Now the irony is not lost on us that this man who rails against multiculturalism and diversity routinely enjoys those things that multiculturalism and diversity has given us. Among them, the blues! It's not just that he was born in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. He is also a fan of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Sonny-boy Williamson, and Paul Butterfield. He even plays blues harmonica! "I have always greatly enjoyed B.B. King, but was not happy to learn that he has 15 children by 15 different women," he once said.

Maybe that's not as ironic as it seems. The blues grew out of the despair created by the racism people like Taylor wants to bring back. Maybe he just wants more blues singers. But we digress.

It is also not surprising that for all his blustering about multiculturalism that he would be multicultural himself. It is how he grew up. Jared Taylor was born in Japan to liberal parents who to this day still can't figure out what the hell he is doing today. He attended Japanese public schools until age twelve and is fluent in the language. He graduated from Yale with BA in Philosophy at Yale in 1973 and traveled to French West Africa, then to Paris. In Paris he attended the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and received an MA in International Economics in 1978. He later worked in international finance, and was for a short time an editor for PC Magazine.

In 1991, he started publishing American Renaissance and a few years later he wrote a book on race relations called Paved with Good Intentions. Although Taylor is pretty much known by this book, it failed miserably. In June of 1999, he released a report he co-authored called The Color of Crime that suggested African-Americans and Hispanics are responsible for 90 percent of interracial violent crimes and twice as likely than whites to commit hate crimes (which usually means black on white crime to folks like him). This tract is what he used to further promote another staple in American Renaissance, eugenics. Taylor believes the notion that intelligence is based on one's race, and that African Americans are at the low end. Because of this he supports such measures as racial profiling. "It is a great disappointment to me," he said, "than when police officers are confronted with this question of profiling, instead of saying, 'Well, yes. Of course we engage in racial profiling and here's why,' instead they say, 'Oh, no, no. We don't do that. We never do that.' Well, they would be fools not to do it. I believe that every police department does do it, and they should do it now."

Here's the problem: his report did not concentrate on any other factor other than race. This is a practice known as selection bias, and that is a major no-no in fact gathering. His sources from the National Crime Victimization Survey was only 16 percent of the crimes committed in 1994, from which he bases his "findings". Now if he looked at the rest of the survey he would have found that percent of white violent crime victims were attacked by whites, and 80 percent of black victims were targeted by blacks. In other words, interracial crime is nowhere near as much a problem as are crimes where both parties are the same race. The Color of Crime is nothing more than a propaganda rag, one that white supremacists and other assorted rightists have taken to use as a source of information--only to have it shoved down their throats when the real facts come out.

Over the years, Taylor has held a number of American Renaissance conferences which has brought out members of the National Alliance, Ku Klux Klan, and David Duke. They look upon Taylor as a strong White Nationalist and a valuable asset, but there is one thing that keeps being a source of contention about him and a source of strong debate among the country's haters. Taylor embraces people of Jewish faith. American Renaissance has featured within its pages and as speakers at the conferences Jewish writers like Don Feder and City College professor Michael Levin, who shares Taylor's beliefs in eugenics. Mainstream hatemonger David Horowitz also supports Taylor. On his website, frontpagemag, he has made The Color of Crime available for download, published articles from American Renaissance, and has used authors from American Renaissance such as Lawrence Auster. Horowitz shows himself to be the fool he is in supporting Taylor by saying is rather a "racialist" and "is no more "racist" in this sense than any university Afro-centrist or virtually any black pundit of the left." Horowitz says this on the same website where he routinely calls university Afro-centrists and black pundits of the left racists and make demands for them to be routed. Taylor however, is considered "an intelligent and principled man" and gets a pass that Horowitz would never give a black person, even though Horowitz expressed misgivings about his pro-white stances.

It is those kind of associations that bother Taylor's fellow racists (that's racists, Horowitz),who after his appearance on Hal Turner's radio show on July 23, 2002 an article taking a shot at him appeared on the website of the racist Vanguard News Network. "About 45 minutes into the first hour Hal Turner brought up the subject of the Jews and their control of the Mass Media, which Mr. Taylor did his Ivy-league best to play down and circumnavigate, the author Kevin Hannan wrote. "I was able to speak with Mr. Taylor around 40 minutes into the second hour and spoke with him for about ten minutes. It was during those ten minutes he most revealed his true intentions and who he is working for." The folks on the Stormfront discussion board went nuts on Taylor after this, and one of the moderators had to pull the thread because it violated their rules against slamming one of their own.

As Taylor continues to rail against African Americans and Hispanics and enjoys a little bit of mainstream support, it is going to be more important to keep an eye on not just him but those that are around him. If he is such a fan of the blues it does not bother us one bit if folks work to give him something to sing the blues about.

VIDEOS OF TAYLOR
These come from YouTube, so if they end up getting removed, let us know.

Taylor on the Paula Zahn Show, Dec.16, 2002