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Feb. 16, 2018 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Cheddar Man and the Pharaohs
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another edition of Radio Renaissance.
It's February 16th, 2018.
I am Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and I have with me the often imitated, never equaled, Paul Kersey.
And it's been yet another fascinating week.
It always is, for those of us who pay attention to what's happening with regard to race, not just in the United States, but around the world.
And we had quite an interesting development at the National Portrait Gallery just this week.
Mr. Kersey's already laughing.
That's bad form, you know.
Before I even open my mouth, Mr. Kersey's already laughing.
But the portraits that were unveiled, one by Kehinde Wiley of the former president and one by Amy Sherald of the former first lady.
The National Gallery points out that for the first time in history, both portraits were painted by a black person.
Now, somehow that doesn't surprise me.
I suppose if we have a Hispanic president, then we'll have yet another first.
If we have an Asian president, we'll have yet another first.
This just goes to show the way that the country is going, to each according to his race.
In any case, it was quite interesting the reasoning that President Obama, former President Obama, had for choosing Kehinde Wiley.
He says that, and I'm quoting the president, Because this artist confronts notions of power and privilege.
He takes extraordinary care and precision and vision in recognizing the beauty and the grace and the dignity of people who are so often invisible in our lives and put them on a grand stage on a grand scale.
Well, I guess Barack Hussein Obama has been invisible for eight years.
Has to be put on the grand stage, does he?
Also, Mr. Wiley is clearly very, very pleased with his own painting.
When it was unveiled, he said that compared to the other presidential portraits, and this goes all the way back to George Washington, he says, about his own.
It was a bold move.
This painting stands out as a game changer, really.
What a modest fellow.
And he goes on to say, and I think it's in keeping with a type of bold leadership and authentic voice that this president gave to this nation.
They're just, they just are so bound up with blackness here.
Picture George Washington's presidential portrait.
It's that great image of him standing, he has his arm out as if he's pointing to something at a table.
And then you put this portrait of Barack Obama where he's sitting down and there's this I don't know, this wall, this floral, this green floor arrangement behind him and as some people have noted, it looks like he has six fingers in his left hand.
A number of people have actually done some analysis of the painting and it turns out that this guy outsources everything to China where he has a number of employees working.
There's some people out there even questioning, how much of the actual work on this portrait did you even do, dude?
But we have to get back to that point, Mr. Taylor, of what he said about the painter taking extraordinary precision and care Who goes after those individuals who, what was the word he used?
Who don't have... Invisible people.
Invisible people or go after positions of privilege to paint this.
Because as was quickly noted by a number of people, this gentleman has a very strange portfolio.
A very shockingly provocative portfolio.
If you want to describe some of the paintings that exist where he takes famous It's more than Photoshop.
You know, the background is different.
And then he basically just, he might Photoshop him, whatever he does, but he inserts a black individual
where the white person had been prior.
It's more than Photoshop.
You know, the background is different.
The pose of the horse, if it's an equestrian, the painting is a little bit different.
No, no.
I think he does have a certain technical mastery.
Let's not low-rate this guy unnecessarily.
But as far as the photoshopping is concerned, with the presidential portrait, people did notice that in the floral background, there are some portions that are absolutely identical carbon copies.
So that may very well have been sections that were photoshopped.
And as you say, that background stuff could very well have been done by Chinese.
I mean, after all, wasn't it a Chinese sculptor who had cut his teeth on statues of Mao Tse-tung, heroic statues of Mao Tse-tung, who did the MLK memorial?
Very good point.
Yes, the Chinese were really moving in big in this hagiographic portraiture.
But yes, it is interesting to see that he'll have a painting like Napoleon leading the army over the Alps.
This stirring equestrian painting with Napoleon, the horses rearing up on his hind legs.
He'll put a black man on there instead.
And also the equestrian portrait of King Philip II.
There's Michael Jackson on him instead.
I guess another invisible black man that he's saved from obscurity by putting him into a European painting.
The thing about this, though, that really does strike me is he... It's almost as if he's trying to appropriate Western art, make it black.
Putting black people who have had nothing to do with this tradition of Western painting and put them right in the center of something that's not theirs at all.
I mean, if there ever was cultural appropriation, surely this is it.
You know, putting a black man on Napoleon Bonaparte's steed?
But anyway, this is something that they can get away with, of course, without any problem at all.
And of course the two paintings that people are most apt to point to the somewhat shocking nature of Obama's decision to pick this gentleman, especially when he uses the word that he, when he phrases this saying, this is a guy who challenges privilege.
Why?
The image of two black women with with bloody knives holding the heads of white women that
are supposed to be stand-ins for for references from the old testament i don't even want to
try and pronounce the names judith and holofranes judason and holofranes yes sir and then the
other one um it's a biblical scene uh done by some renaissance artists so again massive cultural
appropriation I think it was the black writer James Baldwin who, when he went to Europe, he felt like an alien.
He wrote about this.
I'm pretty sure it was James Baldwin.
Might have been another mid-20th century black author who pointed out how alien everything was because this civilization had nothing to do with his people.
Absolutely nothing to do with his people.
And I think that point you just made about this cultural appropriation, I mean, you know, you could foresee a time when these examples of European beauty, these true works of art, are destroyed because they represent a civilization that had to be supplanted, that had to be usurped.
And then this guy, Mr. Wiley's works that, again, you have to question the authenticity of a lot of them based on the stories we're seeing where he brags about the number of people he employs in China, where these take the place in museums across what is left of the Western world.
You know, I have a question for you.
You probably followed this more closely than I did, but I know for sure that the Time Magazine article that was just jumping with joy over these portraits said nothing whatsoever about the black ladies beheading white women.
Do you know whether the Washington Post, New York Times, did they actually cover this?
Or was this only the dissident media that actually got into this?
Yeah, I think it's a fair point to say it only was the dissident media.
I think one of the first people that jumped out on this story was Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit.
And you then saw all of the dissident websites utilize this story because it's such a clickbait.
Again, we've seen so many examples of the real Barack Obama.
I think the best picture that I saw was on Twitter during the unveiling, because again, Barack and Michelle, they didn't see these pictures, these paintings.
You mean before they were unveiled?
Yeah, before they were unveiled.
So Wiley is pulling down the black sheet over the painting, and then instead of the actual painting we saw, it was the image of Barack Obama and Louis Farrakhan that the media had for 13 years it covered up and it was just a beautiful representation I think of the Barack Obama we're learning about post his presidency this racial conciliatory crap that so many people bought so many people so many people imbibed and continue to regurgitate time and time again I mean
They try and say, again, that Trump is a repudiation of this wonderful post-racial conciliatory message that Barack Obama has.
But again, this guy picked an artist who it was known that these paintings were in his portfolio.
And they were celebrated.
Well, you know, you have to wonder.
I would be curious if Barack Obama will ever be asked, did you know that he'd painted these pictures of black men, of black women, beheading white women?
And maybe he would claim not to know, or maybe, or how would he answer?
Would he say, well, gee, I didn't know, and that's too bad, or would he say, yeah, I knew about that?
I mean, as I say, this man deals with power and privilege, and that's an example of power and privilege.
It would be fascinating to know, but this is a question that no one will ever have a chance to ask him.
Like so many questions, I would love to have a chance to ask him.
What would be the number one question you'd ask former President Barack Obama?
What would be the first question you'd ask Barry Sireto?
I would have to think about that and prepare that, really.
I really would.
I suppose I would ask him, but you know, you're not going to get an honest answer.
I would want to know, just, what is your view of white people?
But I don't think I'd get an honest answer.
What is your view of the future of America?
How do you see things working out?
Do you think that the United States will be this happy, multiracial, this, that, and the other?
Do you really think that we're going to be all happy together?
I think, but you know, it would probably be better to have more time and prepare something more specific about the acts of his administration.
But you caught me on the spot.
I had to ask!
But that's one question I'd ask him.
Maybe the fifth question would be, how much did you know about this Kehinde Wiley?
Of course, Kehinde Wiley is an open homosexual.
Some people have speculated that Barack Obama also is a little bit on the down low.
But, who knows?
This is a family program.
We probably shouldn't delve into murky waters of that kind.
And then this Amy Sherald, the portraitist who's less well-known, who did the Michelle Obama painting.
Apparently, when that was unveiled, she looked rather shocked because the painting, some people say, doesn't look very much like her.
That's being judicious.
No, I encourage our readers to... I encourage our listeners.
I encourage our listeners.
To seek out, to watch the video on YouTube of the Michelle Obama portrait unveiling because it is audible.
The crowd, it's as if, for lack of a better term, as if someone had farted in church.
There are better terms.
There are better terms, I know, but it is highly noticeable and there's a palpable sense of wow.
Is this the best we could do?
But again, it's celebrating the blackness.
It doesn't matter the end result.
What matters is that blackness propelled that what was the means to an end.
And she apparently specializes in taking black people and sort of putting them in the center of the universe.
So this is all very consistent.
As do most Democrats and Republicans in 2018.
Well, not quite so blatantly, Mr. Kersey.
I thought it was interesting that a spokesman for the National Gallery would not discuss the artist's fees or how the price for these compared with previous commissions.
So this may yet have been another form of redistribution that nobody wants to talk about.
But I gather they do raise a certain amount of private money for this, too.
It's not just the government dime.
I was about to ask.
Not to sound like a libertarian, because I would love to see a wonderful portrait of our President Trump painted and commissioned at the public dime, but I'm just curious how much of these paintings, just because of how aesthetically unpleasing they are, how much of that is actually taxpayer funded?
Yeah, I'm not sure about that.
I think there is some private money and there is some public money, in any case.
But, you know, I do think that this Kehinde Wiley does have a certain, as I said before, a certain technical mastering.
He does things that have, you know, they would do well on a t-shirt.
But in the National Gallery, his official portrait of the President of the United States, well, that's a different matter.
But to me, this is a significant event in that it shows that our alleged first post-racial president is not the least bit post-racial.
He is as racial as it's possible for a president to be.
And just like this movie that you love to talk about, Mr. Kersey, Black Panther, which is about as black and racial as it's possible for a movie to be.
And I'm beginning to suspect that you are right in your prediction.
This is going to be some kind of very substantial cultural phenomenon that will be broadcast as some sort of coming of age of black consciousness.
And to me, I hope that you're right insofar as it is an expression of a racial consciousness that separates itself from the rest of America.
Black movies for black people.
Black portraits for black people.
Black presidents for black people.
How about that?
My fear, though, is that this movie is going to seep into public education, and it's going to be used in classes that deconstruct whiteness, all this cottage industry that's come up, structural inequalities, implicit bias, and it is going to be used to show, and I'm not exaggerating when I say this, I mean this quite literally, it will be used as a teaching instrument to show the type of Civilization that blacks would have created had they not been colonized.
I'm not making this up.
This is the world we live in now.
If you read any of the quotes from the actors who are African, they've quite literally said this.
To you and me and to most of the listeners of this podcast, you find it just as I did.
It's laughable.
It's shocking that this is what they believe.
But then again, you have to understand we're dealing with a people here who already have toxic levels of self-esteem.
And they have been marinated from cradle to grave in this notion that every problem that they face, every metric that measures a society's positivity, from social capital, high trust society.
Every failing that blacks have is due to white racism.
That's right.
And this movie is a rejection of it because Wakanda was never colonized by Europeans.
In fact, something I'm working on for you that you'll have tonight and going up tomorrow, it's actually a history of Wakanda.
And it points out that one of the authors, a pretty famous black screenwriter in Hollywood, he wrote some very celebrated graphic novels that kind of retconned the whole back history of Wakanda.
And he states that the reason why the Wakandans never got involved in the slave trade was because they made an agreement with the European powers that you'll stay away from us, you can do what you want to with these West Africans, but we're going to stay isolated.
Is Wakanda landlocked by any chance?
Wakanda is in the middle of Africa.
Okay.
You know, Sailor, Steve Sailor wrote an interesting article where he tried to say, oh, you know, the real Wakanda is, you know, the search for Prester Dron, this Ethiopian nonsense.
It was an interesting piece of talkie mag.
I completely disagree.
Let's just be blunt.
In the 1960s, Two Jewish comic authors, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, created the Black Panther.
This guy was a marginal character throughout comic lore.
It's only been in the past 12 years, 12 to 15 years, that this comic has become more and more important as they try, as Marvel tried to get more diverse.
Because, again, you don't want to have just a bunch of white people saving the world all the time, as the Avengers films were.
You know, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's article, which is on Drudge right now, Mr. Taylor, I think it quite clearly articulates why I think this is such a watershed moment from a culture perspective because he wrote, quote, It's a little like witnessing the unveiling of an enormous statue in the public square, with the public square being the world of Rosa Parks.
Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Nelson Mandela dressed in bright dashikis."
This is how Abdul-Jabbar considers this debut of Black Panther, which will be As you're listening to this, the movie is in theaters, so it's going to be very important.
This movie is going to make a lot of money in the United States.
That goes without saying.
Everybody's predicting that, although there are some fears as to how well it will do in China, which is a big part of the movie.
It might be in China for a weekend, and then people will realize, wow, the Chinese, who are currently colonizing Africa as we speak, and actually creating a kind of Wakanda-type civilization there as they build the infrastructure.
Yeah, I don't think the Chinese are going to like this movie too much.
Well, you know, I was quite fascinated by what the Hollywood Reporter had to say about the movie.
It says, you may go for the hardcore action and hard-muscled bodies, but if you're white, you will leave with an anti-shithole appreciation for Africa and African-American cultural origins.
If you're black, you'll leave with a straighter walk, a gratitude for your African heritage, and a superhero whom black children can relate to.
This assumes people are going to be believing what they're seeing.
But they are.
How can this be?
How can this be?
They are believing.
If you've looked at any of the articles that blacks are writing about this, the celebration of it, there was a piece... I mean, if this is supposed to be anti-shithole, if you'll pardon our vulgarity, anti-shithole propaganda, it's obviously fantasy.
As you point out in an earlier podcast, all the special effects are done by companies that are owned by white people.
Black people don't do all this whizzing around and imaginary scenery and stuff.
It's a figment of somebody's imagination.
It's a figment.
Again, let's go back and let's be blunt.
This was a figment.
The creation of the Black Panther was two white guys, two Jewish guys, Stan Lee and
Jack Kirby.
And again, in that same Hollywood Reporter piece, which was by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the
famous basketball player, is now a cultural critic.
He wrote, quote, So I think that Wakanda is the ultimate African fantasy.
A place that was able to maintain dominion over their natural resource, able to control it, able to use it to grow scientifically and culturally, and able to defend it from people who want to take it.
Obviously the people who want to take it and they want to exploit it are white people, are the colonizers.
What was that great What's that great line from the Thomas Dixon reconstruction trilogy where he talks about how for eons, for millennia, Africa had all these unbelievable resources and nobody ever thought to pick up the diamond and no one ever thought to cast out the ship to go explore.
You had everything there sitting for you and there was never any mining of any of these resources, the ore.
It's a great quote.
I wish I actually knew it, because a lot of people try to attribute it to other people, but it was actually Thomas Dixon writing in, I believe, you know, I think it was Leopard Spot.
One of those books.
Yes, yes.
Well, then, of course, there's the New York Times.
There's an article wondering about whether white children are allowed to buy claws and masks and dress up like the Black Panther, you know?
And they interview a number of people who are sort of scratching their heads about this, and they say, well, these black people, they say, I suppose it will be permissible if they go up to admire the Black Panther, because we hope that these children will be not looking at race, they'll be looking at heroism, and they'll want to be the Black Panther.
And then there are others who seem to think, no, this is just for us.
But, oh boy, now that's something for all of you out there with small children.
If you take your children to this movie and they say, oh, I want a poster of the Black Panther in my bedroom.
Be prepared.
Be prepared.
Well, and to end the point of the Black Panther, it's fascinating because back in 2011, there was a big controversy surrounding the Thor film, which was, I believe, probably the third or fourth movie in this whole Marvel Cinematic Universe.
And they decided to cast as Heimdall, the whitest of the gods.
Idris Elba, a black guy.
And a lot of people were saying, what are you doing?
This actually, the Nordic myths were the foundation of a distinct culture, a distinct people.
It was not just myth, it was a religion.
And here you are saying, oh, you know, no it's not.
I mean, this is just, you know, I'm just, you know, Who cares?
This is inconsequential.
You're a bunch of racists who even complained about this.
And yet now we're forced to celebrate what is, as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar pointed out in that piece in Hollywood Reporter that he wrote, this is a fantasy.
But yet we're supposed to take it now as myth and what the world would have been had it not been for evil, oppressive white people.
Yeah, that's right.
This is Africa, Africa if it had been left untouched.
Left to develop as the African genius would have led it to develop.
Untrammeled and unexploited by wicked white people.
And people always forget the Arabs, you know.
The Arabs were there long before white people were.
Taking gold, ivory and slaves out of Africa.
But, let's see.
Were you aware that there's been recently a Hungarian production of Porgy and Bess in which they used white actors for all the main characters?
No, I didn't!
Yes, and this has been of course furiously criticized.
But they have re-imaged the thing into some sort of refugee camp.
And it's really not about black people at all, but they use some of the same music, but everybody's absolutely furious about this.
Well, Shakespeare's always being done this, that, and the other.
Grand Opera has always been done, being done with Tristan and Isolde as black people, for heaven's sake.
Well, they just cast, the Met just cast a black woman to be Joan of Arc.
Of course, of course.
And as we know with what the BBC is doing, they're trying to insert blacks throughout European history, throughout English history, and all these productions of whether it's a queen from the 14th century, black.
Whether it's Achilles and Zeus.
Black, black.
You know, all these characters.
These actual individuals who were part of the pantheon of Western civilization.
That formed the backbone of our culture.
That's right.
We're supposed to imagine them as black.
But perhaps we should then talk about what else is something else that's happening in Britain lately.
And that's the idea that Cheddar Man The guy who was discovered back in 1903, I believe, in Britain, the oldest full-scale skeleton they have in the British Isles, known as Cheddar Man, and thanks to a DNA reconstruction, they have decided that although he had blue eyes and curly black hair, he had dark skin.
And there has been a widely circulated photograph of the bust that they have created about this.
And I know that there are some people who think that science is a little bit dodgy here, that it's hard to really reconstruct in that kind of detail.
I mean, if you could do that, and I think very shortly we will be able to do that, you could take crime scene DNA and get a almost perfect representation of the criminal.
And some places are beginning to do that.
They'll say, you know, this is a person of a particular race, likes to have eyes of a particular color.
But now you're talking about very fresh DNA.
And it's autosomal DNA, not just mitochondrial DNA, which is apparently what this bit was based on.
But what I find interesting about the reaction to Cheddar Man's skin Allegedly.
And you know, according to the photographs, he looks pretty doggone dark.
I wouldn't say that he's a typical African looking guy, but Cheddar Man certainly looks dark.
Now, the reaction to this has been fascinating.
Arathi Prasad, who is apparently Indian, She wrote an article called, Thanks to Cheddar Man, an Indian living in Britain, I should say.
Thanks to Cheddar Man, I feel more comfortable as a brown Briton.
She says, I grew up being told that a prerequisite for our national identity was white skin.
That prejudice has been proven false.
Then some of the headlines that showed up about this were just really, really quite astonishing.
Slate said, Cheddar Man is Black, Another Racial Panic for White Supremacists.
And CNN said, How Cheddar Man Flips British Identity.
And then the Daily Mirror, Dark Skinned Cheddar Man is Hard Cheese for the Racist Morons of the Far Right.
Oh, good grief.
If I could throw one more in there, the Toronto star race and gender columnist, Sri Pradkar, she could barely contain herself when she wrote the headline, How Cheddar Man Shatters Accepted Views of Immigration.
This is just incredible!
Apparently, you can find it... Now, let's assume that Cheddar Man was as dark as they're saying.
All this means is that evolution moves much more rapidly than we'd realized.
And if you can go from being as dark as Cheddar Man to as light as you and me in 10,000 years... Well, I'm actually a pretty dark guy.
Let's not, you know... Anyways...
You're an honorary white man.
You're as light as I am.
But if that's the case, then imagine the rate at which evolution works.
Imagine what has happened to the brain in the 80,000 years, maybe as much as 100,000 years since Africans and non-Africans split off.
But this is supposed to change our views about immigration just because, after all, Cheddar Man is known to be, through genetic analysis, mitochondrial DNA, he's known to be the ancestor of quite a large number of Britons.
He's not the ancestor of black people today.
Not at all.
Not at all.
And the point you just made is one that forms one of the theses, one of the main chapters of, you know, Greg Cochran and Henry Harpentine's fantastic book, The Ten Thousand Year Explosion.
I believe that it's in chapter 3, as John Derbyshire wrote.
He noted that we knew this.
This type of genetic variation is possible this fast.
This type of explosive evolutionary change.
Because he pointed out that these two fantastic authors, of course, Dr. Harpin is no longer with us, but they point out that their entire chapter 3 is largely about the switch in diet from a hunter-gatherer to an agriculture-based and vitamin D deficiencies.
I won't get into it.
I encourage you to read the article over at VDARE, but it just talks about how these type of evolutionary changes can happen quite rapidly, you know, in the grand scheme of things, you know, Earth's been around for how many?
Billions of years?
10,000 years?
It's the blink of an eye from an evolutionary perspective.
But to have that type of dramatic change, what other type of change is going to also take place from a genetic level, as Henry Wolfe was talking to us before we got started, over, say, 20,000 to 40,000 to 50,000 to 60,000 years in evolution from a genetic, cognitive standpoint.
And, you know, the idea that there could have been an ancestor of current Britons that had black skin, all of a sudden that means that everyone with a black skin has got a right to live in Britain?
This is just nonsense.
The Andaman Islanders are dark-skinned and curly-haired.
Do they have a right to go live in Africa?
Nobody would ever propose such a thing.
Or, you know, the Australian aborigines have dark skin.
Does that mean they can live in Africa?
Or the Africans can go move into Australia?
All of this stuff is always just a one-way street.
The idea that somehow every dark-skinned person now, ho-ho, ho-ho, we can go live in Britain or we can go live in all of Europe, presumably.
Because if 10,000 years ago the Brits were dark-skinned, well, presumably 10,000 years ago the Norwegians and the French and the Swiss, they were all dark-skinned too.
Oh, it's just incredible.
Now, to me, the reaction to this is quite a startling contrast to the reaction to other studies.
And this has to do, of course, with the ancient Egyptians.
You know, a couple of years ago, there was an interesting study in which it was determined that half of all European men shared a common ancestor with King Tutankhamen.
There was something called the Eugenia Center in Zurich, Switzerland.
They did a DNA analysis and they determined that King Tutankhamen belonged to the haplogroup R1b1a2, and at least 50% of all Western European men belong to this haplogroup, whereas not even 1% of modern-day Egyptians belong to R1b1a2.
Now, there were people who suspected that at that point, several years ago, there could have been possible contamination.
And so some people sort of turned their nose up at this study.
But, recently, a much more carefully done one has essentially confirmed these findings.
And the findings were that the ancient Egyptians had much more in common genetically with Europeans and Turks, for example, than black Africans.
And with the people who are living in Egypt today.
Yes, quite astonishing.
This study, this is one came out just during this week, that Egyptian mummies, they studied from 1400 BC to 400 AD.
They had 90 different mummies they looked into.
And they discovered that they were very similar to the ancient peoples of the Levant, that is to say, people like Philistines, Canaanites, Assyrians, and also to Neolithic Europeans.
And this shouldn't have been any surprise, you know, because some of these Egyptian mummies have lights, have light hair, you know, they got aquiline noses, and the idea that somehow these black pharaohs, they were, this is all part of the Proto-Wakanda business, you know, this we was Kang's business that they just can't shut up about.
But apparently, this is quite interesting, today's Egyptians do have a certain sub-Saharan black admixture.
This appears to have shown up about 700 years ago.
What is that fantastic story that you sometimes use as an anecdote when Napoleon and his armies went to Egypt and they come upon the Great Pyramids in Giza and they see the Sphinx and they see a Bedouin tribe, tribesmen who are just sitting there camped out, they've got an encampment and I think maybe one of his officers inquired What are these?
Who built these?
And they had no idea.
They didn't know.
You can see that type of same thing happening in the United States.
I mean, gosh, back in the 1990s, this Chilean photographer put out a number of fantastic coffee table sized books about the decline of some of our great cities.
I don't remember the name of the photographer but they're beautiful books.
One is called American Ghetto.
They're beautiful, beautiful books because he did this over a 20-year time period and you could see the unbelievable degradation and decline of these buildings.
One of them was about the magisterial Skyscrapers that were built in 1920 1930s Detroit that in the 1990s were all but abandoned they were falling apart these buildings had such beautiful gothic structure and The building style they rivaled anything in New York and they still they're still there but it was just he was just worried because they were these beautiful buildings that jettisoned high up into the air and and
And he was actually inquired in some of the writing.
He's like, well, people know in a hundred years why these were even built.
And it reminded me of that whole anecdote from Napoleon's travels.
Yes, yes, that's true.
That's true.
The people he found living amongst the ruins of Egyptian civilization had no idea what it was, no idea who built them, no idea how old they were.
Completely cut off.
They were not the same people.
Clearly not the same people.
One thing that I have heard is that the ancient Egyptians were probably genetically closer to the present-day Copts.
The Copts are a people who have lived in Egypt for a long, long time.
the Arabs came through when the Arabs were conquering North Africa,
and the Copts are those who survived, and they did not convert to Islam.
So, and they are fairly light-skinned.
There's probably been a considerable amount of Arab admixture too, but they are the people
who are most similar genetically living today to the ancient Egyptians.
But my only point about this is, in complete contrast to all of this whooping
about how Cheddar Man changes the rights of immigration, the immigration story to Britain,
nobody is saying anything about how, well, this discredits us baloney
about the ancient Egyptian pharaohs all being big Afro-blacks.
Well from a genetic standpoint I guess you could also make a joke although Unlike Wakanda, which was never conquered, the Romans did come and they did colonize and they did conquer Britannia.
Of course, they built Hadrian's Wall, etc, etc.
You could say that, well, you know, Cheddar Man evolved into white people who built this unbelievable society that became this unbelievable empire that, you know, the sun never set on the British Empire and, you know, it all evolved from Cheddar Man.
So, in reality, the real Wakanda is, or was, the United Kingdom.
Yes, explain that to T'Challa and his friends.
But anyway, of course, elsewhere, the big news now is a big article put out by the Associated Press on housing loans to black people and brown people and how they're just not getting their access to housing loans.
And this is a terrible thing, a terrible scourge, racism of all kinds.
And apparently there's been a study that's been put out by something called Reveal, which is part of the Center for Investigative Reporting and entirely through and through left the organization.
It would not surprise me if it's sort of thing that receives George Soros money.
But they apparently are discovering that in, let's see, in as many as 61 metro areas, there are, it's, there's a chance that Asian, even Asians in some cases, but blacks and Hispanics, especially being turned down to loan for loans more often than whites, and this is a scandal.
Now, what I don't quite understand is, does that mean in every other metro area in the United States, they're being accepted at equal rates?
And this has given rise to studies all locally.
They'll get the data and they'll say, and here's one in the state of North Carolina, for example.
They're going through all these various cities and saying, uh-oh, uh-oh, blacks got turned down more often for this time, Asians more often for this, in North Carolina, for example.
And I thought this was interesting.
The minorities had an overall denial rate of 11.5%.
Whites had an overall denial rate of 6.3%.
And there's supposed to be a scandal.
Now, what this means is 9 out of 10 minority applicants are getting their loans, for heaven's sake.
And we're supposed to be all upset about this?
And the bankers are saying, look, we have the same standard of creditworthiness for all applicants.
For all applicants.
They say, you have to look at the debt-to-income ratio, you have to look at income, you have to look at their past credit history, how often they pay off their credit cards, have they been delinquent on any kind of loan.
Now this study claims that it controlled for income, For some aspects of past credit history, etc.
And you get this difference.
Stories like this are just spread all around the country and they continue to feed this false consciousness of white American society grinding down non-whites.
And it's about time people got over this stuff.
And to me, there's only one statistic that you need to know when it comes to whether or not blacks or anybody else are being held to unfairly high credit standards.
And that is default rates.
Do black homeowners, are they less likely than white homeowners to default?
If that would be the case, they're being held to the unfairly high standards.
Not the case.
Every time this has actually been looked into, blacks are more likely to welch on their housing loans than whites.
Which is proof, really, that they are being held to lower credit standards.
The other thing people just don't seem to understand is bankers make money only if they make loans.
There is a built-in incentive to make loans.
That, of course, was part of the problem with the 2007-2008 housing crisis.
Bankers were too eager to make loans.
They had the spigot on and they didn't want to turn it off because their bonuses would have been impacted and the stock price was rising.
So at that point, shareholders were happy because they were seeing nice returns, maybe a nice dividend check.
The idea that somehow bankers are going to see a black person walk in and they run the same sort of credit checks, all this stuff for the blacks and whites and Asians and Martians, And somehow, that just because they're black, eh, we're not gonna make the loan, we're not gonna make a profit on this guy, go down the street and talk to somebody else.
This is just nuts.
This is just nuts.
But this is yet another example of how white people love to feel good about themselves by thinking about how bad other white people are.
So you have people writing this report and saying, look at these wicked bankers!
And oh, they feel so virtuous.
Well, it's funny you talk about the North Carolina study because if you actually look at the numbers, not just from a per capita standpoint, but the sheer number of minorities versus whites who were denied, three times as many whites were denied for a loan as minorities were.
150,000 white people in North Carolina between those years of 2015 and 2016 applied for a loan.
They didn't get it.
Right.
52,000 minorities did.
That's a lot of white people who are supposed to have this white privilege.
Who are unable to have the type of history that a banker would then say, hey, you're not a risk.
We're going to give you a loan.
Right.
No, this stuff, it just makes me tired.
And when I read the AP story, I did not fail to see something very surprising at the end of the story.
And I quote, it said, this article was provided to the Associated Press by the non-profit news outlet revealed from the Center for Investigative Reporting.
This is a press release that the AP is publishing.
I don't believe.
I'm flabbergasted that they would do such a thing.
And I suppose I would love to know what the discussion was that led to adding this little line at the bottom.
Somebody must have at least had the integrity to say, well, wait a minute, wait a minute.
We can't pretend that this is our article.
But yes, we have published a press release.
Now, I used to work for the Associated Press many years ago.
You probably don't know about that.
I did not know.
Yes.
This would have been in 1976 or 1978.
I worked in the Paris Bureau of the Associated Press.
And the idea of publishing a press release without checking both sides, this was absolute anathema.
That was just rule number one.
A press release is a point of departure.
That's when you start calling up all the other people who would have something to say about the subject and for them to publish this essentially verbatim straight out of the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Investigative reporting.
Boy, oh boy.
It's slanted reporting, if you ask me.
Well, and at that point, you're right.
An ombudsman, a gatekeeper, did make sure to put that in the article.
However, all of these other affiliated newspapers with the Associated Press that are probably seeing budget cuts, seeing personnel employee cuts, Let's just regurgitate the facts.
We've got a headline, Banks Deny Blacks Home Ownership.
That's a very, very emotionally charged headline that's going to cause people to click on the article.
It's going to cause people to potentially pick up a newspaper and That's right.
More resentment.
But most importantly, like I said, it's a clickbait type story that's going to infuriate
people and create that sense of continued perpetual rage that blacks always must have.
That's right.
More resentment, more expectations for handouts.
And I urge any of our listeners, if you come across any study of default rates, these are
very, very rare.
Nobody gets into them because they show something that runs completely counter to this.
But I would bet you any amount of money that if anybody looks into the very loans that were discussed here, Down the road, we will find the default rates for the blacks are higher than for whites.
Of course, this also plays to the whole mindset of the whole Wakanda stuff.
Again, this white power structure is denying black bodies, brown bodies, home ownership, the ability to accumulate capital, which is why you have such, you know, Disparities in household wealth, in any of these studies, any study that shows that equality should exist, it has to be because of white supremacy and white racism.
And this press release that was published as an article, it leads off with all of these hand-wringing stories about
how the average net worth for black household is only $9,000, it's $150,000 for whites,
and this is why, despite the fact that nine out of ten minorities are
approved for a home loan.
Nine out of ten.
And the rest, of course, are just being denied out of pure, irrational, white supremacist bigotry against non-whites.
Amazing.
But these stories just keep on coming.
Now, there's another story.
This was in the Washington Post.
Dana Milbank.
And he was talking about how Donald Trump's efforts to at least get something in return for legalizing all of these so-called dreamers would be to make sure that this chain migration and diversity visa lottery is canceled.
And it's fascinating to me the way the left, and well this guy's supposed to be not such a lefty apparently, but in any case, the mainstream is always accusing anyone who takes any sensible course of action as white supremacy.
He calls this nothing other than an attempt by Republicans to slow the inexorable march towards that point at mid-century when the United States becomes a majority-minority nation.
He says this won't stop the loss of a white majority.
The youthful Hispanic population already here, with its higher fertility rate, makes this inevitable.
But he says, don't worry, it's just a finger in the dike anyway.
But in the short term, the Trump-backed immigration proposal, combined with other recent moves by the administration and its allies, support for voter suppression.
I mean, good grief.
The idea that you should show an ID in order to vote.
The left just calls this voter suppression without any kind of qualification.
They don't say, which could conceivably be an attempt to suppress voters.
They just seem to think that it is automatically an unfair, utterly bigoted attempt to keep black people or potential Democrats from voting.
Whereas, I don't know if you saw, there was a great video done by one of these semi-conservative outfits.
A guy walked through the streets of Harlem asking black people, well, do you think it's really hard for black people to get an ID?
No, of course!
Anybody can get an ID.
You think having ID when you vote is a good thing?
Of course!
We don't want noncitizens.
We don't want just anybody walking in and voting.
But somehow this is suppression of the rights of black people.
It just astonishes me how quickly All of these nefarious racist motives are attributed to whites.
And I really don't think that Donald Trump or any of the people passing these laws think in those terms at all.
No, they don't.
Not at all.
All they care about is this perception of law and order and maintaining the Anglo-American traditions.
We're not going to be able to talk about that.
Of course, the reaction to Senator, I'm sorry, the reaction to Jeff Sessions, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, comment about the Anglo-American roots of our traditions.
I mean, again, they really... I know you don't believe this.
I can tell you Gregory Hood does.
I can tell you that I believe it quite clearly, quite with almost every fiber of my being.
They really hate us.
They really don't.
They really have no belief that this is going to end, you know, it's going to end nicely for anyone.
When you look at a reaction to something that It's so obvious.
I mean, Russell Kirk wrote about this in one of his great books on the American British tradition where Almost all of our law is based on the Anglo-American tradition.
I'm sorry for those who try and say, oh, you know, all those white guys get these ideas from the Iroquois nation or some crap.
I'm sure all of our listeners here know about that myth.
But no, I mean, our traditions, our heritage, it is derived from the same continent or the same island where Cheddar Man is, of course, the The genetic progenitor of modern-day Brits.
What does that mean?
To say it's racist to refer to the Anglo-American legal tradition?
No.
We do live in astonishing times.
The left is so overplaying its hand that I'm sure more and more white people are waking up all the time.
Speaking of which, one white person who appears to have woken up to some degree is FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Just on Tuesday of this week, he went before a congressional committee and he's talking about China's desire to become a global superpower through unconventional means, he says.
And one of the ways that they're doing it is, well, he says, first of all, all the U.S.
intelligence agencies agree that China is trying to undermine U.S.' 's military, economic, cultural, and informational power across the globe.
And I think one of the ways that he has pointed out, that I've been aware of for a long time, when the Chinese want to spy on us, whether it's politically or economically, most of them are interested in economic espionage.
They don't train professional spies.
That's the way the Soviets used to do it.
You know, you had this whole spy cadre and they'd go out and they'd work for government or they'd do this and that and the other.
What they do, they just take ordinary Chinese, they approach Chinese who are here in the United States, some of them are naturalized U.S.
citizens, and they say, look, come on, it's for the fatherland.
It's for our people.
Come on, tell us what you know.
You have a security clearance.
Come on, you know, you're Chinese, man.
And it works.
It works a lot of the time.
Racial loyalty will always trump the idea of a proposition nation because a proposition nation is, hey, guess what?
Blood is thicker than water.
That's right.
It's an old adage that it still makes a lot of sense for those nations that still exist and want to perpetuate themselves.
And the Chinese feel that way.
And Christopher Wray talks about these people as collectors.
And they have a huge number of collectors.
Apparently, there are more than a million international students in American universities.
And the number one sending country is, of course, China.
There are 329,000 Chinese in our universities.
And it's apparently some of them will voluntarily go to the Chinese and say, look at this great stuff I found.
They don't even have to go out and solicit this stuff.
And of course, I am astonished that Christopher Wray was not immediately accused of racial profiling.
But he says we have to be aware of this.
This is a problem.
And at the same time, to expect the Chinese to behave otherwise is just nuts, really.
They are Chinese.
Their loyalty is to their race, their people, their culture, and we're surprised at that?
We dismantled our civilization in the 20th century so that the Chinese century of the 21st century could be born because we no longer have any sense of national cohesion.
Because equality and egalitarianism are our highest moral good, then what does it matter?
If not just on a national level, but on an international level, we do share.
A lot of liberals probably look at this like, who cares?
From a national security perspective, we no longer live in the world where A lot of Americans look at the Tom Clancy type books.
You remember the Jack Ryan series?
They made a movie with Alec Baldwin, then with Harrison Ford, there's now a TV show on Netflix.
That world doesn't really exist anymore.
Patriotic Americans joining the government, I mean, that's pretty cliche.
I wish there were a lot of them, Mr. Taylor.
I know you're probably thinking, I'm sure there are.
I'm sure there are, Mr. Kersey.
No, I don't really think there are.
I think we are a nation where, from a sociopathic standpoint, that is how you rise.
That is in many of the fields throughout our society.
But I think even liberals, they don't like the idea.
of a naturalized Chinese citizen getting a clearance and then calling our secrets off to China.
I think a lot of liberals, they may have this happy notion that we're all going to live wonderfully together, but that, I'm guessing, that sticks in their craw.
And perhaps that's why, so far as I know, Christopher Wray did not get this tremendous condemnation.
I mean, he is a stereotype.
He says the Chinese have got all these people throughout our society and they are spies.
Yes.
And I think there is some sort of begrudging recognition that, well, maybe that's the case, and if that's the case, that's no good.
But still, for us to be surprised at that, to open up the gates to this sort of thing, that is really testimony to our idiocy.
But there's plenty of testimony to that, I fear.
And I guess we're going to close with a proposed regulation for Delaware public schools.
This is something that has not yet come to pass, but it looks pretty likely.
And apparently the wording of this proposal is, all students enrolled in a Delaware public school may self-identify gender or race, which is maintained in the school.
So, that means if I decide that I'm a boy or a girl or, you know, some of them are boys one day and girls another day and all these other combinations that I can't keep track of, then the school has got to say yes.
Apparently, I could walk in and I could say I'm a Central Congo pygmy.
And they'd have to accept that, too.
That's my race.
Race is fluid.
Yes, yes.
It's all a social construct, after all.
But what I found interesting about this is, if you are perceived as an unsupportive parent, apparently, if you're white and your child decides to identify as a Congo pygmy, And you don't go along with that.
The school can decide that you are a Congo pygmy if you are unreasonably withholding your consent to the child's choice.
You really need to stop objectifying Congo pygmies.
I feel so bad for all of our listeners who already have self-identified.
As Congo pygmies.
I'm sorry.
If they want to self-identify as a current-day Mongolian descendant of Genghis Khan, how's that?
They built a beautiful monument to Genghis Khan that exists.
It's one of the more breathtaking memorials I've seen.
Huge!
Out on the steppes of Asia.
It's just glorious.
I can't think of a more fitting I mean, here we are, you know, American Renaissance, but I'm talking about probably the most fitting memorial to a historical figure than that monument of him on his steed of horse.
Of course, of course.
If the Mongolians thought that we do, they'd be hanging their head in shame for all the bloodshed, all the rapine that he spread throughout these innocent territories.
You know that's what it would be.
But no, they are healthy people.
They are normal people.
They take pride in the exploits of their ancestors.
Unlike us.
We watch as our statues are torn down and we say, well, if they do it in this town, we're going to stop it.
And then that town has the monument taken down and, well, you know, we're going to stop it the next time.
And they fall one after another.
We'll stop it the next time.
Got that?
I'll see you next time.
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He is so special I haven't even heard of him.
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