Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - The Lighter Side of Africa in Our Midst
Aired: 2024-01-12
Duration: 09:48


=== Mayor's Moral Dilemma (09:13) ===

[00:00:04]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
[00:00:07]  The censors hate my videos.
[00:00:09]  So if you like this, I hope you'll send the link to a lot of people.
[00:00:12]  The other day, I got a complaint about my videos.
[00:00:15]  I spent too much time on the darker side of Africa in our midst.
[00:00:19]  This video is a look on the lighter side, introducing Tiffany A. Henyard, mayor of Dalton, Illinois.
[00:00:27]  Dalton, spelled "Dolt" O-N, but pronounced "Dalton" is a village of 20,000, a half hour outside of Chicago.
[00:00:36]  In 1997, it got its first black mayor and has never looked back.
[00:00:42]  It is now 94% black.
[00:00:45]  Ms. Henyard was elected and sworn in in the summer of 2021.
[00:00:49]  In her inaugural speech, she said, "God is the head of her life."
[00:00:54]  Thank you guys for coming out.
[00:00:58]  Wonderful Saturday.
[00:00:59]  I know it's chilly, but thank you once again.
[00:01:05]  Giving honor to God, who's the head of my life.
[00:01:12]  Ms. Henyard, who charmingly dots the "I" in her name with a tiny heart, is beloved of God.
[00:01:20]  God chose me.
[00:01:21]  You may have hired me, but God chose me.
[00:01:23]  You may have had me, but God chose me.
[00:01:26]  You may have gave me some money, but God chose me.
[00:01:28]  She is a single mother and likes to cut a flashy figure.
[00:01:32]  Her Instagram is full of on-the-job clips.
[00:01:36]  Music
[00:01:52]  Miss Henyard was the first woman to be elected mayor of Dalton, and at age 38, the youngest.
[00:01:58]  This is the spread Essence magazine gave her.
[00:02:01]  Her social media are packed with promotional photos and videos.
[00:02:06]  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.
[00:02:16]  She makes videos of her work.
[00:02:18]  Here she is bragging about getting guns off the street.
[00:02:22]  Thank you so much to my police department for doing an awesome job.
[00:02:25]  No matter what you do, remember this.
[00:02:27]  I love y'all.
[00:02:28]  Thank y'all.
[00:02:33]  Sometimes she just praises God.
[00:02:39]  I woke up this morning, got a spot on my bed.
[00:02:43]  I looked around, this is what I said.
[00:02:47]  Thank you Lord for another day and all the blessings that you sent my way.
[00:02:54]  City employees, join in.
[00:02:56]  I got my mouth bad, I can still talk.
[00:03:00]  In a pandemic and I'm safe y'all.
[00:03:04]  I got my lungs out and I can breathe.
[00:03:07]  I love a passion, oh man.
[00:03:11]  Here she is with an axe posing as a firefighter.
[00:03:15]  Miss Henyard may be tired of being single.
[00:03:19]  One day you gonna be the best thing someone ever took a chance on.
[00:03:22]  I see it in you, the way you love, the way you hustle, the way you carry yourself.
[00:03:28]  Ms. Henyard is clearly a frisky lass and enjoys her job, but not all is well with the super-mayor beloved of God.
[00:03:37]  There's some question about who pays for the makeup and hairstyling teams and the spiffy clothes.
[00:03:43]  She is always professionally coiffed and made up for public appearances and photo shoots.
[00:03:49]  This is her stylist, who features her prominently on his Instagram.
[00:03:54]  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.
[00:04:02]  The video follows her all the way into the meeting room.
[00:04:06]  Citizens probably pay for this, just as they pay an astonishing $300,000 a year for her security detail of favorite police officers.
[00:04:15]  They drive her to work.
[00:04:17]  Take her to lunch and shopping, drive her home, and make her feel very important.
[00:04:22]  The officers are paid every two weeks, which without overtime is 80 hours.
[00:04:26]  When they're put on Henyard's detail, that 80 hours balloons to well over 100 hours, sometimes 200 hours.
[00:04:34]  And in the case of Officer Terry Young last May, 303 hours worked over a two-week period.
[00:04:41]  That resulted in a single paycheck of more than $13,000.
[00:04:46]  Dalton has a population of 20,000.
[00:04:49]  The mayor loves spending city money.
[00:04:52]  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.
[00:05:06]  She hides expenses from city trustees.
[00:05:09]  We're all in the dark.
[00:05:10]  Not only are the residents in the dark, but the trustees are also in the dark as well.
[00:05:15]  I do not handle anything as it relates to WIC credit cards.
[00:05:18]  As you heard me speak today in my board meeting about, I do not handle that.
[00:05:22]  Some of those charges are for you, though.
[00:05:24]  No, sir.
[00:05:26]  You didn't go to Las Vegas?
[00:05:33]  What is that?
[00:05:34]  No comment.
[00:05:35]  And then there's this.
[00:05:37]  Lavelle Redmond, Illinois Village, hires a sex offender who raped two girls, sparks fury.
[00:05:44]  When Lavelle was 15, he and three other spirited youngsters kidnapped two girls, ages 13 and 14, and gang-raped them.
[00:05:51]  He spent 24 years in the pokey and is a registered child sex offender.
[00:05:57]  Ms. Henyard hired him to make sure houses in Dalton are up to code.
[00:06:00]  That means going inside and looking.
[00:06:03]  You will recall that Dalton is black, and 32.2% of homes have a female householder with no husband present.
[00:06:13]  The ladies of Dalton persuaded the village trustees to try to recall the mayor.
[00:06:18]  They bungled.
[00:06:19]  Dalton had never had a recall ordinance, and it put the new ordinance and the recall itself on the same ballot.
[00:06:26]  Both measures passed, but it's not legal to do both at once, and a judge threw out the vote.
[00:06:32]  Here was Miss Henyard's message.
[00:06:35]  Recall, null and void, I am and forever will be Dalton's mayor.
[00:06:41]  At the next trustee meeting, she brought in a DJ and did a little victory dance.
[00:06:48]  How y'all doing?
[00:06:50]  Ain't no stopping us now!
[00:06:53]  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.
[00:07:04]  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.
[00:07:11]  They feature the name and the face of a smiling local politician.
[00:07:14]  Here's another one, right in town.
[00:07:17]  Keeping my promises.
[00:07:18]  Fighting for my residence.
[00:07:20]  Paid for by the city.
[00:07:22]  The mayor, chosen by God, is storing up treasure on earth, but doesn't like to talk about it.
[00:07:28]  She holds two government jobs.
[00:07:31]  You make almost $300,000 between your two elected positions.
[00:07:36]  I do not.
[00:07:36]  I don't know who you got that number from.
[00:07:38]  We got it from her own village and township records.
[00:07:43]  More than $287,000 a year.
[00:07:47]  That's more than the salary of every governor in the United States and the U.S. vice president.
[00:07:53]  She's determined to keep that job and that salary.
[00:07:57]  Last year, she rammed through the trustees what even Black Enterprise calls a controversial salary tactic.
[00:08:04]  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.
[00:08:14]  That's a clever way to discourage anyone from challenging her.
[00:08:17]  Beat her, and you make only $25,000.
[00:08:21]  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.
[00:08:31]  She has driven the city into a $7 million deficit, and the trustees are trying to avoid bankruptcy.
[00:08:37]  But Tiffany continues to perform her duties as super mayor with aplomb.
[00:08:43]  At the first trustee meeting of the new year, dolled up as ever, she sounded disappointed.
[00:08:49]  But it's a shame when I gotta fight my own people.
[00:08:51]  It's like, dang, every night I gotta fight to prove my love.
[00:08:54]  Why? When y'all know, I care.
[00:08:58]  I've shown you that.
[00:08:59]  You've seen that.
[00:09:00]  Y'all know this.
[00:09:01]  These are facts.

=== Past Spots Catch Up (00:45) ===

[00:09:02]  On January 7th, she posted this soulful piece.
[00:09:06]  People's opinion of you is none of your business.
[00:09:11]  Nor should you make it yours.
[00:09:13]  You get in a lot of trouble worrying about what somebody think about you.
[00:09:20]  Indeed, what difference do it make?
[00:09:24]  She's been in tight spots before and slipped right out of them.
[00:09:27]  It will be exciting to see what happens.
[00:09:30]  Will she be mayor for life in the grand African tradition?
[00:09:34]  Or will her past catch up with her?
[00:09:37]  Will she have to take a dive in the end, like the president of Harvard, who has put on such an entertaining show lately?
[00:09:44]  Either way...
[00:09:45]  It's all part of the lighter side of Africa in our midst.