Who Were the Sea Peoples?

John Derbyshire got himself fired from National Review with a post giving the "non-black" version of "the talk." A lot of things have been written about it, but I haven't seen someone really nail where Derbyshire goes wrong. (Someone may have: I have not read every commentary!) So let me say what I think is seriously wrong with what "Derb" wrote. His basic point is that white (or Asian, or...) parents have a responsibility to try to keep their kids safe, just as black parents do when they advise their children on how to avoid being viewed as a criminal by the police. The chief problem with what he wrote, as I see it, is that, by focusing on race, he fails badly at that task. Consider some of his bits of advice, such as: "Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally." "Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods." "Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks." "If you are at some pu...