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Jared Taylor: "Race in Post-Racial America" (2014)
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Good morning and welcome to the finale of what's been so far a wonderful conference.
It's my privilege today to introduce our speaker, Jared Taylor.
For those of you who know Jared, in 1989 he came over with a little He had a flyer in his hands, and he very differently asked if I would mind subscribing to a projected publication that he intended to call American Renaissance, which he talked about.
He said that we discuss race issues, we talk race reality, and we talk about the decline of civility in America.
That was 25 years ago.
This is the 25th anniversary year of American Renaissance.
It was 20 years ago that we began our conferences.
Past 25 and 20 years have been a really wonderful time for getting out an intelligent exposition of our viewpoints.
And that is almost exclusively the purpose of our next speaker, and to his credit that that's what's happened.
Jared Taylor, as many of you may know, studied at Yale in his undergraduate degree, and he went to the Paris Institute for Political Studies, which I understand only 10% of the applicants are admitted.
So just getting into it is a really tough thing.
And it shows you something about the intellectual rigor that he brings to questions.
Now, the last couple of years, some of the people I've talked to at this conference have told me they were getting a little depressed.
They were unhappy about the fact that our conferences had been canceled, that things weren't going as we thought they should.
And they were saying that this just didn't look right.
Well, of course, we're coming to the conclusion of a successful conference.
We've seen the ugly face of our enemies out front as the forces of irrationality have once again mustered unsuccessfully to try to terminate our conference.
I think we can see that in the future we're going to have back to a normal political discussion and racial discussion and scientific discussions, largely because of the work of Jared Taylor.
Now, if you're getting depressed, then you think that after a quarter century, more should be done.
Last year, I sat at a table with a nice lady who, after the conference, she sent me a little note card.
And I think I'll share it with you because it's a wonderful sentiment.
She talked about what we had done, and this was her first conference last year.
And she concluded by saying,"Thank you for your outstanding commitment to the cause and your efforts to maintain a movement that would be there when I was ready for it." And that is what we're doing here today.
We're having stuff that will be ready for the people when they come to hear it, when they come to understand what it is that Jared and other people are saying.
So, it's with great pleasure and profound admiration that I introduce the founder of our feast, Jared Taylor, who will speak on race and post-traumatic.
Thank you.
Please, please, sit down.
Please sit down.
Oh, God.
Oh, thank you.
That was too much, Martin.
But thank you very much for your applause.
I'm delighted that we've had a great conference so far, and I thank you all for coming.
The topic of my talk today is race in post-racial America.
Well, we've all heard the term post-racial.
That's supposed to mean that happy, wonderful state of mind in which race simply does not matter.
And that is the direction in which America is supposed to be going.
And the prophet of post-racial America, of course, is Barack Obama.
Well, think back, if you will, just six years to 2008, when he was first elected.
Do you remember the word that was constantly on the lips of our rulers at that time?
Transformational. That's what his election was to be.
It was to transform America and send it an important step forward towards that post-racial era.
Well, of course, Mr. Obama himself was convinced that he was going to perform miracles of all kinds.
Maybe you'll recall the speech he gave at Dartmouth University at the time of the New Hampshire primary, in which he said, and I quote, a light will shine through that window.
A beam of light will come down upon you.
You will experience an epiphany.
You will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack.
And then, of course, when he won the nomination for the Democratic Party in his victory speech, he said he was certain that future generations would look back on his victory and say, this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow.
And our planet began to heal.
Parting the Red Sea would have been nothing by comparison.
And do you remember how giddy our rulers were at the time of his inauguration?
It was a Vesuvius of self-congratulation.
Well, so what's life like in post-racial America?
Well, first I'd like to check in with my favorite post-racial black man, Attorney General Eric Holder.
Well, in 2012, someone asked him, when should affirmative action for non-whites end?
He says, the question is not when does it end, but when does it begin?
When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they're entitled?
In other words, racial preferences have not really been seriously tried.
And then he went on to say, quote, I can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease.
Well, of course, for Eric Holder, more diversity means more of everybody but us.
Well, we're going to be a minority in just 28 years, but Eric Holder cannot imagine America in which we do not need more of everybody but us.
And you'll recall this year the elections for mayor in New York City.
Bill de Blasio.
He got 96% of the black vote.
That's a pretty good haul for a white man.
Of course, he was known by black voters as the man with a black wife.
And so even in post-racial America, if you're angling for the black vote, it's helpful to have mulatto children that you can exhibit at every campaign stop.
And then there's another fine post-racial American, Sonia Sotomayor.
Of course, said that a wise Latina would make a better judge than a white man, and at the time, this latest affirmative action Supreme Court ruling, she wrote a dissent that she read from the bench, in which she said, anyone who thinks that the way to get rid of racial discrimination is to end racial discrimination,
she said such a person is out of touch with reality.
Now, Sonia Sotomayor is going to be with us for another, what, 20, 30 years, probably?
And I suspect by the time she retires, some legislature, either a state legislature or Congress, could very well have voted a white privilege tax to be paid only by you-know-who.
Well, if that comes up to the Supreme Court, I wonder how much difficulty Sonia Sotomayor would have finding it constitutional.
I think with her fine legal mind, she'd have no trouble at all finding such a tax constitutional.
But speaking of Latinas and Latinos, I'm sure you're aware that one of the great crises of our time is that blacks and Hispanics can't be persuaded to go to national parks.
Well, what's the use of having them if only white people go to them?
So, the Park Department has been racking its brains trying to come up with some non-white angle to work into every possible national park.
But even those geniuses can't figure out How to make the petrified forest of the Grand Tetons bear a message on slavery or prune picking or something.
So they've come up with a different surefire way to get the minorities through the gates.
And that is to come up with national parks that are exclusively about them.
And that is why, very shortly, we will have a Cesar Chavez National Historic Park.
Well, where do you put a park of that kind?
Do you put it where the great man picked his first tomato, or do you put it where he organized his first strike?
Well, a group of historians has been gathered together to figure out where to put this park, and a co-chair of this group, her name is Belinda Faustinos, and she explained recently why this park is so important, and I'll quote her.
She says, people shy away from parks where they don't see their cultural history or anything about themselves.
We Latinos, we might stick our heads into Yosemite or Santa Monica Mountains, but there's just not much to relate to.
Well, I guess that's true.
There are no tomato fields in Yosemite and no food stamp distribution bureaus.
It's only one of the most spectacularly beautiful places on earth.
But I suppose she's telling us that you have to be white to understand that.
Thanks to Mr. Obama, the planet has begun to heal, but we still can't persuade Hispanics to go to Yosemite.
And that's, of course, why we have to give them their own parks.
And, of course, I suspect someday we will have a Cesar Chavez national holiday as well, because people of every race but ours have group interests.
So even in post-racial America...
Blacks and Hispanics, Asians are busy as ever working for the interests of blacks and Hispanics and Asians, and so are whites.
Here's how it works.
Last December, Stephanie Rawlings Burke, the black mayor of Baltimore, had to hire a new fire chief.
And of course she hired a black man, that goes without saying.
Well, Niles Ford had done such a miserable job as the city manager of Chambly, Georgia, that he nearly got the boot.
But Mayor Rawlings Burke made no secret to the fact that she wanted to hire him because he has such an excellent track record at jimmying civil service procedures in order to hire as many blacks as possible.
Well, let's contrast that city and that fire department with yet another.
Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Fire Department Announced its new class of firefighters after they'd taken this test that had been carefully sifted and diced to eliminate all kinds of discrimination.
Well, it turned out too many whites had passed the test.
Los Angeles is only 29% white, but this class of people who had passed the test was 60% white.
Well, what did Mayor Eric Garcetti say when he heard that result?
He said these results are unacceptable.
So here is a mayor.
He wants a new system that will prevent people like him, white men, from getting jobs in his city.
That's post-racial America.
Non-whites work for the interests of non-whites, and so do whites.
Just a few more examples here.
It's like shooting fish in a barrel, but not long ago, the student council of Fort Collins High School in Colorado decided to have a day to celebrate American patriotism.
Well, the administration immediately put a stop to that.
They said American patriotism might hurt the feelings of immigrants and foreigners.
Well, Fort Collins High School, of course, makes its students celebrate Cinco de Mayo, which is a day celebrating Mexican patriotism.
But it would be oppressive to celebrate American patriotism.
Just last year, Education Secretary Arne Duncan He visited a school in Columbus, New Mexico, in which 75% of the students actually live in Mexico and cross the border every day to go to school.
How is this possible?
Well, all of their mothers sneaked across the border when they were pregnant and had their children in the United States, so these are American citizens.
So, they come across the border every day to go to school, and what does Arne Duncan think about that?
He says, These are our children who are trying to live the American dream, and it's frankly inspiring.
He's inspired.
Pregnant Mexicans sneak across the border and have their children on the public dime.
Then their children come and are educated again on the public dime.
They break our laws, they steal our services, and Arne Duncan is inspired.
Now, can you imagine someone of any other race going insane in quite the same way?
Well, in Bellingham, Washington, there's a college called Western Washington University.
Almost all of its 15,000 students are white, as is Bruce Shepard, its president.
Well, like Arne Duncan, I'm afraid Bruce Shepard is insane.
In 2012, he said, he made a speech, and he said, if in the decades ahead his college continued to be overwhelmingly white, then, quote, we will have failed as a university.
And just this month, Some of you probably saw this.
He said, if the place stays white, quote, we will relentlessly be driven towards mediocrity.
I mean, you wonder if you're dealing with a normally functioning human being when they make statements like that.
Being white's a failure.
Being white is relentless mediocrity.
What does that say to his white students?
More to the point, perhaps, what does that say to non-whites?
I can imagine when Bruce Shepard starts packing the place with Mexicans, they'll come marching on campus and say, hey, white boy, I'm here to save you from failure and mediocrity.
You may kiss my toe.
But like all of these affirmative action fans, Bruce Shepard is a miserable hypocrite.
These people always have big plans for how other white people are going to get in the neck.
Well, what about his job?
I suspect that if he thinks whiteness is a failure, he could certainly find some Haitian to take his place.
I bet if he looked hard, he could probably find a crippled Haitian lesbian to take over.
But no, in the case of his job, being white is not failure.
It's not mediocrity.
But he has learned his lesson.
In post-racial America, non-whites work for their interests, and so do whites.
Now, there's another lesson in post-racial America, and that is that whites are always to be suspected and accused of working for their own racial interests.
Whites never do, but we always accuse them for the fear that they might begin to think in those terms.
And here's how this works.
Let's take that a group of whites takes a position on something for principled and logical reasons.
Say a group of whites decides That the public debt of $20 trillion is too much.
That's federal, state, local, all added together.
Let's say a group of whites decides that a public debt of $170,000 per taxpayer is a little bit burdensome, and that maybe we should cut down on government spending.
Well, that, of course, is basically the Tea Party's position.
But for blacks and Hispanics, splashing out money is the most important thing the government does.
When have you ever heard one of their spokesmen worrying about the public debt?
I don't think we're ever going to see a grassroots movement of blacks or Hispanics trying to champion a balanced budget.
They just do not think in those terms.
Essentially, the only people who think that it's immoral for us to raise taxes and go into debt for consumption today that future generations may have to pay off, the people who are worried about that, Are basically white people.
Everyone else just seems to assume we will keep on paying the bills.
But that's why it's racist to want to balance the budget.
Now last summer, the black congressman Charles Wrangel of New York, he said that the Tea Party is, quote, the same group we've faced in the South with those white crackers and the dogs and the police.
And referring to the Birmingham church bombings of 1963, he said, If you have to bomb little kids and send dogs out against human beings, give me a break.
He thinks the Tea Party is basically the equivalent of baby killers.
It's just remarkable.
But white lefties say similar things.
Here's Alan Grayson.
He's a white congressman from Florida.
And last October, he said, there is overwhelming evidence.
Overwhelming evidence that the Tea Party is the home of bigotry and discrimination in America, just as the KKK was for an earlier generation, if the hood fits, wear it.
Is it not possible to worry about the federal deficit without being a racist?
This is just remarkable stuff.
And where is this overwhelming evidence that Congressman Grayson sees the Tea Party is full of Klansmen?
And baby bombers.
His evidence is that they're white.
Case closed.
That's all the evidence he needs.
Well, let's imagine a Tea Party that does think about race.
I think such a Tea Party would talk a lot about crime rates, welfare rates, incarceration rates, illegitimacy rates.
And it would point out that 43% of American households pay no income tax at all and that those households are overwhelmingly black and Hispanic.
Such a Tea Party might say explicitly that white people are tired of paying taxes to house and clothe and feed black and Hispanic criminals as well as their illegitimate children.
They never say that.
They never, ever say that.
I mean, do they think it?
Maybe they do.
But I can't prove it, and neither can Congressman Rangel or Congressman Grayson.
I suspect that genuinely the Tea Party people are just thinking about the deficit.
But they should think about race.
The lefties are onto something, really.
Whenever they scream about a policy or position as being racist, it's a sure sign there is an important racial element there.
They're very reliable that way.
Anything that they accuse of being racism is probably a pretty good idea.
I'll give you another example.
Now, the standard Democratic explanation for why Republicans are not keen on amnesty is because they don't want any more Hispanics in the country.
I've lost count of the number of lefties and Democrats who say that.
That is just dogma now.
Again, there is hardly anyone outside of this room who would say publicly that he doesn't want the country turning brown.
There's not a single Republican or a Tea Party spokesperson who has ever said that.
In fact, they would denounce in the vilest terms any of their members or any of us who were to say such a thing.
But again, it's what they should be saying.
What we have here is really quite an astonishing thing.
Non-whites and lefties accuse whites of thinking something that they don't think and that they deny thinking, but that they should think.
It's really an extraordinary thing.
Well, why don't white people think the way they ought to think?
Why is it, basically, that white people have gone insane?
I've been wondering about this for more than 20 years, probably going on 30 years now, and I've probably heard every explanation that floats around out there.
There are people who say that the moral devastation of two horrible world wars did it.
There are people who say that the machinations of the Jews did it.
There are people who say that Christianity makes whites uniquely susceptible.
The dispossession.
I'm not really satisfied with any of those explanations.
I think there's something about the essential nature of white people that makes us easy prey and makes it easy for others to induce us to work for their interests and against our own.
Part of it really is individuality.
In the West, we celebrate the ego, the lone wolf.
The rugged individualist, the self-made man, our heroes, they're all individuals.
And we celebrate individuality to the point where it's difficult for us to think in terms of the larger group, in terms of the race.
At the same time, there's something else I'd like to elaborate on.
Think for a moment about what characterizes the West and our societies.
What are our distinctive institutional hallmarks?
There are such things as representative government, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, rule of law.
The West is also unique in having a chivalric tradition that honors women.
We're also unique in the extent of our tradition of public charity.
And what do all these things have in common?
They reflect what I would call a kind of moral imagination.
They reflect an ability.
To think in terms of the aspirations and the sufferings of others.
Take freedom of speech.
It's based really on the remarkable idea that I should allow you to say absolutely anything you want, even if I'm convinced you are dead wrong, and even if what you say badly hurts my interests.
And representative government works the same way.
It means that even if I have power...
If the other fellow gets more votes, if he persuades the other people to vote for him, then I move out of office.
Whites recognize that the other fellow has a point of view.
Free speech means the other fellow gets to have his say.
Elections mean the other people have an opportunity to rule.
And the rule of law means that it makes no difference whether you're rich or poor or powerful or weak.
You're supposed to get the same treatment in court.
At least, that's the ideal.
And by and large, white societies operate according to these rules.
And by and large, it's only white societies that operate this way.
We've gone even further, though.
It's not just the other fellow who has a point of view and gets his say.
The other sex does, too.
The status of women, the status of the physically weaker sex, is higher in the West than anywhere.
I remember a Japanese lady once telling me that the traditional view of women in Japan was that they had a status somewhere between that of a man and that of a bird.
The idea also of limiting the most powerful men to just one wife, that too raises the status of women and it also gives other men a chance to find a mate.
And just as the other sex has a point of view, So do other species.
I believe we are uniquely concerned about the snail darter and the spotted owl, and we passed laws to protect the habitat of species nobody's ever heard of.
Who here has heard of the Kreshmer Cave Mold Beetle or the Pygmy Mad Tom?
Well, we are busily protecting their habitat.
Did you realize there are even endangered lichens that we're protecting?
The rock gnome lichen must not be disturbed in its habitat.
Do the Japanese want to save the whales?
No, they want to eat the whales.
Of course, I'm picking on the Japanese only because I know them very well, but I understand that Cantonese will tell you, in Canton, they will tell you the only thing with four legs that they don't eat is the table.
Whites. We care about the environment, too.
Why is that?
I think it's because we're concerned about people who haven't even yet been born.
We want to leave a pleasant planet for them.
And I think that also explains why it's whites who are so concerned about the budget deficit.
They realize the only way, the only legitimate way to pay off a budget deficit is to have real people paying real taxes, and they are aware of the burden that will be on future generations.
Some of our other traditions, for example, good sportsmanship.
The victor does not gloat.
We've had an awful hard time explaining that to blacks and Hispanics, haven't we?
Another tradition, of course, is public charity, doing good works for complete strangers.
All of these are based on concern for others, on this kind of moral imagination that I mentioned.
Well, Bill Clinton used to say, I feel your pain.
But that was just a vaudeville act.
But I think whites are uniquely capable of, in some sense, feeling the pain of others.
Now this is a virtue.
It's a virtue so long as it's practiced within the family, within the tribe, within the nation.
But this consideration for others is now, I believe, a large part of our downfall, and for two reasons.
First of all, this virtue has become overgrown to the point of perversion.
We now have such a high regard for women that we think that they should be firemen, that they should serve in combat and work on nuclear submarines.
We have such a high regard for the mentally retarded that we think it's just darling if they marry and have children.
And we have such a high regard for the interests of other races that we are prepared to give them our countries.
At the same time, of course, non-whites have learned how to take advantage of this weakness.
Consider the case of hate crime hoaxes.
Whenever they happen, the police chief or the college president or the mayor, they're baffled.
They can't understand why would such a thing be done.
It's a mystery.
It's not a mystery at all.
Non-whites have discovered.
That white people will just come swarming around and cuddle them and pet them and shed tears over them if they claim to have been mistreated by white racism.
It's a month of Christmases for anybody who can make that claim.
So if they can't find an obliging white man to mistreat them, they just stage the whole thing.
And even when the hoax is found out, The city or the college has their candlelight vigil or their teach-in against white supremacy anyway, because even if this particular case was a hoax, we must rise up in this moral paroxysm of indignation because of all the other acts of racism going on everywhere,
all the time, all around the world.
It's so easy to stir up white people.
It's surprising to me that they're not more of these hoaxes.
And third-worlders who want to come live in our country, they've also discovered the same thing.
They can make these appeals to human rights, Western concepts of human rights.
They've discovered that there are plenty of people in charge of our borders who are insane like Arne Duncan, who think that what they're doing is inspiring.
And that's why, remember in 2005, there were a million Hispanics marching through the streets of Los Angeles.
Many of them...
Self-affirmed illegal aliens demanding amnesty.
Fancy that!
Hundreds of thousands of criminals marching through the streets demanding amnesty for their crimes without the slightest fear that they would be arrested, rounded up, or deported.
Well, Vilfredo Pareto once said that anyone who would become a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.
Robert Frost said, a liberal is someone who can't take his own side in an argument.
Well, a white person is someone who can't take his own side in any kind of racial argument.
But it's this reigning white mentality that makes our work so difficult.
What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice.
It's an overgrown, perverted virtue, after all.
A man's devotion to his family is a virtue.
And a man who is prepared to work for his country or his nation or his tribe, those are virtues.
But sacrifice is certainly not always a virtue.
It would not be a virtue for Ford to sacrifice itself for General Motors or for France to sacrifice itself for Algeria.
And it would certainly be perversion for one race to sacrifice itself for another.
If white people are to survive, this is something they're going to have to understand.
Whites, of course, have the power to ensure their own destiny, but they're paralyzed by this perversion of virtue that turns people who should be on our side against us.
This is really the unspeakable frustration of what we do.
It's our own people, the people that we love, who are most determined to stand against us and against themselves.
And it is horrible beyond words to see our own people destroying themselves.
If our race is going to survive, more people are going to have to think the way the people in this room think.
This means that, like it or not, we're missionaries of a kind.
We're in the business of saving souls, saving the souls of our wayward brethren.
But the way to the soul is not necessarily through the mind.
We have to arouse emotions.
We have to appeal to better instincts and satisfy yearnings.
And to do that, We have to be, our facts have to be correct, and our logic has to be straight, but we also, I believe, have to be pure of heart.
When we have purity of heart, that's greater than our facts.
It's more important and more powerful than our logic.
The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, he said, purity of heart is to will one thing.
When you will one thing with a pure heart, everything else follows.
I believe...
That describes the work of every visionary, of every man and woman who is devoted to a great cause.
For us, to will one thing would be act at all times in the interests of our family, of our nation, of our tribe, of our race.
True period of heart, of course, is achieved only by saints, but it is a goal and it can be our guide.
The trouble, you see, is we're not overthrowing some kind of scientific paradigm.
We're trying to overthrow what is, in effect, a moral paradigm.
And when you're fighting the prevailing morality, it's not enough to be right.
I think you have to be generous.
It's not enough to be logical.
You have to be virtuous.
If you're defying moral orthodoxy, I believe that your demeanor will carry your message perhaps even further than your words will.
Remember, people don't just disagree with us.
Many of them genuinely think that we are evil.
And when people think you're evil, I don't think they listen very carefully to your words.
They search your manner.
They look for the slightest excuse to ignore all your impregnable arguments, all your carefully marshaled facts.
And that's why we must never be mean-spirited or angry or petulant or dismissive of the interests of others.
I believe rudeness and arrogance that will drive people away, that will only confirm their own prejudices.
It's the excuse they're desperate for to walk away smug and happy and say, these people are just small-minded angry bigots.
Our opponents don't recognize our good faith.
But, and this is a hard thing, I think we must try our best to recognize their good faith.
All right, there are a few that just want to kill us, but they don't count.
I'm talking about the vast majority of our people who should be with us but who aren't.
And yes, objectively speaking, they are supporting policies that will consign us to oblivion, but by their lights, they are good, upstanding people.
They sincerely believe that they're on the side of the angels, and I think you will never understand them, you will never convince them of anything unless you understand that.
You can't expect them to recognize our good intentions unless we are willing to recognize theirs.
What we say may be factually irrefutable.
It could be morally irreproachable, but that's not enough.
It's not enough to be right.
We have to be better.
We have to be more thoughtful, more generous, more open, and more patient.
And I realize that's hard, and it's unfair.
But we are in a fight for our lives.
We have more enemies than friends.
And some of those enemies are going to have to become our friends if we're going to have a future.
You all know that whites now face probably the worst crisis since their existence as a race.
What threatens us with oblivion is ourselves, our own perverted values.
I believe you're here in this room because you care passionately.
About the future of our race.
And if our race is to have a future on this continent, it'll be due to the work of people in this room and people like you who, in your best moments, I believe, can will one thing.
I know that many of you, many of you would be willing to die for your race.
Well, if only it were that easy.
If only we could just march laughing into Valhalla, having fought the decisive battle for our race and culture.
Well, it doesn't work that way.
What is required of all of us is something harder, really, than dying for your race.
It's to live for your race.
And it's to live in a way that draws people towards us and does not push them away.
As men and women of the West, I believe our duty is clear.
It's clear whether eventually we succeed or not.
This isn't some kind of game in which we calculate the odds and then we place our bets accordingly.
The odds don't affect our commitment, our cause.
It's the great challenge of our age.
It's the great responsibility of our generation.
Win or lose, we're committed to this struggle, and we're committed gladly because we know that we're right.
And in closing, I'd like to quote from one of those terrible fratricidal wars that we hope never to have again.
Before the Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson said to his men, England expects every man to do his duty.
Well, duty, ladies and gentlemen, is the message that's written on all of the great achievements of our civilization.
And duty is the message that's written on the tombstones of your grandparents and great-grandparents.
Duty is the message on your faces of your children, your sons and your daughters.
And if we read that message and we act on it with a pure heart, we can assure our descendants...
of a future that is as worthy as their glorious past.
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