All Episodes
Previous Next
Jan. 6, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
59:20
January 6: A Black Day
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first episode of Radio Renaissance of the New Year 2021.
Today is January 6th, Year of Our Lord 2021.
I hope the new year will be a better year than the previous year.
I don't think that'll be a difficult thing for most of us.
It's not been, in some respects, the best possible year, but we've discussed all that before.
And this day, January 6th, has not been the best possible of days.
I will speak only briefly about the events taking place even now.
You will have more details by the time you hear this podcast.
But the big news is that a rally to support Donald Trump has gotten a little bit out of hand and some of his supporters decided to storm the Capitol building.
Now, sometimes people talk about storming state houses, etc., when people just walked in and they had every right to do so.
In this case, they broke through police barriers, they pushed over metal barriers, And the MAGA people and the Trump supporters have taken over the offices of senators and congressmen, stomped right into the chambers, and although some people are excusing this as righteous anger, I think this is a terrible thing that they've done, and this will be the iconic moment and the iconic episode of what liberals and what history will probably consider Trump supporters.
This will go down as the symbolic moment, the iconic moment of what it meant to support Donald Trump, certainly in the later days of his administration.
We do have quite extraordinary photographs.
There is one of security men with capital-pointing handguns, three of them that I counted, at people who appeared to have broken a window that leads into one of the chambers.
There's a photograph of uproar in the House chamber.
There apparently was one woman shot.
By Capitol Police, we don't really know what's going to happen with her, but all of this looks extremely bad.
Now, I know that there is tremendous frustration with what's going on in the country, but to have taken matters into their hands in this violent way I believe gives the entire pro-Trump movement a terrible black eye.
In fact, just yesterday I was telling someone not to worry about what'll happen in Washington today because Trump supporters don't write.
Well, this wasn't exactly a riot, I suppose, but it certainly got out of hand in a very lawless way, and as I understand it now, the National Guard is being summoned to try to calm down the situation.
Donald Trump, of course, was beaten to the punch by Joe Biden in terms of telling people to clear out of the Capitol building, and he was no better than lukewarm in terms of telling people to get out and go home.
So, this to me was a very black day in terms of any attempt to try to shore up Donald Trump, if that is what people had in mind.
It's a few minutes before the curfew goes into effect, Mr. Taylor, at 6 p.m.
in Washington, D.C.
I don't recall the mayor instituting a curfew during the George Floyd riots that went on in Washington, D.C.
for upwards to 90-plus days, where we saw St.
John's Church burnt right by the White House, where we saw Andrew Jackson's statue right by the White House tried to be pulled down.
We saw Believeable violence not seen since what the 1968 MLK riots In the country, maybe I don't think DC saw any riots during the Rodney King situation I will say that again the violence that we saw I'm sure you recall the one podcast where we talked about During the George Floyd riots more than 2,000 police officers were injured by Antifa Black Lives Matter protesters so again, this is one of those situations where
The mainstream media is framing this, you know, CNN and other mainstream media outlets.
They're running with this.
Most people, when they hear of Charlottesville, they already have preconceived notions because of that.
And now, as you stated, I do believe you are correct.
This is that, what is that wonderful French word, denouement?
Denouement?
Yes, of how Trump's supporters will be viewed.
Well, it's certainly true that Muriel Browser never called in the National Guard when there really was rioting and looting and arson.
Now, she called in the National Guard ahead of time on this occasion, and this will leave people patting her on the back and saying she did the right thing.
So, this is really going to be, as you say, cast by the media as something symbolic, not just of Trump supporters, but also of white people.
One of the accounts that I saw, when they first started pouring over the barriers, Washington Post explicitly said, white people doing this.
Yes, they notice it.
They notice the race of people when it's white people who are breaking down barriers.
So, this is an extraordinary day, and I do not think that this is going to serve any useful purpose.
One last comment.
The image that I have that is seared in my mind of 2020, Mr. Taylor, is when the massive riot broke out in Atlanta
and the Antifa Black Lives Matter protesters, this was probably day three of the George Floyd riots,
they tried to break into CNN.
Do you remember this?
And they took over CNN Center in Atlanta, right there near the,
I don't even know what it's called anymore.
It used to be Phillips Arena near the Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
They climbed up the CNN branding, that big famous logo there, and they had the Mexican flag.
They had a Black Lives Matter flag.
I believe they were throwing stuff into the CNN Center.
The reporters were terrified.
I think they broke some windows.
Yeah, the on-camera people were rattled, those who were in Atlanta.
So again, I just...
When you think of it in terms of the actual violence, in Portland, of course, night after night after night, they tried to attack the federal courthouse.
And in Minneapolis, of course, they burned down a police precinct.
The third precinct.
Yes, the third precinct.
And they burned down buildings under construction.
In terms of the actual violence unleashed, in terms of the damage to stores, BLM, in any one of probably 50 cities, A hundred cities is vastly worse than this.
As far as I can tell, as far as the capital is concerned, they've broken a few windows.
That's it.
But because of the way everything is slanted by the media, people who are on the Trump side, they should know that everything they do is going to be put under the microscope, blown out of proportion, and this will be treated as vastly worse than anything that was ever done by BLM.
We know that that's going to be the Oh, the BLM violence doesn't even exist.
No, no, that was righteous indignation, righteous indignation.
But these people who think that their election was stolen from them, they are deranged crazies and they're going to be written out of the human race.
And I believe what you're saying, was it CNN is comparing this to 9-11?
Well, worse, there was election interference.
And I think today was a day where that actually was legitimately brought up by members of Congress and some brave senators.
And unfortunately that now is also well, and of course, this was an opportunity for those
who think that the election stolen to in the halls of Congress have this brought up and
investigated and discussed.
And then on this particular day to go into Congress and break it up and stop it, is that
going to encourage the outcome that they're hoping for?
This strikes me as idiotic, but if you have, I don't know, I don't know how many tens of
thousands of people they had there, but some of them are going to be wild Yahoos.
And we have seen this in action.
In any case, I am on the record as considering this absolutely idiotic if people really want to create some kind of movement or to persuade people to change their minds.
But I realize there'll be people among our listeners who will disagree, and I suspect the comments will be filled by people who disagree with me, but there I, here I stand as Martin Luther King, the original, oops, as Martin Luther said.
Gosh, you can hardly say that word without attaching that final syllable to it.
But the other great misfortune of today was the outcome of the two Senate runoff elections in the state of Georgia.
Raphael Gamaliel.
Mr. Warnock.
Reverend Raphael Gamaliel.
He is now apparently the senator for Georgia.
Everyone's celebrating the fact that he's the first black man to be a senator from Georgia.
Every time there's a first, it's always considered the first.
The first of many, no doubt.
But he's being celebrated as the first.
He's a man, of course, who called Donald Trump back in 2016 a fascist, racist, sexist, xenophobe.
He's got quite a vocabulary, this Reverend Warnock.
And he also has said, more recently, that America needs to repent for its worship of whiteness.
I don't see much worship of whiteness going on.
You know what, if you were given the biggest microscope possible to try and find this worship of whiteness, you would be looking through basically every grand of sand at the beach and you wouldn't be able to find anything.
When are we going to repent from this worship of blackness is what I would like to know.
In any case, I must add to the debit side of Rev.
Warnock's balance sheet his admiration for James Cone.
James Cone is known as the father of black liberation theology.
Rev.
Warnock calls him his mentor and gave an eulogy for him at his funeral.
Well, James Cone's advice to blacks is, if God is white, kill God.
Nothing to it.
His advice for whites, 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?
This is not, as I say, Senator to be Warnock, but this is his mentor, James Cone.
I suppose if we're supposed to be asking the depths of our being, how can we become black?
Maybe Rachel Donizel was an early disciple of James Cone.
Just to add a few more quotations, Cohn has said, we have reached our limit of tolerance and if it means death with dignity or life with humiliation, we will choose the former.
And if that is the choice, we'll take some honkies with us.
So there you go.
That sounds like an appeal to race war to me.
And what is James Cone's end goal?
The destruction of everything white.
And that was italicized in his original.
Everything white.
Does that include the people who are white?
Doesn't seem to me that that would be excluded, does it?
The destruction of everything white so that blacks can be liberated from alien gods.
The destruction of everything white for the benefit of blacks.
Well, what an apt senator-elect from the state of Georgia to preside over Georgia's changing demographics.
Quickly into this, I've told the story many times.
I remember it vividly back in 2006, Mr. Taylor, when Clayton County's demographic shifted to a point where they could elect their first black sheriff.
That's when Metro Atlanta County elected a gentleman by the name of Victor.
Gentlemen?
No.
No, scratch that.
They elected a racially provocative sheriff by the name of Victor Hill, whose first act of sheriff in Clayton County was to fire pretty much all the white deputies, have snipers on the roof, and march them out.
This, mind you, was in 2005.
Clayton County is, gosh, it was 92% white, Mr. Taylor, in 1980.
is, gosh, it was 92% white, Mr. Taylor, in 1980.
It's now 9.1% white as of 2020.
I mean, that's just...
When people see the results of these two elections, which have been officially called,
and we'll speak briefly about the other victor in the other runoff, they point out,
well, the demographics make a difference.
Of course, when we talk about the way the demographics are changing in the United States and we talk about the Great Replacement, oh, we are believers in a conspiracy theory.
We're describing something that isn't even happening.
But when things turn out well for them, oh yes, yes, the changing electorate Well, you remember that famous New York Times article during the Brian Kemp-Stacey Abrams battle back in 2018 which had the headline, We Can Replace You.
It was about white Trump supporters in Georgia.
Brian Kemp I believe won by 75,000 votes.
According to the election, which was certified in Georgia, Joe Biden won by less than 12,000 votes.
And these two Senate races are very, very close.
Now, the most important thing, I'm going to throw some out at you.
I wish Stacey Abrams had won the governor's race in 2018, because she was instrumental in getting Almost 1 million new voters registered over the past year and a half.
That was her big campaign.
800,000 of those, Mr. Taylor, were people of color who had just moved to the state.
Well, you would rather she had been busy in the governor's mansion so that she couldn't have done that?
Somebody else would have done it.
I don't think so.
Not with that zeal.
Not with that name recognition.
Not with the amount of money that was being poured into her coffers to get out there and do the... Because we didn't see any other state.
There were no other states with that type of get out the vote apparatus change.
And again, it was so close.
Less than 11,000 votes, obviously.
I do believe that Georgia was one of those states with some very strange shenanigans.
But it doesn't matter now.
We now have two senators.
You can now tell us about the other senator-elect.
Well, the other senator-elect, his name is John Ossoff.
He's only 33 years old.
He has no political experience whatsoever.
He has been a journalist, which is practically a swear word in people's vocabularies these days.
It sure is.
And also he's been a documentary filmmaker, but now he's going to be a United States Senator, one of the youngest.
And he has promised to, and let me quote from his campaign, to champion and fight tirelessly to pass a new Civil Rights Act that strengthens civil rights laws and advances comprehensive criminal justice reform.
A new Civil Rights Act.
The ones we've got aren't good enough.
Insufficient.
He adds that, quote, race and class disparities in policing, prosecution, and sentencing must be ended nationwide.
Well, of course, the only way to end disparities in prosecution and sentencing would be if crime rates had no disparities.
But it sounds as though his thinking is just like that of Barack Obama when he applied it to school discipline.
He said, you must not discipline blacks at any rate higher than you discipline whites.
So John Ossoff, his idea is, perhaps there's going to be arrest quotas.
If you're going to arrest a black, you have to arrest a white too.
That was the whole idea of this school discipline thing, wasn't it?
But let me read this again.
The race and class disparities must be ended nationwide.
Of course.
In arrests, sentencing, etc.
There you go.
So, and now, while he's at it, of course, he wants amnesty, he wants gun control, he wants all the things that all good Democrats want.
Now, now that we have the Senate and the House and the White House in Democrat hands, We can possibly look forward to statehood for Washington, D.C.
with two more Democrat senators.
Statehood for Puerto Rico, two more Democrat senators.
You know, Puerto Rico just voted the other day for statehood.
Every now and then they have these votes.
Uh, we will not be consulted on that.
No?
Does it matter?
No, the people who live here... Our voices, uh... Yes, our voices, our opinions don't count for anything.
Superfluous.
Yes.
If the people of Puerto Rico, they want to become U.S.
citizens, well, my gosh, far be it from us.
They would say, well, well, hold on, wouldn't you rather be independent?
Or, far be it from us to even say, frankly, we don't want you.
Oh my gosh, that would be hate talk of the worst sort.
And the other thing that remains a possibility, was not excluded by Joe Biden on the campaign trail, is packing a few more justices on the Supreme Court.
And if that happens, We're pretty much there.
We're pretty close to one party rule now.
We're pretty much there.
Yes.
We're pretty much there.
It is possible that the Supreme Court, they may throw a few monkey wrenches into the progressive
gears, but eventually if they keep the White House,
of which they have every possibility of doing, then even that will be gradually worn down,
but they're impatient.
And they don't want, they don't want to wait for Trump appointees to die.
They want to appoint people of their own.
So it would not surprise me if they decide to expand the number of justices from nine to, well, it'd be a good number.
13?
21?
Who knows?
But we'll see.
In any case, that's enough for the events of the day.
The events which I believe are a very sad day.
Well, we'll move on to something else.
One last point on Georgia, if I could.
In the 2020 November election for president, we did see President Trump make significant inroads with minorities in Georgia, particularly Hispanics.
He actually did better with blacks than he did in 2016.
It didn't really matter because his white chair went down.
It didn't matter.
Now, there is something really interesting about Georgia.
He went up 19% in total votes from 2016 to 2020.
So there was massive turnout for Trump.
Massive turnout for Trump.
But all those gains were reversed during the Senate race.
Blacks went I've seen the exit polls.
I want to say it's like 99% for Warnock and for the 33-year-old journalist.
And then Hispanics also.
All those shifts went back.
Without Trump on the ballot, they all went away.
You know, it is strange.
Trump appears to have had a kind of charisma that appealed to a certain number of blacks and Hispanics.
But then once he's off the ticket, then they revert to their standard pattern of straight Democrat voting.
I hadn't seen the exit polls on these Georgia elections, but I'm sure you're right about that.
Yeah.
So there we go.
There will be two new senators and they will both be Democrats.
And they're not whistling Dixie, Mr. Taylor.
I wonder if they even know the tune.
But they're also moving on to something else that's going to be happening in Dixie, and that is last week Congress overrode Donald Trump's veto of a defense bill, which includes a requirement.
That every single Confederate name on a building, on a weapon system, be removed.
And there are 10 army bases that are named for Confederate leaders and including installations such as Fort Bragg and Fort Benning.
They've all got to be renamed.
There's a missile cruiser, USS Chancellorsville.
It's got to go.
It's got to go because that was named for one of the all-time great Confederate victories.
And then, I wasn't aware of this, there's an oceanographic survey ship, the United States Navy Ship Maury, named for Matthew Fontaine Maury, who served in the Confederate Navy.
Can't recognize him.
Also, there's a barracks at West Point named for Robert E. Lee, another great hate figure now.
All of these things have to be torn down or renamed.
I'm not, I'm sorry, not torn down.
I suppose they'll leave the barracks.
They'll stay, they just get renamed.
Yes.
Now, the new legislation passed requires that they all be removed, any kind of symbol, any kind of monument, anything at all, within three years.
And it sets up an eight-member panel to do this.
Now, interestingly enough, Confederate grave markers are exempt.
They don't have to tear down the monument in Arlington Cemetery to the Confederate dead.
They don't have to knock over all the Confederate dead soldiers.
Not yet.
I was about to say, they have to save some stuff to humiliate those who still remember and have some reverence for the past.
Yes. Besides, you know, eventually it will be anything named for a founding father.
We already know where this is all headed. Oh, yeah. Come on.
Yes, yes. As a matter of fact, I was going to talk about this later on, but we might as
well move along to that very, that very phenomenal, the way, the way we are changing
names.
Now, this commission, this commission by the way, this eight-man commission that is set up to remove these names, I guess the first thing they're going to do is just hunt for every whiff of Confederate symbolism anywhere and mark it for destruction.
They are not explicitly given the task of finding new names, but I think you and I can guess what they're going to name them.
Now, I bet you there's not a single one that will not be named for a black person.
Maybe I'm wrong.
No, I completely agree with that.
They've got 10 bases, 10 bases to name.
Of course, if you're going to come up with 10 black names, well, they'll find somebody.
They will find somebody.
Crispus Attucks, you know, he was the guy who died in the Boston Massacre.
Nat Turner.
Oh, yeah, Nat Turner.
He was a militant guy.
He was a very militant guy.
A militant guy.
We'll see.
I bet you every single one of those bases gets named for a black person.
And the Robert E. Lee, Robert E. Lee.
Maybe they'll name it the Sally Hemings Barracks.
Who knows?
But, yes, moving on, Chicago.
Chicago is just all a Twitter at the problem in their school names.
There are 30, 30 in Chicago that are named for slaveholders, even in Yankee land, 30 of them.
And the subhead in the Chicago Sun-Times article that was talking about this, schools named for white people, and they're mostly men.
Outnumber those named for African Americans 4 to 1.
And what, I think the Chicago public school system is 96% non-white?
It is 9 out of 10 are black, brown, or indigenous.
And white people outnumber black people in school names 4 to 1.
Latinos are outnumbered 9 to 1.
And guess what the horrible disproportion is for American Indians?
120 to 1.
I was going to guess 100, but okay, it's even worse.
My gosh!
Yes, the indigenous people have been erased in terms of school names.
I'd be curious to know who they have.
Is there, I don't know, Powhatan Elementary School, or Tecumseh High, or who knows?
Wakananus Elementary?
There are a few of them.
Now, of course, it goes without saying that George Washington's got to go.
He was a slaveholder.
James Madison, John Hancock, William Penn, Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall.
Oh, Alex, wait, wait, hold on.
Just real quick.
Alexander Hamilton, that's the name of that play that everybody loves so much.
I'm sure you've seen it three or four times at the Kennedy Center, right?
No, I somehow missed it.
Why can't they just use that as the Alexander Hamilton and just be like, okay, this is the one we're celebrating.
Yes, it's named for the musical, not the guy.
That would be very convenient.
That Puerto Rican guy, Lin-Manuel, whatever his name is, that's who we're celebrating.
Retcon it.
Well, actually, you know, they are going to do some retconning, as you will see, as I will get to later on in this little story here.
This is the nation's third largest public school system, and as you pointed out, 90% are non-white.
And now, amid the nationwide racial reckoning, as the Sun-Times put it, sparked by the violent death of the patron saint of fentanyl overdose, Chicago school officials say they are reviewing Changes must be made.
Now, they have put a guy in charge.
He's the official for racial equity.
His name is Maurice Sweeney.
Sweeney.
And he says that the Chicago Public Schools might then look at schools named for 35 other people, I mean, not just the slave owners, known to publicly set it on racist or misogynistic things.
Oh, gosh.
Misogynistic, too.
And that only qualifies for white people who say misogynistic things.
Of course, only whites can be misogynists.
Racism, misogyny.
Now, this is going, he says, it's dehumanizing and it's something we have to work on and change.
So, if you're black and you go to a school named for George Washington, it's dehumanizing.
Got that?
Makes sense.
I wonder if you're white and you go to a school named for Malcolm X, is that dehumanizing?
No.
I'm sure that's probably ennobling.
That's racially affirming of the position of that white student in opposition to the racial equity that exists.
And then furthermore, this is interesting too, I've not seen this in any other school district, but even completely non-racial names have got to change.
The Northside School That's what it's called, the Northside School.
Its leaders plan to rename it after one of three black women recently chosen as finalists for the selection, and I think you could probably guess who they are.
Harriet Tubman, and your favorite, NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
Oh yes, Katherine Johnson.
RIP, she died in 2020.
Yes, or the civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
I've always found Rosa Parks extraordinary.
She did one thing on one day.
She sat down on a bus for 30 minutes and that made her a civil rights icon.
She's more iconic than virtually anyone who's ever existed in America.
Come on, Mr. Taylor.
Don't you know your place yet?
I'm learning it.
I'm sure learning it.
I'd like to interject just briefly.
One of the things that we have to remember that's about to happen, by the way, to our monetary system Harriet Tubman is about to be introduced on that $20 bill very quickly.
I would imagine that's gonna be one of the first things Biden does.
And I would throw out there, from a racial equity standpoint, I think they're gonna figure out ways to try and get more non-white people on, not just The Harriet Tubman replacing Andrew Jackson, but I think we'll probably see an attempt to get rid of Franklin.
Of course.
Lincoln on the $10 bill.
The $100 bill is, well, that's obviously Franklin.
The $50 bill is who?
That's Grant.
Grant.
Yeah.
No, no, I'm sure you're right.
If I stop with getting rid of Jackson, for heaven's sake, gosh, I think Nelson Mandela would look mighty good on one of our, I'd say maybe the dollar bill.
Maybe they don't want to make him too valuable, but still, Nelson Mandela looks very good.
Now, then there are some schools, for example, that do celebrate pioneering blacks in Chicago.
If we get back to the Windy City, Sarah Good.
Do you know who she was and why she's got a school named for her?
She's the first black woman ever granted a U.S.
patent.
She's got a school named for her.
Then there are, excuse me, there are other schools that have been commemorated for local people that the community wants to remember.
A black television journalist who died in a plane crash named Michelle Clark.
She's got a school name for her.
Then Socorro Sandoval and Maria Saucedo.
They were young teachers killed in tragedies.
They have school's name for them.
And fortunately for them, they were Hispanic, you see.
If they were white, who cares?
And then, now this is very dicey.
Two police officers have school's name for them.
Irma Ruiz and Donald Marquez, oh three, and Eric Solorio.
They were killed in the line of duty.
Now, I would think that if they're police officers, they're traitors.
Gotta change those names.
And now, here's the really tricky retconning business.
There's already a Douglas Park on the city's west side that used to be named after Stephen Douglas.
Oh, I get what they're doing.
Of course, now you've got it figured out.
Now it's named for Frederick Douglas, the abolitionist.
And they've got other really great ideas.
It reduces the cost.
You don't have to buy all this new signage.
Of course, George Washington can be replaced by Booker T. Washington.
I actually admire Booker T. Washington.
Or George Carver Washington.
George Washington Carver.
George Washington Carver.
You could just change the name of the sequence.
But Booker T. can replace old, poor, white, dead George.
And then, you know who they'd use instead of Benjamin Franklin?
So as to keep it as Franklin?
Who?
Aretha Franklin.
Aretha Franklin?
Of course.
Give me some respect.
Okay.
I like it.
I like it.
Yeah.
Okay.
So there you go.
No, you're absolutely right about all this.
All those names have got to go.
I'm really wondering, you know, oh, and by the way, if they give DC statehood, I think they've already decided to call it Douglas, the Douglas Commonwealth.
So they can still be DC.
Had you heard that?
I have not heard that.
Stephen Douglas.
It's going to be the Douglas Commonwealth.
So that's what- Frederick Douglass.
Yeah.
Frederick Douglass.
Maybe in a different world we would be celebrating Stephen Douglas over Abraham Lincoln, had things gone differently, and I think we'd be a much different country now.
But we can't deal with what might have been, only what is.
It would be a very different world.
Now, I think you've got some updates now on some of the homicide statistics for what turned out to be a pretty bloody year we just wrapped up.
Yeah, we've got to just quickly look at what Steve Saylor did.
Regale us with a few statistics.
So Steve Saylor over at TakiMag.com pulled together some pretty interesting data, and he noted that he was able to find homicide counts for 46 of the 50 most populous municipalities.
And in these cities, which accounted for about one-third of all murders in the country in 2019, how How much do you think killings were up?
In these 46?
He was able to get 46 of the 50 most populous municipalities.
I'd bet 50%.
Not that high.
38.5%.
38.5% 38.5%
So basically what we have here is still he's the only one who's done this and he noted that
hence, here's a quote from Steve Saylor Hence, in no year for which we have good national data, basically 1960 to 2019, or in which we have good national data I should say, did murders increase even by 13%.
So get that.
So this is a record-breaking jump.
Yes!
The biggest one year growth in total number of murders was 12.7% in 1968, the bloodiest
year of the 60s, followed by 12.1% in 2015, which coincidentally was the incarnation of
what?
Well, do tell.
The Ferguson Effect, the Black Lives Matter movement.
Oh yes, that's true.
That's what Steve has noted.
So let's just briefly look at some of these cities.
Just briefly.
I'm going to throw out a city name and I want you to tell me how much you think murders went up.
We'll do three.
Milwaukee, which was home to... Milwaukee?
Gosh, I don't know.
I haven't been paying attention to Milwaukee. 95%.
95% murder change from 2019 to 2020.
I wonder why Milwaukee in particular.
Is that pretty much the record?
That must be the top city.
That is the top city.
It's 95%.
Nothing else would be that much.
And just so people know, it had 97 murders in 2019 and 2020.
189.
Louisville.
Breonna Taylor's stomping grounds.
What do you think, Louisville?
How much do you think it increased?
Gosh, you're putting me on the spot.
I don't know.
70%?
94%.
89 murders, 273.
And then we'll throw one more out at you.
Minneapolis.
percent. Eighty-nine murders, 273. And then we'll throw one more out at you. Minneapolis.
George Floyd's, you know, the whole league around 70, 75 percent.
You're a little higher than it actually was.
You're giving them too much credit for a mortgage up 69% And then the other thing that Steve pointed out what he did
he then broke out the the cities for the the the bottom 50 and
he was able to see that there was a increase of roughly 25% and
As he noted the Washington Post police shooting database reports that
294 people were shot and killed by cops last year. That's usually that's a it's about a thousand a year
Yeah with 27 of them being black 14, just 14 were unarmed.
Well, not 27, about 270 were black.
27% of them.
Oh, 27%.
Yeah, 27% were black.
You know, every year it's pretty much the same.
The police killed about a thousand, about a quarter of them are black, and then only a tiny handful are unarmed.
That's the usual way.
And then just real quick to break out some of these smaller cities that had massive increases.
And this, to me, this is pretty shocking.
Rockford, Illinois, how many murders do you think it went up?
Gosh, I don't know. I don't pay attention to Rockford.
It's the second largest city in Illinois.
It's the home of the Rockford Institute.
That is what it is.
100% increase.
I'll throw one more out at you.
Jackson, Mississippi, which of course, Jackson, Mississippi is, I believe, the blackest city In America, with a population of over 125,000 people, it's close to 91% black.
That, of course, is the capital of Mississippi.
I'm sure at some point they'll retcon the city and name it after Jesse Jackson, but for the time being, it's still named after Andrew Jackson.
What do you think the increase was?
Oh, I don't know.
Another 100% jump?
No, it's only 62%.
Only 62%.
Before we started talking, we mentioned Baltimore actually didn't increase that much at all.
I think it actually went down.
Yes, yes.
The number of murders went down in Baltimore.
So, hooray for Bob.
Now, one thing that I don't know it will be possible to do, it may be possible for Chicago, where the statistics are kept very accurately by a guy who runs the website called heyjackass.com, but how much of this percentage increase is accounted for by increases in black death?
That is what I would like to know because we're all celebrating the fact that black lives matter, matter, matter, matter, matter.
But my guess is that all of these remarkable jumps would be accounted for, I would guess maybe 70%.
I'd go higher than that.
I'd say 80%.
I'd say 80% I'd say 90% so Chicago went from 495 homicides in 2019 to
769 murders in 2020 which is a jump of 55%
Fifty-five percent.
And the question is, how much is that difference accounted for by new black bodies?
The black bodies that we're always worried about.
That will take a little bit more digging, but I suspect, at least for some cities, maybe after the Chicago PD, the New York City Police Department puts out its numbers, we'll have some notion of the racial component there.
And to put a bow on this conversation, we mentioned Baltimore being down A little bit.
It's down about 13 percent.
Right.
It went from 348 murders in 2019 to 335.
Now again, you're still talking about a city that, for straight numbers, I believe that was more than New York City had.
Yeah.
So they still had more murders, actual murders, took place than New York City.
It's what?
One quarter the size?
Yeah, yeah.
No, pretty remarkable.
A lot of bang bang going on there.
So, yes indeed.
Well, let us switch to something else.
And that is an event that took place on December 29th on the U.S.-Mexican border at the Paso del Norte Bridge that leads from Ciudad Juarez in Mexico to El Paso, Texas.
There was a gang of 400 mostly Cubans that forced their way past the Mexican immigration authorities and tried to barge their way into the United States, but U.S.
Customs and Border Protection mobile field force officers, isn't that interesting?
Mobile field force they had, met them in riot gear and used concrete blocks, concertina wire to block their passage.
That's what it took to keep them from busting into the United States.
Now, they stopped them in the middle of the bridge.
And guess what they were shouting?
They weren't shouting MAGA.
What were they chanting?
They were chanting Biden.
They were chanting Biden, Biden, Biden.
Or probably, since they're Spanish, Biden, Biden.
But, after all, it is Donald Trump who still presides.
And so they blocked these Biden worshippers and made them listen to recorded message broadcast in Spanish and English, just in case there were some English speakers.
Warning that any further trouble be met by force, arrests, and prosecution, and after several hours they dissipated, they dispersed, and trickled back into Mexico.
Now, why were they shouting BIDEN, BIDEN?
I want to think we know.
As the Mexican newspaper El Sol de Parral explained, and I quote, there is expectation, there is hope, There's enthusiasm in those who believe that with the change of administration comes new measures and that they will immediately enter and there will be new conditions that will allow them to request asylum.
Yes, I'm sure that's what they're thinking and that's what they plan to do, of course.
Any successful breach of this kind, if they manage to get across there, then they will come bum-rushing one border crossing after another, and given the vast populations of frustrated, angry migrants in Mexico and throughout Central America, we're gonna get a real surge.
Now, do you know approximately how many people are being held in Mexico due to the Migrant Protection Protocols?
That's the idea, of course, that Donald Trump instituted.
25,000?
No.
At least 70,000.
Holy cow.
They are waiting there rather than the United States.
Holy cow.
And that they're waiting there because Donald Trump said, look, Mexico, you got to do that.
Do you think Joe Biden's going to do that?
No, no, no.
So these 70,000 very quickly going to come to the United States.
They're going to say hello to a U.S.
immigration judge and the immigration judge is going to, okay, come back five years from now when the queue gets a little shorter and they will disappear into the American Mr. Taylor, I believe that Joe Biden was the AR white renegade of the year for 2020.
Was he not?
Yes, he was.
I'm sure that at some level in his psyche, in his mentality, he believes that he can be that person, as he stated on that conference call with the African American leaders, that, hey, this country is going to be majority minority.
I'm that bridge to that, to that gap.
He wants to go down in history as America, if the America that he wants, that he believes is going to come, where whites go quietly into night, become a racial
minority, as we've seen in South Africa.
He believes he can be that figure.
He can be that celebrated figure.
Do you think that?
If he thinks that the new non-white majority is going to be erecting statues of gratitude to Joe Biden,
he is badly mistaken.
And I wonder, you know, it used to be that he had some glimmering of a consciousness of a white man, you know?
Remember when he told, back, must have been 30 years ago, oh maybe longer than that, nearly 40 years ago, To these high school students and the white high school students.
He says, look, those black kids don't want to integrate any more than you do.
You need to separate them.
We're talking about busing.
They don't want busing any more than you do.
And he said, the idea of paying for reparations, absolutely not.
I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for reparations.
He, at one time, had a sense of that.
And I wonder, does he ever wake up with sort of an eerie sensation about what the United States really is going to be like?
If he listens to all these non-whites and exceeds to their demands.
Well, we know that his efforts as a senator in the 1990s to pass some very important legislation to the crime bill.
Yes, it was fantastic and he's to be commended for that.
That's right.
Now, he would never ever do such a thing.
And of course, you know, Uh, the news, these new asylum claims that slowed the crawl, and you know, the Border Patrol agents were just pitching everybody back over the border because they said, look, we can't have our detention centers turn into COVID-19 factoring grounds.
But you see, I've got a, I've got a name for what's going to be happening now and what we should call it.
It's the Brown New Deal.
This is going to be an inexhaustible source, a new source of energy for the United States.
Brown people.
Along with the Green New Deal, we're going to have a Brown New Deal.
And he'll make sure that we all have all these wonderful brown people who are going to make our economy zoom.
So, now, I believe you had a story about a very ambitious Brown New Deal at the restaurant chain Kava.
Well, it's not just a brown New Deal, it's a Get Rid of Whitey New Deal.
And the headline that I saw was, Restaurant Chain Boasts About Reducing Number of White Employees.
By 43% in 2020.
By 43%?
All because of diversity.
Now, the restaurant chain, it's based in the D.C.
Kava, it's kind of like Lebanese food.
It's Mediterranean.
Quite good, actually.
Based in the D.C.
suburb of Rockville, Maryland.
It's so committed to diversity that they've openly boasted about their significant reduction of white employees.
From 2019 to 2020.
Quote, your continued support has helped us to make strides, to better our organization, keyword better, and the communities we serve.
In such a challenging year, we couldn't have achieved any of it without you.
We look forward to continuing this work and welcoming you to our table in 2021.
Wait, who are they talking about?
They're thanking their customers for helping them get rid of white people?
Well, along with this tweet that they put out, which of course you're banned from Twitter, so I don't know if you saw this, there were four infographics detailing their efforts to feed the poor, open new locations, and spread the gospel of social justice that our friend George Floyd carried with him that fateful day in Minneapolis back right before Memorial Day.
He died for your and my sins, you know.
One of the infographics reads, quote, diversity matters in the workforce and beyond.
We've made strides to make CAVA a diverse, inclusive workplace, and remain committed to expanding the following.
Now with this comes the graph.
45% of all their team members in 2020 were Hispanic, which was no change from 2019.
14% were Black, Up from 4% in 2019.
8% Pacific Islander, which was up from 2% the prior year.
Wow, they quadrupled their Pacific Islanders!
3% Asian.
I do like Samoans serving me my Middle Eastern food.
It makes a lot of sense, you know.
There's a great line in Rocky Balboa, which was the sixth Rocky film.
Rocky opens up a restaurant, an Italian restaurant.
And Paulie goes, hey, who wants Italian food served by Mexicans?
Or made by Mexicans?
It's a great line, but I'm sure that'll be expunged at some point from that film.
The answer to that question is, everyone!
Well, and then 3% Asian, up from 1% the year before.
up from 1% the year before.
What a troubled erasure.
21% white down from 37% in 2019 to 2020.
So massive, massive reduction, massive increase in the amount of people of color, whatever, BIPOC, whatever
word you're using now.
They've also committed $50,000 to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, another $50,000 to Equal Justice Initiative, and became a founding member for the Initiative for Black and Blue Partnership and entered a recruiting partnership with Howard University.
So they've gone above and beyond in the name of George Floyd and also honoring that patron
saint of the new America.
They're committed to reducing the pale faces serving Mediterranean food.
So there you are.
Okay, and now their workforce is, what, 27%?
What did you put?
It's down to 21% white, from 37% white in 2019.
1 in 5.
1 in 5, okay.
That's not good enough.
It's got to be down to 1 in 10, I'd say, by 2020.
That's a really aggressive social justice move.
Boy, boy.
Okay, I'm sure the stock market will reward them.
Well, I want to refer to a Wall Street Journal article on the subject of Hartford.
The Wall Street Journal has noticed that Hartford is the state's most dangerous city, and by some measures, among the most dangerous cities in the world.
Hartford, Connecticut.
Hartford, yes.
I beg your pardon, yes.
Let's make this clear.
Once famous as the insurance capital of the world, It has been in decline for 30 years.
Population hemorrhage is about 70% of what it was in 1950 and continues to decline.
And Hartford's poverty rate's one of the highest in the country, and to quote the Wall Street Journal, the city is falling apart.
Falling apart.
You know, great debt, endless budget deficits, runaway pension costs, and it spends, nevertheless, $17,260 per student every year.
That's quite a lot of money.
But still, 30% of its students don't graduate high school on time.
$60 per student every year.
30%!
That's quite a lot of money.
But still 30% of its students don't graduate high school on time.
30%, that's a big number.
And only 18% of their students test age appropriate levels in math.
Only 18%.
But 25% manage it in English.
Reading, I should say.
Now, it has a white mayor, believe it or not.
He's 41 years old and he went out to the suburbs and he says, look, Hartford is important to you guys.
We want to dip into your tax revenues.
Why not?
Why not?
It's all take from the white and give to the non-white.
But as a budgetary matter, Mayor Luke Bronin decided to defund the police.
And he cut the police budget by 6% or $2 million.
As the Wall Street Journal points out, the spike in gun violence that followed required Mr. Bronin to ask Governor Ned Lamont, also a Democrat, to send in the Connecticut State Police.
So he's, well this is another way of taxing the suburbs, you know.
Correct.
If you cut your own police force, then you get the state police to come and do the job that you are no longer capable of doing.
So, Hartford's most violent year in at least 10 years, but guess what Mayor Brodin blames?
He says the problem was COVID-19.
Of course.
Of course, of course.
Now, what did the Wall Street Journal leave out?
Mr. Kersey.
What fact or facts did the Wall Street Journal leave out?
Very important one.
I can't think of one.
I have not seen the article.
I can't wait to see it because I have been pushing for Hartford to be one of those cities that is part of the Great Replacement.
I was quickly trying to figure out what Hartford's racial population was in 1950.
Well, I will tell you what it is now.
I'll tell you what it is now.
I think it's what, 13% white?
That's very close.
Have you been cheating?
Did you crib in the meantime?
I've actually, I actually created the data for this and I was trying to find it real quick.
All right.
Well, uh, it is 44% Hispanic.
I knew that.
38% black and 15% white.
That's right.
I believe in 1950 Hartford was 97% white.
Probably something close to that.
So, but that's a little fact that I guess the Washington just didn't consider relevant in discussing the decline of this once great city that they called the insurance capital of the world.
So, 15% white.
Good grief.
This is basically another Detroit.
It's another Trenton, New Jersey.
It's practically East St.
Louis.
It's falling apart, all right, but they sure don't dare tell us or hint as to perhaps patterns that we must not know.
No, no, no.
They expect the reader to read between the lines, and as the left would say, it's a dog whistle article.
But no, you know, just spell it out.
That's right.
So hopefully Gregory Hood will write a piece that actually details The Great Replacement Hartford, because we do have that data already done.
We'll see about that.
Now, I did want to talk about one more thing before we get into the Grammys.
Oh, the Grammys.
The Grammys are always an exciting time.
Well, not exactly.
Did you know there's something called the Hashtag Disrupt Texts?
Hashtag Disrupt Texts.
This is a critical theory initiative, and the idea is that we must not read anything written more than 70 years ago.
Because it's going to be filled with racism, sexism, ableism, anti-semitism, and other forms of hate.
Anything that's 70 years old.
So does that include the Bible?
I suppose that includes the Koran.
Of course, all the classics.
Shakespeare, you know, Sinclair, anything.
Anything over the 70 years.
The Great Gatsby for God's sakes.
Yes, that's right.
You know, Dickens.
Hemingway.
Hemingway.
That's, you know, any case.
So says young adult novelist Padma Venkatraman.
Guess where she's from?
Pakistan.
Well, you know, it could be Pakistan, it could be India, I'm not sure.
Oh no, she's from India.
I beg your pardon.
And she says, you know, she really takes up this crucial question of Shakespeare.
She says, Absolving Shakespeare of responsibility by mentioning that he lived at a time when hate-ridden sentiments prevailed risks sending a subliminal message that academic excellence outweighs hateful rhetoric.
Yeah, the 15th century was full of hate.
Just full of hate, and if you think that Shakespeare is still worth reading, That is a mistaken and dangerous message to say that literary excellence is more important than his hateful rhetoric.
So I guess neither a borrower nor a lender bee, that's hateful.
Isn't that hateful?
And you know, gilding the lily, that's pretty doggone hateful.
I can't think of anything.
I can think of one misogynistic line about Lady Macbeth.
What was that?
Well, that's got to go.
Misogynistic, alright.
Mmm, well, yeah, that's got to go. Misogynistic, all right.
Yes, age cannot wither her, nor customs stay her infinite variety.
Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she most satisfies,
or she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
Do you know who he's talking about?
Uh, it's, it's from the team of the shrew?
No, no.
Oh gosh, not her.
No, no, no.
Cleopatra.
Oh, Cleopatra.
She makes hungry where most she's satisfied.
Well, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps this petty pace until the last... Stop!
Hate!
I was going to say, until the last word of the white man is removed from our literature and our canonization.
Yes, he's absolutely out.
Yeah, absolving Shakespeare, that sends the wrong message.
So, basically the goal is to deny any access to literature.
Now, this person was born in India.
Okay.
And she moved to the United States and went to college.
Okay.
And now she's telling us that we're not supposed to read anything that we consider classical.
Now, what would she say?
If you went to India and you told the Indians that the Rig Veda and the Bhagavad Gita were full of racism and sexism, they better not read them.
I wonder how she'd think about that.
Kama Sutra's got to go, too.
Oh, yes.
That's just notoriously misogynistic.
Gender norming, right?
Yeah, no gender fluidity there.
There is Linga Minyoni, another Twain shall meet.
Or they meet in the usual way.
Now, there's another one, Lorena Germán.
She's one of the founders of the Disrupt Text Movement, and she runs its website.
And November 30th, she tweeted, Did y'all know that many of the classics were written before the 1950s?
Did you know that?
And then she says, Think of U.S.
society before then and the values that shaped this nation afterwards.
That is what is in those books.
That's why we got to switch it up.
It ain't just about being old.
Well, so it's got to go.
Now, in response, now she's black, of course, and in response, a white woman by the name of Jessica Kluas, she defended the classic author.
She said, if you think Upton Sinclair was on the side of the meatpacking industry, then you are a fool and should sit down and feel bad.
If you think Hawthorne was on the side of the judgmental Puritans in the Scarlet Letter, then you are an absolute idiot.
This intellectual, anti-intellectual, anti-curiosity bullshit is poison and I will stand here and scream that it is sheer goddamn evil until my hair falls out.
I do not care.
Good for her.
Pretty strong stuff.
Well... What happened to her?
Oh yeah, that's the sorry end of the story.
Here's the rest of the story.
What's the postscript?
The postscript, yes.
Well, the original person, this was Lina German, who's one of the founders of the Disrupt Text Movement.
She saw the tweets.
She says, she says, I present a position on an academic point and this 55 percenter decides to attack me personally.
Sounds like I struck a confederate nerve.
A confederate nerve, because she defends Hawthorne, or she defends Upton Sinclair.
Now, what's a 55%er, by the way?
I suppose, is that a white person?
I'd never heard that expression.
A 55%er.
I mean, they talk about white people, and they talk about Karens, and what other kind of insulting term do they have?
Was 55% the amount of white female support Trump got in 2020, perhaps?
I don't know.
That could be it.
That's the only way I could think of.
A 55%er, yeah.
In any case, everybody on Twitter started calling Cluess a racist and asking that her publisher, Random House Kids, drop her.
She writes children's books.
And so she deleted her tweets and issued the typical groveling apology.
My words were misguided, wrong, and deeply hurtful.
But two days after her apology, her agent announced he was dropping her due to her racist tweets.
So what this means is, if you disagree with a black person, you're racist.
That's the long and the short of it.
You disagree with a black person and you're racist.
And along those lines, there was a similar episode, if I can find it.
You know, Serena Williams is married to a white man.
Yes!
Were you aware of that?
Yeah.
And I can't remember his name, but apparently there was an aging ex-pro tennis player, and I don't seem to have my notes here, so I'll just have to go from memory, but he said something to the effect that, you know, she used to be a great tennis player, But she's getting a little heavy and getting a little old and she'd do the world a favor if she resigned.
Well, the white husband said, this is racist and sexist.
And everybody's applauding him for standing up for his wife and his family.
Again, you criticize a black person and you're a racist.
Automatically.
It's axiomatic.
It doesn't make any difference on the grounds on which you criticize.
It's baseless.
It's absolutely immediately baseless for a white person.
Or, I go back to that story about the text.
I mean, again, this person didn't say anything bad about race at all.
They mentioned Hawthorne, and they mentioned Upton Sinclair, a committed socialist.
I'm sure Upton Sinclair I don't know much about.
About his views, but I'm sure he lamented the fact that Madison Grant and Stoddard and these type of men were writing and had a massive audience at the time, but it doesn't matter.
Well, you know, I, you know, you go back to what she said, I'm going to scream until my hair falls out.
I don't care.
Well, I'm afraid she cares.
In two days, she cured her hair.
And her hair's still falling out because her publisher dropped her.
That's right.
It's not going to make a blind bit of difference.
Oh, yes.
Here's the quote from the old professional tennis player, Ion Tyriac.
I'd never heard of him.
But he says, at this age and the weight she is now, she does not move as easily as she did 15 years ago.
Serena was a sensational player.
If she had a little decency, she would retire from all points of view.
So, that is racism and that is sexism.
There you go.
Nope.
So, let's see.
Ooh, we are running out of time, as we always do.
Would you like to do the Grammys real quick?
Oh, yes.
Speak to us the Grammys.
I'll be fast and furious.
So, headline really simple.
Let me take a look at our time here.
Three Grammy contenders share outrage at all-white category decline nominations.
So, here we go.
Three of the five acts nominated for the 2021 Best Children's Album Grammy Award are saying, quote, no thanks, end quote.
They're upset that the contenders for this category, they're all white.
They're all white.
So they're withdrawing from consideration.
And one of them is Alistair Mook, whose nominated album, Be a Pain, is about American heroes who stood up for their principles.
The Reverend Martin Luther King, Harvey Milk, Rosa Parks, the Parkland, Florida shooting student protesters, and others.
Those are who he celebrates.
Well, so you can sing about Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, but if you ain't a BIPOC, then you just don't count.
Upon hearing the news he was nominated along with three other white male acts and one white woman, Mook smacked his head.
Quote, after this year to have an all-white slate of nominees seemed really tone-deaf.
End quote, he says.
He, uh, so he's protesting by turning down the nomination as our fellow acts Doug on Fleas and the Okie Dokie Brothers.
One last quote for you from the Okie Dokie Brothers, Joe Mallinder.
He said this, quote, We thought it was the strongest thing we could do to stand with people of color whose albums are too often left out of the Grammy nominations, end quote.
Okie-dokie, the Okie-dokie brothers.
Well, I believe that comes to our okie-dokie end here.
And once again, all of you people all around the world who listen to us, thank you for your attention.
It's a pleasure and honor to speak with you, and we look forward to having this opportunity next week.
▲
Export Selection