The American Dilemma Is Now the European Dilemma
Jared Taylor’s Banned Paris Speech
What is the American Dilemma?
The dilemma begins with the fact that we Americans had a multiracial society from the beginning. There were already Indians living where Europeans founded colonies. We then imported another race of people: Africans. And after that, we let in everyone from everywhere. The American multiracial society has been a failure, and it should have been clear to Europeans while they still had white countries that it was a failure...
Gunnar Myrdal called the problem of race relations the American Dilemma, and in 1944, he was right. Now, it is also the European dilemma, the Canadian dilemma, the Australian dilemma. It is, everywhere, the white man’s dilemma.
Look at Gunnar Myrdal’s Sweden today. When he died in 1987, Sweden was 98 percent white. Now, thanks to immigration, Sweden is about 30 percent non-white, and in most years it has the highest rape rate of any country in Europe. Swedes have mostly stopped telling Americans they understand race relations better than we do...
To start with America: I assume most of you have heard about the Jamestown colony of Virginia. This was the first permanent English settlement in the New World, founded in 1607. There were Indians living in Virginia, so when next year marks 420 years since the beginning of America, it will also mean 420 years of American race relations - 420 years during which Americans learned some lessons about race, forgot them, and are slowly beginning to learn them again.
When the English arrived, the Spanish had been settling the New World for more than a century. By 1607, 200,000 Spaniards had emigrated to the colonies...
It is important to note that the English had no preconceived notions of racial differences or superiority...
The colony was initially all men - about 100 - and they were careful to find a place for their encampment that was unclaimed and uninhabited...
However, when the encampment was not even two weeks old, hundreds of Indians attacked and tried to exterminate the English...
And that is the story of the conquest of America. The intentions of whites - sometimes good, sometimes bad - don’t matter. The fundamental fact is that one people had the land, and another group, more advanced and more powerful, wanted the land...
Blacks and slavery
... In 1770, just before the American Declaration of Independence of 1776, there was slavery in every part of the New World: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. North and South America...
The first nationality law, passed by the first Congress in 1790, reserved citizenship only for “free white persons of good character.”
This was to be a nation for white people...
Abolitionists thought slavery was wrong, but the huge majority wanted to free the slaves and send them outside of the United States. They called this colonization - sending blacks to colonies overseas - and you can think of it as the original remigration plan...
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, is called “the great emancipator,” and most Americans think he wanted to make blacks equal to whites. They are wrong. He, too, thought slavery was a terrible injustice, but he also insisted on colonization...
As many of you probably know, until 1965, the United States had an immigration policy designed to keep the country white, and at that time it was about 90 percent white. The Hart-Celler Act that ended this policy was passed by Congress only because of promises that only a few non-whites would ever come and the racial mix of the country would not change.
Until about the 1950s, therefore, this is what most white Americans believed:
People of different races differed substantially in intelligence, temperament, and ability, and that was why different races built different kinds of societies. Americans wanted only whites to live in America, because only whites could maintain the civilization that Americans valued. Immigration of non-whites was considered a mortal threat to that civilization...
What whites are now supposed to think is the complete opposite. I can think of very few cases in human history in which fundamental values have been so completely turned upside down in so short a period. This is like the Islamic Revolution in Iran or the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union...
On average, whites are more intelligent than Hispanics and Hispanics are more intelligent than blacks. In the United States, where blacks are 14 percent of the population, they are only 1 percent of the people with an IQ of 130 or greater and just over half a percent of those with IQs of 140 or greater.
So, what happens when they fail to perform at the same level as whites? Because all races are officially equal, the only permitted explanation of black or Hispanic failure is oppression by wicked white people. Astonishingly, almost no white people publicly dispute this. They submit to humiliation and blatant discrimination because they dare not contest the idea that it is their fault if others do not succeed.
You would think self-blame of this magnitude — and all the psychological burdens that come with it — would be inconceivable, but that is the rule in America today.
The subject of race differences is forbidden in Europe just as it is in the US. But in a multiracial society, it is madness to pretend that every group is the same...
Muslims, in particular, are sworn enemies. For a thousand years, from the invasion of Spain by the Moors in 711 to the siege of Vienna in 1683, Islam was a mortal threat to Europe. But now, we are supposed to let Muslims pour into our countries and think they will look after us in our old age? Who can believe this madness?...
Fortunately, millions of Europeans now understand that it was a terrible mistake to be like America, to open the continent to immigration. Millions are determined to reclaim their homelands and to build societies in which children learn that it is not just OK to be white. They must learn that there is no greater blessing than to be sons and daughters of Europe, to be the living, breathing heirs to a magnificent heritage, from the moment they are born - to be full participants in this fabulous adventure we call Western Civilization. Others are just spectators. Imitators. This is why remigration is the only solution...
Yes, we are in a fight for our lives, just like our ancestors at Thermopylae, at the Battle of Tours and the Siege of Vienna, like the Afrikaners at the Battle of Blood River. But our fight is different...
We have the appalling task of having to explain to our own people that it is moral for us - for them - to survive...
I believe this is the greatest struggle of all of human history. On us rides the fate of our people, the fate of the West, the fate of everything our ancestors fought for, the fate of everything we love...