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Oct. 2, 2019 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Harvard Wins Right to Discriminate
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor.
And with me is the indispensable Paul Kersey.
It's been a busy week, as it always is.
For those of us who pay attention, it's never a dull week.
And we'd like to start with venerable Harvard University.
As many of you have probably heard, Harvard has just won its suit.
The suit that was brought against it by an organization called Students for Fair Admission.
They'd filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a group of Asian American students with the rather obvious point that Asians are penalized and despite the fact that they may have test scores and grades that are considerably higher than anybody else they have to have even higher grades in order to get in.
There was a Judgment by Judge Alison Burroughs.
She is a white lady, an Obama appointee, who assumed the bench the very year the lawsuit was filed, so she's a bit of a greenhorn.
But she has now concluded that Harvard had met the, quote, strict judicial standard for considering race in its admission process.
She wrote a 130-page decision.
I confess I have not read it all, but I have skipped about in it, and I have found some interesting things.
Basically, she's saying that according to the law, the Asians are not discriminated against because taking race into consideration is okay.
In other words, discrimination is okay if it's done for what's called a compelling governmental interest.
You can discriminate.
If you're discriminated against because of a compelling governmental interest, you're not being discriminated against.
It's as simple as that.
In this case, the compelling governmental interest is the alleged educational benefits from diversity.
Now, this is not entirely the end of the road for the Asian students because the SFFA, that is to say, Students for a Fairer Administration, President Edward J. Bloom, said in a press release that he plans to appeal this ruling of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
And by the way, he's also the guy who funded the Fisher v. University of Texas suit against affirmative action.
This guy is a real true believer.
And hello for our listeners who might not be familiar with that court case.
Was that the one that was in the early 2000s?
Yeah, that was quite some time ago.
Yeah, and isn't that the one where Ginsburg came out and said that, oh, in such and such years, this will no longer be necessary?
No, it was not Ginsburg who said that.
It was the other lady justice, the one who's since retired.
Conner.
Conner, yes.
Sandra Day O'Connor.
She said, in 25 years, you're not going to have to worry about this.
Now, this Judge Alison Burroughs, she has said something similar, and we will find that as we move along.
In any case, she said that for Harvard to consider race in its admission decisions, this is a step towards, quote, ensuring diversity at Harvard, and it relies in part on race-conscious admissions.
So again, it's okay to discriminate if you are discriminating for a compelling government purpose.
Now, she does go on to say she concedes that race-conscious admissions will always penalize to some extent the groups that are not being advantaged by the process.
But this is justified by the compelling interest in diversity and all the benefits that flow from a diverse college population.
Now, the way Harvard was doing this, they would recognize that, yes, the Asians scored higher on their SATs and ACTs and got good grades, but they had a kind of personal ruling, I'm sorry, a personal evaluation, which categorized them as to whether or not they were attractive personalities or natural-born leaders, and they marked them down.
Blacks and Hispanics, they marked them up.
White people, we don't know for sure.
But the point is, she says that the personal ratings for Asians, on average, were slightly weaker than the ratings assigned to other applicants.
And she conceded that this difference was not adequately explained at trial.
Now, if I were Harvard, would I really want the school to be 80% Asian?
I think that'd be pretty damn boring, frankly.
Well, that's not diversity.
Well, but even so, even so, I think there's something to the idea that, well, we won't go into that, I suppose.
But, you know, I have a friend who is half Japanese.
His son is, because my friend married a white girl, he's one quarter Japanese.
He's been to Japan several times.
He says, Dad, They're all the same person.
But, you know, I'm only quoting him now.
I'm only quoting him.
But then, you see, this is, I think, a very interesting finding on the part of Judge Alison Burroughs.
She said, the disparity in personal ratings did not burden Asian-American applicants significantly more than Harvard's race-conscious policies burdened white applicants.
In other words, they're suffering equally.
Both Asians and whites are suffering equally in this effort to give blacks and Hispanics a leg up.
But that's fine, because of all this wonderful diversity.
Then, Judge Burroughs went on to quote Toni Morrison.
Toni Morrison has said race is the least reliable information you can have about someone.
It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
Now, hold on.
If that's the case, why are we conscious of race at all?
But then she goes on.
This appears to be a contradiction, but Judge Burroughs then continues.
Although this has been said, namely that race doesn't tell you anything, which is certainly not true in my view, although this has been said, it must become accepted and understood before we close the curtain on race-conscious admissions policies.
In other words, race is meaningless, but we don't really understand that yet.
And for that reason, we have to take race into consideration so that race can no longer be taken into consideration.
Then she goes on to say, the rich diversity at Harvard and other colleges and
universities and the benefits that flow from that diversity will foster
the tolerance, acceptance, and understanding that will ultimately make
race-conscious admissions obsolete.
So she's taking the very same position as Andrea Day O'Connor.
Someday we're going to be happy.
Someday we're not going to have to worry about this.
But the only way to get the kind of diversity that Harvard wants is the assumption that they're all performing at the same level.
Correct.
No, this judge, Mr. Taylor, needs to desist from her inane posturing.
I'm not even sure what she's trying to get across there with that Toni Morrison quote.
I think what she's saying is fundamentally race isn't important, we should ignore race, but we haven't been sufficiently tolerant.
We haven't advanced to the point where we can ignore race, and until we reach that point, we must pay a lot of attention to race.
So once again, it's kicking the can, kicking the football down before someone else has to even worry about it.
Yeah.
Now, as I recall, Sandra Day O'Connor's decision on that was at least, oh, 10 years ago, 15 years ago.
I think it was in the early 2000s.
It was in the first couple years of George W. Bush's first I think you're right.
So the clock's ticking on her 25 years.
It is ticking quickly.
The clock is ticking, but boy, they're not dialing back, are they?
But then Judge Burroughs also added a phrase in her decision that I found incomprehensible.
She says removing considerations of race and ethnicity from Harvard's admission process entirely would deprive applicants, including Asian American applicants, of their right to advocate the value of their unique background, heritage, and perspective.
So race really matters in that case?
I guess it does.
What?
Wait a second.
Yes, what's going on here?
She says they are different and they added diversity, although race doesn't really matter at all.
This is just the most confused bunch of judicial baloney I've come across in a long time.
But, and of course, as I say, she just rants and rants and raves and sings the praises of diversity without really coming up with any genuine explanations to what diversity really means or why it's important.
Now, as a footnote to that, I would like to point out that at Harvard, Last year, 69% of incoming students had a strongly unfavorable opinion of President Trump.
16% had a somewhat unfavorable view.
That's 84% had an unfavorable view of a president who got essentially half the electorate.
5.2% had a somewhat favorable view and 1.8% had a strongly favorable view.
Don't you think that diversity should include diversity of opinions?
Even political opinions?
Now see, what they want is people of different colors, but who all think the same.
That's correct.
Who all hate Donald Trump.
Who all hate whiting as well.
Yes, exactly.
That is their idea of diversity.
It's really, it's just, it's incoherent.
I would love to sit down with Judge Burroughs and have a long conversation with her about really, does she believe, does she believe that once tolerance has taken its place, then blacks will be admitted in proportion to their population because they're just going to float to the top of the applicant pool?
Whereas, and I thought this was interesting, in an independent analysis of this, somebody concluded that if Harvard admitted only from the top 10% of applicants by scores, test scores, and grades, the Asian percentage would go from 25% to 52%.
That's staggering.
Whites would drop slightly from 38% to 36%.
Hispanics would be cut in one-fifth from 15% to 3%, and blacks would essentially disappear.
They'd go from 16% to 1%.
Repeat that one more time.
So right now at Harvard, what percentage of... Okay, I'll give you the whole stats again.
At Harvard today, Asians are 25%.
They would go up to 52% if it were strictly on merit.
Whites are 38%.
They would drop slightly to 36%.
So basically, whites are being admitted pretty much on the basis of their ability.
Correct.
Hispanics, who are now 15%, would be slashed to 3%.
Only 1 in 5 would get in.
Blacks who are now 16%, their numbers will go down to 1%.
Only 1 in 16 is getting in on ability.
So there you go.
But we have 15% Hispanics, 16% Blacks, because they add so much to the educational experience, even of Asians who are suffering at the hands of Judge Burroughs and the admissions committee.
Anyway, again, the idea that they're really getting diversity on account of this, whereas, of course, they are being selected because they all think the same.
This is just such a laughable thing.
And again, she says, On the one hand, race doesn't matter.
On the one hand, because we're considering race, they can all advocate for their unique characteristics.
Make up your mind, Judge!
Well, here's a question for you, Mr. Taylor.
What is your opinion on this ruling?
And obviously it's going to be appealed.
Is this a setback for the push for merit and the dismantling of affirmative action?
It's a setback.
Certainly it is.
It's a setback.
Although I have real mixed feelings about this.
I don't like the idea of Harvard being 50-55% Asian.
I think that's absolutely ridiculous.
It is a function, of course, of our immigration policies.
And at the same time, I think that we should have freedom of association.
If Harvard really wanted to admit only white students, or only black students, or only one-legged lesbians.
They should have that right.
Real freedom of association is what would follow.
Real freedom of association means that they can decide as a private university who they admit.
They set their own standards.
But they can't do that.
And of course, if they were free to do that, they're essentially free to do that and doing what they're doing now.
Correct.
So, I don't know.
It'll be very interesting.
I suspect this will go to the Supreme Court.
What will happen is anybody's guess.
I think it's not impossible that with the array of justices we now have, they will decide that you can't use race at all.
Because this racial diversity, as Judge Burroughs is telling us, is that really a compelling national requirement?
Well, they'll decide.
In any case, moving on to something else that was important in its own way.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics just released its 2018 survey of criminal victimization.
This is a study that I've been looking at for years and years now, all the way back to the very first Color of Crime report that we issued in 19... gosh, I think it was about 1990... in the 1990s.
Anyway, sorry.
Now, there was a time when the racial statistics under Obama were not released to the public.
Now that Brother Trump is in charge, they're being released.
And what we found is that according to this massive survey of Americans, it's a sample of about 100,000 people, it's a huge sample, so it's very, very representative, and they ask Americans, what violent crimes have you suffered in the last year?
We have decided that there have been 594,000 interracial violent victimizations between blacks and whites.
That's, again, 594,000 interracial crimes involving blacks and whites.
Of that number, blacks committed 90%.
90% of nearly 600,000 violent interactions between blacks and whites were committed by black individuals on whites.
That's right.
On a white individual.
Exactly.
And only 10% went the other way around.
Only 10%.
Now, if you do the calculations, Insofar as the country is about 65% white, only about 12.3% black, simple arithmetic tells us that a black person, on average, is 47 times more likely to attack a white person than the other way around in 2018.
47 times more likely!
Now, you can argue that there are more white people around, so the likelihood of encounter is higher.
The fact is, the blacks who are attacking whites are probably not the kind of blacks you and I are likely to meet.
They are probably in heavily black areas, and if they are attacking whites at that rate, they're probably seeking them out.
Oh yeah, I mean, just think about what we saw a couple weeks ago in Minneapolis, where this white individual was set upon by Fifteen blacks who beat him, and then the police chief said, well, I think the guy was impaired.
We're not going to even consider hate crime charges.
The guy was impaired.
All twelve of them were impaired?
What's going on?
No, the white guy was impaired that was attacked and beat.
Of course there were more whites who were attacked, but you saw that footage.
But wait, because he was impaired, this is not racial?
This is just picking on a guy who's a mental defect?
That was the police chief of Minneapolis.
You know, your public servant.
Looking out for you, right?
Again, we see these all the time, and yet Mr. Taylor, the corporate media would have you believe Not only is it the other way around, but there is virtually no black-on-white crime.
Well, you know, that's another thing.
The statistics show that there are about... What did we decide?
There are about 537,000 violent attacks on whites by blacks.
The actual number of violent attacks of blacks on blacks was about 15,000 fewer.
There is actually more black on white than black on black crime.
When people talk about black crime, they always wring their hands and say, oh, black on black crime.
This is a terrible thing the black community does to itself.
In fact.
More whites are attacked by blacks than blacks are attacked by blacks.
And give the name for our listeners of this study, this victimization survey.
Known to its friends as the NCVS, the National Crime Victimization Survey.
And again, this is really the most accurate assessment of crime in the United States because many of these are not even reported to the police.
These are not crimes that are necessarily solved.
The police have never heard of most of these, or at least a very substantial fraction of them.
But this is a very, very accurate picture of crime in the U.S.
and this figure of approximately 600,000.
That is surprisingly consistent year in, year out.
About 600,000.
And traditionally, the figure of black on white has been about 85%.
It's very interesting to me that it's gone up to 95%.
For many years in a row, it was about 85%.
Now it's 90%.
And, as I've been saying ever since I wrote To Pay With Good Intentions back in the early 90s, I think this is because we have a wonderful system that teaches black people to hate white people.
It's all racism.
It's all slavery.
It's all wicked white people.
In any case, moving on.
Oh, and let's not forget about murder.
We have a new slogan now.
1355.
1355.
What does 1355 mean?
Now this is going to go down according to the ADL as a hate meme.
Because what 1355 means is that 13% of the population that is black commits 55% of the murders.
That's right.
13% of the population commits 55% of the murders.
And this works out the fact that a black person is... Now, see, these are arrests.
These are known cases.
And as we know, in the dusky neighborhoods, there are a lot of unsolved murders.
And it's very unlikely that Asian grandmothers or white ladies are going into these places and shooting black people.
Well, that is, of course, what large What's that great book?
I heard it through the grapevine about rumor in the black community where they talk about how one of the cigarette companies, this book was published in the 90s I believe, so it's somewhat dated, but I'm sure you could do a sequel to it which would be even better.
Yes, that cool cigarettes were deliberately made to hook black people on menthol, that there are various drinks that have got some kind of medicine in them that makes only black people sterile, and the number of blacks who think that AIDS was invented by white people to cut down black folks.
And, oh, the number of people that think that guns and drugs are delivered into the ghetto by white authorities.
By the CIA.
While we're at it, you know, why not the CIA?
Just crazy, crazy stuff.
And it would be interesting to know what they think today.
But, yes, so that means that blacks, on a per capita basis, are seven times more likely to be arrested for murder than anybody else.
I don't have a Hispanic and white breakout, but if you compared it just whites, it would be a greater figure than that.
But and also this numbers is in fact in reality greater because of all those unsolved crimes.
Unquestionably.
But anyway so moving on to ICE.
Well we've got a number of ICE stories and I want to start with one that is making the rounds because it's a fascinating story out of Fairfax Virginia.
Now apparently Fairfax Virginia which is One of the wealthier counties, if I'm correct, I believe it's one of the wealthier counties in all the country.
In the whole country.
Yeah.
So a Virginia police chief who suspended an officer for cooperating with ICE was, in the words of acting ICE, of a former acting ICE director, putting up his political agenda first.
So this guy appeared on, his name is Forgive me, his name is Tom Homan.
He's the former acting ICE director.
He said this about Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Rossler, who has suspended an officer because during a routine stop, it turns out that there was a warrant for this guy's arrest and he turned it into ICE.
Well, that goes against the policy.
So here's what... So here's an illegal alien.
Illegal alien.
Warrant out for his arrest and Fairfax County Police are not supposed to report that to the feds.
Correct, so the incident occurred on September 21st when the officer was dispatched to a car accident.
The officer then discovered one of the drivers didn't have a Virginia driver's license and ran a check with the State Department of Motor Vehicles.
The search revealed the driver had a violation for failing to appear for a deportation hearing.
The officer proceeded to contact the The ICE agent listed as the point of contact on the confirmation of the warrant.
So he was doing his job.
However, in suspending the officer, the Fairfax County Department enacted a 2007 policy prohibiting officers from confirming a person's immigration status and detaining them solely based on civil violations of immigration law.
Now to me, that should be the primary reason that they're detained.
If citizenship means anything in this country at all.
Now I want to read to you What Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Rosler Jr.
said as he apologized.
He's my police chief.
I live in Fairfax County.
He apologized for this officer that has been suspended as this investigation goes on.
Quote, as a matter of full transparency to our community, our police officer violated our long-standing policy and deprived A person of their freedom, which is unacceptable.
We have been informed by ICE that the driver was released after three hours and issued an ankle monitor.
When I learned of the incident, I directed an immediate internal investigation to look at all factors in this matter to ensure that all are held accountable for this violation.
Our county is one of the most diverse counties in the nation and no one should have the perception That Fairfax County Police Department is acting as a civil immigration agent for ICE.
Boy oh boy.
And so this guy, this police officer, is being criticized because he was contributing to the deprivation of liberty of somebody?
Isn't that what police do all the time?
That's what they do every day if you haven't paid in a number of states your remission check.
You get a ticket.
If you have an expired license, you're going to get a ticket.
You're going to have to show up in court and prove that you have or you're going to have to pay a fine.
You know, you run a red light in a lot of states that have these cameras, red light cameras.
Guess what?
In a couple weeks, you're going to get a ticket in the mail.
Well, but that's not depriving you of liberty.
Well, it will be if you have a warrant out for your arrest if you don't appear, if you don't pay.
Keep at it.
But the point is, Mr. Taylor, this police chief of one of the most important, wealthiest counties in the entire nation has basically come out and said, we exist to protect illegal immigrants.
That's right.
and we will suspend our own officers who are sworn to protect the law if they dare
inhibit upon this directive of our county being a sanctuary county.
Well they're not the only place are they?
They're not the only place!
Get this.
In New Jersey, Immigration and Customs Enforcement may no longer deputize local police officers under a directive announced Friday by Attorney General Gubir Grewal.
There's a name straight out of the Well, one of those early ships that came across the country with the Anglo-Saxon settlers.
Are we allowed to say that anymore?
I guess after last week we learned that the Anglo-Saxon society... No, Anglo-Saxon is a word that's been hijacked by the white supremacists.
That's right.
Unbeknownst to me and unbeknownst to you, but all of the anti-racists have discovered this and are feeling very aggrieved.
So it's got to be retired.
So Attorney General Gerbier Grewal, who said he wants all immigrants to see a clear, bright line between ICE and local cops.
Quote, they can come forward to local cops, to state troopers, to county law enforcement, report crimes regardless of their immigration status, and not fear being put into deportation proceedings.
Now, why did this happen?
The announcement followed the recent roundup of 54 illegal immigrants who had previously been released from New Jersey jails before federal agents could pick them up.
The directive ends statewide use of what are known as 287G agreements, a federal program that trains corrections officers to determine the immigration status of jail inmates and flag them for federal action.
You know, you would think New Jersey would be delighted to get these released prisoners out of their state, out of the country.
The recidivism rate on these people is so high, you'd think every cop on the beat, even every bleeding heart liberal, knows that once you're out of jail, chances are you're going back.
And if they can be expelled from the country, that solves the problem.
That's correct, that's correct.
Not for these guys.
So, any more?
There is one more and it's the big one.
Yes, do tell.
So, a New York City law has new guidance that states the use of the term illegal alien to demean, humiliate, or harass a person is illegal.
According to the New York City Commission on Human Rights, the guidance defines discrimination on the basis of perceived or actual immigration status and national origin under the New York City Human Rights Law and public accommodations, employment, and housing.
It also includes the term illegals.
Violations of the law Could cause an individual to be fined up to $250,000.
$250,000. $250,000. Now, so far as you can tell, does this mean if I get angry at
$250,000.
some border hopper and I say, you illegal immigrant, can I be fined?
Or does this have to be discrimination in housing, employment?
Well, here's what's in the guidance.
Here's what it says.
Yes, let's hear the guidance.
Harassing or discriminating against someone for their use of another language or their limited English proficiency and threatening to call ICE on a person based on a discriminatory motive are considered to be in violation.
Wow, a private citizen?
That's what it sounds like.
So examples of violations according to this release include harassing a restaurant patron Because of their accent.
Refusing repairs on a unit occupied by an immigrant family and threatening to call ICE if they complain.
Paying a lower wage or withholding wages to workers because of their immigration status.
But harassing a patron of a restaurant who has a funny accent?
Correct.
$250,000?
Here's another one.
Harassing a store customer by telling them to stop speaking their native tongue.
Well, I would say that's rude.
I mean, if I want to speak Chinese to my wife in a store, I should think I'd have that right.
But I don't think asking me to speak English should be subject to a fine.
Good grief.
Up to $250,000.
I believe it was last week that we actually talked about a Individual who, didn't they lose their, they had to declare bankruptcy?
They lost their home?
That's right.
This is a landlord who had threatened us.
Some deadbeat had refused to pay for almost a year.
And the landlord said, don't pay up or I'm going to tell ICE.
And this person was fined and punished.
I can't remember.
It's a quite substantial amount.
And despite the fact that because the landlord didn't get rent, couldn't make the payments on the building and lost the building.
No sympathy for that.
So, yeah, you can stiff the landlord, and if the landlord says, look, you're an illegal and you're going to call ICE, then you get a monetary award, at least in New York City.
Boy, you know, Mexicans must cross the border and think, you know, man, the next thing I know, it's going to rain beer.
What a country.
Cerveza.
Last one, Chicago.
So the lesbian mayor of Chicago has come out and basically said we're going to maintain our sanctuary status.
They're going to actually protect illegal alien criminals from local police working with ICE on these detainers.
I just want to read to you real quick how The Mayor Lori Lightfoot considers these criminals.
She says this, quote, we will reject in the strongest terms possible the characterization
of the good hardworking people that represent the immigrant and refugee communities, not
only here, but across the country to characterize them as criminals and something less than
We won't tolerate that.
Now, this is in regards to working with ICE to actually get criminals who are largely preying on the immigrant communities, you know, illegals out of Chicago.
So, in essence, she's saying, no, no, we want these illegal alien criminals to stay in The Windy City.
That's just the most remarkable thing.
So many of these, they get released, they give ice to slip, and then they go off and kill somebody, or rape somebody, or rob somebody.
And people seem to think that's just fine and dandy.
This is really incomprehensible to me.
The idea of defending illegal immigrants, even when they're criminals.
This surpasses all understanding.
Here you are, Mr. Taylor.
Last year, in 2018, ICE issued more than 1,000 detainers in Cook County, where Chicago is located.
Every one of them were denied.
Every one of them.
Well, at least they're consistent.
They are consistently uncooperative.
Well, you know, this is just an example of the increasing dividing lines in the United States.
Nullification at work.
Yes, nullification, certainly nullification.
A strange kind of nullification.
Yes, but it is a perfect example of how people living in the same country allegedly sharing the same values.
We're told that this America is a nation of values, a proposition nation.
We sure don't agree to the same propositions, do we?
Not at all.
No.
Anyway, well, speaking of Chicago, your buddy Lori Lightfoot, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who's pretty light in the loafers as I understand, she is erasing overdue fees for library books.
Yep, no more library fines.
If you don't turn in a book, no more fines.
She says she wants to, quote, remove barriers that deter youth and low-income patrons From reading and other educational activities.
The fact is, you turn it back on time, there's no fee.
And you can renew books.
But no, this is going to remove barriers that deter youth.
And low income from reading and other educational activities.
Now, she announced just on Monday that Chicago Public Library will be fine free.
Fine free.
It has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
Fine free.
And Chicago is going to be the largest city in the nation to do this.
And she says this will help eliminate the cycles of debt and generational poverty Because of a few mistakes.
Now, does she really believe that because you had to pay a library fine, that has set you on the slippery slope to cycles of debt and generational poverty?
I guess so.
How many of these, you know, I'd love to know how many Well, we have a few indicators.
out of the public libraries anymore in a city like Chicago?
Who actually frequents these except for?
Well, we have a few indicators.
The city's library system does currently block a cardholder if he owes a fine of $10 or more.
Now, one in five of the cards banned from withdrawing belong to children under the age of 14.
Yes, one fifth of the blocked ones are under age 14.
Now, this isn't absolutely just come one, come all, take all you like.
Books will be automatically renewed 15 times.
I don't know for how long that is, but probably that's about 15 weeks.
Usually, what, a week, two weeks to renew a book?
And non-returned items after that period will be tagged as lost.
And if after all that time something's not turned in, there will be a charge or a potential charge.
But if you show up even 10 years later with the book, then there's no charge.
No charge.
Now, what this means, of course, is the library books will disappear to the extent they're checked out at all, and they'll have to be replaced by taxpayers.
But that's the brave new world of Chicago library fines.
And the one thing that I did not see in this story is the one that everyone suspects what the racial breakout is.
I'm sure it's because blacks cannot pay the fine or don't pay the fines and they get their library cards lifted.
It's just like hopping the turnstile.
It's just like all these other rules that have to be changed because blacks can't follow them.
Now we're going to change the rules for everybody.
But I'd like to move on to questions of statuary.
It was you who called my attention to this wonderful new statue that has been erected in Times Square.
It is by Kehinde Wiley.
Kehinde Wiley is better known as a painter than a sculptor.
This is one of his first ventures into sculpture and it's his largest sculpture.
It is 27 feet high.
It is called Rumors of War and it was unveiled on Friday with the aid of the Malcolm X Chabaz High School Marching Band and its dancers.
This was a gala, a gala and altogether black affair.
Now, this is an equestrian statue, and it's equestrian statue created as a response to the monument to Jeb Stuart, Confederate General, that now stands in Richmond, Virginia.
And it is imitative in the sense that this man is on a horse with a raised hoof, and he's looking back over his shoulder, just as the great Jeb Stuart is doing in Richmond, Virginia.
As I said, 27 feet high, but Of course, we do not have Jeb Stewart on the horse.
We have somebody who is distinctly and obviously black.
Correct.
He has got dreadlocks, tied in a ponytail, his jeans are torn at the knees, and he's wearing, guess what, Nike high-top sneakers.
He also has a hoodie.
Is he got a hoodie?
He has a hoodie.
Oh, that makes me feel so much better.
And the hood is down, so it's not up in the Trayvon Martin covering.
Well, that might cover up his dreadlocks.
Actually, if I could, Mr. Taylor, I want all of those people listening who can pause, go ahead and pause, and look up This monument real quick.
Look up the statue.
Rumors of war.
Rumors of war.
Just look up rumorsofwarimages.google.com and just take a look at this.
We'll be right here.
We'll be waiting for you, but just pause it for a second.
I want you to look at this because as wonderful of a job that Mr. Taylor did describing what the statue looks like, you have to see it.
The fact is, if you looked at it from a distance, you would think that it's a perfectly ordinary equestrian statue.
The horse is pretty realistic.
The horse doesn't wear dreadlocks.
The horse isn't wearing sneakers.
I'm surprised by that.
They should have given the horse a hoodie, for heaven's sake, to make it all fit in.
But Wiley, Wiley, Kehinde Wiley, brother Kehinde, he explained, I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.
This is my America, too.
That's his justification for this statue.
Then he said the statue is a response to the, quote, dread and fear that he feels every time he walks past a Confederate statue.
So this lovely creation will be in Times Square until December 1st.
It will then be permanently installed at the foot of the newly renamed Arthur Ashe Boulevard in Richmond.
It used to be just called the Boulevard.
It's one of the main... It transects Monument Avenue, which is where all the Confederate monuments are put up.
Of course, they added a monument to Arthur Ashe, the black tennis player, oh, years ago, because just to cock a snook at the Confederates.
But now they're going to add yet another statue in opposition to the Confederate generals.
Now, the mayor of Richmond, his name is LeVar Stoney.
He is 38 years old, and of course he's black.
He says, we have 10 Confederate monuments in our city, and that's 10 too many.
So he's going to right the balance, at least to some degree.
Now, a little bit more about Kehinde Wiley.
Many of his paintings are an imitation of classic poses of people rearing up on galloping horses, but he will have a black man instead of the person who was painted in the 17th century or the 19th century in the original.
This is sort of his trademark.
I would say that as far as his painterly craft is concerned, he can do a pretty realistic painting.
He's got a certain amount of imitative talent.
But the portraits of his that became widely known at the time, he was fingered by President Obama to paint his official portrait.
Had I not mentioned that?
He painted the official portrait of Barack Obama that now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery.
But in 2012, he painted two pictures of black women holding a sword in one hand and the severed head of a white woman in the other hand, being swung around by the hair.
In the case of one of the black women's severed head, it's a brunette.
The other is a redhead.
But they're clearly white.
They're clearly breeding.
They've clearly been chopped off by the sword held in the hand of this rather smug-looking black woman.
It's a different black woman in each case.
There are two versions as I said, one brunette, one redhead, but in case the the banner in both cases is black.
Now, one of these is on display in the North Carolina Museum of Art and the description by the museum goes as follows.
Wiley translates this image of a courageous powerful woman into a contemporary version that resonates with fury and righteousness.
Doesn't that make you feel better?
I'm so warm inside.
Doesn't that make you feel good?
Now Wiley himself has described these two beheading statues as it's sort of a play on the Kill Whitey thing.
Sort of a play?
It looks to me like it's the Kill Whitey thing.
So he's the guy who has put up this rather absurd statue, this equestrian statue of the guy in Nike high tops and hoodie, that was unveiled to much fanfare in Times Square.
Think about what we're seeing all across the country, Mr. Taylor.
Prospector Pete statues coming down at a school in California.
You're seeing statues to Christopher Columbus come down all across the nation.
There's a big battle in St.
Louis right now.
You're seeing statues to founding fathers.
We're not far away from when somebody says, hey, Andrew Jackson, Trail of Tears, look what he said about blacks.
We got to get rid of The statue of him in New Orleans.
Of course.
At Thomas Jefferson, there are statues of him.
There's one of him in UVA.
It gets defaced all the time.
It says rapist, miscegenator.
There are a number of statues of Thomas Jefferson.
I haven't heard of one coming down yet, but why not?
Well, here's the question I have for you, Mr. Taylor.
Rumors of war.
Provocative, provocative name for this.
It's a thumb in the eye to not just white southerners.
This isn't just about the Confederate statues.
I'm sorry, it's not.
It's time that we move beyond this war on Confederate statues.
It's a war on every aspect of white history.
Think back to what we talked about earlier this year when there were discussions about getting rid of the John Wayne statue at John Wayne Airport in Orange County.
Oh yes.
He's still standing though.
He's still standing?
Yes.
Who knows for how long?
What?
He was a bad guy.
He was a terrible guy in that Playboy interview.
But you know, he had three wives, every one of them Mexican as I recall.
Well, they were Spanish.
If you look at his kids there, they look quite white.
Well, they look like, well, I've seen some photographs.
Well, they look senorita to me, but anyway.
We'll leave that for the specialists.
But yes, you know, I must say, it is true that the guy in the hoodie and the high tops does not have a weapon.
But I think, to quote Wiley, to quote Kehinde Wiley, the sculptor, it's sort of a play on the Kill Whitey thing.
I, absolutely.
I think it kind of is.
And I'm sure that all of our listeners took the time, as we requested, to pause this podcast and take a look at the statue.
Ladies and gentlemen, you come up with your own idea.
What do you believe that this provocative statue is trying to, what's it trying to evoke?
Well, the thing about it is, I think it's just absurd.
I mean, it's a foolish, ridiculous thing.
And the more absurd, foolish, and ridiculous, the happier I am.
Agreed.
I think not only white people, but black people are going to look at that and think, what's this?
What's going on here?
It just doesn't make any sense.
And to say that somehow, I mean, we know that Kehinde Wiley thinks this is a slap in the face of the Confederacy and white supremacy, but it's just absurd.
And I think that's how most people would see it.
Well, I'll end with this before we move on to another absurd monument that's in a former wonderful city in Rome.
I'm surprised that there's not a push to have it taken to New Orleans to put upon that pedestal where Robert E. Lee was removed from.
You know that it's in that huge park and you drive around it's a it's a roundabout.
I saw it back in I think 2005 right before Katrina was down in New Orleans and I made a point to go to See the Jackson statue and to see the Robert E. Lee statue when I was there and I was just blown away and I'm surprised they don't try and put it on that pedestal.
Well, you know, that's the great thing about casting statues.
You can make more than one.
And, you know, why don't you write Kehinde and say, you know, there's a wonderful pedestal waiting for rumors of war.
Yeah, it's a great idea.
But yes, this other statue.
This is the first new sculpture that's been installed in St.
Peter's Square, right in front of St.
Peter's Cathedral, in over 400 years.
400 years!
But this reflects enormous progress, believe me.
This is a depiction of 140 migrants and refugees.
Yes.
And they're all in a boat.
And this sculpture is called Angels Unaware.
Now, do you know where that name comes from?
Educate me.
Yes, if you had boned up on your scripture, you might know.
It comes from Hebrews 13, 12.
And Hebrews 13, 12 goes like this.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unaware.
Okay.
In other words, you have to be hospitable.
You never know.
It might be an angel.
It might be an angel.
And the artist who sculpted this, his name is Timothy Schmalz.
And readers do not, listeners I should say, listeners do not jump to conclusions.
Timothy Schmalz is a devout Catholic.
He created the original concept at the request of the Vatican's Migrants and Refugees Office, which is overseen directly by the Pope himself.
And the Pope was present for the unveiling of this 20-foot-tall, three- and one-half-ton sculpture on the occasion of a special Mass that he said in St.
Peter's Square for migrants and refugees.
I might add that the 140 figures, and there are lots of photographs.
This is another one that you can stop or go to later and look at the photographs.
This depicts refugees from different cultures and different times in history.
Yes, it does.
From indigenous peoples, to Jews escaping Nazi Germany, to Syrians and Africans fleeing war and famine today.
Another heartwarming statue reminds us of what we owe to our Southern brothers and sisters.
Timothy Schmaltz.
He is best known for a sculpture called Homeless Jesus.
Homeless Jesus is a bum wrapped up in a blanket lying on a park bench.
You can't even see his face.
But, again, these are angels unaware.
You have no idea.
It might be Jesus.
It might be Jesus on that park bench, so you better take him into your house.
Now, on the question of angels unaware, it reminds me, of course, of all of these kind-hearted people who take refugees into their homes and they get raped or murdered or all the things stolen.
Sometimes there may be devils unaware.
Well, that just happened in France, actually.
There was a refugee advocate who was murdered by the immigrant who she took into her home.
That's right.
That's right.
This happens.
This happened.
I don't know how often it happens, but it certainly does happen, so beware of devil's unawareness.
But that's not in Hebrews, apparently.
It ought to be.
It should have been, but when I produce the Jared Taylor version of the Bible, I'll make sure to include, beware of devils unawares.
No, I'm going to get an F here, but is Hebrew, is that in the New Testament or the Old Testament?
That's the letter to the Hebrews, I think.
You know, I'm feeling very bad about this myself.
I believe it's in the New Testament.
Well, we'll let other people scold us.
Yes, they won't scold us.
It's in the New Testament.
I think it's one of the epistles to the Hebrews.
That's correct.
If I'm not mistaken.
But, you know, we are feeling very embarrassed by this.
But moving right along, because there's always more.
There's always more.
I'd like to briefly mention the lady who used to be my favorite member of the New York Times editorial board, Sarah John.
In her 30s, the youngest person ever to be appointed to that prestigious post, a naturalized citizen from Korea.
Correct.
Who was appointed to that rather high-profile position despite all of her anti-white tweets.
She talked about white people going extinct, my plan all along.
She said everything white people turn, white men touch turns into, and then she used some A non-medical term for excreta.
In any case, I won't go into all of her.
I think our listeners are probably aware of some of the things she's been up to.
And Mr. Taylor, you forget to point out one thing.
She's dating a white male.
Such venom and vitriol toward whites on Twitter, yet she has no problem, once she puts down the keyboard and stops typing, Hanging out with a whitey.
To me, what amazes me is not that she's dating a white guy, but that a white guy is dating her.
There are masochists of every race.
I guess there are.
In any case, she attracted a certain amount of attention because she had tweeted the idea of supporting boycotting The Times.
If people disagreed with what it wrote or the soldiers that it brought up and apparently the Times had released some information about this Ukraine whistleblower guy who's trying to get Trump into trouble and some readers thought that canceling their subscriptions was a way to protest that the Times had done this and she said she said yep sometimes canceling Subscriptions in Protest backs up, in her voice, in her words, dissenting views inside the paper about what it should do and be.
So she's, in effect, saying, yeah, if you don't like it, cancel your subscription.
And she's, of course, on the board.
She was.
And so the enterprising reporters called up the New York Times and said, well, it seems a little odd that a member of the editorial board has been saying these things.
Turns out, The editorial board replied by saying Sarah decided to leave the editorial board in August.
So she's been gone since August.
But the New York Times did not announce this.
But the editorial page editor, Kate Kingsley, said, we're still glad to have her journalism and insights in our pages through her work as a contributor.
So she's a contract contributor.
She's not really on the staff anymore.
So I'd be very curious to know why the Times let her go.
Well, I'll never forget that day when this story broke and you said, before we went on air, you know, I don't think they're going to go through this hiring.
I think they're going to rescind and she's going to be looking for another form of employment.
And I said, no, no, no, no, no.
They will never, ever, ever, ever admit that there is any legitimacy to the concept of anti-whiteness.
That's just the paradigm we live in.
They're going to double down and she's going to stay on board.
And you said, hey, well, We'll do a bet.
We never came to a monetary agreement.
Fortunately for me.
Fortunately for you, that's right.
You were right.
Looking back, it's just fascinating to think that the reason why she was let go or why her employment ended on this board had nothing to do with anything that she said about whites.
We don't know.
We just don't know.
If she did leave in August, and the New York Times kept it a secret, they didn't make an announcement, it was with enormous fanfare that they appointed her.
Oh, yes.
And they let her go in utter and total complete silence.
But yes, you're right, when those tweets came out, I thought, uh-oh, she's going to be hitting the brakes.
But nope, did not happen to her.
But let's move on back to Fairfax County, the home county of American Renaissance.
And it has to do with a 12-year-old girl, a sixth grader named Amari Allen.
She is a student at the Emanuel Christian School.
And on September, I believe it was 27th, or just the day before that, she complained that some of her classmates, three white boys, had attacked her.
Well, not attacked her, I suppose, but they had held her down and they called her dreadlocks, ugly and nappy, and cut them off.
She says, they kept laughing and calling me names.
They called me ugly.
And they said, I shouldn't have been born.
And they call me an attention seeker.
Wow.
That's interesting.
But in any case, this made big news.
Excuse me?
Freudian slip on her part.
Who's the attention seeker?
Right.
Well, anyway, the Fairfax County Police were called in to investigate, and it turns out this was a hoax.
But the national news was very excited about this, not only because hate White hate comes emanating up from 12-year-olds.
All white people are guilty.
And they start mighty young.
And this was proof.
Furthermore, the Vice President's wife, Karen Pence, has a part-time job there.
And some of the people, some of the headlines, NBC News, NBC News, their headline was, three boys at Christian school where Karen Pence teaches, allegedly cut black girls dreadlocks.
Newsweek said, sixth graders hold down classmate, cut her dreadlocks at private Christian school where Karen Pence teaches.
Another way to blame the Trump administration.
A double whammy.
Attack whites and the Trump administration.
You're right.
Make all white people guilty and at the same time, like you said, assign the blame also to the Trump administration.
Yes, yes.
So this was a twofer.
They were really excited about this.
But now it turns out it's all a hoax.
But here, this is a statement by the school.
The school says, we feel tremendous pain for the victims and the hurt on both sides of this conflict.
There are no sides.
Both sides?
No.
She lied and the entire media which is so desirous of trying to find stories that make white people, committed by a white individual that will then make all white people feel guilty and look bad.
This story was everywhere.
The New York Times actually in their In their original headline, it said, Black girl's hair cut by three whites.
And then they actually, I don't know if you have this in your notes.
I have the very headline.
Please, go ahead.
Roll the ugliness.
Yes.
When the New York Times headline in September 27 was, Black Virginia girl says white classmates cut her dreadlocks in playground.
And there was a photo of Amari Allen with her dreadlocks, of what was left of them.
The attention seeker.
Three days later.
Headline.
Virginia girl, race unspecified.
Recant stories of boys, race unspecified.
Cutting off dreadlocks.
Small story, small headlines.
Blood libel against whites.
The media ran all over it.
They loved it.
But we are so used to this, we are not surprised.
And then we're going to end with a few international stories.
More local color, more heartwarming tales.
The island of Lesbos.
That's of course where the famous original lesbian is said to have come from.
That's where it comes from.
Sappho.
The Greek poetess was on the island of Lesbos and she apparently had a same-sex preference and that's where the word lesbian comes from.
In any case, the Greek island of Lesbos now houses an illegal immigrant camp.
And over the weekend they rioted and they set fire to the buildings in the camp, killing two people.
A mother and her child among the immigrants.
Yes.
Charming people.
Charming.
Delightful people.
They also set a fire in an olive grove outside the camp.
And they are insisting that they be transferred to the mainland and then turned loose.
Off the island of Lesbos.
Yes.
Off the island.
Off the island of Lesbos.
And on another matter that very same day.
In northern Greece, police reported that a speeding car, this is just a regular sedan, carrying 12 Afghan migrants.
12?
12!
Ran a red light, crashed into a vehicle coming from a side street, killing its driver.
A 64-year-old Greek man.
Yes.
As it turns out, some of the immigrants were found in the sedan's trunk.
Packed 12 into this thing and they run around light and they kill a Greek man.
So this is what migrants bring to Greece.
It's what they bring to wherever they go.
And then one last international story.
This is a story about a Nigerian man in Japan.
Okay.
He was detained because he was living there illegally.
He had previously been convicted for theft.
He was put into detention and he went on a hunger strike.
And after three weeks of hunger strike, during which he refused food and medical treatment and lost nearly 30 pounds, he died.
Now, I saw this on Yahoo News and I scanned the first 20 or 30 comments.
All quite positive.
I was a little bit surprised.
And I'll read you some of the choicer ones.
Please do.
One was, where did he think he was, the USA?
Then another, his choice to become a criminal and his choice to go on a hunger strike.
Here's another one.
Maybe he developed a conscience and decided not to take handouts anymore.
Then here's another one.
He showed him.
And then here, this is really quite a funny one.
He was that prince who was going to send me money.
And then yet another one.
Cool.
And they didn't even have to feed him.
Now, as I say, I guess Yahoo doesn't monitor its comments, but these are, I assume, all Americans.
Not one in the top 20 or 30, and I stopped after I got to there, not one was like, oh, this is horrible.
His decision to go on a hunger strike?
Too bad.
Do you know what his fortune cookie said that he never got to open?
No.
Embrace the buffet of life.
I guess he failed to embrace the buffet of life.
But we do embrace the buffet of life.
We embrace the diversity of all of our experiences.
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