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July 31, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance, or Renaissance Radio, as you wish.
We are many things to many people.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is the irreplaceable, indefatigable Paul Kersey.
Glad to have you on the program, Mr. Kersey.
Lots happened since I was last here.
I know that the YouTube channel got digitally nuked, erased.
All those likes, all those comments, All of those shares, and more importantly, all those subscribers.
So, I haven't had a chance to listen to a number of the podcast you did solo, so I'd like to request that everybody out there, make sure you get in touch with us so we can tell you how to find us on BitChute and the other platforms.
Shoot me an email, becausewelivehereatprotonmail.com.
Once again, all one word, becausewelivehereatprotonmail.com, or You can always go to amren.com and the Contact Us page and let us know what you're thinking.
And by all means, if you have anything to add or to correct to a previous podcast, we would love to hear you.
In fact, just to make sure that we do not overlook this reader comment, I would like to read to you one that I think is the perfect kind of comment that we'd like.
This is someone who knows more about a subject than we did, and he has contributed his expertise for the benefit of all.
Some of you may remember that in the last podcast, I talked about the fact that Donald Trump has decided that he does not want to count illegal immigrants for the allocation of congressional seats.
And I said good luck to him.
I hope that worked.
I think it's unfair that congressional seats can be allocated according to a huge number of illegal immigrants.
I think a lot of people agree.
One of our listeners actually participated in the census as a census taker and he wrote this.
He says, in your podcast you chronicled Trump's order that illegal aliens not be counted.
I worked on the 2020 census.
I don't see how he can accomplish this practically.
There's no question on the 2020 census about immigration status or place of birth.
So how would he identify the illegals?
I suppose if he somehow had a list of all the illegals from information gleaned outside the census, he could cross-reference it with census responses and then throw the bad ones out.
But this looks like boob bait for Bubba to me, says he.
Typical Trump thing where he promises some dramatic action for his base but does nothing about it.
As someone said, all talk and no action.
Then he goes on to say, as you see, the damn response is promising to sue all over the issue.
It's silly.
I think they're suing over something that's not going to happen.
It's all kabuki theater.
And then he points us to Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution.
It says, representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers counting the whole number of persons in each state excluding Indians not taxed.
As he points out, that's pretty clear.
Nothing in there about excluding illegal aliens and so I think that's a pretty good point and I appreciate our well-informed listener letting us know what's what and that is just the kind of information and correction and addition that we love to hear from from our well-informed listeners.
You know it's so good to be talking once again to the Renaissance Radio audience and I do want to reiterate something Jared just said.
We have such an amazing audience that was digitally Impeded, of course, when we saw what happened with Google interfering with the ability for the channel to be promoted.
I think that was about three years ago.
The same thing happened to your guy's channel, the main channel that was nuked.
The main American Renaissance channel.
The video channel that had over 120,000 subscribers.
135!
Think about what that means, though.
Those were gotten the hard way.
That was digital sweat.
135. I can't think about. Think about what that means, though. Those were gotten the
hard way. That was that was digital sweat. That was all that hard work just gone in the
blink of an eye. And, you know, we're not going to talk about it at length, but I do
want to point out that there's hearings going on right now about big tech censorship. And
it's just fascinating to think that, you know, Google is basically admitting, yeah, we're
basically making it so that you can't find Breitbart. You can't find Daily Caller. You
can't find any of that.
Well, they didn't actually admit that.
They didn't admit that, but this is something that is being seen, it's being brought up by congressmen.
No, no, they have not admitted that.
It would be vitally important if they did admit it.
They did, precisely.
But this is something that more and more people know is happening.
And, you know, here's the crazy thing.
There's an election in three months.
How crazy is that to think?
And with all that's happened in the world, Most people don't even know.
Hey, is Joe Biden where is he?
Is he in a basement somewhere?
What's going on?
Well, the big tech media are going to control what we hear and what we find out and what we know and what we think if they have the opportunity to do so, and they very much think they do.
But our first story is from an article in Reason Magazine.
Reason Magazine sometimes publishes excellent stuff.
These libertarians are sometimes right on the ball.
About 5% of the time.
More than that, I'd say.
More than that.
They came up with an article in which they reported on a study that had been conducted by the Council on Criminal Justice.
They found that homicides have increased significantly in many cities across the country since late May.
Now, what happened in late May?
They call this the Minneapolis effect.
And they see this as a reduction in policing similar to the Ferguson effect.
And what they did was calculate all the weekly crime data from more than 20 of the nation's largest cities.
And what happened was a clear break near the end of May 2020, after which the homicide rate increased by 37% through the end of June compared to the year before.
37%!
Now things have been creeping up gently, but after having declined for a period of over 10 years.
And interestingly enough, this same pattern has not appeared for other kinds of crimes.
This is homicide.
Burglaries, for example.
They abruptly increased by 190%.
They had a huge rise at the end of May and then equally abruptly returned to normal levels.
Guess why?
Because you wouldn't have any idea.
I don't think I do.
You have no idea.
Well, just to spoil the tension, it was a mass looting.
The George Floyd killing explains this pattern.
This mass looting.
So, yes, what we have is an increase in burglars of 190%.
That's a real spike.
Now, the crime categories that came the closest to exhibiting the same pattern as homicides and aggregated assaults were gun assaults.
Gun assaults also showed a sharp and sustained increase after late May, and robbery exhibited likewise a sharp and sustained increase.
Now, this is especially true in Minnesota, and the key part of the explanation appears to be that the Minneapolis police stopped making street stops, what's known as stop and frisk.
What month?
That was right after George Floyd?
Right after George Floyd.
That's right.
As soon as everybody went up in flames, everybody started whooping and hollering, they stopped doing that stuff because that is what gets them in trouble.
You know, Mr. Taylor, it's been fascinating thinking about all that's happened over the past couple months.
So much is going on.
And it's funny, one of the last podcasts you and I did together, I distinctly remember saying, Mr. Taylor, they're rioting and they're looting in midday in St.
Paul.
This is going to get bad quickly.
And I believe it was just one day later that that's when they burned down the 3rd Precinct on May 29th.
I think the last one, the last podcast we did was on May 28th.
And I remember vividly on That was an exciting development.
Yeah, well, unfortunately, that's the moment that President Trump should have put the hammer down, and we should have seen the Insurrection Act brought up right away.
Well, you see, what this goes to show is how responsive gun crime is, and as a consequence, homicide, how responsive they are to stop and frisk.
This seems to be the key element.
When the police stop this very on-the-ball, positive, shaking people down, making sure they don't have guns, gun crime goes through the roof, but other crimes don't increase.
Because this stop-and-frisk, what it's really stopping is gun assaults.
Now, this paper from the Council on Criminal Justice also referred to a study done in 2016.
Here we have an equally dramatic increase.
Because in 2016 there was a 58% year-on-year increase in homicides from 2015.
Why?
Well they focused on specifically on shootings.
Fatal shootings increased by 66% and Not by any means by coincidence was an agreement entered into at the end of 2015 with the ACLU basically to stop stop and frisk.
Stop and frisk declined by 80 percent And the consequence?
Fatal shootings increased by 66%.
They talk about the Ferguson effect.
They talk about the Minneapolis effect.
You could call this the ACLU effect.
Because the ACLU insisted that Stop and Frisk come to an end.
This is extraordinary.
Absolutely extraordinary.
Of course, the ACLU They would, you know, I don't know, I wonder how they would interpret this data.
They'd probably think of some other excuse.
The New York Times will never publish this data.
The Washington Post will never publish this data.
Everybody believes that stop and frisk was horrible, horrible, horrible because the only way for it to be effective is you got to stop the people who are likely to have the guns.
And who are they?
They're not Danish tourists.
They're not the Amish.
They're not little old Asian ladies.
No.
We know exactly who's likely to have the guns.
Another factor, and this is something else that makes sense, is that lately police have been redeployed to respond to anti-police protests, diverting them from the kind of anti-gun patrols and other active policing.
Police have also been pulled back from some measures of proactive policing, again, as a result of these protests.
And if it turns out that this kind of de-policing is linked, and I think it clearly is, to rising gun violence, all of these studies suggest that, this further notion of defunding the police, limiting their efforts aggressively to stop gun crimes, What'll that mean?
More shootings.
More homicides.
More dead black people.
More dead Hispanics.
And it's very important to point out that it's not because of the gun.
It's because, as we saw the Mayor Lightfoot in Chicago say, well there's all these guns coming in from other parts of Illinois and that's the real problem.
No, it's because the people pulling the trigger Monochromatic, black, brown.
We've seen the stats.
There are very few cities that still publish these stats.
New York City is one of them.
We know that I think 97% of non-fatal shootings have a black or brown suspect.
That's right.
White people just practically don't exist in terms of these shootings.
So, there you go.
If black lives matter, then you should support Stop and Frisk.
Did you mention on one of the prior podcasts that I was Regrettably absent from did you mention of the black gentleman in Chicago who said that it was white people dressed up in black and black body?
I don't, I mean... And black body, making it look like they were black people shooting other blacks.
I don't think I mentioned that.
He pitched this conspiracy theory.
I wouldn't call him a gentleman.
I would call him a fabulist.
A fabulist.
But now our next story has to do with the Washington Post.
The Washington Post, unlike the New York Times and the Associated Press, has decided that now that they're going to capitalize black, B-L-A-C-K, as an indicator of race, Unlike the rest of them, they've decided, well, out of a sense of parallelism, they have to decapitalize white, too, with a capital W. And they went on to say, white is a distinct cultural identity in the United States and is a collective group that has had its own cultural and historical impact on the nation.
You mean, whites have really had its own cultural and historical impact on the nation?
I think, Washington Post, we built this nation.
Yes.
We had a cultural impact.
We had a historical impact.
The history of the United States is the history of white people.
Well, the history of the United States is memorialized still on a little thing called the satellite of the earth, and that's the moon, where there were, I believe, 12 white men have walked on the moon.
And the last man who walked on the moon in 1972 was Gene Cernan.
There's a white man and there's a flag that was planted by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20th, 1969.
That was, goodness gracious, 51 years ago.
And I think that tells you, you know, 60, what was it, 60, 65 years after the Wright Brothers flew?
And Kitty Hawk, we're on the moon.
That's a great leap.
What does that tell you?
That's a great leap.
Well, but you know... And now we have holograms of George Floyd everywhere.
But remember, it was those black lady mathematicians that made it all happen.
Ah, you know, Katherine Johnson, God rest her soul.
Portland, Oregon.
Now, there's an excellent article by Andy, I don't know how to pronounce his name, Ngo, N-G-O.
Andy Ngo.
It's pronounced N-Y-O.
N-Y-O.
A brilliant journalist.
Fearless.
First-rate guy.
First-rate guy.
He talks about how rioting broke out in Portland at the end of May, right when the crimes figures started to go up.
And they've happened ever since and continued and grown stronger in Portland every night.
They cycle through a number of chants like, all cops are bastards, fuck the police.
And then a lot of them, of course, do violent crimes, arson, assault.
They made it a game to lure law enforcement officers out of buildings so they can assault them with blinding lasers, throw paint at them, rocks.
And now some have been throwing what looked like pretty serious, almost explosive type firecrackers.
And those who don't engage in the direct violence are cheering them on, and they assist in de-arresting the comrades.
De-arresting.
We have new, like de-policing, there's de-arresting.
With new times come new words.
And rioters try and have succeeded in breaking into the Portland police facilities, but now, because the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security has sent in some federal agents, they've concentrated on the Mark Hatfield U.S.
Courthouse.
If it were undefended, I think they'd burn the plane to the ground.
In any case, in all of this, Andy Ngo asks, what is it, in fact, these rioters want?
That's a good question.
I've been wondering about that myself.
What is it they really want?
And just last Wednesday, Mayor Ted Wheeler, Mr. Progressive Extraordinaire, he went to one of the protests for the very first time.
Of course, he was heckled.
The crowd booed him and they projected a list of demands on the front of the courthouse.
And part of the message was, Theodore, this is Ted Wheeler, Theodore, fancy seeing you here.
These are our demands.
And it called for defunding the Portland Police Bureau by at least 50%, freeing all protests from jail, kicking federalized law enforcement out, and last but not least, Wheeler's resignation.
So he comes to talk to him.
The first thing he hears is, well, we want you gone.
Then there was something called the Youth Liberation Front that led the crowd in shouting expletives at the mayor.
They didn't agree with this 50%.
They said, what is this defund at least 50% shit?
We're trying to abolish the police here.
That's their view.
Now, what is it that, according to Andy Ngo, people need to know about NTV goes on to say they don't make demands because that's working within the system.
Their clear goal is to destroy all American institutions and then the country itself.
And when they spray paint or shout, burn it down, that's really what they mean.
They really are nihilists, anarchists.
They believe the U.S.
is so fundamentally wicked that no amount of reform could possibly fix it.
It has to be abolished and they see law enforcement and the military as obstacles to their goal.
Now, of course, last month, Mayor Wheeler disbanded the Gun Violence Reduction Unit to stop and frisk people claiming it unfairly targeted blacks.
Well, in the weeks since, as I mentioned earlier, according to this other study nationwide, there's been about a 30-40% increase in shootings.
40% increase in shootings?
Well, in Minneapolis, 380%.
I think I read somewhere where there have been more shootings as of July 25, 2020 than there were in all of Minneapolis in 2019.
They've already exceeded that number.
That's right.
They are going to set new records.
New records.
Higher, further, stronger.
Isn't that the motto of the Olympics or something like that?
Well, I'll tell you.
I still think it's serendipitous that of all the cities that we did a great replacement
profile of, one of the first ones was Minneapolis.
And then what happened only two or three weeks later, George Floyd, a guy who had fit in
all of his system, a porn star, he becomes the face of this de-whitening movement that
we've seen all across the country.
In fact, I just read where they did a hologram on the Lee Memorial that still stands in Richmond.
Did you see this story?
They're touring the country and they're doing these holograms of George Floyd on Confederate monuments.
And they did this in Richmond.
A hologram of George Floyd?
A hologram of George Floyd.
I suppose they are.
Is this some of his starring performances that you were just describing?
It's just his face.
It's about as bizarre as you can get.
Well, back to Minneapolis, home of George Floyd.
Oh, by the way, I suppose you've heard that where he met his end, that has been turned into an enormous shrine.
They blocked off traffic for it.
You can't get in there.
And to get access to what they call holy ground.
You have to be passed in by this group of white people at a desk there saying, this is sacred ground.
You can come in only if you pay proper respect.
Bizarre.
It's like the shrine of, I don't know, Lourdes.
This is the church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Would we be remiss if we didn't point out that John Lewis just passed away and he's going to lay in state.
I think he's having four or five different funerals.
Barack Obama just spoke today.
It's July 30th, ladies and gentlemen, so Barack Obama spoke at his funeral and said that... Bill Clinton did, too.
Nancy Pelosi.
They were all just singing his praises.
Their buddy, John.
Barack Obama said that John Lewis will one day be viewed as a founding father of the new America, and it's fascinating.
They're talking about renaming the bridge in Selma.
After John Lewis and Edmund Pettus.
Why did they wait so long?
I agree.
Edmund Pettus was a Confederate general, if I'm not mistaken.
Not only was he that, but Selma represents exactly the America.
Selma in 2020 represents exactly the America that That John Lewis wants to create.
That's right.
Remember a few years ago we talked about they had the 50th anniversary and Jesse Jackson looked around and he was upset that all the businesses were boarded up and everything was in disarray and he said we should make it illegal for white people to take their capital out.
That's right.
That's what they want, you know.
It's a new form of slavery.
Equality is about getting white equity whether it's in commercial or private property.
But let us return briefly, ever so briefly, to Portland.
City Councilwoman Joanne Hardesty.
She is the first lady of color, at least a black lady, to be on the City Council.
And she explained to Marie Claire Magazine this week on the subject of all the romping and the follicking going on.
She says, I believe Portland Police is lying about the damage when they're talking about the rioting or starting the fires themselves.
So that they have justification for attacking community members.
Can you believe this?
This is a black city councilwoman saying that the police themselves are doing the rioting just to give them an excuse to open fire with non-lethal munitions or throw tear gas at people.
Incredible to me that an elected official should actually say something like that.
And she probably believes it.
She probably believes every word of it.
And this goes to show you just how utterly delusional these people are.
Well, she Backed off just a little bit when the Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell, who is himself black, he said, where's your evidence for this?
Where's your evidence?
But the fact that he said this at all, it's absolutely extraordinary.
And some police officers in Portland, these are people who are speaking to the press unidentified, one is quoted as saying, Some of us are thinking we just need to give the vocal minority and the politicians what they want.
We walk away and let the city burn.
I mean that's what it boils down to.
They walk away and the city burns.
Now, we have a, I think, slightly more encouraging story from Reno, Nevada.
I've been promising our listeners that we will try to include an occasional encouraging story.
There are many that are discouraging.
And this one is small, but I think significant.
It had to do with a plan by the Reno, Nevada Board of Library Trustees to issue a statement on the subject of, guess what, diversity and inclusion.
They're so original, you know?
Gosh, do you think they might issue a statement on literacy?
On a statement on historical knowledge?
Or intellectual curiosity?
No, diversity and inclusion.
And they go on to say, they were going to say, we support Black Lives Matter.
We resolutely assert and believe that all forms of racism, hatred, inequality, and injustice don't belong in our society.
Inequality?
I mean, when you think about that, there's not going to be any inequality.
Everyone's going to have the same income.
Everyone's going to be the same height.
Everyone's going to run the hundred meter dash the same speed.
In any case, none of that belongs.
Well, Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley, bless his heart, he posted a reply He said, due to your support of Black Lives Matter and the obvious lack of support or trust with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, please do not feel the need to call 911 for help.
I wish you good luck with disturbances and lewd behavior, since those are just some of the recent calls my office has assisted you with in the past.
This is from the library.
They got people lewd behavior.
You know, I heard about people coming to the internet and they watch porn flicks on the internet.
That's a problem.
You know, these people can't afford their own stuff.
But anyway, then he goes on to say.
Yeah.
Numerous Black Lives Matter protests have resulted in violence, property damage, and
the closing of local businesses, sometimes permanently.
To support this movement is to support violence and to openly ask for it to happen in Douglas
County, which is where Reno, Nevada is located.
I think that's a great statement.
That's a great statement.
An absolutely great statement.
And apparently the library director, Amy Dodson, I'm sure she's one of these mad sow disease
happy little white woman.
Oh, of course.
She's an awful, as I believe they're called.
Well, probably not.
She's a librarian, so she's not fluent.
Sorry, librarians.
Yes, yes.
This mad sow apparently saw some kind of justice in this, and she pulled in her horns a bit.
First of all, she met with the sheriff, and she issued the following statement.
The library respects and supports the work of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office and appreciates everything it does to keep our community safe.
So, it's glad to see a little bit of common sense being issued by this librarian.
Now, we have another good news story, and this one is in that one that you dug up for us, Mr. Kersey.
So, tell us.
Tell us.
Trader Joe's.
Trader Joe's.
You know, Trader Joe's came under assault.
I'm not a big Trader Joe's fan.
I'm more of a, you know, grocery store wise and Whole Foods, Kroger, you know.
Anyways, point being, you know, a giant Harris Teeter.
Trader Joe's, a lot of these are in gentrifying areas in major cities.
So, a lot of white people, a lot of squibbles, they love going to Trader Joe's.
Well, somebody complained because there were some products named after ethnicities.
Trader Jose's, Trader Ming's, Trader Giotto.
You know, just stuff that was ethnically identifiable by that name, by that moniker.
Trader Jose, that's Trader Joe in Spanish.
Trader Giotto, that's in Italian.
It's Italian, exactly.
Trader Ming, I don't speak Mandarin Chinese, but maybe Ming is Joe, I don't know.
Yeah, good question.
So, they came under a lot of fire, and initially they said, yeah, you know what, we'll change the names.
Au contraire, mon frere.
It looks like Trader Joe's has decided to reverse course and not change all the brand labels of its products to satisfy the, as Zero Hedge calls it, wokeness demands of a tiny, largely white, racism-parsing left-wing mob.
Here's the statement.
From Trader Joe's, to our valued customers, in light of recent feedback and attention we've
received about our product naming, we have some things we'd like to say to clarify our approach.
A few weeks ago, an online petition was launched calling on us to, quote, remove racist packaging
from our products, end quote. Following were inaccurate reports that the petition was prompted
us to take action. We want to be clear. We disagree that any of these labels are racist.
Good work.
We do not make any decisions based on petitions.
We make decisions based on what customers purchase as well as the feedback we receive from our customers and crew members.
If we feel there is a need for change, We do not hesitate to take action.
Decades ago, our buying team started using product names like Trader Joe's, Trader Jose's, Trader Ming's, etc.
We thought then and still do that this naming of products could be fun and show appreciation for other cultures.
For example, we named our Mexican beer Trader Jose's Premium.
And a couple of guacamole products are called Avocado's Number, in a kitschy reference to a mathematical theory.
You recognize... I think it's Avogadro's Number, isn't it?
Exactly, yeah.
Yeah, so the number of atoms in a mole or something?
Yeah.
Anyway, yes.
These products have been really popular with our customers, including some budding mathematicians.
We constantly re-evaluate what we are doing to ensure it makes sense for our business and aligns with customers' expectations.
So, I'm not going to read any more, but I will just say this.
They ended by saying they flat out, they refute flat out that their products are racist.
We want to be clear.
We disagree that any of these labels are racist.
And like I said, remember, they're a business.
We make decisions based on what customers purchase and that those products resonate with our customers and sell well, will remain on our shelves.
I'm guessing that Trader Jose's Premium Beer and Trader Jose's and Trader Ming's, these products, They sold very well.
They probably did just fine.
And that's what made these woke people upset.
Well, it is great that a company is finally saying, take a walk.
Take a walk.
That's all people want.
Instead of getting on a knee, take a walk.
That's right.
Why can't more do this?
And it's too bad that our good news stories basically are people that are saying, no, we'd like to have good news people of doing things that are a real yes, but at least drawing the line is a great thing.
Now, I returned to New York City.
In New York City, The police have been less inclined to make arrests for open drinking, open container laws, public drinking.
Because, you know, they get a little social distancing, the bars are closed, but they do step in when people get out of hand.
They're staggering around, you know, they're whooping and hollering.
Well, as it turns out, since January, the NYPD has handed out 1,250 criminal summonses for drinking in public.
Of that number, 48% went to black people and 43% went to Hispanics.
That's a rather substantial majority.
That's 91% went to those people.
Whites got a very small number, practically no Asians.
Was that Asian privilege?
The fact is that this differential in summonses has, as usual, fueled cause to abolish the open container law.
Of course, no one is even looking into the rate at which these offenses are committed, who really is staggering around drunk, who is shouting, who is calling out lewd comments to passers-by having gotten drunk.
No.
The mere fact That blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be picked up violating these laws means the laws have got to be abolished.
Now, what does that remind you of, Mr. Cruz?
A lot.
A lot of things.
I mean, again, it's all about the lowering of standards when, you know, the average of whites or Asians is too great.
We've got to lower standards.
It reminds me of what's happening in California where we're seeing the bar exam being lowered because not enough black and brown people can pass it.
That's right.
So, you know, at some point they're just going to say, you know what, What do you need a bar for?
You know, as long as you can interpret the law as meaning white bad, black brown good, sure, you're fine to be a prosecutor.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, like fair beating, you know, and shoplifting, all of that stuff, you know.
If blacks and Spaniards can't abide by the rules, just, you know, abolish the rules.
One of the stories I do recall that sticks on my mind, because we have to keep time up Minneapolis, In May, there was a story about how there were too many tickets given to blacklists.
A disproportionate amount of tickets.
And so they were talking about a way to go about... I think it was about taillights being out.
And there were almost all the people who were getting ticketed for not properly maintaining their vehicles and endangering people on the roads.
You know, have you ever been behind somebody who has a faulty taillight?
Well, yes, it's distracting when they have only one that's working and one that's not, but it would be really bad if both of them went up.
Bingo!
And that's why you have to give tickets.
You have to enforce the law.
But in Minneapolis, in the city where St.
Floyd is now the most venerated spiritual entity since... I can't think of anybody else.
He's far beyond Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin at this point.
Oh, gosh, yes.
No, he's the favorite son.
Yes, sir.
You know, maybe he'll run for office in absentia or something.
He'd probably win.
But so there you go.
If they can't follow the rules, abolish the rules.
But what was the idea in Minneapolis?
It was simply going to stop riding tickets at all for busted tail lights?
Bingo.
Okay, well, there you go.
You know, everything that has a disparate impact has got to go.
And moving on to the Sierra Club.
The Cher Club has said that it is moving to tear down monuments to its founder, John Muir.
Because?
Who would have guessed?
Racist remarks.
Racist remarks.
And the club has apologized for the conservation group's substantial role in perpetuating white supremacy.
I'd love to know how it's been doing that, you know.
How does it perpetuate white supremacy?
Well, I guess it does.
Well, John Muir, he died in 1914.
He was born in Scotland, emigrated to the United States, and played a key role in preserving the Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Park.
He was a very, very effective and important conservationist, and he co-founded the Sierra Club in 1892.
Well, apparently he said some rude things about our current pets.
He described black people as well-trained but making a great deal of noise and doing little work.
Hmm.
And he also once, it says he once called American Indians lazy and superstitious.
Perhaps he even called them that more than once.
I don't know.
But that's about enough.
Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Broon says, As the most iconic figure in Sierra Club history, Muir's words and actions carry an especially heavy weight.
They continue to hurt and alienate indigenous people and people of color who come into contact with the Sierra Club.
Now, I suspect that is complete baloney.
I would be astonished, except for the fact that he's been broadcasting these statements.
I would be astonished if any American Indian, any person of color, or BIPOC, as we're supposed to call them, has ever heard of these remarks.
But now that we are shouting them from the rooftops, John Muir is a bad, bad, bad, Well, a spokesman for the Sierra Club says that they don't actually have any prominent physical monuments or statues.
They don't even have any!
And so this is going to be, so the leader is speaking metaphorically of publicly reckoning with the group's history.
They don't even have any monuments to take down!
But they've still got to insult.
Mr. Taylor, they do have monuments they can take down.
They can get rid of all of the conservation that he did in his life.
For the posterity.
for the posterity. They can go ahead and turn all the national parks into what's the correct
Favelas.
Favelas?
Yeah, they can just become favelas for the new third world America.
That would be the ultimate way to pay to destroy his legacy.
He wanted to conserve America for Americans.
He dared say a few off-color things about Africans in America.
But you know what?
The best way to get rid of his legacy, if there are no monuments, get rid of the parks.
Burn down Muir Woods, yes.
Burn it down?
Muir Woods, yes, yes.
No, this is just so insane.
Apparently, also, he maintained friendships with people like Henry Fairfield Osborne, who worked for both the Conservation of Nature and the Conservation of the White Race.
What an idea!
He thought that the white race is worth preserving.
Of course, that makes him just enemy number one.
How can you want to conserve the white race?
Oh, those wicked people that deserve to go extinct tomorrow!
Anyway, this guy, Brun, who runs the club now, he said just last Wednesday that the Sierra Club would spend the next year studying our history and determining which of our monuments need to be renamed or pulled down entirely.
Pulled down entirely?
Yes, Mural Woods.
You pull it all down.
Yes.
Every last sampling has to be pulled down and ripped out of the ground.
Right.
And he said the Sierra Club would shift $5 million in its budget to make long overdue investments in our staff of color and our environmental and racial justice work.
What in the world is an environmental organization doing involved in racial justice work?
I guess everybody, every person alive in America, of course, has to be doing racial justice work.
If you're not, you're an impediment to this POC future.
Now, the Sierra Club, for decades, it was staunchly opposed to immigration-driven population growth on the basis that, believe it or not, higher population density would threaten the wilderness.
Seems pretty clear to me.
But it's utterly obvious.
But in 1996, and I remember when this happened, the group adopted an official position of neutrality on the subject of immigration under pressure from megadonor David Gelbaum.
As David Gelbaum told the Los Angeles Times in 2004, I did tell the Sierra Club in 1994-1995 that if they ever came out anti-immigration, they'd never get a dollar from me.
And he went on to donate more than $200 million.
That's a lot of money.
Money talks.
So, until then, the Sierra Club had the very sensible idea that, wait, who needs more people?
More people are going to put pressure on the wilderness.
I mean, how can that be a controversial thing to say?
Well, it's controversial now.
And of course, in recent years, the Sierra Club has made more explicit statements supporting amnesty for illegals living in the United States.
And Brun himself, the fellow who runs the club now, has called President Donald Trump's immigration policies racist.
Of course.
So there you go.
Of course.
He's racist.
He's racist.
But, you know, as I say, I wonder, if you're interested in preserving the environment, just what has that got to do with so-called racial justice?
But I have now realized that everything has to do with racial justice ever since I saw Kroger Grocery Stores, big thing about how to be a white ally.
Oh, no!
Did you see that?
Yes, Kroger!
So, when you pick up your groceries, you can pick up a dose of white guilt while you're at it.
And if you don't, is that somehow engaging in white fragility when you're at the grocery store and you don't have your COVID-19 mask on, and they say, excuse me, sir, where's your mask?
And by the way, you're white, so you've got to bend over and say... That's right.
Well, white silence.
White silence is violence.
Never forget that.
I just, boy, I hear that in the end.
As I say, I've said it more than once, I didn't realize I had superhuman powers.
I never knew that I was a voodoo master.
By my silence, I am committing violence against black people.
Man, oh man.
Am I giving them black eyes?
You know?
Am I knocking them out with a single punch?
Knockout game?
Just by being silent?
But I'm committing violence.
Boy oh boy.
And it makes total sense to me.
Well, you're a better man than I. And then we move to MIT.
This is unfortunately a bad news story, of which we have several.
And at MIT, Reverend Daniel Patrick Maloney used to be the Catholic chaplain.
He was there since 2015, but ever since he wrote the following to his flock, and let me quote, George Floyd was killed by a police officer and shouldn't have been.
He had not lived a virtuous life.
He was convicted of several crimes, including armed robbery, which he seems to have committed to feed his drug habit.
And he was high on drugs at the time of his arrest.
In the wake of George Floyd's death, most people in the country have framed this as an act of racism.
I don't think we know that.
Many people have claimed that racism is a major problem in police forces.
I don't think we know that.
Police officers deal with dangerous and bad people all the time, and that often hardens them.
They do this so the rest of us can live in peace, but sometimes at a cost to their souls.
Well, this resulted in his being fired.
He's no longer the chaplain of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Susie Nelson, a vice president at MIT and dean for student life, I wonder if there's a dean for student death.
The dean for student life said Maloney's message was deeply disturbing.
And she sent an email message to all the students, all the students explaining why he was fired.
By devaluing and disparaging George Floyd's character, by speaking the truth about him, the absolute truth, Father Maloney's message failed to acknowledge the dignity of each human being and the devastating impact of systemic racism.
So apparently his key crime was to have said that George Floyd did not live a virtuous life.
And he'd been convicted of several crimes.
Absolute gospel truth, if I may use a Catholic term.
But this was refusing to acknowledge the dignity of each human being.
But he said he shouldn't have been killed.
This is just by stating a negative fact about a black person, you have disqualified yourself from the chaplaincy of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
So he's out of a job.
And I'm afraid we have yet another bad news story that you will convey to our listeners while I hang my head in chagrin, shame, and disgust.
Well, which one?
Well, it's all about sports.
Well, let's talk about the sports.
National Football League.
You know, I hate when people call it sports ball.
I think that sports are actually a fantastic thing.
I think that they, there is tradition, there is honor, especially once you've played in sports, you understand what goes into it.
Unfortunately, Sports now in the United States are a business, and just as all businesses, they've been converged.
As you noted about the Sierra Club, what is an environmental group?
What are they doing with racial injustice and fighting it?
Why is Kroger doing what they're doing with white silences violence?
Well, now the NFL is taking it one step further.
NFL end zones will read end racism, and it takes all of us in home openers, and they're going to play the black national anthem before Francis Scott Key's National Anthem of the United States.
Lift Every Voice and Sing.
Yeah, yeah.
The Black National Anthem was written by James Weldon Johnson.
He wrote the poem Lift Every Voice and Sing to honor Booker T. Washington, a good man, by the way.
Yes, I wish we still honored Booker T. Washington.
Booker T. Washington is a man we should honor.
His brother later said the words to music resulting in what became known as the Negro National Anthem.
Are we even allowed to use that word anymore?
Nope.
What was the guy's name who got in all the trouble on the radio?
He was indicted and then Trump gave him the pardon.
On the radio?
Oh, oh, oh, Stone!
Yeah, Roger Stone said apparently he used that word.
Oh, no, no, no, that's now taboo.
So like I said, players are going to wear Black Lives Matter slogans and names on their helmets.
And the names, and of course the players will kneel during the U.S.
National Anthem and stand for the Black National Anthem.
We know of course what happened to Drew Brees, When he dared say that he would always honor the flag, he basically capitulated, acquiesced, surrendered to the outrage mob, and said, I'm sorry.
Mea culpa.
Mea culpa.
I'm sorry again.
In every language possible, basically.
Wait, so every single one of them is gonna be on his knees during the national anthem?
We'll see.
I'm sure a few players aren't going to.
I'm hoping that a few players won't.
We'll see who's got backbones.
Yeah, just a few more things.
So this memo that came out from the owners working with the NAACP, quote, each player will have the option to honor an individual by displaying that person's name by a decal on the back of their helmet.
Players will be offered a list of names and short biographical information to help guide their decision making.
However, they can select a victim of systemic racism who is not represented on that list.
I wonder if you could put Amy Beale.
I wonder if you could put my friend Brittany Watts, who was murdered in 2011 in Atlanta by a black guy who was trying to rid the world of white privilege.
That's the whole reason why Paul Kersey even exists.
I was thinking about stopping Jared Cursey back in 2011 and I had a friend who was murdered somebody that I knew and I grew up with and to this day I think you know she was 26 when she was murdered.
I think it was it was in July of 2011 so it was nine years ago.
We're probably the only people besides her husband who still remember this story and still talk about this and it enrages me to this day and it fueled a lot.
All I can say is No, they'd better all be black.
And I bet even Hispanic or an Asian might raise an eyebrow or two.
But anyway, yes.
So I guess we gotta tell some more stories.
The NCAA is going to allow players to wear social justice patches on uniforms in 2020.
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a number of on-field changes for football, the most significant being that players will now be allowed to wear message patches on their uniforms.
Message patches?
Yeah, the patches can be for memorial or commemorative purposes, or to relay messages about social justice.
Well, I wonder if you can wear a Confederate battle flag.
We want social justice for Southerners.
I'd like to see that happen.
A smaller patch can be worn in the front of the uniform with a larger patch in the back.
Players may wear one small patch on the front or sleeve of their jersey featuring a name, mascot logo, or other mark intended to celebrate and memorialize people, events, or other causes.
The front patch must be the same for every team member.
So the team is going to vote on it.
But the back patch can be individual.
And if you want to memorialize the discovery of America, you could have Columbus on one of your badges.
Exactly.
And you think about these teams like in the Southeastern Conference, the football programs.
There are very few black males on these campuses.
Invariably, most of them probably play a sport.
One of my favorite stories is when the University of Alabama-Birmingham dropped their football program.
People started complaining because there were so few black males on campus, so they brought the football program back.
This was only three years ago.
This is one of the more incredible stories about black privilege and Well, I guess that was the only way they could get blacks on campus, was to have football players.
Well, gosh, that's deeply insulting to blacks, really.
It is.
You'd think it would be, but it was deeply insulting that there wasn't a football program.
And then one more brief, I do want to point out that So the NCAA decision is similar to one instituted by the National Basketball Association, which is allowing players to wear social justice messages such as Black Lives Matter on the backs of their jerseys.
The NBA season is set to start today.
I'm sure you're excited.
You'll be watching some hoops down there in Orlando.
Well, I want to bring attention to Robert Hampton's fantastic piece at the amren.com website, where he talks about what's happening with the conversions of Black Lives Matter and Major League Baseball.
You know, I used to love going to Braves games.
I used to love going to games.
Any chance I got to, I'd go watch.
When I traveled, I'd go watch games in the cities I'd go to.
I have great memories going to Coors Field in Colorado and Denver.
Baseball's a fun sport, and when you go to a baseball game, Mr. Taylor, you look around the stands, it's all white people.
You know, you may not believe this, but I've been to a professional baseball game.
I do believe it.
I watched the Toledo Mudhands.
What was that?
Double A?
Triple A?
Do you remember?
I can't remember how many A's it was, but it's not Major League.
But it was a great game!
Great game!
But anyway, this is shocking to my listeners.
Yes, I've attended a professional baseball game.
But no, I didn't mean to interrupt.
No, no, don't!
It's funny.
I remember one time a friend of mine sent me a text and she was laughing.
She was at an Arizona Diamondbacks game in Phoenix.
We had been talking one time about how, hey, when you go to a baseball game, just look out.
All you're going to see are families and white dads with their sons and just white people everywhere.
And she texted, she goes, yeah, the only non-whites I see are those hawking beer.
And peanuts.
So you were right.
So anyways, I just want to point out a couple lines from this.
He talks about, and you can read it in the site, about how Major League Baseball, which is one of conservatives' favorite sports, is fully embracing Black Lives Matter.
Major League Baseball players and teams are wearing Black Lives Matter shirts, spreading BLM propaganda, and yes, kneeling for the National Anthem.
On opening day of the Nationals-Dodgers game, there was stenciled BLM on their pitcher's mound, on the pitcher's mound.
The entire Nationals team and their opponents, the Yankees, took a knee during the National Anthem, and they held a long black ribbon as they listened to God himself, Morgan Freeman, narrate a speech on racial justice.
And this is a sporting game.
It's a religious service now.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
There's one player who didn't kneel.
That's San Francisco Giants pitcher Sam Coonrod.
I think that's how you pronounce his name.
He stood for the anthem, and he didn't wear a social justice patch.
He said this, quote, I'm a Christian, so I just believe that I can't kneel before anything besides God.
He added that he opposed Black Lives Matter's Marxism and hostility to the nuclear family.
Of course he got attacked by the press.
If Kunrod kneels only for God, then he can pray silently for an end to police abuses and foul treatment of people based on assumptions about skin color, wrote sporting news writer Tom Gatto.
NBC Sports Bay Area analyst Ian Williams tweeted, Let me make this clear.
You don't have to be on board with Black Lives Matter, but I need you to be on board with equality for all and ending racism.
It's simple.
If you don't want those two simple things, you know what you are.
Okay, gosh, you know what?
He's going to get down not on just one knee, but both knees.
He'll get on knees and elbows after that.
Yeah, you know, it's interesting.
President Trump said MLB would be over for him if players knelt for the anthem.
He hasn't said anything about these mass kneelings, but he did cancel his appearance, throwing the first pitch at a upcoming Yankees game.
He didn't mention the anthem protests.
He cited coronavirus.
Oh, our fearless leader.
Our fearless leader.
Well, moving on to the United Kingdom.
What used to be Great Britain.
We have discovered a terrible shameful fact about Britain and that is there's never been a night a non-white person featured on British coins or notes.
Well, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak That's a good British name, isn't it?
It's licking proposals by a campaign group to put influential BAME figures.
Now, instead of saying BIPOC, they say BAME.
And that stands for Black African Middle Eastern... I can't forget what it is, but basically it's BIPOC, BAME, POC.
They're all the same.
And they're going to put such figures throughout history on a set of coins.
The Bank Notes of Color campaign, led by former conservative candidate Zahra Zaidi, yet another daughter of the soil, has been fighting for representation.
They have written to the Chancellor with some proposed historic figures.
Including the first Indian and Gurkha soldiers to receive the Victoria Cross, a Jamaican-British nurse named Mary Seacole, and a British Muslim woman named Noor Inayat Khan.
Now, I don't suspect you've ever heard of Mary Seacole of Noor Inayat Khan.
No, I have not.
But these ladies of color could end up on currency.
Now, she is really being considered for a coin.
She's the top candidate.
Noor Inayat Khan.
And Treasury Minister John Glenn has said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is keen to support this timely proposal.
And Professor Sunny Singh, yet another historic British name, an academic and writer and founder of the Jalloch Prize, said in support of the campaign, there is no better way to acknowledge the history of Britain in the world than to include a high-achieving Britain of colour on our legal tender.
No better way to acknowledge the history of Britain in the world than to put a non-white on the currency.
Well, God, I think he doesn't have much imagination.
What that makes me wonder is, when will George Floyd end up on a U.S.
piece of currency?
Do you think he'll get a bill?
Do you think he'll get a coin?
I think he'll get a couple cities named after him.
Or at least a few kindergartens.
But now, did you know there have been non-whites on U.S.
currency?
Here's a little test for you, Mr. Kersey, you who have a remarkable record.
I can tell you one is Sacagawea.
Sacagawea, very good.
The dollar coin.
Very good.
It was minted from 2000-2019.
Anybody else?
Think hard.
There have been many examples.
Many examples.
I'm trying to think of some other.
Well, you are excused.
You can be excused.
Are we talking about quarters?
No, anything at all.
Paper, metal money, whatever you have.
I'm sure there was some non-white that was honored in the state quarters that were issued.
Oh, you know, I don't know for sure.
I'm sure there has to have been.
There could have been.
Yeah.
Well, there could have been, but ever heard of the Buffalo nickel?
I have.
The Buffalo nickel has an Indian on the other side.
Okay, you're right.
Yes, the Buffalo nickel.
And that was minted from 1913 to 1938.
Buffalo nickel.
I've got a few of those.
Have you?
Well, there you go.
And before that, there was something called an Indian head scent.
And it was a penny.
It was a penny with a nice Indian on it.
And that was minted from 1859 to 1909.
to 1909.
Black people.
Really?
On currency.
I didn't know that.
Yes.
Well, you'll not be surprised.
Confederate banknotes had black people on them.
Guess what they were doing?
I'm not going to guess.
I'm not someone like Senator Tom Cotton, who's going to whimsically look back on slavery and try and make excuses for it.
Well, there they were.
There they are, picking cotton, yes, on the Confederate currency.
The $50 note and $100 bill had black people on it.
Now, there is, however, a $10 bill, Confederate currency, with a family of Indians on it.
Really?
Yes, they're portrayed very respectfully.
Yes, yes.
And, you know, we're all supposed to be white supremacists and viciously hating these people and exterminating them.
What are they doing on the coins?
I mean, I suppose if the Atlanta Braves is an insult, was it an insult to the Indians to put an Indian on the Buffalo nickel?
Yeah, I still don't understand, you know, I thought that Washington was going to be removed before Redskins.
Because Washington is more offensive than the term Redskins.
It's only a matter of time before Washington is deemed too offensive.
Now, we don't have much time, but I do want to make a plug for a new term that I discovered just the other day.
It's called... I know what it is.
No, you don't.
You may not.
It's... Oh, maybe you do.
WINO.
W-I-N-O.
And that stands for White In Name Only.
I think that's very good.
I think that stands for just about every white public figure in the country.
They're white in name only.
They're about as authentic as the rhinos, who are Republicans in name only.
And let's see if we've got the time.
Yes, there is a British-Japanese singer by the name of Rina Sawayama.
And, as it turns out, she is a fairly hot stuff pop star, but she is heartbroken to find that she's ineligible for music awards, known as the Brit Awards and the Mercury Prize, because you have to be a British citizen.
A British citizen.
Well, she's lived in the UK for 25 years, but her family moved there from Japan, and although she considers herself British, she has not gotten British citizenship because Japan does not allow dual citizenship.
And who's she blaming?
Not the Japanese.
She's blaming the British.
She says, it was so heartbreaking when she found out she had to be a British citizen.
I rarely get upset to the level where I cry, and I cried.
She says this was a deeply, deeply heartbreaking experience of othering.
She's been othered because she can't apply for these prizes because she's not a British citizen.
Then she says, it's up to the award bodies to decide what Britishness really encompasses.
The very thing that they celebrate, which is diversity and opportunity.
That's Britain for you.
That's what it encompasses.
And the nerve, the nerve of them saying that you have to be British to apply for a British prize.
Good, and she's not criticizing Japan at all, you know.
I mean, no, no, not a word about the Japanese.
So, there you go.
Well, even if it were possible to have dual citizenship, I think a woman like that should be denied flat out for this kind of attitude.
But anyway, we have come to the end of our time.
It has flashed by as it always has.
So, ladies and gentlemen, we are honored.
We are honored by every one of you who listen to our podcast and we look forward to speaking to you a week from today.
So, it was over.
Pleasure to be back with all of our listening audience.
I know we're not on YouTube anymore, but wherever you're listening to us, around the world, this has been Jared Taylor.
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