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Dec. 27, 2019 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Does ‘Merry Christmas’ Promote White Supremacy?
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Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the final Radio Renaissance podcast for the year 2019.
We have just had our Christmas celebrations and I hope, I sincerely hope that all of our listeners all around the world were good little boys and girls and were amply rewarded by a very generous Santa Claus this year.
It is, of course, my pleasure to be co-hosting this podcast with the indispensable PK.
So I hope that you will find the year's podcasts so far to be worthy of tuning in next year.
And I'm going to start with a request to Mr. Kersey to tell us something about the countdown to Christmas, which has just come and gone, as it always does every year.
Well, good afternoon, good evening, and a belated good morning to all of our listeners out there.
And like you said, Merry, Merry Christmas to everyone.
And I stress what Mr. Taylor said, hope you had a wonderful Christmas.
And as we look forward to 2020, we do have one story about Christmas that we'd be remiss if we didn't bring up, actually two.
And one of those, now, Mr. Taylor, I know you don't watch much television, but were you aware that the Hallmark Channel dedicated basically All of December after Thanksgiving.
Two movies all about one little holiday called Christmas.
No, I wasn't aware of that.
These are insanely popular movies.
Cheaply made, yet they're fantastic.
I've seen a couple of them and I'm sure some of our listeners out there are scoffing.
They're thinking, gosh, why would anyone watch some of these programs?
Well, you know why?
Because in a lot of ways they're all They all try and follow that same basic template that Coppola made when he made It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Taylor.
I know that's one of a movie that you've talked about before.
I think you... Did you get a chance to watch it this Christmas season?
Yes, I watched it this very Christmas and it was the first opportunity for one of my daughters to watch it.
So, it was something of a milestone.
That's fantastic.
Well, look at it this way.
These Hallmark movies are basically their attempt every night to have a milestone of their own for the viewers to watch, you know, an updated take on that whole concept of, hey, Christmas is a time where miracles do happen.
And unfortunately, the Hallmark parent company executive, Bill Abbott, he just talked with the Hollywood Reporter's TV Top Five about how the 10-year-old countdown to Christmas programming block largely ignores Other faiths and inclusion.
What?
You mean, this is a countdown to Christmas, but there are no Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, animist programming?
Even Kwanzaa is left off the docket.
So while other networks are viewing the holidays with an eye toward inclusion, Hallmark is delivering the dream of a white Christmas just like the ones audiences used to know.
What I just read to you was from that Hollywood Reporter article.
I hope you could tell just how condescending that writer was, delivering the dream of a white Christmas just like the ones audiences used to know.
Well, but wait.
Just the fact that they don't go into other religions doesn't necessarily make all the movies white, right?
Well...
The majority of the actors, they are overwhelmingly white.
And I don't say that with any sense of, oh gosh, that's horrible.
They're fantastic.
The audiences love them.
They wouldn't be making these movies and putting them out if A, they weren't getting an audience, they weren't getting viewers, and B, if advertisers weren't spending top dollar to then market their products.
Dear listener, to those who are watching these movies, get this, of the network's record 24 original holiday movies this season.
Again, They made 24 original Christmas movies for 2019 alone.
Four of them have black leads.
So just four, according to Bill Abbott, who serves as the CEO of Hallmark Parent, Crown Media Family Networks.
And guess what?
That's actually down from last year, when five of its 21 original holiday movies had black leads.
Did you say four out of 24?
Correct, I did.
That's one sixth.
That's approximately the black population, for heaven's sake.
That doesn't matter.
In the eyes of the critics of the Christmas Hallmark Channel, there's too many whites if there are just one lead, I guess.
Well, you know, that's the way it is.
If blacks are represented in numbers equivalent to their population, then that's insufficient diversity.
As I mentioned in a video that I made about sports, it's the National Basketball League that is 80% black that gets top marks for, believe it or not, diversity.
So, I guess now I understand.
Yes, it's all overwhelmingly too white when whites are represented at their figures in the population, or at least blacks.
Well, maybe, you know, they probably didn't have a sufficient quota of Hispanics, American Indians, and who knows who else.
Well, don't get to that.
Here's what Bill Abbott said.
I'd like to read this quote from Bill Abbott before we move to your Your story about Christmas and television.
So here's what he said in regards to this criticism that, gosh, you just have too many white leads.
You can't have this white Christmas that your audience obviously wants to watch.
He said, quote, I think that generalization isn't fair either, that we just have Christmas with white leads.
In terms of broadening out the demographic, it's something we're always thinking about, always considering, and we'll continue to make the movies where the best scripts are delivered to us and what we think have the most potential.
End quote.
Now, Mr. Taylor, here's a thought experiment for you.
The most popular Christmas movies that people watch, invariably they follow to It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, which was made in 1980s about Ralphie who wants a BB gun for Christmas, which is set, I believe, in the suburbs of Cleveland in the 1940s, maybe the early 1950s.
Then I would say that you could throw in one of the Christmas carols, you could throw in the Peanuts' Charlie Brown Christmas, and then maybe A Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase.
Now, all those movies are overwhelmingly white because guess what?
The country was once that way.
And no one really thought about whiteness in terms that we do now because we just thought of ourselves as Americans.
And that's one of the things when you watch these movies, you are able to disassociate yourself from the insanity of contemporary America and put yourself back into a... even if it's just for one night or during this Christmas block for 24 movies, An America where this stuff doesn't matter because it's just like oxygen you breathe.
That's the country that exists.
Well, you know, watching A Christmas Story, I couldn't help being struck by, of course, how overwhelmingly white the cast was.
But that movie was made in the 1940s, was it not?
1944?
You know, I'm probably mistaken.
You're better at dates than I am.
But there is one black character.
The maid at the household where all this goes on, she is black.
And she has some of the best lines in the whole movie, I know.
Well, she's been saving all of her money up for if she ever got herself a divorce.
It's one of the great lines ever at the very end.
Spoiler alert when she gives the money to George Bailey.
That's right.
She has some of the very best lines.
No one treats her with anything but respect and affection.
Correct.
But she is really the only black character in an overwhelmingly white movie.
But, dear me, well, okay, the countdown to Christmas, maybe we'll have to call it, who knows, the countdown to December 25th or the countdown to New Year or something.
We're just not going to be able to call it the countdown to Christmas.
It's got to be stuffed with non-Christian religions.
But if we may, I'll move on to my Christmas story, which is more brutal, I think.
Considerably more brutal.
This was a recent column in Salon by a woman by the name of Amanda Marcotte.
And the column was entitled, How Donald Trump Ruined Christmas.
I Won't Celebrate This Year and Why.
Donald Trump ruined Christmas, she says.
And I quote, Well, did Donald Trump, in some sort of special way, have his grubby mitts all over Christmas?
Not that I noticed.
But, she goes on to say, Merry Christmas has morphed into something ugly.
A way to imply that the point of Christmas is to declare white supremacist America as the only real America and to tell everyone else they can go hang.
Can you believe that?
Merry Christmas.
I can't.
Thanks to Donald Trump has morphed into a way to imply that the point of Christmas is to declare white supremacist America.
Good grief.
Now, lest others leap to unkind conclusions, she apparently was raised Christian.
She says that she's an atheist.
She lives with a partner, as she says, sex unspecified.
And from her photo, she is a typically homely white woman liberal.
Well, as a result of this column about Trump having somehow turned Christmas into a declaration of white supremacy, she wrote a second column.
And the second column was called, In Trump's America, Christianism No Longer a Religious Faith, It's White Identity Politics.
And she was stimulated to write this column because after her previous column, many people sought her out on social media and sent her messages that said, believe it or not, Merry Christmas.
Well, this got under her liberal skin to an intolerable degree, and it culminated in this sentence, which I must read to you verbatim.
She says, Conservatives have increasingly embraced the phrase Merry Christmas to mean, basically, fuck you to anyone that they've deemed less than legitimate Americans.
Now, were you aware of that?
No, I'm shocked by that.
Merry Christmas basically means, fuck you.
Okay, well that was news to me.
You know, I can't help feeling sorry for Amanda Marcotte.
All these people, all these strangers wish her a Merry Christmas, and she thinks that their message is, fuck you.
Boy, what a mean-spirited way to live through the year.
It's a miserable Scrooge-esque way to go through the years prior to being visited by the three ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future.
Yes, yes.
Well, she probably needs to be visited by something else.
I don't know what.
But our final Christmas story.
This is about those visitors to the United States who got a free trip home for the holidays.
And they got a free trip home thanks to something called Interior Repatriation Initiative.
And this is a procedure whereby people who are here illegally And who are being expelled from the country get a free plane ride back to where they came from.
At heretofore, well, it's been an off-and-on thing.
We've been flying Mexicans to the interior.
We decided not to do that.
We just send them across the border.
Of course, they just hop right back over the border.
But last week, there was a joint agreement between the governments of the United States and Mexico to provide, as they say, humane, safe, and orderly repatriation of Mexican nationals to the interior of Mexico.
So, if they live way down south, you don't just send them back across the border, whereas, as I say, they're likely to just hop back.
And the idea is that if you send them far away, they are also more likely to reintegrate themselves back into their communities, or at least that is what ICE is telling us.
And the way it works is ISIS, there's something called the Enforcement and Removal Operation, ERO.
It will provide air transportation to Guadalajara.
That's about 600 miles from Laredo, Texas.
And then the government of Mexico will provide additional transportation to the various cities of origin.
So it's a way to get them back and reintegrate them into Mexico.
Now, ICE Air Operations, as it's called.
It's been operating since 2006.
It's headquartered in Mesa, Arizona.
And, to quote from their press release, it enables the agency to repatriate large numbers of deportees in an efficient, expeditious, and humane manner.
Now, I looked into this ICE Air operations because I was intrigued by this press release that just came out.
And I have discovered that it operates hundreds of flights every year, sending immigrants home.
And basically, well, most of them up until this agreement were to Central America.
But about 100,000 people a year are deported on these flights.
The U.S.
government has spent approximately $1 billion on them in the last decade.
and the agency estimated last year and this is a peculiar way to express costs but apparently it
costs $7,785 per hour of flight. Now I would be curious to know what the per deportee cost was
but that we do not know.
At least, that's not what they're revealing.
And these are chartered flights, you see.
And rather than buying tickets on commercial flights, chartering these flights and filling them full of deportees saves about $25 million a year, and it gives the agency more flexibility also.
It avoids putting large numbers of the people on commercial planes.
And you can imagine, say, you look over and you've got, you know, 50 people all sitting in the back rows looking a little bit skeevy with deportation officers accompanying them.
And it would look particularly skeevy because they are shackled at their ankles and wrists.
And their shoelaces are removed, just in case they might do something not necessarily friendly with their shoelaces.
And the chains are removed and the shoelaces are returned only after the plane has landed.
Even those who are considered non-criminal and those who are criminal remain shackled until the plane lands.
I don't think it's just as well that they are separated off in their own little private flights because, as I say, you look around the airplane and you've got these people in shackles.
They're in civilian clothes and not in orange jumpsuits anyway.
But, this is just an intriguing little wrinkle to our immigration problem that I thought I would share with our listeners.
Now, the Associated Press that gave me this information about ice air, it sounds like it would be a place to fly you to Greenland or something, but ice air, it was criticized by Bob Liball.
He was the director of an immigrants' rights organization called Grassroots Leadership.
Of course.
Yes, the grassroots are really immigrant rights.
He was talking about the fact that these charter flights save about $25 million a year.
He says, The way you would save money on ice air is by deporting fewer people.
That's his solution.
I thought that was just a remarkable view to take here.
You just solved the problem by not deporting anybody.
Wouldn't cost a dime.
But that's the way things are for the people who are immigrants' rights advocates.
Now, just a little bit of information on immigrants and their consequences on voting.
This was from an article in American Greatness.
I don't know if you ever go to that site or whether our listeners do, but there's interesting material.
There's great material in American Greatness, if I may be so bold to say.
Go ahead and be bold.
I will agree with your boldness.
This article was by a fellow named Pedro Gonzalez.
Not an awe-inspiring name, but nevertheless, he made some excellent points.
He said an analysis of Census Bureau statistics for the 2018 midterm elections, and this was a senior editor at Atlantic who made these calculations, he said that Democrats now control 90% of the seats that have more immigrants than average.
What that means is the foreign-born population in the United States is approximately 14%.
If the foreign-born population is more than 14% in a congressional district, that means there is a 90% chance that that district is represented by a Democrat.
Dispossession.
Yes, dispossession, all right.
And this Ronald Brownstein of Atlantic, the senior editor who arrived at these numbers, noted that in 1990, Virginia's foreign-born population was 5%.
Well, 27 years later, it's 12.5%.
So, Virginia, and we've discussed this many times, the extent to which Virginia has gone from Democrat to, I'm sorry, from Republican to Democrat across the board in just a period of 20 years.
Well, and the thing is, it's all concentrated.
You think Virginia's a big state, you think about where that concentration of that influx is Located, and that's Northern Virginia, that's Loudoun, Prince William, Fairfax, Alexandria, Arlington.
Those are the areas where that change is most significant.
The majority of the state, and I know that there's a certain someone writing a pretty big article for the American Renaissance periodical, or the digital periodical I should say, regarding what's happening in Virginia and the Second Amendment.
Mr. Taylor, 90% of the counties in Virginia have declared themselves sanctuary counties for the Second Amendment because of what's taking place with these threats of coming out of Richmond from Governor Northam when it comes to what's going to happen once they're able to pass basically whatever gun laws they want.
Yes.
And you realize that, again, it's only a handful of counties that are responsible for Virginia tipping and the way that the congressional districts are mapped out and gerrymandered throughout the state.
More and more, we have these stark divisions between parts of a state and other parts of a state, in which, as you note, the places, the jurisdictions that you just mentioned, some of them are becoming increasingly non-white, and the people who are white, or some of them are so-called white, as we will discover later on in the story about Virginia.
There is such a dramatic difference between the thinking in those areas and the voting in those areas and the way people see the world and the rest of the state.
All of these divisions are getting sharper and sharper and sharper.
But I want to move along to a New York Times story from last week, and it had a headline.
It was Earth science has a whiteness problem.
Earth science.
Now, this is geology, this is climate, anything having to do with, you know, plate tectonics, all of this is called Earth science.
This was by a lady by the name of Emma Goldberg, and she gave a, well, probably her editors, gave this subheading to her article.
Barely 10% of doctoral degrees in the geosciences go to recipients of color.
The lack of diversity limits the quality of research, many scientists say.
Now, you know, where do they get these ideas?
I suppose if you really work hard, you can dig up somebody with a PhD In geology, who will say that, gee, if we had more Africans, and we had more Tasmanians, and we had more Eskimos, and who knows who all else, we would get much better research.
But I just don't think you get many of them.
But the subhead says that many scientists say this lack of diversity limits the quality of research.
Anyway, this article starts with somebody by the name of Arianna Varuolo-Clark.
Now, it doesn't say specifically.
She's a person of color, so I guess she is one of these melanin-enriched people.
But in 2014, she landed an internship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research as a college sophomore.
That sounds like she's not facing serious barriers to me.
But she quickly realized that her path as a woman of color would not be easy.
Here she is, a sophomore at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
That, as I say, looks like somebody's been greasing the ways for her.
She says, you'd walk through the halls and it's a lot of old white men.
How dare they live long enough to be old!
And why are they walking through any hallways?
How dare they?
Yes.
Well, according to this article, still she pushed forward.
Oh, I bet she pushed forward.
You know, there are all these programs that just love to get people who look like Ms.
Valoro Clark into sciences, but she began her PhD in Atmospheric Science at Columbia University just last year.
Well, She is working at something called the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
That is a Columbia institution.
Now, I've never heard of an Earth Observatory before.
I suppose any of us walking the surface of the Earth can claim that we are right in the middle of an Earth Observatory if we open our eyes.
But this is a 157-acre campus in Palisades, New York, 18 miles north of Manhattan on the Hudson River.
More than 300 research scientists are there.
Well, apparently it's just hideously, horrifyingly, disgustingly white.
But the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, in a commentary last week, a woman by the name of Kuheli Dutt, who is the observatory's assistant director for academic affairs and diversity, diversity, wrote that, quote, a lack of diversity and inclusion is the single largest cultural problem facing the geosciences today.
Now, well, Mr. Kersey, were you aware that the geosciences have cultural problems?
I wasn't aware.
I thought the greatest problem was plate tectonic shifting or trying to make sure that the latest earthquake technology or Making sure that we have the latest technology in place to be able to forecast when earthquakes might be happening.
I thought that might be one of the greatest threats.
Well, you know, if I were, I'm sure that Kuheli Dutt is very much a liberal, and she might have thought that one of the great problems is figuring out global warming, for heaven's sake.
But no, the single largest cultural problem, and as I said, I didn't realize they had any cultural problems at all, but of the many cultural problems they face, Diversity.
Lack of diversity is the largest.
Well, she joined the observatory 11 years ago and is the only person of color in a leadership role.
But since then, she has led trainings for geoscientists on recognizing their implicit bias so as to foster a more racially inclusive environment.
Well, a 2016 survey from the National Science Foundation showed that representation of people of color in geosciences has barely budged in the last four decades.
So, this is a horrifying state of affairs, although there's been significant gains made in the sex balance, and women are 50-50.
So women are doing fine.
So what that means, of course, is that these hideous white men, there are a lot fewer of them than there were, but they're being replaced not by the people that really deserve to be there, women of color or gentlemen of color, but they're being replaced by, oh, those pale, stale white women.
But you'd be happy to know that Asian-Americans are better represented than other people of color, accounting for 6%.
So, they are out.
They have gone beyond the representation of 5% of the population.
Well, are they honorary people of color in this circumstance, or are they just ancillary?
You know, they're always the exception, and the people who are trying to tell us that we're hideously white always kind of get a bit of a hiccup when it comes to these, but it was conceded that Asian Americans are better represented than other people of color.
But now, here, this is one of the punchlines.
Lorelei Curtin.
Uh, who is a fifth-year PhD student at this Columbia University Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.
She said that her earth science classes could be enriched by a greater focus on non-white and indigenous histories and voices given that, quote, indigenous people have a unique connection to the land.
Now, let's think about that.
I guess she's telling us that Tierra del Fuegoians and Cherokees and Uyghurs, because of their unique connection to the land, would make better earth scientists than anybody else.
This sounds like this mysticism over science to me.
But there you go.
Well, this sounds like the mysticism surrounding that infamous commercial from, I guess it's the late 70s, where the white man Throw some litter on the ground and then an Indian sheds a tear.
That's right.
That's right.
And then, of course, they have this mystical connection to the ground, to the land.
And so we need them.
You know, if we need them running the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, I suspect we need them running everything in the country, don't you?
If they're really good at geology and plate tectonics, boy, I bet they'd be really good at everything.
I think that's the only way to observe and to analyze this story correctly.
Now, is this story that you just read to us, is that more absurd than the attack on Anglo-Saxon studies that we talked about earlier this year?
You know, I think it is probably a little less absurd, because when it comes to Anglo-Saxon studies, the idea that white people would be interested in that, and that you can call it Anglo-Saxon studies, remember, they didn't even like the name!
No.
Because the name implied racism, exclusion.
At least the acronym Earth Sciences, I mean, everybody walks the earth.
So, no, this is not quite as absurd, but you're right.
I immediately thought of the Anglo-Saxon Studies controversy and how they're going to change the name of the publication.
I can't remember what they... Didn't they decide it was going to be Medieval Studies or something like that?
But Anglo-Saxons, oh boy, they are the world's great villains, of course, so we don't dare be studying them.
Correct.
But I think, now didn't you have some sort of equally astonishing observations by our great hero Michael Moore?
Yeah, the author of a book entitled Stupid White Man actually did a video interview recently with Rolling Stone magazine.
I gotta confess, I don't read, the only magazine I read anymore, ladies and gentlemen, of Mr. Taylor is I think the NRA magazine Shooting Illustrated.
So I didn't even know Rolling Stone still published.
But this past Tuesday, just before Christmas, Michael Moore said white men who voted for President Donald Trump were, quote, not good people, end quote.
He would go on and say, quote, I refuse to participate in post-racial America.
I refuse to say because we elected Obama that suddenly that means everything is OK.
White people have changed.
White people have not changed.
He continued.
Two-thirds of all white guys voted for Trump.
That means anytime you see three white guys walking at you down the street towards you, two of them voted for Trump.
You need to move over to the other sidewalk because these are not good people that are walking towards you.
You should be afraid of them.
End quote.
And I tried to do a nasally voice there to really emphasize Michael Moore and how he speaks.
But this is again, what is he talking about here?
Honestly, what is he talking about here?
What is there to be afraid of?
Well, you know, those white men, those white men are mighty dangerous.
All those muggings that they're guilty of, all those perch snatchings, all that stabbing.
No.
For him to come out and speak that way, it's extraordinary.
Now, at least he laid off the white women.
A majority of white women voted for Trump, too.
At least he's not saying, look out for them.
They're dangerous.
They're bad people.
But I suppose if he'd been asked specifically about that, he probably would have.
Do you remember all of those white liberals who were just enraged that white women actually voted for this repulsive man?
But to him, to come right out and say they're just outright bad people, that's even worse than deplorable, it seems to me.
What do you think?
Outright bad people, it's, again, it's a dehumanizing language.
It's the type of mentality that if you were to do, again, I hate playing this game, but imagine if The races were reversed in this conversation and it was Jared Taylor saying, you know, do you know that 90% of blacks voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election?
That means if you're walking down a street and there are 10 black people walking at you, only one of them Voted for Trump.
So you've got to get on the other sidewalk, because that's just dangerous.
They're just bad people.
What?
It's just incredible.
And he gets no criticism for this, of course.
Only people like you even notice.
But there you go.
That's Michael Moore, the great documentary filmmaker.
Well, thanks, Michael.
We're glad to know we've been warned.
We know our place.
And I suspect if Michael Moore had the power to do so, He'd round up all those Trump voters and maybe put them behind the wire.
Treat us like Uyghurs in China.
What do you think?
Re-education camps?
Make sure that we never get a chance to vote again?
I think it's basically just they're making it quite clear with what they're doing in Virginia.
That is the goal, right?
Re-education camps are unnecessary when it's an open-air concentration camp that you live in.
Well, I guess, speaking of bad people, I suppose we shouldn't make such a sudden transition as we are doing now, but since Michael Moore is making the point, I'm afraid I am going to be so bold as to make a point about bad people myself.
And it had to do with a gathering just last week In the south side of Chicago, of a large number of people, early Sunday, after having celebrated Saturday night, they'd gathered for a birthday party.
Ooh!
A birthday party, yes.
I'll tell you more about the birthday boy later.
But at this birthday party, Well, we don't know what exactly caused this outbreak of gunfire, but 13 people were wounded, four of them critically.
And that was a record in a single shooting incident, a record since at least 2013.
And those shot range in age from 16 to 48.
Now, who was the birthday boy?
The birthday boy was Lonnell Irvin.
He would have been 22 years old, but Lonnell Irvin is deceased, and he is described as a victim of gun violence.
So here we are celebrating the birthday of a poor victim of gun violence, and gun violence breaks out in one of these great ironies in some of these unusual neighborhoods in the United States.
To call Lanell Irvin a victim of gun violence I suppose is technically correct.
But, well, what happened to poor Lanell?
He, in fact, was wielding his own gun when he attempted to carjack a man who was driving a 2015 BMW, which Lanell coveted.
As it turns out, his victim had a license to carry a concealed handgun, which he produced, and he shot Irvin in the head.
So that was indeed the fate of this victim of gun violence.
Now, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is aware of what happened and she has discovered that nobody is coming to cooperate and say who was doing the shooting.
She said people in that house know what happened.
And we urge them to overcome their fears and come forward with information.
But so far, so far, they are fearing stitches so they're not being snitches.
Just to confirm what you just said, 13 people at this party, this birthday party, for a deceased African-American.
Now, you know, nowhere in the article does it say that Lonnell Irvin was an African-American, and perhaps you and I are leaping to wholly unwarranted conclusions, but I think I would bet the next 25 mortgage payments that this was pretty much an all-black cast.
But what you're saying from this story, I just want to confirm this, because This is one of those moments where you begin to realize why Chicago has such a low clearance rate for not just non-fatal shooting, but fatal shootings for homicides.
You're saying that 13 people were shot, 4 people severely wounded, yet no one is coming forward with any information to police to try and get the individuals who participated in the shooting.
They're having a tough time.
Now, maybe since this came out, someone has responded to Mayor Lori Lightfoot and said, OK, we need to step up and get this stuff under control.
As it turns out, one of the people who stopped a bullet may have been involved, but they're not sure either.
He might have been a shooter, too.
We don't know how many people shooting, but anyway, this is a story that has not yet come to its conclusion.
Now, in this article, I was fascinated by a quotation from a community member.
Her name was Renee Collins, and she was aware of this party, this birthday party, and she's quoted as saying, as she shakes her head, when I heard there was nice weather, I prayed because I knew this would happen.
She knows her neighborhood.
Yeah, this reminds me of something Michelle Obama said back in October.
Do you remember what she said about white flight in Chicago?
Yes.
She was incensed that white people would clear out.
But there was more to it than that, as I recall.
Now, of course, she lives in one of those white flight neighborhoods, but be that as it may.
I'm pretty sure her and Barry bought a place in Martha's Vineyard.
But here's what she said.
It's pretty interesting.
Upstanding families like ours.
She's speaking of her family she grew up with.
White folks moved out because they were afraid of what our families represented.
I always stop there when I talk about this out in the world because I want to remind white folks that y'all were running from us.
This family with all the values you read about, you ran from us and you're still running.
End quote.
So, she was of course talking about when they moved in to a neighborhood in Chicago.
Not that far different from the one you just spoke about, where 13 people were shot at a birthday party for a deceased African American, where no one is coming forward to talk to the police.
Because as you so aptly pointed out, in the black community, snitches get stitches.
Well, the great irony, of course, is that Michelle and husband Barack, they, too, appear to be running from black folk.
If you look, they own four houses, as I understand it.
One is in a very nice area of Chicago, overwhelmingly white.
Another is on Martha's Vineyard, as you point out.
One is in Georgetown, I believe, in an overwhelmingly white area.
And I forget where the fourth is, but it too, having looked into it, it too does not seem to be in a vibrant, diverse neighborhood.
So it's a little, well, I just can't help but note the humor in her complaint that white people are running for black people.
Well, she has done the same thing once she had the means.
But, uh, Baltimore.
Let's move to Baltimore.
From Chicago to Baltimore.
And I'm not sure you would know the difference once you left one and arrived at the other.
Oh, there's a big difference.
Chicago's still 33% white and it is a, it's, I gosh, it's millions of people when it comes to the population of the city.
So Chicago still has a large tax base.
They can keep alive that city for a few more decades.
Baltimore Mr. Taylor, when the 2020 Census is done, I am going to go on record and say that it will be at least 73% black by the 2020 Census, when that's done, and under 25% white.
In the 2010 Census, it's about 28% white, 66% black.
In the 2010 census, it's about 28% white, 66% black.
We'll get this.
Baltimore could wrap up in 2019, its highest per capita homicide rate on record
as killings of adult and minors alike for drugs, retribution, money,
or listen to what the AP says here, Associated Press.
They say, or quote, no clear reason, end quote, continue to add up and city officials appear
unable to stop the violence.
So police have recorded 338 homicides for the year as of Tuesday, December 24th, Following a week of what the AP calls relentless gunfire that saw eight people shot, three of them fatally in one day.
Another day saw nine shot, one fatally.
Now go back and let's unpackage some of that language that's used there.
Yes.
For no unclear reason.
Hmm.
Yes, it's, you know, they love to use the term senseless violence or unfathomable.
But, yeah, I have to agree.
It's often for no clear reason.
But, you know, isn't the standard one, well, he stepped on my shoe, I had to kill him.
Yeah, it's about disrespect.
It's about retaliation.
But again, you always hear people, police try and say, oh, it's just gang violence.
That's all it is.
Because then they can write it off and nobody wants to investigate or analyze that data because of that all-inclusive word, gang violence.
You can just kind of brush that aside because you realize Or the citizens of that city will think, oh, it's just gang-on-gang violence.
Well, that's not the case in a place like Baltimore.
The police commissioner who came from New Orleans, Michael Harrison, He said this to the Baltimore Sun, quote, I'm disgusted by the brazen and cowardly acts of violence committed this weekend.
Detectives are working tirelessly to identify the people responsible.
We will continue through the holiday season with our planned robust deployment throughout the city.
Now get this, the 338 total, total number of murders is up from 309 and in 2018 and 4 shy of the 342 killings tallied in 2017 and
2015 respectively when the city homicide rate spiked.
Of course, that was right after the Freddie Gray stuff.
With just over 600,000 residents, Baltimore's homicide rate would reach approximately 57
per 100,000 residents if the death toll reaches This would eclipse the rate of 1993 when the city had a record 353 killings, but had a population that was about 800,000.
So again, when you actually look at those numbers, the city's far more dangerous today than it was then because the population is so drastic.
It's so much smaller.
Yes, that puts it on a par with El Salvador.
And I think, I believe it is El Salvador that has the highest murder rate of about 50 in our hemisphere.
And I think Honduras as well.
Yes.
Putting these numbers, putting this extreme violence and nearly 70% black Baltimore into perspective.
New York City, which has 8 million residents.
That city only had 306 homicides through December 15th.
Well, it's apples and oranges.
And, you know, something else to consider is the extraordinary rescue capabilities of modern medicine these days.
If these killings were taking place 10 years ago, 20 years ago, certainly 30, 50 years ago, there would be far, far, far higher death rate.
And that's something always to bear in mind when you compare American death rates through homicide with those of foreign countries like Guatemala and Honduras, as we point out, because there you don't have anything like the capacity to get people to hospitals with any kind of the alacrity that's possible in the United States.
Yeah, you've got two great hospitals in Maryland.
You've got the University of Maryland Trauma Center, and then you've also got Johns Hopkins, and these are both facilities where trauma surgeons in our military, the United States military, go and train because they're going to get to see a battlefield-like conditions that you can't simulate anywhere else.
Well, take that back.
You can, I guess, probably in St.
Louis and New Orleans and Memphis, but for the exact same reason, the same variables that are found in Baltimore.
There is one quote I want to read you from Carmichael Stokey Canaday.
He's a reformed drug dealer turned black community activist who wants to be mayor of Baltimore.
Here's what he said, Mr. Taylor.
Yes.
Quote, it's a major concern for me, not just as a hopeful man, but as a citizen of Baltimore who grew up in inner city Baltimore.
I remember when a person had a conflict and would have a fight at best.
Now these young kids, at the age of 13, 14 years old, are finding handguns in their possession and they use them as toys.
The whole system needs to be revamped."
End quote.
Now, I'm sure he didn't say it with that elegance behind it, but when you think about the whole system needing to be revamped, well, you know, perhaps it's time we just actually look back at Baltimore in 1920, when it was one of the world-class cities, it was about 88% white, and we look at the laws in place that the citizens had created to maintain the civilization that European Americans had created and hoped to leave to their posterity.
That might be a way to revamp civilization in Baltimore.
Yes, when people start talking about how the system has to be revamped, it makes you wonder, what is it about the system that makes these people shoot each other?
That is the relevant question.
And of course, it is not a matter of system.
It is a matter of people.
But speaking of people, there is a delegate to the Virginia House.
It's called the House of Delegates.
It's the lower house in the Virginia state legislature.
His name is Ibrahim Samira, and he is at present the youngest state rep in the whole state.
He introduced a bill that would override local zoning laws.
And what he would do is permit duplexes to be built on suburban lots and neighborhoods that are now consisting of quiet streets and open green spaces and only single-family residents.
The proponents of what he calls upzoning.
Upzoning means more people, more multifamily units.
He says these changes are necessary because suburbs are bastions of segregation.
And elitism.
And they are bad for the environment.
Now, the Democrats, who are his allies, say that a state-level law would replace, not in my backyard, with, yes, in your backyard.
In other words, we don't care what you want.
We're going to decide.
And Ibrahim Samira says, and I quote, areas that would be impacted most would be the suburbs that have not done their part in helping out.
They are living in a bubble.
And Mr. Samira goes on to quote a certain Alex Baca, a Washington D.C.
urbanist, and he says that single-family zoning is a tool for wealthy whites to maintain segregated neighborhoods and the abolition of low-density neighborhoods is necessary for equity.
Yeah, in other words, if you live in the suburbs, as I do, frankly, you are practicing white supremacy, and it's a trick to keep the place white, and so it's got to be overruled by central or state authority.
And I was reading further about this.
Minneapolis became the first city to eliminate single-family zoning entirely throughout the city in December 2018 after push by progressive advocacy groups promoting, and this is the key word apparently, equity.
Did you realize in Minneapolis there's no single-family zoning?
Now, I assume that the single-family housing has been grandfathered, but I don't know what that means in practical terms.
It means that developers hoping to build new single-family homes, some of those urban infills, are out of luck.
Oregon, the state of Oregon, and California are currently mulling this over.
And California, as we've discussed, regrettably ad nauseum is a state that has Well, events have overtaken you.
Oregon actually passed such state legislation.
That's right, that's right.
basically pass whatever bill is presented before them.
Events have overtaken you.
Oregon actually passed such state legislation.
That's right.
Local governments cannot have single family zoning.
Now, Austin, Texas and Seattle did what Minneapolis did.
And at least in those cases, it was the cities themselves.
It was a local decision to eliminate single family housing.
But Oregon and California, what California is considering and what is being considered by Virginia, this is really quite outrageous.
The central state government is telling the entire state, you all got it wrong, every last one of you, and you can't have single-family zoning.
Wow!
Well, let's go back to this Mr. Samira.
He was born in Chicago, but his parents were refugees from Jordan.
Now, while Mr. Samir was in middle school, his father was barred from re-entry after he left the United States because, in part, of his membership in the Muslim Brotherhood.
Yes, so he's a dodgy character.
Well, young Samir lived in Jordan as a teenager before returning to the United States in 2009.
Now, guess what his ticket home turned out to be?
I can't even guess.
How did he get back home?
Well, you know, if you worked at it, you'd come up with it.
I give you every credit for your powers of imagination.
And it doesn't take much.
He found a path home through American University, which offered him a full scholarship.
Ah.
Yes, yes.
American in name only.
Yes, couldn't we have all guessed?
Well, then, he's just been an absolute fanatic about politics, really, ever since.
And on a whim, he roared off to Michigan to campaign for Rashida Tlaib, you know, that lovely Muslim congressman.
And she worked very hard for her.
And she was successful.
And so now he has run for Congress in a northern Virginia area.
He's on the border of Fairfax and Loudoun counties, not very far from where I live.
Well, again, that's an area that, again, we go back to the state of Virginia, 90% of the counties I would venture to guess that 30-35% of the inhabitants of those areas are foreign born.
because they're still full of white Americans.
The area you're talking about where this guy represents, I would venture to guess that 30 to 35% of the inhabitants
of those areas are foreign born.
That might be a little high, but I'm not...
I feel safe in saying that.
You're probably not far off.
I looked up the stats on his state house district.
It's 20% Asian, 20% Hispanic, and so many of them are probably immigrants, 9% black, and it says 50% white.
Now, That is an area that is very heavily Muslim, and I bet many of those so-called whites are not what you and I would think of as white.
And when he was first elected to the State House, it was in a special election, and what he did was persuade all of his Muslim friends to go door-to-door to all the houses in the area that were registered in Muslim names.
He went to every voter with a Muslim name, and there were enough To put him over the top.
Smart canvassing.
Smart canvassing.
But it's very clearly the politics of identity.
And it is now such an overwhelmingly Democrat area that he's now unopposed.
The Republicans don't even bother to put up an opponent to him.
So he's pretty much in the running for as long as he likes.
He will be at Richmond telling us how we are supposed to live.
Now, there was a bit of a controversy about him because in some of his old Facebook posts, on the occasion of the former Israeli Prime Minister and General Ariel Sharon died, he wrote, hell is excited to have you.
Also, he did a bit of tweeting suggesting that anyone who supported Israel was even worse than someone who supported the KKK.
But he has since apologized and he has been forgiven.
After all, he is a Democrat.
Now, he gained a certain amount of notoriety in July of this year when he interrupted a speech by President Donald Trump in Jamestown, Virginia.
He was talking about the 400 years of Virginia, etc., etc., and he held up a sign and he shouted, You can't send us back!
Virginia is our home!
Well, he himself had lived in Virginia only since 2018, but that's a bit of a footnote.
But I must say, these fellows who come from foreign countries, I suppose he was born in the United States, so that makes him automatically as American as you and me, I suppose.
But these people who then come here and tell us how to live, How we should be thinking about zoning, for example.
It does get under my skin, but I suppose I'm being excessively sensitive and this is just a sign of my white fragility, right?
You just need to remember what Steve Saylor, my colleague over at UNZ.com, pointed out when he said that those pushing for diversity, inclusion, and equity, as this soon-to-be state legislature of Virginia with this bill is doing, they just want white people to die.
D-I-E.
I suspect so.
It's a beautiful acronym, Diversity, Inclusion, Equity.
What does that stand for?
What does this bill do?
It basically says, listen, all of you people who every December watch your hallmark movies where just a bunch of white people get around and celebrate Christmas and the glory of the season, who watch your 1940 It's a Wonderful Life about George Bailey and Benford Forrester, you watch the Griswold Christmas Vacation of the 1980s, Chicago, suburban family, that era is over.
Well, yes, it's as we noted with the earth sciences, all of these people offended by old white people.
How dare they grow old?
Isn't that just an offense?
Isn't that a terrible offense to all of these lovely melanin-enhanced people?
The fact that we actually have the gall, we have the impudence to actually grow old.
Goodness gracious, why can't we all be snuffed out, you know, in a crib if possible?
But, you know, we're running out of time, so I want to leap to another story here that I thought was important.
And it's a matter of capitalization.
The Seattle Times will heretofore capitalize the word black.
And Ray Rivera, who is managing editor of the Seattle Times.
Now, I don't know how I got Philip to blame Ray Rivera as the managing editor, but that who is the managing editor.
He says the time was overdue for this kind of assessment.
He says, it's increasingly clear this is the preferred term among many black publications and presses.
It seems appropriate and respectful for us to follow suit.
In other words, by capitalizing the B in black.
So they're doing with the blacks more.
Now, my question to you is, will they stop calling us white supremacists?
Because we say we aren't, and we tell them that the term is incorrect.
I somehow suspect not.
Well, he goes on to say, the decision is made after research by staffers, discussions of members of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, and senior editors.
So, the Times has now published their style guide.
And let me read from it to you verbatim.
Please do.
Black.
Adjective.
Belonging to people who are part of the African diaspora.
Capitalize Black because it is a reflection of shared cultures and experiences, foods, languages, music, religious traditions, etc.
Now, White.
Adjective.
Belonging to people with light-colored skin, especially those of European descent.
Unlike Black, It is lowercase, as its use is a physical description of people whose backgrounds may spring from many different cultures.
Unlike, blacks were all the same.
Now, if I were you, wouldn't I be insulted if I were black?
But good grief.
See, blacks, they have a shared culture, food, language, music, etc.
Do they all listen to the same music?
Do they all speak the same language?
Do they all eat the same food?
I guess so.
But white people come from many different cultures.
And furthermore, now this probably is the real reason, the style guide goes on to say, Capitalized white with a capital W is often used by the white nationalist white supremacists.
I think that's the clincher.
So, once again, here is the Seattle Times telling us with a subtle choice of capitalization, it's not okay to be white.
You certainly don't get a capital letter.
Well, I know you don't like the terminology, but once again, This just goes to show that we truly do live in black-run America.
Nope.
Nope.
I disagree.
Ray Rivera, I am sure, who made this announcement and who participated in the decision, is not black.
But it is America run for the benefit of all.
Precisely.
So, you know, I think we are coming to an end, despite several interesting changes, interesting stories that you had.
It was one of these marijuana stories, you know.
Maybe can you tell us in about, oh, maybe one minute.
Maybe not even one minute.
But the point is, in marijuana in Chicago, they're going to grow their own plots, and they're going to make sure that blacks are part of this great entrepreneurial effort.
Subsidized by the city so that they too can cash in on marijuana.
Mayor Lightfoot who as we know is trying to get rid of what library overdue fines and everything they can and that water bills have to go because of equity purposes.
They want to create a city-owned co-op which would give people of color an opportunity to buy into the most lucrative part of the recreational weed business which they're in Cook County.
They're getting ready to legalize here in 2020.
And so again, 2020, I really can't believe I know we're coming to the end real quick though.
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