White Nationalist Jared Taylor Speaks at Colorado Mesa University

Eighty tickets with the title, “Jared Taylor: Divorce Papers for a Divided Nation” were distributed for a speech that brought a lot of controversy to Grand Junction.

Of those 80 tickets, about 25 showed up to the event.

Jared Taylor was invited to the CMU campus by the Western Culture Club on Thursday. Students were sent an email on Monday around 11:00 a.m., saying tickets for the event were available. Another email came though just a few hours later saying all tickets were distributed by 1:30 p.m.

During the speech Taylor expressed his beliefs in racial segregation.

“All I’m saying is that multiracialism eventually will lead to mixing that obliterates all of the beautiful diversity that I believe,” Taylor said. “You can appreciate everything that’s wonderful about Japan without having a nation full of Japanese. We can have opera companies in this country without having large groups of Italians in every city. We can appreciate and respect differences. All I’m talking about is a way to ensure that those differences survive and prosper.”

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The club Ratio Christi set up a whiteboard saying, “the Jared Taylor event is free speech gone to far.” People who walked by were encouraged to mark if they agreed or disagreed with the statement. The Chapter Director for the club said he strongly opposes Taylor’s values. However, he does believe in free speech.

“In this case with Jared Taylor, with what I know about him and what I’ve read about him and the interviews that I’ve seen with him in it, he is not promoting violence. He’s not promoting hatred toward any race. And so, I think in this case, definitely it’s not free speech gone too far,” John VanderVelde said.

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