MARYLAND TO JARED TAYLOR: ‘DO YOU HAVE A FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET?’ (VIDEO)

Quoting the title of a Public Enemy album sums up perfectly what Jared Taylor came up against when he went to Towson University to advocate for a white student union there – and stood face to face with what will be the future leaders of a real American Renaissance. With video.

One People’s Project

Only 12 percent of Towson University’s undergraduate population is black, but when white supremacist Jared Taylor came to campus to speak the overwhelming majority of those that came to hear him were those black students, educators and activists who were opposed to not just him, but also a recognized White Student Union on campus that he came to support, run by the former president of the now-defunct Towson University chapter of Youth for Western Civilization.

“The idea of political correctness has so much silenced the idea that we can talk about the basic fundamental differences and similarities between groups of people that it’s almost insane, which the idea that this idea of a White Student Union I think is proof of that.” Matthew Heimbach said in introducing Jared Taylor, a board member of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens and the publisher of the newsletter American Renaissance.

A neo-Confederate activist from Poolesville, Maryland, which was a confederate stronghold during the Civil War, Heimbach is also a member of the League of the South, which has been listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. He started the Youth for Western Civilization chapter at Towson last year, and although it was recognized as a student group, it lost that recognition when it’s faculty advisor resigned from the position earlier this year. Heimbach suggested a white student union in a letter to the Towson student newspaper the Towerlight, but students say no faculty member will sign on as an advisor, which is key in being recognized. He was still able to invite Taylor to the campus, despite opposition by many of the students and faculty. His visit was defended on free speech grounds, however.

In his defense of a White Student Union, Taylor went through a litany of points suggesting that students of color get preferential treatment at Towson and other areas in society, including other ethnically-based student unions on campus, saying that it is those points that underscore the need of such a union. Ironically, he also used his remarks to take a position against such diversity, arguing instead for segregation of the races. “When you ask whites to celebrate diversity, what are you asking them to do?” Taylor asked. “You’re asking them to celebrate their dwindling numbers, their declining influence. You’re supposedly asking whites to say, ‘Great! We’re giving our country away! We’re just going to give it away, great!’ I can’t think of anything quite as sick as that, and the amazing thing is the number of whites who’ve been bamboozled and browbeaten into thinking that somehow just fading away is some sort of virtuous activity.”

The attendees came from across the Baltimore/Washington, DC area, and included not just Towson students and faculty, but also from nearby historically black universities Morgan State and Howard. Taylor’s colleagues were also in the audience, most notably former college prof. Michael Hart, a Jewish white supremacist who plans to speak next month at another white supremacist event, the H.L. Mencken Club Conference at the Four Points Sheraton in Baltimore, and Sidney Secular, director of the local chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). At one point, Secular set up a literature table for the white supremacist organization, which included copies of the Nationalist Times and the anti-Semitic American Free Press, which he neglected to remove his home address from. Most of the newspapers and other literature was taken by the black students visiting the table. Overall, there were very few supporters for Taylor and Heimbach, despite several white supremacist websites promoting the event beforehand, including the website for the neo-Nazi music distro Label 56, which saw notoriety last summer when a member of a number of the bands that release material through them shot and killed six worshipers at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin before turning the gun on himself.

Most of those who questioned Taylor were black students, although one challenged him on his definition of white, as he being Italian, he wasn’t considered to even be white until recent times. That prompted one person, who said he was Sicilian, to shout out. “You were always white! Europe is white people!”

Dr. Raymond Winbush, the Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University, had another issue to discuss when he spoke to Taylor. “People classified as white such as yourself comprise a global white minority, only comprised of about 8 to 10 percent of the world’s population,” he said. “Do you think that any of your white supremacist ideology arises out of a conscious insecurity of being a part of a genetic minority when it comes to skin color? In other words, do you have a fear of a black planet?”

Taylor first attempted to challenge Dr. Winbush to show any time during the night’s remarks that was white supremacist. Later in the Q&A, it was pointed out that he omitted in his prepared statement his mainstay position that blacks are genetically inferior to whites. Taylor denied to the majority black crowd that he had ever said that, despite recent articles and YouTube videos showing that he has indeed maintained that position.

“White supremacy, if it has any meaning at all, presumably means that whites wish to rule over others,” Taylor said. “I have absolutely no desire to do that. As I’ve said before, I believe in freedom of association. Basically, I believe white nations should be left alone.”

As Dr. Winbush left, Taylor attempted to suggest that “if he is looking forward to a black planet, that sounds a little black supremacist to me,” to which Winbush replied, “That’s a metaphor!”

The event was not without antifa making their presence known as several entered through a door behind Taylor at the end of the speech calling him out as a racist. No arrests were made.

It is not certain if or when Heimbach will hold a similar event in the future, leaving the H.L. Mencken Club conference being the next racist event to be held in the Baltimore area.