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March 27, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, wherever you are, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I am Jared Taylor, and with me, of course, is Paul Kersey, and we are continuing in this very strange experience we're all having.
I almost feel as though I'm on the home front during World War II.
I'm at home, and my life is essentially unchanged, but I read in newspapers all the time about these extraordinary things going on, people dying here, people dying there, Pestilence.
No, it's a most unusual time.
As I say, my life is almost essentially unchanged.
I just work at home anyway.
But these are very strange times.
And I hope all of you, whoever you are listening to us, you're trying to stay safe and that nobody that you know has come down with this Wuhan virus.
So, I think what we'd like to do is start with some of the extraordinary legislation that's working its way through the United States Congress.
As usual, the United States of America seems to respond to any kind of difficulty with heaps of money.
And Mr. Kersey, and I believe you are safe and sound, all of your family and loved ones are safe and sound, but do tell us about this piece of legislation that is likely to work its way out of Congress soon.
Well, I'd be remiss if I didn't say good morning, good afternoon, good evening to everyone out there.
Hope you are doing wonderful and, as Mr. Taylor said, safe and sound from the China virus, the coronavirus, COVID-19, the Kung Flu?
What do we want to call it this week?
That's good.
The Kung Flu.
The Kung Flu.
Well, what we have today, and today of course is March 26th, so if you're listening to tomorrow, this might have already been signed, but this legislation passed 96 to 0 in the Senate.
It is going to President Trump's desk.
And what this nearly two trillion dollar Bailout, if you will, this new bill to try and stimulate the economy.
What it has in it, Mr. Taylor, is $350 million to assist refugees and migrants.
Oof, boy.
Just what I was hoping.
Initially, it was only $300 million for refugees, but the Senate decided to include an additional $50 million for migration and refugee assistance.
Now, does this have anything to do with the virus?
It does not.
There's a lot of pork, and we'll get into a little bit of that here in just a minute, but let me just read to you what the Department of State Migration and Refugee Assistant passage of this bill reads.
for an additional amount for migration and refugee assistant $350 million to remain available until
expended to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, provided that such amount is
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to, and then it
goes on to a section. So to answer your previous question, it appears to try and say that it does
have something to do with coronavirus, but again, it's very vague language and I would bet that it
has virtually nothing to do with coronavirus.
Well, you know, I noticed that it is on page 817 of a bill that is 880 pages long.
Good grief!
You know, I imagine there is just barrel after barrel of pork in this thing, and it's supposed to be a total of about two trillion dollars?
Ah, two trillion dollars, that's right.
Two trillion dollars.
Now, I believe a trillion dollars, that's about our annual deficit.
I think the U.S.
budget is, what, six trillion dollars, five trillion dollars?
And growing.
So, this is a Huge amount of money and we can be absolutely positive that it's going to be splashed around in the most inefficient and crazy way.
This is probably, well, this is by far the biggest bailout ever in U.S.
history.
This is sort of thing that through a bill you pass if you're starting a world war.
But yeah, this is just a lovely thing to look forward to.
This is how we react, I suppose.
Money at the saloon.
Throwing money at things that will solve all our problems.
Here's a question for you, if I may interrupt real quick, because I think that was the shot.
Here's the chaser.
Question.
How many times do you think the word diversity appeared in the original draft of this bill?
Diversity.
Diversity.
Gosh, I mean, it shouldn't be about diversity at all.
I guess, I don't know, they'll work it in somehow a dozen times.
32 times.
32 times the word diversity initially appeared in Pelosi's first draft.
And get this, I'm only going to use that word once this time, and this deserves that.
To introduce this one takes a few moments here.
So a lot of the bill actually focuses on diversity and it includes provisions and language that would require a diversity report, which would establish a congressional oversight panel requiring any corporation that receives federal aid related to the coronavirus to provide diversity data to Congress.
The panel would then publish a report on its findings the following year.
What do you think some of that required data entails, Mr. Taylor?
Oh, I can imagine.
What the board of directors is composed of, who the top executives are, what the suppliers are.
It's probably some guy's absolute wet dream for trying to impose quotas on every aspect of corporate life.
Am I wrong?
No, you almost hit the nail perfectly on the head.
The required data would include demographic information about the corporation's employees, so it goes a little bit further than just the board.
But employees, board members in terms of race, gender, and ethnic identity.
The panel would also demand demographic data on the corporation's suppliers, service providers, consultants, and the various financial institutions utilized by the company.
This just makes me so happy.
How about sexual orientation?
Don't we have that?
We're going to run around the company and ask who's gay, who's not?
Well, it's not just that.
Obviously, it's World War T, transgender.
But that was not included in the language here.
The diversity report does not have anything to do with LGBTQ, R, S, P, E, Z, P, Z, whatever we're up to.
The Lavender Lobby must be up in arms about this.
Me too, me too, right?
Okay, well, this, this, this... I just quake to think what's going to be the consequences of this.
And I bet in this 817 pages, if anyone had the patience to read it, and of course not one person who votes on this will have read even a tenth of this, but I bet packed deep in its bowels are all sorts of horrible things that would make our hair curl.
But that's the way we're fighting the virus, boys and girls.
So, this will, you know, I think, you know, you drop an 800-page bill right on the virus, would squash it flat.
What do you think?
Well, initially, the bill had 1,100 pages, but the bill that was agreed upon in the House that then went to the Senate, which in the Senate, by the way, 96 to 0 was the vote.
So... Well, that will override a presidential veto.
Yes, it will.
Yes, it will.
Okay, well, I'm braced.
Well, I just heard of a recent report from the Center for Immigration Studies.
You and I both admire the CIS.
They are a very serious academically-oriented think tank that looks into immigration questions and, of course, for that reason, are called a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
But they have just put out a report according to which between January 29th That is the day the President's Coronavirus Task Force was established and March 18th.
That was the deadline for the report.
Guess how many refugees were resettled in the United States?
I've not seen this report, so I'm going in completely blind.
I'm going to go with 17,000.
Oh, well, it's not quite as bad as that.
3,037, which is bad enough.
Now, this included 19 Iranians.
Iran is one of those countries that's particularly affected by the coronavirus.
And after the deadline for the report, there were two more refugees.
They came in from Syria.
Now, this is all despite an admission by both the head of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees that, quote, refugees may be particularly susceptible to the coronavirus.
And so, as the author of this report says, I am concerned that these refugees were not tested for the coronavirus before their arrival.
I couldn't find any indication anywhere that they were.
This is the Center for Immigration Studies raising a red flag.
It also points out that state and local officials Now, thanks to President Trump, whom we do not always give credit when credit is due, but, well, I guess we try to give credit when credit is due and we blame when blame is due, but he has made the acceptance of these refugees an elective for local organizations and, as the CIS points out, this may be a great opportunity for people to reconsider whether they want any of these settled.
The whole idea was that once the coronavirus task force was put into place, one of its objectives, one of the things that it proposed was that no more refugees be resettled.
And let us hope that the flow has stopped.
But if it has not, then any locality that has the right to do so, and they do have the right now, should say nada mas.
Now, the top 10 states where refugees were settled during this period, from January 29th to March 18th, that's a period of only about 20 days, not even 3 weeks.
These 3,000 refugees, that's 1,000 a week.
The largest number of them went to California, 341.
Washington State, 274, as if it didn't already have enough coronavirus.
And Texas, 2004.
New York, which is very much thick as thieves with coronavirus, 201.
And oddly enough, the next highest is Kentucky.
That's just what Kentucky needs, is lots of refugees from Iran and Syria and the place these people are coming from.
But anyway, that's the news about refugee resettlement.
Now, I thought there was an interesting admission from Andrew Cuomo.
Perhaps you saw this.
I did.
Governor of New York.
Now, New York currently, at last count, it's rising all the time, has 30,811 cases.
Now, as soon as those words are out of your mouth, you know, I'm sure it's about up to 31,000 now, at least, compared to California that has only 2,644 cases.
Now, that means New York has about 14 times as many cases as California.
And Governor Cuomo was asked, well, what gives, Gov?
How come?
And his reply was refreshingly candid, disarmingly honest.
He says, because we welcome people from across the globe.
He says, we have people coming here.
We have people who come here from China, who came here from Italy, who came from all across the globe.
And he's perfect.
Now, is he bragging or complaining?
I think he's bragging.
I'd be complaining.
But he also says, I've no doubt the virus was here was much earlier than we even know.
Now, why he thinks that, I don't know.
And I've no doubt the virus was here in other states because these people came here first.
Now, again, I ask you, do you think he's bragging or do you think he's complaining?
Oh, he's bragging.
There's an even greater quote.
I hope you're going to read it here in a second because I've got his probably most candid quote from this whole story.
Well, speak.
I will.
Those are the best ones I knew.
Here's his best one that he said.
Quote, our closeness is what makes us special.
End quote.
Well, but he's just talking about the density of the way people live in New York.
Oh, no, no, no.
He's talking about the fact that New Yorkers are more open, accepting, and tolerant than the rest of the world, Mr. Taylor.
Well, yes, I did see that.
Well, lucky them, and they're paying the price.
They can all run out and hug a foreigner.
But now, didn't you suggest that, weren't you telling me that the U.S.
Ambassador to Poland Had some pretty straight talk on the origins of this virus.
I do have that, but there's one more quote from Mr. Cuomo, who a lot of people are beginning to speculate due to his appearance on cable news and the fact that he's speaking so much more visibly on this than Joe Biden, who appears to have decided to quarantine himself during this crisis, even though he is the presumptive nominee for the Democratic nomination for president.
Have you heard that people are actually pushing for this broker convention and Cuomo stepping in?
I had not heard that.
Here's his best quote, quote, the closeness is that New York humanity that I think exists nowhere else, end quote.
So just like we talked about last week with that virologist epidemiologist from Italy who said that, you know, we had a plan to quarantine the virus, but we didn't do it because we were afraid of being called racist.
Now we have the governor of New York, Who's bragging about this openness, this anti-racist mindset that permeates throughout the Big Apple.
Well, I wonder how much of that 350 million New York is going to get.
Probably a good chunk of it.
I would agree.
But going back to what you were saying about the U.S.
Ambassador, let's talk about this because a lot of people are no longer looking at what's going on in Europe because they're so focused on their day-to-day lives in the United States of America during this upheaval regarding the Kung Flu or China virus, whatever you want to call it.
However, the United States Ambassador to Poland, Georgette Mosbacher, She spoke to a news outlet there in Poland, and she basically laid the blame for what's happening to not just the USA, but to Western Europe, to all around the world, to China.
Because China hid the truth about the coronavirus trying to save face.
Let's talk about what she said, because this is a very important article that I'm not seeing being discussed at all.
I mean, this is something that, you know, during President Trump's shockingly Long press conference.
I mean, here's a guy, how old is President Trump?
73?
74?
And he's out there doing these marathon press conferences with plenty of energy.
But, you know, you look at, and he's always saying, guys, it's from China.
China.
I'm sure you've heard that great quote where he said, but here is our ambassador to Poland who is stressing that China had a huge responsibility to remain transparent concerning the outbreak and they just did not.
And this article explains that Chinese doctors did all they could to treat the first patients, were trying to inform the government very early on about the new virus and how it was similar to SARS.
And yet those initial reports that were coming out in January, the Chinese authorities ordered the destructions of virus samples and censored and punished those whistleblowers.
Who tried to tell the truth, Mr. Taylor?
Yes, we've heard about that.
We have heard about it, but the fact that we have our ambassador to Poland, and Poland is one of those initial countries that shut their borders, just like Hungary.
Last week, if you recall Radio Renaissance last week, we discussed what Orban was saying about how, hey listen, our primary interest is protecting our people.
You know, call us what you want to.
We're here to protect the Hungarian people.
It's interesting that our ambassador to Poland is going on and on about how, quote, if the Chinese authorities had done the right thing and raised the alarm about the disease, China and the entire world, including Poland, could have avoided this negative effect on humanity.
The Chinese know that their government is responsible for this pandemic, she wrote.
Well, it sounds as though, being next door to Hungary, she has contracted the Orban virus.
That's a disease we want to spread all across Western Europe and into the United States.
Yes, let it go viral!
Well, good for her, okay.
Of course, now, this reminds me of an article that appeared in The Guardian on March 24th, just a couple of days ago.
It's entitled, Coughing While Asian.
And it's all about the terrible racism, discrimination, and in some cases, apparently, even violence.
That Asians are facing on account of their association with the virus.
An association which, according to our Ambassador Poland, has some validity.
To the point that something called the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, N-C-A-P-A, led a group of 260 civil rights organizations in sending a call to Congress to denounce anti-Asian racism, Having to do with the coronavirus.
I guess other anti-Asian racism is okay.
Coronavirus, it's about the coronavirus, no, no, no, no, no.
And the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus also sent a letter to fellow members of Congress urging them to warn against racism against Asians because of the virus.
Now, what has been going on?
How many How many frantic, hopped up white people have been attacking Chinese, stringing them up for lampposts?
Well, I suspect zero.
This is this hand-wringing article.
I'm going to read to you the entire and total number of cases of bad things that apparently happened to Asian Americans across the United States.
An Asian woman in New York City wearing a face mask was assaulted and called diseased in early February by a stranger in a subway station.
This is a March 24 article.
We have to go all the way back to early February apparently.
And I would bet you any amount of money that the assailant was not melanin deprived.
That's just my guess.
Just my guess.
I concur.
Also in Los Angeles, a man directed a racist rant about coronavirus to a fellow passenger who was Asian.
A racist rant.
Pretty doggone dangerous.
One family in Fresno, California had their car tagged with the words... Well, I guess I'll have to pronounce it to be accurate here.
Fuck Asians and coronavirus.
Now, perps unknown.
I mean, it's one of these situations where perhaps the victim did it his or herself.
We don't know.
And then the final one.
This is particularly terrifying.
A middle school student in California was told by his teacher to go to the nurse's office after he coughed.
Although he told his teacher that he choked on water and was not sick.
When he asked his teacher why he didn't ask non-Asian students to go to the nurse after coughing, he was told, eh, let it go.
Move on.
Well, I'm sure that traumatized that middle school student for life.
In any case, these are the things that are going on, but The Guardian has a long article telling us that This problem of anti-Asian racism having to do with the coronavirus is, if anything, just as important as avoiding the virus itself.
Moving on, if we may, to Brazil.
May I jump in?
One second.
I want to bring something up because people are not paying attention to a story we discussed a few weeks ago.
Do you recall the hate crime that took place in San Francisco on February 22nd when two black guys Assaulted on camera this Asian guy and then the Soros funded DA there in San Francisco Chesa Boudin Decided that this was a great opportunity to enact his restorative justice approach and they dropped the charges
Yes, yes.
I do remember that.
But this is the kind of thing, when you look closely, all of these acts of racism, I suspect that white people are pretty much not involved.
My suspicion is that most white people are surely not blaming individual Asians for what's going on.
Precisely.
Exactly.
But when you look at the story, I'm looking at the story from the San Francisco Examiner, and they point out that the video, which was released during this time frame, by the way, where people could have been influenced, and I'm not alleging anything, but I'm just saying it is interesting that this racial hate crime took place, which again, the DA of San Francisco dropped the charges because, hey, we've got to let this guy be the beneficiary of restorative justice.
But the black guy said, I hate Asians, end quote.
Now, I don't want to play that game had this been just imagine the double standard but if this had been some white guys on film this would have been the opportunity for
The type of lecturing that certain organizations, the ACLU, that one in Montgomery, that they salivate for.
The opportunity to... Well, but you see, this would have been restorative justice of a different kind.
If a white person were to do that, restorative justice would mean throwing him in jail for 20 years.
Restorative justice can probably mean whatever you want it to mean.
That's a great point, but it's just, as that story that you just discussed leaves ambiguous, who are the people doing all this?
That's right.
Who are the people?
See, my guess is there isn't an enormous amount of it, but the people doing it, I suspect, are some of our melanin-enhanced fellow citizens.
Which is why I brought up that San Francisco story.
Right, right.
Well, moving on to Brazil.
They have a novel way of fighting the virus.
You know, they have these favelas, better known... Favelas, that's a Brazilian word for slum.
And Cidade de Deus, that's City of God, seems rather optimistically named, is one of the biggest and nastiest slums.
But the way they're fighting the virus is something called the Red Command.
Their gang leaders who run the favela are ordering the residents stay at home.
The drug traffickers have imposed a coronavirus curfew because they really are worried that these tightly packed areas of slums, once the virus starts ripping through there, things could really get bad.
And gang members have been circulating with bullhorns and ordering the residents to stay home indoors after 8 p.m.
I'm not quite sure what the magic reason for 8 p.m.
is, but they walk around with these bullhorns saying, anyone found messing or walking around outside will be punished.
And as somebody explained to The Guardian, who wrote about this, the traffickers are doing this because the government is absent.
And there are 40,000 people who live in this slum called City of God.
40,000.
They say, we are imposing a curfew because nobody's taking this virus seriously.
This message has been given.
In other words, stay home or else.
There's another slum called Moro dos Prazeres where gang members have told residents to circulate only in groups of two.
And in another one called Rosinha, this is one of the biggest villas, about 50,000 residents, traffickers have also decreed a curfew.
Now, in Santa Marta, yet another slum.
Now, these are slums generally in the Rio de Janeiro area, by the way.
The traffickers, these are very considerate of them.
I suppose they really want to maintain their market.
It's very benevolent of them, I think is the right word to say.
In the absence of the state, they're providing a wonderful service.
Well, yes, and as I say, they don't want their market for drugs to dry up.
The traffickers have been handing out soap and have put signs near a public water fountain at the community's entrance that says, please wash your hands before entering the favela.
And one of the locals says, I think they wrote this for the addicts who come here to buy drugs so they don't bring in the virus.
Well, they might bring it in anyway.
But there's another place, another measure that's being taken in a slum.
There's one called Nova Olanda, which means New Holland.
I guess it was founded by Peter Stuyvesant.
Their evangelical prayer sessions are now taking place outside the church.
As one of the residents said, we sing our songs of praise to God from the windows of our homes at pre-arranged times.
They must have gotten that idea from the Italians.
You see those videos of the Italians singing arias and things from their windows while they all stay at home.
But anyway, that is the news.
That is the news from Brazil.
And it's good to see that the drug gangs are taking things into their own hands, apparently because The government of Brazil is doing essentially nothing.
Now, this does raise the question, and perhaps you have ideas about this, I've seen very, very few, not many reports of cases in tropical countries.
Maybe it's because they don't have the means to even test to find out about it, and they don't, certainly don't have the means to really control it very well, but Africa, South America, you just don't see many reports.
Central America?
Yeah, that Johns Hopkins map that we discussed.
If you Google Johns Hopkins coronavirus map, it's this apocalyptic look at the globe and all the nations, and you can see the number of cases.
Of course, the ones that stick out immediately are the number of people infected in Italy and Spain and the deaths in those countries compared to China and elsewhere.
You see very few in Russia because Russia, of course, closed their borders early on and said, no, we're not going to allow this.
What you're talking about, though, I recall Haiti, actually, when people were flying into Port-au-Prince a couple weeks ago, they were checking everyone's temperature.
So some of these countries, even Haiti, of all places, Haiti had people checking people's temperatures.
And if, just like used to happen at Ellis Island, when the immigrants from Europe would come and People would have their vitals checked and they would be quarantined if they were impacted.
But Haiti was actually doing this.
But see, my suspicion is that Haiti has not been spared a large number of coronavirus cases because of exemplary public health measures.
My guess is that either there's something about the weather down there Or they are just not even testing, they're not even counting, and that they have a lot more virus than anybody realizes.
But it's a very curious thing to me.
If, in fact, it does have to do with the weather, then my suspicion is that the number of cases should go down dramatically as the weather warms here in the northern hemisphere.
But who knows?
This continues to be a mystery to me.
That's been the hypothesis of a number of medical professionals.
Neither you nor I have been trained in virology and epidemiology, so I'm not someone who likes to even talk about that and speculate because I think that gives a false sense of what's actually happening.
I think that a lot of people out there are doing some damaging things with the shutdowns that we've seen.
I'm reading about how The Los Angeles mayor is saying that Trump is wrong.
We're going to shut down for two more months if we have to.
And I think that that has even greater implications on people's health in general than social distancing.
Well, we will certainly see.
Now, we do have a couple more virus stories, I'm afraid to say.
I'm so sick of this.
I am, too.
I am, too.
But this is what people are interested in, and I suppose it's not unimportant.
But we have to polish off a few more virus stories before we get to non-virus stories.
And this has to do with the question of how Iran got the virus.
Now, as those of you are paying attention, and I suspect all of you are, Iran has got quite a large number of cases.
How did that happen?
Well, it is probably associated to the number of Chinese-backed infrastructure projects that are being built by scores of workers and technicians from China.
This appears to be the way China does things.
They don't hire people locally.
They just bring in people by the hundreds, sometimes by the thousands, to get the job done themselves.
Now, why is China involved in this?
China has turned out to be the trading partner of Last Resort.
And that's because of the sanctions that have been put on by, what was it, Germany, France, the U.S.
In any case, the group that put the sanctions on China, I'm sorry, that put the sanctions on Iran, China was not part of this.
Correct.
And so it's been a critical link for Iran.
And a lot of this is centered on the city of Qom, Q-O-M.
I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly, but that's the Holy City.
And China has been the trading partner of last resort, but in this case, it's turned into a toxic bomb, says Sanam Vikal, Deputy Middle East Director of Chatham House, a think tank in London.
China Railway Engineering is building a $2.7 billion high-speed rail link through COM, and Chinese tech nations have been helping to refurbish a nuclear power plant nearby.
Again, the way the Chinese do it, they don't trust the locals to do the work.
This is the way they do it in Africa, this is the way they do it Even in Italy, in the fashion industry, there are now some 300,000 Chinese in northern Italy, for heaven's sake, and a lot of them are churning out fancy, what are supposed to be made-in-Italy bags for the fashion industry.
Made in Italy by the Chinese, right?
That's right, that's right.
But the Iranian health officials say the source of the outbreak is probably either Chinese workers in Qom, or Iranian businessman from combat back with it.
Now, a quote from a local housewife goes like this.
goes like this.
This is a lady who was quoted only by her first name because she didn't want to be identified.
We were unhappy with all these crappy Chinese goods everywhere.
Now they brought us this crappy virus too.
Now, I'd be curious to know how you say crappy in Persian.
But in any case, that's what she's complaining.
And were you aware that some pretty important people in Uh, Iran have already been infected.
First Vice President, Ishak Jahangiri.
Pretty important guy.
He had the virus, along with two other cabinet members.
Can you imagine that?
Three cabinet members of the United States coming down with the virus?
And many Iranians are, in fact, directing their anger at China.
So, they need to be tongue-lashed by all these people who are worried about racism against the Chinese.
As one of the locals says, when you put all your eggs in one basket, this is what you get.
He's a 43-year-old in Tehran.
He says, the Chinese are everywhere.
And he's right about that.
He's right.
So, I think we have two more coronavirus stories.
One was the Cincinnati Police are now imitating their elders and betters elsewhere, are they not?
Well, they are.
Last week, for our discerning listeners, you might remember we discussed Police Commissioner Outlaw of Philadelphia and the order that she had placed Regarding the types of crimes that police would no longer be trying to stop.
Well, in Cincinnati, they have a black police chief as well, and they are temporarily suspending, due to his order, in-person responses to certain 911 calls for service.
This began on Tuesday, March 24th, in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19.
Mr. Taylor, do you know how many officers in New York currently have I saw that.
It's about 200, is it not?
It is, and there are 2,000 who are staying at home.
Now, who knows?
We are well aware that there have been some volatility between the relationship of the Fraternal Order of Police in New York and Mayor de Blasio.
Perhaps this is, I believe, called the Blue Flu.
Maybe some people are staying at home because they don't want to actually go out.
I don't want to impugn the integrity of the officers there in New York, but The fact is, in some of our major cities, we're seeing these black police chiefs.
They're basically giving a license to commit crime during this crisis of the Kung Flu China virus.
Well, Mr. Kersey, what are the crimes for which you will get a virtual 9-1-1 response rather than an in-person 9-1-1 response?
Yeah, well let's go with that.
Cincinnati police officers will no longer respond in person to the following reports.
Criminal Damaging, Dog Bites, Lost Property, Lost or Stolen License Plates, Phone Harassment, Property Damage, or Found Property.
They'll no longer respond to assault reports unless a suspect is still present or the victim requires medical attention.
Breaking and entering reports unless a suspect is still present.
Menacing reports, quote, unless suspect is expected or threatens to return or is part of the elements of domestic violence, end quote.
Or theft reports where, quote, there is no possibility of immediate apprehension, end quote.
Well, that's so comforting.
I suppose you could give an absolutely perfect description, maybe even have a photograph of the guy, but if he's buggered off, then he's not around anymore, they don't care.
They don't care.
You'll get soothing words over the phone, perhaps, but you won't get a policeman.
Now, see, something I don't understand.
Do they really think that having a policeman show up Now, are they worried that they're going to get the virus from the person who called in the report?
Or are they going to get the virus from arresting somebody?
Or are they going to give the virus to somebody?
I don't quite understand how this works.
What do you think?
Gosh, I don't know.
It's... Mystifying, isn't it?
This is one of those situations where...
You know, you're hearing all these horror stories out in New York where these doctors, EMTs, nurses, they're becoming infected.
The same thing in Italy.
And I just think there's so much misinformation out there regarding the coronavirus, regarding the Chinese virus, regarding the Kung Flu, whatever you want to call it, that people are going to drastic measures to protect.
Those who serve under them.
I mean, think about what's happening with the stay-at-home orders.
But with this order, though, in Cincinnati, and what we saw in Philadelphia with Police Commissioner Outlaw, Google a picture of her, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
Police Commissioner Outlaw, Philadelphia.
We'll still be here while you do that.
But with this order, Mr. Taylor, this is actually terrifying.
Because if you actually look at what they're not going to respond to most things.
Except for, I mean, what suspect is still going to be around during a theft?
Exactly.
Or during an assault.
Exactly.
Well, they will respond if somebody's dead, presumably.
But that's about the long and the short of it.
Do you remember that great book that was written about the Cincinnati riots that happened right before 9-11, perhaps?
Yes, there were remarkable riots there, yes.
And we don't have to tell our listeners just what the hue and saturation of the rioters was.
No we don't, but Cincinnati is one of those cities that is still about 49% white.
It is one of the, this is sad to say when you look at major cities across the country, but it does have one of the larger proportions of white residents still that didn't engage in social distancing from our dark brethren, as you like to call them, once the civil rights made restrictive covenants no longer tenable.
Well, yes, and moving along to what I hope will be our last coronavirus story for this episode is one that reminds me of the great Joe Sobran.
He was once imagining the kinds of headlines that the New York Times would be happy to publish, and it was this.
World ends.
Minorities and women hit hardest.
And isn't this the attitude that some people are taking towards the Wuhan flu?
The Wuhan flu?
That's right.
You know, we kind of talked about this last week.
There was an initial story on this, but it didn't have the impact that a cover story in the USA Today did on this very topic.
And here's the headline that they used.
And again, this appeared on the cover of the USA Today.
Quote, coronavirus layoffs disproportionately hurt black and Latino workers.
It's almost like doomsday is coming.
That was the headline of a cover story in the USA Today.
And the story detailed this black female, Opal Foster, who went to work last week at
a small graphic printing company in Maryland.
And then by lunch she had lost her position.
And it talks about how, you know, this is happening to thousands of employees at small businesses, restaurants, hotels, bars, and manufacturing companies who lost their jobs in recent days.
And again, it's just like with President Trump.
He never talked about the low He never talked about the low white unemployment rate during the great economic days that seemed so long ago.
He always bragged about the low black and Hispanic unemployment rates.
I'm sure you remember these stories, Mr. Taylor.
Well, Mr. Kersey, I have a question for you about that story, which I have not seen, and so I'm counting on you to give me the inside dope and the straight skinny, both.
And that is, is there a single number in there?
Is there any indication that this is, in fact, true?
Has somebody counted up all the people who have been laid off and, lo and behold, found that, proportionately, blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be laid off?
Or, is this just pure anecdote and pure speculation?
It's the latter.
National civil rights leaders have called for a meeting with congressional leaders because they want to push for more help for low-income workers who are, in their eyes and according to data, disproportionately communities of color.
Now these groups, according to this USA Today report, full of saccharine and just all the type of language you'd expect to hear to try and compel Congress to send more money to put on this, to help out these these individuals who are hampered by this downturn.
These groups have historically been overlooked or left behind by the federal government
during major crises.
This was a quote from Melanie Campbell.
She's the president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation.
Yeah, well, see, this is, I suspect that absolutely nobody has actually counted up the people who've been laid off
and made any sort of calculations at all.
It may in fact be true that blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be on hourly jobs than whites, but I suspect that is the only bit of data there is here.
But I'm sure somewhere in that two trillion dollars, there's going to be something, there's going to be something for that lady whose hand-wringing and upsetting anecdote you began this article with.
Well, she might get a few extra Trump bucks, perhaps, from old Uncle DJT.
But, you know, it's interesting.
This USA Today piece, the only data that they bring out, Mr. Taylor and dear listener, they bring out the fact that during the 2008 Great Recession, which the article claims that we have yet to fully recover from, which that's not true at all, it raises questions about how the financial downturn has disproportionately impacted Non-whites because they bring out these quotes about how middle-class black people dropped median wealth to $33,000 in 2013.
For Hispanics, median wealth fell to $38,000.
And for white families, they saw their median wealth decline to $131,000.
to $38,000 and for white families they saw their median wealth decline to $131,000.
So they try and bring these numbers out to show that this inequality of outcome when
it comes to what your labor is worth.
You know, individual labor collectively is worth.
So, just really gross reporting that inflames racial hatred toward whites.
Well, my question is, even if this were true, what are we supposed to do about it?
Keep the printing presses going exclusively for non-whites.
I guess.
Make us feel even worse about being white.
Well, there is a Supreme Court decision that can make us feel a little bit better about being white.
And this is something called Comcast Corp V National Association of African American Media.
And to understand this story, you have to go back to the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
What this did was allow for so-called mixed motive discrimination cases.
The idea here was that victims of employment discrimination should be able to prevail in a lawsuit against their employer if they showed that the employer acted with mixed motives.
That is to say, if the employer did something bad against the employee for a combination of reasons, only some of which were unlawful.
In other words, If you were to fire somebody because he was lazy, aggressive, unqualified, no good at his job, and also, well, you just don't like black people anyway, then that could be sufficient reason for a discrimination case, this mixed motive.
Now, this has been interpreted to mean the plaintiff could show that unlawful discrimination was one of several factors that motivated the employer's decision to act against him, and if that were the case, If you had a situation, the one that I described, then the burden was to shift to the employer to show that he would have taken the same action, would have fired this aggressive, incompetent, lazy employee, even had the employee been white.
In other words, you had to prove, well, wait a minute, okay, there was this mixed motive, but even if there had not been any kind of animus for racial reasons, we would have fired him anyway.
Well, this brings us to the 2017 suit brought by the National Association of African American Media against Comcast.
Now, This black group makes black TV content, and they wanted Comcast to carry it on cable.
And they dickered, and they negotiated, and they danced around, and Comcast decided no.
Well, of course, this black association sued.
And the trial court said, look, there's not even a hint of discrimination.
We don't see any discrimination.
But the African-American media outfit appealed to the 9th Court of Appeals.
That's the one in California.
It's been just fantastically and famously liberal and to the point of craziness for a long time, although some of Donald Trump's appointees are going to sort of bring it back to some semblance of sanity.
The Ninth Court of Appeals held that a valid claim of discrimination merely requires that racial discrimination play any role at all in the defendant's actions.
It ruled that the mixed motive standard is violated when discrimination plays any role at all, not the actual cause, in an employment decision.
It reasoned also that the facts, and I'm quoting straight from the decision, taken in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, showed that race was plausibly a contributing factor in Comcast's contracting decision.
Now, this is the appeals court level.
The Ninth Court is reinterpreting this thing to mean if there is the faintest, slightest taint of racism in a decision that's unfavorable to the plaintiff, to the employee who's claiming discrimination, then it's discrimination and bad, bad, bad.
If this had held up, this would have been a terrifying and terrible thing.
In other words, just the slightest unfavorable remark or something that could be construed as an unfavorable remark would mean that even if you fired a totally incompetent, no good, hostile employee, if there were just the faintest trace of any kind of Politically incorrect sentiment anywhere within the company, then it was discrimination and not for good cause.
Well, thank goodness.
The Supreme Court ruling just this week in a decision written by Neil Gorsuch, he said that a plaintiff must first plead and then prove that its injury would not have occurred but for the defendant's unlawful conduct.
In other words, okay, the defendant might have said something unpleasant or, strictly speaking, unlawful, but you have to prove, if you're claiming discrimination, you have to prove that that was the motive and that the company, if there were other reasons for doing something unpleasant to you, the fact that there might have been just the slightest taint of discrimination or hostility, that doesn't count if that was not enough to get you fired.
So, another important thing about this decision is that it was unanimous.
Believe it or not, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Helena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor.
They all agree.
This is an astonishing and good thing.
Now, I'm sorry to have gone into such detail about this, but I believe we can understand how important this is, because if there was just some offhand remark that could be construed as racially discriminatory, it would make it impossible to fire a completely incompetent and no-good employee.
So, That is our probably most boring, but in some respects most important and significant story for this episode.
Any observations or comments, Mr. Kersey?
Love good news?
Yes.
Love great news?
Yes.
You know, the Supreme Court, there's been some interesting decisions.
Obviously, that one is fantastic.
You recall earlier this year, a story that didn't get a lot of news because it kind of broke during the early stages of the coronavirus and the cross-section of when Trump was still being impeached, but there was that 5-4 decision where Those illegal aliens who are using the identities of Americans, they could actually be prosecuted.
And it was shocking that it was actually a 5-4 decision.
It's like, wait, wait a second.
There are actually people who think illegals should not be prosecuted for this?
That's right.
Who are the four?
Well, we know a couple of them are, but that decision you just spoke of, it is reassuring that some of the more liberal Anchors of the Supreme Court decided, you know what?
This is too egregious.
We've got a side with right and justice.
Yes, yes.
So congratulations, wise Latina.
You made a good decision.
Moving on to something that we've been following.
We have probably discussed this several times.
The selective high schools in New York Stuyvesant High School and the Bronx School of Science.
These are the best high schools in the public system in New York, and you get into them only, only through an exam.
And last year, the news that only a tiny number of black students gained admission into these very selective high schools touched off a maelstrom about race and merit.
Well, just last Thursday, Education officials announced that, once again, nothing has changed.
Only 10 black students got into Stuyvesant out of a freshman class of roughly 760.
But, that was up from 7 black students last year.
So, 7 to 10?
Yep, yep, yep.
Fantastic numbers.
There you go, there you go.
A significant, you know, a giant leap forward.
However, the number of Hispanics who got entry was only 20, down from 33 last year.
That's a huge drop.
A significant setback out of a 760.
Now, the numbers that I did not see this time did not break out the Asians, but as usual, they dominate.
Now, so there you go.
There are some other selective high schools in addition to those, but this is just clunking along at the same way.
Now, Bill de Blasio had this plan whereby he was going to ditch the competitive examination.
And they were going to get people into these high schools automatically if they were in the top 5% or the top 10% or whatever it was in their school.
But this would be utterly and completely crazy because they have so many public schools in which, in the Bronx for example, where the level is so bad that even the top 1% in those schools would have no chance of making it in a really demanding high school.
And let's see, just last year's entrance examination, only 3% of black students who took the exam got an offer.
Only 3%.
26% of Asians and 23% of whites who took the exam got into one of these schools.
But when Mayor Bill de Blasio had this idea of doing it simply on class standing, You recall that it was the Asians who all got together and said, nothing doing, man.
White people were really rather cowed about this, but Asians, they rode to the rescue and they said, no, we're going to keep these things competitive, objective, and based on examinations.
Now, I've always wondered, do people really, really think that the exams are biased or Is this just sort of a bunch of baloney that they claim to believe this because it's fashionable to believe this?
Well, I think some of them do.
Some of them must believe that the exams are biased because, or at least that something can be done about it because billionaire cosmetics heir, Ronald S. Lauder, He is of the Lauder Cosmetics Company.
He, along with a fellow named Richard D. Parsons, who was a former Citigroup chairman, Citicorp, the bank, they spent, they got together and spent $300,000 to provide free test prep for 206 black and Hispanic eighth graders to try to get into these fancy schools.
How much money, if you could repeat that again?
$300,000 for 206.
That's about $1,500 per Black and Hispanic student.
And if we go back to the figures that we saw earlier, the number of Blacks... Let's see, what did I say?
The number of Blacks... 3%.
Well, but the actual success rate, the number of Blacks was still about 11.
And the number of Hispanics had dropped, actually.
So, all of this $300,000 that was splashed out on test prep did absolutely no good.
But I wonder if they will still continue to believe.
I'm sure they feel very virtuous for having spent all this money.
And now, one of the last stories here has to do with Abercrombie & Fitch.
Back in 2006, the CEO at the time, Mike Jeffries, he gave an interview with Salon and he said, and I'm quoting here, we hire good-looking people in our stores because good-looking people attract other good-looking people and we want to market to cool good-looking people.
We don't market to anyone other than that.
Fact check true.
He went on to say, we go after attractive, all-American kids with a great attitude and lots of friends.
A lot of people just don't belong in our clothes, and they can't belong.
Are we exclusionary?
Absolutely.
Those companies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody, young, old, fat, skinny, but then you become totally vanilla.
You don't alienate anybody, but you don't excite anybody either.
Well, that's what he said.
We are the cool kids.
We are the good-looking kids.
We are just the big men and women on campus.
Well, Abercrombie & Fitch apologized.
It just didn't sound good.
But the CEO, Mr. Jeffries, he hung on until 2014.
But since then, the company has transformed its image and its marketing.
In February of this year, A&F released its Face Your Fears campaign.
Now, I don't quite understand what that means, Face Your Fears, but it features the very opposite of the good-looking, slim BMOC types.
They are overweight, they're transgender, they even have a one-legged woman.
As one of their people.
And one of their star features on the Face Your Fears was a guy who's called plus-sized, a plus-sized, out-of-the-closet homosexual named Michael McCauley.
Oh!
Michael McCauley.
Well, Michael McCauley is no longer with the Face Your Fears campaign because some social media posts of some time ago showed up.
And, uh, I'm afraid you will be shocked by how unshocking these posts are.
I'm afraid I will be.
Go ahead.
On one of his Facebook, he said, Black Lives Matter protests are extremists that don't represent the majority of the black community.
He also wrote on Facebook, a group called Black Lives Matter is blocking the street downtown and just made me late for a crucial meeting.
Thank you for making your point.
I'm glad your life matters more than mine.
What city?
Do we know what city he was in when he played?
New York City.
And responding to the Oscars So White campaign, which we all remember so well, he posted a video of himself saying, since you're gonna boycott the Oscars, I'm gonna boycott the Grammys, since not enough white people were nominated.
That's it.
That's it.
Out you go.
Out you go.
This was too much for Abercrombie & Fitch.
Abercrombie & Fitch is going to be so inclusive, it'll make you hurt.
And so now, in a statement, the company says it has terminated its relationship with the plus-size gay model.
His statements, and I quote, contradict the values of our company.
Our associates and our customers.
As such, we're no longer working with him.
So, if you think Black Lives Matter is an extremist that doesn't represent the majority of the black community, and if you resent it, that their holding a demonstration made you late to work or to an appointment, then that contradicts the values of their company, their employees, and their customers.
Nice to know, huh?
Well, poor Mr. McCauley, he spent six minutes in the video with an absolute flat on his chest, and it's a substantial chest, I assure you.
Flat on his chest, groveling.
It has done no good.
He's very corpulent.
Yes, so that's an unhappy ending for Mr. Michael McCauley.
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All one word.
Mr. Taylor, one quick anecdote for you.
Where I grew up, my high school...
It was so all-American that two of my friends were Abercrombie & Fitch models.
Back in the heyday of Abercrombie & Fitch when they would put out this 500-page catalog and it was nothing but blonde-haired, blue-eyed, chiseled individuals.
I guess that's why you didn't qualify.
I probably could have qualified back then.
You would have fit right in.
You know what?
On that, we're going to go ahead and say for Jared Taylor, this has been Paul Kersey.
Our time is up, but we'll see you next week.
We'll talk to you next week.
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