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News and Views: Jared Taylor; Racial Fear Mongering Through Statistical Deception
Negro-baiters of the past tended to be colorful, rabble-rousing demagogues. Advocacy of white supremacy was achieved by flamboyant and entertaining clowns such as George Wallace, Theodore Bilbo, Lester Maddox, and "Cotton" Ed Smith. But today's advocates of a superior white race are often polished deceivers -- highly intelligent con artists who use complicated statistical deceptions to win supporters and dupe audiences.
Let's examine some racial statistics recently assembled by an avowed racist and white supremacist, Jared Taylor. Jared Taylor, a graduate of Yale University, is executive director of the New Century Foundation and the publisher of the newsletter American Renaissance. The publication is a rabid antiblack newsletter that serves as the semiofficial organ for academic white supremacists. Taylor's racial views are clear and upfront. At last summer's American Renaissance conference in Virginia, Taylor told the attendees, one of whom was David Duke, "Our founding fathers were racist. They did not build a country to turn it over to Cambodians and Nigerians. We who are faithful to our Founding Father's vision of America are hated for our views."(*) In the June 1994 issue of American Renaissance, Taylor wrote, "The best single predictor of a city or neighborhood's crime rate is its racial composition. So long as blacks and whites continue to live together, whites will pay...