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Feb. 4, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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We Have a ‘Reality Crisis’
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
It is February 4th, 2021.
It's my pleasure to be with you again after a week's absence.
A week, as all weeks these days are, full of exciting developments.
One of the exciting developments is a New York Times article showed up just a day or two ago Titled, How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis.
Now, I didn't realize we had a reality crisis, but apparently the New York Times does.
Let me read a few sentences from this remarkable article.
How do you unite a country in which millions of people have chosen to create their own version of reality?
Some recommend that the Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which should be led by something like a reality czar.
Got that?
A reality czar.
There's somebody's going to tell you what's true and what's not.
The article continues.
Such as our could meet with tech platforms and push for structural changes that could help those companies tackle their own extremism and misinformation problems.
The czar could become the tip of the spear for the federal government's response to the reality crisis.
Again, I didn't realize we had a reality crisis.
But this, of course, is nothing more than indirect government censorship.
The government putting pressure on everybody in sight to make sure that they make it impossible to find things that don't go along with the usual, now orthodox, view.
Now this Ministry of Truth, something else it could do, is also audit the algorithms that social media platforms do, and I quote again from the article, so that civil rights lawyers and real watchdog organizations, I didn't realize there were phonies out there, but I guess there must be, can investigate human rights abuses enabled or amplified by technology.
So you've got bureaucrats Civil rights lawyers and real watchdog organizations making sure that when you do a Google search you will end up in the right place and never ever hear of American Renaissance.
The article goes on to say many people are drawn to extremist groups like the Proud Boys and conspiracy theories like QAnon not because they're convinced by facts but because these beliefs give them a sense of community or purpose, or fills a void in their lives. These lefties
just love to psychoanalyze the people they disagree with. You disagree with the left, you've got
a void in your life. Did you realize that? Not only did I realize that, but I think most people
are starting to understand that that void, it can't be filled.
No matter what we do, it's not going to be filled.
We just have to... Well, it's not going to be filled by the New York Times.
No, no.
But, yes.
So, now listen to this.
This is Micah Clark, a program director at Moonshot CVE, a counter-extremism firm in London.
A counter-extremism firm.
I'd like to meet somebody who works for a counter-extremism firm.
I think I'd have a good time over a beer with such a person.
Now, Micah Clark says, Clearly, there's a public safety issue.
We're talking about extremism.
But there's also very much a public health issue.
You see, people like you and me, Mr. Kersey, we are lunatics.
We need public health.
And one effective countermeasure, says counter-extremism expert, Mr. Clark, he said would be a kind of social stimulus.
A series of federal programs to encourage people to get into community-based activities that could keep them engaged and occupied so they don't go on the internet and find out about Paul Kersey.
In other words, it's daycare for crazy white people.
I read that.
Federal programs to encourage people to get into community-based activities.
Occupy their mind.
We once actually called it a city neighborhood where people played Where kids ran around, where neighbors barbecued together.
Nobody really thought about any of this stuff until the federal government decided, oh, you know, let's get rid of freedom of association.
Shelley vs. Kramer was wrong.
You know, no one should be able to restrict who lives in neighborhoods.
Well, the federal government is going to take charge.
Give you a family life.
They always do.
Give you a community life.
And make sure you don't stare too hard at that screen and end up down the bad badger hole.
Yeah, you might ask yourself, I know we won't talk about it, but one of the fascinating things that's happened in 2021, or 2020, which of course these extremists won't talk, or these counter-extremists won't talk about, I don't, you know...
Homicide is at record levels.
The jump has never been seen before.
We've seen few people really go into great detail about, you know, Black Lives Matter has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, Mr. Taylor, but as our listeners across the world know... We'll get to that.
We'll get to that, but think about this.
How many... I can probably count on my hand the number of white-on-black murders that I know of, and most of those were these police shootings.
I mean, again, it's just... They're not murders for the most part, anyway.
Well, they're not murders, but again, they're shootings, and it's just... It's just hard to take all this counter extremism so seriously.
Well, you see, they do seem to talk about this reality crisis, you know?
And people talk about getting these crazy white people out and engaging them in communities They just don't seem to care about the fact there's been a 30-35% rise in murders.
That just doesn't count.
Well, to continue with Micah Clark, the counter-extremism, counter-measure expert, He boasts about a series of de-escalation ads that his company Moonshot CVE ran on Google and Twitter targeting high-risk potential violent extremists with empathetic messages about mental health and mindfulness.
That's going to calm us all down.
That's going to talk us down.
Just tell us we're all head cases.
Tell us we all need mental health care and messages of mindfulness.
I'm not quite sure what a message of mindfulness is, but that's going to solve the problem.
And it's all going to be under the aegis of this ministry of truth or what the New York Times calls a reality czar.
A reality czar.
Just going to bring us all back to reality and make sure nobody thinks anything he's not supposed to think.
Now, something else the Biden administration is actually doing.
This is not a mere proposal like the reality czar.
This is more naturalizations.
An executive order went out on Tuesday.
What it will do is substantially reduce the naturalization processing time.
It will include a potential reduction of the naturalization fees.
Huh!
That's right.
Come one, come all.
You know, the indigent are welcome.
And a restoration of the fee waiver process.
Now, I don't know for whom we waive the fee, but apparently there are some people who are just so poor, but we want them to be Americans so badly, That they don't have to pay a dime.
And as long as they're huddled together as masses, the more huddled, the better.
So long as they're yearning to breathe free.
And what this could do is develop a national strategy to promote naturalization.
There could be a public awareness campaign.
In other words, you too can be a Yankee gringo!
And so, did you know that in February of last year, the Justice Department created a denaturalization division?
That's to focus on revoking naturalized citizenship to fraudsters, sex offenders, war criminals, terrorists.
Well, according to the Biden order, some of its activities are going to be dismantled.
We just can't have this denaturalization police running around, so it's the dinner bell for sex traffickers, drug runners, You know, I saw that story and I thought to myself, that can't be the case.
There has to be some... I was too incredulous reading it to think that, wow, we actually have an executive, the Chief Executive Office of the United States is actually going to dismantle this denaturalization program that actually makes it harder, that actually tries to make life better for the American people.
It's mean!
Once you have given them American citizenship, It's mean.
They turn out to be sex traffickers.
They turn out to be drug runners.
Oh, gosh.
I mean, oh, the little fellows.
You know, you can't send them back to where they came from.
You can't strip American citizenship.
Once you've got it, it might mean you ain't like Flint.
Well, and of course, even under president.
Trump.
In 2019, 843,500 legal immigrants became naturalized citizens.
Do that number one more time.
843,500.
And that was an 11% over the year before, when there were about 762,000.
So, we get the better part of a million new citizens every year.
Let's do that number one more time.
842,500.
And that was an 11% over the year before, when there were about 762,000.
So we get the better part of a million new citizens every year.
And Mexico is the number one supplier of new Americans, followed by India.
Then the Philippines.
Then China.
And finally, Cuba.
All fine places sending us fine people.
They're undoubtedly sending their best.
Oh, yes.
Some of them are, of course, fine people, as Donald Trump said about the Mexicans.
And now listen to this.
I know Georgia is a state in which you take a particular interest.
But since the year 2000, that's in 20 years, I won't put you on the spot by asking you to estimate but there has been a certain percentage increase in the number of foreign-born voters and their voting age children.
I would imagine that it is around 12%.
Wait, wait, wait.
No, I'm sorry.
Oh, no, I was going to say small percentage increase.
Oh, gosh.
I would say it's probably 450%.
Oh, not bad.
337%.
Okay.
337%.
In North Carolina, that population, that is to say foreign born voters and their voting age children, has increased 335%.
Just 2% less.
In Texas, 156%.
337%.
In North Carolina, that population, that is to say foreign born voters
and their voting age children, has increased 335%, just 2% less.
In Texas, 156%.
In Arizona, 111%.
And a significant increase in naturalization rates ahead of the 2022 midterms,
2020 for presidential election could, according to observers and commentators,
deliver big gains for Democrats.
Who would have thought of such a thing?
Now, do you think there is any kind of connection to the fact that Joe Biden and Mama Harris Are really trying to speed up the process?
You know, it's nullification of the actual native-born Americans and their votes.
I mean, we saw it in Virginia, where the mass resettlement, I believe that 12%, that's where I get that number from, I believe 12% of Virginia's electorate now is foreign-born.
Could be.
It's astonishing.
And that number is in the span of about 16 years.
They know better than the native-born, of course.
Well, you remember that amazing story in the Washington Post where the Indian immigrant who lives in Loudoun County has pointed out that his number one issue is guns because he was worried about all these white people with firearms.
That's right, I remember that.
It came out about the same time as the infamous January 2020 march on Richmond that everyone said was going to be so violent and filled with domestic terrorists and of course it was just a bunch of white people Aimlessly cosplaying as Rambo.
Well, wait a minute.
They were just carrying their guns around.
They weren't prepared to shoot them.
They just wanted to let people know, yes, here we are and we have them.
Under certain circumstances, they might use them, but not when they're walking around the state capitol.
But yes, I remember this Indian guy.
Now, didn't he get himself elected to the state house?
That's what happened.
Did he really?
I believe that.
I thought it was just a random... He got himself elected to the statehouse and his number one campaign program was disarm these terrifying white people.
So there you go.
Now, but Uncle Joe, Uncle Joe marches right along on the refugee front as well.
Well, this actually just broke on February 4th.
And we'd be remiss if we didn't wish everyone across the world, and especially here in the United States of America, a happy Black History Month.
Otherwise, or at least previously known as February.
Or, you know, every other day of the year.
So, um, yeah, basically we saw President Trump do a lot of great things to drastically reduce the refugee admissions cap to only 15,000 before he left office.
But guess what?
Biden has decided to come out and he's already, he's going to send some stuff to Congress today, his plans, which would raise that number to 125,000.
Which is an increase of 15,000 more that President Barack Obama set as the ceiling of 110,000 right before he left office in 2017.
So it took President Trump, regrettably, almost his entire time in office to get that number down.
And now in one year, we're going to see all that work go away.
Well, elections matter.
So Biden may also address asylum claims just like we're seeing in the United Kingdom, where I believe the Indian Home Secretary is going to give We're going to give citizenship to all those in Hong Kong.
I'm sure that's exactly what those who fought in the Battle of Britain and were at Dunkirk thought was going to happen to England in 70 years.
That's progress.
That's total progress.
But basically we're going to see President Biden He's going to address asylum claims for residents of Hong Kong.
He's indicated his campaign is interested in providing protection to people persecuted by the Chinese government.
So the Hong Kong Chinese will get a choice between Britain or the United States?
Pretty much, yeah.
The Trump administration.
So apparently there's a backlog of tens of thousands of cases.
And these are the individuals that Biden's going to target for resettling, which could be this number could be seen by the end of the year.
It's going to take time.
The article points out to rebuild this pipeline, but let's be frank.
I don't think this pipeline is, this spigot is ready to go.
It won't take Joe Biden any time at all.
Just let them all in.
Then there's no backlog.
That solves the problem.
Here's the tragedy of the story, and then we'll close out with this.
More than one third of U.S.
resellment offices were forced to close over the past four years with a drop in refugee arrivals and hundreds of workers were let go.
Well, you know what?
I'm sure there's going to be thousands hired because there's going to be nothing more than, as you talked about, the naturalization process.
All the things that President Biden's attempting to do to make sure that 2022 is a blue wave for good so that we can elect people who look like our refugee policy in terms of Ilhan Omar of Minneapolis, of that wonderful Somali community.
That is the future, ladies and gentlemen, because you are too afraid to be called a racist to stand up and to say, hey, you know what?
Something's rotten in Denmark, for example.
Well, there are some people who are not at all afraid to be called racists.
For example, a Norwegian MP by the name of Petter Eide.
He has nominated Black Lives Matter for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize because of the way it called for systemic change, and that call has spread all around the world.
And in his nomination papers, he said that this has forced countries outside the United States to grapple with racism within their own societies.
You know, even in Japan and Korea, there were these BLM marches.
But I don't think there's much of a racism problem in Korea or Japan.
But they keep their eye on the U.S.
They want to keep us in line.
Now, as far as the violence, That might be associated with Black Lives Matter.
Nah.
He says, of course there have been incidents, but most of them have been caused by the activities of either the police or counter protesters.
That settles it.
Those people breaking into stores, looting, setting fire, assaulting police officers.
Whenever that happened, it was fellow police officers or counter-demonstrators of the wicked white supremacist.
He goes on to say, awarding the Peace Prize to Black Lives Matter as the strongest global force against racial injustice will send a powerful message that peace is founded on equality, solidarity, and human rights, and looting and arson.
Well, I think that there were more than 1,600 buildings burned in Minneapolis during that initial orgy of violence when the mayor decided to abandon the 3rd Precinct and that right there sent shockwaves across the country that, hey, I think the state has abandoned its monopoly on violence.
And, you know, Mr. Taylor, one of the forgotten moments, we've talked about it briefly, that to me epitomizes what the whole Black Lives Matter movement and all this was this past summer, was when they tried to break into CNN.
I mean, this is that forgotten story in Atlanta at the CNN Center right there by the Georgia World Congress Center near the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
You had the college football world, I'm sorry, The College Football Hall of Fame was broken into that night, but CNN, they're live on air, and they're trying to break in.
They're throwing projectiles at the cops guarding the doors.
I wonder if the CNN journalists were just as terrified as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Congress.
She wasn't even in the Congress building.
She was in some other distant office building, bragging about how terrified she was.
But anyway, no, this is all very terrifying when it comes their way.
But on the subject of the Nobel Peace Prize nominations, there is a Socialist Party politician in Norway's parliament named Lars Hultbrekken, who was nominated one of your favorite Americans, one of your favorite of our African-American fellow citizens, Stacey Abrams.
Her work follows that of, she follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.' 's footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights.
Now, as you know, it's widely expected that this potential Peace Prize winner could soon announce her second bid for the Georgia governorship.
Now, that would be something else.
You know, if you've got a, wouldn't that be something to brag about if you're a candidate?
I won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Better vote for me.
Now, Trump, did you realize, was nominated for normalizing relations between Israel and the UAE?
And that was also the Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco, the so-called Abraham Accords.
Furthermore, Alan Dershowitz of Harvard nominated Jared Kushner for negotiating the deal.
So Jared Kushner's name is in the hat.
And of course, the year before, Donald Trump was nominated for trying to calm things down with North Korea.
He didn't get the nod, but he was nominated.
We didn't get the nod, but I'll tell you what, a lot of these defense stocks, they definitely went into the red because Donald Trump actually did what he said he was going to do.
And this is something that I think, unfortunately, in the next few years, we're going to see how great that was.
He kept us out of foreign wars.
I think, Joe, he's going to be one of these fellows who thinks that Americans are never happier.
When there are American soldiers out there shooting somebody, you know, so he'll make sure they shoot, you know, they will declare war on somebody.
Another, another candidate is Greta.
She, too, could win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Now, it's not as though we haven't had black-oriented people win the prize in the United States.
Martin Luther King, he carried off the prize in 1964.
And, of course, the last American winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was none other than... Barack Hussein Obama, right?
That's the boy, in 2009, just for being black.
Just for being half-black.
Well, if you're half-black, you're black.
And now, let's not get too worried about Greta and Stacey Abrams getting the prize because nominations are accepted from any politician in any nation serving at the national level in the legislature, from cabinet ministers, heads of state, and certain university professors.
That's why Alan Dershowitz, he can nominate anybody he likes.
He might nominate you one of these days.
Well, you know, it's a shame that somebody There are a lot of waves you make by nominating individuals.
I think that you've tried to normalize race relations in a lot of ways that would actually put Black Lives Matter first and foremost.
Oh, I think my proposals about race certainly are deserving of a Peace Prize.
Certainly better than Black Lives Matter, for heaven's sake.
Boy, they have just made race relations worse for everybody.
But, as I say, when it comes to the nominations, many are called, but a few are chosen.
So we'll have to see.
I looked into this, and it turns out the committee never announces the names of nominees.
Neither to the media, nor to the candidates themselves.
And so if names do crop up, it's because the person who put up the nomination announced it.
Now, they will come up with a short list later on before they announce the actual winner.
But, and this is an interesting thing, information on the Nobel Committee's nomination receipts, their database, is made public after 50 years.
It might be interesting to see who all was nominated 50 years ago.
In any case... Do you think he'll be around as a 120-year-old at that point?
Maybe he'll be on Mars on one of Elon Musk's... I'll be in a cryogenic tank at that point.
But, you know, speaking of heroes, heroes of American history, I'll approach this in a somewhat roundabout manner, having to do with the fact that the Confederate monument known as the Lost Cause, erected in 1908 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, sat in Decatur Square, Decatur, Georgia, for about 115 years.
And as it turns out, under Georgia law, now let me quote from the law, no publicly owned monument honoring Confederate soldiers shall be relocated, removed, or altered in any fashion.
That's the law.
However, In June of last year, a judge declared that the monument, The Lost Cause, devoted to the Confederacy, put up by the United Daughters, is, guess what, a public nuisance.
A public nuisance!
So is Stone Mountain, right?
In no time, it's a public nuisance and ordered it to be removed.
Now, how on earth is it a public nuisance?
It said that removing it was an appropriate measure to abate the public nuisance and protect the obelisk.
I'm sure he just wept tears and tears and tears worrying about its being protected.
What he said was it gets covered with graffiti and the reason it's a public nuisance is that one of those virtuous people who is inspired to tear it down might get hurt.
What was the city in Virginia?
it's like a public, it's like a swimming pool without a fence around it. It's such a tempting
thing. People might injure themselves. This hateful, hateful thing is so provocative that
somebody might hurt himself putting it down on top of him, so it's a public nuisance and has to be
removed. What was the city in Virginia? Was it Portsmouth where the people tried to tear the
monument down and then one of the heavy pieces fell on them and I think they cracked their skull open?
I think somebody was paralyzed.
Those heady days of June.
This was in May.
Was this in May?
We sit back here and we think these past not even nine months have been so weird if you contemplate the changes that have occurred all because of this guy dying of a fentanyl overdose.
I agree.
It just shows the fractures that were already there.
You know, you read about Black Lives Matter, and I know we're talking about this public
nuisance, but you think about the CHAZ stuff that went up.
People have completely forgotten about that autonomous zone in Seattle, where basically
these two black kids decided to drive around and do wheelies.
Someone shot them, then this autonomous security zone, their security officers said, don't
cooperate with the police, we're not going to snitch.
Basically, this has been forgotten about.
And that, if there ever was an insurgency, it seems to me taking over a part of a city and declaring it a cop-free zone and we are running it in the autonomous zone...
Not only did they do that, Mr. Taylor, but for all of our listeners out there, if you want to look it up, it's very easy to find, they also occupied a police station during this.
So you think about the abandonment and the only thing we saw Orange Man Bad doing was he kept tweeting out law and order impotently from the White House, which, mind you, was assaulted by the Black Lives Matter Antifa to a tune of 60 plus Secret Service agents were injured, 11 were hospitalized.
That was an insurrection, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, I'm not sure it was.
Did they really want to overthrow the U.S.
government?
Well, I get that word is thrown around so much, but what were they trying to do getting to the White House?
Were they going to say, hey?
They wanted to wish him happy birthday.
Hey, Barron, you want to come hang out with us, buddy?
Right.
Well, but back to Decatur, Georgia.
Not the public nuisance has been removed.
It has to be replaced with a shrine of public adoration.
Okay.
And I think you can guess, whenever you remove a confederate, you can't replace him with anybody but a bipod.
John Lewis.
John Lewis is our man.
He represented Georgia in the House of Representatives for more than 30 years.
And he died last July at the age of 80.
So he will be memorialized instead of the confederate monument, the Lost Cause.
Well, the Lost Cause is getting even loster and loster as we go by.
So John Lewis, that's right, he is going to be honored in Decatur Square and I guess it is really thumb in your nose in the worst possible way at the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
But speaking of honors and speaking of actions of our BIPOC fellow citizens, Did not Kamala Harris, didn't she contribute some of her personal funds to a bail fund for some of the folks who were involved in the frolics over the summer?
And I believe you have an update on that.
I do, I do, about our Vice President Kamala.
You know, a Minneapolis man who was twice bailed out by a fund, once supported by, as I think you called her, Mama Harris?
Is that what you called her?
Oh, never.
Never.
This guy's been arrested again and is facing three new felony charges while under investigation for a possible gun crime.
Three new felony charges?
Thomas Mosley, he's 29.
He looks to be Asiatic, had previously been arrested and released for cases that involved damaging a police precinct in August, as well as rioting in December, according to the Hennepin County Attorney Office.
Due to the incident that transpired after the most recent release, Mosley is now under investigation for allegedly attempting to purchase semi-automatic weapons from a gun store.
This is Seattle, right?
Hennepin County?
Yeah, I beg your pardon.
He was trying to do a straw purchase.
Of course, that's when someone else buys a gun for you, or you buy a gun for someone else.
You're not the person who's actually going to lawfully purchase a gun, for all of you who've done the FBI background check.
So, never do that, ladies and gentlemen.
He was also allegedly in possession of marijuana, so he faces three counts of fifth-degree possession of a controlled substance while in the possession of a firearm.
He was apprehended October 15th during a protest outside the courthouse where the four former officers involved in the death of George Floyd were appearing.
Officers recognized him and knew he was suspected of damaging a police precinct on August 15th, and they arrested him.
He found a gun in his waistband.
So now this is a guy who has had multiple run-ins during this whole time where he's been bailed out.
He allegedly participated in a riot while harmed with a knife, according to a separate criminal complaint.
He managed to post the $5,000 bail for the property damage and earlier gun possession charges through the Minnesota Freedom Fund.
And that was the one that was contributed by, as you called her, Mama Kamala.
Yeah, she tweeted out a number of times that people should support this bail fund when she was the then-senator of the great state of California.
So, her fair-haired lad has come foul of the ball all over again.
Well, I wonder if she's still contributing to that fund.
I wonder if it's still bailing him out.
I don't know if it's still bailing people out, but others also posted bail for the December riot with the Miniat Minnesota Freedom Fund paying $60,000.
Again, this fund has also bailed out a father who was alleged to have molested his 15-year-old daughter, another man accused of sexually assaulting his 16-year-old niece, and a woman accused of stabbing her aunt with a knife.
Wait, they have benefited from this fund as well?
They have.
So, congratulations, Vice President Harris.
These are the type of winners that you're releasing onto the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Take from the law-abiding and give to the thugs.
Ah, pretty good.
Well, I have a story for you about Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders, did you know that he is a spectacular case of white privilege?
Because, during Joe Biden's inauguration, he was photographed many times in a parka and mittens.
Rather, eye-catching mittens.
I did see the photographs.
A high school teacher in San Francisco, and her name is Ingrid Sayer-Ochi.
I don't know what kind of name that is.
I looked her up, and she appears mostly white, but that name, O-C-H-I, has a kind of Japanese ring to it, so maybe she's half Japanese.
You can't always tell, but she wrote an op-ed piece for the San Francisco Chronicle.
And she addressed this topic with her students.
And she said they were upset by what they saw as the implicit message being delivered by Bernie Sanders' choice of clothing.
Do you know what message that was conveying?
I have an idea, but I'm going to let you go ahead.
I wouldn't have had any idea at all.
I said, what the heck?
I would have suggested the message was, it was cold.
That seems like a logical answer.
So she writes, what did I see?
What did I think my students should see?
A wealthy, incredibly well-educated and privileged white man showing up for perhaps the most important ritual of the decade in a puffy jacket and huge mittens.
So what's going on here?
And she goes on to write, I don't know how many poor or working class or female or struggling to be taken seriously folks would show up at the inauguration of our 46th president dressed like Bernie.
In other words, I mean, what was he supposed to be?
In a dinner jacket?
I just don't get it.
I think they would have rather seen the nearly octogenarian senator from Vermont wearing a Speedo to showcase that he's virile.
I have no idea.
I just don't get it.
It was cold.
He was wearing a down jacket.
Those mittens were eye-catching, and maybe they were considered undignified.
I just don't know.
Now, she has also gone on, as she says in this op-ed piece, in the San Francisco Chronicle.
She's had her students analyze images from the January 6th riot by supporters of President Donald Trump at the Capitol.
This, she told her students about the images from that day, is white supremacy.
Of course.
This is white privilege.
It can be hard to pinpoint, she says, but when we see it, we know it.
Now, yes, go ahead.
You know, there have been a lot of stories about analyzing and dissecting the flags and paraphernalia people had and what's astonishing about, well, it's not astonishing, nothing.
No, you must promise here and now, Mr. Kersey, promise never to be astonished again.
Yeah, the Betsy Rotz flag has been de-platformed and now we're seeing the Gadsden flag because everybody had the Gadsden flag.
You can go to Google, go to news.google.com and just type in Gadsden flag And you're going to find that at least 20 municipalities across the United States of America, the Gadsden flag flies in front of courtrooms or mayor's offices or government buildings in these cities.
But there are now debates being had that because somebody had the Gadsden flag at this event, or this dates back to the Tea Party stuff, now the Gadsden flag has to come down because symbols change over time.
Symbols change.
Hey, I think in the span of the time you just spoke, that sentence on numbers and symbols were canceled.
Point is, guys, ladies, the American flag, it's on its last legs, I'm sure, in a lot of places.
I mean, think about it.
What, San Francisco?
We've talked about this ad nauseum, but Washington and Lincoln?
We'll get there.
Oh, we have that as well?
We'll get there.
Oh, wow.
I didn't see your stories, so I didn't know.
We'll get there.
That's called a tease.
Yes, well.
Uh, that's right.
Well, a black woman changed shifting gears here, but not shifting gears too far.
It's all part of the same story.
On January 31st, she wrote an article for the Washington Post, and she titled it, Guns Are White Supremacy's Deadliest Weapon.
Guns are white supremacists.
Now, I don't think a single one of the people who broke into the Capitol had a weapon.
Not one.
We haven't heard about a single person who was armed.
There were rumors about some being armed.
Not one was armed.
Now, she says, as I quote from Washington Post, that Capitol insurrectionists were armed with enough live ammunition to shoot every member of the House and Senate five times each.
Now, perhaps they did recover live ammunition here and there, but none of it from within the Capitol.
This is just out-and-out foolishness, but it's foolishness that has appeared in the light of day on the pages of the Washington Post.
She goes on to say, if the Confederate flag is the primary symbol of white supremacist hate, The gun is its deadliest weapon.
White supremacists waving guns.
That's a terrible thing.
And she says, she says, the Confederate flag, we've got to take that down.
We have begun as a nation to slowly address the problem of Confederate battle flags.
Slowly, slowly, not nearly fast enough to please her.
But the truth is that taking down symbols of hate means very little unless we disarm the people who are inspired by them.
Let's ponder that sentence.
It doesn't do any good to take down the battle flag unless, or who, you know, other symbols, Betsy Ross flag, unless we disarm the people who inspired them.
So if it turns out, if it turns out somebody comes up casually and asks you, uh, well, Mr. Kersey, what do you think of the battle flag?
And you say something positive about the battle flag.
That could be the signal.
The goons will show up.
Time to take away your weapons, if you happen to have any.
I don't have any.
No, that's what I thought.
What firearm?
You wouldn't have anything like that.
I've got a...
Got a pen.
You got a pen.
I think you're allowed to, well, the pen is mightier, the pen is mightier than the cold python.
Well, I'll tell you what we've learned is that Joe Biden's pen is far mightier than Donald Trump's tweets.
Well, but let me finish off with, and I don't think I meant your name, Sharon Richer, R-I-S-H-E-R in the Washington Post.
She says, our very democracy was held at gunpoint.
Of course it was.
Again, not one gun in the Capitol, as far as I know.
Every gun in the Capitol was, if it was held at gunpoint, the people who were holding the guns were the Capitol Police.
Well, I think you could ask Ashley Babbitt how many guns were in the Capitol and who were the individuals brandishing them.
Who got shot.
Yes.
There you are.
Yes.
RIP Ashley.
Our very democracy was held at gunpoint, so anybody who has a fond, fond thought for the Confederate flag, or the Gadsden flag, or the Metro's flag, or And don't forget, an awful lot of those white supremacists were waving American flags!
They were waving American flags!
Isn't that a symbol of white supremacy too, Ms.
Risher?
In any case, Sharon Risher, just to let you know who she is, she heard the call to the ministry in 2002.
The call, Sharon, Sharon!
And now she preaches the gospel all over the South.
But, she knows best that guns are white supremacy's deadliest weapon.
So, disarm the enemy.
Now, while we're at it, just a little bit about the Virginia Gang Database.
Once again, the Washington Post.
The Washington Post is already functioning as the Ministry of Truth.
I don't think the Biden administration needs to appoint a reality czar because we've already got it right here in the D.C.
area.
But a Virginia gang task force has dropped the use of the database that catalogs thousands of alleged gang members in the Washington D.C.
area.
Law enforcement officials say that it can be an effective tool to track and investigate gangs, but guess what?
Police reform advocates worry that the demographics of the database are disturbing.
Now, gangnet is used by more than 120 law enforcement agencies in Maryland, Virginia, and D.C., and there are 7,800 names.
One of the things local jails and prisons use it for is to screen incoming inmates for gang affiliations so they don't stick them in the same cell where they slit each other's throats.
Sounds like Black Lives Matter to me.
It sounds like that incident that happened in Columbus, remember?
The white guy got put into this jail cell with a black supremacist and what happened?
I remember.
White guy was murdered.
Dead very quickly.
Detectives use it when they're investigating gang crimes, and some beat officers use it when on their parole.
But, and this is the gang database's great and deadly and unforgivable sin, 80% of the people logged onto it are black or Latino.
What number?
80.
80%?
80%, yes.
Whites, only 20%.
So, ipso facto, it's racial profiling and it's got to go.
By this reasoning, of course, they're going to have to stop enforcing laws against murder and aggravated assault.
And even forgery and fencing stolen goods.
All of them have a disparate impact on our African-American and Latinx fellow citizens.
But there you go.
No more gang database.
It's out and gone, done with.
Now, and also out and done and gone with is a preference for hiring U.S.
citizens.
Tell us about SpaceX, Mr. Kersey.
SpaceX, run by Elon Musk.
One of the richest, I think he might be the richest man on the planet based on Tesla's market evaluation of about $838 a share right now, while the United States Department of Justice under Joe Biden wasted no time and opened up a probe on his rocket company SpaceX over whether the company discriminates against non-US citizens in its hiring.
The DOJ's Immigrant and Employee Rights Division received a complaint of employment discrimination from a non-U.S.
citizen who alleged that SpaceX discriminated against him based on his citizenship status.
Quote, Specifically, the charge alleges that on or about March 10, 2020, during the charging party's interview for the position of Technology Strategy Associate, SpaceX made inquiries about his citizenship status and ultimately failed to hire him for the position because he is not a U.S.
citizen or lawful permanent resident.
End quote.
That was from an attorney with the DOJ.
Not being a lawful permanent resident, I would think that's adequate grounds to not hire someone.
But maybe not.
Not in Biden's America.
Biden-Harris America.
All these ideas where you actually have to vet people for national security clearances.
SpaceX works with NASA.
They have contracts with the Air Force.
I'm sure they have contracts with... Well, but the question is, did this job require a security clearance?
That is not stated in the article in the press release.
The point is this.
We live in a world where The richest man on the planet is an African-American.
Elon Musk was born in South Africa.
Yes.
Okay.
I think we need to point out the fact that here's an African-American trying to get us to space because NASA decided that it would be far cheaper to just piggyback off of the Russian Federation Space Program.
The Tesla chairman said, you know what, we're going to start SpaceX.
He's taking a lot of risks.
Of course, you've seen some unbelievable Successes from SpaceX over the past two years.
They're very inspiring.
However, when you see Mission Control, when you see all the people who are behind SpaceX, curiously, Mr. Taylor, it looks a lot like...
Houston's Mutual Center back in 1969.
There aren't any hidden figures.
There aren't, there aren't... Oh, they're hidden.
They're hidden.
All the African American geniuses... I guess we'll find out 50 years from now.
I guess we'll find out 50 years after the fact that there were a couple of black women
who double-checked the math, because my God, NASA believes in something called redundancy
and these mathematicians actually had some... they were intelligent, but they didn't propel
us the Apollo program to the moon.
And now we have a guy in Elon Musk who is trying to inspire people again.
We've been living under the nightmare of Martin Luther King's dream exclusively since he gave
that speech.
And you know what?
I'd rather live under the dream of Walt Disney and Wernher von Braun, who in the 1950s popularized
the idea of space exploration.
Mr. Taylor, you might have even seen some of those, some of the specials on ABC.
Oh, I'm too young for that.
But, well, yes, and now he's being punished or investigated and potentially punished for preferring to hire Americans.
That can't be done in the United States of America under Biden.
But I thought Biden was going to put America first.
Hasn't he said that several times?
But not Americans first.
Well, yeah, new Americans first.
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
Potential Americans first.
Right.
OK, well, and back to San Francisco here.
And we've talked about this before, but there were a number of San Francisco public school names that were potentially on the chopping block because the schools were named for someone who engaged in the subjugation and enslavement of human beings, Human beings, or who oppressed women, who inhibited societal progress, or whose actions led to genocide, or who otherwise significantly diminished the opportunities of those amongst us to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
That's the reasoning by which the name change was going to take place.
Now, as I recall, there were about 45 schools out of 140.
145 out of 140 were guilty of some of the things I've just described.
Subjugation, enslavement, genocide, yikes, yikes, yikes.
Well, the readers, they were all listed, and readers had an opportunity to pick the ones that they did not want to see changed.
And the top selection, and at the time there had been 4,500 votes when I took a look, the top selection of 1,000 was, don't change any of them.
And then the number two score of Change This One was Dianne Feinstein Elementary School.
Now, you wonder, why is Dianne Feinstein even got her name on elementary school to begin with?
And then what is it that she did?
Was she guilty of genocide or subjugation or enslavement or limiting opportunities?
What did she do?
Well, it turns out that, according to press reports, there had been a Confederate flag flying in front of the San Francisco City Hall since 1964.
A Confederate battle flag.
As part of an 18-flag display, it tended to symbolize various stages in American history.
Well, 20 years later, in 1984, while she was mayor, a fellow named Richard Bradley H-34 climbed into what he thought was a Union uniform, climbed the flagpole, and cut the flag down and burned it.
Well, he was arrested and charged with malicious mischief.
Ooh, crime.
No, and what's even worse?
Presumably, under Dianne Feinstein's order, the flag was replaced the next morning.
I'm quite impressed that they had a spare battle flag just whip out of a drawer and then run out the pole.
Now, let me finish.
But, after that happened, Bradley once again climbed the pole, cut it down, burned it, and was arrested on the same charge.
At that point, Dianne Feinstein gave up and said, alright, bye-bye Confederate flag.
So once again, violence works, ladies and gentlemen!
You know, I'm in a bit of cognitive dissonance right now, but I swear I watched Dirty Harry one time.
It might have been one of the sequels.
And I swear there's a scene where he walks by and you actually see that flag.
So if any of our intrepid listeners are out there and you want to watch the Magnum Force, Dirty Harry, any of the Deadpool movies, they were all made before, I believe, 1984.
And there's a lot of scenes set all around that building.
So if you can find that, that would be amazing.
This just came back to me.
I was thinking about that movie Dirty Harry, and I believe so.
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Or, as Mr. Taylor He doesn't want to hear it, or myself.
Any corrections you might have?
We'd love to hear from you.
I do want to hear them.
I especially want to hear about corrections.
If we jump the tracks, we want to be set right.
But yes, for 20 years, from 1964 to 1984, the battle flag proudly flew in front of the City Hall of San Francisco.
Hard to believe, but true.
But the fact that she put it up once, That's enough for her name to be stripped from an elementary school.
I feel one step further.
The fact that she didn't take it down when she was the mayor, that was her mortal sin.
Not that she put it back up, but the fact that she didn't say... She probably didn't recognize it.
She didn't know what it was.
That's probably true.
But anyway, on this whole question of renaming schools, it is a little bit surprising.
Some of them are not named for people at all.
And yet, as I mentioned, the criteria are the names of those who blah blah blah blah blah.
Well, Presidio.
There's an elementary school called Presidio.
Well, that was an Army base.
It's not there anymore.
And Mission High School.
That's not a person.
Eldorado.
Eldorado.
Now, I read elsewhere that the reason El Dorado has to go is because apparently white men were swarming around looking for gold, and that's never a good thing for the good and virtuous native peoples.
But nobody looked for El Dorado in California or in anywhere in North America for that matter.
But that has to go.
And then, of course, the Alamo.
Now, the Alamo is a place where white people killed non-whites, even though they were all massacred at the end.
Killed the last man.
I guess massacre is not quite the right word.
Well, the Alamo is something that they should celebrate.
It was a victory.
San Jacinto is what we should be celebrating.
Yep, yep, yep.
But the Alamo, that's right.
It was a victory.
It was a Hispanic victory.
Now, some of the other names, I just can't get to the bottom of it all.
There is a Sanchez Elementary School and a Noriega Elementary School.
And I looked on the sites for those schools and there's no indication of who Sanchez or Noriega ever were.
Well, that's probably the smartest thing to do moving forward.
That way you can just, you can adapt the school name to whatever surname is invoked.
But Sanchez is out, Noriega is out.
I'm sure it's not the Panamanian dictator who we deposed.
That's the only Noriega I know of, but I don't think anybody named elementary school after him.
But, in any case, then there's another one.
This lady I did track down.
There are two campuses named for Claire Lilienthal.
Now, she's got to go.
Okay.
Well, as far as I can tell, her only crime was just this terrible melanin deprivation from which all of us suffer.
According to the site, the school site says she was born in San Francisco as a child, attended an elementary school that occupied the current campuses of Claire Lilienthal.
And Claire Leanthal was appointed to the school board in 1957 and served until 1979, nearly 20 years.
She was school board president twice, and while on the board, she drafted a school plan that fostered parent participation, improved instructional programs, and promoted racial integration.
But she's got to go.
Why?
I don't know.
But there you go.
They are really on a tear, changing school names.
Now, likewise in San Francisco, We have an acronym problem.
We do have an acronym problem.
Yes.
And we'll make this quick just because we are running out of time.
We got a couple stories we want to get to.
Again, this is one of those stories that it wouldn't make sense unless we were within this woke wars hysteria.
It still doesn't make sense.
Exactly.
San Francisco schools renamed the arts department because acronyms are a symptom of, just like Bernie Sanders Mittens, white supremacy.
Huh.
Breathtaking.
The quote is, the sub deck is, we are prioritizing anti-racist arts instruction in our work, end quote.
The San Francisco United School District isn't quite finished with its renaming binge, as you aforementioned.
Schools being stripped of their unsavory names, the district's arts department, previously titled VAPA, Visual and Performing Arts, will now be known as the SFUSD Arts Department.
Why is that?
As ABC7 News of San Francisco reports, it's in accordance with, quote, anti-racist arts instruction, end quote.
Sam Bass, the director of the now newly named SFUSD Arts Department, said this, quote, it is a very simple step we can take to just be referred to as the SFUSD Arts Department for families to better understand who we are.
Now, the memo, people are trying to actually figure out what in the world they're talking about in terms of why this, why VAPA had to go.
Basically, ABC7 News reported the decision was made because the department realized acronyms are a symptom of, quote, white supremacy culture.
Now, what does this stem from?
This stems from a 1999 paper by Tema Okun that the memo reportedly cites.
The paper does not specifically say that acronyms are racist, though it does label, quote, worship of the written word, end quote, as an aspect of white supremacy.
Other characteristics of white supremacy are, quote, perfectionism, a sense of urgency, individualism, and objectivity, end quote.
If that list might sound familiar, it's because the National Museum of African American Arts and Culture, they got into trouble last year for promoting The exact same idea.
But not much trouble.
They had to take the thing down that they had put up, but again, I think it probably confused a lot of people who thought that it actually was all about judging people by the color of their skin.
Or, not judging people by the color of their skin, but judging people by the content of their character.
I have a question.
I don't believe you have explained to our listeners who have inquiring minds just what SFUSD stands for.
It's going to be the SFUSD United School District.
Right.
Now isn't that an abbreviation or an acronym too?
It would be an acronym.
I don't know if that logic, reason, or rationale is something that Sam Bass has... But that's okay.
It's the SFUSD Arts Department.
But VAPA was no good.
You know, not to be too pedantic about it, but an acronym is one in which the abbreviations are Pronounced.
Exactly.
That's, VAPA is an acronym.
S-F-U-S-D is an abbreviation.
Sophisticated.
There you go.
You speak partial tongue now.
Hey, easy Hufflepuff.
Okay, but you know I am a little bit surprised that it's called S-F-U-S-D.
I'm surprised that any school district gets by with F-U in it.
I wonder how many students go running around saying S-F-U-S-D.
But there you go.
Virtue marches on through the streets of San Francisco and through the halls of academia.
Moving on to Britain.
You know, Britain's got some of the same problems we do.
Oh, they're far more pronounced.
Well, it sounds pretty, pretty bad because a recent survey found that 72% of black people were unlikely to have the COVID jab, as they call it in Britain.
A vaccination is a jab.
I like that.
I like that a lot more than vaccination.
A jab, yes.
And now 42% of Asians say they won't do it, but only 16% of British or Irish say they won't.
So that's quite a difference.
16% of the whites are vaccination hesitant, but 72% of the blacks are.
Why could this be?
Professor Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners said, we're concerned.
Recent reports show that people within the BAME communities, that's Black and, let's see, Middle Eastern.
Black, African, and Middle Eastern ethnicities.
Yeah, that's a good acronym.
BAME.
Yes, BAME communities are not only more likely to be adversely affected by the virus, but also less likely to accept the COVID vaccine.
It's a crisis.
It's a crisis.
So the Government Scientific Advisory Committee said historical issues of unethical health care research and systemic racism Explain all this.
Now, you know, blacks haven't been in Britain all that long in large numbers.
It's really the empire windrush.
When did that come?
1949, I think it was.
But I guess, just like the United States, they've had plenty of time to have a miserable history of unethical health care research and systemic racism.
So that accounts for it.
Trust is also undermined by institutional racism, not just systemic racism.
So the GPs are now calling on Number 10 Downing Street, that is the Prime Minister, to begin a public health campaign that encourages black people, in particular, to receive the jab.
We are calling for public health communication to be tailored to patients in BAME communities to reassure them, say the general practitioners.
So, you know, it really is a terrible thing.
They apparently are dying at higher rates, but they're unwilling to get the vaccine, and so the country has just got to go all out to persuade them that everything is going to be okay after all.
And you know, we have similar problems or curious problems in Brazil.
This reminds me of some of the things that happened in the United States.
I believe you'll find this story particularly stimulating, Mr. Kersey.
But...
There was a major victory for Brazil's black consciousness movement when the top electoral court ruled in September of last year that each political party had to split the campaign resources it gets from the government, there's government financing of campaigns, proportionately between white and non-white candidates.
So, if you get X amount of dollars from the government for your campaign, then, if the population is X amount black, then they get that much campaign money for blacks.
Well, as it turns out, when 29,000 Afro-Brazilian city council and mayoral candidates took office on January 1st after winning the races last November, communities of color celebrated.
29,000 blacks.
However, unbeknownst, it's only come out now, more than 42,000 veteran politicians who ran for office in 2020 changed race since 2016. 42,000.
Because you get money for being black.
And of the 28,764 winners who identified as Afro-Brazilian, as it turns out, 4,500 had been white in the previous elections.
So they've got this terrible problem.
White privilege, right?
Boy, white privilege.
And black voters, according to journalist reports, Our left questioning whether the lawmakers actually understand the experiences of blacks and will represent their needs.
So, there you go.
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