Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - The Greatest Comeback Ever
Aired: 2022-02-07
Duration: 10:46


=== Viola Desmond's Legacy (09:12) ===

[00:00:04]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
[00:00:07]  The internet is trying to make my videos impossible to find.
[00:00:11]  So if you like it, I hope you'll send the link to a lot of your friends.
[00:00:16]  Last week, I did a video about a spectacular race hoax in Canada, and a Canadian viewer responded by sending me a Canadian $10 bill.
[00:00:26]  Now, before I show it to you, here is a $20 bill.
[00:00:31]  That I was long familiar with.
[00:00:33]  This, of course, is the Queen of England.
[00:00:35]  And so, when I saw the new $10 bill, my first thought was, how nice, a younger version of the Queen.
[00:00:44]  How silly I was.
[00:00:46]  This is a black lady named Viola Desmond, who has been resurrected from obscurity to feed the ravenous demand for non-white heroes.
[00:00:57]  Female, if possible.
[00:00:59]  Viola Desmond was born in 1914.
[00:01:02]  She had a black father and a white mother, and was one of a small number of blacks who lived in Nova Scotia.
[00:01:09]  She opened a hair salon called Vi's Studio of Beauty Culture.
[00:01:14]  She also sold a line of beauty products that were, as the packaging notes, especially blended to enhance dark complexions.
[00:01:23]  In 1946, when she was 32, Desmond's car broke down in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and she decided to watch a movie while it was being repaired.
[00:01:34]  Here is a glamorized and simplified version of what happened.
[00:01:39]  All I wanted was to see a movie.
[00:01:43]  One down, please.
[00:01:44]  I can't sell downstairs tickets to you people.
[00:01:48]  How dare they?
[00:01:50]  I could afford to buy the more expensive ticket.
[00:01:52]  I run my own business.
[00:01:56]  But they refused to take my money.
[00:02:05]  They left me there all night.
[00:02:06]  The theater had an unannounced policy of selling only cheaper balcony tickets to blacks, while whites sat downstairs.
[00:02:16]  Desmond defied the rules and sat with the whites.
[00:02:19]  When she was asked to move to the balcony, she refused.
[00:02:23]  Police had to drag her out.
[00:02:25]  Desmond sued with the help of the NAACP, but at the time, Canada had no anti-discrimination laws, so what the theater did was legal.
[00:02:35]  She lost her case and accomplished nothing.
[00:02:39]  She didn't start an organization or a movement.
[00:02:42]  She closed her business and moved to Montreal and then to New York City.
[00:02:47]  For the life of me, I can't find out what she did in those places.
[00:02:51]  Whoever knows, ain't telling.
[00:02:53]  She died unremarked in 1965, age 51. But now, because of this caper from 74 years ago, Desmond is a founder of the Canadian Civil Rights Movement and has been elevated to great heights.
[00:03:09]  In 2018, With that new $10 bill, she became the first Canadian woman to have one all to herself.
[00:03:18]  The International Banknote Society gave it its Banknote of the Year award.
[00:03:24]  Who used to be on the 10th spot?
[00:03:27]  John MacDonald.
[00:03:29]  When Canada was still a colony, he was the key negotiator with Britain to gain independence for Canada in 1867, and he served as the first Prime Minister.
[00:03:40]  In effect, he's the father of his country.
[00:03:44]  Here he is.
[00:03:45]  He was on the bill for 50 years, but as we know, white men are terrible, so he had to go.
[00:03:53]  He's so bad that last year a mob tore down his statue in Winnipeg.
[00:04:09]  Meanwhile, Viola Desmond goes from strength to strength.
[00:04:12]  In 2010, she got a full posthumous pardon for the cinema business, the first posthumous pardon ever granted in Canada.
[00:04:21]  That same year, an endowed chair was established in her name at Cape Breton University.
[00:04:27]  Likewise, in 2010, her portrait was hung permanently in the ballroom of this swank place, which is the official residence of the Lieutenant Governor of Halifax.
[00:04:38]  In 2018, she was the subject of a Google Doodle and was named by the Canadian government as a person of national historic significance.
[00:04:49]  This did not knock John McDonnell off the list, by the way.
[00:04:53]  He's still historic, even if he was an awful white man.
[00:04:57]  Desmond has been the subject of children's books, documentaries, and a play.
[00:05:03]  The Royal Canadian Mint's first ever Black History commemorative coin was of Viola Desmond.
[00:05:10]  A fairy bearing her name now serves Halifax Harbor.
[00:05:14]  There is a sparkling new Viola Desmond Elementary School in Hamilton, Ontario.
[00:05:20]  She has her very own star in the sidewalk in Canada's Walk of Fame, along with Celine Dion and Pamela Anderson and Wayne Gretzky and Neil Young.
[00:05:32]  Not a bad comeback for someone who died completely forgotten.
[00:05:36]  What's next?
[00:05:37]  I'd suggest a posthumous nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
[00:05:42]  But let's look at the backside of the bill.
[00:05:45]  Along with a sacred Indian feather at the top, we see a picture of the Canada Museum for Human Rights.
[00:05:53]  When it opened in 2014, it was the first new National Canadian Museum in almost half a century.
[00:06:01]  Needless to say, it's one long howl of resentment against the white man.
[00:06:06]  In fact, its home page is in funeral colors with this mournful message.
[00:06:12]  The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is located on ancestral lands on Treaty 1 territory.
[00:06:19]  It even explains that the water used in the museum belongs to Indians.
[00:06:24]  The very next screen, as you scroll down, says that black history is Canadian history.
[00:06:30]  And the next one after that is the story of slavery in Canadian history.
[00:06:35]  You see, Canada has Black History Month too.
[00:06:38]  And this year's theme is February and Forever, celebrating black history today and every day.
[00:06:46]  The next screen at the museum site introduces an exhibit on artivism.
[00:06:52]  Which, the museum says, is artistic expression as a powerful response to large-scale violations of human rights.
[00:07:00]  The witness blanket bears witness to the truths of residential school survivors.
[00:07:07]  The museum asserts that boarding schools for Indians were part of a broader process of colonization and genocide.
[00:07:15]  Take a look at last week's video I made to see what that's all about.
[00:07:21]  With so many injustices to lament, it's surprising the building is full of empty spaces and weird bridges.
[00:07:28]  Only 18% of the floor space has exhibits.
[00:07:32]  I guess that's why there was such a squabble among the victim groups, with some complaining that others were hogging the limelight.
[00:07:40]  This gave rise to headlines such as competing genocides.
[00:07:45]  And protest grows over Holocaust Zone in Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
[00:07:51]  There was a nasty little squabble to see whose pain was most worthy and deserved top billing.
[00:07:59]  Riding herd on feuding victim groups is tough.
[00:08:03]  Just six years after the museum opened, this sad headline announced, CEO resigns after allegations of racism, discrimination, Sexual harassment.
[00:08:16]  If you visit the museum, you'll want to pick up this Strong Earth Woman mug, designed by a genuine Canadian Indian.
[00:08:25]  But alas, it's sold out.
[00:08:27]  But let's get back to Viola Desmond.
[00:08:30]  Couldn't the Canadians find a more important black person to turn into a hero?
[00:08:35]  Honestly. But Americans aren't any better.
[00:08:39]  We've had a lot more blacks to choose from, but we think Rosa Parks, our version of Desmond, is a great hero for having sat down on a bus for 20 minutes.
[00:08:49]  It was all pre-planned.
[00:08:51]  She even had a photographer there for her booking.
[00:08:54]  She did nothing else her whole life.
[00:08:56]  Look her up.
[00:08:58]  But it would take half an hour to list all the honors she received.

=== Monuments Omitted (01:44) ===

[00:09:03]  And when she died, she was the first woman ever to lie in state in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.
[00:09:11]  There's a statue of her in Statuary Hall, doing what she did best, sitting down.
[00:09:16]  The pedestal has only her name and dates.
[00:09:20]  There's nothing else to say.
[00:09:22]  And what are the names of the great black figures we must now never forget?
[00:09:28]  George Floyd, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Ahmaud Arbery.
[00:09:33]  Freddie Gray, people whose sole claim to fame was to die.
[00:09:38]  If I were black, I'd be insulted.
[00:09:41]  I've always said that if we want to celebrate a black man who struck a real blow for freedom, we should build monuments all over the country to Nat Turner, who led a slave rebellion in 1831.
[00:09:54]  He and his men stabbed and hacked 50 white men, women, and children to death.
[00:10:00]  That's your beach sitting down on a bus in Montgomery or lying down on a street in Minneapolis.
[00:10:07]  Where are his statues, his postage stamp, his face on the $100 bill?
[00:10:12]  There's not one slave or former slave in Statuary Hall.
[00:10:17]  This is an outrage.
[00:10:19]  We want Nat.
[00:10:20]  Oops, I probably shouldn't have said that, because we can be just as crazy as Canadians.
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