Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Jared Taylor, Expert Witness (1994)
Aired: 2022-01-09
Duration: 01:45


=== Young Black Men on Trial (01:45) ===

[00:00:00]  That's all in the defense ploy, to get him off with a lighter sentence.
[00:00:05]  Mr. Osby has been a witness of a considerable amount of violence.
[00:00:11]  Jared Taylor, author of a book on race relations, testified for the defense with a bombshell of an argument that young black men pose an unusual threat.
[00:00:21]  My role was simply to explain to the jury that...
[00:00:25]  Black men are more dangerous than white men.
[00:00:28]  Men are more dangerous than women.
[00:00:30]  Young men are more dangerous than old men.
[00:00:32]  And therefore, since his assailants were two young black men, they were, statistically speaking, the most dangerous people in America.
[00:00:39]  But how do you argue that young black men are more dangerous than white men?
[00:00:44]  What's your statistical evidence there?
[00:00:46]  The statistics come from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
[00:00:49]  Black people in 1992 committed 55% of the homicides.
[00:00:53]  They were 12% of the population.
[00:00:55]  This gives a homicide rate that is nine times higher than the white homicide rate.
[00:01:00]  You can't argue about that.
[00:01:01]  So if what you say is true, then Damien Osby's attackers had just as much reason to fear him as he did to fear them.
[00:01:10]  No, that's not true.
[00:01:11]  They're all young black men.
[00:01:13]  Yes, they are young black men, but...
[00:01:16]  Just because young black men are more likely to commit violent crimes than, say, old white women, it doesn't mean that every young black man is going to commit a violent crime.
[00:01:26]  Taylor's testimony was not challenged during the trial, but certainly left members of the black community outraged.
[00:01:33]  We're talking about a community now, a community on trial.
[00:01:37]  Prosecutor Renee Harris grew up in East Fort Worth.
[00:01:40]  I know people there, I have relatives in that area, and overwhelmingly those are law-abiding people.