Why Reparations for Slavery Are a Crazy Idea
Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, May 9, 2021
Editor’s Note: This is a transcript of a March 22, 2021 conversation between Jared Taylor of American Renaissance and Whitney Dow of The Whiteness Project. The audio version can be listen to here.
Whitney Dow: [00:00:00] Thank you for joining us, Jared, I appreciate your talking to us about reparations.
Jared Taylor: [00:00:13] It’s my pleasure. Thank you.
Whitney Dow: [00:00:16] First, I was wondering how you would describe yourself. How would you describe what your philosophy is?
Jared Taylor: [00:00:37] I would call myself a race realist. And by that I mean I think policy on race relations has to be based on the facts as we understand them, not on some kind of ideology that ignores the facts. And I think that’s frequently the case in the United States: Ideology ignores the facts.
Erika Alexander attends Hulu’s “Wu-Tang: An American Saga” Premiere and Reception at Metrograph on September 04, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Lars Niki/Getty Images for Hulu)
In America, Black people are always getting robbed. First, we were stolen from various nations in Africa (yes, POWs traded away count as theft), then our labor was stolen for over 400 years, then our human rights under Jim Crow for another 150 years. When plundering our bodies and labor wasn’t enough, stealing Black art, music and culture became the norm over the last 70 years.
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“I think this subject is extremely important to both Erica and me. What we always say is, it’s interesting we traveled very different paths in life to end up in this place where we both feel that reparations, and trying to make amends to the devastation that slavery, put on black Americans as what we believe is the most important sort of national progress we need to undertake, essentially, that division
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We re ending Black history month where we started it.talking about reparations. On this episode, we re joined by Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow, who have spent the past two years exploring how reparations could transform the United States and all the struggles and possibilities that go along with that.