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Feb. 20, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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‘I Take $200, $300 a Day of Your Money, Cracker!’
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode 171 of Radio Renaissance.
There's an old Azerbaijani proverb that says, the 171st time is the charm.
So this is bound to be a good one, don't you think, Mr. Kersey?
Well, I think it's going to be a great one.
First off, good morning, good afternoon, good evening to all of our wonderful listeners.
We're excited to be with you wherever you might be listening to us.
I want to bring up one thing real quick, and that is we just regrettably passed the 15th anniversary of a good friend of yours.
Of course.
Yes, yes.
death. And I was thinking about him because he and I corresponded years ago. I had the
great pleasure of meeting him once. And then I actually went to his office on a trip to
D.C. one time and spent some time with him. And I'm going to be referring to Sam Francis.
Of course. Yes. Yes. Sam Francis was a wonderful man. I'm not here prepared to deliver the
eulogy that is his due. But after he died, it occurred to me that after my family and
my staff at American Renaissance, he was the person with whom I spoke most often.
It's It was really, really a terrible blow when the great Sam Francis died.
And we miss him to this day.
And I will certainly miss him to my dying day.
Our movement is vastly impoverished by his absence.
So it's good of you to remember that.
Yes, it's been 15 years, but we shall give it another good 15 years.
The most important thing we can do in Sam's memory is to work as hard as we can for the things that he valued and cherished and to which he devoted his life.
But moving on from Sam, from the sublime to the ridiculous, I'd like to speak about one of your favorite politicians, Stacey Abrams.
You'll be relieved to know that she has lately been saying that she would be absolutely delighted to serve as a running mate of any Democratic candidate.
And she has withheld any kind of endorsement so as not to queer the deal.
She wants to be prepared to go with anybody, the last man or woman standing.
She says she's been getting the question from a lot of folks, would she serve?
And she says, yes, I would.
Now, she does concede that none of the candidates has asked, but she's just making sure that they all know that she's ready.
She's prepared.
She's eager.
And after all, the once diverse field has been whittled into an all-white affair.
So that makes her value on the ticket increasingly great.
Oh, she's a huge value proposition.
Oh boy, she's a huge value proposition.
Yes, indeed.
Now, last year apparently it was reported that Joe Biden had hoped to announce his candidacy with Stacey Abrams as his agreed running mate.
Had you heard that?
I did.
In fact, I actually thought that had happened, but you're right.
She never She never acquiesced and so, because like you said, she saw the tea leaves.
She was playing hard to get there.
But yeah, she didn't want to actually team up with Joe because you just never know.
You just never know.
You want to hold yourself in readiness to whoever actually comes out ahead.
Well, you know, she's to me, seems to me, she is the most fetid and adored and admired loser in American history.
After this loss to Brian Kemp in the gubernatorial race in 2018 in Georgia, it seems we can't get enough of Stacey Abrams.
And she'd spent 10 years in the Georgia State House, but then she ran.
Apparently, this is the first time, though, that either the Republicans or the Democrats had nominated a woman of color to be a governor, a gubernatorial candidate, and that is something that will make her famous apparently for the rest of her life, even perhaps more famous than the half a dozen or so Romance novels, she's written.
A lot of romance novels.
You know, she writes under the name of Selma Montgomery.
And judging from their colors, they're all about black romance.
So this is not Peter Pan in blackface.
This is not Romeo and Juliet in blackface.
This is genuine black author writing about genuine black characters with exciting titles such as Hidden Sins, Rules of Engagement, Never Tell, The Art of Desire, Reckless, Secrets and Lies.
That's quite a portfolio of romance novels she's got there.
In any case, as she explained, when asked about whether she would serve, she says, why should we not want someone to have the power to fix the problems and the brokenness that we have?
Namely, her.
I want to do good, and there's no stronger platform than President of the United States.
And that's a position I want to one day hold.
So she figures that if she runs as the vice presidential candidate, maybe she'll get a shot at the White House as vice president.
One day, she'll get the top job.
Well, I'm glad to know she's ambitious.
She said it would be doing a disservice to every woman of color, every woman of ambition, every child who wants to think beyond their known space for me to say no.
So, she's not going to render this discharge.
You know, she actually sold one of her books to CBS.
There's going to be a television program based on her book, Never Tell.
Never Tell?
Never Tell.
Would you like to know what this is about?
Do tell.
It's based on a book which revolves around a star linguistics professor with a complicated past who joins forces with a charismatic online investigative journalist following the discovery of a cryptic message that is the only clue in a missing person's case.
And all this takes place Big easy.
New Orleans.
Not in Wakanda.
Not in Wakanda!
No, no, no, no.
But are they all black characters?
Because her romance novels are.
Maybe they're going to have to white face.
It's going to have that heavily black cast.
It's going to be diverse.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, she must have a real talent for telling tall tales.
But anyway, moving on from Stacey, Stacey Abrams, I want to talk about the public charge law.
As you may recall, the Supreme Court decided that the public charge changes in our immigration laws were going to be legal.
I was delighted to hear that because, oh, for more than a hundred years, the law has been such that if you've got your snout in the public trough, you can be deported and you certainly can't be given a green card.
Well, all this stuff was really rather laxly enforced, but under Donald Trump, the rules were changed such that if you were receiving benefits Of any kind, and it used to be just cash benefits counted as benefits, but no, you can be housing, you can get medical, you can get food stamps.
If you are on public benefits more than 12 months during a 36-month period, out!
The other thing is, if you get two different kinds of benefits in one month, that counts for two months out of the three.
And so this could really cut down on people who are applying for green cards.
And there will be similar limitations on people who are applying for visas to come for immigrant purposes.
So, all that is to the good.
Now, there has been an investigation into how this is affecting California.
California is the home of many immigrants, as we all know.
The Salvation Army and other private groups are seeing more and more people applying for handouts of all kinds because the word gets around that going on welfare could count against you.
Experts from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research estimate That 15 to 35 percent of immigrants may disenroll from public benefits.
And in California, that means that an estimated 860,000 recipients of CalFresh, that's the state's food program, are going to stop eating at the public expense.
This could lead to a loss of up to $488 million in federal funding.
I didn't realize that CalFresh, by the way, CalFresh is actually USAFresh because it's federal government, federal funds that pay for that.
Half a billion dollars.
$488 million is going to be saved now.
That's just the start.
Wait, there's more.
As they used to say in ads for the Ginsu knives that cut everything.
Medi-Cal.
Medi-Cal.
Now, I thought this too was a state-funded program, but this is the free or low-cost health coverage for children and families with low incomes.
UCLA's health policy research team estimates that the change could affect 2.1 million people at a loss of 1.2 billion a year in federal funding.
That's great!
Yes, yes.
All of this is being saved.
All of these savings are going right back to the U.S.
Treasury.
Well, it should be going to infrastructure, and it should be going to, well, I think there's something called the wall that still needs to be funded.
True.
Now, I hope, now the word apparently, as I say, it's getting around.
These people in the soup kitchens and Salvation Army, they say Hispanics are walking, and they've heard all about this, and so they want to get off the public door and get on the private door.
Well, I think this is just what California needs.
If you want these people who show up and they can't support themselves, they want to eat at our expense, they should eat at California's expense, not federal expense.
And let's hope that as the word gets around to the people who are already here, the word will get around to the people who are not yet here.
They're the ones on.
And it's not just California.
It's every state.
Exactly.
It's states that, you know, think about it, the state where New Century Foundation is located.
I want to say that 12% of the population is foreign-born now.
Think about how many refugees.
Think about all that.
Well, see, refugees, they can put their foot in the snout and the public trough for as long as they like.
That's true.
If you're a refugee, that's one thing.
Yes, they, you know, no questions asked.
They can get their ticket punched.
They can get their meal card.
But in any case, let's move from California to Baltimore.
Speaking of refugees, perfect segue.
That's actually why I brought that up.
Well, this is a story that I kind of think is a metaphor for our time.
It is a sad story, but I do want to tell you about Khalid Hiba.
He was a pizza delivery man.
He was killed in broad daylight in West Baltimore.
Now, West Baltimore, that is the area where I believe Elijah Cumming, the late Elijah Cumming, was a rep for.
President Trump bashed that area as being crime-ridden.
If you recall, we talked about how Trump's supporter, I think his name is Scott Pressler, he got a bunch of people to go and clean up the area.
They cleaned up an awful lot.
Was it the Baltimore Sun that actually editorialized and blasted them for doing it?
This was some sort of act of white supremacy.
Yeah, exactly.
Cleaning up a black neighborhood.
They removed, what, 20 dumpsters worth of trash?
Tons of trash.
And this guy continues to go across the country and do this in liberal areas.
Just did this in San Francisco as well.
But let's talk about Khalid Heba.
He was a refugee who fled war in Syria, and now he's among the latest Baltimore homicide victims in 2020.
One of his friends said this of him, if you know him you had to love him because that's the type of good person he was.
He worked, this person who said this about Mr. Hiba, they were co-workers at Vicindy's Pizza where he was a delivery driver and like I said he was murdered in broad daylight just after noon on a weekday by a black male. And why this is so
interesting, why this story is so interesting, is it turns out that his mother said that her oldest son,
who's in Germany right now, and you have to wonder why, you know, what's he doing in
Germany?
Is that part of Merkel allowing all the Syrians to pour in?
He can't come to the funeral to be with the family because of the travel ban affecting Syrians.
So this guy who's brought over to the country from the war-torn area of Syria, trying to make an honest living delivering pizzas, what happens in broad daylight?
And 70% black Baltimore and West Baltimore.
Again, that is that area where President Trump, I think it was a year ago at this time, President Trump made those comments, which were some of the best of his presidency, because he did try and shine a light on what's happening in that area.
Well, that's a touching and sad story.
But from war-torn Syria to war-torn Baltimore, It's out of the frying pan into the fire apparently for this poor young fellow.
But the travel ban apparently is having some effect.
Now, it is not having quite the effect we expected it to have.
Remember, in 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order to put travel restrictions on citizens and residents of Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen.
I don't think any of those countries has been really a great contributor to Western civilization.
So, theoretically, you can't come.
But fiscal years 2017 and 2018, the two years for which we have data available on the post-implementation of the ban, we find out that the number of green cards given to people from those countries has declined by only 5%.
Only 5%.
The last two fiscal years of President Obama's administration, 2015-2016, those countries People of those countries were the beneficiaries of 145,000 green cards.
145,000.
Well, under Trump, the number's down only 7,000 to 138,000.
145,000. Well, under Trump, the number is down only 7,000 to 138,000.
145,000 to 138,000.
These are given to, again, Iranians, Libyans, North Koreans, etc., etc.
And so I'm a little bit surprised that this hasn't been working.
So once you got in, you were pretty much okay.
But there has been a fairly significant drop in the number who have actually come into the country from those banned countries.
For example, in fiscal year 2015, the Obama administration approved visas for 35,000 Iranians.
The Trump administration cut that to 9,600.
35,000 and 9,600.
But if they're on the ban, why do we get any of them?
No, exactly.
I guess these are all future Nobel Prize winners, or they're, I don't know, champion athletes.
They're people we just can't live without.
And when it comes to Syria, the flow has been cut by 60%.
From Yemen, the flow has been cut by 67%.
But again, why any?
Why any Yemenis?
Why?
Why any Syrians?
Why any Somalis?
It's a simple question.
Yes, yes.
And it's a simple question, probably with no answer whatsoever.
Recently, Donald Trump has expanded his list of travel banned countries to include Burma, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Sudan.
I don't think we're going to suffer from any reduction in people from those countries.
I would concur.
But now, guess how many people, let me read that list again.
Burma, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Sudan.
Between 2016 and 2018, how many citizens of those countries do you think were let in?
I'm gonna go with 19,000.
Sorry, 260,000.
Oh!
Yes, yes.
An order of magnitude greater, basically.
Holy cow!
We think we're well-informed.
Well, we don't know nothing, ladies and gentlemen.
There's one quote from Khalid Heba's co-worker.
I'd like to actually point out about a war-torn Syria to a war-torn Baltimore.
His co-worker, Kimberly McManawah, said this, This is the life we live in right now.
This is a war zone here.
Do you leave your country to come here?
And ours is a war zone.
Everybody's killing someone around the corner that you know now our astute listeners might remember Baltimore has a
homicide rate of 57 per 100,000 people which puts it on
one of the Most violent places on the planet not just in the United
States, but on the planet. I had a I A reader actually sent over a breakdown of what he believes is the black homicide rate, and he thinks it is about 102 per 100,000.
If you break out blacks from whites, and he did the math, and he said it's about 102, might be as high as 105, because the Clearance rate is so low in Baltimore, you really don't know.
That's probably more dangerous than any country on earth, because I think the highest countries of which we have any kind of notion of statistics, Honduras, El Salvador at about 50, 50, 60, something like that.
Yeah, remember Mexico is about 22.
So 22 per 100,000 people.
So that puts into perspective just the type of conditions that this guy left from Syria to Baltimore.
But then, as you noted, his brother was not allowed in the country because he's In Germany, but he's a Syrian, so it is working.
Potentially dangerous.
That's why I thought this story was so interesting.
Yes, yes.
Well, you know, there's danger everywhere.
And that is something that Gabrielle Bascu learned.
He was a Frenchman.
He was in New York City on a surprise visit to his girlfriend on Valentine's Day.
Oh, nice guy!
Very nice.
He hadn't seen her for a month since she took a job in New York City.
Well, Gabriel and his girlfriend were leaving an IHOP on Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Boulevard near West 132nd Street.
That's a part of Manhattan to which white people never went for a long time.
But things are gentrifying and they thought they were safe.
But on their way out, a fellow by, let's see, I've lost his name here.
A young resident rushed up and with a very sharp knife slashed him from under his ear down to under his chin.
It was a huge gash in his neck.
He needed two pints of blood.
And his hospitalization is expected to last at least 11 days.
He could very easily have died.
This fellow, his name is Kalief Young.
28 years old.
He lives approximately two blocks from Pancake Restaurant.
And, now this is what's so interesting about this case.
He gave no motive for slashing this fellow, but the fact that his name is Khalif, and what we have in our hands is a Frenchman with his young girlfriend, suggests that there might have been some kind of nefarious racial motive.
Well, and Khalif, for those who haven't seen a picture of him, he is a black male.
It goes without saying, but I did want to point that out.
That's right, Khalif.
Well, apparently on October 20th last year, he rang his neighbor's doorbell and punched the woman in the case and kicked her several times.
Still on the street.
He was released at the time without bail.
Yes, of course.
Race unspecified.
Race unspecified about his neighbor.
Four months earlier in June, he went into a deli on West 135th Street and slashed a deli worker in the neck.
Again, race unspecified.
Khalif Young was arrested in March 2015 for criminal possession of a loaded firearm and spent a little less than two years in an upstate prison.
But once again, the question is, what's this guy doing out on the street?
Let's hope at least this time they are not letting him out on bail.
I haven't read any disposition of the case so far, but at least they caught him.
There was a good chance they wouldn't catch him because he just came out of the balloon, slashed this guy and disappeared.
But they did manage to catch him.
Another fellow they managed to catch in New York City, Charles Barry, age 56.
He is a thief who's been arrested 139 times by New York City police.
139 times!
And he's been arrested six times so far in 2020.
He's an enterprising fellow.
And each time, of course, he's been freed without paying bail thanks to the new state law.
No bail.
It's catch and release.
And as the police led Barry out—he's a thief, by the way.
Mostly.
He's not a violent guy.
If he'd actually been killing people, I don't think they'd let him out.
But he is a nonviolent felon.
but as they led Charlesbury, Ottawa Precinct on Thursday, he yelled to a reporter,
Bail Reform! It's lit! It's the Democrats!
The Democrats know me and the Republicans fear me.
You can't touch me.
I can't be stopped.
Now, that shows to me a profound understanding of the new law.
And then, this is even better, in Manhattan criminal court on Saturday after his latest catch and release, he said, I'm famous.
I take $200, $300 a day of your money, cracker.
$300 a day of your money, cracker.
You can't stop me.
You know, how long can this absolute thumb in your eye attitude of these criminals go on?
I think it's going for a while until we actually realize that people like Bratton and Giuliani and Bloomberg were right.
Yes, they knew what they were doing.
If I could jump in real quick.
Alright, yes.
Then you'll have to jump out.
I will jump out quickly, but I want to point out that one of the guys that this dude stabbed, you said that the race was unspecified.
Benjamin Awundawi was a 58-year-old pharmacist that he came and randomly cut back in May.
He is black and he was actually upset that his story didn't become bigger.
He thought that it was, hey, quote, this time he stabbed a white guy.
Now everyone is interested.
Well, actually, not many people are talking about it except for alternate media.
And I'd like to point out that he actually did say something that's very important.
The black guy was stabbed by the black guy who stabbed the white guy.
He said this, quote, if the law did what they should have done a year ago and they would
have handed him the punishment he deserved, maybe he would have had the opportunity to
do it again."
Well, duh, dude.
Very wise.
A very wise observation.
Yeah, I mean, New York City is once again ground zero.
Obviously, I didn't live through the 60s and 70s, the insanity that led to broken windows, policing, stop and frisk.
But it seems, Mr. Taylor, we're heading back Oh, very much.
Very much.
And we'll get to that.
We'll get to that.
But this fellow, now what sort of thieving does he do?
He is a specialist.
What he does is he works in the subway.
And what he does is he sneaks up on people who are, you take your wallet out of your pocket and you're about to make a transaction.
He snatches it.
Off he goes.
And the other thing that he does, he will pretend to be a subway Metropolitan Transit Authority worker and offer to help people who are buying their subway cars.
If you walk up to the machine and you look a little bit confused, he'll say, let me help you with that.
You know, I'll tell you how it works.
And as soon as you pull your wallet out, Gone!
Gone!
So, yes, I can understand.
You know, I take $200, $300 a day of your money, cracker.
I believe him.
Well, he has been represented invariably, and as I say 139 times, he's probably very familiar with the Legal Aid Society.
Now, they say that they adamantly oppose any change to the bail law.
The Legal Aid Society put out a statement.
Mr. Barry's case underscores a need for economic stability and meaningful social services, not a need to roll back bail reform.
Locking up Mr. Barry on unaffordable bail fails entirely to address his actual needs.
Well, gosh, unaffordable bail?
What's he doing with that two or three hundred dollars a day?
And what are his actual needs?
I think his actual needs are three hots and a cot.
But here the Legal Aid Society is saying it's not his fault.
He's got problems.
I've never heard that quote before.
Three hots in a cot.
I guess that's three hot meals in a warm bed.
That's right.
In the big house.
Yes, yes.
But you were saying we're moving backwards.
Indeed we are.
And the evidence for this is the squeegee men are back.
Now, you may have probably never experienced the unwanted attentions of a squeegee man.
Well, I was living in New York back in the 1990s, in New York City itself, in the heart of the Big Apple.
These are people, they will come up to you in your car when you're stopped in traffic, and they will take a squeegee out and wash your windshield.
They'll do a terrible job of it, and then they will insist that they be paid.
And what they will do is if you don't gun, if you don't get a green light and gun the engine and get out of there, they will threaten to break your windshield wipers or dent the hood of your car.
Well, one of Mayor Rudy Giuliani's quality of life improvements in the 1990s was a crackdown on these people.
Get them the heck out!
Well, the squeegee boys have realized that we now have this completely revolving door system.
And, as a policeman explained when asked about this business, he says, we don't even arrest people for pissing in the street.
Why would we arrest a squeegee guy?
He says, they know they won't be arrested, so why wouldn't they come back?
Apparently, in New York City, panhandling is not against the law, but aggressive panhandling is.
If you touch someone when you're panhandling, that is apparently against the law.
But you can get in somebody's face and say, you know, reparations, honky, and that's okay.
I'm surprised the state doesn't give license to panhandlers in New York so they can tax it.
Well, that wouldn't do any good.
They wouldn't pay up.
And here, you're talking about squeegee guy.
He says, hey, I make enough, more than minimum wage.
The mayor don't want to fuck with me.
They can't lock us up for our shit.
That is the voice of the squeegee man.
The voice of reason.
Yes, the squeegee man is back.
Now, I wonder if the squeegee man will end up in Charlotte.
Charlotte, North Carolina is going through similar changes, it seems to me.
Well, Charlottesville, actually.
I beg your pardon?
We're talking about Charlottesville.
We talked about Charlotte before, actually.
Charlotte is still, you know, Real quick, I'd like to say something about Charlotte.
Charlotte is actually a beautiful city.
It is still majority white.
Strangely, there's a black police chief and a black mayor.
But it is a city where blacks commit, as Michael Bloomberg has noted, the majority of the crime.
You know, he doesn't even have to look at the statistics.
No, he doesn't.
And we could also be talking about Charlottesville, Virginia.
So, where Michael Bloomberg could also be talking about those people who commit the majority of the crime.
Well, get this, and we will say that once this podcast, because this story is worth it.
Okay.
The Disproportionate Minority Contact Report was just released by The City, which finds Racial disproportionality across all points in the local adult criminal justice system.
This report was presented to the Charlottesville City Council and it produced recommendations on how to combat Racial disproportionality and disparity and the local justice system.
I can see how you'd choke on that.
That's a mouthful ladies and gentlemen so you have to bear with me because this story is a fun one.
So the city of Charlottesville and the county of I never actually encountered this.
Albemarle?
Albemarle County.
They've completed the first phase of the Disproportionate Minority Study, a multidisciplinary project examining how minorities are treated within the criminal justice system to find that black individuals are, you might be shocked to find this out, overrepresented at every point in the local criminal justice system in Charlottesville.
At every point.
Every point.
So, using data from 2014 to 2016, the 14-member Adult Disproportionate Minority Contact Research and Planning Committee.
Now, again, if you're going to do something like that, you've got to make sure to put a good acronym so you can condense it down.
Come on, guys.
There's a suggestion.
Make it a nice acronym.
Which they failed to do.
They did!
They pointed out that this committee worked with a consulting group out of Florida to determine the extent of racial disproportionality and disparity.
The City of Charlottesville defines racial disproportionality as one race being over- or underrepresented compared to the overall racial makeup of the whole community.
Racial disparity is when individuals in a similar situation receive different outcomes Based on race.
Oh, now they actually found that?
They claim to have found that?
So the study is unique in its examination of the racial disparity in the criminal justice system.
While there have been some studies on disproportionality, very few studies, save this one, study the racial disparity in the local justice system.
During the period of 2014 to 2016, 51.5% of those arrested in Charlottesville were black men. 51.
Where black men comprise only 8.5% of the city's population.
So I guess if you're going to do the formula there, what's that?
Normally it's 1350, this is 8.5, 51.5.
So the racial disparity was also found across five areas of contact between individuals and law enforcement.
Black men were found to be more likely to have serious charges leveled against them and experience a higher number of companion charges.
They had longer bail and bond release decisions, experienced a longer length of time awaiting trial, and experienced more guilty outcomes at trial.
My god, does that mean they actually committed the crime that they were arrested for?
See, almost all of these studies are exclusively about the fact that they are over-represented in the system.
They very, very seldom get into the details of trying to compare black people who are arrested with white people who are arrested under exactly the same circumstances, if such can be done, and who are tried under exactly the same circumstances.
But this report seems to be claiming That when you really compare apples to apples, then you get different results for the blacks.
Racial disparity for black men was not found at two critical points.
The duration of time served for an offense and the duration of sentence imposed.
So what does that mean?
Does that mean that whites and blacks are sentenced You get three hots and a cot for exactly the same period of time if you've committed the same crime.
Now this report seems to be suggesting that if you go before a jury, if you're tried, if you're black you're more likely to be found guilty assuming all the circumstances are the same.
But it would be very interesting to know the actual details.
At every step of the way, how much of a disadvantage is it to be black?
And my guess, my guess is that if you really compared the number of prior offenses, the kind of weapon used in the crime, whether or not there was any unnecessary violence attached to some other otherwise non-violent, whether there was a resistance to arrest, my guess is all of these racial disparities would dwindle down to a very, very small number.
I have a feeling that this organization is going to find a lot of cities across the country.
I can think of Madison, Wisconsin.
Go read the report.
Well, our friends at the Disproportionate Minority Study, I have a feeling that this organization is
going to find a lot of cities across the country.
I can think of Madison, Wisconsin.
I can think of New York City.
They're going to love to have these people come in and conduct an audit to figure out, gosh, we've got a disproportionate... Well, that's true.
White people love to be told that they're racist and they love to be told their government is part of the systemic oppression of people of color.
So, if these guys really can conjure up racial differences in the way people are treated, they're going to be heroes.
They're going to be in demand all around the country.
They've got a gravy train here that might actually be more lucrative than the one Stacey Abrams made for herself.
Well, romance novels, I guess there's a lot of money in that.
Well, let's move on to Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders, who is emerging, as some people say, actually.
Front-runner in the Democratic primary.
I think he is.
Well, it turns out that the biggest Muslim political action committee, did you know there was a Muslim PAC?
There is.
It's called Engage PAC.
So you wouldn't know it.
It's not called Al-Jihadi PAC or Allahu Akbar PAC.
It's called Engage PAC.
Now, they have decided that Bernie Sanders' campaign is a forward-thinking movement, one that represents America as a set of ideas, grounded in the belief that all humans are equal and worthy of a dignified life.
Got that?
America is a set of ideas.
Nothing else.
And this was a statement put out by Wael Al Zayat.
He is the CEO of EmergePAC.
And he goes on to say, Our endorsement is intended to galvanize Muslim Americans of the Polis to ensure that our voices are heard.
This was not an endorsement that Ernie Sanders scorned.
He said, It is an honor To receive this endorsement from Engage Action.
Also, he has received the endorsement, you'll be happy to know, of Representatives Ilhan Omar.
I knew that.
And Rashida Tlaib.
They are, of course, the first two Muslim women ever elected to the U.S.
House of Representatives.
So, this is a great day for Bernie Sanders.
He's got the Muslim vote tied up.
Praise Allah.
I'll say, I'll say.
Apparently the fact that Bernie Sanders is a Jew is no obstacle to the support of these Muslims.
Allah be praised.
Yes, indeed.
Now, I looked him up a little bit.
He works at the Middle East Institute and his bio on the site says, Al Zayat has long been a passionate advocate for protecting fundamental American values and freedoms.
I'm relieved to know that he is beavering away, protecting my fundamental values and freedoms.
But then in the same sentence, he goes on to say, and increasing the civic engagement of minority communities.
So, I wonder how much he values the First Amendment and the Second Amendment.
I don't think he's much of an activist in those areas, but he is there.
He is out there protecting fundamental American values and freedoms, but just how he can do that if he is convinced that the United States is nothing more than a set of ideas.
I guess he's got a different idea of the United States and a different idea of some of our fundamentals from you and me.
Well, let's move on from this Wael Al Zayat to someone by the name of Greg Robinson.
Now this is a story that you should probably handle being the sports fan that you are.
You did assure me that you had heard of Greg Robinson before.
I know of Greg Robinson.
I'll just say this.
He was a second round pick back in 2014, I believe.
Cleveland Browns.
He was projected to be one of the top offensive line prospects of the past decade.
Big guy.
Unbelievable speed.
Unbelievable measurables.
Big black offensive lineman.
Well, turns out that he has a propensity, predilection for marijuana.
I'll let you roll the ugliness here.
Well, I think you've pretty much gotten to the goal post on this.
The fact is, I am astonished by the powers of your memory.
He was the number two overall black draft pick, but by the Rams.
He started off at the Rams.
That's right.
He was a bit of a disappointment.
But he did end up playing 31 games for the Browns over the past two seasons.
He continues to be a professional football player.
He's really on the field.
Not a guy who is down and out and doesn't get a paycheck.
Well, he was arrested.
At the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday at the Sierra Blanca checkpoint station, a canine unit, I think that's a fancy term for a dog, smelled something in the car.
This led to an inspection and turned out That Greg Robinson had 156.9 pounds of marijuana.
I'm glad to know the Border Patrol is weighing his marijuana right down to the tenth.
That is a lot of cannabis.
It's a lot, but it's a very proficient amount there.
Well, come on, he's six foot five and weighs 332 pounds.
I guess it takes a lot of weed for him to get high.
So he had a lot.
Well, now you're going to be asked, inquiring minds want to know, Since he was arrested at a U.S.
border checkpoint, was he returning from Mexico?
He was not.
Greg Robinson was driving from Los Angeles in a rented car to Louisiana.
Now, how did he end up at a border crossing?
I don't know.
Is he just a poor, unfortunate guy who took a wrong turn and ended up at a border crossing and got sniffed?
No.
Well, this was used to me.
It's not as stupid as it sounds.
Apparently, this border crossing, known as the Sierra Blanca Checkpoint, it is on Interstate 10, 70 miles southeast of El Paso, and everybody coming that way goes through this checkpoint.
Okay.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, I didn't know that either.
You've got a U.S.
Customs checkpoint on I-10.
They check everybody coming through, and there are no warning signs.
You go around the turn, and bam!
You've got ice on your hands.
You've got the Border Patrol.
And the dogs come sniffing around, and if you've got three joints, you get written up.
A few years ago, there was an audio of Chris Carter, NFL Hall of Famer, who was talking to a bunch of Rookie prospects who were getting ready to be drafted. He
said look you guys got to find a fall guy You got to find one of your buddies if you get in trouble
You got to make sure that they take the blame you got to find someone you know that's that's how professionals do it
mmm, and I know that Greg Robinson had to have one of his you know one of his
black buddies in the car with them So I wonder I wonder what their conversation
Centered around as they pulled up to this check there were There were two people, actually.
One was one of his comrades from Auburn, who played briefly in the pros.
They also had a guy who was an Uber driver.
And they said to the Uber driver, hey, why don't you tell him it's yours?
The Uber driver says no thanks.
I have a bad feeling that that Uber driver probably gave him a pretty bad score.
Bad review.
I think so.
In any case, you know, a lot of people have been picked up by this checkpoint.
Willie Nelson was busted there.
Yes, Snoop Dogg too.
William Snoop.
William Snoop and some other people because I'm a popular culture ignoramus I've never heard of but no doubt I should have.
Fiona Apple.
Fiona Apple?
Okay.
You know who she is?
She was busted.
Also Army Hammer.
Now the ostensible purpose of this checkpoint is to help West Texas deal with the drug wars in nearby Ciudad Juarez but recently most of the people get caught.
They're just law-abiding American citizens driving through.
With pot on them.
With pot, now, yes, if they end up with 156.9 pounds, then they figure they've done their work for the day.
But most of the people that get picked up just have a few joints.
And there's a big push on locally to get this thing taken down.
Because, you know, if you're just driving around in the United States, you don't expect to go through a border checkpoint.
So this is news to me.
So, you know, I have to feel sorry for Greg Robinson.
When I first heard about this, I thought, What a bonehead!
He just took a wrong turn.
Ended up in Mexico and coming back in he got nabbed.
No, it was not that way.
He just has bad luck.
It's still pretty boneheaded to be driving from California to Louisiana.
Obviously, it's the offseas right now.
He's probably gonna go spend time with his homies, with his buddies.
And with 156 pounds, I'm sure that would last a couple days.
Yep, they're gonna have a mighty fine time.
Well, we have a different story.
It happened in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and a fellow by the name of Robert Noyes, a 52-year-old black man, kidnapped a white woman and forced her to watch the nine-hour slavery miniseries, Roots.
The purpose of this was so that she would understand her racism, And so, she's forced to sit this nine-hour series, and he told her that when she threatened to go, he said he would kill her and spread her body parts across Interstate 380 on the way to Chicago.
So, now that'll learn her about her own racism.
What's the difference between that story and what white public school children are forced to do when they have to watch a lot of these miniseries?
Well, they are not held at... and apparently no weapons involved here, but they don't have to watch nine hours straight in a row, I imagine.
Well, they aren't yet threatened with dismemberment if they fail to watch.
No.
That's the only difference.
But yes, we don't know the name of this white lady, but I'm sure that she has now been completely cured of racism due to this experience.
You know, Roots remains the third most watched U.S.
telecast of all time, and the final episode saw about 100 million viewers.
Did you watch it live?
I did not watch it.
I was, no, I think I was out of the country in 1977.
Where was I?
No, I did not watch it.
Now, you know, it was based on a book by Alex Haley.
He wrote the celebrated book Roots that was supposed to be based on his own family history.
You know, he had this tale about he went to Senegal and he he talked to this griot who was a medicine man and a mumbo-jumbo man and they and they went all back through the generations and he said, oh, yes, Kunta Kinte, my ancestor.
Well, it turns out it was all baloney.
It turns out that he based the story on a book called The African by a white man named Harold Courland.
Were you not aware of that?
I was aware because I've read American Renaissance.
Ah yes, American Renaissance.
Cultural appropriation!
What's going on here, man?
I mean, not just cultural appropriation.
Racial appropriation!
Well, of course, and it turns out the African is the story is almost exactly the same.
It talks about this poor guy being captured and how horrible the Middle Passage was and how this hero, he preserved his African heritage despite the rigors and the horrors of slavery.
Well, and they went to trial.
He sued.
You know, this guy had the gumption to sue Alex Haley and Alex Haley settled out of court for $650,000.
That's it.
That was it.
Well, that's, you know, that was in about, I think that was 1980s or so, and that's, he said, Alex Haley, in a statement, said he acknowledges and regrets that various materials from The African by Harold Courlander found their way Into his book.
Found their way.
Those things just had little legs and they were creeping along and they found their way.
By osmosis, I guess.
Found their way into his book.
Now, you know, in a 2002 column, New York Daily News column, Stanley Crouch.
He was a black guy.
He wrote really pretty good stuff.
He wrote that the federal judge who oversaw the trial, and I have only Stanley Crouch's word for this, but the federal judge, Robert Ward, He urged Harold Courlander, the white guy, to keep quiet about the $650,000 settlement because Roots' author had become too important to black people to be torn down in public.
So, the federal judge was looking out for black people by looking out for Alex Haley.
Unfortunately, this guy didn't think about residuals.
Think about how much money that IP makes for Haley, or Haley's family.
I believe he's dead, correct?
Yes, yes.
Haley is now a ghost.
But, I don't know, does Roots, is it rebroadcast these days?
Oh, obviously!
I mean, it's still sold, streamed, and they just made a new version a few years ago.
Nowhere near as popular, obviously, as the original iteration, but... Well, anyway, so that's the story, and if you really want to cure a white lady of her racism, just kidnap her, sit her down, and have her watch nine hours of Roots against her will.
Works every time.
Now, we are leaping across the pond and we will find ourselves in Oxford.
Oxford University.
Yeah, I mean just a couple weeks ago we were talking about Yale getting rid of the introduction to, what was the class called?
It was Poets.
Major English Poets.
That's right.
Major English Poets.
You can't have Wordsworth, can't have Keats, Shelley.
Too many dead white males.
Well, Oxford University's Classics Department is considering a move that would allow Classics majors to graduate without reading Homer and Virgil.
I'm going to repeat that real quick in case you weren't listening just so you can let the gravity of what I'm about to say hit you one more time.
Oxford University's classics department is considering a move that would allow classics majors to graduate without reading the foundational texts of any classic department.
Victor Davis Hanson wrote a book called Who Killed Homer?
It's a great book, by the way, without reading Homer and Virgil.
Now, you know, you know, you might expect this at Yale, but Oxford?
Well, you know, Adam Nicholson wrote a great book that I highly recommend to all of our listeners, The Mighty Dead, Why Homer Matters.
And in the early part of the book, he points out that Goethe thought that if Europe had only considered Homer and not the Bible as its holy scripture, the whole of history would have been different and better.
That's quite a remarkable statement.
It is.
It is.
Now, in contrast, the English poet and artist William Blank, he blamed Homer for desolating Europe with wars, which, if you know anything about human history, wars exist in all cultures, all tribes, all races.
So, but the Homer, Homer's works, the Iliad and the Odyssey are, go and tell the story.
Well, I don't know how many of our listeners know about Dominic Venner.
Dominic Venner was a Frenchman, a patriot, and he ended up committing suicide.
He shot himself in the head in the church of Notre Dame.
This was probably six, seven years ago.
And he did it in opposition to same-sex marriage and the demographic transformation of Europe.
He went out and he wrote about it before he did this.
He says, this is my act.
This is my final deliberate act, is to show my protest against what's happening to my country.
Well, he was a great admirer and scholar of Homer.
And he said, Homer is the origin of Western civilization.
If you wish to be a European, if you wish to be a white man, read Homer.
Well, I guess Oxford doesn't think in those terms, or maybe they do think in those terms.
Maybe they think if you read too much Homer, you'll turn into a white man, and that we can't have.
Well, again, the Classics faculty members are considering removing Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid from the first stage of the Classics degree, according to the University Student Newspaper.
Gotta go.
These foundational texts, they have to go.
If the works were removed from the section called moderations, nowhere else in the major are the foundational epic poems required to be studied.
Now, what is the reason behind this?
A lot of people have said that implementing the change would be a fatal mistake.
He said removing the works would deprive classic students of the most important works in their
major.
This was Project Manager Jane Prius.
They said that, quote, Oxford would be producing classicists who have never read Homer and
never read Virgil, who are the central authors of the classical tradition and most of classical
literature in one way or another looks back to Homer and interacts with the Iliad.
That person says that of all literature.
Right.
Well, isn't this, this isn't the usual thing about non-whites not finding role models on the fields of battle in front of Troy.
Doesn't this have something to do with the fact that women aren't interested in this?
Faculty leaders, it's correct, they're attempting to decrease the difference in performance in the course between men and women and between students who have functional knowledge of Greek and Latin And those who do not.
These reforms are to make the classics major more accessible.
Warm and snugly.
Yeah.
A cuddly, a cuddly Homer.
Well, since they couldn't come up with a cuddly Homer, they just had to cut him out.
Hector!
Achilles, Paris, they gotta go.
Tuvana.
Ajax, you're out of here.
That's toxic masculinity.
The Remedians, you're gone.
Yeah, Myrmidons, no, can't have that.
Myrmidons, you're retired to the ash heap of history.
Well, you know, this reminds me of something else that's happening in Britain.
The United Kingdom has something known as the Office of Communications, known to its friends as Ofcom.
Well, Ofcom has a new chief.
She is Dame Melanie Dawes.
One of the things Ofcom does, it has taken on responsibility for policing internet content.
That's another word for censorship.
And what she's going to do is to create guidelines that instruct content hosting companies, such as YouTube, Facebook, on how to manage online censorship of user-generated content.
So it looks as though they're going to have a sure enough bureaucracy in Britain to do the job that it seems to me that YouTube and Facebook are already doing perfectly well themselves, and rather to excess if you ask me.
But one of the things that they're going to do is create rules for content that are, that content that is, quote, not illegal, but has the potential to cause harm.
And that is a matter of great concern to Dame Melanie Dawes.
Now, she has been a career civil servant for her entire working life, but most recently, you'd like to know, her official title was Civil Service Gender and Diversity Champion.
Did you know they have official champions in the civil service?
You can't have Hector and Achilles battling it out as champions, but you can have civil service gender and diversity champions.
And whenever they're introduced, they have to play Queens.
We are the champions so that they know this is the victor.
This is the champion of the world.
But so I think that she's going to create regulations that would not be very friendly to this podcast.
But perhaps I misjudge her.
I don't think that you do.
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But as we continue in the land of my ancestors, I have something to say about Boris Johnson and his administration.
Well, I didn't realize this.
Boris Johnson, he was once upon a time the editor of The Spectator.
Did you know that?
I did.
Well, good for you.
You are a knowledgeable and knowing guy.
Well, at one time, while he was the editor, they published a column by Taki.
Taki Theodorakopoulos, who is the guy who runs TakiBag, an excellent website, And in this column, Tacky wrote, and I quote, on average, Orientals are slower to mature, less randy.
That means, well, we won't- As only Tacky could put it.
Yes.
Less randy, less fertile, and have larger brains and higher IQ scores.
Blacks are at the other pole and whites fall somewhere in the middle, although closer to the Orientals than the blacks.
Then, asked subsequently about these contributors' remarks, Mr. Johnson simply described Tacky as a very distinguished columnist.
It's true for him.
Well, Boris Johnson has as his most senior advisor, a fellow by the name of Dominic Cummings.
Well, Dominic Cummings recently advertised for people with, sort of think outside the box, in order to come advise the Prime Minister.
And he hired a fellow by the name of Andrew Sabisky.
Well, Andrew Sabisky has been saying some outside-the-box things.
In 2016, the Cambridge graduate, so he's inside the box when it comes to going to top-notch universities, in a blog post he said, if the mean black American IQ And this is something that's based on a century's worth of data.
It's around 85 as compared to mean white American IQ of 100.
Then, if IQ is normally distributed, you'll see a far greater percentage of blacks than whites in the range of IQs 75 or below, at which point we're close to the typical boundary for mild mental retardation.
You also said that eugenics is about selecting for good things.
That's what Richard Dawkins said, too.
Well, he said it would work on humans just as well it would work on beef cattle, but he got in terrible trouble for that.
In any case, when all of this was found out, then Mr. Sebesky, he decided that he would resign because he didn't want to prove a distraction.
He said, I know this will disappoint a lot of people.
He's resigning.
But I signed up to do real work and not be in the middle of a giant character assassination.
If I can't do the work properly, there's no point.
But it's good to see that people like this are making their way into the administration.
I always believed, however, that just like Stephen Miller, Stephen Miller went through a bit of a firestorm because he apparently took an occasional look at the AmRen webpage, and all the usual people screamed and they whooped and they hollered, but he hung on tight and he's fine.
Well, as Ann Coulter said, everyone reads VDARE.
You'd be surprised how many people read VDARE.
And, hey, if you're reading VDARE, invariably you're probably reading Amran.
I think that's that's what the cool kids call it these days.
That's what even even Stephen Miller, who's about as cool as they get, he refers to it as Amran.
Yes, indeed.
Well, so that's our last story for this episode.
So we thank you very much for your attention.
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