Jared Taylor

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Jared Taylor

Samuel Jared Taylor (b. 1951) of Oakton, Virginia, is a journalist. He is the editor of American Renaissance, a journal that addresses issues of race, immigration and their impact on societies in which Whites co-exist with non-Whites. A biannual American Renaissance conference is also held. President of the parent organization, New Century Foundation, Taylor also sits on the advisory board of The Occidental Quarterly and is a director of the National Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank.

Life

Born to missionary parents in Japan, Taylor lived in Japan until he was sixteen years of age. Taylor graduated from Yale University in 1973 with a B.A. in Philosophy, and from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in 1978 with a MA in International Economics. Taylor speaks fluent English, Japanese and French.

In the 1980s, Taylor was West Coast editor of PC Magazine and a consultant before founding the American Renaissance periodical in 1990. Taylor has also taught Japanese to Summer school students at Harvard University.

Jared Taylor is to married Evelin Rich and has two children.

Works

He is the author of Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle (1983) which discusses the distinctiveness of the Japanese race and culture; Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in America (1993), which hypothesizes that multiculturalism in America is the cause of many of todays social ills; The Tyranny of the New and other Essays (1992) and The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America (1998). New Century Foundation published the report contributed to by Taylor The Color of Crime: Race, Crime and Violence in America (1998, 2005) which singles out African Americans and Hispanics as the chief cause of crime in America. He also wrote the foreword for A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century, a collection to which he is principal contributor.

Taylor has also contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and National Review.

Incident in Halifax, Canada

Taylor was prevented from delivering a speech on January 16, 2007. He had expected to give his speech to a group of journalists and others at the Lord Nelson Hotel in Halifax, Canada, after his invitation to participate in a debate over race relations at Dalhousie University was retracted when the university further investigated the body of literature written by Mr. Taylor. After destroying Taylor's pamphlets and confronting him, the small crowd of demonstrators pushed Taylor out of the hotel room. Further physical violence against Taylor was averted by the intervention of Jon Goldberg, director of the Atlantic Jewish Council in Halifax[1].

Shortly after the incident a website known as "The Stormfront White Nationalist Community"[2], the most prominent white nationalist/white pride forum on the Internet (based in the United States), posted photos and personal information about several of the demonstrators. Within days they were repeatedly harassed and threatened for their participation in the removal of Taylor from the hotel[3]. Taylor returned to Halifax on March 6, 2007 to engage in a debate with St. Mary's University professor, Peter March on the CJCH radio station. The on-campus debate was again cancelled, this time due to alleged security concerns and rumors of violent protest.

Views

Taylor insists that he is not a white supremacist, whom he defines as one who wishes to rule over others. If anything he claims to be a "yellow supremacist" as in past articles he theorizes that in fact people of Asian descent are the most advanced branch of the species (in evolutionary terms), followed by the white race and finally those of African descent [4]. Taylor insists that he instead espouses a doctrine of race realism. In 2003 during an interview with Phil Donahue, Taylor claimed that Central Americans are in fact organizing en masse and "invading" the rest of North America, using this as justification for national separation along racial lines. "My point is simply, people prefer the company of people like themselves," he says. "Please just leave us alone." [5]

Praise

In his July 15, 2002, blog entry, neo-conservative author David Horowitz defended his decision to run an article from Taylor's American Renaissance magazine on his own website, praising Taylor as "a very smart and gutsy individualist" and "a very intelligent and principled man."

Writes Horowitz:

"There are many who would call Jared Taylor and his American Renaissance movement 'racist.' If the term is modified to 'racialist,' there is truth in the charge. But Taylor and his Renaissance movement are no more racist in this sense than [Reverend] Jesse Jackson and the NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]." [6]

Clarification:

Horowitz clearly distanced himself from Taylor in his follow-up commentary of August 27, 2002 in which he refers to Taylor as advocating "Euro-racialism" which is "a fringe prejudice among conservatives" (including Patrick Buchanan), and that such racialism "would mean the death of the conservative movement." [7]

Criticism

Critics of Taylor have described him as a racist and an advocate of white supremacy.

"Jared Taylor is the cultivated, cosmopolitan face of white supremacy," said Mark Potok, editor of Intelligence Report, the magazine of the liberal Southern Poverty Law Center. "He is the guy who is providing the intellectual heft, in effect, to modern-day Klansmen." Potok quotes Taylor as writing that African Americans are "crime-prone," "dissipated," "pathological" and "deviant." Potok also points to Taylor's close association with the Council of Conservative Citizens, which he labels "racist". Potok calls The Color of Crime, "a booklet that tries to use crime statistics so as to 'prove' that blacks are far more criminally prone than whites."

External links

• American Renaissance Jared Taylor's website
• The Color of Crime by Taylor's New Century Foundation
• The Myth of Diversity an article by Taylor
• Videos of Jared Taylor on YouTube
• Jared Taylor, a Racist in the Guise of "Expert". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by Dennis Roddy
• ADL profile