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April 17, 2019 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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‘I Don’t Give a Damn About Notre Dame’
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to today's edition of Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me, of course, is Paul Kersey.
I'm glad to be back at the microphone this time, so that Mr. Kersey does not have to take on the burden Unassisted, I understand he did a wonderful job and I thank him and congratulate him.
But we're back in tandem again today.
And as usual, it's been a very busy week.
I keep fantasizing that there will be a slow week for our beat here.
When things of just no great importance at all happen in the world that reflect the demographic future of the United States or Europe, and that race relations just move along in an entirely happy and kumbaya way.
But, you know, no such week ever seems to go by.
And I believe one of the interesting things that happened today, in at least tangentially racially oriented way, was this terrible fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral.
And Mr. Kersey, I believe that you had some observations on this awful event.
I had some observations, but I'd like to ask you, because you spent so much time over in Paris.
What was your initial reaction?
In fact, I'll pull the curtain back a little bit here and say that I actually called you and told you to look at the news because you weren't even aware of what was going on.
What was your initial thoughts when you watched this cathedral, which you've been in a number of times?
Yes, I first set foot in that cathedral when I was nine years old on a visit to Europe with my parents and I was captivated by it.
I thought it was a most, it was just a mysterious place, a wonderful place.
And I remember climbing up to the top of the tower, looking at that famous gargoyle and looking out over the roofs of Paris and marveling that this building was so old, even at that age, I found it a breathtaking monument to civilization.
And when I saw it burning, I felt as though I had lost a family member.
Watching the spire fall was... traumatic.
And I've not had the opportunity to see the cathedral.
I hope that it will be rebuilt.
Obviously, we won't get into some of the stories about what the Rolling Stone has said they want us to have happen.
Mr. Taylor, where they actually want to take into consideration the new France that exists,
and not the old Catholic white version of, or I think the words were, this mythical past that
never really existed. It was a shocking piece, but there's been a lot of other pieces that have come
out. There's a new publication I'd like to give some credit to Paul Joseph Watson.
He has left Alex Joneses in force.
He started something Mr. Taylor called Summit News and they're doing shockingly good work.
He's gone away from the conspiratorial Alex Jones to more of the hard-hitting headlines that Our readers, that our listeners like, and he's doing a fantastic job, he was able to find some tweets that the vice president of the French Student Union at the University of Lille, Hafsa Asghar, she tweeted this out in reaction to the Notre Dame fire, saying, quote, I swear to Allah, we don't give a rat's ass.
How much are people going to cry for some bits of wood?
I don't give a damn about Notre Dame, about Our Lady, because I don't give a damn about the history of France.
I don't know what.
Go and mention me.
Now, I want to give a little backstory about this wonderful cathedral.
Mr. Taylor Forbes reported that Even after the French Revolution and the aftermath, the Notre Dame was damaged and they had to use, they had to rebuild some of the roof, some of these massive wood beams.
But even 60 years after the French Revolution, that's how long it took to rebuild the cathedral.
There were Frenchmen who had the foresight to plant new oak trees near Versailles, outside the city of Paris, and now these near 200-year-old trees could be reused.
And they will be reused, hopefully, to rebuild the roof.
And I just thought that story of future time orientation and the Frenchmen who realized that they would have posterity, that You know, that far into the future to look out to realize they would want to be sheltered under this cathedral as well.
Yes, they were certainly thinking ahead.
And I haven't read the Rolling Stone article that you have referred to, but it did occur to me that there are probably some people out there thinking, why should we care about something that was built by dead white people hundreds of years ago after all?
We can probably be absolutely certain by contemporary standards that not only were they white, they were racist, they were sexist, they were probably homophobic, and I suspect they were religious fanatics.
In other words, by today's standards, they are the worst sort of people in human history.
So why should we care what they did all of those centuries ago?
I don't know if anyone has put it quite in those terms before, but let's face it, this was a monument built by people who, according to today's university standards, were the scourge of human history.
Now I'm glad to see that the billionaires in France are coming forward without any hesitation to rebuild this monument to white supremacy, sexism, homophobia, racism and religious fanaticism.
Well, it's interesting you said that because mere two years ago, they were trying to raise
money to restore the church, and they could only raise $6.8 million.
So it took the dramatic example of watching the spire fall, the roof cave in, the fear
that these Christian artifacts were lost for the billionaires, the millionaires, the corporations
to be galvanized into action.
And I do want to throw a quote at you from that Rolling Stone article, Mr. Taylor, because if you have not heard this yet, this might reinforce what you just said about some people being happy.
Patricio del Rio is an architecture historian at Harvard University.
Here's what he said about what happened on Monday.
Quote, this building was so overburdened with meaning that it's burning.
Feels like an act of liberation, end quote.
I think that quite succinctly puts what you just articulated regarding how some people might feel about this monument to, as you put it, religious fanaticism and white supremacy.
Yes.
After all, it was the expression of a people who were confident.
A people who believed they were right.
A people who believed that they stood for the truth and for their own civilization.
They had a kind of pride and confidence that is now completely lacking in the West.
And I suspect that it is this kind of expression of peoplehood, of solidarity, of thinking of the future, building something that's going to last a thousand years, this is now offensive to many people who criticize the West today.
So I'm not surprised by this fellow.
May I be so bold to read one more passage from that Rolling Stone article?
Please.
What it means to be French, however, has obviously changed a great deal over the past few centuries.
While France is still predominantly Christian, the number of practicing Catholics has Following year after year from 64% in 2010 to 56% in 2012, according to one census figure, the number of Muslims in France is also growing, comprising more than 5% of the population, up from 3% in 2006, giving rise to rampant Islamophobia and the birth of far-right extremist parties like the National Front headed by extremist Marine Le Pen.
Well, this suggests to me that there's been some talk of having a new spire designed.
That they're not going to reproduce the old spire that burned down.
Now, my guess is that the general consensus in France will be that we want to have one exactly like the old one.
Yes, I hope so.
I hope so, too.
However, there's been some idea that we could design something for the 21st century.
And I suggest this.
That they can put a crescent at the top of the church.
That would reflect today's modern French society, don't you think?
A few Muslim symbols at the top of Notre Dame.
Are you saying a minaret?
Not necessarily a minaret, but just something to indicate that this is a new era and a new France and a new population.
But we'll see.
No, I suspect that the consensus will be we want it the way it was.
I hope that's the case.
Well, the consensus is that this was...
Not an act of arson, that this was just a mistake because of the restoration.
However, Gatestone Institute, just one day prior to the burning, put out an amazing story that every day in France, two churches are desecrated.
They report 1,063 attacks on Christian churches or symbols like crucifixes, icons, and statues in France in 2018, which marked a 17% increase from 2017, from the year before.
The German media reports the growing anti-Christian sentiment is believed to be a result of increased Muslim migration.
Merkel throws open the borders.
Who knows how many millions of predominantly Muslims came in.
But in 2016, after the arrival of close to a million Muslims in Germany, a local newspaper reported, quote, not a day goes by Unquote.
That attacks on religious statues did not happen in the town of... We didn't get a chance to go over the pronunciation.
Doulmen?
Doulmen.
Now, it's surprising to me that the town of Doulmen has some kind of religious attack every day.
This must be some place where they've parked a huge number of these Muslims.
In 2016, CBN News reported on three radicalized women who were plotting to bomb the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Police found a car loaded with at least six gas canisters near the church.
One of the women was found guilty of encouraging other potential jihadists to perform attacks in Syria and France as well.
In fact, one of those women was sentenced the Friday before The fire that happened on, what was it, April 15th?
Yeah, it was tax day, April 15th.
Yes.
Well, there's no doubt that there have been some Muslims who rejoiced at this conflagration of a symbol of Christianity.
And there have been some people speculating that this must have been an Arshan attack, as I say, and as you say.
The French authorities have so far said nothing about that.
And I think it's entirely possible that this was some kind of mistake.
But we shall see.
And as you point out, the attacks on Christian churches because of this influx of Muslims into Europe is increasing, and it's precisely what we would expect.
Who threw a curveball at you?
It's impossible.
It's impossible to throw a curveball?
Okay, well it's gonna be a breaking ball then.
Guillaume Fay just passed away.
Yes, he did.
What do you think he would have thought at the burning of this church?
Regardless of, you know, obviously, like we've said, we're stressing, there is no evidence thus far that's been presented that it was arson.
It was just, right now, it was just this horrific tragedy that the world is responding to, but... Well, he would have been devastated by this destruction of this ancient monument to his civilization in the middle of his city.
He'd lived in Paris most of his life, and he was vividly aware that this was the location where Dominic Venner, whom he knew, committed suicide in the name of the France that is slipping between our fingers, slipping through our fingers every day.
This is, I think, one of the important events that took place in that cathedral.
Dominic Venner was a conservative.
He was a man who was a great believer in the traditions of France, and he took his life in protest against the changes that he saw his nation going through.
And that's one of the things that crossed through my mind as well when I saw this burning, is that here in this location, as the last act of a man who was still in charge of his destiny, Dominic Venner took his life in the name of the things that he believed in.
And I believe that Guillaume Fay would have thought in those very same terms.
But let's move along to another story.
This was one of considerable importance in the United States.
This happened a little bit more than a week ago, but I don't believe we've discussed this on our podcast.
And those were the House hearings on white nationalism that were held.
in Congress based on ADL reports.
ADL reports that were claiming that right-wing white supremacists and other murderers were just skyrocketing in the United States.
But the reports themselves were based on the most clearly and obviously deceptive kind of number counting.
Any killing by anyone affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, even a family member, Any kind of low-life crime by some low-life KKK member, they considered right-wing, white supremacist.
This is nuts.
Blacks who killed policemen.
Remember after the Black Lives Matter, there were eight policemen, five on one occasion, three on another occasion.
In Dallas, five in Dallas.
Yes.
Yes, they consider this right-wing extremist.
This is nuts.
Moorish sovereign citizens.
These are blacks.
The ADL counts these as right-wing murders.
The 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
The ADL blamed these.
This is all right-wing killing.
It's astonishing.
Then there was that poor frustrated incel, the involuntary celibate, who killed two white women in a yoga studio.
Florida State, if memory serves.
He was in Florida because he was incapable of attracting women.
Again, the ADL claimed that this is right-wing terror.
So on the basis of this astonishing nonsense, this compilation of completely bogus statistics, of which only a tiny handful could legitimately be laid at the feet of any kind of white nationalist white supremacist violence, The House Judiciary Committee held these hearings.
And, of course, the Democrats were all whooping about the terrible danger that this poses to the United States, and to democracy, and to goodness, truth, and beauty.
And most of the Republicans took this opportunity to likewise condemn white nationalism, white supremacy.
They're trying to evade any kind of association with these ideas themselves.
And only one congressman, Tom McClintock, Republican of California, took a strong voice for freedom of speech.
More power to him.
Yes, more power to him.
And more power to her, Candace Owens, the black person who is the spokesman for Turning Point USA.
She was the only person to dispute these phony ADL statistics and to claim that this was a way to gin up artificial fear among non-whites and to try to recapture this framing of American society as riddled with white supremacy And to try to undo, in effect, the election of Donald Trump.
She saw it exactly for what it was.
A preview of the 2020 campaign in which Democrats are going to say, watch out, the world is ending.
These white supremacists are everywhere.
So, I salute Tom McClintock.
I salute Candace Owens.
It's a strange and, in some respects, a sad day when it is a black woman Who is the one who's making the most sense about this utter misuse of outrageous and incendiary statistics to make any person who is advocating in the interests of whites sound like a malicious monster.
She was the person the GOP selected, correct?
It was the GOP members who invited her to speak.
Now, I find it quite fascinating that back in the days of McCarthyism, which the left considers to be the low watermark, perhaps, in ideological America, when they had hearings on communism, the Red Scare, They actually had a few communists who were brought before the committee to explain what communism is all about.
Now, of course, there was no one invited to speak on what so-called white nationalism is about.
And it seemed to me that this would have been, in their minds, a little bit like holding a hearing on, oh, cholera.
And it would be like inviting someone to say, well, no, no, really, cholera is, it's not so bad.
It's kind of fun.
And it's actually good for your health.
In their view, this was like holding a hearing on cholera.
And the only question is how to exterminate it.
For them, something that can be called white nationalism is an irredeemable evil.
Correct.
And to actually have someone explain what it is and why Well, maybe there are reasons to be a white nationalist.
That would be like someone explaining why cholera is really actually kind of fun and is good for your health.
I just deplore that term.
I've said it many times on this podcast.
What we are has not been defined yet.
White Nationalism, it's a non-starter from the get-go.
It conjures up and the person who hears it is like, oh my gosh, I know what that is.
People have already been trained.
Pavlov's dog, they already think, that's burning crosses.
What are you talking about?
No, I think that your assessment of what happened at the hearing is dead on.
I mean, look at... I'm not defending Candace Owens' selection here, but look at what she encounters on college campuses.
You aren't even allowed near a college campus anymore.
You will not get invited.
But when someone like Candace Owens, who, in my opinion, doesn't have that much to say, she goes onto a college campus, white people yell at her, calling her a white supremacist.
This just happened, I think, two nights ago on some campus.
This mob of white people surrounded her.
And, you know, you're looking at this and you're...
Your average white person who sees this is going to be impacted by this.
What is going on here?
You'd like to think that the average white person who sees this is going to wonder, as you say, what can this possibly mean?
When white people surround a black person and accuse her of white supremacy.
Precisely!
Yes!
Simply for saying that, well, wait a minute.
Maybe this idea that the country is seething with violent white supremacists may be a bit exaggerated.
That makes her a white supremacist.
Exactly!
Who are the people that are surrounding her trying to keep her from speaking?
Yes, yes.
And as I say, there was one congressman who stood up and made a principal defense of the First Amendment.
Now, to me, what was especially disturbing about this was the number of people who outright called, not only for censorship, but ultimately for laws to silence people like you And me.
And the general thinking of this was explained by Neil Potts of Facebook.
And he explained that last month we extended that policy, this banning policy, to include a ban on all praise, support, and representation of white nationalism and white separatism.
We see these ideologies as being inextricably linked to supremacy with intents of violence.
What he's saying is, they're not even going to tolerate a representation of white nationalism because it's inextricably linked to violence.
Now here's my question for you.
Yes.
Curveball.
They're calling Candace Owens a white nationalist.
Right.
A white supremacist.
A white supremacist.
How in the world are, in this upcoming election, how are any of these goofy, beltway-funded, conservative sites going to be able to exist when you have this army of people
ready to submit and say wait a second this is that Candace Owens she's a white she's a white
supremacist she's just she's she's just enriched with melanin white supremacist we've got to get
this content off i mean this is why the this is the big failure mr taylor
You're one of the only people who tried to fight back against the technological censorship that's taking place on platforms from Facebook to Amazon to Twitter, where you guys fought so valiantly.
But with Facebook basically coming out and saying this, he would go on, if you permit me, he'd go on to say, quote, if we do find known white nationalists or known white supremacists or people who are affiliated with hate organizations, we actually have a process.
Where we conduct what we call a fan-out.
And the fan-out is to look at that person's connections and ensure we are trying to get to the root of those networks to remove them from the platform.
That's right.
So this is an admission of guilt by association.
If you are a wicked person who has any kind of association with Candace Owens or heaven forfend Jared Taylor, we're going to look for those networks and you get the boot too.
That's called a fan-out.
Now, and then Alexandria Walden of Google says, not only Do they take down the bad stuff?
That means the sort of thing that I might put out.
And I quote her.
In addition to removal, we promote counterspeech.
In other words, not only do they remove the likes of perhaps Candace Owen or Paul Kersey, they make a point of promoting people who are opposed to us.
That is such a bald admission that we have an agenda.
Not only do we stop people we don't like, we are pushing the people we do like.
And then here, Eva Patterson of the Equal Justice Society says, We would like a national commission to be formed to study all forms of white supremacy.
I wonder how many there are.
In any case, we think there should be a joint law enforcement civilian task force to study white nationalism and to outline an organized counterinsurgency strategy.
That's the type of comment that conjures up terrifying images of, dare I say, gulags and re-education camps.
I mean, you were right.
The video you put out, which our listeners, you can find, head over to the MRin YouTube channel.
You can watch that fantastic video.
Or you can read Greg Hood's write-up, which is also available on MRin.com, of this hearing.
Some of these conspiracies that people have had a long time of how far these people are willing to go to silence their opposition.
Because, I know you know this, this neoliberal, this totalitarian ideology that we live under, we really are the primary critics of the egalitarian world order.
We've talked about that before.
And just engaging in A little pattern recognition, just a little, would put you into this... What was the quote?
I'm sorry, the one from... The counterinsurgency strategy?
The counterinsurgency or the one of the fan out... I don't recall the quote, but you said in all of its iterations, oh, to study all forms of white supremacy.
So somebody, say somebody, say someone out in Kansas City notices that in Kansas City Missouri.
Most of the homicides are perpetrated by blacks.
And they put them on their Facebook page.
And someone reports them.
And then they lose access to Facebook.
That's no doubt another form of white supremacy.
Precisely.
Pattern recognition.
Yes.
But then we go on.
This is Kristen Clark of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.
And this quote is worth reading and pondering.
Oh, by the way, I wanted to add that the video that you mentioned, it was called Into the Digital Gulag.
It was a video that we made discussing the kind of censorship that is now prevailing.
And of course, that was that very video about censorship across platforms was put into the deep freeze by YouTube.
Really?
Yes.
They can't stand the idea of people even pointing out The parallels between what they're doing and what the Stasi and the KGB were doing back in the Soviet era.
In any case, Kristen Clark, she goes on to say, and this is worth pondering, we call on all communities to help tear down the structures that facilitate violent white supremacy in our country.
The banks, that facilitate commercial transactions, the tech companies that provide open platforms, the web hosts that prop up these sites are all part of an infrastructure that feeds hate and must be dismantled.
Congress must study and consider new laws.
For combating this online threat and the federal government must abandon policies that fuel hate.
In other words, she's saying we want new laws.
We want new laws that will prevent banks from doing business with us.
That will prevent the web hosts from actually hosting us.
For whoever doles out the URLs for giving us a URL.
This is an absolutely astonishing thing.
This is a suggestion that the United States government step in and pass laws to prevent you and me from getting our message out.
Well, and think about what happened in 2018.
This already happened to Alex Jones.
This already happened to Alex Jones.
It certainly did.
And that was without this hearing.
I mean, he was flirting with some of the ideas that, I guess you could say, would be part of that study all forms of white supremacy.
And think about what Paul Joseph Watson is doing with the aforementioned, his new site, Summit News, which I encourage our listeners to check out.
He's doing Fantastic, fantastic work.
Fantastic work.
Lots of interesting reporting there.
And then, moving on further into the antics of Congress.
Last Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on banking.
There were seven witnesses, and Representative Al Green, who was running the show, Let me quote from one of his opening observations.
And he, of course, is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, we should point out.
Of course, yes.
He's one of our dusky brethren.
Democrat of Texas.
He says, the eye would perceive that the seven of you have something in common.
You appear to be white men.
Now, I may be mistaken, but if one among you happens to be something other than a white male, would you kindly extend a hand into the air?
No one did.
He would honestly kindly let the record reflect that there are no hands in the air and the panel is made up of white men.
Then he went on to say, if you believe that your likely successor will be a woman or a person of color, would you kindly extend a hand into the air?
No hands were raised.
Then he went on to say, for fear that you may not hear me, just raise your hand now so that I'll know you're there.
Raise your hand, please, all of you.
Here he's treating them like kindergarten children.
He says, sir, apparently you don't hear me over and then, would you kindly extend your hand in the air if you can hear me?
Then he goes on to say, I know it's difficult to go on the record sometimes, but the record has been made.
All white men.
And none of you, not one, appears to believe that your success will be a female or a person of color.
Then, if you're bank likely to have a female or person of color within the next decade, kindly extend a hand into the air.
Two, three, four, five?
All right, five.
Then he goes on to say, without giving the commentary I would dearly like to give, I'll move on.
Then do you believe your bank benefited from slavery in some way, in terms of its business transactions?
And he goes on and on like this, on and on like this.
Now, this, and all of these people are high-powered bank executives.
The chairman of the board of Chase City Corp.
These are guys making tens of millions of dollars a year.
Dressed down by this guy, all of them being treated, as I say, like kindergarten students, and couldn't even one of them say, This congressman is race-baiting.
I will not submit to this kind of treatment.
No, every one of them sheepishly raising their hands when told to do so.
If anyone behaved in this way towards a group of non-whites, it would have been considered just unspeakable to hear these white people, as you say, being paid tens of millions of dollars.
Being dressed down, race-baiting victims, and not one of them willing to speak.
Well, they're the heads of publicly traded corporations that have massive market caps.
And you think about when they went back to meet with their board of directors.
Had any of them done that, I believe, if they had said what you just said, They would have probably been removed for causing acrimony in the face of this just embarrassing hearing.
But this is such contemptuous treatment, and they sit there and take this like just whipped puppies.
You don't like the term, but it's just another example of black-run America.
Blacks might not run America, but America is running the benefit of blacks because, as Tom Wolf noted, In his fantastic book, Bonfire of the Vanities, which I would argue is probably that great American novel, it's all about steam control.
It's all about steam control.
And if you don't know what that means, dear listener, look it up.
That's one of the best parts of the 1989 Brian De Palma film where Reverend Bacon talks about The black leaders are just steam controlled.
Well, this was a black-run hearing, alright.
Even if it's not black-run America yet.
Now, let us move on to yet another humiliation of white people.
This at the hands of a certain Sophia Leung of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Please, let us know.
This is one of those stories that you wanted to verify because you thought, this can't be.
This cannot be.
Real.
This has to be from The Onion.
This has to be someone spoofing.
What is that?
Tidiana McGrath, the Twitter account that just has that woke book that came out.
But no, Sophia Leon is a real person.
Leon.
Leon.
Chinese.
Leon.
Yes.
The Library Journal, they have 202,000 followers on their Twitter account, and it is verified with a blue checkmark.
And they tweeted out yesterday this story by a second-generation Chinese-American and a native New Yorker currently living in the Boston area who is, as we said, she is a librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
And her story is all about the gross whiteness of libraries.
Libraries and librarians have a long history of keeping people of color out.
Our library collections, because they are written mostly by straight white men, are a physical manifestation of white men ideas Taking up all the space in our library stacks.
They continue to do so.
Library collections continue to promote and proliferate whiteness with their very existence and the fact that they are physically taking up space in our libraries.
They are paid They are paid for using money that was usually ill-gotten and at the cost of black and brown lives by the prison industrial complex, the spoils of war, etc.
Let me stop you right there.
Libraries are being paid for by ill-gotten gain at the cost of black and brown lives by the prison industrial complex and the spoils of war.
Libraries go back to the Middle Ages.
This is just incredible.
Here you have libraries in France, in Germany, even in Eastern Europe.
And she's saying these libraries that have excluded people of color, they are financed by exploiting black... Anyway, I just can't get over this.
Well, think about all the libraries that Andrew Carnegie commissioned.
And I think there's one in Camden that is in absolute ruins.
There's holes in the ceiling because it's been so...
Neglected, but I digress.
Let's get back to Sophia.
She would go on to write, quote, Libraries filled with mostly white collections indicates that we don't care about what people of color think.
We don't care to hear from people of color themselves.
We don't consider people of color to be scholars.
We don't think people of color are as valuable, knowledgeable, or as important as white people.
You know, it's getting increasingly hard to not find The anti-white mindset in virtually every aspect of American life.
A librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She writes on her personal blog.
This was not something the Library Journal.
The Library Journal tweeted it out, ladies and gentlemen, to their 200,002 followers.
An article that is just marinated in this vicious anti-white ideology.
Where she's regurgitating talking points from A myriad of contemporary flamethrowers like Michelle Alexander and Tinezy Coates.
But Mr. Kersey, she's right.
She's right.
I bet in the MIT libraries there's practically nothing from Africa or from South America about particle physics, about astronomy, about organic chemistry.
There might be some Neil deGrasse Tyson.
I think that's his name.
I bet the MIT libraries are just full of scientific articles and scientific books by white people.
She's right.
And I bet you if you went to a Chinese library, you'd find an awful lot of books by Chinese people.
Are they deliberately excluding white people?
If you go to the National Library of Japan, I suspect there are an awful lot of books by Japanese people.
But no, she has got to take it out on white people, and especially I like the idea that it's at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
No, all these books that are written by white people.
Now, she says libraries and librarians have a long history of keeping people of color out.
Now you may recall in the city of Atlanta, that's a city with which you're quite familiar, there was a lawsuit not long ago.
Brought by white people who had been systematically excluded from the public library system.
That's right.
Yes.
And they actually got substantial damages because somebody was running the library system.
We're just going to keep white people out of here.
This is going to be us for us for us black people.
But, you know, people of color are being systematically kept out, says Sophia Leung.
Now, Sophia is not a Chinese name.
Sophia is a Western name.
And you know, of course, what Sophia means.
I do, but please.
Wisdom.
Wisdom.
And so she is now imparting to us the wisdom of Sophia Leung on the subject of white libraries.
And this just warms the cockles of my heart.
Now, as you say, I was skeptical of this story.
I thought, look, we can't be just blabbing about this kind of thing and not check into it because this just sounds so impossible that it cannot be real.
But you convinced me it's real.
Blue Check Mark Library Journal did circulate this to all 200,000 of its followers.
Well, it's fascinating.
She could get her doctorate just based off this one excerpt we read.
Quite easily, actually.
Maybe not from MIT, but I'm sure there are other Ivy League schools that would love to bestow that doctorate on her.
I think, if you don't mind, I'd like to talk about this racist mural.
Please!
This is a mural at the Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park.
It was a mural that was painted in 1937 as part of the Works Progress Administration.
And it is a mural, I believe it's called, Child and Sports, Winter.
And it displays a group of little children playing in the snow, building snowmen, sledding and ice skating.
But now this is considered to be offensive because the only people portrayed in this 1937 painting are white people.
And it's of course painted in the usual WPA style of that time.
The Works Progress Administration was giving unemployed artists opportunities to do commissions.
But this is now thought to be upsetting to students of color because it excludes them.
And the fact is, it's 45% non-white, 55% white, but the 45% non-whites are doing badly.
And so we are scratching our heads and thinking of ways to make things better for them.
And this has been one of the things that's been proposed.
You're saying they need to build up their self-esteem.
Exactly.
They need to build up their... whatever it is that's holding them back, because it certainly cannot be racial differences in intelligence.
No, no, no.
And the fact they're not doing very well, we're just looking for every possible reason.
So, the principal of this Percy Julian Middle School, his name is Todd Fitzgerald.
I don't doubt that he's a white man.
He says, we will be working To come up with a mural or a canvas that better represents Julian Middle School.
Now, there's some ironies here.
Julian Middle School.
It's named for a person named Percy Julian.
It got its new name.
It wasn't always called that.
It got a new name in the 1980s.
Until that time, it was called Hawthorne School.
It was built in 1901.
It got a new name because it was thought that as the population changed, it should reflect the new student body.
And this person, for whom it's named Percy Julian, is a black man.
So we already have the name of the school is for a black man.
And on the front of the school, there is a mosaic that depicts this Mr. Julian.
He was a chemist.
He had a PhD.
He was the second black who was inducted in the National Academy of Sciences.
He had a number of patents.
He died in 1975.
He was quite light-skinned, so light-skinned that some of his contemporaries weren't even sure he was black.
But he is considered a black man.
There's a high school named after him in Chicago.
There's a postage stamp that was issued in his name.
In other words, this school is named for a black man.
And not only is there this mosaic memorial celebrating him on the front of the school, inside the school there's a large painting that shows a black child and a white child growing up and at one point they're shown holding hands.
But, the fact that since the 1930s there has been one single painting in which it's nothing but white people, and there were only white people going to that school at the time, this is considered an offense, and it's got to go.
Well, just as Sofia said that...
Our library collections are a physical manifestation of white men ideas taking up all the space in our library stacks.
This mural was also a physical manifestation of past whiteness that has no place in not only the present, but absolutely no place in the diverse future that they have in store.
And this is while whites are still a majority at this school.
Now, this is, as I said, this is called Child and Sports Winter.
There is another school at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School on the west side that has got a mural called Child and Sports Summer.
Whites are the only people depicted in this mural too.
It'll be G-O-O-N-E-E very soon.
Yes, it is likely to go very soon.
And I don't doubt that when we come up with a new canvas, a new mural to celebrate this school population as it is, and will continue to be, and will continue to be more and more non-white, I don't doubt that it will be something that is strikingly, strikingly diverse.
Well, one of the striking things we've seen about the upcoming 2020 Democrat primaries is how many Democrat candidates for POTUS have already come out in favor of reparations.
We had Beto O'Rourke, who was taking a task in South Carolina at a little community event where a black man said, why should I vote for you if you're not for reparations?
Within a couple days he had changed his mind and realized, hey, you know what?
I am for reparations.
Well, at one of the elite institutions in the United States, Georgetown, By an almost 2 to 1 margin, students decided to approve a measure to mandate a fee to benefit descendants of slaves sold by the university nearly 200 years ago.
Now this still has to be approved by the university before it goes into full effect,
but it's gonna increase tuition by $27.20 per semester.
$54.40 per year for each individual Georgetown student
to create a fund benefiting descendants of the 272 slaves sold off to pay off
the Georgetown Jesuits' debt Look, I guess it was back in 1838?
Yes.
And see, that's how they got this figure of $27.20.
That's to memorialize the 272 slaves.
As legacy students.
Of course, back in 2016 there was a meeting with the descendants of the children, women, and men enslaved on Maryland plantations and sold by the Maryland Jesuits in 1838, where they issued a formal apology for, quote, our participation in the evil of slavery, end quote, made in 2017.
Now, I guess the sale was $17,000 at the time, which is the equivalent when you adjust for inflation, of just under $400,000 in 2018, which paid for the Georgetown College debts.
Of course, an internal working group at Georgetown is recommending that the university offer, quote, the same consideration they give members of the Georgetown community in the admissions process.
When it comes to the descendants of these slaves?
That's right.
They're to be considered, for example, the children of faculty members get a special inside track.
Children of alumni get a special inside track.
So yes, that's what they've decided to do.
If you happen to be a descendant of one of these slaves, and they've gone to a lot of trouble to track them down, I should think that these descendants should be thanking their lucky stars.
They happen to be descended from this particular group of slaves.
Well, going back to the Erasing of History, we saw the mural there at Oak Park at the Percy Julian Middle School.
The university decided to rename two buildings that bore the names of the two Jesuits at Georgetown who were involved in that 1838 sale.
That would be the reverends Thomas Mulledy and William McSherry in November of 2015.
Mulledy Hall was renamed Freedom Hall and McSherry Hall was renamed Remembrance Hall as temporary measures before new names were considered.
That's right.
They had to get rid of the old names before they even came up with the new names.
These are just placeholders.
And of course, when they came up with the new names, well, they had, of course, to be black people.
Oh, they had to have a lot of symbolism.
Yes.
And one of the names was rededicated Isaac, who was the first slave listed in the 1838 sale document, and Anne Marie Becraft.
She was a free woman of color, Mr. Taylor, who established a school in Georgetown.
Only for black girls.
Yes, you know, this is so typical.
Whenever we take down a monument to a confederate, we can't put up a monument to just some other admirable person.
It has got to be a black person.
Or a person of color.
A person of color, yes.
Hopefully, especially a woman of color.
That's always better.
You get a twofer here.
You cannot make up for the past without simply coming up with something that is neutral or that celebrates the entire country in some way.
No, no.
You have got to not only take down the white man, but replace the white man with a black person or a person of color.
Well, hopefully as our listeners know, there is no act of Capitulation that we can do that will ever appease these individuals who are seeking to erase every aspect of our history.
No, and apparently to satisfy Sophia Leung, we're going to have to remove all of these library collections and fill them with what?
All of these neglected masterpieces by the people of the South Sea Islands?
By the people of Tierra del Fuego or the Greenland Eskimos?
It'll be a lot of Maya Angelou.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
You know, one copy for every student.
But moving on, let's move on to South Africa.
South Africa.
My favorite headline of the week was a Reuters story and it said, the headline read as follows, South Africa township squalid and neglected despite 25 years of black rule.
Well, at the Ameren page, we made merry over this use of the word despite.
I mean, we couldn't help pointing out that maybe despite was a misspelling.
Instead of spelling it D-E-S-P-I-T-E, they probably should have spelled it B-E-C-A-U-S-E.
In any case, it was a typographical error.
It didn't last long, though.
No, interestingly enough, a few days later, a new headlight appeared.
And it said, the new headline was, squalid conditions fuel frustrations in South African township ahead of election.
And it added a note.
It said, this version of the April 11th story has been refiled to edit the headline.
They even confessed!
That they changed the headline.
We were a little too voracious.
We apologize.
How dare we?
We have to be impartial.
Objective.
There must have been... I would love to have been present when the editorial board decided to recast this headline.
This was immortalized with screenshots.
And it was shared and memed into...
Probably forcing Reuters' hand to realize, oh my gosh, how do we let this slip?
This racial reality of what's happened slip.
But of course, this is dogma.
Anything that's gone wrong in South Africa today, ever since 1994, 1995, the switch to black rule, is a legacy of apartheid.
Correct.
And why didn't they stick with this?
The place is a mess despite 25 years of life?
Why didn't they stick with that?
I mean, this is really a confession, that to say it's a mess despite 25 years of... You would think in the AP style book, in any story, there'd be a section that says South Africa, and it just says, blame all problems on the legacy of apartheid.
Oh, it doesn't... Stop!
You're not even allowed to even... Don't say anything else!
It doesn't even need to be in the style book.
You know, it's all in their minds anyway.
But you know, this article is about how this Alexandria neighborhood of Johannesburg, it's, you know, the photographs that accompany this story really were quite horrifying.
Oh, they were.
Just the worst sort of rubbish strewn tip that you can imagine.
It's a story about every level of government is blaming every other for the fact that this is just such a pestilential place.
And it did note that there were a certain number of projects that had been set up to bring this place up to at least South African third world standards.
And all the money has been swaddled up to no effect.
Probably been spent on beef steaks for the boys.
But all this despite 25 years of black rule.
Well, in 25 more years, after 50 years of Black Rule, they'll still have the same headline, and it'll be, despite 50 years of Black Rule, the power grid has completely failed, and there is no potable water.
I fear so.
Now, we have a few stories left here.
Is there one in particular?
Now, you, the boy at the Mall of America, would you like to talk about that?
I think we've got to talk about this story, because this is one that Has captivated the nation.
I think that the Hoffman family, Landon Hoffman, he is a five-year-old boy.
He and his mother, they went to the Mall of America.
And this black guy, Emmanuel Deshaun Aranda, who has now admitted that he went to the mall looking to kill someone.
Because he had been spurned by women so this guy admits that he and again He's a he's a 24 year old black 24 year old black male who has an extensive criminal history He's been banned from the Mall of America.
Mr. Taylor and dear listener on two separate occasions.
Yes He was he was found.
I think actually at a library beating up computers, beating up computers, destroying computers.
I'm talking as if computers are actual people.
Destroying computers.
And this story broke on Saturday.
I was following it because I was just so mortified because I've been to the Mall of America.
And to think that a mother and her child are walking, they're going shopping, and they're on the third floor
near a balcony, 40 feet up, and all of a sudden, you're holding your son's hand, a little blond-haired,
blue-eyed white boy's hand.
And this black guy walks up and just grabs him and throws him
over the balcony.
And it was horrifying as you read about how she started screaming.
The police and those who were interviewed by local press talked about how it was the most horrific scene they've ever encountered.
Blood was everywhere.
I believe they've raised just over $800,000 on GoFundMe.
Oh, is it over $800,000?
It's a fantastic amount.
And it is a story that, interestingly enough though, No major media outlet, not even conservative, not even conservatives interested in clickbait have even pointed out.
It was a five-year-old, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, white boy who was targeted and thrown over a balcony by a black career criminal.
This is a guy who's 24 years old and has an extensive rap sheet.
I'm not talking about R&B, I'm talking about.
This is a dude that should have been in jail, who had been banned from the Mall of America twice!
This is an infuriating story.
We're having white nationalist hearings of this threat, and then we have this episode where no one wants to point out the racial element.
No one's interested.
No one's interested.
And in fact, didn't you say that it was very, very difficult to track down the race of the child and the race of the perpetrator?
Initially, at the GoFundMe, there was a picture of Landon.
They initially had that.
They took it down pretty quickly because someone, I'm not going to say who it was, but they were able to discover the individual's last name.
Now, the family had asked for privacy.
They've not spoken yet.
The individual who discovered they did write this out and so that did break pretty quickly but again no one is pointing out in all the stories that I've read there are only a couple Steve Saylor and myself who have noted or asked was this a hate crime and have pointed out the racial element That goes unmentioned.
A five-year-old white boy targeted and thrown over a balcony.
I mean, it's... This is the reason why Amazon is forcing so many stores to close nationwide.
White people are no longer going to malls.
They aren't.
I mean, I think this year more stores have closed in the first quarter of 2019 than in all of 2018.
We're seeing a retail apocalypse, because those with purchasing power don't want to be around the, I'll say it, the rising tide of color.
Well, I think it's important.
I don't believe you specified this, but it's implied in what you said.
The little boy did survive, with tremendous internal injuries, and that is why they have raised this kind of money.
There's been a spontaneous outpouring of Horrified generosity for this poor little boy who was tossed off a balcony.
And this has nothing to do, as far as I can tell, with the racial element.
It's only potentially violent, inextricably violent, white supremacists like you and me, so-called, by the ADL and the rest of these race baiters who are even interested in the racial patterns here.
You know, it's funny.
Tim Wise actually has gone on record and admitted, in the fantastic book by Wilford Riley, Hate Crime Hoax, he looked into 409 so-called hate crimes that the media reported, Mr. Taylor, found out virtually all of them were hoaxes.
And he admitted, in a review that's actually up at the Ameren website of the book, Hate Crime Hoax, he admitted that both you and Tim Wise, a man whose career, his vocation and avocation, is being an anti-racist advocate.
He admitted that close to 85% of all interracial violent crime every year is black on white.
Correction.
85% of the interracial violent crime involving blacks and whites.
Correct.
I should have pointed that out.
That's right.
Is blacks attacking whites.
And that means, on a per capita basis, that a black person, on average, is about 27 times more likely to attack a white than vice versa.
But, pigs will have wings before there is a House Judiciary Committee hearing on a phenomenon of that kind.
Unfortunately, you're correct.
I believe our time is approaching its appointed end.
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