love and friendship, have the same meaning across cultures. It posits a culture free identity behind the shallow trinkets of cultural markers.

Culture does directly impact people. Not only do Japanese people have more familiarity with Japanese culture than, in Calhoun’s example, Norwegians, they speak a different language. And this does not only does this seep into the individual on obvious levels. Cross culturally, social relations have a much different flavor, the assumptions are different, in these two cultures. When we consider even more extreme cultures, this similarity via occasional overlap argument elides many important considerations.

Phillip Gleason said, “To be or to become an American a person did not have to be of any particular national linguistic, religious, or ethnic background. All he had to do was to commit himself to the political ideology centered on the abstract ideals of liberty, equality and republicanism.” Yet Americans have long discriminated against immigration from non-European cultures precisely because they saw a specific linguistic and religious background as essential to our liberties.

This analysis will strike some as racist. But race has very little to do with it. The 1924 limit on Jewish and Italian immigrants, our Protestant majority’s long fear of Irish Catholics, had little to do with the biological notion of race that scholars frequently project into the past. These laws were culturist. Americans have traditionally believed our civic nationalism resulted from cultural traits, as much as culturally neutral universal Enlightenment based truths.

Scholars who have left large scale history and the ideological component of culture and, indeed cultural impact at all, out of the discussion, can solely see the Islamic veil ban as oppressive. For them the Islamic veil is symbolic of nothing. They can see no clash of civilizations. They remain more committed to deconstructing nations than to reifying them, and so they see this effort as misaligned with the fact of nationalism being a modern fiction.

A few errors come from this neutral stance. First nations are, as Benedict Anderson shows, “imagined.” But this imagination is perpetuated in institutions. It not only appears in Michael Bllig’s view of the banal nationalism of flags in banks, and commercials that assume French identity. Going back to Cardinal Richelieu, this imagined community is in laws that promote the French language and view of history in schools. The imagined community sprouts from the seemingly universal civic laws backing monogamy and outlawing honor killing. Culturist laws sustain all nations.

The idea of the state as a culturally neutral enforcer of civic ideals reflects Enlightenment and multicultural assumptions. But the Enlightenment is specific to the West and few important nations on earth would consider adopting the multicultural neutrality of those in the West. China and Saudi Arabia’s governments are culturist. They implement immigration and other laws to preserve and promote their traditional majority cultures. Western nations have done the same traditionally. As a result, the world is not getting more diverse, the West is. The idea of the legal cultural neutrality of one’s State is a Western aberration.

As western culture is civic, the Islamic veil ban violates our values. Without a very strange culture in our midst, the civic nationalism seems culturally neutral. Such a move would naturally evoke huge protests. It is only with the entrance of a culture that challenges freedom of speech, individuality, and rights for women, that we understand the Western specificity of our civic culture. And so to maintain our sense of freedom, we are forced to consider violating our own precepts.

The ban may have some impact. Much of our Western ontology and philosophy appear in our individual clothing choices. To dress the part is to assume the role. Yet, fundamentally, Islamic doctrine is inconsistent with Western values. And so the dream of a secular French Islam requires an abandonment of basic Islamic tenets. Creating such an Islamic - Western amalgam will prove stubbornly difficult and prone to inner conflict. But militant forces are encouraging Islamic cultural separatism in Europe. Without some overt engagement, the prominence of Western values will decline.

France’s Islamic veil ban provides fertile ground for scholars. In fact, the law carefully avoids specifying that it is a ban on Islamic veils to maintain the separation of mosque and state. From a culturist point of view, this makes sense as you do not want to relinquish such a cornerstone of the modern West. At the same time, as other nations, our laws should recognize, defend, and promote our traditional majority cultures. And so we see a struggle between Civic and Cultural Nationalism. Histories of such struggles in Western lands would prove useful. Which tact better preserves Western culture needs debating. We need to recognize the importance of cultural presuppositions make ours part of the discussion. Feigned impartiality removes scholars from their place in the public. We need guide the West as it confronts multiculturalism.

To have such debates we must revise some notions. Using the words ‘culturism’ and ‘culturist’, we can make clear that we’re discussing ramifications of cultural diversity, not racial stupidity. Craig Calhoun and others have noted that all cultures have minorities. This does not, however, erase the fact that they also have traditional majority cultures. Calhoun’s observation buffers us from hysterics and dreams of homogenized states. However, it should not serve to ban us from making culturist observations. We cannot accept bans on criticizing Islam. A free society needs to be able to discuss cultural diversity if it hopes to remain free.

Scholars’ pretense of objectivity, ironically, displays their Western orientation. Western cultures’ basis in individualism undercuts our ability to take groups seriously. As such our inquiries into nations ignores similarities to tribalism or conflicts between civilizations. And, as Ernest Gellner does, the nation gets reduced to a purely modern contrivance, historical and cultural common sense get overlooked, and scholars dangerously exempt themselves from discussions of culturist laws such as France’s Islamic veil ban.

Change the National 9 - 11 Memorial and Museum

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:01:00 +0000

Immediately after 9 -11 New York Mayor Giuliani rejected Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s money because it came with an insult to America. Bin Talal is currently funding the Ground Zero Victory Mosque.[i] And now a worse insult! Bin Talal is helping to write the National 9 – 11 Memorial and Museum at Ground Zero!

Less then a month after 9 – 11, at an early 9 – 11 memorial event, bin Talal attempted to give Giuliani $10 million for disaster relief. But bin Talal simultaneously suggested that we look at our American policies that justified the attack including our support for Israel.

Giuliani rejected the assertion that good justifications existed for the 9 – 11 attacks and refused the money. America’s mayor said, "To suggest that there's a justification for [the terrorist attacks] only invites this happening in the future. It is highly irresponsible and very, very dangerous.”[ii]

Though rebuked by Giuliani, bin Talal did not give up promoting his dangerous ideas. Six years later the prince started funding Georgetown’s Middle Eastern studies program.[iii] And now, members of Georgetown’s Middle Eastern studies department are serving as advisors in writing the history section of our National 9 -11 Memorial and Museum.[iv]

Involvement of Georgetown’s department that the offensive bin Talal funds, does not necessarily prove malfeasance. But the confirmed involvement of Princeton’s Near Eastern Studies department, with their pro-Islamic colleague Amaney Jamal, brings additional discomfort.[v] And, what Alice Greenwald, Executive Vice-President for Programs of the National 9 – 11 Museum and Memorial, told us at a Manhattan Community Board meeting merits grave concern.

While the National 9-11 Memorial properly eulogizes the tragic loss of life on September 11^th, it will only dedicate a small part of one of three history rooms to the question of “Who did this and why.”[vi] Ms. Greenwald told the Community Board that her Middle Eastern advisors had told her not to use the word “Islam.” Instead, she explained, they will use the word “Islamist” specifically to distance the connection of the 9 – 11 attacks with Islam.[vii]

Besides the dearth of time dedicated to why we were attacked, the exhibit’s timeline greatly concerns this western culturist historian. The one solitary documentary film in the exhibit will explore the roots of Al Qaeda. Ultimately, we must worry that the film being prepared will only tie the 9 - 11 attack to the American funding of Afghani fighters. Thus, as Bin Falal would have it, the exhibit will lay the root causes for 9 – 11 at the feet of America.

A wider timeline would note that Islam has been attacking the West for nearly 1400 years. Islam took Spain for seven hundred years. And after Islam destroyed the Christian Byzantine Empire, it gave Constantinople its current name, Istanbul. Islam might even have taken the rest of Europe had it not been repelled in the Battle of Vienna on September 11^th, 1683.[viii] Despite what Bin Talal might say, our struggle with Islam did not start with the 1948 founding of Israel and it did not start with America's support of Al Qaeda in the late 1970s.

According to Ms. Greenwald, the National 9 – 11 Memorial will also chronicle “previous terrorist attacks, on U.S. targets on the U.S.S. Cole and the African Embassy bombings.” But instead of just focusing on the U.S., a map showing the global scope of the over 15,000 Islamic terrorist acts since 9 – 11 would create a different impression. A focus on Islamic jihad in Europe, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand or India would undercut Bin Talal’s idea that Islam only targets America for its crimes.

The National 9 – 11 Memorial and Museum needs to openly tell us which scholars in these Middle Eastern departments will be advising them. Furthermore, we western culturists request that pro-western scholars, such as Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, Ms. Brigitte Gabriel of ACT! For America, Mrs. Wafa Sultan, or Congressman Allen West to help write the Memorial's history section. It would be a dangerous shame if our national memory of 9 – 11 was given to employees of the man who insulted us on 9 – 11 and is building the Mosque at Ground Zero.

Please watch the video preview of the National 9 - 11 Memorial and Museum given by Alice Greenwald at the top of the video section of www.culturism.us. Join our facebook site, "Western Historians Must Write the 9 - 11 Memorial at GZ," and help spread the word.

John Press, Ph.D.
President - Brooklyn Tea Party
pressjohn@hotmail.com
www.brooklynteaparty.org
www.culturism.us

[i] John Cook, “News Corp’s number-two shareholder funded ‘terror mosque’ planner,” August 30, 2010, http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100820/bs_yblog_upshot/news-corps-number-two-shareholder-funded-terror-mosque-planner

[ii] CNN, “Giuliani rejects $10 million from Saudi prince,” October 11, 2001, http://articles.cnn.com/2001-10-11/us/rec.giuliani.prince_1_saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-israeli-withdrawal-criminal-attack?_s=PM:US

[iii] Korade, Matt, “Saudi Giving at the Heart of a Great Debate over Middle East Studies,” Congressional Quarterly, April 11, 2008, http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/5046

[iv] Alice Greenwald told the author of this article this after a Community Board One meeting, 12/13/2010, 6 pm, in New York City.

[v] Larcom, Geoff, Princeton Professor Breaks Down Perceptions of Muslim-Americans in U.S. [on Amaney Jamal]  Focus EMU Online (Eastern Michigan University News) February 2, 2010, http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/9085

[vi] See the footage of the 9 – 11 Memorial and Museum presented to the Community Board One at www.youtube.com

[vii] Alice Greenwald told the author this during the question and answer session following the 12/13/10 Community Board One meeting in which the national 9 – 11 Memorial and Museum plans were presented.

[viii] The Battle Of Vienna, wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna

Video of the Culturist Brooklyn Tea Party Platform

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:22:00 +0000

Hey Brooklyn Tea Party Activists and Friends,

I hope you're having a good Christmas and holiday season.

PLEASE WATCH AND SPREAD OUR GROUP VIDEO

of the

BROOKLYN TEA PARTY PLATFORM

SIGN THE PLEDGE at www.brooklynteaparty.org

It only takes a second.

Let's start a coalition.

Thanks for all,

John Press

Brooklyn Tea Party

www.brooklynteaparty.org

www.culturism.us

Merry Culturist Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 07:46:00 +0000

Preview the 9 - 11 Memorial Video

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:12:00 +0000

Culturist Brooklyn Tea Party Agenda Request

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:28:00 +0000

Brooklyn Tea Party Challenges Libraries Over Flags

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:46:00 +0000

From : John K. Press, Ph.D.

President of the Brooklyn Tea Party

To: Linda E. Johnson, Interim Executive Director

1 Grand Army Plaza #1

Brooklyn, NY 11238

Re: American Flag-Flying Requirement

Dear Ms. Johnson,

State law (NYS Executive Law art. 19, § 403) requires that all public buildings, including the public library, fly the American flag prominently outside of their doors. As you may be aware, however, some of our library branches have empty flag poles. The Brooklyn Tea Party respectfully requests that you immediately remedy this oversight and comply with this State law at all branches.

The statute eloquently asserts, “The American flag is the symbol of our country, of the ideals embodied in our constitution [sic], and is the symbol of the spirit which should animate our institutions. It is the emblem of freedom in its truest and best sense, signifying government resting on the consent of the governed; liberty regulated by law; . . . “[i] Following the law would honor these sentiments.

Analysts have noted that our national discourse has become increasingly polarized.[ii] During such a time, it becomes more important than ever for public buildings to convey that which unites us. And the law of the land commands the flying of the American flag to “produce a patriotic effect.” [iii] The Brooklyn Tea Party asks you to do just that.

No matter what the books inside the library teach, following the law and displaying the American flag prominently at all of our branches will educate the public through a positive social message of unity and demonstrate conviction concerning America’s lofty ideals. We look forward to hearing from you in a timely manner.

For the Brooklyn Tea Party

John K. Press, Ph.D.

President - The Brooklyn Tea Party

www.brooklynteaparty.org

pressjohn@hotmail.com

cc: Bay News, Sheepshead Bites, Brooklyn Eagle, NY Daily News, Fox Business News, Brooklyn Ink, Indypendence Paper, Canarsie Courier, Bay Ridge Press,

[i] Section 400 of the NYS Executive Law, art. 19

[ii] Six Questions for John Avlon, The Economist, May 16th, 2010, http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/05/john_avlon_interview

[iii] Section 403 of the NYS Executive Law, art. 19

The TSA, Multiculturalism, and Thanksgiving

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:33:00 +0000

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has created long lines using controversial body scanners to protect us from Islamic terrorism. But multiculturalists have so cowed us that we will not mention Islam. If we ever wish to have a pleasant and safe Thanksgiving again, we must replace multiculturalism with culturism.

If you point out that cultural diversity is real, multiculturalists always call you racist. We do not have culturist profiling in airports because they will call us racist. The key to disarming them lays in noticing how multiculturalists tyrannize us by leaping from discussions of cultural diversity to cries of racism.

If you want security, rights, and short lines you need only scan people with Arabic sounding names who have ties to Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, or Afghanistan. Period.

Instead, we go to great lengths to demonstrate our blindness to the import of culture by patting down Mom from Minnesota, Vinnie from Brooklyn, three year old children and nuns to show the multiculturalists we are not racist.

But the propensity to terrorism does not stem from genes or skin color; it has nothing to do with race. Islamic terrorism comes from the tenet of Jihad within the Koran. Whereas Jesus overtly detested any violence, Muhammad led over 60 military campaigns.

Multiculturalists and Muslims, of course, denounce the assertion that all religions are not the same as racist phobia. They express outrage at all who would suggest that cultural diversity is real.

So to show we take no notice of culture, we risk our lives. After all, proving that we do not believe cultural differences exist ultimately requires letting many young Pakistani males through customs unchecked.

If Muslims in America were truthful, they would admit that their religion has produced all of the thousands of terrorists attacks in the world since 9 -11. To show appreciation for their recent immigration here they would submit to the inconvenience of extra security checks. This would endear them to all Americans.

But, as with so many in western societies, Muslims use rights to protect anti-social behavior. All attempts at using cultural information incur aggressive lawsuits over racism from the Council on American - Islamic Relations. As a result, the Muslim presence in America means that all us Americans must have our rights greatly abridged. As a result, their freedom reduces ours.

Fear of multiculturalists calling us racist not only endangers us physically, it cows our spirit by making us accept that terrorists will forever bully us and dictate our rights on Thanksgiving. By distinguishing rational culturist profiling from irrational racial profiling, we can disarm the multicultural logic the terrorists use against us wwand salvage the freedoms for which we give thanks.

John K. Press, Ph.D is the President of the culturist Brooklyn Tea Party. He is also the author of the book Culturism: A Word, A Value, Our Future. www.culturism.us has more information.

Throw David Stern Out of America and Out of the NBA !

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:54:00 +0000

David Stern, the Commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA), represents all that is wrong with the globalist mindset and should be kicked out of America and the NBA. When a guest on Steven Colbert’s show Stern referred to US citizens as “you Americans.” He then declared that he is not an American, but an “internationalist.” When asked if he were an American, Colbert noted that he, “had to think about it.”[i] Stern, an “internationalist” running the “national” basketball league is symptomatic of the globalist mindset of the ruling class that plagues us all.

A globalist rather than a culturist, I suppose Stern takes no sides in the world. When the Taliban blow up girl’s schools, he is for both sides! When 9 – 11 happened, he did not see a clash of civilizations, merely a plane from nowhere hitting a building that could have been anywhere! As China buries us in debt and suppresses speech, as the Egyptians slaughter Christian Copts, he expresses no affiliation. He doesn’t identify with any culture in particular. The Olympics must have been boring for him.

We can see Stern’s contempt for culture in his new technical foul rule. Starting this season, players can get penalized for expressing emotion or complaining. And so in his perfect world corporate office sterility and decorum control all actions. Stern does not desire to see or understand cultural expression. Stern is “notorious for being a ruthless capitalist.”[ii] Profit does not come from inefficiency. Money has no loyalty. It notices nothing, not Jihad, not criminal Mexican gangs terrorizing Americans, nothing that does not impact on the bottom line.

Colbert mentioned that the sport has gone international with the Chinese player Yao Ming. Yao’s contract was negotiated by the government of China. China engages in unfair and illegal trade policies. It kills protesters and suppresses Christianity. China doesn’t have free speech or Democracy. But Stern is not a culturist. He has no allegiance to western culture. Rather would be just as happy in China. He would be just as happy to see American companies go there as stay here. It is all the same to him.[iii]

Typical of the globalist elite, Stern seems to have no connection to his product either. He has never played in a basketball league at any level. He has no connection to the sport other than being its legal counsel on drug testing and salary cap negotiations.[iv] Yet, through the logic of modern money’s dominance over all other considerations, he ends up being in control of the basketball and its rules.

Stern and his class have no allegiance to America. When the Phoenix Suns’ management made their team wear jerseys protesting their State’s immigration laws, Stern backed the protest.[v] Top-down, the players became forced to mouth the company’s political line. And the team badmouthed the very population it represents in favor of an international perspective.

For having no allegiance to America and for shipping our jobs overseas, capitalists of Stern’s ilk should be forced to live outside of the western world. Shy of that, for his lack of allegiance to the fans, players or basketball, Stern should be kept away from the American basketball courts in our National Basketball League.

John Press, Ph.D. is the President of the Brooklyn TEA Party and the author of Culturism: A Word, A Value, Our Future. www.culturism.us has more information about culturism.

[i] http://www.businessinsider.com/video-nba-commish-david-stern-appears-on-colbert-report-2010-11

[ii] http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/05/01/why-stern-should-take-a-stand-in-arizona/

[iii] http://www.amnestyusa.org/china/page.do?id=1011134

[iv] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stern

[v] http://www.nba.com/2010/news/05/04/los.sons/index.html?hpt=Mid

Culturist Handout

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:41:00 +0000

TAKE ACTION !!! USE THE WORDS CULTURISM AND CULTURIST TODAY !!!

Culturism (cŭl-ch́әr-ĭź-әm) n. 1. The philosophy, art and science that values, manages and protects majority cultures. 2. A philosophy which holds that defining, protecting and promoting majority cultures should be legitimate policy considerations. 3. The study of culturism.

Culturist (cŭl-ch́әr-ĭst) n. 1. An advocate of culturism. 2. One who engages in the art or science of managing and protecting majority cultures. 3. Of or pertaining to culturism, culturists or culturist policy. - adj.

Culturist Policy Implications:

1) Choosing immigrants on a cultural basis.

2) Culturist profiling of airline passengers.

3) Having disparities in achievement point to cultural patterns and responsibility, not our society’s racism and the need for redistributive social justice.

4) Using the horrid marriage pattern changes to reinsert cultural considerations into policy.

5) Knowing we are not a culturally neutral nation, stopping the funding of Pakistan and Palestine, as well as keeping Turkey out of the EU.

6) Allowing American to address the specter of Islamic terrorism by name.

7) The words culturism and culturist can challenge the multiculturalists’ claim that our nation has no traditional identity, denounce Sharia and other foreign practices.

8) In challenging multiculturalism you can argue for a western-centric curriculum and assimilation.

9) American culturism provides a basis for pro-social values.

10) Open up national dialogue by doing all of the above while not being constantly accused of talking about race!!!

Table of Contents and Highlights

Chapter One: Culturism Introduced

- Definition, relativism, individualism, and globalism

Chapter Two: Culturism in U.S. History

- Puritan thought, Manifest Destiny, the 1924 Immigration Act, Japanese Relocation.

Chapter Three: Culturism in World History

- Cultures begin with stories, have impact, compete, and exist on land and in minds.

Chapter Four: Culturism in Anthropology

- Noble savage debunked, war statistics, headhunters, environmentalism

Chapter Five: Western Culture

- Western heroes, continuity of values from Plato to Jesus to Freud, culture wars

Chapter Six: Culturism in Nature

- Amoebas, borders and our brains being designed to absorb culture

Chapter Seven: Culturism in Psychology

- Culture’s have thoughts, Gangs, the joy of rooting for teams

Chapter Eight: Culturism in Philosophy

- Plato and Aristotle’s philosophy was political, the Enlightenment and abstract rights

Chapter Nine: Culturism and Multiculturalism

- Comparing the pros, cons, and risks of both

Chapter Ten: Culturist Policy Implications

- Repeal dual citizenship, prevent remittances, back the FCC, bring meaning back to naturalization processes, the list above, and more!

Angela Merkel Rejects Multiculturalism Nearly Embraces Culturism

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:30:00 +0000

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has definitively announced the failure of multiculturalism in Europe.[1] Thus she has come much closer to adopting te positive value system of multiculturalism’s opposite, culturism. While her speech represented a great leap forward for culturism, the full impact of culturist realizations will not come until she understands the impact of history on culture.

Multiculturalism’s failure results from its total failure to acknowledge diversity and that nations have traditional majority cultures. The mandate to ‘celebrate diversity’ requires that we ignore culture’s real impact. Merkel’s denunciation of forced marriages recognized that other cultural patterns exist. And indeed levels of crime and government dependency clearly are also higher amongst some immigrant groups than others.

But the depth of harm does not lie in such statistics, but in basic cultural outlooks. Germany has a culture that respects education and discussion. Psychologist Nicolai Sennels, a Danish psychologist, spent time studying Muslims in youth prison. He found that rather than handling conflict via dialogue, Muslim youth consider it proper to settle disputes via “physical revenge.”[2]

The cultural tendency toward solving disagreements via violence has manifest in violent mob actions such as burning tens of thousands of cars in Paris, attacking German youth in schools, and worldwide violence over Danish cartoons portraying Muhammad.

Sane immigration policy requires noting cultural differences. It is culturist, not racist, to acknowledge that wherever many Chinese move, they excel in school and set up Chinese areas that become tourist attractions. Wherever Muslims move they make the schools rougher and create no-go zones.

In noting that other cultures have honor killing, violent ways of settling disputes, and antipathy towards free speech, Merkel has come a long ways towards noting that Germany (and the West generally) has a traditional majority culture. An implication of her acknowledging diversity is recognizing that the West alone stands for democracy, freedom of speech, the relative separation of Church and State and the sanctity of the individual.

Now that Merkel acknowledges that culture is important and has implicitly acknowledged that Germany has a majority culture, she must make one last step in achieving culturist awareness. She must recognize that Islam has been aggressively trying to conquer the West for 1400 years. History travels with cultures. Even if Chinese immigrants had the same anti-social patterns as Muslim immigrants, their lack of historical animosity towards the West would render them less of a threat.

Merkel has acknowledged that multiculturalism has failed. As such she may now be willing to discuss cultural dynamics in general. But only when she starts talking of the positive value of culturism, when she takes a western culturist stance, she can really make sound policy. At that point she will know that she must stop Muslim immigration to the West and make sure her laws and schools openly protect and promote German heritage and western values.

www.culturism.us

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/17/angela-merkel-germany-multiculturalism-failures

[2] http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5905/pub_detail.asp

Culturist Brooklyn Tea Party Press Release

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:38:00 +0000

THE BROOKLYN TEA PARTY DENOUNCES ASSEMBLYMAN STEVEN CYMBROWITZ , AND HIS ILK

Steven Cymbrowitz Epitomizes the Rotten Cowardice of American Politicians

Contact: John K. Press, Ph.D.

President of the Brooklyn Tea Party

Email: pressjohn@hotmail.com

To: Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, Helene Weinstein, et al.

For months the Brooklyn Tea Party and members of the Sheepshead Bay community have worked diligently to get local politicians to address their concerns about the building of a mosque at 2812 Voorhies Avenue - the Voorhies mosque. We have written letters to Steven Cymbrowitz, Helene Weinstein, Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Anthony Weiner, Marty Golden, Alan Maisel, Marty Markowitz, and Carl Kruger. Each representative received a certified letter with over thirteen hundred signatures of local residents affixed.

Within these letters we told them that the Anti-Defamation League claimed that the developer of the Mosque, the Muslim American Society (MAS), “has a troubling history of associations with radical organizations and individuals that promote terrorism, anti-Semitism and reject Israel's right to exist.” The ADL called MAS “the leading American Muslim organization organizing anti-Israel activity in the U.S.”[i] We provided over eighty pages of evidence documenting these claims.[ii] Recently the Staten Island Roman Catholic Church’s board, which includes Archbishop Timothy Dolan, decided not to sell property the MAS wanted to turn into a mosque over this very same documentation.[iii]

The Brooklyn TEA Party knows why none of the above mentioned politicians responded to our concerns about the MAS’ Voorhies mosque. They are cowards. They are politicians rather than leaders. They do not want to offend a single person, let alone a group. Afraid of being called racist, they will not say anything culturist.[iv] They refuse to utter more than the BS PC clichés that are rotting our nation. They are angry about nothing. They much prefer photo opportunities when launching nice sounding yet costly programs to taking stances. They are the very reason that the TEA Party is necessary.

Politicians such as Cymbrowitz hide behind multicultural platitudes about all cultures being wonderful and progressive. Yet, were they responsible, had they a single care stirred by 9 -11, they might consider it their duty to protect our people from even small potential risks. But while politicians such as Senator Charles Schumer call for investigations into caffeinated beer, none can take time to investigate the funding of the Ground Zero mosque or the Voorhies mosque.[v] They would risk our lives rather than risk offending groups, be they local or foreign.

Cymbrowitz may well claim that foreign terrorists and their representatives have a right to build mosques across our nation. Politicians of his ilk may claim that they are impotent and choose to ignore the Foreign Agent Registration Act that exists exactly to investigate such threats to our security.[vi] They may even argue that we should embrace the Muslim American Society and Imam Rauf as great emissaries of the fantastic Islamic legal system known as Sharia law. But our cowering politicians should at least take public stances on issues their constituents consider vital to their neighborhoods and nation.

Mr. Cymbrowitz, you acknowledged receipt of the letters and had a staffer say he was, “not dedicated to what’s happening in other places.”[vii] He lives in America and his district is four blocks from the Voorhies mosque. Afraid to personally speak to his constituents, Cymbrowitz had the staffer claim he was “mulling over a response.”[viii] Since this time there have been many Community Board meetings and a second rally agaist the Voorhies mosque attended by over one hundred and fifty people. This week’s foiled terror plots show that the emergency is here. His constituents are out in the streets. At a time when the nation faces peril, excuses and months of mulling are not appropriate.

In this time of drug warfare crossing our southern border, terrorist plots being uncovered every week, and our Federal government committing fiscal suicide, Cymbrowitz’s mulling has become a political epidemic.[ix] We attack Mr. Cymbrowitz because he is vulnerable this election. Ms. Weinstein, in whose district the Voorhies mosque resides, has also hidden behind silence and totally ignored her constituents’ concerns. As the Obama government bankrupts our nation and leaves our borders unguarded, we can no longer afford any ribbon-cutting politicians. We need forceful crusaders who address culturist and fiscal TEA party concerns.

The culturist Brooklyn TEA Party has created pledges to distinguish weak PC leaders from patriotic civic leaders with muscle. First and foremost we are a TEA Party. The first pledge requires candidates to freeze government spending and hiring. They must propose budgets that cut spending by 15% in three years. The second and third pledges are culturist. We include the word “culturist” to clarify that we are not racist. Racism is idiotic. But since diversity is real, looking at culture is necessary. Politicians who wish to speak at our rallies or have our endorsement must support Arizona’s immigration laws and denounce the Ground Zero mosque. Our litmus test screens out the ribbon-cutting moderates that our nation can no longer afford.

Not only will Mr. Cymbrowitz not take the culturist Brooklyn TEA Party pledges, he will not publicly address the issues. His community has been pleading with him to take a stance. He cowers rather than take public positions on the emergencies of our day. Mr. Cymbrowitz and his ilk must go.

John K. Press, Ph.D.

President - The Brooklyn Tea Party

[i] http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Israel/Muslim_American_Society.htm

[ii] http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/44.pdf

http://www.americansagainsthate.org/press_releases/PR-EllisonMAS.php

[iii] http://www.archny.org/news-events/news-press-releases/index.cfm?i=17138

[iv] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-tGZXybJ00

[v] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/us/27drink.html

[vi] http://cairunmasked.org/?page_id=6

[vii] http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2010/07/bk-tea-party-urges-cymbrowitz-to-oppose-mosque/

[viii] http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2010/07/bk-tea-party-urges-cymbrowitz-to-oppose-mosque/

[ix]http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/busted_women_arrested_in_bomb_plot_L7dciZ0C3Nkia3VB6PTNyL

Culturist John's Life and Work Update !!

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:30:00 +0000

Culturist John got his doctorate in the History of Education. This video addresses the History of Education Society on the eve of their 50th anniversary conference.

WWW.CULTURISM.US

Culturism is the Ultimate Form of Liberalism

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:21:00 +0000

www.culturism.us

Brooklyn Tea Party Fights the Voorhies Mosque !!

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:30:00 +0000

Culturist Brooklyn Tea Party Defined !

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:21:00 +0000

The Brooklyn TEA Party challenges your Tea Party to be culturist too !! Denounce the mosque!! Support Arizona's Immigration laws !!! CO-SPONSOR OUR OCT. 10th CULTURIST RALLY !!!

The Brooklyn Tea Party Rallies !!

noreply@blogger.com (John Kenneth Press, Ph.D) — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:49:00 +0000

The Brooklyn TEA Party rallied this last Sunday. Here is some coverage.

Two corrections! Though at Kosher Hut, we meet in Gravesend, not Midwood at 2 pm each Sunday. Also, I count more than 40 assembled and we kept the numbers fluctuating like this for over three hours!

Regardless, it is a very prettypicture.

The whole, article with expandable photos, can be found by clicking HERE ! -