Ugly stuff. Be sure to explore the links Ta-Nehisi Coates provides — in fact I’ll enumerate them here: Derbyshire’s original article, in all its ugly glory; an interview with Derbyshire from 2003 in which he proclaims himself to be “very mild, tolerant racist”; and, bonus, a follow-up to that interview in which he attempts to explain what sort of racism is “very mild and tolerant”.