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April 29, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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‘Think Before You Shoot’
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Ladies and gentlemen, it is our pleasure and honor to address you for this latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
The date is April 29th, and I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is my indispensable co-host.
We would like to start the podcast by replying to a listener who had some doubt as to what my indispensable co-host had to say about George Floyd's criminal record.
Now, I think I would like to ask you, if you would Mr. Kersey, to explain the truth.
Yeah, well in passing we were discussing George Floyd and we pointed out that back in 2009 When everything first started last year, it's almost been a year since St.
Floyd, well, died of the fentanyl overdose.
And I remember initially there were a lot of stories that discussed his history.
And there was one really good one published at TexasMonthly.com.
It's the Houston years of George Floyd, where they talked about he went from one criminal enterprise to another.
So what I stated was that In 2009, he engaged in a home invasion with a number of people, and he put a pistol into the belly of a pregnant woman.
Now, I distinctly remember reading that part of the story pregnant.
However, I cannot find that anymore on the internet.
However, though, go ahead.
Well, no, I recall reading the same thing.
That he had pointed a pistol, he pushed a pistol into a pregnant woman's belly as part of a threat to get money out of her during a home invasion.
I distinctly remember reading that too.
But perhaps that is something that has been more or less unofficially retracted.
Yeah, it's one of those things that you remember reading, but it's been, whether it's been excised or just maybe it was in passing, an anecdote, however, The AP story with the title, For George Floyd, A Complicated Life and a Notorious Death.
This article was published June 10th, 2020, and it has this paragraph buried way, way, way down after a lot of hagiography.
In August 2007, Floyd was arrested and charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon.
Investigators said he and five other men barged into a woman's apartment and pushed a pistol He was sentenced to 5 years for prison for this act.
He was recognized by the individual who said this happened because he was the biggest and the tallest.
You forget this guy was what?
6 foot 6?
6 foot 7?
I don't think he was quite that tall.
6'4 maybe?
240 pounds?
He was a big dude.
He was a big dude.
But the point is, the fact that she was pregnant, I remember reading that too, but that seems to have now disappeared from the account.
So perhaps that is an urban myth.
We don't know.
But anyway, he was certainly not a choir boy.
So, moving on, while sticking to the same George Floyd story, after the verdict, it appears that more than three-quarters of Americans are prepared to tell a poll, so they're satisfied with the guilty verdict.
Three-quarters.
Now, whether they're satisfied because they think justice was done, or they are grateful that their city was not burned down, that is not teased out, according to the data here.
Only 16% are dissatisfied with the outcome.
Now blacks are very satisfied.
Ninety-five percent.
They are cock-a-hoop.
They are dancing a little jig of joy.
Latinos, 78 percent.
And whites, 74 percent.
Three-quarters of whites are satisfied with the verdict.
Women are happier.
Eighty-one percent are happy.
Men, 73%.
As usual, men are a little bit more hard-nosed about these things.
Now, 97% of Democrats and 77% of Independents are happy with the verdict, but only 53% of Republicans.
So there is a slight political difference.
Furthermore, according to the poll, most Americans, well 53%, say that policing in America needs a major change or complete overhaul.
Can you believe that?
53% say policing needs a complete, major changes or a complete overhaul.
What, you wonder?
This is just nutty stuff.
Only 14% say police works pretty well, and 32% it needs minor changes.
Minor changes.
Minor changes.
Black Americans, 82% say police needs major changes or a complete overhaul compared to
47% of white people.
But even so, half of white people say policing needs major changes.
What form would this take?
This is just... I just don't even know what people are thinking.
But just goes to show you that if the media shout about something loud enough and long enough, people will believe.
The gap's pretty large by party.
79% of Democrats want major changes or a total overhaul, but only 23% of Republicans.
So as usual, Republicans are more on the ball than Democrats.
Now, the latest story to get the nationwide coast to coast outrage is one having to do with a fellow named Andrew Brown.
He was shot on April 21st by deputies serving a search and arrest warrant.
Now, there is apparently a lot of police video cam on this, but a judge refused just yesterday to release the body cam video to the public, ruling that making it available at this stage could jeopardize the investigation.
Interesting.
Interesting.
Now, I don't know just how it could jeopardize it, but that's what the judge says.
And, under 2016 state law, authorities can show video camera stuff privately to family members, but in order for it to go public, they have to have a judge's approval.
So they are going by the book.
Now, as you may know, and some of our listeners may know, a few days ago, family members were allowed to view a 20-second clip of one single body camera.
And Chantal Sherry Lassiter, one of the family lawyers, said the video showed an execution In which deputies shot at Brown as he was in his car with his hands on the wheel.
And the legal team says, in this modern civil rights crisis where we see black people killed by the police everywhere we look.
Well, I must be looking in the wrong places.
I have never seen a black person killed by the police.
Now, I do not understand why the police would show a 20-second clip, and according to this lawyer, the clip begins with the officer shooting at him.
Now, clearly what happens before the officer starts shooting is awfully important, but they did not get to see that portion.
Now, this time what the judge did was order the authorities to let the Browns family privately look at five videos from body cameras and one from a dashboard camera within the next 10 days, even though some portions may be blurred out or redacted.
This is to protect the investigation, apparently.
But it must remain out of the public view for at least 30 days, but then he would consider releasing it to the public after the investigation is complete.
Now this sounds to me like kind of a teaser, you know, building buzz about the big release of a new movie.
You know, people are going to be real interested in seeing this when it comes out, hits the YouTube big screen.
But, so we will see what happens.
Now, District Attorney His name is Andrew Womble.
He says it wasn't an execution by any means.
He says what happens is that this brown guy was driving into deputies.
He hit deputies several times.
They walked up to him.
His car was stopped.
They tried to open the door and talk to him.
He starts driving off hitting deputies backwards and forwards and that's when they started shooting.
So by no means was it an execution.
But Chantal Sherry Lassiter says he was shot as he sat in his car with his hands on the wheel.
Now let's think about that.
If you got your hands on the wheel trying to run down a deputy, well yes, you were shot while you sat in your car with your hands on the wheel.
An important point.
Was the car moving?
Where was it going?
But, despite all this, the FBI just on Tuesday announced a civil rights investigation into Brownsville.
Of course.
Why?
Why?
On what basis?
This stuff is nuts.
And Democratic Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina urged a special prosecutor be appointed to take the state's case over from the district attorney.
Why?
Once again, why?
Only because there must be some white deputies.
I mean, I don't know who the deputies were.
They haven't said.
Obviously white.
They have to be white or this wouldn't be a problem.
Well, under state law, the district attorney has to agree to let somebody else step in and Andrew Womble says, nothing doing.
My case, I'm going to prosecute it.
Good man.
So, anyway, as he says, he backs up, he hits one law officer, he goes in the other direction, he hits another guy, then bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
So, let's take a look at Andrew Brown, the latest hero of Black Lives Matter.
Well, he dropped out of high school, but he does come from a distinguished family.
When he was 12 or 13, his mother was murdered.
His father died in prison.
So he's got remarkable antecedents on both sides.
Good genes on both sides.
Furthermore, at one point he was partially paralyzed on his right side in an accidental shooting.
Oh, that happens.
He's a colorful character.
In more ways than one.
Furthermore, he lost an eye when he was stabbed in a knife fight.
That happens.
Yeah, it happens to some people.
You know, I suspect it's more likely to happen if your mother is killed and your father dies in prison than otherwise.
Yeah!
But you just don't know.
And he has a history of criminal charges stretching back to the 1990s.
A 30-year rap sheet stretching more than 180 pages.
180 pages?
180 pages!
How many crimes is that?
I do not know how many crimes per page, but So he sounds like really a charming guy.
Now listen to this, though.
According to Aunt Glenda Brown Thomas, he had a good laugh, a nice smile, and he had good dimples.
Good dimples.
Now, Mr. Kersey, I want you to promise me something.
The deputies shoot me to death in my own car with my hands on the steering wheel.
You make sure and tell them I had good dimples.
And try and figure out a way to hide that 180-page rap sheet.
That's right.
Good dimples are apparently unusual.
It's interesting, no matter who the guy is, when somebody dies, nobody ever says, what a low-down mofo, so glad he did.
That never happens.
He didn't have good dimples.
Wow.
He didn't have a nice smile.
You always hear that.
They have a smile that can light up the room.
Yes, they were just wonderful guys.
He was an aspiring, well, usually he's an aspiring rap artist, you know, that's one.
And he may have, you know, a rest record as long as your arm, but he was going to turn his life around.
It's always the case.
But this reminds me of another crime that got so little attention.
We talked about it briefly on the last podcast.
This was the shooting at the Laplace Louisiana birthday party for a 12-year-old on April 17th when nine children were shot.
Nine children shot ages 12 through 17.
Nine shot.
Two hospitalized.
A one 12-year-old girl shot in both legs.
Now, That's bad enough.
Sometimes at birthday parties, shots ring out.
You know, there's this disembodied gunfire that rings out at certain birthday parties.
That's bad.
That's sad.
But this one is even worse because, as we mentioned earlier, there are about 60 people there and nobody went to the police.
But they refused to give a statement.
They refused to give a statement.
You know, I was thinking about it.
I made a video about some of the strange doings last week, and I touched on this.
We do have this business about snitches get stitches, and there is a white version of that.
What's that?
Well, when the Corleone mob rubs out somebody in the Tataglione family, the Tatagliones don't call the cops.
They deal with it themselves.
Keep it in the family.
Keep it in the family, that's right.
On the other hand, when a 12-year-old gets shot and neither mom nor dad, if one or the other can be found, actually goes to the police to find out.
This is, this to me, nine kids shot, nobody goes to the police at a birthday party.
This to me is a much more important story than George Floyd.
George Floyd is not an important story.
No, it's not important.
Some white guy leaves his knee on a guy's back for too long.
That is utterly insignificant compared to nine children shot at a birthday party and nobody wants to go to the police.
That tells you right there, unequivocally, that to these people, the lives of these black children, because it was a black birthday party, Well, you're leaping to conclusions.
The report never says that, but you and I know.
The neighbors interviewed all have distinctly black first names, so thankfully for that disparity in the way names are chosen.
On the same token, there's another story that's breaking about this white cop who is stomped to death.
His name is Keith Hecook.
He shows up, he's dispatched, and there's this black criminal who's attacking two Uh, race unidentified septuagenarians.
The white cop walks up to try and break it up.
He's hit with some sort of weapon, knocked to the ground.
The black guy, Randon Wilkerson stomps the guy to death to a point where his face is unrecognizable.
His face caves in.
And again, had this been the other way around, had Keith Hecox showed up, pulled out a gun, Had he dispatched, had he actually shot and killed Randon Wilkerson, Randon Wilkerson would be the next contestant in this never-ending game of how much will Whitey take?
Yes, yes, yes.
Well, no.
And we're supposed to be caring about black lives, but not one word about these nine children.
That's not true.
Not one word nationally.
It has been tiny, tiny news locally.
But moving to yet another really terrible crisis, an ESPN article.
It says this.
Kendrick Karmush, to be the first black jockey in Kentucky Derby, Since 2013.
That was 8 years ago!
Now what's going on?
Since 2013?
Are we going to get first black undersecretary since 2017?
Or first black quarterback since last year?
What the heck is going on?
How far do you have to go back without a black for something to be the next one to make headlines?
It's got to be constant.
The first black since 30 minutes ago.
Now, the article goes like this.
Much like black jockeys in, and then they mentioned black jockeys in 2000, 2006, 2013, his presence in horse racing's biggest event is a reminder of how the industry marginalized black jockeys.
Well, I mean, they show up.
They show up.
I assume when they're good, they show up.
Now, they have a great quote from this fellow himself, Kendrick Karmouche.
He says, What I've been awaiting all my career is to inspire people and make people know that it's not about color.
It's about how successful you are in life and how far you can fight to get to that point.
It's how successful you are, how hard you try.
Being a jockey is a hard, hard life.
Obviously, you gotta be what?
About 4'10 to 5'2?
You gotta be pretty small.
There's a Tobey Maguire movie called Seabiscuit, where it shows just the extraordinary tenacity and discipline you have to have.
And that's a great quote right there, by the way.
It's not about color, he says.
No!
It's not about—but you see, the ESPN thinks it is.
Now, listen to this.
This guy, Karmush, he's the son of a jockey.
Okay.
And he has won more than 3,400 races.
That's a lot!
That is a lot of races.
And he has earned $118 million since beginning to ride professionally in 2000.
Boy, I could do with that kind of marginalization.
Yeah, if he just wins 1% of that, that's phenomenal.
1.8 million in earnings himself.
So yeah, I mean, again, it's actually kind of shocking that he hasn't been chosen with that kind of pedigree, that kind of record when he races.
Well, it'd be very interesting to know what the other jockeys, what their records are.
In any case, it's a tough competitive business and he's going to be riding in the derby.
Good for him.
Now, ESPN goes on to say, he is a rarity in a sport now dominated by jockeys from Latin America.
Well, aren't they marginalized people too?
No, not in this case.
I guess not, if they're right.
Boy, oh boy, black and brown bodies we hear about all the time?
What rubbish.
Anyway, we have the first black jockey since 2013.
It's been such a long drought at the Kentucky Derby.
I'm sure a lot of mint juleps have been spilt.
I've been waiting and hoping.
Now, sticking with Louisville, Kentucky, you will remember the March 2020 police shooting of Breonna Taylor.
How can I forget it?
No relation.
The 26-year-old black EMT fatally shot in her home by officers, as she's always described.
They always forget to say that the boyfriend opened fire first.
In any case, more than 230 cops have either retired or resigned from the Metro Police Department in the last 16 months, leaving the agency, according to a union spokesman, in dire straits.
At the same time, there's been an 84% increase in non-fatal shootings this year so far in 2021, and 2020 was a record.
During the same period last year, there were 109.
This year, 201 non-fatal shootings.
And there have been 56 murders so far this year, up 75% from the 32 last year, but the number of officers is shrinking every day because nobody wants to support them.
At the same time, and of course this is just great, the Justice Department is opening a sweeping probe into policing in Louisville because of the death of Breonna Taylor.
No relation.
Now, it always astonishes me.
Every time something like this happens, the The Justice Department swoops in on the assumption that there's some sort of racial motivation, first of all, and that race is a consistent problem.
You know, they did the same thing in the Minnesota Police Department.
They've done it.
That was one of the great things Jeff Sessions did right away.
Yeah, he pulled that stuff out.
But no, Merrick Garland has started this stuff up all over again.
Now, this was news to me.
I didn't realize this when it happened.
The city of Louisville paid out 12 million dollars on account of Breonna Taylor's death.
12 million.
So somebody hit the ghetto jackpot and Breonna Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, they never have the same name somehow, she tweeted about the announcement of the DOJ investigation.
I can't wait for the world to see Louisville Police Department for what it really is.
I guess she knows.
How does she know?
She knows all about what the police department really is.
Now, Louisville Police Chief Erica Shield, you will probably recognize that name.
I do, from Atlanta.
She is from Atlanta.
She says, I think it's a good thing.
I think it's necessary because police reform quite honestly is needed in nearly every agency across the country.
She was the police chief of Atlanta.
Now, she, of course, came a bit of a cropper when Rayshard Brooks was treated very, very politely by two officers on video for quite an extended time, and then he got into a fight, and he grabbed a taser, and he turned around, he was going to aim it at the police officer, and uh-oh, he stopped lead.
So, that resulted in the usual sort of rioting, so poor Ms.
Shields was out of a job, but now she landed on her feet in Louisville, Kentucky.
Now, Louisville has had four police chiefs since Breonna Taylor's death in March 30th, 2020.
That's a lot of police chiefs!
That's a lot of turnover!
Yes, yes.
Well, you know, it looks like what's happening in Louisville is the exact same thing that's happening in New York City.
Tell us all about it, Mr. Kersey.
I wish I could just say that there's police chiefs everywhere, like the great Chief Outlaw of Philadelphia, whose first order of business was, as you remember, to make it so that long black nails were tolerated because there was too much on the books that was discriminated against beautiful black bodies and their accessories.
Well, there's a lot.
Well, that means you can be a black man and have long black nails, too.
You can be a white man and have long nails, as an officer in Philadelphia wants to know.
But what we're seeing in New York City, we are seeing something unprecedented.
We're seeing a report just came out that the NYPD saw a 75% increase of officers quitting the force or retiring when compared to the prior year.
Now, 2019 was a pretty placid year compared to everything that started to take place in 2020, at least after Memorial Day weekend.
About 5,300 uniformed officers retired or left the NYPD in 2020, as stated a staggering 75% spike over the previous year and accounting for a 15% and that accounts for 15% of the total number of officers on the force.
Wow.
Gone.
Retired.
So basically what we saw is the chaos seemed to be the catalyst for the officer's resignation as a total of 272 officers separated from the NYPD between the month of May 25th and June 24th.
That was when chaos reigned.
You basically had all these district attorneys in Brooklyn and these other states I'm sorry, the other bureaus in New York basically say we're not going to prosecute these guys and there are videos of cops who were getting a little too rambunctious, if you will, with some of the protesters and they actually were disciplined.
So basically what the police realized is no one has our backs anymore.
So if no one has our backs, what am I waiting here?
So from the New York Post noted about the increase in separations reportedly Again, 2,600 officers quit while just a few more than that 2,746 filed for retirement.
You're talking about just a massive dearth now when you account for 15% of the officers.
Well aren't they having a terrible time getting people to apply for the police academy?
They are offering a shocking amount of money in terms of bonuses just to try and find people to come in who have the ability to withstand the scrutiny.
Well, and all over the country, apparently they're dropping all sorts of requirements.
You can have felony drug convictions, that's okay too.
This is such a vicious cycle.
If people are complaining about police behavior now, wait until you see what happens five
years from now, when these new recruits, they've scraped the bottom of the barrel, these leavings,
these dregs, when they become police officers, boy, boy, it's going to be bad.
Well, I understand that Atlanta has a new plan for combating crime.
Oh, we're going to talk about Atlanta's plan.
You know, I don't know why we didn't talk about this a few weeks ago when it happened, but Atlanta is one of those cities just like so many other major cities where you're seeing this.
I'm going to use that word again because it is unprecedented.
This crime wave is just overwhelming and capsizing the civilization that white people created and then ultimately abandoned by a white flight as Society regresses to the African mean in places like Baltimore, Louisville, New Orleans, Memphis, and in Atlanta.
With Atlanta's homicide numbers on pace to surpass last year's historic total, the police department has decided to take a unique approach in its effort to curb gun violence across the city too busy to hate.
Going onto social media and pleading with residents not to shoot anyone.
That'll do it.
In a Facebook post at the end of March and early April, the APD urged its followers to avoid violence, saying, Atlanta's crime isn't just a police issue, but a people issue.
Quote, healthy conflict resolution requires maturity.
Choosing guns to resolve conflict does not.
Think before you shoot.
Think before you shoot.
I like that.
That's a new motto for Atlanta.
Think before you shoot.
You know, I think a lot of them are going to think and then say, hell yeah, I'm going to shoot.
Here's two more choice quotes.
Okay.
Department spokeswoman Chata Spikes Said it feels like police are pleading with residents to make better decisions amid the recent spike in shootings.
Quote, we have to address what's going on in our city and gun violence is one of the top concerns for people.
We're hoping that people will see the message and think twice, think twice, don't think three times, think twice, before they resort to picking up a gun.
End quote.
So here's the Facebook post.
It included a graphic showing two people fighting, a handgun, and a casket draped with flowers.
The hard to miss message?
Anger plus guns equals nothing good.
Well, you know, I don't know.
It depends on who wins.
That might be an encouragement.
Hey, this guy's been punching you out.
You know what?
You can put him in a casket.
And the final message of this post was this, quote, guns in the hands of angry or irresponsible people put communities at risk.
Impulsive, violent reactions to conflict irrevocably change lives for victims, families, and perpetrators.
You cannot put the bullet back in the chamber once it is discharged.
Hmm.
Many have learned this the hard way.
Well, many who learn this, if they're on the opposing side of said chamber, where the bullet is emanating from, they're never going to think or hear anything again.
They're dead.
They're dead.
Welcome to Atlanta, the city too busy to hate in 2021.
Do you remember back when COVID was really going great guns and people worried about enough space in hospitals?
I think it was the mayor of Baltimore Got out and said, Hey, you know, there are no, there's no, there's no bed space, hospital space for you guys shooting each other up.
You better hold, hold your fire while we get this COVID thing taken care of.
Do you remember that?
No, I don't think so.
Not only do I remember that, I don't think it had any effect.
Well, we joked about Baltimore because there's all those great Excel charts that showcase the city.
And then it has the increase from homicides from 2019 to 2020 and Baltimore.
was one of the cities that it barely dropped. But you have to factor in, Baltimore was already at
record high homicides and, as the census just showed, Baltimore just dropped under 600,000
people for the first time since, I believe, 1930. Baltimore was once one of America's great cities.
Well, that's right.
And so if the population is plummeting, but the number of murders stays the same, the rate just continues to climb.
Exactly.
Exactly.
It's per capita.
As it turns out, it is, let's see, Baltimore is the second most murderous city in the United States after St.
Louis.
We'll be talking about these things.
St.
Louis is number one in the United States.
Well, you know, for a complete change of subject here, let's talk about Indian mascots.
Yet another burning issue.
Yet another great way in which white America is persecuting and making life miserable for the Native population.
Well, Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Monday signed into law a measure banning Native American-themed team names or mascots at public schools.
I guess private schools, it's okay.
You can have your Chiefs, you can have your Wahoos, as much as you like in a private school.
Well, under the new law, Washington schools with mascots, logos, or sports teams with these horrible names, they must either phase out these quote, inappropriate symbols or seek approval from the nearest federally recognized tribe.
Okay, so there's an out.
That's right, there's an out.
Good.
Now what he says, Inslee says, this bill will end the disrespectful use of Native American imagery.
Well, I don't think any of it's disrespectful.
No, it's the exact opposite.
It's the exact opposite.
It's all respectful, but I guess it's by definition disrespectful.
Now, the bill also requests that the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction create a grant program to help schools pay for this change, but it just requests.
The money may not come through.
Apparently, there was a similar policy adopted in the neighboring state of Oregon in 2016, and some schools did get permission.
from a local tribe.
Yes, you can be the Braves.
As I understand it, most Indians think it is an honor, which of course it is.
Meanwhile in Colorado, the state Senate just last week approved on a party-line vote The Democrats on one side and the Republicans on the other.
A bill that aims to ban, again, the derogatory use.
Well, I don't think there's any derogatory use of Indian names.
And now under this bill, a Colorado school can keep its mascot if a federally recognized tribe says so.
On the other hand, the tribe has the right to revoke that authorization anytime for any reason.
In other words, if the local Mohawks or the Oneidas or whoever say, OK, it's OK, then they change their mind next year.
Too bad.
And if you continue to use a mascot without tribal approval, you get fined $25,000 a month.
Wow.
That's still in use.
Yes.
Well, you know, I'm worried about the derogatory use of the names of states.
Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arkansas.
As it turns out, half the American states have Indian names.
Are they derogatory?
Are they going to have to be changed unless you get some local chief, local Powhatan to tell you it's okay?
Let me try and guess a couple real quick.
Oklahoma?
Sure.
Arizona?
I don't think so.
I think that's a Spanish name.
Okay.
Let's see here.
Idaho?
Yeah, I think that's one, yes.
Now, there are lots.
Half of the names of states are Indian names.
Well, that should tell you all you know about how white privilege has percolated across American history, that we're going to honor all these tribes.
That's right.
Wow!
That's right, that's right.
Well, now here's a story about Victoria C. Unanka.
I bet you never heard of Victoria.
At Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on April 14th, the university opened an investigation after threatening and racist messages were found written on the door of a woman's restroom in a campus residence hall.
They were discovered by Victoria.
The university has since been working with the La Crosse Police Department and a forensic handwriting expert to figure out who might have written this.
The university, as a result of this, and then a yet another event that appeared to target Victoria, resulted in added security personnel, additional security cameras, and campus listening sessions and other initiatives.
So they really took it seriously.
As they should.
Well, as they should.
Well, on April 18th, on April 18th, this was the climax of it all.
There was a fire in a residence hall.
And so the La Crosse Fire Department was dispatched shortly before 2 30 a.m.
where security personnel reported the fire on the second floor lounge of the residence hall.
There's a fair amount of smoke damage, damage to wall and part of the carpet and it was the very same Miss Unanka.
Who had identified the graffiti and the other threatening messages before, she was found on surveillance video.
These were the surveillance cameras that they had just installed because of all this racism.
Now, wasn't she aware of that?
I guess not.
Because they put in all this extra new equipment, and lo and behold, who set the fire?
It was Unanka herself.
Oh, poor dear.
Oh, poor dear.
Yes, it turns out that she can be seen glancing around, checking to see is anybody else out there.
And then lo and behold, the fire breaks out.
And after she started the fire, she runs frantically through the halls, knocking on student doors, pulling fire alarms.
So she was the hero.
She rescued them.
And when the police arrived, students were discussing this worry.
Oh, my gosh, it must be another hate crime incident because it started right next to her room.
Where'd they get that idea?
Well, from her herself.
But when videos were played back to her, she said, she complained that, quote, no one was listening to me anymore.
After all of these listening sessions and all of these initiatives, added security personnel, added security guys, no one was listening.
Is that a metaphor for what we're living in right now?
I think it's not a metaphor.
It's what we're living through right now.
It's the real thing.
Yeah, there'd been vigils and walkouts and breastfeeding, but it's never enough, never enough.
Well, later that day, after she was exposed as an arsonist, There was a meeting for the residents of the hall and then there was an all-campus-wide meeting.
Students were briefed on mental health counseling and ministry and other support services.
So, if you wish to take it to the Lord in prayer, they have got ministers on standby to help you.
Now, President Glina Temple, I gather it is probably a presidentress, she says, this is a complex situation that involves a series of concerning incidents.
And at this point, she confirmed that Unanka is no longer on campus and has traveled home.
She was arrested for arson, by the way, but released on signature bond, no money down, and she has gone home.
Black privilege.
And President Glina, she says, we remain concerned about the student's well-being and will continue to work with her and her family.
Yes.
Oh, I mean, she's a poor disturbed soul.
Now, I can't tell where Yunanka is from.
No photos over.
She's quite the mystery girl.
She seems to be avoiding the limelight.
But my guess is she's one of our African-American fellow citizens, or maybe she's from some foreign country.
Well, I wish they'd release those videos, those surveillance videos they have.
Too bad.
Too bad.
Nope.
Nope.
Now, I've never heard of Viterbo University before.
Have you ever heard of Viterbo University?
I have not.
I wonder if they have an Indian mascot.
Well, I don't know.
It was founded in 1890 by Franciscans.
1890, been around a while.
It's affiliated with the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration.
Okay.
Now, guess who they're adoring these days?
In any case, there are 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students, and the athletic team is called the V-Hawks.
The V-Hawks.
The Viterbo V-Hawks.
In any case, yes, they're in a state of adoration, and I don't think that much is ever going to happen.
I wonder if she's ever going to have to come back and face arson charges.
Arson is a serious crime.
I guarantee you that they were not always known as the V-Hawks, and that's a name change, probably in the past 20 years due to political correctness.
There's no way that someone back in the 1880s said, we should be the V-Hawks.
Well, no, they got that name considerably later.
Okay.
But I don't know if they had an athletic, you know, when they were the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, they probably had no athletic teams.
They weren't playing basketball and lacrosse.
Now, last week we talked about how the people who run Scrabble have deleted 400 words.
Yes, they have.
These are insulting words.
They say this is the only game in which you can score points by using racial slurs.
So this is shameful.
This is just absolutely bigoted.
We've got to get rid of those words now.
As I said last week, the obvious solution is to let black people use their slurs.
That makes it realistic.
That makes it real life.
They get to use words that white people don't.
So let them use the words and make it reflect real life.
Well, interestingly enough, Scrabble, on a website called scrabbleplayers.org, they listed all the words.
They listed all the words.
Now, however, All the letters are scrambled to obfuscate them from the casual reader.
We can't have these horrible words actually out there in the open for people to see, but they went on to say, we welcome media inquiries for a plain list of words.
So if you're a media, if you're the New York Times listening to our podcasts, as I'm sure all you do, you can write in and get an unscrambled list of all of the 400 banned words.
But there they are.
What is it called when you have a word and it is... An anagram.
An anagram, that's right.
So they're all anagrams.
They're all anagrams, that's right.
You know, I've never been good at unscrambling words.
Okay.
I've never been any good.
And so when there's one up, it's O-B-A.
You know what that could be?
O-B-A.
I have to write it down.
That can't be hard.
There are only three letters there.
Only three letters.
Think of Australia, Mr. Kersey.
O-B-A.
Okay.
What's the word?
Uh... The clock is ticking.
I'm actually not sure.
Here's a confession.
I don't use racial slurs.
But this one you'll... Abo.
Abo.
Abo.
Oh, I was going to say Boa.
Is Boa funny?
A slur in some circles?
Alright, alright.
I'm going to give you another chance.
Another chance.
You know, you're not doing too well in this... Hey, I'm O for one.
Here's one.
A-Q-S-U-W.
Now here's another one for you.
G-I-M-O-Y.
What could that be?
G-I-M-O-Y.
Squaw. Very good. Now here's another one for you. G-I-M-O-Y.
G-I-M-O-Y. What could that be?
G-I-M-O-Y. Yes. Yes.
Again, I don't know slurs.
You will recognize this one.
I promise you.
I promise you.
Go ahead.
What is it?
Goyim.
Goyim.
That's no good.
Okay.
G-O-M-I-O-Y-M.
Some of them really are pretty hard.
For example, this one.
You can go ahead and write this down, but I puzzled over this.
I could not figure it out.
I promise.
It is A-C-E-I-I-I.
N-N-N-P-S.
I could not figure that out.
Now... What the heck?
Where are the G's?
You at least get the I-N-G at the end.
No, no, no.
There's no I-N-G.
Yes, A-C-E-I-I-I-N-N-N-P-S.
No, that's too much for me.
It definitely can't be a palindrome, so... Well, it could be, depending on... But it's pretty damn scrambled.
Close.
Yeah, I have no idea.
Well, this is... I'm not even going to try and guess.
No, this is Picaninny's.
Picaninny's!
Oh, of course!
Picaninny's.
Picaninny's.
Hey, by the way, if you actually had that in Scrabble, that's a hell of a point score right there.
Well, not anymore.
Not anymore.
Too bad.
Too bad.
Picaninny's is out.
Now, here's some other ones.
Here, and some of them have to do with sexual orientation.
Okay.
Here, E-L-Z.
Why is that a bad one?
E-L-Z.
I guess that's short for les?
That's right.
Okay.
And now, here's one, C-I-P-R.
What could that be?
Prick?
Nope.
You need a K for that.
You would need a K.
Let's see here.
P-I-C-R.
Yes.
Let's see here.
Now, think in terms of physical disability.
Physical disability?
Yes.
I guess I'm showing my compassionate side.
I don't think I'd... Hold on.
You'll recognize this.
This is pretty short.
Only four letters here.
There are not that many possibilities.
I guess both you and I share that commonality of not being good with anagrams.
I'm not very good at unscrambling words.
I had to puzzle over this myself, I confess.
C-I-P-R.
Think of somebody who cannot walk very well.
Cripple.
Oh, so it's Crip.
Crip, yes.
Yeah, Crip.
Okay.
See, I'm not thinking in terms of them being shortened.
That's weird, so.
Or they could be a gang.
So what happens if you're using it in the context of gang?
That's a noun, so is that not allowed?
No, that is a, what do they call it, a capitalized word.
What do you call them?
A proper noun.
Okay.
Yes, but no, there are lots of them.
Give me one more and let's let everybody at home play along too.
So everybody get out a pen, get a piece of paper.
Now, there's some political ones.
You'll never guess this one.
I would have never, well, this is a complicated one.
I won't go into that now, but here's another one.
say, uh, uh, let me see.
Okay, A, T, T, W. Some of these have to do with the physical parts of the human body.
A, T... A, double T, W. Yes.
Wada, tawa... It starts with a T. Okay.
It starts with twat.
Yes.
Here's another one that you're not going to get.
I really had to puzzle over it and puzzle over it.
A-F-O-S-T.
A-F-O-S-T.
Now this has to do with the physical appearance of someone.
A F O S T Okay, so we've got soft...
soft...
A F O S T And while you're puzzling over that, our listeners can puzzle over A-B-D-E-I-L.
So fat?
I guess that's two words.
Fatso.
Fatso.
Oh, fatso.
Okay.
Yeah, fatso.
You can't use it in Scrabble anymore.
It's out.
And A-B-D-E-I-L, that's baldy.
You can't make fun of alopecia?
No!
Oh my gosh!
And here's the political one.
This threw me for a loop.
The anagram is C-M-M-O-P-S-Y.
C-M-M-O-P-S-Y.
I don't think you'd ever get it.
I don't think I'd have ever gotten it either.
I had to go do some jiggery-pokery to get to the bottom of this one.
But you'll never get it, so I'll break the news.
ComSymp.
ComSymp?
Yes.
What does that mean?
That means a commisymp.
A communist sympathizer.
A comsymp.
That's out too.
Apparently that used to be a perfectly good Scrabble word.
In any case, for those of you who are interested in this rather amusing game, you can go to scrabbleplayers.org and all 440 of them are there for your delectation and entertainment.
Including A-C-E-I-I-I-N-N-N-P-S.
So, moving on, moving on to more serious matters, Mr. Kersey, tell us about menthol cigarettes.
Oh, well, never having had one, I can't say that I'm shedding a tear for what's happening, but I'm sure there are some people who are addicted to nicotine right now or are crying into their last few menthol cigarettes.
Today, Biden's U.S.
Food and Drug Administration announced it's committing to advancing two tobacco product standards to significantly reduce disease and death from using combusted tobacco products.
Now, why might this be the case that they're going after menthol and flavored cigars?
Banning menthol, the last allowable flavor in cigarettes, and banning all flavors in cigars will help save lives.
Particularly, you know the reason why, dear listener.
You know the reason why, Mr. Taylor.
I do?
Particularly among those disproportionately affected by the deadly products.
And those would be, according to the FDA, it's going to help reduce youth initiation, increase the chances of smoking cessation among current smokers, and address health disparities experienced by communities of color, low-income populations, and LGBTQ plus individuals, all of whom are more likely to use these tobacco products, according to acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock, MD.
Now, I've heard for years that blacks love Kool, and what's the other brand?
Is it Newport?
Newport!
Yeah, they love Newport and Kool, but the LGBTQ++, SQP, LTD, all them, they like... That's a hell of an anagram right there.
Yeah.
Try and figure that one out.
Yeah.
They like menthol, too.
Maybe they like flavored cigars.
Perhaps that's it.
I don't know.
I don't really know that much about that community, so I'm not going to suggest anything.
So what we have, just some quick stats here.
In the U.S., it's estimated there are nearly 18.6 million current smokers of menthol cigarettes, but use of menthol cigarettes is not uniform.
Out of all black smokers nearly 85% smoke menthol compared to just 30% of white smokers who smoke menthol
So there's there's segregation in this. That's a real difference. Yeah extraordinary difference
You wonder where that difference comes from?
Just really good marketing probably when you used to be able to see Newport or the other one and in addition among
youth from 20 from 2011 to 2018 declines in menthol cigarette use
were observed among non-hispanic white youth, but not among non-hispanic black or hispanic youth
So, I guess white people are realizing, hey, this is not a cigarette for us.
We'll just stick with the Joe Camels or, you know, the American Spirit.
We'll leave that for the other guys.
But, of course, the FDA steps in and says, hey, hey, hey, you can't have this.
That's right.
Well, you know, it's quite interesting to me.
Did you realize that the group, well, when you think about it, it sort of stands to reason, but the group in the United States, the ethnic or racial group that smokes the most is, drumroll please, American Indians and Eskimos.
I didn't know that.
Yes, 22%.
22% 22% now the next highest is blacks at 16.8% but whites are right up there
22%.
We're pretty much neck and neck with blacks when it comes to white people smoking cigarettes or smoking tobacco of any kind.
Hispanics are considerably lower, only 10%.
That's one of those situations when these terrible oppressed and beaten and harassed persons of color, Hispanics, are doing better than whites in terms of smoking cigarettes.
Asian Americans are, of course, the least likely to smoke at 7%.
I thought those were very interesting statistics.
In 1965, 43% of American adults smoked.
Can you imagine that?
of American adults smoked. Can you imagine that? 43%? Now the figure in 2050 was down to 21%.
43%?
Everyone was skinnier then.
Well, I wonder if that had anything to do with it.
Did you ever smoke?
I smoked a few cigarettes, but I was never a smoker.
That's why you're in such great shape now.
I guess so.
All those cigarettes I didn't smoke.
But, uh, yeah, now you had, uh, you know, there's this, there's this heartbreaking, well, heartbreaking, it's disgusting story about a Norfolk police officer.
Tell us about that, Mr. Kersey.
I will.
I will tell you about this one.
We've been talking about cops a lot.
The story of that cop who was stomped to death really put me in sort of a down mood.
Because again, you'd think to yourself, if this had been the other way around and this white cop had shot trying to bring this guy to arrest, this black perpetual criminal, The latter would be the hero, and there'd be laudatory stories published from C to signing C. What happened in Norfolk is sick.
I'm sure you heard about how that fundraising site GiveSinGo, there was a data breach.
It's a Christian crowdfunding site, so people who donated to Kyle Rittenhouse's defense fund, their information, if they used an address that could be associated with them, those addresses were public, and unfortunately, a high-ranking Norfolk police officer... Oh, this was hacked!
It was a data breach.
So data breach does mean hack, guys.
So an officer who was found donating to the defense fund had been fired from the police department.
According to the Guardian newspaper, Sergeant William Kelly, who served as the executive officer of NPD's Internal Affairs Division, high-ranking guy, he made an anonymous $25 donation to Rittenhouse's defense in September.
However, he used an official email address linked to himself.
Okay, who cares?
Kyle Rittenhouse was defending himself as he was attacked by... And everybody deserves the right to a lawyer.
Yeah.
But not if you're on the wrong side of the current hypocrisies.
Exactly.
So, like I said, there was a data breach which showed official email addresses belonging to many police officers and public officials.
There was a... I won't even mention the transparent group.
This is just sick.
I mean, this is a guy called Rittenhouse who went to try and... I think it was Kenosha?
It was in Kenosha.
He shows up with an AR-15.
He's attacked.
The guy looks like he's pulling out a Glock.
Colorado House of Appellate Files falls on the ground, he engages in self-defense.
We all know that there's a trial coming, you know, his innocence is still there until proven
guilty and a lot of people wanted to help raise money for him and this is an anonymous
$25 donation.
The alleged donation was made on September 3rd and included the comment, I'll read it as thus, God bless.
Thank you for your courage.
Keep your head up.
You've done nothing wrong.
Every rank and file police officer salutes you, supports you.
Don't be discouraged by actions of the political class of law enforcement leadership, end quote.
That's profound.
It almost brings a tear to my eye thinking about what's happening in this country, thinking about what happened last year, thinking about all that's going on across the country.
And this guy gets fired.
He gets fired.
Obviously, he's going to, you know, they said the Norfolk City Manager Chip Filer said this, I've reviewed the results of the internal investigation involving Lieutenant William Kelly.
Chief Larry Boone and I have concluded his actions are in violation of city and departmental policies.
His egregious Comments erode the trust between the Norfolk Police Department and those they are sworn to serve.
The City of Norfolk has a standard of behavior for all employees and we will hold staff accountable.
I wonder what the regulations are.
He'll get to appeal the decision, but you have to wonder again, are we going to see, we saw what, 15% of New York City's police department resign in mass in 2020?
How many other departments are impacted on a similar scale?
It would be interesting to see national figures.
Police, I mean, who wants this job anymore?
Why?
Why go through this?
Well, for a complete change of scene, let's move to France.
This is a remarkable story.
Good news story.
20 retired generals, as well as several serving soldiers, signed an open letter that warned that failure to act against the suburban hordes, that's a reference to immigrant populations and housing and public housing around French cities, failure to act will lead to death in the thousands.
This is an open letter published in Valeurs Actuelles, a conservative magazine, and it says, a military coup might be necessary to stop a civil war in France.
Signed by 80 officers, as I say, including 20 generals.
The generals are all retired, however.
And the letter says, France is in danger.
Several mortal perils threaten her.
Even in retirement, we remain soldiers of France and cannot in the present circumstances remain indifferent to the fate of our beautiful country.
They say France is disintegrating with the Islamists of the hordes of the suburbs who are detaching large parts of the nation and turning them into territories subject to dogmas contrary to our Constitution.
It goes on to say the country could explode into civil war if nothing is done which would lead to deaths of thousands.
Remarkable talk!
They also say that they have broad support in the military and they are ready to support politicians who are focused on the safety of the nation.
Strong talk!
The guy who leads the signature, leads the list of signatures, Christian Piquement, age 80.
He is a former general of the Foreign Legion.
Probably a very tough customer.
Well, back in 2016, he was stripped of his privileges as a retired officer when he was arrested at an anti-immigration rally in Calais.
What a great man!
What year was that?
That was 2016.
Wasn't there a beheading or something in that city?
Calais?
I don't remember there being a beheading, but who knows?
That's where they were all roaring off and going to England.
They had this huge tent city of illegal immigrants who were trying to get across the Channel into England.
In any case, he was stripped of his right to wear his uniform and he lost his military officer's ID.
But that does not faze him.
Now another guy, Jean-Pierre Fabre-Berdinac, is a former police chief and he lamented the, quote, omerta, omerta, you know what that is, this conspiracy of silence that hangs around the issue of immigration.
He says that murders and assaults perpetrated by migrants are not given media coverage.
He calls it a terrible double standard.
In another media appearance, he said the French do not trust politicians, but they do trust the army.
Then a former Air Force General, Antoine Martinez, he says, there's no point to project our soldiers into external theaters to protect us if our leaders give up, despite the evidence, to name the enemy and to fight him on our soil.
That's pretty good.
Sounds like a book you wrote the forward to.
Yes, yes.
These guys have been reading Guillaume Fai.
Yes, Guillaume Fai wrote a wonderful book about the coming civil war.
20 generals, 20 general signs.
Can you imagine that in the United States?
No, as you were pointing out earlier when we were talking about this, no, our generals are trying to get trannies into the military.
Our generals are bemoaning the paucity of Well, here's something that I think these 20 generals and the other signatories wouldn't much care for.
They're lamenting the fact that the special forces are overwhelmingly white.
Can't have that.
And stressing that diversity, Mr. Taylor, is America's greatest strength.
Well, here's something that I think these 20 generals and the other signatories would
much care for.
The EU Commission has published a tweet to promote something called Next Generation EU.
And it's about measures to be taken against COVID.
And it says, together, we can shape the world we want to live in.
Now, what is the image they chose for this Next Generation EU?
A photograph of an African man holding a mulatto child.
Oh!
Doesn't that just warm the country of your heart?
I'm wondering, by the way, if you look at the Scrabble list, I wonder if mulatto is a word that is not allowed, or maybe quadroon or octoroon.
Are those words tolerated by Scrabble?
I don't know.
I didn't check.
They were all scrambled.
But yeah, that's the next generation.
That's the next European generation.
Well, they got a lot of back chat on this.
And then the EU said, we're saddened to see a number of negative reactions.
They said, Europe is a diverse society and this is a strength.
Well, you'll be charmed to know that I just got an update on my Apple iPad.
Okay.
And one of the features of the update was, you know, there are emojis with different colored faces.
And there's a black lady who says she invented that and she's suing Apple because Apple had multicolored emojis.
Well, now, You can have multi-color emoji of couples' faces.
It used to be that if you had a couple, a man and a woman, side by side, they were the same race.
Now you can mix them.
Well, thank you, Tim Cook and Apple, for bringing about us.
That's right.
That would be just bigoted to be able to select only a black or a white or an Asian or a purple couple.
Now you can mix and match to your heart's content.
Now, I wonder if there are going to be emojis for ménage à trois?
Why not?
Or bigamist emojis?
Once you open that window, everything comes crashing in, violently if it has to be.
Yes, so we'll end on that happy note.
As usual, we have run out of time, and listeners all around the world, we appreciate your attention.
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