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When I was in military service I had the opportunity to observe
the behavior of white women from three or four European countries
when they were among Negroes at dances. Most of the time the
women made involuntary gestures of fl ight, of withdrawing, their
faces fi lled with a fear that was not feigned. And yet the Negroes
who asked them to dance would have been utterly unable to
commit any act at all against them, even if they had wished to do
so. The behavior of these women is clearly understandable from
the standpoint of imagination. That is because the Negrophobic
woman is in fact nothing but a putative sexual partner—just as
the Negrophobic man is a repressed homosexual.
In relation to the Negro, everything takes place on the genital
level. A few years ago, I remarked to some friends during a
discussion that in a general sense the white man behaves toward
the Negro as an elder brother reacts to the birth of a younger.
I have since learned that Richard Sterba arrived at the same
conclusion in America.
On the phenomenological level there would be a double reality
to be observed. The Jew is feared because of his potential for
acquisitiveness. “They” are everywhere. The banks, the stock
exchanges, the government are infested with “them.” “They”
control everything. Soon the whole country will belong to “them.”
“They” do better in examinations than the “real” Frenchmen.
Soon “they” will be making the laws for us. Not long ago, an
acquaintance studying for the civil service said to me, “Say what
you want, ‘they’ take good care of one another. When Moch
was in power, for instance, the number of kikes in government
jobs was appalling.” In the medical profession the situation is no
different. Every Jewish student who wins a prize in a competition
does it through “pull.” As for the Negroes, they have tremendous
sexual powers. What do you expect, with all the freedom they
have in their jungles! They copulate at all times and in all places.
They are really genital. They have so many children that they
cannot even count them. Be careful, or they will fl ood us with
little mulattoes.
Things are indeed going to hell. . . .

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