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May 14, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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The Sad Death of Free Speech
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Ladies and gentlemen, wherever you are, welcome to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is the often imitated but never equaled Paul Kersey.
Mr. Kersey, always a pleasure to have you with me.
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Now, alas, I believe we're going to have to devote a considerable part of this episode to what happened to Ahmed Arbery, the young black man.
I don't believe any of our listeners probably need that much introduction as to what happened.
He's the fellow who was shot by two white men, a father and son.
And I really, I think I will dispense with the introduction on that.
Just to point out that when we spoke about them last, the father and son, Mr. and Mrs. Michaels, had not yet been charged with a crime.
However, they have now been charged by the state of Georgia with murder and aggravated assault with a maximum prison sentence of life imprisonment.
Furthermore, the federal government is considering hate crime charges.
The U.S.
Department of Justice is going to poke into that.
At the present time, Georgia does not have a hate crime statute, but if a federal hate crime is charged, that could supersede and it too has a maximum prison sentence of life in prison if the hate crime results in a death, which presumably could be argued in this case.
I'd like to point out that this is beginning to look more and more and more like the Trayvon Martin case.
It started off with a white person killing a black person in what initially was considered by the local authorities to be a matter of legitimate self-defense.
Now, not only is the person being charged with murder, but they're considering adding hate crimes on top of it, despite the fact that we have no evidence so far that there was any kind of racial motivation in the case of the Michaels and young Mr. Arberry.
Now, I will remind our listeners that the federal government sent, I believe it was 30 or 40 agents to Florida to dope out everything that George Zimmerman had ever said or done or thought about blacks in the hope that they could pin some sort of hate crime on him.
But in the end, they were unable to do so, and so he has walked free.
It would be remarkable if, in this case, the McMichaels are able to walk free, but that is certainly up to the court of law to decide.
And Mr. Taylor, if I could jump in, the federal government actually sent 30 30 FBI officials to Sanford, Florida back in April of 2012 to investigate George Zimmerman.
You can only imagine what's going to happen once they decide to investigate these two white Southerners.
I do want to make one quick clarification about Brunswick.
Georgia is an interesting state where you have such a massive transplant community in metro Atlanta.
who aren't southerners.
A lot of whites who moved from all across the country to work for the major corporations that are based in metro Atlanta.
And Brunswick, however, is a legitimate southern city.
I want to say it's 67% black.
So this really is a situation where it is a actual southern city where this transpired.
Yes, and a number of strange details have been coming out.
The notorious video that shows the shooting, except for a few crucial moments, when young Travis McMichael and Arbery actually come into contact.
It was taken by a neighbor by the name of Brian Williams.
It was not he, however, who released the video to the public.
It was a friend of the McMichaels, or at least an acquaintance, a lawyer by the name of Alan Tucker.
And he released it with the expectation that this would calm all the speculation about it.
Boy did he get that wrong.
It's a video in which Alan Tucker who was acquainted with these two guys thought this is going to make it clear that this was justified homicide.
But now this very same video in a kind of Rashomon-like effect in which people can see the same thing and walk away with completely different understanding of what transpired Practically everybody else in the country is saying this is clearly a modern-day lynching.
Oh boy did he misjudge things.
The other strange thing is no one yet knows, perhaps you've got some inside dope on this Mr. Kersey, but why it was that Brian Williams the neighbor was actually following from behind and filming.
Have you heard anything about that?
This is still a mystery in my book.
The only thing I know about that guy is that he's scared for his life, he's had death threats, a significant number of death threats.
Again, I think that he was just a member of the community, and they all knew that there was a lot of crime and vandalizing that had been taking place in that neighborhood.
And the neighborhood where it happened is basically a white enclave within Brunswick.
And there's a lot of construction going on, and this apparently has been a consistent, persistent problem.
Yes, well, of course now that the McMichaels have been charged for murder in an incident
that took place back in February, the Georgia Attorney General on Sunday asked the Department
of Justice to investigate the entire handling of the death of Arbery and explain why it
took more than two months to charge these two men.
Well, that's not all that hard to explain.
The first two prosecutors had ties to the McMichaels.
And so they went through the procedure and eventually recused themselves.
At the same time, they were considering, well, they were going to take the case to the grand
There had not yet been a final disposition of this case.
They were just working its way through the regular process.
And the grand jury was not going to be open until June because the COVID shutdown.
There's no particular mystery here as to why charges not been brought.
One important aspect, of course, is that one of the DAs, the second DA who took the case and then later recused himself because He had had some involvement in previous prosecutions of Arbery.
He had decided that there was no good reason to arrest the two McMichaels, but he was certainly going to take it to a grand jury and let them decide and do it in the formal, normal procedure.
Now, George Barnhill, as I would note, he had a very, very interesting report on the killing that the mainstream media has almost completely ignored.
You've seen that report, have you not, Mr. Kersey?
I have seen the report.
Yes, it's remarkable.
He points out that there were three gunshot shotgun wounds to Arbery, and the very first one was in the palm of his right hand.
That means that it was a point-blank range.
He had grasped the end of the shotgun himself.
And that is what had gone off in his hand.
So clearly, no shot was fired until not only was Arbery right on top of McMichael, but had his hand on McMichael's weapon.
And the other thing that he points out, this Barnhill DA, is that it's very possible that although McMichael's finger was on the trigger, that Arbery could have grabbed the weapon and pulled it and caused the gun to go off himself.
And no one is talking about these things.
No one is pointing out the way Barnhill looked into this story and wrote about it, I think, in a very, very level-headed way.
So, there's nothing particularly out of the ordinary or heinous and certainly not racist in the decision not to charge.
But now of course it is Barnhill's own behavior that is under the microscope.
People are saying he deserves to be fired, perhaps lynched, perhaps his body torn into pieces by wild horses because he did not think that a charge should be brought.
And now you've talked about also there's now surveillance footage from a home near where Arbery was shot, this building under construction.
There are repeated videos of Arbery walking into the place, snooping around, And although the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the homeowner and Arbery's lawyers have not yet confirmed that that's Arbery, his family said, yep, yep, that's him.
And there is video taken from neighboring property.
And so very clearly, he had been in the habit of poking around in that building.
And as you noted, there have been a number of thefts in the area.
Mr. Taylor?
Yes?
I hate to interrupt, but are you implying that he wasn't jogging?
Well, one of the eyewitnesses right at that time said he certainly didn't think that he was jogging.
The Daily Mail actually tracked this guy down.
They tracked down the eyewitness who saw Arbery entering the building under construction.
And he called a non-emergency number to the police to say there was an intruder that had no business and asked why he was suspicious of Arbery.
He told the Daily Mail, now this is the kind of shoe leather reporting that American newspapers don't apparently get involved with.
He told the Daily Mail, he wasn't out for a jog, put it like that.
You don't go jogging wearing saggy pants, saggy shorts.
He says, the fellow entered a home under construction that he really had no business in.
He was inside a house and it's on my neighbor's security camera.
He then says, I called the police.
He saw me and ran away.
And he ran straight past the home of Gregory and Travis and Travis McMichael, which is just five doors down.
So, there you have a sequence of events that has certainly not been explained in any detail by the American media.
The Daily Mail also pointed out an interesting detail, namely that outside the building there is a sign.
It says, trespassers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
And it had remote security cameras that were triggered by motion, and so there you have it.
This guy had repeatedly triggered that, as well as been on security cameras from across the street.
We don't know exactly how many times he had trespassed there, but it is understandable that he'd be viewed with suspicion.
We also have a little bit more now about Arbery's criminal record.
In 2013, he had a gun tucked into his pants and he tried to attend a high school basketball game.
He was detected and he fled from officers.
He was actually tracked down, but he was sentenced to five years probation as a first offender, carrying a weapon on campus.
It was illegal for him to be carrying it and eluding arrest.
Then, while he was on probation, he was arrested for shoplifting.
But this guy has never gone to prison.
He had a violation of probation.
And people always talk about white privilege.
It seems to me that the courts have been really rather lenient with this guy.
But in any case, another new development in the case has to do with the appointment of a new prosecutor.
This will be the fourth prosecutor.
And as you know, it is a black lady DA, Joyette Holmes.
From the Cobb County, Atlanta metropolitan area, the first black woman ever to serve as District Attorney of Cobb County.
And it'd be very interesting to know what the backroom negotiations were in deciding to hand it over to her.
The white guy, who was the third white person who was in charge of the investigation, he is reported to have said that he wanted to hand it over to a prosecutor's office with more resources than he did.
This has, of course, become an international incident.
All eyes will be on the case.
And he says he would rather somebody else handled it.
Now, I wonder if he was approached by the governor or some high DA person to say, look, look, we'd like you to step aside.
We really want this black woman to take charge.
But it'll be very interesting to see what the consequences of this are.
Now, as you no doubt know, President Donald Trump has been up in arms about the Ahmaud Arbery killing, and he said that Arbery looked beautiful in a photo when he was wearing a tuxedo.
But that did not stop Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms for saying that it is the president's rhetoric that prompted the killing.
This is just so typical.
There have been a number of people who said that this is really the direct responsibility of Donald Trump, having created an atmosphere in which white people go out and gun down unoffending black people.
It's just the most, most absurd, absurd of all possible interpretations of this.
And then, of course, there is the Arbery hate hoax.
As you know, there have been groups of people gathering in Brunswick and just last Saturday there were 300 bikers there who were there to honor Arbery as well as a crowd of non-bikers.
It turns out that Georgia State investigators have arrested a 20-year-old man by the name of Rashaun Smith, who had concocted a fake Facebook account in which he posed as a wicked, violent white supremacist and was threatening the people who were demonstrating in memory of Ahmaud Arbery.
So, isn't that lovely?
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is charged in with disseminating false information relating to terroristic acts, but there's been hardly, hardly any coverage of this at all.
And finally, our last little detail when it comes to this Arbery case is a white former pastor.
Now, I don't know what a former pastor is.
He's age 34.
His name is Richard Demsik.
He's of Vero Beach, Florida and he became quite notorious because he had a video of himself jogging through his neighborhood carrying a flat screen TV and he ran for 2.23 miles.
That is the hip distance to run because 2.23 stands for February 23rd and that is the day on which Arbery was shot.
Well, why Did Richard Dempsey jog through his neighbor carrying a flat-screen TV?
Because he said, lo and behold, look, I wasn't shot down by vigilantes.
It wasn't assumed that I was a thief.
And that's only because I'm white.
He says his neighbors waved and smiled while he jogged.
And of course, they would have come swarming out of their houses with their shotguns and their .357 Magnums and have gunned him down in the street if he were black.
Do you think he really believes that or is this something that he's putting on just for his video audience?
What would you guess about a guy like that?
I would guess he truly... I don't think he is virtually signaling.
You've seen so many stories of jogging organizations across the country going out and doing the exact same thing.
I think that this is a...
Manifestation of not just it's beyond white guilt it is they truly want to believe what you said earlier about that the media has You could call it Trump derangement syndrome, whatever you want to call it, but these people actually believe that White people wake up every morning.
They want to go out and they want to hunt and Non-whites.
They really believe that.
I know you probably might scoff at that, but that's what they marinate in.
They marinate in this idea that America is a hopelessly racist country and that white
people salivate at the thought of gunning down black bodies, as Tinezy Coates would
say, and that this is only accelerated during the whole Trump administration.
Think about the way that people reacted initially to Jussie Smollett.
All the candidates for office back in 2019 that were still running for the Democratic
nomination for president.
Think how many of them tweeted out regarding it.
They didn't even hesitate to think about the facts and the logic surrounding the, what
Wasn't that like the coldest day of the year?
I can't remember what it was called.
They didn't even think about the aspects of the story that made no sense.
They swallowed it down without thinking because that's what they want to believe is transpiring.
It is an astonishing thing, isn't it?
White people seem to get some sort of absolute unholy thrill at the idea that other white people are racist.
And I suppose it's a way to demonstrate that you yourself are not a racist by taking such keen pleasure in assuming that other white people are racist.
It is just an extraordinarily sick state of affairs and state of mind among white people.
And, of course, it is completely whooped up by the media that constantly takes an event like this with the Arbery and the two McMichaels and bends it into an unrecognizable situation to the point where people in, apparently, in They actually believe that this was a lynching.
They just went out looking for a black guy to shoot.
And, you know, we have another example of this.
You're, of course, aware of the demonstrations, I think it was just last week in Michigan, against Gretchen Whitmer's lockdown order that's gone on for too bloody long.
A group of several hundred demonstrators, almost all of whom were white, some of whom were armed, were out there saying, no, we want to get back to normal.
We think that you've gone too far.
She claimed that they were out there waving swastikas, and nooses, and confederate flags, and the press have continued to repeat this, that they were wicked white supremacists, so there are people who tweeted about there being terrorists.
This is a typical tweet.
A group of heavily armed white supremacist terrorists have invaded the Michigan State Capitol building and are threatening lawmakers and law enforcement officers.
This is one of those blue check account of a journalist.
Not true at all.
At all.
We have no evidence that anybody was a white supremacist.
There's nothing terroristic about it.
And there were certainly no nooshes that I've heard of.
And the swastikas, of course, as you know, they were likening Gretchen Whitmer to the Nazi regime.
They were saying she was tyrannical.
There was one, a photograph of her with a mustache daubed on her with a harm raised, with a swastika.
All the swastikas had to do with criticism of Gretchen Whitmer, not promoting Nazism.
And yet, she talks about nooses, Nazis, as if that was the motivation for these people.
It's just, it's just absolutely thoroughly disgusting.
And then, Because blacks all claim to be intimidated by this demonstration.
There was a Michigan state representative named Sarah Anthony, a black woman, who posted a video denouncing the protest and claimed that she felt personally threatened by it.
Well, then, a few days later, five blacks and one Hispanics came up and gave her an armed escort to the Capitol to protect her from these wicked Nazis, anti-Semites, and white supremacists.
There was, of course, no one there.
This armed escort posed on the steps of the Capitol for pictures, but there's no one there, of course, but reporters.
But reporters made it sound as though they'd braved some sort of ferocious threat.
And of course, people have been repeatedly saying, oh, if black people show up with guns, they'd be gunned down or they'd be arrested.
Nothing of the sort happened at all.
And it's the same thing.
Wasn't there a similar thing in Brunswick itself with the Black Panthers?
Yeah.
You know, this is a pattern that we see in Georgia.
Georgia, I believe, is an open carry state.
And we'll get to the details.
Exactly.
And we'll get to the details of what that means in a second.
But yeah, get this.
The protests in Georgia They have now taken a very interesting turn.
The Black Panthers are now doing armed patrols in the white neighborhood where Ahmed Arbery was killed.
This is from News1.com, a website we talk about a lot.
And they're very, very excited about this.
This show of force came as there have been calls from more black people to arm themselves.
And it turns out that, again, Georgia gun laws allow for legally licensed individuals to openly bear arms in public, even if there's no apparent cause for self-defense.
Last year, a group of Black Panthers actually marched to the top of Stone Mountain after Stacey Abrams called for The sandblasting of the Confederate generals from that mountain.
And now we're actually seeing Black Panthers show up in Brunswick marching through a white neighborhood where this happened.
It's my understanding that they have been marching up and down the street right in front of the house where the McMichaels lived.
Of course, the McMichaels are living in the big house now.
They were held without bail, without bond, by the way.
This is a real turnaround for them.
They were just waiting for the grand jury to make a decision.
They get scooped up, no bail.
So they're not there to intimidate, but the whole neighborhood certainly is.
Imagine, to me, imagine A group of armed white people patrolling a black neighborhood.
Can you actually imagine that?
What a stink that would be.
They would immediately be called white supremacists and Nazis and who knows what all else.
But yeah, do you know if this Black Panther patrol, is that a regular thing or this is just a one-off affair?
I think it's going to become a regular thing.
I think that it is a form of ethnic racial intimidation that people are showing up when this altercation has been so exaggerated as to what transpired.
Again, people see the video, as you mentioned, and they interpret what happened quite differently.
And the media, by continuing to say that this guy was just jogging... I mean, Mr. Taylor, I read an article out of the Baltimore Sun about this black professor who said, well, there's always been a stigma.
about black joggers.
They have to wear shirts of their alma mater just so people won't be afraid that they're running from a crime or something, as if this is some new concept we have to take seriously.
And even the New York Times just published an editorial denouncing the whiteness of jogging because the jogging craze was born in the lily white Oregon track and field world of the 1960s, which of course helped create the Nike phenomenon.
And I look at this and I think to myself, this is a terrifying acceleration of events that you have this, again, put Brunswick into perspective.
It is a overwhelmingly black city with white enclaves.
That's where this father and son lived, where the construction was taking place.
As you noted, that signs that said, you can't trespass.
Ahmed Arbery was not jogging.
I think that that's obvious to anybody with an IQ of above 100 that isn't willing to castrate themselves
on the altar of white guilt.
Because like we've said, these people really want to believe
that there are white people out there hunting down black bodies.
And I think we are gonna see this only accelerate throughout Georgia.
And it is a terrifying turn of events.
Well, the New York Times had a long article in which they interviewed one black jogger after another,
including black women who jog.
And black women claim that they have to smile at everybody they see, wave, and say hello, just to make sure that they don't get assaulted and attacked because they're black women joggers.
You know, and the New York Times was also, it had a box soliciting readers to send in their stories about jogging while black.
I almost, I was tempted to pretend to be a black jogger and say, look, I've been jogging for 20 years.
I've never had any problem at all.
I jog all over the place.
White people are not going to pay you the slightest interest or attention just because you're black and jogging.
But I wonder if they ever get submissions like that, and what they would do if they got one like that.
They wouldn't publish it, but I just want to bring one of my favorite anecdotes up real quick.
Atlanta is gentrifying rapidly.
You mentioned Mayor Kesha Bottoms, who we've talked about a lot in this program throughout the years.
She put in a moratorium on gentrification, basically, because parts of the city are seeing too rapid of a Appreciation of home value as more and more whites move in, basically displacing blacks whose presence over the past, you know, 50, 60 years in that very same community has kept property values extremely low.
And there was an AJC article, Mr. Taylor, about a year ago, I want to say, about the old 4th Ward where Martin Luther King was born.
And it's near where the MLK Center is there in Atlanta.
And they mentioned that the gentrification has become so great that in areas where black drug dealers and black prostitutes used to ply their wares, white women were jogging.
Because it was safe.
Yes, that's the worst possible condemnation of a neighborhood.
White women are jogging.
They're safe to jog.
I miss those prostitutes and drug dealers.
Ain't it awful?
The other thing that I don't understand is property values go up.
The people who own the buildings are presumably blacks.
Why are they complaining if property values go up?
I suppose they could sell and go, but no.
As soon as white people come in, that is a plague that's got to be stopped.
And Keisha Bottoms, I suppose, as a black lady, she is not really representing Atlanta as a whole.
It sounds as though she's much more interested in catering to blacks who don't want their neighborhood changing than to a process that's clearly improving the city, making it safer, making it more agreeable, and increasing property values.
But that does not seem to be her priority.
Mr. Taylor, I want to put everything into perspective and put a bow around what we've been talking about.
In the next month, there's going to be an HBO miniseries coming out called Lovecraft Country, which takes the name from H.P.
Lovecraft.
It's about how the monsters and the old ones that H.P.
Lovecraft wrote about in his horror fiction It has nothing on the actual horror of what blacks suffered under Jim Crow in America, and how white people were the real villains, the real monsters, because they instituted things like sundown towns, and they instituted things like segregation all throughout the Northeast.
It wasn't just the South.
This is only going to cause more and more people to believe this.
It's just like the Watchmen show that was on HBO.
I know you don't know anything what I'm talking about, but all these shows They exist to perpetuate what Colin Flaherty calls the greatest lie of our generation and that is perpetual black victimization and that whites are relentless racists.
You and I know that's not the case.
The idea that somehow the experience of blacks in the United States can be drawn a parallel to a whole series of horror stories This is just extraordinary, and it seems that the better conditions get for blacks in the United States, the more people complain about racism and white supremacy and structural this and systemic that.
There is just no salvation for white people, no salvation in the offing, no salvation possible.
But I will be curious to see how this shapes up.
And it's called, what is the name of this series again?
Yeah, it's called Lovecraft Country.
It was a book that came out by a white guy in 2016.
It won all sorts of awards.
It came out interesting the year after Lovecraft's name was removed from one of the horror awards
because of his less than flattering view of racial minorities and blacks.
So the whole book, it's worth reading.
I'm actually reading it right now and I'm sure there'll be a review popping up on Amarin.
I do want to bring up one more anecdote about how things ... You just made an unbelievable
point about how as things get better for blacks, there's this perception that they've never
been worse for blacks.
As white racism, apparently it gets worse and worse.
And you just said, you know, what is it that they'll want white people to do?
And there's a Jezebel article, which kind of blew my mind.
The title is, I will personally be thrilled if Stephen Miller dies of COVID-19.
The author of this piece was Molly Osberg.
It came out, um, Came out last Friday.
I think Stephen Miller's wife in the White House, I believe she came down with the coronavirus.
Oh, that too?
Yeah, there were people celebrating.
Jezebel's a huge publication, Mr. Taylor, and they would actually publish this article, and then one of the former editor-in-chiefs of Deadspin, I believe, I can't remember the guy's name, but he's got a pretty prominent role as one of the editors there, he defended the piece saying, yeah, I think a lot of people believe this and want this to happen.
And look at it this way, there was a great tweet someone sent out that said, they can't wait until the people who celebrate the death of their political opponents are in charge of healthcare.
I thought that was a brilliant tweet and they had a screenshot of that story because I think that people Even on our side, don't grossly underestimate the level of hatred that exists toward white conservatives because they truly believe that we are all that stands in the way of this racial utopia that the South Africans couldn't even dream of replicating.
Well, remember in the 2010 midterm elections, there had been, things went towards the Republicans, and Steve Wise, the... Tim Wise.
Tim Wise, I beg your pardon, yes, Tim Wise, the anti-racist activist who gets $10,000 to $20,000 per talk at universities, he wrote, he just looked forward, he says he looked forward, you conservative white people, your country is gone.
I'm paraphrasing that pretty closely.
He says, your hearts are gonna stop and I love the sound of your demise.
Just looking forward to our dying.
They're just absolutely blatant of it.
He later took this down and so it's no longer on the internet.
You have to hunt mighty hard to find it.
But this is a true expression of the way they think about us.
Yeah, Steve Saylor and I, Mr. Taylor, we made sure to get screenshots of that and it's archived.
He blamed alcohol on writing that.
I do want to make one more point about what you just said.
Since colleges are shut down across the country because of coronavirus, one of the positive things about that has been the fact that Mr. Wise is unable to do a speaking tour and castigate those white people who go to See his well-compensated speeches because there's no one on these campuses.
Well, my heart bleeds for him.
Moving on to something else.
The Wall Street Journal just a few days ago had a very interesting article about social distancing arrests.
And this had to do with the police made 125 arrests related to the coronavirus pandemic in New York City since the lockdown began.
Now, these are 125 arrests that do not have to do with violating the social distancing.
Now, I'm not quite sure what these arrests would be.
The article did not describe them with any real detail, but it included a number of tantalizing hints as to what this is.
They were categorized as COVID-19 related due to the circumstances of these arrests or the remarks about people who were arrested at the time or the alleged crime.
And these COVID-19 related arrests included hate crimes, domestic violence, weapons possession, and altercations caused by jumping in line while waiting to enter a supermarket, as well as some other violent felonies.
Now, that is a very cryptic description of a bunch of crimes and just what the COVID-19 relation is, I don't know.
But one arrest included a bank robber who presented a note to a teller that said, this is a bank robbery, I have COVID.
I guess that's considered a deadly weapon these days.
Now, I bring this up not to complain about the vagueness of this definition of these crimes that resulted in 125 arrests.
The reason I bring this up is to point out that 91% of the people who were arrested for these virus-related crimes were black or Hispanic in New York City.
83 of the 125 were black and 30 were Hispanic.
This despite the fact that blacks are only 24% of the population and Hispanic reference of 39%, but together they accounted for 91% of these arrests.
They accounted for 91% of these arrests.
Now, of particular interest to me is Mayor de Blasio's reaction when he learned
of this disproportionality.
He said, we do not accept disparity.
Period.
When we see disparity, we're going to address it.
Isn't this yet another typical, completely mooncalf, white reaction to a fact?
I have no doubt that these people are arrested without any regard to race.
They're arrested because they're doing something that is COVID-19 related.
That apparently is described as a hate crime or domestic violence or whatever it is.
Weapons violations.
What that has to do with COVID-19, I don't know.
And I can't explain the vagaries of this Wall Street Journal article.
But for the mayor of the city to say, this is no good.
This is impossible.
Now, I'd like to know when is he going to say that about shootings, for example, or muggings.
When is he going to say, well, we just got to absolutely stop this?
But this is the typical crazy reaction of white people in the face of some kind of verifiable fact.
It is unacceptable if there is a racial disparity.
Now, I believe, haven't you discovered that in Ohio, the arrests for violating social distancing rules, they've got the same sort of situation there, have they not?
They've got the same situation all across the country.
An outlet that we've talked about before, ProPublica, they are talking about how in Franklin County, which is 23% black, 129 people were arrested.
That's in Ohio, right?
Yeah, we're talking about Ohio.
23% of the county is black.
129 people who were arrested between the beginning of the stay-at-home order and May 4th.
57% were black.
So, you know, about double their population.
Well, actually, Significantly more than double the population were disproportionately arrested.
In Cleveland, which is 50% black and is the state's largest city, the municipal court public records do not include race data.
And they were upset that they weren't able to get that because they're desperate to try and showcase that, you know, even in a place like Cleveland, which is, you know, I think it's about 35% white now.
They were hoping to pinpoint that, once again, Too many black people were getting arrested.
Hamilton County, which is where Cincinnati is located, is 27% black.
There have been 107 charges for violating the order, and of those, 61% of the defendants were black.
The majority of arrests came from towns surrounding the city of Cincinnati.
You know, when we have seen the videos of house parties broken up by the police, invariably they are house parties full of blacks.
And my guess is that the arrests, again as I mentioned earlier, probably have nothing whatsoever to do with the race, but they have to do with behavior.
And this is behavior that fits a certain pattern.
It seems to me that there is perhaps a connection between these violations of social distancing and the racial disparity in COVID cases.
Don't you have some statistics on that from New England, from Maine?
You know, this was one of those stories that I typed in.
I do this occasionally just to find out what's going on out there and this is a tip for everyone.
Just do news.google.com and just type in this word, this phrase, racial disparity.
I did that and I found an article from the Press Herald and it had this title.
Newly released data suggests alarming racial disparity among Maine's coronavirus cases.
African Americans account for 1.7% of the state's population, but 3.7% of the state's infections.
The state CDC director says, quote, these disparities are concerning, end quote.
Now, Mr. Taylor, you actually read the article, and the gentleman who is the director of the Maine Center for Disease Control is named Dr. Nirav Shah.
And he said that he finds these figures, like I said, deeply concerning over racial disparities that have been noticed all across the country.
The New York Times noted that blacks accounted for 40% of the deaths in Michigan, despite making up just 14% of the population.
Well, it turns out, Mr. Taylor, that the majority of the cases, guess where they're from in Maine?
Uh, gosh.
Oh, I bet Lewiston.
No, it's something that we talked about last year.
Portland.
Do you remember when we discussed how Portland was an area of the country where African migrants African migrants and asylum seekers were flocking to because of the largesse in welfare that was allocated toward people.
That's right.
Lewiston was a lodestone for Somalis at one point, but I guess now they've found a more generous location for welfare handouts.
Yeah, it's in Portland where, again, go back to November 2019, listen to some of those episodes.
You can find those on the MRN.com website.
And it turns out that a vast majority of these cases have been in a Tyson's Food meat processing plant in Portland, which employs, guess what?
Many immigrant workers, because they drive down wages.
And again, nobody wants to point this out.
Maine has not been that hard hit.
Data shows that white people in Maine account for 66.8% of the state's caseload.
6.8% of the state's caseload.
Of course, whites are 95% of the state.
But there really haven't been that many deaths in Maine.
They also then go into New Hampshire, which they're upset that African Americans account for 5.6% of the case load, but only 1.4% of the population.
They do note that in Vermont, the case rate for blacks is similar to the population at 1.9% of the cases to 1.4% of the population.
And as you astutely noted, You pointed out that perhaps it's because of the behavior of the black community which is causing such disproportionate rates.
We've seen that in Detroit.
We've seen that in Chicago.
We've seen that in New York City.
We've seen that in Boston.
We've seen that in Baltimore.
We've seen that in Northern Virginia, Washington D.C.
We've seen that in Atlanta.
We've seen that in Baton Rouge and New Orleans where It's shocking, the disparities that exist.
Because, let's face it, white people are disproportionately social distancing.
Well, you're guilty of pattern recognition.
Yes, you won't survive that.
Well, is that... I do want to move on to another story.
Yeah, go ahead.
I've got nothing else.
I mean, again, it's an opportunity to try and... If you read past the headline, you realize how... It's like you're expecting this buffet of meat in this story of, you know, of all... Oh my gosh, maybe they're right.
Maybe this is an instance of anti-whiteness, but really it's just a vegetarian, you know, beyond meat burger that has no sustenance to it.
Yes, yes.
Well, I guess just to put a bow around it, as you so eloquently put it earlier, if the non-whites, if the blacks in particular, are being arrested more frequently for violating social distancing rules, that's racism, because of course they are not.
But if they are dying more frequently from COVID, that is, of course, pure racism also, because it is inconceivable that their behavior could have had anything to do with it, right?
Anyway, we shouldn't belabor this too far.
No more speculation on our part.
Yes, yes, indeed.
Now, this was an item that just came in.
A Cato Institute Free Speech and Tolerance Survey, which I found deeply, deeply disturbing.
Now, if supporting someone's right to say racist things, is that as bad as holding racist views yourself?
If you support someone's right to say racist things, is that as bad as being a racist yourself?
What percent of whites do you think would agree with that?
Poof.
That supporting the right to say racist things is as bad as being a racist.
I would say 58%.
Oh, it's not as bad as you think.
34%.
34%.
Good, okay.
Yes, but in the case of blacks, 65%.
Defending free speech, 65% of blacks say that's as bad as being a racist, and 61% of Latinos.
So, only whites, only a majority of whites, a majority of only whites, Defend freedom of speech in that respect.
Now, here's another one.
You can have a flyer guessing what are the percentages that agree with this, but hate speech is an act of violence.
How many white people do you think agree with that?
Hate speech is an act of violence.
39%.
Not bad.
46%.
46%.
A little worse than you thought.
But, for blacks, 75%.
75% say that speech is violence.
46%, a little worse than you thought.
But for blacks, 75%.
75% say that speech is violence.
And 72% of Hispanics, they've really, and again, they're in the 70s, whites are in the 40s.
Now, and here's another question.
Does free speech do more to protect opinions of the majority or more to protect minority viewpoints?
And I won't keep you guessing.
64% of whites recognize that it does more to protect minority opinion.
Only 39% of blacks and 48% of Hispanics.
They think that they're there to protect the majority view.
Oof, yes, yes.
But these are really the numbers that staggered me.
Supporting someone's right to say racist things is as bad as being a racist.
Again, 34% of whites think that.
65% of blacks.
61% of Hispanics.
And hate speech is an act of violence.
46% of whites agree with that.
That's a startlingly high number.
But then, in the case of blacks, 75% hate speech is an act of violence.
And 72% of Hispanics.
We are in very, very dangerous times when you have that kind of lopsided assumption that certain kinds of speech are, in fact, violence.
Well, as Ann Coulter says so terribly, unfortunately, our new country is going to be great, isn't it?
Our new country is really on its way to being wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, especially for the poor, benighted white man.
Now, you know, speaking of the poor benighted white man, there was that poor benighted white couple in Delaware.
You've been looking into that, have you not?
Yeah.
This story came out of nowhere over the weekend.
I want to say that one of the people who was going to speak at the canceled conference, he's affiliated with Red Elephants.
It was from their website.
They reported that there was this sniper attack at a Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery on Friday, May 8th.
So this is about, I guess, About a week into the hysteria surrounding Ahmed Arbery, and it was a very strange event where two people were shot.
They were visiting their son's gravestone there at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
An 86-year-old and his 85-year-old wife, they have been identified as Paul and Lydia Marino of Elkton, Maryland.
They were basically assassinated by a guy with a rifle.
And the guy who did it is a black guy, a black male.
Forgive me, let me change screens here.
I don't remember his name.
That just shows you that, as you and I both know everything about Ahmed Arbery, we know so little about this story that we can't even remember his name without pulling it up.
Yeah, I think he shot him with a scoped rifle.
Uh, and he killed the lady on the spot, and the man died later in the hospital when he was discovered.
Didn't he then end up in a shootout with the police?
And the reports I saw, nobody knows whether he shot himself or whether the police ended up shooting him, but nobody's interested.
Nobody cares about this.
It appears, I mean we don't know the details, but it certainly appears that this guy did not know this elderly white couple sneaked into this cemetery and from a distance with a scoped rifle shot them dead.
Not just a scope rifle, but he had a lot of ammunition on his person.
His name, his name is Sheldon, excuse me, Sheldon Francis.
He's a 29 year old who, yeah, like you said, he shot them around 4pm and And he was found, I'm sorry, he shot them in the morning.
It was a six-hour altercation, so he shot them around, what, 10 a.m., if he's found, at 4 p.m., in a neighborhood, because they had a manhunt with him for six hours.
It's a very strange story where the details are still so murky as to what actually transpired between the police and the accused murderer of the Marinos, Sheldon Francis.
But Steve Saylor did a really great column at Taki Mag about this very subject, and I encourage all of our listeners to track that column down and read it, because occasionally Steve will come out with just venom in his prose, and this is one of those pieces that will just blow your mind in terms of He just asked the question and then he proceeds in his column to answer it as he pieces together.
Was this a racial revenge attack for Ahmaud Arbery and Mr. Taylor?
But we don't know.
We don't know.
It's pure speculation and it is speculation of the kind that is limited only to certain circles.
The mainstream media have, so far as I can tell, taken absolutely no interest in this.
As you say, the timing is very suspicious.
One week into the hysteria, this guy shoots two white people who he's probably never met, never even heard of.
They're dead.
He's dead.
Well, just move along.
Nothing to be seen here.
Nowhere.
Nothing of interest here.
Now, if it had been the other way around, if a white guy had been killing black people, even if he were dead, there would be a huge manhunt to look at his social media, talk to all his friends.
Did this guy have racist connections?
Was he a subscriber to American Renaissance?
They'd go into it in just the most ferocious way, but nobody's interested.
Nobody's interested.
We saw the same pattern play out during the Black Lives Matter hysteria in 2016, when there were two guys who were affiliated with Black Lives Matter.
One guy opened fire on white cops in Baton Rouge, and then just a few days after, July 4, 2016, in Dallas.
Twelve white cops were shot and five of them were murdered by a Black Lives Matter individual.
And think about this, I can't even think of the guy's name anymore who opened fire on those white cops in Dallas.
And yet we now have in our vocabulary, in our vernacular, Ahmed Arbery is a noun that we have to know.
He's one of the immortals.
Yeah, in fact, yeah.
It's stunning because we did a quick, I was talking to John Derbyshire, and he did a quick search on New York Times to see if this story out of Delaware has even been reported on yet, the paper of record.
Or in the Washington Post, where of course we know democracy dies in darkness, correct?
Well, it turns out that the Marinos are going to have died in darkness because no corporate media-employed journalist has any interest in investigating the story because it completely shows that this narrative surrounding our jogging friend in Brunswick is false.
Here is a white couple visiting the gravestone of their son, a veteran.
Who were sniped?
Again, we don't know.
It is perhaps conceivable that they had beaten him up, these old folks, and they had turned weapons on him and he's firing in self-defense.
I mean, are these things conceivable, Mr. Kersey?
No, probably not.
Probably not.
We just don't know.
We may never know.
We probably will never know.
You know, one story that I always love to bring up with you, because it does something that is personal to me, is the story of Brittany Watson, the two other girls who were shot in 2011 Atlanta.
And it's fascinating to think about Georgia, putting it in perspective, because Georgia is going to be such a Such a contested state coming up in this election cycle with all the demographic changes in that state.
It's gone from 72% white in 1990 to about to be majority minority because of the massive influx of blacks back from places like Detroit, Chicago, New York, and then of course also the Hispanic and Asian population boom.
But, in 2011, in Midtown Atlanta, in midday, this black guy, he was parking cars, opened fire on three white girls.
He hunted them down, actually, and killed one of them named Brittany Watts.
She was married.
Her and her husband had just moved back to Atlanta to their dream home.
And he did this because of what he had learned in college about European colonization of the world and white privilege.
And he admitted that he hunted these girls down because of what he had been taught in school.
That's right.
That's right.
It had been explained to him that white people are the cancer of history and he was going to rid the body politic of that cancer.
Great guy, great guy.
But, of course, this too was of no interest to mainstream media.
Here's a heartwarming story for you.
I believe last year we had this.
We're back to Black Mama Bailout.
You remember Black Mama Bailout?
I do.
This is a collective of grassroots organizers and activists, and what they do is they scrape together money in order to get the bail money for black women who are incarcerated so they can come out on Mother's Day and either be with their mothers or be with their children.
As I say, very heartwarming.
This happens in South Florida, and this year they got together $25,000, and that was enough to spring six incarcerated South Florida women.
And so they were able to spend Mother's Day with their families.
Now, one of the spokesmen of Black Mom Bailout said this.
We are bailing out black mamas because they are caregivers, nurturers, and the backbone of our families.
They deserve to be praised, loved, and uplifted, not locked in cages.
Well, to that, I would reply with a bit of ghetto wisdom.
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
They would not be locked in cages if they had not committed some kind of crime.
Now, I'm happy that they were out on Mother's Day, and as long as they've got bail and they don't have to pay it back, they can stay out.
But there's an interesting racial concentration here as well.
Would it be possible, do you think, Mr. Kersey, to have a white mama bail out?
in which you had some non-profit organization, or whatever, it could be not necessarily non-profit either,
you take donations and you spring white women so that they could spend Mother's Day with their mothers
or with their children. Think that'd be possible?
Uh, about as possible as a group of white people going through a black neighborhood in Georgia
with firearms trying to intimidate someone after a white person was murdered by a black person.
Yep, and they certainly would not get favorable and flattering articles in the press.
Now, we have time for one more story.
There's a French story, another one of these really, gosh, when will they ever learn stories, a fellow by the name of Jean Doucine.
63-year-old Frenchman, president of something called Itinerants, which is a pro-migrant association that looks after non-white immigrants who have come to France.
And he made a point, he really practiced what he preached.
He had them living, a bunch of them living with him in his own house.
In a place called Brettville-on-Serre.
This is a tiny, tiny place on the countryside on the tip of the Normandy Peninsula.
I've been in that area.
Still very, very, very, very white.
So, we had these Middle Easterners and Africans living with him.
Well, Just this week, he was found dead, believed to have been beaten to death with an iron rod as he slept.
And since the murder, a 20-year-old Afghan migrant by the name... Oh, they don't have his name, actually.
Sorry, his name has been withheld.
He is in local police custody.
This is such a sad story.
This well-meaning guy who, as I say, really practiced what he preached.
It reminds me of another Frenchman by the name of Audrey Coignard, 27 years old, who last year was stabbed to death by an immigrant that she had brought into her home and was staying with her.
These are just heartbreaking cases.
And I think that now this woman also was from Normandy.
These are people who know only what they read in newspapers about what foreigners and Muslims and non-whites are like.
They don't have any street smarts at all and they put themselves in these extremely vulnerable positions and they pay the ultimate price.
Very, very sad, sad story.
But once again, not likely to be taken up with any kind of vigor by the mainstream press.
Well, speaking of not taken up with any vigor by the Main Street Press, we're going to close with a quick plug of the Great Replacement Series at AmRen.com that myself, Gregory Hood, and Henry Wolfe have been working on for you.
I believe there have been six cities now.
The latest one that has been broken down for you is Minneapolis, or as it is increasingly called Mogadishu in Minnesota.
Yes, and it comes with a fascinating graph of the decline of the white population and a narrative that explains what the racial dynamics and the racial replacement have been there.
So thank you, Mr. Kersey, for reminding us of that.
And I believe it will be on this note that we will bow out for this week.
Well, we're going to bow out with one more thing.
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