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The Most Famous Line
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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. | |
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Trillion Dollar Failure
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| 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. | |