Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - The Truth About "All Men Are Created Equal"
Aired: 2021-03-22
Duration: 07:44


=== Abused Equalities (06:59) ===

[00:00:04]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
[00:00:08]  All men are created equal.
[00:00:10]  These five words are the most abused, misinterpreted, and dangerous words in American history.
[00:00:16]  They have been used to justify every egalitarian fantasy and every so-called equal rights movement since the country began.
[00:00:24]  They are, of course, Thomas Jefferson's words from the Declaration of Independence.
[00:00:29]  Jefferson has been claimed as an inspiration by abolitionists, Suffragettes, gay rights activists, open borders fanatics, and now people who say we don't have the right to keep out Muslims.
[00:00:42]  This is all crazy, of course.
[00:00:45]  Jefferson didn't mean any of this.
[00:00:47]  But President Barack Obama was just keeping up with the times when he tweeted a quotation from the gay activist Harvey Milk: They can never erase those words.
[00:01:04]  That is what America is about.
[00:01:07]  A lot of people agree.
[00:01:09]  The distinguished historian Joseph J. Ellis called these five words"the most potent and consequential words in American history." Well, what did Jefferson really mean?
[00:01:23]  First of all, in 1776, the only people who could vote were free white men who owned property.
[00:01:30]  Jefferson never wanted to give the vote to women or blacks or Indians or poor people.
[00:01:36]  And of course, from the age of 21, Jefferson owned slaves.
[00:01:41]  He had about 200 when he wrote the Declaration.
[00:01:45]  He thought slavery was an evil thing, but he also thought that free blacks in a white society was even worse.
[00:01:53]  He wanted the slaves freed and sent back to Africa, or any place.
[00:01:58]  Where whites and blacks would be, in his words, beyond the reach of mixture.
[00:02:03]  He didn't think blacks were very intelligent either.
[00:02:06]  As he put it, quote, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection.
[00:02:14]  And let's not forget the purpose of the Declaration of Independence.
[00:02:18]  It was to explain why the American colonies have the right to be free from Britain.
[00:02:24]  It lists a bunch of grievances against the king that justify revolution.
[00:02:28]  One of those grievances is that the king had encouraged a tax on settlers by, as Jefferson put it, merciless Indian savages.
[00:02:38]  I don't think Jefferson thought savages were his equals.
[00:02:41]  The five famous words appear near the beginning of the Declaration.
[00:02:46]  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
[00:02:58]  Well, was it self-evident in 1776 that women and blacks and homosexuals and American Indians were all equal or ever would be?
[00:03:09]  Of course not.
[00:03:10]  Not one of the signers of the Declaration thought those things or ever dreamed anyone would ever think such things.
[00:03:18]  This sentence is setting the stage for a bunch of untitled commoners to tell King George III and all of his dukes and earls that the colonists aren't going to take orders from them anymore.
[00:03:33]  That Americans were the equals of their rulers.
[00:03:37]  The great essayist H.L. Mencken translated the Declaration into plain English.
[00:03:41]  When he got to the created equal part, he put it this way.
[00:03:46]  Me and you is as good as anybody else, and maybe a damn sight better.
[00:03:51]  In other words, Jefferson is saying, we are men like you, and we have the right to tell you to buzz off.
[00:03:59]  In 1825, 49 years after he wrote the Declaration, Jefferson himself made it clear that all the Declaration did was explain why the colonists had the right to rebel against England.
[00:04:12]  Its purpose was, as he explained, To find out new principles or new arguments never before thought of, but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject.
[00:04:25]  No new principles.
[00:04:27]  Just a common sense explanation for why Americans were fighting the Redcoats.
[00:04:33]  And for decades, that's the way most people understood the Declaration.
[00:04:37]  There was nothing holy about it.
[00:04:40]  It did its job, and the United States became independent.
[00:04:43]  It was much later.
[00:04:46]  When the obsession with equality went into high gear, that people went back to the Declaration and decided to twist Jefferson's words into something insanely different from what he meant.
[00:04:58]  Those five words are the only ones in the whole Declaration anyone cares about today, and that is only because they deliberately ignore what the words originally meant.
[00:05:10]  And don't forget, when the Founders decided to write a Constitution, That is to say, when they made the rules for actually running the country, they didn't put in any fluff about people being equal.
[00:05:21]  Oh, no.
[00:05:23]  We have an electoral college to keep the rabble from running wild.
[00:05:27]  We had indirect election of senators to keep the rabble from running wild.
[00:05:32]  And it took amendments to the Constitution to give freedom to slaves and to give women the vote.
[00:05:40]  But those words of Jefferson's have become a Frankenstein monster.
[00:05:44]  In February 2014, U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen issued a ruling declaring that the state of Virginia's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional.
[00:05:55]  Her reasoning, and I quote, Our Constitution declares that all men are created equal.
[00:06:01]  No, it doesn't.
[00:06:03]  Now, here's a photograph of Judge Wright Allen.
[00:06:06]  And before you draw unkind conclusions about her, both the New York Times and NBC passed along her astonishing error without correcting it.
[00:06:16]  They couldn't tell the Constitution from the Declaration either.
[00:06:20]  Well, the Frankenstein monster really gets around.
[00:06:24]  In 1945, Ho Chi Minh issued a proclamation of independence from France in which he cribbed all men are created equal straight out of the Declaration.
[00:06:34]  But not even the commies put those words into their constitution.
[00:06:39]  Lately, I heard from an American who teaches English at a Chinese university out in the provinces.
[00:06:45]  He talks to his students about race differences in IQ, but many of them say, no, that can't be right.

=== Liberals And The Declaration (00:56) ===

[00:06:51]  All men are created equal.
[00:06:54]  They don't even know where the words come from, but even Chinese out in the sticks parrot this nonsense.
[00:07:02]  And one more thing.
[00:07:04]  Liberals think the"created equal" phrase in the Declaration is somehow proof of racial equality.
[00:07:10]  Do they also think that it's proof of creationism?
[00:07:13]  It says all men are"created equal" and endowed by their"Creator" with inalienable rights.
[00:07:21]  Well, try using the Declaration to prove that evolution is wrong.
[00:07:26]  You'd be laughed out of town.
[00:07:28]  Just as we ought to laugh out of town every goofball who claims the Declaration proves everyone is equal to everyone else.
[00:07:37]  It's a form of insanity.
[00:07:39]  And I think that's exactly how Jefferson would have seen it.
[00:07:43]  Thanks very much for watching.