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James Henry Stark’s book Stark’s History and Guide to Barbados and the Caribee Islands (1893) contains a lot of detailed information about the heart of the former Golden Circle as well as informed but politically-incorrect observations and lessons from history from the point of view of a late nineteenth century educated White man. Stark’s blunt commentary on race relations in particular would likely jolt many Modern readers who are used to approaching the issue from an idealistic point of view. A generous helping of White guilt also often accompanies the Modern approach. But Stark had no racial guilt and was willing to write honestly on the subject rather than dance around uncomfortable realities.
At one point, in his discussion of the possibility of universal suffrage and equality on Barbados, Stark points out:
[T]he world has seen two great examples of negro rule, under entirely different circumstances ; one where the negro, for the ?rst time in the history of the earth, fought and gained his independence and exterminated the white man, his former master. The ‘other, where white men of the Anglo-Saxon race fought for four years some of the most desperate battles in history for the negro’s freedom, and then the victor gave him political rights by which he could rule his former master.
In 1893 the examples of Black rule over Whites which were available to Stark were of the White genocide in Haiti and the Union’s elevation of Black slaves over Southerners during Reconstruction. Since then we have experienced numerous other cases of Black rule over Whites. And it has never gone well.
These are just a few examples. Closer to home we have seen numerous cities and towns which were once safe, orderly and prosperous decline rapidly under Black rule to the point where Whites have to leave. Cities such as Memphis, Birmingham and Detroit come to mind as wastelands of corruption, crime and failing schools. “White flight” is the common term for the mass exodus and rebuilding process with which we are all too familiar.
The lesson here is obvious – or at least should be. It was to Stark and he had far few examples to observe. Black rule over Whites never turns out well for the Whites. It may be permitted out of racial idealism or rigid adherance to democratic values but it is always a terrible idea.