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Feb. 18, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Putting Blacks 'at the Very Center' of American History

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	Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
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	Thanks very much.
	Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee recently explained why we owe blacks reparations for slavery.
	Slaves, she said, and I quote,"literally built the wealth of the United States and Europe." She also explained why now is the perfect time to push for reparations.
	And I think America is ready for this because of what we have been going through in the last couple of weeks, because of the attitude of our commander-in-chief, and because of what we have seen, the dastardly impacts of white nationalism, white supremacy, and outright racism.
	Plenty of people have jumped on the reparations bandwagon, including most of the Democrats who want to be president.
	Cheering them on is what may still be the country's most influential newspaper, the New York Times.
	But the Times wants much more than reparations.
	It wants to put slavery and blacks at the very heart of American history and of today's society and attack Donald Trump at the same time.
	Let me read some excerpts from a Times staff meeting of August 12th that was recorded and transcribed.
	Executive editor Dean Baquette admitted that the Russian collusion story that liberals were counting on to get Donald Trump impeached Had collapsed.
	So what to do?
	Now we have to regroup and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story.
	Well, what's the new story?
	A story that requires imaginative use of all our muscles to write about race and class in a deeper way than we have in years.
	Has the Times really been ignoring race and class?
	An unidentified staffer then made a comment.
	I just feel like racism is in everything.
	It should be considered in our science reporting, in our culture reporting, in our national reporting, and so, to me, it's sort of how we're thinking about racism and white supremacy as the foundation of all the systems in the country.
	Well, executive editor Baquette then explained that he had read an article by the ombudsman for NPR who says he doesn't even use the word Racist when he writes about Donald Trump.
	Mr. Baquette explained the NPR guy's reasoning like this: Pretty much everything is racist.
	A huge percentage of American conversation is racist.
	So why isolate this one comment from Donald Trump?
	Well, this is the kind of lunacy we associate with far-out-left college professors.
	Science reporting has got to be about racism.
	Every system in America is white supremacist.
	Our conversations are mostly racist.
	But this was not a meeting of the UC Berkeley Black Studies Department.
	This was the staff of what claims to be a news organization.
	At least some reporters want to beat readers over the head every day in every article with racism and white wickedness.
	And that is how they want to attack Donald Trump.
	Well, the Times is as good as its word.
	With a massive issue of the New York Times Magazine, over 100 pages long, it has launched what it calls the 1619 Project.
	It's named for the year the first blacks were brought to Jamestown.
	The Times tells us it's a major initiative from the New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
	It aims to reframe the country's history, understanding 1619 as our true founding and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about
	who we
	This is astonishing.
	Our history begins with the arrival of 20 Africans?
	Not earlier.
	Not later.
	And blacks are so important that they are at the very center of our history.
	The reality is that blacks have never been more than 19% of the population.
	They had nothing to do with drafting the Declaration of Independence, fighting the Revolutionary War, writing the Constitution.
	And during slavery and segregation, their political role was just about zero.
	You can count the exceptions on one hand.
	Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.B. Du Bois, maybe A. Philip Randolph, who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
	They were not, as the Times puts it, at the very center of our story.
	To support this crazy idea, the Times promotes the idea that, well, okay, maybe white people may have been the actors, but almost everything they did was because of slavery and black people.
	Here's an example.
	In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.
	Where do you even begin with something that stupid?
	First of all, there was capitalism long before American slavery.
	The first publicly traded stock was that of the Dutch East India Company, and it opened on the Amsterdam Exchange in 1602.
	And who says American capitalism was especially brutal?
	When William Blake wrote in 1804 about dark, satanic mills, he was writing about bad working conditions in British factories.
	Did they learn brutality from American slave drivers?
	In the 19th century, which do you think was the more awful, dangerous job?
	Picking cotton or mining coal?
	Mining by far.
	But I guess mining companies got all their ideas from southern planters.
	Here's more foolishness from one of the articles from the 1619 Project.
	When an accountant depreciates an asset to save on taxes, or when a mid-level manager spends an afternoon filling rows and columns on an Excel spreadsheet, they are repeating business procedures whose roots twist back to slave labor camps.
	Depreciation to save on taxes isn't possible.
	Unless there are income taxes.
	The U.S. didn't have an income tax until 1903.
	I believe that was after abolition.
	And columns and rows of numbers are supposed to come from American slavery?
	The Greeks, the Romans, the Phoenicians had accounting.
	The Egyptians couldn't have built the pyramids without rows and columns of numbers.
	Modern double-entry accounting goes back to the 13th century.
	Where does the Times get this nonsense?
	And then there's an article that claims that the only reason we don't have universal health care is because of race.
	Well, even if that were true, you might say, thank goodness for race, if you ever had to battle the British National Health Service.
	Here's another article title for you.
	Slavery gave America a fear of black people and a taste for violent punishment.
	Both still define our criminal justice system.
	So you see, it's all about slavery.
	And then there's an article by a Times staffer named Nicole Hannah-Jones about black music.
	She says that everything distinctly American comes from her people.
	So blacks are actually, in her words, the most American of all.
	So next time you hear the phrase all-American, think of Oprah Winfrey, will you?
	This stuff is annoying, but ultimately peripheral.
	Who cares if some goof...
	Lily believes that bookkeeping started with slaves.
	But what's the Times trying to accomplish with all this?
	Make black people feel important?
	Make whites feel unimportant?
	Make us ashamed of our country?
	Clearly, it's part of a perpetual campaign to demoralize us, make us think we don't belong here, soften us up for the next big shakedown.
	Well, the next one is going to be reparations.
	Based partly on the whopper we started with from Sheila Jackson Lee that slaves created the wealth of the United States.
	And that question is worth a whole video all by itself, which we'll bring to you next week.

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