Jared Taylor Speech at Salisbury U Draws Heavy Security, Protests

Josh Davis, Baltimore Sun, April 29, 2026

White nationalist advocate Jared Taylor came to Salisbury University on Wednesday behind metal barricades, metal detectors and a heavy police presence, while hundreds of protesters waited in the rain to make sure his message of racial separation did not pass quietly through the Eastern Shore.

Students behind the barricades booed nearly everyone who entered Devilbiss Hall, where Taylor spoke in a campus lecture hall behind more security and a sign-in table. The event, organized by Maryland College Republicans President Colin McEvers, was a makeup date after the university canceled an earlier appearance over reported safety concerns.

Inside, Taylor spoke for nearly 45 minutes to a lecture hall that appeared about three-quarters full, with an audience diverse in age and race. {snip}

Taylor’s speech, “Is there a solution to the American race problem,” offered one answer: what he called a “velvet divorce” from multiracial America.

“The idea that diversity is a great and wonderful gift is an idea reserved exclusively for white countries,” he said. “Imagine going to China … [and saying there’s] too damned many Chinese.”

He mocked the idea that diversity is a strength.

“Does it stop global warming, prevent tooth decay?” Taylor said.

At one point, Taylor singled out a New York Times reporter in the audience and cited the New York Police Department’s 2024 “Crime and Enforcement Activity” report.

“I will tell you something about her city that her newspaper never will,” Taylor said, citing figures he used to suggest Black and brown crime widely outpaces crimes committed by whites.

“It’s very simple math to figure out what would the crime rates be like in the city if you swapped out the Hispanics and the Blacks and replace them with whites who commit crimes at exactly the same rates as the white people who live there today,” he said. “You really could defund the police.”

Taylor closed by calling multiracial society a “misreading of human nature.”

“If this was a marriage … we have irreconcilable differences,” Taylor said. “I think the United States should get completely out of the business of trying to force people to live together.”