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Feb. 7, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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‘Trayvon Martin Would Have Been 25 Today’
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is Paul Kersey, the often imitated, never equaled, certainly never surpassed Paul Kersey.
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I think I echo Mr. Taylor's sentiments.
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Now, we've got a lot to cover.
It always seems every week we have an enormous amount to cover.
So let us leap right into some of the latest news.
In this case, I'd like to start with the apparent winner of the Iowa caucuses, Pete Buttigieg.
He may have tied with Bernie Sanders, but in any case, he was right up there at the top.
And just Wednesday this week, he tweeted, I suppose he was feeling very sentimental and somber, because he said, Trayvon Martin would have been 25 today.
How many 25th birthdays have been stolen from us by white supremacy, gun violence, prejudice, and fear?
Ah, Pete, you're such a sentimentalist.
Well, Trayvon Martin, was he really taken from us by white supremacy?
Well, gun violence, I suppose.
But gun violence in self-defense?
Prejudice?
Fear?
I mean, after all, Zimmerman was not exactly a white supremacist.
He was somebody who had worked with blacks in the local community.
He was a Hillary Clinton supporter.
And, after all, he was a Hispanic.
But for him, for Pete Buttigieg, it's all white supremacy, prejudice, and fear.
How silly can he be?
I was gratified to see that when he produced that tweet, he got a lot of very sensible comments in reply, pointing out some of the points that I've made as well.
Well, he's pulling so poorly with blacks across the country.
And the first two primaries are in states that have a paucity of blacks.
Iowa, I think it's less than 4% black.
New Hampshire, coming up, less than 1% black.
So he's going to have to start, if he's going to be an actual Well, I would suggest that he keep the foolishness under wraps until he really starts moving into some of these other primaries.
How many New Hampshire voters are going to see this and realize, what is this guy?
This kind of crawling and scraping and bootlicking, what good is that going to do?
But I suppose he's thinking ahead.
Maybe since he did so well in Iowa, he thinks he's got the white vote locked up, at least in the Democratic primaries.
But on this whole subject of gun violence that has been stealing 25th birthdays so brutally from so many young black men, There is something called the Violence Policy Center.
They came out with a report in May of last year, and they noted that for 2016, the latest year from which we have comprehensive figures, yes, there were 7,756 black homicide deaths in the United States.
Now, that accounted for 51% of all murder victims, despite the fact that blacks are only 13% of the population.
And the Violence Policy Center kindly calculated black homicide death rates in the United States, which they found to be 20.44 per 100,000.
Now, in comparison, the white homicide victimization rate was 2.96 per 100,000, which means blacks are seven times more likely to be murdered than whites.
Of course, for the Violence Policy Center, this is a crisis that we must set everything aside and try to solve.
One of the odd things they don't do, of course, is look into who's doing the shooting.
All they care about is who's doing the dying.
But they also did a number of very interesting calculations to figure out which are the most dangerous states for blacks to live in.
Where are black death rates the highest?
Now, would one assume that this would be in the wicked, racist, white supremacist South, or would it be in other places?
As it turns out, it's just really all over the map.
They found that Missouri had a death rate for blacks of 46.21.
That's more than twice the black homicide rate nationwide.
That's, of course, you could call that the South, but then number two is Wisconsin, 37.57.
Then, in descending order, West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky.
Now, where are the safest places to be if you're black?
Well, there are a number of states.
There were four states in total in which not a single black person died.
Of course, the chances of their dying were low to begin with, because very few blacks live there.
But in Vermont, South Dakota, Montana, and Maine, not one black person died in the entire year of 2016.
I mean, not as a murder victim, I should say.
And as it turns out, there are a number of other very safe states.
Mississippi is a very safe state for black people.
only 10.57 per 100,000 as opposed to 46.21 for Missouri and that's of course in the deep south
Connecticut's a safe state, only about 9.27.
Washington State is safe, 9.3 per 100,000.
So it's really all over the map.
But poor Pete Buttigieg, he is grieving, grieving for Trayvon Martin, victim of gun violence.
As it turns out, somebody by the name of Paul Kersey has done some research that the Violence Center certainly hasn't bothered to do on perpetrators!
Which, of course, is an important thing.
And where is this gun violence coming from?
It's certainly not coming from white supremacists, prejudice, and fear.
It's coming from black killers.
And I believe that, Mr. Kersey, you had come up with Kansas City, Missouri figures.
Kansas City is 55% white and 30% black, and in their 2019 homicide report there were 148 murders, and when the race of the suspect was known, 94 suspects black, 12 white.
In other words, blacks are 13 times more likely to be suspects, and that, I should point out, is for all murders, not just whites and blacks.
And so I think we can be very safe in saying that in Kansas City virtually every black person killed is killed by yet another black person.
Now didn't you have similar figures like this for Nashville?
I'm pulling this up.
I do want to reiterate what you just said about Missouri.
There's an amazing story that the New Century Foundation published I want to say four or five months ago, it was by years truly, that actually looked at the color of crime in Missouri.
And it is astonishing when you think about what the state of Missouri represents.
It's a state that has largely been untouched by illegal immigration.
So the demographics are roughly what America was in 1950.
You know, you think about those halcyon days that everybody says, oh, that was the pinnacle of American life.
Well, Missouri still has that, those numbers.
And I encourage all of our listeners, if you haven't read that story on the color of crime in Missouri, take a look at it because it is astonishing what the police and the two biggest cities in Missouri, St.
Louis and Kansas City, they produce on a weekly and a yearly basis when it comes to both suspect and victim of crime.
And they actually break it down, St.
Louis does, Mr. Taylor.
by race in each circumstance.
You can see predator and prey, and it is just the most elaborate data possible that no media outlet in that state dares look at.
And, as you noted, you said Nashville's coming up.
Well, guess what?
The Tennessean, it's a Gannett-owned newspaper, they've never look at the Metro Nashville Police Department's incredible
Density Map with Victim Suspect Demographics. Now this goes back about 10 years worth of
data you can you can parse through and you can see for yourself who exactly is committing the
crime.
And as you know, and as our astute listeners know, in most major American cities there's a very low clearance rate when it comes to non-fatal and fatal shootings because, well, snitches get stitches in the black community, right?
Yes, yes.
Well, now in the case of St.
Louis, did you actually get a percentage of black suspects in the case of black homicide?
Now this is of interest to me because here Pete Buttigieg is weeping, weeping.
He's shedding tears I did, and as we're talking in the next story, as you're looking, I'll actually pull those up and I will give them to you in the next segment.
blacks are killed by other blacks. But did you get the exact figures for that
when it came to St. Louis? I did and as we're talking in the next story as
you're looking I'll actually pull those up and I will give them to you in the
next segment. But let's just quickly touch on Nashville.
Because I think this is fascinating.
Nashville, Charlotte, Atlanta, these are the new cities of the South.
Nashville is one of the fastest growing cities in terms of what you have to pay to rent a house or to buy a home because of this mass push of people moving there.
It's known as this quaint, beautiful big city.
Let's actually talk about the crime.
As I said, the Metro Nashville Police Department gives us this density map with victim-suspect demographics.
They just published the one for 2019.
Now, before we move on, let's just get this out there.
Nashville is a 56% white, 28% black city.
Highly segregated, you know, the areas that have the lowest property value.
They tend to be areas that are predominantly Populated by blacks.
The areas that are middle income, upper class, predominantly whites.
Take that for what you will, but here's what we get when you actually look at the data.
And this is only of known suspects.
Of known aggravated assault suspects, blacks were 66% of those suspects.
Of known non-fatal shooting suspects, blacks were 89% of suspects.
Which means blacks were 16 times more likely than whites to be arrested for committing a non-fatal shooting.
Of known homicide suspects, blacks were 76%.
And of known robbery suspects, blacks were 84%.
84% of suspects.
See, the figure that I'm waiting to see is the percentage of suspects who are black.
In the case of blacks who are killed, that is a number I don't think I've ever seen anywhere.
I mean, after all, if blacks are killed, back in 2016, to get back to the national figures that were compiled by this violence policy center, 7,756 blacks were killed, but about an equal number of people of other races were killed.
So how many blacks were killed by blacks?
And it'd be curious to know how many people of those other people of other races were killed by blacks.
This is the aspect of it that is very tricky and slippery and hard to pin down, but I think we can all be essentially positive that when Pete Buttigieg is talking about all of these lovely black lives snuffed out by gun violence, He's talking about black people pulling the trigger, and in the case of many non-blacks who have been killed, black people have been pulling the trigger too.
And that's what the St.
Louis data shows.
So far in 2020, I'm looking at the St.
Louis Metropolitan Police Department's website, their homicide stats for 2020, there have been 14...
Fifteen victims thus far, and of those, twelve have been black, eleven black males, one black female.
There's only been two suspects in these murders, and they're both black.
And there have been three white victims, and no white suspects thus far.
Well, that's what we can certainly expect.
But now, on continuing on this question of black suspects, I guess he's officially still a black suspect, insofar as he's not yet been convicted yet.
But you have some updates on this Day of the Pillow fellow, have you not?
Yeah, I want to give a shout out to the truly incomparable Jim Goad, who does such a great job over at Talkie Mag.
I love his writing.
And he came up with this macabre take on the whole concept of what this Billy Chimamur, is that how we pronounce his surname?
I don't know.
He's a Nigerian, is he?
A Kenyan, sorry.
And he thought up this concept of the Day of the Pillow.
I'm not going to get into what that means.
You'll take it for what it is as we read the story.
We've talked about Billy, this Kenyan illegal alien, who wound up getting a green card.
He was convicted of a crime that should have gotten him deported, but he was allowed to
stay in the country.
He's now accused of smothering to death at least 22 women in their 80s and 90s in the
Dallas metro area.
And this was, of course, after he should have been deported.
These murders, every one of them, and again, there are many cases where elderly, predominantly white, this is one of the aspects of this case that people are kind of shying away from still, is that these were overwhelmingly white elderly women that he was killing, smothering.
And what we've seen here now is that, like I said, at least 22 women, there's a connection with him and being the individual who's allegedly to have murdered them.
Most of them occurred in senior living complexes in northern Texas, and he's believed to have been motivated by his desire to steal the victim's jewelry.
So throughout the past two years, investigators, they've been working with numerous families of these, again, I'm gonna say it because no one else will.
Predominantly white female seniors who died suddenly and were once thought to have died natural deaths.
So the suspected death toll continues to grow.
The Dallas Morning News has reported the alleged victims is now up to 22.
This is a far cry from where it was only supposed to be maybe 10 or 12.
Some people have said there might be This is almost gruesome to even say.
Investigators are sifting through 750 cases, actually more than 750 cases of seniors who died suddenly in the area.
And they're even exhuming some of the bodies for those who were cremated to find out, wait a second, we actually need to see if this is potentially the biggest serial killer in American history.
Well, and I understand Jim Goad calls this the day at the pillow because what he would do is smother his victims to death with a pillow.
And did he not get access to their retirement living premises because he was a home worker doing precisely that?
Isn't that how he got in?
He was a regular guy in these places and so he was often in and out of these people's apartments.
And so we just decided to smother them to death.
That's exactly right.
And that's one of the more distressing takeaways from this entire story.
When you think about how many of our listeners have Family members or friends who are in these retirement homes and a lot of cases these jobs because of mass immigration These are jobs that don't pay that much so people who are doing these jobs and increasingly diverse areas of America are predominantly non-white immigrants and we all know the studies of Putnam social capital goes down and these white seniors who spent most of their life living in the
Some of the glory days of our nation's history are now spending their final moments alone and surrounded by people like Billy Chimamor.
Well, it is extraordinary that this guy was not suspected.
We don't know at this point how many people he managed to kill, but even if it was only 20 or 22, it's extraordinary that nobody ever put two and two together, that when this guy had been there, people ended up dying.
But we will certainly be paying more attention to this story as it proceeds, and as you say, if they're going to the trouble of exhuming victims to see what was the cause of death, this guy could very well turn out to be one of America's most prolific serial killers.
There are two more takeaways from this.
One, it doesn't matter if it was 1 or 22.
He was an illegal alien who overstayed his visa.
He was a criminal.
He should have been deported.
All of these deaths could have been avoided.
If just one death If just one death of an American is avoidable by deporting an illegal alien, you go, this person needs to leave because our government, the state has one job and that is to protect the interests and sovereignty of American citizens.
And two, let me just quickly read you this guy's laundry list of crimes.
Overstated tourist visa granted to him in 2003 this guy had multiple DUIs and he had an aggravated assault charge that put him in jail in 2016 You know the assault is a deportable offense Which is why ICE has a detainer on him even though he hasn't yet been convicted for murder I mean this story is so gross from every angle There's no way for anyone, regardless of your political persuasion, how can you look at this and not think there's something grotesquely wrong here, notwithstanding what I've pointed out many times, that this black illegal alien disproportionately targeted elderly white women.
Oh, I suspect that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley could find some justification for keeping him in the country.
They're very imaginative ladies, after all.
But, yes, I agree with you 100%.
This is an absolutely shocking crime.
And if, and this is such a cliché to say it, the races were reversed in any way, this would be coast-to-coast front page news.
But something that has made the news is one of Donald Trump's potential executive orders.
It hasn't been issued yet.
But it's one that caught my interest because this would require rewriting the guiding principles for federal architecture.
Federal architecture follows principles that were issued in 1962 and nothing has been changed since then.
What Trump's executive order would do would be to ensure that the classical architectural style would be the preferred and default style.
This executive order, at least tentatively, called making federal buildings beautiful again.
It points out the Founding Fathers embraced the classical models of Democratic Athens and Republican Rome for the early buildings built at that time.
And they symbolized what, according to this executive order, is called self-governing ideals.
Unmentioned in the executive order, of course, is that the classical style, which is what we find in the Supreme Court, in the Congress building, many executive office buildings.
It's also very much a European style.
And as this executive order goes on to point out, federal buildings have too often been influenced by brutalism.
And deconstructivism.
Brutalism is the idea that you don't really finish a building in any visually agreeable way.
You leave the raw materials that it was built with, often raw concrete and visible.
And deconstructivism, the whole idea there, is that you deliberately shock the viewer so that you don't really attempt to have any semblance of beauty.
So, what this document says is that we are to display the dignity, enterprise, vigor, and stability of the American government by using architecture that people like.
I mean, a lot of the time you see these new federal courthouse buildings, federal post offices, they're just brutally ugly.
In fact, I think the classic brutalist Travesty is the FBI building in Washington, D.C.
I don't know if our listeners are familiar with that.
Probably our overseas listeners are not.
But it's a typical example of some horrible building that was thrown up in accordance with the old idea of the guiding principles of federal architecture.
Needless to say, needless to say, the critics are saying that this is a return to white supremacy.
Well, that's all it takes when you talk about going back to some kind of traditional form of European beauty.
That is white supremacy.
Last week we talked about Yale getting rid of that class on architecture because there were too many, I'm sorry, Yale got rid of the art introduction to art class because there were too many white men who were being celebrated for their works that were painted, you know, centuries ago.
And you mentioned that, I believe you said you actually took Vincent Scully's class?
I, alas, did not.
I wish I had.
It was one of the most popular classes on campus, but I did not take it.
I had other things to do.
Why I bring this up is I actually went and looked at some of the works that would be used in those classes, some of the books, and you can get them cheaply on Amazon, and I'd like to recommend to our listeners, I think this Beautifully coincides with the story you just discussed of trying to make architecture great again that the Trump administration I I love this by the way.
This is one of the great things Trump is has proposed I'd recommend that our listeners check out Vincent Scully's books the earth the temple and the gods Greek sacred architecture and his most famous book being architecture the natural and the man-made and Yes, you know, I think Donald Trump should make this one of his campaign planks.
He should run on the idea of making federal buildings beautiful and classical again.
I don't think there's practically anyone in America who would look at the post office in Midtown Manhattan.
It's a hideous, ugly building.
And I don't think anyone would think that that by any means can be compared to the old Library of Congress.
But anyway, let us move on.
We've got so much to cover here and so little time.
Just last week, the Washington Post ran an article about reparations.
Reparations, they just can't get enough of the idea.
The article pointed out that 74% of African Americans favor them.
85% of whites don't.
And it pointed out that Congress seems unlikely to take up the matter.
A 30-year-old bill that would study the issue, H.R. 40, Has never come to a vote.
And as you'll recall, H.R.
40 got that name because it stands for 40 acres and a mule.
Every Democratic presidential candidate, of course, has backed the idea of studying reparations, but this Washington Post article says if the federal government is not going to get off the dime, The best targets, and they use the word targets, would be an institution culpable in the past and still in existence.
And also if you can find an identifiable population and show that they or their ancestors suffered harm.
That's where to go.
And their prize example of this kind of undertaking is Georgetown University, which voted to create a fund that would raise $400,000 every year.
Now, as this post article says, this example is a model that can apply to four types of entities.
called enslaved persons sold by the college in the 1830s.
The idea is oh this was a terrible thing. They owned slaves, they sold them,
they made money on that so they will wear sackcloth and ashes for the end of time.
Now as this post article says this example is a model that can
apply to four types of entities churches municipal governments corporations and
the US military.
military.
The article claims that Southern churches of nearly every denomination owned African Americans.
I'd never heard that.
It's difficult for me to imagine churches themselves owning slaves.
But it says the Catholic Church was among the largest institutional slaveholders in America.
Episcopalian and Presbyterian congregations often paid ministers salaries by hiring out the slaves that they owned.
Well, maybe that's the case.
I've never heard that, but maybe that's... So, in 2018, after discovering evidence that several Louisiana convents Owned Slaves, an organization of Catholic nuns, decided to set aside and fund reparations for their descendants.
An Episcopalian seminary in Virginia that hired slaves to work on its campus.
Now, again, I guess that's bad too.
Not even owning slaves.
You have to hire slaves and have them work?
That's bad too?
They unveiled a 1.7 million reparations package last fall.
Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Princeton has announced a $27 million endowment to fund scholarships for the descendants of slavery.
They had some sort of connection with slavery, and they say this foundation was, quote, an act of confession.
And they added that these responses are intended as acts of repentance.
So the Washington Post is saying that if federal law Doesn't require reparations of some kind.
States, cities, organizations, all of these things can be lobbied to undergo their own private brand of reparations.
Corporations with roots in the antebellum years are yet another site for potential redress, says the Post.
Insurance companies sold policies on the lives of enslaved people.
Well, why is that a crime?
I mean, I'm sure there were clothing manufacturers that sold clothes that the slaves wore.
I'm sure there were doctors who were paid to treat sick slaves.
Are all of these people guilty for some reason?
But in any case, the idea here is, if the federal government's not going to do the right thing, pressure can be put on private companies, on churches, on cities apparently.
Some of them use slaves for one reason or another.
The point that really occurs to me here is, why do you have to go to the trouble of hunting for the particular descendants of particular slaves or finding particular institutions that had some sort of tenuous connection to slavery 150 years ago in order to transfer resources to blacks today?
Anybody can give money to blacks if he wants to.
I remember there's this great image Of a fat black girl holding up a PayPal address and saying, reparations send them here.
Do you remember that one?
Yeah, she's in a green...
Bodysuit.
It's an interesting image, you know.
It's one that I've tried to delete from my mind, but yeah, you just brought it back.
Thanks a lot.
I'm afraid it's seared.
It's seared permanently into my mind.
This woman holding up a sign.
Hey, you want to pay reparations?
Send the money here.
I mean, that's a private way of going about it.
No compulsion involved.
I think that's just great.
If you want to give money to blacks, well, there are plenty of ways to do it.
Something that really struck me about this article.
It never used the word slaves.
These are enslaved persons.
Now, you know why they use that term these days, don't you, rather than calling them slaves?
To try to perpetuate this idea that they're still enslaved?
No, I think the way it's been explained to me is that rather than saying slave, that makes it sound that that's something inherent, that's permanent, that's something that comes from within.
But to say that they're enslaved persons means that they were persons, just like you and me, who happened to have been enslaved.
Well, you know, if you take that point of view, if you call somebody a carpenter, doesn't that suggest that all he is is a carpenter?
That's something that comes from within?
Doesn't that diminish a human being with all his talents?
He's a mother and a father and a brother and a son just like you and me.
Should we start calling them carpentering persons?
Or, you know, prisoners.
If you just say prisoners, doesn't that sound as though, oh, they're like slaves.
That's just the way they are.
I think we should start calling them imprisoned persons.
What do you think?
I don't know.
I think that there's new nomenclature and languages created on a daily basis to try and browbeat whites into submission.
Not just whites.
It's anybody that refuses to bend a knee to this...
I don't know what you call it.
I tried to call it Black Run America for a while.
You said, no, that gives off this impression that blacks run America.
It's like, well, no, they don't.
Americans run for their benefit on their behalf in every aspect of our life.
Well, see, all of these euphemisms.
It used to be the guy who comes by and picks up your garbage every week or so was a garbage man.
Now we can't call them that.
We've got to call them sanitation engineers.
And we used to have skid row bums and winos.
Now they all got this remarkable across-the-board promotion, and they're homeless people.
As if, you know, they were living in some lovely, lovely white picket fence house, and a hurricane came along and blew it down, and now they're homeless.
Anyway, I just don't like this perpetual softening of the language unless, of course, we're talking about men, toxic masculinity, or talking about white people, white privilege, white supremacy, everybody else.
We just can't talk about any kind of direct language.
But on the question of reparations, This was in a very interesting article in the Los Angeles Times just last week.
It was talking about something you and I have discussed on previous podcasts, and that's the idea that now that cannabis has become legalized, we want to use this as redress.
We want to shovel money from legal cannabis into the pockets of black and brown people.
Well, when California became the first state to adopt medical marijuana laws in 1996, Out of the nearly 200 cannabis retailers approved by the city of Los Angeles to become medical pot dispensaries, only six were black-owned.
At least according to Virgil Grant, who was one of the six.
He said even fewer were Latino-owned.
Well, this was obviously a great, a great injustice.
Now, you know, now that cannabis has become legalized more or less across the board, Los Angeles has set up a whole system to provide cannabis licenses to black people.
Now, it's not clear to me why you even need a license.
Why can't you just sell a legal product?
But apparently, you have to have a license.
Well, you have to be licensed for taxation purposes and for, you know, the state wants to be able to track everything and, hey, makes sense to me.
I suppose they're trying to get all sorts of revenue from the sale of marijuana.
But now they have something called the Department of Cannabis Regulation.
And it includes something called the Social Equity Program to make sure that black people get their share of the business.
Well, The department was launched in 2018 and its social equity program got national attention and praise because this was to be a potential model for the rest of the nation to, again, shovel more money into the pockets of our deserving Dusky Brethren.
Now, it was based on a formula.
If you were applying for a license, you'd get the inside track if you were low-income, had a cannabis arrest, Or lived in a Los Angeles neighborhood that was, as they put it, disproportionately targeted by marijuana laws.
Now, yes, so they had this little formula.
And the whole idea, as I say, was to make sure they got more black pot sellers.
And the city came up with this first-come, first-served system for dishing out the licenses that would give out 100 to the top eligible or the first-come, first-served so-called social equity candidates.
Well, it turned out that there was a real rush for these things.
1,800 people submitted applications, but This was the great horror, Mr. Kersey.
Only 18 of the people in the top 100 turned out to be black.
What went wrong?
Well, the eligibility requirements could not specify race.
That would have been illegal.
And activists said that the geographical boundaries of the neighborhoods that were disproportionately impacted by marijuana laws were too broad, and this allowed an unfairly wide range of applications.
Well, the Department of Cannabis Regulation said there was absolutely no way that they could use race as a factor, and they didn't take race into consideration when they got the 100 First Come First Serve.
But they all met the requirements, and they got the license.
Well, oh, because there were only 18 out of 100 weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth, sackcloth, ashes!
And the mayor has promised an audit and they may have to redo the whole thing because not enough black people got those licenses.
Well, something that has not showed up much in the recrimination about this program and that's who's running it.
The person who was appointed in 2018 to head the entire Department of Cannabis Regulation was a black woman named Kat Parker, only in her 20s.
And the Los Angeles Times, at the moment when she was appointed, referred to her as a bold example of what Los Angeles stands for.
They described her as young, black, openly gay, with tailored suits.
Haircut in a fade and cool, deliberate speech.
Well, she's no longer the darling she once was.
She's being berated by cannabis activists at public meetings and she's facing threats in her inbox.
And one outraged applicant, this was a person of color who was not in the top hundred, was at a city hall meeting and at the last meeting of the Cannabis Regulation Commission, She threatened that if nothing were fixed, quote, it's going to be 1992 all over again.
Now you know what that means.
1992?
Is that the L.A.
riots of Rodney King?
That's exactly right.
They're threatening to burn the city down if they can't get more blacks licenses.
Boy, oh boy.
I mean, this is, uh, oh, by the way, uh, Kat, uh, Kat Parker, this, uh, uh, young, uh, openly gay, uh, wearing her haircut in a fade and cool in her tailored suits.
Uh, uh, she runs the whole program, but the social equity program itself, which is designed of course, to get this stuff in the hands of, uh, the more deserving melanin enhanced residents of Los Angeles.
Yet another black woman.
Her name is Imani Brown.
And I suspect that the whole bureaucracy of this thing is persons of color.
But anyway, it's all in turmoil.
We're going to see what has to happen.
But, you know, the other thing that occurs to me Inevitably, when you have preference programs like this, you're going to have figureheads.
You're going to have somebody who might, in fact, be black or Hispanic, who has a cannabis conviction, who lives in one of those neighborhoods, who's really just a cutout.
Somebody who has got the backing of people with the organization and the brains and the capital to get one of these things going.
And this person's just a figurehead and gets a piece of the action.
All this stuff is just inevitably going to be corrupt.
But that's the story from Los Angeles on their local attempt at reparations insofar as the federal government will not do what it's supposed to do.
But you know, we have an equally heartwarming story about race from the University of Montana.
I think you know about this one.
You won't be surprised to know that fewer than 1% of the undergraduates were black, 1.3% Asian, and 5.4% Hispanic.
Five times as many Hispanics as blacks in Montana.
Well, this is no surprise either.
The University of Montana was distressed because there were complaints about all this lack of diversity.
So they decided to hold an essay contest on Martin Luther King Jr.
Day.
The idea was to spur dialogue and celebrate the life and work of the late great civil rights leader.
And this contest was cooked up by the Martin Luther King Jr.
Day committee made up Of members of the Black Student Union.
There can't be too many of those, but they have a Black Student Union for their 1% student body.
The head of the African American Studies Program.
And it personally invited members of the Black Student Union to participate and submit essays.
And they had a blind judging system.
Essay writers' identities were kept completely secret.
This sort of a double-blind sort of thing here.
Well, they announced this essay contest on the life of Martin Luther King.
Great hoopla!
And they got a grand total of six submissions.
And how many students are enrolled at the school?
Did you say 20,000?
That I couldn't tell you.
I'm sorry to say.
Tens of thousands, no doubt.
They got six submissions.
And so they selected four winners.
Well, as it turned out, all the six who submitted and all the winners were white.
And they were all women, too.
Not a single white man.
Well, you know, they had to post the results and they had photos of the winners and excerpts from their essays on the University Facebook page.
That resulted in more than 1,000 Facebook comments, many of them written by whites and most of them negative.
They said the university was tone-deaf for having conducted this colorblind mess.
One poster said he couldn't understand how anyone would think remembering the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
is achieved by giving four white girls a shout-out.
Goes on to say, if the university does not have black voices to lift up on MLK Day, then find them!
And someone else said, this is an excellent example of speaking over black voices.
Well, I mean, what's a boy to do?
You know, here we're celebrating Martin Luther King.
We're offering contests.
No blacks participated.
It's a voluntary endeavor to put an essay out there at a school, by the way, that has 10,962 undergraduates enrolled.
And, as you stated, only six people, all white females, how dare they, wrote an essay.
And of those, only two-thirds of those who actually put an essay actually won.
So, my real thought when I read the story was, gosh, who are those two white girls that didn't win anything?
Oh, the poor dears.
You know, I have never seen anything about what you won, what you got an award.
To me, the most terrifying thing about this whole story is not the reaction, but the fact that the University of Montana had to take down the photographs of the four young women who won the contest because people were starting to post threats against them.
What is this?
What is this?
In all good liberal sincerity, in all good apologetic, I can imagine just what sort of women these are.
And they wrote their earnest essays on the wonderful Martin Luther King, and now they're getting such threats their photographs have to be taken down.
Anyway, and the other aspect of this is, No one seems to have objected to what the girls wrote.
I bet it was all just the kind of thing that blacks want to hear, that all the white liberals just glory in talking about how wonderful he was and how awful white people are.
Nobody's objecting to that.
They're objecting to only one thing.
The fact that they were white.
Anyway, this is really just all too typical of what America has come to today, but I think we had a similar problem with Barnes & Noble, did we not?
You know, we got it.
If our listeners haven't seen these images, you need to take a few moments to just quickly type this in in your Google browser.
Type this in.
From Publishers Weekly, Barnes & Noble's Fifth Avenue to launch sales of classic novels with new covers promoting diversity.
Now, Mr. Taylor, we know that there is an effort to replace every aspect of European history on whatever continent we've ever populated or colonized, whatever word you want to use.
This might be the most shocking though.
You can see images of great books written by Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevens.
Are they both black?
Surely we should have a mixed couple on there.
Ahab is a black man in this image.
Frankenstein is a black guy.
He looks like he could be getting ready to go play a game in the NBA.
You've got Romeo and Juliet.
They're black.
You've got...
Are they both black?
Surely we should have a mixed couple on there.
Are they both black?
Oh, not only are they both black, but in this case they are of the correct gender.
So that's, you know, that's got to be a strike against them somewhere.
We've got Peter Pan as a black male.
We've got Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll's great book.
Oh gosh, the Wizard of Oz!
The wonderful Wizard of Oz, and I gotta tell you, we're definitely not in Kansas anymore.
It's a very menacing, menacing girl on the cover of this book, drawn in a diverse manner.
Well, so this story broke just the other day, and it was immediately, completely looked upon as a negative.
Now, why do you think that is?
Well, unfortunately, I have an inside track here.
I would like to have thought that people wrote in and said, wait a minute, Peter Pan isn't black.
But apparently the idea was that it's not so much that, but that this isn't promoting black literature or black ideas or non-white literature, non-white ideas.
That this is sort of a whitewash, really, of what they're doing by slapping a black image on what still is.
A distressingly and hideously white story.
I would go one step further and call it blackface.
It's a blackface in white literature.
You have, it might be a diverse cover, but it's still white on the inside because these were dead white males who wrote these wonderful, wonderful fictional stories.
Characters we all love and know.
They're part of You know, they're embedded in our cultural, every aspect of it.
And yet, the problem is, when you try and put a black face on, we're still celebrating a dead white male.
And that is an absolute no-go.
So let me just give you some of the backlash.
Barnes & Noble, they did pull this classic book collection with new, quote, culturally diverse, unquote, covers.
Following the backlash and these are hilarious covers I mean if any of these did sneak out and a Barnes & Noble store Which they're very hard to find now because they're shuddering everywhere This is one you definitely want to try and pick up definitely recommend trying to find the Frankenstein one because it looks like something out of a black blaxploitation film in the 1980s Seriously, I mean, they're absolutely hysterical.
Obviously, the new covers were part of a new initiative to champion diversity in literature.
Again, the problem is they're still written by white people, so it doesn't matter.
You're just putting a black face on these characters that are obviously Caucasian, European.
On the other hand, if you can have Lohengrin played by a black, or if you can have any Shakespearean character, King Lear played by a black, why can't you have a black Tinkerbell, or a black Peter Pan, or a black Treasure Island?
Why not?
It's a great question.
Obviously, again, when it gets down to it, at its foundation, you are still celebrating a white author.
And as long as we have, as long as, you know, Google hasn't worked to erase all history digitally, I know that this is one of the things that Vox Dei has talked about.
That's why he's trying to bring up some of these classic books for people to buy these leather-bound editions, which I think is brilliant because We know how sinister the elite are when it comes to reimagining history.
I mean, think about what we just saw back in 2016 with this whole hidden figures nonsense, where we're supposed to believe that these a few black females were really the people behind the Apollo mission.
Don't you believe that?
Well, actually, I'm the person who completely debunked it to a point where the New York Times attacked VDARE for daring to publish, I think, three essays in a row.
And they didn't even name the person who did it.
They actually had one of the authors, I'm sorry, one of the actresses, denounce Denounce us, or denounce me, for daring to question this narrative.
When again, my point that I made all along, NASA was attacked from the very beginning because they didn't have any non-white faces.
And if NASA really wanted to get ahead of the public relations curve, they would have said, hey, these are the people who are doing this.
We need your money because we actually have legitimate black heroes, black heroines to celebrate.
And you know what?
I would be all for that because I love the concept of trying to reach out and reach out for the heavens, reach out for the stars, and have some sort of really great ambition.
People want that.
That's why the Space Force is so cool that Trump has.
But going back to what we're talking about here, this whole reimagining the western canon which is really what's
happening. I mean it's sinister because the only people who are pushing back are
those who think, hey, wait a second, there are people of color authors that are
worth celebrating for and that we should be promoting ahead of these dead white
males whose work is, whose work is, again, we need to colonize white literature,
if I can borrow one of their phrases.
Or maybe it would be decolonize, because we need to celebrate our authors.
It would be so funny if it wasn't such a tragedy because these images, if you know the great
website Babylon Bee that kind of makes these hilarious headlines like the onion, this is
one of those stories that I actually thought initially was from the Babylon Bee because
the images on the cover of these books were so rudimentary and so comical.
They're so comical that you think these have to be, this has to be fake.
Let's move along to the BBC, shall we?
We still got a lot to cover here.
We do.
So the BBC, just on the same note, they said that period pieces are too white.
Perhaps they need to go extinct.
And I'll be brief here because this juxtaposes beautifully with the story from Barnes & Noble.
Period dramas have served as the backbone of British cinema and television ever since the first films began production at the tail end of the 19th century.
But the problem is...
Dear listener, Mr. Taylor, these productions have had one major similarity.
You know what that is?
Uh, they're all set in, uh, country homes.
Manor houses.
No.
No.
They have an all-white cast.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
All right.
Can't have that.
No.
Black Asian Minority Ethnics.
That's the acronym is BAME.
Maybe it's BAME.
I've never actually heard it pronounced, but it's B-A-M-E.
So on one hand, recent years, we've had more films and series focusing on the stories of Black Asian Minority Ethnics throughout British history.
One example is Ama Asante's 2013 biographical drama, Belle, which centered on an 18th century biracial British Harris.
But the problem is there just aren't enough of these roles.
So they are going back and the BBC is actually introducing black characters where they never belonged historically just because they weren't there.
Well, that's right.
I remember a Robin Hood movie.
Oh, maybe.
15, 20 years ago that insisted on having some moorish archer who was Robin Hood's right-hand man.
They're just inventing new characters.
Yeah, there was Morgan Freeman played.
I can't remember the moor that he played, but that was... Yeah, I mean, but the BBC has actually put out Robin Hood where they've made Friar Tuck a black male.
And I think they're actually, there's another BBC where Maid Marian is black.
Well, I don't see why not.
That's historically accurate.
Yeah, so there's a loud, just to close out the story, it doesn't matter what's factually accurate anymore.
You know, a loud minority have called this general move toward diversity and period drama PC culture gone mad.
I would agree with that.
I would actually say it's far more sinister than that because it's retconning British history to try and suit Political sensibilities in the present so that white people don't think that Britain was ever they were ever indigenous Brit Britains because hey there were There were all these people of color in our in our BBC shows.
This has to be the truth, right?
Has to be the truth.
Well, that's the truth that a lot of people apparently want.
And just this week, they had the British Academy Film Awards, the BAFTA Awards.
This is a charity that's been awarded since 1949.
And Joaquin Phoenix, the star of The Joker, collected his trophy for Best Actor.
Well, I found out something about Joaquin Phoenix.
He was originally named Joaquin Bottom.
But his parents changed their name to Phoenix after they left a cult called the Children of God.
They thought they were being reborn.
In any case, his comments followed the usual outcry about too many white nominees.
Well, he was one of the white nominees and he's one of the whites who won.
And in his speech, he said that in all of this nomination process, quote, I think we send a very clear message to people of color that you're not welcome.
I'm ashamed to say I'm part of the problem.
I've not done everything in my power to ensure the sets I was on are inclusive, but I think it's more than just having sets that are multicultural.
We have to do the really hard work to truly understand systemic racism.
So this was about the Longinus Show.
That's about all he talked about in his acceptance speech.
And of course, non-whites and the usual white toadies are just fawning over him.
So if he has his way, then yes indeed, Jane Eyre and North Heathcliff and all of those people are going to be persons of color.
You know, the thing he should do is just reject the award on the basis that it should go to a non-deserving non-white.
That's what the whole concept of diversity, inclusion, and equity is.
If any white person out there is advocating on behalf of uplifting non-whites from roles that they've been traditionally excluded from, whether it's in The arts, academia, or just a nine-to-five job.
You should voluntarily say, you know, I don't need this job.
That's right.
Just give it to somebody else.
Now, yeah, we've got one more London story here.
We're going to try to shoehorn into this rapidly disappearing time span here.
But a man wearing a fake suicide device was shot dead just last week by armed police after he stabbed people in a terrorist attack in a busy downtown London street.
One man was left life-threatening condition, another was non-life-threatening.
Well, who was this?
A fellow named Sudesh Aman, a 20-year-old.
He was in fact being monitored by undercover police officers at the time as part of a proactive counter-terrorism operation because...
In November 2018, he had pleaded guilty to all sorts of terrorist-related dissemination of information.
He'd been giving people manuals about knife fighting.
Turns out he must have been studying themselves.
He'd been conducting reconnaissance because he was going to do a terror attack in North London.
He was using WhatsApp to encourage violent insurrection.
He said that Islamic State is here to stay.
He said that it was the best thing to ever happen to Islam.
And he had listed as his goals in life.
They included to die as a shuhada, that's a martyr, and to go to Jannah, Paradise.
Well, he was convicted of doing all this stuff and he got a sentence of three and four months and the BBC reporter who was covering the latest attacks says, I was there and I recall Aman smiling as he was sentenced.
Well, as always happened, he was automatically released after having served half of his sentence.
Well, he was under a curfew.
He had to wear a GPS tag.
He was excluded from certain zones such as ports and airports.
I guess they thought he was going to shoot down an airplane.
And he had to surrender his passport.
Now, I wish he had taken his passport and got the heck out.
But he had to surrender his passport.
Well, ten days he's out, he's already stabbing people.
Now, he was shot to death because he was wearing a fake suicide vest.
This is apparently an increasingly common thing.
They've had at least three people who were wearing fake suicide vests, and as soon as the police see that, they blaze away.
So, this ensures that you will die as a shuhada, a martyr, and go to jana, paradise.
Well, what's it like in paradise?
Ah, it's described as gardens enclosed and vineyards.
And then there, of course, there are the Huris.
These are described as splendid companions, virgins whom neither man nor genie has ever touched, voluptuous women, wide-eyed, buxom, and of modest gaze.
And here's a passage from the Quran, bring them into the gardens of perpetual bliss.
Now, in the Quran, there's no specific number As to the number of Huris that each believer and each martyr will receive.
But in the Hadith, that's the sayings of the Prophet.
It says that, and this is the quotation, the crown of dignity is placed upon his head and its gems are better than the world and what is in it.
And he is married to 72 wives among the wide-eyed Huris.
Now, it makes you wonder.
There are, you know, there are women who go on these suicide missions too, you know.
Do lady martyrs, do they end up with 72 Chippendale dancers up in Islamic heaven?
I'm just wondering about that.
There were actually some female terrorists that were arrested trying to blow up Notre Dame.
A couple years ago.
Yes, I believe you're correct about that.
But what do they get?
What sort of reward do they get?
Do they get strapping, young, muscular... Well, who knows?
In any case, we'd like to finish.
Boy, we're running really... I'm going to just do a quick reader comment and then we're over and out.
I wish to include a brief message about the regret I have for marrying an Asian woman several decades ago since our daughter has grown up to be quite anti-white and there seems to be nothing I can do about it.
This is because my wife does not share my concerns and simply does not understand no matter how hard I try.
Asian women are often beautiful, kind people, make fine wives and mothers, but there's no substitute for your own kind.
It fills me with profound grief.
Well, that's a very, very sad thing.
in life. I was thinking this might serve as an object lesson for younger unmarried men.
Well, that's a very, very sad thing. But in any case, our time has come. So,
thank you once again listeners for joining us at Radio Renaissance.
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