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March 12, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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‘Whiteness is Terrorism’
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it is our pleasure to welcome you to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is the indispensable Paul Kersey.
Always glad to have you with us.
Now, I hate to talk about news that everybody is talking about, but in this case, I'm afraid we have no choice but to talk about the coronavirus.
But we're going to talk about it only to the extent of how to talk about the coronavirus.
It's up to you how to save yourself from the coronavirus, but we are going to give you the straight and skinny on how to talk about the virus.
Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are around the world.
If you've already decided to ostracize yourself away from crowds to protect yourself from COVID-19, the Wuhan virus, should we call it the Wuhan virus or the coronavirus moving forward?
Can you even call it the Wuhan virus?
We'll find out.
Well, like I said, it's great to be back once again.
Episode 174, might I add here, as we prepare for The Ides of March weekend.
So ladies and gentlemen, be careful out there.
Hopefully you guys have stocked up because you all know the madness of crowds.
Well, we're going to talk about a number of stories here.
One I want to talk about first is last night after Donald Trump, after President Trump addressed the nation regarding the coronavirus, he noted that it was a foreign disease.
Which you can't do anymore, Mr. Taylor.
You can't notice the geographic origin.
So I understand.
CNN's Jim Acosta, he barely complained when he was on the show with Chris Cuomo about President Trump referring to coronavirus as a foreign virus.
It was an act of xenophobia.
Xenophobia.
He said this, the president referred to the coronavirus as a foreign virus.
It's going to come across to a lot of Americans as smacking of xenophobia to use that kind of term in this speech.
What?
Is he going to call it an American virus?
Anyway, yes, talking about a foreign virus.
That's going to send us all off the cliff of xenophobia.
Yeah, so of course CNN is going out there and they're asserting that, look, you can't call it the Wuhan virus, that's racist.
This is actually a talking point that we're seeing as the Wuhan virus is... people try and strike it from more vernacular, from a vocabulary.
What's funny is that back in January, Acosta actually sent out a tweet.
I know you're banned from Twitter, but he did send out a tweet, you can go look at it, where he called it the Wuhan coronavirus.
So he had actually Dubbed it that exact same thing.
I want to bring you to an editorial that was published at, of all places, the USA Today.
Yes, not a place where you expect any kind of even remote common sense.
David Maestio, who is a member of the editorial board there at the USA Today.
Do they even give the USA Today out for free at hotels anymore?
They sure do.
They sure do.
He wrote an editorial, and it's signed this.
The title's this.
Quote, So again, are we at that point now where racism is jumping the shark?
Wuhan virus is not racist. And he noted that Democrats have come up with a new way to cheapen
the accusation of racism or bigotry. So again, are we at that point now where racism is jumping
the shark? There are, I guess in this guy's eyes, legitimate reasons to call somebody
a bigot or racist intolerant.
That's the only reason he's worried about it.
Because it will cheapen the word.
Exactly.
And that is in his opening paragraph.
But he says, guys, this is insane.
He quotes A rep, Grace Ming, the vice chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, who wrote this in a statement.
Quote, this labeling of the illness is embarrassing, disrespectful, offensive, and downright disgusting.
Wrongly inserting Chinese into the name of this disease only reinforces the disparaging and negative stereotypes of Asian Americans.
A lot to unpackage there, Mr. Taylor.
Go ahead, tell me what you think when you hear this.
Well, I don't think people think of Asian Americans when they hear of the Wuhan virus.
Sorry.
But she's got a lot of imagination.
No, I guess she does.
Kamala Harris, senator from California.
She backed up.
Her Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Vice Chair when she said this, quote, Well, Kamala's on the bandwagon.
coronavirus isn't just racist, it's dangerous and incites discrimination
against Asian Americans and Asian immigrants."
Well, Kamala's on the bandwagon.
So this author, David Musteo, actually went and decided, well, how common is it
for geographic names to be given to diseases?
I'd like to read a few of them for you.
Please do.
The Zika virus.
It's from a forest.
Was that Africa or was that South America?
Did that first show up in Egypt, perhaps?
You know, I don't remember.
Zika, okay.
But that's a forest, all right.
The Guiano worm, a country.
The Japanese encephalitis.
Obviously, that's a country.
West Nile virus.
That's a river for all of our friends out there who remember their geography.
German measles.
Spanish flu.
Ebola.
That's, of course, a river in Africa.
Marburg virus.
Well, that's a German city.
And Lassa fever.
That's a town in Nigeria.
Now, disease names don't have to come up with the form and flavor.
Lyme disease.
Lyme disease is named for a town in Connecticut.
That's a new one on me, but I think that is racist against the limites.
Norovirus.
It's named after a town for Norwalk, Ohio.
We can't have, you know, this nominative determinism, I guess, when you bring up the cities in the eyes of the left.
Now, of course, and then there's the issue of fax.
The Spanish flu is most likely misnamed.
We don't know where it came from.
However, We do know where COVID-19 came from.
Yes, we do.
Yes, we do.
And we know where another virus came from.
There's one called the Hantavirus.
Ever heard of that?
I haven't.
It's got a mortality rate of 38%.
Now compare that to the 1-5% of the coronavirus.
Well, it first showed up in the United States in 1993.
And it comes from South America and is also known as the Andes virus.
Fortunately, it's not quite as infectious as the coronavirus, but there's another one, the Andes virus.
So, yeah, but no, now, if a Democrat thinks he can catch a Republican on the back foot by yelling about Chinese viruses and foreign viruses, oh, they'll do it every time.
I wish I could say we were done, but I've got to bring up just another two minutes here of some of your favorite people, all from the squad.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, he defended himself against Democrat attacks, accusing him of racism by using the term in a tweet, Chinese coronavirus.
Once again, you cannot describe the geographic origin of where this pandemic that has caused such significant and really surreal damage.
I mean, I know you're not a fan of sports, but think about what's happened in the past two days.
Think about it.
The NBA cancels their season.
The NCAA March Madness, one of the biggest gambling events of the year.
They cancelled it.
They were going to play the games in front of empty stadiums.
Not even doing that now.
They've cancelled it.
I feel so sorry for those gamblers.
I feel sorry for people who own stocks, who own casino stocks.
But here we go.
McCarthy refused to apologize, and he stated a couple days ago that the federal government's website contains all the information that you need to know about the Chinese coronavirus.
Representative Ilhan Omar, who just got married.
I don't know if you know that.
She got married to a white guy.
She tweeted out to Kevin McCarthy, viruses don't have nationalities.
This is racist.
Okay.
All right.
She had also called the statement bigoted because this is helping Republicans spread misinformation about the Asian American community.
Well, we're not done yet.
There are a couple other people that we have to bring up who have gone out of their way to say things regarding this.
And I can only be regarding Chris Hayes, the MSNBC host.
When Paul Gozar decided, Representative Paul Gozar of Arizona, Republican, he announced that he, along with three members of his senior staff, were going to self-quarantine a couple days ago because they sustained contact at CPAC with a person who has since been hospitalized with the Wuhan virus, and his office will be closed for the week.
Hayes tweeted out, just astoundingly gross, To call it the Wuhan virus.
Astoundingly gross.
Astoundingly gross.
I disapprove of that statement a lot.
And then, of course, Ted Liu.
How do you pronounce his last name, his surname?
Ted L-I-E-U?
Liu, probably.
Yeah, Ted Liu.
He tweeted this.
One reason POTUS and his enablers failed to contain COVID-19 is due to the myopic focus on China.
The virus was also carried in the U.S.
from other countries and U.S.
travelers.
Calling it China coronavirus is scientifically wrong and as stupid as calling it the Italian coronavirus.
Well, I'm not a virologist, I'm not an epidemiologist, but we know this originated in Wuhan.
We know that there's a significant illegal immigrant Chinese population in Italy.
They work in a lot of the textile, they do a lot of the sewing, and that the reason this spread, Mr. Taylor and dear listener, is because after the Chinese New Year, people returned home.
A lot of the reasons, back around January 30th, Trump had that task force, CNN said, hey, this is too white, where's the diversity?
If you recall, Trump has tried to take credit for putting a stop to Chinese national flights, but Chinese students who enrolled in American schools were able to fly here and get back to all the schools.
Only one country was smart enough to close their borders to China and to stop all Chinese travel.
You know what country that was?
Russia.
Russia.
On January 30th, that same day.
And if you go to Johns Hopkins, if you Google this, Johns Hopkins coronavirus map,
you can look at this incredible map, interactive map that that fine universities put together.
You can see where the virus, where the epidemic is spreading.
Russia has only 28 cases of the coronavirus and zero deaths.
Well, we're not sure we can count on the statistics from Russia, but let's hope that's the case.
If that's the case, it just shows once again the border.
And then finally, we have to bring up Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
I think you know what she tweeted out, but she was upset because she's arguing that people are avoiding Chinese restaurants due to, quote, Straight up racism around the coronavirus.
End quote.
Well, I suppose she's unaware of the fact that Corona beer sales are off.
I suppose that's a different kind of ignorance, but I suppose she doesn't care.
Well, no, she must, because it's Mexico, you know.
Can't have Mexicans suffering from white ignorance and white racism.
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That's obviously a joke, but Well, now that we've had our excitement for the episode with the coronavirus, we'll move on to something infinitely more boring, I'm afraid.
Namely, Elizabeth Warren.
I realize she's old news, she's about as exciting as last month's newspaper, but I just couldn't help but react to the fact that when she dropped out, all this wailing and weeping and gnashing of teeth about the fact that she was the victim of Just sex?
That's the only ism she threw out there?
Ah, that's the only one that people are throwing out that I can tell.
Now, here, this is a great headline in The Atlantic.
America punished Elizabeth Warren for her competence.
And the Atlantic goes on to say, the country still doesn't know what to make of a woman in politics and beyond who refuses to qualify her success.
Wow, she was just so successful we couldn't stand it.
Now, here's the HuffPost.
Elizabeth Warren could never escape the baggage of being a female candidate.
And it goes on to say she was qualified, she persisted, but sexism still mattered.
And CBS News' Caitlin Huey Browns, we cannot talk about Warren's fall without talking about the sexism still so prevalent in American politics.
And CNN contributor Wajihat Ali, who's bound to know all about sexism.
Added, it's a shame that this country hasn't elected a woman president yet.
The double standard and misogyny still run deep and I guess they will until every president, every scientist, every inventor, every steam pipe fitter is a woman.
In any case, then Jessica Valenti, she's a feminist commentator.
It'll be hard to get over what happened to Elizabeth Warren.
I bet she's already gotten over it.
I'm sure she has.
Then she goes on to say, I've had to come to terms with America's sexism again and again.
We had the candidate of a lifetime.
Someone with the energy, vision, and follow-through to lead the country out of our nightmarish era.
But the media and the voters basically outright erased and ignored her.
The media?
The media?
Really?
Well, in fact, Elizabeth Warren got the most speaking time of any candidate in the July 30th debate, the October 15th debate, the January 14th debate, and the February 19th debate.
She got the endorsement of the New York Times, the Des Moines Register, the Boston Globe, and it seems to me the media was slobbering over her, but not according to Jessica Valenti.
And as for the voters, yes, the voters.
It's the Democratic voters, after all, who decided.
And I would guess that the Democratic primary voters tend to be full of women.
Oh yeah.
Lots and lots of women.
Not just white women.
Yes, yes.
Not just white women.
Women of every description.
Large, small, old, young.
And These are the people who gave us Hillary Clinton for heaven's sake.
But suddenly, suddenly, four years later, they were attacked by sexism.
Unforgivable sexism.
But, and on Super Tuesday, only one in five women voted for a woman candidate.
Only one in five.
20%.
Yes, the rest of them voted for some male chauvinist pig.
Like that Joe Biden guy.
Or, hmm, that Bernie bro, well, could it possibly be that she was a bad candidate?
Or maybe they just didn't like her sort of scolding, schoolmarmish attitude?
Or the claim that her great-great-great-great-great-great-great-how-many-great-grandmothers were the Cherokee?
And maybe, I bet, maybe some of them even remember Pow Wow Chow.
I don't know.
Pow Wow Chow is my favorite.
You know, that was the 1984 cookbook.
That claim to be a collection of recipes handed down generation after generation from one wise gourmet squaw to another, including in the family of Elizabeth Warren.
My favorite memory of Elizabeth Warren is when she did that video of the periscope and she tried to open the beer and she had trouble opening it.
You probably don't remember this.
She was trying to show that she had some working class cred.
And she couldn't open the can.
She tried to open the beer.
I think better I think Robert Beto O'Rourke was the first one who did that.
It showed him cooking because they were trying to capitalize on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's kind of informal conversations and it was just hilarious looking at this woman who You know, probably hasn't had a beer in decades.
Try and open one.
Hello, fellow kids!
Well, you know, she doesn't drink beer.
After all, you don't drink beer with the recipes that generation after generation have handed down to Elizabeth Warren.
Do you know what they were?
Do you remember what they were?
One was called Cold Omelets with Crab Meat.
And another one was called Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing.
Because you know, you know, that when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620, they discovered that the Pequot Indians were enjoying a very particular delicacy.
And they said, what's this?
And the Indians said, oh, this is Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing.
That's where it comes from.
Very, very Indian.
Well, you remember, as it turned out, that two of Elizabeth Warren's recipes in Pow Wow Chow are word-for-word copies of a French chef's creation that had been published by the New York Times News Service in 1979.
Well in time for Pocahontas to have read them and slip them into the 1984 cookbook of Pow Wow Chow.
So, now I think, I hope, this is the last time her name will ever be pronounced on this podcast.
Have you ever tried to cook anything from this Pow Wow Chow cookbook?
No, no, but I just love tomato mayonnaise and I love crab.
I must be a Pequot Indian.
So dear me, so bye-bye Elizabeth Warren.
I think we've heard the last of you.
I certainly hope so, but you know, if she becomes newsworthy, we will have to pronounce her name again.
I don't look forward to it.
Now, just one little short item.
We are always talking about how the country is divided and hostile.
Well, there's some proof to that.
There was a poll of 1,000 students It was conducted by the College Fix, which is a pretty good website.
It tracks down all kinds of current foolishness on campuses.
Great site.
And they found that 37% of the students that participated in this survey said they felt that Republican students were basically evil.
37% think they're basically evil.
Well, listen to this.
39% of students said that they thought Democrats were basically evil.
I wonder what percentage thought both were basically evil.
But this is really quite remarkable.
You take a thousand students, and that means 390 of them are going to say, yeah, Democrats are basically evil.
And 370 of them are going to say, Republicans are basically evil.
Not a lot of common ground there.
Not a lot of common ground.
We live in strange times.
We live in strange times.
And I think, you know, now might be the time to talk about a kind of common ground we can have with people who disagree with us.
And I'd like to call the attention of our listeners to an article on the AmRAM website.
It's about Calexit.
This is, of course, California's move to leave the Union, which got a huge boost when Trump was elected, because they think, oh my gosh, we cannot live in the same nation that's governed by Donald Trump.
That's what, of course, Our Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court, she said she promised to go live in New Zealand if he won.
Do you remember that?
I do.
She did not.
She did not abide by her promise.
In any case, the fellow who is the leader of the collection movement, his name is Marcus Ruiz Evans, and he wrote an article for us.
And I think it's worth reading a few of some of the things he says.
I know that my fellow liberals want to push their values on you because they think they know better than you, and they are willing to take away your rights guaranteed in the Constitution in order to push you, push onto you, their vision of America.
My fellow liberals believe that after their laws are pushed on you, you will eventually come around and see that they were right.
I know that is a fantasy.
It will never happen.
I think that's good.
He is a liberal, you see.
Then he goes on to say, I'm deeply afraid that my fellow liberals don't get that and aren't going to until it's too late.
I see the way liberals are pushing things and that is why I support an amicable divide.
Let's peacefully separate before we start fighting.
I think he says, I don't share your values, but then he goes on to say, you have your values.
We have ours.
There's no reconciliation, but let us just go our separate ways before it becomes impossible to live together.
And I think this poll, this poll of 37%, 39% of students think Republicans and Democrats are basically evil.
Yes, we need a divorce.
I really approve of this guy.
And this, this is an article that got more comments than any article we've had in, in years on the website.
In any case, I am grateful that Marcus Ruiz Evans was willing to share his insights with us.
He says we need to work together so we can go our way and you can go yours.
There's obviously been a lot of great content at the Amarin.com website.
Right.
Lately.
And that is a testament to the team that you have in this app that obviously you've put together.
I want to, we're not going to get a chance to talk about it at length, but I do want to encourage all of our listeners to head over to amren.com and read Robert Hampton's piece on the reluctance of major school districts across the country to close their schools because of the unbelievable reliance that primarily students of color have on free lunches. And this is the reason why these schools
refuse to close because they're worried that these students and Los Angeles, 80% of
students get free breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now, you know, what are the parents doing?
Are there parents?
I guess the parents don't have to cook a single meal for their children.
I guess the parents sit home and what, eat candy bars and nachos?
They don't have to cook a single meal.
This is astounding.
But no, it is remarkable.
Rather than keep people apart and slow the spread of the virus, they have to gather people together so that these poor, dependent, mostly non-whites can get their three square meals a day.
It's remarkable.
Those are the priorities we have in this country.
It's just going to show you how we certainly cannot deal with the coronavirus in the disciplined way the Chinese have.
They would never think of doing something like that.
Or the South Koreans or the Russians.
Yes, yes.
Incredible.
I mean, when we talk about the beginning, it's important that everybody remember what I'm about to say here.
The Democrats view fighting racism as a greater moral obligation than stopping the spread of the coronavirus across the country.
You know, there was a remarkable... I guess we're back to the coronavirus?
Can't stay away from the coronavirus?
Well, hopefully you can stay away from the coronavirus, but... Yes, yes, that's true.
But there was a great article.
Let's see if I can find it.
It was one in the Washington Post, and the title of the article was, The Actual Danger of the Coronavirus.
Then it says, Our greatest fear during this outbreak of coronavirus shouldn't be about its spread.
It should be focused on the much more likely danger that fear and xenophobia will lead to restrictions on the human rights of Chinese and Chinese-Americans.
Don't worry about the spread!
Don't worry about dying!
Don't worry about... Good grief!
Our greatest fear is that it might fuel xenophobia.
What a topsy-turvy, inside-out, completely confused mentality is that?
It's a neoliberal world order that... Listen, the reason why I even brought this back up is because I wanted to bring us back to one more story, then we can close the chapter on coronavirus for the day.
In Florence, Italy, the mayor, back in February... Now, I didn't believe this story at first.
Paul Joseph Watson, Summit News, ran it.
It has been verified by a number of people.
So, yes, this is a legitimate tweet.
The mayor of Florence encouraged Italians to hug a Chinese before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
Think about that.
That's just telling people don't hug anybody.
But yes, hug a Chinese.
Dario Nardella said we need to do this because there's this misconception that the Chinese are bringing this back from when they were celebrating Chinese New Year.
We need to hug them.
Yes, hug them.
Hug them tight.
Hang on to them.
Don't let them get away.
Kiss them on both cheeks.
Yes, yes, yes.
Make sure they breathe heavily on you.
Well, I mean, it starts in Wuhan.
I mean, if it got anywhere else, it got carried there by Chinese one way or another.
Isn't that practically by definition?
You know, which was the swine flu.
Swine flu, which killed 17,000 people.
I think it was back in 2009.
That started in a very well-defined area in Mexico.
And it wasn't the pigs who crossed the borders.
It wasn't the swine.
It was Mexicans.
In any case, but you had a good news story for us.
A good news story for us.
ICE is doing the things that ICE is supposed to do.
ICE is, and the DOJ is, actually, as well.
The Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration, they announced On a very busy news day of March 12th, 2020, this was lost in the weeds and in the news that more than 600 arrests have been made as a result of an interagency operation cracking down on Mexican cartel activity within the United States.
Think about that for a second.
600 arrests.
These are the people who are bringing in fentanyl, all the bad drugs that are leading to this horrible opioid crisis that has been dubbed a few years ago the White Death.
Mexican cartels?
I bet AOC says we shouldn't talk about Mexicans.
Isn't that racist to talk about where they're from?
Well, especially if there's a paucity of people going to Mexican restaurants around the country, then it's really bigoted.
That's 600 arrests, 600 cartel members, and that's just in the United States.
Very cool name, by the way, here.
Project Python, a DEA, Drug Enforcement Agency-led initiative.
They targeted members of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueve Generacion.
My Spanish is terrible, but... Yeah, it is.
That's a new Jalisco generation.
Jalisco is a province.
Jalisco.
Cartel de Jalisco Nueve.
There we are.
We got it.
Sorry, I didn't take Spanish in high school or college.
So over the last six months, federal law enforcement agents, they've been monitoring the activities.
of the accused. Now the operation resulted in more like I said, 600 arrests, 350, 600
arrests along with 350 indictments and a significant seizure of money and drugs.
Well, the Democrats want to abolish ICE. So I guess they want to keep those people and all those
all that drug money right here.
Yeah, I mean, this is one of the things that has taken... This is why this is so important.
This is why, obviously, there are a lot of reasons to be disgusted by what President Trump has done.
Most recently, of course, the Endorsement of Tommy Tuberville, the former Auburn University football head coach who was instrumental in getting all of Ole Miss's traditions of the Confederate flag waved at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium taken down before he left for the job at Auburn.
He's of course an open borders Republican type who wants to let You know, illegals get amnesty and Trump endorsed him over his honorable soldier Jeff Sessions.
Disgusting.
This really is revolting.
Jeff Sessions, I thought he was the best guy in the cabinet.
He was a good soldier.
He was loyal.
Even after he was dismissed in ignominy, he did not bite back.
I thought Jeff Sessions was great.
And then for Trump to endorse this loser who is his opponent.
How do you explain that?
And I can tell you, he is a loser.
But it's interesting because this article published at The Hill, it noted that when President Trump was inaugurated, one of the first things he did was he passed an executive order that condemned cartel operations in the U.S.
and directed federal law enforcement to use the Threat Migration Working Group, which was put into place by the Obama administration in 2011.
Now this intra-agency cooperation, it took A number of years.
This was in the early January of 2017 when this happened.
Now think about it.
It's now March of 2020.
To get all of this surveillance, all of this infrastructure in place, to track these people, to make sure that you had an ironclad case against probably these heavily armed cartels.
This stuff doesn't happen overnight.
Now, again, I want to clarify what I'm saying.
Very disgusted by what Trump has done since he's been in office.
It has been a lot of promise and full of sound, the fury signifying nothing.
But this took three years and this is awesome.
This is awesome.
Let's hope it lasts through what I suspect will be a one-term president.
We'll have to see.
We will see.
At least it's in place and somebody may actively have to tear it down.
Well, after that good news story, those 600 arrests, I'm afraid we have to move to bad news.
This is right in my backyard, down the street in Richmond, Virginia, the legislature, which is now in the hands of Democrats.
passed in both chambers over the last weekend a law that would roll back a long-standing ordinance that blocks the removal of public war memorials.
This has been the law that has kept the Civil War monuments standing even when localities want to take them down.
And this was of course the reason for the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, at least the ostensible reason.
Well, Republicans had successfully stricken down similar legislation trying to circumvent this law, but now that it's been passed, it goes to Governor Ralph Northam for his consideration and his inevitable signature.
The idea, of course, is that he has already said, yes, yes, you're going to get rid of Robert E. Lee.
That's your choice.
But, kindly, and this is I think something worth noticing, and you have to give credit to the Democrats, this exempts cemeteries.
They are not allowed to root up Confederate cemeteries.
Isn't that a generous and lovely thing they did?
For the time being.
It wasn't during the Spanish Civil War, didn't the Marxists, didn't they dig up the corpses of Catholics and display them?
I hadn't heard that, but that wouldn't surprise me.
And in Tennessee, aren't they going to dig up Nathan Bedford Forrest?
You know, I think they have left his body right downtown.
Okay.
I wasn't sure.
But yes, there was a possibility they would do that.
But, you know, it's interesting to me, at least the statehouse anticipated that this is something people would do.
They'd say, no, no, you can't dig up the graves of the rebels.
Not yet.
Well, you know, it's so surprising.
Ordinarily, as a conflict drifts into the past, the animosities of it disappear.
But this war, the American Civil War, the War of Northern Aggression, as we rebels call it, It just gets worse and worse and gets re-fought and re-fought increasingly bitterly as time goes by.
You know, of course, that after he became president, Grant invited Robert E. Lee to the White House for a social visit.
And at the 50th anniversary of Pickett's Charge, when they had the re-enactors, the Confederates walked up the hill, and the Yankee defenders, some of them who were actually there, trying to kill each other, they embraced each other and wept.
That was the kind of reconciliation you have with the people whose job it was actually to kill each other.
America was still America.
America was still America.
And, you know, in the 1960s, we had that TV series, The Gray Ghost, in which the Confederates are the heroes.
Mosby is the hero.
Yes.
Hard to imagine that, isn't it?
And, you know, I was just looking this up.
In 1975, Robert E. Lee's citizenship was restored posthumously.
Really?
Yes.
And there was a vote, a 100% vote in the Senate, without exception.
In the House, it was a vote of 407 to 10.
There were 10 holdouts about reestablishing General Lee's citizenship, and it read this way.
Whereas this entire nation has long recognized the outstanding virtues of courage, patriotism, and selfish devotion to duty of General Robert E. Lee, and to healing the wounds of the war between the states.
They called it the war between the states.
And they recognized, yes, his selfless devotion to duty, his courage, and patriotism.
Can you believe that?
In 1970, this is what Congress said.
Impossible to imagine today.
And you know, the 10 holdouts?
Who were the 10 holdouts?
I don't know their names, but these were Northerners who argued against it, not because they hated Robert E. Lee, but because they thought that this restoration of citizenship should include amnesty for Vietnam war draft dodgers.
Oh my gosh!
Talk about an inverse of duty!
It's funny, as we drift further and further from the Civil War and the death of all these brave soldiers on both the Union and Confederate sides, as you noted, there was a great coming together and putting aside the differences.
The memories healed, the wounds healed, and people realized, hey, we are countrymen.
We are part of the same nation.
As we drift further and further away from that, The post-1965 immigration Americans who are in now, you know, they were instrumental, obviously, in Virginia turning blue.
We know that.
We've discussed that ad nauseum.
And now it's like, why are any of these statues up?
We know that at the University of Virginia, they want to get rid of Jefferson.
We know they want to get rid of Washington.
So I would say, you know, instead of making America great again, the real way to make America great again is to realize that we need to make Arlington Robert E. Lee's again, right?
Well, all of this, of course, this absolutely unnatural effect of a war that ended, what, over 150 years ago, of it becoming bitterer and bitterer and bitterer is not on account of the war itself, not on account of the animosity of the people who actually fought each other, but of course, race.
Race is at the heart of it.
Everything is turned into race, and if you can turn any part of American history into something that is oppressive to black people or other pet minorities, then it's got to go.
That is what has made this bitterer and bitterer, and I'm sure as soon as Ralph Northam signs that bill, there are going to be confederate memorials coming down all around the country.
I have absolutely no doubt about it.
Yeah, I mean, showing that, that, you know, that, let's not even get into that, we're back in 2017 and you're here all day.
But now, now here is, I'm not sure whether this is a good news story or a bad news story, this is a, this is America of today story.
You know the name Johnny Williams, by the way?
John Williams.
I know a John Williams.
He's a composer.
No, no, no.
Johnny Williams.
He's not a composer.
Not this one anyway.
Well, I hadn't heard of him before this happened either, but it sounds like a guy I should have heard of.
In last week, in the Hartford Courant, he wrote an op-ed piece and it was titled this.
I tweeted, whiteness is terrorism and was condemned for it.
Here's why I'm right.
Get that?
Whiteness is terrorism.
And if you get condemned for it, he goes on to write.
Now, I'll just quote you a few passages, a few choice passages from Johnny Williams.
He says, the United States is a nation in which people who identify as white preside over an oppressive system that everyone is expected to accept as normal.
So when indigenous, black, latinx, and Asian folks refuse to abide by this inequitable and cruel way of organizing life, We are publicly ridiculed.
You and I have organized this cruel way of life.
He goes on to say, whiteness is a shared conglomeration of fabricated meanings and ideas about biologically insignificant human differences.
They're all insignificant.
Whiteness only exists in relation or opposition to blackness.
In other words, we define ourselves in opposition.
We are defined as the absence of blackness and other fictitious racial categories created by whiteness adherence for the purpose of cementing a higher status and material advantages over other peoples that are excluded from being white.
This is such nutty stuff.
Then he goes on to say, Whiteness separates those who are entitled to have
advantages from those whose exploitation and vulnerability to violence
is justified by their not being white.
It is a position of power where people who imagine themselves to be white
Did you imagine yourself to be white?
I do not.
I do not.
Hold the power to decide who is white and who is not, who will die, who will prosper, who will live and who will die.
Now, you and I are sitting here today, imagining ourselves to be white, part of the suppressive system, deciding who will live and who will die, because we determine who is white and who is not.
Now this guy, now one last thing, he goes to say, whiteness is by its very definition and operation as a key element of white supremacy, oh sorry, whiteness, by its very definition and operation as a key element of white supremacy, kills.
It is mental and physical terrorism.
Whiteness.
Would you imagine yourself to be white?
Killed.
Get that?
Now, who is this Johnny Williams?
Who is he?
Who is he?
Drumroll, please.
He is the chairman of the sociology department at Trinity College.
Not some nobody.
Trinity's a nice little private school, or at least it used to be.
Well, I looked up this guy.
Remember when Steve Scalise was shot at a baseball game?
Yeah, 2017.
By a Bernie bro.
By a Bernie bro.
Well, you know what Johnny Williams tweeted at that time?
He used the hashtag, let them fucking die.
What?
Yes.
Did he get...
Was he banned from Twitter?
There was a certain amount of throat clearing.
No, no, no, he didn't get banned from Twitter.
No, no, I don't expect that.
But the university was a little upset about that.
There were some alumni who said, look, we need to get rid of this guy.
But, you know, the university showed its backbone and defended free speech.
Can you believe that?
Can you believe that?
I guess it's free speech when you're advocating the death of white Republicans.
Yes.
Then in 2019, he tweeted this.
All self-identified white people, no exceptions, are invested in and collude with systemic white supremacy, white racism.
He also, and this is very interesting, he also wrote white Negroes, now he spelled Negroes K-N-E-E-G-R-O-W-S.
One more time, one more time.
How did he spell negroes?
Like knee, knee, on your hands and knees, and grove.
I guess that's really derogatory there.
Well, I don't know.
I think it's rather creative.
He wrote, white negroes really need a lot of therapy and a good old ass kicking.
Now what's a white negro?
Well, he was asked who that meant.
That mean Candace, Candace Owens.
And he said, it's not just her.
He says, I'm referring to her and other less brazen but more insidious dangerous white Negroes
like Barry and Michelle Obama and many other white Negroes you encounter daily.
Such whiteness internalization leads folks like Candace Owens Barry and Michelle Obama to engage in actions
and policy creations that are existential threats to humanity, particularly the racially oppressed.
Did you know that Barry, I usually call him, think of him as Barack Obama
but I guess people who really don't like him Barry and Michelle, they are engaged in existential threats to humanity because they are white Negroes.
So, yes, here, this is the chairman, this is the chairman of the sociology department at Trinity.
Sounds like a charming fellow.
Yeah, you know, It's the strangest thing.
The people who rise the highest in American society, at least in academia, the ones who just, they've just gone round the bend in their hatred, contempt, just a complete, total misunderstanding of white people.
But in any case, you know, he... Perhaps they advance because of that devotion, Mr. Taylor.
Sorry to interrupt, but that might be the reason why they are promoted to such positions of power and authority.
You could be right.
White people just love to be told how wicked they are.
But, you know, I'm sure you'd be very, very happy by something that... What newspaper is it doing that is correcting the language?
Because our language, too, is firmly rooted in white supremacy and black oppression, and that's got to be corrected.
So tell us how we're going to go about that.
The Columbia Broadcasting System, CBS, one of the big news sites that people still rely on.
A lot of Americans still... I can't tell you the last time I watched one of those ABC, NBC, CBS Nightly newscast from New York, where we're told the only news that matters, you know... And that's the way it is, Chet, or... That was Walter Cronkite.
Walter Cronkite.
And that's the way it is.
Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings were the guy that I would grow up watching with my grandparents.
So CBS, they want to re-educate America on how racist everyone is by policing their language and making them understand that the country's founding fathers We're the real bigots, the real racists.
Get this.
On a Tuesday, and that's the only get this I'll say in this episode.
Well, they did through almost the entire one.
So on Tuesday, March 12th, on an episode of CBS's This Morning Show, the anchors and their guests attempted to convince viewers that everyday terms with absolutely zero racial context are proof of how the, quote, roots of racism, unquote, are deeply embedded in this systemic white supremacist country that is the United States of America.
Anchor Tony Dokopil announced that, quote, many headlines referred to the stock market plunge yesterday as Black Monday.
And that is just one of the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that racism has been braided into our everyday culture.
Let's talk about some other ways that racism has found a nice host within our vernacular.
Host Anthony Mason.
Then listed more terms with the word Black in them.
Ridiculously suggesting that they are all really racist.
Terms like Black Monday, Black Sheep.
Black Sheep?
Well, there are Black Sheep.
There are.
Baa Baa Black Sheep can be freighted with a negative connotation that sometimes we don't even realize, he said.
With the other co-host, Michelle Miller, claiming, and as she nodded, saying, yes, you're right, that's obviously correct, claiming that these terms are baked into the vocabulary like weeds.
Well, I guess that would be a bad analogy, but she did say baked into our vocabulary like weeds.
Hey, stick with me.
Is that what she said?
A graphic then appears, there's a picture, you can see, that appeared with words with negative connotations, including Black Monday, Black Sheep, Black Balling, Black Mail, Blacklisting.
Oh, blackmail.
Blackmail.
Blackmail.
And blacklisting.
They're all bad.
You need to whitemail someone so they look good.
I guess that's the inverse, right?
That's true.
If you let email in, it's on the whitelist, right?
So, one of the hosts, Kendi, suggested, and I do think we need to realize when you have a skin color and regular color and we're Using these in a connotation where both are in a negative fashion.
There are relationships between the two.
And I think we have to break not only that relationship, but those negative connotations.
Obviously, is he implying that we need to start trying to use white as a synonym for bad?
No, no, no.
I think they're trying to say we need to think blackmail is good.
That'll break the connection.
But how are we supposed to... no blackballing, no blackmail.
No blackmail, no blackballing, no black sheep, no black ice.
I'm sure we could sit here and come up with Well, you know, here's something that proves them wrong.
Because, you know, when a company is profitable, you know what you say about it?
You say they're in the red, right?
No, that's when they've gone communist.
I know, I'm joking.
No, they're in the black.
We're gonna have to stop saying that too.
In the black is a good thing.
It is a great thing, yeah.
Red ink is bad, black ink is good.
Exactly.
No, it's just incredible.
Well, I'm sure, I'm sure that Johnny Williams agrees wholeheartedly.
This is part of this vicious, insidious, white supremacist world that we have woven.
Those of us who imagine ourselves to be white, and we imagine ourselves to use the English language, and we imagine it to be fair, but oh, it's shackling poor blacks.
Well, it's fascinating.
On a day where, on a week where Black Monday has come to mean also Black Tuesday and also Black Wednesday with the stock market and corporations, I can safely say, and I'm sure you'd agree with me, that we wish all the corporations were that right now reeling and that they're in the red when it comes to their stock price compared to last week at this time.
We all wish they were in the black.
Well, yes we do.
What about Black Friday?
Is that an insult too?
Is Black Friday a bad thing?
Or a good thing?
Or a neutral thing?
Or just an identifier?
I mean, why is Black Friday black?
I never did know.
I don't know.
In any case, we're moving overseas for a bit here.
And we talked about this, we talked about this on our previous episode of Radio Renaissance about the Greek and Turkish border.
Because over a week ago, the Turks decided, you know, they're going to wave a magic wand, the borders are opened and all their millions of foreigners are going to head off to the nirvana of Western Europe.
Well, and as you know, really tens of thousands of them showed up at the border because Erdogan said, go, they love you.
Well, as a matter of fact, the Greeks don't like the idea of this.
And in a 2018 survey, 82% of Greeks said they wanted fewer or no more migrants to their country.
That's the highest share of any country surveyed, 82%.
And the Greek government is responding.
Thank goodness.
It's a little bit like the 300 at Thermopylae.
The Greeks are really stopping this tidal wave of invaders.
The Greek government has sent the army to the border.
It has suspended asylum applications and it vowed to deport anybody who shows up.
You can't apply for asylum like you used to be able to, just out, out, out, out, out, too bad.
In addition, some Greeks are taking matters into their own hands by forming civilian patrols.
Now, an example of this is on the border island of Lesbos, That's one of those islands that's close to Turkey.
And locals blocked a dinghy full of migrants from Turkey, wouldn't let them land.
On board was a pregnant woman and child, too bad.
They wouldn't let them get off.
No more, they yelled and cursed at them.
And on Lesbos, a group of locals beat up a German photojournalist and a correspondent because they looked sympathetic to them.
They're photographing them.
They beat them up.
And this is even better.
They assaulted the local head of the UN Refugee Agency.
Aid workers with non-governmental organizations were run off the island.
They were assaulted, threatened, and harassed until they decided to evacuate their staff and volunteers because they're worried about their safety.
And a local woman on Lesbos said, since we got rid of the NGOs, there have been no more new migrants.
Another man says, is that a coincidence?
No, that's it.
We're taking back control.
That's pretty remarkable.
Local citizens are behaving this way.
Now, on the land border, The Greeks have been firing tear gas, water cannon to drive these people back.
They've got 120 miles of border between Turkey and all of it is guarded heavily by the army.
But ordinary Greeks are also coming and patrolling.
And they have these civilian groups that round up migrants, hand them over to the border guards and back over the border.
And this to me is just remarkable.
The head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Hieronymus.
He actually went to the border to bless the soldiers.
I saw images of this.
This is great!
I didn't know if it was real or not, so I wasn't quite sure.
Is this a religious thing?
This is real!
And villagers brought bags of croissants.
Croissants, you know, croissants are in the form of the Turkish Crescent.
That's right, that dates back to the Crusades.
I'm sorry.
1683, the Siege of Vienna.
Yes, the Siege of Vienna.
Croissant.
How appropriate.
Eat croissant, our border guards.
Bottom water and croissants.
This is just so lovely.
The head of the Greek church goes out to bless the border guards because they are turning back.
They are turning back these invaders.
Mr. Taylor, if we were in a world where the coronavirus had been contained because we actually had leaders who Use their positions of power to safeguard against preventable evils, which is what Russia has presumably done with the coronavirus by doing a quarantine.
This would be the most important story that we all be talking about.
And I still think it is the most important story.
This is great.
This is so inspiring.
Yes.
And it's remarkable to me that practically every European government has sided with the Greeks.
Exactly.
Not one of them is saying, oh, no, no, you have an obligation to let them apply for asylum.
No, turn them back.
Now, this is really remarkable too.
On Saturday, just last Saturday, There was a three-way clash at the Greek village of Kastanis when some of these people who wanted to break across the border, they threw rocks at the Greek authorities, tried to pull down a fence, the Greek police fired tear gas to disperse them, and the Turkish border guard fired tear gas at the Greek border guards.
That's an act of war, if you ask me.
It is.
Well, the whole thing has been an act of war by trying to weaponize migrants.
Well, but that is, it's sort of, it's passive.
It's saying, you know, we just fold our arms, off you go.
But this, firing tear gas grenades at the Greeks who are trying to protect their country?
Wow!
But, so this is really a very, very important story, and I am delighted the Greeks are holding firm, and I'm delighted that Europe is backing them.
I do have a bad news coda to add to this otherwise inspiring story.
This is the fact that, despite the fact that German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said, we will support Greece with all our might.
Europe's borders are not open to refugees from Turkey, and this applies to our German borders.
In other words, if the Greeks can't hold them back, we'll hold them back at the German borders, despite the fact of Schengen and all this borderless crossing, and even Muti Merkel has said we got to stop that.
She has?
Yes.
Well, in Hamburg, Germany, Over the weekend, people gathered, several thousand of them, in favor of letting them in, waving signs that says, Hamburg has space.
Hamburg has space.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Your spare bedroom.
Let them into your spare bedroom.
And a guy named Christopher Christoph Klein of the activist group Seabrook, which means Seabridge, organized a demonstration.
And he says, when Europe officially closes its borders and state-condoned violence against those seeking refuge escalates, then everyone needs to go to the streets in solidarity with the right to asylum.
And police estimated there were about 3,900 of these people, and the placards displayed, stop war, not people.
And there were similar protests in Hamburg and Potsdam.
They were smaller, but still at least a thousand people in each of these places saying, let them in!
In the time of the coronavirus, no less.
Let them in!
Let them in!
Now, a week before that, did you know that groups had gathered in front of Angela Merkel's official residence in Berlin?
I did not know.
I guarantee it was the exact same time.
not know. 3,000 people, let them in, let the darlings in.
Yes. I'm sure. Astonishing. And so this is, you know, this is probably right about the time that idiot mayor of
Florence was saying, hug a Chinese. I guarantee it was the exact same time. I'm trying to picture
back in 1453, if, as Constantine was trying to hold Constance Nopal, or what is, what we know as
Constance Nopal, as Maymatt, Sultan Maymatt was launching his final attack. If there
were people 1680.
No, 1453, the fall of Constantinople.
Oh, I'm sorry.
If there were people at the gates saying, stop it!
Yeah, if there were people at the gates saying, stop it, just throw it down and just let them in.
Let them in.
They probably said, yeah, gosh, they're interesting.
I bet they have really good things to eat.
They've got shish kebab.
Don't you smell that?
Wafting over the castle gates.
That bearded guy, he'd make a good husband for my daughter.
I wonder how many... I don't know.
I don't think so.
I kind of don't think so.
Well, we have one final British story here, and that has to do with the Arts Council.
The Arts Council in England.
They released their annual diversity report.
And they show that many famous theaters, many famous theaters, are not up to snuff on the diversity front and they will lose out on funding because money is awarded dependent on meeting diversity requirements in the theater business.
In the theater business.
Now, this report concentrates particularly on four protective characteristics.
Number one, race, of course, but also disability.
Sex, although they call it gender, and sexual orientation.
Sexual orientation.
You have to have a certain number of homosexuals.
Well, don't gender and sexual orientation conflict at this point?
I mean, we're in the LGBTQ... It gets a little blurry.
It gets a little blurry, yes.
But don't you ever suggest that a certain sexual orientation might be disability.
No, no.
Now, these ratings are based on the shows they put on, Who's involved in producing the shows and efforts to support future talent and participating in initiatives to drive forward equality and diversity?
And the head of the Arts Council, he said, quote, the organizations we invest in are still not representative of the country as a whole.
Still not representative.
Got to be.
And they're going to have to, they're going to have to set themselves what he calls stretching targets.
That's the first one on me.
A stretching target.
It's a stretch goal.
Yes, it's a stretch.
Like in raising funds, yeah, okay.
Now, a stretch target for representation in governance, leadership, workforce, participants, and audiences.
Audiences.
Now, how are they going to count the wheelchairs, and how are they going to count the homosexuals in the audience?
Hello?
All of you, all of you, raise your hand.
If you swing one way, swing the other way.
You in the fourth row, seat two.
No, no, not you, not you, no, no, not you, no, you, sir, ma'am, oh, you're, oh, I'm sorry, okay.
Yes, sir, ma'am, brother, Well, now, here we go.
The average figure for BME people, do you know what BME stands for in British Parliaments?
That is Black and Minority Ethnic.
Yeah, okay.
That's what the Canadians call visible minorities.
I've heard of BAME, Black Asian Minority Ethnic, so I've heard of that.
BAME, Black and Minority Ethnic.
Okay.
Yes, yes.
I love what the Canadians, this visible minorities, as opposed to the invisible minorities.
Well, Rob Ellison would like to talk to you about that, I'm sure.
In any case, the average figure for BME people employed in London's arts institutions is 15%, well shy of the 40% they make up of London, of the greater London workforce.
Now, so see, now that I'm talking about London, it's not the nation.
He said they don't reflect the nation.
Now, an example.
This is a theater called the Alameda.
I'm sorry, the Alameda.
It has a 67% female workforce.
I think men ought to be furious.
This is no good at all.
But that's still 83% white, including 4% white other, whatever they are, and only 16% BME.
Now, it said the sexual orientation information of theater staff is not known.
And I suspect it will continue to be unknown.
But, uh, the number of disabled was only 1%.
1%.
Now, do you know, you know what the figure, I can't believe this, but this is what the news reports say, the figure for the national average of disabled, what would you guess?
I won't hurt your suspense.
Point oh one.
I don't know.
Twenty one percent.
Okay.
That's just hard to believe.
In any case, you know, Trump just banned travel from Europe.
I think Trump should ban travel from the Arts Council and maybe the entire British Isles with this kind of foolishness.
But we are out of time.
So, ladies and gentlemen, be safe out there.
You know, if you have to be socially ostracized, guess what?
You can go back and listen to 173 prior podcasts.
With JT and myself.
So, for Jared Taylor, this has been Paul Kersey.
We'll see you next week.
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