Jared Taylor - Face to Face with Race

Jared Taylor, Ed., The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America, 1998

George McDaniel, Ed., A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century, 2003

Michael Levin, Why Race Matters: Race Differences and What They Mean, 2005

Carleton Putnam, Race and Reason: A Yankee View, 2006

Samuel T. Francis, Essential Writings on Race, 2007

Steven Farron, The Affirmative Action Hoax: Diversity, the Importance of Character, and Other Lies (Second Edition), 2010

Jared Taylor, White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century, 2011

Jared Taylor, Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America (20th Anniversary Kindle Edition, 2014, based on First Carroll & Graf Edition, 1992)

Copyright 2014 by New Century Foundation

All Rights Reserved.

ISBN No. 978-0-9838910-2-4 (trade paperback)

Kindle edition prepared by John Vawter

by Jared Taylor

For more than 25 years I have studied race and race relationsand by the word studied I mean that most of what I know I have learned from reading rather than experience. And as a student, I have preferred statistics over stories. I would rather learn that Hispanics are 19 times more likely than whites to be members of youth gangs, or that 72 percent of black children are born out of wedlock, than hear the details of life in the barrio.

And yet, when I read the first-person accounts of race in this collection, I recognize that my perspective is incomplete. Statistics are not reality; they are only a way to try to interpret reality. It is useful to know that the average black IQ is one standard deviation lower than the average white IQ, but what does that mean? How do blacks live? How do they see the world? What do they think of whites? Numbers are abstract, whereas reality is felt with all the senses. Only people who have felt that flesh-and-blood reality fully understand race.

In many ways, the races in America are as different as different nationalities. The conventional media give us glimpses of these differences, but they filter their reports through egalitarian assumptions, and smooth off sharp edges for fear of giving offense. Reality is too starktoo painfully at odds with orthodox assumptionsfor the New York Times or even Fox News to report it faithfully. And because most whites arrange their lives so as to have as little as possible to do with blacks or Hispanics, they have only a sanitized picture of their nation.

The following accounts were written by ordinary Americans who did not learn about race through reading. As one of them writes, There is no racial education quite so thorough and convincing as spending time with blacks. Most of the authors began with conventional, egalitarian assumptions; reality destroyed those assumptions. These reports are too truthful to have been published in a mainstream publication, and they are more powerful and compelling than any of the hundreds of articles about race I have written from an armchair perspective.

Every story is eye-opening, but some stand out. Tracy Abel, the only woman who contributed to this volume, has written a heart-rending account of how she was nearly swallowed up by the cult-like diversity-worshipping atmosphere of the non-profit organization that exploited her. She shows that people who suffer the most from racial humiliation may cling to their illusions the longest.

Two unforgettable articles were written by prisoners, who live in forced integration of the most intimate and unpleasant kind. Virtually all inmates would bless the day they could move into segregated housing, but they are sacrificed to integrationist ideals hardly anyone practices. Federal judges have forced convicts to live in conditions that border on cruelty, and increasing numbers of non-white guards make prison even more of a nightmare.

Several of these stories cast light on questions other than race. Howard Lacys prison account describes administrative segregation, the fancy new term for solitary confinement. Tom Dilberger explains how high levels of ability and camaraderie made it possible for men to piece together steel building frames hundreds of feet in the airand how affirmative action poisoned his profession. Ray Batz started his career as a fireman before sex- and race-preferences, and saw the damage they did. Daniel Attilas report on what it was like to work as a conductor in the New York City subway in the 1990s is as informative as it is harrowing.

The deeply disturbing America that appears in this book is foreign to many of us. And yet, demographic change is steadily making the foreign familiar. Your childrens public schools, dear reader, will more and more resemble the holding pen that stripped Christopher Jackson of his illusions.

There is one article in this collection that is not set in the United States. Gedaliah Brauns first-hand account of South Africas transition from white to black rule may be a sign of what is in store for us as whites become a minority and other groups set our cultural norms.

The United States is suffering a tragedy of immense proportions. What once was, and could have always been, a shining outpost of Western Civilization has become an asylum for every disparate and competing race and cultureeven the most primitive. We still have civil liberties and an advanced economy, but for how much longer?

History tells us that a civilization can be carried forward only by the biological heirs to the people who created it. By replacing the founding stock of Europeans with an Afro-Asiatic-Mestizo mix we are dicing with our future in a way that would have horrified nearly every American whose ideas were formed before the 1960s.

This book is a witness to what has begun to happen to America. If we do nothing, it will also be a vision of what America will become.

Jared Taylor

Oakton, Virginia

August 4, 2014

I grew up in a suburb of white, middle-class families. My schooling, from elementary school through college, was with people who were also overwhelmingly white and middle class. Like so many others, I was reared to think that all men are created equal and that people should be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. Since my ears could hear, I was taught blind faith in color blindness and the virtues of diversity.

My mother is in the medical field and my father worked for the New York City Transit Authority. Both are lifelong Democrats, working people who never had much time to study culture or politics. The only instruction they ever gave me in politics was that the Democratic Party was for the working people and the Republicans were for the rich. My mother taught me never to be judgmental, and to love everyone the same, especially those less fortunate than I. She told me discrimination was wrong and that all people should be treated equally.

I have a bachelors degree in sociology. Looking back, all my professors were white and very liberal. College was the first place I ever heard race discussed seriously, and the message was constant: diversity was vitally important and whites were guilty. My fellow students had been brought up just as I had been, so my professors had very fresh meat to feast on. I graduated from college the perfect racial liberal.