John Derbyshire on Journalists Getting Cheated on Their Pay

By Nicholas Stix

I used to be very friendly with a Jamaican security guard named Linton, who worked at my old grad school, the CUNY Graduate Center.

Linton (born December, 1937), had worked in Jamaica as a bricklayer and a policeman during the 1950s and ‘60s. Even in his late fifties, he was still a broad-shouldered, narrow-hipped, who could have been a recruiting poster for the police. He told sadly of how he’d once had to give a fisherman a ticket for not having a working light on his bicycle. Since the fisherman didn’t have the fine money, Linton had to seize the man’s vehicle for earning his living, thus making him a pauper.

But Linton had to make his quota, just like here.

“Not gettin’ paid is grounds for killin,’” was one of Linton’s favorite sayings.

Once, when he was a young bricklayer, his boss cheated him on his pay. Didn’t pay him a sou. Linton went after the man with his trowel; he got paid.

I used to tell Linton that his position was too severe. A brutal beating, sure, but killing? I’m no longer so sure about that.

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[Derb:] Item: In last week’s podcast I noted the passing of former Zambian leader Kenneth Kaunda. That prompted a listener to send in this Zambia-related item from the Daily Mail June 23rd. It’s a story, with a brief but heartbreaking video clip, of a Zambian TV news anchor, name of Kabinda Kalimina, interrupting his live news bulletin to complain that he and his colleagues hadn’t been paid. The station here is KBN.

[Clip:] Away from the news, ladies and gentlemen. We are human beings. We have to get paid. (Unintelligible) on KBN, we haven’t been paid. People are getting instruments on KBN. (Unintelligible names) and everybody else haven’t been paid, including myself. We have. To get. Paid.

John’s item reminded me, of course, of my own situation, with White nationalist leaders Peter Brimelow and Jared Taylor gleefully cheating me out of a few thousand dollars in pay, and with both in cahoots.