Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - 50 Years Later: Why Do They Still Riot?
Aired: 2021-03-23
Duration: 08:18


=== The Most Famous Line (02:21) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
[00:00:07]  This year is the 50th anniversary of the famous Kerner Commission report.
[00:00:12]  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.
[00:00:22]  Some, like Newark and Detroit, never really recovered.
[00:00:26]  Liberals were shocked because the riots came just after they had given blacks Everything they thought they wanted.
[00:00:34]  Legal segregation ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
[00:00:38]  Blacks got full access to the ballot box with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
[00:00:44]  The welfare programs that were supposed to bring us the Great Society had just been set up.
[00:00:50]  This was everything Martin Luther King had ever asked for.
[00:00:54]  So why the riots?
[00:00:56]  The Kerner Commission report blamed miserable conditions in black ghettos.
[00:01:01]  But what caused the ghettos?
[00:01:04]  Here's their answer.
[00:01:06]  White society is deeply implicated in the ghetto.
[00:01:10]  White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.
[00:01:18]  Whites were officially the problem in 1968.
[00:01:21]  In 2018, 50 years later, we're still officially the problem.
[00:01:27]  That's what's meant by terms like institutional racism, White privilege, systemic racism, and entrenched white supremacy.
[00:01:36]  The most famous line from the Kerner Commission report was a warning that the country was dividing on racial lines.
[00:01:43]  Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal.
[00:01:51]  It went on to call for, quote, national action on an unprecedented scale.
[00:01:57]  This was to solve the problems of separate and unequal.
[00:02:02]  Separation would be ended by integration, which would prove to blacks and whites that they were just like each other.
[00:02:09]  Inequality would be ended with welfare, job training, tax incentives, better schools, and preschool education.

=== Trillion Dollar Failure (06:08) ===

[00:02:17]  Well, inequality has certainly not ended, despite all of our efforts.
[00:02:21]  Take Head Start, which is preschool for poor children.
[00:02:25]  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.
[00:02:39]  Every serious study shows that Head Start has no lasting effect.
[00:02:45]  We could have spent $500 billion on it, and it wouldn't have made a difference.
[00:02:50]  We have spent trillions of dollars on other welfare programs.
[00:02:54]  This graph shows welfare spending as a percentage of gross domestic product.
[00:03:00]  As you can see, the red trend line is up and up.
[00:03:04]  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.
[00:03:16]  Of course, by no means all of that went to blacks.
[00:03:20]  But depending on the program, blacks are two to five times more likely than whites to get handouts.
[00:03:26]  Here's Medicaid use by household.
[00:03:29]  As you can see on the left, 42.5% of American-born black households are on it, compared to 17.1% of white households.
[00:03:40]  Over on the right are figures for immigrant Hispanics and blacks.
[00:03:44]  But don't get me started on just how crazy it is for immigrants to be on welfare.
[00:03:49]  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.
[00:04:02]  Well, how about integration?
[00:04:04]  More and more blacks don't even want it.
[00:04:06]  How's this?
[00:04:08]  for an opinion piece written last year for"The Hill" by a Black woman named Kahina Ross.
[00:04:15]  Brown v.
[00:04:16]  Board of Education Anniversary re-segregates schools voluntarily for Black students.
[00:04:22]  She says Black children learn better in all Black schools.
[00:04:27]  Doris Wilkinson was the first Black to attend the University of Kentucky after the 1954 Brown decision.
[00:04:33]  But she now calls integration, in her words, an absolute abysmal failure.
[00:04:39]  She wants black schools for black children, too.
[00:04:42]  And she's getting them.
[00:04:44]  School integration peaked 30 years ago and has been dropping ever since.
[00:04:49]  At universities, segregated dorms, segregated graduation ceremonies, and safe spaces only for blacks are increasingly common.
[00:04:58]  It's blacks who are asking for this, certainly not whites.
[00:05:01]  And housing?
[00:05:03]  Ever since the Fair Housing Act of 1968, it's been illegal to discriminate in any aspect of housing, buying, selling, renting, lending, anything.
[00:05:14]  If a black person wants to buy a house in your neighborhood and has the money, nothing is going to stop him.
[00:05:21]  Well, a lot of them don't want to live in your neighborhood.
[00:05:25]  There was a recent study of 13,000 black families in New Jersey who were in the top fifth Well,
[00:05:42]  poor blacks don't want whites either.
[00:05:45]  When whites move into inner-city neighborhoods, blacks call it"gentrification" and they try to keep them out.
[00:05:52]  Here's a Los Angeles Times op-ed by a black person: Yahoo!
[00:06:02]  just ran a story that praised people who are prepared to use violence to keep whites out.
[00:06:09]  It's called A New Generation of Anti-Gentrification Radicals Are on the March in Los Angeles and around the country.
[00:06:18]  They just don't want white people.
[00:06:21]  The Kerner Commission set out Well, 50 years later, that sounds almost like a joke.
[00:06:37]  When blacks take a knee during the national anthem, does that look like a single American identity?
[00:06:43]  Even cheerleaders have a separate black identity.
[00:06:47]  And how about these people?
[00:06:49]  Do they look like they share a single American identity?
[00:06:53]  Here are Hispanics telling us that white people don't even belong here.
[00:06:58]  But remember, white racism is the official explanation for why blacks don't do as well as whites.
[00:07:05]  We race realists know better, but the left keeps coming up with harebrained ways to blame us.
[00:07:14]  Here's a Hispanic professor at Illinois University who complains that white privilege is bolstered by teaching math.
[00:07:23]  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?
[00:07:32]  Who can be surprised by riots like the ones we keep having, like in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri?
[00:07:39]  If today we are two nations separate and unequal, blacks have sure helped make it that way.
[00:07:48]  Welfare didn't cure inequality because groups aren't equal.
[00:07:53]  Integration didn't work because no one wanted to integrate.
[00:07:57]  There is no single American identity because we are not a single people.
[00:08:03]  The fundamental mistake was to think we could build a society in which race didn't matter.
[00:08:09]  We've been trying for more than 50 years.
[00:08:12]  It can't be done.
[00:08:14]  It's about time we finally took race seriously again.