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Oct. 15, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
This is October 14th, the Anno Domini 2020.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me, of course, is Paul Kersey.
Delighted to have you with me, Mr. Kersey.
Mr. Taylor, a happy mid-October to you.
Thank you, thank you.
And I mentally celebrated Columbus Day, now increasingly known throughout the United States as Indigenous Peoples Day, but it remains Columbus Day for me, and I feel sure for almost all of our listeners.
If I could real quick, I want to interject and say something.
You wrote a very good piece at Amarin.com about Christopher Columbus.
What was the thing you were most astonished to learn about old Christopher?
According to a woman by the name of Carol Delaney, who wrote a remarkable book about Columbus and the quest for New Jerusalem, he really had a religious motivation.
He was not out just pure greed.
In fact, very little greed involved.
He wanted gold from what he thought was going to be China and the Indies in order to finance a new crusade against the Turks who had taken over the Holy Land and get it back for Christendom.
Also, there is very, very little evidence at all that he was mean to the Indians.
He was one of the kindest people there.
But he had a terrible time controlling the people that went over there with him, and thousands showed up before too long.
And it was they who mistreated Indians, and he even hanged Spaniards who he thought mistreated the Indians.
So those were the two big surprises for me.
I was prepared to learn that, well, okay, he'd done this, and he'd done that, and he'd beaten this guy, or he'd maybe even raped this girl.
Really, practically none of that at all.
None so far as I could tell.
And also this very, very religious motivation he had.
He was not a proto-capitalist.
He was what we would have called a religious nut.
So those are really the two things that struck me.
It's astonishing to think that it was only 39 years after the fall of Constantinople that he actually embarked on with the Nina, Maria, and Santa, or I forgot the names of all the ships, but it was only 39 years.
So in his lifetime, he had actually heard about what had happened with the fall of Constantinople.
He was three years old or two years old when Constantinople fell.
And that, of course, that cut off the trade routes to the East and also the route to the Holy Land.
So that was another reason for him to want to go around the world in the other direction.
To try to solicit to get help and also this seems utterly fantastic to us today.
Another one of his goals was to meet the Great Khan of China and convert him to Christianity and persuade all of these newly Christianized Chinese people to open up a second front against the Muslims, attack Jerusalem from the east and help Christendom get it back.
Really, really eye-opening stuff.
I just didn't know this about Columbus.
It was a real set of revelations to me.
So there you go.
Surprises.
We live and we learn.
And I learned a lot.
And I hope that the readers of that article at amaran.com will learn too.
But before we get any further along that route, I did want to convey a comment from one of our listeners.
We really do appreciate comments.
People who correct errors we make.
People who call our attention to details we might have overlooked.
And this is a perspective that I think is a very useful one.
On our last episode, we talked about the $150 million that Microsoft has promised to spend on diversity.
The plan is to double the number of blacks in leadership roles by 2025.
Our listener says, what will it be spent on, this $150 million?
He points out Microsoft hasn't established a human relations department.
It already does outreach.
So there's no incremental cost there.
How's that $150 million going to be spent?
Is it going to be the cost of hiring less productive people, giving them dropped job training to make them actually barely productive, or bidding up the price of that small labor pool of competent blacks to get them to come to Microsoft, thus pulling them away from another firm?
Isn't that obviously unfair to equally talented workers in-house and or people that aren't black?
Pretty clearly racial preferences.
Or, they say, he says, maybe it's going to be an endowment in computer studies at an HBCU, a historically black university, since there aren't very many of them.
But that's a really good point.
How do you spend $150 million to double the number of blacks?
It's a good question.
They've already got all this mechanism for outreach and diversity.
They've got diversity czars and diversity queens and kings all over the place.
I thought that was a very good point.
How are they going to spend that money?
But one thing, I don't think we want to spend a lot of time on Amy Barrett, who will probably be confirmed as the next Supreme Court Justice.
But Chris Plant, who is our radio talk show host, whom I sometimes find amusing, pointed out something that stuck in my mind.
He says that the left loves Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of course.
She was the avatar of wokeness before its time, a progressive in all domains.
However, Chris Pentplant points out that Amy Barrett has more black children than Ruth Ginsburg ever had black law clerks, and she had over a hundred of them.
I thought that was quite an interesting comparison.
As you know, she's got two black adopted children.
This is not Ruth Ginsburg.
This is Amy Barrett, has two black adopted children from Haiti and five of her own.
But I thought that was pretty funny.
She's got more black children than Ruth Ginsburg ever had black children.
But of course, she's still a racist.
They're adopted.
They're adopted, of course, as you said.
They are adopted.
It's not as though she's had one Haitian husband and one white American husband.
No, they are adopted from Haiti.
But that didn't stop Ibram Kendi from saying, oh, these are sort of basically, this is just a way of expressing white colonial imperialism.
A white person adopts a black child.
Ah, that's just, look at me.
Look how wonderful I am.
I'm going to save this little savage from her savagery.
But There you go.
But another black story.
I believe you have some recent reports on what Jussie Smollett is up to these days.
You know, Mr. Taylor and dear listener, it feels like a lifetime ago that the Jussie Smollett story was one of the biggest in the world.
If you remember, the Democrat candidate for vice president went epileptic about the whole situation when, I think it was January of 2019.
Was it that long ago?
Wow!
That two, apparently two MAGA white guys attacked Jussie Smollett, put a noose around his neck, What was it?
During that winter vortex?
Like one of the coldest days ever?
And they said, hey, it's that Empire guy.
That's sort of the cliff notes of what happened.
Of course, it turned out that it was two Nigerians and the whole thing was filmed and documented well beforehand.
Well, Jussie, who is still, you know, he still continues to face legal charge from this alleged attack in Chicago in 2019.
Guess what?
He's, uh, he's gonna make his feature directorial debut with a James Earl Hardy book adaptation, Mr. Taylor.
How about that?
I'm so happy for him.
Well, tell me about this book.
I assume it's some sort of black-themed thing about black heroes and wicked white people, or am I mistaken?
Did you know what the novel's about?
Well, I'll tell you a little bit about it.
So what's going to happen is it's going to go into production here in only a few days in New York City.
So I guess as all of New York City is basically locked down with the coronavirus rules and mandates to stop the pandemic from spreading, well, Jesse Smollett's going to get the opportunity to film his directorial debut with B-Boy Blues.
Like I said, it's an adaptation of purportedly James Earl Hardy's classic 1994 novel.
Basically, it centers on a complicated romantic relationship between two black men.
One a journalist and the other a bike messenger.
I should have known.
I should have known.
Yes.
Okay, I think I've learned all I need to know.
I really don't want anything else about it, but I would like to tell you this.
It did kick off a series of five more books, so if Jussie's movie is a hit, I can imagine there's going to be at least a few more movies made of this lovely relationship.
It was in March of 2019 that a special prosecutor brought six new charges against Smollett.
The Cook County prosecutors, they initially dropped charges that he had lied to police when he said that he staged things himself.
I forgot all the sordid details, but wasn't the Soros-funded... Kim Fox.
Kim Fox, yeah, Kim Fox.
And somebody associated with the SPLC was involved in some of this stuff as well?
Some of the behind-the-scenes texts?
It's the lady who ended up getting the contract to clean out the Augean stables at the SPLC.
She had been some kind of aid to Michelle Obama, as I recall.
It's all a tangled mess of who knows who and who can be the first to jigger the legal system.
But the fact that he has done this hoax, racial hoax, isn't this the American story?
Isn't this the American success story?
Everybody gets a second chance.
And so Jussie Smollett, too.
He lived through this humiliation, and now he's going to continue to fight for racial justice and for complicated love affairs between two black men.
I couldn't be happier for him.
Well, Andy Warhol famously said, everybody in America gets 15 minutes to be famous, and Jussie continues to get his extended version of time for his infamy.
Seems to be.
Well, moving right along to a different sort of weirdness.
A certain Asian weirdness, if you ask me.
You know the question of racial preferences?
Asians have been in the forefront of making sure that they don't expand and trying to fight them.
They are ones who benefit, of course, from strict meritocracy.
But a An Asian who is a graduate from Yale, writing in something of a pipsqueak website, I must say, called UnHerd, he made an interesting point.
He said, Asian immigrants are the least likely to support racial preferences.
Like many older Americans, they think good education is the path to upward mobility and think race-conscious policies are harmful.
In contrast, Younger native-born Asian Americans are three times more likely to support affirmative action, and sociologists have found that Asians born in the U.S.
with parents who came here, who were also born here, I'm sorry, with parents who were also born in the so-called later generation, are most likely to support racial preferences.
They have learned that social mobility involves an additional ingredient besides just education and money.
That they have to adopt the social mores of the upper class, which is to say luxury opinions.
Vigorously agreeing with the race-conscious admission policies of Yale and Harvard indicates that you are an insider.
It shows that you get it.
This is an indicator of cultural capital and shows your place in the social hierarchy.
I thought that was very interesting.
In other words, if you really want to climb, if you really want to make it to the top of the United States, money and education alone won't do it.
You've got to say the right things.
You've got to think the right things.
And these days, all of this BLM mania is part of it.
And so I guess if white people are prepared to leave their own people behind in this race for the top in which non-whites get all these handouts, all these pats on the back, then Asians should too.
I thought, I guess by getting ahead, they have to adopt some of our worst traits.
Now, I am nevertheless counting on Asians to fight this process, to continue to fight it, but this was an interesting insight into why some of them are abandoning meritocracy because they figure, okay, if I want to get ahead, this is the stuff that I've got to think.
Well, that goes the whole concept, just briefly, on the whole coalition of fringes.
I mean, what actually unites the left?
What unites BLM?
What unites the LGBTQ, whatever other acronym you add now to that concept?
It is the concept of Get Whitey.
It is this idea that The white patriarchy, the white supremacist, you know, implicit bias, systemic racism, structural inequality, redlining, Emmett Till mania has to be stopped, right?
Well, the curious thing about it is, of course, that this has become a sign of the upper-class white mentality.
That is the weird and strange thing about it.
In other words, these upper-class liberal white goofballs, they're an important part of this coalition of weirdos.
And Asians are cottoning to that, and so some of them, I suppose, according to this guy, and what he says rings true, some of them are prepared to turn their backs on their less fortunate working-class Asian brothers and sisters.
But I have a sports story.
You're usually the guy with the sports stories, but this caught my eye in a significant way.
Just last Sunday night, apparently, the National Basketball Association title was clinched.
I don't know who the teams were, and I don't care.
But, I understand that there were 5.6 million viewers for the final game, Game 6.
Last year, the final game had 18.34 million viewers.
So, this year, the number of viewers was only 30%.
Of the year before.
And this despite the fact that everybody has been caged up, theoretically, hankering for a sight of people whizzing up and down the basketball court, making goals.
People have just been dying for a sight of this sort of thing.
But because of all of this BLM mania that has taken over basketball, everybody's wearing, flying the flag of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
People are turning off the set.
That seems to be the theory as to why viewership is so down.
In other words, get woke, go broke, as someone else who is cleverer than I put it, and I am, to put it mildly, delighted.
We talked about this last week, Mr. Taylor, and for our astute listeners, you probably recall that the commissioner of the NBA, Adam Silver, basically said, we're going to abandon all of this Black Lives Matter social justice warrior.
Mania.
It's not working.
It's costing our bottom line.
And there was a tweet by Clay Travis.
There's a review of his book, Republicans Buy Sneakers Too, at the AmRen.com website, written by, I believe, yours truly.
He pointed out that the NBA has lost close to 80% of its television audience in the past 25 years.
Think about that for a second.
25 years ago, you're talking about what, 1995?
So Michael Jordan was still around, Dennis.
You had Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, you had David Robinson with the San Diego But the San Antonio Spurs, the league had not gone full, for lack of a better term, ghetto, as it kind of did during the early 2000s, when you had a lot of black players go straight from high school to the NBA.
I know I'm speaking a foreign language to you, Mr. Taylor, right now, but the point is the NBA embraced sort of the ghetto mindset, and now you're seeing the consequences of that.
Your average white fan no longer watches.
Eighty percent, did you say?
Eighty percent of its television audience since 1995.
I'll be honest, I used to watch the NBA when it was on NBC.
I used to enjoy some of the games.
My favorite players were John Stockton.
He was a white player for the Utah Jazz.
You know, him and Carl Malone.
It was a different game.
It hadn't taken on... Go ahead.
Wouldn't be wonderful.
The NBA just fell apart.
Not enough money to pay the players.
Not enough money to keep those courts operating.
But I suspect that won't happen.
But I'm delighted to see them going down, down, down.
Well, one more white pill for you here, Mr. Taylor, on sports.
ESPN is basically going to be cutting hundreds of jobs because their bottom line is being impacted.
By going all in, you know, sometimes they have stories on their websites where they talk about Breonna Taylor or Ahmed Aubrey or George Floyd.
It's like, what does that have to do with sports?
I was going to say, those are all famous athletes, right?
They're athletes in the game of Get Whitey.
They're athletes in the game of, to paraphrase George Orwell, if you want to imagine the future, it's a black foot on a white face for eternity, right?
Well, Ahmaud Arbery will go down in history as a jogger.
I have a heartwarming story for you.
The AP, the Associated Press, reports That none other than Trayvon Martin's name will be added to a section of an avenue that leads to a high school he attended in Miami.
Members of the Miami-Dade County Commission approved the motion unanimously just last week, and so a portion of this county-owned road will be called Trayvon Martin And the new signs should be ready in just a few weeks.
Now, let that warm the cockles of your heart today while we think about something else, and that is just how hopelessly biased and white supremacist mathematics are.
I'm still trying to recover.
That's the first time I've heard cockles used in a very long time in a sentence, so that was fantastic.
I always loved the The language we get to be exposed to, Mr. Taylor, I think our listening audience feels the same way.
English is a wonderful language.
It's a lovely language, but speaking of a different language that you would think would be universal, 2 plus 2 no longer equals 4 when we're talking about the Math Association, which says that math is, quote, it inherently carries human biases, citing, end quote, citing critical race theory.
So the Mathematical Association of America has decided that math, like I said, inherently carries human biases in a statement from its Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics.
How about that?
A committee on minority participation mathematics now supersedes the concept that 2 plus 2 equals 4.
Who's keeping them out, I wonder?
Who is preventing them from believing that 2 plus 2 equals 4?
The Pythagorean Theory, I don't know.
The MAA is a professional association of high school and university teachers.
It hosts the American Mathematics Competition for middle and high school students, as well as it publishes academic journals.
It prides itself, as purportedly, the world's largest community of mathematicians, students, and enthusiasts.
However, in opposition to President Trump's recent executive actions to ban critical race theory training in the federal government, the MAA said that critical race theory is, quote, an established social science inquiry which is grounded in decades, decades mind you, of scholarship.
They said that, quote, it further It is misguided at best to reduce this theory to race-blaming of white people, and to define it in the discussion of systemic racism as a divisive concept."
But the theory is, math being a creation of human beings, it is inherently biased?
Isn't that more or less their thinking?
Precisely.
If I could continue with their idea, you know, they basically are saying that the statement then turned its attention to the inherent bias that allegedly exists in mathematics.
Quote, although mathematics, science, and higher education develop fact-based theories and practices that should inform policy, they are also political because they exist within a highly politicized system.
End quote.
You know, there is, I think, a philosophical question as to whether math is invented or discovered.
Even if there were not one single human being in the universe, if you have two planets flying side by side and two more join them, I suspect you have got four planets, even if there is no human being around to count them.
But, nevertheless, since human beings are involved in any way, I guess it's potentially biased and we have to go meditate on this and wear sackcloth and ashes and figure out how to improve the problem.
Well, moving on to a Vox article.
Vox is always worth reading to find out what the trendy idiots are thinking.
And this is an article on what to call, what white people are supposed to call non-whites.
How are we to refer to them?
How is the poor, bloody white man—now this is my phraseology, not Vox's—supposed to refer to people who aren't white?
Are they people of color?
African-American sometimes?
BIPOC?
You know, we talked about BIPOC.
That's black and indigenous and people of color.
What's avoided?
Well, quoting from the article, And this is a reflection of deep thought on the subject from a person named Deandra Miles Hercules.
Miles Hercules is one of those hyphenated fancy names.
It's one of these people who is a they, or perhaps an it, not a he or a she, but they are getting a PhD in linguistics And they focus on sociological linguistic research on race, gender, and sexuality.
That's about all you need to know about her.
But she says, while people may not intend harm when they use identity labels inaccurately, their inaccuracy is still harmful.
People tune into this.
What's the word?
Do I call you African American?
Do I call you black?
What's the word that people are preferring these days?
I know I can't call you negro anymore, so just tell me the word so I can use it and we can go on from there.
That's what white people say.
But that lacks in nuance.
And that lack of nuance is a violence.
Did you know that?
If you ask black people, what am I supposed to call you?
Am I supposed to call you a BIPOC?
Or am I supposed to call you a person of color?
Black, African-American, Afro-American?
Yes, yes, I know that Negro is old-fashioned and no good.
What am I supposed to call you?
If that's all you do, then you are committing not violence, but a violence.
In other words, you just can't get it right.
If you ask them what they want to be called, that lacks in nuance.
But, in other words, you're supposed to study up on every possible thing that they might be called, think about it, ponder it, consult with the stars, and then...
Call them something, but you might get it wrong.
So, you know, we just, there's no way we can get it right.
Ask them and it's wrong.
Study up on it and you might get it right.
You know, I think we could solve the problem just by always referring to them as Lord and Master.
What do you think?
Lord and master.
I think that's probably where things are drifting.
I will refrain from using said language, but if you'd like to, you know, advocate for that, go ahead.
Yes, yes, yes.
Next time some youths are apprehended, we could refer to them as our future lords and masters.
But anyway, yes, moving on to a spectator story.
The Spectator UK.
And I will not tell you who the author of this article is, but you'll find out soon enough.
And let me quote from it.
Americans are, in my experience, the warmest, most kind-hearted and open-minded people in the world.
I have found this to be true my whole life, despite being the niece of Osama bin Laden and sharing the same last name.
She goes on to say, Americans base their judgment on the content of someone's character and actions, not on the color of their skin or their last name.
But in my private life, I've lost a few so-called friends for backing Donald Trump over the past five years.
Coming out publicly was a step too far for some, and the vitriol I received for stating my political beliefs Revealed unflattering signs to certain characters.
And she goes on to conclude, being pro-Trump has caused me more grief than being Osama bin Laden's niece.
This is by Nur bin Laden.
I think this is quite remarkable and very interesting.
It's a bit of a surprise to me that Nur bin Laden is a Donald Trump backer, but more power to her.
I don't believe she's a U.S.
citizen, although I know she'll be voting in our election, but she is absolutely right.
Most Americans are pretty fair-minded about this stuff except For certain people who just go absolutely over the cliff if you are not politically correct in the way they want you to be.
So, much harder to be a pro-Trump person than Osama Bin Laden's niece.
You know, here we are, here we are, what, three weeks, less than three weeks away from the election and it doesn't even feel like it now.
I don't even really can't comprehend the fact that there's A major POTUS election coming up.
I really don't want to ever have to watch another debate featuring Donald Trump and Joe Biden or even think about Kamala Harris and Mike Pence ever again.
But that's an astonishing commentary about life in the woke United States of America and in the Western world for that matter.
That's right, that's right.
This really caught my eye.
But I believe you had a report on the latest festive evening in Portland, Oregon.
You know, Portland, it's one of those cities that just won't get out of the news.
Gosh, was it about a month ago that Antifa guy shot the Trump supporter?
As we know, and of course, something like that just happened.
There's a really good essay, I believe, by Greg Hood on the Amarin.com website, Mr. Taylor, about what just happened in Denver.
I won't go into details, but I do I hope that our listeners will head over and read that story.
You know, Michelle Malkin also did a very good write-up that I believe is syndicated on the emrin.com website as well on that latest episode of apparent leftist violence.
You know, we have to live forever in the shadow of Charlottesville, which, you know, you and I both advocated people stay the heck away from.
Nothing to do with that, but that's something that anybody who's right of center now has to forever live down, correct?
Yes, but tell us of Portland.
Tell us about Portland.
Well, here's what's going on in Portland.
We know that for the past 120 days there's been riots, violence, people leaving the city, businesses closing up shop because of this continued violence.
What just happened this past couple few nights ago was, well...
It wasn't just going to be Confederate statues, Mr. Taylor.
Portland protesters toppled statues of Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in, quote, a day of rage.
So, the former president's statues were destroyed at the entrance to the Oregon Historical Society in Portland's South Park blocks late Sunday night before these Leftist agitators moved into other areas of downtown where they smashed storefronts and engaged in other acts of destruction.
I'm surprised that this report from the Oregonian didn't say that it was peaceful destruction to try and lessen the violence and the bellicose nature of these leftist agitators.
Police declared the event a riot and ordered people rampaging through the city streets to disperse, but they did not directly intervene.
Until nearly an hour after the first statue fell.
This I just don't understand.
I saw a video of them tearing down Teddy Roosevelt on a horse and they've got all of these lines attached to him and they're hauling and they're heaving and he totters and he tips and this that and the other.
Clearly, they have taken some time to get this going.
Where are the police?
It's not as though the police don't realize that things are going to be pretty hot this evening.
It just appalls me that they are sitting on their hands, but that seems to be what the city of Portland wants its police to do.
Sit on its hands.
Don't upset the children.
They might get uppity if you start telling them.
Well, if I remember correctly, you did a If I remember correctly, you went to Richmond and you wrote a very good article and a photographic essay of what happened.
I think you went right after they toppled the Jefferson Davis statue.
And I think you noted that you spoke to police and they said, we've been basically told to stand down.
You could burn every car in the city and we wouldn't do anything to stop you.
Yep, that's right.
They're there to save lives and they're there to let the property go up in flames.
It's a terrible night after night after night of this.
It's just appalling.
I have 100% sympathy with Donald Trump.
Look, give us 15 minutes.
We can take care of the problem.
They could.
Here's the bad thing about this whole situation, Mr. Taylor, is that social media, not going to spend a lot of time on this, but we know what's happening today with the New York Post and this Hunter Biden story.
Twitter, Facebook are doing everything they can to block the dissemination of this news story.
However, social media, Facebook and Twitter, allowed this protest to actually be promoted.
It was called an Indigenous People's Day of Rage.
Of course, Monday was a federally observed holiday, Columbus Day.
Many states and cities still recognize the date.
However, increasingly, as you noted at the start of this podcast, at the top of the hour, that increasingly it's becoming known as Indigenous People's Day over concerns that Columbus's arrival in America helped launch centuries of violence against people of color, indigenous populations.
Again, this group of 200 strong, most dressed, head to toe in black.
Many were wearing body armor, carrying shields, wielding nightsticks and other weapons.
Again, they destroyed the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider statue and they splattered it with red paint as if Theodore Roosevelt was somehow responsible for the death of peaceful Indians.
No, Death of George Floyd.
I was just being sarcastic.
Again, they danced and the group then turned to a nearby Abe Lincoln statue.
It doesn't matter that he's a great emancipator.
You'd think that his role in having hundreds of thousands of white men killed would be something to be celebrated in the current woke year of 2020.
They spray-painted the base of his statue with Dakota 38, which is a reference to the 38 Dakota men executed after the Dakota-U.S.
War of 1862, which is the largest mass execution in a single day in American history.
There's actually a couple of really good books about this.
This is one of the many things that I actually like about Lincoln that during the time of Yes, well no, it sounds like it was a lively time, a lively time, and there seems to be no let-up in the entertainments that are planned for the people of Portland.
their business of making this continent safe for the advancement of manifest destiny.
Yes, well, no, it sounds like it was a lively time, a lively time, and there seems to be
no let up in the entertainments that are planned for the people of Portland.
But can we move along to your favorite doll and mine, Barbie?
We can move on after one more paragraph because I want to read this one to you.
Very good.
Lincoln.
Mind you, both of those two men are canonized on Mount Rushmore, so I think we know where Mount Rushmore is headed.
Protesters began smashing windows at the Oregon Historical Society, unfurling a banner reading, quote, stop honoring racist colonizer murderers, end quote.
And a mural on the attached Sovereign Hotel building depicting the Lewis and Clark expedition was splattered with red paint.
So I guess they didn't honor Sacagawea enough, Mr. Taylor.
Nobody ever does.
I may invest in red paint.
There seems to be a never-ending demand for the stuff.
Stuff you can throw around.
Airborne red paint.
But yes, if we may move along from the ridiculous to the equally ridiculous.
Barbie!
Did you know that there is a Barbie YouTube channel?
It's got 9.7 million subscribers.
That's a lot of subscribers.
I'd love to have 9.7 million subscribers, but I never will on YouTube.
I don't have a single one anymore.
But they had an episode just last week in which Barbie and her black friend Nikki, that's spelled N-I-K-K-I, praised the BLM protests And they teach your children that the two of them belong to different categories because of the color of their skin.
Nikki, the African-American, or BIPOC, or lady of color, or whatever it is we're supposed to call her, talks about discrimination she faces and sadly explains she has come to the realization the system is rigged against her because of her color.
I don't want to have to constantly prove and reprove myself, she says.
In other words, all these wicked white people are constantly thinking she's no good.
She has to reprove herself.
Then Nikki goes on to say, and that's exactly why people are marching.
Because when enough of us stand together, people pay attention.
Then Barbie chimes in.
She says, white people get an advantage.
That they didn't earn.
And black people get a disadvantage they don't deserve.
And this is what they're saying to those 9.7 million subscribers.
Well, when I checked, there had been half a million views and 24,000 thumbs up.
2.7 thousand thumbs down.
Now, it is unusual for a Barbie video to get more than 10% thumbs down compared to thumbs up, but that is not nearly enough thumbs down in my book.
I did note that there are no comments allowed, but Barbie videos never allow comments, so there's nothing special there.
And a message from the company.
Barbie Is championing gender equality to help close the racial injustice barrier girls face?
Well, this is interesting.
Closing a barrier.
I would have thought closing a barrier makes it harder to get through, but English does not seem to be their strong suit.
And how, why is Barbie championing gender equality to help close the racial injustice barrier?
Very odd.
Then Barbie goes on to explain the goal of the episode is to help girls understand that there's a huge movement going on in the fight against racism.
And no doubt, they too are to join.
So that's Barbie for you.
Yeah, it's interesting.
Last time I checked, from a gender standpoint, Ken dolls don't even have genitalia.
So Barbie, aren't they all gender neutral?
They're just pieces of plastic.
Well, I never checked Barbie.
I bet she doesn't have... I bet she's not anatomically detailed either.
Moving along to Georgia Maloney.
She is 43 years old and almost as good-looking as Barbie, I'd say, but she's a lady who's been in Italian politics for 20 years and has recently come to my attention.
Since 2006 in the general election, Georgia Maloney was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies,
the equivalent of our Congress.
And in August 2008, she urged Italian athletes to boycott the opening ceremony of the Peking Olympic Games
because she disagreed with the Chinese policy towards Tibet.
That strikes me as a very sound position to take.
She thinks Tibet belongs to the Tibetans.
The Chinese got no business sending hordes of Han Chinese into the place to turn it into something indistinguishable from Tibet.
In other adventures, in December of 2012, she and two men founded a new political movement called the Fratelli d'Italia, the Brothers of Italy.
I think this is pretty good.
A woman was one of the co-founders of the Brothers of Italy.
And Fratelli d'Italia, he uses words from the Italian national anthem.
I should probably take the time to look into that.
Where do the words Brothers of Italy show up in the Italian National Anthem?
That sounds awfully sexist and reactionary to me.
But in the recent polls, her party, which she now leads, Has reached 18% and that has gotten past the rather goofy five-star movement that was part of the governing coalition.
And she is closing in on the Democrat Party, those are the left and center people, and the Lega, which is led by your and my one of our favorite politicians, Matteo Salvini.
So, now we have Matteo Salvini's number two party, that's the Lega, that's been very, very nationalistic, and now she's number third party.
And she's allied with Salvini's Ligue, as well as Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, which means Forward Italy, which is the least staunch of the three, but still not too bad.
She, yes, sorry.
They're at least allied with these two fantastic parties.
Yes, yes, yes.
And she has said that the challenge, the great challenge of our time is the defense of national identities.
And Fratelli d'Italia fights, quote, for a Europe of free and sovereign nations as an alternative to the bureaucratic super state.
She intends to put the nation and the national interest first.
And at the end of 2019, the Times of London included her on its list of 20 people who can change the world in 2020.
Well, she's got a couple of months left.
I suggest she get right to work.
As far as I'm concerned, she's not changing the world quick enough to suit me, but she is bitterly, outspokenly against illegal immigration, in favor of law and order, the police, and what she calls a traditional family, and is a staunch, unswerving supporter of your and my other favorite politician, Victor Orban.
In April, Jacobin, which is a lefty website, called her a dangerous new leader for Italy's far right.
That's music to my ears.
And they beefed.
The website beefed about her persistent call to shut the borders.
Now, to my surprise, there were no accusations of racism.
That concerns me a little bit, but Georgia Maloney looks like a lady to keep an eye on.
So I'm just alerting our listeners, many of whom are actually far more politically sophisticated than I am, who follow European politics much more closely than I ever do, but this is a lady to watch.
So is that the criteria for you being a supporter of someone if they're accused of quote-unquote racism?
That's when you know that their bona fides or their resume is complete?
Well, that's when you know that this person has really stepped out of orthodoxy and is cocking a snook at the people who want to control what we think.
But moving on back to New York City, the subject of luxury shoplifting.
There was a New York Post story about this, which I thought was pretty good.
It is the fact that bands of shoplifters are terrorizing SoHo's high-end boutiques.
SoHo stands for South of Houston.
That's Houston Street in Lower Manhattan.
This is where all sorts of fancy people live, and the fancy people buy their fancy products in fancy stores.
But these bands of shoplifters are lifting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of design and merchandise, and in some cases, Threatening security guards to keep quiet or be labeled racist.
Yes.
This disturbing pattern began in late May.
What could have provoked that?
What happened in late May?
Late May?
Well, there's a couple of things that happened in late May.
We won't get into all of them.
What happened in late May, dear me?
Our latest saint was canonized.
This blatant thievery continues day after day in ritzy stores such as Prada, Montclair, Dior, and Balenciaga.
An industry insider says the brands tell their employees to just walk away.
They don't want to be the next Instagram video claiming that they are a racist brand.
Now, nowhere in the article was the word black ever used, or BIPOC, or person of color, or African-American.
But Soho store managers, especially those employed by national retailers, remain tight-lipped.
For fear of R-word reprisal, bad publicity, or tarnishing their brand.
A law enforcement source confirmed that, quote, dozens of larcenies have occurred in recent months in high-end establishments.
In the latest incident, thieves twice plundered Montclair.
I'd never heard of that store.
Apparently, it sells down jackets for $2,000 apiece.
But on October 1st, they were hit twice in one day.
In the first incident, two people grabbed nearly two dozen down jackets.
That's more than $20,000.
A store employee said, and a few hours later, at 6 p.m., thieves snatched more than $50,000 in merchandise and sped off in a, get this, white Jaguar and a black Audi.
Yes.
But yes, these people all need a certain pattern, and if you give them the strong arm, you're going to be accused of racism.
So I think that gives us some idea of who the perps are.
As Sophia Bukri, age 29, a manager at the Louis Vuitton store in Green Street, said that they keep the doors locked to stop What she called young kids who are grabbing and running.
Young kids.
Well, you know, if they do what they need to do and they keep out young kids, they will of course be accused of racism.
But, after having read this, I've concluded it's nice to know that the racial gap in Prada handbags is being closed.
So that is one inequality that seems to be on its way out.
Well, not only is it being closed, but it's being closed by individuals who drive Audis and Jaguars, I believe, as you said.
Yes, yes.
Can you imagine that?
What a weird world.
You go in and you do a smash-and-grab job in some store and you run off in a white Jaguar?
Wow.
You and I are in the wrong business, it seems.
But now, I believe you had a story about Lauren Whitsky.
Yeah, well, again, just briefly going back to all the censorship we've seen in 2020.
Again, today, the big news on Twitter, which I know you've been banned from for, goodness gracious, four years?
Or is it three years?
17, yes.
I've been three years now, nearly four years.
Nearly four years since you've been able to be on Jack Dorsey's website.
Well, we know what's going on.
Like I said, I alluded to what's happening with this New York Post story about Hunter Biden, where it's not being allowed to be tweeted out or put on Facebook.
Obvious election interference.
Well, now we have a story where Senate candidate from Delaware, Republican nominee, Lauren Witski, she was locked out of Twitter.
You know, don't want to spend too much time on her.
She's harsh, anti... She's one of the good people, Mr. Taylor.
I think she's been accused of racism.
So in your eyes, I think that puts her... she crosses off a few of the criteria there.
Again, she's the candidate for the GOP in Delaware's U.S.
Senate race.
She was momentarily locked out of her account for a tweet highlighting the impact of mass migration into Europe.
Twitter stated that the message against this Muslim immigration was, quote, hateful conduct, unquote.
Here's what she said.
Here's what her tweet was.
It said this.
Let's be clear, mass migration absolutely destroyed Europe.
Italy, France, Sweden, and Germany took in tons of migrants who never assimilated.
Rapes, murders, and other heinous crimes abound.
I will end all immigration into the U.S.
for 10 years.
So, an immigration moratorium is what this candidate for Senate in Delaware advocates.
Twitter said the tweet violates its rules against, as I said, hateful conduct, warning the Senate candidate that repeated violations would result in the termination of access to her account.
Of course, we know other people who've had that happen to besides yourself.
Laura Loomer, who is a candidate for the House in Florida, she also is in that same boat.
She was suspended, and even though she's running for office, she has no access to the largest platform for disseminating ideas in under 140 characters or less.
As usual, Mr. Taylor.
Yes, so Laura Loomer never got her account back.
So she's running for Congress, but she can't use Twitter.
Period.
Full stop.
Full stop.
Is that the case?
Yep.
Wow.
Well, Jack Dorsey knows best.
Jack Dorsey knows what you and I deserve to listen to.
Jack Dorsey knows what we should be thinking.
So, he, after all, is the divinely appointed controller of information in the United States.
So, he's made a decision and we just have to live with it, don't we?
Well, I mean, again, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, and then whoever the CEO of Alphabet is, and Tim Cook with Apple, and then, of course, Jeff Bezos with Amazon.
And then whoever the CEO of Netflix, the so-called Fangs.
These are the five companies, the five publicly traded companies that truly Control the flow of information in the United States of America.
Increasingly so.
And I believe all your books are banned from Amazon.
That's true.
Except for maybe your book on Japan is still on there.
My one from Japan is still on there, yes.
And actually, Paved with Good Intentions is still up there.
Let's not give them any ideas.
All right.
But moving on to another hero of yours, Colin Kaepernick.
He has got a new project.
It's called Abolition for the People.
Isn't that a provocative title for a project?
Straight out of Haiti.
Abolition for the people.
He says reforms such as use of force policies, body cameras, more training, police accountability won't do the job when it comes to our rogue police officers.
He says reforming the white supremacist institutions of police and prisons ultimately only serves to commend them.
In other words, if you reform them of white supremacy, then you're somehow whitewashing them, I suppose, and making them acceptable.
Instead, the only answer is abolition.
A full dismantling of the carceral state and the institutions that support it.
Whenever you find somebody using the word carceral state, you know you're dealing with a loony.
In any case, he goes on to say, the central intent of policing is to surveil, terrorize, capture, and kill marginalized populations, specifically black folks.
That's its central intent.
That's the main thing it does.
As for prisons, They exist only to isolate, regulate, and surveil black and brown people.
Well, if that's the case, how come so many white people end up in them?
That's something I'd like to know.
There are actually more white people than black people in prison.
So the prisons must be, they must have somehow really jumped the tracks and started doing things that were not intended to do.
But Colin Kaepernick goes on to say, once society rids itself of these terroristic, morally corrupt systems, it will be, quote, safer, healthier, and truly free.
Now he goes on to say, by abolishing policing in prisons, not only can we eliminate white supremacist establishments, but we can create spaces for budgets to be reinvested directly into communities to address mental health needs, homelessness and houselessness.
Well, what the difference between homelessness and houselessness is, I'm not sure.
I suppose if you are in a subsidized apartment, you are suffering from houselessness.
In any case, you'll be glad to know that he's got it all figured out and he's got corporate backing in this Abolition for the People project, but of course it's an abolition of law and order.
It's an abolition of the police.
That is what he has in mind for the people of the United States.
So...
Moving on, I've reduced you to speechlessness.
Yeah, I'm just laughing because I mean, again, it's it's, you know, Colin Kaepernick, the fact that he a few years ago was the butt of so many jokes, and now he's been thrust into the limelight as this wonderful spokesman for Social justice, and I think he's got a big contract with Nike.
Remember, he was the one who said that the Betsy Rosk flag on the Nike shoe had to go because it was racist.
That's right.
And it went.
It did.
As soon as he said it had to go.
It did.
It's just so fascinating to think that the other day on the campaign trail, Joe Biden was going on and on about systemic racism.
And, you know, this is one of the central focus points of Of the DNC.
And I think you could even say that a lot of what you just talked about with Colin Kaepernick is where the DNC, and unfortunately a lot of the RNC, a lot of the GOP, concedes all that ground when it comes to systemic racism and these concepts.
Well, but even if you believe in systemic racism, the idea that somehow, simply by abolishing the police, there's going to be goodness, truth, and beauty, harmony will reign.
This is just insane.
It is frankly insane.
Who can possibly believe this?
I suppose he does say, well, okay, we're not just going to wipe them out.
We're going to take the money and we're going to invest in those who suffer from houselessness.
But does anyone really believe that all the shootings are magically going to stop?
That all the rapes, all the muggings are somehow magically going to stop?
We live in a period of mass insanity, and the fact that this guy gets any public platform, any kind of corporate sponsorship at all, leaves me, frankly, baffled.
And I have thought I was immune to bafflement, but I find that I can still be baffled.
Well, we know for a fact that shootings are up exponentially in New York City as the police have basically stood down.
We talked about it last week about Minneapolis, where I believe the city council voted Overwhelmingly to abolish the police.
They basically said well, we were wrong.
It was what was it?
It was it was ceremonial.
I think that was It was poetic it was poetic that was the term so but no But you know if you just fired all the policemen all those people out there would just stop shooting each other.
It's magical Colin says so And, well, let's move on to another black sage.
His name is Keith Asante, and he's writing in the London Economic.
He wrote an article called, The Future of Blackness on this Planet.
And he is someone who, this is the sort of thing that these fancy black people believe.
He says, Black people of African ancestry, that's how he starts it.
Now, I'm not sure what other sort of black people there are, but black people of African ancestry continue to be viewed suspiciously throughout the world.
In China, photos showing printed signs banning black people from entering shops to buy food have been shared widely across social media.
Ooh, those bad Chinese.
They're honorary whites, I guess.
Then he goes on to say African migrants have been murdered in the Middle East.
Well, I hadn't heard about that.
Europeans have done little to save African migrants from drowning in makeshift boats as they seek refuge.
Of course, Europe has an obligation to do absolutely everything possible, not only to save them, but probably to charter 747s and bring them over.
Without any effort to themselves.
But then he goes on to say, And in the U.S., innocent black citizens continue to be gunned down indiscriminately by the police or self-proclaimed white nationalists or vigilantes.
Got that?
Innocent blacks gunned down indiscriminately by the police.
The abuse and torture of black people occur everywhere.
We need an honest discussion.
About the future of blackness on this planet.
Well, Mr. Asante, you're right.
We do need an honest discussion about it.
But I think an honest discussion would not necessarily turn out the way he wishes they would.
And one of the reasons I think I can fit this in if we speak rapidly, there's a story about South African railways.
There are 17 rail lines in Gauteng province.
Only three are working.
And the problem is a practice known as eating cables.
These are underground buried cables that provide power to the rail line.
People just dig them up and resell them.
It's called mining.
This happens day and night in full view of the public.
And you can watch groups of men as they dig with picks.
They're not bothered by passers-by watching them in their mining or their eating of cables.
This has been going on for years, but during the lockdown with no security personnel around, The perps really had free line, and now they're taking the overhead cables missing from several train routes.
The rail cars themselves, because they've been stuck at some stations for some time without much guard.
The distribution box have been torn out and disemboweled with their little copper cables.
And in many stations, this I find quite remarkable, the lights, the distribution box, the faucets in the restrooms, the guardrails, the steel benches, the doors, window frames, all missing.
In some of the buildings, the entire roofing structure has been removed.
This is because fences and gates have been torn down, especially if they have any metal in them, so that can be resold.
Fences and gates are torn down so you can drive in with a big truck, loaded up with everything you can possibly steal.
And the theft and vandalism go on, as I say, daily and often in full view.
And in a station called Benrose, Hundreds of yards of rail have been prized up, loaded onto trucks, and hauled away.
This is just a nightmare vision of a country gone wrong.
And so, if Mr. Asante wants an honest discussion about the future of blackness on the planet, I think he needs to wonder just why such a thing is happening.
Why is this happening in South Africa?
It must be, as they always say, a legacy of apartheid.
What do you think?
I think if you want an image of the future of blackness on the planet, all you have to do is look at a country where the future of whiteness was expunged.
Yeah, it has been expunged.
That's right, that's right.
But anyway, I believe we have raced through this.
We always come to the end of our time far sooner than we would wish.
But thank you, Mr. Kersey, for joining me, as you always do.
And thank all of you, all of our listeners, wherever you are.
It is an honor and a pleasure to be in touch.
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