Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - The Ridiculous Idea That Race Isn’t Real
Aired: 2023-10-06
Duration: 11:21


=== Facing Race's Origins (04:26) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
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[00:00:15]  To be a good American, you're supposed to believe outlandish things about race.
[00:00:20]  You're supposed to believe it doesn't exist.
[00:00:23]  That it's immoral to think race has anything to do with biology.
[00:00:27]  The American Psychological Association has a glossy brochure written by six PhDs who explain that race is a social construction rather than a biological reality.
[00:00:40]  They add the racial worldview was invented to assign some groups to perpetual low status, while others were permitted access to privilege, power, and wealth.
[00:00:52]  Guess who those bad people were who invented race?
[00:00:57]  If you graduated from college in the last 15 years, there's a good chance you had to read The New Jim Crow.
[00:01:04]  It has 15,814 ratings on Amazon for an average of 4.8 stars.
[00:01:10]  Right in Chapter 1, it says, Only in the past few centuries, owing largely to European imperialism, have the world's people been classified along racial lines.
[00:01:21]  The Smithsonian says race was invented in America.
[00:01:25]  American society developed the notion of race to justify its new economic system of capitalism.
[00:01:33]  I guess we invented capitalism, too.
[00:01:36]  And, of course, we invented race because it is a social construction that gives or denies benefits and privileges.
[00:01:44]  Time magazine explains it all.
[00:01:47]  Facing America's history of racism requires facing the origins of race as a concept.
[00:01:54]  Race grew out of an elaborate and supposedly scientific European conception of the human species that began during the Enlightenment.
[00:02:03]  And next thing you know, Europeans and their colonial descendants in the United States engineered the most complete and enduring dehumanization of a people in history.
[00:02:15]  We invented race, and then we became the most evil people in the history of the world.
[00:02:21]  This is not just nonsense.
[00:02:23]  It's vicious nonsense.
[00:02:26]  Egyptians classified people by race 3,500 years ago in the Book of Gates.
[00:02:33]  They recognized four races, which they called Libyan, Nubian, Asiatic, and Egyptian.
[00:02:39]  Here they are again.
[00:02:41]  If Egyptians had known Europeans, they'd have a picture for them too.
[00:02:45]  The Egyptians took blacks as slaves.
[00:02:48]  Here is a Nubian with ropes around his neck.
[00:02:51]  Here's Tutankhamen.
[00:02:53]  Sicking dogs on his enemies while he kills them.
[00:02:57]  They are black.
[00:02:58]  This is King Tut's footstool.
[00:03:00]  It's got his enemies carved on it so he can trample them every time he sits down.
[00:03:05]  These lads are Nubians and Asiatics, not Egyptians.
[00:03:10]  Here are the pharaoh's sandals.
[00:03:12]  Nubians and Asiatics with their hands tied behind their backs.
[00:03:16]  Tut could stomp on them with every step.
[00:03:19]  Arabs knew about race.
[00:03:21]  Al-Jahiz was a scholar who lived in the 9th century in what is now southern Iraq.
[00:03:27]  He wrote a famous book about animals.
[00:03:29]  He also wrote about black Africans, whom he called Zanj.
[00:03:33]  We know that the Zanj are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind and least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.
[00:03:43]  He wrote that more than a thousand years ago.
[00:03:47]  Al-Masudi lived in Baghdad in the 10th century, and he also wrote about blacks.
[00:03:53]  He called them people of black color, flat noses, kinky hair, and little understanding or intelligence.
[00:03:59]  Abu Firas al-Hamadani, a 10th century Iraqi we see here on a postage stamp, thought whites were ghastly.
[00:04:08]  He called them blanched and leprous-colleges.
[00:04:11]  The Japanese thought so, too, when they first met us.
[00:04:14]  Here's an artist's depiction of an American.

=== Different Adaptations (03:03) ===

[00:04:17]  Everyone notices race.
[00:04:19]  As this article explains, at three and a half months, infants can tell the races apart by looking at faces.
[00:04:26]  They can't even talk, but I guess they understand social constructs.
[00:04:30]  So anyone who tells you Europeans invented the idea of race just a few centuries ago and that it's only a social construct is either stupid or thinks you're stupid.
[00:04:41]  How can we tell an Eskimo from a pygmy?
[00:04:44]  At a glance, if there aren't biological differences.
[00:04:47]  This stuff is as nutty as believing the moon is made of green cheese, but I bet if you walked onto a college campus, everyone would tell you race is a social construction.
[00:04:58]  There are still a few brave, and often lonely, scholars who fight the madness.
[00:05:03]  This 2020 article about the reality of race and what that means is about the best you'll find.
[00:05:09]  It could be the clearest, most persuasive scientific paper you'll ever read.
[00:05:14]  It starts with modern humans, beginning to spread out of East Africa about 150,000 years ago.
[00:05:20]  They moved into very different environments, which put very different evolutionary pressures on them, and they adapted.
[00:05:28]  They became very different from each other, sometimes quickly.
[00:05:32]  Here's an example.
[00:05:34]  Most people get altitude sickness and can't function normally at elevations over 8,200 feet.
[00:05:40]  However, three different human groups evolved.
[00:05:43]  They changed genetically and biologically so they could live high in the mountains.
[00:05:49]  They are Tibetans, Ethiopians, and people living in the Andes.
[00:05:53]  These people are Tibetans.
[00:05:55]  This article points out that Tibetans adapted to high altitude within the last 3,000 years, and it required mutations in more than 30 different genes.
[00:06:05]  Even Wikipedia notes that the evolutionary adaptations to living in the mountains were different.
[00:06:10]  In all three groups, involving changes in lung function, heart rate, and blood chemistry.
[00:06:17]  Lactose tolerance is recent.
[00:06:20]  10,000 years ago, infants could digest mother's milk, but no human could digest milk after he was weaned.
[00:06:27]  When humans began herding animals, some evolved the ability to digest milk all their lives.
[00:06:34]  This happened in Europe and East Africa with cattle, and in the Middle East with camels.
[00:06:39]  Again, the evolutionary adaptations were different.
[00:06:43]  Humans change to fit their environments.
[00:06:46]  That's why Eskimos are short and stocky.
[00:06:48]  They conserve heat in the cold.
[00:06:50]  Australian Aborigines are lanky, so their bodies can give off heat more easily.
[00:06:55]  Black skin also protects from the sun.
[00:06:59]  Light European skin lets in sunlight, so the body can more easily synthesize vitamin D. Groups evolved some differences for reasons we don't understand.

=== Artificial Intelligence and Patient Race (04:18) ===

[00:07:09]  Only blacks have U-negative blood, for example.
[00:07:13]  And racial differences explain why people often reject organs from people of other races.
[00:07:19]  This organization, Gift of Life, explains why it's so important to have donors and recipients of the same race.
[00:07:27]  Bone marrow transplants are even trickier.
[00:07:30]  That's why the National Bone Marrow Registry is always calling for more diverse donors.
[00:07:37]  Mixed-race patients have to find donors who are the very same mix.
[00:07:41]  This article explains that artificial intelligence predicts patients' race from their medical images.
[00:07:48]  Just show the program a leg or a chest x-ray, even if it's been deliberately blurred, and the computer can tell you the patient's race.
[00:07:57]  No doctor can do that.
[00:08:00]  The same article also says AI can identify patient self-reported race from clinical notes even when those notes are stripped of explicit indicators of race.
[00:08:12]  All the computer needs is symptoms, vital signs, etc., and it knows the patient's race.
[00:08:17]  A doctor would just be guessing.
[00:08:20]  That shouldn't surprise you.
[00:08:21]  Anyone who has done an ancestry DNA test knows that a sequencing machine can parse your race and ethnicity down to fractions of a percent just by analyzing your spit.
[00:08:34]  And how about this?
[00:08:36]  Your ethnicity determines the species of bacteria that live in your mouth, except that it really means race, just by looking at patterns of bacteria in the mouths of Americans.
[00:08:47]  You can distinguish blacks from everyone else 100% of the time and make a really good guess at whites, Asians, and Hispanics.
[00:08:56]  Even bacteria are tricked by social constructs.
[00:09:00]  Dog breeds are nothing more than extreme versions of human races.
[00:09:05]  Humans deliberately bred them over the last few thousand years, while their races evolved naturally over a much longer period, but the process was the same.
[00:09:15]  Would anyone try to tell you that the difference between a Pomeranian and a German Shepherd is a social construct or had nothing to do with biology?
[00:09:25]  Some people try to tell you that there are no human races because everyone is mixed.
[00:09:30]  First of all, plenty of people aren't mixed at all.
[00:09:33]  Most people living in Finland are 100% Finnish.
[00:09:37]  Kalahari Bushmen are pure Kalahari Bushmen.
[00:09:40]  And obviously, there can be mixed-race people only because there are races.
[00:09:46]  Another cuckoo argument is to say that there can't be races because racists disagree on how many races there are.
[00:09:54]  Are Pygmies and Bantus separate races?
[00:09:57]  Are Malaysians and Japanese the same race?
[00:10:00]  It doesn't matter.
[00:10:01]  Some people define groups broadly.
[00:10:03]  Others define them narrowly.
[00:10:05]  How many visible colors are there?
[00:10:07]  Traditionally, there are seven.
[00:10:10]  But you can get a cheap paint set with 48 colors.
[00:10:13]  This article says there are 10 million colors.
[00:10:16]  I guess because people don't agree on the number, there can be no such thing as color.
[00:10:22]  The race deniers are straining, struggling, torturing themselves to deny something that's obvious.
[00:10:30]  Well, what's their game?
[00:10:32]  First, by denying race.
[00:10:34]  They want you to believe every human group everywhere is equal in every way, especially in average IQ.
[00:10:42]  That means when black and brown people do badly, they can blame us.
[00:10:47]  Second, they want you to believe it doesn't matter if non-whites pile into white countries and we disappear.
[00:10:54]  We're just being replaced by ourselves.
[00:10:57]  What did I say earlier?
[00:10:59]  This isn't just nonsense.
[00:11:01]  It's vicious nonsense.
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