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Sept. 16, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
This is September 16th, the year of our Lord, 2020.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
So glad you can be with me again today.
And once again, it is a great privilege to have this opportunity to speak to you, wherever you are and whoever you are.
I'd like to start with a sports story.
I want Mr. Kersey to be proud of me.
I follow sports.
Certain sports.
And this one happens to have to do with a half-black, half-Japanese tennis player.
A pretty good tennis player.
Naomi Osaka.
She defeated Victoria Azarenka a few days ago to win her second U.S.
Open singles title.
This was her third Grand Slam.
Her father is Haitian, and her mother is Japanese.
Now, she had apparently U.S.
citizenship and Japanese citizenship.
Does she have Haitian citizenship?
No, she doesn't.
And this I don't understand at all.
How does a Haitian father and a Japanese mother make her a U.S.
citizen?
Well, apparently she is.
She's actually more American than you or I, or probably any American listening.
I wouldn't say that.
I wouldn't say that.
But she is American.
Citizenship, well, she just relinquished her U.S.
citizenship to be nothing but Japanese citizenship.
And this has to do with political reasons.
She plays under the Japanese flag, but she lives in the United States.
One of these strange, multi-culti, globalist-type people.
Well, she attracted considerable attention, aside from winning the Grand Slam, due to the fact that she wore masks with the names of victims of racial violence, as she explained.
Quote-unquote racial violence, you should paraphrase.
Well, yes, as she explained.
The names included that of those of Philando Castile, Trayvon Martin, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Elijah McLean.
Now, Elijah McLean is a new one on me.
Maybe I better bone up on Elijah McLean and find out just what sort of horrible victimization was perpetrated against him.
These were black masks with white lettering, custom-made, I suppose, for her.
Now, when she decided to start demonstrating in the name of black victimhood, she denounced the genocide of black men at the hands of the police.
Yes, and this went uncorrected, unmocked, unrefuted, despite the fact that the police every year kill about 250 black people.
Of that number, the vast majority, all but about 10 are armed and certainly deserve to be shot.
And another 750 or so are white people killed by the police, but she has no interest in that.
And thousands and thousands, usually about 8,000 or 9,000 black people a year killed by other black people.
But she is worried about genocide of blacks at the hands of the police.
Yeah, the Washington Post actually has a pretty comprehensive database, Mr. Taylor.
You can actually see this.
And in 2019, the number was actually nine unarmed blacks.
Nine!
It wasn't even ten, it was nine!
Yes.
And 19 unearned white people, but who cares about them?
So, there you go.
Genocide.
She's complaining about genocide.
And it just irks me when a claim of genocide like this is completely unrefuted.
What I don't understand Is why this half-black, half-Japanese person who has renounced her US citizenship, I suppose because the United States is so full of racist, genocidal cops, why does she live here?
Why does she live here?
That's a mystery to me.
In any case, that is my contribution to race and sports on this occasion, and now I turn that question over to you.
I would like you to tell me about some of the barriers to blacks in sports.
Now, of course, tennis used to be known as this all-white, lily-white sport that kept black people out, but there have been some black champions, certainly, all the way back to Arthur Ashe, for example.
Well, Arthur Ashe is one of the few monuments still standing on Money Avenue in Richmond.
That's right, the black sportsman who was a tennis champion, and we had those famous Williams sisters, and now we have Naomi Osaka.
By the way, she apparently repudiates her Japanese half when she describes herself as a black woman.
And the Japanese, I follow Japanese media to some degree, they are somewhat bemused by her, whereas the American media say that she is calling attention to racism in Japan by making a big fuss over Breonna Taylor and Elijah McClain.
As I say, the Japanese find this somewhat perplexing, but they're used to surprises, certainly coming from across the Pacific.
Well, there was also another good story, just final thoughts on Naomi.
They talked about how now she's embracing this concept of black hair.
She's now the latest individual who's trying to live in this white world where her identity and her sexuality, her beauty, is all defined by that prison of whiteness.
It's amazing.
She attacks whiteness constantly, but as you noted, she wants the privilege of living in a society that is, well, as we're told, Complete with systemic racism.
That's right.
Full of hateful white people.
I guess you can't get enough of them.
She certainly is making a ton of money living in white society and competing in what was said to be a white sport.
But anyway, tell me about all the barriers that black people are insufferably subjected to when they try to climb the ladder in elite sports.
Well, here we go.
Yahoo right now is doing a series called The Privilege of Play.
It's a series examining the barriers non-white groups face in reaching elite levels of swimming, race car driving, soccer, and hockey.
Well, gosh, non-white groups.
Well, I don't see many Mexicans, I don't see many Chinese in basketball, but that's just not one of the sports they care about.
It doesn't matter.
These sports they're targeting have You imagine that pools all across the country are just waiting in open arms saying, come on in!
the elite press somehow illegitimate until they have sufficient numbers of blacks.
So the article says, from microaggressions to acts of overt racism, why swimming isn't
inviting to minority groups.
You imagine that pools all across the country are just waiting in open arms saying, come
on in, dive on in.
You know, come on.
I guess they're not inviting enough.
I don't know.
Anyways, just real quick, we'll go over some of the highlights.
What we learn is the quick little anecdote about Martiza McClendon.
She had a historic moment at the Olympics a few years ago when she emerged from a pool and she became the first African-American woman to win an individual gold medal, Mr. Taylor, in swimming, turning in an unforgettable performance in the 100-meter freestyle.
But instead of focusing on herself, you know what she did?
She used the moment to acknowledge others.
She said, quote, I mean, this medal is not just for me.
It's for a whole bunch of people that came before me and have been an inspiration to me.
And basically, she then called out people who look like her, other black swimmers.
Well, now is this being cited as one of these terrible, insuperable barriers to black success in swimming?
No, this is the intro to this article which shows, hey, look what happened.
We have this one person who has succeeded, so now we've got to find out what's going on.
We find out that in Rio de Janeiro at the Olympics, In 2016, this black swimmer joined an elite group of top black athletes, one that also included a number of other Olympic medalists, Anthony Irvin, Lea Neal, Jones, and McClendon.
It's a small group, but they're doing everything they can to expand because they want to improve Inclusivity in a sport still considered predominantly white and bring more children of color into the water.
I want to hear about the barriers.
Come on, what's keeping them out?
I'm looking for it.
Here's the number.
Where's the barbed wire?
Where are the police dogs?
You know what?
From what I understand, they left out in the cutting room floor in this story that the four officers who did something with George Floyd, they're actually guarding pools all across Minneapolis before that.
Anyways, here we go.
Here we go.
USA Swimming's 2019 report on demographics laid bare the participation goals existing in the sport of swimming.
Of 327,337 year-round athletes, Only 1.4% identify as Black or African American.
That's 4,841.
And as we know from Rachel Donizel and from Jessica Krug, some of them might not even be Black.
Some of them might not be Black, you're right.
So, while only 3.5%, just more than 11,000, identify as Hispanic or Latino.
Now, interestingly enough here, 34% did not respond to that ethnicity question, so that number could be higher or it could be sufficiently lower.
Mr. Kersey, you're disappointing me.
Where are the barriers?
You know what?
I'm going to keep going with a few more things here.
Okay, sorry.
So, McClendon said this, quote, swimming isn't as inviting to the African-American community as it should be.
That is something we're working on.
We're seeing Simone and Leah, but who are the others?
Who's coming through at nationals?
I see the change.
But there are still so few of us at the national level.
Change is still gaining traction.
End quote.
Now, as you say, what barriers are stopping little children of color from jumping into the pool, learning how to do the backstroke, learning how to do the freestyle, learning how to do the butterfly?
You know, let me interrupt rudely.
To recount my pilgrimage to Atlanta's, I forget, I think they call it the Black Heritage Neighborhood.
It's called the Natatorium.
That's what I'm talking about.
The Martin Luther King Natatorium.
It's there for all the black children.
It's right, it's very close to the Ebenezer Baptist Church where all those famous people preached.
It is waiting to produce champions.
All those black children are welcome in the natatorium anytime they can natate all they want.
But anyway, I'm still just on the edge of my seat, my knuckles are white, waiting for these acts of horrible racism that keep people out of the pool.
Here we go.
Okay.
Under the subject Disparities in Swimming Ability, quote, the first step is getting children in the pool.
A 2017 survey by the University of Memphis and the U.S.
Swimming Foundation found 64% of black children and 45% of Latino-Hispanic children have little or no swimming ability, compared to 40% of white children.
That's a lot of white kids that can't swim, by the way.
I was actually shocked by that.
Well, you know, I guess if you live in Iowa or, I don't know, Kansas, anyway, not these landlocked states, but forgive me.
Turns out that if a parent doesn't know how to swim, a child only has a 13% chance of swimming.
And obviously, there's a negative relationship that can generate gap with potentially deadly consequences.
Well, if you can't swim, you can't be an Olympic champion.
No, you can't.
But maybe this is a barrier, Mr. Taylor.
This is as far as we're going to delve into the story.
We're not going to dive much deeper into the story.
I want to find a barrier.
Come on.
I want to dive, dive, dive.
Here we go.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children ages 5 to 19 are 5.5 times more likely to drown in a swimming pool Then white children, obviously, raising the question of, are swimming pools racist?
Hmm.
Yeah, now there you've got it.
Well, I guess all those, you know, five times who drowned, they were potential swimming champions who were removed from the competitive field.
They were.
Oh dear.
Well, gosh.
Okay.
From microaggressions to outright racism.
Wasn't that in the title?
The title was From Microaggressions to Acts of Overt Racism.
So yeah, I guess swimming pools somehow are participating in this implicit bias that's keeping individual blacks from being champions.
I was hoping for really gruesome stuff.
Sensational stories are what sells on Yahoo.
We know that.
Well, sensational headlines.
I guess we'd like a few sensational facts.
Well, oh dear.
Well, something else that happened this week goes all the way back to March.
And it happened in a city where I used to live, Louisville, Kentucky.
And it has to do with one of the famous people whose names were emblazoned on Naomi Osaka's face masks.
Brianna Taylor.
She was killed in March when police executed a drug-related search warrant.
Three officers came in with a no-knock warrant, but witnesses and officers say that they knocked loudly on the door.
They did not.
It was not no knock, but then they broke into the place with a battering ram.
Kabam!
And Breonna Taylor, who was asleep at the time apparently, has a boyfriend who was sleeping over the name of Kenneth Walker.
He thought something was breaking in.
I don't blame him.
And he fired one round which hit one of the officers in the leg.
Not surprisingly, the officers returned fire with more than 20 rounds hitting objects in the living room, dining room, kitchen, hallway, bathroom.
Sounds like a small apartment.
But they also hit Breonna Taylor several times and killed her.
This sounds like one of these horrible tragic things that simply sometimes happen.
Now apparently there were no drugs in the apartment which is what they expected to find.
Who knows?
It sounds like somebody bungled.
But to insist that racism was hard at work here seems to me to be completely out of line.
But that is the obligatory interpretation.
That is Ms.
Osaka's interpretation.
Well, they just announced, the city fathers announced they're going to pay $12 million to her family.
That will lift generations out of poverty.
Also, there will be changes to the policing in the city, including financial incentives to officers to live in certain neighborhoods.
Isn't that interesting?
That's going to increase police costs if you're going to pay them extra to live in... Well, when I was living in Louisville, the neighborhood where I suspect they want them living in is called Smoketown.
Now, perhaps Smoketown will have more officers living there.
Will that improve relations between the police and the community?
I'm not convinced that it will.
There's no study that actually shows that.
There's actually some studies, Mr. Taylor, that show that increase in black participation in police don't actually increase trust.
No, no, no.
It certainly doesn't.
They're considered traitors and Uncle Toms and worse.
But the settlement also calls, and this I find fascinating, for the addition of social workers on some police calls.
Now, under what circumstances are you going to call up a social worker and say, you know, a man with knife found.
Come along for the ride.
How are you going to know under what circumstances to bring in a social worker?
When do you put the social worker, deploy the social worker into the situation?
This seems very strange to me, but they're going to be ride along social workers.
That's going to solve the problem.
Now, Benjamin Crump.
Our dear friend Benjamin Crump represents Breonna Taylor's family along with the families of other blacks who have stopped bullets.
He said this settlement, and let me remind you the figure, 12 million dollars, this settlement would, quote, assure that Breonna Taylor's life won't be swept under the rug.
I imagine it will assure a very substantial payday for Benjamin Crump.
Usually, when you put together a settlement like this, the lawyers involved get 40%.
Now, I can't say for a fact how much of this Mr. Crump is going to walk away with, but I imagine he's sitting right pretty.
Of the three officers involved, one has been fired.
And the rest have been put on administrative duty.
None has yet been charged in this case, but local media reported just last week the case will be presented to a grand jury.
So we will see what happens.
But I just thought this was a matter of some interest that not only has $12 million been splashed out to the family, but all of these interesting changes, incentives to live in Smoketown, and also ride along social workers.
We'll see just how much good that does.
Another story I wanted to call our listeners' attention to Was one that appeared just last week in Atlantic.
The Atlantic used to be serious journalism, or at least it tried to be, but I think they've given up all pretense now.
Contributing writer Shahid, I'm sorry, Shadi Hamid, shoddy work seems to me, he wrote an article called The Democrats May Not Be Able to Concede.
Let me quote from it.
I don't believe Donald Trump is a fascist or a dictator in the making.
And I don't believe America is a failed state.
I find myself truly worried about only one scenario, that Trump will win re-election and Democrats and others on the left will be unwilling, even unable, to accept the result.
He's not saying that America is completely in the hands of the fascists, but that the left will not accept.
Then he goes on to write, a loss by Joe Biden is the worst case because it is the outcome most likely to undermine faith in democracy, resulting in more of the social unrest and street battles that cities including Portland, Oregon, Seattle have seen in recent months.
What an astonishing admission!
This guy is saying Democrats are so closed-minded, so bigoted, so unwilling to accept the will of the people, or at least the will of Electoral College, that they're going to go out and riot.
You say that's an incredible admission.
Do you think the author of this piece understood what he was stating in such clarity?
I don't see how he couldn't have.
And then he goes on to say, for this reason, Strictly law and order Republicans who have responded in dismay to scenes of rioting and looting have an interest in Biden winning.
Boy oh boy, isn't this the most obvious sort of shakedown?
Exactly.
Biden better win or the cities are going to burn.
I mean, I don't see how it can be interpreted any other way.
You Republicans who believe in law and order, vote for Biden!
Wow.
I mean, this is the kind of thing you expect from Guatemala or Haiti or Afghanistan.
But this is what we get now that we have a different population in the United States.
You have that Yale education.
I think you understand that with demographic change, Mr. Taylor, comes consequences.
And we're seeing our slide into banana republicanism happening rapidly.
Again, we can have our We can look at the Trump Presidency and see what could have been.
I look at the Trump Presidency and I see what has actually happened.
I think there's a lot of positive things that have happened.
We are seeing our enemies laid bare now.
They are showing their true colors.
There's a great James Kirkpatrick piece at V-Day today which makes that similar point that, hey, media's out.
The deep state is out.
We know what this is all about now.
We know what their true goals are.
That's certainly true.
As he pointed out though, the last line, no one's coming to save us.
That's what we have to understand.
The Republican Party as it currently exists is not our friend.
That's certainly true.
And yet, are we gonna get to the point where candidates start stopping bullets?
I mean, that's what we get south of the border.
Yeah.
You get the guy who is going to crack down on the drug dealers.
And well, even before he gets into office, the drug dealers make sure that he ain't going to be in a position to stop them.
But you're right.
The other side has unveiled, that's been the great thing about Donald Trump.
He has made the dividing lines so blindingly clear.
And just to buttress the point you just made, on September 11th, The Washington Post editorial board was not talking about the attacks.
They had an editorial from which I may be permitted to quote.
Without the assent of Congress, President Trump has remade almost every major facet of America's immigration system over the past three plus years, slashing levels of legal and illegal arrivals, refugees, and asylum seekers.
They're very upset about this.
He said, and the editorial board goes on to say, The thrust of his nativist vision has taken root in hundreds of rule changes and policy shifts that have slammed shut America's doors.
There's some truth to that, actually.
He's done some things to, where he can, nibble around the edges to make it more difficult for people to come in.
Then the editorial board goes on to say, For decades before Mr. Trump took office, the United States resettled more refugees than the rest of the world combined.
Last year admitted just a third of the number of other countries total.
Good.
Woe is us.
Shame, shame, shame.
Yes, he did reduce the figure to 18,000 a year.
Joe Biden is promising to raise it to 125,000.
That's just to begin with.
Once he really gets the wind behind his sails, he would raise it even further.
Then the Washington Post editorial board goes on to say, when he, Donald Trump, pours scorn on welcoming refugees from Haiti and African countries, shithole countries, in his view, He promotes the idea that people clamoring to leave the world's poor nations are undeserving of admission to rich ones.
What the Post is saying, of course, is that people leaving the world's poor nations are deserving.
Let them all in.
Why not?
Let them all in.
So, yes, the presidency of Donald Trump has made it clear what people stand for.
And there's a Washington Post.
Basically, let them all in.
The Democrats are laying their cards on the table.
From the Atlantic to the Washington Post and everything in between.
Ideologically, there's not much in between, but ideologically, of course, includes a huge part of the media structure in the United States.
Now, moving on to San Francisco, there's a story here that leads me to wonder whether the idea is money can change biology.
Because the city of San Francisco will pay black and Pacific Islander women $1,000 a month during their pregnancies and after birth in a pilot program to study to see if the money helps achieve better maternal health and birthing outcomes.
In other words, yes, is it going to make the money?
And the money comes no strings attached.
That's what's so fascinating.
It doesn't say you've got to show up for prenatal checkups.
You've got to eat your vitamins.
Just your money.
Yeah, here's money.
And you can piss it away on trips to Las Vegas.
You can buy all the Cheetos you want.
$1,000 a month.
Here it is.
No strings attached.
And we'll see if that means they are less likely to have underweight babies or whether or not they're going to be complications after birth.
Very interesting.
Their theory is it's just a lack of money.
That's the problem.
Black people are more likely to have premature babies and have complications afterwards because they just don't have the dough.
The Abundant Birth Project, it's called.
Abundant Birth.
I'm not sure I like that.
I don't like it.
Well, let's not get into that.
Okay, but it should be Safe Birth or something like that.
The Abundant Birth Project will provide the monthly supplements for approximately 150 women in San Francisco for the duration of the pregnancy and for six months afterwards.
Because a black infant in San Francisco is almost twice as likely to be born immaturely compared to a white baby.
Well, twice as likely.
Got that?
While the preterm birth rate for Pacific Islanders in the city is over 10%, nearly three points higher than the national preterm birth rate for Asians and Pacific Islanders.
Now, I don't know what to make of this.
They're saying, they're just talking about Pacific Islanders, and then they're talking about the national rate for Asians and Pacific Islanders.
I don't know what's going on here.
But in any case, they've thrown in Pacific Islanders here.
That's their, I guess they can't just be exclusively blackity black black here.
So, they've got Pacific Islanders, not Asians, but Pacific Islanders.
Now, the article says, the disparity is not related to race, but rather racism.
According to Expecting Justice, that's an organization that cites historically racist policies as well as modern-day discrimination that underscores a wealth gap.
Now this is what expecting justice say.
Structural racism which has left black and Pacific Islander communities particularly exposed to COVID-19 also threatens the lives of black and Pacific Islander mothers and babies.
Then, they say, providing direct unconditional cash aid is a restorative step that not only demonstrates trust in women to make the right choices for themselves, that's the key point.
As I say, no obligation to go in for prenatal checks, no nothing.
The right choice for themselves and their families, but could also decrease the underlying stress of financial insecurity.
Now, I have a number of questions about this plan here.
Strangely absent are Hispanics.
Hispanics, and I think I know why, it's because Hispanics, despite the fact that they are even less likely than blacks to have medical insurance, have fewer preterm complications and postnatal complications than white people.
That statistics show this to be the case.
But some, and so, you know, it'd be very odd to give them an extra thousand dollars a month.
I wonder how it is, despite all the obstacles they face, their children fare better than whites.
And why is it that Asians, you know, in this white supremacist society, Asians do pretty well too.
But there you go.
So as I say, my theory on this is that money will change genetics.
Money will change biology.
Just give enough money and oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, they're going to have healthy, happy, overfed babies.
And boy, equality will soon be on our way for a mere $1,000 a month.
That's cheap.
Chorus said, you can throw nature out with a pitchfork, but it will always return.
And here's an example of that, Mr. Taylor, as we transition.
Well, I don't know where you're transitioning to.
I hope you're going to transition to COVID and children.
Oh, I am.
I am.
Once again, just like that alarming headline from Yahoo, where we were told that pools across the nation are Our complicit and implicit bias.
Outright acts of racism was overt.
Overt acts of racism.
Pools, lakes, beaches, natatoriums.
Doesn't matter if you're in the heart of Atlanta.
But here is a headline that caught me off guard.
Caught me off guard.
COVID-19 kills Black, Hispanic children at a much higher rate than white kids, CDC says.
We're going to learn once again that this disease, this virus, is racially targeted, it seems like.
Well, here's actually what the story says.
You see that headline, you get upset, you get pissed, you think, oh god, white racism is everywhere.
So a detailed look at COVID-19 deaths in U.S.
kids and young adults released Tuesday, September 15th, shows that they mirror patterns seen in older patients as well.
It examined 121 deaths of those younger than 21 as of the end of July.
So that is the total number of deaths that we've seen, Mr. Taylor and dear listener, of people in the country.
Of under the age of 21.
Is that... 121 deaths?
121.
That's it.
That's not... That's a small sample size.
There have been, what, 150,000, 170,000 deaths?
Close to 200,000, I would say, yeah.
50,000, 170,000 deaths?
Close to 200,000.
Okay.
But, well, wow.
Well, you know, I should have mentioned the stuff about maternal deaths after childhood.
Again, we're talking about a tiny, tiny number of people, but we just whoop and holler about that.
New York Times will write a long, long article about how black mothers are twice as likely to die in childbirth as white mothers, and then we find out there are only about, what, 175 of them?
And then again, Hispanics are less likely than whites.
Exactly.
But anyway, once again, I rudely interrupted.
No, you didn't rudely interrupt.
You pointed out a very good point because buried in the story, we get to the truth of the matter.
Right.
So again, 121 deaths of those younger than 21 as of the end of July 2020, COVID-19.
Like older adults, we learned that many of them had comorbidities, one or more medical conditions, lung problems, asthma, obesity, heart problems, developmental conditions.
Now here we go.
Deaths were most common among those in certain racial and ethnic groups.
According to the CDC, 54 were Hispanic, 35 were Black, and Only 17 were white, even though overall there are far more white Americans than black and Hispanic.
Now that's actually what this AP story, that's the line that we get.
Again, it's as if asserting that somehow this disease, that white people have some sort of shield that they're keeping up.
I've seen a lot of people, there've been a lot of stories about how environmental racism is impacting deaths.
I'm sure you've read the same stories.
Did any Asians die?
They don't, they don't mention that.
And I, unfortunately, I printed my stories out here, so I can't control F to find out if the Asians are in there.
But, uh, looking at their numbers, you're talking about that's 89 and then, uh, 17.
So that's 106.
So 121.
So 106, 121.
You're talking about what, 15 more of the other categories?
Might be American Indian.
Yeah.
Some could be American Indian.
Pacific Islander.
Yeah, exactly.
Um, Here's a quote from Dr. Andrew Pavia.
He's a pediatric infectious disease expert at the University of Utah.
He said this, it's really pretty striking.
It's similar to what we see in adults and may reflect many things, including that essential workers who have to go to black, who have to go to work are black and Hispanic parents.
Who then I guess somehow pass it on to their black and Hispanic children.
Who have comorbidities are obese or have lung problems or whatever it is.
So here's where the story you have to get you got to dig deep into the story to find out this point.
Number of young deaths are small though.
They represent about 0.08% of the total U.S.
deaths reported the CDC at a time when children in college age adults remember this study was 21 years or younger.
Children in college age adults make up 26% of the U.S.
population.
So, I mean, if you're listening and you're reading this with any comprehension, with any logic, with any reasoning, this whole headline that we see up here, you should have immediately realized how insidious this whole story is.
26% of the U.S.
population is under 21, and yet there have been 121 deaths.
0.08% of the test.
0.08%, not even a tenth of a percent.
Exactly.
This is just astonishing!
Well, and what did the headline say again?
COVID-19 kills black and Hispanic children at much higher rate than white kids.
Well, that's technically speaking true, if those are correct numbers.
But yes, we're worried about very, very, very small numbers.
You know, it reminds me, Joe Biden, I was looking at his campaign platform.
And one of the things he's really going to go to bat for is to make life safe for transracial, non-white women.
I don't even know what that means.
That means people who used to be men who have become women.
Did I say trans?
You said transracial!
I beg your pardon.
I thought we only had Rachel Dozol and Dr. Krug.
No, no.
These are trans women of color.
Apparently there is an absolute plague Absolute slaughter and massacre of these people.
I looked it up.
I guess there have been about 15 of them so far this year.
But that's one of the things you're going to make a priority, is to make the world safe for trans women of color.
So, yes, we're really concerned about these very, very substantial victim classes.
Well, the final quote from this story, which I think is so important.
Okay.
We learned this.
This is the last paragraph in the sensationally headlined story.
Thus far this year, the COVID-19 toll in children is lower than the pediatric flu deaths reported to the CDC during a routine flu season, which has about 130 in recent years.
But comparing the two is difficult for a number of reasons, including that most schools weren't open during the spring because of the pandemic.
So, there are fewer children dying from COVID than from the flu.
Correct.
Now, I wonder what the racial breakdown of the flu deaths are.
I would love to see that because I'm sure there'd be a disparity.
I'm sure our listeners, if you're out there, if you want to find that story and send it to us, Please do.
You can send it to me at BecauseWeLiveHere at ProtonMail.com or you can send it to... You can send it to the Contact Us tab at amran.com.
A-M-R-A-N.com.
We'd love to know.
I guarantee you a simple search of Google would pop up.
Every year there's probably a story that has inevitably the same headline.
But I've never heard that and so it may be that white people are more likely, white children perhaps, more likely to die of the regular flu.
Who knows?
But in any case, yes, these are exciting times.
And just for a complete change of pace, I'd like to talk about the Joe Biden campaign or the campaign about Joe Biden, a fellow named Jake Koenig.
Uh, was posting clips from Mr. Biden meeting young girls at their parents' congressional swearing in ceremonies in 2015.
Apparently he was there when Democrats come in to get sworn in and they come with their families.
Well.
This was a compilation, as I say, of him, and he is doing what he likes to do best.
He's got his hands all over these girls.
He's nuzzling them.
He's sniffing their hair.
He's doing the typical Joe Biden kind of thing.
So, there's a whole compilation of these just from the 2015 swearing-in.
And it makes for pretty gruesome.
They are creepy, point of fact.
They are very creepy.
Well, apparently this was put on Twitter.
And Twitter told Jake Koenig that his account was blocked until he pulled the thing down because Twitter characterized this as prohibited content that violates our child sexual exploitation policy.
Wait a second.
Yes.
Remarkable.
Remarkable.
So, yes, Joe Biden sniffing your hair.
I guess if it's underage hair, that is child sexual exploitation.
So go ponder on that.
Once again, does Twitter not understand what they're admitting in this?
You'd wonder, wouldn't you?
Yes, it's most remarkable.
I think, frankly, it's just a way to get this stuff out of the public eye.
Oh, yeah.
Yes.
They don't want people thinking, well, what kind of creepy weirdo is this Joe Biden?
I'm not sure I'm going to vote for him.
But those were their reasons.
It violates their child sexual exploitation policy.
So there you go.
Then, of course, one of the big stories this week was another yet horrible story.
Two Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies were ambushed and shot by gunmen on Saturday in Compton, California.
They underwent surgery, were listed in critical condition, they're fighting for their lives.
There were gatherings where they were shot and also outside the hospital where BLM activists were chanting, we hope they fucking die.
Charming.
Then, as you know, the authorities announced a $100,000 reward for anybody getting information on this person, who was caught on video, by the way, walking up to the patrol car and blazing away.
Now, on Monday, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, he appears to be one of these white Hispanics we hear so much about, he said, I want to make a challenge.
This challenge is to LeBron James.
I want you to match that and double that reward.
Well, LeBron James has publicly condemned the killings of such people as George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and he said just last month, and I quote, I know people get tired of hearing me say it, but we are scared as black people in America.
Black men, black women, black kids, we are terrified.
I mean, he looks pretty terrified to me every time I see him on TV.
So he's been challenged.
He's been saying this is awful, awful, awful.
And so the sheriff, fairly or unfairly, says, look LeBron, I think you should stump up.
See if you can supply some more money to make it more likely to catch the guy who did these things.
But since that happened, that was on Monday, and today is Wednesday, LeBron James appears to have gone deaf.
Now, while we're speaking LeBron James, that is another entree for you to talk once again about one of my least favorite facts of the United States of America, and that is pro sports.
Well, pro sports, you might not be interested in pro sports, but Mr. Taylor, pro sports is interested in you, and they've done everything they can to try and get people to To bow and kneel before our new God.
It's not a neon God, as that one song goes, Sound of Silence.
Instead, it's the Black Lives Matter God.
What happened, this is a two-part series.
If you recall last week, we did our podcast on the day the 2020 NFL season kicked off.
That first game was between the Chiefs and Texans.
What do you think happened at that game?
Somebody won.
The Chiefs did win.
Yes, okay.
Well, their new stance of encouraging players to take a stand against racial injustice got its first test in that game.
As the Super Bowl champions, the Kansas City Chiefs were booed during a moment of silence to promote the cause of social justice and Black Lives Matter.
I thought this was an empty stadium, or a practically empty stadium.
There were still a lot of fans there.
I think the NFL is allowing 25%?
25%.
But there were still audible boos.
Oh, very audible.
The players looked uncomfortable.
It was hilarious.
Let's just put it that way.
It was hilarious.
So, the controversy erupted Thursday night, just moments before the league's 101st season kicked off.
The Texans remained in the locker room during the National Anthem, and fans booed them when they emerged.
Remember, they played the Black National Anthem, whatever, the Black Roots, Lift Every Voice and Sing, I think.
Texans, they stayed in for both.
When they emerged, they interlocked arms stretched from one end zone to the other during what was supposed to be a moment of silence for social justice, Black Lives Matter, And they were booed.
They were booed.
The fans were not sitting still for this moment of silence.
No.
Kansas City Council member Eric Bunch described what happened in a tweet as embarrassing.
He said, quote, Some NFL fans booing the NFL for standing and locking arms in a moment of silence.
Silent unity proves that for them, standing for the flag was always about Perpetuating White Supremacy.
Oh, that's proof!
That's proof!
Oh boy, there you go.
Perpetuating... Okay, yeah.
How long have we been standing for the National Anthem?
Ever since it was written, but it's all white supremacy.
Yeah, we get this.
New York Jets offensive tackle, George Fant, a black individual.
He praised the Chiefs and Texans for taking a stance, saying this, quote, We just want to be treated equally.
Everyone needs to be treated the same.
Everyone needs to be held accountable.
And for people to boo, it's unbelievable.
So, we now know that this past weekend when the games happened... Ready for this?
I told you ratings were going to be down last week.
We didn't know by how much, though.
And here we go.
NFL Sunday night football ratings on NBC crashed nearly 30%.
Nearly 30%.
That's big.
That's a big number.
Not big enough for me.
It's not big enough for you, but for your opening week.
But that's compared to the year before.
Yes.
So Sunday Night Football clash between the Rams and the Cowboys was supposed to halt the rating crash.
It didn't.
Deadline reports that for NBC's only weekly NFL game, they were down a shocking 28%.
The numbers are going to change, so there's a chance it could fall even more.
But we saw a hard decline of eyeballs in the 2019 season.
From 2018 it dropped 23%.
So again, you're seeing the audience is dwindling year by year.
I wouldn't say it's disastrous, but this is not what you want when you have supposedly a situation where everybody is so thirsty for entertainment with this lockdown.
People haven't been able to do anything.
Everybody's stuck with their families.
They have to play with their kids.
They can't go to parks.
They're stuck inside.
They're ostracized.
In certain states, I think I believe that in your state, churches are still shut down.
So you would think that people would want to go worship Football players on Sunday, and it just didn't happen.
Okay, so I see.
It's an even more significant drop.
Yeah, so here's a big thing.
Deadline reports that to further add context, the 33-3 pummeling the Steelers got by the reigning Super Bowl champs, the Patriots, last year went on to pull in an audience of 22.2 million, which of course, again, the number for this year was 14.8.
That's a big drop.
When you actually think about those numbers, again, context is king.
We were talking about how COVID-19 deaths, Black, Hispanic, they're greater, but you're only talking about 55, 35, and 17.
So in this case, though, that's a substantial amount of eyeballs missing.
So in this case, though, that's a substantial amount of eyeballs missing.
And that, to me, is a big white pill.
Because the NFL has been doing everything they can to promote anti-racism messages in the end zone.
And I want to read you real quick.
Did you know some of the names that are approved to go on the helmets of players?
Well, probably all the ones that Naomi Osaka was brandishing, I would assume.
Would you like to hear just a couple?
Okay, please.
Ahmet Arbery of Brunswick fame.
Yes, yes.
Althea Bernstein.
Do you know who that is?
Sure, no.
That is the black female who claimed that she was burned by a bunch of frat boys when there was some rioting in Milwaukee.
And it basically looks like that was all a hoax, but her name is on here.
Jacob Blake.
Richard Brooks.
Don't know who that is.
Michael Brown.
Oh, hands up.
The guy who tried to kill Darren Wilson.
Yeah, hands up.
Yeah, Miriam Carey, Philando Castile.
I'm trying to go with names you'll recognize.
I don't remember Carey's name.
Miriam Carey, she was a black female who they thought was murdered, I think in jail or something.
You think it was Sandra Bland?
I'll give you a few more.
Amadou Diallo, I think he was the guy who was killed in New York.
Oh, that was in the 19, gosh, maybe 90s.
Late 90s, yeah.
Yes, yes, yes, that's a long time ago.
George Floyd, of course.
Eric Garner.
Oscar Grant.
Freddie Gray.
You could go with Botham Jean.
You could go with... Names you'll recognize.
Hold on.
Rodney King is a name you can canonize on your football helmet.
How about Canon Hinnant?
No, Cannon Hinnit is not on there, but our friend who marched across the Selma Bridge, John Lewis, bestowing that great city with so much prosperity, you can wear his name, Trayvon Martin, you can wear, let's see here, some other names you might recognize, Antoine Rose, Nope, I'm just... Walter Scott and... Walter Scott!
Gosh, he's one of my favorite authors.
Brianna Taylor.
And then, of course, the most important one.
Remember, it's always year zero in this civil rights revolution that we're living under.
Emmett Till.
Emmett Till!
Oh boy, oh boy.
Well, gosh, we really are going back a ways, but those heroes never die.
Well, that's good to know, that's good to know.
Sports are important, and I see that Americans, at least the TV watchers, are just not as excited about this as they should be.
No, and if the ratings drop a little bit further, I think that is going to be a moment where a lot of these TV execs, and they say, maybe we shouldn't spend so much time focused on these messages and realize that all people want is the opportunity to watch But who is gonna dare say that?
They'll be accused of white supremacy, propping up the patriarchy, and who knows, philocracy, and who knows what all else if they say that.
It'll be very interesting.
I just hope those ratings continue to plummet and really put them in a difficult position.
But speaking of sports, Moving on to Columbia University and the marching band.
The Columbia University marching band has been marching for 116 years.
Back when I was an undergraduate, the Columbia University marching band would come out and play at halftime for the Columbia football team.
Well, No more.
They were famous, actually, for their satirical choice of songs.
They had a narrator who was always making these sexual innuendos.
Undergraduate college students think that's just genius.
And they really did... Oh, I remember once at a game when the stadium at Yale, all the seats had just been repainted.
And they've been repainted blue.
And the announcer said, in honor of the new paint job at the Yale Stadium, and because the fresh paint signs were, they forgot to put them up, now we will have the audience stand and we will play Blue Mood.
That's a good double entendre, but I mean... That's pretty good!
That was pretty clever!
In any case, they are no more.
The Columbia Marching Band is no more, because in a statement they wrote.
The bandsman wrote, The band has unanimously and enthusiastically decided to dissolve.
The band has maintained a club structure founded on the basis of racism, cultural oppression, misogyny, and sexual harassment for all 116 years.
I never saw any of that going on, but then I was in the stands with my blue moon.
They're going to say, the band understands that for many, the damage experienced at the hands of the Columbia University Marching Band may be irreparable.
Irreparable.
And the band will not be asking for or expecting any forgiveness.
This is it, you know, these sins are unforgivable.
We are part of the church with no salvation.
So, Columbia, as I say, it had a real reputation for clever, you know, it was a joke on Yalies, of course, when they played Blue Moon, but we appreciated it.
They're clever, they were funny, but they are no more.
Now, Cornell has no sense of humor.
The Cornell Faculty Coalition made a series of demands in a letter published just last week.
And it claims that Cornell owes its successes to the fact that it sits on land that was formerly occupied by Native Americans.
Oh no.
The mere fact that an Indian might have run across the campus back in the days before there was a Cornell, there was the United States, that accounts for its success.
Gosh, I guess if it had been anybody else running across the land in those days, the place would be a miserable failure.
But, Its success is due to the fact that it sits on land formerly occupied by Native Americans.
I guess they somehow blessed it in ways that we pale-faces can't find them.
But they want to abolish colorblind recruitment policies and replace them with intentionally anti-racist policies and practices.
In other words, quotas, preferences.
Then, this is what is interesting to me.
In particular, they want to offer Partner and spousal hires to all BIPOC faculty.
So if you are BIPOC faculty, then the university has to offer your spouse a job.
Gosh.
Wow.
Wow.
Then they also say they demand that data on the racial demographics of faculty spouses be made available to the public.
The coalition claims that they would be used to ensure that spouses hired by the university are diverse.
Fancy that.
So that means if you are a BIPOC yourself, a Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color, for those who aren't hip to the new terminology.
I've never heard that term before.
BIPOC.
I've never heard that.
Oh, really?
No.
I think we talked about it.
Maybe you have.
There's so many of these acronyms popping up.
It's BIPOC now.
Black, Indigenous, and Person of Color.
Yep.
BIPOC.
But so that if you are BIPOC and you are married to a BIPOC, you are a bi-BIPOC, you get, it's really a twofer.
So you become especially diverse if not only are you faculty, but you're married to a person of color.
So that's a double whammy against a white couple, I guess.
Now, if you're married to, I don't know, an Eskimo and you march in and say BIPOC, then you get special consideration for your choice of marriage partner.
At least that's what they want.
Now, the news is not yet out as to whether or not Cornell has crumpled in the face of these legitimate and overwhelming demands.
But moving on to the University of Chicago, the English department has declared its commitment, quote, to the struggle of black and indigenous people and all racialized and dispossessed people.
And against inequality and brutality.
Racialized.
But aren't white people racialized too?
I guess we're not.
We're racialized but not dispossessed because we are doing the dispossessing.
They have announced that for this coming year, the PhD admissions cycle, they will accept only acumens who are interested in working with black studies.
This is in the English department.
Not the black studies department!
English department.
If you want to get a PhD, it's got to be all about blackety black.
And Gerald McSwiggin, a spokesman for the university says, English has a long history of providing aesthetic rationalizations for colonization, exploitation, extraction, and anti-blackness.
English.
I guess the language itself.
The language itself has a long history of providing aesthetic rationalizations.
Aesthetic.
Aesthetic.
Yeah.
Ponder that.
I'm juggling with that idea.
Rationalize for colonization, exploitation, extraction.
Is that removing teeth?
I would think so.
Exploitation, extraction.
Maybe that means mining coal.
In any case, colonization, exploitation, extraction, and anti-blackness.
I didn't realize extraction has been added to our long, long list of sins, but I expect it to just keep growing.
In any case, this is what the language itself has been doing.
Oh, maybe we all ought to start speaking Swahili.
I think that would really solve the problem.
Banish English, we can all learn Swahili.
We'll banish English and cover all pools across the country.
We'll all be equal.
That's right.
Don't let anybody swim.
Yeah.
No overt racism from bodies of water.
Excellent thinking.
Excellent thinking.
Now, Here is a story from Britain.
An Oxford museum, which I never had the privilege of visiting, it's called the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Apparently it's quite a local standout.
It has removed shrunken heads that were made by Amazon headhunting tribes after it decided that exhibiting them reinforces racist and stereotypical thinking.
The Chuar and Achuar people of Ecuador and South America made the shrunken heads known as Tzantas.
Tzantas.
Tzantas coming.
Better be good.
As they believed that they would harness the spirit of the enemy and prevent the soul from avenging his death.
Okay.
So if you kill some guy, better be sure to cut off his head and shrink it because that will prevent his soul from coming and getting you.
The curators said talks came about to remove the collection after it was labeled a freak show by a visitor.
The latest removal comes as part of a three-year internal review, three years it took, to, quote, deeply engage with its colonial legacy and inform a plan for decolonization.
So they're decolonizing the exhibits.
Okay.
The museum's director, Dr. Laura van Broekhoven, She says, the displays reinforced racist and stereotypical thinking that goes against the museum's values today.
So I guess the museum was all in favor of racist and stereotypical thinking.
Now, I'm perplexed by all this.
I mean, did the Shuar and the Achuar make these things or not?
I mean, I don't think they hokeyed them up out of nothing.
They didn't get a piece of leather and fill them with sawdust.
So they made the things.
So I guess the idea is you have to remove them if they make it appear that the achuar and the shuar are different from us and have different beliefs.
Beliefs that we might not find all that congenial.
Now, in this article, it says that Pitt Rivers was previously forced to remove two scalps after American Indians claimed that their culture had been misrepresented.
Misrepresented?
Okay, well, wait a minute.
Did these Indians, did they scalp people or not?
I mean, if they did, then I don't think there's any misrepresentation going on.
It's a pernicious, evil, white supremacist myth to denigrate a peaceful people.
You know, I think you laid your finger right on it.
This never happened.
This is all hokeyed up.
Exactly.
These things were invented.
This is myth-making by wicked white people.
So, you know, gotta pretend it never happened.
So that's the story on the Pitt Rivers Museum.
It seems to me that what they're doing is no different from absolutely concealing race differences and murder or illegitimacy rates.
Get rid of anything that's inconvenient to our new pets.
Then there is... We're their pets, Mr. Taylor.
When you understand that, you understand the real racial dynamic.
You know, I think you're onto something.
We are their pets.
We are their pets.
Now, something else that happened in Britain that I wanted to talk about.
Someone named Alison Birch listed a job ad looking for a part-time hairdresser at her unisex hair salon in the town of Stroud in England.
And the advertisement said, this is a busy, friendly, small salon, so only happy, friendly stylists need apply.
Well, that's sad.
Yes, not bad.
Well, do you have any idea why that was rejected?
I love reading it again.
I don't.
There's a busy friendly small salon so only happy friendly stylists need apply.
Well, was there an unhappy stylist who wanted to apply?
That's, well, they said they wouldn't even give them a chance because they got a call from the local job advertisement center saying they can't run the ad because the word happy is discriminatory.
Happy is discriminatory.
That's right.
Oh my goodness.
Sad people might feel discrimination.
Sad people.
The position called for someone with five years experience of working in the salon who is confident in barbering as well as all aspects of hairdressing.
Well, wouldn't that discriminate people who are unconfident?
But in any case, the fact that they want happy people.
That discriminates against the unhappy.
This in you and on me is, you know, sometimes the Brits really outdo us in lunacy.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
There's no comparison between Cuck Island and the United States.
Not yet, at least.
What do you mean?
Am I wrong?
You mean they've not matched us in lunacy?
No, they're far, far, far away.
Well, if you cherry pick that way, I don't know.
If you really put some kind of handicap on it and see who's... But in any case, the entire Western world, all white people everywhere, are joining in this collective disease, this massive, massive march towards the abyss.
But once again, our time has come to an end.
All too rapidly.
So, thank you, Mr. Kersey, for your participation, and thank you, all of you who are listening, for your attention.
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