And now she was really puzzled. Her hostess was outraged. The single greatest strength of Jared Taylor's Paved with Good Intentions is its massive and merciless crushing of this type of hysterical denial, which currently paralyzes all discussion of race relations in America. Considered entirely by itself, this achievement makes his book the most important to be published on the subject for many years. In this area, experience shows that it is not enough to be mugged by reality.
Footnotes are apparently necessary as well.
And Taylor provides 1,339 of them, quarried from a remarkably wide reading of contemporary sources. Thus it is indeed true that blacks commit most of New York's violent crime. Even a decade before my wife arrived in Manhattan, by the early 1970s, blacks already made up over 60 per cent of those arrested for violent crime, but only 20 per cent of the city's population. And more recently, for example, black men have been responsible for over 85 per cent of the felonies committed against New York City cabbies, as many as 17 of whom are murdered each year. Taylor hunts down and extirpates all such infinitely regressing excuses, which have for too long substituted for thought in American political discourse.