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Aug. 14, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Kamala Gets the Nod
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is the indefatigable Paul Kersey.
And, much as I hate to do so, I'm afraid we have to open this episode with Kamala Harris.
As we all know, Kamala Harris is to be the vice presidential nominant of the Democratic Party, announced just a day or two ago, and the whole country is just as excited as can be.
Aren't you excited?
Now, you were predicting years ago, not years ago, maybe a year ago, that she would be the actual nominee, but she's got the number two slot, so you are pretty close to being on the money, Mr. Kersey.
Well, you know, she was the one that I thought all along.
She performed so poorly at the debates.
Then again, they all performed poorly.
Think back how Michael Bloomberg did, Mr. Taylor.
Everyone thought that this guy could spend probably $20 billion of his own money and he performed so poorly.
And that was one of the reasons why Kamala was You know, she opened the door so quickly, and it is astonishing that she was chosen.
You know, we knew they were going to choose a person of color, and here we go.
Yep, here we go.
Well, you know, she's taking strange kinds of criticism, unfortunately, from both the right and the left.
This stuff about her having been a fierce cop, and apparently she was a fierce cop.
I'm all for that.
I'm all for fierce cops.
But in 2013, she chided liberals who didn't believe in prisons.
She was saying that they didn't understand, quote, why I have three padlocks on my front door.
I bet she doesn't have three padlocks.
Who has three padlocks on his front door?
And that there should be, quote, a broad consensus that there should be serious and severe and swift consequences for criminals.
I applaud that.
She gets my vote.
Yeah.
And the fact is, when she was running for the nomination in the primaries, the slogan of Kamala is a cop was a devastating slogan because it was true.
You know, the other funny thing about her, though, is, and this is somewhat disruptible, she locked up a lot of pot smokers, and then she cracked a joke when someone asked her if she had ever smoked pot.
And you will recall what she said.
She said, half my family's from Jamaica.
Are you kidding me?
So she's got a sense of humor.
And then, of course, now she's going to be running as a champion of the oppressed and the persecuted.
A woman advantage because they're so so viciously oppressed.
However, you know the Los Angeles Times had a profile of her some time ago
calling her quote a privileged child of foreign graduate students whose
academic pursuits led them to UC Berkeley. Her father is from Jamaica as we all
know and he was an He's really quite a distinguished lad.
His mother is from, her mother is from India, and she is a scientist.
And Mrs. Harris herself married a Jewish lawyer and has become the stepmother to his two white children.
And they reportedly call her Mamala.
Isn't that sweet?
We'll be calling her Vice President Mamala if we're not careful.
Yes, Vice President Mamala.
And when she was running for the nomination, she had a whole section on her website called Combating Violent Hate.
Now that's all been deleted.
Now I'm not sure it's because she no longer stands by it or whether it is because she's no longer running for president and doesn't feel as though she should be brandishing a platform.
But this whole thing about combating violent hate mentioned only white haters.
There's no such thing as any other kind of violent hater on earth apparently.
And she said that anti-immigrant manifestos are a sign of impending violence.
Did you know that?
I do now.
Well, you do now.
That's right.
And this could justify taking away your guns, quote, If they exhibit clear evidence of dangerousness.
Now, dangerousness is a new word on me.
My guess is, of course, she would define dangerousness.
And she would also, she promised to commit two billion dollars to investigate, disrupt, and prosecute domestic terrorists.
This makes, and this would include making a priority for the FBI to more vigilantly monitor white nationalist websites and forums.
And this, she says, And I'm quoting her very words.
This will put pressure on online platforms to take down content that violates their terms and conditions.
In other words, she's saying if the FBI really monitors this stuff and yells at the platforms, then it doesn't make any difference if what people are posting is legal and is an exercise of the First Amendment.
She wants the government to pressure people to take stuff down that's perfectly legal.
I find that pretty spooky.
It's totalitarian to the nth degree.
It's everything that the left thought Donald Trump was going to do when he came into office as an authoritarian, which of course he hasn't.
He's just tweeted out every other month about tech censorship while, goodness gracious, who's even left on YouTube?
Who's even left on Facebook?
Who's even left on Twitter?
I think PewDiePie is still on YouTube.
And, you know, another thing.
This was pointed out to me just the other day.
When she was at Howard University, she wrote in her autobiography that her first day there, she said, this is heaven.
There were hundreds of people and everyone looked like me.
Isn't that sweet?
That she was in an all black heaven, she thought.
Now, What kind of?
Now, what if you and I were seeking an all-white heaven?
Oh boy, that's sure not allowed, is it?
But there is a real question as to whether or not she's really black or African-American in the true sense of the word.
There is a new movement called American Descendants of Slaves, ADOS, and they think she's a fraud.
They, of course, ADOS is for every kind of handout for blacks, of course.
They call it a new deal for black America, but they don't want people like her cashing in.
As the ADOS founders explained, black Americans from immigrant families, even places like Jamaica with a history of slavery, do not have the same claim.
And on its website, ADOS says it wants two new census categories.
American Descendants of Slaves, ADOS, and Black Immigrants.
Because when the pie gets divvied up, and when the American Descendants of Slaves get their special handouts, they don't want people like Kamala horning in.
So there you go.
But in any case, a lot of people think, and I'm not sure I entirely disagree, but I'm skeptical.
Some people are saying that poor old Joe Biden is such a dodderer that she is really going to be the power behind the throne.
But I kind of doubt that.
That guy's wanted to be president all his life.
And I think for as long as he can put one foot before the other, and so long as he can keep both eyes open, that guy's going to hang on for dear life.
Oh, without a doubt.
I mean, think back, this is before my time when I was even cognizant of what was going on, but wasn't he running for office in 88 to go up against George Bush?
And, I mean, this guy's always desired the White House.
That's how long he's been sniffing around as a senator and as truly part of the swamp.
I mean, that's what's fascinating to me, you know, as we were talking about briefly before we got started, you know, the Republicans are attacking Kamala and Joe Biden for being too hard on crime, for incarcerating too many blacks.
They did that with Joe Biden when he won the nomination and they were saying, oh, this guy authored the 1994 crime bill.
It's like, oh my gosh, that's great.
I wish we had that Joe Biden back.
And I wish we were that America where the Overton window hadn't shifted to a point that the GOP feels cucking About incarcerating black and brown people at higher levels.
Well, there's a reason they're incarcerated at higher levels.
Because they commit higher levels of violent crime.
This isn't hard to point out, folks.
And that is now a terrible thing to attempt to do.
And that, of course, is why we had such an exotic Sunday night frolic in Chicago.
I think all our listeners probably know that it all began on Sunday afternoon when police responded to a report of a man with a gun.
And while he was being pursued by police, the man turned around and blazed away at the officers.
He struck several of them before he was hit and everybody ended up in the hospital.
Well, he was 20 years old.
He'd previously been arrested four times for things like burglary and child endangerment, domestic battery, the usual stuff.
But The word got out.
This was the grapevine.
The African-American grapevine put out the word that this guy had been 15 years old, a mere child, and shot in cold blood.
And so looting erupted on the Magnificent Mile and other parts of Chicago's downtown.
And as a result, over 100 people were arrested.
This is a remarkable achievement for Lori Lightfoot, who generally never met a rioter she didn't like or a looter she didn't love.
But it was really quite, quite extraordinary.
People sat there in idling cars as looters calmly brought out the swag.
And the thieves cleaned out high-end stores like Gucci Dior and Hermes.
They took everything, including the mannequins.
I don't know what they can do with those.
You know, maybe target practice.
Take them out of the range.
And many business owners have to decide whether they're going to reopen after being looted twice.
And apparently there are homeowner and store owner organizations writing to Lori Lightfoot saying, look, look, you just got to stop this stuff.
But, Cook County State's Attorney, Kim Foxx, One of our favorite state's attorneys.
Famous from the Jussie Smollett business, her office has dropped, since she took office, over 25,000 felony cases.
And she says that her goal as a state's attorney is, quote, be thoughtful about our persecution of gun crimes and violent crimes and not waste resources on non-violent offenses.
Well, you know, if you loot, if you riot, that's not necessarily violent.
And all the people who causes mayhem are technically non-violent.
So we'll see.
They actually arrested 100 people.
Let's see what finally happens.
And then, this was to me one of the really revelatory aspects of this little before-back-to-school get-together down there on the Magnificent Mile at a rally in support of the arrested looters.
I think that's worth noting.
These people are arrested.
So BLM, the BLM folks gather and start shouting and whooping and gesticulating in front of the police department because their comrades are behind bars.
A BLM organizer said that this was all a form of reparations.
They deserved it.
And BLM also had a message for black, lesbian, Mayor Lightfoot, they said, the mayor clearly has not learned anything since May and she would be wise to understand that the people will keep rising up until the Chicago Police Department is abolished and our black communities are fully invested in.
In effect, These people are saying to a black mayor, we're going to keep rioting.
We're going to keep attacking policemen until you abolish the police department, until you, whatever that is, black communities are fully invested in.
This is really an extraordinary situation.
And to me, I was struck that Jesse Jackson, he was one of the people who really spoke out in the most straightforward terms about this.
He says, this act of pillaging, robbing and looting in Chicago was humiliating.
Embarrassing!
And morally wrong.
Of course, it's humiliating and embarrassing because, as all the TV shows, it's overwhelmingly and sometimes exclusively black people.
He says, it must not be associated with our quest for social justice and equality.
So, he was braver about it.
He was really more direct in condemning this than practically any of the white people I've heard in any kind of public statements about this.
So, hats off to Jesse.
Occasionally, you know, you keep talking Well, yeah, we'll get to that in one second.
occasionally going to say something that makes sense.
But I believe you had discovered, you had unearthed one aspect of this Chicago business
that I had not about Ronald McDonald.
Well, yeah, we'll get to that in one second.
You know, you're a pretty perspicacious individual, It's fascinating to think about how we've now been experiencing this insurrection, which of course is state-sponsored and corporate-sponsored.
The Black Lives Matter movement has just... I wouldn't say that.
They don't really sponsor the looting and the rioting, but they certainly don't condemn it the way they should.
They should, but it's just extraordinary that there hasn't been one Republican who's really solidified themselves as the primary Opposition to what's going on and that's that's the most distressing thing with with this election that's coming up Donald Trump just seems to be More interested in pursuing this criminal justice reform Mindset and you know you think about all that's happening and all that has happened all the monuments that have come down and It really just took one big speech And I know we're gonna get to the story about what happened in North Carolina with this with this five-year-old white
White boy who was murdered.
Again, if Trump just tweeted that story out, the narrative could change and that's, you know, that's the most, you know, it's this horrible dichotomy because at the same time he's been so, in a lot of ways, disastrous as president, he still could do so much good with just one tweet.
Well, in an attempt to defend a guy whom I seldom attempted to defend, Law enforcement is a local responsibility.
And he has sent in the National Guard.
He has sent in federal officers, certainly to Portland and to, I believe, St.
Louis.
And he took all sorts of ferocious criticism for this.
And he was one who did talk about really putting these people down vigorously.
But as usual, He's mostly bark and very little bite, but he is up against the problems of federalism.
It's not the federal government's job to keep black looters from doing a little back-to-school shopping and making off with some Nike high tops that they haven't paid for.
That's not the federal government's job.
So, if you say there's not been a single Republican who has stood four square against this kind of misbehavior, I think you do have to pin the tail on the Trump.
But anyway, it is really appalling that there are not more Republicans who have come out, and Democrats for that matter.
How come there aren't even Republicans who can take the clear position that Jesse Jackson has?
He's braver than 99% of the politicians in the country.
It's...
What a revealing statement he just made right there to praise Jesse Jackson for his astute observation and his clarity of thinking and his suggestivity.
Well, and even Lori Lightfoot said something about how, whoa, this is bad, bad, bad.
She can't get the police to really control them, but she's, oh, this is no good.
This is not fighting for justice.
But yeah, Jesse Jackson laid her on the line.
This is humiliating, embarrassing, and morally wrong.
Good for him.
Just real quick, since the George Floyd insanity started at the end of May, I've just looked at all this incredulously.
It's just, where is the opposition?
And here's a story that you'd think would be a catalyst for some serious opposition.
I saw this headline.
I didn't think it was true at first, then I actually read it and it's like, wow, this happened.
Chicago looters attacked a Ronald McDonald house with sick children inside, Charity says.
And there's video of this.
So the Ronald McDonald House in Chicago was vandalized during the looting that you were describing earlier on Monday while families and their sick children huddled inside.
Now McDonald's of course has lavished a lot of money on Black Lives Matter and a decade ago they started their 365 Black Campaign.
Well here we go.
Now they get to find out what happens in the reality of a city that is gone all in on this idea that People have the right to protest, people have the right to riot, people have the right to loot, and like you said, people have the right to do this because it's a form of reparations.
The Ronald McDonald House in the Streeterville neighborhood near the city's near north side provides support for sick children and their families while the child receives medical treatment at nearby Lurie Children's Hospital.
This, you know, this service performs something vital, you know, for children, you know, especially from families that might not have the ability to pay.
It's a fantastic charity.
Well, they said more than 30 families and their sick children were sleeping inside when the looters who had taken over downtown ransacking stores, vandalizing properties, they started attacking the building.
Lisa Mitchell of the Ronald McDonald House said this, Quote, we were very concerned.
There was a lot of activity right in front of the house.
People making choices that could put them at risk and put our families at risk.
So the staff was frightened.
They are already in a really, really difficult spot, she said of the families.
And further, she said, quote, having this kind of additional stress and worry about getting to and from the hospital, even though we are five blocks away because of safety concerns, is just doubling the strain.
End quote.
I mean, again, this reminds me of the story from Richmond when there was the Black Lives Matter riot at the end of May, and the rioters, the looters, the Antifa, they tried to burn down a building where there were children inside, Mr. Taylor, and you think this Like you said about Democrats, are there no Democrats who understand when do they cross the line?
How far are they going to go before you finally say, okay, let's cut back here?
See, what I don't understand, Ronald McDonald, I don't recall ever walking by one and recognizing one, but surely they say that's what they are on the outside, do they not?
I just don't understand this.
Was it not clearly marked?
But didn't they break out some windows in the place?
Yes, everybody inside must have been absolutely terrified.
What an astonishing thing.
You've got a sick child, and you're taking advantage of this great charity, and then you get a mob of blacks attacking the building, breaking out the windows.
Who knows what they're going to do next?
What a terrifying thing.
But this, of course, the reason why they have been so emboldened in this respect is, I think, exemplified by the next story that you brought to my attention about Portland.
Portland's just going to drop charges on the rioters.
Yeah, the headline says it all.
Now, we all know what's happened in Portland.
I think they've had massive riots for, what, 60 plus days?
does the DA announce his plan to, quote, recognize the right to speak, end quote.
Now, we all know what's happened in Portland.
I think they've had massive riots for, what, 60 plus days.
They tried to burn, they tried to invade the federal building,
which prompted Trump to have the DHS come in.
You know, you'd think that's what the DHS should be doing Well here we have the Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Smith leaning on a group of community reps He called his transition team and he announced two days ago on August 11th that his office will drop most of the charges Filed against protesters in Portland.
He said this his prosecutors aren't going to pursue demonstrators accused of interfering with police disorderly conduct and Criminal trespass.
Escape or harassment if the allegations don't involve deliberate property damage.
Theft or force against another person or threats of force, Schmitt said.
Yeah, well this is typical.
These guys, they really get in the way of the police.
Interfering with the police, that's one of the things they do.
The police will actually get one of these folks who is throwing Molotov cocktails and these people will surround them and make it impossible to do an arrest.
That's going to be okay because it's not deliberate damage.
It's not delivered damage.
You know, again, the office won't prosecute people on a riot accusation alone either.
Prosecutors will proceed with a riot case only if it includes an accompanying allegation of specific damage or use of force.
Here's what he said, quote, What we're doing is recognizing that the right to speak and have your voice heard is extremely important.
If you're out there committing violence, you're damaging property, those cases are going to be prosecuted.
If you're a person who is out there demonstrating, you get caught up in the melee, those are the kinds of cases that we're talking about.
So basically, if you're out there and you're just one of these little pawns who are protecting the violent people, And you're not actually participating in the violence, you're going to be fine.
It's only those few that get caught.
They're the ones who will get prosecuted.
What I like best, of course, is his explanation for why all this is going to happen.
There is something that will surprise none of our listeners, but it's nice to see it out there in black and white.
Well, are you sure you want me to say it?
I am sure.
I'm sitting down.
I'm braced.
Let us have it.
Let's roll the ugliness and we'll see if I can be punctilious here and describe it in great detail.
Here we go.
So he's surrounded by black leaders from Portland.
What is Portland?
Like 6% black?
If that, yep.
If that, yeah.
Here we go.
He said that many of the people arrested over 75 days of consecutive daily demonstrations have little to no criminal histories and prosecuting them would cause unnecessary harm.
Quote, this policy acknowledges that centuries of disparate treatment.
of black and brown people have left people with deep wounds.
This policy recognizes in order to advance public safety, we must not only prevent crime, but
we must also promote economic and housing stability, educational opportunities, strong family
and community relationships, mental and physical health, and build trust with everyone
in our community."
And that's why they're not going to prosecute criminals.
Bingo.
It is a license to loot, it's a license to riot, it's a license to continue this insurrection, all done under the, what's the right word, auspices of, hey, do it because of what happened in the past.
This is restitution.
And here, this is the typical thing.
Because black and brown people, as they put it, Are not willing to abide by the rules?
Change the rules?
Don't prosecute anybody for these crimes that they insist on committing?
If there are enough non-whites who can't do what they're supposed to do, well then obviously no one should have to do it.
So, everybody gets off scot-free.
Yeah, standards and, you know, standards governing civilized behavior have to be retired.
They have to be shelved all because of Well, yep, all because of racial differences.
But anyway, moving on to Facebook, one of my favorite companies.
They banned me only in second in line after Twitter banned me.
So yes, they've taken a certain amount of attention to what I've been up to, but they announced that during the second quarter of this year, from April to June, They took down 22.5 million posts for hate speech.
Now, that is 250,000 posts every day.
That's 10,000 per hour, or 166 per minute, or about 3 every second.
That's 10,000 per hour, or 166 per minute, or about 3 every second.
That's hard work. Now, this was 10 times the number it removed in the same quarter last year,
so they are really ramping up.
But they say that 95% of all hate speech on Facebook was caught by automated systems before it was even seen by users.
Now this is extraordinary.
I'd love to know just how accurate they are in terms of catching the stuff that they really think they want to catch, but in other words, you could put a post on Facebook and if they have ripped it down before anybody has ever even seen it, it must disappear off your screen the moment you've typed it.
This must be a disconcerting experience to people.
Now it says also Facebook attributed the increase in this kind of action against hate speech content to improvement of its automation technology in Spanish, Arabic, and Indonesian.
So in those languages, too, you can have something disappear right from beneath your fingertips before your intended audience ever sees it.
I can see Spanish and Arabic, but Indonesian?
I guess they've got a big problem with Indonesian hate mongers.
But also, they say they improved their English detection technology, too.
And while they were at it, they removed over 7 million instances of harmful COVID-19 misinformation.
And they also slapped warning labels, but did not remove 98 million pieces of COVID misinformation.
98 million pieces!
These guys never sleep.
It's just extraordinary.
But I'm saving the best for the end.
And that's this.
Facebook Vice President of Integrity.
Now, isn't that a title for you?
Vice President?
That's a terrifying title.
Orwellian.
Boy, I'd love to be a Senior Fellow for Integrity at the New Century Foundation.
But his name is Guy Rosen with this lovely title.
He said the company intends to have an independent third party To audit and validate its internal numbers around hate speech and content moderation.
Now, I underline this because I consider this a great opportunity for some of our listeners.
I'm sure that some of our listeners could do a much better job at moderating this stuff than Facebook ever could.
So get in touch with Guy Rosen, VP for Integrity, and volunteer your services.
I'm sure he'd appreciate it a great deal.
But I'm afraid we're going to have to move back to crime.
There's a lot of that going around.
And you had a couple of stories about both New York and Philadelphia.
Give us the good news.
Good news.
Well, definitely not good news.
As we retire, like we talked about, retiring standards, and we find ways to try and blame white people, the NRA, and gun owners on this violence that's happening.
Of course, in New York, we have a situation where there was, in mid-July, there was a lot of gun violence.
You know, the media obviously calls it a tragic weekend of gun violence.
Trying to find a way to cover up who's actually committing the violent crime.
Of course, you and I know since I've broken down the data of the New York City Crime Report, which shows that I think it's 97 or 98% of non-fatal gun crime is committed by black or brown people, and about 96% of homicides are committed by black or brown people.
Which the media never reports.
Here we have a situation where a one-year-old was shot and killed.
And this all happened after the NYPD disbanded the anti-crime unit, which helped to get guns off the street.
Now, it's really sad because the Brooklyn Bureau President, Eric Adams, he held up a pair of baby shoes after this one-year-old became the latest victim of gun violence.
Caught in the crossfire, Mr. Taylor, and dear listener, at a family barbecue.
Now, Jared, I've been at a barbecue with you before.
Mr. Taylor, I've been at a barbecue with you before, and I'm sure you've been to many barbecues.
I'm sure our listeners out there, some of you might actually be barbecuing right now.
You might be grilling as you listen to us, wherever you are in this great country.
I can't even imagine somebody being shot at a barbecue.
Can you?
I guess you have limited life experiences.
No, it's hard for me to imagine somebody opening fire at a barbecue, and especially if you're at a barbecue with a one-year-old child.
I suspect there were plenty of other children there, too.
And the idea of a one-year-old child stopping a bullet, it really is a tragic thing.
But the good news As far as I'm concerned, is that a number of black leaders in New York are saying, bring back the anti-crime unit.
That was about... Bring back, exactly.
That was some 400 officers whose job was to get illegal guns off the street.
And all of these illegal shootings, well, as if there were any legal shootings, all of these shootings are up, what, 200, 250%?
And some of these black people have got sense enough to realize, hey, stop and frisk works.
Bring these boys back because who is suffering?
It's our one-year-olds.
I do consider it good news when you have black so-called leaders who recognize that policing is important.
Policing works.
Sometimes it's the goofy, idiotic, moon-calf, white people who insist that they got to defund the police.
Yeah, there is a panacea to gun violence, and that is actually having units of the police whose primary job is to notice patterns and to be in communities where most of the gun violence is happening, and to stop it, to stop one-year-olds.
I mean, here's a quote from Adams.
He said this as he's holding the baby's shoes.
Quote, babies are not supposed to be wearing these in a coffin.
End quote.
And you know, he's a former cop.
And he was one of the high-ranking members of the African-American community who basically said, you've got to reinstitute the anti-crime unit, which allows undercover cops, whose job is basically to get guns off the street.
I mean, that's what they're there for.
And you know how crazy that percentage increase is.
I think we've already seen, yeah, like you said, The shootings for the week went up 277%, 49% compared to just 13% in 2019.
Now think about how big New York City is.
Remember that story I think we've talked about many times about how New York has a population 14 times that of Baltimore and yet In 2019, Baltimore had more homicides than New York did.
You know why that is?
Because there's basically an army of police officers keeping the city safe.
And Mr. Taylor, you know, since this whole George Floyd stuff has happened, there have been some really interesting stories in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Market Watch, about this massive flight from the wealthy, from New York City, and what that's actually going to do to the tax base there.
Yes, I know a few people who live in Manhattan, and I read some appalling stories about what's happening in New York City.
And I wrote them, and I said, is this at all realistic?
It talks about streets being deserted, restaurants boarded up and closed, people heading out, people trying to put their apartments on the market.
I said, yes, all true.
Manhattan is headed into what may be one of the darkest times since the David Dinkins era.
That was in the 1970s.
So we are really looking through, we're looking towards a very, very sorry time for Manhattan.
Well, Dinkins was mayor in the 80s, right?
Because Giuliani beat him in the 90s when he ran for re-election.
And, you know, Giuliani, of course, you know, obviously the 70s you had, there were so many movies.
I think you're right.
Abe Beam was in the late 70s and then in came David Dinkins.
That was really one of the low points for New York City.
Yeah, because in the 80s you had, pardon me for interrupting Mr. Taylor, but in the 80s you had, of course, Harold Washington.
He was the first black mayor elected in Chicago.
And everyone thought that that was going to be the end of Chicago.
And of course, you've seen, you know, of course, Lori Lightfoot is the mayor now.
And I think a lot of these major cities are never going to recover from this.
I think in a lot of ways, this COVID-19, I don't know how the country in a lot of ways is ever going to be the same.
I mean, I know you work from Where you work so you don't get out that much, but it is terrifying out there to see all these stores, all these small businesses, people's lives uprooted by this COVID-19 stuff.
And it's really getting difficult to watch what's happening.
Well, this is not really the subject of our podcast, but I think all of this apocalyptic talk about how nothing's going to be the same because of COVID-19 is, in fact, wrong.
I think there will be, eventually, a vaccine.
And if there's not a vaccine, eventually, everybody who's going to get it will have gotten it, and everybody else will be immune.
But be that as it may, these are big changes coming.
To me, much more than COVID-19, Is this rampant lawlessness in the big cities?
Yeah.
If you run the Gucci store, you have had your stock cleared out twice now.
And how many more times is this going to happen under Lori Lightfoot?
You must be shaking your head and wondering, maybe we're just going to pull out.
Maybe we're going to give up on this city.
Yeah, close the store.
Why be there?
If you can't maintain the integrity of, like you said, the stock of the goods that you're trying to sell, if people who actually have money are no longer coming and they've fled the cities, well, there goes your restaurant.
There goes that infrastructure for a service industry, for restaurants, for high-end shops.
You say life is going to change, and it's not going to be as apocalyptic as some people are out there saying.
I do agree, but for some of these major cities, oh, it's bad.
And I'm saying it's not because of the virus, it's because of what human beings are doing, and what other human beings are failing to prevent them doing.
What certain racial groups are doing.
We have to talk about Philadelphia real quick, and that's where we're headed.
Speak to me of Philadelphia.
Speak to you, Philadelphia.
Yes, the city of brotherly love is not living up to its name.
The title of this story was Philly in Crisis.
Black clergy host town hall on surging gun violence.
I'll just read just real quick the first couple lines.
Philadelphia is in crisis.
During a virtual town hall on Thursday evening, speaker after speaker echoed that sentiment while discussing the surge in gun violence that's gripped the city amid the coronavirus pandemic and ongoing protests calling for a radical overhaul of law enforcement.
Now it's fascinating when you actually think about that sentence.
Maybe we don't need an overhaul of law enforcement.
We need more law enforcement to actually stop and grapple with this black gun violence that we're seeing.
Pastor Carl Day, who leads the Cultural Changing Christians Worship Center, said this, Now, where you and I are, I see people just living their lives.
I don't see city-wide wars going on.
I don't see rioting.
I don't see looting.
But this wide-ranging discussion was organized by the Black Clergy of Philadelphia and vicinity, largely focused on discussing general solutions to stemming the bloodshed.
And trying to quell the gun violence and you just basically had all these various community leaders people who I mean, here's an organization in Philadelphia that should tell you all you need to know about the type of communities individual black people collectively create.
Every murder is real.
It's a non-profit that supports families affected by homicide.
Shantana Love, she said this, quote, we have to tackle the self-esteem, the corroded spirit of a person where they can't see hope.
We're doing something that we have not gotten rid of, that we are still pressing forward to change a culture to stop violence, to stop murders, to stop shootings, to just stop this catastrophe that's happening in our neighborhoods, end quote.
You know, they've been talking about lack of self-esteem for decades now.
That is not the problem.
Those guys, gangbangers, their problem is not a lack of self-esteem.
And every test of self-esteem that's ever been devised shows that blacks have a whole lot more of it than white people.
This notion that somehow we need to boost their opinion of themselves.
They've already got an excessively high opinion of themselves.
I think in many cases that's their problem.
But this gathering of clergy and uplift artists and social workers It just goes to show you how desperate they are, but they are unable to come up with good solutions.
And I'm sure there are good solutions.
If there is one, it would be get married before you have children.
Get a job.
Stay out of jail.
Those are the basic simple things.
And those are the things that black people are increasingly incapable of doing.
And unless people are prepared to talk in those terms, those crime rates aren't going to go down.
Now, arresting criminals And putting them away, that certainly helps.
But the how do you stop this in the beginning?
No.
We're going to get these community organizers or these trained civilians that have some kind of mastery of de-escalation techniques.
And they're going to talk people out of shooting each other.
What pathetic baloney.
No.
You've got to... It starts at a much more basic level than that.
And every civilization in every human history has understood this.
Don't have children until you're married, get a job, support yourself, have two parents, and discipline your children.
But anyway, these are futile observations in these days.
Hey, this is Jared Taylor with Focus of the Family right now.
That's right.
Just real quick.
Some of the ancient wisdom is ancient and wise for a reason.
I don't disagree.
One final thought, though, about all these violence interrupters and stuff.
You're right.
I mean, there's a city I follow, Indianapolis, and they've got just horrible gun violence.
And I know that Indianapolis is going to be soon a focal point of a great replacement.
By Gregory Hood.
You know, he's done a fascinating job, a tremendous job compiling the micro racial changes we've seen in American cities.
Last week's piece he did on Milwaukee.
It was a must-read at the AR site.
I saw that Unz is cross-posting it over at unz.com.
So kudos to you Mr. Taylor for continuing to do that fantastic series.
I think I know the guy who's putting together all the data on that.
But Hood is doing a tremendous job and tomorrow Baltimore is going to be published.
So very excited about seeing that.
Yes, we see the consequences of demographic change, even if nobody else in the country does.
Now, this next story is from the Facts Don't Matter department.
And it has to do with a 2018 lawsuit that was filed against the UC system, University of California, the biggest state university system in the entire country, claiming that the SAT is biased against certain racial and ethnic minority groups.
I think we can guess which ones.
And that therefore using the SAT in college admissions is discrimination, racism.
And so, The University of California put together a special task force to investigate how the SAT is used.
Well, in February this year, the task force submitted its report to the UC administration and it was also released to the public.
It was a very sophisticated, detailed, statistical analysis.
It went on for several hundred pages.
Fortunately, I did not read this.
Other people did and summarized it.
And they show that SAT is a very solid predictor of college performance.
It does better.
It is a better predictor than high school GPA.
And it remains a significant predictor of GPA, even if you control for income and race.
The empirical evidence is absolutely clear that SAT is not biased.
SAT scores are a valid predictor of who's going to do well in college and who's not, regardless of your demographic background.
In fact, as this study found, the strength of the relationship between SAT scores and college performance, in other words, its ability to predict how well you're going to do, is getting stronger over the years.
While the relationship between high school GPA, your grades, and college performance is getting weaker and weaker because of all of this grade inflation.
Grades increasingly mean less and less.
Whereas SAT is becoming a better and better predictor of how you do.
So the conclusion from the words of this several hundred page report put together by a group of 20 highly respected UC faculty members who spent a great deal of time on it is this.
Test scores contribute significant predictive power across all income levels, ethnic groups, across both first-generation and non-first-generation students, and across all campuses and majors.
It is universally a good tool to figure out who should go to college and who shouldn't.
Well, this sounds pretty conclusive, doesn't it?
You will not be surprised, dear listener, to hear that on May 21st of this year, the UC California Regents released a statement saying they're going to drop the SAT requirement.
You no longer have to take the SAT to apply to all of the UC schools.
And you see, the problem is, as they explained, blacks are 6% of California's college age population, but they are only This is a crisis that cannot be permitted to continue.
And as John Perez, Board of Regents, he's the chairman of the Board of Regents, he says, I believe this test is a racist test.
There's no two ways about it.
Did he even read the report that they commissioned?
And Kumkum Bhavnani, What kind of name is that?
Kumkum.
K-U-M-K-U-M.
It's a name that was definitely on the Mayflower, Mr. Taylor.
How dare you?
How dare you not understand that?
Well, Kumkum, I have a feeling that's a girl's name, but you're not going to be wrong.
But Kumkum, I'm assuming it's a she.
She says, the main reason we're looking at SATs is because they're racist.
No one disputes that.
You know, this is just one of these classic...
This is even a gold-plated, rock-ribbed, absolute, ferro-concrete example of the facts not mattering.
They commission a very, very carefully put together study to see if the SAT is a useful tool for selecting who should be admitted and who shouldn't be.
They get results that say, yes, it is.
It's better than anything else out there.
And it's gotten better over the years.
And they say, nope, it's racist.
Nope, we're not going to use it anymore.
But this is our current mindset.
The facts simply don't matter.
Equality and getting the right number of mix, the right mix of the right colors of people make more sense than really trying to decide who is going to benefit from a UC education, who is not.
And I'm sorry to admit that in the county in which I live, Fairfax County, Virginia, the school district has done something I think just about as crazy.
It has noted that many parents in my county are joining together to engage private tutors, and some of these are school teachers, to do private tutoring or home instruction for small groups of children.
They call this tutoring in pods.
And they sent out a notice to all students, everybody connected with the school district, and they say, to be clear, these instructional efforts are not supported by or in any way controlled by Fairfax County Public Schools.
They say, while we don't and can't control these tutoring groups, we do have concerns that they may widen the gap in educational access and equity for all students.
In other words, if you hire somebody to teach your child while your child cannot go to school because the schools are shut down, that might widen the gap.
They say, we have received some requests from parents who would like to cluster groups or pods of students together with a specific teacher.
In the interests of educational equity, Fairfax County Public Schools cannot accommodate such requests.
This is breathtaking.
Don't you think that a public school system should be encouraging people to do the best possible things they can to educate their children?
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Because some people might advance ahead of others.
More important than learning is equality.
There you go.
And because equality is so important, it's my understanding that there is an Illinois school district in which black and brown students are going to get first dibs when people actually go back to the classroom.
Is that correct?
Yes, that is correct.
Let's get to Illinois.
And again, it's fascinating some of these stories that we do.
I go back to the old AR print edition.
What was it?
Oh, Tempora O'Moore's?
Yep.
So let's let's roll some more of these crazy stories that really just showcase How white people are second class citizens in what is obviously black run America.
A suburban school district has said students of color will get the first chance to return for in-person learning when schools reopen, citing a pandemic of inequity and racism and classicism that preceded COVID-19, the coronavirus, the China virus, whatever you want to call it.
District 65, which includes students from Evanston and Skokie, won't force teachers to work on-site.
School buildings may not be able to accommodate all students who would like to come back in their classrooms.
So, the superintendent, Devin Horton...
Reportedly said the district will give priority to black and brown students and others it considered to be marginalized or oppressed.
Yeah, so sorry Whitey.
But of course if white people do what they're doing in Fairfax County and having these little co-ops, these little pods, whatever the word was for private tutoring, they'll still be called racist.
Even though the public schools are doing whatever they can to create advantages for people of color.
Yep, well that's white privilege for you.
Coast to coast.
And here's another great example of what white privilege can get you in trouble for.
There is a woman by the name of Jean Hedgepeth at Palatine High School, likewise in Illinois.
A social studies teacher, she put up a post on Facebook and she said, I find the term white privilege as racist as the n-word.
You've not walked in my shoes either.
So do not make assumptions about me and my so-called privilege.
You think America is racist?
Then you've been hoodwinked by the white liberal establishment and race baiters like Jesse Jackson and Alice Sharpton.
Travel the world and go see every nation has racism, some more than others, but few make efforts such as we do to mitigate or eliminate it.
And then, she went on to recommend that her Facebook friends read the works of Thomas Sowell, Candace Owens, and listen to radio host Larry Elder.
All of them are black, of course.
Every one of them.
She didn't recommend that Jared Taylor be read by her Facebook friends or that they check out American Rhymes.
No, no.
She says, go listen to what these black people have to say.
Well, the school district, they voted 5 to 2 to fire her.
And they said the statements in the post did not reflect the values or principles of District 2-1-1.
She said, we're truly sorry for any harm or disrespect this may have caused.
So, if a woman says she doesn't believe in white privilege, and that the United States has worked very, very hard to try to eliminate racism, then, nope, that does not reflect their values, and so she has to be fired.
As it turns out, from a legal point of view, a high school can punish speech by employees that is seriously disruptive.
Or makes it impossible for them to do their duties.
But they can't punish somebody just for saying something that somebody else doesn't like.
So, let us hope she sues.
But this is simply, simply outrageous.
Now, we're going to get back to Michigan, if time permits.
But before we talk about that, I would like to talk about McCown's longspur.
You're probably not a bird watcher.
Neither am I. But there is a species of one of our fine flying feathered friends known as McCown's longspur.
It was named in the 19th century by ornithologist John McCown.
However, They have decided, the American Ornithological Society announced that the name just won't do.
And that's because John McCown fought for the Confederacy.
Now, this is after he named the species, but he fought for the Confederacy.
So, in response to recent events and consideration of the updated guidelines, the committee is preparing a new Proposal to change the name.
And now it will be known henceforth as the Thick Build Long Spur, not McCown's Long Spur.
Now, you're a Southerner.
I'm a Southerner.
I know a little bit about our ancestors and who fought and who did not.
I have never heard of John McCown.
Who even knows who John McCown is?
But these bird brains who run the American Ornithological Society think they've got to get rid of that name because I suppose it might strike terror in the hearts of black birders.
So that's our uplifting story for the day and I have a yet another uplifting story.
This has to do with math.
Brooklyn College professor of math education.
Now, you always got to be suspicious of a professor of whatever it is, education, math education, science education.
It's not math she teaches.
She says the idea of math being culturally neutral is a myth.
She adds, of course, the math is neutral because 2 plus 2 equals 4 trope.
And the related and creepy math is pure and protect math.
This reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.
Can you believe that?
2 plus 2 equals 4.
Did you realize that when you were studying that, you were having the white supremacist patriarchy shoved down your throat as a grade schooler?
Yeah, I totally was.
I'm still suffering PTSD from white privilege.
Once you embrace white fragility, you see the world through a whole new lens, Mr. Taylor.
Well, gosh.
Well, I'm glad you see the error of your ways and you're going to correct it.
Now, Rochelle Gutierrez, who teaches, and here is yet another subject that strikes me as completely illegitimate, Sociopolitical Perspectives on Mathematics and Science Education at University of Illinois.
What the heck is that?
Sociopolitical perspectives on math and science education.
This sounds like something absolutely designed for somebody who knows nothing about anything.
In any case, she says that the U.S.
colonizes math.
Colonizes math.
So, I guess we're going to decolonize math and declare that 2 plus 2 equals 5.
Then there is Karim Karr.
She's one of our melanin-enhanced fellow citizens. A PhD student at Harvard University, she
said, it's an objective fact that some groups were more involved
in the creation of modern math than others. They may have been trying to make it objective, but
it's not stupid to ask if they actually succeeded. Oh, those wicked white people.
They might have been trying to find the truth, but probably unbeknownst to them, in their unconscious racism, they came up with formula and theorems and epithems that completely oppressed women, blacks, gays, But, you know, at least it's kind of a backhanded compliment.
She did say it's an objective fact that some groups were more involved in the creation of modern math than others.
Well, I'm astonished she actually said that.
She admits that we did not steal it from those Egyptians who were all black to begin with.
Oh, boy.
So, where does it end?
You know, I think maybe we do have time to talk about Michigan being a public health emergency.
Where does it end?
I'll tell you where it ends.
It ends with the great state of Michigan, Governor Gretchen Whitmire.
I'm sure she'll get appointed to President Biden's cabinet, based on what she's doing here, she's declaring racism a public health crisis and pursuing initiatives to, quote, eradicate and prevent discrimination and racial inequity, end quote, including making all state employees undergo implicit bias training, her office announced yesterday on August 12th.
Here we go.
Here's what she said.
Implicit, unconscious bias exists within each of us, and as public servants, we have a duty to understand how bias can impact the lives of others.
I am committed to leading by example and making sure state government is a model for equality, understanding, and fairness.
We have a lot of work to do to eradicate the systemic racism that black Americans have faced for generations.
That's going to take time."
Well, here's an idea, here's an observation.
Governor Whitmer, why don't you just resign?
You're a white woman who obviously was elected with a lot of privilege behind it, you know?
Go ahead and resign.
Well, they never think of that.
She sounds like a public health hazard to me herself.
But yes, you're absolutely right.
And you know, we're running very badly out of time, so we must cover what happened in Wilson, North Carolina.
You mentioned this earlier, this black man, Darius Sessoms, what a name, S-C-S-S-O-M-S, age 25.
He murdered a five-year-old white boy who was just riding around on his bicycle in his own yard.
Say his name, Mr. Taylor.
His name was Cannon Hinnant.
And the even perhaps just as incredible thing is young Hinnant had a seven-year-old sister and an eight-year-old sister and this guy this black guy shot him dead point-blank in the head right in front of them.
And the motive of the killing is still under investigation, but a GoFundMe established by a family member to raise money for this family says that apparently this five-year-old boy might have rode into Sessom's yard.
And so he got blown away, shot in the head for having done such a thing.
And this is clearly Vastly worse than anything that ever happened to Ahmed Arbery.
Vastly, vastly worse.
In fact, it's vastly worse than any of these famous apparently or allegedly anti-black deaths that took place.
But will white people riot?
No.
Strictly local news.
And the best story on this that I've seen is from the Daily Mail.
A British story.
A British story.
American press.
No, no.
We can't deal with this.
We can't deal with this.
And you know, it's one of those stories that's probably going to disappear so rapidly, we will never even know if there's anything more behind what happened here.
This will just drop out of sight.
Nobody will care.
But here, one five-year-old kid riding on his little tiny bicycle, a child's bicycle, blown away with a bullet in the head in front of his sisters.
Yeah, this, you know, obviously I know I paid horribly and I pay attention to a lot of these stories.
I've let a lot of these touch me and emotionally grapple with a lot of this stuff, Mr. Taylor, and I wish I didn't pay attention to stuff because this one of Kane and Hennant was just Well, when you have kids, you know, or you have nieces and nephews, it just puts everything into perspective.
And it's one of these stories that will stay with me for a very long time.
And I hope that President Trump does the right thing and tweets out about this story, because that's all that needs to happen.
Yeah, that would make a huge difference.
It would make a huge difference.
We are sorry to end on such an unpleasant note, but these are important things to bear in mind in these important times.
And we thank you, every one of you listeners.
It is an honor for us to be able to reach you in this manner.
And on behalf of Mr. Kersey, I want to thank you for your attention, and I look forward to the honor of the opportunity to speak with you once again next week.
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