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May 12, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
07:37
Erasing our "Racist" Past
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
I've been thinking about that old George Orwell quote,"He who controls the past controls the future." Last month, Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia signed an order to remove a statue from the grounds of the state capitol in Atlanta.
It's a 12-foot bronze of Tom Watson, who represented Georgia in both the U.S. Congress and Senate.
And ran for vice president on the populist ticket in 1896 along with William Jennings Bryan.
But he also said rude things about blacks.
So although he was a populist hero at the time of his death, the usual folks think he is an embarrassment and have been campaigning for years to have his statue taken away.
He says he's removing the statue to make room for renovations on that side of the Capitol building, and it would just cost too much to bring the statue back after the renovations.
Well, I'm sure that if it were Ray Charles or Martin Luther King, they'd find the money somewhere.
State Rep Tyrone Brooks of Georgia, who is black, he says this: We are elated by the proposed removal of the Tom Watson statue, and we would like to see the statues of Senator Richard Russell,
Governor Eugene Talmadge, and Confederate General John B. Gordon also removed.
Richard Russell?
The Senate office building is named for him, and he was honored in a 1981 postage stamp in the Great Americans series.
But he was a little slow on civil rights.
Well, obviously, you can't have a Confederate general guarding the statehouse, but as for Eugene Talmadge, he was elected to four terms as Georgia's governor, but his main sin seems to be that he was a white man.
State Rep Tyrone Brooks is willing to let the statue of Jimmy Carter stay, but he wants to see these other, quote, Old racist artifacts replaced with monuments to blacks, American Indians, and Asians.
He forgot to mention Hispanics, but I'm sure they'll set him straight.
The campaign to rub out our racist past has been going on for some time.
Back in 1992, the blacks in charge of the New Orleans School District decided that no public school should be named for a Confederate officer or for anyone who owned slaves.
So schools named for Robert E. Lee and General Beauregard were renamed for black people.
Well, even George Washington Elementary School, that name violated the No Slave Owners Rule.
It was renamed after a black surgeon, Charles Drew.
As a black activist named Carl Gallman explained at the time,"To African Americans, George Washington has about as much meaning as David Duke." When blacks take over school boards, they routinely rename schools that were originally named for famous white people.
But when there's a mix of blacks and Hispanics, Renaming a school can be tricky.
Berkeley, California used to have a Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, but teachers decided they could no longer bear to see the name of a slaveholder on their school.
Hispanics wanted to name the school for Cesar Chavez, while blacks wanted Sojourner Truth.
This led to a terrible fight and a compromise that pleased no one.
The place is now called Sequoia Elementary School.
Even the name Cesar Chavez isn't good enough for some Hispanics because, you see, Chavez was Mexican.
In 2007, Los Angeles had to open an Oscar Romero Middle School named after an assassinated Salvadoran Archbishop.
That was to keep a Salvadoran neighborhood happy.
I don't suppose George Washington means any more to Salvadorans than he does to the blacks of New Orleans.
Demography is power, and power, like conquest, has certain prerogatives.
South Africa, since blacks took over in 1994, is a good example.
The name of Hendrik Verward had to go, of course, because he was the grand architect of apartheid.
So his name has been stripped from streets, towns, and at least one hospital and an airport.
D.F. Malan Airport, named after another Afrikaner Prime Minister, is now Cape Town Airport.
The name of Stanger is now Kwadukuzu.
The Chelmsford Dam now has a name I can't even pronounce.
And the Blomfontein Airport was renamed in honor of anti-apartheid activist Bram Fisher.
The cities of Blomfontein and Pretoria have kept their names this long only because Afrikaners fought to save those names in court.
What we are seeing in America, therefore, is a natural process, and we'll see more of it.
The non-whites who are on the rise already have plenty of white sympathizers who, for example, want to kick Jefferson out of the national pantheon because he had slaves and thought that blacks were not very bright.
But if you start with Jefferson, where do you stop?
Nine of the first eleven presidents owned slaves, and even Lincoln, the great emancipator, wanted to ship all the freed slaves to Central America.
In other words, if you want to control America's past by snuffing out all these so-called racists, you have to discredit just about everyone who lived before, say, 1965, and you'd have to keep a mighty close eye on the rest.
I'm sure state rep Tyrone Brooks would be up to the challenge, however.
Frankly, I'm surprised he hasn't yet raised a cry.
Against the most outrageously supremacist symbol of all: the White House.
How can the so-called leader of the free world live in a White House?
It really ought to be painted in pretty stripes and called the House of Many Colors.
And we should certainly take Washington's name off the nation's capital.
There are plenty of good alternatives: Diversitopia or Multiopolis.
Kinshasa has a nice ring.
Heck, maybe just call it Mandela.
Wouldn't we really rather he was the father of our country?
Well, I started with Orwell, so I'll end with him.
He didn't just say he who controls the past controls the future.
He went on to point out that he who controls the present controls the past.
Well, we can sure see who's fighting for control.
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