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Jan. 26, 2018 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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“God Damn America!”
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another version, another edition of Radio Renaissance.
And I have with me in the studio our usual guest, Paul Kersey.
Welcome, Mr. Kersey.
Delighted to have you with me.
And as you were pointing out as you came in, it's a lovely, crisp, cool day.
But I believe we'd like to start with a heartwarming story.
A heartwarming story of a photograph that just turned up Today or yesterday, it is a picture of Barack Obama taken in 2005 in the presence of Louis Farrakhan.
The two of them are looking very chummy.
Barack has got a nice big smile on his face.
And this was at a meeting the two of them had with the Congressional Black Caucus.
The photographer, the person who took this photograph, was a fellow named Askiya Mohammed.
And when the Congressional Black Caucus staff realized that a photograph had been taken of this historic meeting, they were worried.
Because at that time, Barack Obama was a senator and had presidential ambitions.
And some clearer-thinking person realized that if this got out, if he was looking very chummy with the Nation of Islam, things could get hot for the great black hope.
You know, I can still remember, Mr. Taylor, real quick, In 2004, when Barack Obama, he was the junior senator in Illinois, he gave the keynote address at the DNC convention that year.
And one of the last things Sam Francis wrote that still resonates with me today, he pointed out that if this guy is going to run in a couple years, it's obvious by giving this guy the keynote address at the 2004 DNC convention that they've got big aspirations for Barack Hussein Obama.
And that's why when you actually think about the chronology of when this photo was taken, it's that much more important because, you know, the Democrats were reinventing themselves and they were getting ready for the grudge match between Hillary and Barack.
They couldn't decide whether they wanted to be the historic first female president or the first black president in that 2008 campaign.
So, a little bit of historical reference for everyone.
Barack was being very well groomed and vetted and that's why the CBC, you know, Jumped in, as they did, to keep this from seeing the light of day.
Yes, and it was probably a very, very good thing that they did.
The photographer, this Askiya Mohammed, of course, was black.
And once the Congressional Black Caucus said to him, look, look, step on this photograph, will you?
He obliged.
And so it has been underwrapped all of these 12 years.
Underwraps and invisible.
And there are a number of things that this makes me think of.
Of course, one is black solidarity.
You have a black photographer and the Congressional Black Caucus.
That is the epitome of black solidarity.
They're all getting together to save the chances for the great black hope.
It all makes perfect sense.
Nobody in the mainstream media is pointing this out, but it is quite fascinating this photograph has come out now.
Now, the other question I have is, what is the Congressional Black Caucus doing meeting with Louis Farrakhan anyway?
Was he a regular guest at the CBC dinners and get-togethers?
I wouldn't be too surprised.
But this just goes to show you the Explicitly, unabashedly racial orientation of our elected representatives.
One other thing about this.
He dodged a bullet, of course.
Well, it's hard to say.
Would this photograph have made a difference?
Because you will recall that he had other associations, one of which was Jeremiah Wright.
The preacher who had been Obama's pastor for, I think it was about 20 years when he was living in Chicago, all that time.
This is the preacher who married him to his wife.
And a little bit of just how much Jeremiah Wright dislikes America and white people came out during the campaign.
Yes, it did.
And if you don't mind, I think I will read a passage from a sermon that Jeremiah Wright gave 2005, April 13th.
He's talking about black people and he says, the government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing, God bless America?
No, no, no.
Not God bless America.
God damn America.
That's in the Bible.
For killing innocent people.
God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human.
God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is supreme.
The United States government has failed the vast majority of our citizens of African descent.
I remember seeing clips of this at the time, and he was really chanting this stuff.
He was really putting the accent on, God damn America!
The sort of black preacher style.
And if I had been John McCain, facing him in the election, I would have played those clips over and over and over again.
Of course, John McCain didn't have the guts to do so.
So, it's an open question as to whether or not a revelation of him smiling next to Louis Farrakhan would have made a difference.
What do you think?
Well, we know for a fact that Barack Obama was in attendance in, I believe it was the Million Man March was in 1994?
That sounds about right.
So we know Barack Obama, because that was a formative experience in his life.
I believe he wrote about it in one of his books that he published.
And we know he was there.
He's never tried to distance himself from appearing at that event.
Now this picture, to your point that you brought up earlier about the CBC and engaging with the Nation of Islam, You know, you have to wonder why other members of the media weren't there.
I mean, the Congressional Black Caucus, those are elected officials.
And with Sunshine Laws, you would think that when you're having meetings, you would want to alert the press and allow them, because they are elected public figures.
And obviously, our press wants to give as much privacy to these Of course, they all passed the brown paper bag test.
One of my favorite things you'll ever see is when you actually take a look at some of these members of the Congressional Black Caucus and you realize, well, they're definitely lighter skinned from a racial hue.
I think the CBC is allowed to meet with just the brothers and just brothers who are photographers.
No, I agree.
It's quite fascinating.
But if you had a group of white congressmen or senators getting together and having a little chat with David Duke, it's just impossible to imagine.
Absolutely impossible to imagine.
It is actually impossible to imagine all of that scenario you just put out at this point.
But what I will say is the reaction.
I believe that this first appeared on Breitbart and the comments are incredible because once
again the more, the longer Barack Obama's out of the White House, the more the layers
begin to peel back and we get to see the real Obama, which I believe we saw in the last
part of his presidency when he really went all out with a lot of his overt, overt, overt
racism.
No need to rehash that, but I think we're going to see more of that also as we get into some intense debates about Doc and whatever's going to happen.
But this picture now, this is some ammunition that people can use.
And trust me, President Trump, who's been doing everything he can to undo Obama's legacy, I think he probably got a chuckle out of this and he's probably thinking of ways to to use this photo at some point if Mr. Obama asserts himself.
Well, if a Democrat is elected to the presidency in 2020, I don't think this photograph is going to be any obstacle at all to an appointment to a Supreme Court justiceship.
That's a great point.
But be all that as it may.
Now, this was a story.
The next one was one that you had taken a particular interest in.
In Baltimore, this was over the cover of darkness.
And the cover of darkness, right?
Right after the Unite the Right rally in August, they took down, what, four statues that were said to be monuments to the Confederacy?
One of which was, this was a single statue of Lee and Jackson together.
It's a beautiful statue.
It's, in my opinion, one of the more beautiful Confederate statues out there because they're together.
It's stone wall.
It's Robert E. Lee.
It was put up in 1948.
Obviously when Baltimore, thinking back, I believe Baltimore in 48 was about 70%, 75% white.
percent, 75 percent white. So it was built, it was put in this beautiful park and
it stood for decades, for more than half a century.
And of course, like you said, it was brought down in the cloak of darkness.
What's interesting is that after it was removed there was a statue of a pregnant black lady that citizens of Baltimore put up as if this was some sort of symbol of the new Baltimore and it was vandalized.
It's a pretty interesting story because no one ever got to the bottom of it.
I have a theory that it just fell over because they didn't actually, uh, they actually didn't, you know, they didn't put it up solid enough and the wind probably blew it over.
But the point is now there was rumors at the time, but now it is going to actually happen.
They are going to rename the actual park where the statue once stood.
The perch is still there, mind you.
The pediment, the base.
Exactly.
It's still there.
It's got a lovely inscription that, of course, will have to be removed because it doesn't pertain to Harriet Tubman, who the park is going to be renamed for.
And a statue is going to be commissioned and go up on the very pedestal, the very perch where this Beautiful sculpture of Lee and Jackson Stud since 1948, only to be torn down in the summer of 2017.
Yes.
Well, this is the story of dispossession, and it's exactly what happened in former British colonies.
South Africa, when we got black rule, they renamed a lot of places.
A lot of statues have come down.
A lot of cities have been renamed.
Oh, Banjul used to be Bathurst.
That's in the Gambia.
And northern Rhodesia, Rhodesia itself, those are now Zambia, Zimbabwe, all of these things change and it is a perfectly, perfectly normal and natural thing when the demographics change, then the history changes, the mythology changes, the heritage changes, but this is Really, it is an almost obvious and deliberate slap in the face because instead of putting up something neutral, if you will, you have to take down these people who are supposed to be symbols of white supremacy and replace them with a black person who fought white supremacy or certainly fought slavery.
Now, when it comes to Harriet Tubman, here's another thing I think we can thank Donald Trump for.
She was very likely to be on the $20 bill.
And I think those plans have now been put on hold, so we won't be seeing Harriet at least for a few more years.
You know, it's interesting, though, when all that talk of Harriet Tubman came out, I kind of looked her up because I thought she might be one of these, you know, utter, utter tinfoil heroes like Rosa Parks, you know, who sat down on a bus.
That's really the long and the short of her accomplishment.
But Harriet Tubman, it appears she was actually a rather courageous woman.
She went several times into hostile territory, maybe half a dozen times, maybe more, trying to free slaves, going into slavery territory herself at considerable risk of her own freedom.
So apparently she was a woman of some substance.
But again, this is all part of the deliberate upending of any sense of conventional or traditional American history, replacing white heroes with black heroes.
Bingo!
It's a tragic metaphor for white dispossession and it's happening in real time as we speak in city across city in America.
We never even talked about this but in Memphis there was a law passed in Tennessee to protect the monuments and then what does Memphis do?
They actually sell the land, the park, that the monument was on of Nathan Bedford Forrester and then they were able to remove it that way through an extra legal maneuver.
Well that's right.
Any monument on public land had to get state legislative permission to be fiddled with or tampered with in any way.
And so the city sells this park right downtown Memphis, a several acre park for a thousand dollars.
Yeah.
To a non-profit corporation, which now it's private property.
With no bidders.
It was done before the non-profit was even established.
Just the most transparent skullduggery.
And also, Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife were buried on that land.
So who knows, are they going to desecrate the graves too?
Exhume the graves, yeah.
But the statue, I was very fortunate to have been in Memphis just a couple of months before it went down.
And that, again, is a beautiful statue.
Nathan Bedford Forrest looks like a god on the back of this beautiful horse.
It's like the one in Lee Park in Charlottesville.
Gorgeous statues.
Wonderful, wonderful, beautiful statues.
Yep, this is what is in store for us, and I hate to sound like a broken record, but if they're going after the Confederates, they will very shortly be going after all of the slaveholders, including the ones that we are presumed to think of as heroes even unto this day.
But as the march of dispossession continues, I was struck by another story that you call to my attention.
This is an article by a law professor at Fordham University.
And astonishingly enough, Professor Kimani Paul-Emile, this is one of these hyphenated double-barreled names that so many black people seem to like, She has written an article called Blackness as Disability.
This is going to appear in the Georgetown Law Journal.
And she says that the trouble with going after discrimination and trying to outlaw discrimination is that you have to look, as she says, rather than focusing on malicious intent, Because you have to prove that something bad was done, or sometimes statistics are not enough, sometimes that's all you need to prove that there was malicious intent, if blacks are not the equivalent number of executives, etc.
She says, rather than focusing on that, disability law accepts the impact of even neutral actions, policies, and programs.
Now, this is astonishing.
confronting the ways in which social structures, institutions, and norms can substantially
limit a person's ability to perform a major life activity.
Now, this is astonishing.
In other words, just being black is a disability.
And this disability must be accounted for by disability law rather than any kind of
attempt to prove discrimination.
Bye.
And there's a certain logic behind this, after all.
The Americans with Disability Act, what it requires is that any reasonable accommodation be made to someone with a disability.
And so if someone is in a wheelchair, There may be no overt discrimination against this person, but this person can't do his job in the usual way unless the reasonable accommodation means putting in ramps, etc.
But what do you think the reasonable accommodation would be for a population with an average IQ of 85?
What is reasonable accommodation, Mr. Kersey?
Well, this is one of those stories that went viral everywhere.
I saw this on a number of places that you normally wouldn't think on people's Facebook walls.
People are so afraid now with people losing their jobs for sharing stories, people being Investigated for their associates.
This type of story I saw in a lot of places and it brought a smile to my face because it's, in one ways, as our society, we've talked about this before, our society is based, the highest moral virtue governing all social policy is egalitarianism.
So obviously there has to be some reason behind why whenever you compare whites, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, that a hierarchy develops in terms of merit, in terms of ability, in terms of the average capability of individual blacks, whites, Hispanics collectively put together.
And this is one of those avenues that I've always kind of wondered if we would get to this point.
a disability or if I dare say it a mental retardation and in a way this is something that they're going to say based on if all things are being equal and you have supreme court cases if all these state sponsored corporate attempts to level the playing field if they fail well let's just go ahead and well To quote a bad movie that you've probably never seen, Tropic Thunder, let's go full retard.
And I know you've never seen it.
Some of our listeners are going to get that and they're going to get a chuckle out of it.
This is so revealing, Mr. Taylor, on where we are right now.
Well, surely.
This, to me, is yet another example of what we are left with when we refuse to accept what is so obvious.
What is so obvious?
You have a group of people that does not perform at the level of another group of people.
But this is something, if we insist on ignoring this, then we have to come up with America as a white supremacist society that holds them down.
Whites have privilege that pushes them up.
All the legacy of slavery, the legacy of lynching, the legacy of who knows what, sunspots, the price of eggs, all of this stuff is holding black people down.
So we have to come up with yet another Rube Goldberg scheme to try to accommodate the fact that despite the fact that blacks and whites are absolutely equal in every way, we have different outcomes.
So now we're going to treat it like a disability.
Wow!
And, you know, I was thinking earlier today about, you know, okay, how do you make reasonable accommodation if that's what you have to do?
Well, I think the obvious thing to do would be, okay, if you're black, you have to do only 85% of the work.
I say 85 IQ as opposed to 100 IQ.
Isn't that fair enough?
Seems fair to me.
Yes.
So I think that's the way that you would accommodate this disability.
If you are a black employee, then you get 100% mark if you only come up with 85% mark.
Or if you are in a teacher and you're rewarded by bringing students up to standard.
Well clearly you bring black children only up to sort of the C standard and then that's all you need to do.
Or if we're talking about a credit score, where we know there are vast differences.
Blacks automatically get 50 points, whereas whites now have to get 75 points knocked off.
So, say you've got a white person who's got an 800 credit score.
Hey, guess what dude?
You're down to 715.
And that black person who's got a A 590, hey, we're going to move them up to 640.
Hey, it's only fair because it's a handicap.
That's right.
It's a handicap because they have a disability.
And we have to make sure that that disability, we've got to bring these averages down.
Even if it's artificially performed.
On the other hand, she's not saying it's a disability.
Because she's saying that this is something that is foisted on blacks by this vicious society.
But the appropriate way to treat it is as if it were a disability.
So you don't have to prove discrimination.
You don't have to prove anything.
The status of blacks is one that should be just like the status of someone who is crippled or blind or whatever it is.
Society must accommodate itself to these people and make it possible for them to be mainstream, so to speak.
Astonishing.
But this is progress of sorts, I suppose.
At least she thinks it's progress.
And this is a woman who is a professor.
She teaches future lawyers at Fordham University.
Not only is she a professor, but she is celebrated.
Awards are thrown at her.
Grant money is thrown at her.
I was doing some research Some research on her.
She's a highly sought after keynote speaker for diversity lectures and luncheons.
I wouldn't be surprised if in a couple of years some lily white corporate board invites her to sit on the board.
Oh, entirely possible.
To have some honorary title of, you know, you're going to be our diversity and inclusion Lead some, you know, lead some campaign to, hey, we need to diversify the next great corporation, whether it's Uber, whether it's, you know, Tesla or SpaceX.
We need you on board.
Of course, of course.
But sticking within the university, or at least the academic purview for the moment, on January 22nd, De Anza College, which is just a community college in Cupertino, California, They wrote an editorial, from which I would like to read a selection or two.
It goes like this.
It says, Posters advocating for white supremacist organizations Identity Europa and American Renaissance have begun popping up across campus.
Both are heavily influenced by the ideology of the KKK, which has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League.
We reject the ethnocentric, white supremacist, and historically violent ideology of these organizations.
Then it had a bunch of photographs of the posters that had gone up and they said, we urge you to tear these things down when you see them.
Now, I thought it was quite fascinating that they are describing Identity Europa and American Renaissance.
We're of course white supremacists, you know.
That just goes without saying.
But that Identity Europa and American Renaissance are heavily influenced by the ideology of the Ku Klux Klan.
They're Democrats, what are you talking about?
And the Ku Klux Klan has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Why don't they say that we're a hate group classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center?
But this roundabout way of saying that American Renaissance is influenced by the KKK, which is a bunch of bad guys.
I guess they think that we are basically THE KKK.
And then we reject the ethnocentric, white supremacist, and historically violent ideology.
You know, this just, to me, encapsulates the utterly ignorant and really closed-minded, bigoted view these people have of things.
For them, we are influenced by the KKK, and our ideology of race realism and advocating for the legitimate interests of whites is a violent ideology.
I think that this just says a lot about how the students of the United States today are trained to think, and it's very, very difficult to knock them out of that.
And that's, of course, one of the great advantages of putting these posters up.
It produces this kind of incoherent commentary, and it's just like the, it's okay to be white posters.
Pavlov's dog.
I mean at this point people have been, anytime, any form of white identity pops up, even something
as benign as some of the things Pat Buchanan has talked about over the years.
Or I think I saw people attacking Senator Ted Cruz because he decided to go after, quite
courageously mind you, to go after President Trump on this whole, we're not going to talk
about it, but Ted Cruz said, hey I'm not going to sign off on this DACA.
What are you talking about?
You're going against everything you ran on, my friend.
And people were like, oh, why is this Cuban guy, why is he siding with this white supremacist bill?
That's how they're trying to position this olive branch of amnesty that Trump has put out there.
It's a white supremacist deal.
I've seen this in many places, and it really belies the point you just made.
It accentuates to the point where anything that is perceived as advocating or advancing the interests
of white Americans is axiomatically KKK.
Right.
And unfortunately the way that the left and these organizations you mentioned have branded American Renaissance, we know the reason why you guys are off of Twitter.
Because you are engaging with a violent ideology or you have allies that are We're affiliated with a violent extremist group.
That's right.
Good grief.
I suppose they must have read the editorial in the De Anza College newspaper and just said, uh-oh, got to kick these guys off Twitter.
The one thing we should say about this, Mr. Taylor, and I know we want to keep this podcast short, but I do want to say the Identity Europa guys are doing phenomenal work.
I agree.
I want to say that all the people out there who are putting your lives on the line Your reputation's on the line by putting these flyers out there, potentially being photographed and then being harassed.
Don't stop.
Every time you do that, there's going to be an editorial.
Because of our egalitarian society, I think just the other day someone put up a poster at a college in Missouri about saying Kate Steinle had dreams.
Beautiful poster.
In fact, this should be a poster all across the country on campuses.
Something that simple.
Kate Steinle had dreams too.
Do something like that people out there.
Kate Steinle had dreams too because guess what?
The left that have complete control of the faucet of information in local newspapers will go crazy.
They'll be editorial.
They'll cite all sorts of ABC non-profits attacking that ideology as they did here.
But guess what?
There might be someone who reads it and you never know what trip that one little story will send them down the rabbit hole toward an awakening and what that will do for their life.
And that's right because I think that the De Anza college paper made a mistake in reproducing photographs of the poster.
They said there's nothing wrong with being white.
Be proud of your heritage.
Nothing the least bit supremacist or hateful or ethnocentric.
Basically, there's nothing wrong with being white.
And people say that, well, wait a minute, maybe there isn't anything wrong with being white.
Oh boy.
But I agree.
Anyone out there who is listening, if this is the kind of thing that you're inclined to do, it has a great effect wherever it's done.
And then just a short item here.
This is more down your alley because you follow sports far more avidly than I, but I thought it was quite significant that this Association for American Veterans, they wanted to buy an ad for the Super Bowl.
It showed a flag and with patriotic music and the words, please stand.
I gather that's all it was.
But the people who accept ads for the Super Bowl, nope.
Nope, nope, nope.
Can't have that.
Can't have the flag and say, please stand.
This just goes to show you how much they are in the pockets of these players who refuse to stand.
Well, the NFL is a 70% black league.
The NFLPA is one of the strongest unions in the country.
They, of course, we talked about this before, they're going to dedicate something between $70 and $90 million for social justice causes, leftist, black causes.
This is why the news that Vince McMahon, whose wife sits in the administration of Donald Trump, Vince McMahon is putting up $100 million of his own money to restart the XFL, and he specifically stated at a press conference, people want football.
They don't want to be lectured to.
They don't want politics.
It's entertainment.
And we're going to give it back to you, the people.
I love that because polarization in any form is at the end of the day, it's good for us because it forces wedge issues, it forces people to understand and come to Unfortunate conclusions that they've for so long known, but they've ignored in application in their daily lives.
That's right.
It makes you take a stand.
It draws a very clear line in the sand and says, okay, on which side are you going to stand?
And the idea that the NFL rejects the flag and a request, please stand.
No.
This goes to show the extent to which they are ideologically motivated.
I'm actually a little bit surprised that they rejected that ad.
It's idiocy on their part.
But at the same time, this season, studies have shown that older white fans are turning off the NFL.
And younger whites aren't really embracing it.
They're embracing other sports or they're doing other things.
At the end of the day, all sports are, it's entertainment.
It's like going to see a movie and acting as if the outcome of when you go see the Avengers 3 or 4 or whatever it is, somehow impacts your life.
That's the exact same thing that sports are.
You shouldn't let it impact your life, but some people do because it's taken It's their identity.
In a country where you can no longer have a racial identity as a white person, you can at least have an identity
through your favorite pro team or your alma mater in college.
But this is great, and this is the type of story that we want to see continue.
Yes, yes.
Now the next story is the sort we do not want to see continue.
This is about a 45-year-old Swedish woman who was working in a home for unaccompanied minors.
That is to say, they were all from these various refugee countries, so-called.
in Sweden.
And she took a particular shine to this guy was an Afghan.
And once he turned 18, he was officially too old to stay in this unaccompanied minor shelter.
So she started having a sexual relationship with him, this 45 year old woman, and she took him into her own home.
Well, this young Afghan, I guess he was not satisfied with this 45-year-old mama bear, and so he started hitting on the woman's 12-year-old daughter, following her around, grabbing her, sticking his fingers up her underwear, and the mother, believe it or not, told the daughter No, this is fine.
This is fine.
Don't worry about this.
Keep quiet about this.
Well, she didn't keep quiet about this.
She explained it to her estranged, to the father who lived elsewhere.
The couple had broken up.
The father called the police.
Good.
And the father said, we're not having this.
And so they arrested this Afghan, but they gave him 100 hours of community service because he hadn't actually raped her, apparently, and because he was only 18 at the time of these sexual assaults.
Now, What adds the piquancy of this is that the mother is a member of this Me Too movement.
She is this rabid, ferocious feminist that has been accusing every Swede under the sun of being a sexual aggressor.
And here she brings an Afghan into her home who starts mauling and pawing her own 12-year-old daughter.
An actual sexual predator.
Yes, yes, and seems to think that that's fine.
And then, another astonishing thing is, the fellow, after all, he got attention of this kind, he did move out.
And then, the mother, the 45-year-old mother, the Me Too movement mother, put a note on a Facebook group that opposes deportation of Afghans, saying that this, quote, wonderful kid no longer has a place to stay and would someone else find him a home.
This is a country where his fellow Afghans are currently walking around in public with Kalashnikovs, AK-47s, where the army is actually potentially going to deploy soldiers.
I mean, as somebody who has Swedish ancestry, it's... And I mean what I'm about to say with 100% certainty and without a sense of irony.
It's as if Europe had a zombie apocalypse And they decided that the actual European people were going to be food for the zombies who now somehow lord over the government, and that the government, that the elite in charge, the elected officials, are going to protect the zombies who now occupy these nations at all costs and allow them to continue to feast, unmolested, on their own people.
I mean, it's so hard to read these stories.
Voice of Europe.
We've talked about this.
Great website.
They do phenomenal work.
Every time I read a story, I'm wondering if I'm It's incredulous.
It's like, how is this possible?
How is this possible?
Right, right.
Well, I suppose it is appropriate that this happened in Sweden, in the country that gave us that expression, Stockholm Syndrome.
Maybe that'll be a country that also gives us a new word that's yet to be developed to help us get over this complex that it's put a racial malaise over all white people across the globe seemingly to turn away in the face of realities that our ancestors warned us about and put in laws and structures to stop it from happening.
So, hopefully, I guess we've been optimistic about the Swedes.
Yes, maybe there'll be a new Stockholm Syndrome.
A new and improved and completely opposite version.
The Stockholm Anecdote.
Yes, we certainly need it.
And apparently there's a German firm that is at least making a temporary anecdote.
These are called, these are anti-rape shorts.
That you can buy.
They cost $125.
They're not cheap.
And in order to actually take them off, you have to unlock a combination lock.
So they cannot be ripped off.
They are on for good.
And not only that, but if you actually try to take a knife and slash them off, they have an alarm that emits a 130 decibel scream.
So, this has gone on the market.
I don't know how popular it is, but this is something for which some manufacturer in Germany figured there's now a demand.
Oddly enough, these were not on sale before 2015, but as the advertising for it says, we read every day headlines of sexual molestation.
Protect yourself against this!
So, new products.
This is the free market.
The miracle of Adam Smith.
There was a joke in a Mel Brooks movie called Robin Hood Men in Tights where Maid Marian is wearing a chastity belt that actually has, it's a metal chastity belt, underwear.
And Robin Hood, or her true love, is going to have a key to unlock it.
And it's a great visual joke because the whole movie, people will run into it, it'll make that loud clank sound.
And at the end of the movie, Robin Hood has the wrong key and they go, call the locksmith.
It's a hilarious scene, but you watch it and that's fiction.
That's supposed to be a joke.
This is actually happening in real life.
What was a joke in the 1990s, in a silly Mel Brooks film, now has become a reality.
I mean, again, this is one of those stories.
How do you describe this to people?
How would you even try and describe this to people living five years ago?
Because this is only due to, it's a reaction buddy, but like you pointed out, the marketplace of Well, this is reality.
This is today's Germany.
for the conditions now present in 2018 Germany.
WTF?
How do you even talk about this with a straight face?
Well, this is reality.
This is today's Germany.
Something that Germans of even just a decade or two ago could not have conceived of.
But yes, anti-rape shorts.
I saw a photograph of one, a rather nice looking pair of shorts.
And this isn't underwear, you know, this is something that you go jogging in them or something.
I saw the same picture.
But golly, yes, this is... Welcome to 2018.
Now, 2018 or 2019 looks like it's going to bring us a new version of a PISA test.
You're familiar with a PISA test.
It's called the Program for International Student Assessment.
This is put together by the OECD, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
And what it does is it gives these tests in different countries.
There's a verbal version and a math version, a science version.
And it is supposed to be an effective way to compare the educational abilities of all of these advanced countries.
And the United States is continuing to sort of drift down the league as the population changes, but in addition to math and reading and science, they're going to come up with another aspect of the test, and that is called global competences.
Now guess what global competences are going to test?
You know, I'm going to let you read this one because this is, again, one of those stories.
This is intended to test how well young people are prepared to work alongside people from different cultures and with different beliefs.
The test will measure tolerance, cultural awareness, and how well teenagers can distinguish between reliable sources of information and fake news.
Good grief!
Now, you can be sure that you and I, I think we're fairly sophisticated consumers of news.
I think we're fairly well-educated and fairly well-informed.
I suspect we'd score very, very, very low on this.
But how in heaven's name are they going to be measuring cultural awareness or the distinction of how you tell fake news from real news?
I'd just be curious to see a copy of this test.
But this is going to be offered to all of the members of the OECD.
Now, interestingly enough, Although Scotland, Australia, and Canada have signed up.
Oh, they probably think this is great.
Of course.
There are a number of countries that have said, hey, slow down.
England, the US, Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, and Ireland have said, no, no, we're not going to take this test.
But my suspicion is that more every year, more and more people will take this test and we will see the rankings.
Oh, those Americans are not very culturally competent.
Oh, those Finns.
They don't seem very tolerant to us.
Oh boy.
And the fellow who's running this, his name is Andreas Slicer.
He's the OECD's Education Director.
He says, this is going to reveal which are the countries that pay only lip service to the ideas of tolerance and inclusion.
Now, of course, everyone supports this stuff.
Everyone says, oh, it's wonderful.
Everyone says, multi-culti this, multi-culti that.
He is going to really find out who's practicing what they preach.
It was privately doing everything possible to avoid limited areas that have been enriched in this nature.
You know, this reminds me of that story that broke.
What was the prescription drug that was stated would actually cure people or numb people to their views on refugees?
Was it Oxycontin, Percocet?
It was one of the drugs that actually is ravaging the country right now, the white working class.
And I can't remember what it was, but if you gave people a small dosage, they'd have more positive views of refugees.
And like you said, it's almost like this guy, Andres... Slicer.
Yeah, you can just see him sitting in his office right now, looking at that study and thinking, I cannot wait to put this in the water supply when we find the countries who score low and who don't have enough tolerance.
Oh, he will get on his high horse and he will browbeat them.
But again, I would love to see this test.
I would love to see the questions that they ask.
Probably anyone who has any real racial realist understanding or knows what diversity really brings is going to flunk this test.
You're going to show off.
The more you know, the less well you will do on this test.
And then a bit of a good news story.
And this has to do with the deportations of outspoken illegals.
And as was pointed out in a news story about this, during the Obama years, being an illegal, but then being out in the open and bragging about it, that was an absolute immunization against any kind of deportation.
So long as you had the spotlight, and so long as you were bragging about it, so long as you were marching up and down Capitol Hill, then you had no chance of being deported.
Not anymore.
A couple of interesting events.
This week, a longtime New York immigrant right activist named Jean Montreville, who had lived in the U.S.
for 31 years.
He's been illegal for 31 years.
He was arrested and deported to Haiti.
Good work, good work.
And just this last Thursday, Ravi Ragbir, a leader with New York City's New Sanctuary Movement, was transferred back to New York from Miami after ICE took him into custody during a check-in on a flight, and this is preparatory to deportation proceedings.
And another good news story, a long-time Seattle-based immigrant rights activist known as Maru Mora Vilalpando I don't know where he's from, but I hope he's going back.
On December 20th, she got in the mail what's known as a notice to appear.
And that means that the proceedings for deportation with the federal government are about to begin for Maru Mora Villalpando.
Now, this to me is long overdue because I'm sure you remember this guy, Jose Antonio Vargas.
Do you remember him?
Oh, I know Jose.
Yes, he made such a spectacle of himself bragging About how he was illegal and how he had gamed the system, how he had tricked people into thinking that he came in on a false passport.
He wrote a big piece in the New York Times Magazine, My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.
He's worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Daily News, Huffington Post.
He has just been parading.
He's been dining out on being an illegal for years and years and years.
Now, I haven't yet heard that he has gotten a letter saying that the deportation procedure is about to begin, but he would be my number one candidate.
He believes that he's inoculated from the law, from any order, and guess what?
There's something you said last week that makes me smile from ear to ear like the Cheshire Cat.
Their appearance of resolve.
This is what that comes down to.
To a T. This is the type of story, once again, if you really want to send a message to these communities, you don't have to go door-to-door with guns, with armored vehicles, and do deportations.
Much as I'd like to see that, you don't have to do that.
You arrest people like Jose Antonio Vargas.
And you let the media howl, you let them protest, you let them condemn President Trump, but then you look at the polls and the American people say, why were they allowed the mouth?
Why were they allowed the megaphone to disseminate their views and to laugh at our laws?
Because that is what's happening.
Before our eyes, we are seeing something really tremendous take place.
And we're not going to talk at all about DACA and what's going on, because again, There's a lot of things behind the scenes and it is an interesting deal negotiating that's going on.
It's fascinating actually watching all this take place.
But, while all that's going on, these arrests are happening.
These deportations are happening.
And guess what?
At meetings that you and I will never know about, just like this picture in 2005 that we started out this conversation with, that was just released to the public, there are these activist groups across the country in big cities who are meeting and they're worried.
Will it be me next?
Will it be you next?
Do we need to go home?
Do we need to go home?
And that is a beautiful thing.
Yes, I have no doubt that word of these deportations has just ripped through these activist communities like wildfire.
Somebody has lit the fuse and So, yes, let's hope that they are very worried.
And to me, it was just outrageous.
We would have demonstrations of people who claimed to be illegal immigrants marching down the streets of Los Angeles.
We're here to stay.
All of this crazy stuff.
So it is wonderful to see some of these guys actually being nabbed and sent home.
They are just as illegal as anybody else.
But as you point out, these guys think they're inoculate.
They think they're immune and under Barack Obama.
They were.
An election can make a big difference.
Politics can make a big difference.
And so, we will close on a story that is more up your line than mine, but I thought it was fascinating that a New York comic con, I guess this is sort of an Amran conference for comic fans.
They get them all together, and the industry celebrates comics, and the readers actually have a chance to talk to company executives.
They faced tough questions.
From consumers and retailers who complain that the company's social justice push resulted in poor selling products that took up valuable inventory and space on store shelves.
And what these were, were these sudden multi-culti diversity kind of comics that our rulers think we should be reading, that all of our young people should be just slurping up and getting very excited about.
But one that got the axe was called America.
Featuring a teenage Latina girl named America Chavez.
Isn't that a great story?
America and Cesar Chavez.
America Chavez whose stories revolve around her life as a queer immigrant in college.
I'd love to read that.
Riveting.
Really, who did they think was going to be snapping this stuff up and reading it?
A queer immigrant in college.
Now, man, that's pretty dramatic stuff.
And then, I'm quite surprised that Black Panther World of Wakanda Written by feminist and body-positive activist Roxanne Gay and the latest black saint, Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose other comic, Black Panther and the Crew, was cancelled.
That, too, has been dropped.
Black Panther World of Wakanda, despite the fact that next month we're supposed to get the movie.
You know, Black Panther was always a minor character and we know that from a literacy rate, you know, I'm sorry, you can do everything you want to try and appeal to blacks to come buy a book, but they'd rather watch the movie, you know, that Black Lightning television show we were joking about.
It actually has decent ratings because blacks are watching out of racial solidarity.
They love to see blackness unapologetically shown on film and the storylines are outlandish.
Of white racists that this superhero is fighting against.
And of course, Black Panther is projected to bring in $100 to $120 million dollars in the box office.
Because you're going to have that massive upfront sales of blacks.
Like we talked about, there are going to be Black Panther parties.
These comics are failing in the marketplace, but the intensity of racial solidarity that blacks have for this upcoming film, it is going to be a moderate success.
At first.
We'll see if it has legs, and obviously it's not going to do anything in China.
We're probably in Russia or overseas, but it's a market where most Marvel movies make their money overseas.
This is going to be one, the Black Panther, that makes the bulk of its box office receipts from the United States sales.
Well, we will certainly see.
Right in the middle of what used to be called February, but is now known as Black History Month, is when it will be released, and we will see how well it does.
But just one last note as to yet another comic that got cancelled was one called Iceman.
Now, you're more familiar with these things than I am, but apparently this is a classic character.
Yeah, he's one of the original X-Men from the late 60s.
Okay.
So, very beloved character who they decided to retcon as being homosexual a couple years ago.
That's right.
Right.
Gave him his own title, and guess what?
It bombed.
I've actually read on Vox Dei's blog that this was one of the lowest selling comics that they ever tried to release on its own.
Again, at the end of the day, these comic shops, they exist to sell, to make money, and there's a finite amount of shelf space that they can dedicate to these comics, and if they're not selling, they're not making money, they can't pay rent, they can't pay their employees.
Social justice, at the end of the day, It doesn't sell.
This is one of the advantages in living in what is not yet a dictatorship.
When the retailers all get together and say, this junk takes up valuable inventory space and it ain't selling.
It gets cancelled.
It gets cancelled.
The market still does speak in this country.
Let's hope it continues to speak authoritatively on subjects of that kind.
Agreed.
Agreed.
Well, thanks as usual for coming in.
We had a great conversation and we will see you next week.
And all you readers out there, all your listeners I should say, we will look forward to speaking with you as well.
I'll tell you what, everyone listening, do us a favor.
Go to Amazon.com right now and type in, if we do nothing, leave Leave a review of Mr. Taylor's newest book so that other consumers can see what you think of the book.
I think it has right now four reviews, but the more reviews you get, the more people are going to want to take a look at that book.
So I'll tell you what, if we can get that to, say, ten reviews, I'm going to give away something special next week.
Only if we get to ten.
So we need six listeners out there to drive the number of reviews to ten reviews.
So if you guys can do that, we can check on it very easily.
Give us those six reviews to get it up there and something special will be given away next week.
Gee, I may write six myself.
Depending on how special this is, you plan on giving away.
Well, thank you very much, Mr. Kersey.
I appreciate that boost.
That kind of attention from the public never hurts.
And we will see you, Mr. Kersey, and you, our lovely audience, next week.
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