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Jan. 12, 2024 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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The Lighter Side of Africa in Our Midst
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
The censors hate my videos.
So if you like this, I hope you'll send the link to a lot of people.
The other day, I got a complaint about my videos.
I spent too much time on the darker side of Africa in our midst.
This video is a look on the lighter side, introducing Tiffany A. Henyard, mayor of Dalton, Illinois.
Dalton, spelled "Dolt" O-N, but pronounced "Dalton" is a village of 20,000, a half hour outside of Chicago.
In 1997, it got its first black mayor and has never looked back.
It is now 94% black.
Ms. Henyard was elected and sworn in in the summer of 2021.
In her inaugural speech, she said, "God is the head of her life."
Thank you guys for coming out.
Wonderful Saturday.
I know it's chilly, but thank you once again.
Giving honor to God, who's the head of my life.
Ms. Henyard, who charmingly dots the "I" in her name with a tiny heart, is beloved of God.
God chose me.
You may have hired me, but God chose me.
You may have had me, but God chose me.
You may have gave me some money, but God chose me.
She is a single mother and likes to cut a flashy figure.
Her Instagram is full of on-the-job clips.
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Miss Henyard was the first woman to be elected mayor of Dalton, and at age 38, the youngest.
This is the spread Essence magazine gave her.
Her social media are packed with promotional photos and videos.
In her New Year's greeting, she styles herself Super Mayor Tiffany A. Henyard, and her motto is, I love you, and there's nothing you can do about it.
She makes videos of her work.
Here she is bragging about getting guns off the street.
Thank you so much to my police department for doing an awesome job.
No matter what you do, remember this.
I love y'all.
Thank y'all.
Sometimes she just praises God.
I woke up this morning, got a spot on my bed.
I looked around, this is what I said.
Thank you Lord for another day and all the blessings that you sent my way.
City employees, join in.
I got my mouth bad, I can still talk.
In a pandemic and I'm safe y'all.
I got my lungs out and I can breathe.
I love a passion, oh man.
Here she is with an axe posing as a firefighter.
Miss Henyard may be tired of being single.
One day you gonna be the best thing someone ever took a chance on.
I see it in you, the way you love, the way you hustle, the way you carry yourself.
Ms. Henyard is clearly a frisky lass and enjoys her job, but not all is well with the super-mayor beloved of God.
There's some question about who pays for the makeup and hairstyling teams and the spiffy clothes.
She is always professionally coiffed and made up for public appearances and photo shoots.
This is her stylist, who features her prominently on his Instagram.
Here he is with his team, giving her the full treatment, makeup, hair, clothes, as she gets ready for a meeting with the city trustees.
The video follows her all the way into the meeting room.
Citizens probably pay for this, just as they pay an astonishing $300,000 a year for her security detail of favorite police officers.
They drive her to work.
Take her to lunch and shopping, drive her home, and make her feel very important.
The officers are paid every two weeks, which without overtime is 80 hours.
When they're put on Henyard's detail, that 80 hours balloons to well over 100 hours, sometimes 200 hours.
And in the case of Officer Terry Young last May, 303 hours worked over a two-week period.
That resulted in a single paycheck of more than $13,000.
Dalton has a population of 20,000.
The mayor loves spending city money.
She used a city credit card to buy a $3,741 round-trip plane ticket to Las Vegas just for her and $8,400 on hotel rooms for herself and a few pounds.
She hides expenses from city trustees.
We're all in the dark.
Not only are the residents in the dark, but the trustees are also in the dark as well.
I do not handle anything as it relates to WIC credit cards.
As you heard me speak today in my board meeting about, I do not handle that.
Some of those charges are for you, though.
No, sir.
You didn't go to Las Vegas?
What is that?
No comment.
And then there's this.
Lavelle Redmond, Illinois Village, hires a sex offender who raped two girls, sparks fury.
When Lavelle was 15, he and three other spirited youngsters kidnapped two girls, ages 13 and 14, and gang-raped them.
He spent 24 years in the pokey and is a registered child sex offender.
Ms. Henyard hired him to make sure houses in Dalton are up to code.
That means going inside and looking.
You will recall that Dalton is black, and 32.2% of homes have a female householder with no husband present.
The ladies of Dalton persuaded the village trustees to try to recall the mayor.
They bungled.
Dalton had never had a recall ordinance, and it put the new ordinance and the recall itself on the same ballot.
Both measures passed, but it's not legal to do both at once, and a judge threw out the vote.
Here was Miss Henyard's message.
Recall, null and void, I am and forever will be Dalton's mayor.
At the next trustee meeting, she brought in a DJ and did a little victory dance.
How y'all doing?
Ain't no stopping us now!
She's back spending city money on what are supposed to be notices of city services, but look an awful lot like giant campaign ads.
Okay, so if you've driven one of the expressways in the south suburbs recently, you've no doubt seen one of these giant billboards.
They feature the name and the face of a smiling local politician.
Here's another one, right in town.
Keeping my promises.
Fighting for my residence.
Paid for by the city.
The mayor, chosen by God, is storing up treasure on earth, but doesn't like to talk about it.
She holds two government jobs.
You make almost $300,000 between your two elected positions.
I do not.
I don't know who you got that number from.
We got it from her own village and township records.
More than $287,000 a year.
That's more than the salary of every governor in the United States and the U.S. vice president.
She's determined to keep that job and that salary.
Last year, she rammed through the trustees what even Black Enterprise calls a controversial salary tactic.
She keeps her fat pay packet, but when she runs for re-election next year, if she loses her campaign, the salary drops to just $25,000.
That's a clever way to discourage anyone from challenging her.
Beat her, and you make only $25,000.
As experts try to figure out if that's legal, just last week, trustees sued Mayor Tiffany Henyard over alleged forgery and withholding financial records.
She has driven the city into a $7 million deficit, and the trustees are trying to avoid bankruptcy.
But Tiffany continues to perform her duties as super mayor with aplomb.
At the first trustee meeting of the new year, dolled up as ever, she sounded disappointed.
But it's a shame when I gotta fight my own people.
It's like, dang, every night I gotta fight to prove my love.
Why? When y'all know, I care.
I've shown you that.
You've seen that.
Y'all know this.
These are facts.
On January 7th, she posted this soulful piece.
People's opinion of you is none of your business.
Nor should you make it yours.
You get in a lot of trouble worrying about what somebody think about you.
Indeed, what difference do it make?
She's been in tight spots before and slipped right out of them.
It will be exciting to see what happens.
Will she be mayor for life in the grand African tradition?
Or will her past catch up with her?
Will she have to take a dive in the end, like the president of Harvard, who has put on such an entertaining show lately?
Either way...
It's all part of the lighter side of Africa in our midst.
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