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Jan. 27, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Watch Out for That Word ‘Equity’
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and today's date is January 27th, Anno Domini 2021.
We are in the first full week of the Biden-Harris administration, and needless to say, they have kept us on the edges of our seats.
Joe Biden has been signing a lot of executive orders, all having to do with equity.
And one official in the administration who spoke on condition of anonymity, I don't know why he required that, he put it this way.
Every part of the White House, every agency in all of its work, not in a silo, not in an office of diversity, equity and inclusion, but throughout everything they do, are mandated to consider and advance equity.
And then be held accountable for it.
Equity.
Well, what is this new buzzword that's just spinning around the White House and the entire administration, every department, every agency?
What is equity?
Well, some of you may recall a campaign ad that Kamala Harris put out near the end of the campaign season for the election in which she explained the difference between equity and equality.
Equality means that everybody has the same chance.
But that's not good enough in the new America of Biden and Harris.
Equity, as she explained with a jolly little video cartoon, is when everyone ends up at the same place.
So look out, folks.
You have in store for you equity.
The Biden administration has, in fact, charged the Domestic Policy Council with coordinating the equity effort, the all-out full-court press equity effort.
It's led by former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice, who is, needless to say, one of our African-American fellow citizens, because only they understand equity and can bring it about in an equitable way.
Now, the Council will focus its efforts largely on racial equity.
It's made the eradication of white supremacy part of its charge.
This is, once again, the Domestic Policy Council.
Eradication of white supremacy.
And during a press conference, Ms.
Rice said the Council maintained a relationship with the National Security Council to study the threat of domestic extremism.
Now, what is the Domestic Policy Council?
I looked up its role.
It is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering all domestic policy that is not specifically economic.
That's the Council of Economic Advisers.
Everything else.
So, everything else that has to do with domestic policy All the guidance that the President gets on all of these matters is to come from the Domestic Policy Council, led by Susan Rice, which will concentrate on equity and the eradication of white supremacy.
A new day has come.
Now, I'm always curious about these fancy African-American fellow citizens of ours who run this sort of thing.
They've probably just had to struggle up from a childhood of deprivation, like Booker T. Washington, up from slavery.
Well, not Susan Rice.
She's from Washington, D.C., where she attended National Cathedral Day School, a very swanky and expensive private girls school.
Then she went to Stanford.
Then she got a Rhodes Scholarship, a Rhodes Scholar, and went to Oxford, where she got a Ph.D.
And she has swanned from one plum job to another.
But she's going to make sure that there's going to be equity and going to stamp out that white privilege.
You know, I think one of the main phrases, Mr. Taylor, that Steve Saylor is trying to
popularize is this concept of diversity, inclusion, and equity.
I want to say that he trademarked that.
Of course, it's not trademarked.
No, he didn't.
That's the other side, though.
The other side, but he puts it in that frame of D.I.E.
A nice acronym for what all of this means for us.
Exactly.
I didn't say that, you know.
You've always taught your readers, your listeners, the people who watch your videos, never make assumptions about the left, but as we see with all of these... Well, never make assumptions about their motives.
True.
Yes.
But as we see with a lot of these quick executive orders, and you know the one thing I'd like to ask you, Mr. Taylor, it's a shame that we didn't see this same type of Desire to do things by executive orders from President Trump back in 2017.
He signed a few, but not nearly enough.
And there were plenty he could have signed and failed to sign.
He's just not a systematic thinker.
I've been saying that from the year dot.
This guy just bounces from one thing to another.
Generally good instincts, but no follow through.
But all this business about equity, the organizers of something called the Movement for Black Lives, they're quite pleased with these executive orders about equity.
I don't know what the Movement for Black Lives is.
It's not Black Lives Matter apparently.
I'll have to look into that and maybe report back on a subsequent Radio Renaissance episode.
They cited the role that blacks played in securing the White House for Democrats, and they say they plan to use every avenue at their disposal, of which there are no doubt many, to turn the demands from their protests into policy.
And this includes passage of key portions of the BREATHE Act.
Now this is a new one on me, although it sort of sounds vaguely from the BREATHE Act, which would direct funds from law enforcement agencies into communities of color.
In other words, you take money, money from the police, and give it to communities of color.
Now, that will solve the problem for sure, for sure, for sure.
Well, not just the police, but you're taking money from taxpayers.
It's redistributing taxpayer money because who pays top salary?
Of course.
It is Joe taxpayer, not Joe Biden.
Now, what Mr. Biden, you know, he really got on the stick right away when it comes to equity, because as he announced when he rolled out his plan to help businesses hit by COVID, he said, and I quote the chief executive, our priority will be black, Latino, Asian, and Native American owned small businesses and women owned businesses.
Anything missing there?
Anything else?
Maybe one pretty obvious thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, white men.
Back of the bus!
Back of the bus, honky!
So, you know, it's going to be pretty easy.
Rooting out systemic racism is going to be a cinch.
Just consistently discriminate against white people.
I mean, that's all it takes.
That's all it takes.
Just keep whiting down, and that's how you root out systemic racism.
Now, the other thing is, Asians, of course, make more money than white people do.
They live longer, less likely to go to jail, all of these things, but they're part of the priority, too.
Part of the priority, too.
It's just great to know, isn't it?
And you're going to give us a report on one of the executive orders that has to do with prisons.
Well, it has to do with prisons just in the title, because the most important aspect is we know that Biden is going to move to injustice contracts with private prisons.
That's one of his EOs, executive orders.
But the most important executive order that he is bringing back, that he's trying to make sure happens, Recall that it took a few years, but I believe in 2019, actually it was in 2020, President Trump finally got around to ending Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing.
It took three years into his administration and he said, he tried to campaign on, we're going to protect your suburbs.
I'm going to protect the suburbs.
Well, guess what is back as part of his latest batch to, as you said, promote racial equity Racial equity.
Affirming fair housing.
Does that mean part of my home equity is going to belong to... No, that hasn't come yet.
That is the ultimate manifestation of redistributing equity.
Yes.
So what we have now is the housing order that President Biden, it's still hard to say that, you know, here we are, what, the first full week of President Biden in office, and it's hard to say that.
Well, the housing order directs The Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD to more strenuously enforce not just the Fair Housing Act of 1968, but to come back and to bring back incrementally pieces of President Obama's initiatives that were delayed or that were scrapped by President Trump.
That includes asking the department to review actions that President Trump tried to do to weaken some of the enforcement of the Fair
Housing Act. Obviously, as we know, as I mentioned earlier, President Trump tried to appeal dog
whistle, if you will, implicitly to white suburban voters by saying that he had rolled back the
affirmatively furthering fair housing, a double FH. Well, guess what? It's coming back and it's
going to come back quick and it's going to come back hard. Well, we have to explain to our
listeners just what's involved. And that's That's a complicated thing.
It's a very complicated thing.
But when I looked into it back in the Obama days, and I'm sure this is exactly what they're bringing out, you have to look at every aspect of living characteristics in the United States.
Every neighborhood.
Find out which ones are sufficiently integrated and which ones are not.
And if they're excessively white, then especially if they have amenities of any kind, If they've got good schools, lots of parks, all the things that make a neighborhood nice, then what we're affirmatively going to do is make housing fair by making sure that BIPOCs somehow manage to get into those places.
Now, the details of this are going to be complicated, but very much the idea is integration everywhere, all the time, whether you want it or not.
And so when Donald Trump was saying, save the suburbs, he was in effect saying, we're going to leave them as they are, rather than forcing these people from the ghetto into your neighborhood as your neighbors.
Yeah, I mean, talk about coming after the equity.
We all know what that means.
There was a fantastic article at Crane's Detroit Business, which pointed out that black owners had the greatest discrepancy in home value in the entire country.
And in Detroit, you would think that in a city where, hey, there is no diversity.
It's just blacks.
You would think that property values would be soaring.
But unfortunately, this article is behind a paywall.
It points out that the gap between region's average home values and black-owned home values is nearly triple the U.S.
rate.
And you would think that, gosh... Does that mean that the median black-owned home is one-third the value of the median white-owned home?
That's exactly what that means.
Nice math there.
Well, I guess there's something about having white neighbors that probably boost your home value.
Uh, but we're not allowed to think in those terms.
Not only are you not allowed to say that, but with, as you mentioned, AFFH.
Too many white people means, guess what, we gotta find a way to build, uh, get rid of these single family track homes and put in some apartments with subsidized housing.
So, Mr. Castro, Julian Castro, you might remember served as the Secretary of HUD under Obama, said this, quote, this represents a clear change of direction that gets us back on track to fulfill the Fair Housing Act.
It's sending a very strong signal that it's a new day when it comes to fair housing, and that HUD is going to be aggressive again.
In some ways, this is the easy part, but it's a strong first step."
You know, it's just like the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
It was supposed to eliminate discrimination.
Now, it's the basis for rampant discrimination, and Fair Housing Act was to make No, he's right.
housing available to all people without prejudice, without discrimination on the basis of race.
Now the whole purpose of it is to, on the basis of race, make certain neighborhoods
more available to BIPOCs.
No, he's right.
It is aggressively, it's almost explicitly, just as Trump danced around the implicit nature
of what suburbs, the synonymous with whites, which isn't really true anymore if you're
talking about most of the major cities because of mass immigration, especially in the South,
places like Atlanta.
But the point is, they're almost explicit.
They're almost happy that they can now weaponize HUD, Mr.
Taylor, to come after the equity in your home.
Not yet, at least, but... Okay, well, all of this means high hopes for our African-American fellow citizens.
And let me just give you a little vignette of something that we hope all of this effort towards equity will bring to an end.
The Indianapolis police just arrested a juvenile in connection with the shooting that left five people and an unborn child dead and one person wounded.
The juvenile is not named, is not known to the police, not known to the public because he is a juvenile, but it's the largest Mass casualty shooting in the city since more than a decade.
And television footage that I looked at shows the neighbors are all black.
So I suspect the victim and the perp all are black.
And the suspect is said to be a member of the family.
So this was a little family falling out that went bad.
This was a continuation of what happened in Indianapolis in 2020.
Namely, a record has been set in homicides.
So, clearly, systemic racism has been hard at work.
Hard, hard at work.
But, with Uncle Joe rooting out systemic racism, how long will it be before this sort of thing will never happen again?
I mean, after all, that's what we're gonna do, right?
We're gonna get rid of all this racism and it's gonna be kumbaya-ya-ya!
Somehow, bullets are...
Racist.
I mean, I'm sure that's going to be the impetus for another executive order, Mr. Taylor, to point out that, hey, gosh, all these bullets, they seem to only be hitting BIPOCs.
We can't admit that they're fired from guns with hands, with bodies that are black or brown primarily, but the bullets somehow, you know what?
The best way to end this is to tax the heck out of bullets.
And you know what?
Who are the people who actually go out and pay for the bullets, you know, who don't steal them or procure
them in the black market.
You know, that's gun owners. That's responsible gun owners like you and myself and a lot of our
listeners, I'm sure. Changes are a-coming. And of course, all part of the changes, we now have
a black defense secretary. First time in American history.
He is Lloyd Austin.
And as the news informs us, he will have to contend not only with a world of security threats and a military bureaucracy, but also the challenge that hits close to home, rooting out racism in the ranks.
You know, all of this racism has just cropped up all of a sudden everywhere.
Racism and white supremacy.
And, as he explained to senators during his confirmation hearings, that the Pentagon's job is to keep America safe from our enemies, but we can't do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks.
If you have impure thoughts, you are an enemy.
And as an example, as an example, a recent Air Force Inspector General report found that black service members in the Air Force are far more likely to be investigated, arrested, and face disciplinary actions and be discharged for misconduct.
This clearly is an act of white supremacist Inspector Generals.
So we'll have to see how they solve that problem.
And further, based on 2018 data, roughly two-thirds of the military's enlisted corps is white and 17% black, but the minority percentage declines as rank goes up.
And I'm sure it's white supremacist generals that are keeping the ranks.
Oh boy, where does it begin and where does it end?
And as Senator Tammy Duckworth, Democrat of Illinois, explained during the confirmation hearings, it's clear We are at a crisis point.
It's clear to her.
Just why it's clear, I don't know, but it's clear as heck to her.
And now, as a follow-up to this point, I'd like to discuss Congressman Steve Cohen.
He had some interesting observations to make before the inauguration, which I'm only catching up with now.
I apologize for my tardiness.
He was elected to Congress in 2007.
He was the state of Tennessee's first Jewish congressman.
He was elected representing a 60% black district in Memphis.
Now, he wanted to join the Congressional Black Caucus because he said that would help him better represent his black constituents.
Well, the Congressional Black Caucus said, beat it putts!
Only schwartzes in our little club.
And so, to this day, they have maintained, they have maintained their racial purity, the Black Congressional Congress.
That was back in 2017.
They haven't let anybody in else.
Now, what's the Black equivalent of Lily White?
There are two things you could say, and again, I'm just saying this.
It's just a guess.
Coal black?
I don't know.
How about eggplant black?
That goes well with Lilly.
Well, I'll tell you.
In any case, the caucus is still eggplant black.
He didn't pass the paper bag test, though?
No, he sure didn't.
But now, back to Congressman Cohen.
Before the inauguration, he said that Trump supporters within the National Guard who were supposed to protect Joe Biden and the precious Kamala Harris, he said, might want to do something.
Hmm.
And Congressman Cohen said he remembered that former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguards.
And he suggested that any Trump supporters within the National Guard units should be put under suspicion.
Anwar Sadat was killed at a public appearance by Egyptian soldiers too.
I'm sure Congressman Cohen has not forgotten that.
And he went on to say, the National Guard is 90 some odd percent male.
And only about 20% of white males voted for Biden.
That means there must be thousands and thousands of those 25,000 National Guardsmen who did not vote for Joe Biden.
That number's not accurate.
80% of white men didn't vote for Donald Trump.
No, that's not true.
That's not true.
Only about 20% of white males?
No, it's close to about 40%.
40% voted for Biden.
So his math is off.
But he goes on to say, only about 25% of those people are protecting us voted for Biden.
The other 75% are in a large class of folks who might want to do something.
If you voted for Joe Biden and you're in the National Guard, you might want to turn your weapons around and shoot the Commander-in-Chief.
Voting for Trump makes you a security threat and a possible assassin.
Boy, oh boy.
So that is Congressman Cohen for you.
And as it turned out, I just found out about this today, but a rehearsal for the inauguration was called off and everyone in attendance evacuated because of an external security threat.
You know what that turned out to be?
What was that?
A bag lady living under a bridge had started a fire.
That called off the rehearsal.
And everyone was evacuated!
You know, that story, obviously they don't want to... the corporate media doesn't want to point out what actually... there's like an asterisk by the story.
It's like, well, this happened.
There was this threat.
We had to evacuate everybody.
But it's like the laugh track.
I know you don't watch it, but like, insert Kirby enthusiasm music here.
Oh, by the way, it was because of this.
And I bet the bag lady was probably Probably a person of color, but we don't know for sure.
Not a white supremacist, but they had to evacuate everybody, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
Now, and while we're at it, our new president has revived yet another Obama-era initiative, and he is going full speed ahead to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 note with none other than Harriet Tubman.
She would become the first black person to appear on the face of an American banknote.
Now, did you realize she would not be the first woman?
Martha Washington was on a $1 bill in the 1890s.
And I wasn't aware of this either, Pocahontas was in a group picture on the $20 bill in the 1860s.
I don't know who she was with, but maybe Lewis and Clark?
Oh, it's got to be Lewis and Clark.
That was at a time where that was still fresh in a lot of people's minds.
Of course, you know, Harriet Tubman, this reinvention of Harriet Tubman every year is one of the most important mythical figures And the American pantheon, it gets more absurd, and this is... Well, I tell you, you're right.
Derek Johnson, who's the current chief executive and president of the NAACP, said in a statement, the legacy of Harriet Tubman and other black Americans who built the nation we know today must be recognized and celebrated.
So, you're right.
She is part of America that we must celebrate.
And as you know, this first came to the fore under President Obama, but Donald Trump scuttled it.
He's rather fond of Jackson.
He had a bust of Andrew Jackson in his office.
Now that bust, by the way, has been replaced, and I think it's Cesar Chavez.
Yes!
And Martin Luther King.
It was actually a painting, Mr. Taylor, of Andrew Jackson.
And what's replaced That painting is a painting of Ben Franklin, which... Fascinating.
I mean, Ben Franklin had views that might have even been a little more radical than Andrew Jackson in some cases.
Well, uh... Have you cancelled all whites yet?
No, but yes, Tubman... Now, this is something I just found out recently.
Harriet.
I will call her Harriet.
Harriet was originally slated to appear on the $10 bill, did you know that?
And replace Alexander Hamilton as the only one of two non-presidents, along with Benji on the $100.
But, do you know why they moved him, moved Harriet to the $20 bill?
Do you know why that is?
I don't know.
Because of the musical Hamilton.
That popularized Hamilton to the point where apparently the American public says, no!
I didn't know that.
We need Hamilton!
Hamilton has been rehabilitated because he showed up in blackface on a Broadway stage.
And of course the musical was by a black person.
So a black person single-handedly rehabilitated Hamilton.
So that means Harriet Tubman was moved to the 20 instead.
So there you go.
So, very soon, all white people will be walking around with a piece of paper in their pocket to remind them of just how bad, bad, bad white people are.
You know, you're too kind to do this, but I think now is a great time.
All you listeners out there, I'm sure you've got a little bit of that extra stimulus money in your pocket.
Perhaps you've got some Game Stop.
Some Game Stop stock.
Maybe some AMC stock.
Tell you what, this is a great time to send your Jacksons It's a tax-deductible donation for the year 2021.
Send them to AR.
You should try and get as many Jacksons as possible.
You know, I think I'll keep them.
Exactly.
Frame them.
A genuine Jackson $20.
It's going to become a rarity.
It is.
It is.
Yes, yes.
All these white men have got to be eradicated.
Because I'm sure the left will come out with some idea where, hey, turn in your Jacksons.
We want to get these out of circulation.
We don't want people to have this wicked currency that is somehow a perpetuation of systemic racism, implicit bias, insert catchphrase.
There.
Well, you know, while we're still on this change of administration, we must not neglect to point out that hundreds of writers and book agents signed a joint letter Demanding that the publishing industry refuse to publish any memoir that Donald Trump might write.
Editors, publishing agents, and authors have signed up by the hundreds demanding that the industry deny Donald Trump any publication of presidential memoirs.
The letter is titled, No Book Deals for Traitors.
And it is not just Donald Trump himself, but any Trump administration official, they say, should not be allowed to publish a book.
Now, once again, this is censorship, of course.
Only one point of view is allowed.
And if Donald Trump, the great traitor apparently, actually wants to tell his side of the story, they're saying no dice.
Not only is one point of view allowed at this point, Mr. Taylor and permitted, but it's an increasingly small and very rigid and dogmatic point of view that basically crystallizes around one thing and one thing only being the center of all evil and The engine fueling this hate, and that is white men who supported Trump, and of course white women.
I don't want to go off on a quick tangent here, but there are stories now, again we're not going to talk about it, but the left is actually trying to say that somehow these people who are doing this game shop stuff are white supremacists.
Oh, well, anything that they don't like is white supremacy.
Anything bad enough.
That's how absurd this is.
I mean, this is 2021, ladies and gentlemen, and basically we now have this ever-present ubiquitous boogeyman is white supremacy.
Well, you know, I just recorded a video this very day.
In which I make the argument that increasingly the popular view is that anything that's bad in society is really something that is originally white.
And any non-white person who signs on, the idea that maybe we need secure borders, that's a kind of honorary whiteness.
And at the same time, anything that's distinctly white is also bad.
So anything that's bad is originally white.
Anything that's distinctly white is bad.
So that's why Did you know that Joe Biden complained about racism, xenophobia, white supremacy, systemic racism?
He spent more time railing against that than about any other thing.
COVID, the economy, anything else.
The big problem facing America today is white people.
In any case, that video will come out soon, and I hope all of our listeners will have a look.
But in any case, back to this question about the Trump memoir.
Among the letter's signatories are staffers from the five biggest publishing houses, Penguin Rangdom House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan.
And, as Mr. Kersey, you are aware, Simon & Schuster cancelled its book deal with Republican Senator Josh Hawley.
They said he was just a thoroughly bad guy and they were not going to publish his book.
And ironically, it was the tyranny of big tech.
The tyranny of big tech.
In other words, he's complaining about the censorship of big tech, how they wish to dominate all information flow and make things go their way.
Clearly, Simon & Schuster wants to join in the censorship campaign.
But, fortunately, Regnery picked up the book, so it's not as though he's completely gone.
Now, in the meantime, the latest Rasmussen poll on race relations I thought was quite interesting.
30% of Americans rate race relations in the United States today as good or excellent. 30%.
33%, a larger number, rate them as poor.
And the rest in between just say they are so-so.
Curiously, whites are more pessimistic about U.S.
relationship.
I'm not surprised by that at all.
Whites clearly see things are not going their way.
26% of whites say racial relations are good.
Only 26% are excellent, compared to 32% for blacks and 39% for minorities.
They see things going their way.
Although it's still a minority who say that they're good.
Now, this I found particularly interesting.
50% of Americans say race relations in America today are getting worse.
Only 19% think relations are getting better.
Those numbers have not changed much since January of 2019.
So, interestingly enough, the events of May and the succeeding months of summer have not changed things very much, but compared to a decade ago, In 2011, 38% said race relations were getting better, and only 29% said they were getting worse.
But today, again, 50% of Americans say race relations are getting worse, compared to just 29% a decade ago.
All of this ranting, all of this ranting about white supremacy, and everything is identity politics, and everything is equity, everything is bad, bad, bad.
Clearly, people don't think race relations are good, but Diversity is still our greatest strength.
Diversity, inclusion, and Equity.
Capital exclamation point.
There remains no doubt and no dispute about that.
That remains unchanged as the bedrock, the sheet anchor of American society.
Diversity is our strength, even as race relations just get worse and worse.
So, we have a capacity to suspend disbelief that's probably without precedent in any kind of society.
Now, I believe the Toledo police The Toledo Police have been up to interesting antics.
And you know, you'd think this would be a pretty big story.
It was kind of big in Toledo perhaps, but not for long.
I mean, this happened last week.
January 18th was when this story was published.
I've got to give credit here to Steve Saylor for pointing this out.
The headline doesn't really tell you what happened.
It's a dark day in our city.
Toledo Police Department officer dies following standoff in central Toledo.
Okay, sounds Interesting headline.
Well, what happened?
Who did it? Well, you know, we learned that the officer, 24 year old officer Brandon Stalker,
he was a white man. While not married, he had a fiance and a young child. You know, really sad stuff.
Okay.
Really sad stuff.
Yes, I sure didn't hear about this, so I'm all ears.
All three ears of my ears are tuned your way.
Yeah, he also had a seven-year-old daughter, so he leaves behind two children and a fiancée.
So, not until the fifth paragraph of the story do we find out what actually happened.
A series of warrants for suspect Christopher A. Harris, a black man, had been issued.
He was confirmed as a suspect in a Rosary Cathedral incident the police put out.
What happened is that according to municipal court documents, a warrant was issued for Harris for spray painting.
Jesus is black.
and also the word black multiple times on the Rosary Cathedral Church.
He's also accused of pouring a flammable liquid on the doors of the cathedral and lighting it.
There was damage to the doors but not the inside of the cathedral.
So he was also accused of spray painting various apartments around Toledo.
A lot of the stuff included the words, Jesus is black though, Jesus is black, over and over again.
So, this guy tried to burn down a church.
He's an ardent Christian, though, clearly.
Well, he wants to stand correct this long-held, I guess, incorrect view of the racial characteristics of one Jesus.
So we then end up with they trap this guy.
The police approached his Fulton Street residence.
He went around the corner, brandished a firearm, fled inside the house.
There was a big standoff.
Negotiators were brought in, the SWAT team.
This is what happens in a normal course of action whenever there's a barricaded suspect.
They tried to negotiate for two hours.
The SWAT team fired tear gas at the house, and Harris jumped out.
They were hoping he'd surrender.
Well, he didn't.
He came out, guns blazing, and he fired multiple shots.
One struck Stalker in the head.
Died instantly.
That sounds like bad SWAT mechanics.
Obviously, you know, it's not like TV, you know.
I'll tell you, there was a shootout with the other police officers.
Harris was shot and he died at the hospital.
The point is this, you have a guy who tries to basically commit arson, a terrorist attack, really, at a church, some racially provocative things.
So you have to wonder, you know, this guy, obviously, what's going on here?
But he kills a white police officer and it's barely news.
Barely News in Toledo!
Well, for heaven's sake, it happens all the time, so why even write it up?
White police officer dies in line of duty.
Triggered man is black.
Well, okay, there you go.
And I suppose it's because of this sort of thing that the Russian Foreign Ministry According to its spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said just last week that she has received messages via social networks from supporters of President Donald Trump asking for information on how to receive Russian citizenship.
Did you know that?
And Republicans fear possible persecution because of their political views.
Now, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova for the Foreign Minister, she said, Welcome to reality.
I thought that was an interesting little sidelight.
I wonder how many people are actually inquiring about Russian citizenship, but I suspect she's not lying about that.
We don't know what the numbers are, but political persecution and racial persecution, that's a legitimate fear.
Another little story.
Losing the equity in your house.
That's right.
Thanks to AFFH.
Yep.
Another little interesting item.
Did you know that this is a little over a week ago, and I apologize once again for being tardy and getting the news to our listeners, but a White Lives Matter banner was found in Union City.
That's just south of San Francisco on the peninsula.
And it was, of course, removed.
Now, this is a quotation from one of the city fathers.
The city is disgusted by this despicable act of vandalism that has occurred on the heels of the insurrection at the U.S.
Capitol and on the weekend of the Martin Luther King Jr.
holiday that celebrates the life and achievements of this important civil rights leader.
The city is disgusted.
Union City Mayor Carol Durta-Vernassi Doesn't sound like a Mayflower girl, but she says, any kind of racism in Union City is unwelcome and will not be tolerated.
It's alarming for anybody to put up a White Lives Matter banner because it connotates the racism going on in this country with events happening trying to take over the Capitol.
Now, this strikes me as quite a remarkable logical leap.
White lives matter.
White lives matter.
That is apparently vicious racism, and it's associated with somehow trying to take over the Capitol, which is yet more vicious racism.
And Freddie M. Davis, president of the NAACP in the area, says, it's unbelievable that in this day and age, after 50 years, they still believe that.
Yes, a few people still believe that white lives matter.
Astonishing!
Then he goes on to say, this systemic racism has got to go.
White lives matter.
Systemic racism.
Yes.
How can people possibly believe that white lives matter?
A police report was filed, the city said, and there's an all points alert bulletin to find the perpetrators of this vicious act of racism.
Interestingly enough, I found no comment section for this story.
Oh, I can see why that would be.
But this is just too much.
How can they still believe that, says the director, says the head of the local NAACP?
How can they possibly believe that white lives... Well, you see, it is a wonder, after all of this running down white people, it is a wonder that they can possibly believe that white lives matter.
We're told over and over that black white people are awful folks.
Now, let us not forget, there is a busy public boulevard in Oakland, California, where activists wrote this.
They wrote, yes, let's see, not only is there black lives matter, that's all over the place,
that's all just fine. But there was another one that said something to the effect of
incarcerated single LGBTQ lives matter.
Now, that struck me as almost a parody, but this too is all part of, every life matters, but white lives matter.
And you try to pretend that that's the case, and boy, you become public enemy number one.
Well, if that's the way the country's, if that's the direction the country's headed with that type of coalescing around that idea that the NAACP chapter president had mentioned, Think back to 2020.
I know you don't watch pop culture much, but every show that gets greenlit has to have some sort of trope about white supremacy that's being battled.
Whether it's the Watchmen show on HBO, whether it's Lovecraft Country, which I wanted to read the book that was the basis for that.
this horrible nation that everything we celebrate is, was crafted by a racist, evil bigot.
That's the world that people marinate in.
Well, you know, the other thing is, I don't know if you've ever read a book.
It's known as a children's book.
A children's book primarily for girls called Anne of Green Gables.
I have?
You've read that?
Well, I've seen the show.
Oh, not the same thing as reading a book.
Okay.
But it's really a very, very charming book written in about 1920.
And it's set in Prince Edward Island, and of course, Prince Edward Island 1920s, everyone is white.
Absolutely everyone is white.
The only diversity they have is a few occasional visiting Americans, and then there are a few French Canadians who wander through, but that's about as diverse as it gets.
Everybody's white as can be.
There's been a new series put out of Adam Green Gables.
It's just as multicultural as it can possibly be.
Blacks, and Hindus, and who knows, American Indians, and escaped slaves, and boy oh boy.
Again, everything is fair game.
Even 1920s Prince Edward Island has got to be a multi-culti paradise.
Well, tell me.
I believe you have some information on the current multi-culti paradisiac characteristics of Minneapolis and Baltimore.
I do.
Headline Struck MPD offers theories behind staggering increases in gun violence and carjackings.
What are their theories?
We'll talk about their theories in a second.
Let's quickly mention what's happened.
According to city gunshot detection data, ShotSpotter, more than 24,000 bullets flew in Minneapolis last year.
24,000.
Yeah.
Boy, boy, where do they get their ammo?
Oh my god, right now you can't even find a 9mm.
You can't find 40.
You can't, you know, you can't find... But 24,000 rounds.
That's a lot.
That's a lot of bullets.
And you know what?
That's a lot of shooting, yeah.
It turns out that only 550 people were wounded.
Bad shooting, but all right.
So that's actually a positive takeaway from the story.
We actually do the math in the division to find out what exactly that rate of that successful rate of hitting the target is.
Well, you have very poor shot placement there, but go on.
So this is a 100% increase over the tally in 2019.
More than 80% of the shooting victims were African American.
I don't have the number of the percentage of the racial breakdown.
I think it's about 20% black.
It's not very black.
No, exactly.
62% of people wounded or fatally shot were residents of the city.
So the city also saw 82 homicides, an unofficial number, which is double the city's four-year average.
Fascinating.
police recorded more than 400 carjackings, an increase of more than 300% compared to 2019,
a rash of thefts of catalytic converters fueled a 660% increase in theft of motor vehicle.
Oh, catalytic converters?
Yeah.
Sorry, Ed.
Catalytic converters fueled a 660% increase in theft of motor vehicle parts.
600%?
Wow.
660%.
Now, they tried to say that this is not specific to Minneapolis.
They're right.
We know that carjackings are up in major cities all across the country.
We know that homicides are up.
We also know this because cops are basically They don't want to be the next Derek Chauvin.
They don't want to be the next, uh, uh, who was the guy in, uh, in, uh, in St.
Louis, in Ferguson, Darren Wilson.
Darren Wilson.
Yeah.
They don't want that scrutiny.
They don't want that, that harassment.
Um, you've got a situation where cops are just pulling back, but here's what some people have said.
Um, One of the individuals who was quoted in the article, the current police chief, came out and said, well, you know, we think that this has something to do with the fact that the downturn in economic activity with the pandemic saw a lot of business close, including those who stayed open, but had limited hours, reducing opportunity and overall activity and operable hours for those stores.
Wait, so that's supposed to send people out and shoot 28,000 rounds into the air in Minneapolis?
Yeah!
Because stores got closed?
They're basically saying that this is just, you know, because and it's what's fascinating is that, well, it's not just Minneapolis.
No, no.
It's every, it's basically every major city in the United States.
Well, I guess stores closed in Louisville and stores closed in New York.
Everybody went out and started shooting.
Milwaukee, you know, it's funny, astute listeners might recall that last week, maybe two weeks ago, we talked about How Baltimore was one of the few cities that actually saw a decrease in homicides, even though, of course, they've hit huge numbers for the past, like, five years.
And they only were down, I think, by four homicides.
But, hey, at least one city dropped, right?
True.
True.
But the theory is, because stores shut down, you had to run out and steal a catalytic converter.
I mean, again, it's so bizarre that we can't just say, Hey, you know, the civil unrest, uh, you know, uh, commander Jason Case said that the specific variables that are around that are probably up for debate and will long be analyzed regarding why this is all happening.
But it's really simple.
The third precinct was abandoned on May 28th.
8th, 29th, I can't remember the date, 2020, the mob usurped the role of the monopoly of violence that the cops, that the state is supposed to have, and basically you saw just unreal violence sweep the country.
That's it?
Heather McDonald, as usual, had one of her Irrefutable pieces in which she goes through some of these similar numbers for different cities, and she repeats the argument that's commonly made.
Oh, COVID did it.
Oh, COVID did it.
Well, wait a minute.
The COVID lockdown started in March, but all of this sudden increase in lawlessness started at the end of May.
And what happened at the end of May?
That was the whole George Floyd business.
It's just astonishing that people refuse to see the consequences of that, refuse to realize that, as you point out, police officers do not want to be tomorrow's headline.
And they're going to pull back, and as they pull back, no stop and frisk, no aggressive policing, the message comes across to those who wish to open fire.
It is absolutely crazy.
And, well, what's happening in Baltimore?
Well, that was the segue.
We'll make this one quick because I don't like these types of stories and we are running out of time here as we do so often.
A prominent anti-gun violence activist, part of Safe Streets, Dante Barksdale, is fatally shot at a public housing project, police and city officials said.
Barksdale, also known as Tater, was the heart and soul of the city's anti-gun violence program, where he worked for nine years.
This was a comment that Mayor Brandon Scott said.
Quote, his death is a major loss to safe streets, the communities they serve, and the entire city of Baltimore.
Dante's work saved lives.
This is a sobering reminder of how dangerous this frontline work No, was this a police officer?
Was he a civilian?
He was a civilian, yeah, anti-gun violence guy.
Just a civilian.
He would go and he would, you know, there was a story where he was delivering winter coats weeks prior to residents of the complex where he was vaguely shot.
One of the residents told the Baltimore Sun, you know, as this story went to press, The circumstances surrounding his death were not immediately clear, but the point is these Safe Streets programs, we know Baltimore during that whole nine-year time span, I hate to talk about his resume and the actual outcome of what he was doing, but Baltimore had record numbers of homicides.
Before the George Floyd insanity of 2020, in 2019, Mr. Taylor, the city of Baltimore, which is 14 times smaller in population than New York City, the city of Baltimore had more homicides than New York City did.
Think about that for a second.
Well, yes, the rate is 14 times higher.
Now, but Tater had a lot of work to do.
Tater was black, was he not?
Tater was.
Yes, I did fail to mention that Tater was one of our African-American, as you would call it, citizens, brethren?
One of our African-American fellow citizens.
I mean, this is just such an awful thing.
Here you have a guy, as far as we can tell, was seriously involved trying to save his people.
Correct!
Correct!
Trying to keep black people alive.
And he stops a bullet.
It's really, I mean, of course, if he was anti-gun, that probably meant that he was not caring.
He didn't believe in carrying a gun.
He probably, of all people, should have been armed in self-defense.
This is a tragic story.
Well, and it further accentuates this ludicrous idea that black lives matter.
I'm sorry.
It truly does.
Because, you know, here you and I are talking about someone who is trying to better his community.
And you know what?
It is a difficult task when you've got a city in Baltimore that is more dangerous than some of these third world countries.
Honduras and Guatemala.
The homicide rate is far higher.
And this guy was throwing his life out there every day to try and, as you said, better his community, to bring them up.
Well, Tater, rest in peace.
This is a very sad thing.
You know, I feel the same thing when I hear about there can be an anti-violence rally and the black community gets together and there are free hot dogs and a band and we're all gonna rally to fight violence and then somebody opens fire and kills half a dozen people.
These are just tragic, horrible stories.
And I'm afraid we have another tragic, horrible story and this has to do with Victoria Rose Smith.
And it has to do with her death.
Tori, as she was known, was beaten to death.
By her adopted parents, Jerry Robinson and Ariel Robinson.
They were charged with homicide by child abuse.
Now, what makes this particularly tragic and intriguing is the fact that Tori, three-year-old girl, was white and her adoptive parents both were black.
They are accused of inflicting a series of blunt force injuries.
In other words, beating her to death.
A woman on Facebook said that this woman had known him in her foster care stage.
He was the sweetest, most loving child.
She had the best personality.
Witty and kept us laughing all the time.
And as it turns out, the Robinsons not only adopted her, but two of her brothers, also white.
They had two biological sons, both black, plus this family of three white children, all adopted together.
On her social media accounts, Robinson the Lady, Ariel Robinson, who was the better known of the two, was always promoting outright black superiority.
She was bashing Donald Trump and the police.
She griped about institutional racism.
And one wonders, what about the adoption authorities?
Were they aware of her deep resentment of white people before they let her adopt three white children?
Now, one can possibly ask, did they lower their standards to appease social justice and affirmative action crusaders?
But she is known, Ariel Robinson, was best known for winning season 20 of something called Worst Cooks in America on the Food Network.
Now, I don't know why you would want to win the title Worst Cook in America.
Not quite an accolade.
I suppose it takes real talent to be the worst.
According to her website, Ariel was a middle school teacher trying to make it as a stand-up comic, radio host, and TV personality.
She had her own website that said, How she does it all, we'll never know.
Just prepare yourself for one roller coaster ride you won't want to get off of.
Well, it sounds as though Torrey, little Torrey Smith, was thrown off that roller coaster ride in the worst and most brutal way.
But I can easily imagine that it would be very much the fad these days to, if you have white children up for adoption, to make a point of trying to have them adopted in black families.
I mean, isn't that the ultimate goal of anti-racist baby?
Surround them with a different racial group as their mentors were?
How else are you going to strip them of their inherent bigotry to put them in a home with black people where they will be reared and turned into active and full-time anti-racists?
Well, it ended pretty badly for Torrey Smith.
In the meantime, classical music is going woke.
There is a diversity chief at the Metropolitan office.
Maria Sells.
She's the first Chief Diversity Officer at the Met, which is the largest performing arts institution in the United States.
And this was in response, as the Met says, to the Black Lives Matter demonstrations after George Floyd died.
To me, it is absolutely incredible that so many organizations are explicitly saying, our policy is based on riots.
Our policy is based on looting and arson.
Violence works?
Yes.
That's the ultimate lesson of 2020.
Yes.
And as this article in the New York Times goes on to say, since last summer, cultural institutions across the country have made changes as the Black Lives Matter movement drew scrutiny to racial inequities in virtually every corner of the arts world.
My gosh, there aren't as many black opera singers as there ought to be.
The company Announce plans to open next season with Terrence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up In My Bones, which will be the first opera by a black composer, directed by James Robinson and Camille A. Brown, who will be the first black director to lead a production on the Met's main stage.
This is all thanks to George Floyd.
The Met also named three composers of color, Valerie Coleman, Jesse Montgomery, and Joel Thompson.
I suspect the color in this case is black, for its commissioning program.
That means they're going to ask them to compose specifically for the Metropolitan Opera.
And the Human Resources Department will be brought under this Director of Diversity, Marcia Sells, who is of course a, well, she's certainly a BIPOC of the B-type.
And she will conceive a diversity, equity, and inclusion plan that could be implemented across hiring, artistic planning, and engagement.
We'll examine the structural inequities of the Met and work with the marketing and development departments to broaden the company's audience and its donor base.
Blackity black black, boy oh boy.
The company hopes to receive assistance for its diversity-related costs from foundations.
Clearly they're going to be diversity-related costs.
It costs money to discriminate against white people.
But they're going to go hat in hand to foundations.
And now this is to me the most impressive quote of all.
Marsha Sells says, I truly believe that this is the Met's moment.
It's finally going to bloom under her tutelage.
Does this make you happy?
It might be expensive, Mr. Taylor, but it's the highest moral good and directive in this paradigm that we're living under.
And it's nightmarish.
I sometimes look around and I think to myself, You know, did we somehow, is this, you know, it's not, is this a simulation, but did we all just magically... How did it happen?
Did we, you know, did we wake up one day?
It's like Rip Van Winkle.
Think back to January 27th, 2020.
Could you even imagine what happened?
I couldn't have imagined.
I couldn't have imagined.
But now I've stopped being surprised.
Now, the University of Toronto School of Music also has a new dean.
A new dean.
Her name is Dr. Ellie Hisama, a Japanese-American.
She currently teaches at Columbia.
Her research is on interdisciplinary studies, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and the social and political dimensions of music.
That's what music's all about these days, you know.
She's also the Director of Graduate Studies.
She's given talks on equity in the field of music theory at the intersection of gender and sexuality.
Music theory is pretty complicated.
It's almost mathematical.
But she approaches it from the intersection of gender and sexuality.
What the heck is that?
That's like, that's really like approaching geometry from the intersection, not of XY and AB, but the intersection of gender and sexuality.
You know, this makes no sense.
They already are doing that in math.
They've already made Math woke.
I mean, some people are saying 2 plus 2 equals 4 is racist, so come on.
I guess.
Get with it, Taylor.
And she'll work towards greater diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Now's the time to press forward towards lasting change, says she.
And finally, an international story.
Did you know that a Bangladeshi who arrived in France in 2011 has avoided deportation from France after a court ruled that there is so much pollution back in Bangladesh that it would aggravate his asthma.
And so he can't be sent back to Bangladesh.
This is the first case in the world in which the right to settle in a new country, namely France, was granted on environmental grounds.
Environmental grounds.
The air is so bad in Bangladesh that you don't dare send an otherwise deportable Bangladeshi back there.
What does that mean for all the Bangladeshis who are trapped?
Good question.
Now, what did Donald Trump call these countries?
Dung heap countries?
He used a more colorful expletive.
But anyway, alas, this brings us to the end of our podcast, the hour whizzes by at great rate of speed.
I've got a terrible thing I want to insert.
You know that Biden today said that he wants to base almost all of his decisions on what's good for the climate and climate change.
So that story you just said, I have a feeling we're going to hear a lot more Well, I'm sure it's going to help Bangladesh immensely, what Joe Biden decides to do.
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