Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the latest edition of Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me, of course, is the indefatigable and irreplaceable Paul Kersey.
Welcome, Mr. Kersey.
I hope all is well with you these days.
It is.
I hope all is well with you as well on this June... what is today?
June 24th or 25th?
It's June 25th!
It's the 25th.
Yep.
If it were December, it would be Christmas.
And I must say, this month has certainly been Christmas to the people who hate America, hate our history, hate our heroes, and I'm afraid I have to put it in the bluntest possible term, hate white people.
Because they've been very successful in getting monuments torn down.
And Wikipedia, much as I suspect and have reason to doubt their political orientation on most of their articles, they have done a really excellent job of cataloging all of this destruction, vandalism, and hooliganism that's taken place all around the country, and in some cases, in different places all around the world.
All of the statues that have had to come down, apparently, because of the death of George Floyd.
Now, we won't go into too much detail about the number of Confederates who've come down.
It's been a large and depressing number.
Mr. Kersey, you and I are both sons of the South to the point where the thought of these monuments coming down makes us burst into tears, but we will try to be men and control our emotions and not even talk about these Confederate monuments.
But it is a huge, long list.
I don't dare to count them, and I hope never to have to think about this again.
So, let us skip to some of the other monuments that have come down.
I'm particularly intrigued by the monuments to people that I'd never heard of.
Were you aware of a fellow named Juan de Oñate?
No, I was not.
I'm still not actually.
I'm looking at his information, but I'm not familiar with him.
No, he was the first governor of the Spanish colony of New Mexico.
Apparently, he was just a terrible guy.
But there was a statue to him, a quite beautiful statue in Albuquerque that had to come down, and an equestrian statue of Juan de Oñate in Alcaide, New Mexico.
Looks like a very pretty statue.
But no, he was a bad guy.
He was one of these people who brought whites and white civilization and Christianity to the New World.
So, bad, bad, bad.
And then, to me, one of the most astonishing, really, is Father Junipero Serra.
I was aware of him when I was living in California.
He started the mission system there.
He was a Dominican.
And I believe it was 2015, he was canonized.
He is a sure enough saint of the Catholic Church, but he's coming down.
There have been statues to him in Ventura, California, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Carmel.
Down they go, down they go.
Now, here's another guy I didn't know.
Diego de Vargas.
No, I have not.
Ever heard of him?
Nope.
Well, there's a statue of him in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Now, in some of these cases, it's interesting.
You look, they've, as I say, Wikipedia's done a very good job here.
They explain whether they were toppled by protesters, or removed by city to safeguard it, or they got there just a jump ahead of the mob and took the thing down.
All quite remarkable.
And then moving along, of course, to Christopher Columbus.
Wikipedia has a whole different section, a whole separate section for Chris, and boy, does he deserve it.
Because this one I did count up.
I could not bear to count up the Confederate memorials that have bitten the dust, but there are no fewer than 20.
Twenty Christopher Columbus statues that had to come down in honor of George Floyd.
Not that I was ever aware of George Floyd having anything against Christopher Columbus, nor I've never ever heard either that Derek Chauvin, the guy who put his knee on his neck, was a big booster of Christopher Columbus or was an Italian-American.
No, no, none of those things.
But Chris had to come down.
Ah, and one of the ones that surprises me in particular is the last one on the entry here.
It is apparently a mosaic, a quite attractive mosaic in Camden, New Jersey, right at the main entrance to the Cooper Branch Library, and that's been covered up.
At least they haven't taken a hammer and chisel and blasted out every piece of the mosaic.
Uh, but yes, San Francisco took down Christopher, and then, you know, some of these statues I was unaware of, but here's one in Sacramento.
It's called Columbus's Last Appeal to Queen Isabella.
That looks like a beautiful statue, and apparently it's in the Statehouse.
Did you see a photo?
I did not, no.
Really, really, it's quite gorgeous.
Here's Queen Isabella, and Christopher Columbus is on his knees appealing to her.
Just a gorgeous statue.
And it was in the Statehouse in Sacramento, but I guess they can't, the California State Legislature, which is now composed, as we have pointed out over and over again, of a super-duper majority of Democrats, decided to protect it from the ravages of the mob, and he's gone.
So, that's Christopher Columbus for you.
And then, you know, yet more people just never heard of it.
Apparently they were just the villains of American history.
A statue of Edward Carmack in Nashville, Tennessee.
Apparently he was not sufficiently eager to support civil rights.
And then Frank Rizzo.
You know about Frank Rizzo.
I know about him, too.
He was mayor of Philadelphia.
He was a good, tough policeman.
But then the ones that really surprised me as much as anything was the One Riot, One Ranger statue in Dallas, Texas.
That's such a famous line.
You know that line about the Texas Rangers, right?
You're talking about the show with Chuck Norris?
No, One Riot.
Nope.
One riot, one ranger.
You know, this town, some town in Texas was facing some sort of huge riot and they telegraphed the Texas Rangers, the Texas Ranger, and he shows up and he walks off the trains.
Wait, what officer?
Where are your men?
He says, one riot, one ranger.
So that's the famous one-riot-one-ranger statue that had to come down from Dallas.
Then another unknown to me, basically, Orville Hubbard.
He may have Dearborn, I guess.
And Jerry Richardson.
Avery Brundage, the Olympics guy.
And these are, to me, the most disgusting.
The Richmond Police Memorial.
It's dedicated to the Richmond police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty.
It was removed by the city after being vandalized by protesters.
But the mayor at least says they plan to restore and reinstall it.
We'll see.
It's fascinating to think how many statues have come down in Virginia.
You know, you think about this whole 1619 project and so much of America's early history is in Virginia.
And you're talking about from Roanoke to Fredericksburg to Richmond to Northern Virginia to Norfolk, all across the state, all these statues are coming down.
And of course, we know Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Patrick Henry, any of these great founding fathers, any of these statues, they're inevitably going to come down, Mr. Taylor.
Oh, I feel they must.
How can a country that accuses the Confederates of being racist, slave-owning traitors.
How can they not realize that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, they were racist, slave-holding traitors to the crown.
I mean, they're in the same boat, it seems to me.
They're going to be hoisted on their own petard.
And all of these spineless, invertebrate conservatives who said, oh no, no, they're completely different.
The Founding Fathers were good guys.
The Confederates were evil.
They look like fools today.
Of course, we knew they were fools back then.
Then, you know, the equestrian statue of Caesar Rodney.
I became aware of Caesar Rodney only relatively recently when, you know, those state quarters came out.
There was a quarter issued for every single state.
And for the state of Delaware, they had this guy riding on a horse.
He's clearly in a big hurry.
And that is Cesar Rodney.
And Cesar Rodney was the last signer of the Constitution.
I guess it took how many states for it to be ratified?
Nine states, I believe.
He was the signer who pushed it right over the required minimum, and he came galloping back to Wilmington, Delaware to announce that the Constitution was now signed and in effect, and he's famous for that.
There's a Rodney Square in Wilmington with a lovely statue of him.
Well, apparently he owned slaves, so he had to go.
Hey, Mr. Taylor, real quick on that thought, as we see all these statues to white men coming down that have nothing to do with the Confederacy, that have everything to do with America's early history, its founding.
You have to start to wonder when this mob, when this insurrection is going to turn their heads and turn their minds and turn their hearts to getting rid of the flags of the various states.
I'm not just talking about Mississippi and the Confederate flag that still adorns that flag, that state flag.
But look at all the flags across the country that have white people on them.
It's astonishing.
It's a celebration of America's whiteness, of its white past.
You'll be shocked how many have white people on it.
Not just Virginia with a white woman and six temperaturas.
Yes, yes, that's true.
I suspect there is not a single state flag that has a person of color on it.
I think the Hawaiian state flag doesn't have any personage on it.
I don't believe Alaska does either.
But when you have a human, it's pretty much likely to be a white person.
But yeah, John Sutter.
John Sutter, who was the guy who discovered gold in California.
He had to go because that brought all those white people to California, which is a terrible, bad thing.
Josephus Daniels in Raleigh, North Carolina.
I wonder what he did bad.
Hmm, don't know.
But he was removed by his descendants.
You know, that's the other thing.
You hear, what is it?
Who was it?
Nancy Pelosi took down a bunch of Confederates.
And one of the defendants of, was it Calhoun or Clay?
One of the descendants has been urging, urging her for years, take down his portrait, take down his portrait.
That just disgusts me more than anything else.
People who are denouncing their ancestors, But here we have Josephus Daniels.
The Daniels family took it down all on their own.
Don't know why he was bad, but apparently he was bad enough for his very own descendants to turn on him.
More disgusting behavior.
But then, you know, Ulysses S. Grant, he had to go.
I guess he owned a slave once, but then I believe he emancipated his slave before the war even started, but he was a bad guy.
Well, of course, he's the champion of the Union.
Without him as a general and finally replacing all the generals who had lost so decisively to Confederate officers in battles, would the Union have even been preserved, Mr. Taylor?
That's right, that's right.
You'd think that a guy who made a name for himself by killing Confederates, he'd be pretty much immune no matter what.
But nope, nope.
Grant had to go down.
And then you were pointing out these two statues in Madison.
They're as baffling as any that have come down.
Yeah, the forward statue, which was removed on June 23rd.
It's the motto of the state of Wisconsin.
It's a white woman.
It was commissioned.
In 1893, by the female artist Jean Pond Minor, and then of course the statue of Hans Christian Haig, he was a Union Army Silver War colonel and anti-slavery activist.
His statue was decapitated and thrown into a Madison Lake by protesters.
There's a story that I saw in the AP where somebody said, who was this guy?
They didn't even know who he was.
They just saw that he was a white guy with a sword and that he was reading the pedestal for the information after the white statue had been decapitated and the body thrown into the lake.
Well, you know, it seems basically Any white person on a horse, on a pedestal, they're all fair game.
They're absolutely all fair game, male and female.
There was one in particular that broke my heart, and that was in the University of Oregon.
The pioneer mother.
This nameless person.
She never owned a slave.
She probably never scalped an Indian.
She certainly never fought for the Confederacy.
She just came west and had children.
But a white woman who came west and had children.
I guess that was the big crime.
And so, dump.
She's over on her side, on her back.
Oh, it's really shocking.
All you have to do is be white, and you are a potential target.
And, Ned, you had pointed out that this list of, this list on Wikipedia has a lot of Brits.
Most of them I'd never heard of.
In fact, I don't think I'd heard of a single one of these people who've come here.
Yeah, you know, I actually saw this statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, England, which was taken down on June 7th.
He was apparently a slave trader and it was toppled and thrown into Bristol Harbor by Black Lives Matter protesters.
I mean, this terrorism continues all across the Western European and United States.
Of course, it's not happening in Poland, Hungary, the former Soviet blocs, interestingly I find, as you probably do, that this same liberal mentality, this guilt, this white guilt, doesn't really exist there to the extreme that it does in the United States.
And Westerners.
Thank goodness.
That's right.
There are a few sane people left.
Well, you know, when I saw the video of Edward Colston coming down, and I thought to myself, well, I'll sort of dope him out.
Why are they so angry at him?
And in this Wikipedia description, it simply says that he was a slave trader.
Well, that makes it sound as though he was on board the ship.
He was whipping slaves.
He was manacling them.
He was separating families.
Apparently he had an ownership interest in a company that was involved in the slave trade.
That was one of his many business ventures.
But now he's a slave trader.
That's all we need to know about him.
What he actually was, was a very generous benefactor and philanthropist to the city of Bristol.
He gave money to all kinds of paupers' inns and hospitals.
He was a huge benefactor.
That's why they put a statue up to him.
But he had this one black mark on him.
One of his business interests actually was involved in the slave trade.
So down he goes, and they pitch him into the river.
And, you know, the video that I saw, they were rolling him down the street after they'd gotten him off his pedestal.
To me, it's like the Taliban destroying those Bamiyan statues.
Or ISIS, you know, they were in Palmyra.
They destroyed these artifacts that are 2,000 years old.
Well, what the current mob is destroying isn't quite that old, but to me it's really the same thing.
A mob destroying images of which it disapproves.
It's just running wild.
It's absolutely just revolting and disgusting.
But, you know, I see that there are three or four statues of Sir John Cass A bust and a statue.
I'd never heard of Sir John Cass, but apparently he was a thorough bad guy too.
Got to go.
And on and on and on it goes.
And you know, if you keep going down the page here, there are statues and busts of King Leopold II of the Congo.
He was apparently a bad guy.
So yes, as you point out, this sickness is really all over the West.
It's all over the West and going back to this John Cass and thinking about Thomas Jefferson, you know, Thomas Jefferson on his gravestone, I believe it just comments that he was the founder of the University of Virginia and I think the author of the Declaration of Independence makes no reference to him being the third president.
At some point soon, the University of Virginia is going to remove all vestiges of his Being honored, and they're also probably going to get rid of their cavalier mascot.
You know, one of the things they've done is they've gotten rid of the way the sword looks on their mascot, because apparently the way the sword was had something to do with slavery or the antebellum period.
Something ridiculous.
Yes, cavaliers, cavaliers.
No, that sounds very southern.
That sounds very exploitative.
That sounds just anti-black to the core, doesn't it?
Well, you know, one country, though, Often it is on its knees, but it's done pretty well in this respect, and that is France.
You know, one of the favorite statues that the hopped up white people and their black and other people of color allies love to hate is one of Jean-Francois Champollion.
He was with Napoleon on the expedition to Egypt, and after the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, he's the one who deciphered hieroglyphics.
And you could say that without Jean-Francois Champollion, the Egyptians would have no idea what their history was like.
Because when the white man showed up there, nobody there could read that stuff.
It took a white man to figure it out and explain their history to them.
Well, there is a statue of Champollion in the courtyard of the Collège de France.
The College of De France was founded in 1530 and it's considered to be France's most prestigious research establishment.
Well, this statue that was carved by Frederick Auguste Bartholdi, who was the guy who designed the Statue of Liberty, by the way, it was designed by Bartholdi in 1875 and it shows Champollion.
He has got his foot on a massive pharaonic head that has clearly been broken off a statue and he's got his foot on it and he's contemplating.
Well, this apparently is a great insult to all Egyptians and everything in Egypt.
And Bassam El Shama, an Egyptian researcher, said that the George Floyd protests are a golden opportunity for Egypt to demand the removal of the shameful Champollion statue.
The statue looks like the murder scene of George Floyd.
See, they really learn quickly, don't they?
They learn what all the buzzwords are.
But, and this is what I was building up to, Emmanuel Macron, who in many respects is just as invertebrate as the people taking down statues all around the United States and Britain, he said the country will not remove any of its statues or rewrite its history.
And to quote him, the Republic won't erase any name from its history.
It will forget none of its artworks.
It won't take down statues.
Full stop.
So, I say, vive la France!
That I'm proud of.
I'm proud of Emmanuel for maybe the first time since he's been president.
You know, it's interesting, going back to the whole Rosetta Stone, one of my favorite stories that we've talked about many times, and it's worth remembering here as we think about what could happen to the United States as our population changes through the Great Replacement.
Tell me the story about when the French army came upon the pyramids at Giza, and I believe it was the Bedouins, were they there?
And they had no idea what these monuments even were?
That's right, that's right.
They had no idea.
And, you know, when you imagine the United States 500 years from now, and who is going to be living here?
Maybe some intelligent Asians will show up in Manhattan and they're a few wrecks of skyscrapers and you've got these gibbering ignoramuses living huddled between them, have no idea who put them up and what their purpose was, and the Asians will have to explain to them.
That's sort of my nightmare vision of the future of the United States, but I'll save that for my next science fiction.
But I believe you had a different nightmare vision.
We have something going on in a Minneapolis neighborhood that you say had resolved never to call in the police.
I do have a nightmare vision.
I do want to make sure that we plug one thing that you did.
I think you went to I think you went to the capital of the Confederacy recently, Richmond, and you did a pretty phenomenal photo essay of what's happened to the monuments there, and perhaps the one thing that Asians, if they do inherit the United States, that they will see is the incredible Hollywood Cemetery and that gorgeous pyramid that, in a lot of ways, seeing pictures of it and then researching it after reading your essay, that monument that was built, what, five years after the Civil War?
That's more powerful than anything on Monument Avenue.
Yes, it has a real dignity about it.
It's, I guess, about 50 feet high, and it's made out of rough-hewn stone all up to pyramid, and it says, to our Confederate dead.
It's very moving, and I was glad to see that at least in Hollywood Cemetery, none of the grave markers, none of the statues had been painted or knocked over or vandalized in any way.
Now, I wonder for how long that kind of restraint will hold the mob.
When you look at the absolute horror that was done to the Robert E. Lee monument, they at least couldn't get up high enough to tear him down, but it looks like It looks like a psychedelic record cover.
It's been heaped over with all of this spray paint, blasphemy, obscenity, big signs on it saying, take it down.
It's absolutely and horrifyingly sickening.
And I suspect that before long, they'll be doing the same thing in cemeteries as well.
Let's hope not, because I would encourage anyone out there who is listening to this, make a plan to go see the Hollywood Cemetery.
It is a beautiful, from all the pictures I've seen, it is an unreal place that memorializes what the sons of the Confederacy tried to do from 1861 to 1865.
Just a just it looks powerful to visit and seeing that pyramid.
I mean my goodness I can only imagine what that's like to see in person Well, you know, one of the things that visiting a cemetery like that brings home to you is just how idiotic the current view of the Confederate memorials on Monument Avenue are.
Actually, when I was leaving Richmond that very day, one of the local talk show hosts was on explaining why the monuments had to go.
And he said, they were put up in the 1920s by white supremacists as a way to intimidate black people and to keep them in their place.
Wait a minute.
No.
They were set up out of admiration for these men who fought so long, so hard, and so bravely for a cause in which they believed.
And that, of course, is why you have such similar iconography in Hollywood Cemetery.
You think those memorials in the cemeteries are put up to intimidate black people?
This stuff is absolutely nuts.
The sentiment is identical.
Some of these are grave markers, and some of these are expressions of public admiration for their ancestors and the leaders of their nascent republic that was strangled in its crib.
But again, the things that are being said, even by Richmond talk show hosts these days, are just lamentable attempts to rewrite history in a way that makes white people sound just as nasty as possible.
But anyway, enough of our reminiscing about the South, and please tell us about Minneapolis.
Yeah, Minneapolis.
So we all know what's happened there with the death of George Floyd at the hands of the four, four diverse officers and the subsequent just anti-white outburst that we've seen.
And again, one of the things that we've reiterated here is this was always festering below the surface, Mr. Taylor and dear listener, wherever you are across the world, this was always going to come out at some point.
There was no, there was no putting this back in the bottle.
Especially after what we saw in 2012 with Trayvon Martin, and subsequently in St.
Louis, Ferguson, and then, you know, all that we saw leading up to the culmination with the shooting in Dallas in 2016 of the five white cops.
Black Lives Matter went away for a little while, but it was always going to come back.
So, that is the one white pillow of all this, is now we see just how anti-white the system is, but we also get to see how cowardly a lot of white people are.
And in Minneapolis, there's a neighborhood Well, guess what?
It's already being tested.
This is only a few blocks from where George Floyd drew his last breath.
Residents have vowed to avoid the police.
To protect who?
People of color.
And that commitment, as Caitlin Dickerson wrote, it's hard to keep.
So what's happening is you have this one white person who said, quote, I'm not I'm not being judgmental.
It's not personal.
It's just not safe, as she was talking about what's going on with her kids no longer being allowed to play at the park by themselves.
So she sat in the backyard with four other women.
We're all white and they were called a meeting to vent about this camp that has been put up in this neighborhood where there are 300 plus homeless people, new residents.
It seems to keep growing larger and larger by the day.
And this one woman, Angela Roslick, she burst into tears as she, quote, explained that she had spent the past four years fleeing unstable housing conditions and was struggling more than she cared to admit with the chaos the camp had brought into the neighborhood.
Lena Borden, Oh my.
Yes, I understand they've had a few drug ODs.
They've had noise practically all night long.
to being catcalled. Quote, my emotions change every 30 seconds, said Tria Houser, who's
part Native American.
Oh my. Yes, I understand they've had a few drug ODs. They've had noise practically all
night long. They have these shoot them up parties, except they're shooting them up into
their veins rather than shooting each other, as I understand it. It's turned into quite
a den of degeneracy there.
But these people who, at once upon a time, would have called the police to get this cleared out, they're being true to their word.
Police!
They're all being amateur social workers.
They're just going to find out just how well being amateur social workers is going to work.
Well, here's the funniest part of this story.
So, we know what's going on in Seattle with whatever, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHOP, whatever it's called now, where you've had multiple shootings and homicides to a point where you have to wonder, from a per capita standpoint, is there more violence in that six block radius of Seattle?
Or in Chicago, where you just had these Fathomable numbers of people shot and killed over the past few weeks, which I think we're going to talk about in a few minutes.
But here's the great quote from the story of this buffoonery in Minneapolis.
Including to their own homes go ignored and to request a block party permit from the city to limit car traffic Rather than turn to law enforcement if they saw anyone in physical danger they resolved to call the American Indian Movement a national organization created in 1968 to address to address Native American grievances, such as police brutality, which had been policing its own community locally for years.
So, there you have it.
America's going back to its origins.
Wow!
Wow!
The Indians are going to come in with their tomahawks and their bows and arrows and protect these white ladies?
There you go.
Ha!
Now, of that I was unaware.
Well, this just makes my day.
I hope, well, a scalp and pale face.
Yes, you'd mentioned some of the gunplay that has been livening up some of our major metropolises over Father's Day.
I'm not going to tell a joke about Father's Day.
What do they define?
Mass confusion?
The definition of mass confusion, that's Father's Day in Harlem.
But I'm not going to tell a joke like that because that might feed negative stereotypes.
But in any case, on Father's Day in Chicago, More than 100 people were shot.
100 people.
That's the highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this year.
14 people died, including five children.
Now, one of the 13-year-old girl shot in the neck while watching TV in her home.
Now, I'd love to know what the details of that were.
I suppose it was probably a random round that hit her two boys, aged 16 and 17, killed in separate shootings.
But this is, to me, the most important killing.
One victim was three-year-old Mekki James, who police said was fatally shot Saturday as the boy was in a car with his father.
And police said it was the child's 27-year-old father who was the intended victim when someone fired shots at the vehicle.
But here's a punchline.
He is not cooperating with detectives.
Now, do black lives matter or don't they?
Here is a three-year-old boy shot to death.
Shot to death.
Three years old.
Killed.
The father isn't cooperating.
The father is not going to say, yeah, the guy who killed him looked like this, he was driving this kind of car.
No.
Absolute silence.
To me, if black lives really mattered to these people, they would be out making sure that they could try to find this guy, and they are running around rioting and looting, rioting and looting until this guy cooperates with the police, if you really care about black lives.
This, to me, is 100% disgusting.
But all that's going to be left of this guy's life, this three-year-old kid, Mickey James, is these, what, six words.
He is not cooperating with detectives.
Absolutely disgusting to me.
Now, moving on to New York City.
Bullets are whizzing around New York this month at a rate not seen in nearly a quarter of a century, according to the NYPD.
And police sources say this level of gunplay may be the new normal.
And for the first three weeks in June, city streets echoed with 125 shooting incidents, said the Chief of Crime Control Strategies, Michael Lepetri.
He says, we got to go back to June of 1996 to get a worse start for the month.
Now, he also pointed out that one of the problems is with the coronavirus shutting down the court system and with the coronavirus jailbreak that you and I have spoken about so many times, he says, we have over a thousand people who've been indicted on a gun possession charge where the cases are open and they are walking around the streets of New York today.
And he says that doesn't even include another 800 defendants who are charged with illegally packing heat but have not been formally indicted because the courts are closed in honor of the virus.
He also pointed out that the Plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit, whose job is to round up illegal guns, that was disbanded, just like we, due to the volume of complaints against its members.
Now, I wonder who's complaining.
I bet the people complaining the loudest are the people who lost their illegal firearms.
In any case, they've been disbanded, just as the number of shootings goes up, up, up, up, up.
What that works out to is, here's yet another one of these great little incidents.
Just last Saturday, as the shootings were piling up at about one per hour on Saturday, in Brooklyn, two men and a woman were shot just before 4.20 a.m., and they managed to straggle into a hospital, but the trio is not cooperating with police.
At least they're still alive, I suppose, so I guess their black lives are going to be patched together by First World Medicine, but they are not cooperating.
Now, moving on to Philadelphia, and I wish I didn't have so much shooting to talk about, but here we go again.
Since June 1st, now this was a story from a week ago, 117 people had been shot, and since the year began nearly 800 people shot, and that's a 24% increase from the year before.
24%!
Black Lives Matter.
And homicides are up 21%.
And Stanley Crawford, he has something called the Black Male Community Council, an anti-violence non-profit, noticed another trend in Philadelphia.
He said many of the murders and shootings go unsolved.
And here's a quote from him, if I were in the murdering business, Philadelphia is a great town to be in because I've got a 65% chance of getting away with it.
This is a great spot.
He's on to something, isn't he?
Now I suspect that not cooperating with the police is certainly part of it.
And as it turns out, a Philadelphia police inspector named Derek Woods, he is a black man.
He lost his own nephew to gun violence.
Now, Woods, he's one of those rare, sensible voices among our African-American fellow citizens.
He says he wishes that the Black Lives Matter movement would take a stand On rising gun violence.
Well, too bad for him.
He is going to be disappointed, I'm afraid, because the last thing Black Lives Matter care about are black lives killed by other black people.
And then I'm going to finally end this lugubrious recitation of mayhem and murder with what must be a record for the city of Philadelphia.
Fifteen-year-old Ibrahim Just this last weekend, he stopped, believe it or not, 17 rounds.
17 rounds!
He was assailed by, I assume it was small caliber, small caliber ordnance here.
Stopped 17 rounds.
Well, he was supposed to take part in a career development program, but I guess that's going to be put on hold while he gets patched up.
But his mother says he's a good boy and I'm sure he is.
And God bless him if he survives 17 rounds.
That may go down in, I don't know, is that, what's that, a Guinness Book of World Records, seems to me.
But speaking of mayhem, I believe you have an update, do you not, on that video beatdown that was so disgusting, this incident in Macy's.
You don't expect people to be slammed to the ground in a Macy's, but tell us what you found out there.
Well, there's a couple things that aren't in this story.
One, I believe the district attorney is not going to press charges in this case.
He's talking about how, you know, they're still trying to get more information on what's going on.
But of course, President Trump tweeted out this video where it shows a black man caught on video attacking a white store employee in Michigan and what is deemed an unprovoked attack.
You know, it went viral on social media, and the man who originally posted the video, he's a rapper known by the name F2 Quay, which he said it was sparked by the Macy's employees saying the N-word to the black man in the store.
The suspect is F2 Quay's brother, according to the New York Post, and the attack was, quote, spur of the moment.
Macy's has actually investigated this and rejected the version of events.
They said this, quote, we're deeply saddened about the incident that took place on Monday, June 15th at Macy's Genese Valley.
As the safety of Macy's customers and colleagues is our top priority.
Andrea Schwartz, Senior Director of Media Relations for Macy's said, quote, violence in the workplace of any kind is unacceptable.
All the materials from the evening have been reviewed and it is clear that the attack was unprovoked.
We are working closely with the local authorities on this investigation and will defer any further comments about this case to them per policy.
Yeah.
You know, but before you go on any further, I'm struck by the language they've used.
They say they are deeply saddened by the attack.
You know, if it were a white guy who had smashed a black to the ground, kicked him around like that, they wouldn't say deeply saddened.
They would say, we are outraged by this heinous assault, this unprovoked, absolutely reprehensible, their language would be completely different.
Here a white guy is attacked, unprovoked, and they, we're deeply saddened.
Good grief.
I mean, it's just so transparent.
Anyway, I should not, I should not have interrupted you.
There's not much else to say.
This is a situation where we see this horrible racial attack during these Heightened times where, again, a guy like Colin Flaherty, who led that successful Victims Matter shutdown there in Wilmington, Delaware earlier this week, where they had a number of people who showed up to talk about the victims of these crimes, of these black-on-white crimes, or black-on-black crimes, of course, showing that black lives don't matter unless a white life takes them.
So kudos to the great Colin Flaherty.
for pulling off that spectacular event.
And again, there's a reason why his book, White Girl Bleed a Lot and Don't Make the Black Kids Angry, are so popular.
There's a reason why he was targeted, Mr. Taylor, for having his channel shut down, I believe, six times by YouTube, where he had amassed hundreds of millions of hits from these videos, because these videos are so pervasive.
They're so prevalent.
They're everywhere.
They happen all the time.
You know, President Trump, back when he actually had a spying, he tweeted out about how You know, why is it that blacks and brown people commit so much of the crime in our inner cities?
Or he famously tweeted out that image of the black cartoon holding the gun sideways in the crime stats, which of course is wrong.
Those crime stats are wrong.
Yours are right when it comes to the New York stats that you guys broke down at amrin.com.
But there was a time where Colin Flaherty was making a massive impact on the narrative of just how insane the black-on-white attacks are.
And we know that from the Department of Justice victimization stats.
Is it the Department of Justice or is it another organization?
Well, it is a subunit within the Department of Justice called the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
They put out something called the National Crime Victimization Survey that used to regularly publish race-related data.
Now they don't do that.
They collect the data, And the great Heather MacDonald was able, by use of a Freedom of Information Act inquiry, to get some of the data.
I believe the 2015 was the latest you could get out of them, but no, they don't release that stuff anymore.
You know, the truth hurts, so we've got to keep the truth under wraps.
But yeah, Colin Flaherty is a great man, and of course he had to shut down because he was so truthful and so effective and so convincing about the things he was gathering from all around the country, as you say.
But moving on to a few more absurd examples of capitulation in the face of the most unreasonable demands, there's a place called Robert Morris University in Pennsylvania, and the student faculty and staff ID cards have been known as Freedom Cards.
Why?
I don't know.
But there was an online petition initiated by a student named Melanie Hall.
Now, I don't know what her melanin status is of Melanie, whether it's melanin-enhanced or melanin-deprived, but in either case, she said, These cards, called Freedom Cards, have made minority students, black students in particular, feel like we are being dehumanized.
Gifting us with IDs that grant us our freedom is of extremely poor taste.
Well, so, turning on a dime, the Robert Morris University Dean of Students notified all the students that the name of the cards is suddenly going to be changed.
It's now become known as the RMU, Robert Morris University ID card, because Freedom Card is insulting to the black students.
And moving on to yet another college, this was a place called Laney College in California.
It had a Professor Herbert.
He's been speaking, he has been teaching at the college for 15 years, and he had an online trigonometry class.
And he had a student, a lady student by the name of, and let's see if I'm pronouncing this name correctly, Phuc Bui Diem Guyen.
Phuc Bui Diem Guyen.
Now, Phuc, I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly, is spelled P-H-U-C.
Now, it can be pronounced another way.
And, as a matter of fact, Professor Hubbard asked her if, for the purposes of the class, she wouldn't anglicize her name.
Because, as he said, it sounds like an insult in English.
And at first she demurred, and so she asked him a second time.
I repeat my request.
Wow.
She says that this is discrimination.
She was going to file a complaint with the school's Title IX office.
And so she reported this insulting, dehumanizing, alienating request to authorities, and Tamil Gilkerson President of Laney College addressed the situation in a statement, calling the incident disturbing and Professor Hubbard was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.
And as the President pointed out, we must actively fight ignorance with education.
I guess it's ignorant to ask somebody whose name is Fook to try for something else in class.
We do not tolerate racism, discrimination, or oppression of any kind.
Racism?
What's racist about it?
In any case, Professor Herbert issued an apology on his now-deleted Twitter account, but it seems to me the real cherry on the ice cream sundae here was placed by the Peralta Federation of Teachers, the union that represents Laney College, She said, the leader of this union said, I am shocked and appalled by the racist comments we're seeing online from a Laney faculty member to a student asking Phuc Bui Diem Nguyen to at least for the purpose of this class, you know, could she be Phyllis instead of Phuc?
I guess not.
So, he is in the doghouse, and he is being investigated, and who knows where this investigation will lead.
I don't doubt that he'll probably be on the street rattling a tin cup pretty soon instead.
And then moving clear across the country to Staten Island, there is New Dorp High School.
I'd never heard of New Dorp High School, but it had an assistant principal by the name of Deborah Morse Cunningham, and she wrote this on Facebook.
Privilege is wearing $200 sneakers when you've never had a job.
Privilege is wearing $300 Beats headphones while living on public assistance.
Privilege is living in public subsidized housing where you don't have a water bill.
And privilege is having as many children as you want regardless of your employment status and being able to send them off to daycare or school that you don't pay for.
Wow.
A concerned parent at New Dorp High School saw the post and wrote, she posted her rant to her public Facebook page detailing vicious stereotypes and racial profiling directed at the black community.
Well, once again, is this a racial stereotype directed at the black community or this just a general statement about people who are sucking on the public teat?
In any case, A petition demanding that Deborah Morse Cunningham be fired, got 9,400 signatures, and she is being investigated.
Now, what will they find?
That's part of their investigation.
I bet one thing they find is she pays her taxes, so she knows about this kind of privilege.
So that's the way we're going.
We must bend the knee to every request, every statement, every accusation of insensitivity, even if race is not involved.
In fact, for somebody to say that this was a racist assault, isn't that stereotyping?
Isn't the person who complained stereotyping about blacks being on welfare?
Wouldn't you say that?
Anyway, now, I believe we have seen similar acts of pusillanimous capitulation all across the country at universities.
And I will let you delve into this business of sports, because although, as you know, I'm not much of a sports fan, when sports becomes contaminated by this absolutely self-humiliating, ethno-masochistic ethos, I do have to pay attention.
Well, let me preface this by bringing up one quick story.
At the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a few years ago, they got rid of their football program.
Cost-effective move.
A lot of these colleges, they're barely breaking even, unless you're one of the top schools in the SEC where you have so much television money and revenue coming in.
Turns out that UAB's black male enrollment dropped precipitously because of this, because so many of the black male students enrolled at UAB were on the football team.
So guess what?
Spoiler alert, they brought the football team back pretty quickly to make sure that they had their diversity on campus.
In other words, without a football team, they had no black students.
They had very few black male students, exactly.
So here we go.
Here we go.
Let's start with the University of Texas.
A number of black athletes on the football program are trying to get rid of the traditional Eyes of Texas song to be replaced due to its racist history.
There's also attempts to address some of those schools, buildings that are named for heinous white men who are obviously irredeemable in the eyes of The new black hegemony that has taken hold of not just college campuses, but the entire country.
Here's what somebody said.
Quote, we aim to hold the athletic department and university to a higher standard by not only asking them to keep their promise of condemning racism on our campus, but to go beyond this by taking action to make Texas more comfortable and inclusive for black athletes and the black community that has so fervently supported the program.
More comfortable?
Huh.
Gosh.
I wonder if there's going to be universal air conditioning, too.
Yeah, so they want to get rid of any campus buildings named after state or school officials with ties to the Texas era of Jim Crow laws and segregation.
Of course, the football program of Texas integrated in 1969, so basically just go ahead and retcon the whole program to start in 1970.
Go ahead and get rid of everything.
In fact, they want to get rid of The eyes of Texas are upon you because it was a sign off during the former UT president William Lambden Prather, who was of course an evil white man that he would give during his speeches on campus.
It's a variation of a civil war.
It's a variation of Robert E. Lee's saying, the eyes of the South are upon you.
It's got to go.
It's got to go.
I'd like to hear, I'd like to give you the lyrics real quick of just how crazy this is.
Here's the lyrics.
The eyes of Texas are upon you, all the live long day.
The eyes of Texas are upon you, you cannot get away.
Do not think you can escape them, at night or early in the morn.
The eyes of Texas are upon you, tell Gabriel blows his horn.
Well, sorry, Gabriel is not going to blow his horn because some black football players have said it's got to go.
Go ahead, Mr. Taylor.
Wow.
Wow.
I had no idea.
I've heard of the Eyes of Texas, but I've never heard the lyrics before.
But, you know, that's clearly racist.
And Gabriel, you know, he's always depicted as a white man.
So he's got to go, too.
I don't think Gabriel is just as bad a part of the problem.
But, okay, so UT, no more eyes to Texas, and then isn't Texas A&M?
Yeah!
Aren't there traditions in the crosshairs, too?
There are a lot of traditions in the crosshairs, and one of those is the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue.
It's a statue known as Sully that's been on the campus since 1919, depicting the former president, Lawrence Sullivan Ross.
The current black quarterback, who has been so phenomenal, I believe Texas A&M has gone I don't know, 7-5, 8-4 the past few years, so it's not like they're even contending for SEC or national title berths, championship game berths.
They're barely fighting for a bowl game in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis or the Birmingham Bowl, these lower tier bowls.
So you're getting ready to get rid of this amazing tradition and heritage for a 7-5, 8-4 quarterback.
Here's what the black guy, Kellen Maughan, said.
Why this needs to be pulled down.
He said this quote that is like saying someone who murders half of a family
But gives the other half of the family millions of dollars and resources to be successful
For the rest of their life should be forgiven by the family based on your ideology
Not only should you forgive the murderer, but you should also glorify the murderer
He said that one of the main reasons why this needs to come down is because of the Confederacy's declaration of causes
clauses Which read in part quote the African race was rightfully
held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race unquote So a number of players are saying this all has to come down
Wait, Mr. Kersey, what's this got to do with this guy who is memorialized by the statue?
He was a Confederate officer.
Oh, he was a Confederate officer.
Unforgivable sin.
Unforgivable sin.
So, yeah, they basically said, you know, these values, they need to go.
You've got black football players who are leading our great Texas A&M team to, you know, seven wins and five losses a year.
So what happens on fall football Saturdays dictates Texas A&M's history.
Which leads us to, I believe, the best story.
University of Florida.
University of Florida has this chant called Gator Bait.
Well, it's over.
It's over, and it's over for one of the strangest reasons ever.
University President Kent Fuchs said in a letter to the university's faculty, students, and staff that the cheer has a horrific, historic, racist imagery involving African American people, especially children, being used as bait for alligators.
Well, it turns out that, well, there's absolutely no evidence to support this.
It was born from a news article from 1923, and a Time magazine published a story about how colored babies were being used for gator bait.
It's kind of an apocryphal story.
Where were they being used as gator bait?
Somebody wanted to eat an alligator and so they used a black baby as bait to catch an alligator?
That's how the story goes and here's one of my favorite parts of the story.
You can see That quote, while I know no evidence of racism associated with our Gator Bait Cheer at UF sporting events, there is horrific historic racist imagery associated with the phrase.
End quote.
That was from the President of the University.
Again, it's the Florida Gators.
Has nothing whatsoever to do with This apocryphal story of of children, colored children being used as bait.
But it's got to go because in the time period we live in, that's just where we are now.
And you think about, gosh, I can't believe we're almost out of time here.
And we've only covered so few stories.
You know, you think about what's happening in Mississippi, where the SEC commissioner said, we're not going to host any SEC tournaments in Mississippi until you get rid of your flag.
It's got to go.
It's got to go.
Now, the Confederate flag flew over Georgia on its flag until 2000.
Think about all the Corporate 500 headquarters that were located there in spite of it.
I mean, I just always hate this idea that all of a sudden something is accused of racism when it didn't stop civilization from flourishing when it existed a week prior.
This was never a story of Gator Bait being a problem, ever, until George Floyd passed away. And now everything, it's basically this day of
racial reckoning for those who really just hate America's history.
And once again, this just goes to show you, violence and rioting and looting and arson,
they work.
They work!
If the black people of Minneapolis had behaved just like the white people of Minneapolis when a black policeman shot an unarmed white woman, if they had just waited for the process to go through and see if this guy was guilty, if he's guilty, punish him, None of this would be happening.
None.
None of it would be happening.
But because they didn't.
Because they rioted, and they looted, and they burned.
They're getting billions of dollars in handouts.
And every time a black person says, I don't like this, it's got to come to an end.
It's just astonishing.
This absolute climb down.
This crawling in the mud of white people everywhere.
And only because of this absolutely inexcusable, disgusting behavior of rioting and looting.
The world has been turned upside down.
You know, you always hear that after the battle of Yorktown, when Cornwallis surrendered, his band played this ironical tune called World Turned Upside Down.
Do you remember that story?
I do.
I've never heard the tune.
I've never read the words.
But what we're seeing now makes me curious about that song, I must say.
Well, speaking of being turned upside down, I always thought the Guggenheim Museum looked like it was sort of turned upside down.
You know, it's bigger at the top than it is the bottom.
Well, the curatorial department of the Guggenheim on just Monday of this week sent a letter to the authorities of the museum demanding immediate wholesale changes to what it described as an inequitable work environment that enables racism, white supremacy, And other discriminatory practices.
This is the Guggenheim Museum.
This is this modern art museum right there on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
The letter comes as, now this is a New York Times story, the letter comes as cultural institutions are being called to account for what critics describe as their role in perpetuating systemic racism.
Boy, I bet the Guggenheim just, he gets up every morning and everybody thinks to himself, now how are we going to perpetuate racism today?
And that's all they ever think about all day long.
Well, apparently, Just last Sunday, Troy Conrad Theron, the museum's curator of architecture and digital archives, said in his own letter to the museum's leadership, in which he announced his plans to step down, to take responsibility for what he described as his complicity in, quote, an institutional culture that has systematically disfranchised many for too long.
Boy, I wonder what Troy Conrad Tyrone has really done to disfranchise people, but at least, at least he is going along with what we call the narrative, what the young guys call the narrative, that is to say white people are guilty, so if they really take their guilt seriously, they should step aside.
Now, he added, it's time for many of us who've benefited from this flawed system to make space for those who can more fully embody the equity that is no longer just necessary But urgent.
Wow.
You know, where do you begin with a clown like that?
Does he really believe that he spent his entire career oppressing blacks or women or homosexuals or crippled people or whoever it is he's supposed to have been impressing?
Anyway, the New York Times did supply us with the museum's racial breakdown of its full-time staff members.
And of the 276, 26 are black, that's 9.4%.
Now, blacks are 13% of the population.
What percentage would you imagine they are of the people who are qualified to be curators or to be docents or to work in a museum like that?
Probably not very many.
Not that many.
24, that is to say 8.7%, are Hispanic.
And 20 of them are Asian.
That's 7.2%.
That's more than their number in the population.
But, so it does not seem to me that this is a lily-white institution.
But, as Troy Conrad Terrien says, they have been perpetuating white supremacy all this time, and so it's about time they stopped.
Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
It's everywhere.
Boy, we really are running out of time.
This happened so quickly.
You know, I think I'm going to try to fit in one more story, and this is from the Columbia Journalism Review.
Yet another capitulation.
On June 16th, this is really a story from last week, but we didn't have time, but I wanted to fit it in this week, they explained why they capitalized black But not white in their style book.
They say black is an ethnic designation.
White merely describes the skin color of people who can, usually without much difficulty, trace their ethnic origins back to a handful of European countries.
Isn't this great?
Black is an ethnic designation, but white is merely a color.
And then they go on to say, In the absence of the identifiable ethnicities slavery stole from those it subjugated, black, capitalized, can be a preferred ethnic designation.
So black is ethnic, white's a color.
Got that?
That's Columbia Journalism Review for you.
So we march further and further into absurdity.
But we'll see.
I suspect next week we will find just as much absurdity to talk about.
What do you reckon?
What are our chances?
Oh, I think that unless President Trump decides he wants to compete in this 2020 election cycle, he's going to have to do something in the next few days.
We've seen the insanity of the attempt to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson in front of the White House, right in front of the White House!
And just, again, it's just this laissez-faire attitude to all that's going on.
Think back to all the monuments that you listed that have been pulled down And are now gone in the span of the past month.
It's been a disastrous month for those who still want there to be a renaissance of the American spirit.
But you know what?
It's there.
People are clamoring, they're hoping, they're scratching, Mr. Taylor, for something, for someone to just stand up and say, no mas.
And we'll be the ones who will keep doing that here at Renaissance Radio.