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March 23, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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50 Years Later: Why Do They Still Riot?
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the famous Kerner Commission report.
President Lyndon Johnson set up the commission to try to understand what caused the race riots that had just torn cities apart all across America.
Some, like Newark and Detroit, never really recovered.
Liberals were shocked because the riots came just after they had given blacks Everything they thought they wanted.
Legal segregation ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Blacks got full access to the ballot box with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The welfare programs that were supposed to bring us the Great Society had just been set up.
This was everything Martin Luther King had ever asked for.
So why the riots?
The Kerner Commission report blamed miserable conditions in black ghettos.
But what caused the ghettos?
Here's their answer.
White society is deeply implicated in the ghetto.
White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.
Whites were officially the problem in 1968.
In 2018, 50 years later, we're still officially the problem.
That's what's meant by terms like institutional racism, White privilege, systemic racism, and entrenched white supremacy.
The most famous line from the Kerner Commission report was a warning that the country was dividing on racial lines.
Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal.
It went on to call for, quote, national action on an unprecedented scale.
This was to solve the problems of separate and unequal.
Separation would be ended by integration, which would prove to blacks and whites that they were just like each other.
Inequality would be ended with welfare, job training, tax incentives, better schools, and preschool education.
Well, inequality has certainly not ended, despite all of our efforts.
Take Head Start, which is preschool for poor children.
Since 1965, American taxpayers have spent more than $180 billion trying to give black children a boost so they could start school on an equal footing with whites.
Every serious study shows that Head Start has no lasting effect.
We could have spent $500 billion on it, and it wouldn't have made a difference.
We have spent trillions of dollars on other welfare programs.
This graph shows welfare spending as a percentage of gross domestic product.
As you can see, the red trend line is up and up.
Last year, the U.S. economy produced about $19 trillion in wealth, and 5% of that, almost $1 trillion, was spent on means-tested welfare.
Of course, by no means all of that went to blacks.
But depending on the program, blacks are two to five times more likely than whites to get handouts.
Here's Medicaid use by household.
As you can see on the left, 42.5% of American-born black households are on it, compared to 17.1% of white households.
Over on the right are figures for immigrant Hispanics and blacks.
But don't get me started on just how crazy it is for immigrants to be on welfare.
The point is, we have poured enormous resources into the pockets of blacks, but the median net worth of black households is only one-tenth that of a white household.
Well, how about integration?
More and more blacks don't even want it.
How's this?
for an opinion piece written last year for"The Hill" by a Black woman named Kahina Ross.
Brown v.
Board of Education Anniversary re-segregates schools voluntarily for Black students.
She says Black children learn better in all Black schools.
Doris Wilkinson was the first Black to attend the University of Kentucky after the 1954 Brown decision.
But she now calls integration, in her words, an absolute abysmal failure.
She wants black schools for black children, too.
And she's getting them.
School integration peaked 30 years ago and has been dropping ever since.
At universities, segregated dorms, segregated graduation ceremonies, and safe spaces only for blacks are increasingly common.
It's blacks who are asking for this, certainly not whites.
And housing?
Ever since the Fair Housing Act of 1968, it's been illegal to discriminate in any aspect of housing, buying, selling, renting, lending, anything.
If a black person wants to buy a house in your neighborhood and has the money, nothing is going to stop him.
Well, a lot of them don't want to live in your neighborhood.
There was a recent study of 13,000 black families in New Jersey who were in the top fifth Well,
poor blacks don't want whites either.
When whites move into inner-city neighborhoods, blacks call it"gentrification" and they try to keep them out.
Here's a Los Angeles Times op-ed by a black person: Yahoo!
just ran a story that praised people who are prepared to use violence to keep whites out.
It's called A New Generation of Anti-Gentrification Radicals Are on the March in Los Angeles and around the country.
They just don't want white people.
The Kerner Commission set out Well, 50 years later, that sounds almost like a joke.
When blacks take a knee during the national anthem, does that look like a single American identity?
Even cheerleaders have a separate black identity.
And how about these people?
Do they look like they share a single American identity?
Here are Hispanics telling us that white people don't even belong here.
But remember, white racism is the official explanation for why blacks don't do as well as whites.
We race realists know better, but the left keeps coming up with harebrained ways to blame us.
Here's a Hispanic professor at Illinois University who complains that white privilege is bolstered by teaching math.
And when blacks are told over and over that everything that has ever gone wrong for them is our fault, what do you expect them to do?
Who can be surprised by riots like the ones we keep having, like in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri?
If today we are two nations separate and unequal, blacks have sure helped make it that way.
Welfare didn't cure inequality because groups aren't equal.
Integration didn't work because no one wanted to integrate.
There is no single American identity because we are not a single people.
The fundamental mistake was to think we could build a society in which race didn't matter.
We've been trying for more than 50 years.
It can't be done.
It's about time we finally took race seriously again.
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