Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Diversity Means Fewer White People
Aired: 2021-02-18
Duration: 07:28


=== NHL's Diversity Dilemma (05:21) ===

[00:00:04]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
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[00:00:17]  For years, lefties have complained that the National Hockey League is too white.
[00:00:22]  Here are typical headlines.
[00:00:24]  The racist culture of Canadian hockey.
[00:00:27]  The problem with U.S. hockey.
[00:00:30]  Racial diversity.
[00:00:31]  What they mean is not enough diversity.
[00:00:33]  And hockey has long been about white machismo.
[00:00:37]  Can the NHL change that?
[00:00:40]  Well, just this week, the Wall Street Journal jumped on the bandwagon with what could be the harshest headline of all.
[00:00:47]  Diversify or die.
[00:00:49]  The National Hockey League has a demography problem.
[00:00:52]  The league has been talking to William Frey, a demographer at Brookings Institute, who makes a good living telling folks that white people are on their way out.
[00:01:02]  He spooked the league when he explained that 40% of Americans are already non-white and that non-whites will soon be the majority.
[00:01:11]  And so, as a recent NHL policy paper puts it, now, more than ever, hockey must focus on the drastic demographic and cultural change that is coming.
[00:01:22]  Yep, demography changes everything.
[00:01:24]  I wonder when the Republicans will figure that out.
[00:01:28]  But the reasoning here...
[00:01:33]  Well, if that's true, why didn't professional basketball die long ago?
[00:01:39]  81% of the players are black in a country that's only 13% black.
[00:01:44]  Why doesn't basketball have to diversify or die?
[00:01:49]  The National Football League is 70% black.
[00:01:52]  Why isn't William Frey pestering the teams to hire more white guys?
[00:01:56]  Well, I'll tell you why.
[00:01:58]  Because anything that's white, like professional hockey, or classical music, or birdwatching, or the state of Maine, is by definition no good and has to change.
[00:02:10]  Diversity is just a way of saying too many white people.
[00:02:13]  That's why hockey, which is white, has to diversify or die.
[00:02:17]  But basketball is wonderful because there are practically no whites left.
[00:02:21]  There is a group called the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport that says this explicitly.
[00:02:28]  It gives every professional league a grade for diversity.
[00:02:32]  As it noted, in an ethnic breakdown of sports, NBA takes lead for most diverse.
[00:02:39]  It's practically all black but gets top marks for diversity?
[00:02:43]  That's because diversity means having as few whites as possible.
[00:02:48]  And that's why Major League Baseball, which you actually could call diverse, gets a lower grade.
[00:02:55]  Only 58% of the players are white, so whites are underrepresented.
[00:02:59]  But that's not good enough.
[00:03:01]  If baseball wants a better diversity score, it needs to get rid of those white players and look more like basketball.
[00:03:08]  Well, to understand diversity, let us turn to the New York Times.
[00:03:13]  In June, the paper heaped scorn on Canadian hockey as boringly white and held up the Toronto Raptors basketball team as more like what Canada truly deserves.
[00:03:25]  It dug up an immigrant to say just what the paper wanted to hear.
[00:03:30]  You only see white people playing hockey, said Andrew Guyen, 19, whose parents came to Toronto from Vietnam.
[00:03:38]  But basketball is more like what the nation is like.
[00:03:42]  How much did they have to pay Andrew Guyen to say something that stupid?
[00:03:47]  Here are the Toronto Raptors.
[00:03:50]  There are 18 men on the team.
[00:03:52]  Only two are white.
[00:03:54]  The guy in the front row is a light-skinned black.
[00:03:57]  Canada is 3.4% black and 73% white.
[00:04:03]  Does Andrew Guyen think he's living in Nigeria?
[00:04:06]  Even famously diverse Toronto, where Andrew lives, is still about half-white and only 9% black.
[00:04:13]  It doesn't look like the Raptors.
[00:04:16]  And just this week, the Times was back to complaining about how miserably white Canadian hockey is and how marvelously representative the Raptors are.
[00:04:26]  The Times gloried in how the team's racial, cultural, and socioeconomic diversity reflected the country as a whole.
[00:04:36]  Here's another picture of the Raptors.
[00:04:37]  Does even the Times believe its own baloney?
[00:04:41]  Yes, because diversity means as few whites as possible.
[00:04:46]  It's not as though the NHL is all white.
[00:04:48]  Pro hockey got its first black player, Willie O'Ree, back in 1958.
[00:04:54]  He wasn't much of a player, but he's in the Hockey Hall of Fame because he was the first black.
[00:05:01]  And every year, the NHL gives out the Willie O'Ree Community Hero Award.
[00:05:06]  There are plans to grant him the Congressional Gold Medal in the U.S. You know who got the first one?

=== NHL's Diversity Push (02:17) ===

[00:05:12]  George Washington.
[00:05:14]  Last season, the NHL had 33 black players.
[00:05:18]  How many black kids grow up even playing hockey?
[00:05:22]  The league is hunting high and low for these unicorns.
[00:05:25]  And the NHL is straining every muscle.
[00:05:28]  To end its shameful homogeneity.
[00:05:32]  It has a hockey is for everyone program to persuade even the most unlikely people to play hockey.
[00:05:37]  It's going for Asians, black history, gay pride, girls and women.
[00:05:43]  But since the only diversity that really counts is non-whites, this month, hockey commissioner Gary Bettman ordered mandatory diversity training for all coaches and personnel.
[00:05:55]  And they'll get it every year.
[00:05:57]  Just in case they forgot.
[00:05:59]  The NHL celebrates Black History Month.
[00:06:02]  As the very lefty Guardian newspaper noted, the league has departed from its previous tone-deafness around Black History Month with a full slate of relevant programming.
[00:06:14]  It was tone-deaf on Black History?
[00:06:16]  Could someone explain to me why professional hockey should care at all about Black History Month?
[00:06:22]  Well, now it's got a full slate.
[00:06:25]  Of videos of blacks talking about, and I quote, racism, breaking down barriers in hockey, and personal stories.
[00:06:33]  The league even has a mobile black history museum that travels all around the country.
[00:06:38]  American legacy.
[00:06:40]  Know your history.
[00:06:41]  Pro football and pro basketball don't even do that.
[00:06:45]  The whiter you are, the more you have to celebrate black history, I guess.
[00:06:50]  So there you have it.
[00:06:51]  Hockey has got to diversify or die.
[00:06:54]  Basketball and football can stay just as black as they like.
[00:06:58]  Baseball is still suspiciously white.
[00:07:01]  You see, sports are like everything else.
[00:07:04]  Too many whites is just plain wrong, and you can never have too many people of color, especially blacks.
[00:07:12]  The message is clear, isn't it?
[00:07:14]  White people are like an infestation, like termites or bedbugs, and the quicker they can be disposed of, the better.
[00:07:22]  And so pretty soon, What I'm about to do could be against the law, so I'll say it while I can.