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March 23, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Wakanda: The Perfect Ethnostate?

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	Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
	Black Panther could be one of the most successful movies in history.
	By now, it may have grossed over a billion dollars.
	Of course, it's being helped by the mainstream media, which almost seemed to have dropped everything to help market this movie.
	Disney must be laughing all the way to the bank.
	Black Panther is a classic example of corporate liberalism.
	The modern left doesn't seem to care very much about the environment, poverty, or keeping jobs in America, but it sure wants as many non-white faces on screen as possible.
	A recent Huffington Post article is pushing 11 black titles you have to watch on Netflix this month.
	We're always being told why we need diversity incentives for film and television.
	And this year's Oscars were full of talk about diversity.
	Black Panther has plenty of black faces all right, but in some respects it's openly reactionary.
	It is set in the fictional high-tech African nation of Wakanda, which is an explicit ethnostate.
	It accepts no immigrants and no refugees.
	It's the perfect example of a people pursuing its own destiny in accordance with its own traditions.
	With no outside interference.
	In the original comic book version, it's protected by a huge wall.
	Outside the wall, other Africans suffer from disease and starvation.
	In the movie, Wakanda's very existence is hidden behind a holographic barrier.
	The media love this ethnostate.
	The Hollywood Reporter calls it: A hidden lost world in Africa defined by royal traditions and technological wonders.
	GQ said it is a lesson on how to recover and move forward from society's mistakes.
	And the New York Times says Black Panther is a defining moment for Black America.
	Alas, at the end of the movie...
	At the urging of one of the female characters, Wakanda's new king decides to open the country up to the rest of the world.
	One man says, if we let in refugees, they will bring their problems with them, and then Wakanda will be like any place else.
	But this guy ends up siding with the villain and is discredited.
	Wakanda begins distributing welfare around the world and opens its first outreach office in heavily black Oakland, California.
	Of course, this is exactly what the West has done.
	We opened ourselves to the world and we started trying to solve the world's problems.
	All we did was make the world's problems our problems.
	We have inspired no love, no gratitude.
	Instead, We are resented and held responsible for all the problems of non-whites everywhere.
	In Black Panther, the heroes defeat villains.
	In the sequels, and there are bound to be sequels, will Wakanda defeat global inequality?
	Will it eradicate racism?
	It can survive attacks by superhuman enemies, but I doubt that it can survive globalism.
	However, This film's appeal to blacks around the world is not in how it ends, but in its portrayal of a powerful black kingdom.
	It is a vision of how some uniquely African practices could survive in a futuristic, hyper-technological society.
	And there is the almost explicit fantasy that Wakanda is what Africa could have been if it hadn't been held back by white colonizers.
	The extraordinary response among blacks to this movie shows the intensity of their racial nationalism.
	They want to hold their fate in their own hands.
	Trey Johnson at Vox asks, And as black reviewer Greg Morse wrote after seeing the movie,
	I left wanting to be like the Black Panther, but I left wanting to be in Wakanda even more.
	My question to him is, why aren't you?
	There are many black countries.
	Liberia was never colonized, just like Wakanda.
	Ethiopia was only briefly under European rule.
	And yet few blacks really want to try to create a black paradise in the real world.
	Instead, Black Pride today is all about staying around white people and trying to benefit as much as possible from our society.
	Just a few days ago, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan was bragging that Democratic Party Vice Chair Keith Ellison used to be a member.
	When he was in law school, Mr. Ellison, writing under the name of Keith E. Hakim, called for an independent black homeland.
	Today, he doesn't just repudiate that idea.
	He doesn't want anyone to have a homeland.
	Here he is, front row, second from the right, demonstrating for amnesty and to let more non-whites into our irredeemably racist country.
	His black nationalism was just a pose.
	I think Louis Farrakhan is a fraud, too.
	According to the founding principles of the Nation of Islam, he is supposed to be leading his people to an independent nation.
	But he's not serious about that.
	He knows he's much better off living with us, trying to make us feel guilty.
	We, as white advocates, we are serious.
	We used to have a nation.
	That reflected our European heritage and where everyone took it for granted that our destiny would always be in our hands.
	Well, maybe Black Panther can inspire blacks.
	Maybe some will begin to think like Marcus Garvey, who really did believe in his motto,"Up, up, you mighty race," and who devoted his life to trying to build a truly independent black homeland.
	I want blacks.
	To build a real-world Wakanda or something as close to it as they possibly can.
	I want all peoples to build strong societies that are faithful to their traditions, to live in nations that bring out the best in them, not to be shoved together with strangers constantly jockeying for position in a society that suits nobody.
	Doesn't the response to this movie show that blacks want the same thing?
	A place that is theirs, where they truly can be themselves?

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