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Sept. 25, 2019 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Anglo-Saxons Go the Way of the Betsy Ross Flag
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to episode 150.
Yes, you heard me right.
150 of Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance and with me, of course, is the inimitable and irreplaceable Paul Kersey.
Always glad to have you with me.
Hey, I'm excited to be here for a great episode.
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Our first story has to do with Europe and the Court of Justice of the European Union, which has just ruled on an important lawsuit on the right to be forgotten.
The right to be forgotten is apparently an important right in Europe.
It's not one that has much traction here in the United States.
But it dates back to 2014, when the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that people have the right to get rid of data about them that is on the Internet.
According to its ruling, data controllers, as Internet companies are called, Are required to remove data that is, quote, inadequate, irrelevant, or no longer relevant.
Now, it doesn't necessarily have to be untrue.
In fact, it can be entirely and completely true.
But if you decide that you just don't want this floating around, it's the sort of other side of the right to privacy, I suppose.
But what had happened is that the French data protection agency called CNIL had sued Google because Google was eliminating URLs within the European Union, but The French said, look, you've got to eliminate them all around the world.
And as a matter of fact, Google, since the 2014 ruling, had received more than 3.3 million requests in Europe to delete links.
And in fact, in 45% of the cases, they'd agreed.
Each one of these requests, by the way, has to be processed individually.
That's a lot of requests to have to process individually.
Yes, that's a lot of work.
But the French had said, look, you can snoop around in the rest of the Internet And the fact is, in Google, in France, you go google.fr and you won't find this stuff.
But if you go to google.com, you'll find the stuff.
It exists.
It exists.
And so, the French said, that's not good enough.
You've got to wipe the entire internet clean.
Well, Google said, no, we don't want to do that.
And in fact, Google won.
The French, the court decided that yes, Google does not have to completely make the entire worldwide net spick and span, but Google must put measures in place to discourage users from going outside the EU for information.
In other words, they've got to put some kind of obstacle to the idea of just switching to Google.com from Google.fr or Google.de for the German Google.
So, they've got to make it more diff side of European Google, but Google does not have to wipe the internet completely and entirely clean.
Now, I really don't know what to make of this idea of the right to be forgotten.
I believe in free speech, but I believe in privacy too, but I just wanted to pass this on to our American listeners because it is an interesting controversy that is important for the Europeans, and who knows, something like this may be coming our way as well, the right to be forgotten.
Well, we're not going to get into it, but I think there are some interesting winds being that are blowing out from the Trump administration in regards to taking on big tech and actually going through with some lawsuits, maybe doing some Conversations about breaking up some of these companies.
That could be.
That could be.
But this would be something that if applied to one, presumably it would apply to another.
Now, I do not know the details as to whether or not if you go to DuckDuckGo or you go to Yahoo or somebody else.
It was Google specifically that has been sued on this.
Well, think about how much of the market share that they actually have.
Of course they do.
But if all you need to do is go to DuckDuckGo and there's all the information, who knows?
But, in any case, I just find this a very interesting concept, and people are litigating this, and my suspicion is that something like this will come to America eventually.
What it means to us, we dissidents, I'm not sure, but these are the kinds of things that are blown in the wind.
But, for a little local color, I think we'd like to move to Michigan.
And a Michigan election official by the name of Sharika L. Hawkins, age 38, was charged with six felony criminal counts, four, fiddling with elections.
Basically, it was unauthorized and inaccurate changes made to absentee ballots.
Now the interesting thing about Sharika L. Hawkins Is that she's the first black elected city clerk of Southland, Michigan.
And on the webpage of the city of Southland that's still up and brags about her, it points out that she was the first black elected city clerk for Southfield.
And I thought this was quite fascinating.
It says, Sherika takes pride in using unconventional methods to engage the community in voting.
Well, looks like Cherica takes pride in using unconventional methods to fiddle with.
It actually admits this in her profile.
No, well, no.
The first part.
No, no, no.
She says they take pride in using unconventional methods to engage the community.
In other words, she goes out and engages the community.
How far from Detroit is this?
It's a suburb of Detroit.
Okay.
Yes, yes.
And also, also, I found this quite fascinating.
It says she has administered 16 elections.
Wow.
Now I wonder if we need to go back and investigate some of these in elections.
Well, but she's been charged, as I say, with six felony criminal counts.
And Sharika, her name is spelled S-H-E-R-I-K-I-A.
I'm sorry, Sharikia, excuse me, I've been mispronouncing her name.
S-H-E-R-I-K-I-A, Sharikia.
She, I don't think, is gonna be administering any more elections,
and I suppose her unconventional methods of engaging with the community
have probably come to an end.
I'm sorry to hear that, that her vocation is coming to an end.
You know, I beg your pardon, she apparently is a real up-and-comer because she's been the recipient of numerous awards.
Including the 2017 Michigan Chronicle, that's a local paper, 40 Under 40 Award.
The 40 most important people under age 40.
She was one of them.
And the 2017 Oakland County Executive Elite 40 Under 40.
And the Michigan Chronicle gave her the Woman of Excellence Award.
Given the kinds of feathers that her cap is full of, I'm sure she'll have no trouble landing on her feet and finding some other wonderful job where she can exercise her, what did she call it, unconventional talent.
I still don't understand anybody's objection to voter ID.
I never will.
It seems so simple, and yet, obviously, as we're going to learn today, and when we get to some other cities, what social justice warriors and criminal justice reform advocates are pushing for, Uh-oh.
in regards to warrants.
It makes sense now, obviously, because it's disadvantageous for certain racial groups
to have to have IDs shown.
Because they might have a warrant for their arrest.
Uh-oh.
Well, it's certainly true that the people who are opposed to voter ID all seem to be Democrats.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that all the people who are committing voter fraud
are Democrats.
But there is a kind of apparent connection.
Now, we also have the latest dispatches from the sneaker wars.
This was the case of a 14-year-old Colorado boy, and I'm not quite sure how to pronounce his name either.
It looks like Trujalone.
T-R-E-A-U-J-A-L-A-U-N-E.
Trujalone Lawrence.
He got into an argument at a car wash that continued to his house, and then Trujillo was shot and killed because he had an apparently extremely desirable pair of sneakers.
That's what Lauren's sister, whose name also is a particularly unconventional one, it looks like Taequajana is her name.
T-Y-Q-U-A-J-A-N-N-A.
Well, Taequajana says that, yes, it was over a pair of sneakers, a pair of Jordans.
The suspect's identity has not been released because of his age, and so I don't have to puzzle through his first name either.
But, you know, this happens quite frequently.
Some apparently extremely hot pair of sneakers hits the market, And some of our dusky brethren start shooting each other for it.
You know, I would think if I were a manufacturer, this is something you could maybe trade on, you know?
You could have an ad slogan like, what I wouldn't do for a pair of Air Jordans.
Or how about a slogan like, sneakers to die for.
You think you can get far with that?
Well, I've got to tell you a couple things.
I know a lot about Nike, and I know an awful lot about the shoe wars.
Sports Illustrated, Jared, did a cover story back in 1990.
It was entitled, in America's cities, kids are killing kids over sneakers.
So we're talking about 29 years ago, this same phenomenon was taking place.
Get this, there was a book written by Donald Katz.
It was called Just Do It, The Nike Spirit in Corporate World.
I want to read real quick from that book.
Oh, I like Just Do It.
That's the Nike main slogan.
But here's what Katz wrote, and he's writing in regards to violent crime that was related to Nike shoes.
He said, quote, When the spat of Nike-related crimes was pointed out to Spike Lee, the filmmaker replied, the market of the shoes was hardly the point.
Lee said, the real question that needs to be asked, he said, is what is it about these kids' lives that is so bleak that they need a pair of shoes or a Georgetown jacket, Georgetown University, to give them self-worth?
Liz Dolan and the others in Nike Public Relations rejected implications that Nike scientifically targeted poor kids for market initiatives that capitalized on specific African-American aspirations or on particular dreams of material ascension We don't target market to a demographic.
What we do is sell psychographic segments.
People who love only basketball.
People who want to walk for exercise instead of run.
We sell to passions and states of mind, not by age, address, or ethnicity.
Well, they seem to be doing a mighty good job.
They're creating great demand out there.
Michael Jordan famously said, Republicans buy sneakers too, Mr. Taylor, but you know what?
Strangely, I don't see white people killing one another over Nike Jordans.
I've never heard of it.
I've never heard of it.
You're right.
That's just one of the strange things about white people.
Another strange thing about white people.
This has to do with the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists.
Or at least, that used to be its name.
ISAS, as it's known to its members, is one of the largest and longest standing scholarly associations in the field of medieval studies.
And what it does, it looks into particularly English medieval studies, focusing on literature, art and culture, produced between about 8500 and 8500 in England.
Again, to repeat, this is the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists.
Well, some of the key texts that are studied, of course, are Beowulf and the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer.
And it holds a highly regarded conference every two years that attracts scholars from around the world.
And if you are invited to present a paper at this conference as a young scholar, it is a huge deal and it can make your career.
Well, A woman by the name of Mary Rambaran-Om.
Rambaran-Om is hyphenated.
She is an active member of the Medievalists of Color organization, and apparently is a medievalist of color herself.
She got herself elected as second vice president.
Now, I saw a photograph of her.
She looks sort of Polynesian or South Asian or something, but in any case, she is a medievalist of color.
Now, she was second vice president of the Society of Anglo-Saxonists for two years.
But just the other day, she resigned.
She resigned in great distress because of the alleged racism, sexism, and ties to white supremacy.
I want to stop you one second.
Medievalist of color is one of the funniest terms I think you've ever stated.
I didn't invent this.
She's an active member.
In any case, she said that the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists was encouraging and emboldening white supremacists.
And this was an attitude typified by, wait for this, its refusal to change its name.
It's name!
Now, and that was the reason why she was stepping down.
Now, because they won't change them because they insist on calling themselves Anglo-Saxons.
Well, she got a statement from her own organization called the Medievalists of Color, as you point out.
And they said, Dr. Rambaran Olm has worked tirelessly for years to dismantle the deeply entrenched and pervasive white supremacy of early English studies from within ISAS.
She performed this labor despite her vulnerability as a woman of color in an organization so dominated by whiteness that it has not yet ceased referring to itself by a name that attracts and empowers white supremacists.
This is the society of Anglo-Saxonists.
Now, uh... I get it.
I get it.
The name apparently attracts and empowers white supremacists.
It's a problematic name, right?
Gosh.
Who would have thought?
Who would have thought?
Well, apparently there were multiple resignations and outraged statements from other medievalist groups condemning ISAS, so it formally voted to alter its name.
Now, apparently they agree that Anglo-Saxon is a code for whiteness.
Now, as former ISAS Executive Director Robin Norris wrote in his statement, we apologize to our colleagues of color who have experienced the name of our society as just one of many microaggressions they have faced in academia.
It's a microaggression.
Well, it sounds like according to this lady who was the second vice president, according to her, it sounds like it was a macroaggression.
Just the name itself was a constant thorn in her side.
And the statement continued, the term Anglo-Saxonist is problematic.
It has sometimes been used outside the field to describe those holding repugnant and racist views and has contributed to a lack of diversity among those working on early medieval England and its intellectual and literary culture.
Do you know one of my favorite authors was the professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University?
Hmm.
Who was that?
No?
Who was that?
Oh, wait a minute.
Tolkien.
Yes.
Yes, Tolkien.
He was a... well, I guess he was a white supremacist too, but Eric Wade, who was a visiting lecturer at the University of Bonn and who studies old English literature, he says that white supremacists have tried to revive their spirit of history as proof of white racial superiority.
If they have, I haven't heard of it.
He says they point to the era's literary achievements as evidence that white society was far ahead of other cultures.
And they also see it as a time of, quote, pure masculinity, some sort of warrior culture where men could be men.
Well, we can't have that, obviously.
No, no, no, no.
And then Eileen Fradenberg Joy.
who is also a scholar in the area says, the field is just incredibly self-satisfied, just incredibly self-satisfied, smug, elitist, white and male.
Get rid of it.
Well, they're not going to get rid of it, but they are going to change its name.
They've agreed they're going to change it.
They haven't decided on what it's going to be, but Anglo-Saxon is now a code word for white supremacy.
Just like the papers that are presented before.
Did you look into any of the titles?
I assume that if you've got a medievalist of color organizations now, they're all trying to deconstruct The whiteness of Beowulf or Canterbury Tales.
Probably, yes.
Yes, racism, sexism, and classism in The Wife of Bath's tale.
Yeah, exactly.
How many black members were there of King Arthur's court?
Come on, we all know that Guinevere was hot for a black Lancelot, correct?
I'm sure he was black, yes.
This stuff, I know, it's incredible.
The fact that there are white people studying medieval England, this is apparently no longer acceptable.
So they've got to change their name, they've got to bow their heads, and they've got to apologize for being white.
Boy, the march through the institutions, this is not the march, this is the route, the massacre through the institutions continues.
This is the Blitzkrieg of the institutions.
You know what's funny?
Can I use that phrase?
Sure.
Well, you know what's interesting?
When AR first got started, I guess a couple years after, there was the big controversy about having Morgan Freeman
cast in the Robin Hood film, because he went back.
And now, of course, the BBC has come out with a Robin Hood that has Blackfriar Tuck,
Noahn Batson-I, the last incarnation of a Robin Hood film.
Little John was a black guy, played by Jamie Foxx.
That movie bombed at the box office.
But if you remember back in the early 90s, that was a pretty big deal.
People talked about it.
Well, that's right.
But at least they didn't cast him as Robin Hood.
You know, that'll be next.
And Maid Marian, you know?
Who should play her?
Oprah Winfrey?
Anyway, there's just more and more of this stuff all the time.
The academics are just twisting themselves into pretzels, trying to escape white supremacy.
And Ibram X. Kendi.
He's going to help them along.
He's going to help along because, as a professor of history and director of the Anti-Racist Research and Policy Center at American University, not a completely no-account place, he has decided that we need to pass a new amendment to the U.S.
Constitution.
It would be an anti-racist amendment.
What it would do, it would state unequivocally, That racial inequity is evidence of racist policy.
In other words, different racial groups are absolutely equal and so any differences in outcome are ipso facto, irrefutable proof of racist policy.
And the amendment would make racist inequity Above a certain threshold.
I mean, you can let in a little wiggle room.
You know, if whites have maybe 10% more net worth than blacks, that might be okay.
But above a certain equity, above a certain threshold?
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Makes that unconstitutional?
And also, it would make racist ideas by public officials likewise unconstitutional.
Racist ideas would be clearly defined.
Now, he doesn't define them yet.
They're fluid.
Well, so far fluid, but they would be part of this amendment.
And furthermore, it would establish and permanently fund, permanently fund, and none of this annual appropriation stuff.
Permanently fund the Department of Anti-Racism.
Now, this is where I came up with a certain question about it.
The Department of Anti-Racism would be known as DOA.
Now, that usually is an abbreviation for something else.
An acronym for Dead On Arrival, correct?
Which makes me wonder, is this guy trolling us?
But, he's actually got a video out in which he looks as serious as the tombs.
I don't think he's trolling us.
Another thing that the DOA would do, it would pre-clear all local, state, and federal public policies to ensure that they won't yield any kind of racial inequality.
Every single policy right down to the municipality or the county or the school board would be vetted by this enormous agency.
Make sure it has no disparate impact.
Aren't they already?
I mean, come on.
I mean, last week we were talking about how the Republican Party and the Democrats are aligned in their view that red flag laws, hey, Let's protect gangs that are responsible for most of the shootings in this country, but let's go after anybody who's quote-unquote labeled a white nationalist.
And that, of course, can be anyone from President Trump to his supporters at this point.
That's right.
By definition, all of his supporters must be white nationalists.
63 million people, right?
Yeah, but Ibram X. Kendi, I suspect that he's a friend of a fellow that you're going to tell us about, Minister Stephen Muhammad.
Tell us about Minister Stephen.
Let me tell you about Minister Stephen Muhammad.
Before we begin, he is a He is a minister within the obviously the Nation of Islam.
He was the district coordinator for the Million Family March in the Southeast region a couple years ago and he's part of The mayor of Atlanta's criminal justice reform team that is going to try and figure out what to do with this massive building that's in downtown Atlanta that is a detention center.
There are no longer really that many people in there, so they want to convert it to something, some sort of public space.
Well, again, as stated, he's part of Mayor Kesha Lance Bottoms' task force on criminal justice reform.
So, Stephen Muhammad is with his wife.
And he's working the community, it's late at night, and guess what happens?
He's not visited by Girl Scouts in downtown Atlanta, trying to get him to buy Girl Scout cookies.
Nor the angel Archie, nor the angel Gabriel, I suspect.
No, no, no.
Here's what he says.
Here's what is reported.
He has a scary encounter with two youths, with two members of the community.
They were wearing masks, so they were not identified.
But, as we will get to, I'll tell you why that doesn't matter.
So he and his wife were victims of a violent crime.
He says, quote, we were in the car and two young men came up and ran up on us with AK-47s, my wife and I. Now, according to police, officers were called to Greenbrier Parkway to respond to this carjacking just after midnight.
The minister and the local political activist said he had just finished dropping off volunteers who were helping with an upcoming festival.
That's a late time to be dropping people off.
But OK, that's fine.
He said that's when he saw the two suspects, who looked like they were teens, Running towards him and his wife.
In masks.
In masks.
He says that we were just caught by surprise.
My wife is kind of traumatized from it.
It was very scary.
Mohammed had $240 in cash.
He gave the keys to his grey Dodge Durango.
That's a pretty nice car, actually.
I didn't realize an ambulance had eyes.
Police said the armed suspects took off. He says this there was an ambulance sitting there in the parking lot and the
ambulance saw the whole thing Didn't realize an ambulance had eyes. Hopefully there were
people in the ambulance, but that was He said he was over there praying that they didn't do
anything because he was sitting in the ambulance watching it
So apparently there was a guy who saw the whole thing sitting in the ambulance praying
I'm not sure what this quote even means.
I don't know either.
Maybe he was a member of the Nation of Islam.
He was in the middle of his prayer so he couldn't do anything about it.
But here's what's fascinating.
As stated, he's part of this task force on criminal justice reform that's looking to repurpose this huge city jail.
In May, she signed legislation aimed at closing the downtown Atlanta City Detention Center because they were citing the declining number of inmates housed there.
And the increased cost to operate this building.
Well, Mohammed said this.
He said that this crime is giving him some deep reservations.
Quote, this kind of crime gives me second thoughts on that.
What should we do with the jail?
He said.
Maybe put criminals in it, huh?
Well, yeah.
I actually did something.
I broke down the Atlanta Uniform Crime Report and found that blacks in Atlanta are ten times more likely than whites to be arrested for homicide.
Now get this, 51 of those homicides lacked a suspect.
So that number could rise dramatically if you actually had suspects, considering that so few are actually cleared.
But get this, in 2018 blacks were 20 times more likely to be a victim of homicide than whites in Atlanta.
Not surprising.
So Minister Muhammad, I think you've got a flock that needs tended to.
You know, I find this odd.
I don't wish to challenge the veracity of a minister, but if they were wearing masks, how come he thought they were teenagers?
How would he know?
Isn't that something that you would judge from somebody's face more than anything else?
Or maybe they're just small size.
Maybe they're small adults.
The other thing is, I assume, despite the face mask, they were probably black.
But I have never heard of two blacks running around with AK-47s.
I've never heard of this.
Black people, when they commit a crime, that's just not the weapon they choose.
They want something more conceivable.
I've just never heard of it.
And I wonder if this guy, in the heat of the moment, can really recognize an AK-47.
Does he really know an AK-47 from a Colt .45?
I don't know.
Maybe he's an arms expert.
But apparently, he could tell that it was an AK-47.
So, I don't know.
Apparently, there were witnesses, there was this ambulance with eyes and ears, there was his wife.
So, I guess this happened, but the story sounds a little fishy to me.
But, if he decides that this is going to rethink his views on criminal justice reform, I guess this is the classic case of someone being mugged by reality.
Well, what's interesting also is that, as you noted in the heat of this interaction with the Atlanta youth, Perhaps not only did he misidentify it, but a lot of the times you see individuals carry pellet guns or guns that are airsoft guns.
You know, just because they're easier.
Who knows what it was?
You're right.
I mean, again, that's a great observation.
And as noted, if you look at crime stats that break down the weapons used, it is Largely stolen handguns.
Yes, and not just one AK-47, two AK-47s on the street at the same time.
That just strikes me as very surprising.
But anyway, I'm glad to hear that Minister Stephen Muhammad may be changing some of his minds about things.
But moving on to local color elsewhere, in this case New York City.
This is a heartwarming story about landlord-tenant relations.
Holly Ondon, I can't tell where Holly is from, a tenant and an illegal immigrant, had a landlord named Diana Lysias.
I don't know the race or the ethnicity of either of these people, but Holly The tenant lived in a Queen's apartment from September 11th to September 2018.
And in October 2017, she stopped paying rent.
So she paid no rent for a full year.
Well, Diana, the landlord, started non-payment action against Ondan.
Holly Ondon, but it didn't make very much progress because I suspect the laws in New York City are very, very, very pro-tenant.
And eventually she lost patience and she started sending text messages such as this, have my money or I'm calling ICE that very day, period.
Well, she never got her money, wasn't paid for a year, lost the mortgage and lost the house.
So, what finally happened here?
Just on September 12th, Judge John B. Spooner said that because she had threatened to call ICE, this was discrimination on the basis of national origin, And the landlord, Diana Lysias, is ordered to pay a $5,000 civil penalty and $12,000 in damages for emotional distress and to complete 50 hours of community service.
This is a lady who wasn't paid for a year and because she couldn't pay, she couldn't make her payments on her mortgage and she lost the property, but Sapna V. Raj, who's the city's commissioner on human rights,
says, we will not allow our city's most vulnerable to be further
marginalized out of fear for their safety in their own homes.
There you have it.
Now isn't this a heartwarming story?
No personal responsibility whatsoever.
Wow!
Now does she even get her rent out of this?
Does the tenant at least have to pay back rent?
I see no sign of that.
All I see is punishment for this lady who sent text messages threatening to call ICE because she was owed a year in back rent.
Anyway, that's the way things are going in America today.
Now, that was a New York City story.
I think you have a New Orleans story for us.
Yeah, I've got a New Orleans story I'd like to read.
First off, I'd like to point out that we've talked about this before on one of the many podcasts we've done.
The ACLU, back in late 27, maybe mid 2018, the ACLU was mad that New Orleans was going to try and put together a 40 million dollar crime camera initiative because they were worried it was going to show the actual people who are committing the bulk of the violent crime in the city and that would be the black residents.
Now Mayor Landrieu, before he left, He did a lot of horrible things in New Orleans.
We know what monuments came down.
But one of the things he did do is he started the City of New Orleans Murders and Non-Fatal Shooting Trend Report.
And it was published from 2012 to mid-2017.
They stopped publishing it in mid-2017.
That's when the transition took place to the new black female mayor they have.
But these reports clearly show that blacks are virtually responsible for Almost every non-fatal shooting and homicide in the city.
They are incredible to look at.
They were modeled.
They're just really an amazing Data point.
The New Orleans Time Picayune, Jared, they never bothered to cite in any story on crime.
Of course not.
This is the standard pattern.
Every big city in the United States, you see the same thing over and over and over and it is ignored by the local media over and over and over.
It is.
It is.
So what's happening now, there was this story about trying to show that 52 arrestees were at the Municipal and Traffic Court of New Orleans.
Almost all of them black, as they were awaiting their first appearance before a judge.
They all require a public defender.
More than half of them are here, their hands chained against their stomachs because they missed a court date for a minor crime, triggering an arrest warrant.
This article would go on to say, I found it in the Stanford Advocate, It quoted a public defender.
I want to read this before we get to the meat of the story because this is important.
A public defender named Lauren Anderson and an attorney supervisor from the municipal court.
She said this, quote, it doesn't make any sense.
We're not making the city safer.
We're only hurting these people and we just keep doing it over and over and over.
It's infuriating.
Now, what is she talking about?
New Orleans, 60% black city.
Get this, ladies and gentlemen, In the New Orleans Municipal Court, dating back to 2002, there are 56,000 outstanding warrants.
A staggering one in seven adults in the country's 50th largest city have a warrant out for their arrest.
The article tries to say that the crime for failing to appear for scheduled court dates for minor non-violent offenses doesn't carry any jail sentence, and that includes panhandling or phishing without a license.
But get this, battery and domestic abuse account for roughly 6% of all those warrants.
Those are pretty Horrible crimes that people are out there walking around in
New Orleans now There are a number of groups within the city that are
pushing for a blanket Amnesty to get rid of all of these warrants all of the
court fees now this this actually happened If you remember a couple years ago, do you remember what
city there was a big push for this? No I don't well there was a DOJ report that was released on
the same day as another Department of Justice report. Oh Oh, would this be Ferguson?
This would be Ferguson.
On the same day that Darren Wilson was completely exonerated.
The hands up, don't shoot, lie was exposed as a myth.
Another report was released that showed that the majority of the revenue that was collected in Ferguson was done by traffic stops.
Ferguson's not the only place that does that, by the way.
Exactly.
Cities all across the country.
So this is yet another example of what you just read regarding the individual in New York, the illegal alien who didn't pay rent.
All of these individuals, because they're black, because the criminal justice system is inherently racist, implicit bias, systemic racism, whatever euphemism you want to use, let's just wipe the slate clean.
Well, it makes the job of the police a whole lot easier when you just get rid of, how many little warrants did you say?
60,000?
Just under 60,000.
56,000 outstanding warrants dating back to 2002.
You have to wonder how many of those people are now in Houston, Atlanta, or some other cities because they were vacated during Hurricane Katrina and just decided never to come back.
Well, they'd probably be safer in New Orleans.
Well, this is charming.
And that reminds me, don't we have cameras all over the place, making sure that people can't commit crimes?
We do have cameras.
In fact, as I mentioned, New Orleans is one of those cities that's trying to create this crime nerve center, so they can have all the cameras connected so police can check it.
But I wanted to point out something, and I saw this on Vox Day's website.
You know, I like Fox.
I think he's doing great work.
What he's doing with some of his comics to take on the leftist comic industry, I think it's fantastic.
I think the more people that go out there and try and create their own institutions, as Jared has done with American Renaissance, as other individuals are doing, you know, if you get to platforms, Guess what?
You're going to have to build your own things, and that's what Vox is doing.
I saw this great story on Vox's site.
Well, it's not a great story, but it's a fascinating story nonetheless.
It's a report from Comparatech.
It's a technology research firm that details how an Orwellian society, you know, similar
to what George Orwell wrote in his non-fiction novel, in his fictional novel, 1984, it shows
that though...
Let me make sure I get the number right.
Though eight of the ten most surveilled cities in the world are in China, A number of cities in the top 50 are actually in the United States, which is fascinating to think at.
Six U.S.
cities made the top 50 list for the most surveilled places in the world.
So this is surveillance cameras per 100,000 population, something like that?
It is.
Well, actually, it's based on the number of cameras per 1,000 people.
Hmm.
Yes.
And one of the cities we've actually talked about is in the top 10 worldwide, and that would be Atlanta.
Just breaking in, there are 7,800 cameras for the 500,000 residents.
And these aren't cameras in convenience stores?
These are police cameras that are all centrally monitored?
These are just cameras, yeah, exactly.
Wow.
As you can imagine, you've got a number of Chinese cities.
London is number six.
London is the first city that's still nominally part of Western civilization.
We've talked about what's going on in London.
It's now a majority.
Majority non-white Britain, correct?
Yeah.
Shanghai and Beijing are in the top 10, but other cities in the United States that are in the top 50, I think it's fascinating.
You've got Chicago, you have Boston, Washington DC, obviously, since it's the citadel of the empire, San Francisco, interestingly enough, is at number 38, and then San Diego is another city.
Big military presence there, so you would expect something like that.
Well, well, does that make you feel safer?
Does that make you feel spied on?
I guess I'm one of the type of people who would feel safer.
I mean, why not?
I guess.
It's like the body cams that the police wear.
I was delighted when they decided to have body cams on them.
And all of these alleged white supremacist murders of unoffending blacks, turns out they were not unoffending blacks at all.
The body cam stuff has been great.
Well, what's it like in Tokyo?
What's it like in Japan?
We know that there are so few murders in Japan that the police literally have nothing to do.
That was a great story that you see all the time.
Every year there's that story.
Well, there is surveillance, but it's not all centrally hooked up.
If there is one of these rare crimes in some place, there might be some sort of surveillance camera, but it is from a store, because the stores often don't even have anybody behind the counter.
You've got people who are using automatic payment methods and so you do have a surveillance camera to make sure that the Japanese are behaving as Japanese always do.
So there are surveillance cameras but they're not hooked up to some sort of central network the way they might be in London or Shanghai.
But we're moving to a different city and I don't know how many surveillance cameras there are in Cancun.
Maybe they need a few more.
But an interesting thing happened there.
A group of gunmen from the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion.
This is one of these drug gangs, of course.
They kidnapped a fellow named Archie Yama.
He's the head of the Quintana Roo State Police.
Not an unimportant guy.
And they set off a manhunt.
Well, at first the authorities tried to pretend that this guy had not been kidnapped.
They didn't want the word out because it's embarrassing when the head of the state police is kidnapped by a cartel.
Well, but they were forced to admit that it happened because the gang put out a video on social media of Archie Yama in police uniform, because he was in police uniform when they got him, apparently being forced to claim that he was taking orders from a different gang To fight the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion.
So, here he is, kidnapped by one gang, and he's saying, yep, yep, yep, I've been picking on you guys because yet another gang has given me orders to pick on you, so I'm siding with one gang against another gang.
Well, I don't know the ins and outs of that, but the ending of the story is, Archiyama did reappear.
But without his head and with signs of severe torture.
And just to let you know, this is happening in Cancun which at one time was a very popular holiday destination for American tourists.
It still is.
I'd be remiss if you don't let me indulge one quick point.
There are a lot of people out there in Hollywood that are attacking Rambo Last Blood.
They've said that it's a mega Make America Great Again right-wing fantasy film.
It's being blasted by critics.
Rotten Tomatoes shows that it has a fresh rating of 28% on the Tomatometer.
That means that Obviously, less than one in three critics like the movie.
However, it has an audience score of 84%.
I happen to have seen the movie, and it is very harsh toward what type of civilization exists south of the border.
John Rambo's character tries to convince A girl, who he is basically a father figure to, not to go south of the border to look for her father, who left his family.
She does, and she ends up kidnapped by sex traffickers.
And, you know, those who are defending, or attacking the movie, you have to ask themselves, are you defending sex traffickers?
Because that's who Rambo is actually going down to Battle!
And Rambo lost blood.
If they're Mexicans, that's negative stereotyping, right?
I guess that's the problem.
All the bad guys are Mexicans, and the good guy's a white guy.
You can't have that.
The good guy is a white guy named John Rambo, and you know what?
And he's not even an Anglo-Saxon, right?
Well, you know, in Rambo and Rambo First Blood Part 2, he asked his commanding officer who asked him to go save Vietnam prisoners of war.
He said, do we get to win this time?
And I can tell you that if you go see Rambo Last Blood, We get to win this time.
Okay, to the winners the spoils, and the girl is saved, and she doesn't turn into a sex trafficker.
I assume she finds her husband and he comes out safely too.
Well, I don't want to ruin that because that's actually one of the more emotional punches.
It's a great film.
I know you don't go see movies and I know you kind of laugh at this action stuff, but it's got, again, in the simplistic nature of Rambo's speeches about the world, the way it actually exists, It paints a, based on the story you just told us about the police chief down there and the rival gangs that were battling for his loyalty.
Sounds like it would fit right in.
Basically, it reminds us that our new country is going to be great, right?
Yeah, it'll be great, alright.
Well, moving back to the United States, The Washington Post on September 20th had a series of articles on how to solve the black student debt problem.
That's a national crisis, as you know, because black students have more debt, they default on it more often, and they're just being crushed by this white supremacist Burden of death.
A burden of death.
Excuse me.
And so we had a number of explanations to how to solve the problem.
One by Jalil Mustafa Bishop, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
He said, first of all, current and future workers endure racial capitalism.
To racial capitalism.
I've never heard of that.
Medievalists of color and racial capitalism.
You learn amazing phrases every day.
You sure do.
And he says particularly black people have to suffer from racial capitalism.
Then he goes on to say that the rampant racism across labor markets explains our crisis level student loan outcomes.
Rampant racism.
This is stuff that the Washington Post and the New York Times, the mainstream media, just take for granted.
Rampant racism across labor markets.
That's the problem.
So that's got to be solved.
Now, this guy's even better.
William A. Darity at Duke University and Fornaba Addo, who's at the University of Wisconsin, they write, we believe what is needed are proposals to eliminate racial wealth inequality.
There you have it.
You know, that'll solve the debt problem.
Just get rid of racial wealth inequality.
Then he says, a reparations program will need to be implemented that brings the black share
of ownership in the nation's wealth from its current 2.6% to at least 13%, a proportion
consistent with the black share in the nation's population.
Just like that!
Wave a magic wand and we're going to take black wealth from 2.6% to 13%.
That's all we need to do to solve the black student debt problem.
Why not just get rid of white people so you have no one else to compare yourself to?
Isn't that where this is all headed?
No, no, they need to stick us around.
You know, we need to be the milk cows of this racial capitalism.
I think it's going to end up being racial socialism is what it is.
And then here we go.
Here's another guy participating in this Washington Post forum on how to solve the black student debt problem.
Andre M. Perry.
He's in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.
And he says post-secondary institutions should demonstrate added value to students by proscribing debt.
What does that mean?
That means just no debt.
I guess that's another way of saying it's just got to be free for everybody.
Free for everybody.
Now, that'll solve the problem, yes, or just forgive all the debt.
It's like the problem of these, what, 56,000 outstanding warrants?
Precisely.
Just solve the problem.
Just get rid of the warrants.
War amnesty, debt amnesty, medievalist amnesty, get rid of white history so you just have medievalists of color explaining that Chaucer was, you know?
That's right, a person of color.
A female mulatto?
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, maybe a transgender person of color, who knows?
So there you go.
So that's the problem.
I mean, that's the problem solved.
You know, just make sure that blacks have their legitimate percentage of the national wealth.
At least 13%, he says.
There you go.
It only makes sense.
Well, yes.
And another local color story.
I like these local color stories.
There's a company that produces Mexican-style cheese and meat products.
I've never heard of a Mexican-style cheese, but anyway, it's probably pretty good.
And it has been accused of preferring Hispanic job applicants over people of other races in its unskilled production and warehouse positions.
Apparently, the way it did this, it discouraged non-Hispanic applicants by, among other things, opposing a language requirement.
You gotta speak Spanish.
Well, apparently two blacks had applied for jobs at two different facilities in California with this Mexican-style cheese and meat product company, and they were turned down.
So, El Mexicano, as it's called, is going to have to pay two million dollars to these various people who got turned down, and it's going to be subject to, and I quote, sweeping injunctive relief to prevent discrimination in the future.
Including hiring an external monitor.
I bet that's a cushy job.
Implementing hiring goals and measures to ensure hiring transparency and diversification.
Training, reporting, and other significant measures.
Now, you know, this is what you get in a multiracial society.
And frankly, you know, I'm not without sympathy for El Mexicano.
If they want to hire people that speak Spanish, that is probably going to make their lives a whole lot easier.
Everybody speaks Spanish!
It's the converse, it's the corollary to Putnam's studies.
If you have a workplace that is diverse, is it actually going to work?
No!
And, you know, freedom of association.
That's right.
That's right.
If they want people who speak Spanish, we've gotten into this crazy situation where a company, it's a profit-making company.
It's not as though they're doing this because it's bad for the bottom line.
They're doing this because the workplace is going to be smoother.
Things are going to go better.
Friends hire friends.
Everybody's happy.
Everybody speaks Spanish.
We don't have to mess with black people, white people, Asians.
We're all hippie happy Hispanics.
But nope, fine, two million dollars and you got this outside supervisor that's going to be breathing down their throat start to finish.
That's the way things are in America, the rainbow country.
I think when Rand Paul first In his first year as a junior senator in Kentucky, he broached the idea of companies being able to discriminate in the workplace.
That's right.
And he was quickly told, hey, what are you doing?
Oh, that's right, that's right.
Freedom of association?
Hey, no, no.
That's gone, pal.
That's only for bigots.
That's the kind of freedom that we just don't believe in.
Exactly.
Now, here's a little more local color.
This is kind of a white pill about white privilege.
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte put on a major program to help students understand, and I'm quoting, the meaning and implications of whiteness and how, quoting again, engaging in anti-racist practice is crucial in creating racial equity.
This was pretty important stuff.
It was a two-hour meeting and it was led by two campus diversity facilitators.
One of the themes, of course, was that while anybody can be guilty of racial discrimination, only white people can be racist.
And this stems inherently from white people and their, quote, whiteness.
Well, a student population nearly 30,000.
How many students attended?
Now, I won't make you guess because you'll probably get it wrong.
The number who showed up was nine.
Nine students.
Nine out of 30,000.
Now, two were there because they were journalists.
Okay.
And they were, one was from, I think it's Campus Report, Reminding the Campus.
One of these great outfits to just keep an eye on the craziness on campus.
And one was from the student newspaper.
Of the remaining seven students, five were members of the University's Young Americans
for Freedom.
They were there out as pure skeptics, seeing what kind of wild antics the lefties are up
to.
And then the remaining two, just two left, two people, they were there because their
professors had offered them extra credit to show up.
Well, congratulations on garnering that extra credit.
Yeah.
Great job.
Now, they sat for two hours in front of nine people, and apparently the facilitators did not respond to a subsequent request for comments from the college fix.
Yes, that's the outfit that reported this about what they thought of the event's low turnout.
But I thought that was quite fascinating.
All this jibber-jabber about white privilege and how we all have to turn ourselves inside out and upside down in order to get rid of systemic racism.
The thing just completely fell on its face.
But this leads me to yet another campus story.
And that is about physics at Stanford.
Stanford University.
An excellent article from Minding the Campus.
College Fix and Minding the Campus.
These are real gold mines for astonishing tales from the crypt here.
But, apparently blacks earned only 0.2%, that's two out of a thousand, of the, no, 10,000.
10,000, that's right.
Of the bachelor's degrees in physics in 2015.
Needless to say, this is a national crisis, something must be done, and Stanford claims to have a solution.
So, in a University News release, they said, People from underrepresented groups often do not feel welcome in physics classes, so what they're going to do, besides all the usual outreach and sensitization and training and this, that, the other, they're going to solve the problem by adding new courses.
One is a modified version of the basic mechanics course for students with little or no high school physics or calculus.
Right.
How can you classify that as a physics class?
Are you going to look at the cover of Stephen Hawking's one of his books and read the back cover?
Well, that's a good question.
Little or no, high school physics or calculus.
But that's going to be a physics class all right then.
Now this is even more exciting.
Physics 94SI, it's called.
And the title of the course is Diverse Perspectives in Physics.
And let me read from the catalog description.
Professors of a diverse set of identities and backgrounds will share the story of their lives and career trajectories over lunch, with an emphasis on their personal lives and experiences.
So, as you say, get this, you get a physics credit by eating lunch with some non-white person who talks about himself.
Wow!
Sounds like an easy credit to me.
Then here's another one.
Physics 93 SI.
I wonder what SI stands for.
Anyway, it's called Beyond the Laboratory Physics Identity in Society.
This one says, How do physicists' identities impact the types of scientific questions that are asked throughout history?
Their identities?
I mean, is it only white people who care about gravity and Conservation of motion.
I guess if we'd had persons of color doing this thing, we'd have gotten into who knows what.
But in any case, and who do we call a physicist?
No prior knowledge of physics is necessary.
All voices are welcome.
Sounds like another awfully easy credit to me.
I don't even have to respond to any of that.
I know.
What can one possibly say?
But the article that was about this was pointing out that back in the Fisher case, the Supreme Court,
Fisher versus University of Texas, the 2016 ruling, there was a friend of the court briefing
that was signed by 2,463, quote, professional physicists.
Somebody looked through this and they were not professional physicists,
most of them at all.
In any case, they said that diversity in physics is needed, quote, because the process
of scientific discovery benefits from removing prejudice against any race, ethnicity, or gender.
And they want to quote, reform our pedagogical social structures to achieve long-delayed goals and desegregation.
And the reason for this is, and this is the punchline, the exclusion of people from physics solely on the basis of the color of their skin.
Where's that going on?
Really?
What physics department, anywhere in the country, says to an Asian guy, hey, yellow man, clear out.
Physics ain't for you.
Or to a black person, no.
No Negroes allowed.
I mean, what?
Let me read this again.
The exclusion of people from physics solely on the basis of the color of their skin.
What kind of fantasy land do these live in?
In any case, here is an ad from a publication in the profession called Physics Today for a teaching position at Brown.
And it says this.
Candidates must have a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
A commitment.
Application materials should address the candidate's commitment to diversity and inclusion.
In other words, you're applying for this thing.
Now, I suppose if you're black, you can say, hey, I'm black and I'm applying for a job.
That's my commitment to diversity.
But if you're white, what are you supposed to say?
What are you supposed to say?
How do you prove your commitment to diversity inclusion when you hand in your application for a job?
You say, I'd love to be black, but I'm not.
I'd love to be transsexual, but I'm not.
And if any transsexual blacks show up, boy oh boy, I'll help them get a job.
Unfortunately, I'm really sorry, I'm not one of those, but I'm really committed to being one of those.
What does it mean?
Seriously, if you're white and you're applying for a job, how do you show your commitment to diversity and inclusion?
How do you do it?
You walk out the door and you give someone else your spot.
Exactly.
It's fascinating.
One of the main goals of physics is to understand how the universe behaves.
And I think that with this, we realize that once again, reality has a well-known racial bias.
I guess it sure does.
But anyway, let us conclude today's program, which has flown by at the usual speed of sound, or maybe faster.
Of course, that's a concept in physics that would never have been discovered except for, well, I mean, it would have been discovered a whole lot sooner if people of color had been looking for it.
It would have been discovered even faster if we'd had medievalists of color back in the 14th century.
Oh, there you go.
Medievalists, they would have figured it out, yes, in no time.
Exactly.
Weren't you going to tell us about a few mass shootings before we sign off?
Well, we've got to stop quickly, but I just want to point out that there's a phenomenal website you've got to check out, ladies and gentlemen.
It is MassShootingTracker.org forward slash data.
This website keeps track of every shooting that has four or more victims.
That is what classifies as a mass shooting.
Now, the New York Times, as we found out through Colin Flaherty's fantastic research, they admit that 75% of mass shootings Have a black suspect.
Now, over this past weekend, there were five mass shootings.
Five mass shootings.
One in Indianapolis, which included a random white guy who was just walking by these two groups of black youth.
He realized something was amiss and he started running.
He couldn't get behind to shield himself in time.
He was shot in the leg.
Then there were two mass shootings in New Orleans, one in Washington, D.C., and one at a black nightclub in South Carolina.
How many of those, ladies and gentlemen, did you even hear about?
Because remember, as we've talked about many times, gun control is about disarming law-abiding white citizens of this country.
So, for Jared Taylor, this has been Paul Kersey with our 150th podcast.
Our podcast time is up.
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