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Why We Left White Communities
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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. | |