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June 20, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Ibram X. Kendi: The Latest Black Messiah

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	Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
	Ibram X. Kendi is the latest black prophet who will lead us to racial redemption.
	His books have been at the top of every bestseller list, and he is in constant demand for profiles, interviews, and speeches.
	He is a Fellow at Harvard, winner of the National Book Award, and a Guggenheim Fellow.
	In 2020, he was one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People as Al Sharpton was kind enough to explain.
	He has really cashed in on the insatiable demand of white people to be told that they are racist.
	His ultimate goal is, and I'm not exaggerating, to set up a dictatorship of people like him to control every aspect of the country and redistribute every dime until there is complete racial equality.
	He was born in New York City with the name Ibram Rogers to parents who were a tax accountant and a business analyst.
	In 2013, when he was 31 years old, he gave himself new middle and last names and is now Ibram Zolani with an X, Kendi.
	He started off very down on white people.
	When he moved to Manassas, Virginia at age 15, he says he stayed up all night worried that the Ku Klux Klan would arrive Any minute.
	This was in 1997, and Manassas is about 30 miles from Washington, D.C. When he was in college, Mr. Kendi thought white people were so awful and weird that they might actually be extraterrestrials and were using AIDS to kill off black people.
	Mr. Kendi has calmed down a bit since then but has gone on to great heights.
	The New York Times calls his book How to be an anti-racist, the most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.
	The main idea is that every action, policy, thought, and person in America is either racist or anti-racist, and it's easy to tell them apart.
	If anything contributes to equal racial outcomes, it's anti-racist.
	Everything else, even if you think it has nothing to do with race, is racist.
	Here's what whites have to do.
	When allies, white allies, think about their goal, their goal has been to what?
	Be not racist.
	Right? And so what I'm arguing is that no, your goal should be to be anti-racist.
	Because if you're not striving to be anti-racist, then you're striving to be racist.
	And you're certainly not going to be an ally if you're what?
	If you're racist.
	You're either a demon or an angel.
	If you just want to go about your business, you're a racist.
	And here's what the Times thinks is courageous.
	We should stop fighting discrimination and instead fight inequality.
	And we have to discriminate to get to equality.
	As Mr. Kendi explains, racial discrimination is not inherently racist.
	In fact, it's necessary to get equal results.
	Here is the most obvious form of necessary racial discrimination.
	Can you give an example of an anti-racist policy or policies?
	Sure. We've been talking about one over the last few weeks, reparations.
	You know, when you ask me about reparations, I say, how do you eliminate or even begin to eliminate the wealth gap in this country without reparations?
	Another courageous argument in the book is this.
	To be anti-racist is to think nothing is behaviorally wrong or right, inferior or superior with any of the racial groups.
	This means nothing black people do is a problem.
	Murder, mayhem, illegitimacy, not a problem.
	As Mr. Kendi explains...
	And young people like me were internalizing these ideas.
	Internalizing thinking that the problem was in part black people.
	And I thought that for a long time.
	You believe that.
	I thought it.
	Yeah, I believed it.
	Until I realized that there was nothing, the only thing wrong with black people was that we thought something was wrong with black people.
	You see, every bit of it is our fault.
	Blacks are helpless marionettes in the hands of whites and have no control over what they do.
	If you think blacks are responsible for anything, you're a racist.
	And so in 1897 when W.E.B.
	Du Bois condemned what he called immorality, crime, and laziness among the Negroes, Mr. Kendi says Du Bois was being a racist.
	And do you realize there is no black-white student achievement gap?
	It's true that blacks drop out of school and score badly on tests, but those measures were cooked up to degrade and exclude black students.
	Now, for all the terrible things white people are doing to black people, Mr. Kendi is surprisingly vague about how we are supposed to set things right.
	An interviewer asked him what we should do.
	And first, all he said was vote for anti-racist candidates.
	The interviewer then said, well, surely white people can do more.
	And this was Mr. Kendi's complete reply.
	Each and every one of us need to make sure that we are striving to be anti-racist, meaning we are seeing the racial groups as equals.
	Which then allows us to protect ourselves from those who are trafficking ideas that are dividing us, that are saying that certain things are wrong with Black people or Native people and that those people are animals and I'll protect you from those animals.
	We need to be recognizing that those types of racist ideas deflect us from what the true problem is and what truly is dividing us and what's truly preventing us The right ideas
	will protect you from all those people who say black people are animals.
	And how's this for circular mush?
	Like, how do you define racism?
	Sure. So racism, I would define it as a collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated by racist ideas.
	Are you surprised to learn that in high school, Mr. Kennedy's GPA was below 3.0 and that his SAT scores were just over 1,000?
	So, his book's title shouldn't be...
	How to be anti-racist, because it doesn't tell you how.
	The title should be"You are a racist." In any case, government will solve the problem.
	And Mr. Kendi thinks a couple of constitutional amendments will do the trick.
	First, we should put it right there in the Constitution that all racial groups are exactly, precisely equal, so any differences in achievement are because of racism.
	And how do you fix that?
	With a new and permanent federal department of anti-racism.
	They would have the power to look at every single federal, state, and local law or regulation and throw out everything that leads to racial inequality.
	It would be made up of unelected experts formally trained in racism by Mr. Kendi himself.
	You couldn't vote them out of office, nor could the president fire them.
	They would be dictators controlling every detail of your life.
	And if Mr. Kendi gets his way, We will all be a whole lot poorer because he believes that capitalism is essentially racist and racism is essentially capitalist.
	His department of anti-racism would destroy free enterprise while it was eliminating inequality.
	In the meantime, the arch-capitalist and therefore arch-racist CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey just gave him $10 million, no strings attached, to spend at his Center for Anti-Racist Research.
	Its research findings will be, in Mr. Kendi's words,"Narrated to the world through journalism and through art." There's a lot I don't understand about Mr. Kendi.
	I can't find any ideas in his book about Asians.
	How are we going to end the income, test score, incarceration, and life expectancy gaps between whites and Asians?
	Does Mr. Kendi even care?
	Will the Department of Anti-Racism make blacks as rich as whites?
	Or do they have to be as rich as Asians?
	Should we expect racial equality in professional basketball?
	And will rich blacks get handouts too?
	Mr. Kendi himself is doing very well for himself.
	Besides all of his royalty income, he gets fat fees.
	The school system in Fairfax County, Virginia paid him $20,000 this summer for a single hour on Zoom.
	$20,000 without even leaving his house.
	I don't think Mr. Kendi has yet got one of those MacArthur Foundation Genius Awards, but anyone who can get white people to pay him $20,000 an hour to tell them how awful they are is a genius.
	In the meantime, Mr. Kendi is building on his triumphs with Anti-Racist Baby, which became an instant bestseller.
	According to the publisher, it empowers parents and children to uproot racism in our society and in ourselves.
	And it does it in just 32 easy-to-read pages.
	Again, this man is a genius.
	I think one of the keys to Mr. Kendi's success is his friendly, low-key manner.
	He's not threatening like the Black Panthers.
	He doesn't shout, God damn America, the way Barack Obama's preacher, Jeremiah Wright, did.
	And he has such a cuddly little beard.
	He makes white people feel good about feeling bad about being white.
	And he's logical.
	The only way to get anything even approaching economic equality between blacks and whites would be with an anti-racist dictatorship that ruthlessly and constantly took from whites and gave to blacks.
	It would be a new form of slavery.
	And there still wouldn't be equality, even after you ruined the economy.
	This is the maniacal stuff you get when people deliberately close their eyes to the stark facts about racial differences.
	White people of the world, wake up.
	You have nothing to lose but your chains.
	Thank you.
	Also, I would urge you to visit amren.com.
	A-M-R-E-N dot com.
	You'll find podcasts, videos, articles, even interesting discussions.

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