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April 7, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
Due to certain irregularities, we missed our podcast of one week ago, and due to similar irregularities, I will be speaking to you by myself on this occasion without the presence of my usual co-host.
Today is April 7, 2021, but in about a week, we both expect to be back in harness, and so we can expect our usual lineup for this conversation between ourselves and our listeners all around the world.
Thank you very much for your attention, and let me encourage you to get in touch with us in terms of any questions or comments you may have.
The best place to reach us is amren.com, A-M-R-E-N dot com, at the contact us number.
And what we most like is corrections to any errors we may have made.
We don't like to make mistakes and have them go out over the air.
If there are stories you wish to bring to our attention or any questions you'd like us to answer or try to answer, please don't hesitate.
Now, we had an earlier question some episodes ago from someone who was seeking advice on podcasts that are not unbearably excruciatingly leftist.
And on one of our podcasts, we did talk about some selections other listeners had proposed, and another one has come in.
It's called Dixie Rebel Yell.
It is a Southern Nationalist podcast, but it includes interesting episodes about U.S.
history, although with a concentration on Southern history.
I found that its website also is very well informed.
That's Dixie Rebel Yell.
Well, the first item for this podcast I want to talk about is something that is startling.
Namely, the Washington Post finally noticed something that it should have noticed long ago.
It points out that nearly 1,000 people a day are sneaking into the United States without being identified or without being taken into custody because U.S.
border agents are so busy attending to migrant families and unaccompanied children This distracts them from their ordinary job of stopping male adults.
So, we have a probably record number of what are called gotaways recorded in the last weeks.
Certainly, it's the highest in recent memory.
Now, what is a gotaway?
That's someone who the Border Patrol is aware of, who was not turned back to Mexico or caught, and who is no longer being actively pursued by the Border Control because he got away.
Counting gotaways is of course not an exact science, but Customs and Border Patrol Has spent more than a billion dollars over the past two decades on surveillance technology, cameras, drones, that sort of thing, which means that our agents have a very good idea of what's going on at the border, whether or not they actually have humans there to see what is happening.
This gives us a really good ability to detect illegal crossings in real time.
The interesting thing, of course, is that families and unaccompanied minors, they don't try to escape.
They just turn up and they say, here we are.
They say, we seek humanitarian refuge in the United States.
And so the Border Patrol, it's busy handling all of these people who, of course, under Joe Biden, cannot be turned back, unlike the situation under President The president who's no longer with us, and so they're busy doing this, so the others who are are getting through.
Now the Department of Homeland Security officials say that they expect illegal border crossings as a result to leap to a 20-year high in 2021.
The number of migrants taken into custody by agents in March was over 171,000,
the highest one-month total since last March 2006, and it included more than 18,800
teenagers and children who showed up without their parents.
This is an all-time record.
Now, one of the tricks that the coyotes, the smugglers, are up to is they send small groups of maybe two, three, four, and then 20 or so groups will show up at the border at various different places that are more or less unobserved and they hope that nobody will go after them.
They disperse them all along the border so that the agents can't round them all up at once.
And they see them on the cameras, they see them on the drones, but as one of the agents said, they just keep walking until they're out of sight.
Those are the gotaways.
Another thing these clever coyotes do is they'll gather together 100 or more family members or unaccompanied children and they will dump them at the border all at once.
So the Mexican criminal organizations will arrange this and so this means you've got a whole host of agents who are taken off their normal job of catching the illegal crossers and they have to tend to these families and these children and make sure they get all the tender
loving care that human rights advocates insist that they get. Then while the border patrol is
occupied with this humanitarian function the smugglers send large send all of their people carrying
drugs and smuggling illegal adults they send them across the border at other places. All very
clever.
And as I suggested earlier, this has been a big change due exclusively, I would say, to the presence of Joe Biden in the White House.
Donald Trump was just sending everybody back at the border.
And that was so there was no reason to come.
But now that Joe Biden is saying, well, you know, as harsh as he has been is to say, just don't come now.
We're trying to get our act together.
But of course they come now.
Then they are taken care of and then they released into the interior with an engraved invitation to perhaps someday show up for a hearing, which they are exceedingly unlikely to do.
But it was surprising to me that the Washington Post even took notice of these extraordinary doings at the border.
Now, this strikes me as an interesting change with what U.S.
citizens are being told by their government.
We should not be considering anything but super essential travel abroad because all travelers should know that air passengers over the age of two arriving in the United States have to prove a negative COVID test or proof of recovery from COVID before they get on the plane to come to the United States.
This applies to both the foreign nationals and the U.S.
citizens coming home.
Many people infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 are asymptomatic and don't even know they have it.
But if you test positive, you can't come home when you have planned.
And the American website says, what plan do you have in case you cannot come home for several weeks?
Where will you stay?
How will you finance your treatment?
This is a message to American citizens.
Now, if you're an illegal immigrant, you don't have to worry about any of this, do you?
You just sashay across the border, say the magic words, asylum, and then you get a bus ticket to wherever you want to go in the United States.
But, this will all be solved soon.
You may recall that Joe Biden appointed Vice President Kamala Harris to serve as the point woman on immigration at the southern border.
The fact is, she doesn't know her elbow from a loaf of bread when it comes to immigration, so Mr. Biden has quietly appointed someone else to help her.
This is someone else by the name of Roberta Jackson, who has been appointed as Border Tsar, or perhaps we should call her Border Tsarina.
She's supposed to solve all of these problems, persuade those people not to come, I suppose.
Now, she was President Barack Obama's appointed ambassador to Mexico, and she managed to stay on even after President Trump took office for almost a year.
Now, what attitude do you think Roberta Jackson is going to have for those people who are showing up and claiming amnesty?
Well, we have an important hint.
Last year, Roberta Jacobson, Jacobson, did I say something else?
Roberta Jacobson, she was asked to join the board of trustees of the Migration Policy Institute.
This is a position that she was set to take up in January, but now this ascension to that important position is delayed until she leaves government service after the Tsarina has solved the border problem.
Well, if you look up the Migration Policy Institute's website, you will discover very soon there's probably not a migrant they don't approve of.
Probably not a single migrant in the whole world that they don't think should just come waltzing into the United States whenever they feel like it.
So, this is the sort of person that is in charge of making sure that our borders are secure.
Now, continuing with the Washington Post, on whom I am picking today, there was an opinion piece by somebody by the name of Amani Al-Khatatbeh.
Amani Al-Khatatbeh.
about the Uber Eats delivery guy whose car was hijacked by two black girls ages 13 and 15.
They roared off in the car with him hanging out onto a door, wrecked the car, and he was killed.
Well, this is what Amani Al-Khattab says about this incident.
Mohammed Anwar, that's the Pakistani who died.
Mohammed Anwar's death didn't have to be about his race or ethnicity for it to resonate among immigrant communities nationwide.
Well, I don't think it had anything to do with his race at all as far as these young black girls are concerned.
He was a white guy as far as they didn't care who he was.
They just wanted a quick buck.
And Amani Al-Khattab goes on to say, being an immigrant worker is often harrowing in a society that deems brown and black bodies as disposable.
Oddly enough, this article fails to mention that it was a brown or black body, specifically black bodies, who turned Mohammed Anwar into a dead man.
This article goes on to say, where's the regard for the value of this hard-working man's life as his body lay tossed face down on the sidewalk?
Well, who tossed him face down?
That we don't hear.
And then, this is the most astonishing, well, one of the many astonishing things about this.
The article goes on to say, a similar disregard for our lives, that's black and brown bodies, was seen in a viral video last week of a man stomping on a 65-year-old Asian woman in New York while yelling that she doesn't belong here.
Once again, not included in this article is the fact that the yeller and the stomper upon the 65-year-old Asian woman in New York was once again a black body.
None of this seems to matter.
The implication of this article is that it is wicked vicious white people doing this.
And this goes on to say, immigrants and other people of color need to be seen as more than just colleagues in our economy.
Society needs to value the humans beneath the caricatures of race.
What incredible rubbish.
Here is this Amani al-Khattabi complaining that, implying that white people don't treat them as humans, whereas every one of the examples that she talks about, an immigrant who has been pounded, killed, whatever, has been the victim of a black person.
Astonishing.
But that's the Boston Post for you.
Day in, day out.
And this is the sort of thing that some foreigners are beginning to notice, even if not many Americans do.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said last week that anti-white racism might be building in the United States and said that political correctness taken to the extreme would have lamentable consequences.
Sergey Lavrov stressed that it was important, quote, not to switch to the other extreme, which we saw during the BLM events and the aggression against white people, white US citizens.
Fancy someone noticing.
I guess you have to be a Russian, a foreigner to notice this.
Lavrov accused the United States of trying to spread what he called a cultural revolution around the world.
He's right about that.
He's absolutely right about that.
A cultural revolution just as fantastically wrong as Mao Zedong's cultural revolution.
Lavrov goes on to say, I've seen black people play in Shakespeare's comedies.
When will there be, however, a white Othello?
Good question.
And he goes on to say, political correctness taken to the point of absurdity, which it certainly is, will not end well.
It's not just the Russians who are noticing political correctness taking the point of absurdity.
French President Emmanuel Macron, not generally a friend of our point of view, condemned what he called the anti-white doctrine of critical race theory.
He says it's being imported into France from American universities and he says it's poisoning race relations.
Well, it's being imported not just from American universities, but from American media, American pulpits, American politicians.
Mr. Macron has also taken aim at the media for promoting ideologies that focus on group identity politics.
And of course, thanks to our new president, critical race theory is back in vogue and being taught to all of our public servants to make sure that they stay woke, woke, woke, woke, woke, and never sleep.
It's the government, not the city, that never sleeps.
And Emmanuel Macron said the increasing prevalence of American woke culture in France was a threat to national unity.
He's a saying that the heart of the problem is that France is racist and Islamophobic is wrong.
Of course it's wrong.
Obviously it's wrong.
But it takes a foreigner to say that it's wrong.
French education minister Jean-Michel Blanquet shared similar sentiments and I quote There is a fight to be waged against an intellectual matrix coming from American universities and intersectional theses which want to essentialize communities and identities.
Well, that is a mouthful and pretty roundabout way of making a point, but he's generally right.
And French historian Pierre-André Taghiev is more to the point.
He said that the objective of these ideologies, that they're being driven by a hatred of the West as a white civilization.
That's really putting it on the line.
Why don't we have American intellectuals getting publicity for saying the same thing?
He goes on to say, straight white male.
That's the culprit to condemn and the enemy to eliminate.
So there you go.
Strong talk, strong talk from our friends, the French.
And here is a perfect example of what they're talking about.
Paris has a deputy mayor, Audrey Poulvard, 49 years old.
She said recently that white people should be asked to keep quiet and be silent spectators during discussions around racism.
Well, there you go.
Sit down and shut up if you're white.
If the conversation is racism, let the non-whites talk and you folks button your evil white lips.
Even former socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Polvar's comments betrayed French values.
And this debate has unearthed divisions within French politics.
A particularly interesting one.
The division between traditional socialists, on the one hand, and greens and radicals, on the other.
The greens have completely jumped on board this American identity politics stuff.
Whereas the socialists, they are more working class oriented.
They're not buying this business about the straight white man as being the perpetual, perpetual evildoer in all of history, in every society.
And in February, social scientists Stéphane Bou and Gérard Noirel published a book in which they claimed that race is a, quote, bulldozer that destroys other subjects.
Yes, indeed.
It's a bulldozer that destroys other subjects.
Now they of course seem to think that a multiracial society is possible if you keep trying to tell people from all around the world that the point is to be French and not African or Muslim or Tunisian or whatever it is.
It will all work out.
They haven't figured out that that's not going to work either.
But at the very least they are rising up against this critical race theory that says that the problem is strictly and exclusively white people.
Now, back to this Deputy Mayor, Audrey Poulvard.
She was born in Martinique, rather dark-skinned, cannot claim to be white, does not want to be white.
She was appointed by the Mayor of Paris, Annie Hidalgo, to be in charge of, believe it or not, sustainable agriculture and nutrition.
And local food distribution.
There are plenty of people who think she knows nothing about this.
But she claims to be a quick study.
She's going to get to the bottom of this and solve all the problems having to do with these rather obscure things that I'm a little bit surprised that a deputy mayor of Paris is supposed to be concerned about.
But this is exactly the kind of rubbish.
This sit-on white people, shut-up white people.
We've got the answers.
You just sit there and listen.
This attitude that more and more French, and as it turns out, Russians are noticing and deciding is no good.
Now, there are other voices joining this, believe it or not.
In Britain, for example, after the Black Lives Matter anti-racism protests that swept across Britain last summer, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Bojo himself, set up a commission to look into British racism.
Well, this commission has just come out with its report and found that Britain is, quote, no longer a system rigged against people from ethnic minorities.
I'd like to know just when it was a system that was rigged against minorities, but we should be grateful for this no longer.
We should be thankful what we can get on a subject like this.
Now the commission, it's called the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, it said, Family structure.
Social class.
They have a bigger impact than race on how people's lives turn out.
This report also noted that children from ethnic minority communities did as well or better than white pupils in compulsory education, with black Caribbean pupils are the only group that don't perform as well.
The pay gap between all ethnic minorities and the white majority has shrunk to 2.3% overall and has essentially disappeared for employees under 30.
And my guess is race does not explain those differences.
I suspect it has to do with difference in qualifications.
Being that as it may, remarkable to base opinions on facts.
It's startling.
Now, the report goes on to say Britain's success in removing race-based disparity in education and, to a lesser extent, in the economy, quote, should be regarded as a model for other white-majority countries.
The report also says there's an increasingly strident form of anti-racism thinking that seeks to explain all minority disadvantage through the prism of white discrimination.
It says this diverts attention from, quote, the other reasons for minority success or failure.
What an idea!
There might be reasons other than white wickedness.
White people might not be superhuman, 10 feet tall, forcing blacks and other people of color to fail just by thinking impure thoughts.
The report said that there's some anecdotal evidence of racism, but there is no proof of institutional racism in Britain.
Fancy that!
No proof of institutional racism.
This is a 258-page report.
It recommends extended school days, and it says stop funding bias training on unconscious bias.
Get rid of this critical race theory, which it says is harmful.
Extraordinary.
Now, of course, you can imagine the outrage.
Oh, how dare a government report said there is no institutional racism in Great Britain?
Professor Kehinde Andrews.
I'm sure he's quite heavily melanin-enhanced.
He's a professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University.
He said, and I quote, it's complete nonsense, speaking of the report.
It goes in the face of all the actual existing evidence.
This is not a genuine effort to understand racism in Britain.
This is a PR move to pretend the problem doesn't exist.
And Dr. Halima Begum, Chief Executive of the very prestigious, very liberal Runnymede Trust, which is a race equality think tank, she said she felt deeply, massively let down by the report.
So, who was the benighted white supremacist who wrote this rubbish and who so cruelly let down Dr. Halima Begum of the Remy Trust?
Well, his name is Tony Sewell, born in Brixton in 1959, and his parents arrived in London in the 1950s from Jamaica.
Yes, he's Jamaican.
He is unquestionably African.
It was in July 2020 that Bojo appointed him to chair the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities and he has finally turned in his report.
He has a PhD.
He's held a number of impressive NGO and government positions.
But you can't accuse him.
Well, somebody will accuse him of white supremacy.
I suppose they'll accuse him of having absorbed the step-and-fetch-it mentality of white supremacist Great Britain.
But, again, this is really quite remarkable that an official commission appointed by the head of government of the United States says, ah, head of government of Great Britain, says no.
No institutional racism.
Maybe a few anecdotal tales of this and that here and there, but no.
It is mostly social class and family structure that holds it.
Imagine that!
Imagine that!
On the other hand, in the United States, well, we still have institutional racism here, but not of the kind we usually hear about.
A white chemistry professor at Camden County College He says his less qualified black colleagues are being paid more than he.
And he's filed a racial discrimination lawsuit in federal court.
His name is William Lovell.
He's been a professor for more than 25 years.
Aged 66, was hired by the college in 1995.
He's been there quite some time.
And he has served as a professor, a department chairman.
And in 2016, he was named interim dean of the entire division of math, science, and health careers.
Now, as it turns out, two black engineering professors, Lawrence Chatman and Melvin Roberts, they hold the same position of professor.
Their qualifications are not dissimilar.
The white man holds three professional degrees in his area of certification and his salary, $92,000.
One black man holds only one degree.
He gets $137,000.
The other, he has two degrees.
Remember, the white man holds three.
And this guy who holds two gets $143,600.
Quite a difference!
Remember, white man, $92,000.
Black man, $137,000.
Another black man, $143,600.
Well, the white man, Fresh Lavelle, discovered the pay discrepancy only after requesting the college's salary records under the state's Open Public Resources Act.
What he doesn't realize is that diversity is valuable.
You have to pay for it.
Having black people on campus is an inestimable benefit.
He should understand that this is so important, so valuable, that it makes perfect sense to pay black professors more than he gets.
In fact, at one point, Cornell black faculty were demanding that they be compensated for the fact that their mere presence on campus has an educational effect.
Just walking around on campus, if you are black, is a very valuable asset.
And they, quite reasonably and quite understandably, demanded they be paid for being black.
Because the fact that they were there is so, so valuable.
Well, moving to Great Britain, back to Great Britain, I suppose, Genevieve Roth has been appointed the new advisor and strategist to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
For those of you who aren't in the know, that's Mr. and Mrs. Meghan Markle.
Now, that's how I call them advisedly, because the Duke, he has more or he has been more or less, he's lost his royal status.
And as far as I can tell, he's basically just a house husband of a one-time two-bit actress, Meghan Markle.
So, Mrs. and Mr. Markle, they now have a new advisor and strategist, Genevieve Roth.
Well, What is interesting about this?
She says she realized she was racist after she married a black man.
Fancy that!
She says race is an issue in our marriage because as a white woman of privilege, I have racist tendencies written in at the cellular level.
Wow, well if at their cellular level, I'm not sure how we're going to get rid of our racist tendencies, we white privileged people.
As a white American woman, I have too often made the mistake of considering racial injustice as something happening to black people that I needed to empathize with and fight for instead of understanding it as something that I myself was creating and responsible for.
I am rife with internalized racism and unconscious bias, says she, who will be a strategist and new advisor to Mr. and Mrs. Meghan Markle.
Now, Mr. Markle, otherwise known as Prince Harry, once told GQ Magazine last year, unconscious bias Having the upbringing and the education that I had, I had no idea what it was.
I had no idea it existed.
Sad to say, it took me many, many years to realize unconscious bias existed.
Especially, I learned from living a day or a week in my wife's shoes.
Well, I wonder how well Prince Harry fits into his wife's shoes.
Hers may well be bigger than his.
He said it will take every single one of us to instigate change.
Boy, oh boy.
He's off to a great start.
Well, I guess he's two or three steps removed from the crown.
Oh boy.
Well now, tell us a bit about Genevieve Roth.
She is a former magazine journalist who worked on Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
She is founder of something called Invisible Hand, a social impact and cultural change agency based in New York.
What does it do?
It, according to its website, harnesses the power of creativity and storytelling to propel the world forward.
Well, buckle up, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen.
The world is about to be propelled forward by Genevieve Roth and her colleagues.
I noticed that the staff is all female, so that's going to propel it even more vertiginously forward.
It's a multiracial staff all grinning happily into the camera.
I was a little surprised to find that there are no resumes of any of these people on the website, which seems a little suspicious to me.
But I guess if you're talking about the power of creativity and storytelling, right, your resume probably doesn't matter.
It doesn't make any difference where you went to school, what your degrees are, what you understand, what you know how to do.
No!
Creativity and storytelling comes in all Back to the United States.
Some of you I'm sure have been following the infrastructure bill that Joe Biden says will go down without a gurgle here in the United States.
It'll be good for whatever ails us.
It is now estimated to be a total of about two trillion dollars.
And of this $2 trillion of what's supposed to be infrastructure, the far and away the biggest line item is for $400 million to go into, hold on, drum roll, pre please, it will expand caregiving for those who are older and those with disabilities.
Now, you thought that infrastructure had to do with roads, maybe airports, maybe bridges, maybe railroads, but you were wrong.
The number one item is to expand caregiving for those who are older and those with disabilities.
The next item, $213 billion, that'll go for affordable housing.
This affordable housing wheeze, it's one of the stupidest public policies around.
You're supposed to, is that supposed to be a great incentive for people to go out and work and get a job and give them free housing?
Welfare, free housing, boy oh boy, I wish I'd had that.
But anyway, this is once again a modern and progressive view of infrastructure.
The third largest item is $174 billion for electric vehicle incentives.
Well, maybe that's something that is Have something to do with infrastructure.
Then there's $100 billion for public schools.
Public schools?
I guess that's some sort of intellectual infrastructure, I suppose.
And then $100 billion for high-speed broadband.
Now, that too could conceivably be infrastructure, but up to now, we've somehow managed to get high-speed broadband all around the country without any kind of federal intervention.
And finally, Finally, $100 billion for the electric grid and clean energy.
That's about number six down on the list here.
Well, we haven't had federal subsidies for that since rural electrification, I think, but voters support this expanded notion of infrastructure.
Along with measures like increasing housing options for low-income families?
That got the support of 70% of registered voters?
This is infrastructure in their mind?
Including 87% of Democrats and 53% of Republicans?
Well, yes.
Infrastructure means increasing housing options for low-income families.
Well, you will reap what you will sow.
If we're spending our money on low-income housing, and we consider that infrastructure, while our bridges and our roads continue to crumble, and we think we're going to be competing with China, well, there may be a harsh and unpleasant awakening as we go further and further and further into debt, spending money on things that will not give us a return, spending money to reward people who are not working, and in many cases have no plans to work.
But my favorite, my favorite, 40 billion.
That's a lot of money.
It's dedicated to improving research infrastructure and laboratories, and half of that would be set aside specifically for HBCUs, historically black colleges and universities, and other minority-serving institutions.
So, 20 billion dollars.
20 billion dollars.
Yes, 20 billion.
That will be set aside for black colleges and that means all those undiscovered black pastors and Newtons and Edisons and Marie Curies will be found and nourished and they will drag us into the 22nd century and we will be the economic and technological superpower that we could have been and should have been.
Then leaping over to Portland.
Local television news in Portland says, night after night, Portland streets see more violence and police say they're overwhelmed.
In the first three months of this year, there have been 25 homicides in Portland.
Last year, there had been only two.
Yes, only two.
That is twelve and a half times more, at a rate of twelve and a half times greater.
Portland Police Chief Lieutenant Greg Pashley said, it was very rare for us to have two homicides in a week, much less two in a night, which is the sort of thing they've been having lately, two in a night.
Now, shooting incidents, and for those who Aren't entirely sure how a shooting differs from homicide.
A shooting incident is a case in which someone shoots a bullet and it hits a person, but it does not result in a death.
So you could call this a gun wounding, I suppose.
Shooting incidents over the past year.
They are double so far this year compared to 2020, which was already a record.
In any case, this rise in homicides and rise in shootings makes it tough for officers to respond to the usual sorts of calls for service in the community that they ordinarily would be occupied with doing.
Yes, they run around all over town trying to scrape these people up off the pavement, dead or alive.
Well, enter Roy Moore.
Roy Moore, one of our African American fellow citizens, threw an organization called Healing Hurt People Mr. Moore has dedicated his life to intervening and preventing gun violence, specifically in his community, the black community.
Now that's where the white supremacists are pinning up all the gunfire.
You see, it's a modern version of redlining.
White people just draw a line around the black community and they say, all the bullets stay inside here.
It's just one way that white people manipulate black people into making life miserable for themselves.
Well, if Roy Moore's job is to intervene and prevent gun violence in his community, the black community is not doing a very good job, is it, given these figures, but he knows what the problem is.
I shall quote.
He says, it's social media.
Well, yes, that could be.
Gentrification and displacement.
In other words, when white people show up and the rents go up, then black people solve that problem by shooting each other.
Well, I guess that does mean that the gentrifiers can come in.
Then he says drugs.
Well, there have been drugs a long time.
The pandemic and undiagnosed and untreated mental health issues are being cooped up.
Well, how come when people are cooped up, it's black people who are shooting each other out of frustration and apparently nobody else?
Well, I think he's missed the point.
Roy Moore, if you really thought seriously about why there are so many shootings and homicides, what about months and months of lax law enforcement?
What about night after night, rioting, breaking windows, attacking federal courthouses?
Has no one in Portland ever heard of the broken window theory of policing?
The theory is, even small things, if left unattended to, Make it clear that the society doesn't care about deviant behavior.
If you leave broken windows unrepaired, that creates, that's just a small example of the kind of thing that becomes possible.
If you let petty crime flourish, if you let rioting go unpunished, This creates a lawless attitude that feeds on itself and those who are more inclined to do more serious things realize that hey the police have got better things to do than come bother me.
I think that far more than gentrification ho ho or social media ho ho is what is causing this astonishing increase in homicides and shootings in Portland but What do I know?
I'm not on the ground, and I haven't devoted my life to intervening and preventing gun violence in the black community.
So, I guess my opinion certainly doesn't count.
But one wonders, with all of this blazing away, does that help explain why gun sales are up such a sharp figure this year?
U.S.
gun sales in March were 25% above sales in the month before.
Up to $4,691,000.
$4,691,000.
This makes it perhaps the largest single month since sales figures were started to be recorded in 1998.
Now, the sales are by no means uniform across the country.
4.7 million guns in one month.
That's quite a lot.
sales figures started to be recorded in 1998.
Now, the sales are by no means uniform across the country.
4.7 million guns in one month.
That's quite a lot.
Illinois takes the biscuit way out in front.
In Illinois, there were 1.4 million gun sales.
Remember, the total was only 4.7 million.
That's way ahead of Kentucky, which is 330,000, and Texas, 222,000.
Let's get back to that Illinois figure.
333,000 and Texas 222,000.
Let's get back to that Illinois figure.
1,427,000 and the next in line is Kentucky with 330,000.
I honestly don't know what accounts for this, but perhaps it's all to that blazing away
that we hear about in Chicago, but we've been hearing about that for a long time.
Why in the month of March has there been such a dramatic increase in gun sales?
I don't know. But last year, gun sales in the country rose 40% to 39.7 million, nearly 40 million.
That is more than one gun for every 10 inhabitants.
That means in 10 years, everybody buys a gun, if you even them all out.
In 1999, the first full year that the FBI kept data on gun sales, for that year, it was 9,138,000.
So, just last year, nearly 40 million.
It's more than four times as many guns being sold every year.
Part of it, of course, is the fear that Joe Biden and his gun grabbers will push through legislation that makes current guns illegal or make it even impossible to buy them.
But at the current rate, gun sales in America will reach almost 45 million this year.
Now, they do say that more and more black people, more and more women are arming up.
In any case, guns are headed into, I hope, peace-loving hands.
People are deciding that no matter what the liberals say, if bullets are going to fly, they want to be in a position to return fire.
And I say, God bless them.
Well, this week I learned a new term.
It's called Handy Blacken.
Handy Blacken.
Yes.
Do you know what that means?
What that means is when a black woman parks in a handicapped parking space despite the fact of not being handicapped.
There have been a spate of videos of this sort of thing.
Somebody will come up and say, hey lady, this is for handicapped people.
You look pretty frisky and sprightly to me.
You have no handicap.
And of course, the person taking the video gets sweared at and cussed at, no matter foul language.
But this is apparently a new phenomenon.
So, but new, but established enough to, as I say, have resulted in a new coinage.
Handy Blacken.
At least so far it appears to be women, but my guess is it'll probably spread to men as well.
So there'll be handy blacken of both sexes.
Now moving right along, this time to Palo Alto.
Oh no, I beg your pardon, it's not Palo Alto.
We're back in Portland.
There's a Portland high school and it was having a vote on whether or not to change its mascot to an evergreen tree.
An evergreen tree seems harmless enough, but there was concern that there are potential ties to guess what?
What could be terrifying, potentially insensitive, potentially white supremacist about an evergreen tree?
Well, you might have guessed it.
I wouldn't have guessed it.
But somebody brought up the fact that trees used to be those objects from which black people were lynched.
So, they were all set to take a vote, to vote in this lovely new evergreen tree mascot, until a member of the Board of Directors shared what she called community concerns.
Portland Public Schools Board of Education Director, Michelle DePass, who appears to be melanin deprived.
She says, I think everyone comes with blind spots.
And I think that might have been a really big blind spot.
In other words, this concern that trees might evoke lynching, even evergreen trees.
She said that the community reach out to the family of the person after whom the school is named.
And that is Ida B. Wells Barnett.
If you are unfamiliar with Ida B. Wells Barnett, I confess so was I, but she was a prominent black activist and reporter who documented lynching, so you see this is a matter of grievous concern to those who are concerned about Ida B. Wells Barnett High School.
And Director Michelle DePasse suggested that the committee get in touch with the surviving family members of Ida B to ensure that they agree with this new mascot so that they can reschedule the vote next meeting and make a final decision.
Well, the only person who seems to have any sense on this group, this Board of Education, is a black member who pointed out that we seldom hear about evergreen trees being sued for lynching.
But a tree is a tree is a tree, and you never can tell when a Christmas tree might be used to lynch a black person.
Oh boy, well if a tree can be racist, really, I'd say pretty much there is no limit.
I bet some of the people who participated in lynchings wore shoes.
I wonder if shoes are racist.
And some people made money selling clothes to people who participated in lynching, or maybe sold clothes to slave owners to dress their slaves, and so clothes are racist.
Really, it is quite astonishing just how out of any kind of sense of reality these people have grown.
But you're going to check with the family of this renowned person of color, student of lynching, to find out if a tree may be used as a racist.
Well, I don't know how many of you have been following the Derek Chauvin trial, but there is a report in ABC News from which I will quote a number of sentences.
They say, because of this trial, Americans have once again been exposed to the May 2020 video of the former police officer driving his neck, sorry, driving his knee into George Floyd's neck.
These images may rekindle feelings of racial trauma, with mental health experts warning that watching the trial could have profound emotional and psychological consequences for black Americans.
Don't watch the trial, in other words.
Revisiting the events connected to George Floyd's death served as a visual reminder of the devaluing of black life and the potential costs associated with racism and discrimination, said Stephen Kniffley Jr., a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at Spaulding University's School of Professional Psychology.
Got that?
Revisiting the events connected with his death is a visual reminder of the devaluing of black life.
Is that so?
Of course, nothing in the trial has suggested that race had absolutely anything to do with what happened that day.
But this is absolute gospel, biblical truth to these people.
And this guy goes on to say, research shows that repeated exposure to racism Such as watching the televised trial is associated with a host of psychological consequences.
Repeated exposure to racism.
That's watching the televised trial.
That's going to be a repeated exposure to racism.
This is utterly utterly completely crazy cuckoo lunatic stuff.
There is again nothing.
I don't think the word race has even come up in the trial.
I followed it pretty carefully.
It's all about The procedures, proper use of force, under what circumstances is it okay?
When should you call EMS?
What are the proper escalation techniques, de-escalation techniques?
But no, watching the trial, that would expose you to racism.
Experts say engaging in healthy self-care is critical when experiencing racial trauma.
They emphasize steering away from harmful compensatory behaviors such as food, drugs, alcohol, and gambling.
In other words, you keep watching that trial, you might indulge in harmful compensatory behaviors such as overeating, drug digging, alcohol, and gambling.
Watch that trial.
You've got to go get on that plane to Las Vegas right away.
Well, gosh, compensatory behavior?
How about going out and shooting a white person?
That might be a form of compensatory behavior.
Well, that would ease the pain, surely, wouldn't it?
In any case, black Americans, and I continue to quote, can engage in intentional self-care by limiting consumption of the trial, setting boundaries with regard to trial discussion, and seeking out spaces that will positively affirm racial identity.
All of this Because of the trial.
Isn't this incredible?
They should limit consumption of the trial.
Such is the wisdom of ABC News.
Now, in other words, remain as ignorant as possible about what's going on in this trial.
Never consider any of the evidence that might suggest Derek Chauvin is not guilty of murder.
This is incredible advice.
Remain as ignorant as possible.
Go on believing that this is an open and shut case of murder and it's all pure racism.
This is the sort of stuff that gets pumped into our media consciousness day in day out.
And then there is this undying campaign of anti-racism.
I thought this was a particularly touching and moving one.
A message from Samantha Mayer.
N-A-I-E-R.
Principal of Salem High School in Salem, Massachusetts.
She sent out this message to parents, students, and faculty.
And I shall quote.
As we work to become a more inclusive and anti-racist community... I'll stop right there.
Any sentence that starts with those words, watch out.
But as we work to become a more inclusive and anti-racist community, it's imperative for us to embrace all of our diverse students.
April is commonly referred to as Autism Awareness Month.
We invite you to join us in learning more about our community here at Salem High School who are on the autism spectrum or those who identify as autistic.
Wow!
So, all it takes is to identify as autistic and then you become part of inclusion and anti-racism.
Now it seems you don't even have to be on this.
You don't have to have the diagnosis.
You just say, I'm on the spectrum.
What a great way to get on the victim bandwagon.
Boy, oh boy.
Yes, I identify as autistic.
You know, plenty of people would say that I'm autistic or worse, but there you go.
Another way to be a victim.
Even white people can be a victim if they're, you know, I guess I shouldn't say that too loud.
All you white people out there, you can say you're autistic and you become a subject of inclusion.
Ooh, how nice.
Well, something that happened in January is coming to light only now.
A group of 10 Milwaukee Black Panthers invaded an Asian-owned nail salon in Milwaukee and threatened it.
It's all on video taken by the Panthers themselves.
And they're just bellowing at them.
You do not respect black women from our community.
You disrespect black lives.
You ever disrespect a black woman again, we're going to shut you down.
We're coming back.
I can come back anytime I want.
You can hear a man just bellowing.
And what you're going to do when I do, you're going to call the police, right?
We're going to shut you down.
I'm going to shut you down.
We're going to shut this ass down.
We're going to tear this joint up.
It's pretty nasty stuff.
It's right there on video back in January.
Well, later they came back and the police arrived and this is on video too.
Well, instead of protecting the Asian owner, a female officer who appears to be a light-skinned black woman was very cordial with the Black Panthers.
He addressed, she addressed their leader as general and left the store saying of the Asian man whom the Panthers had been bellowing at, all right, I'm sure he got your message, sir.
Thank you very much.
This is what she said to the general.
We really appreciate you coming down.
Thank you.
Incredible!
Incredible!
These people march in there in a very intimidating way and yell at folks for some alleged disrespecting of black women.
It's all on video, boastfully posted on Facebook by the leader of the Panthers, who styles himself as King Rick, and he refers to black women customers as Queens.
This seems to be the latest thing.
We are Queens.
Now, following these confrontations, the nail salon shut down.
Its retail space is now empty.
This business, with jobs, has been wiped out.
And King Rick took credit for this.
With great jubilation on his Facebook page, he says, the original Black Panthers and the biggest panther in the jungle, King Rick, We're proud to announce the permanent closing of Jade's Nails on Brady Street.
They no longer exist.
They disrespected our queens and paid the ultimate price.
They're out of business.
Black Panther power once again in full effect.
Boy oh boy.
Now I do not blame these Asians for shutting down their business.
You probably would too if you got that kind of intimidating treatment and the police showed up and thanked the intimidators.
Now, a tip of the hat to American Thinker, the website, and Wisconsin Right Now, another website, for publicizing this, but as far as I can tell, the mainstream media, which claim to care so much about discrimination against our Asian brothers and sisters, they have completely overlooked this.
As I say, it's just come to light, the incident that took place in January, but no, no, no, If black people are involved, well, it just does not matter.
Well, let's move to the military, where we find that cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis have increased significantly in the past eight years.
Black service members, black service members, women, and personnel with lower levels of education are at most risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
Oh boy.
Service members under the age of 24 were found to be most likely to get them, and the patterns of frequency mirrored those of the civilian population.
But this is quite interesting.
The rates of infection in the military, in most cases, are far higher.
Far higher.
Chlamydia infections increased in frequency in the civilian population by just under 20% from 2012 to 2018, whereas military cases of chlamydia increased by 64%.
Whereas military cases of chlamydia increased by 64 percent, three times as high.
And women got the infection at nearly three times the rate men did in the military.
Well, I suppose there is something of an imbalance between men and women in the military.
So the women tend to get more, well, disease.
Military case of chlamydia, the average rate was 192.4 cases per 10,000 people.
But even at its highest point in 2018, the rate of chlamydia in the civilian population was only 54 cases.
Per 10,000.
So the military rate was well over three times the civilian rate.
This is a curious thing.
There is no explanation provided.
But I suppose what it means is that when you put young men and women together in close quarters, things that any person with any common sense can anticipate will happen.
Now, as for gonorrhea, the military's reported average rate of 30.2 cases per 10,000 was outpaced by the civilian rate, which ranged from 10.7 to 17.9.
was outpaced by the civilian rate, which ranged from 10.7 to 17.9.
So again, two to three times the civilian rate.
I find that very interesting and somewhat curious.
But these are the statistics from the military themselves.
And I don't wish to argue with them.
Now, that's not the only problem the military A Navy Hospital corpsman shot two sailors at a business park in Maryland just a few days ago.
The victims were both Navy sailors also.
They were flown to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
One remains in critical condition.
The shooter then drove to the Fort Detrick military base where he drove through a gate at the entrance.
Well, the police in Frederick, Maryland had already called up the base and said, be on the lookout for this guy.
And so folks the gate tried to stop and search the shooter but he just barged on by them in his car and about a half a mile into the base he hopped out brandishing a gun the police shot him dead.
Now the authorities are still trying to figure out just what's going on here they couldn't say what the relationship was if any between the victims and the suspect only if they're both the all three of them are navy men but to me the curious thing about this is the shooter's name.
Now, I'm generally familiar with names, have some sense of where they come from, but this guy, his name is Fantahun Girma Woldesenbat.
Fantahun Girma Woldesenbat.
So my guess is his ancestors probably didn't come over on the Mayflower, but I'm just guessing.
For all I know, he could be a son of the American Revolution.
You just never know with these things, but inquiring minds just want to know how come someone with the name of Fantahun Girmatwoldesendat is doing in the United States and what he's doing as a Navy man.
And another little interesting thing about this, that makes three murder sprees in less than two weeks.
There was, of course, the Syrian who slaughtered 10 whites in Boulder.
Then there was the Nation of Islam attacker on the Capitol.
Now this guy.
So we have an interesting pattern of non-whites who are running amok.
But this is the kind of pattern that we are certainly not supposed to see.
Now, there's someone else with an interesting name who was in the news.
Charay.
That's spelled S-H-A-R-A-E, Monique Becton.
Well, what did Charay do to get into the news?
She let a child bring 260 grams of cocaine to elementary school in New Bern, North Carolina.
Now, do you happen to know what the street value of 260 grams of cocaine would be?
Well, according to something called RehabCenter.net, that would be somewhere between $30,000 and $31,200.
That's quite a lot.
Well, so RehabCenter.net, that's the place to go to check on what your illegal drug portfolio is worth.
Well, Charest is now being charged with felony trafficking cocaine, felony possession with intent to sell or deliver cocaine, and misdemeanor child abuse for letting a child possess 260 grams of cocaine.
I would say she should be charged with careless disposition of assets as well.
I mean, that's an awful lot of money to put in the possession of an elementary school child.
Now, interestingly enough, the relationship between Sharae Becton and the child is not clear.
Was it her child?
Or was it just a young, very well-heeled client?
And the news doesn't go into detail on this, but I'm guessing that that day saw the fastest reading, the most active recesses, and the least amount of lunch eaten, and the most intense dodgeball games ever.
Yes, sir!
They probably had a hot time at elementary school in New Bern, North Carolina.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, this brings us to the end of this week's roundup of the news.
I thank you very much for your attention.
It's always an honor to speak to you on these occasions, and I'm pleased to note that next week we're back in our usual order of things.
The irregularities will have been regularized.
I'll be back with my usual co-host, and so you won't get stuck with just me alone.
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