Jared Taylor
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Samuel Jared Taylor (b. 1951) of Oakton, Virginia is a paleoconservative, white nationalist 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.
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[edit] 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 married to Evelyn Rich and is the father of 2 children.
[edit] Works
He is the author of Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle (1983); Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in America (1993); 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 The Color of Crime: Race, Crime and Violence in America (1998, 2005). He 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.
[edit] Views
Taylor insists that he is not a white supremacist, whom he defines as one who wishes to rule over others. He insists that he is instead a white separatist. "My point is simply, people prefer the company of people like themselves." he says. "Please just leave us alone."[1]
[edit] 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]." [2]
[edit] 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."
[edit] 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
- Jared Taylor, a Racist in the Guise of "Expert". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by Dennis Roddy
- ADL profile
- Profile of Taylor by SPLC (scroll down)
