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Jan. 24, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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The Wisdom of Janelle Monáe

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	Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
	Janelle Monáe is a rapper and an actress.
	She has a strong racial consciousness, as she explained to The Evening Standard.
	My music, my performance, my voice, my message, and what I'm representing as a young African-American woman is what's most important.
	She starred in the movie Hidden Figures, which suggests NASA couldn't have made it to the moon without the help of blacks.
	Miss Monet played the role of Mary Jackson, a NASA mathematician.
	At the time, many blacks protested the space program.
	At this demonstration, at a NASA site, the sign reads, Billions for space, pennies for the hungry.
	This lady looks pretty regular to her meals, to me.
	But that's a different story.
	What brought Miss Monet to my attention was the following tweet.
	Why can't all homophobic and racist people live in their own effing community?
	I'm asking a serious question.
	Put y'all money together and start your own community.
	Build homes and just be with each other.
	Stop making people's lives who live in the real world miserable.
	You can see it got 14,000 retweets and 67,000 likes.
	Now, setting aside some of the rhetorical flourishes, Miss Monet is on to something.
	First, she's clearly talking about getting rid of white people, since we all know that only white people can be racist.
	And she has tumbled to a profound insight.
	Sometimes, separation is the solution.
	Like so many successful black people in America, she thinks people like me are making people like her, as she put it, miserable.
	And she has given up on the idea that we can be cured of racism.
	She just wants us out of her life.
	If a white person complained that blacks made him miserable and wondered why they can't just go away, he'd be kicked off of Twitter.
	But Ms. Monet's account seems to be safe.
	Now, I've made a couple of videos arguing that divorce is better than trying to stay in a miserable marriage.
	But YouTube quarantines them.
	It's okay for some people to talk about that, but not for others.
	But there's a bigger problem.
	The federal government uses force to prevent separation.
	Here's the Arkansas National Guard forcing whites to go to school with blacks in 1954.
	And as this famous photo shows, in Boston, too, whites wanted their own schools and did not want to integrate.
	Even dear old Joe Biden, current Democrat frontrunner, used to like the idea of separation.
	Here's a political article called How a young Joe Biden turned liberals against integration.
	In 1976, he said, and I quote, If he said that today, Facebook would ban him.
	And what about neighborhoods?
	It was once possible to use restrictive covenants to be sure that people sold their houses only to buyers of the same race.
	But in 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that restrictive covenants were illegal.
	This means that if Ms. Monet's"racists" actually did build communities, they might not be able to keep them.
	And if the last 60 years tell us anything at all, it's that non-whites all around the world can't wait to come live with us racist white people.
	Now, we take it for granted that blacks and other minorities can go their own way.
	How often do you hear of people described as"active in the black community"?
	Well, I'd be active in the white community, if there were such a thing.
	If Miss Monet really wants whites to have communities, she is a cutting-edge thinker.
	I'd like to thank her for promoting this idea to her one million Twitter followers.
	But does she really mean it?
	Would she really be happy if white people built their own institutions, as the Afrikaners have in the enclave of Orania?
	Somehow, I doubt it.
	When push comes to shove, blacks don't want to go it alone.
	Back in the 1920s, Marcus Garvey tried to start a Back to Africa movement for American blacks.
	He might have been serious, but he sure couldn't get many to go.
	Officially, the Nation of Islam is supposed to want part of the United States just for blacks.
	And Louis Farrakhan occasionally talks about that, but I don't think he's serious.
	I think, frankly, he's afraid of the very idea of going alone.
	Surely, he knows he's better off living with white people, and the more guilty he can make us feel, the better.
	Black people are always asking for dialogue.
	Well, let's have a dialogue.
	But even without one, we should think of Ms. Monet's words as a call to action.
	Start thinking about where and with whom you can build a community.
	We have to start somewhere, and the sooner the better.

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