‘The Internet is the Biggest Threat to Our Democracy’
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is the indispensable Paul Kersey.
Today is November 19th, Anno Domini 2020, and as usual, we have a great deal to talk about.
I'd like to start with a listener comment.
We love our listener comments, especially when they give us information of which we were unaware.
Last week we talked about the fact that Trayvon Martin Avenue was established just outside of Dr. Michael M. Kropp Senior High School, named of course in honor of its most illustrious and best known student, not a graduate I'm afraid, 11th grade student Trayvon Martin.
As Adam Kosinski, the principal of the high school said on Thursday, our students every morning will come out here and see the road that bears Trayvon's name.
His name will continue forever.
So this is clearly a big love affair between Trayvon Martin and his high school.
The resolution to rename the road is approved unanimously by the Miami-Dade County Commission.
Unanimously.
Now, audience and astute listeners, I ask you this.
If the high school loves Trayvon Martin, did Trayvon Martin love the high school?
Apparently not.
We have dug up, well this listener pointed out a tweet of his that came up and was published in the Miami Herald of all things.
It says, Would I miss crop?
Hell naw, spelled N-A-W.
Fuck da school.
Fuck da lunch.
And most of all, fuck da faculty.
I'ma miss some of the students, mainly da babes.
Well, I guess he's got his priorities straight.
Fuck da lunch!
Eat da babes, I suppose.
In any case, uh, fuck da faculty probably includes Adam Kaczynski, the principal, who is so fond of the new name.
Also, as this listener points out, this is something that Mr. Kersey says he was aware of years ago.
I, in my ignorance and bliss, was not.
I had always thought that Trayvon Martin's last purchase was Skittles and Arizona iced tea.
Sour Skittles, by the way.
Sour skills.
Well, as Mr. Kersey points out, no.
And as this listener also points out, he just wanted to call some attention in case I was unaware, which I was, that instead of iced tea, what he bought in his final purchase was Arizona watermelon fruit juice cocktail, not iced tea.
Watermelon fruit juice cocktail.
Now, Why was he buying watermelon fruit juice cocktail?
There are various theories about this.
One is just the usual stereotype, which we shall not go into, but it is a popular mixer for making something called purple drank, otherwise known as the poor man's PCP.
Were you aware of this?
Yeah, that's when you put NyQuil, I believe?
It's also known as lean.
And Trayvon Martin's Facebook page contains discussions of how to make lean, indicating that he was a user.
It's made with prescription-strength codeine-based cough syrup, such as Robitussin, a mixer, such as Arizona Watermelon Fruit Juice Cocktail, that's one of the most popular, and a candy flavoring, such as Jolly Ranchers or Skittles.
So when he made that purchase on June 27, 2011, sometime before he met his end, Trayvon asked a friend online, you know, a connection for a codeine.
Also, he tells a friend that Robitussin and Soda could make some fire-ass lean.
He says, I had it before and he wants to make some more.
On that fateful night, February 26th, if there happens to have been Robitussin in the house, it appears that Trayvon had just stepped out to buy the ingredients for a fire-ass lean cocktail.
You know, it's hilarious listening to you use those colloquialisms, you know, being from The Big Bad Suburbs, I can tell you, it was called robo-tussing.
Yes, that was something that went along all racial lines.
It wasn't just the brothers in Miami-Dade County.
Is that so?
That was something that people... That's one of the reasons why that cough syrup is no longer over-the-counter.
Do you sniff it?
Do you shoot it up?
I have no idea.
I don't know.
Well, you said you know all about it.
No, I'm aware of what robo-tussing is.
It's something that we make fun of people for.
All right, very good.
Well, our next item I think is a very important one and that has to do with our ex-president Barack Obama.
He had a recent interview with Atlantic Magazine and it is correct that back in 2008 he admits that he famously used the internet and social media to help win the White House and he loved it and used it consistently while he was there.
Now, He's very worried that the internet and social media have helped create, quote, the single biggest threat to our democracy.
He was discussing the media landscape that lets Americans choose what the Atlantic calls their own distorted reality.
Oh!
Their own distorted reality.
But whose reality is distorted, I wonder?
By which he means we no longer have a shared set of facts.
Now, Barack Obama says, I was talking to a volunteer who was going door-to-door in Philadelphia in low-income African-American communities and was getting questions about QAnon.
Well, this apparently really upset the president.
And his interviewer says, is this new malevolent information architecture bending the moral arc away from justice?
The moral arc.
Gosh, we have always got to bend the knee to the moral arc.
Have you ever seen, visually, the moral arc of justice?
Oh, is there a sculpture of it?
I don't know.
Is it visible to the naked eye, like white privilege and systemic racism?
I think it's about as visible, yes.
Well, as he says, is this bending the moral arc away from justice?
Obama says, I think it is the single biggest threat to our democracy.
The fact that information is to some degree a freewheeling marketplace is the biggest threat to our democracy.
He goes on to say, The degree to which these companies are insisting that they are more like a phone company than they are like the Atlantic, I don't think is tenable.
They are making editorial choices.
Well, they sure are.
Whether they've buried them in algorithms or not.
The First Amendment doesn't require private companies to provide a platform for any of you that's out there.
At the end of the day, we're going to have to find a combination of government regulations and corporate practices that address this because it's going to get worse.
Now, Mr. Kersey, I believe he has you in his crosshairs.
Likewise, me.
I think they're talking about you and me.
When the ex-president says it's going to get worse.
You know, Mr. Taylor, he and his wife signed a pretty big deal, I believe, with Netflix.
Yes, they did.
A shocking amount of money.
Netflix is one of those members of the acronym THING.
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google, which basically control... Information.
Information.
You also throw in one more that you, of course, But it's not tight enough, not for Barack Obama.
that would be Twitter.
Yes.
So I would already say that from a corporate standpoint, that stranglehold, that vice on news
and the dissemination of news has already been accomplished.
But it's not tight enough, not for Barack Obama.
He says, if we do not have the capacity to distinguish what's true from what's false,
then by definition, the marketplace of ideas doesn't work.
And by definition, our democracy doesn't work.
Well, I would ask Mr. Obama this.
If he thinks the American citizens can't distinguish truth from falsehood, should they be allowed to vote?
This is, it seems to me, rather an indictment of one man, one vote.
But of course, it's his idea of what's true.
It's Twitter's idea of what's true.
It is Netflix's idea of what is true that has got to be controlled.
And for this, we have to rethink the First Amendment, as explained by Richard Stengel.
This guy is the head of Joe Biden's transition team for U.S.
government media.
Now, he is an outspoken supporter of hate speech laws and social media censorship.
He is head of transition team for what's called the U.S.
Agency for Global Media.
This is the outfit that runs Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Liberty.
Those were founded back in the Cold War.
The idea was to cure those countries of communism Well, communism has glimmered away, boys, but they're still out there, and now he, this great believer in censoring things, is likely to be put in charge.
Well, last year, Richard Stengel wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post called, Why America Needs a Hate Speech Law.
In the article, he suggests that hate speech, quote, undermines the values that the First Amendment was designed to protect.
What on earth can he possibly mean by that?
The First Amendment says you can say just about anything you like.
How is it that any kind of speech is undermining the idea that you can say whatever you like?
It's just absurd to me.
He calls for the various different states to quote, experiment with their own version of hate speech statutes to penalize speech that deliberately insults people based on religion, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
Now, What he calls insult and what he calls deliberately remains to be seen.
But he says that several of President Trump's statements are hate speech and the things that he's tweeted, if America were to adopt a hate speech law, the president might be in violation of it.
This guy is prepared to say that what the President of the United States has said should be illegal.
This is remarkable.
I would say it's not.
Didn't the Supreme Court just rule 9-0 that hate speech doesn't even exist last year?
I don't recall that.
Did they say there's no such thing as hate speech?
Well, there certainly is according to the SPLC, and according to this guy, and according to a whole lot of other people.
And according to Corporate America, as we know, with Google, what the things have done.
Yes, every one of them believes in hate speech.
Well, you know, it's always been just so annoying to me.
If what you and I say is so obviously wrong and obviously ignorant, then shouldn't it be child's play to refute it?
Shouldn't any fool be able to explain why Paul Kersey is wrong and Jared Taylor is an idiot?
But no.
Apparently, we are so difficult to refute that they have to pass hate speech laws to make what we say illegal.
I think that it's coming our way, Mr. Kersey.
Now, I am pleased, on the other hand, that the Supreme Court is in the hands of a group that I do not believe will gut the First Amendment.
Any such law like this would go to the Supreme Court, and I'm confident, but then I'm the Pangloss of the movement, I'm confident that it would not survive.
But sis, I interrupted you.
Yes, you're about to say.
Yes, that's a nice Voltaire reference.
Washington Post back on June 19th, 2017.
Gosh, it feels like just yesterday.
The headline was Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms there is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment.
This was in regards to the Supreme Court case Maddow v. Tam.
I don't remember that at all.
This was Justice Samuel Alito's opinion.
The idea that the government restricts speech expressing ideas that offend strikes at the heart of the First Amendment.
Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful.
But the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express, quote, the thought that we hate.
Well, that's the very point.
And so why on earth this Stengel guy can argue that the First Amendment somehow snuffs out the speech it's supposed to protect?
In his view, the point of the First Amendment is to protect speech he likes.
They're really standing the whole thing on its head.
Well, thank you for that.
I was unaware of that suit.
It didn't get anywhere near the publicity it should have.
But moving right along, you'll remember Nicole Hannah-Jones.
She is the lady behind the 1619 Project.
I do.
And this was, of course, put out by our newspaper of record, the New York Times, and it wanted to establish 1619 as the true founding of the United States because that is when the first Africans were brought here.
And she found the influence of Africans, for better or for worse, almost always for better, in nearly every institution in American society.
And, of course, she won a Pulitzer Prize for this effort to completely recast American history in, dare I say it, a black light.
Mr. Jones, if you don't mind me interjecting just real quick.
Not only was she that, but she's basically been celebrated as the preeminent intellectual in this country now, I would argue.
Up until a few months ago when she actually started to have historians question Well, no, she has been paraded around metaphorically on the world's shoulders ever since this.
Well, it has turned out that as a sophomore when she was at Notre Dame, she wrote a letter to the editor of the paper, full of rather hair-raising stuff.
Let me quote a few sentences from it.
The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world.
Columbus and those like him were no different than Hitler.
It should be no different from Hitler, but no different than Hitler.
The crimes they committed were unnecessarily cruel.
I see.
Unnecessarily cruel.
A little cruelty is okay.
They were unnecessarily cruel and can only be described as acts of the devil.
Demonic, huh?
Demonic.
Then she goes on to say, she's a sophomore, Africans had been to the Americas long before Columbus or any Europeans.
And she goes on to say that the Africans got along well with the Native Americans.
Rather than slaughtering them, they taught them how to build pyramids and all this good stuff.
Well, it goes on and on and on like this.
I call this rather heady stuff for a sophomore, but That's the kind of thing to get you a job at the United States paper of record.
But this idea of Africans having got here first, that's not uncommon among some of the more cuckoo blacks.
I wonder if she still thinks that.
I'd really like to know.
And it seems to me that she needs a new project for the times.
Maybe she could call it the 1000 BC project.
Okay.
In which she explains all of the African contributions to pre-Columbian society.
Don't you think that'd be appropriate?
Well, that or some using some sort of mental telepathy to instead of using, you know, antiquated technology to build the pyramids, it was just done.
By melanin power.
Well, not just melanin power.
Melanin intellectual power that's somehow been lost by the contact with the dreaded ICE people.
Somehow zapped that vitality, that ability to... I would be curious to know if she still believes that Africans showed up first and just what their contribution was.
But I doubt that she'll be questioned about this in any of her public appearances.
No, she won't.
You had a story about the best beloved Megyn Kelly, and she's in a bit of a contretemps with the private school to which she sends her children for $55,900 a year.
Three children, by the way.
Three of them.
Three children, yes.
Adds up, doesn't it?
So, why this story to me is so important, just a quick preface.
I saw this at the New York Post.
It made a lot of, it was being shared Prolifically yesterday it had something like 85,000 shares in that little social media thing.
That is a lot of people who are seeing this story and the headline, it's very important, Megyn Kelly pulls sons from woke UWS Upper West Side School over anti-white letter.
That's a very good headline.
It's to the point.
The New York Post is famous for its famous headlines.
Yeah, exactly.
What was the one?
The headless body found in topless bar?
I think was their famous one.
And Feds to New York dropped dead.
That was another famous one.
Anyway, yes.
But again, that phrase, anti-white, that's so important that people think.
Individual white people need to start thinking there is a collective that has interests that are worth pursuing.
And that's that phrase, anti-white.
It doesn't just mean one white individual.
It means that person understands that all white people are being construed in this way.
So, that's a lot of wind up.
Let's have the pitch.
Right across the plate.
Ms.
Kelly said she yanked her two young sons out of their woke Upper West Side private school where a letter allegedly circulated accusing white people of, quote, reveling in state-sanctioned depravity and comparing white children, Mr. Taylor, to, quote, killer cops, end quote.
The offending letter made its rounds among the school's diversity group, which included Kelly and other white parents following the police-involved death of George Floyd.
That is an excuse for just about anything, isn't it?
Yes, exactly, exactly.
It was, whatever we think, we can unleash it now.
Unleash the Kraken.
So she acknowledged that while the school's far-left ideology doesn't jibe with her own views, she didn't really care.
So, after years of resisting, here's her quote she said on Monday's episode of her new podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show.
She said this, quote, After years of resisting it, we're going to leave the city.
The schools have always been far left, which doesn't align with my own ideology, but I didn't really care.
Most of my friends are liberals.
It's fine.
I come from a Democrat family.
I'm not offended at all by the ideology, and I lean center left on some things.
She went on to read directly from the letter written by Nahlia Weber, who's the executive director of the non-profit Orleans Public Education Network.
And posted on a blog titled, quote, if you really want to make a difference in black lives, change how you teach white kids, end quote.
Well, if you really want to make a difference, probably in her opinion, just don't have white kids.
Probably the best way to do it.
Anyways, from that blog, she writes this, quote, there is a killer cop sitting in every school where white children learn.
They gleefully soak in their whitewashed history that downplays the Holocaust of indigenous native peoples and Africans in the Americas.
They happily believe their all-white spaces exist as a matter of personal effort and willingly use violence against black bodies.
To keep those spaces white.
Happens all the time, doesn't it?
I have to continue because she would go on to write, quote, I am tired of white people reveling in their state-sanctioned depravity, stuffing out black life with no consequences.
No consequences.
Happens all the time.
Where's the urgency for school reform for white kids being indoctrinated in black death and protected from the consequences?
Where are the government-sponsored reports looking into how white mothers are raising culturally deprived children who think black death is okay?
They all think that, don't they?
Yep.
So, just as you said, this school, $55,900 a year per student.
And you say she's got two or three?
She has two.
She has three boys.
And, again, it's really simple.
Two of them go to the schools.
You're talking about, what, $111,000 in tuition every year going to learn about how, well... How wicked they are.
Yeah.
White killed to kill her cops.
Yeah.
Now, there's another line from this letter.
She says, this Nalia Weber says, white children are raised from infancy to violate black bodies with no remorse or accountability.
So, in other words, Megyn Kelly is teaching her children to, from infancy mind you, to violate black bodies with no remorse or accountability.
I say good for Megyn Kelly for saying, look, that's enough.
She publicizes this letter.
That's great.
I'm clearing out.
Well, I looked into this, this Nalia Weber.
As you noted, she runs the Orleans Public Education Network.
It gets grant money from the Schott Foundation for Public Education.
Also from the William Kellogg Foundation.
These are sure enough, big name, big name.
Yes.
The Institute of Mental Hygiene, the Greater New Orleans Foundation, the Baptist Community Ministries, these are all sort of stand-up or straightforward, you know, do the right thing kind of non-profits.
And I looked at her website and she holds a master's degree in Sociology and Education from Columbia.
Where she focused on racialized school policies and practices and she, and to quote from her own description of herself, unapologetically places black children and their needs at the forefront of education policy.
Black children and their needs are at the forefront and she specializes in curriculum reform.
Now she is the lady who could be setting up what your students, what your children learn, especially if they go to school in New Orleans.
Just the kind of lady we want more of.
Now, moving right along to the University of Pittsburgh.
I'd like to give you a little bit of a background on what's called the Hippocratic Oath.
You've heard about that.
It is the oldest, or one of the oldest, binding documents in history written in antiquity in classical Greece, and its principles are held sacred by doctors to this day.
And the idea is, you treat the sick to the best of your ability.
And you preserve patient privacy, you teach the secrets of medicine to the next generation, and so on.
Well, today most graduating medical school students swear some version of the oath.
And indeed, oath-taking has become nearly uniform.
Just 24% of medical schools are administering the oath in 1928, but nearly 100% today.
But unlike the classical oath, things have been changed.
Now, only 14% these days prohibit euthanasia.
The classical law said none of that.
11% recognize a deity, only 11.
In the old days, you talked about God.
8% forswear abortion, and only 3% forbid sexual contact with patients.
Apparently, that's okay for 97%.
It used to say a physician would, quote, remain free of all mischief.
And in particular of sexual relations with both female and male patients, be they free or slave.
But now we don't talk about that anymore.
I suppose we live in liberated times.
Anyway, why am I talking about the Hippocratic Oath?
It's because the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has a tradition in which each class writes a version of its own oath to be recited alongside the traditional Hippocratic Oath and the class of 2024 has just presented its new oath to the Pitt Medicine Administrators for approval.
The new oath includes references to George Floyd, Brianna Taylor and Ahmed Arbery, as well as to the COVID-19 pandemic, systemic racism, and LGBTQ++ identity.
Specifically, the oath says that students will be allies to those of low socioeconomic status, the BIPOC community, the LGBTQIA plus community, Women, women, and they spell women with W-O-M-X and slash W-O-M-E-N.
I guess they're covering all their bases.
Differently abled individuals and other underserved groups in order to dismantle the systemic racism and prejudice that medical professionals and society have perpetuated.
So there you go.
They're going to be woke doctors.
They're going to be woke doctors.
And boy, are they going to be good, great, and wonderful folks.
And 97% of them have no problem having sexual relations with their patient, as you pointed out.
Quick question for you.
Think about this.
January 1st, 2020 happens.
Everybody rings in the New Year.
You just mentioned three names.
One of those names, I would argue, most people have forgotten about already because of all that's happened.
Ahmet Arbery.
He's the odd man out in that trifecta, in that racial trifecta.
Well, but of course, you know, he was gunned down by vicious white people.
He was just out jogging, you know that.
Brunswick, Georgia!
But, now that trial, that trial's going to go on, that's scheduled for January of next year?
It is.
Do you know when Derek Chauvin's trial is?
At some time next year as well.
That's going to be a very interesting one.
And very, very significant consequences could ensue from how those trials shake themselves up.
It'll be interesting to see how a potential Biden administration handles that if it goes the wrong way.
I still remember, it was, my goodness, it has been six years, I believe, since Barack Obama gave that weird address on the night that Darren Wilson was acquitted.
Do you remember this?
Yes, I do remember.
And it was on CNN, and he basically excoriated the police.
And he said, what was it that he said?
No, I think it was when Darren Wilson was not indicted.
He was not indicted.
He was not indicted.
And that was the end of it.
And the district attorney, that white Democrat.
I can remember his name.
He gave that great address.
He said this was just a travesty.
Then Barack Obama gets up there as the violence starts in Ferguson, and he basically said that he understands that people have emotions, as if to justify.
He justified the violence.
Exactly.
He said nothing, nothing at all about it's not a good idea to attack a police officer and try to wrestle his gun out of his hand.
Never said a word about that.
No, it was extraordinary.
And of course, he also told us that Trayvon Martin could have been his son.
He did?
I think, yeah, he could have been his son.
You never know.
Now, on the question of crime, we have new developments in Seattle.
You'll recall when the rioters took over several downtown blocks this summer, Mayor Jenny Durkan proclaimed a summer of love.
She did?
A summer of love.
Now, Councilwoman Lisa Herbold, it's somehow ladies who seem to be in the forefront of some of the just the nuttiest nuttiness.
But she's preparing to introduce a bill that would give some residents a pass to commit misdemeanors.
Criminals could claim that they committed these misdemeanors under duress
for the following reasons, poverty, drug or alcohol abuse, or other health issues.
So maybe COVID would be included.
Seattle law currently lists more than 100 misdemeanors, including thefts of less than $750.
So if you stole something worth $749 and said that, well, I was under duress, I was poor, you might get off.
Indecent exposure is okay, too.
I was poor, so I just had to whip it out in front of that little girl.
I was poor!
Or unlawful use of a weapon for intimidation.
That, too, you can get off.
And some forms of harassment and assault.
So, if you commit one of these crimes and claim duress under this new law, would a judge have to dismiss?
Or would a jury have to acquit?
It certainly sounds that way.
Ms.
Herbold has yet to introduce the full text of her plan, but a model proposal released by the King County Department of Public Defense suggests that that's the case.
Now, King County, that's where Seattle is located, and it used to be named for a certain king, one of the pioneers.
Correct!
But then they decided, you know, we're not even gonna have to change the letterhead, but now it's named for a different king.
And it's not King George III, but I will let you guess which king it's now named for.
Stephen King, the science fiction author.
Oh, there you go.
Or Steve King, the congressman.
No.
Seem to be a former congressman, unfortunately.
Yeah.
Well, then Council President Lorena Gonzalez, once again, this is still in Seattle, she says, I continue to believe it is time to stop the criminalization of poverty, mental illness and addiction.
So, yep, public defecation is probably on the list and stealing less than $750 in decent exposure.
Go man, go!
If you're sufficiently poor or sick or weird.
But continuing in this vein of crime, you had some interesting information on the recent FBI hate crimes report that came out.
I've been covering that report probably for 20 years.
And it is very gratifying for me to find that some other outlets are saying some of the things that I was saying.
I consider myself something of a pioneer in pointing out some of these things, but please tell us what... This is Front Page Magazine, right?
This is Front Page Magazine.
A little David Horowitz action here.
Yes, and what's the guy, Greenberg?
Daniel Greenfeld, I believe is his name.
No, he writes very solid stuff.
Yeah, so if you were a pioneer, you're now finally starting to see the fruits of your labor develop as a thriving civilization emerges when it comes to... Some of these ideas are getting out, and as Barack Obama explains, they are the greatest threat to our democracy.
They are, and that's exactly why, you know... Yes.
So, regale us with this front page magazine story.
I will.
Again, the title is FBI That's not the headline the New York Times would use.
No, it's not.
It's not.
So, again, you can find this on FrontpageMag.com, or maybe it's FrontpageMagazine.com.
But the point is, this was just published, and I'll just read some of the stats.
Every time the FBI gets around to releasing the hate crime data from the previous year, the numbers reveal a pretty wide gap between the media narrative And the reality on the ground, Greenfield writes.
2019 data is no different.
So he sifted through thousands of hate crimes from across the country, committed by thousands of criminals.
And the final breakdown is that of 6,406 known offenders, only 52% of the perpetrators were white.
Were underrepresented.
And around 24% were black.
Overrepresented.
Very much so.
The FBI measures Latinos as an ethnicity, not a race, so that the white racial category of offenders also includes Latinos.
You know, when the first... I mean, I don't wish to toot my own antique horn quite too loudly here, but when the first color of crime was issued in 1996, I reproduced the form that local police are supposed to fill in when they are recording a hate crime.
Hispanics are a victim category, but they're just not a perpetrator category.
Not an offender, huh?
Not an offender.
They must be white, or black, or whatever it is, but almost always end up being white.
So, anyway, please proceed.
I'll proceed.
Yes.
As stated, regarding Latinos as an ethnicity, not a race, and lumped in with whites, Asians didn't even break the 1% barrier of offenders.
Now, America's demographic distribution, roughly about 60% white, 12% black, 18% Hispanic, 5% Asian, leaving us with the inescapable reality, Mr. Greenfield writes, that Asians are not doing their part.
Get with the program, Asians.
You know, you're minorities.
Come on.
So the FBI, I'll just read you a few more things.
The FBI statistics point to the reality that black people are committing hate crimes at twice their demographic representation.
True.
Even when accounting for age, the under-16 population may only be 49% white, but it's still only 13.7% black, with most of the growth being among Latinos.
For the racial distribution, Millennials and whatever the next group after Millennials, Zoomers, are called, I believe that's the case.
So, black people, however, are also much more likely to be the victims of hate crimes, with over 2,000 victims, so that while black people were the perpetrators, Of 24% of the hate crimes, they were also the victims of 27% of the hate crimes.
Of course, when the perpetrator is classified as white, we have no idea how many were Hispanic, because they're always lumped in with the whites for this purpose.
My guess, I would bet Hispanics are quite zealously overrepresented in the anti-black hate crime class, because they're more likely to live next door to them.
Correct.
Greenfield points out that there were however more hate crimes targeting white people, than Latinos with 775 white victims of hate crimes and only 693 Latino victims.
He also points out that in 2019, 8.7% of the victims of hate crimes were white, 27% black
as noted, 7.8% were Latino, 11.7% were Jewish, 2.5% were Christian, and another 2% of those hate crime
victims were disabled. But you know, Jews and disabled people likewise are not a perpetrator
category.
Now, I don't know how many disabled people commit hate crimes against people who are not disabled.
Or how many Jews commit hate crimes against Christians or anybody else.
But you simply cannot categorize them as a perpetrator category.
It seems to me if you're a victim category, you should also be a perpetrator category.
But the most obvious example of how you should correct that would be for Hispanics.
And then finally, just real quick, of racially motivated murders, 40 were committed by white people, 5 by black.
Bias rapes, 12% were committed by white people and 13% by black people.
That's one of those, I'd actually like to know more about that category, what that actually means.
You know, we, some years ago, took the trouble to find out, to track down every single case of bias murder and so-called bias rape.
It's very hard to get to the bottom of these things.
But in almost every case, when a white was supposed to have committed a biased rape or a biased murder, it turned out to be Hispanic.
Oh, because again, they're lumped in.
They're lumped in.
They're lumped in.
Yes.
How many, I mean, how many, uh, I'm going to rape you because you're black kind of stuff goes on among white people or Hispanics for that.
It's, it's just, uh, it's very hard to imagine it happening, but there you go.
Well, you know, someone that, you know, someone who can imagine that happening, that's, uh, Nassim What's her name?
Nalia Weber.
Oh, Nalia Weber.
That's actually what she's talking about.
That's this idea that motivates her pedagogical activities across the country with this Orleans Likewise, Nicole Hannah-Jones.
White people just run around raping non-whites all the time.
That's their business.
It's the reason for being.
You had a Colorado story for us as well, I believe.
Occasionally I'll go on Google News and I'll type in simply this Subject, African-American disproportionate or black disproportionate.
I like to see what pops up and invariably there's always a news story that's recycled, an AP story that has a twist, a localized twist, or it's some from the Gannett News Empire and they've got all their papers that they own across the country.
They have their centrally focused message and then they decide, Well, let's go dig down into the data in just the city.
We'll vocalize the macro, and then we'll do the micro take.
So here's one of those instances.
And the headline reads thusly.
Arrest disparity, colon.
Colorado's black population 3.5 times more likely to be arrested than their white counterparts.
Oof.
Okay, maybe that means they commit more crime at a rate that much higher than their white counterparts.
No!
That's what you must never conclude!
Delete that last comment!
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
So here's, I'm just going to read the subject, the first couple lines.
Two black men share their stories of early encounters with police and the difficulties they've had since.
Oof.
Haunts them to this day, that specter of white police officers.
Quote, the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice has been keeping data on race and arrests since 2015.
The most recent data shows African Americans are disproportionately arrested in Colorado.
They make up one of every 25 Coloradans, but one in eight of the arrests in the state.
That means they're twice as likely to be arrested in a Hispanic Coloradan, and about three and a half times more likely to be arrested than a white person.
You know, this sort of reporting, it really gets on my nerves after a while.
You know, my best example of this was a long New York Times article that said, it was all right there in the headline, black, Minneapolis blacks, seven times more likely than whites to be subject to police use of force.
Seven times more likely.
They never said how many times more likely they are to be arrested or to commit crime, anything like that.
The idea that you can be a black person just walking around and you are suddenly seven times more likely to be a victim of police use of physical force.
It, I mean, that would be, that would be a shocking headline if in fact they were comparing every time the police made an arrest and under equally, under carefully controlled equal circumstances, blacks are more likely to be subject to force of some kind than whites, that would be worth knowing.
They made no attempt.
No attempt to do that.
Maybe they're arrested 10 times more likely.
I looked at some of the statistics we have.
It would not surprise me if they're arrested 10 times more likely.
And if they're subject to force only 7 times more likely, they're less likely when arrested.
To be subjected to force and white people.
But anyway, you have touched me in the quick here, and I've gotten excited about that.
But did you have any more to tell us about this Colorado story?
No, the rest of the story is basically your sobs, your sob tale of the black men who had an encounter with police.
I'll read one briefly.
Rashad Hunter remembers his first encounter with the police.
This is the drivel that this...
Newspaper publishes, quote, I was pulled out of the car while it was snowing, 20 below, and we're in shorts because we still had our basketball game.
We had our basketball gear on left to sit on the curb for more than an hour in freezing cold temperatures, never given a ticket, never arrested, ultimately told you guys can go.
Well, that doesn't sound like much fun if he's telling the truth, and I suspect he may not be.
But, anyway.
No, all these sob stories.
But see, they bring that up in an article about arrests?
Well, they weren't even arrested.
No, they weren't arrested.
This isn't an example of an arrest.
He did say, it's interesting, it goes on to say, this traumatic encounter would be the first of many encounters with police for Hunter.
The reporter doesn't seem to stop and say, well, wait a second, was this all because he got taken out of a car when he was wearing basketball shorts in the cold?
And they would write this, Hunter was arrested several times in his early years and says charges were always dropped.
The repercussions, on the other hand, were long-lasting.
Arrested but charges dropped.
For me to be tagged, you know, like you catch an animal and you tag them, you know, so that way now we have record of you, of who you are and what you do and where you go, end quote.
Well, if you are arrested and charges are dropped, that's not the way it's supposed to work.
You're out of the system!
Well, but no, I mean, somebody made a mistake if he arrested and charges dropped, so maybe this guy has some genuine beefs.
But in any case, by and large, they tell these stories just for a particular effect.
You know, one of the first encounters I ever had with the police was, I was living in Washington, D.C.
And I was just crossing the street, and a patrol car squealed to a stop.
A guy hopped out, and he had his hand on his gun.
He's up against the side of the car.
I put my hands on the side of the car.
He pats me down, very fierce.
And after he discovered that I was not wearing a weapon, and I certainly didn't resist, I didn't try to slug him the way it might have happened, then he just explained to me very calmly and apologetically, well, you fit a description.
and he said uh you're a white man wearing a brown coat and he says it's very unusual for white men to commit a robbery but this was a robbery you fit the guy's description so he went after me but uh i'd never i never considered it any kind of harassment but that he was just this guy doing his job and he was i did what i did my job and did what he said and he was very pleasant apologetic afterwards but be that as it may let's move to boulder The boulder.
That's a heck of a story you just told!
Well, no, I've never forgotten.
It was quite interesting.
It was disturbing for this guy.
He did not draw his gun, but he had his gun ready.
He had his hand on his pistol ready to draw if I had done anything squirrelly.
But yes, let us move on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
There's a large rock on the campus.
It's a 70-ton boulder.
That's a big rock.
I saw a photograph of it.
It's big.
How many times?
70 tons.
That's a huge geological formation.
One rock.
It's officially known as the Chamberlain Rock in honor of Thomas Crowder Chamberlain, a geologist and a former university president.
Well... It has been there since the 1920s.
But it's got to go.
It's got to go.
It turns out it is a racist rock.
Because...
It was referred to in a 1925 news article in the Wisconsin State Journal, a newspaper, as a N-word head.
I'm not supposed to pronounce this word.
I mean, you and I will blow up in a blue cloud of smoke if we pronounce this word.
But N-word head.
That, now this isn't used to me, that was a commonly used expression in the 1920s up until the 1950s for a large dark rock.
And it was part of place names, apparently.
But in any case, in 1925, a news article referred to this rock in these terms.
Those terms?
1920?
Okay.
This happened in 1925.
Well, apparently, the Wisconsin Black Student Union dug up this article.
I must commend them for their research talents.
They dug up this article and they called for the rock's removal.
Because it was once referred to, what's that, nearly a hundred years ago, 95 years ago, a newspaper article referred to it in those terms.
That's all, that is the only offense this rock ever committed.
That's enough.
That rock's gotta go.
Break it into 70.
700 million pieces immediately.
Shatter it.
President Nala McWhorter.
What kind of name is Nala?
N-A-L-A-H.
Sounds like a woman to me.
Once again, now maybe I'm wrong.
And if it's a Mr. McWhorter, I apologize.
But once again, women seem to be leading the charge in certain kinds of foolishness.
She said the rock is a symbol of the daily injustices that students of color face on a predominantly white campus.
I guess they walk by and they think this thing is crushing me to death because 95 years ago a newspaper article referred to it with a bad word.
So it's got to go.
The university's campus planning committee voted unanimously To remove the rock.
I guess that one person who had that logical thought, are we really doing this?
Was too afraid of being non-personal.
You know, that's what I wonder.
That's what I wonder.
That's what I wonder.
We were talking about Trayvon Martin Avenue.
You know, the city council unanimously, did nobody say, well wait a minute, wait a minute.
This guy was trying to beat up George Zimmerman.
This guy was a thug.
Why are we going to name... No, no, no.
You can't do this.
And does anybody have the...
The wit, the brains, in any case... The wherewithal.
The intestinal wherewithal.
But they would unanimously remove the rock, although they're not quite sure where to put it.
Now, this is, this is the zinger.
Removal of this 70-ton rock will be complicated by the fact that its current site is near a Native American effigy mound.
So, in order to remove this racist rock, they might have to disturb hollowed ground, a Native American effigy mound.
So, this is going to be a real problem.
So, further adventures and follies in the university world, you'll be pleased to know that students at MIT We'll be required to participate in an online diversity training seminar before they're permitted to register for their spring courses next year.
Even if you're a returning student, you can't register until your brain has been thoroughly washed.
The notice went out.
You will have a registration hold placed on your account and will be unable to register if you do not complete the trainings.
So they'll learn all about white privilege.
And to quote from one of the syllabi that make up part of this training, even if you think you personally don't have power, you may still be participating in structural systems of power where you receive advantages or are considered the norm while others are disadvantaged.
Now, this got me thinking.
What if they said, you know, to be an MIT student, you've got to go to chapel every Sunday.
Hmm.
There would be outrage.
There would be outrage.
But this, to me, is the equivalent of chapel.
This is the new religion.
You have got to bend the knee to St.
George and St.
Martin and St.
Breonna and St.
Trayvon.
And if you don't, if you don't attend the equivalent of Woke Chapel, you can't register.
You can't be a student at MIT.
I mean, it's... Well, obviously with this kind of training, they're going to be better engineers, better mathematicians, better physicists, because they're going to learn about white privilege.
Well, the job isn't to make them physicists or mathematicians or engineers or scientists or aerospace, you know, cutting-edge thinkers in R&D.
It's basically to retard and to impede thought, to basically make everyone conform to this.
And that piece you wrote, we were talking about this earlier.
The article, has America gone mad?
That might not be the headline.
Have we gone mad?
I don't recall the headline.
I don't recall either.
So how we got to this point.
Yeah.
Something like, yes.
And it's, it's very much worth reading.
And 2020 has been a fascinating year and it's, it has exposed what you've just said, stated that Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, the guy who was shot in Kenosha, there has been this, Religious fervor that's been building for decades.
Probably more than a century, actually, if you go back and think about everything that led to the Civil Rights Movement.
This has erupted with a kind of intensity I never expected.
Anyway, you've got a lot of stuff to cover here.
I'd like to refer to the City Journal.
The City Journal is really full of good stuff.
That's where Heather MacDonald writes, but there was an article called Police department's on the brink, and it explained what happens when there are fewer police.
Officers are down 7% in New York, and there are substantial drops in Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and elsewhere.
In city after city, officers cite a hostile climate.
In Seattle, over 100 have left this year citing fears of their personal safety and what they call a socialist city council.
In San Francisco, 30 officers have cleared out because of the attitudes of everyone from homeowners to the homeless.
Now, there's one former San Francisco police officer now in Texas.
He says, it's nice to be working at a place where everyone doesn't hate you.
I bet.
Now, this is interesting too.
Research consistently finds that increasing the number of officers on the streets cuts crime.
One study in Dallas linked a 10% drop in the presence of officers to a 7% increase in crime.
Also, this is interesting too, fewer cops means more likely police misconduct because when cops leave, the officers who remain have to work longer, more stressful hours, and they tend to use force more often than their less stressed colleagues.
A 13-hour rather than a 10-hour shift significantly boosts use of force, while back-to-back shifts, get this, quadruples the likelihood that a police officer will use force.
That's a sobering statistic.
Now, and this decline in the number of police officers predates 2020.
Fewer police officers per capita in 2019, last year than at any point since 1994.
Remember, 1994 was the big inflection point.
That's when crime began to decline.
And there was something called the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, and that put thousands of officers on the streets.
That's the era when Joe Biden was not a complete idiot.
No, he was not.
Yes.
The Democratic Party was actually all in on this.
Yes, the Democratic Party thought this was a great thing.
All of their people who vote Democrat live in the interstate.
They're going to be much better off with more police and crime began to come down.
Since 2008, the number of police per capita has declined from post-crime wave peak thanks to all of this foolishness.
And we can, I promise you, listeners all around the world, we will see more crime.
Now, you had a few stats on COVID.
Let's hear them quickly.
Let's see this quick.
Once again, this is one of those big stories you see everywhere.
The headline that I saw at the Philadelphia Inquirer was Black Hispanic people hospitalized for COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates.
Most people, Mr. Taylor, are not going to read the rest of that story.
They're going to have their narrative reinforced.
This is somehow a racist disease.
Oh my gosh.
So just real quick, Two paragraphs that are so important that most people aren't going to read.
Remember, they'll read that headline and that's enough.
It reinforces this idea it's bad.
Black and Hispanic people made up nearly 60% of COVID-19 hospitalizations in a new study.
Here's the study.
It looked at data from 7,868 people hospitalized for COVID-19 between January 17th and July 22nd at 88 U.S.
hospitals taking part in the American Heart Association COVID-19 Cardiovascular Disease Registry.
Yeah, here's the study. It looked at a data from 7,868 people hospitalized for COVID-19
between January 17th and July 22nd at 88 US hospitals taking part in the American Heart Association COVID-19
cardiovascular disease registry.
Hispanic and Black patients had a disproportionate rate of laying at the hospital.
Now, you ask me, what are the actual deaths though?
Hospitalizations?
Okay.
Let's take a look at this.
We found it very quickly.
The CDC website on October 23rd published this.
Race, ethnicity, and age trends in persons who died from COVID-19, United States, May through August 2020.
An analysis of 114,411 COVID-19 associated deaths reported during that time period found that 51.3% of the decedents were non-Hispanic white, 24.2% were Hispanic or Latino, 18.7% were non-Hispanic black.
19 associated deaths reported during that time period found that 51.3% of the
decedents were non-Hispanic white, 24.2% were Hispanic or Latino, 18.7% were
non-Hispanic black. The percentage of Hispanic decedents increased from
16.3% in May to 26.4% in August.
Asians were actually less than 3%.
So the point of this is, this is from the CDC.
I have not seen these numbers before.
It's rare that you see the racial breakdown of this stuff.
But this report, again, you have this horrifying headline that makes people think, Not only is there implicit bias, not only are there structural inequalities, not only is there white privilege, but COVID-19 is racist.
And as we see from these numbers, well...
The disproportions aren't that great at all?
Not only that, but it's primarily people who are 65 or above who died.
They make up 78.2% of the decedents.
So again, this disease is, if you're under 65, guess what?
You're only 22.8% of the deaths.
And also, whites are about 62% of the population.
They account for, what, 55% of the deaths?
51% of the deaths!
Okay, well that's not such a startling disproportion, but we're also to be wringing our hands yet more structural racism, yet more medical racism.
Oh boy.
I blame the food deserts personally.
Yes.
Well now, I've got one more story for you.
Can you name a person who's been in the news whose first name and middle name are Raphael Gamaliel?
Raphael Gamaliel.
He's been in the news.
I can't.
We've got a little bit of time.
Last name is Warnock.
Warnock.
Raphael Warnock.
Now, he's the guy who's in the special runoff election for senator in Georgia.
He's a black man running against incumbent, a white woman named Kelly Loeffler.
Warnock.
Well, in 2005, he became the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
That's one of the high holy places of the civil rights movement because St.
Martin preached there.
Well, in 2019, he hosted an interfaith meeting on climate change at his church, featuring Al Gore.
The Reverend Al Gore?
This is an interfaith meeting.
In any case, this guy is pretty, pretty down on Trump.
In 2016, he called Trump a fascist, racist, sexist, and xenophobe.
Then he went on to say, if it is true that a man who has dominated the news and poisoned the discussion for months needs to repent, And of course he does.
Trump must repent.
It's doubly true that a nation that can produce such a man and make his vitriol go viral needs to repent.
That is you, Paul Kersey.
Get down on your knees and repent right now.
And the 73 million people who voted for President Trump.
They better repent.
His academic advisor at Union Theological Seminary in New York was James Cone.
This guy is considered the father of black theology.
Now, some of the things he wrote.
American white theology is a theology of the Antichrist.
Because blacks have come to know themselves as black and because that blackness is the cause of their own love of themselves and hatred of whiteness, the blackness of God is key to the knowledge of God.
This is this guy's thesis advisor and he goes on to say, he talks about satanic whiteness and the incapacity of whites to perceive the blackness of God.
There will be no peace in America until white people begin to hate their whiteness, asking from the depths of their being, how can we become black?
Are you asking from the depths of your being how you can become black?
No.
Well, the goal of black theology is the destruction of everything white so that blacks can be liberated from alien gods.
So this guy was the mentor and the thesis mentor and thesis advisor of the fellow who would be the next senator.
And this guy that I've been quoting, James Cone, he was teaching at Union Theological Seminary.
That's the kind of thing you have to say in order to get hired there.
And just one last little item.
He is married to Ulie Ndoye.
Her website explains that she is a global leader in human rights.
I'm glad to know that.
But I wanted to dope out this name of hers, Olie Ndoye.
She is light-skinned and she's American, so it sounds like one of those phony African names that she baptized herself with.
I mean, it sounds like she's straight out of the Gambia, but no, I don't think so.
She is a genuine homegrown black.
And we are running out of time, as we always unfortunately do despite so many more things we'd love to say.
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