X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:32:51 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: ERaM: Disney's racist radio host >From Alan Spector, REVS editor/manager: The following appeared on another e-mail network. It has material that is of interest to REVS and PSN subscribers. Forwarded message follows ============================================================== From: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting >From the upcoming April issue of EXTRA! Update, FAIR's newsletter: (A March 19 press release on this subject also follows.) DISNEY'S HOST PROMOTES "OUTSTANDING" RACISTS After FAIR criticized WABC talkshow host Bob Grant for his racial slurs and his promotion of white supremacist groups (EXTRA!, 1- 2/95; EXTRA! Update, 6/95), he toned down his rhetoric somewhat-- substituting codewords for overt racism. But we kept listening, because we knew it was just a matter of time before the old Bob Grant came out. We didn't have to wait long. On Jan. 26, 1996, Grant took to the airwaves to promote a conference sponsored by a group called American Renaissance. Here's what Grant--the most widely heard talkshow host in the New York City area--had to say: There is a group called the American Renaissance. The American Renaissance Conference is being held on May 25 through the 27th, and they say: "Race is still the American dilemma. The 'civil rights,' integrationist approach has brought none of its promised rewards. Is it time to rethink the assumptions of the past 40 years? Join us in Louisville, Ky. over Memorial Day weekend for a frank, uncensored exchange. Speakers will include: Dr. Samuel Francis, contributing editor of Chronicles; Professor Philippe Rushton, author of Race, Evolution and Behavior; Jared Taylor, author of Paved with Good Intentions; Professor Michael Levin, author of Why Race Matters; Lawrence Auster, author of The Path to National Suicide; and Rabbi Mayer Schiller, author of The Guilty Conscience of a Conservative." These are outstanding speakers and if I can, I'm going to take my microphone down there and tune in. Who are these "outstanding speakers" that Grant is so eager to hear? * Samuel Francis is a former Washington Times columnist (and an informal advisor to Pat Buchanan), who was fired from his job at the right-wing Times when his white supremacist views became publicized. Francis calls for whites to begin a "reconquest of the United States," which would involve "imposing adequate fertility controls on non-whites." He does not believe that non-whites deserve "the right to political equality, the right to vote, or the right to hold political office, let alone...the 'right' to attend the same schools, to serve on juries, to marry across racial lines." (American Renaissance newsletter, 3/95) * Philippe Rushton, a professor at the University of Western Ontario, conducts crank studies comparing cranial capacity with genital size. "It's a trade-off," Rushton explains, "more brain or more penis. You can't have everything." He claims that blacks and whites are separate sub-species with "different reproductive strategies": While whites typically "emphasize nurture rather than numbers of offspring," blacks generally "produce more children but...nurture each one less." (Rolling Stone, 10/20/94) * Michael Levin, a professor of psychology at the City University of New York, is a well-known advocate of eugenics who believes integration can never work: "The reason is two basically unalterable black characteristics: less intelligence and greater proneness to violence." (Rolling Stone, 10/20/94) * Lawrence Auster, author of The Path to National Suicide, argued at the 1994 American Renaissance conference that the "large and enduring differences in average intelligence between blacks and whites" ensure that "blacks on their own can never be expected to maintain a modern, democratic, civilized society," or "achieve collective economic equality and other kinds of parity with whites." (D'Souza, End of Racism) * Jared Taylor, aka Samuel Taylor, is the organizer who has brought these leading lights of the racist right together. Publisher of the newsletter American Renaissance, Taylor described himself as "racialist" and "white separatist" in an April 1995 interview with FAIR. "More and more whites are rediscovering what their ancestors took for granted: a natural preference for and loyalty to their own race," Taylor wrote in his newsletter (9-10/93). At the 1994 conference, which he also organized, Taylor urged whites to prepare for civil war: "When it happens...the divisions will be along racial lines," he said (D'Souza, The End of Racism). Grant has to be aware of who these people are, none of whom is "outstanding" for anything other than their racism. In 1993, a caller to Grant's show (4/26/93) praised American Renaissance, and quoted this passage from the newsletter: "When neighborhoods lose their white majorities, schools decay, crime increases, taxes rise, welfare proliferates, and what was once an outpost of civilization subsides into barbarism." Grant's response was to allow the caller to give out subscription information; Grant then noted that Taylor's publisher told him that "thanks to the Bob Grant program, the Jared Taylor book has become a success, albeit a modest success, in view of what it should have been. But nevertheless, they said that thanks to me, they are now able to say that they are successful." It's no mystery why Grant would boast that he's helping white supremacists succeed. It's somewhat more puzzling why the Walt Disney Co., which owns ABC, would want its flagship radio station to promote such views. If you want to let Disney chair Michael Eisner know what you think of Bob Grant's promotion of white supremacy, you can write to him at Walt Disney Studios, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521, or call 818-560-1000 or fax 818-560-1930. Please send copies of your correspondence to Sam Husseini at FAIR, fair@fair.org *** A FAIR Press Release March 19, 1996 DERSHOWITZ WAS FIRED FOR TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT BOB GRANT: WABC's TOP HOST CONTINUES TO PROMOTE WHITE SUPREMACY Does Disney Approve of WABC's Censorship? WABC-AM pulled the plug on lawyer/talkshow host Alan Dershowitz after he called WABC's top host, Bob Grant, a racist and a bigot. "What he is saying about Bob is wrong, so I'm not going to tolerate that," WABC program director Phil Boyce told the press. But Dershowitz's charges against Grant are well-documented. As recently as Friday, March 15 -- three days before WABC canceled Dershowitz's show -- Grant was on the air praising a newsletter that preaches segregation, lynching and the genetic superiority of whites. "WABC can hardly claim that it's allowing Grant to promote racial bigotry in the name of free speech -- when, at the same time, it's censoring anyone who criticizes Grant's racism," FAIR executive director Jeff Cohen pointed out. The publication that Grant touted to his hundreds of thousands of listeners was American Renaissance, a newsletter published by self- described "racialist" Samuel Jared Taylor. "American Renaissance is dedicated to preserving the English language and preserving the Western culture," Grant declared. "I really don't see how this rates as a Klan-like organization." But "Klan-like" is exactly what American Renaissance is, as is obvious from a glance at any issue. In fact, the October 1995 issue featured an article that called lynching "a system of justice that was not, in all respects, inferior to the one we have today.... In lynching there was immediacy, finality, and in many cases direct participation: The victim or his bereaved could take personal vengeance." The publication also promotes apartheid as a policy for the United States: "Whites must choose between separation and oblivion," an article in the October 1994 issue declared. The racism of American Renaissance is frank and undisguised. The cover story in the February 1996 issue declared: "Today, the work of millennia is being undone as the less intelligent races not only outbreed the more intelligent but push their way into the homelands of the northern races." The cover story of the March 1996 issue claims: "In the white nations, low birthrates, non-white immigration, and miscegenation are weakening the gene pool." That Bob Grant understands the real message of American Renaissance is clear from his comments. After insisting that the publication did not claim Western culture had "no room for the input of others," Grant continued: But even if it did, even if it did, there is a valid premise for a discussion, the discussion being what we are, what kind of nation we are, and where do we go from here. What is a nation? A nation is not a crowd, a nation is not a group, a gang. Yugoslavia was not a nation, that's why we have the problems today in Yugoslavia. The Soviet Union was not a nation, that's why it fell apart. You don't see Norway falling apart; Norway's a nation. So I think it's at least, at least reasonable to entertain the idea that we should -- think on these things. Grant is alluding to a prominent theme in American Renaissance: The idea that nationality should be based on ethnicity, not on citizenship. "Tribes and nations have always understood instinctively that cohesion requires blood-kinship and shared history, and that membership is not open to all comers," the publication declared in its January 1996 issue. "White nations appear to have lost this primeval urge." Grant's racism -- exemplified by his references to black college students and churchgoers as "savages" and his description of Haitian immigrants as "sub-human infiltrators" -- is not simply a question of personal bile, but is part of a systematic ideology of white supremacy. Grant has in the past promoted conferences organized by American Renaissance (most recently on his January 26, 1996 show) and has allowed the phone numbers of American Renaissance and other white supremacist groups to be given out over the air. (See "Dial H for Hate," EXTRA! Update, June 1995; FAIR open letter to Phil Boyce, February 26, 1996.) But it is impossible to discuss this reality on WABC's airwaves, as Dershowitz's firing shows. Two years ago, columnist Jack Newfield was publicly banned from the station because he noted Grant's bigotry in print. (Columnist Linda Stasi had earlier been blacklisted for "excessively personal" criticisms of Rush Limbaugh.) FAIR points out that the ultimate responsibility for Grant's unchallenged racism rests with the Walt Disney Company, which recently purchased WABC along with the rest of the ABC network. Disney needs to explain why it allows its host to promote white supremacism during prime listening hours, while those who criticize this racist speech are censored. *** For more on FAIR, send a blank e-mail message to fair-info@fair.org Or visit our web site at www.fair.org/fair A good deal Grant's bigotry is documented at: www.fair.org/fair/wabc-hate.html fair@fair.org To subscribe to FAIR's magazine, EXTRA!, call 800-847-3993.