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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
I am Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me, of course, is the indispensable Paul Kersey on this 2nd of December Anno Domini 2020.
And I'd like to start with something that a listener alerted us to.
Last week, Mr. Kersey and I were talking about the execution of 38 Dakota Sioux in 1862, which we mistakenly referred to as the largest group execution in U.S.
history, but our listener corrects us.
He writes, and he says as follows, The single largest execution in American history was that of 50 members of the St.
Patrick's Brigade, the Bataillon de San Patricio, as they were called.
They were not all executed on the same day, however.
16 executed September 10th, 1847, 4 September 11th, and 30 on September 13th.
So over a span of three days, an execution of 50 people.
One of those executed on the September 13th, he said, had his legs amputated on the previous day.
I guess you have to take care of your prisoners and your wounded.
And he operated on and then executed.
Now, as our listeners may or may not recall, the St.
Patrick's Battalion was made up of mainly of Irishmen.
They'd been drafted to go fight against the Mexicans, and once they were there, they decided they would fight for the Catholics.
In other words, Mexico against the Protestant United States.
And they are still considered heroes in both Mexico and Ireland.
They're memorials to the St.
Patrick's guys in Mexico.
So, loyalties lie deep.
Now, as for this execution of the Sioux, the 38 Dakota Sioux, that was after a war between the Sioux and the U.S.
Army in 1862.
This is during the Civil War.
Exactly.
Yes, that's one of the significant aspects of it.
And at that time, of course, the U.S.
Army was otherwise engaged.
They were otherwise engaged.
They couldn't really protect all these pioneers and settlers.
No, and the Comanche in particular took great advantage of that.
And in some cases, they chased the white man several hundred miles back east because the U.S.
Cavalry was not there to protect them.
In any case, this war between the Dakota Sioux in Minnesota, as it turns out, It resulted in the actual fighting between U.S.
soldiers and the Indians resulted in 77 U.S.
soldiers dead, 150 Indians killed, but what provoked the war was the massacre of an estimated 450 to 800 white settlers.
The Indians had slaughtered this and it took took white man quite a lot of logistic operations to get together a force capable of putting them down.
Now there was a military trial with some of the captured ones.
300 were sentenced to death.
300.
But Lincoln commuted the sentences of 262 of them leaving Even though, as you noted, he commuted the sentences of how many individuals?
the great emancipator because he permitted these 38 to be executed, he is a vicious guy
as we will see below.
Even though, as you noted, he commuted the sentences of how many individuals?
262 of them.
Not good enough.
Not good enough.
And the book that I truly recommend everybody take a look at, Great Christmas Gift, it's called The Dakota War of 1862, Minnesota's Other Civil War by Kenneth Carley.
It's quite a good book.
I cannot claim to have read that, but it sounds very, very interesting.
Now, Abraham Lincoln continues in the little story that follows.
This was from a couple of weeks ago.
Ordinarily, we can pack an hour with all sorts of fascinating things that happened within the previous week, but this was so interesting, and we never got around to it in the last couple of weeks, so I put it at the top of the list this week.
It has to do with San Francisco's school district having appointed a panel to study school names that must be changed because of...
Racism.
Yes, that's right.
And they found that 44 of the 125 schools in the city had bloody well better have their names changed.
That's more than one in three.
Yes.
Racism is just about everywhere you look.
And the school board will then vote on any potential name changes sometime in January or February of next year.
Now, needless to say, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, And Abraham Lincoln, for the reason I gave, have all got to go.
Yes, Abraham Lincoln might have freed the slaves, but he executed the Indians, so he's no bloody good.
Then there is El Dorado Elementary School.
Now, was there a Mr. El Dorado who persecuted lesbians?
No, but according to the report, the concept of El Dorado had a lot to do with the search for gold.
And for the indigenous people, that meant death.
Okay.
Of course.
Now, there you go.
Now, no one was ever looking for El Dorado in North America, but never mind.
That was something that happened in Central and South America, but El Dorado?
Nope, nope, nope.
It involved white people doing dastardly things.
That's right.
The very word has got to go.
Now, otherwise on the list, Paul Revere.
I don't recall exactly what it was he did.
I'm sure he wasn't a slave owner.
Francis Scott Key, yes, he said there's a line or two in one of the obscure verses of The Star-Spangled Banner that can be interpreted as somehow having a negative view on slave revolts during the revolutions.
He was also a founding member of the American Colonization Society.
That is true, that is true.
And Daniel Webster, he was also a colonizer.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Now, I don't know what's wrong with Robert Louis Stevenson.
Herbert Hoover.
Balboa, another one of those wicked white men who trampled on the rights of the indigenous.
And we're not talking about Rocky Balboa.
No, no, no, no.
This is ocean-going Balboa.
Yes.
And then there's President McKinley.
You know, I guess if you looked hard enough you could find out what was wrong with him.
And then there's a Jackson High School, and I assume that this is not Stonewall.
But I haven't looked too deeply into that either.
I suspect it's Andrew Jackson High School.
But Andrew Jackson was no good.
He's no better than Stonewall for that matter.
Now, this is one that I found particularly interesting.
There is a Dianne Feinstein Elementary School.
It's got to go!
Do you know why?
I don't know why, please.
It's because back when she was mayor of San Francisco in 1984, believe it or not, there was a Confederate flag flying outside City Hall.
For what reason, I do not know.
It was vandalized and this wicked and unforgivable Dianne Feinstein replaced it.
So for that act alone, Dianne Feinstein is unspeakable.
I'm going to ask and enlist our audience to see if they can tell us why in the world was a Confederate flag flying in San Francisco outside City Hall in 1984.
What a weird little story.
It's a strange anecdote.
It's a strange anecdote, but you know, that was, uh, what, 36 years ago and, uh, uh, George Floyd had not yet died.
So anything is possible.
Yeah, I guess the Dukes of Hazzard was still on TV at that time, one of the top shows.
In any case, I took a look at the full list.
But in order to look at this full list, I had to vote on which of the schools I would want to rename.
So there they all were.
I could not vote zero.
And so, just for fun, I chose Dianne Feinstein Elementary School.
There you go.
Now, it turned out, she had the most votes.
And when I looked, 5,549 people had voted against, had voted, and 450 had voted against her.
And the next in line was Junipero Serra Elementary School with 390 votes.
Now, my guess is people are voting just because they're opposed to the whole thing.
Who really hates Junipero Serra?
He was a saint, for heaven's sake.
But everybody is piling on poor Dianne Feinstein, poor girl.
Well, as first grade teacher Jeremiah Jeffries, who serves as facilitator for the School Names Advisory Committee says, The school renaming process is a continuation for the fight for racial justice.
Racism and white supremacy has not taken a break, and we will not either, from trying to dismantle it.
So their motives are pure, and they will save San Francisco from racism and white supremacy by getting rid of Junipero Serra High School.
Oh, elementary school, I beg your pardon.
Now, something else.
We're dipping back into the past here.
Way back into the past.
But it has to do with a book review that recently appeared on the American Renaissance website about something about which I knew nothing.
And I gather, Mr. Kersey, you knew nothing about either.
It's something called the Project 100,000.
I did not know.
This had to do with the Vietnam War.
It was a time in the 1960s when there just wasn't enough manpower.
People were not, they had the draft, but people didn't want to go and fight in Vietnam.
And so, McNamara, Robert McNamara, who was Secretary of Defense at the time, he had a great idea.
He was going to draft people who would ordinarily have been rejected by the Army's requirement that you have an IQ of at least 92.
So, he dipped below that and he even dipped below 80.
Below 80?
Below 80!
So you had some people whose IQs were in the 70s.
Now, these were officially known as new standards men.
New standards.
New standards.
Those old standards are no good.
And this imposed on a skeptical military by Secretary of Defense.
And McNamara thought he'd found a way to solve the problem ...of manpower while at the same time giving disadvantaged young men discipline and training that would improve their prospects in civilian life.
Now, like, this is just typical of the newfangled things that get through to people and just turn their brains to mush.
He thought that he could raise the intelligence of low-ability men through the use of videotapes and closed-circuit TV.
I mean, this was swanky, crackerjack news stuff at the time.
Yeah.
Yeah, these are his very words.
A low aptitude student can use videotapes as an aid to his formal instruction and end up by becoming as proficient as a high aptitude student.
How much do you think some study was done in the Pentagon?
Millions of dollars was wasted at the time on all of this.
You know, I bet no study was done at all.
In fact, as this book report points out, a book review points out, the people of the Pentagon, they knew better.
They realized this was crazy.
There was no evidence to back this up.
But McNamara, he was this whiz kid.
He had performed miracles at Ford Motor Company.
He could do no wrong.
And he was just going to solve all the problems.
Now, the problems showed up really early in basic training, for example.
You're supposed to run a mile.
Well, these new standards men could not grasp the concept of pacing.
They would just go flat out for the first 100, 200 yards and then they'd get all dog tired and they couldn't finish on time.
This is too much from the idea of not too slow, not too fast.
They tried to explain it as best they could.
Couldn't get through to them.
Likewise, there was a timed obstacle course run in which you would get to a point at a branch in the path and there would be an arrow that would tell you which way to go.
Ordinary recruits, they see that arrow, they know exactly which way to go.
These new standards guys, they'd have to stop, stare at the arrow, and say, okay, let's see, the pointy line, the pointy side, that's okay, now I go that way.
They were that dim, that dim.
That's the type of person that a digital clock was invented for, so they wouldn't have to try and tell the time on a watch.
That's right.
Your traditional watch.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
Well, no fewer than 354,000 men were admitted under this project,
and almost all of them served in Vietnam, of whom 5,478 died in the service,
a fatality rate three times that of the non-New Standards guys.
Three times.
Three times the rate. They died at three...
This is just cruelty.
It's idiocy.
It's cruelty.
They were sometimes known as McNamara's morons.
Now, during the five years this thing lasted, An average of 40% of the New Standards men were black.
There was no particular effort to recruit blacks.
But McNamara was convinced this is going to work just as well for Appalachian hillbillies as for blacks.
And the black men were often assigned to combat because their performance and training did not qualify them for any kind of specialty.
So they stuck a rifle in their hands.
They got themselves killed.
They got their comrades killed.
That's the most important point.
How many people We'll never know.
This book review quotes one guy who really, he'd been assigned to a platoon with some of these McNamara morons with him.
He said he would never let them walk point.
Walking point is the most dangerous job, but he said, you know, they could just walk you right into an ambush.
Exactly.
They couldn't tell.
They weren't capable, yeah.
If they can't tell what an arrow is supposed to be on the ground, or as they say, the pacing to run a mile, how are they going to be able to do point and do, you know, deep level reconnaissance?
Yes.
Or, you know, one guy also, he was put, he was told to guard against enemy infiltration.
And the idea is you hear the guy say the password and you let him in.
Well, a guy shows up, he says the password, one of these new standards guy shoots him down on the spot.
He just couldn't put two and two together.
No, but this is mortal folly.
We make bad enough mistakes in which life and death are not at stake.
So far as I know, they don't let people fly jet aircraft, for example, who have an IQ in the 70s.
But this kind of thinking persists to this day.
It's just outrageous.
But of course, we have a different kind of thinking in this day and age.
Tell us about the new standards.
We talked about the new standards recruits.
Tell us about the new standards at NASDAQ.
Well, you might recall Goldman Goldman Sachs jumped into the woke wars with the Goldman Rule, where they announced the chief executive officer, David Solman, said the firm is no longer going to take a company public in the U.S.
or in Europe if it lacks a director who is either female or diverse.
Goldman Sachs.
Goldman Sachs did this.
Now, of course, Goldman Sachs is Wall Street's biggest underwriter of IPOs, initial public offerings, in the U.S.
That's a big deal.
That's a very big deal.
Fortunately, there are competitors.
There are competitors.
But still, what a crazy... I mean, it doesn't matter if they are the most productive and innovative and liable to be the most hot, the hottest stock in the market, they've got to have the right sex.
Sufficient levels of melanin, enhanced individuals, and also females.
Well, NASDAQ has decided to take the Goldman rule one step further.
They plan to require more diversity on board of directors, which is the latest push by corporate America to encourage change as regulatory requirements remain unlikely in a gridlocked Washington.
With what we're going to see with, you know, I know a lot of our listeners out there, we want to think that Trump is going to get into the office.
We're probably going to see Biden inaugurated on January 20th, 2021.
What happens in Georgia is going to be very interesting to ensure that the Republicans can try and block stuff.
But my point is this.
Under the proposed rules, most companies listed on NASDAQ's U.S.
Exchange would have to include at least one director who identifies as female.
Identifies as female?
I can identify as female!
Exactly!
If that's all it takes, no sweat!
Well, here we go.
And at least one who identifies as an underrepresented minority.
Or LGBTQ?
You can't identify as LGBTQ.
Well, sorry.
I guess you can't.
Anyway, yes.
You can do that as well, why not?
But so NASDAQ, they just announced this today and currently a quarter of the listed companies meet that standard as of right now.
Wow, but three quarters don't.
Exactly, 75% don't.
Well, wait, does this mean that a company could be delisted?
Taken off the exchange?
They haven't brought that up yet.
However, this is what Scott Yonker, who's a professor of economics at Cornell University, said when he studied the impact of board diversity.
He said this, quote, This is going to get rid of groupthink?
Well, it sounds like groupthink is being imposed on these people.
They've all got to think the same way.
thinking outside of the box and group thinking.
This is going to get rid of group think?
Well, it sounds like group think is being imposed on these people.
They've all got to think the same way.
They've all got to have blacks and minorities and women who knows what else on their board.
I mean, look at the top sellers in books in 2020.
It's all this racial justice nonsense where you have these competing diversity consultants going in and trying to get people to unpack their privilege or whatever jargon.
Well, you know, this is an interesting parallel.
They say NASDAQ, because they despair of Congress passing a law to require this, they're going to do it on their own, right?
That's correct.
Well, that really reminds me of all the censorship that's going on.
So far, Congress and the Supreme Court have not outlawed what you and I say, but all the big platforms are doing it for them.
This is just another end run around the impossibility of getting a majority of the nation's representatives or the Supreme Court to allow something like this.
So, I guess NASDAQ is private.
They can do whatever they like.
You know, going back to what you just said, it was in the aftermath of the George Floyd insanity that I believe the primary AMRIN channel, which had over 115,000 subscribers, was digitally nuked.
125,000, yes.
And then the podcast channel had about 23,000 subscribers.
That's right.
That's right.
Just blown away.
But anyway, I see.
All right.
Well, Nasdaq, great.
I mean, can you imagine?
You're going great guns, your stock is trading, all the stockholders are happy, and all of a sudden you get delisted because the Nasdaq doesn't like your board of directors?
I don't think we'd go to that level yet.
I hope not.
If they would, there would be so many lawsuits because you'd have investors screaming, like you said.
But we live in crazy times.
Well, who knows?
I mean, you could have a Nasdaq stock.
You couldn't sell it.
There wouldn't be an exchange to sell your stock on.
Exactly.
Exactly.
How would you raise capital?
How would you access debt markets?
Exactly.
What a country.
Gosh.
Well, I got some more bad news, listeners.
More bad news.
The Virginia Attorney General has ruled that Loudoun County in Virginia, that's a neighboring county to ours, their school system committed illegal racial discrimination by requiring that people who wanted to go to their selective schools, called Academies of Loudoun, had to take a test that had a disparate impact.
It's very simple.
These schools are much more heavily Asian, surprisingly enough, than the Loudoun County Public Schools, and have fewer blacks, fewer Hispanics, and fewer whites.
The Virginia Attorney General, in his wisdom and his bliss and his legal daring-do, has decided that there was unintentional discrimination because, although the test was racially neutral, disproportionately fewer blacks and Hispanics got in.
They don't care about whites.
The fact that disproportionately fewer whites are in these schools, as is always the case.
In New York, in Thomas Jefferson High School, which has, until now, been frequently recognized as the best high school in the country, they're going to be forced to dilute their admissions process.
There's going to be a lottery, so they're going to have a lot of melanin floating around those halls, unlike before.
Well, because primarily before it was based on merit.
It was a very difficult... Strictly on merit.
Strictly on merit.
And so it was overwhelmingly Asian, a few whites, and then an occasional freak unicorn black or Hispanic.
I mean, they weren't, you know, if they could get in, they could get in.
If they couldn't, they couldn't.
Well, the Attorney General's office said that while the school's admission policies had a reasonable relationship to an important educational goal, Enabling students to excel in STEM.
There were other ways they could have done this.
They could have admitted more blacks and Hispanics by watering down the exam.
And that's what they want them to do.
And furthermore, this is an example of the kind of thing that Donald Trump was using against some of the self-consciously woke universities in the United States.
The Attorney General's office cited the school system's own words in which it confessed to insufficient diversity and cultural insensitivity.
So they said, okay, you guys, you guys have been racist.
So you got to change everything.
I'm sure all this, the Latin system is super, super progressive.
And just like all of these other super progressive people, they were saying, oh, we've been bad.
Even if they probably couldn't put their finger on any real example of this, but it's so woke and so modern and so virtuous for white people to say they're bad.
They all confessed.
Now, the Attorney General's Office even cited the Constitution in support of its ruling, although colorblind admissions sessions don't violate the Constitution at all.
Another point they made is that black students represented 3% of the applicants and 1.7% of those enrolled, despite constituting 18% of the school population in Loudoun County.
Now, they're not applying, you know, if only 3% out of 18% even apply, What are they going to do?
They're going to make them apply?
Exactly.
You have to mandate.
You automatically, if you are, if you're that way, you're exactly right.
So, there you go.
There you go.
Now, here is, there's a school in Los Angeles, a very exclusive hoity-toity whoop-dee-doo school called Harvard Westlake that is not going to require any Attorney General rulings.
Just as to let you know what this place is like.
It's K through 12.
Tuition is $41,300.
And if you want to go there the first year, new student fee $2,000.
Books, meals, and activities typically $2,000 to $3,000.
So if you want to go there, if you want to send your child there, you're looking at $45,000.
Well, that's the Megan Kelly School in New York where her kids went and that letter, if you recall, came a few weeks ago.
How much was that?
50 some odd thousand?
It was north of 50k and she had two of her sons at that time.
$45,000.
Well, their web page, they've got a website with about 20 pages of all of the heartfelt things that they're going to do for diversity.
And let me just read a few choice sentences from that.
They say, we must first acknowledge that Harvard Westlake's own practices have contributed to the racism and injustice that people of color have experienced at our school.
You wonder, what?
What?
What?
Then they're going to say, this is an urgent crisis that demands immediate adjustments.
It's an urgent crisis.
All of this built-in racism at this exclusive school that I'm sure has just twisted every policy into a pretzel trying to be nice to BIPOCs.
Now, in 2017, they appointed their first director of DEI, as it's called.
You know what DEI stands for?
D-E-I.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion?
Very good.
Very good.
Or as Steve Saylor calls it, Diversity, Inclusion, Equity.
D-I-E, yes.
No, you go to the head of the class.
You are woke.
You are with it.
You are virtuous.
Oh yeah.
Well now, after having hired this lady to be the director of DEI in 2017, now she has a staff of four.
There are five of them now.
All women.
Multiply, it'll be 8, 16, 32, 64.
That's right, that's right.
128, 256.
And in fact, they have an Asian, a black, a Hispanic, a white, and what everybody needs, an indeterminate.
I couldn't tell from a photograph what she was.
So, boy, mystery meat and everything you could possibly want.
Now, all these five diversity gurus, they're for just 1,600 students.
Five full-time diversity groups and they do business.
They pour big money out into these consulting groups like Blink Consulting and Jones Inclusive and the Grading for Equity Project and the Glasgow Group that all are paid to come in and tell them just how racist they are and what they're supposed to do about it.
Well, all right.
Like I said, it's five employees now.
It'll be 10 next year, 20, 40.
I mean, come on.
Five for 1,600 students?
That's not enough ratio there.
That 45,000 a year is going to be boosted to 55,000 a year.
You've got to pay for all this good stuff.
And they also have a huge list of readings they send out to white parents called Anti-Racism Resources for White People.
That sounds discriminatory to me.
If you're black, don't you get any anti-racism resources?
No, you don't get to read any Jerry Taylor.
I'd really complain.
I'd complain.
But now you had a fascinating story about St.
Louis.
So regale our listeners.
I do want to credit Jim Hoff to The Gateway Pundit.
He lives in St.
Louis.
I saw that there and he had a fascinating story with the headline, Perspective.
St.
Louis has 239 homicides this year and 238 coronavirus deaths.
At least 50 children shot so far this year.
That was on November 30, 2020.
Now, I recall there were a couple of really good articles around the time of the George Floyd crisis that pointed out how many black kids had been shot in St.
Louis.
It's tragic.
It's a tragedy.
I just read about a one-year-old who was shot in Canton, Ohio.
In just some random shooting.
He was murdered in his crib, Mr. Taylor.
I mean, this is the kind of stuff that just blows your mind.
Well, this story, you know, St.
Louis is one of those cities that's losing its population drastically.
You know, they expect the census in 2020 to show that it has under 300,000 people.
Now, this used to be one of America's more important cities.
It had massive white blight.
It's about 49% black, 43% white right now as of the 2010 census.
Well, our friends at the St.
Louis Metropolitan Police Department, they put out this incredible graph every week that's updated about the suspect and the victim, their race, for every homicide.
Wow.
As you can imagine.
How dare they?
Exactly.
It is shocking that they still will make public this information.
Now, we know that the clearance rate in cities like Baltimore, St.
Louis, Chicago, and homicides, it's below 40%.
Below 40%.
So what we do know, Through November 30th, 2020, 91% of the suspects in the homicides are black.
91% in a city that's 49% black.
So you can only imagine when the victims are close to 90%.
Eight percent black.
How many of the suspects are going to actually end up if we actually have a suspect for every victim?
I imagine.
Yes, exactly.
They don't know a race.
They officially don't have a race for a suspect because nobody saw what happened.
Exactly.
But chances are, we know.
That's precisely correct.
So the point is, St.
Louis has a really great, it's stlouis-mo.gov COVID-19 data, deaths, and they keep track.
And you can see how many deaths there have been, and you can compare that then to the data that the St.
Louis Metropolitan Police Department makes.
So wait, Mr. Kersey, you're telling me more people have died of acute lead poisoning this year than from COVID?
We don't know how many of these people were actually murdered with a gun versus stabbed or beaten.
I know what you're saying, that's hilarious.
More murders than COVID deaths?
More murders than COVID deaths, that is correct.
In fact, by the time that I actually got around to seeing these numbers, there had actually Four more murders since Jim Hoft had put the story up.
So it's at 242 and it was still at 238.
So that number, just like we're seeing... You know, this is really quite staggering.
We're supposed to shut down the economy.
Our mentality is turned inside out.
We're wearing masks.
We're doing everything possible.
And yet, at least in St.
Louis, more people are dying from murder than from this disease.
Yeah, and if you actually do, you know, per capita type stuff and base it on the population, you know, St.
Louis is far more violent than Baltimore, because there are actually fewer blacks in St.
Louis.
Baltimore is still above 600,000 people.
You know, St.
Louis, if you do the numbers, there are only about, what, Wow.
25,000 blacks in St.
Louis.
So, the point is this... Don't they... cities all around the country declaring racism a... Public health crisis.
A public health crisis.
That's right.
They've got their own public health crisis here, haven't they?
It's... I mean, again, it's... data doesn't lie.
Wow.
You know, again, as you pointed out, I wonder how many small businesses have been shuttered in St.
Louis because of COVID-19.
But we also know one of the main reasons why property values are so low in lots of parts of St.
Louis, because people are fleeing one certain type of crime that, well, one racial group seems to monopolize, committing.
Well, Mr. Kersey, as I recall, Kansas City is going to solve this problem, right?
Well, if you head north in Missouri and you go to Kansas City, there was a story that I saw that it made me laugh because we see this far too often.
The headline was this.
dearth of black detectives on Kansas City Police force hobbles its ability to solve
violent crime.
So, again, the headline makes you believe that, oh my gosh, all these black people killing
other black people would instantly stop.
It doesn't say that.
Solve it.
You're right.
It does actually, it does get in there, but it's because they're talking to white detectives.
And again, the whole new snitching, but it actually is, I won't read the whole article.
I will encourage our readers to go find it because we've got a lot we want to cover, but here's what we get.
Here's what we have right now.
Justice St.
Louis.
I'm sure we can find the data on Kansas City and show that there are more homicides in Kansas City than COVID deaths.
But the point is this, here's the opening to Two sentences.
So, the inverted pyramid.
Here, we're going to roll with this.
Quote, with police departments under scrutiny for their relationship with Black Americans, Kansas City, Missouri's police force has a dismal diversity record, especially in its investigative units.
Kansas City has already set a record for homicides this year, with 158 as of this weekend.
End quote.
Now, this story, this is from November 9th.
So, think about that.
Kansas City set their record for homicide.
Before November 9th.
Before Thanksgiving.
Yep.
And they've got a dismal record on diversity?
Could we call it a dark record on diversity?
Well, they also point out that hundreds of other people have been shot and wounded in non-fatal shootings.
And here's my favorite line.
The vast majority of victims and witnesses have been African Americans, but only a fraction of the detectives investigating those violent crimes are black.
And Mr. Taylor, according to the writer of this piece, quote, and that's a big problem, end quote.
Okay, that's a big problem.
They better solve it quick.
You know, I mean, the ultimate consequence of all that is, of course, a black police force, black detectives, and ultimately black jurisdiction.
Separation.
Yes, separation.
If white people can't solve the problems of black crime, then gosh, then they should have their own opportunities to do so.
Here's what Jane Ranglin said, whose daughter was wounded in a shooting more than two years ago in Kansas City, quote, a black person wouldn't feel so intimidated and they could probably open up more to a black detective, end quote.
So again, that'll do it.
All right, let's do it.
All right, golly.
Well, moving to San Francisco, back to San Francisco, I should say, I would like to alert our listeners to something called the Abundant Birth Project.
Abundant birth.
Now, you snicker.
We've had McNamara's morons and now we've got the abundant births.
Now we've got abundant births.
Now this will help lower-income Black and Pacific Islander women for the duration of their pregnancy and at least for the first six months after their babies are born because Black and Pacific Islander mothers are more likely to die of birth-related complications than white women.
How are we going to do this?
How are we going to stop this problem?
By means of a $1,000 monthly stipend.
As I say, for the duration of the pregnancy, that is presumably eight or nine months, and for six months after that, a monthly stipend of $1,000.
$1,000 a month.
Now, this I find particularly interesting.
The participants can use the money as they wish.
They can buy anything they like with this, whether it's sneakers or fancy cell phone plans.
It would be interesting to see where the money goes.
And a department of the San Francisco Department of Health, a group within that called Expecting Justice.
Isn't that lovely?
Expectant mothers.
Expecting Justice will run the program.
It's funded in part by the Hellman Foundation.
So there's a certain amount of private money and it will tackle persistent birth inequity, Now, the Abundant Birth Project has also, however, received more than a million dollars, I'm sorry, in addition to the million dollars in donations, $200,000 from the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
Again, this money is to be given, no strings attached, only to Black and Pacific Islander mothers.
I find it interesting that that's not against the law, but apparently it is against the law.
Now, the fact is, there are conditions that make a mother more likely to die from childbirth complications, and I'm not sure that $1,000 a month is much going to change that.
For example, black women are 60% more likely than white women to be obese.
That complicates birth.
That's also one of the reasons why we see such disparities in COVID-19 deaths by the racial groups.
They are twice as likely as white women to be diabetic.
Another reason we've seen so many disparities in COVID-19 deaths.
And you're good at that and you'll have a chance to say it again.
56% more likely to have high blood pressure.
I'm not even going to say it.
You're not even going to say it.
And they're 6.9 times more likely to have gonorrhea and 4.7 times more likely than white women to have syphilis.
I'm definitely not going anywhere near that one.
Furthermore, single mothers are twice as likely as married mothers to die from birth-related complications and black mothers are twice as likely as white mothers to be single.
Now, $1,000 a month is going to change all of this.
Yeah, I think it might.
It's going to change all of this.
And I suspect, and I could be wrong, that black mothers are more likely to forget to take their medicine and miss doctor's appointments and take drugs and drink too much and do other risky things, but $1,000 a month is going to solve all that, too.
Now, just as a little technical detail, do you know how many black mothers die every year due to birth-related complications?
I think it's under 200?
It's about 250.
Okay.
Yes, the whole population is 250.
Now, if they died at the same rate as white mothers, it would be 80 deaths a year.
So, even if every single one of those extra deaths, which is 170, was due to racism, we're only talking about 170 out of the 579,000 black babies born in the U.S.
We're only talking about 170 out of the 579,000 black babies born in the US last year.
So that's one extra death out of every 3,500, but the Abundant Birth Project is going to put an end to
this problem.
A thousand bucks.
A thousand bucks a month.
Now, well, I'm not sure.
I wonder if they've thought about the fact that the word's going to get around.
You're going to get $1,000 a month as soon as you get pregnant.
And for another six months after that, oh boy!
Wouldn't that be an incentive to get pregnant?
And say, here I am.
Here I am.
I want an abundant birth.
We're definitely going to have a proliferation of individuals who would qualify for McNamara's Morons, if that's the case.
Maybe an abundance of such people.
Yes.
Next story has to do with Cornell University.
It announced just last week that its faculty has voted to change the name of the English department as part of a broader campaign to eradicate structural forms of racism of which this was one.
Now, I'm not quite sure why, but the department will now be called Department of Literatures in English.
I guess calling it the English Department, that excluded all of the Africans that write in English.
All the Argentines, all the Turks who write in English can't call it the English Department.
Now, if that were discriminatory, you'd think Americans wouldn't call it English Department.
Doesn't that discriminate against you and me?
But anyway, now this is going to be, this is one of the structural forms of racism that's going to be eradicated.
This was in response to a campaign by faculty members.
The proposal was inspired by Black Lives Matter.
Of course!
I mean, that means... Of course!
They are just beating the bushes for anything that could be conceived of as structural forms of racism.
This was proposed by Professor Carol Boyce Davies.
She is, of course, one of our African American fellow citizens.
Now, I looked her up on the Cornell website and she is described as a professor of English.
Now, how are we going to describe her once the department is changed?
You can't call her an English professor, because she's not English.
She doesn't teach English.
I guess she'll have to be called a professor in the Department of Literatures in English, because that's what the name is going to be.
The Department of Literatures in English.
It's not the English department.
And this will solve countless lives.
This will extirpate structural racism at its source.
But Cornell President Martha Pollack said back in May, she warned us, she says, we will be working through the ways we know best to push for a world that is equitable and kind, where people do not have to fear for their lives because of the color of their skin.
Well, this will help.
Yes, yes.
That means that black people no longer have to fear because of the color of their skin.
So, I'm very happy for them.
Now, we have a slight good news story here.
They're rare enough, so we cherish them.
And this has to do with Alabama.
Alabama Attorney General, his name is Steve Marshall.
He has pointed out to some of the people who are tearing down statues that there is something called the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act.
And the law is quite clear.
It requires local governments to get state permission before moving or renaming historically significant buildings and monuments that date back 40 years or longer.
And this applies to practically every monument that has come down.
So he is charging cities and counties that violate this Alabama Memorial Preservation Act.
Unfortunately, a violation of the law Only ends up as a $25,000 fine.
Not enough.
Not nearly enough.
Not enough to deter what's happened in some of the beautiful cities of Alabama.
No.
Birmingham and Mobile, Alabama both happily paid the fine in 2020, rather than keep their Confederate memorials.
Now, I don't know if it's an annual fine.
I suspect not.
You just take it down once, you pay $25,000.
You get out of jail, basically, for $25,000.
The one in Birmingham, it was an obelisk.
It was put up, I think, in 19...
1912 or 1922 it's it was up for it was up for almost 100 years or more than I think actually pretty sure it was up in 1912 and it was in one of the parks there were it's sad because you know Alabama is a great state and there are monuments still all throughout that state that we know are in the crosshairs with certain individuals and groups that hope to see them brought down just like what we saw on Ah, Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, like we've seen in Atlanta, Georgia, like we've seen in southern city after southern city after southern city.
And just think, back in 1984, for some reason, the Confederate flag flew outside City Hall in St.
Louis.
I'm sorry, San Francisco.
It is a start to do that.
And Dianne Feinstein put it back.
God bless her.
I have special and renewed respect.
For the first time in my life, I have respect for Dianne Feinstein, having learned about that.
But, moving to a different part of the country, Minneapolis.
This is a Bloomberg News story, a very sympathetic and encouraging story from Bloomberg News about the Target.
The Target store, this is one of the opening salvos in the George Floyd riots in which the Target store was looted and burned, ransacked.
But the Target store is now reopening.
But this destruction incited a wide debate within the company as to what a giant corporation owes its local communities, especially ones that are diverse.
And as Bloomberg says, after this looting and sacking, Target had a real incentive to figure that out.
Well, what Target did, they completely demolished the building and rebuilt right from the ground up.
And as Anthony Thompson, founding faculty director of the Center on Race Inequality and the Law at New York University says, by being based in Minneapolis, by being based in the eye of the storm of George Floyd, they had a huge responsibility to produce a pretty elaborate plan.
Of course!
If your store is burnt and looted, that gives you a special responsibility.
Isn't that perverse logic?
And so, in August, Target laid out the goals of its new Racial Justice Committee, including the need to, quote, create environments where black guests feel overtly welcome, overtly welcome.
Now, Target met with black residents, employees, and community organizers to ask them what they wanted.
And Target says it's going to use this new model, talking to communities about what they want when they build or renovate stores in other diverse U.S.
neighborhoods.
They're not going to bother asking white people.
But if they're going to build a store in a diverse neighborhood, yes, they're going to get all this kind of feedback.
Well, when the Lake Street store, the one in Minneapolis that was obliterated, closed, It worked with community partners to distribute free essential goods like diapers because the neighborhood became a diaper desert and Target took initiative to distribute these essential things to the community and apparently the community now feels it has a direct line to corporate headquarters.
Of course they do.
And tell the boss what they want.
Well, Target hired a design company owned by a Somali-American To design the new store?
I mean, well, come on, that's part of the community.
And the new store is now opened and the grocery is stacked with more varieties of spices requested by the locals.
There's a crosswalk from the nearby rail station that was made safer and more beautiful with lighting.
The entrance was made more inviting with a new mural.
A new multi-culti mural and lovely plants.
And as Stephanie Creary at the UPenn Horton School.
Horton School.
That's a mighty fancy business school.
Yes, it is.
One of the top.
Yes.
She says, Target is not going to be able to end systemic racism, but Target is going to be able to reduce the impact of racism that is created from its own operations.
Oh boy, well, now, but as a final footnote to this otherwise happy article, I did find the following.
Target is going to add shutters to the store that can come down in case of future emergencies.
More disadvantaged groups rioting on behalf of it.
No, no!
They're talking about rising seawaters due to global warming, don't you know?
That's why they need shutters for emergencies.
The land of a thousand lakes, all of a sudden, exactly.
It's going to be submerged.
That makes sense.
That's right.
So, this was the one discordant note in this otherwise celebratory article.
Use shutters in case of emergencies.
A symphony of diversity success with that one, like you said, footnote.
You have to wonder, wait a second, that's like that record scratch, like, oh!
Yeah, that's right.
That's just that, wait a minute, there was one French horn that was not quite in tune in the symphony, but anyway.
But, now, I think that this method and this lovely accomplishment by Target, that is going to end what I understand to be a ferocious wave of carjackings.
Ferocious isn't strong enough a word, Mr. Taylor.
Yes?
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported on December 1st.
That was yesterday.
This is their headline.
Staggering surge in violent carjackings continues across Minneapolis.
A triple-digit percentage increase over this time last year has residents in fear.
Now, there might be a brand new target designed by a Somali-American in Minneapolis, but you know what?
We're seeing A 537% increase in carjackings in the month of November compared to that same month in 2019.
Wow.
You know, I bet it had to do with the diaper desert.
Well, you know... When you really need those diapers, weather will go to extreme ends.
Yeah, again, I don't want to read.
It opens up with an anecdote of a housekeeper arriving for an early shift in South Minneapolis.
That's actually a very nice part of Minneapolis.
It's one of the whiter areas.
She was confronted by two hooded teenagers of indeterminate race outside her driver's side window, one pointing a gun at her head, demanding she get out before firing three shots.
Two ricocheted off the window and a third struck her side view mirror.
Panicked, the teens fled in the stolen car they arrived in.
The latest in a series of brazen attempted armed robberies and carjackings in a wave that is stretching across the entire city.
So it's not confined to areas that are made up of disadvantaged minorities, Somali immigrants, Somali refugees.
Wow.
What a terrifying thing.
I guess the lady in the car was not hit, but fires three bullets, hit the car, smashed a rearview mirror.
Wow.
But then they ran off and she got her car.
They did.
Over the past two months, Minneapolis police have logged more than 125 carjackings in the city, a troubling surge that authorities had largely linked to small groups of marauding teens.
Often, they happen in brazen daytime attacks.
Have you ever been a victim of a crime, of any crime?
Have you ever been robbed or anything?
Oh, burglaries.
My apartments have been burgled.
It makes me furious, but I've had that happen twice.
I had a good friend in Atlanta.
He was pumping gas right off of 14th Street in downtown, right by Georgia Tech.
And a white guy walked up and put a gun to him, someone who was obviously on drugs, and demanded his wallet.
And he said that in that moment, you know, everything that you think about life, it's gone.
It's, it's any, any sentimentality you might have for this, for these type of people, you know, for criminals, it's out the door.
You're thinking it's, he said it was just, it was like, okay, we need to be so hard on any criminal.
It doesn't matter who they are.
But when you think about this, 125 carjackings.
You're just driving to, you know, think about this.
I guarantee you in the next week or two, there's probably going to be someone driving to that brand new Somali-designed Target, and they're going to be carjacked.
And you know what?
They won't understand the symmetry.
They won't understand how insane of all that's happening.
All of this is in the name of George Floyd.
It's all circuitous.
If the carjackers have any brains, they'll carjack them on their way from the Target.
Full of Christmas presents!
What did you say the increased percentage was?
537% this month when compared with November of 2019.
Wow!
There must be something else going on.
Is this all in honor and memory of St.
George?
That's an incredible figure.
That's actually buried at the bottom.
They say that the spree comes amid a nearly unprecedented spike in violent crime, particularly shootings, since the May 25th killing of George Floyd in police custody and the civil unrest that followed.
They note this.
In November, the toll of people shot this year surpassed 500 in Minneapolis, the most in 15 years.
79 homicides is the highest count since the mid-90s era when the city earned the grim moniker of Murderapolis.
Now, it earned that moniker because of one certain segment of society that also is pushing more homicides in St.
Louis than COVID deaths in 2020.
And as we saw in Kansas City, A need for more black detectives to try and convince blacks to, you know, snitch.
Isn't that quaint?
92 murders?
Gave it the name Murderopolis?
Yeah.
Isn't that quaint?
Boy, well let's just go to show you what we weren't expecting.
Well, we shall leap the pond and go to Wales, which has gone loony in the usual way.
A committee has been established by the Prime Minister Mark Drakeford following the death of George Floyd.
You know, I think we need to call 2020 the new year one.
We need a new numbering system.
Okay.
We're going to call it BGF and AGF.
Yes, this is year one.
Year one.
Year one of AGF.
And they have decided that Wales has got 200 statue streets and buildings named after Britons who have been identified as having connections to the slave trade.
People you wouldn't quite think of.
Sir Francis Drake.
Did you know that?
Apparently he was bad.
Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington.
And William Gladstone.
And, of course, Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Now, he wasn't necessarily involved in the slave trade, but he said some rude things.
So these guys are all going to have their statues removed?
Well, that's the recommendation.
And street names changed.
Winston Churchill is, on the list he's noted as a person of interest who requires further examination.
Because after all, he saved Britain from the Nazis and all these wonderful things, but he did a sufficiently number of horrible things to deserve further examination.
Likewise, Mahatma Gandhi.
Mahatma Gandhi was a wonderful guy because he led the independence from Britain.
He stood up against those white racists, but he didn't care for blacks either.
So he is a person of interest who requires further examination.
And did you know Lord Nelson, despite having won the Battle of Trafalgar and all those other wonderful things he did, he opposed abolition of the slave trade.
He did.
Apparently he did.
England abolished slavery, what, in 1835?
1835, yes.
So, but he abolished, well he opposed, he opposed abolition of the slave trade.
Now, the audit team who's done all this says that the commemorations of people connected with slavery and other wickedness are often depicted without any accompanying interpretation.
So, in other words, if there's a Francis Drake Street, There's not a little sign every time you see the street sign that says, this guy was very bad.
There's no explanation.
There should just be a siren system that just completely, that just plays ad nauseum, white man bad, white man bad, white man bad, white man bad, just to bash it into your head.
And without this context, the report says the figures are presented solely as role models.
So young Welsh boys might think they should grow up to become like Drake or Nelson.
What a horrible thing that would be!
Also, officials in Cardiff have preemptively removed the statue of Sir Thomas Picton From Cardiff City Hall, after campaigners pointed out his controversial time as the Governor of Trinidad, where he apparently engaged in abhorrent behavior.
So he's not deserving in the Hall of the Heroes of Wales at Cardiff City Hall.
So who is this Sir Thomas guy, Sir Thomas Picton?
Wikipedia says this, Chiefly remembered for his exploits under Wellington in the Iberian Peninsula War, during which he fought in many engagements displaying great bravery and persistence, he was killed in 1815 fighting at Waterloo during a crucial bayonet charge in which his division stopped Derland's corps' attack against the Allied center-left in a crucial engagement.
He was the most senior officer to die at Waterloo and at that time he was a sitting member of Parliament.
Well, he's not fit to be a Hero of Wales.
So there you go.
Now, staying within the United Kingdom for the time being, It has been discovered that 55% of British adults believe the BLM protests have increased racial tensions.
55%?
55% and only 17%.
See, a lot of people have no opinion, as usual, or they don't dare say.
Only 17% of people say that they think it helped.
It was good.
It reduced.
So 55% to 17%.
That's a pretty lopsided difference.
Yes, that is.
Of course.
Now, Professor Kalwat Bhopal, for the Center of Research in Racial Education at University of Brigham Young, explains why they're all wrong.
He says BLM has made some white people, quote, feel their privileges being threatened and questioned.
And so, of course, they're going to think this raised tensions.
Now, the polling also showed that 44% of ethnic minorities felt it increased tensions, too, and only 22% thought it did good.
So, ethnic minorities, visible minorities as they're called, not BIPOC or people of color, visible minorities, they are twice as likely to think that this stuff hurt race relations as helped it.
I guess they are miserable dupes of the white man.
But, more and more, black people are claiming discrimination.
Last year, only 74% Of British Black people said that they've been victims of discrimination.
This year, it's 81%.
81%!
And, you know, things are really bad for Asians, too.
Perhaps it's because of the Wuhan flu, but the proportion of Chinese saying they faced discrimination over the same period rose from 68% to 76%.
Wow!
Wow!
Yeah, boy, those bad, bad Brits.
I guess I just had no idea how bad they were.
But I'm going to finish on another positive note about Preeti Patel, my favorite Indian.
My favorite Indian.
She is a Home Secretary of Britain and she has hit back after 82 black public figures petitioned to stop the deportation of 50 criminal Jamaicans.
These 82 high-profile blacks include Naomi Campbell, the model, historians, actors, and they've written the airlines urging them not to carry Jamaicans back to Jamaica, even though Priti Patel wants them gone.
They turn out to be, turn out they're murderers, rapists, drug dealers, child sex fiends, grievous bodily harm, convictions, firearms, etc.
Sound like great Englishmen.
They are.
Yes, they are.
But they are true sons of Nelson and Drake.
She says, these dangerous foreign criminals have no place in our society.
Out they go.
Bam!
So, good for her.
These dangerous foreign criminals.
Yes.
I'm sorry.
I beg your pardon.
Dangerous foreign criminals.
So, we have come to the end of our time.
And Mr. Kersey, I'm sure, joins me in thanking you for your attention.
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