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Jan. 24, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Two (More) Reasons to Despise the New York Times
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor.
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A recent opinion column in the New York Times is called"A Racist Attack Shows How Whiteness Evolves." As I talk about it, don't forget, this is an article about whiteness.
The author says four black middle school girls attended a football game in Lawrence, New Jersey.
They claimed two 17-year-old boys of Indian descent used the N-word and urinated on them.
Yep, right in the middle of the crowd.
Naturally, there was outrage, a press conference, a police investigation, and criminal charges.
But two weeks later, police said nobody peed.
Some liquid, possibly soda or water, may have been thrown in the girl's direction, and there may have been racially derogatory language.
But if there was no urination, that means those girls lied.
I don't know what else they might have lied about because the internet went silent on this incident four months ago.
My guess is it's because charges were dropped.
But the New York Times article lives on.
Urination and all.
The author, Nell Painter, says this.
Since the two boys were Indian, this might raise the question of whether, and I quote, the assault should be thought of as racist.
Well, since only white people can be racist, I guess these Indians couldn't be racist.
And now Painter explains.
Instead of asking what the boys reported racial identity tells us about the nature of the attack, we should see the boys as enacting American whiteness through anti-black assault in a very traditional way.
These Indians were enacting American whiteness through the tradition of peeing on black people.
Nell Pater continues, In doing so, the assailants are demonstrating how race is a social construct that people make through their actions.
So these Indian boys constructed themselves as white by being bad to blacks.
Incredible. Well, here's a headline from a few years ago.
Latino gang charged with racial cleansing attacks in California town.
A Mexican gang tried to run every black person out of the town of Azusa.
I guess they were just enacting whiteness.
Well, so who is this author, Nell Painter?
She taught at fancy universities and ended up with an endowed chair at Princeton.
She was president of the Organization of American Historians and president of the Southern Historical Association.
Hot stuff!
She is a member of an increasingly common type of black.
The more whites promote and pet and adore them, the more they revile us.
She wrote a book called The History of White People, in which she wrote, Whiteness is merely a category of non-blackness, the leavings of what is not black.
But even brown people can become white if they're bad enough.
Now, I don't blame Nell Painter.
If I were black and I could glide into an endowed chair at Princeton and get op-eds in the Times by insulting white people, why not?
But I do wonder whether she believes her own baloney or whether she chuckles quietly every time she cashes a check.
It's Princeton and the Times that I blame for giving her a soapbox.
That's the real travesty.
Well, here's another headline from the Times from earlier this year.
How much racism do you face every day?
It's about a study of 101 black teenagers in Washington, D.C. Every day, a researcher asks them a bunch of questions about many kinds of racism that they might have had to live through that day and got totals for two weeks.
The Times says the study asked about 58 different forms of racism.
You can stop the video and look at these items if you want, and there are plenty more.
The average number of times these 101 students each claimed to have been watched closely or followed around in stores because of race was seven times in two weeks.
That's an average of once every other day.
Each of them got poor service at a restaurant because of their race an average of twice a week.
That's a lot of shopping and eating out.
They say that a peer teased them about their skin color an average of three times a week and that peers made jokes about black people every other day.
They said they were each wrongly disciplined at school because of their race an average of three times a week.
Not just disciplined.
Disciplined unfairly because they were black.
On average, they said that four times a week, someone was surprised that despite their being black, they did something well.
If you add up all 58 kinds of racism, you get an average of well over 100 outrages per student per week.
This is crazy.
The article itself says they suffered only about 35 acts of racism per week.
So, I wrote the author of the article, Amy Harmon.
And asked her to explain.
I asked her twice.
I got no reply.
The article cites a study in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
The lead author is Devin English of Rutgers University.
I read the article and still couldn't figure out where those numbers come from that are in the Times, so I asked him to explain.
Twice. No reply.
I also asked Professor English something else.
How many of the people tormenting these poor students are, in fact, white?
No answer to that either.
I looked up the D.C. school system.
Only 10% of the students in all of K-12 are white.
There are 14 public high schools in D.C. Nine of them have no white students at all.
Two of them have only 1% white, and at one school, it's 8%.
Professor English doesn't tell us where the students went to school, but he wrote that they attend predominantly black schools and live in predominantly black neighborhoods.
Well, here's a racial dot map of the D.C. area.
Black people are green and white people are blue.
This is stark segregation.
If you live and go to school in a green part of town, how many white people do you even see in a week?
Are we really supposed to imagine white kids making fun of black kids because they're black in a 90% black school?
They'd be mobbed.
I can't find the number of white teachers in the DC system, but I bet there aren't many.
But they're supposed to be punishing every black student, unfairly because of race, an average of three times a week?
I think the whole thing is rubbish.
If these students really claim they are followed around by clerks in stores every other day, they're dreaming or they're lying.
But this is the intellectual environment in which we live.
Nell Painter no doubt still believes those Indian boys peed on black girls.
But that was just their way of trying to be white.
Devin English wants us to believe Every single claim about racism from black students who, so far as I can tell, hardly ever even see white people.
The Times passed along this muck and I think even exaggerated it, but I couldn't get any answers out of these people.
Well, here's the message from the Times: Whites invented racism, so anyone who acts racist is just acting white.
And young blacks...
Even in this area of exquisite sensitivity, face racism every time they turn around, even in black neighborhoods and schools.
And they wonder why we don't believe them and why, more and more, we despise them.
At amren.com.
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